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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyleia | Opeuderus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till%20Death%20Do%20Us%20Part%20%28Pretty%20Little%20Liars%29 | "Till Death Do Us Part" is the series finale of Pretty Little Liars, which premiered on the Freeform network in the United States on June 27, 2017. The twentieth episode of the seventh season and the 160th overall, it was directed by showrunner I. Marlene King, who also co-wrote the episode alongside Kyle Bown and Maya Goldsmith. Shortly after the two-hour final episode, a special titled "A-List Wrap Party" was aired, in which the main cast and King talked about the show's end and behind-the-scenes exclusives.
In the episode, the Liars finally discover the identity of their tormentor, as Spencer (Troian Bellisario) discovers she has an identical twin sister named Alex Drake, who is revealed to be the anonymous "A.D." wanting to avenge Charlotte's death and take over Spencer's life as an impersonator due to her jealousy of the life that her sister has.
The episode opened to lukewarm reviews from critics. Alex Drake's introduction and subsequent reveal as the series' final antagonist was met with a deeply polarizing response. Some viewers expressed dissatisfaction in regards to Alex's backstory and motives. Upon its initial airing, the episode was viewed by 1.41 million Americans and garnered a 0.7/2 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic. The total viewership and ratings for this episode were considerably higher than the previous episode, and slightly higher than the sixth-season finale, a year earlier.
Plot
At night, the Liars are shown at an establishment discussing the fact that the truth about who was behind Uber A's mask never came out. Lucas appears in a white tuxedo tap dancing, while Jenna is riding a horse. The girls begin to talk about random and funny things until snow starts to fall from the sky and it is revealed that the previous scenes were the product of Mona's imagination, who is holding a snow globe in an unknown room at the Welby State Hospital. An "A.D." then appears and Mona drops the globe, breaking it instantly, as she gets surprised when she realizes who's there.
In 2018, one year after the events of "Farewell, My Lovely", Ezra and Aria are discussing their book and its soon-to-be film adaptation in the Warner Bros. Television backlot. Now famous due to their book's worldwide success, they kiss and are photographed by a bunch of fans in a cart (staff writers of PLL in a group cameo). The scene then jumps to the DiLaurentis house, where Emily and her high school sweetheart Alison are living a family life, taking care of the recently born Lily and Grace. Alison tells Emily she is going to a meeting, but instead she goes to the Radley to talk with Emily's mother, Pam, about their relationship and how both Alison and Pam are happy about it. Spencer and Melissa have a sisterly moment together as Spencer sees Toby approaching her pickup truck which used to be Toby's pickup. They talk about his return to Rosewood after he left to travel around countries with Spencer and Alison's half-brother Jason. At the school, Alis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20the%20Dog | Pat the Dog is an internationally co-produced computer-animated children's television series created by Patrick Ermosilla and produced by Superprod Studio and Animoka Studios, in co-production with Toon Factory (season 1), Grid Animation (season 1) and Rai Fiction (season 1), in partnership with the CNC and Pôle Image Magelis, with the participation of Télétoon+, Canal+ Family, Rai Com, La Trois, (season 1), OUFtivi (season 1), Ketnet (season 1), The Walt Disney Company France (season 2), France Télévisions (season 2) and Rai Ragazzi (season 2), and in association with Cofinova 12 (season 1) and SG Image 2018 (season 2). It is based on the mobile app game Space Dog by Sylvain Seynhaeve. The series is about Pat the dog's adventures as he tries to save his owner Lola from trouble. It debuted on La Trois in Belgium on April 3, 2017.
The series was very successful internationally and a season 2 was made in 2020 with 63 episodes of 7 minutes and 4 specials of 22 minutes, as well as derivative episodes on Hoodie.
Plot
Pat the Dog is about the titular character who tries to save the day when his owner, Lola, is in trouble.
Characters
Main
Pat is the protagonist of the series. He is an intelligent, brave, kindhearted, mechanically inclined dog hero who will go to any lengths to protect the ones for whom he cares.
Lola is a girl who is Pat and Hoodie's owner. She has a special bond with Pat, but is often oblivious to the crazy adventures he goes on (which are more often than not revolved around her).
Victor is a spoiled and troublemaking boy who is Lola's next-door neighbor. He is also the main antagonist of the series and comes from a wealthy family. He can also be considered Lola's rival. Unlike Lola, Victor's parents do not show their faces.
Recurring
Hoodie is a cat who wears a hood and is also Lola's pet. He is very cute, fluffy and cheerful. He is also very harmless, because he never tries to hurt anyone. He can also get easily distracted by the birds who try to lure him into traps.He is also the one that Pat tries to save.
Tank is Victor's dog. He is very loyal to his owner and can be considered to be Pat's rival. (Note: His design suggests it is possible that Tank is a dog of the pit bull breed.)
The Triplet Birds are three rivals of Pat (Note: It is unknown why they have disagreements and become enemies of Pat the Dog.)
Poulette is a featherless chicken who is always “bullied” by Pat, because she is always seen getting into accident or hit by Pat.
Lucy is a girl who is Lola's best friend.
Hugo is a boy who is also friend of Lola and Lucy.
Mum is Lola's mother.
Dad is Lola's father.
Production
Pat the Dog is co-produced by French companies Superprod Studio, Toon Factory (season 1), Télétoon+, and Canal+ Family, Italian companies Animoka Studios and Rai Fiction (season 1), and Belgian companies OUFtivi (season 1), Ketnet (season 1) and Grid Animation (season 1), in association with Cofinova 12 (season 1) and SG Image 2018 (season 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanavu%20%28film%29 | Kanavu () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language film directed by P. V. Krishnan. The film stars G. Muthukrishnan and Lalitha.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
Valayapathi G. Muthukrishnan
V. K. Ramasamy
R. Balasubramaniam
S. S. Sivasooriyan
V. Selvam
Female cast
Lalitha
Pollachi Kamala
M. K. Lakshmi
A. Shanthi
Production
The film was produced and directed by P. V. Krishnan under the banner K. R. K. Productions. M. B. Chellappan Nair wrote the story while K. Devanarayanan and A. S. Rajagopal wrote the dialogues. Cinematography was handled by N. C. Balakrishnan and editing was done by V. S. Rajan. Ammaiyappan was in charge of art direction. Hiralal, Kumar and Balaraman handled the choreography. Still photography was done by Venkatachary. The film was processed at Vikram laboratory.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by G. Ramanathan and V. Dakshinamoorthy while the lyrics were written by A. Maruthakasi and A. S. Rajagopal. Playback singers are M. L. Vasanthakumari, Jikki, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi, Sundari, Seetha, Padma, Rajamani, Sarojini, Rajalakshmi, Kanthamani and V. P. Balaraman.
References
Indian drama films
Films scored by G. Ramanathan
Films scored by V. Dakshinamoorthy
1950s Tamil-language films
1954 drama films
1954 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanban%20%281954%20film%29 | Nanban () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language film directed by P. S. Srinivasa Rao. The film stars R. S. Manohar and P. K. Saraswathi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
R. S. Manohar
T. S. Balaiah
V. Nagayya
K. A. Thangavelu
Female cast
P. K. Saraswathi
Vidhyavathi
T. D. Kusalakumari
Production
The film was produced by M. D. Viswanathan and directed by P. S. Srinivasa Rao under the banner M. D. V. Productions. M. Lakshmanan wrote the story while V. N. Sambandam penned the dialogues.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by G. Ramanathan while the lyrics were penned by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. Playback singers are Ghantasala, Thiruchi Loganathan, P. A. Periyanayaki, P. Leela and Jikki.
References
1950s Tamil-language films
Films scored by G. Ramanathan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Love%2C%20Sweet%20Love | Young Love, Sweet Love is a Philippine romantic drama anthology which aired on Radio Philippines Network from March 5, 1987 to 1993. It was hosted by German Moreno and later Manilyn Reynes.
Hosts
German Moreno (1987–1990)
Manilyn Reynes (1990–1993)
See also
List of Philippine television shows
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
Philippine comedy television series
1987 Philippine television series debuts
1993 Philippine television series endings
Radio Philippines Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manavathi | Manavathi is a 1952 Indian film produced in two language editions, Telugu & Tamil. The film was directed by Y. V. Rao. The film stars Mukkamala and Madhuri Devi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from iMDB.(see external links)
Male cast
Mukkamala
C. H. Narayana Rao
Relangi
M. V. Mani
Female cast
Madhuri Devi
P. K. Saraswathi
G. Varalakshmi
Sriranjani Jr.
Production
The film was produced in Telugu and Tamil under the banner Sarvodaya Films and was directed by Y. V. Rao. Chidambaram A. M. Nataraja Kavi wrote the Tamil dialogues.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by H. R. Padmanabha Sastry and B. Rajanikanta Rao
Tamil
Lyrics were written by Chidambaram A. M. Nataraja Kavi. Playback singers are Vidwan Srinivasan, R. Vijaya Rao, P. Leela, R. Balasaraswathi Devi, Jikki, A. P. Komala, T. G. Saraswathi, Seetha, Anusuya and S. Rajam.
References
External links
1950s Telugu-language films
Indian multilingual films
Indian black-and-white films
1952 films
1950s Tamil-language films
Indian musical drama films
1950s musical drama films
Films directed by Y. V. Rao
Films scored by Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao
Films scored by H. R. Padmanabha Sastry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20Rangers | Rainbow Rangers is an American computer-animated television series co-produced by Genius Brands and Telegael Teoranta which premiered on the Nick Jr. Channel on November 5, 2018. The series follows seven nine-year-old girls who reside in the kingdom of Kaleidoscopia. On April 8, 2019, it was announced that the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on October 6, 2019. On September 21, 2020, the series announced a third broadcast season that to premiere October 11, 2020. On April 12, 2021, a third season was greenlit.
Plot
Rainbow Rangers takes place in the magical land of Kaleidoscopia and focuses on the adventures of seven 9-year-old girls—Rosie Redd, Mandarin Orange, Anna Banana, Pepper Mintz, Bonnie Blueberry, Indigo Allfruit, and Lavender LaViolette—who are all represented by the colors of the rainbow. Each use their own powers to help protect the citizens of their land, clean the planet, and make the world a better place.
Each episode begins with a problem with nature seen on Earth. A rainbow is sent to Kaleidoscopia and Kalia calls all seven rangers and Floof to her. After they are shown the nature problem, Kalia chooses the three ideal rangers for the mission, Floof always joins the three on their scooters. When the mission is completed, the three rangers return to Kaleidoscopia on their scooters.
Characters
Main
Rosie Redd (voiced by Aileen Mythen) is the leader. She represents the color Red and possesses Strength Power (primarily, superhuman strength that only works within a planetary atmosphere), with a special visor in her tiara that allows her to see through objects much like an X-ray.
Mandarin "Mandy" Orange (voiced by Aileen Mythen) is the cheerleader of the group. She represents the color Orange and possesses Music Power when using her recorder. She also has sound power, able to hear any sound from wherever the objective of the mission is located.
Anna Banana (voiced by Juliette Crosbie) is naive and sweet and can talk to animals. She represents the color Yellow and possesses Animal Power, being able to communicate with animals. She carries a yellow stuffed rabbit, Mr. Stuffie Wuffie, which is used for comforting animals.
Pepper Mintz (voiced by Phillipa Alexander) is a shy, introverted bookworm who loves to read. She represents the color Green and possesses Inviso Power via a special shawl that cloaks whoever is underneath it, rendering them invisible.
Bonnie "B.B." Blueberry (voiced by Zehra Jane Naqvi) is analytical and smart. She always says that things are logical or illogical. She represents the color Blue and possesses Vision Power capable of seeing great distances. She also features a wrist-mounted device known as the Construct-O-Max, which allows her to create, fix or deconstruct whatever the rangers need.
Indigo "Indy" Allfruit (voiced by Penelope Rawlins), the prankster and the second-in-command of the group. She represents the color Indigo and possesses Speed Power, the ability to run or mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya%20Akella | Srinivasa Aditya Akella is a computer scientist, professor and Regents Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for research in software-defined networking, big data systems, low latency networking, content distribution and network function virtualization.
Career
Akella completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2000, then received his PhD in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University with a thesis titled End Point-based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance and Resilience. His doctoral advisor was Srinivasan Seshan. He completed a post-doc at Stanford University working with Nick McKeown where he worked on early efforts in SDN. In 2006 Akella joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor, then later became an associate professor in 2012 and a full professor in 2017. In 2021, he joined the UT Austin Computer Science Department.
He leads the UT Networked Systems (UTNS) Research Group and is one of the Principal Investigators leading CloudLab.
In 2014, SIGCOMM gave him their Rising Star Award for contributions to network management and content delivery. Akella holds over 15 patents related to computer networking and distributed systems. He has published 225 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals with his coworkers and his publications have been cited over 10,000 times (H-index=53).
Akella was chosen as a finalist in Physical Sciences and Engineering for both the 2021 and 2020 Blavatnik National Award for his contributions to improving the speed, efficiency and reliability of data center infrastructure. His ongoing research focuses on systems for machine learning, low latency networking, big data systems and intent-driven networking.
Awards
2021: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist
2020: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist
2018: H.I. Romnes Faculty Associate
2017: Vilas Associate
2015: Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize
2014: SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
Personal life
Akella is a native of Hyderabad, India, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. His wife Shuchi Chawla is also a computer science professor at the University of Texas-Austin.
References
External links
Home page
American computer scientists
Computer systems researchers
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
IIT Madras alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20recognition | Sound recognition is a technology, which is based on both traditional pattern recognition theories and audio signal analysis methods. Sound recognition technologies contain preliminary data processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Sound recognition can classify feature vectors. Feature vectors are created as a result of preliminary data processing and linear predictive coding.
Sound recognition technologies are used for:
Music recognition
Speech recognition
Automatic alarm detection and identification for surveillance, monitoring systems, based on the acoustic environment
Assistance to disabled or elderly people affected in their hearing capabilities
Identifying species of animals such as fish and mammals, e.g. in acoustical oceanography
Security
In monitoring and security, an important contribution to alarm detection and alarm verification can be supplied, using sound recognition techniques. In particular, these methods could be helpful for intrusion detection in places like offices, stores, private homes or for the supervision of public premises exposed to person aggression. In all these cases, a recognition system can report about a danger or distress event. It could further identify sounds like glass break, doorbells, smoke detector alarms, red alerts, human screams, baby cries and others. Sometimes, the alarm is triggered by other detectors (e.g. temperature or video-based) and the sound recognizer would be associated with these other modalities, to verify the alarm, with the purpose of decreasing the global false alarm detection rate.
Assistance
Solutions based on a sound recognition technology can offer assistance to disabled and elderly people affected in hearing capabilities, helping them to keep or recover some independence in their daily occupations.
Companies
There are only a handful of companies who are working on sound recognition technology:
AbiliSense (Generic sound recognition technology for a wide variety of use cases, mainly safety and security, and functional in environments such as: home and city).
Audio Analytic (AI company whose "Embedded sound recognition AI software gives consumer technology, such as smart speakers, hearables, smart home tech, mobile phones and automotive, a sense of hearing." has sound recognition software that makes consumer products more intelligent).
OtoSense (checking sounds of engines).
Wavio (software and product innovation company providing sound recognition solutions to clients such as product manufacturers, organizations, and government inclusive of accessibility for Deaf & hard of hearing, protected by sound recognition patents covering sound recognition to notify users of detected sounds automatically).
See also
Acoustic fingerprint
Shazam (application)
References
Audio engineering
Security technology
Pattern recognition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alophomorphella | Alophomorphella is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boucekiola | Boucekiola is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayatiola | Hayatiola is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propodeochertus | Propodeochertus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyrigina | Seyrigina is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sureshanella | Sureshanella is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthella | Xanthella is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entedonomphale | Entedonomphale is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janicharis | Janicharis is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodalics | Intermodalics is a software engineering and robotics company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.
It has been recognized as one of the most promising innovative companies of Belgium.
Company History
Intermodalics was co-founded in Leuven, Belgium in 2011 by Dr. Peter Soetens and Dr. Ruben Smits as CEO and CTO respectively.
The company find its roots in the Robotics Research Group of KU Leuven, focusing on highly innovative projects.
It is very active in the Open Source community, most notably as developer and maintainer of the Open Robot Control Software project Orocos, a Free Software toolkit for realtime robot arm and machine tool control.
During the summer of 2014 Intermodalics co-developed the first Neopter - a commercial drone swarm for light shows - for the attraction park Le Puy du Fou in France.
In January, 2015 the company announced a partnership with Google related to the Google Project Tango project.
That same year, the company launched Pick-it., a 3D robot vision system, mostly used for material handling solutions such as robot bin-picking.
In May, 2015 Peter Soetens was named one of the 50 Belgian inspiring innovators by the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd.
References
Companies based in Leuven
Software companies of Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klyngon | Klyngon is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmobomyia | Myrmobomyia is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
References
Key to Nearctic eulophid genera
Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20largest%20trading%20partners%20of%20Italy | This is a list of the largest trading partners of Italy based on data from the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy.
See also
Economy of Italy
List of the largest trading partners of the European Union
List of the largest trading partners of the United States
List of the largest trading partners of Germany
List of the largest trading partners of China
List of the largest trading partners of Russia
List of the largest trading partners of United Kingdom
References
Foreign trade of Italy
Economy-related lists of superlatives
Lists of trading partners
Economy of Italy-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaap%20van%20den%20Herik | Hendrik Jacob (Jaap) van den Herik (born 8 October 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch computer scientist, and professor at the University of Leiden, known for his contribution in the fields of computer chess and artificial intelligence.
Biography
Van den Herik studied mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he obtained his MA in 1974, cum laude. In 1983 he obtained his PhD with the thesis, entitled "Computer Chess, chess and artificial intelligence", under supervision of Henk Lombaers, Adriaan de Groot and Joop Doorman.
After his graduation in 1974 Van den Herik had started his academic career at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as researcher. In 1975 he became assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology. After serving at the School of Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1987 to 2008, he was appointed professor at the University of Maastricht been. Since 1991 he is also affiliated with the University of Leiden. From 2008 to 2016 he was a professor at the University of Tilburg, and founding director of the Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC).
With a number of chess enthusiasts, including Max Euwe, Van den Herik in 1980 was co-founder of Computer Chess Association Netherlands (CSVN). He is also co-founder of the NVKI (Dutch Association for Artificial Intelligence), and was their chairman from 1990 to 1995. From 1991 to 1999 he was also president of the JURIX, the international Foundation for Legal Knowledge-Based Systems. From 1983 until 2015, Van den Herik was chief editor of the Journal of the International Computer Games Association (ICGA Journal).
Work
Van den Herik's research interests and expertise are in the areas of agents, computer networks, computer systems, information technology, knowledge management, artificial intelligence and game theory.
Since the late 1970s Van den Herik had been researching computer chess and legal judgement by computers, which both showed hugh progress over the past decades. Computers can play better chess than many chess grandmaster, and the focus in justice has shifted from cognition to perception. Since the new millennium he also conducted research with Eric Postma to develop expert systems for art experts. Over the years Van den Herik has published multiple books and over 50 articles.
Selected publications
Jaap van den Herik. Computerschaak, schaakwereld en kunstmatige intelligentie, 1983.
Jaap van den Herik. Kunnen Computers Rechtspreken? Gouda Quint, Arnhem, 1991.
Alexander Ollongren, Jaap van den Herik. Filosofie van de informatica. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Jaap van den Herik. Chips Challenging Champions. With J. Schaeffer (ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2002.
Jaap van den Herik; Hiroyuki Iida; Ernst A. Heinz, eds. (2004). Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges. Springer. p. 349. .
References
External links
Professor HJ van den Herik (Jaap), Leiden University.
Jaap van |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto%20Miyoshi | is a Japanese musical composer and arranger under Giza Studio label from 1998 till 2007. In 2019, through social network he announced resumption of music activities.
Biography
He started playing on guitar during his high school days. He worked on making various demo-tapes at home while playing live shows with school band in Ohsaka, but soon found making music to be his main interest.
His early works were associated with Miho Komatsu and Zard as supportive musician in roles of guitarist and backing-vocals.
In 1998 he send demo tape with his older sister Mami (future drummer, vocalist and lyricist in Rumania Montevideo) to Garage Indies Zapping Association and soon released cassette tapes Half Moon and "Picnic". Both of those songs later appeared in first indies album Jet Plane.
In 1999 he formed his own band Rumania Montevideo along with three more members. He was the main leader, guitarist, arranger and composer of the band. The name of band was his own idea based on his favorite soccer team.
In 2002, the band suddenly entered into indefinite hiatus.
After then he continued his music activities with various Giza artist such as The Tambourines, Aiko Kitahara and U-ka Saegusa.
In 2007 his name as credit personnel appeared in Uura Saeka's single Sha la la ~Ayakashi Tonight~.
On 6 March 2019, Makoto launched official twitter account with return announcement of Rumania Montevideo along with his sister Mami. Former members aren't involved with band reformation and four new members were added to the band: Cherry, Rerere, Tom and Shimal.
List of provided works
★album ☆ single/coupling
Compositions
WANDS
Kyou Nanika no Hazumi de Ikiteiru ☆
WAG
Odyssey ★
Free Magic ☆
Zard
I feel fine,yeah! (Eien) ★
Reset (Motto Chikaku de Kimi no Yokogao Mitetai) ☆
Rumania Montevideo
Jet Plane ★
Sunny,Cloudy,Rain ★
Still for your love ☆
Rumaniamania ★
Digital Music Power ☆
Picnic ☆
Koisuru Betty ☆
Girl,girl,boy,girl,boy ★
Start All Over Again ☆
Hard Rain ☆
Tender Rain ☆
Mo' Better Tracks ★
Chika Yoshida
Aishini Kite Hoshii ☆
Tsuki ni Inori wo ☆
The★tambourines
Mayonaka ni Kizuita Funny Love ☆
Atsui Namida ☆
fighting girl (Dizzy Season) ★
anyway (Home Again) ★
never ever, goodnight and thank you (never ever ~Aki ha Chotto Samishiku~) ☆
Aoi Gogo (instant vacation) ★
Azumi Uehara:
Bye Bye My Blue Sky ☆
Jinsei Game, Maze (Ikitakunai Bokura) ★
U-ka Saegusa in dB:
Change the life (Whenever I think of you) ☆
Watashi ja nai Watashi to Nita Anata ga Aisuru Hito ni (I can't see, I can't feel) ☆
Destiny Wind Blows (Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho made~) ☆
Kakegaenai Omoi Kimi ni Todoke (Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi wo) ☆
Hikari Yamaguchi
Ureshii Tameiki, Sora (Ureshii Tameiki) ★
Aiko Kitahara:
Ashita Haruka Tooi Umi ni Tadoritsukeru you ni (Piece of Love) ★
Tadoritsukeba Itsumo Soko ni Iru (Special Days!!) ☆
Omoideni Sukuwaretemo (Message) ☆
Sparkling Point
Mainichi Adventure ☆
Yumi Shizukusa
Wonderful World (I still believe ~Tameiki~) ☆
Uura Saeka
Senaka-goshi no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20in%20the%20OTI%20Festival | Univision, formerly SIN (Spanish International Network), the biggest Spanish speaking TV channel of the US, was the OTI member station that organised the American participation in the OTI Festival. The network, whose main audience was the Spanish speaking community of the United States, debuted in the contest in 1974 in Acapulco with Rosita Perú and her song "Pero...mi tierra" (But... my homeland), which ended in the 17th place. Although the American broadcaster withdrawed from the event some years after its debut, Univision returned to the event and participated till the last edition in 2000 which was held again in Acapulco.
History
The American representants in the OTI Festival were mainly American born Latino performers and bands, but sometimes, Univision opted to select famous singers from other Latin American countries. The country won the event for first time in 1986 with a trio composed by the performers Dámaris, Miguel Ángel Guerra and Eduardo Fabiani who performed the song "Todos" (Everybody) which sent a message of unity between the Latin community in the country. Univision got the second victory for the United States in Acapulco with the Chirino Sisters and their song "Mala hierba" (Bad grass) which turned into the very last victory in the history of the song contest before its defunction.
Apart from their victories, the United States managed to get two consecutive second places in 1977 in Madrid with Lissette Álvarez and her song "Si hay amor vendrá" (If there's love, he will come) and in 1978 in Santiago de Chile with Susy Lemán and her song "Ha vuelto ya" (He has already returned). Univision got another second place in 1992 in Valencia with Carlo de la Cima and his song "No te mueras, América" (Don't ever die, América).
In 1982, the American broadcaster got the third place with Laura Hevia and her song "Que equivocado" (How wrong).
Univision, hosted the OTI Festival on three occasions, the first one in 1983 in the Constitution Hall of Washington DC, which was presented by the Cubans Rafael Pineda and Anna Carlota. This edition of the festival was famous because the ceremony was opened by a message by the president of the US, Ronald Reagan sent to the Spanish speaking community which hailed their contribution to the cultural diversity of the United States of America.
The American broadcaster also hosted the event in 1989 in Miami having the James L. Knight Convention Center as the venue and in 1990 in the Caesars Palace of Las Vegas.
Contestants
Table key
References
OTI Festival
Univision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Flight%20Network | Life Flight Network is a non profit air and ground critical care transport service based in Aurora, Oregon, in the northern Willamette Valley, with services in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana in the United States.
Operations
Service area
It has 29 air medical bases throughout the Columbia, Willamette and Snake river watersheds.
Bases
Life Flight Network operates bases across the Pacific Northwest in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
In Oregon there are bases in Aurora, Cottage Grove, Newport, Astoria, Pendleton, Redmond, Ontario, La Grande, Hermiston, and Salem.
In Washington there are bases in Hoquiam, Kelso, Brewster, Moses Lake, Richland, Pullman, Spokane, Dallesport, Port Angeles, Coupeville, and Walla Walla.
In Idaho there are bases at Boise, Burley, Sandpoint, Lewiston, and Coeur d'Alene.
In Montana there are bases in Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman.
It also has fixed-wing bases in Aurora, Boise, Dallesport, Moses Lake, La Grande, Richland, Butte, Lewiston, and Port Angeles.
LifeFlight gained part 135 certification in 2013 from the Boise Idaho FSDO.
In 2013 LifeFlight chose the Agusta 119KX as its helicopter platform leasing them for 10 years from a Chinese firm. Arizona-based Tri-State Care Flight assisted LFN in bridging the gap by allowing LFN to operate their new aircraft under Tri-State’s 135 certificate while maintaining in-service status and attaining their own part 135 certificate.
Currently, LFN is dissolving its A119Kx fleet and replacing them with Bell 429s and Bell 407s as the 10-year lease is coming due.
Recent History and Expansion
In 2015, LFN was awarded the coveted "Program of the Year" award by the Association of Air Medical Services.
In 2020, at the request of its owner hospital consortium, LFN began to expand its ground presence in the Portland metro area to include BLS, ALS, and wheelchair van transport services.
In March 2021, LFN and Bozeman Health announced a ground service partnership to provide transport services to Bozeman Health patients.
At the 2021 Air Medical Transport Conference, LFN was awarded the "Program of the Year" award by the Association of Air Medical Services for the second time.
In December 2021, LFN entered into a strategic alliance with Life Link III, which is an air medical transport agency based in Minneapolis, MN. The "alliance will bring the organizations together to collaborate on best practices, process improvement, quality initiatives, and safety, all with a focus on the patients and communities they serve."
In July 2022, Ben Clayton was announced as the new CEO of LFN. Prior to becoming CEO, Clayon served as interim CEO and COO, as well as a variety of operational and safety leadership roles.
At the 2022 Air Medical Transport Conference, LFN's Neonatal & Pediatric Transport team was awarded the "Neonatal & Pediatric Transport Award of Excellence" by the Association of Air Medical Service.
In September 2023, LFN announced that it would further expand its gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumos | Lumos may refer to:
Lumos (charity), a charity founded by J.K. Rowling
Lumos Networks, a fiber optic network service provider based in the United States
A magic spell that makes light in the Harry Potter series; see Magic in Harry Potter
Lumos (album), a 2019 album by Harry and the Potters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20caves%20of%20the%20Basotho | For thousands of years, a pilgrimage has been made by the Basotho people to a network of sacred caves to communicate with the spiritual world. The caves also contain dinosaur footprints and ancient rock paintings. The caves are located between the eastern parts of the Free State and Lesotho. These sacred caves are often described as 'the key to religion' in Southern Africa.
Caves
Caves have been known throughout human existence, religion, and culture as isolated spaces perfect for meditation and reflection. The Basotho people traditionally regard caves as a dwelling place for ancestors. The caves are visited by thousands of people to perform spiritual rituals. The Fertility Caves lie outside Clarens in the Free State at the foot of the Maluti Mountains in Lesotho. The Matouleng Cave Heritage site is 18 km away from Clarens. The caves lie below the second largest stone overhang in the Southern Hemisphere. Peripheral to the Matouleng cave is a small cluster of caves, the Badimong caves, as well as other areas regarded as sacred.
The caves have no specific spiritual authority, therefore, a combination of two belief systems co-exist in the caves namely Christianity and African traditions. While many sacred caves exist, the most popular remain the Motouleng caves and the Badimong caves.
The caves are used for a variety of purposes:
a source of drinking water,
source for virgin water,
an area to perform religious rituals,
an area for cremations and burials,
art galleries,
discarding ritual utensils and
mining of the red clay for ceremonies.
The Basotho and other African traditions find water to be an element which is ancestrally significant therefore, the streams and pools in the caves play an important role in the ceremonies that occur in the sacred caves.
Mount Mautse
Mount Mautse in the Eastern Free State has been regarded as the 'Holy Mountains' since the 1970s. It is believed that the power of healing rests in caves residing in these mountains. These caves are regarded as the 'universities for practicing traditional rituals' which is why many traditional healers are frequently found here. Many traditional healers, who live in the Holy Mountains, believe that they have been sent by their ancestors to heal people. Many of these traditional healers leave their modern careers after being 'called' by the ancestors until they have fulfilled their healing duties. Traditional healers receive their 'calling' from ancestors through visions and dreams and are unable to deny the calling. A rejection of the calling could lead to sickness or even death. A sangoma once claimed to have healed a 17-year-old boy from the HIV/AIDS in these caves. The traditional healers use water from the waterfalls and herbs from the mountains. People and animals live together in harmony in these caves.
Motouleng
The Motouleng caves, meaning 'place of beating drums', are located in the mountains of the eastern Free State and Lesotho, between Clarens and Fouriesberg. The l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon-Budapest%20railway%20axis | The Lyon–Budapest railway axis (officially designated as Railway axis Lyon-Trieste-Divača/Koper-Divača-Ljubljana-Budapest-Ukrainian border) is a project of the Trans-European high-speed rail network (TEN-R), which involves the creation of a high-speed rail line between Lyon and Budapest, finally heading to the Ukrainian border.
Sections
Lyon-Turin
The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is a planned -long, railway line that will connect the two cities and link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks. The core of the project is a base tunnel measuring 57.5 km crossing the Alps between the Susa valley in Italy and Maurienne in France. The tunnel will be the longest rail tunnel in the world, being longer than the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which measures 57.1 km, and it represents one third of the estimated overall cost of the project.
Turin-Ljubljana
Ljubljana-Budapest
Budapest-Ukrainian border
See also
Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel
Main line for Europe
Trans-European high-speed rail network
References
Transport and the European Union
High-speed rail in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaka%2C%20The%20Palestinian%20Policy%20Network | Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network is an independent, transnational think tank, whose mission is "to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law."
History
Al-Shabaka was launched in 2010 and was described as "Palestine's first independent think tank." Al-Shabaka was registered in California in 2009 as the Middle East Policy Network, doing business as Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, and granted 501(c)(3) by the US Internal Revenue Service in 2013.
According to Cherine Hussein, an academic based at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Al-Shabaka's launch was a "significant initiative" by "[Palestinian] intellectuals." and was launched "to put a stronger Palestinian policy voice on the map". Its work "is primarily directed to concerned Palestinians as well as Arab and international policy communities." In a 2021 scholarly literature review, anthropologist Sa'ed Atshan cites Al-Shabaka as a "potential future addition" to the "ecosystem" of anthropology of Palestine.
People
Columbia University-based historian Rashid Khalidi, writer and playwright Samah Sabawi, legal scholar Noura Erakat, and author Laila el-Haddad.
Recognition
Al-Shabaka has appeared in Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, from 2013–2020. Al-Shabaka has ranked between 35th – 33rd out of 85 in 'Best Think Tank Network'.
References
External links
Think tanks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdpac | Crowdpac is a for-profit website founded in 2014, with the purpose of helping unknown Democratic political outsiders raise money and run for office, and to track political data from across the United States. While it was originally marketed as a non-partisan political fundraising site, the platform is currently only open for fundraising to select political ideologies.
History
Crowdpac was co-founded in 2014 by Steve Hilton, a former political advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, along with Adam Bonica, Gisel Kordestani, and Paul Hilder. The website is based in San Francisco, and Hilton served as its CEO until 2018. One of the company's most successful crowdfunding campaigns was for Kathryn Allen, who raised three times as much money as incumbent Congressman Jason Chaffetz, before Chaffetz announced that he would not run for re-election. The website also uses an algorithm built by researchers at Stanford University to track political candidates' sources of funding to predict how ideologically partisan they are.
In May 2018, Crowdpac announced that it was suspending fundraising for Republican candidates on its platform because of issues with "hate speech and the rhetoric and actions used to stir up racial animosity legitimized by the President of the United States". At the same time, Hilton was fired as CEO due to his relationship with Fox News as a conservative political pundit and his conflicting values with the company, with Jesse Thomas appointed as acting CEO.
The website suspended all donations and closed on June 19, 2019. The site was acquired by Prytany and relaunched in November 2019.
Criticisms
Crowdpac was criticized for promoting endorsements by Ron Conway, one of its investors and a candidate for office, in a 2015 election in San Francisco.
Although launched with the aim to be a non-partisan platform, in 2018 the company acting CEO Jesse Thomas decided to block Republican candidates from raising on the platform, stating "This decision has been a hard one for our company, but as Trumpism has spread through the Republican Party we’ve started to see an increase in campaigns for Republican candidates that we cannot allow on our platform." Thomas cited an example of a neo-Nazi candidate, who was kicked out of the Republican convention, attempting to raise money through the website.
See also
Comparison of crowdfunding services
References
Internet properties established in 2014
Crowdfunding platforms of the United States
American political websites
Campaign finance in the United States
Companies based in San Francisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyal | Puyal () is a 1952 Indian Tamil-language film directed by G. Viswanath. The film stars G. M. Basheer and M. V. Rajamma. It was released on 25 July 1952.
Plot
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
G. M. Basheer
A. K. Mohan
K. R. Ramsingh
Female cast
M. V. Rajamma
M. Rajee
R. Lakshmi Devi
S. Sakunthala
G. M. Gulzar
Production
The film was produced by K. P. George under the banner Pelican Pictures and was directed by G. Viswanath who also did the editing. Story was written by C. J. Cherian while the dialogues were penned by Karmayogi Rajagopalan. G. P. Ramasamy and G. K. Ramu were in charge of cinematography. Art direction was by Kuttiyappu and Ponnusam and Choreography was done by C. Thangaraj. Still photography was by K. Anandan. The film was made at Central Studios.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by S. G. K. Pillai and P. S. Diwakar while the lyrics were penned by Diwakar.
References
External links
1950s Tamil-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20R.%20Lesser | Victor R. Lesser is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Director of Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory. He is widely considered as the founding father of multi-agent systems. He received the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 2009.
Professor Lesser is a noted researcher in multi-agent and blackboard systems. His major research focus was on the control and organization of complex AI systems. He also made contributions to real-time AI, computer architecture, signal understanding, diagnostics, plan recognition, and computer-supported cooperative work. He worked on applications in sensor networks for vehicle tracking and weather monitoring, speech and sound understanding, information gathering on the internet, peer-to-peer information retrieval, intelligent user interfaces, distributed task allocation and scheduling, and virtual agent enterprises.
Professor Lesser is a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and an IEEE Fellow. He was General Chair of the first international conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS) in 1995, and Founding President of the International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 1998. To honor his contributions to the field of multi-agent systems, IFAAMAS established the Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. He received the UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) Outstanding Teaching Award (2004) and Outstanding Research Award (2008), and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity (2008). Professor Lesser was also the recipient of the IJCAI-09 Award for Research Excellence.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panam%20Paduthum%20Padu | Panam Paduthum Padu () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Y. R. Swamy. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao and Sowcar Janaki.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
N. T. Rama Rao
K. A. Thangavelu
Sharma
T. K. Kalyanam
Serukalathur Sama
Female cast
Sowcar Janaki
Jamuna
S. Janaki
Production
The film was produced by H. M. Reddy and T. L. Ramchandar under the banner Rohini Pictures and was directed by Y. R. Swamy. Hanumantha Rao wrote the screenplay and dialogues. P. L. Narayana was in charge of cinematography while the editing was done by B. N. Rao. Art direction was by L. V. Manray and A. V. Dharma Rao. Choreography was handled by A. K. Chopra. Still photography was done by P. C. M. Eswara Babu. The film was made at Rohini Studios.
The film was also produced in Telugu with the title Vaddante Dabbu and in Marathi with the title Lahaach Kosta.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by T. A. Kalyanam while the lyrics were written by Hanumantha Rao, Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass and Guhan. Playback singers are A. M. Rajah, Govindaraju, Natarajan, T. R. Kannan, Jikki, P. Susheela, Rohini, R. Balasaraswathi Devi and A. V. Saraswathi.
References
Indian drama films
Indian multilingual films
1950s Tamil-language films
Films scored by T. A. Kalyanam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeHafizh | BeHafizh is a mobile application to assist in the effort to memorize Qur'anic verses. The software runs on the Android operating system.
This application was made by a team from Gadjah Mada University (UGM) consisting of Farid Amin Ridwanto, Rian Adam Rajagede and Alfian Try Putranto in order to participate in the National Student Musabaqoh Tilawatil Quran (MTQ) held at University of Indonesia (UI) on 1- August 8, 2015. This application then won a gold medal in the branch of Computer Application Design in the competition.
Features
Audio Player
Audio player, paragraph can be played repeatedly, with pause, and can be done on a certain range of Quranic verses.
Memorization Test
Memorization testing continues users to improve their memorization.
Memorization Recorders improves user's ability to recite Quran.
Colour indicators
Achievements
Reminders
References
Islam articles needing attention
Mobile applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swertia%20cordata | Swertia cordata is an important medicinal plant of the family Gentianaceae and is found distributed throughout temperate regions of the Himalaya. The species used in various ethnomedicinal systems and as an adulterant of Swertia chirayita.
References
cordata
Taxa named by Charles Baron Clarke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karta%20GPS | Karta GPS is a mobile application developed by Karta Software Technologies Lda., a daughter company of NDrive, for the Android, iOS and iPadOS operating systems. It is distributed for free and pairs open-source map data from OpenStreetMap alongside curated content from Yelp and Foursquare.
The application does not require a connection to the Internet (e.g. 3G, 4G, WiFi, etc.) and uses a GPS satellite connection to determine its location. Routes are calculated and plotted based on real-time traffic information provided by Inrix.
History
The application's beta release was released on 4 November 2016. On 19 May 2017, Karta GPS featured both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump's voices in its selection of navigation voice overs.
Features
Offline maps and guidance: all maps can be downloaded for free. No internet is required for searching, route calculation or turn-by-turn instructions.
Search: one box search supports partial names, initials and can search points of interest, street names, crossing streets, GPS coordinates and address points.
Traffic: the application shows the route layered with different colors based on the current traffic along the route. Live traffic service finds faster routes and aims to avoid traffic jams.
Suggestions: point of interest content drawn from Yelp and Foursquare to Karta GPS maps (such as the ten best nearby restaurants), allows users to "explore" a location's top-rated places of entertainment, their descriptions, their last three reviews, photos, and their opening hours and prices.
Car & Walking: provides navigation for both car and pedestrians.
See also
Comparison of commercial GPS software
Resources
Karta GPS Official website
Karta GPS on Apple App Store
Karta GPS on Google Play
References
Companies established in 2001
IOS software
Mobile route-planning software
Navigation system companies
Portuguese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka-Pekka%20Onnela | Jukka-Pekka Onnela is a Finnish statistical network scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Health Data Science Program. Onnela is known for his pioneering research using cell phone data in network science. He was awarded the NIH Director's New Innovator Award in 2013 for his work in digital phenotyping.
Early life and education
Onnela was born in Oulu in 1976 and spent his youth in Kokkola. At age 16, he was awarded a national scholarship to attend the United World College of the Atlantic where he earned his International Baccalaureate. In 2002, he earned his M.Sc. in computational science from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) and obtained his D.Sc. there in network science in 2006. His doctoral dissertation, titled Complex Networks in the Study of Financial and Social Systems, received dissertation of the year award from the university. He subsequently spent two years at the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow, a year at the Harvard Kennedy School as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, and two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
In 2011, he joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. He directs the Onnela Lab which focuses on statistical network science and digital phenotyping.
Research
Starting in 2005, Onnela began using cell phone data to study human social behavior. His research focuses on statistical network science and digital phenotyping, defined as the “moment-by-moment quantification of the individual-level human phenotype in situ using data from personal digital devices,” in particular smartphones. He was awarded a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award in 2013 for his work in digital phenotyping.
Beiwe
The Beiwe Research Platform for high-throughput smartphone-based digital phenotyping is one of a class of mobile phone based sensing softwares. It was developed by the Onnela Lab between 2013 and 2018 with funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is an open-source (under 3-clause BSD license) research platform intended for biomedical research which includes iOS and Android smartphone apps. The platform is named after Beaivi, the Sami deity of the fertility and sanity.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Finnish academics
Finnish scientists
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty
Biostatisticians
People educated at Atlantic College
People educated at a United World College
Aalto University alumni
Finnish expatriates in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn%209100 | The Holborn 9100 was a personal computer introduced in 1981 by a small Dutch company called Holborn, designed by H.A. Polak. Very few of these devices were sold with Holborn going into bankruptcy on the 27 April 1983.
The 9100 base module is a server, and 9120 is a terminal.
Peripherals
30MB Hard Disk drive
Light pen
References
External links
"history of computer design", inexhibit
"Holborn 9100", old-computers.com
"Holborn Computers", zigbeedomotica.nl
Word processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni%20%281951%20film%29 | Anni (, ) is a 1951 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. S. Prakash Rao. The film stars Master Sethu and G. Varalakshmi.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan.
Male cast
Master Sethu
Master Sudhakar
K. Sivaram
Sundar Rao
Female cast
G. Varalakshmi
Annapoorna
Kamala
Saroja
Production
The film was produced and directed by K. S. Prakash Rao under the banner Prakash Productions. This was based on Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's novel 'Ramer Shumoti' (Ram Returning to Sanity).
This was debut film for two singers, Prasada Rao and M. Venu. Later, Prasada Rao was given music for the movie 'Amara Sandesam' (1954) along with Kelkar and given music independently for the movie 'Penki Pellam' (1957).
M. Venu became popular as Master Venu as a music directorTapi Dharma Rao wrote the story and M. S. Subramaniam penned the dialogues. Cinematography was done by B. S. Ranga. T. V. S. Sarma was in charge of art direction while choreography was done by Katak.
The film was produced also in Telugu with the title Dheeksha.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by Pendyala Nageswara Rao while the lyrics were penned by M. S. Subramaniam. Singer is G. Varalakshmi while the playback singers are P. Nageswara Rao, M. Satyam, M. S. Ramarao, Venkata Krishnan and M. Sarojini.
References
External links
Indian drama films
Films scored by Pendyala Nageswara Rao
1950s Tamil-language films
Films directed by K. S. Prakash Rao |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWMA-TV | DWMA-TV, channel 4, is a regional television station of Philippine television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter is located at Pacol Road, Brgy. San Felipe, Naga, Camarines Sur.
History
1972 - DWMA-TV channel 8 was launched by Kanlaon Broadcasting System.
1975 - KBS was formally re-launched as RPN, the acronym for its franchise name, Radio Philippines Network.
1986 - Following the People Power Revolution on which it was taken over by pro-Corazon Aquino, the station was reopened as People's Television (PTV).
March 26, 1992 - President Cory Aquino signed Republic Act 7306 turning PTV Network into a government corporation known formally as People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI).
July 16, 2001 - Under the new management appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying new slogan "One People. One Nation. One Vision." for a new image in line with its new programming thrusts, they continued the new name until the Aquino administration in 2010.
October 6, 2011 - People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) became a primary brand and the branding National Broadcasting Network was retired.
2012 - PTV Naga moved its frequency to channel 4.
2019 - PTV 4 Naga started digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 46.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 46 (665.143 MHz)
Area of coverage
Naga City
Camarines Sur
Portion of Camarines Norte
See also
People's Television Network
List of People's Television Network stations and channels
DWGT-TV - the network's flagship station in Manila.
DWRB-AM
References
People's Television Network
People's Television Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1972
Television stations in Naga, Camarines Sur
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Ukraine%20ransomware%20attacks | A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware began on 27 June 2017 that swamped websites of Ukrainian organizations, including banks, ministries, newspapers and electricity firms. Similar infections were reported in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. ESET estimated on 28 June 2017 that 80% of all infections were in Ukraine, with Germany second hardest hit with about 9%. On 28 June 2017, the Ukrainian government stated that the attack was halted. On 30 June 2017, the Associated Press reported experts agreed that Petya was masquerading as ransomware, while it was actually designed to cause maximum damage, with Ukraine being the main target.
Approach
Security experts believe the attack originated from an update of a Ukrainian tax accounting package called MeDoc (), developed by Intellect Service. MeDoc was widely used among tax accountants in Ukraine, and the software was the main option for accounting for other Ukrainian businesses, according to Mikko Hyppönen, a security expert at F-Secure. MeDoc had about 400,000 customers across Ukraine, representing about 90% of the country's domestic firms, and prior to the attack was installed on an estimated 1 million computers in Ukraine.
MeDoc provides periodic updates to its program through an update server. On the day of the attack, 27 June 2017, an update for MeDoc was pushed out by the update server, following which the ransomware attack began to appear. British malware expert Marcus Hutchins claimed "It looks like the software's automatic update system was compromised and used to download and run malware rather than updates for the software." The company that produces MeDoc claimed they had no intentional involvement in the ransomware attack, as their computer offices were also affected, and they are cooperating with law enforcement to track down the origin. A similar attack via MeDoc software was carried out on 18 May 2017 with the ransomware XData. Hundreds of accounting departments were affected in Ukraine.
The cyberattack was based on a modified version of the Petya ransomware. Like the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017, Petya uses the EternalBlue exploit previously discovered in older versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. When Petya is executed, it encrypts the Master File Table of the hard drive and forces the computer to restart. It then displays a message to the user, telling them their files are now encrypted and to send US$300 in bitcoin to one of three wallets to receive instructions to decrypt their computer. At the same time, the software exploits the Server Message Block protocol in Windows to infect local computers on the same network and any remote computers it can find. Additionally, the NotPetya software was found to use a variant of Mimikatz, a proof-of-concept exploit found in 2011 that demonstrated that user passwords had been retained in computer memory within Windows, exploiting these passw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks%20on%20Ukraine | Cyberattacks on Ukraine may refer to:
2015 Ukraine power grid hack, which caused outages
2016 Kyiv cyberattack, which caused another power outage
2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks
2022 Ukraine cyberattacks
Cyberwarfare
Hacking in the 2010s
Hacking in the 2020s
2017 crimes in Ukraine
2022 crimes in Ukraine
2015 crimes in Ukraine
Cyberattacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Du%20Bois | Barry Du Bois (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian designer, building expert, television presenter and author. Du Bois is currently a co-host and design/building expert on Network 10's lifestyle program The Living Room.
Du Bois first appeared on reality renovation show The Renovators as a building mentor and judge.
Education
Du Bois attended Chipping Norton Public School and completed Year 10 at Liverpool Boys High School where he excelled at all sports.
Career
In 1976 Du Bois began an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery, and gained a building certificate in 1980. He was mentored by architects and started to design and build homes as a speculative builder in 1979. Du Bois ran a successful design, building and property development business until retirement in 2005. During that time he served a term as President of the Master Builders Association NSW Eastern Suburbs and acted as an expert building witness for NSW courts and the Department Fair Trading tribunal.
In 2011, Du Bois hosted TEN's renovation reality series, The Renovators.
In 2012, Du Bois joined lifestyle program The Living Room on Network Ten, alongside Amanda Keller, Chris Brown and Miguel Maestre. Heading up the renovations team, Du Bois assists home-owners in need of some expert help.
Du Bois was nominated to the Board of RUOK? Day. He is also a passionate advocator for the Cancer Council Australia and a firm believer in environmental sustainability.
In May 2018, Du Bois and Miguel Maestre released an autobiographical book called Life Force about Du Bois's family, friendships, living with cancer and includes nutritional advice and recipes by Maestre.
In July 2021, Du Bois announced that he was running for the Australian Senate as an independent candidate in New South Wales, but withdrew in April 2022, citing health.
Personal life
Du Bois was born in Sydney, in the suburb of Liverpool, and is now living in the suburb of Bondi.
Du Bois met his partner Leonie Carol Tobler in Bondi in 1992. They married in 1999 and their twins, a son and daughter, were born on 1 June 2012.
Du Bois was diagnosed with plasmacytoma, a cancer of the immune system, in 2010. He underwent successful therapy, but the cancer had already destroyed the vertebrae at the top of his spine. He received a titanium implant in his spine. In 2017, Du Bois announced that the cancer had returned as multiple myeloma.
Filmography
Books
Life Force by Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre, Paperback (2018) :
References
1960 births
Living people
Australian television presenters
Australian interior designers
People with multiple myeloma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindlmann | Kindlmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dieter Kindlmann (born 1982), German tennis player
Gordon Kindlmann, American computer scientist
Norbert Kindlmann (born 1944), German rower
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kroening | Daniel Kroening (born 6 November 1975) is a German computer scientist, Professor in computer science at the University of Oxford, and Chief Science Officer at the company he co-founded, Diffblue Ltd. He is a fellow of Magdalen College.
Early life
Kroening was born in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He attended Marie-Therese-Gymnasium, Erlangen, Bavaria from 1986 to 1990 and Rotenbühl Gymnasium, Saarbrücken, Saarland from 1990 to 1995. Kroening's early work in those highschool years includes implementations of data transfer protocols and a bulletin board system (BBS) software package with Internet access management for small ISPs, which he released under free/open source licenses. In 1992, Kroening joined Handshake e.V., a local non-profit ISP. From 1993, he hosted and operated Handshake's main BBS system and by the end of 1994, it was running his software. Since 1996, he was also involved in Handshake's executive management. After high school, Kroening completed his compulsory community service.
Career
In winter term 1996, Kroening started studying computer science and economics at Saarland University. He received his diploma and doctoral degrees in 1999 and 2001. He was one of the fastest students in the history of the faculty, taking just four and a half years from first year student to doctorate.
After receiving his doctorate, Kroening worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoc before joining ETH Zürich as assistant professor. He finally settled at Oxford University.
Kroening's research has its focus on program and hardware analysis.
He published textbooks on decision procedures and hardware design.
Kroening's professional activities include being a committee member of the leading program analysis conference CAV.
In his area of expertise, Kroening served as a consultant for companies like Intel, IBM and Fujitsu. In 2016 he co-founded Diffblue Ltd a developer tools company using artificial intelligence to write code. He is currently the Chief Science Officer of Diffblue.
Selected publications
Hasanbeig, M., Jeppu, N.Y., Abate, A., Melham, T. and Kroening, D., "Deepsynth: Automata Synthesis for Automatic Task Segmentation in Deep Reinforcement Learning". AAAI 2020, Vol. 35, No. 9, pages 7647-7656.
Vijay D’Silva, Leopold Haller, Daniel Kroening: Abstract conflict driven learning. POPL 2013: 143-154.
A Survey of Automated Techniques for Formal Software Verification, D’Silva, Vijay, Kroening, Daniel and Weissenbacher, Georg, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol. 27, No. 7, pages 1165–1178. July 2008.
Decision Procedures — an Algorithmic Point of View, Kroening, Daniel, Strichman, Ofer, Springer. 2008.
Verification of Boolean Programs with Unbounded Thread Creation, Cook, Byron, Kroening, Daniel and Sharygina, Natasha, Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), Vol. 388, pages 227—242. 2007.
References
External links
Private home page (ancient and outdated)
Personal research hom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20matching | Graph matching is the problem of finding a similarity between graphs.
Graphs are commonly used to encode structural information in many fields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, and graph matching is an important tool in these areas. In these areas it is commonly assumed that the comparison is between the data graph and the model graph.
The case of exact graph matching is known as the graph isomorphism problem. The problem of exact matching of a graph to a part of another graph is called subgraph isomorphism problem.
Inexact graph matching refers to matching problems when exact matching is impossible, e.g., when the number of vertices in the two graphs are different. In this case it is required to find the best possible match. For example, in image recognition applications, the results of image segmentation in image processing typically produces data graphs with the numbers of vertices much larger than in the model graphs data expected to match against. In the case of attributed graphs, even if the numbers of vertices and edges are the same, the matching still may be only inexact.
Two categories of search methods are the ones based on identification of possible and impossible pairings of vertices between the two graphs and methods that formulate graph matching as an optimization problem. Graph edit distance is one of similarity measures suggested for graph matching. The class of algorithms is called error-tolerant graph matching.
See also
String matching
Pattern matching
References
Computational problems in graph theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20503 | The Elliott 503 was a transistorized computer introduced by Elliott Brothers in 1963. It was software-compatible with the earlier Elliott 803 but was about 70 times faster and a more powerful machine. About 32 units were sold. The basic configuration had 8192 words of 39 bits each for main memory, and operated at a system clock speed of 6.7 megahertz. It weighed more than .
See also
List of transistorized computers
Cluff–Foster–Idelson code
References
0803
Early British computers
Transistorized computers
Computer-related introductions in 1963 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20station | Parliament () is a station on the Confederation Line as part of the O-Train network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The station is located under O'Connor and Queen Streets in Downtown Ottawa. It has the highest projected use of all new stops on the Confederation Line, with access to Parliament Hill, Sparks Street, the downtown business district, as well as the World Exchange Plaza and Bank Street. The station is also near the CBC Ottawa Production Centre studios.
Layout
Parliament is an underground station with two side platforms. A single Grand Hall Concourse is located immediately above platform level. The station's entrances are integrated with the Sun Life Financial Centre and Heritage Place; both lead to the centre of the concourse, with ticket barriers at either end leading to the ends of the platform.
The Grand Hall Concourse is 15 metres underground, while the platform itself is 19 metres.
The station features two artworks: Lone Pine Sunset by Douglas Coupland, an installation of brightly coloured panels based on Tom Thomson's The Jack Pine running along the ceiling of the concourse, as well as Trails: home and away by Jennifer Stead, a series of painted metal screens located between the two tracks at platform level.
Service
The following routes serve Parliament station as of October 6, 2019:
References
Confederation Line stations
Railway stations located underground in Canada
Railway stations in Canada opened in 2019
2019 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20Ubuntu | Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux distribution for personal computers, tablets and smartphones, where the Ubuntu Touch edition is used; and also runs network servers, usually with the Ubuntu Server edition, either on physical or virtual servers (such as on mainframes) or with containers, that is with enterprise-class features.
Ubuntu runs on the most popular architectures, including server-class ARM-based. Ubuntu is developedby Canonical Ltd., who offer commercial support.
Overview
Ubuntu can be described as all of the following:
Operating system —system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. All computer programs, excluding firmware, require an operating system to function.
Unix-like operating system — operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. There is no standard for defining the term, and some difference of opinion is possible as to the degree to which a given operating system is "Unix-like".
Debian-based operating system —Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software, most of which is under the GNU General Public License and packaged by a group of individuals participating in the Debian Project. Debian has many derivatives, among which Ubuntu is the most popular. Ubuntu, in turn, also has many derivatives...
Free software
Major proponent of the free-culture movement
Ubuntu derivatives
Official editions
Official editions —official Ubuntu variants install a set of packages different from the original Ubuntu, but since they draw additional packages and updates from the same repositories as Ubuntu, all of the same software is available for each of them.
Ubuntu Server —server edition that uses the same APT repositories as the Ubuntu Desktop Edition. The differences between them are the absence of an X Window environment in a default installation of the server edition (although one can easily be installed, including Unity, GNOME, KDE or Xfce), and some alterations to the installation process.
Ubuntu Touch — mobile version of Ubuntu developed by Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu community. It is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
Ubuntu Kylin — official Chinese version of Ubuntu.
Community supported
Ubuntu Budgie —uses the Budgie desktop environment.
Edubuntu —complete Linux based operating system targeted for primary and secondary education. It is freely available with community based support. The Edubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Edubuntu Manifesto: that software, especially for education, should be available free of charge and that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities.
Ubuntu GNOME — uses a pure GNOME desktop environment with GNOME Shell, rather than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Messinger | Joyce Ann Messenger (August 7, 1931 – September 14, 2015) was an infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
According to All-American League data, Messinger played for the Grand Rapids Chicks club during its 1953 season. Additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.
In 1988 was inaugurated a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, that honors those who were part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Joyce Messinger, along with the rest of the girls and the league staff, is included at the display/exhibit.
Sources
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
Baseball players from Lansing, Michigan
2015 deaths
1931 births
20th-century American sportswomen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20in%20Data%20Science | A Master of Science in Data Science is an interdisciplinary degree program designed to provide studies in scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to data mining.
Overview
As an area of expertise and field, data science is defined as a "concept to unify statistics, data analysis and their related methods" in order to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" with data. It employs techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the broad areas of mathematics, statistics, information science, and computer science, in particular from the subdomains of machine learning, statistical classification, cluster analysis, data mining, databases, and visualization.
The degree is relatively new, with graduate schools, business schools, and data science centers often housing the programs. Data science degree programs have emerged to address the growing and unique need for data scientists who can provide insight into multiple organizational issues and interests across several disciplines.
When Harvard Business Review called data scientist "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" the term became a buzzword, and is now often applied to business analytics, or even arbitrary use of data, or used as a term for statistics. While many university programs now offer a data science degree, there exists no consensus on a definition or curriculum contents.
Master in Data Science programs
Australia
James Cook University
Macquarie University
Monash University
Queensland University of Technology
University of Melbourne
University of New England (Australia)
University of New South Wales
University of Newcastle (Australia)
University of Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Technology Sydney
University of Western Australia
Western Sydney University
United States
Boston University
Brown University
Cabrini University
Carnegie Mellon University
City University of Seattle
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Drexel University
Harvard University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana University, Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University
Lewis University
Merrimack College
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
Rutgers University
Saint Peter's University
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University
Syracuse University
Tufts University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of St. Thomas
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Utica College
Canada
McGill University
Ryerson University
University of Alberta
University of British Columbia
Univ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20network%20mechanics | Fiber network mechanics is a subject within physics and mechanics that deals with the deformation of networks made by the connection of slender fibers,. Fiber networks are used to model the mechanics of fibrous materials such as biopolymer networks and paper products. Depending on the mechanical behavior of individual filaments, the networks may be composed of mechanical elements such as Hookean springs, Euler-Bernoulli beams, and worm-like chains. The field of fiber network mechanics is closely related to the mechanical analysis of frame structures, granular materials, critical phenomena, and lattice dynamics.
References
Biophysics
Solid mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System/360%20Model%20195 | The IBM System/360 Model 195 is a discontinued IBM computer introduced on August 20, 1969. The Model 195 was a reimplementation of the IBM System/360 Model 91 design using monolithic integrated circuits. It offers "an internal processing speed about twice as fast as the Model 85, the next most powerful System/360". The Model 195 was discontinued on February 9, 1977, the same date as the System/370 Model 195.
About 20 Model 195 systems were produced.
Technical specifications
The basic CPU cycle time is 54 nanoseconds (ns). The system has a high degree of parallelism and can process up to seven operations at a time.
The system can be configured with 1, 2, or 4 MB of magnetic core memory (models 195J, 195K, and 195L) with a cycle time of 756 ns. A 32 KB cache, called a buffer memory in the IBM announcement, is standard. Memory blocks are brought into cache in units of 64 bytes.
The normal operating system for the Model 195 is OS/360 Multiprogramming with a Variable Number of Tasks (MVT).
Legacy
The Model 195 was later updated as the IBM System/370 Model 195 with the new System/370 instructions and the 370 TOD clock and control registers, but without the virtual memory hardware.
References
External links
IBM System/360 Model 195 Functional Characteristics
Computing platforms
System/360 Model 195 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento%20Streetcar | The Downtown Riverfront Streetcar Project is a proposed streetcar line intended to connect West Sacramento to Sacramento's downtown business districts and the greater transportation network. The project is being undertaken by a consortium including the City of Sacramento, the City of West Sacramento, the Yolo County Transportation District, and the Sacramento Regional Transit District.
Planning
In 2008 West Sacramento voters passed Measures U and V, a raise in sales tax dedicated to streetcar funding. At the time, the streetcar was envisioned as a line running from Midtown to West Sacramento. While distinct from the RT Light Rail system, it would have shared some right-of-way and assets with that system; RT would likely also operate the line. If built, the service was expected to attract 5,800 daily riders.
The project received $50 million from the federal government for construction in May 2017. By June 2017, $200 million in local, state, and federal grants had been secured to build the streetcar line. A special district that includes businesses close to the streetcar agreed to a tax to offset operating costs; it was expected to generate $50 million over 25 years.
Plans stalled in 2019 as construction bids came in significantly higher than expected, with the lowest bid at $184 million, or $76 million higher than anticipated. The Sacramento City Council dissolved its special-use district dedicated to streetcar maintenance in August 2019.
After failure of the initial plan, the line was retooled into a shorter route running from Sacramento Valley Station to Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento via Tower Bridge with one additional stop. the plan requires updating environmental documents, additional funding from host cities, and FTA approval.
See also
Streetcars in North America
Light rail in the United States
References
External links
Downtown / Riverfront Streetcar
City of Sacramento Streetcar Site
West Sacramento Streetcar Site
Proposed railway lines in California
Streetcars in California
Transportation in Sacramento, California
West Sacramento, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Boomerang%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of television programs broadcast by Boomerang in the UK and Ireland.
Current programming
Grizzy and the Lemmings (10 October 2016 - present) (also airs on Pop Max)
Looney Tunes Cartoons (7 June - 6 September 2021;1 November 2021 - 31 January 2022;2022 - present)
The Looney Tunes Show (2011-present)
Moley (4 October 2021 - present) (also on Pop)
Mush-Mush & The Mushables (1 March 2021 - 1 March 2022;2022 - present) (also airs on Tiny Pop)
New Looney Tunes (2 November 2015 - 2020;2022 - present)
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (7 October 2019 - present)
Former programming
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The Addams Family
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Puss in Boots
The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers
The Amazing World of Gumball
Animaniacs (original series)
Atom Ant
Baby Looney Tunes
The Banana Splits
Bananas in Pyjamas
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (5 October 2015 - 2023)
Ben 10 (23 September 2017 - 2017;2021 - 2023)
Best Ed
The Biskitts
Blue Water High
The Boss Baby: Back in Business (2 March 2020 - 2 April 2021;2022)
Bunnicula
Camp Lazlo
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Casper's Scare School
Challenge of the GoBots
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
Chowder
Cow and Chicken
Count Duckula
The Cramp Twins
Danger Mouse
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
Dexter's Laboratory
Dink the Little Dinosaur
Doraemon
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
DreamWorks Dragons
Droopy
Duck Dodgers
Dynomutt
Fangface
The Flintstones
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends(2006-2017?)
Fraggle Rock
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
Gadget Boy
Galaxy Goof-Ups
Garfield and Friends
The Garfield Show (2 November 2009-1 July 2019)
The Gary Coleman Show
George of the Jungle (2007 TV series) (2 June 2015–2020)
Great Grape Ape
Firehouse Tales
The Happos Family
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
The Hillbilly Bears
Hong Kong Phooey
Huckleberry Hound
Inch High, Private Eye
Inspector Gadget (original series)
Inspector Gadget (2015 reboot)
Jabberjaw
Jelly Jamm
The Jetsons
Johnny Bravo
Jonny Quest
Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
The Jungle Bunch
King Arthur's Disasters
Kingdom Force
Krypto the Superdog
Laff-A-Lympics
The Land Before Time
Lamput
The Latest Buzz
LazyTown
Lego Monkie Kid (4 February 2023 - 2023) (also airs on CITV)
Looney Tunes (2000-present)
Life With Derek
The Magic Roundabout
Magilla Gorilla
Make Shake & Jake
Masha and the Bear
Master Moley by Royal Invitation (TV special)
Mighty Mike
Mr. Bean (live action) (2012-2016)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2012)
My Spy Family
The New Yogi Bear Show
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (22 August 2022 - 2023) (Formerly on CITV)
Oddbods
The Owl & Co
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
The Pink Panther
Pink Panther & Pals
The Pink Panther Show
Pat the Dog
Pixie and Dixie
Popeye
Pororo the Little Penguin
Pound Puppies (1986)
Pound Puppies (2010)
The Powerpuff G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renew%20Foundation | The Recovery Empowerment Networking and Employment for Women Foundation (RENEW), also known as Renew Foundation, is an international Christian non-profit non-government organization in the Philippines established in 2005, dedicated to empowering female survivors of human trafficking and prostitution in the Philippines.
Organization
The foundation was founded in Angeles City in 2005 by Maylyn and Paulo Fuller in order to help eradicate trafficking and empower victims of prostitution.
RENEW is licensed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Philippines to provide residential care, social and health care programs. RENEW is also a UK registered charity.
RENEW is funded by individual donations, by grants from UNAIDS and by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
Mission and vision
The mission and vision of the Renew Foundation are the following:
To offer renewal through freedom, faith in Christ, and economic opportunity to Filipino women and children exploited through trafficking and prostitution.
To eradicate the human trafficking of women and children through advocacy, networking and education for the purpose of supporting, protecting and empowering victims.
Goals, projects, activities and media coverage
RENEW offers programs of prevention, intervention, and re-integration. The prevention program, which involves identifying female youth who are most at risk of being trafficked and inviting them to enter the RENEW program, has been set up in partnership with the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford (UK) and Systems Plus College Foundation (Philippines) and was recognised as a best practice model by the National Women's Summit held in Manila in 2009, Soroptimist International in 2010, and the Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women (CATW) in 2011. The Soroptimist Ruby Award was awarded to Maylyn Fuller for her tireless work to improve the lives of trafficked women and girls in the city.
The programs also aim at establishing alternative, sustainable means of income to the women and to provide education, outreach, advocacy and spiritual renewal.
In 2010, CNN reported that the foundation "offers shelter-based programs, housing, food, legal representation and education courses, all of which aim to help women return to their families or reintegrate into the community" and that is "also has a keen interest in helping child victims of the sex trade".
RENEW also attempt to find employment for the women in various companies such as call centers, companies involved with tourism, 5-star hotels, or golf courses, and provides them with training for such employment.
RENEW also helps female survivors of human trafficking and prostitution who have become mothers locate the fathers of their children. RENEW points out that fathers who do not provide child support may be confronted with a court trial, with possible consequences such as a ban from re-entering the Philippines.
Foundation director Paul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xining%20Metro | Xining Metro is a rapid transit system under planning in Xining, Qinghai. The vision for the Xining Metro includes three metro lines totaling , and a four-line, suburban rail network, in the completed regional rapid transit network. A total of seven lines are proposed.
Line 1 and the first stage of Line 3 will cost about 28 billion yuan.
As of , the metro system has not been approved by NDRC, so actual construction have not started (except for a reserved section near Xining railway station).
Line 1
Line 1 will be long with 23 stations from Xicheng Boulevard to Jinkai Street via Xining railway station.
Line 2
Line 2 will be long with 16 stations from Huayuantaicun to Bowen Street.
Line 3
Line 3 will be long with 13 stations from Sanjiaohuayuan to Qingshui Street.
References
Rapid transit in China
Transport in Qinghai
Proposed rapid transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquae%20Calidae%2C%20Algeria | Aquae Calidae was a Roman colony of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The Roman city has been identified with ruins at Hammam Righa in the wilaya of Chlef, Algeria, North Africa.
Data
The ruins are located at latitude 36.379474N, longitude 2.395618E near the railway town of Boumedfaâ, and is on the Oued Djer River.
The Roman colony was founded by Augustus and flourished from 30BC to about 690 AD, passing through the Vandal Kingdom and Roman Empire into late antiquity.
History
Roman era
Emperor Augustus established there a colony of his veterans and the city started to grow soon in importance. Augustus even founded -in what is now coastal Algeria- the following Roman colonies: Igilgili, Saldae, Tubusuctu, Rusazu, Rusguniae, Zuccabar, Thuburnica and Gunugu. All these colonies were connected to Aquae Calidae in a military way with strong commercial links.
The importance of Aquae Calidae – as the name indicated – was from the warm waters (reaching nearly 50 C.) that were used for the local famous Roman thermae.
During the centuries of Roman domination Aquae Calidae was a small but rich city with a Forum, theater, baths, library and aqueducts, but nearly all has disappeared. Only a necropolis of the city walls has shown the abundance of evidences about Aquae Calidae Christian past. Under Septimius Severus the city probably reached 5000 inhabitants.
Carpis
Carpis (Greek: Κάρπίς) or Carpi, a town of Zeugitana, on the Gulf of Carthage, north-east of Maxula, and mentioned by both Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder, was probably identical with Aquae Calidae.
Later history
Occupied by the Vandals in the fifth century and damaged, the city was recovered to "Romanitas" by the Byzantines and regained importance during the sixth century.
Conquered by Arabs around 700 AD, Aquae Calidae nearly disappeared in the next two centuries.
See also
Mauretania Caesariensis
Caldas de Reis, Galicia, Spain
Notes
Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis
Coloniae (Roman)
Ancient Berber cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada%202525 | Armada 2525 is a 4X science fiction computer strategy game developed by Robert T. Smith and published by Interstel Corporation. It was released in North America in 1991 for $49.95. An updated version called Armada 2525 Deluxe was also released the following year which featured updated gameplay, graphics and improved multiplayer .
Gameplay
Armada 2525 is a 4X (an abbreviation of explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) strategy game. Players must explore the galaxy, expand their empire, exploit the various resources to be found, and exterminate their rivals. Gameplay ends depending one of 4 victory conditions set at the start of a gaming session.
The game takes place entirely in 2D with the main star map and battle sequences taking place on 2D planes. It is broken up into a single production phase for construction and research followed by 4 movement phases where the player can explore the galaxy and fight opposing empires. Combat occurs when a fleet arrives at a star with an opposing player with both sides able to issue limited commands before the start of automated combat. The actual combat scenario is determined whether there is an opposing fleet guarding the star or lacking that, if there are opposing planetary defenses.
Reception and legacy
Computer Gaming World praised Armada 2525 for its simplicity, diversity, and ease of play, stating the game allowed players to focus on playing well versus understanding how to play. The game's AI was also touted as challenging enough for solo play. The magazine did however criticize the game's multiplayer feature as the save-mechanism was not conducive to play-by-email and the lack of modem support meant the only option was hotseat play. While it did call the game the closest in spirit to Reach for the Stars than any other space strategy game to date, the magazine also stated it was not the end-all substitute for it. It concluded that Armada 2525 was a worthy addition to the strategic space genre for its fans. A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game three stars out of five, stating that it was "Both multi-layered and detailed".
Armada 2526 is touted as the successor of Armada 2525.
References
External links
1991 video games
4X video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Turn-based strategy video games
Space opera video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Space conquest video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayhan%20Erciye%C5%9F | Prof. Dr. Kayhan Erciyeş (born 30 November 1956) is a Turkish computer engineer, educator and author. Between 2009 and 2016, he was the rector of İzmir University.
Biography
After receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester (1979), Kayhan Erciyeş completed the Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Salford (1983) and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Engineering at Ege University and (partly) at the University of Edinburgh (1989).
He was research assistant (1985—1990), assistant professor, associate professor (1991—1999) and since 1999 professor at Ege University. He was visiting lecturer at Oregon State University (1994—1995), visiting professor at the University of California, Davis (2001) and at California State University San Marcos (2002).
He was the rector of İzmir University from 2009 until 2016, when the university was closed during the 2016–17 purges in Turkey.
In 2016, he supported and helped to organise the distribution of basic survival provisions to some of the worst-off refugees in the area of İzmir.
Work
Kayhan Erciyeş is best known for his research in distributed systems and algorithms, computer networks, with application areas such as mobile networks, wireless sensor networks, grid computing, parallel computing, distributed, real-time and embedded systems, bioinformatics.
In 1983–1984, he was research & development engineer at Alcatel Turkey and in 1990–1991 at Alcatel Portugal. In 1999, he received the Great Technical Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey for his work as consultant and head of the design team in Alcatel Turkey at the project 'New Generation Card Phones and Their Network Management Systems'.
In 1996–1999, he was consultant at Izmir Municipality Transportation System at the development of its Smart Card Application. In 2000, he received for the results of his work on this project the Best Smart Card application in the World 2000 Award by SESAME, Paris and the Karsiyaka Rotary Club Best Professional of the Year 2000 Award.
In 2015, he published the book Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics, where he presents a unified coverage of bioinformatics topics relating to both biological sequences and biological networks, combining DNA and protein sequence analysis and protein network analysis and offering about 15 new parallel algorithms.
Books
A Communication Architecture for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Cluster Based Protocols for Distributed Applications (with Orhan Dagdeviren and Deniz Cokuslu) (2010)
Topology Control for Mobile Ad hoc Networks: A Dominating Set Based Approach (with Deniz Cokuslu and Orhan Dagdeviren) (2010)
Distributed Graph Algorithms for Computer Networks (2013)
Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective (2014)
Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics (2015)
Algebraic Graph Algorithms - A Practical Guide Using Python (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20transducer | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a tree transducer (TT) is an abstract machine taking as input a tree, and generating output – generally other trees, but models producing words or other structures exist. Roughly speaking, tree transducers extend tree automata in the same way that word transducers extend word automata.
Manipulating tree structures instead of words enable TT to model syntax-directed transformations of formal or natural languages. However, TT are not as well-behaved as their word counterparts in terms of algorithmic complexity, closure properties, etcetera. In particular, most of the main classes are not closed under composition.
The main classes of tree transducers are:
Top-Down Tree Transducers (TOP)
A TOP T is a tuple (Q, Σ, Γ, I, δ) such that:
Q is a finite set, the set of states;
Σ is a finite ranked alphabet, called the input alphabet;
Γ is a finite ranked alphabet, called the output alphabet;
I is a subset of Q, the set of initial states; and
is a set of rules of the form , where f is a symbol of Σ, n is the arity of f, q is a state, and u is a tree on Γ and , such pairs being nullary.
Examples of rules and intuitions on semantics
For instance,
is a rule – one customarily writes instead of the pair – and its intuitive semantics is that, under the action of q, a tree with f at the root and three children is transformed into
where, recursively, and are replaced, respectively, with the application of on the first child and
with the application of on the third.
Semantics as term rewriting
The semantics of each state of the transducer T, and of T itself, is a binary relation between input trees (on Σ) and output trees (on Γ).
A way of defining the semantics formally is to see as a term rewriting system, provided that in the right-hand sides the calls are written in the form , where states q are unary symbols. Then the semantics of a state q is given by
The semantics of T is then defined as the union of the semantics of its initial states:
Determinism and domain
As with tree automata, a TOP is said to be deterministic (abbreviated DTOP) if no two rules of δ share the same left-hand side, and there is at most one initial state. In that case, the semantics of the DTOP is a partial function from input trees (on Σ) to output trees (on Γ), as are the semantics of each of the DTOP's states.
The domain of a transducer is the domain of its semantics. Likewise, the image of a transducer is the image of its semantics.
Properties of DTOP
DTOP are not closed under union: this is already the case for deterministic word transducers.
The domain of a DTOP is a regular tree language. Furthermore, the domain is recognisable by a deterministic top-down tree automaton (DTTA) of size at most exponential in that of the initial DTOP.
That the domain is DTTA-recognizable is not surprising, considering that the left-hand sides of DTOP rules are the same as for DTTA. As for the reason for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked%20alphabet | In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a ranked alphabet is a pair of an ordinary alphabet F and a function Arity: F→. Each letter in F has its arity so it can be used to build terms. Nullary elements (of zero arity) are also called constants. Terms built with unary symbols and constants can be considered as strings. Higher arities lead to proper trees.
For instance, in the term
,
a,b,c are constants, g is unary, and f is ternary.
Contrariwise,
cannot be a valid term, as the symbol f appears once as binary, and once as unary, which is illicit, as Arity must be a function.
References
Trees (data structures)
Automata (computation)
Formal languages
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspirational%20Life%20Television | Inspirational Life Television (iLifeTV) was an American cable TV network that existed until 2009. It mainly served as a complement network to sister network The Inspiration Network, and mainly featured Christian lifestyle and home programming, along with sitcom and drama repeats, and national news from the American News Network.
History
iLifeTV was replaced with Halogen TV on October 24, 2009. Halogen TV and the Documentary Channel would be replaced with Pivot TV on August 1, 2013. Pivot TV would later be discontinued on October 31, 2016.
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
Defunct television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20St%20Stephen%20and%20St%20Tathan%2C%20Caerwent | The Church of St Stephen and St Tathan, Caerwent, Monmouthshire, is a parish church with datable origins to the 13th century. It is believed to be one of the oldest Christian sites in the county, and possibly within Wales. The church is sited within the walls of the Roman town. It remains an active parish church and a Grade II* listed building.
History
It is possible that a very early Christian congregation worshipped at Caerwent in the Roman period, although there is no evidence that this settlement was on the site of the present church. In 1992, a pre-Norman cross-head was discovered near the site indicating the presence of a Christian church predating the Norman Conquest. The oldest part of the existing church is the chancel, dating from the 13th century. The church was restored in 1893–1894 and again in 1910–1912 by G. E. Halliday. It remains an active church in the parish of Caerwent and Dinham and is a Grade II* listed building.
Architecture and description
The church is built of limestone, some local to the area and some imported from Somerset. It contains a significant number of Roman artefacts, including an altar dedicated to the god Mars, dating from AD 152.
Notes
References
Grade II* listed churches in Monmouthshire
History of Monmouthshire
Church in Wales church buildings
13th-century church buildings in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chio%27s%20School%20Road | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tadataka Kawasaki. It was serialized in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine from April 2014 to September 2018. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa aired from July to September 2018.
Plot
The story features a simple premise—high school girl Chio Miyamo walking from her house to her school. What happens between these two points, however, varies from day to day, ranging from strange conversations with her friend Manana Nonomura, dealing with biker gangs, and performing death-defying feats of parkour.
Characters
Chio is a high school girl who experiences all sorts of craziness on her commute to school. She is an avid gamer, particularly of Western video games, and occasionally tries to put her game experience into practice with varying degrees of success.
Manana is Chio's best friend who has been with her since elementary school. Despite their close friendship, the two will occasionally try to backstab each other.
Yuki is Chio's classmate who is a sports ace. She is very polite and often oblivious to how people see her.
Momo is a member of the public morals committee at Chio's school who has a crush on her teacher, Gotō.
Madoka is a senior student at Chio's school who is captain of the Kabaddi Club. She has a strong passion for kabaddi, which she ultimately comes to realize is not based in the sport itself, but rather for it being the perfect excuse to grope other girls.
Gotō is a teacher at Chio's school who always waits at the school gates as students come in every morning. While stern, he deeply cares for his students and greatly enjoys his job.
Mayuta is a former biker gang leader who is tricked by Chio into quitting his gang and now seeks to earn an honest living as a convenience store clerk. He has a crush on Chio and often goes to absurd lengths to impress her.
Chiharu is Mayuta's younger sister who has a bad habit of trying to poke other people's bottoms. She loves her older brother dearly and is driven to find the woman who made him quit his gang.
Media
Manga
Chio's School Road, written and illustrated by Tadataka Kawasaki, was serialized in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine from April 5, 2014, to September 5, 2018. Nine tankōbon volumes were published from September 23, 2014, to September 21, 2018. The series is licensed in North America by Yen Press.
Anime
A 12-episode anime television series adaptation was originally scheduled to premiere in April 2018, but the release date was pushed back to July 6, and it concluded on September 21, 2018. It was directed and written by Takayuki Inagaki at Diomedéa, with character designs by Mayuko Matsumoto. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles, while Funimation produced a SimulDub. The opening theme is by Naomi Ōzora, Chiaki Omigawa, and Kaede Hondo, while the ending theme is by Ōzora and Omigawa.
Notes
References
External links
Manga official site
Anime official we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Nicktoons%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of television programmes formerly and currently broadcast by the British & Irish children's television channel Nicktoons, a sister network to Nickelodeon.
Current programming
Nickelodeon programmes
Big Nate (2 October 2023–present)
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (31 July 2023–present)
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011–2016; 2019–2021; 2023–present)
The Loud House (30 May 2016–present)
The Patrick Star Show (25 October 2021–present)
SpongeBob SquarePants (22 July 2002–present)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012-2018; 2022–present)
Transformers: EarthSpark (28 November 2022–present)
Acquired programming
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks (2016–present)
The Smurfs (25 October 2021–present)
Former programming
Original programming
Nick Kicks (2016-2017)
Acquired from Nickelodeon (UK)
Renford Rejects (2011)
Acquired from Nickelodeon (US)
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (2002–2011)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002–2013)
The Adventures of Kid Danger (2018–2019; 2021)
All Grown Up! (2004–2010; 2017)
The Amanda Show (2011)
The Angry Beavers (2002–2010)
As Told by Ginger (2002–2008)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006–2017; 2020–2023)
Back at the Barnyard (2008–2014)
The Barbarian and the Troll (2021)
Blaze and the Monster Machines (2020)
Breadwinners (2014–2020)
Bunsen Is a Beast (2017–2020)
The Casagrandes (2020–2023)
CatDog (2002–2013)
Catscratch (2006–2010)
ChalkZone (2003–2008)
Danny Phantom (2004–2014; 2020)
Doug (2002–2010)
Drake & Josh (2010–2012)
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007–2011)
The Fairly OddParents (2002–2022)
Fanboy & Chum Chum (2010–2017)
Harvey Beaks (2015–2018)
Hey Arnold! (2002–2017)
Invader Zim (2002–2017)
It's Pony (2020–2022)
KaBlam! (2002–2005)
Kenan & Kel (2011)
The Legend of Korra (2013–2015; 2020–2023)
Middlemost Post (2021–2022)
The Mighty B! (2009–2013)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013–2015)
Monster High (2022–2023)
Mr. Meaty (2007–2008)
My Life as a Teenage Robot (2005–2008)
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2010–2012)
Oh Yeah! Cartoons (2002–2005)
The Penguins of Madagascar (2009–2016)
Pig Goat Banana Cricket (2018–2021)
Planet Sheen (2011–2016)
The Really Loud House (2023)
The Ren & Stimpy Show (2002–2017)
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018–2020)
Robot and Monster (2013–2016)
Rocket Power (2002–2011)
Rocko's Modern Life (2002–2017)
Rubble & Crew (premiere only) (2023)
Rugrats (2002–2022)
Sanjay and Craig (2013–2022)
Star Trek: Prodigy (2022–2023)
Supah Ninjas (2012)
Tak and the Power of Juju (2008–2013)
The Tiny Chef Show (2022–2023)
The Troop (2010–2012)
T.U.F.F. Puppy (2011–2016)
The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj (2023)
Welcome to the Wayne (2018–2019)
The Wild Thornberrys (2002–2008; 2017)
The X's (2006–2008)
Acquired programming
44 Cats (2020–2021)
Animal Crackers (2002–2004)
Arthur (2002–2004)
Beyblade: Metal Fury (2014–2015)
Beyblade: Metal Fusion (2010–2012)
Beyblade: Metal Masters (2012–2014)
Big Blue (2021–2023)
Big Guy and the Rusty the Boy Rob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frink%20%28programming%20language%29 | Frink is a computer programming language. It is, according to creator of the language, "designed to make physical calculations simple, to help ensure that answers come out right, and to make a tool that's really useful in the real world. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc.) through all calculations, allowing you to mix units of measure transparently, and helps you easily verify that your answers make sense."
Features
units of measure for variables
Interval arithmetic
Anonymous functions
Name
Frink was named after Professor Frink, recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.
References
External links
Frink examples at Rosetta Code
Cross-platform software
Scripting languages
Numerical programming languages
JVM programming languages
Programming languages supporting units of measure
Programming languages created in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paditha%20Penn | Paditha Penn () is a 1956 Indian Tamil-language film directed by M. Thiruvenkadam. The film stars N. N. Kannappa and Rajasulochana.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
N. N. Kannappa
M. N. Nambiar
V. K. Ramasamy
Female cast
Rajasulochana
Tambaram Lalitha
Susheela
Production
The film was directed by M. Thiruvenkadam. Screenplay and dialogues were written by A. S. Muthu.
This is the first film Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram wrote lyrics for.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by Arun and Raghavan while the lyrics were written by Pattukkottai Kalyanasundaram, Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass, Kavi. Lakshmanadas and Aroordas. Playback singers are Thiruchi Loganathan, A. M. Rajah, S. C. Krishnan, Jikki, N. L. Ganasaraswathi and K. Rani.
References
1950s Tamil-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20audio | Generative audio refers to the creation of audio files from databases of audio clips. This technology differs from AI voices such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, which use a collection of fragments that are stitched together on demand.
Generative audio works by using neural networks to learn the statistical properties of an audio source, then reproduces those properties.
Implications
With this technology, a person's voice can be replicated to speak phrases that they may have never spoken. This could lead to a synthetic version of a public figure's voice being used against them.
Technology
This method uses generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep machine learning technique where two machine learning models work against each other to create realistic audio.
See also
Generative Art
Generative Music
References
Sound production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver%20Viaduct | The Weaver Viaduct, in the north of Cheshire on the M56, is one of the longest concrete viaducts on the British motorway network.
History
It was built as part of the first section of the M56 North Cheshire Motorway, also initially known as the Cheshire East-West Motorway, five miles from junctions 14 Hapsford Interchange to 12 at the A557.
The contract was given in early March 1968, to be finished by September 1970, to the Christiani-Shand consortium (its headquarters were at Romney House, on Marsham Street in London) for £3,146,387.
Design
It was designed from 1964 to 1967. It was designed by Husband and Company Consulting Engineers of Sheffield.
Construction
Work started on the viaduct on 1 April 1968. Work began on the eight-mile motorway in December 1968. The bridge crosses a flood plain. The foundations had 2,376 reinforced concrete piles. Thirty two 125-foot concrete 100-tonne beams were put into place in July 1970; the concrete beams were made by Matthews & Mumby of Windmill Lane, Denton, Greater Manchester. The project manager for Christiani-Shand was Mr A.K. Robertson.
31-year-old Harry Russon was killed instantly on the bridge construction on Wednesday 6 August 1969.
The construction of the five-mile motorway was completed in December 1970. The five-mile motorway opened for traffic at 11am on Sunday 21 February 1971; the viaduct would open with hard shoulders; the Thelwall Viaduct on the M6 was not originally built with a hard shoulder. The section to Preston Brook at junction 11 opened on Thursday 23 September 1971.
Structure
Due to its position, on the eastern edge of the exposed Cheshire Plain, there can be high crosswinds over the bridge, and the bridge may be closed as a result. Many high-sided vehicles have had accidents on the bridge.
It has a 222 ft span over the River Weaver and a 125 ft span over the Weaver Navigation. There are 30 approach spans of 90 ft each.
References
External links
History
1970 establishments in England
Bridges completed in 1970
Bridges in Cheshire
Cheshire West and Chester
Concrete bridges in England
M56 motorway
Motorway bridges in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Simkhai | Joel Simkhai (; born c. 1976) is an Israeli-American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of geosocial networking and dating apps Grindr and Blendr. His original goal in starting Grindr was for people with similar interests to find new friends nearby.
In 2022, he launched a new dating app called Motto.
Biography
Joel Simkhai was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His mother was a jeweler, and his father was a diamond dealer. When he was three years old, his family moved to New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations & Economics from Tufts University in May 1998. After starting college, he came out to his parents and friends. He has two brothers, who are also gay.He owns several properties, primarily residing in New York. In 2021, Dave Keuning bought a mansion that Simkhai owned in Outpost Estates.
Business career
After college, Simkhai worked in mergers and acquisitions.While he started with little money or expertise and never expected Grindr to become international, he became a multimillionaire CEO of an app with millions of users worldwide. In January 2018, he left Grindr after the company was sold to the Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech.
Simkhai is a charter member of the Young Presidents' Organization.
In 2022, Simkhai launched a mobile app called MOTTO for the gay and queer community. The company is based in New York City.
References
Living people
American LGBT businesspeople
Israeli LGBT businesspeople
LGBT Jews
Businesspeople from Tel Aviv
Tufts University alumni
Israeli businesspeople
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoyol | The Otoyol (Plural: Otoyollar) is the national network of controlled-access highways in Turkey. The network spans as of 2023 and was first opened in 1973. The term Otoyol translates to motorway while the literal meaning is auto-route.
The Otoyol system previously consisted of three separate networks; the Edirne-Istanbul-Ankara corridor, the Aegean network centred on İzmir and the Southeastern network centred on Adana. With the completion of the O-5 in 2019 and the extension of the O-21 in 2020, these three networks have since been connected. The network is expected to expand to by 2053. The minimum speed limit on the Turkish otoyols is while the maximum speed is .
The otoyol network passes through 29 provinces out of 81 in Turkey. The total population of these 29 provinces is two thirds of the total population of the country as of 2022-end.
History
The construction of a national road system was prioritized in 1948, where the construction of new roads were greatly accelerated. This led to a rise in automobile usage in Turkey. By the 1960s, traffic problems were becoming prevalent in large cities and capacity on intercity roads needed to be upgraded. Plans to build new expressways were put into action in 1968, when construction of the Istanbul Inner Beltway was started. The Beltway, known as the O-1, was opened together with the Bosporus Bridge in 1973 with great fanfare. This became the first motorway to be built in Turkey. The Istanbul Beltway was then to be a part of a large expressway spanning from Edirne, in East Thrace, to İskenderun, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Construction of this expressway first started in 1973 on a section between Pozantı and Akçatekir, on what would become the O-21. In 1975 construction of a section of the motorway from Gebze to Izmit was started. Due to financial problems during the following years, construction of the two otoyols were greatly slowed down. It wasn't until 1984 that these two motorways were opened to traffic.
Turgut Özal became Prime Minister in 1983 and brought forth a policy of constructing new otoyols in Turkey. In 1985, construction of an intercontinental motorway spanning from Edirne to Ankara was started. This motorway project would serve as an outer beltway round Istanbul and also included the construction of a second bridge over the Bosporus, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge. The first section of the motorway, the long Edirne Beltway, was opened in 1987, followed by the opening of the Outer Beltway in Istanbul, from Levent to Kozyatağı, together with the FSM Bridge on 3 July 1988. The motorway was opened in sections in the following years until being completed in 1994.
2 decades later O-7 or Third Beltway opened in 2017.
In 1988 the construction of three new motorways in Izmir were started.
O-32 opened in 1992 and it became first motorway in Agean Region. O-30 was built a year after.
And a year after O-31 was opened, running between İzmir and Aydın.
Finally in 2008, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magathala%20Nattu%20Mary | Magathala Nattu Mary () is a 1957 Indian Tamil-language film directed by S. S. Rajan. The film stars Sriram and Kumari Thangam.
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from Thiraikalanjiyam.
Male cast
Sriram
P. S. Veerappa
Raghuveer
E. R. Sahadevan
Mohan
P. Varatharajan
T. C. Sundaramoorthy
Female cast
Kumari Thangam
G. Sakunthala
Susheela
Revathy
Production
The film was produced by M. L. Pathy under the banner Jaikumar Pictures and was directed by S. S. Rajan. Sam D. Dasan wrote the screenplay and dialogues. Cinematography was handled by Sanganlal and Raj was in charge of art direction. The film was made at the Paramount Studios in Chennai.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by R. Parthasarathy while the lyrics were written by Naavarasu, M. P. Sivam and Kambadasan. Playback singers are P. B. Srinivas, S. V. Ponnusamy, Ghantasala, P. Susheela, Jikki, K. Rani, S. Janaki, Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi and K. Jamuna Rani.
The song Kannukku Naerae Minnidum Thaarai is the first Tamil duet by P. B. Srinivas and S. Janaki.
References
1950s Tamil-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20A.%20Phillips | Cynthia A. Phillips is a researcher at the Center for Computing Research of Sandia National Laboratories, known for her work in combinatorial optimization.
Education
Phillips earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983,
a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1985, and a doctorate in computer science from MIT in 1990.
Her dissertation, on parallel algorithms, was supervised by Charles Leiserson.
Recognition
In 2015 the Association for Computing Machinery listed her as a Distinguished Member.
She became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016 "for contributions to the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Sandia National Laboratories people
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Max | Science Max: Experiments at Large is a Canadian children's television series, which premiered on TVOntario's TVOKids and Da Vinci Kids programming block in 2015. Hosted by Phil McCordic, the series educates viewers about science through large-scale experiments to demonstrate scientific principles.
The series also features an interactive online component.
The series won three Canadian Screen Awards at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017 and the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, for Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program and Best Cross-Platform Digital Project.
References
External links
2010s Canadian children's television series
2015 Canadian television series debuts
TVO original programming
Canadian children's education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20F.%20Cohen | Michael F. Cohen is an American computer scientist and researcher in computer graphics. He was a senior research scientist at Microsoft Research for 21 years until he joined Facebook Research in 2015. In 1998, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award for his work in developing radiosity methods for realistic image synthesis. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2007 for his "contributions to computer graphics and computer vision." In 2019, he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics for “his groundbreaking work in numerous areas of research—radiosity, motion simulation & editing, light field rendering, matting & compositing, and computational photography”.
Education
Cohen attended Beloit College for his undergraduate degree, graduating with a BA in 1976 in art and Rutgers University with a BS in civil engineering in 1983. He received his master's degree in computer graphics from Cornell University in 1985. He received his PhD in computer science in 1992 from the University of Utah.
Scientific career
At Cornell University's Program of Computer Graphics, Cohen served as an assistant professor of architecture from 1985–1989. His first major research contributions were in the area of photorealistic rendering, in particular, in the study of radiosity: the use of finite elements to solve the rendering equation for environments with diffusely reflecting surfaces. His most significant results included the hemicube (1985), for computing form factors in the presence of occlusion; an experimental evaluation framework (1986), one of the first studies to quantitatively compare real and synthetic imagery; extending radiosity to non-diffuse environments (1986); integrating ray tracing with radiosity (1987); progressive refinement (1988), to make interactive rendering possible.
After completing his PhD, he joined the Computer Science faculty at Princeton University, where he continued his work on Radiosity, including wavelet radiosity (1993), a more general framework for hierarchical approaches; and “radioptimization” (1993), an inverse method to solve for lighting parameters based on user-specified objectives. All of this work culminated in a 1993 textbook with John Wallace, Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis.
In a very different research area, Cohen made significant contributions to motion simulation and editing, most significantly: dynamic simulation with kinematic constraints (1987), which for the first time allowed animators to combine kinematic and dynamic specifications; interactive spacetime control for animation (1992), which combined physically-based and user-defined constraints for controlling motion.
In 1994, Cohen moved to Microsoft Research (MSR) where he stayed for 21 years. There he continued work on motion synthesis; motion transitions using spacetime constraints (1996), which allowed seamless and plausible transitions between |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards%20and%20Practices%20%28disambiguation%29 | In the US, Broadcast Standards and Practices (often abbreviated to omit the first word) is the department at a television network which is responsible for moral, ethical, and legal issues.
Standards and Practices may also refer to:
Standards & Practices (album) by American punk rock band Face to Face
"Standards and Practices" (30 Rock), an episode of the American comedy series 30 Rock
Standards and Practices, a previous name for the professional wrestling tag team The West Hollywood Blondes
See also
Standards And Recommended Practices in the aviation industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirugao | is a 2014 Japanese TV series followed by a 2017 Japanese film, Hirugao starring Aya Ueto, Takumi Saito, Kichise Michiko and Hiroyuki Hirayama, and produced by Fuji Television Network. The film, directed by Hiroshi Nishitani is based on the drama series of the same title (ja).
Story background
Sawa sees a home burning from her balcony and later learns that it was arson by one of the homeowners. She also sees the family living in a newly built house who also saw the fire. The next day while working in a supermarket, Sawa sees Rikako, the wife of the family living in the new house, commenting to a colleague that Rikako is pretty. Sawa's shift ends then she admires the lipstick display at the store when some running children knock over the lipstick. She picks them up but, impulsively, shoplifts one lipstick that has scattered far away and away from the view of the security cameras. At that moment, while walking out of the store, police nab a juvenile trying to break into a car. Rikako, who is with her boyfriend (not her husband) grabs Sawa and tells her to act as her friend and she won't reveal the shoplifting. Rikako knows that the police report would list her boyfriend and needs an accomplice to say that all three of them are together for afternoon tea.
At the police station, the juvenile's teacher takes the car thief and apologizes.
The TV series continues with Rikako being caught by her husband having an affair and Sawa, hesitant at first, succumbs to Rikako's encouragement to have an affair with the teacher. She is caught by the teacher's wife. The settlement is that the teacher couple and Sawa with her husband will move to another city and if there is any future contact, however brief, between the teacher and Sawa, Sawa would be forced to pay the teacher's wife 300,000 yen/month (USD3000/month) for the rest of her life.
Plotline for the film
Influenced by the novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel, the film follows the story of Sawa, who sleeps with a married man 'heijitsu hirugao tsuma' (while her husband is working). After it becomes known, she moves to escape the harassment, even changing her name. But after the illicit lovers break off the relationship that had resulted in so much destruction, they meet by chance in a small seaside town, and the relationship is once again kindled.
Sawa, now a divorcee, works in a restaurant on the beach in a small town, having moved away from Yokohama. Mr. Kitano is a lecturer at a university but, 3 years after breaking up with Sawa, he is scheduled to give a lecture in the seaside town.
Sawa learns of the lecture and wants to go despite signing a legal agreement to stay away from Mr. Kitano with a monetary penalty to be paid monthly for life for any violations by having contact, however brief, with Mr. Kitano. Sawa sits in the back of the lecture hall, hiding her face, but Mr. Kitano sees her after a student raises his hand to ask a question.
Sawa later sees Mr. Kitano and screams from the bus. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20machine%20introspection | In computing, virtual machine introspection (VMI) is a technique "for monitoring the runtime state of a system-level virtual machine (VM)", which is helpful for debugging or forensic analysis.
The term introspection in application to the virtual machines was introduced by Garfinkel and Rosenblum. They invented an approach for "protecting a security application from attack by malicious software" and called it VMI. Now VMI is a common term for different virtual machine forensics and analysis methods. VMI-based approaches are widely used for security applications, software debugging, and systems management.
VMI tools may be located inside or outside the virtual machine and act by tracking the events (interrupts, memory writes, and so on) or sending the requests to the virtual machine. Virtual machine monitor usually provides low-level information like raw bytes of the memory. Converting this low-level view into something meaningful for the user is known as the semantic gap problem. Solving this problem requires analysis and understanding of the systems being monitored.
VMI within the virtual machine
Programs running inside VM may provide information about other processes. This information may be sent through network interface or some virtual devices like serial port.
The examples of in vivo introspection programs are WinDbg or GDB servers that interact with the remote debugger.
The drawback of this approach is that it requires functioning OS within the VM. If OS hangs or isn't loaded yet, the introspection agent couldn't work.
VMI outside the virtual machine
VMI tools may be implemented within the virtual machine monitor or as a separate programs that capture information (e.g., contents of the memory) from the virtual machine monitor.
Then this data has to be interpreted to understand the processes in the system. One of the popular tools for such interpretation is Volatility framework. This framework contains profiles for many popular operating systems and may extract different information like process tree or list of the kernel objects.
References
Virtual machines
Operating system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20supremacy | In quantum computing, quantum supremacy or quantum advantage is the goal of demonstrating that a programmable quantum computer can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in any feasible amount of time, irrespective of the usefulness of the problem. The term was coined by John Preskill in 2012, but the concept dates back to Yuri Manin's 1980 and Richard Feynman's 1981 proposals of quantum computing.
Conceptually, quantum supremacy involves both the engineering task of building a powerful quantum computer and the computational-complexity-theoretic task of finding a problem that can be solved by that quantum computer and has a superpolynomial speedup over the best known or possible classical algorithm for that task.
Examples of proposals to demonstrate quantum supremacy include the boson sampling proposal of Aaronson and Arkhipov, D-Wave's specialized frustrated cluster loop problems, and sampling the output of random quantum circuits. The output distributions that are obtained by making measurements in boson sampling or quantum random circuit sampling are flat, but structured in a way so that one cannot classically efficiently sample from a distribution that is close to the distribution generated by the quantum experiment. For this conclusion to be valid, only very mild assumptions in the theory of computational complexity have to be invoked. In this sense, quantum random sampling schemes can have the potential to show quantum supremacy.
A notable property of quantum supremacy is that it can be feasibly achieved by near-term quantum computers, since it does not require a quantum computer to perform any useful task or use high-quality quantum error correction, both of which are long-term goals. Consequently, researchers view quantum supremacy as primarily a scientific goal, with relatively little immediate bearing on the future commercial viability of quantum computing. Due to unpredictable possible improvements in classical computers and algorithms, quantum supremacy may be temporary or unstable, placing possible achievements under significant scrutiny.
Background
Quantum advantage in the 20th century
In 1936, Alan Turing published his paper, “On Computable Numbers”, in response to the 1900 Hilbert Problems. Turing's paper described what he called a “universal computing machine”, which later became known as a Turing machine. In 1980, Paul Benioff utilized Turing's paper to propose the theoretical feasibility of Quantum Computing. His paper, “The Computer as a Physical System: A Microscopic Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonian Model of Computers as Represented by Turing Machines“, was the first to demonstrate that it is possible to show the reversible nature of quantum computing as long as the energy dissipated is arbitrarily small. In 1981, Richard Feynman showed that quantum mechanics could not be efficiently simulated on classical devices. During a lecture, he delivered the famous quote, “Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20surveillance%20in%20Russia | Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population. Mass surveillance in Russia includes surveillance, open-source intelligence and data mining, lawful interception as well as telecommunications data retention.
Surveillance systems
Semantic Archive
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) uses a special analytical search system designed by the Russian firm Analytic Business Solutions called "Semantic Archive". The advertised features of Semantic Archive are:
Automated collecting and processing of information obtained from heterogeneous sources, both internal (file documents, proprietary databases, e-mails) and external (online databases, news media, blogs, forums, social networks).
Single uniform storage for all types of collecting documents.
Knowledge extraction, i.e. automatic and semi-automatic extraction of objects, events and relationships from documents.
Maintaining of knowledge base and collecting dossiers on particular projects, investigations, partners, competitors, clients, etc.
Revealing of hidden or implicit relationships between objects.
Visual presentation of knowledge in the form of semantic network.
Variety of reports used to present results of research.
It is used by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Ministry of the Interior (MVD) to monitor open sources and the Internet, including the blogosphere and social networks.
SORM
Russia's System of Operational-Investigatory Measures (SORM) requires telecommunications operators to install hardware provided by the Federal Security Service (FSB) which allows the agency to monitor users' communications metadata and content, including phone calls, email traffic, and web browsing activity.
The SORM-1 (implemented in 1995) system captures telephone and mobile phone communications, SORM-2 (implemented in 1999) intercepts Internet traffic, and SORM-3 collects information from all forms of communication, providing long-term storage of all information and data on subscribers, including actual recordings and locations. In 2014, the system was expanded to include social media platforms, and the Ministry of Communications ordered companies to install new equipment with Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) capability. In 2016, SORM-3 added additional classified regulations that apply to all Internet Service providers in Russia.
The FSB is required to obtain a post-collection court warrant to access these records. Surveillance can begin before the warrant is granted or requested, the warrant need not be shown to the telecom operator, and it is only required for the retrieval of collected communications content, not for the metadata.
The European Court for Human Rights deemed Russia's SORM legislation in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights in 2015 (Zakharov v. Russia).
CAMERTON
СAMERTON: Is a global vehicle tracking system, control and tracking, identification of probable routes and places of the most frequent appe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20%26%20Gnasher%3A%20Unleashed%21 | Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! is a British computer-animated television series based on the Dennis the Menace strip from the British comic The Beano created by David Law. The strip first introduced in 1951. It started airing on CBBC on 6 November 2017 and is the third animated adaptation of the strip after Dennis and Gnasher and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher. The series stars Freddie Fox as Dennis. A second series began on 13 July 2020.
Plot
The series follows 10-year-old Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher as he teams up with his friends Pieface, JJ and Rubi to cause havoc to Walter and Beanotown and Bash Street School, in a world full of action-packed adventure where rules just get in the way.
Each episode also includes a short 2D section featuring Gnasher's fleas telling jokes.
Cast
Freddie Fox as Dennis, the title character and a master of trouble.
Boris Hiestand as Gnasher, his pet dog, who serves as a sidekick.
Rasmus Hardiker as Walter Brown, Dennis' arch-enemy and Grizzly Griller, an explorer who is a Bear Grylls parody.
Ryan Sampson as Peter "Pieface" Shepherd. One of Dennis' best friends and with a rather odd personality and has a pet potato, Paul.
Kathryn Drysdale as Jemima "JJ" Jones. The most fearless girl of Dennis' friends who always tells Dennis stories that her big brothers have told her, even though they may not be true.
Kelly-Marie Stewart as Rubidium "Rubi" von Screwtop. The smartest of Dennis' friends and uses a wheelchair, as does her voice actress. She is very good at making plans. Her father is the scientist Professor von Screwtop, who first appeared in the Lord Snooty strip in the 1940s.
Joanna Ruiz as Mrs Creecher, Gran and Anne Finally - a journalist whose name is a play-on the words "And finally...".
Maya Sondhi as Miss Mistry, who joined Bash Street School as a new teacher in Series 2.
Production
The series was first announced on 8 June 2016, when The Beano announced they were setting up a business dedicated to media based on The Beano. Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! will be their first production. On 5 October 2016, it was officially announced that the series would air on CBBC in 2017 and the first-ever picture of Dennis in CGI was released. On 17 March 2017, Freddie Fox was announced to be voicing Dennis, a clip of the series was also released. On 3 July 2017, Rasmus Hardiker, Ryan Sampson, Kathryn Drysdale, Kelly-Marie Stewart and Joanna Ruiz were all added to the voice cast and another clip was released.
The series was announced for a second installment on 12 February 2019, after the success of the first. Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! season one received nominations at Kidscreen, the British Animation awards and was nominated for an International Emmy.
The music for the series was composed by Rob Lord and Graham Kearns and the theme tune was performed by The Vaccines.
Episodes
Series 1 (2017–18)
Series 2 (2020–21)
Reception
In its first week, it was the highest rated show on CBBC and overall the 10th mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoodRelations | GoodRelations is a Web Ontology Language-compliant ontology for Semantic Web online data, dealing with business-related goods and services. It handles the individual relationships between a buyer, a seller and the products and services offered. In November 2012, it was integrated into the Schema.org ontology.
Usage
GoodRelations became popular owing to its success in improving search engine results.
By 2009, the ontology's Product concept was being used to describe over a million products and their prices. By 2013, GoodRelations had been adopted by the search engines Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. An analysis of online e-commerce data providers at that time found it to be the most prevalent ontology in use. As of mid-2015, GoodRelations had become the de facto ontology for e-commerce, and was in widespread use, having been adopted by retailers such as BestBuy.
GoodRelations is additionally used in academic studies of the Semantic Web, as a core ontology.
Example
A shop, restaurant, or store, and its opening hours, may be specified using GoodRelations as in this example, which also uses vCard and FOAF:
<div xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:gr="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#"
xmlns:vcard="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">
<div about="#store" typeof="gr:Location">
<div property="gr:name" content="Pizzeria La Mamma"></div>
<div rel="vcard:adr">
<div typeof="vcard:Address">
<div property="vcard:country-name" content="Germany"></div>
<div property="vcard:locality" content="Munich"></div>
<div property="vcard:postal-code" content="85577"></div>
<div property="vcard:street-address" content="1234 Main Street"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div property="vcard:tel" content="+33 408 970-6104"></div>
<div rel="foaf:depiction" resource="http://www.pizza-la-mamma.com/image_or_logo.png">
</div>
<div rel="vcard:geo">
<div>
<div property="vcard:latitude" content="48.08" datatype="xsd:float"></div>
<div property="vcard:longitude" content="11.64" datatype="xsd:float"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div rel="gr:hasOpeningHoursSpecification">
<div about="#mon_fri" typeof="gr:OpeningHoursSpecification">
<div property="gr:opens" content="08:00:00" datatype="xsd:time"></div>
<div property="gr:closes" content="18:00:00" datatype="xsd:time"></div>
<div rel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"
resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Friday"></div>
<div rel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"
resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Thursday"></div>
<div rel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"
resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Wednesday"></div>
<div rel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"
resource="http://purl.o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird%20of%20Szeged | The Ladybird of Szeged or Ladybug of Szeged (Hungarian: Szegedi Katicabogár or just Szegedi Katica) is an early robot which was developed in Hungary at the Cybernetics Laboratory of the University of Szeged (SZTE) between 1956 and 1957. The roughly hemispherical machine has a red shell with black dots, resembling a ladybird (or ladybug), hence its name. The Ladybird is one of the first Hungarian robots, and the first robotic animal ever constructed. It was designed and built by Dr. Dániel Muszka, with the main intention of emulating Pavlovian conditional reflexes in a machine.
The original Ladybird is still in working condition (although its original papier-mâché shell has been replaced due to deterioration), and can be found in the Informatics History Exhibition (ITK) in Szeged. The exhibition have chosen the machine to be its symbolic mascot. Muszka built two working replicas of the robot in the 2000s, one is in the ITK as well, the other is in the Technical Study Stores of the Hungarian Technical and Transportation Museum (MMKM) in Budapest. The Ladybird is considered an early milestone in Hungarian cybernetics and information technology.
Conception and name
Muszka was inspired to build a demonstration robot by the idea of psychologist József Király.
The machine is variously referred to as Szegedi Katicabogár (ladybird/ladybug of Szeged), Szegedi Katica (using a shorter word for ladybird) or just Katica (ladybird) in Hungarian sources, with various capitalizations. English-language sources tend to use either Ladybird (UK) or Ladybug (US), depending on the variety of English used. Nonetheless all of these names refer to the original robot, not to any of the replicas.
Structure
The Ladybird is a roughly hemispherical robot which is wide, tall and long. It has a metal baseplate on which the electronics lie, which are enclosed by a red shell with black spots. This shell was originally varnished papier-mâché, but due to deterioration, the Ladybird now has a plastic shell mimicking the original one. The black spots themselves are buttons, and the top of the shell also has a small sliding vane. The robot has two red "eyes" (which can light up but can't see), three photosensors (which can detect light) and a mechanical sensor in the front to detect collisions with obstacles. It also contains an electromechanical buzzer to give audible feedback. Due to the technical difficulties of the time, Muszka couldn't include a battery, and so the Ladybird gets the required electricity (220 V alternating current from the mains) using an umbilical power cable. The machine has three rubber wheels, two fixed wheels in front which are driven by automobile windscreen wiper motors, and a free-rotating caster wheel at the back. By design, the Ladybird is incapable of going in reverse.
Operation
The Ladybird emulates basic phototaxis as well as conditional and unconditional reflexes. Phototaxis is exhibited by the machine's rudimentary ability to "follow" a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing%20Solutions%2C%20Inc | Developing Solutions, Inc. was an independent software vendor (ISV) that provided application and network test products. Privately held, and headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Developing Solutions served telecommunications service providers and original equipment manufacturers (OEM).
Products
In 2009, the company announced dsTest, a software-based system for testing network interfaces and features in the core packet network for 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless networks. In 2013, it announced dsAnalyzer, a software product for analyzing traffic flows between wireless core packet network nodes and for automating dsTest test case generation.
dsTest has been used to test vendor network equipment by an independent testing organization.
Acquisition
On 22 June 2021 it was announced that Developing Solutions had been acquired by long-standing partner Mobileum. Terms were not disclosed.
References
External links
Official site
Biju, Issac and Nauman, Israr (2015) Case Studies in Secure Computing: Achievements and Trends, October 19, 2016 by Auerbach Publications, ; Section 18.3.2.2 “Testing”, page 379
Broadband Traffic Management January 2, 2012
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies based in McKinney, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Nick%20Jr.%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of programming which has aired on the TV channel Nick Jr. in the United Kingdom and Ireland (including Nick Jr. Too).
Current programming
Original programming
The Adventures of Paddington (2019-present)
Anna & Friends (2023-present)
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom (2009 – present)
Peppa Pig (2004 – present)
Acquired from Nick Jr. USA
Baby Shark's Big Show! (2021-present)
Blue's Clues & You! (2020 – present)
Blaze and the Monster Machines (2015 – present)
Bubble Guppies (2011-present)
Dora the Explorer (1999-present)
PAW Patrol (2013-present)
Ryan's Mystery Playdate (2019-present)
Santiago of the Seas (2020-present)
The Tiny Chef Show (2023-present)
Other acquired programming
Barbapapa: One Big Happy Family! (2019-present)
Deer Squad (2021-present)
Kangaroo Beach (2021-present)
Milo (2023-present)
Pip & Posy (2022-present)
Ricky Zoom (2019-present)
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (2022-present)
Upcoming programming
Former programming
44 Cats (5 March 2019 - 6 February 2020) (now on Tiny Pop)
Abby Hatcher (6 May 2019 – 3 November 2022) (also aired on Milkshake)
The Adventures of Portland Bill (1999 – 2 September 2009)
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks (10 April 2015 - 20 January 2020) (now on Pop and Nickelodeon)
Angelina Ballerina (6 October 2003 – 29 November 2009)
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps (30 November 2009 - 19 November 2014)
Animal Alphabet (1999 - 5 February 2009) (continued into 2011 as intervals)
Amazing Animals (Partridge Films) (Originally aired) (1996-2000) [d][1]
Animal Antics (1999 - 30 September 2009)
Astro Farm (1999 - 5 October 2009)
Babar (1998 - 1 July 2009)
Baby Animals (1999 - 3 February 2009)
The Backyardigans (5 September 2005 - 16 December 2014)
Bagpuss (1998 - 4 January 2009)
Bananas in Pyjamas (original series) (1999 - 31 August 2009)
Becca's Bunch (2 July 2018 - 25 December 2019)
Big Block SingSong (January 7, 2013 - July 22, 2018, Moved to Sky Kids in 2023)
Billy (2000 - 3 February 2009)
Blue's Clues (original series) (5 January 1999 - 10 November 2014)
Bob the Builder (original series, including Project Build It) (1999 - 6 February 2012)
Bod (1999 - 24 January 2009)
Boohbah (2nd April 2005 - 31st October 2009)
The Bopps (4 April 2010 - 11 November 2016)
Bruno (2004-2011) (aired during advert breaks.)
Brave Bunnies (2021-2022)
Bubble and Squeak (5 February 2007 - 6 January 2014)
Budgie the Little Helicopter (1999 – 1st September 2009)
Bump (2nd August 2004 - 2nd October 2009)
The Busy World of Richard Scarry (1998 - 1st July 2009)
Butterbean's Café (4 February 2019 – 2 July 2021)
Button Moon (1st May 2005 – 30th March 2009)
Camberwick Green (31 March 2008 - 5 October 2009)
Chigley (28 May 2007 - 4 January 2009)
Christopher Crocodile (2000 - 3 February 2009)
Clangers (Original series 1-2 only) (2000 – 4 January 2009)
Corn & Peg (10 August 2019 - 2 November 2020)
Crystal Tipps and Alistair (4 April 2005 - 2 September 2009)
Cubeez (1 October 2001 – 5 October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICrONS | The MICrONS program (Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks) is a five-year project run by the United States government through the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) with the goal of reverse engineering one cubic millimeter—spanning many petabytes of volumetric data—of a rodent's brain tissue and use insights from its study to improve machine learning and artificial intelligence by constructing a connectome. The program is part of the White House BRAIN Initiative.
Teams
The program has set up three independent teams, each of which will take a different approach towards the goal. The teams are led by David Cox of Harvard University, Tai Sing Lee of Carnegie Mellon University; and jointly by Andreas Tolias and Xaq Pitkow of the Baylor College of Medicine, Clay Reid of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and Sebastian Seung of Princeton University.
The Cox team has aimed to build a three-dimensional map of the neural connections within the source tissue block using reconstructions from electron micrographs.
Technology and infrastructure for storing petabyte-scale volumetric data, including a cloud-based database, bossDB, were developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
Approach
The part of the brain chosen for the project is part of the visual cortex, chosen as a representative of a task – visual perception – that is easy for animals and human beings to perform, but has turned out to be extremely difficult to emulate with computers.
Cox's team is attempting to build a three dimensional mapping of the actual neural connections, based on fine electron micrographs. Lee's team is taking a DNA barcoding approach, in attempt to map the brain circuits by barcode-labelling of each neuron, and cross-synapse barcode connections. Tolias's team is taking a data-driven approach, assuming the brain creates statistical expectations about the world it sees.
References
External links
MICrONS Homepage
Neuroinformatics
Neuroimaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton%20%28electronics%20company%29 | is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, that offers computer hardware and electronics products.
Overview
Originally, in 1995, Princeton Technology Ltd. was established.
The company is basically fabless company, designing the products, ordering them to the manufactures in Taiwan and China etc.. The company offers flash memory products (SD cards, USB flash drives), DRAM, LCD, LED display, Hard disk drives, NAS and other electronics products. Princeton products are sold mostly in Japanese domestic market, but we can find several products at some online shopping, Amazon.com etc.. The business type and scope is same as Green House, Elecom and Buffalo, these are also the companies in Japan. In 2014, the company name was changed from Princeton Technology Ltd. to Princeton Ltd..
In the aspect of business-to-business, as the supplier of computer hardware, Princeton has contributed to offer the various flash memory and DRAM products to major electronics companies in Japan, such as Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba etc..
Princeton is also known that the company has been the official agency of Cisco, Polycom, Edgewater networks, Proware Technology and Drobo etc., and has introduced several cloud collaboration systems and SAN systems in Japan. The company has presented IT solution for education systems by installing Cisco and Edgewater networks cloud collaboration products, and as another example, SAN systems by installing Princeton, Proware Technology and Drobo NAS products.
See also
List of companies of Japan
References
External links
Official Website
Computer companies established in 1995
Computer hardware companies
Computer memory companies
Computer peripheral companies
Computer storage companies
Electronics companies of Japan
Japanese brands
Japanese companies established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome%20Alone | Gnome Alone is a 2017 computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis and written by Michael Schwartz and Zina Zaflow, from a story by Robert Moreland. The film was first released in November 2017 in Cyprus, Greece, Romania, and Israel. The film received mixed reviews. Produced by Vanguard Animation and 3QU Media, the film stars the voices of Becky G, Josh Peck, Olivia Holt, George Lopez, Patrick Stump, and David Koechner. It follows a young girl who moves to Tenderville, suddenly pairing up with a group of gnomes and her awkward neighbor in an attempt to defeat a pack of rabid and hungry beasts called Troggs.
Plot
Chloe and her estranged mother, Catherine, move to Tenderville, in a massive house surrounded by mysterious gnomes. One night during dinner, Chloe discovers a secret room that holding a mystical green gem, which she takes and turns into a necklace. Unbeknownst to her, she opens a portal from another realm opens up in her basement, unleashing a pack of rabid and hungry creatures named "Troggs". At her new school, Chloe befriends popular girl Brittany and her friends, Tiffany and Chelsea, collectively known as the BTCs. Chloe catches Brittany's attention with the necklace and she gives it to Brittany in hopes of entering her clique. At home, Chloe encounters a Trogg and attempts to kill it, before it mysteriously blows up.
The next day, Catherine tells Chloe that she will be taking an extra shift at work. Upon leaving, the house gnomes reveal to Chloe that they're alive, and tie up her when they discover she took the Keystone; the mysterious green gem Chloe ended up giving to Brittany. The gnomes reveal that the Keystone keeps the Troggs from causing havoc within their realm. Quicksilver, one of the gnomes, reveals that the Troggs became their mortal enemies after they devoured the botanical lifeforms which made up their way of life. Zook, the gnome's current leader, also explains that Zamfeer, their former leader, once journeyed into the Trogg world to destroy it but never returned. Using the Keystone, they were able to stop the Troggs' portals from opening. They enlist Chloe to fend off the Troggs until she can retrieve the Keystone back. Chloe also inducts her awkward neighbor and classmate Liam to help her out.
Chloe meanwhile, plans to obtain the necklace from Brittany at a school dance, Liam, fearing that Chloe's relationship with the BTCs is detrimental to her social status, splits up with her. When Chloe finds out that Brittany didn't bring the necklace, she comes up with a plan to swing by her house. Liam meanwhile, heads home from the dance and accidentally falls inside a Trogg portal. Realizing Liam's truthfulness, Chloe breaks ties with the BTCs and heads home. After learning of Liam's whereabouts, Chloe regains her confidence and ventures after him through a portal in the toilet. She finds Liam, who gracefully accepts Chloe's apology, and encounter Zamfeer. They uncover a giant crystal and come up with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Parliamentary%20Network%20on%20the%20World%20Bank%20%26%20International%20Monetary%20Fund | The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund (French: Réseau parlementaire sur la Banque mondiale et le FMI) is an independent inter-parliamentary organization aiming to increase transparency and accountability in international financial institutions., notably the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It consists of over a thousand legislators from 158 World Bank Group and IMF member countries.
History
The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF was founded in 2000 as an independent, non-governmental organization providing a platform for advocacy for Parliamentarians from IMF and World Bank member countries;. The Network has formed partnerships with numerous organizations, including: the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, GOPAC, GLOBE, Transparency International, etc.
Structure and governance
The Parliamentary Network is governed by the Board of Directors currently composed of 10 members elected every two years. The members of the Board represent the regions of MENA, Europe, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and World Bank donor countries. Membership in the Network is open to all elected or nominated parliamentarians from World Bank and IMF member states who currently hold a mandate.
The International Secretariat of the Network is based in Paris, France.
Objectives
The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF is principally focused on increasing transparency and accountability of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund by:
Strengthening the understanding of the work of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund among parliamentarians
Providing a channel for parliamentarians to inform the World Bank Group and IMF of legislative priorities on behalf of their constituents
Ensuring that the voice of parliamentarians is heard on the subjects in which the WBG and IMF have a key role
Conducting research and share information among members on topics which are of international concern and interest
Activities
Global Parliamentary Conference (GPC)
Every year, the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF organizes, jointly with the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, the Global Parliamentary Conference. The conference brings together legislators, the IMF and World Bank leadership.
Field Visits
The Parliamentary Network organizes visits for parliamentarians to on-the-ground development projects supported by the World Bank and the IMF. To this day, its members have participated in visits to Albania, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam and Yemen.
Chapters
National and regional chapters are parliamentary discussion groups organized by a local initiative which aim to strengthen the position of parliamentari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-18%20regional%20road%20%28Montenegro%29 | R-18 regional road () (previously part of M-8 highway) is a Montenegrin roadway.
History
M-6 highway was built as part of the larger M-8 highway within the Yugoslav highway network, spanning Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia. It connected Pljevlja with Foča in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Prijepolje, Sjenica and Novi Pazar in Serbia. However, construction was never completed on the Montenegrin section of the road.
In January 2016, the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs published bylaw on categorisation of state roads. With new categorisation, part of M-8 highway (west of Pljevlja) was downgraded to regional road and named as R-18 regional road.
Major intersections
References
R-18 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industroyer | Industroyer (also referred to as Crashoverride) is a malware framework considered to have been used in the cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid on December 17, 2016.
The attack cut a fifth of Kyiv, the capital, off power for one hour and is considered to have been a large-scale test.
The Kyiv incident was the second cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid in two years. The first attack occurred on December 23, 2015. Industroyer is the first ever known malware specifically designed to attack electrical grids.
At the same time, it is the fourth malware publicly revealed to target industrial control systems, after Stuxnet, Havex, and BlackEnergy.
Discovery and naming
The malware was discovered by Slovak internet security company ESET. ESET and most of the cybersecurity companies detect it under the name “Industroyer”.
Cybersecurity firm Dragos named the malware “Crashoverride”.
In 2022, the Russian hacker group Sandworm initiated a blackout in Ukraine using a variant of Industroyer aptly dubbed Industroyer2.
Description
The detailed analysis of Industroyer
revealed that the malware was designed to disrupt the working processes of industrial control systems, specifically those used in electrical substations.
Industroyer is modular malware; its main components are the following:
A main backdoor is used to control all other components of the malware. It connects to its remote Command & Control servers in order to receive commands from the attackers.
An additional backdoor provides an alternative persistence mechanism that allows the attackers to regain access to a targeted network in case the main backdoor is detected and/or disabled.
A launcher component is a separate executable responsible for launching the payload components and the data wiper component. The launcher component contains a specific activation time and date; analyzed samples contained two dates: December 17, 2016 and December 20, 2016. (Note: the former date was the date the attack actually went ahead.)
Four payload components target particular industrial communication protocols specified in the following standards: IEC 60870-5-101, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, and OLE for Process Control Data Access (OPC Data Access). The functionalities of the payload components include mapping the network, and then issuing commands to the specific industrial control devices.
A data wiper component is designed to erase system-crucial Registry keys and overwrite files to make the system unbootable and recovery from the attack harder.
See also
Control system security
Cyberwarfare
Ukraine power grid hack
Pipedream (toolkit)
References
Further reading
ENISA
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Windows trojans
Cyberattacks on energy sector
Hacking in the 2010s
2016 crimes in Ukraine
Malware targeting industrial control systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelavukku%20Neranja%20Manasu | Neelavukku Neranja Manasu () is a 1958 Indian Tamil-language film directed by K. Somu. It was released on 26 September 1958.
Plot
Cast
List adapted from the database of Film News Anandan and from film credits.
Male cast
T. R. Ramachandran
Sriram
K. A. Thangavelu
V. K. Ramasamy
P. D. Sambandam
V. M. Ezhumalai
M. R. Santhanam
M. E. Madhavan
Female cast
Pandari Bai
Ragini
M. N. Rajam
T. P. Muthulakshmi
Venubai
Baby Uma
Production
The film was produced by Dinshaw K. Tehrani, N. Naga Subramaniam and V. S. Venkatachalam under the banner Royal Films. K. Somu directed the film, while A. P. Nagarajan wrote the screenplay and dialogues. Cinematography was directed by Gopanna, while the camera was handled by G. Vittal Rao and by V. R. Subba Rao (for the colour dance sequence). Dinshaw K. Tehrani was in charge of audiography, while the recordings were done by M. Loganathan. K. Vijayarangam and K. Durairaj handled the editing. Art direction was by N. Kuppusamy. Choreography was done by P. S. Gopalakrishnan, P. C. Thangaraj and Deshmand. The film was shot at Newtone studios and processed at Central Cine Laboratory.
Soundtrack
Music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan, while the lyrics were penned by A. Maruthakasi and A. S. Narayanan.
References
External links
1950s Tamil-language films
Films directed by K. Somu
Films scored by K. V. Mahadevan
Films with screenplays by A. P. Nagarajan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%21%20%28disambiguation%29 | Snap! are a German Eurodance group.
Snap! may also refer to:
Snap! (album), greatest hits album of The Jam
Snap! (programming language), browser-based programming language
SNAP!, a Canadian English-language arts magazine
See also
Snap (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | The Tanzanian Broadcasting Corporation is a television network.
It is Tanzania's national network and is government-owned and operated.
History
Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) is established under the Public Corporation Act, 1992 by an Establishment Order of 2007 published vide Government Note Number 186 of 2007 (The Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (Shirika la Utangazaji Tanzania –TBC) (Establishment) Order, 2007). By this Order, signed by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania on 24th August, 2007, the Tanzania Broadcasting Services (Taasisi ya Utangazaji Tanzania (TUT) (Establishment) Order, 2002) was revoked and then TUT ceased to exist.
TBC is a public broadcaster whose primary objective is to educate, entertain and provide information to the public. TBC is expected to fulfill its mandate through quality programming that is appealing to all citizens regardless of their ideology, race, religion, gender, class or physical disability. Since its establishment, TBC has built a relationship of trust with Tanzanians. The audience values the voice of TBC through its news and programs.
TBC’S MAJOR HISTORICAL MILESTONES
1) DAR ES SALAAM BROADCASTING STATION (Sauti ya Dar es Salaam) -July 1951
• Later known as: Tanganyika Broadcasting Service
• Coverage: Dar es Salaam
• Colonial Development and Welfare Fund granted UKP 10,000 for the project
• Studio equipment: One gramophone turn-table, one microphone, a mixing panel made from old public address amplifier.
• Transmission: - Started with one short-wave transmitter
• One standby medium-wave transmitter introduced on 10th March, 1952
• Programs: Broadcast in Swahili for one hour 3 times a week
2) TANGANYIKA BROADCASTING CORPORATION (TBC) -1st July, 1956
• Established by an Ordinance (Chapter 370 of the Laws Annual Supplement 1956)
• Objective: to provide public service broadcasting as a means of information, education and entertainment with the national interest of Tanganyika.
• The Government left programming to free judgment of the Corporation
3) RADIO TANZANIA – ESTABLISHED – 1st July, 1965
• The Board of the Corporation was dissolved
• The structure of the Corporation was changed
• It became part of a government Ministry of Information and Tourism
4) RADIO TANZANIA ESTABLISHED 2 STATIONS IN 1973
• Swahili service later called ‘Idhaa ya Taifa’ or The National Service
• English Service
• External service
5) RTD EXPANSION BETWEEN 1975 - 1988
• In 1975 Commissioned three 50 kw relay stations at Mbeya, Arusha and Mwanza.
• In 1988 commissioned two relay stations at Dodoma and Kigoma each with 100 kw and 10kw
6) RTD MW EXPANSION IN 1990
• Songea and Nachingwea relay stations with 100kw and 10kw standby
7) UPCOUNTRY STUDIOS IN 1991
• At Lindi, Dodoma, Songea and Kigoma.
8) TV STATION BUILT AT AUDIO VISUAL INSTITUTE – 1995
• Television ya Taifa (TVT) established under Prime Minister’s Office – 1999
• TVT commissioned - October 1999
• Kisarawe T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano%20Borriello | Gaetano Borriello (1958–2015) was an American computer scientist and researcher in ubiquitous computing. He is known for starting the Open Data Kit project and as the founding director of Intel Research Seattle. The Place Lab project he led at Intel Research using Wi-Fi to enhance location sensing is now the dominant approach in use by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others.
Borriello was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2009 "for the design, realization, and integration of embedded and ubiquitous computing systems" and of the IEEE in 2010 "for contributions to embedded computing devices and systems." He was also a Fulbright Scholar.
Borriello was on the University of Washington computer science faculty from 1988 until his death – 27 years. The Gaetano Borriello Endowed Fellowship for Change was funded by Borriello's friends on his untimely death, to provide support for UW students "whose work is focused on exploring how technology can improve the lives of underserved populations".
References
External links
Remembering Gaetano Borriello talk by Randy Katz
Italian emigrants to the United States
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Ubiquitous computing researchers
2015 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Research%20Systems%20Group | Digital Research Systems Group may refer to:
Novell Digital Research Systems Group, a department of Novell related to Digital Research operating system development between 1991 and 1992, later merged into Novell's Desktop Systems Group (DSG)
Caldera Digital Research Systems Group (DSG), a department of Caldera related to Digital Research operating system development between 1996 and 1998
See also
Digital Research
Digital Research Labs (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwro | Elwro was a Polish company that manufactured mainframe and microcomputers from 1959 until 1989. Its plant was in Wroclaw. Computer models included Odra mainframe systems, and the Elwro 800 Junior microcomputer for education.
Overview
The Wroclaw Electronic Works (Wrocławskie Zakłady Elektroniczne) were established 6 February 1959; the name Elwro was derived from the company's telegraphic address. The first model designed at this plant was the vacuum-tube based Odra 1001, released in December 1960; this was a research computer not put into serial production. The next model was the Odra 1002 which was constructed from transistors made in Poland, in 1962. The Elwro factory was responsible for mass production of the tube-based UMC-1 designed at Warsaw University of Technology; twenty-five units were built from 1962 through 1965. Concurrently, design work was proceeding on the Odra 1003 transistor computer, which was faster than the UMC-1, and used much less power. The first 1003 was built in 1963 and work was continued on improvements, resulting in the 1013 which was faster, and had a 256 word core memory as well as a drum with 8000 words.
In 1966, the Odra 1204 was built, with 16 k words of magnetic core memory and a 130 k word drum. This machine was aimed at data processing. However, software production was a bottleneck and the company was directed to produce a computer compatible with the ICL 1900; this "compatible" machine was the Odra 1304. It went into serial production in 1970. The Odra 1305 used integrated circuits and began production in 1970; it had one million bytes of main memory and disk drives to store 100 million bytes. The 1325 became popular because it supported common programming languages of the time such as ALGOL, COBOL and FORTRAN.
By 1966 the factory had built 100 computers.
From 1985 to 1990 Elwro produced the Elwro 800 Junior microcomputer for education.
Peak employment at the plant was up to 6000 people. The factory was privatized in 1993 and purchased by Siemens, but wound down production. In 2000, the remains of the company were purchased by an American company, Telect, with plans to manufacture telecommunications equipment.
In 2015 the Wrocław city council named the former location of the factory, ELWRO Square, to commemorate the company's contributions to information technology.
See also
History of computing in Poland
Jan Węglarz
References
Defunct manufacturing companies of Poland
1959 establishments in Poland
Computer companies established in 1959
Companies based in Wrocław
Electronics companies of Poland
Computer companies disestablished in 1989 |
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