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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchidanurinae | Uchidanurinae is a subfamily of springtails in the family Neanuridae. There are at least three genera and at least one described species, Denisimeria caudata, in Uchidanurinae.
Genera
These three genera belong to the subfamily Uchidanurinae:
Assamanura Cassagnau, 1980
Denisimeria Massoud, 1964
Uchidanura Yosii, 1954
References
Further reading
Neanuridae
Arthropod subfamilies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Radio%20Network | The Thunder Radio Network provides radio play-by-play and coverage of Oklahoma City Thunder games to stations mostly located in the state of Oklahoma. The primary station is WWLS-FM 98.1 "The Sports Animal" in Oklahoma City; many of the affiliate stations also carry other WWLS programs.
Matt Pinto is the play-by-play announcer on the radio.
Affiliates
Outside of Oklahoma
Kansas
Spanish-language
One station provides coverage of Thunder home games in Spanish: WKY 930 in Oklahoma City. The Thunder broadcasts in Spanish feature play-by-play announcer Eleno Ornelas, also the Spanish-language voice of the Texas Rangers.
References
National Basketball Association on the radio
Oklahoma City Thunder
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaxala%20Networks | , commonly known as its brand Alaxala, is a Japanese company headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, that offers networking hardware products.
Overview
In 2004, Alaxala Networks Corp. was originally established, as the merger between Hitachi and NEC networking hardware divisions. The name of Alaxala was derived from "ALL Access for eXpert and Latent Association", and more that "Ala" in Latin means "Wing", and "X" means "networking eXchange", so the company intended the two "Ala" (Hitachi and NEC) connected and collaborated by "X" tightly.
The company is basically fabless company, designing the products, mostly ordering to manufacture them to Hitachi enterprise servers division factory in Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan. The company offers networking hardware products, network router and network switch etc. Alaxala products are sold and installed mostly in Japanese domestic market and for enterprises, but we can find several products at some online shopping, Amazon.com etc.. The business type and scope is same as Allied Telesis, that is also the company in Japan. And they are collaborated for producing networking hardware sold in both brands.
Alaxala official agencies are Hitachi, NEC, Itochu Techno-Solutions, Net One Systems, and Alaxala has contributed to offer the various networking hardware products to major communication companies in Japan, such as NTT, KDDI and Softbank etc..
On August 24, 2012, Alaxala was known that Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) announced that TSE core system outage happened due to the software bugs on Alaxala networking hardware.
Alaxala also sponsors IT professional certifications for Alaxala products, like Cisco and Oracle etc..
See also
List of companies of Japan
List of networking hardware vendors
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Kanagawa Prefecture
Computer companies established in 2004
Electronics companies of Japan
Networking hardware companies
Japanese brands
Japanese companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corega | was a Japanese company established in 1996, and now is one brand (division) of Allied Telesis K.K., that offers networking hardware products.
Overview
Originally, in 1996, Corega Inc. was established by Allied Telesis K.K., headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Japan, for offering networking hardware products for consumer market and small business.
The company (division) is basically fabless, designing the products, ordering them to the manufactures in Japan, Taiwan and China etc., as Allied Telesis does.
The company (division) offers networking hardware products, network router, network switch and wireless router.
Corega products are sold and installed mostly in Japanese domestic market, but we can find several products at some online shopping, Amazon.com etc..
The business type and scope are same as Green House, Elecom, and Buffalo, these are mostly consumer market and small business companies in Japan.
In 2009, Allied Telesis K.K. acquired Corega Inc, then it started as one brand (division) in Allied Telesis K.K., as Allied Telesis group restructure.
See also
List of companies of Japan
List of networking hardware vendors
References
External links
Official Website
Computer companies established in 1996
Electronics companies of Japan
Networking hardware companies
Japanese brands
Japanese companies established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saidur%20Rahman | Saidur Rahman may refer to:
Saidur Rahman Dawn (born 1963), Bangladeshi sprinter
Saidur Rahman (professor) (born 1966), computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarantaporo.gr | Sarantaporo.gr is a non-profit wireless network community founded in 2013 in Elassona Municipality in Greece. The network helps locals organize cooperative work to deploy and operate the wireless network infrastructure, organized as a commons.
The WCN participated in the CONFINE, the netCommons and the MAZI research projects. A documentary presents the networks in the Sarantaporo area.
References
Community networks
Wireless community networks
Wireless network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraj%20Saad%20Marzouk | Faraj Abdullah Saad Marzouk () (born 1961) is a Qatari sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
olympiandatabase
1961 births
Living people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Qatari male sprinters
Olympic athletes for Qatar
Place of birth missing (living people)
Asian Athletics Championships winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon%20botnet | The Chameleon botnet is a botnet that was discovered on February 28, 2013, by the security research firm, spider.io. It involved the infection of more than 120,000 computers and generated, on average, 6 million US dollars per month from advertising traffic. This traffic was generated on infected systems and looked to advertising parties as regular end users which browsed the Web, because of which it was seen as legitimate web traffic. The affected computers were all Windows PCs with the majority being private PCs (residential systems).
To make the actions of the software look more like legitimate human behavior, it made the mouse of the infected systems move around pages in browsers and rebooted the system once the sessions crashed.
Also, it was sophisticated in that both Adobe Flash and JavaScript scripts were executed on infected systems.
There were at least 202 websites that were targeted by the botnet from which more than 9 billion advertisements were served to it.
As a side effect of the web traffic generated by the botnet, infected systems likely suffered from general operating lag and a slow network connectivity as well. These symptoms were indicators that a PC had possibly been infected. With malware removal software like ClamWin and Exterminate It!, the infection could be removed from an infected system. It was also possible to deactivate the malware by changing the registry of an infected windows PC manually.
References
External links
Site of Spider.io on the Chameleon botnet
Botnets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Allies%20Foundation | The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF, also known as the International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation) educates and empowers an international network of pro-Israel legislators. IAF works with politicians around the world to mobilize support for Israel-based Jewish values. One of its main goals is keeping Jerusalem fully under Israeli sovereignty.
Parliamentary groups affiliated with the IAF include the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus in the United States House of Representatives, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus in the Israeli parliament, and similar groups in Uruguay, the Philippines, South Korea, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Finland, Italy, Canada, Costa Rica, and Malawi. As of 2021, IAF supported 50 pro-Israel parliamentary groups worldwide.
IAF takes politicians and heads of pro-Israel organizations on paid-for tours of Israel.
History
In January 2004, the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) was founded by Israeli politician Yuri Stern of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and seven other Israeli politicians. The goal of the organization was to harness support for Israel from Christian leaders around the world. Its first sister caucus, the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus, was established in the United States Congress in 2006.
This led to the creation of IAF in 2007 by orthodox rabbi Benny Elon his longtime aide and parliamentary assistant Uri Bank, both leaders of the Israeli far-right party Moledet. Elon, a well-known figure in the radical settler movement, favored annexing the occupied territories and "voluntary" transfer of the Palestinians to Jordan. He served as Tourism Minister in two stints from 2001 to 2004 and used his position to foment ties with the American evangelical Christian community.
Elon, 62, died of cancer in 2017 and Josh Reinstein took over as president of IAF.
Organization
As of 2019, the organization's Christian advisory board of directors includes Tim Dunn (chairman), Dave Weldon, Mike Sodrel, Dick Saulsbury, Earl Cox, and Trent Franks.
IAF has established parliamentary groups consisting of strongly pro-Israel politicians in many countries. In the U.S. and some other countries, such groups are known as caucuses.
Knesset Christian Allies Caucus
The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus is the IAF's caucus in the Israeli parliament - the Knesset. The Caucus was founded by Yuri Stern of the National Union in 2004. In the past, the Caucus was co-chaired by David Rotem (till March 31, 2015) and Gila Gamliel. Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Sharren Haskel is the current chair of the caucus. As of 2020, it has 17 members, stemming from a spectrum of political parties.
Congressional Israel Allies Caucus
The Congressional Israel Allies Caucus is the IAF's caucus in the United States House of Representatives. It was formed on July 27, 2006, to affirm United States support for Israel amidst growing international pressure for Israel to implement an immediate ceasefire during the Israel-Lebanon conflict. It i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri%20Zwick | Uri Zwick is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician known for his work on graph algorithms, in particular on distances in graphs and on the color-coding technique for subgraph isomorphism. With Howard Karloff, he is the namesake of the Karloff–Zwick algorithm for approximating the MAX-3SAT problem of Boolean satisfiability. He and his coauthors won the David P. Robbins Prize in 2011 for their work on the block-stacking problem.
Zwick earned a bachelor's degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and completed his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1989 under the supervision of Noga Alon. He is currently a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Gate | J-Gate is a bibliographic database to access global e-journal literature. As a discovery platform for the research community, it is presented as a website under subscription-based access to a large database of scientific research. It contains abstracts, citations, full-text access for all Open Access journals and other key details from academic journals by covering 71 million+ Indexed articles, 58,000+ journals from over 16,000 publishers. It gives two types of quality measure for each title; those are H-index and SJR (SCImago Journal Rank).
Overview
It is developed and launched in 2001 by Informatics India Ltd. As a contribution to the Open Access community, Informatics initially also offered a free platform named Open J-Gate.
The current J-Gate version is categorized into 6 different top level subjects like Biomedical Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Social & Management Science, Agriculture & Biological Sciences, Arts & Humanities and Basic Sciences. J-Gate is accompanied by an extended version, named J-Gate Custom Content for Consortia, offered as a customized resource-sharing platform for Consortium members.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Microsoft Academic Search
Google Scholar
South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases
References
External links
J-Gate
Informatics
Academic publishing
Electronic publishing
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S8%20%28Rhine-Ruhr%20S-Bahn%29 | Line S 8 is an S-Bahn line operated by DB Regio on the Rhine-Ruhr network. It runs from Hagen Hauptbahnhof in the west to Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof in the east via Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Neuss Hauptbahnhof. It is operated between Düsseldorf and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station at 20-minute intervals using class 422 electric multiple units. One out of three trains continues to Hagen, running hourly. An S 9 service and three Regional-Express services (Wupper-Express, Rhein-Münsterland-Express and Maas-Wupper-Express) also operate between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Hagen each hour.
Line S 8 runs over lines built by various railway companies:
from Mönchengladbach to Neuss on the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway, opened by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company between 1852 and 1854
from Neuss to near Düsseldorf-Hamm over the new line built with the Hamm Railway Bridge opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 24 July 1870,
from Hamm to Gerresheim over the new line opened by the Prussian state railways on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.
from Gerresheim to Steinbeck over the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company between 1838 and 1841,
from Steinbeck to Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof over a link line opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway on 28 December 1848,
from Wuppertal to Schwelm over the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company between 1847 and 1849,
a short section of the Witten–Schwelm railway from Schwelm towards Gevelsberg West opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1934, and
from Gevelsberg West to Hagen over the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, built by the Rhenish Railway Company between 1873 and 1879 (except for a section between Hagen-Heubing and Hagen Hauptbahnhof built in 1894 by the Prussian state railways).
S-Bahn services commenced on the whole length of the route on 29 May 1988.
References
S08
1988 establishments in West Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20EeeBook | The Asus EeeBook is a lineup of affordable Windows laptops by Asus. In 2014, Asus introduced EeeBook lineup of computers starting with the X205TA model. By 2017 the EeeBook lineup was succeeded by the Asus VivoBook E Series. Some EeeBook laptops were rebranded to VivoBook E Series laptops such as the EeeBook E202 was rebranded to the VivoBook E202 and the EeeBook E402 to the VivoBook E402. The EeeBook lineup consists of the E202 (E202SA), E402 (E402MA), E502 (E502SA and E502MA) and X205 (X205TA)
Comparison of Specifications of EeeBook laptops
References
Asus products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%20Flip%20N%20Move | Louisiana Flip N Move is a show featured on DIY Network.
Premise
Louisiana Flip N Move is the spin-off of Texas Flip N Move. The show features professional home renovators who purchase older houses to flip for profit, in and around New Orleans, Louisiana.
Like the original show, the show features a twist: at the auction, only the houses are sold (not the underlying land). The bidders can only view the home from the outside and must also factor in costs of moving house from the original lot to the renovation site (another facility where the houses are renovated and later sold at auction to purchasers wanting houses to move to existing property, currently located in New Orleans metropolitan area).
The flippers do buy land on this show to place the house and remodel (unlike Texas FlipNMove where the land is (usually) not included at the final auction after the remodel) The land is included in the purchase of Louisiana Flip N Move. Before each auction it tells how much the land cost the move to the land and the remodel cost. Because of the physical attributes of the Louisiana area, houses occasionally have to be moved via water unlike in the Texas show where all houses were moved by land.
Series overview
Season 1
Season 2
See also
Texas Flip N Move
References
External links
Official Website
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Home renovation television series
DIY Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Graf%20%28biologist%29 | Thomas Graf (born 28 September 1944) is a biologist at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. He is a pioneer in cell reprogramming, showing that blood cells can be transdifferentiated by transcription factors. He is also known for his early work on oncogenes carried by retroviruses and oncogene cooperation in leukemia formation.
Research
In the late 70s Graf co-discovered several cell-derived oncogenes acquired by avian retroviruses, designated Mac (later changed into Myc), Erb and Myb. He found that several naturally occurring virus strains have acquired various pairwise combinations of oncogenes and that these cooperate to cause acute leukemia, an early example for the multigenic origin of cancers. He also showed that the transcription factor Myb can reversibly block the differentiation of white blood cells, one of the first demonstrations of induced cell fate changes. In his more recent research he showed that different types of specialized blood cells can be induced to convert into each other by forced transcription factor expression. In 1995 he pioneered this technique permitting the transdifferentiation of white blood cells into red blood cell precursors and vice versa induced by Gata1 and PU.1, respectively. Later (2004) he managed to convert B lymphocytes into functional macrophages, using C/EBPa as a driver. Using the same approach he was also first to induce a conversion of more distantly related cells, namely that of non-blood cells into macrophages. Finally, he found that forced C/EBPa expression in malignant lymphocyte precursors leads to the formation of macrophages and loss of tumorigenicity, suggesting transdifferentiation as an alternative avenue for therapeutic interventions.
Awards
1983 Wilhelm-Warner-Foundation Award
1983 Main Award, German Society for Microbiology and Hygiene
1983 Kind-Philipp-Foundation Leukemia Research Award
1988 Josef-Steiner-Foundation Prize
1988 Theodor Boveri Lecture and Award
1989 Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
References
External links
Thomas Graf laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
Profile at EuroStemCell
News article "Nobel Prize-winning ‘iPSC’ Stem Cell Method Vastly Improved" at Bioscience Technology
20th-century German biologists
Living people
1944 births
21st-century German biologists
Scientists from Vienna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20%282019%20film%29 | Network is an Indian Bengali language thriller film, starring Saswata Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Rini Ghosh, Bhaskar Banerjee, Indrajit Mazumder, Saptarshi Roy, Kartikey Tripathi, Eshani Ghosh, Saayoni Ghosh and Anindya Chatterjee, Darshana Banik. The film is the debut feature of director Saptaswa Basu who has co-written the screenplay with Rini Ghosh. This is the first Bengali feature film to feature a song of the RnB genre which is composed and sung by Raz Dee. The promotional track of this film is sung by Shaan and composed by Dabbu. The other songs are composed by Chirantan Banerjee and Aviraj Sen.
The film was theatrically released on 28 June 2019.
Plot
Abhijit Ganguly [Saswata Chatterjee] is a film director who has long lost his fame. After his daughter's death he has turned into a walking shadow, who is recognized by no one. When he gets to know about his terminal disease which will allow him to live only for one more year, he decides to put in all his own resources to make a new film and make a comeback to regain his lost fame. He helped by his lawyer friend Subrata (Bhaskar Bannerjee), teams up with a group of talented actors and production management team including Raj and Shreya, who become very trusted to him. However, he gets betrayed by these very associates and is left ruined. His arch rival Arindam (Sabyasachi Chakraborty) induces Raj n Shreya to sell the script and offers them the role of hero and heroine. Broken Abhijit has no way out so with his last ditch effort
He creates a reality TV show named "Their Life", a unique show which deals with celebrity lifestyle. Through this show, he starts exploring and exposing Raj, Sreya and Arindam to take revenge on the persons who betrayed him one by one.
Cast
Saswata Chatterjee as Abhijit Ganguly
Sabyasachi Chakraborty as Arindam Chakraborty
Rini Ghosh as Shreya
Indrajit Mazumder as Raj
Kartikey Tripathi as Subho
Bhaskar Banerjee as Subrata
Eshani Ghosh as Puja
Saayoni Ghosh as Priyanka (special appearance)
Saptarshi Roy as Arjun Chatterjee
Akshay Kapoor as Mr. Agarwal
Anindya Chatterjee as Joy (special appearance)
Darshana Banik as Prerna (special appearance)
Rana Basu Thakur as Mr. Bose
Filming
The film commenced its principal photography in mid 2017 and was wrapped up in early 2018. It was completed in three schedules including a song schedule, with intervals in between, to give time for rough edits and re-shoot decisions. A separate schedule was planned to shoot the climax sequence. The film has been shot in Kolkata, Bakrahat, Tajpur sea beach, Purple Movie town, Moon city studios and Raichak on Ganges. A few stock shots for the TV show sequence were shot in Andaman, Goa and Bangkok.
Soundtrack
References
External links
Bengali-language Indian films
2010s Bengali-language films
2019 films
Indian thriller films
2019 thriller films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Bottenbruch | Hermann Bottenbruch (14 September 1928 – 20 May 2019) was a German mathematician and computer scientist.
Bottenbruch grew up in . Toward the end of World War II, he served as a . In 1947, he began the study of mathematics at the where he graduated in 1951. Following graduation, he joined the staff of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the (TU Darmstadt). The institute was founded by Alwin Walther. Bottenbruch earned his doctorate there in 1957.
In the same year on Walther's recommendation he joined the international working group to develop a new programming language. This language was intended to combine then current understanding of programming languages into one standard. According to Friedrich Bauer, Bottenbruch coined the name ALGOL, at least for Germany, from the English Algorithmic Language. In 1958, the members of the working group met at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), including Friedrich L. Bauer, Bottenbruch, Heinz Rutishauser, Klaus Samelson, John Backus, Charles Katz, Alan Perlis, and Joseph Henry Wegstein. The result of their deliberations was ALGOL 58.
In 1960 and 1961, Bottenbruch worked in the United States at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). After that, he took a leading position in German industry where, among other things, he served as a specialist in the field of flue-gas stack (industrial chimney) construction. In 1994, he founded his own company, Primasoft GmbH, in the German city of Oberhausen, providing information technology consulting including databases.
Publications
Construction of command languages and their translation into the program language of Turing machines: applications of logic to advanced digital computer programming, 1957
Proposal for a universal language for the description of computing processes. 1958. Zusammen mit Friedrich L. Bauer, Heinz Rutishauser und Klaus Samelson
Structure and use of ALGOL 60, 1961
Industrieschornsteine. Wirkung, Planung, Konstruktion. Tagungsleitung, Deutsche Bauindustrie. Bundesfachabteilung Feuerfest- und Schornsteinbau
Begutachten, Sanieren und Umbauen freistehender Schornsteine in Massivbauart. Arbeitstagung, Essen 1986
References
1928 births
2019 deaths
German computer scientists
20th-century German mathematicians
Programming language designers
People from Mülheim
University of Bonn alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Oak Ridge National Laboratory people
German company founders
Technology company founders
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt
21st-century German mathematicians
Luftwaffenhelfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20G%C3%B3mez | Juan González Gómez "Obijuan" (born Juan González Gómez, January 18, 1973, in Madrid, Spain) is a doctor in computer science and telecommunications publicly recognized for having become the first Spanish winner of the O'Reilly Open Source Award.
Juan is one of the pioneers of open source educational robotics in Spain. Inspired in the RepRap community created by Adrian Bowyer in 2004, Juan pioneered the diffusion of free 3D printing and is credited with being the founder of the CloneWars community, which brought together up to 4,000 Spanish-speaking members. Juan acquired the eighth RepRap 3D printer of the world (manufactured by Makerbot) and he edited a series of 63 video-tutorials for the Spanish community which comprised the step by step instructions to assembly from scratch a Prusa 2 model and became very popular. He also continued its production of open online courses (MOOC), grouped under the brand Obijuan Academy, among which stand out as a reference for the entire maker community the series of 74 video tutorials using the opensource tool FreeCAD with more than 13,000 followers on YouTube.
In 2013, Juan joined BQ as the R&D and Robotics Director. After 3D printing, Juan focused on the promotion of FPGAs by offering designs, tutorials and workshops with the aim of forming a community of users and also spread it to the world of robotics and educational electronics. In 2016, he left BQ and created FPGAWars.
In addition to his teaching and research experience in several universities (Technical University of Madrid, Autonomous University of Madrid, Charles III University of Madrid, Pontifical University of Salamanca), Juan also collaborates with NGOs as fablab manager at the La Rueca Association's TecnoLab, which is aimed at people at risk of social exclusion.
References
External links
Personal page at ierobotics.com .
Obijuan Academy.
Personal channel at YouTube.
Personal page at GitHub.
CloneWars community.
FPGAWars community.
Spanish computer scientists
1973 births
Living people
Engineers from Madrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Henry%20Wegstein | Joseph Henry Wegstein (April 7, 1922 in Washburn, Illinois - August 16, 1985) was an American computer scientist.
Wegstein attended the University of Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in physics in 1944, and graduated with a Master of Science (M.S.) in engineering physics in 1948. He worked as Acting Chief of the Office for Information Processing Standards, at the National Bureau of Standards, now National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he specialized in technical standards for automatic data processing, especially in the technology of fingerprint recognition.
He participated in conferences in Zurich in 1958 and Paris in 1960 which developed the programming languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60, respectively.
He was involved with international standards in programming and informatics, in at least two groups.
He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the languages ALGOL 60 and 68.
He was a member of the Conference/Committee on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) committee, and involved in developing the COBOL language.
Publications
References
1922 births
1985 deaths
American computer scientists
University of Illinois alumni
Programming language designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaam%20TV%20%28Philippine%20TV%20channel%29 | Salaam TV was a Philippine government-owned Islamic channel owned by the Presidential Communications Office through the People's Television Network (PTV). The channel's main programming is solely focused on Filipino Muslims and other Islamic communities in the country. At present, the channel is on test broadcast via digital terrestrial television on PTV's digital subchannel (via UHF 14) and Expand to cable television on SkyCable and Destiny Cable Channel 4 depending on the digital boxes' channel availability from 12 noon to 8:00 p.m. It was also the second Islamic television network based in the Philippines, following the launch of Davao-based Islamic cable channel Mensahe TV.
The channel launched on July 23, 2017. Former PTV News presenter Princess Habibah Sarip-Paudac, the first Filipina newsreader to wear a hijab on a national television newscast, took role as the station manager of the station.
President Rodrigo Duterte, in his first State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2016, stated that the government will put up two state-run TV channels for Filipino Muslims and the Lumad, hence Salaam TV was established, while the channel for the Lumad is still being planned.
The channel ceased broadcast on September 12, 2023 after 6 years and a month and was replaced by the TeleRadyo Channel of Radyo Pilipinas 1.
See also
People's Television Network
References
2017 establishments in the Philippines
People's Television Network
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Digital television stations in the Philippines
Islamic television networks
Filipino-language television stations
Religious television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMNI%20News%20Channel | SMNI News Channel (also called SNC and stylized as SMNI NEWS CHANNEL) known on-air as SMNI News, is a Philippine religious free-to-air news and public service television network based in Makati City. It is owned and operated by Swara Sug Media Corporation, the parent company of Sonshine Media Network International, a broadcasting arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) led by Filipino televangelist and religious leader, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy.
It airs national and international newscasts and talk shows, rolling news coverage from correspondents and reporters of SMNI Manila and other news bureaus in the Philippines and in more than 40 countries around the world, entertainment programs and cult-related programs.
It is exclusively aired over Digital terrestrial television on UHF Channels 39 and 43 in Metro Manila, and UHF Channel 19 in Davao Central and through more than 500 cable & satellite affiliates nationwide, selected programs simulcasting live via Facebook page, as well as on the main SMNI channel via analog and digital TV.
Programming
Current programs
News
Balita ng Bansa
SMNI Newsblast
EdiTOLrial with Sen. Francis Tolentino
SMNI Newsbreak
SMNI Nightline News
Newsline World
Weekender World
Public affairs and commentary
3PM: Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao Pilipinas Muna!
Business and Politics with Dante "Klink" Ang II
Dito sa Bayan ni Juan
Gikan sa Masa Para Sa Masa
Laban Kasama Ang Bayan
Maki-Alam
Pinoy Legal Minds
Pulso ng Bayan
Statecraft with Sass Rogando-Sasot
SMNI Special Reports
The Deep Probe
Public service
Kabayan Abroad
OFW, Ikaw ang Bida!
Problema N'yo Itawag kay Panelo
SMNI Exclusive
Health and Infotainment Environment Edutainment
Eco Hour
Healthy Chat @ Sonshine
Ito ang Buhay (This is Life)
Mga Doktor ng Bayan
Pa-Talk
SMNI Entrepinoy Revolution
Kingdom-related
ACQ Classic
Give Us This Day
Powerline
Quiet Moments
Sounds of Worship
Gospel of the Kingdom
SPOTLIGHT Live! Worldwide
Documentary
A New Me Story of Hope and Victory
Caravan of Love
Drama
Makitang Muli
* - denotes that this program is also simulcast on its main DTV channel, SMNI and Radio station DZAR 1026.
Previous programs
News
SMNI Morning Headlines
SMNI Newsline
SMNI Newsline Philippines (2006-2016)
Current affairs and commentary
Point of Order
Usaping Bayan
Thinking Pinoy on SMNI
Build PH
OFW Helpline
Infotainment
Amplify Your Life
Drama
Papa, Nasa'n Ka? (2023)
Cartoon
Kingdom Force (2022-2023)
Kingdom-related
Generation K
Specials
Election Watch 2018: The SMNI News Special Coverage
SMNI Presidential Debates 2022
SMNI Senatorial Debates 2022
On the Road with the Frontrunner (multi-platform coverage of UniTeam campaign rallies)
The Deep Probe: The SMNI Presidential Candidates Interview
Election Watch 2019: The SMNI News Special Coverage
Election Watch 2022: The SMNI News Special Coverage
Subchannels
Notable broadcasters and anchors
Current anchors
Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy
Rodrigo Duterte – 16th president of the Philippines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20Networks%20Akita | Cable Networks Akita, also known as CNA, is a cable provider in Japan with 46,418 connected households as of February 27, 2017. The company was established in June 1985. They acquired the naming rights of the Akita Municipal Gymnasium, the home of Akita Northern Happinets, in 2015.
Location map
References
Akita Northern Happinets
Cable television companies
Companies based in Akita Prefecture
Mass media companies established in 1985
Mass media in Akita (city)
Telecommunications companies established in 1985
1985 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet%20Babies%20%282018%20TV%20series%29 | Muppet Babies is an American computer-animated television series featuring toddler versions of the Muppets characters that began airing on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on March 23, 2018 and is aimed at a target audience of children from aged 4–7. It is a reboot of the original 1984 animated series of the same name. 71 episodes were produced.
The show retains several of the younger incarnations of the classic Muppet characters seen in the previous series, including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo, and Animal. The series also sees the second appearance of Nanny (now known as "Mrs. Nanny"), and the first appearance of a new Muppet Babies member named Summer Penguin.
The series finale aired on February 18, 2022.
Premiese
The show details Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Summer Penguin, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and The Great Gonzo and a cast of characters using their imaginations.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Kermit (voiced by Matt Danner) is a level-headed and friendly frog who enjoys acting out adventure and making music with his banjo. However, he can get flustered rather easily, usually by the antics of those around him. Kermit is also the official leader of the Muppet Babies, as he is typically the one who helps devise their plans.
Piggy (voiced by Melanie Harrison) is a temperamental and self-centered pig who considers herself a star and harbors a crush on Kermit. She mostly speaks in a high pitched voice but would at times greatly deepen when she gets passionate or angry. She is best friends with Skeeter and Summer.
Fozzie (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a cheerful and goofy bear who aspires to be a comedian, but also shows skills as a ventriloquist, magician, and a musician like his two best friends, Kermit and Rowlf. While adorable and good-hearted, Fozzie also has a mischievous streak, as he is fond of playing practical jokes on the other Muppets. He can also get frightened rather easily, not sharing Gonzo's love of the paranormal and grotesque.
Gonzo (voiced by Benjamin Diskin) is an eccentric and unpredictable "whatever" who has a love for stunts and anything that can be considered strange.
Animal (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) is an excitable frenzied monster who likes playing the drums.
Summer (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) is a good-hearted and sweet-natured penguin from the South Pole who loves to make art. She is best friends with Piggy.
Miss Nanny (voiced by Jenny Slate) is the teacher of the Muppet Babies and proprietor of her school who is only seen from the neck down. The pattern on her stockings changes to reflect relevant elements in the episode plot. She won a gold medal in a gymnastics discipline at the Sport-A-Thon. In episode 69a ("A Mitzvah for Mrs. Nanny"), it is revealed that Miss Nanny is Jewish, and actually the daughter of Nanny from the original series.
Other Muppets
Camilla (vocal effects provided by Melanie Harrison) is a white chick and Gonzo's best friend who is involved with the Muppet Babi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zostel | Zostel is a network of hostels and homes in India. It has presence in 44 cities in India and Nepal.
History
Zostel Hospitality Pvt. Ltd was established in August 2013, by seven co-founders,, who initiated their venture with the launch of the first Zostel in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on 15 August 2013.
ZO Rooms
In November 2014, the founders launched a new project called ZO Rooms, which aimed to provide budget-friendly hotel accommodations and aggregate hotel rooms. There were reports that ZO Rooms was acquired by rival OYO Rooms, in an all-stock deal in December 2015, which was later denied by OYO.
References
Hospitality companies of India
2013 establishments in Haryana
Indian companies established in 2013
Companies based in Gurgaon
Hotel chains in India
Privately held companies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%201939%20affiliates%20of%20the%20NBC%20Red%20Network | In 1939, The National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) Red and Blue radio networks competed with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and the Mutual Broadcasting System in providing nationwide coverage. NBC advertising rate cards of the period listed "basic" and "supplemental" affiliated stations. Advertisers were encouraged to buy time for their programs on the full "basic" line-up (plus any "supplemental" stations they wished) but this was open to negotiation. It was not unusual for Red Network advertisers to place shows on Blue Network stations in certain markets (and the other way around). Supplemental stations were generally located in smaller cities away from the network trunk lines. Such stations were usually offered to advertisers on both the Red and Blue Network line-ups.
East affiliates
Basic
WEAF (New York, New York)
CBM (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
KYW (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
WBEN (Buffalo, New York)
WCAE (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
WCSH (Portland, Maine)
WDEL (Wilmington, Delaware)
WFBR (Baltimore, Maryland)
WGY (Schenectady. New York)
WJAR (Providence, Rhode Island)
WNAC (Boston, Massachusetts)
WRC (Washington, D.C.)
WTAG (Worcester, Massachusetts)
WTAM (Cleveland, Ohio)
WTIC (Hartford, Connecticut)
WWJ (Detroit, Michigan)
Supplemental
CBF (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
CBL (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
CMQ (Havana, Cuba)
WBRE (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
WCOL (Columbus, Ohio)
WEEU (Reading, Pennsylvania)
WFEA (Manchester, New Hampshire)
WGAL (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
WLBZ (Bangor, Maine)
WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio)
WNBC (New Britain, Connecticut)
WORK (York, Pennsylvania)
WRAW (Reading, Pennsylvania)
WRDO (Augusta, Maine)
WSAN (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
WSPD (Toledo, Ohio)
Midwest affiliates
Basic
KSD (St. Louis, Missouri)
KSTP (St. Paul, Minnesota)
WDAF (Kansas City, Missouri)
WHO (Des Moines, Iowa)
WIRE (Indianapolis, Indiana)
WMAQ (Chicago, Illinois)
WOC (Davenport, Iowa)
WOW (Omaha, Nebraska)
Supplemental
KANS (Wichita, Kansas)
KFYR (Bismarck, North Dakota)
KGBX (Springfield, Missouri)
KOAM (Pittsburg, Kansas)
KSOO (Sioux Falls, Iowa)
WBOW (Terre Haute, Indiana)
WCFL (Chicago, Illinois)
WCKY (Cincinnati, Ohio)
WDAY (Fargo, North Dakota)
WEBC (Duluth, Minnesota)
WGBF (Evansville, Indiana)
WGL (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
WIBA (Madison, Wisconsin)
WOOD (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
WTMJ (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
XEW (Mexico City, Mexico)
South affiliates
Basic
KPRC (Houston, Texas)
WBRC (Birmingham, Alabama)
WJDX (Jackson, Mississippi)
WMBG (Richmond, Virginia)
WMC (Memphis, Tennessee)
WSB (Atlanta, Georgia)
WDSU (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Supplemental
KARK (Little Rock, Arkansas)
KFDM (Beaumont, Texas)
KGKO (Fort Worth, Texas)
KGNO (Dodge City, Kansas)
KGRV (Weslaco, Texas)
KRIS (Corpus Christi, Texas)
KTHS (Hot Springs, Arkansas)
KTOK (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
KTSM (El Paso, Texas)
KVOO (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
WAPO (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
WALA (Mobile, Alabama)
WAVE (Louis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NBC%20Radio%20Network%20programs | These notable programs were broadcast on the NBC Radio Network and its predecessor, the NBC Red Network.
The A&P Gypsies
A. L. Alexander's Goodwill Court
The Abbott and Costello Show
Abbott Mysteries
Abie's Irish Rose
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Adventures of Maisie
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of the Thin Man
Against the Storm
The Al Pearce Show
The Alan Young Show
The Aldrich Family
The Amazing Mr. Malone
America Dances
The American Album of Familiar Music
The American Forum of the Air
American Portraits
Arch Oboler's Plays
Archie Andrews
Arco Birthday Party
The Army Hour
The Atwater Kent Hour
Aunt Mary
Author's Playhouse
The Baby Snooks Show
Bachelor's Children
Backstage Wife
Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Battle of the Sexes
Beat the Band
The Bell Telephone Hour
The Bickersons
The Big Show
The Big Story
Big Town
Billy and Betty
Blondie
Bob and Ray
The Bob Crosby Show
Boston Blackie
Break the Bank
Breakfast in Hollywood
The Brighter Day
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Burns and Allen
Camel Caravan
Campus Revue
Can You Top This?
Candy Matson
The Capitol Theatre Family Show
The Carnation Contented Hour
Cavalcade of America
The Charlotte Greenwood Show
The Chase and Sanborn Hour
The Chesterfield Supper Club
Cities Service Concerts
Clara, Lu, and Em
The Clicquot Club Eskimos
Cloak and Dagger
The Colgate Sports Newsreel
Dan Harding's Wife
Dark Fantasy
A Date with Judy
Death Valley Days
Dick Tracy
Dimension X
Dr. I.Q.
Dr. Sixgun
The Dodge Victory Hour
Dragnet
The Dreft Star Playhouse
Drene Time
Duffy's Tavern
Easy Aces
The Eddie Cantor Show
The Eternal Light
The Eveready Hour
Everyman's Theater
The Falcon
Father Knows Best
Fibber McGee and Molly
The Fifth Horseman
The First Nighter Program
The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour
The Fred Allen Show
Ford Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
The Frank Sinatra Show
Gasoline Alley
The General Electric Concert
Girl Alone
The Goldbergs
The Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra
Grand Central Station
Grand Ole Opry
The Great Gildersleeve
Great Moments in History
The Guiding Light
The Halls of Ivy
The Happiness Boys
Harvest of Stars
The High-Jinkers
Hollywood Playhouse
Hollywood Star Playhouse
The Hoover Sentinels
House of Myths
I Love a Mystery
Information Please
The Ipana Troubadors
It Pays to Be Ignorant
It's Higgins, Sir
Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy
The Jack Benny Program
Judy and Jane
The Judy Canova Show
The Jumbo Fire Chief Program
Just Plain Bill
Kraft Music Hall
Laundryland Lyrics
Let's Dance
Li'l Abner
Life Can Be Beautiful
The Life of Riley
Lights Out
Little Orphan Annie
Lonely Women
Lorenzo Jones
Lum and Abner
Lux Radio Theatre
Lyric Famous Challengers
Ma Perkins
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
The Man Called X
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
The March of Time
The Marriage
The Martin and Lewis Show
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Maxwell House Show Boat
Mayor of the Town
Meet Corliss Archer
Meet the Press
The Mickey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20formerly%20owned%20by%20NBC | The following is a list of radio stations formerly owned by NBC via parent company RCA from 1926 until 1989. NBC formerly operated two radio networks in the United States: the NBC Radio Network from 1926 until 1987 (known as the NBC Red Network from 1926 to 1942) and the NBC Blue Network from 1926 until 1943 (known as the Blue Network from 1942 to 1945 and the American Broadcasting Company from 1945 onward).
Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
(**) indicates a station that was built and signed-on by RCA, either before or after NBC's formation.
NBC Radio Network stations
NBC Blue Network stations
Divestitures
General Electric purchased NBC's parent company, RCA, in early 1986. With the purchase, GE announced intentions to sell off the entirety of NBC's radio group and RCA's non-broadcast holdings, the latter spun off to Bertelsmann and Thomson SA. After a planned sale of the entire radio unit to Westinghouse Broadcasting in early 1987 fell through, Westwood One acquired the programming assets of the NBC Radio Network—including NBC's radio news service, The Source and Talknet—in a $50 million deal on July 20, 1987.
The NBC-owned radio stations were sold to various buyers. WMAQ was acquired by Westinghouse in November 1987. WNBC and WYNY in New York City, WKQX in Chicago, WJIB in Boston and KYUU in San Francisco were sold to Emmis Communications for a combined $121.5 million (equivalent to $ in ) on February 18, 1988. (As part of the deal, Emmis sold the licenses of their existing New York AM/FM combination, WFAN and WQHT, and transferred the intellectual properties of both stations onto WNBC and WYNY, respectively.) WKYS was sold to minority-controlled Albimar Communications on April 7, 1988, for $46.75 million (equivalent to $ in ). KNBR was the final radio property sold, with Susquehanna Radio Corporation purchasing it for $20 million (equivalent to $ in ) in March 1989.
Notes
References
NBC,Former |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashar%20Aziz | Ashar Aziz (; born 1959) is a Pakistani–American electrical engineer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company FireEye. A former billionaire, Aziz had an estimated net worth of over $ 233 million as of 2015.
Early life and education
Aziz was born in Karachi in 1959 and grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan. He arrived in the United States as a student, having gained admission into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering (MIT). Prior to entering MIT, he completed two years of foundation studies at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey during the mid-1970s. He graduated from MIT with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1981, followed by a Master of Science in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also granted a Regents' Fellowship.
Career
Aziz worked as an engineer at Sun Microsystems for twelve years, specialising in computer networking, network security, and system design. He also served as chief technology officer of the N1 program at Sun. In 1999, he founded his first startup company Terraspring Inc., which focused on data center automization and virtualization. The business was bought by Sun Microsystems in 2002, following the stock market crash of 2001.
At around the same time, Aziz began studying the risks stemming from highly stealthy and self-propagating malware systems, and the threats they posed to future cybersecurity infrastructures—a problem he first discovered in the U.S. Department of Defense archives. In 2004, he founded FireEye, having become convinced that he could provide the solutions to these emerging cybersecurity challenges. He initially worked out of his home for 80 to 100 hours a week, with only $4,000 in his personal savings. Initially, most of his technical team comprised engineers and technology professionals he knew from his previous startup. Based in Milpitas, California, the company today provides both software and cloud-based anti-malware products. According to the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, "the core of the FireEye platform is a virtual execution engine, complemented by dynamic threat intelligence, to identify and block cyber attacks in real time and across the different stages of an attack life cycle." Describing FireEye in 2012, Aziz stated that the company's objective was to strengthen the "security and key infrastructure that is pervasive across financial, government and credit card infrastructure to protect from three very important threats: crime, espionage, and warfare." Aziz served as FireEye's chief executive officer from 2004 to 2012, as well as remaining its chief strategy officer, chief technology officer and board vice chairman.
In December 2012, Aziz stepped down as CEO and former McAfee CEO David DeWalt was appointed to the position. DeWalt was recruited in order to prepare the company for an initial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Information%20Network | The National Information Network (NIN) (Persian: شبکۀ ملی اطلاعات, Shabake-ye Melli-ye Ettelā'āt), also known as National Internet in Iran and the Iranian intranet, is an ongoing project to develop a secure, stable infrastructure network and national intranet in Iran.
The Supreme Council of Cyberspace of Iran defines the NIN as "a network based on the Internet Protocol with switches and routers and data centers which allows for data requests to avoid being routed outside of the country and provides secure and private intranet networks."
The idea of a national intranet was developed at the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology in 2005, and the project started in 2013. It is based on the Fifth Economic Development Plan of Iran.
The Iranian government allocated about $200 million to develop NIN infrastructures alongside NIN e-content. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani signed an engineering program in September 2020. According to the Iranian government, one of the NIN's main objectives is to break the monopoly of the Internet.
Cisco Systems routers and switches were deprecated because of the program. It has full independence.
Iranian seventh quinquennial development program directed the Ministry of ICT to make it to 99% of the network within 5 five years.
Deployment
The National Information Network's two main parts are:
A public sector for delivering NIN services to public and business users
A private sector for delivering NIN services to governmental users.
Everyone is identified by their social ID and telephone numbers before being able to access the network or internet through the network. The Iranian government fully implemented the NIN between 15 and 27 November 2019, during the 2019 Internet blackout in Iran.
Corporations are required to use only Iranian data centers and register their IP address.
NIN can be used similar to the Great Firewall.
In 2019, Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani in Tehran declared in a Friday prayer that Telegram is haram and requested the NIN to be implemented.
Further reading
ICT Infrastructure (National Information Network) in capable delivery of content in Iran and exemplary countries
See also
Communications in Iran#Internet
Censorship in Iran
Internet censorship in Iran
2019 Internet blackout in Iran
National knowledge network
References
External links
http://irnin.ito.gov.ir/
Information Technology Organization
https://samandehi.ir/
Internet in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Base%20%28French%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Base was a 24-hour French subscription music channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks Europe.
History
A first channel, MTV Base UK was launched on 1 July 1999. This version of the channel will still be broadcast in France after the launch of the French version until 7 March 2008 where it is replaced by MTV Dance on Free and the other ADSL operators (as in all Europe except the UK and Ireland).
Launched on December 21, 2007, at 1pm, MTV Base focuses mainly on hip-hop and R'n'B. Its slogan is "La chaîne en Mode Hip-Hop R'n'B". It was launched on the second anniversary of the MTV Pulse and MTV Idol channels, complementing the channel offerings of the MTV Networks France bouquet. MTV Base is also for France "the reflection of the most popular musical genre in France" and targets in particular the 11/34 years.
In 2014, the channel changed targets by broadcasting less hip-hop music, and slowly began to focus on pop and dance content, such as One Direction, Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris.
MTV Base ceased broadcasting in France on November 17, 2015, along with MTV Pulse and MTV Idol, to be replaced by French version of MTV Hits and the new My MTV service.
Visual Identity (Logo)
Shows
MTV Base News
Beats and Lyrics
Le Top Base
Hits Base
Le Top US
Les 50 meilleurs clips vacances
French Only
Les 10 meilleurs clips français
External links
Official website
MTV Base France - presentation, screenshots
References
Music television channels
MTV channels
Defunct television channels in France
French-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015
2007 establishments in France
2015 disestablishments in France
Music organizations based in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Base%20%28African%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Base is a 24-hour music channel from Paramount Networks EMEAA. There are three different feeds of MTV Base Africa; for South Africa, West Africa and East Africa respectively.
History
The channel was launched in February 2005 with a live music special with live performances from local African and international artists, along with some music video and reality programming from MTV Europe. The network also carries the American and European awards ceremonies of MTV and BET.
On 3 July 2013, Viacom International Media Networks Africa launched a localised feed of MTV Base exclusively for South Africa, with local programming, advertising and VJs. It launched on DStv on 5 March 2019.
See also
MTV Africa
Viacom International Media Networks Africa
References
External links
MTV Base (Pan-Africa)
MTV South Africa
MTV channels
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Music organizations based in Nigeria
Television stations in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtek%20%28company%29 | Ramtek Corporation was a California-based manufacturer of computer display terminals founded in 1971. Co-founders Charles E. McEwan and John W. Metzler had previously worked together at the computer graphics division of Data Disc Corporation and founded Ramtek to create devices for displaying information from computer systems. Their major business was in medical monitors, as well as creating high-end graphical terminals for industrial and academic use. In 1973, they became one of the earliest manufacturers of video games, and manufactured coin-operated games until 1979. They became a publicly traded company starting in 1979. In 1981, it was reported Ramtek was the top company in the field of raster graphics display terminals.
History
Ramtek Corporation was founded on September 4, 1971 by engineers Charles McEwan (1935-2006) and John Metzler (1935-1982) as well as lawyer Jack Teeters. The two engineers were veterans of the Western Design Labs (WDL) division of Philco-Ford as well as the video terminal division of Data Disc Inc. Seeking to capitalize on the growing market for digital CRT displays, they established Ramtek at 1000 Elwell Court in Palo Alto, California. The company recruited other members of the Data Disc terminal business to join them as well as Charles' brother Melvin McEwan. They introduced their first two commercial products, the GX-100 and GX-200 raster terminals in early 1972. They entered the medical field due to the interest of Johns Hopkins University, creating a medical diagnostic device which utilized scintillation cameras to provide medical imaging.
Despite the growth of the computer graphics market in the early 1970s, Ramtek initially found it difficult to survive off of contracts from high-end corporations. Payment for high-end graphic terminals was frequently on terms of 90 or 120 days until payment, leaving the company undercapitalized. The company attempted expansion into lower scale markets with black and white visual displays and they acquired venture capital from the likes of Exxon, but found their break in the coin-operated video game industry. Friend of Charles McEwan and later Ramtek CFO Tom Adams was co-owner of Sunnyvale bar Andy Capp's Tavern, where the video game Pong was first location tested by Atari. A group of Ramtek engineers including Pete Kauffman played the game at this location and were convinced that it would be lucrative to create electronic games for the coin-operated market. Charles McEwan also later claimed to have known Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell who approved of the competition.
John Metzler headed the development of Ramtek's first game, Volly, a variant of Pong released in the first wave of commercial video games in March 1973. Ramtek contacted local coin-op distributors in California and found an enthusiastic partner in Rowe International who ordered 2,500 Volly cabinets. With two subsequent games in the same vein, Hockey and Soccer, the company firmly established itself in the nasc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20%28keyword%29 | In the C programming language, register is a reserved word (or keyword), type modifier, storage class, and hint. The register keyword was deprecated in C++, until it became reserved and unused in C++17. It suggests that the compiler stores a declared variable in a CPU register (or some other faster location) instead of in random-access memory. If possible depending on the type of CPU and complexity of the program code, it will optimize access to that variable and hence improve the execution time of a program. In C (but not C++ where the keyword is essentially ignored) the location of a variable declared with register cannot be accessed, but the sizeof operator can be applied. Aside from this limitation, register is essentially meaningless in modern compilers due to optimization which will place variables in a register if appropriate regardless of whether the hint is given. For programming of embedded systems register may still be significant; for example the Microchip MPLAB XC32 compiler allows the programmer to specify a particular register with the keyword; however, this is discouraged in favor of the compiler's optimizations. When used, register is typically for loop counters, or possibly for other very frequently used variables in the code.
Examples
/* store integer variable "i" in RAM, register, or other location as compiler sees fit */
int i;
/* suggests storing integer variable "i" in a CPU register or other fast location */
register int i;
See also
Optimizing compiler
Program optimization
Static (keyword)
References
C (programming language)
Variable (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap%20Decision | Snap Decision is a half-hour American comedy game show featuring David Alan Grier as the host. The show airs on Game Show Network and is also syndicated on Tornante-Sinclair stations. The game show premiered on August 7, 2017.
Gameplay
Three contestants are asked to make "snap judgments" about three strangers in video clips, based on random facts about each, as they compete for a chance at a $10,000 grand prize.
Round one
After each of the three strangers has self-introduced with a quick sentence or two, the contestants are asked a question (with no clues) about the stranger, which has two choices for the answer. Each contestant locks in with an answer, and then the stranger reveals the correct answer, usually with a short story about the answer. For each correct answer, the contestant is awarded $100. There are two questions for each stranger in this round, for a maximum total for $600.
Round two
In this round, the contestants are told a fact about one of the strangers, and they must select the stranger, out of a choice of two, who owns that fact. A correct answer here is worth $200. There are three questions in this round, for a maximum of $1,200 after this round. The lowest-ranked contestant is eliminated after this round. In the event of a tie for lowest score, a random question is posed to the tied players (the first tie-breaker question was "Which fruit would David (Alan Grier) rather be?", with choices of "Kiwi" and "Apple"), and the first contestant to buzz in gets to answer. If the player answers incorrectly, they are eliminated from the game. In the case of a three-way tie, if the first question is answered correctly by the player who buzzed in, a second question would be needed (for the remaining tied players).
Round three
In this round, the remaining contestants each select a different stranger with both strangers answering identical questions in regards to themselves, each with two choices for the answer. The player with the higher money total after round two gets first pick of stranger and answers each question first. In case of a tie, a player is randomly picked (via coin toss) to go first. There are a maximum of three questions to each player in this round, with values of $250 (first), $500 (second) and $750 (third). If a player gets their question correct, the money is added to their score. If they are wrong, their opponent gets the money. Once a player gets to $2,000 or more, they win the game, keep the money, and go on to the final round. The most a contestant can accrue in winnings to this point is $2,700.
Final round
In the final round, the winner has 45 seconds to match facts with the correct stranger either five or seven times (by episode). If the player accomplishes this, their winnings are increased to $10,000 plus the $2,000 to $2,700 from the main game for a total of $12,000 to $12,700. If the player does not reach the required number of correct answers, they win only the money accrued in the main game.
Production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection%20Remix%20OS | Resurrection Remix OS, abbreviated as RR, is a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. UX designer and head developer Altan KRK & Varun Date started the project in 2012.
History
On February 9, 2018, Resurrection Remix 6.0.0 was released, based on Android 8.1 Oreo after months in development. In early 2019 Resurrection Remix 7.0.0, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 were released, based on Android 9 Pie. based on Android 10 The project seemed abandoned after a disagreement between 2 major developers which caused one of them (Acar) to leave, but in mid-2020 Resurrection Remix came back with 8.5.7. v8.7.3, based on Android 10, was current.
Reviews and studies
A DroidViews review of Resurrection Remix OS called it "feature-packed," and complimented the large online community, updates, and customization options, as compared with the simplicity of Lineage OS. ZDNet stated Resurrection Remix OS was a custom ROM that could evade SafetyNet exclusions and display Netflix app in Play Store.
Resurrection Remix OS was one of a few operating systems mentioned as Android upgrade options in Upcycled Technology. Resurrection Remix OS was one of a handful of operating systems supported by the OpenKirin development team for bringing pure Android to Huawei devices, and was one of two suggested for OnePlus 5.
In a 2017 detailed review, Stefanie Enge of Curved.De said Resurrection Remix combined the best of LineageOS, OmniROM and SlimRoms. The camera performance was criticized, however, extensive customization options, speed and lack of Google services were all acclaimed.
In a study of phone sensors, Resurrection Remix OS was one of six Android operating systems used on two Xiaomi devices to compare gyroscope, accelerometer, orientation and light sensor data to values recorded by very accurate, reference sensors.
Supported devices
More than 150 devices are supported, some of which are:
See also
List of custom Android firmware
References
External links
Custom Android firmware
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Haplos%20episodes | Haplos is a 2017 Philippine television drama series, directed by Gil Tejada Jr. starring Sanya Lopez, Thea Tolentino, Rocco Nacino and Pancho Magno. Which premiered on GMA Network's GMA Afternoon Prime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV on July 10, 2017 to February 23, 2018 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing D' Originals.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in television homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 33rd-week run, and with a total of 165 episodes. It was replaced by Hindi Ko Kayang Iwan Ka.
Series overview
Episodes
July 2017
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K8%20Group | K8 (also known as K8 entertainment group) is a network of international online casinos and online gambling companies, with over 15 million users. K8 has offices in almost 50 countries in the world; including the United Kingdom, The Philippines and Vietnam. K8 promotes itself by its sponsorships of UK premier league teams, West Bromwich Albion FC and Manchester City, and German football team FC Schalke 04.
Overview
K8 operates like a virtual casino, offering slots, table games such as Black Jack, poker and roulette, live dealers and sports betting, for each one of their websites.
In Asia, their most popular sites are Vietnamese-based, K8vina and K8vn. K8 casino is licensed under First Cagayan Philippines, to operate live betting, and operates according to the rules promulgated by the Regulatory Authority.
Their European expansion began in November 2015, with the establishment of UK-K8, whose headquarters are located in Birmingham, UK. They are licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. UK-K8 is known for its use of the EveryMatrix’s platform to operate its website, the partnership was announced in early 2017, and was integrated in their affiliate program and also gaming solutions. To appeal to British users' needs, they also upgraded their sports betting with Golden Race platform, this means that bet settlement operations happen in real-time, due to Golden Race and EveryMatrix's sportsbook solutions, and has increased its reliability and usage amongst European users.
K8 used a variety of marketing methods to introduce UK-K8, most notably the sponsorships of Premier League football teams.
K8partner
K8 offers an affiliate program, which is noted for its generous commission structure, offering affiliates up to 50% of the revenue earned.
Sponsorships
K8 was the main partner and sponsor for Kunlun fighting, a Chinese MMA event. Internationally, they are most well known for their football sponsorships, they also appointed German footballer, Michael Ballack as brand ambassador from 2015 to 2016, which coincided with their sponsorship of German football team FC Schalke 04.
In 2015, the online entertainment company became a sponsor of the Copa America in Chile, the third largest continental football event in the world.
In 2016, K8 became the kit sponsor for the West Bromwich Albion FC, a Premier League football team. This became the football team's biggest sponsorship to date, which reportedly cost K8 over £5 million. The partnership was mostly used as a marketing strategy to bring awareness to the European extension of the K8 group; UK-K8. The sponsorship deal lasted only one season.
June 21, 2017, K8 announced a sponsorship agreement with Premier League club Manchester City. The multi-year deal includes advertisements on digiboards at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, and the right to offer trips and experiences to the public to meet the team.
September 26, 2017, K8 announced a sponsorship agreement with Championship club, Cardiff City. The mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomfist | Doomfist is a fictional, playable character in the 2016 video game Overwatch, and again appeared in its 2022 sequel, Overwatch 2. His design is based on a powerful, cybernetic gauntlet. As an offensive, brawler-style character, he uses close-range attacks: a charged punch and slam. Doomfist was released in late July 2017 as the title's 25th hero, and the fourth introduced after the game's launch.
Overwatch announcement video, in 2014, contained a stray reference to a gauntlet. Following its obsessive popularity with fans, the developer, Blizzard Entertainment, expanded the gauntlet into a full-fledged, playable character. This period included a series of teasers from the developer and a campaign by actor Terry Crews to voice the character. Doomfist was ultimately voiced by Sahr Ngaujah. In Doomfist's fictional backstory, the playable character became the third generation to wield the gauntlet, and is presented as a villain after killing his predecessor and becoming a leader of Talon, the game's nemesis group. A digital comic accompanied the character's release.
Fans were excited by the character's reveal, and professional players praised the balance of his move set. Other critics considered Doomfist too vulnerable to be viable, and insufficiently exciting to rekindle the interest of old players.
Description
Doomfist is a tank character built as a brawler, with close-range, mostly melee attacks from his cybernetic gauntlet. For example, his Rocket Punch is a charged attack that launches Doomfist in the direction of the player's aim. It does extra damage if it pummels the enemy into a wall. It is useful for finishing enemies in retreat as well as pushing enemies off edges. The Seismic Slam performs a smashing dive to return to the ground. His only non-melee attack is the short-range Hand Cannon, which shoots a shotgun burst of projectiles from the gauntlet's knuckles. Its four shots of ammunition regenerate passively. Doomfist's passive ability regenerates his shields when he deals damage with melee attacks. His "ultimate ability", Meteor Strike, launches Doomfist into the air to drop down on a targeted area, and complements other ultimate abilities that pull enemies together.
These moves are designed to be used in flurry combinations. For instance, the player can Seismic Slam an opponent, which pulls in enemies, and progress into a Rising Uppercut, which tosses the opponent into the air. During that toss, the player can charge the Rocket Punch and release as the opponent returns to the ground. Alternatively, the player can launch into the air, pick an opponent to slam, and punch them at close range. The character is built for aggressive playstyles and advanced players.
Among his advantages, his move combinations contribute to his high mobility, compared to other Overwatch playable characters. Doomfist can easily reach and neutralize enemies occupying high ground, such as snipers. He is most effective against low-mobility opponents, but s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS%20Solutions | is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, that offers IT services, system integration, cloud computing, and information security.
Overview
In 1980, Nippon Steel Computer System Corp. was established by Nippon Steel Corp. After several computer system companies and divisions in Nippon Steel group were merged, NS Solutions Corp. was established in 2001. In 2012, Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. were merged into Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. The company name remains as NS Solutions Corp. in English.
The company offers system integration, cloud computing, information security, and IT lifecycle support in Japan. The services are mostly for enterprises and are separated from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal group.
The business type and scope is similar to Itochu Techno-Solutions, SCSK and Uniadex. NS Solutions has established a partnership with Oracle, and invested Oracle Japan, since 1991. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section (2327.TYO) in October 2002.
In 2017, NS Solutions acquired Net Value Components Ltd., a company that offers network integration and operation.
See also
List of companies of Japan
References
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Official website
Cloud computing providers
Computer security companies
Information technology consulting firms of Japan
Service companies based in Tokyo
1980 establishments in Japan
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20New%20Dawn%20in%20the%20Negev | A New Dawn in the Negev is a Bedouin-Jewish co-existence NGO that provides programming for Bedouin youth-at-risk. It is based in Rahat, the only Bedouin city in Israel. Over 600 Bedouin youth aged 5–18 per year participate in their programs.
New Dawn was founded by Jamal Alkirnawi, a Bedouin social worker who worked for Ben Gurion University as an academic counsellor for Arab students. He observed that the Bedouin students were at the greatest disadvantage, as they grew up in great poverty, struggled to reconcile modern culture with traditional Bedouin life, and often experienced significant culture shocks on attempting to attend university at mainstream, Hebrew-speaking institutions.
In 2009, Alkirnawi established New Dawn to empower Bedouin youth, offering English, Hebrew, IT and music classes, and providing opportunities to meet people and cultures outside of their own communities. The organisation is very diverse, with Arab and Jewish Israelis on the Board, Christian, Jewish and Muslim volunteers, and international volunteers from the UK, America, France, Czech Republic, Germany and Canada.
New Dawn also uses its programs to promote Bedouin life, culture and issues to potential tourists and visitors to Rahat. In February 2017, a delegation of 35 politicians and law-makers from the German Bundestag met with New Dawn and other Bedouin NGOs to discuss life in the Negev and the residents' struggle for social rights and political recognition of the nearby unrecognised Bedouin villages.
Background
The Negev Bedouin were traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab tribes living in the Negev region in Israel. From 1858 during Ottoman rule, the Negev Bedouin underwent a process of sedentarization which accelerated after the founding of Israel. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, most resettled in neighbouring regions. Between 1968 and 1989, Israel built seven townships in the northeast of the Negev for the Bedouin population, with about half of them relocating to these areas. The process of sedentarization is full of hardships for any nation, since it means a shift from one way of life to another – a transition from wandering to permanent residence, and Bedouin whose society is based on tradition are no exception. As a result of rapid and unexpected changes of the social infrastructure, Bedouin faced many difficulties, primarily related to the integration issues.
The rate of unemployment remains high in Bedouin townships, as well as the crime level. School through age 16 is mandatory by law, but the vast majority of the population does not receive a high school education. Women are discriminated against in the patriarchal-type Bedouin society. There is another serious problem of trespassing on state lands and building of unrecognized Bedouin settlements, which have no municipal status and face demolition orders.
According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2001 the ethnic make-up of the city was almost completely Arab Bedouin, without a signific |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoeren | Snoeren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alex Snoeren, American computer scientist
Marinus Snoeren (1919–1982), Dutch cellist and music educator
Mark Snoeren (born 1974), Dutch politician
Rolf Snoeren (born 1969), Dutch fashion designer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Presents%3A%20Varna%20Beach | MTV Presents: Varna Beach is a music festival organized by MTV Europe, which is part of Viacom Media Networks. The first edition of the event took place on July 15, 2017 on the South Beach in Varna, Bulgaria, and welcomed international performers such as Bebe Rexha, Tinie Tempah, Jonas Blue, Gorgon City and local artists including Poli Genova, Kristian Kostov and Dara.
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Music festivals in Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok%20Goel | Ashok K. Goel is a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the chief scientist with Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities. He conducts research into cognitive systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive science with a focus on computational design and creativity. Goel is also the executive director of National Science Foundation's AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education and an editor emeritus of AAAI's AI Magazine.
Research and scholarship
Conceptual design of technical systems, in particular biologically inspired engineering, provides one context for Goel's problem-driven research into cognitive systems. He has developed a theory of Structure-Behavior-Function models for understanding conceptual designs and a theory of model-based analogical reasoning for understanding the processes of biologically inspired design. In addition to information-processing theories of conceptual design, he has built computational tools (such as the Design by Analogy to Nature Engine) for supporting its practice. His 2012 TEDx talk Does Our Future Require Us To Go Back to Nature? summarizes this research. In 2014, he co-edited Biologically inspired design: Computational methods and tools published by Springer-Verlag. During 2008–18, Ashok was a co-director of Georgia Tech's Center of Biologically Inspired Design, and during 2012-17 he served on the Board of Directors of The Biomimicry Institute including as the President of the Board during 2015–17.
Learning about complex systems and systems thinking provides another context for Goel's use-inspired cognitive systems research. He has used Structure-Behavior-Function modeling to develop a series of interactive environments for supporting learning about complex systems resulting in the recent web-based virtual experimentation research assistant (VERA). Smithsonian Institution's Encyclopedia of Life's webportal provides direct access to VERA to support learning about ecological systems and the scientific way of systems thinking. Since 2015, Ashok has been a Faculty Fellow of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.
Teaching and scholarship
During 2012–19, Ashok was the Director of Georgia Tech's Ph.D. Program in Human-Centered Computing. Since 2019, he has been the Chief Scientist with the Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities, where he leads research on AI in education and education in AI. In 2014, Goel developed an online course on Knowledge-Based AI as part of Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science program. In 2016, he developed Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant for automatically answering students’ questions in discussion forums of online classes based on the IBM Watson technology. His 2016 TEDx talk A Teaching Assistant named Jill Watson describes this experiment. In 2019, he co-edited Blended learning in prac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wooldridge%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael John Wooldridge (born 26 August 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems, and in particular, in the computational theory aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents. His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.
Education
Wooldridge was educated at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he was awarded a PhD in 1991.
Career and research
Wooldridge was appointed a lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992. In 1996, he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as head of department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 2014 - 2018. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications.
Editorial service
2003–2009 co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
2006–2009 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
2009–2012 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Other editorships: Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.
Awards and honors
He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow, a Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Fellow, and a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. In 2015, he was made Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.
2021 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
2020 BCS Lovelace Medal
2015 Elected an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. For contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.
2012–17 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE)" (5-year €2m award)
2009 British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Fellow
2008 American Association for Artif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor%20Sunday%20Rover | The Dartmoor Sunday Rover was a Devon County Council-supported bus and rail network in Devon, England. It was withdrawn after the 2015 season.
The network included buses operated by Stagecaoch Devon, Country Bus, Dartline and Target Travel. These linked places such as Exeter, Newton Abbot and Plymouth with Tavistock, Widecombe, Gunnislake, Ivybridge, Moretonhampstead and Bovey Tracey. The rail lines included were the Tamar Valley Line from to and a special Sunday service from Exeter to where it connected with the heritage Dartmoor Railway.
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Passenger rail transport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huai%20Jinpeng | Huai Jinpeng (; born December 1962) is a Chinese computer scientist and politician. He is the current Minister of Education, party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Huai was born in Harbin but traces his ancestry to Jinan, Shandong province. He graduated from Jilin University of Industry (now merged into Jilin University) in 1984. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1986, and began work in September 1987 after obtaining a computer science master's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology. In November 1993, he earned a doctorate from Beihang University. He also attended Columbia University as a visiting scholar between 1995 and 1996. In December 2000, he was named deputy party chief and vice president of Beihang University. In May 2009, he was promoted to president of the university, obtaining vice-minister level rank and was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2012, he was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for his outstanding contributions to education, science and technology development across China and France.
In February 2015, Huai was named Deputy Minister of Information Technology. In December 2016, Huai was named deputy party chief of Tianjin. In September 2017, Huai was transferred to become party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
On 20 August 2021, he was appointed Minister of Education.
Huai is a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress and a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Living people
Beihang University alumni
Academic staff of Beihang University
Presidents of Beihang University
Chinese computer scientists
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Jilin University alumni
Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Politicians from Harbin
Political office-holders in Tianjin
Scientists from Heilongjiang
Columbia University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20with%20Me%20%28podcast%29 | Sleep with Me is a twice-weekly podcast that began on October 18, 2013. It is hosted by "Dearest Scooter" as performed by Drew Ackerman. Sleep with Me joined the Feral Audio podcast network in February 2017 and moved to Night Vale Presents on March 28, 2018. The podcast's tagline is "The podcast that puts you to sleep".
Premise and influences
Sleep with Me is meant to distract listeners, keeping their minds occupied when they experience insomnia, while gently lulling them to sleep.
Ackerman is open about his own struggles with insomnia; he has said that his rambling storytelling style began in childhood, when he told his brothers boring bedtime stories when they could not sleep. He names The Dr. Demento Show, Kurt Vonnegut and the Beastie Boys as some of his influences. Ackerman describes his storytelling style as "the good type of weird but not creepy". He does not claim to have expertise in psychology or sleep science, and he relies on feedback from listeners to shape the podcast.
Format and structure
Each episode begins with Ackerman, in character as "Dearest Scooter", introducing the podcast. He then mentions the episode's sponsors; singer-songwriter Jonathan Mann, also known as the "Mystery Bard", often sings a "lullaby" jingle about one of the sponsoring companies. Scooter continues with a rambling introduction for a few minutes before moving on to the episode's main story. Each episode ends with Scooter individually thanking listeners who have recently donated to the show or contacted him on social media.
Ackerman also maintains a separate podcast playlist of older episodes, called Sleep to Strange, that have had the introductions removed so listeners can listen to just the main story.
Reactions and response
Sleep with Me has largely gained listeners through word of mouth and Ackerman's Twitter account.
In January 2017, the podcast had reached 2.3 million monthly downloads.
Drew Ackerman and Sleep with Me were featured on the October 20, 2016, episode of The Dr. Oz Show, entitled "Sleep Brain Connection".
In 2016, Sleep with Me won the People's Choice Podcast Award for Best Health Podcast.
Both Sleep with Me and its spinoff Game of Drones appeared on the Mental Floss list of "10 Podcasts to Help You Sleep".
Sleep with Me has been ranked as one of the top 50 most popular podcasts.
Esquire named Sleep with Me one of The 25 Essential Podcasts of 2016.
Recurring stories, characters and themes
After the Glass Slipper - "The story of Cinderella, her Fairy Godmother and her Stepmother after she became a princess."
Bernie the Butterfly - "Bernie the Butterfly stops by the studio to set the record straight. He has a ton of stuff he needs to get off his chest. Who knew that there was so much repressed rage against humans."
Big Farm P.I. - "This won't be your garden variety investigation, it will have more meanders."
Claude Neon Reports - "Correspondent Claude Neon reports on the whereabouts of the new 'Santa', Roberta Claus."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%C5%A1er%20Sijari%C4%87 | Ališer Sijarić (born July 8, 1969) is a Bosnian contemporary classical music, electroacoustic music and computer music composer.
Education
Ališer Sijarić studied Composition with Josip Magdić at Sarajevo Music Academy and Musicology, Philosophy and Sociology at Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He continued his Composition studies with Michael Jarrell at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and attended Composition courses with Beat Furrer und Hanspeter Kyburz in Graz. He is the son of notable professor and violinist Osman-Faruk Sijarić, former dean of Sarajevo Music Academy and grandson of well-known writer Ćamil Sijarić.
Cooperation and performances
He is member of the Composers group Gegenklang. Sijarić has been commissioned to write compositions by the Konzerthaus, Vienna Gesellschaft Wien, Konzerthaus Berlin, Collegium Novum Zürich, Wiener Musikverein, Kammaransemblen Stockholm, Forum Alpbach Austria, Ensemble Cantus Zagreb, Pre Art Zürich, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Manhattan String Quartet, among others. His music was performed at many international music festivals, such as Kopenhagen - Kulturhuaptstadt Europas, Wien Modern, Salzburger Festspiele, Music Biennale Zagreb, Muskiprotokoll Graz, Culturscapes Basel, Chamber Music Festival Sarajevo and many others, in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Romania, USA (Carnegie Hall), Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland. He is founder of the Society of New Music Sarajevo – SONEMUS, Sonemus Fest and since year 2001, its artistic director. He is active member of INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music.
Music style
Ališer Sijarić is pioneer in the field of Contemporary Music Composition and Contemporary Music Analysis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His approach to Music Composition, as primarily thinking process, could be described as "deconstructed thinking process", because his fundamental compositional technique is filtration of overall material. Using noise, which could be represented also through white color (which contains all tones/colors, but none of them can be solved singularly) Sijarić sets hidden layers of whole composition at the very beginning of compositional process and forms cultivated noise. It can be understood as presumed system of artificial sound spectrum organization and of apabsolute micro-sound (or partial) stability, which represents the opposite to the nature (or behavior) of noise. Composition of "composition background" or "hidden layers source", which for many composers represent a final product, for Sijarić represents a starting point of filtration process development. Influenced by composers such as Beat Furrer, Gérard Grisey, Morton Feldman and research in the field of Philosophy, Semiology, Psychoacoustics and Electronic & Computer Music (using Computer as Composition Assistant), he developed his own compositional style.
Academic career
Prof. mr. Ališer Sijarić is Profes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier%20pointing | Barrier pointing (or "edge pointing") is a term used in human–computer interaction to describe a design technique in which targets are placed on the peripheral borders of touchscreen interfaces to aid in motor control. Where targets are placed alongside raised edges on mobile devices, the user has a physical barrier to aid navigation, useful for situational impairments such as walking; similarly, screen edges that stop the cursor mean that targets placed along screen edges require less precise movements to select. This allows the most common or important functions to be placed on the edge of a user interface, while other functions that may require more precision can utilise the interface's 'open space'.
Barrier pointing is also a term used in accessible design, as a design technique that makes targets easier to press. For example, barrier pointing using raised edges on touchscreens, alongside a stylus and a 'lift-off' or 'take-off' selection mode, can improve usability for a user with cerebral palsy.
One example of assistive technology focused on barrier pointing is the SUPPLE system, which redesigns the size, shape, and arrangement of interfaces based on its measurement of motor articulation input.
References
Bibliography
Farris, J. S., Jones, K. S. and Anders, B. A. (2001). "Acquisition speed with targets on the edge of the screen: An application of Fitts' Law to commonly used web browser controls." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 45th Annual Meeting (HFES '01). Santa Monica, California: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, pp. 1205–1209.
Johnson, B. R., Farris, J. S. and Jones, K. S. (2003). "Selection of web browser controls with and without impenetrable borders: Does width make a difference?" Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting (HFES '03). Santa Monica, California: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, pp. 1380–1384.
Wobbrock, J. O. (2003). "The benefits of physical edges in gesture-making: Empirical support for an edge-based unistroke alphabet." Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03). New York: ACM Press, pp. 942–943.
Walker, N. and Smelcer, J. B. (1990). "A comparison of selection time from walking and bar menus." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '90). New York: ACM Press, pp. 221–225.
Human–computer interaction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bapna | Bapna is an Indian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rajiv Bapna, Indian businessman
Ravi Bapna, Indian-born American data scientist
Shruti Bapna, Indian actress
Surnames of Indian origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTV%20News%20%28TV%20program%29 | PTV News is the flagship evening news program of PTV that aired from October 2, 1995 (replacing News on 4) to October 30, 1998. It was replaced by National Network News. PTV News returned on July 11, 2016 (replacing News @ 1, News @ 6, NewsLife and The Weekend News) until July 9, 2017 and was replaced by Sentro Balita, Ulat Bayan and PTV News Headlines. The newscasts returned as a weekday primetime newscast from September 18, 2017 to September 4, 2020 anchored by Aljo Bendijo, Diane Querrer and Alex Santos serves as final anchors, replacing the weekday edition of Ulat Bayan and was replaced by the weekday edition of Ulat Bayan. The hour-long newscast aired nationally via PTV-4 and simulcast on government radio network Radyo Pilipinas every Monday to Friday at 6:00 PM.
History
PTV News (then also known as PTV News Nationwide), the flagship late-night English language newscast of PTV, premiered on October 2, 1995, replacing News on 4 and originally anchored by Erik Espina, Chichi Fajardo-Forbes, Chiqui Roa-Puno and Daniel Razon. As part the rebranding of the channel as "PTV Network" during the Estrada Administration, PTV News Nationwide is cancelled (as the first incarnation of PTV News) on October 30, 1998, replaced by National Network News until July 13, 2001.
The network produced afternoon edition (1:00pm) is anchored by Audrey Gorriceta (now replaced by Alex Santos) and Princess Habibah Sarip-Paudac, primetime edition (6:00pm) is anchored by Kathy San Gabriel and Aljo Bendijo, late night edition (9:15pm) is anchored by Catherine Vital, Richmond Cruz and Charms Espina and weekend editions (6:00pm) anchored by Rocky Ignacio, Ralph Obina, Joseph Parafina and Diane Querrer of the newscast from July 11, 2016, to July 9, 2017, as a result of programming changes brought about by the assumption of Duterte Administration, taking over the timeslots of News @ 1, News @ 6, NewsLife and The Weekend News. This marked the second time that PTV's newscasts are in a single brand, the first being Teledyaryo which aired from 2001 to 2012.
It was initially replaced on July 10, 2017, by three newly revamped newscasts: Sentro Balita (afternoon), Ulat Bayan (weekday and weekend evenings) and PTV News Headlines (late-night), which was happened few days after the re-branding of the channel on June 28, 2017.
2017-18: Tulfo and Querrer era
Roughly two months later (September 18), PTV News returned as PTV's premier early-evening newscast while introducing new anchors: Erwin Tulfo (after he resigned from TV5, Radyo5 92.3 News FM and AksyonTV) and Diane Querrer. Ulat Bayan then became PTV's weekend newscast.
As a result of sweeping restructuring changes brought about by a controversy surrounding Erwin Tulfo and his brother Ben with the Department of Tourism and PTV-4, Erwin was removed from the newscast shortly after the scandal broke out and a troika of rotating anchors (Aljo Bendijo, Audrey Gorriceta and Ralph Obina) filled in for his slot until June 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSS | CVSS may refer to:
Common Vulnerability Scoring System, a standard for assessing computer system vulnerabilities
Compassvale Secondary School, a secondary school in Sengkang, Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Windows%203.x%20games | This list contains games released for the Windows 3.x platform, mostly created between 1989 and 1994. Many are also compatible with the later 32-bit Windows operating systems.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthening%20State%20and%20Local%20Cyber%20Crime%20Fighting%20Act%20of%202017 | The Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017 (H.R. 1616) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by U.S. Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas). The bill would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the National Computer Forensics Institute, with the intent of providing local and state officials with resources to better handle cybercrime threats. Ratcliffe serves as the current chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
The bill was passed by the House with a roll call vote of 408-3 after forty minutes of debate. Between its introduction and approval, the bill was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security, and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
The bill has a total of 18 cosponsors, including 17 Republicans and one Democrat.
Ratcliffe introduced the bill because he believes that local and state level law enforcement entities should be better equipped to handle emerging cyber threats in order to protect communities. He expressed concern that in today's world, traditional evidence of crimes, like DNA samples, might not be enough to solve cases, because criminals are more frequently breaking the law and leaving behind traces on the internet. In March 2017, Ratcliffe said, "Cyber elements add layers of complexity to the crimes our local law enforcement officers face every day ‒ and we've got to make sure they have access to the training they need to address this trend."
As of July 2017, the Senate has not yet considered the bill, although Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), and Luther Strange (R-Alabama) introduced a companion bill.
Senator Grassley, current Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, supported the role of the National Computer Forensics Institute and the purpose of Ratcliffe's bill, saying the center gives officials the capacity to "dust for 'digital fingerprints' and utilize forensics to gather evidence and solve cases."
Background
As the internet has grown increasingly dominant in communications, business, and daily life, cybercrime has become a more dangerous threat to privacy and safety of both public and private entities. Americans recognize this issue, as they identified cyberattacks as the second most concerning global threat to the nation in a May 2016 survey conducted by Pew Research.
The federal government has fallen victim to cyber attacks numerous times, especially in recent years. A 2016 report from the Government Accountability Office that included a survey of two dozen federal agencies found that cyberattacks exploded in frequency by 1,300 percent over the course of a decade, with 5,500 in 2006 to as many as 77,000 in 2015. The report listed eighteen of the agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline%20Dramas | Deadline Dramas is an American old-time radio drama. It was broadcast on NBC from December 29, 1940, to July 20, 1941, and on the Blue Network from December 26, 1943, to September 24, 1944.
Format
Deadline Dramas''' roots can be traced back to medieval days when a court jester would take plot suggestions offered by noblemen and improvise short plays. Bob White, who created Deadline Dramas, adapted the technique to radio. John Dunning described the technique as follows in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio:Listeners submitted plot situations of no more than 20 words. White and his cast of two would retire to a soundproof control room where they had just two minutes to work out a fully developed plot. While they frantically picked at story threads, a sound man listened in via earphones, improvising his effects and devising cues for organist Rosa Rio. When the three players emerged, they delivered a polished seven-minute playlet, to the amazement of those listening at home.
Each episode of the show included three such playlets, with each submission that was used earning a $25 war bond for the person who sent it in. Some of the presentations "were praised by trade magazines." Others were panned, as exemplified by a 1944 episode about which Joe Koehler wrote in the trade magazine Billboard, "There's everything in Deadline Dramas'' but entertainment."
Personnel
Bob White and Ireene Wicker appeared in both versions of the program. The 1940-1941 version also included William Fadiman. The 1943-1944 version also included Joan Banks and Elsie Gordon.
Rosa Rio was the organist. Producers were Eddie Pola and Charles Martin.
References
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1944 radio programme endings
1940s American radio programs
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NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Dickson | Barry J. Dickson (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian neurobiologist who studies the development of neuronal networks in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Dickson is a group leader at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Loudoun County, Virginia and a former scientific director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria.
Early life and education
Barry Dickson was born in Melbourne, and studied mathematics, computer science and genetics at the University of Melbourne. He received his first bachelor of science degree in 1984. Until 1986, Dickson worked as a research assistant at the epidemiology unit at the University of Melbourne and at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. He received a second bachelor of science with honors in 1987 for his thesis about “Interactions between multiple operator sites controlling transcription of the aroFtyrA operon of Escherichia coli K-12”.
Dickson gained further research experience working in the Laboratory of Joachim Spiess at the Salk Institute in San Diego between 1987 and 1989. Following this, Dickson took up research for a PhD at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where he worked in the lab of Ernst Hafen on the visual system development of Drosophila. He was awarded a PhD in 1992 and remained in the lab as postdoctoral researcher for two more years.
Career and research
In 1994, Dickson joined Corey Goodman for postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he started working on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon pathfinding.
Dickson continued this work while establishing his own research group at the University of Zurich. In 1998, Dickson moved to Vienna where he became group leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) for five years, followed by a position as senior scientist at the newly founded Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA).
Around this time, his research focus shifted to a new topic, the genetic basis of complex innate behavior in Drosophila. In 2005, he published a key paper in which he described a master gene for sex specific behavior in fruit flies, which stimulated discussions beyond the scientific community. Shortly after this discovery, Dickson received a Wittgenstein Award in recognition of his work.
In 2006, Dickson succeeded Kim Nasmyth as scientific director of the IMP. Research in his lab now focused more on understanding the genetic and neural underpinnings of innate behaviors in Drosophila.
In 2013, Dickson followed a call to the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dickson continued his studies of fruit fly mating behavior to help uncover how the brain processes information and makes decisions. Using thermogenetic screening, Dickson and his research group identified neurons in the fruit fly’s brain that cause a change in locomotion. In a paper published in 2014, they describe four lines of flies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenis%20tardata | Caenis tardata is a species of small squaregilled mayfly in the family Caenidae. It is found in North America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagenia%20atrocaudata | Hexagenia atrocaudata is a species of common burrower mayfly in the family Ephemeridae. It is found in North America.
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Insects described in 1924
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalophlebia%20longicaudata | Atalophlebia longicaudata is a species of pronggill mayfly in the family Leptophlebiidae.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podopteryx%20casuarina | Podopteryx casuarina is a species of flat-wing damselfly in the family Argiolestidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Podopteryx casuarina is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trump%20Network | The Trump Network was a multi-level marketing company named after businessman (and, later, 45th U.S. President) Donald Trump. The company, which sold vitamins and health products, was initially founded as Ideal Health in 1997, before being renamed in 2009 as part of a licensing agreement between Trump and the owners. The licensing agreement expired at the end of 2011, and the company's remaining assets were sold to Bioceutica the following year.
History
Ideal Health
Ideal Health, Inc. was founded as a multi-level marketing company in March 1997. The company, headquartered in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was founded by Lou DeCaprio and brothers Scott and Todd Stanwood, who were friends of DeCaprio. The three men had previously opened New England Wine and Spirits in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1991. After the Stanwoods' sister had joined a direct sales company in 1989, she encouraged them to get involved in the industry. The three men worked for Nu Skin Enterprises, a multi-level marketing company, and decided to form Ideal Health after seeing how successful Nu Skin had become.
Ideal Health hired salespeople who would then conduct their own marketing to sell a customized vitamin supplement program, which was determined through a urinalysis test to learn about the customer's health. Salespeople made money through commission on sales and by recruiting other salespeople. The products were shipped directly to customers rather than being stored by company salespeople.
By 2004, numerous complaints had been filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Ideal Health, by salespeople who alleged that they spent thousands of dollars on company products that did not generate revenue. One of Ideal Health's products, Supreme Greens, was the subject of an FTC lawsuit for its false claim of being able to cure cancer. In 2004, Ideal Health acquired and began selling a line of skin-care products known as BIO Essentials.
The Trump Network
In 2008 Donald Trump began searching for a network marketing company with which to become associated. Trump's lawyer Jerry Schrager met DeCaprio during a business presentation that DeCaprio was doing in New York City. At the time, Ideal Health was seeking a partnership to increase its recognition. Trump met with DeCaprio and the Stanwoods at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Trump later recalled, "We hit it off. I checked into their past, and they were solid people. They had a nice track record, but even more importantly they had a lot of people who thought highly of them."
In March 2009 Trump agreed to license his name to the company, which would be re-branded as The Trump Network. Trump also agreed to make occasional appearances at events to promote the company's products. Trump had initially considered taking a financial stake in the company. DeCaprio remained as the president of the company, while Todd Stanwood served as the chief executive officer and Scott Stanwood served as the vice president of communications. The Tru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hays | David Hays may refer to:
David Hays (cricketer) (born 1944), English-born Scottish cricketer
David G. Hays (1928–1995), linguist, computer scientist and social scientist
See also
David Hayes (disambiguation)
David Hay (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Ashmanov | Igor Stanislа́vovich Ashmа́nov (born 9 January 1962, in Moscow) — Russian entrepreneur specializing in information technology, artificial intelligence, software development, project management. He directed development of the linguistic module ORFO of the Russian edition of Microsoft Office, a family of Multilex electronic dictionaries, Spamtest spam filter etc.
Managing partner of Ashmanov & Partners, investor and co-owner of dozens of IT startups, one of the founders and most well-known top managers of the Russian IT industry.
Doctor of Science. Multimillionaire. Co-chair in Great Fatherland Party.
Co-founder of Internet Research Agency.
Early years
Born in Moscow on 9 January 1962 in a family of mathematicians, including his father Stanislav Ashmanov.
Father, Stanislav Alexandrovich Ashmanov (1941—1994), was a post-graduate student at Moscow State University, later to become Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and professor at MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, one of the leading Russian scientists in the field of mathematical economy and author of over 60 papers on mathematical optimization and linear programming. Both his mother, Natalya Alexandrovna Berezina, and his grandmother were graduates from MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
Education
Studied at MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics where he specialized in abstract algebra. Graduated from the university in 1983, with a graduation thesis On aspheric co-presentations of free groups and a problem by Philip Hall.
In 1985—1987, post-graduate student at the abstract algebra department at MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. In 1995, he defended a thesis Architecture and industrial implementation of applied linguistic systems, based on descriptions of architecture and algorithms of ORFO, and became a Doctor of Science.
In 2000—2001, he completed the MBA. Strategic management course in Higher School of International Business at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Career
Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre
Igor Ashmanov started his career in IT when he joined artificial intelligence department of Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre as an intern researcher. In 1985, he became a research associate in the Centre. During the time, he developed a natural language based discussion system, economic computing etc.
Informatic
In 1987, he joined the team of ORFO spell checker developers team at Informatic, where he was responsible for the linguistic corpus. He also directed development of the Context electronic dictionary, the Logos interlinear translation program, the Calligraph hyphenation system, the Sphinx full-text search engine, and the Jordan matrix calculator.
During the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt the majority of ORFO developers, including the team leader, left Russia for USA. Ashmanov chose to stay and headed the ORFO project.
In 1992, ORFO was licensed to IBM, and in 1994, Microsoft chose it to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darca%20schools | Darca Schools (Darca, "The Path" in Aramaic) is a non-profit organization operating a network of 40 schools and learning centers located in Israel's geographic and socio-economic periphery.
History
The Darca Network was established in Israel by the Alliance Israélite Universelle and Rashi Foundation in 2010. In June 2014 Darca Schools Network formed an alliance with YRF Israel. YRF - Youth Renewal Fund is the philanthropic funding partner for the Darca Schools Network. Darca is sustained by donations from Israeli and international foundations, businesses, and individuals, in addition to the budget provided by the Israeli Ministry of Education. Darca's primary goal is to strengthen under-served communities in Israel's periphery by strengthening the local education system, specifically in high schools. There is an emphasis on funding these schools in "geo-social periphery" to make them competitive with schools in affluent communities.
The Darca Network serves all sectors of Israeli society. It operates and manages 43 schools and two "learning centers" nationwide, including five schools under its pedagogical auspices. A significant portion of the network's resources are invested in the development of programs to support school leadership teams, while simultaneously promoting academic achievement, social values and social responsibility. Darca offers its teachers continuous training programs so that they can effectively convey and teach humanitarian and democratic values to students, as well as to provide high level studies in STEM, English, Literature and all other academic subjects .
DARCA is a not-for-profit organization supported by donations from foundations, corporations and individuals in Israel and abroad, in addition to the budget provided by the Ministry of Education. Dr. Gil Pereg has been the CEO of the Darca Network since its inception. Darca's former chairmen were Avigdor Willenz and Eli Alaluf, and Darca's current chairman is Jimmy Pinto.
In April 2017, the Ministry of Education released their rankings of the education networks operating in Israel. According to the rating, the Darca Network was ranked first among the six networks in measures of eligibility for matriculation, excellence on Bagrut (matriculation) exams, and in the study of high level mathematics and English. In the years that followed, Darca continued to lead in many measures of excellence and quality in education and succeeded in maintaining consistency in its achievements. In August 2018 and August 2019, the Darca Network was ranked first in the network quality index for the second and third consecutive years. The network’s success is impressive in light of the fact that it began operating in 2011, mainly in disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods. Today, the average matriculation rate among Darca’s schools has reached 93%, significantly higher than the national average.
Darca Schools is led by Dr. Gil Pereg, practicing CEO since its foundation, and Jimmy Pi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20of%20Hillforts%20of%20Britain%20and%20Ireland | The Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland is an online database of hillforts―fortified settlements built in the Bronze Age and Iron Age―in the British Isles. It was compiled by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Oxford and University College Cork, led by Ian Ralston and Gary Lock. On its launch in 2017 the atlas had 4,147 entries, which the researchers believe to be all of the extant hillforts in Britain and Ireland. A printed atlas is also planned.
The data was collated from existing catalogues of archaeological sites such as the National Monuments Records and county historic environment records. Around 100 volunteers, described as "citizen scientists", also visited sites and contributed information and photographs to the atlas. The researchers noted that despite the conventional name "hillforts", under their definition, many are "not on hills and are not really forts". They included sites that are now only visible through cropmarks.
The online atlas is hosted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which funded the project, and makes use of Esri's ArcGIS web map application platform. The project also collaborated with Wikimedia UK to make the information in the atlas available to Wikipedia.
See also
List of hillforts
Hillforts in Britain
Hillforts in Scotland
References
External links
Atlas of Hillforts
Atlases
Archaeology of the United Kingdom
Archaeology of Ireland
Bronze Age Britain
Iron Age Britain
Citizen science
Hill forts in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoneura%20caerulea | Rhinoneura caerulea is a species of jewel damselfly in the family Chlorocyphidae.
The IUCN conservation status of Rhinoneura caerulea is "DD", data deficient, risk undetermined.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc%2B | Doc+ is a Russian medical company that provides services in the field of telemedicine, requesting a house call by a doctor, storing and processing personal medical data. It was launched in September 2015. It works in Moscow, Moscow region, and St. Petersburg.
History
The Doc+ service was launched by Victor Belogub, Dmitry Khandogin, and Ruslan Zaydullin in September 2015. Using private investments, the company launched house call service to request a doctor's visit to homes in Moscow and the Moscow region.
In July 2016, the company received 5.5 million dollars of investment from Yandex and the Baring Vostok fund, which went on expanding the list of services, marketing and access to other regions. In November 2016 the company entered the market of St. Petersburg. In December of the same year the service received the RBC Award in the category "Startup of the Year" for the introduction of an innovative model in healthcare.
On April 20, 2017, Yandex together with Doc+ launched a paid online medical consultation service, available in the "Yandex.Health" application. During the launch phase, video consultation of a GP or a pediatrician was available. Yandex is responsible for the technical part of the project, Doc+ provides doctors from its database and monitors their work.
At the end of May 2017, Doc+ launched an application that allows you to consult doctors via chat, audio, or video, and then, if necessary, request a house call by a doctor or a nurse, have tests, and receive results.
In early July, the company received another investment from Baring Vostok and Yandex for the development of IT infrastructure. At that time, the company said that the service had served more than 60,000 house calls and that there were 300 doctors in the staff.
In August 2020, Doctor Ryad Holding's Doctor Nearby and Doc + announced a merger. The merged company will be led by Denis Shvetsov. Other details of the merger have been withheld. Doctor Ryad was founded by former president of AFK Sistema and MTS Leonid Melamed and Medsi Group's former president Vladimir Gurdus.
Business model
Doctors of the service can put in an IV, perform an ECG, and write a prescription. In the staff of the company there are GPs, pediatricians, neurologists, otolaryngologists, and nurses.
Doctors of Doc+ provide consultations via chat, audio or video using a specialized application developed by the company. Also GPs and pediatricians of Doc+ give video consultations within the service "Yandex.Health".
By April 2017, the service cooperated with 26 insurance companies (including AlfaStrakhovanie, Allianz, and Ingosstrakh), which include Doc+ services in their health insurance programs. In addition to this, Doc+ works with a number of clinics, for which the doctors visit the patients at home.
Doc+ declared its readiness to enter the market of telemedicine after the passage of the law on providing medical services remotely. In particular this will allow the doctors of the service to wr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2016, until May 31, 2017, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented across two ceremonies on September 9 and September 10, 2017, and was broadcast by FXX on September 16. The nominations were announced on July 13, 2017. The ceremony is in conjunction with the annual Primetime Emmy Awards and is presented in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming, including guest acting roles.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Governors Award
ITVS
Programs
Acting
Animation
Casting
Choreography
Cinematography
Commercial
Costumes
Directing
Hairstyling
Hosting
Interactive Media
Lighting Design / Direction
Main Title Design
Make-up
Motion Design
Music
Picture Editing
Production Design
Sound
Special Visual Effects
Stunt Coordination
Technical Direction
Writing
Wins by network
Programs with multiple awards
Programs with multiple nominations
Notes
References
External links
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
069 Creative Arts
2017 in American television
2017 in Los Angeles
2017 awards in the United States
2017 television awards
September 2017 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%20%28computer%29 | Portal R2E CCMC was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the Réalisation et Etudes Electroniques department of the French firm R2E Micral, and officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris. Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer, was only released eight months later, on 3 April 1981.
The machine was designed with a focus on payroll and accounting. Several hundred Portal computers were sold between 1980 and 1983.
Extremely rare, no museum has a Portal, and only two are in private collections.
The company R2E Micral is also known to have designed "the earliest commercial, non-kit computer based on a microprocessor", the Micral N. One of these machines was sold for 62,000 euros to Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft (with Bill Gates), by the auctioneer Rouillac on June 11, 2017, for Allen's Seattle museum, Living Computers: Museum + Labs.
Specifications
The Portal was based on an Intel 8085 processor, 8-bit, clocked at .
It was equipped with of main RAM, a keyboard with 58 alphanumeric keys and 11 numeric keys (in separate blocks), a LED 32-character one-line screen, a floppy disk (capacity - ), a thermal printer (speed - ), an asynchronous channel, a synchronous channel, and a 220-volt power supply.
It came with two operating systems: Prologue and Basic Assembly Language (BAL).
Designed for an operating temperature of to , it weighed and its dimensions were 454515cm.
See also
R2E Micral
References
Bibliography
François Gernelle, Portal designer
Sources
This article is derived partly from the page of old-computers.com and feb-patrimoine.com.
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History of computing in France
Information technology in France
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1983 disestablishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence%20Global | Essence is a global data and measurement-driven full service agency. The agency has 20 offices in 12 countries and a staff of approximately 1,900. Essence manages over $4B in annualized media spend globally, with clients such as Google, The Financial Times, Target, NBCUniversal, BP, FrieslandCampina, L’Oreal and Tesco Mobile. In 2015 Essence became majority owned by WPP, and a part of GroupM, the WPP media investment management operation. Essence specializes in strategy, digital marketing, digital creative, media planning and buying, mobile advertising and analytics.
Kyoko Matsushita has taken over from Christian Juhl as CEO from 1 October 2019, Juhl has moved to be CEO of GroupM.
Corporate history
Essence was founded by Matt Isaacs, Andrew Shebbeare and Andy Bonsall who previously worked together at Accucard, a credit-card company backed by LloydsTSB, where they developed an in-house digital marketing arm called Creative Services.
In 2005 they created their own digital agency in London, Essence, with their first client being Carphone Warehouse boss, Sir Charles Dunstone.
In 2006 Essence was hired by Google for a UK media and creative assignment. Today Essence is the digital media agency of record for Google in EMEA, NA and APAC.
Essence has worked for domestic and international brands including L’Oreal, TalkTalk, eBay, Betfair, Expedia, Barclays, YouTube, Method, DoubleDown Interactive, HP, Viber, Visa and Intuit.
Timeline
2005: Essence was founded in London
2010: Essence opens NYC office
2011: Essence acquires Punktilio in London
2012: Essence acquires Black Bag Advertising in San Francisco
2012: Essence acquires Point Reach in Seattle
2013: Essence opens Singapore office
2014: Essence opens Tokyo office
2015: Essence is bought by WPP Group
2016: Essence opens offices in Sydney, Chicago, Shanghai and Delhi
2017: Essence opens offices Los Angeles, Düsseldorf and Seoul
2018: Essence opens offices in Bengaluru, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai
2019: Essence named as Mediapost's agency of the year
2019: Kyoko Matsushita named as new CEO, Christian Juhl moves to be new GroupM CEO.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylan%20Susam | Taylan Susam (born November 18, 1986) is a Turkish-Dutch composer of experimental music. He is a member of the Wandelweiser group, which has been described by The New Yorker as "an informal network of twenty or so experimental-minded composers who share an interest in slow music, quiet music, spare music, fragile music."
Biography
Susam grew up in Amsterdam, where he attended the Barlaeus Gymnasium. He studied composition with Martijn Padding and Yannis Kyriakides at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and privately with Antoine Beuger and Samuel Vriezen, among others.
His compositions have been performed in more than a dozen countries, at such venues as the Experimental Sound Gallery Saint Petersburg, Galerie Mark Müller, Glenn Gould Studio, Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk, Hafnarborg, ISSUE Project Room, Kid Ailack Art Hall, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Kunstraum, Magna Plaza, Maison des Jeunesses
Musicales, SMART Project Space, St Anne and St Agnes, The Stone, REDCAT, and at festivals such as Ostrava Days, November Music, Dark Music Days, Transit, the ISCM Pan Music Festival, and the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival.
Performers of Susam's music have included Quatuor Bozzini, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Chronophonie, Ensemble Sisyphe, Incidental Music, Nordic Affect, S.E.M. Ensemble, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, Dante Boon, Erik Carlson, Eve Egoyan, Eva-Maria Houben, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Taku Unami, and Daan Vandewalle. Along with colleagues Daniel Brandes, Johnny Chang and Sam Sfirri, Susam belongs to a younger generation of Wandelweiser composers.
Taylan Susam is also known as a performer of experimental music. He appears as a conductor on an overview CD of Philip Corner's music on New World Records and as a clarinetist in Radu Malfatti's düsseldorf vielfaches released through Malfatti's label b-boim. Susam organized the concert series leaf sound / wave sound (named after a Robert Lax poem) in 2007, presenting six concerts of experimental music. In the same year, he performed Tom Johnson's Kirkman's Ladies on a positive organ in the foyer of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2014, Susam delivered a version of John Cage's Lecture on Nothing in Amsterdam's Perdu theater.
In 2007, he collaborated with dancer-choreographer Katharina Maschenka Horn to create the performance triptych august 1973, based on painter Francis Bacon's work of the same title. In the same year, he was invited, along with John Lely, to work with Fluxus artist Ben Patterson to curate a night of performances in Ostrava's Philharmonic Hall. He has also collaborated with poets Oswald Egger and Samuel Vriezen.
A retrospective of Susam's work was presented in 2013 at the Los Angeles performance space the wulf. Recordings of his compositions appear on three CDs released by the British label Another Timbre and a new recording of his solo piano music has been announced by pianist Dante Boon. His music was also included in mixtapes released by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyphal | Cyphal is a lightweight protocol designed for reliable intra-vehicle communications using various communications transports, originally destined for CAN bus, but targeting various network types in subsequent revisions. OpenCyphal is an open-source project that aims to provide MIT-licensed implementations of the Cyphal protocol. The project was known as UAVCAN (Uncomplicated Application-level Vehicular Computing and Networking) prior to rebranding in March 2022.
History
The first RFC broadly outlining the general ideas that would later form the core design principles of Cyphal (branded UAVCAN at the time) was published in early 2014. It was a response to the perceived lack of adequate technology that could facilitate robust real-time intra-vehicular data exchange between distributed components of modern intelligent vehicles (primarily unmanned aircraft).
Since the original RFC, the protocol has been through three major design iterations, which culminated in the release of the first long-term stable revision in 2020 (6 years later) labelled UAVCAN v1.0. In the meantime, the protocol has been deployed in numerous diverse systems including unmanned aerial vehicles, spacecraft, underwater robots, racing cars, general robotic systems, and micromobility vehicles. In 2022, the protocol was rebranded as Cyphal.
Cyphal is positioned by its developers as a highly deterministic, safety-oriented alternative to high-level publish-subscribe frameworks such as DDS or the computation graph of ROS, which is sufficiently compact and simple to be usable in deeply embedded high-integrity applications. Cyphal has been shown to be usable with bare metal microcontrollers equipped with as little as 32K ROM and 8K RAM.
The protocol is open and can be reused freely without approval or licensing fees. The development of the core standard and its reference implementations is conducted in an open manner, coordinated via the public discussion forum.
As of 2020, the project is supported by several major organizations including NXP Semiconductors and the Dronecode Project.
History of Cyphal in the context of other serial protocols
a. MODBUS often runs over RS-232.
b. DDS Borrows an Interface Definition Language from CORBA.
c. MODBUS over TCP port 502.
d. Airbus approaches ARINC to request a new CAN standard be developed. Michael Stock provides his experience developing CAN Aerospace. ARINC-825-1 is the result.
e. First AVB standard is published by the AVB Task Group of the IEEE 802.1 working group. IEEE1722-2011 is released.
f. The AVB Task Group is renamed the TSN Task Group.
g. ROS2 Builds on top of DDS. Typical media for distributed ROS2 systems is Ethernet.
h. 802.1Qbv and 802.1Qbu are released, enabling fully deterministic Ethernet networks to be defined.
i. Pavel Kirienko leads an open-source effort to define UAVCAN v0. Initially, it only supports CAN 2.0B.
j. Airbus gives a presentation to the IEEE, “Avionics Full Duplex Ethernet and the Time-Sensitive Netw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunu%20Datau | Nuryanda Datau (born June 7, 1971), better known as Nunu Datau, is an Indonesian actress.
Carrier
She roles at few of film and soap opera. One of which go back to making up a not appear named after several years is soap opera Intan. In that sopa opera, she roles as Wina, Rado's Mother who is roled by Dude Harlino.
Filmography
Films
Sejoli Cinta Bintang Remaja (1980)
Jangan Ambil Nyawaku (1981)
Tali Merah Perkawinan (1981)
Damai Kami Sepanjang Hari (1985)
Lupus II (1987)
Rini Tomboy (1991)
Sisi Dunia
Soap operas
Keluarga Pak Is
Buruan Sayang Gue
Kau Masih Kekasihku
Hidayah
Putri Kembar
Katakan Kau Mencintaiku
Arung dan Si Kaya
Intan
Legenda
Kasih
Sekar
Nikita
Kemilau Cinta Kamila
Kemilau Cinta Kamila 2: Berkah Ramadhan
Kemilau Cinta Kamila 3: Makin Cinta
Kemilau Cinta Kamila 4: Cinta Tiada Akhir
Putri Simelekete
Putri yang Ditukar
Anissa dan Anissa
Badil & Blangkon Ajaib
Super ABG
Cinta Yang Sama
Otomatis Jatuh Cinta
Kita Nikah Yuk
Bastian Steel Bukan Cowok Biasa
Perempuan Di Pinggir Jalan The Series
Mawar dan Melati
References
External links
Living people
1971 births
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Indonesian actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%20Bhardwaj | Amit K. Bhardwaj (17 January 1983 – 15 January 2022) was an Indian who was involved in big scam who founded Amaze Mining and Blockchain Research Limited which ran GB [Gainbitcoin] Miners among other bitcoin-related businesses and projects, these have been described as various types of Ponzi schemes.
In April 2018, Gainbitcoin was found to be one of the biggest bitcoin scams. The cyber cell of Pune Police arrested Bhardwaj and his brothers along with co-founders of GB Miners - Nikunj Jain and Sahil Baghla for running a million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. Bhardwaj was indicted for running a pyramid scheme in relation to the MCAP token taken out by Gainbitcoin and was produced before a special court on 5 April 2018.
So far, more than eight people have been arrested and all of them were associated with Gainbitcoin and CEO Bhardwaj.
Early life and education
Bhardwaj was born in India on 17 January 1983. He attended Kendriya Vidyalaya (1998–2000). He later graduated from Mahatma Gandhi Mission's College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra (2000–2004) with a B. Tech in computer science and engineering.
Career
In 2016, Amit founded Amaze Mining and Blockchain Research Limited, an altcoin mining technology firm. He founded GB Miners, an Indian bitcoin mining pool in 2016, which was later revealed to be a Ponzi scam.
Gainbitcoin and GBMiners
In a series of interviews Bhardwaj gave to The Caravan in 2017, he first claimed to not have any part in Gainbitcoin and that he knew of it only as a cloud-mining company, but later argued that he hid his involvement as a "PR strategy". He also misrepresented total investment in Gainbitcoin and admitted to inflating the figure on the company's website. Bhardwaj also denied any links between Gainbitcoin and GBMiners, though many of the former's investors believed the latter to be the minepool.
Personal life and death
Bhardwaj suffered from several kidney ailments toward the end of his life. He died after suffering a cardiac arrest on 15 January 2022, at the age of 38.
See also
Bitconnect, India-based bitcoin Ponzi scheme
Cryptocurrency and crime
Further reading
GainBitcoin Cryptocurrency Scam. Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.
References
External links
Official Website
1983 births
2022 deaths
Confidence tricksters
Indian chief executives
Indian fraudsters
Pyramid and Ponzi schemes
Deaths from kidney disease
Cybercrime in India
Kendriya Vidyalaya alumni
Criminals from Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20coherence | Trophic coherence is a property of directed graphs (or directed networks). It is based on the concept of trophic levels used mainly in ecology, but which can be defined for directed networks in general and provides a measure of hierarchical structure among nodes. Trophic coherence is the tendency of nodes to fall into well-defined trophic levels. It has been related to several structural and dynamical properties of directed networks, including the prevalence of cycles and network motifs, ecological stability, intervality, and spreading processes like epidemics and neuronal avalanches.
Definition
Consider a directed network defined by
the adjacency matrix .
Each node can be assigned a trophic level according to
where is 's in-degree, and nodes
with (basal nodes) have by convention.
Each edge has a trophic difference associated, defined as .
The trophic coherence of the network is a measure of how tightly peaked the distribution of trophic distances,
,
is around its mean value, which is always .
This can be captured by an incoherence parameter ,
equal to the standard deviation of :
where is the number of edges in the network.
The figure shows two networks which differ in their trophic coherence. The position of the nodes on the vertical axis corresponds to their trophic level. In the network on the left, nodes fall into distinct (integer) trophic levels, so the network is maximally coherent .
In the one on the right, many of the nodes have fractional trophic levels, and the network is more incoherent .
Trophic coherence in nature
The degree to which empirical networks are trophically coherent (or incoherent) can be investigated by comparison with a null model.
This is provided by the basal ensemble, which comprises networks in which all non-basal nodes have the same proportion of basal nodes
for in-neighbours. Expected values in this ensemble converge to those of the widely used configuration ensemble in the limit , (with and the numbers of nodes and edges),
and can be shown numerically to be a good approximation for finite random networks. The basal ensemble expectation for the incoherence parameter is
where is the number of edges connected to basal nodes.
The ratio measured in empirical networks reveals whether they are more or less coherent than the random expectation.
For instance, Johnson and Jones find in a set of networks that food webs are significantly coherent , metabolic networks are significantly incoherent , and gene regulatory networks are close to the random expectation .
Trophic levels and node function
There is as yet little understanding of the mechanisms which might lead to particular kinds of networks becoming significantly
coherent or incoherent. However, in systems which present correlations between trophic level and other features of nodes,
processes which tended to favour the creation of edges between nodes with particular characteristics could induce coherence or incoherence.
In the case of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionist%20temporal%20classification | Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is a type of neural network output and associated scoring function, for training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as LSTM networks to tackle sequence problems where the timing is variable. It can be used for tasks like on-line handwriting recognition or recognizing phonemes in speech audio. CTC refers to the outputs and scoring, and is independent of the underlying neural network structure. It was introduced in 2006.
The input is a sequence of observations, and the outputs are a sequence of labels, which can include blank outputs. The difficulty of training comes from there being many more observations than there are labels. For example, in speech audio there can be multiple time slices which correspond to a single phoneme. Since we don't know the alignment of the observed sequence with the target labels we predict a probability distribution at each time step. A CTC network has a continuous output (e.g. softmax), which is fitted through training to model the probability of a label. CTC does not attempt to learn boundaries and timings: Label sequences are considered equivalent if they differ only in alignment, ignoring blanks. Equivalent label sequences can occur in many ways – which makes scoring a non-trivial task, but there is an efficient forward–backward algorithm for that.
CTC scores can then be used with the back-propagation algorithm to update the neural network weights.
Alternative approaches to a CTC-fitted neural network include a hidden Markov model (HMM).
References
External links
Section 16.4, "CTC" in Jurafsky and Martin's Speech and Language Processing, 3rd edition
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP%20cache | An ARP cache is a collection of Address Resolution Protocol entries (mostly dynamic) that are created when an IP address is resolved to a MAC address (so the computer can effectively communicate with the IP address).
An ARP cache has the disadvantage of potentially being used by hackers and cyber attackers (an ARP cache poisoning attack). An ARP cache helps the attackers hide behind a fake IP address. Beyond the fact that ARP caches may help attackers, it may also prevent the attacks by "distinguish[ing] between low level IP and IP based vulnerabilities".
References
Address Resolution Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage%20symmetrization%20system | Voltage Symmetrization System (VSS) was developed especially for electric power networks with great phase voltage unbalance. It is a three-phase system which enables earth-fault current and charging current elimination. Until now, the operation with earth-fault current compensation has been very complicated for the networks with a great voltage unbalance. In the past, it was necessary to operate such networks with an isolated neutral, solid grounding or with a significantly untuned arc-suppression coil. VSS can also substitute for an arc-suppression coil or it can complement it parallelly. Moreover, it contributes to a better function of earth-fault protections for high-resistance earth faults by equalizing phase-to-earth capacity unbalance. The VSS was patented.
The three-phase VSS has several basic functions:
In a faultless condition:
Symmetrization of phase voltage, i.e. elimination of phase voltage unbalance realized by controlling the phase-to-earth capacity unbalance in the network,
Reduction of charging current value, i.e. elimination of charging current of phase-to-earth capacity which contributes to reduction of reactive capacity power flow in the network.
During an earth fault:
Elimination of earth-fault current (analogous to an arc-suppression coil,
Controlling the residual active earth-fault current.
Faultless condition
If VSS is used for phase voltage unbalance elimination only, it is possible to operate it with a relatively low power. The VSS can effectively eliminate and control the phase voltage unbalance, which is caused by phase-to-ground capacity unbalance. The system enables to automatically maintain phase-to-ground capacity unbalance of the network in the range of assigned parameters, and thus provides the network with symmetrical phase voltage in the assigned range as well. In particular cases, the VSS can be used for artificial increase in phase voltage unbalance of the network, mostly for a short-time period during earth-fault localization in the network.
Reduction of charging current value in a faultless condition
If VSS is used for line's charging current elimination, it is not necessary to install shunt reactor. In single-phase cable lines, the VSS can eliminate the whole charging current because the operational capacity comprises phase-to-ground capacity only. In three-phase and overhead lines, the operational capacity comprises not only of phase-to-ground capacity but also of phase-to-phase capacity. VSS eliminates only charging currents of phase-to-ground capacity in these networks, which stands for 60% to 70% of line's operational capacity value (VSS is not designated for elimination of phase-to-phase capacity charging current in the lines). VSS contributes to a significant reduction of charging reactive power flow.
Elimination of earth-fault current during an earth fault
The advantage of the system is that it does not require a neutral to eliminate the earth-fault current. Therefore, the VSS has been i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary%20Homicide%20Reports | Supplementary Homicide Reports (abbreviated SHR) is a database of homicides in the United States maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its Uniform Crime Reports program. The database consists of detailed reports of homicides reported to the FBI by local law enforcement agencies in 49 states and the District of Columbia. The only state that does not participate is Florida, which records homicides in a separate tally that is included in a separate spreadsheet online.
Reports
Each SHR is more detailed than other UCR system reports, because, as Fox & Pierce noted, SHRs include "information about the date, location, circumstances, and method of the offenses and the demographic characteristics of victims and perpetrators."
Limitations
The primary limitation of SHR data is that arising from missing or incomplete reports. Participation in the SHR is voluntary; as a result, many American law enforcement agencies either only intermittently submit SHR forms to the FBI, or do not submit any. In addition to missing homicides, some SHR reports that are filed can be missing information, such as that regarding the victim's age, gender, or race, or regarding the identity of the offender. This missing information can also include the offender's age, gender, or race, which was omitted from 31% of SHR reports filed in 2011.
Differences from the National Vital Statistics System
In 2000, the National Vital Statistics System's homicide estimates exactly matched those of the SHR in 22% of U.S. counties. The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) generally produced higher estimates than the SHR does, but in 28% of U.S. counties, the opposite was true.
References
External links
Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports: 1980-2015
Homicide
Crime statistics
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems%20Approach%20for%20Better%20Education%20Results | The World Bank Group’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) program helps countries around the world “systematically strengthen their education systems.” It produces data on education institutions, analyzes and evaluates their quality, and provides decision makers, school administrators, academia, and education specialists with information that can be used to foster structured and informed policy dialogue on how to most effectively strengthen education policies and policy implementation that can improve learning outcomes on the ground. SABER is one of the initiatives derived from the WBG’s Education Sector Strategy 2020 and it “lies at the center of the World Bank Group’s thinking on education.”
Background
In 2011, the WBG launched the “Education Sector Strategy 2020: Learning for All”, with the aim to “Invest early, invest smartly, and invest for all.” The strategy “holds that investments in education should achieve Learning for All because growth, development, and poverty reduction depend on the knowledge and skills that people acquire, not the number of years that they sit in a classroom.” SABER underpins Learning for All by focusing on three areas including (a) Public access to systematic, accurate, and comparable data on the quality of countries’ education policies and the quality of implementation of those policies; (b) Awareness and utilization of these data by countries and development partners in sector analyses, policy dialogue, and planning processes; (c) More informed global discussion and debate about strengthening education systems to increase countries’ learning for all. These areas are believed to play a big role in education reform on both a country level and global level. SABER relies on partnerships as it serves as a public tool for education systems on a global level. The partners of SABER include Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Bank Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP), Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Department for International Development (DFID), Global Partnership for Education, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Russia Education Aid for Development (READ), Teachers Task Force for Education For All (EFA), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and World Food Programme (WFP).
Methodology
Policy intent tools, SABER’s initial focus, evaluate enabling environments by examining education policies as they exist on paper. Domain specific policy implementation tools, by contrast, assess the efficacy of these policies and institutions in practice at the classroom level. The new SABER Service Delivery (SABER SD) examines what happens in the classroom to identify policy implementation gaps within and acr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM%20Akita | is a Japanese FM station, an affiliate of the Japan FM Network. Their headquarters are located in Akita Prefecture.
Stations
Akita(Main Station) JOPU-FM 82.8 MHz 3 kW
Hanawa 77.1 MHz 100w
Odate 89.2 MHz 100w
Noshiro 89.7 MHz 100w
Kakunodate 78.9 MHz 3w
Honjo 77.7 MHz 10w
Yuzawa 78 MHz 100w
Programs
Weekly Northern Happinets
Sound Air Cruise (Hisato Charlie Hoizumi)
Lunch Time Step (Hisato Charlie Hoizumi)
Blaublitz on the wave (Shabadabao)
References
Location map
Radio stations in Japan
Radio stations established in 1984
Mass media in Akita (city) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion%20Road%20Trip | Reunion Road Trip is a docuseries on the E! network, documenting the reunions of several casts from different television shows as they reconnect and reflect on their iconic series that helped shape the television landscape.
The Jersey Shore reunion served as the pilot episode, premiering on August 20, 2017.
After 4 years in development hell, the show was announced to return as a four-episode event series on June 10, 2021. Amongst those reuniting are the casts of All My Children, the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, A Different World, and Scrubs.
References
2010s American documentary television series
2017 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%20and%20Wolves | Sheep and Wolves () is a 2016 Russian computer-animated fantasy comedy film, directed by Andrey Galat and Maxim Volkov. The original story, Wizart Animation's first, contains elements of the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats and the concepts of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is about a carefree wolf who likes to hunt sheep, but one day finds that he has been magically transformed into a sheep himself. The film was directed by Andrey Galat and Maksim Volkov, with Wizart and CTB Film Company as joint production partners.
Although critical reactions were mostly positive in its native country, the film received generally negative reviews elsewhere, with the script, plot, characterizations and lore being heavily criticized; though the animation received some praise. It won the Golden Unicorn Award for best animation film, the Grand Prix from the Seoul Guro International Kids Films Festival and the Catalina Film Festival Crystal Trophy.
Despite the film's poor reception and disappointing box office performance, a theatrical sequel titled Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal, was released in 2019.
Plot
A sheep named Ziko is attempting to document the outdoor wildlife, when he stumbles upon the wolf Grey, and flees screaming back to his village of sheep, located near a newly arrived pack of wolves in the ravine. The wise leader of the wolf pack, Magra, announces that he'll retire soon, and that two candidates must fight for the rite of succession. One is Ragear, a bad-tempered, selfish wolf who disregards Magra's values for all life, including prey. The other is Grey, who is in love with the beautiful wolf-girl Bianca. However, he acts like a joker, never taking anything seriously, much to Bianca's chagrin. After Grey humiliates Ragear for disobeying Magra's orders, he then encounters the little lamb Shia, who disobeyed his older sister Lyra by wandering into the meadow. Grey nevertheless lets Shia go unharmed.
During a celebration at the wolf pack, Grey humiliates Ragear further, which causes Bianca to end her relationship with him, citing that he's still too immature to be the next leader. Grey visits a gypsy camp celebration, and meets the eccentric hare Mami. She gives Grey a transmutation potion, which he hopes will make him change so Bianca will love him again. However, the potion transforms him into a ram. Fleeing from his former pack mates, Grey gets knocked out, only to wake up in the sheep village under Lyra's care.
Grey struggles to cope with being a ram. At first, he tries to convince himself that he's only dreaming, but accepts the truth, until he remembers that it was Mami who gave him a potion. Finding the gypsy camp deserted, he returns to the sheep village. The wolf pack believes that Grey ran away, scared to fight Ragear.
The next morning, Grey is invited by Shia and the talkative Moz to attend the tournament. When Grey finds himself fighting the champion Louis the Fierce, he resorts to biting, which angers everyone. Grey soon e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20P.%20Holmes | Susan P. Holmes is a statistician and professor at Stanford University. She is noted for her work in applying nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology. She received her PhD in 1985 from Université Montpellier II. She served as a tenured research scientist at INRA for ten years. She then taught at MIT and Harvard and was an associate professor of biometry at Cornell before moving to Stanford in 1998. She is married to fellow Stanford professor Persi Diaconis.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
References
Living people
Biostatisticians
University of Montpellier alumni
Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff
Harvard University staff
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Women statisticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
American statisticians
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig%20Freight%20Ring | The Leipzig Freight Ring (Leipziger Güterring) is a network of railways in Saxony and consists of several individual lines. As a bypass for freight trains in the Leipzig railway node, it links all approach lines and thus enables the separation of passenger and freight operations.
History
The construction of the Leipzig Freight Ring was closely linked to the extensive reconstruction of the Leipzig rail yards in the years preceding the First World War. At that time the associated railway infrastructure of the Royal Saxon State Railways and the Prussian state railways was no longer up to date and was not able to meet demand.
Most of the line was built by the Prussian state railways to the north and west of the Leipzig urban area. The Royal Saxon State Railways built some connecting lines east of Leipzig, which in particular served to integrate the new Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard. The Saxon link, previously operated only as a secondary line, the Plagwitz-Lindenau–Gaschwitz railway was upgraded to be a single-track main line.
The line between the Wahren marshalling yard and Leipzig-Schönefeld was wired with an electric catenary in 1914. This was one of the first electrified lines in Germany. Due to the two world wars and the resulting dismantling of the catenary in or after both wars, the complete electrification of the freight ring could not be completed until 1963.
The Leipzig-Plagwitz–Gaschwitz link was developed as line A of the first Leipzig S-Bahn and opened in 1969. With the political and economic changes with the end of Communism, traffic fell at the turn of the 21st century and falling patronage led to the closure of the passenger service in 2002.
The Freight Ring still carries most freight traffic in the Leipzig railway node. Scheduled passenger services no longer operate on it, except during diversions as a result of construction projects. Nevertheless, on all lines there are authorised routes; the eastern part of the Freight Ring is, for example, used occasionally for diverted long-distance traffic between Berlin and Dresden. They were used regularly in the past for special services from the Leipzig Trade Fair to the Bayerischen Bahnhof. With the commissioning of the City Tunnel on 15 December 2013, the section between Stötteritz and Paunsdorf was integrated in the network of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland.
Lines
Built by Prussian State Railways:
Leipzig-Leutzsch–Leipzig-Wahren (initiated 9 April 1905)
Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig-Schönefeld (1 May 1906)
Built by Royal Saxon State Railways:
Leipzig-Plagwitz–Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz (1 September 1879 as a secondary railway; upgraded to main-line standard in 1907)
Leipzig-Schönefeld–Leipzig-Engelsdorf (1 May 1906)
Leipzig-Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Stötteritz (1 May 1906)
References
Railway lines in Saxony
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1905
Transport in Leipzig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardim%20Zool%C3%B3gico%20Station | Jardim Zoológico station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
It is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on 29 December 1959. This station is located on Praça General Humberto Delgado, connecting to the Sete Rios Railway Station (Sintra and Azambuja Lines) and the Sete Rios Bus terminal. It takes its name from the nearby Lisbon Zoo.
The architectural design of the original station is by Falcão e Cunha. On 25 July 1995 the station was extended and refurbished, based on the architectural design of Benoliel de Carvalho.
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
701 Campo Grande (Metro) ⇄ Campo de Ourique (Prazeres)
716 Alameda D. A. Henriques ⇄ Benfica - Al. Padre Álvaro Proença
726 Sapadores ⇄ Pontinha Centro
731 Av. José Malhoa ⇄ Moscavide Centro
746 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Estação Damaia
754 Campo Pequeno ⇄ Alfragide
755 Poço do Bispo ⇄ Sete Rios
758 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Portas de Benfica
768 Cidade Universitária ⇄ Quinta dos Alcoutins
770 Sete Rios - Circulação via Bairro do Calhau / Serafina
Aerobus
Linha 2 Aeroporto ⇄ Sete Rios
Rail
Comboios de Portugal
Sintra ⇄ Lisboa - Oriente
Sintra ⇄ Alverca
Alcântara-Terra ⇄ Castanheira do Ribatejo
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Leiria (Regional)
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Caldas da Rainha (Regional)
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Torres Vedras (Regional)
Lisboa - Oriente ⇄ Évora (Intercities)
Lisboa - Oriente ⇄ Faro (Intercities)
Fertagus
Setúbal ⇄ Roma-Areeiro
Coina ⇄ Roma-Areeiro
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Blue Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pra%C3%A7a%20de%20Espanha%20Station | Praça de Espanha station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
It is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on December 29, 1959, as Palhavã. This station is located in Praça de Espanha, hence its renaming.
The architectural design of the original station is by Francisco Keil do Amaral. On October 15, 1980, the station was extended, based on the architectural design of Sanchez Jorge.
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
716 Alameda D. A. Henriques ⇄ Benfica - Al. Padre Álvaro Proença
726 Sapadores ⇄ Pontinha Centro
746 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Estação Damaia
756 Olaias ⇄ Rua da Junqueira
Aerobus
Linha 2 Aeroporto ⇄ Sete Rios
Suburban buses
Transportes Sul do Tejo
151 Charneca de Caparica (Solmar) ⇄ Lisboa (Marquês de Pombal)
152 Almada ⇄ Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) (via Alcântara)
153 Costa de Caparica ⇄ Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) (via Alcântara)
158 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Trafaria (via Alcântara)
159 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Marisol (via Alcântara)
160 Almada ⇄ Lisboa (Praça do Areeiro) (via Alcântara)
161 Costa da Caparica ⇄ Lisboa (Praça do Areeiro) (via Alcântara)
162 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Quinta do Brasileiro
168 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Torre da Marinha/Depósito de Água (via Amora)
176 Almada (Praça S. J. Batista) ⇄ Lisboa (Cidade Universitária) (via Alcântara)
207 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Sesimbra (via AE)
252 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Quinta do Conde (via Redondos)
260 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Sesimbra (via Laranjeiro)
561 Lisboa ⇄ Setúbal (via Ponte 25 de Abril) (Rápida)
563 Lisboa ⇄ Setúbal (via Ponte Vasco da Gama e Pinhal Novo) (Rápida)
754 Lisboa ⇄ Setúbal (via AE e Casal do Marco)
755 Lisboa (Praça de Espanha) ⇄ Setúbal (via Laranjeiro)
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Blue Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque%20Station | Parque station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
Parque is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on 29 December 1959.
This station is located on Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar. It takes its name from the nearby Parque Eduardo VII.
The architectural design of the original station is by Francisco Keil do Amaral. On 29 December 1994 the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Sanchez Jorge.
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
726 Sapadores ⇄ Pontinha Centro
746 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Estação Damaia
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Blue Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenida%20Station | Avenida station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
Avenida is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on December 29, 1959. This station is located on Avenida da Liberdade, from which it takes its name. The architectural design of the original station is by Falcão e Cunha.
On November 9, 1982, the station was extended, based on the architectural design of Sanchez Jorge. On June 8, 2009, the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Ana Nascimento
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
202 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Fetais (morning service)
709 Campo de Ourique ⇄ Restauradores
711 Terreiro do Paço ⇄ Alto da Damaia
732 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Caselas
736 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Odivelas (Bairro Dr. Lima Pimentel)
Aerobus
Linha 1 Aeroporto ⇄ Cais do Sodré
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Blue Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restauradores%20Station | Restauradores station is on the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
It is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on December 29, 1959. This station is located under Restauradores Square, from which it takes its name, and connects to Rossio Railway Station on the Sintra Line. The architectural design of the original station is by Falcão e Cunha.
On February 11, 1977, the station was extended, based on the architectural design of Benoliel de Carvalho. On September 15, 1994, the north atrium of the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Sanchez Jorge. On August 8, 1998, the south atrium of the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Manuel Ponte
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
Ascensor da Glória
202 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Fetais (morning service)
709 Campo de Ourique ⇄ Restauradores
711 Terreiro do Paço ⇄ Alto da Damaia
732 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Caselas
736 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Odivelas (Bairro Dr. Lima Pimentel)
759 Restauradores ⇄ Estação Oriente (Interface)
Aerobus
Linha 1 Aeroporto ⇄ Cais do Sodré
Rail
Comboios de Portugal
Sintra ⇄ Rossio Station
Mira Sintra-Meleças ⇄ Rossio Station
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Blue Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Fontes | Robin Louise Fontes (born January 18, 1964) is a retired United States Army major general who last served as deputy commanding general (operations) of the United States Army Cyber Command. In July 2017 she took command of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, becoming the highest-ranking female military officer in Afghanistan since the American invasion of that country in 2001. A mustang officer, Fontes was commissioned in 1986 and focused on Central Asia, eventually serving in Tajikistan, Pakistan, and India, including a few years in Afghanistan. She assumed her final position after the resignation of Michael Flynn from the Trump Administration ended her announced role as senior director for India, Pakistan and Central Asian Affairs on the United States National Security Council.
Military career
Early career
Born in the state of Washington and raised in Kuna, Idaho, Fontes grew up in Treasure Valley and reports that she sought a military career ever since she was 12 years-old. Enlisting in the United States Army Reserve in 1981, she graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1986 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps. She served as a platoon leader in Germany, later returning to West Point to serve as a company commander. While a first lieutenant, she wrote two articles for Military Police, the official publication of her branch. The first article (in July 1988) was entitled "The 1987 BG Jeremiah P. Holland Award and the MP Company that Earned It." Her second (in June 1991) was called "MP Role in the Opening of the Berlin Wall." She was selected for the Foreign Area Officer program in 1993, resulting in her attendance at the Defense Language Institute, where she learned Russian. She also learned Dari and Persian. She would later also graduate from both the University of Washington (where she earned her Master's degree in International Studies) and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. In the late 1990s, Fontes served as a military liaison in Minsk. She spent a few years in Tajikistan serving first as a United States military representative and later as the United States Defense Attaché just as the Tajikistani Civil War was ending.
As a field grade officer
Early in the Global War on Terror, Fontes served at United States Central Command J5 overseeing issues of political-military cooperation in Afghanistan. In June 2004, she was moved to Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan headquarters in Kabul and served under David Barno as the head of the CJ5 staff for political-military coordination. Her staff was responsible for keeping General Barno "on message", overseeing the policies impacting military operations, and performing liaison work with both the Afghan Ministry of Defense and United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. At the end of her first year in Afghanistan and following Karl Eikenberry's assumption of command from Barno, Fontes voluntee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo%20Pequeno%20Station | Campo Pequeno station is part of the Yellow Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
It is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network, opened on December 29, 1959. This station is located on Avenida da República and takes its name from the nearby Campo Pequeno square and bullring.
The architectural design of the original station is by Falcão e Cunha. On March 26, 1979, the station was extended, based on the architectural design of Benoliel de Carvalho. On December 29, 1994, the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Duarte Nuno Simões and Nuno Simões.
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
207 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Fetais
727 Estação Roma-Areeiro ⇄ Restelo - Av. das Descobertas
736 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Odivelas (Bairro Dr. Lima Pimentel)
738 Quinta dos Barros ⇄ Alto de Santo Amaro
744 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Moscavide (Quinta das Laranjeiras)
749 ISEL ⇄ Estação Entrecampos
754 Campo Pequeno ⇄ Alfragide
756 Olaias ⇄ Rua da Junqueira
783 Amoreiras (Centro Comercial) ⇄ Portela - Rua Mouzinho de Albuquerque
Aerobus
Linha 2 Aeroporto ⇄ Sete Rios
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Yellow Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20First%20and%20True%20Home%20of%20Asianovelas | The First and True Home of Asianovelas is a programming block of ABS-CBN and it's ad interim Kapamilya Channel and A2Z Channel 11 composed of Filipino-dubbed Asian dramas. On May 5, 2003, Meteor Garden was the first Asian drama aired on the network.
History
Asian dramas are politically popular in the Philippines since the early 2000s. Huge demands from Filipino viewers prompted Philippine TV stations to import Chinese and South Korean programs.
In 2003, ABS-CBN started airing Taiwanese dramas with the successful Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II. In 2004, the network introduced the South Korean dramas to the Filipino viewers beginning with The Truth, Four Sisters, and Lovers in Paris. In the past decade, ABS-CBN has aired a numerous score of Korean dramas including Lovers in Paris, Save the Last Dance for Me, Memories of Bali, Green Rose, Only You, Princess Lulu, My Girl, A Love to Kill, Princess Hours, Which Star Are You From, Spring Waltz, Three Dads with One Mommy, Boys Over Flowers, He's Beautiful, Cinderella's Sister, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, Pure Love, City Hunter, Dream High, Two Wives, To the Beautiful You, Missing You, The Love Story of Kang Chi, Crazy Love, The Heirs, My Lovely Girl, Let's Get Married, and My Love Donna. Korean drama Faith was also featured on the now-defunct ABS-CBN Mobile.
During the term of former President Rodrigo Duterte, ABS-CBN rapidly increased its South Korean programming with Love in the Moonlight, Goblin, Legend of the Blue Sea, Weightlifting Fairy, Hwarang, Black, The King Is in Love, I am Not a Robot, W, Doctor Crush, Go Back Couple, Hwayugi, My Time with You, What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, Encounter, Gangnam Beauty, Codename: Terrius, 100 Days My Prince, I Have a Lover, and Hotel del Luna. A 2018 Chinese adaptation of Meteor Garden was aired on the network. Meanwhile, CineMo! has also aired Blood, You're All Surrounded, Blade Man, Orange Marmalade, Doctor Stranger, Hyde, Jekyll, Me, Sensory Couple, Signal, and The K2. ABS-CBN TV Plus launched Asianovela Channel on July 30, 2018, and has aired Bubble Gum, High Society, On the Way to the Airport, Uncontrollably Fond, Woman with a Suitcase, Because This Is My First Life, Cheongdam-dong Scandal, Goodbye Mr. Black, Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter, Mother, Something in the Rain, That Man Oh Soo, The Good Wife, Tomorrow, with You, Two Cops, and Live Up to Your Name.
On the first quarter of 2020, ABS-CBN aired the final remaining Asian dramas: Flower Crew: Dating Agency, Story of Yanxi Palace, The Tale of Nokdu, and Love in Sadness. On May 5, 2020, both ABS-CBN and Asianovela Channel went off the air due to the cease and desist order by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and former Solicitor General Jose Calida following the expiration of the network's legislative franchise on May 4. Love in Sadness and Story of Yanxi Palace were both cancelled as a result. Asianovela Channel resumed its operations on June 1, 2020, until the channe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Ninja%20Warrior%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the sports entertainment reality competition series Australian Ninja Warrior premiered on 9 July 2017 on the Nine Network. The season was hosted by Rebecca Maddern, Ben Fordham & Freddie Flintoff.
50 ninjas ran in each of the five qualifying heats, with the top 18 from each heat moving on to the semi-finals. From the three semi finals, the top 7 competitors moved on to the Grand Final. 9 Competitors finished stage one of the Grand Final, but none completed stage two. Fred Dorrington sat on top of the leaderboard for going the furthest in stage two.
Rounds
Episode 1
Heat 1
This episode aired on 9 July 2017 and concluded with 11 finishers. Parkour twin, Dylan Pawson earned the Berocca Performance of the Night, completing the course in 58 seconds.
Quintuple Steps
Silk Slider
Bridge of Blades
Tyre Swing to Cargo Net
Double Tilt Ladder
Warped Wall
Episode 2
Heat 2
This episode aired on 10 July 2017. Fastest finisher, Ashlin Herbert earned the Berocca Performance of the Night.
Qunituple Steps
UFO Slider
Bridge of Blades
Spinning Wheel to Cargo Net
Tilting Frames
Warped Wall
Episode 3
Heat 3
This episode aired on 11 July 2017. Two members of Justice Crew, Sampson Smith and John Pearce both participated, both bowing out on the Bridge of Blades. The Berocca Performance of the Night was tied between Coby Head and Ricko Tralongo. Only 8 competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the BOM slider.
Qunituple Steps
Bom Slider
Bridge of Blades
Cargo with Lache
Ball & Chain
Warped Wall
Episode 4
Heat 4
This episode aired on 16 July 2017. NRL legend Beau Ryan competed against AFL's Adam Cooney in a battle of the codes, with Beau progressing further through the course. Deaf competitor, Paul Cashion's run caused significant public outrage due to the way it was televised. This episode ended with a tribute to Johann Ofner, who had died on the set of a music video earlier in the year. 10 competitors completed this course. The Berocca Performance of the Night went to Lee Cossey.
Quintuple Steps
Slide to Box Jellyfish
Bridge of Blades
Rings to Cargo Net
Pipe Climber
Warped Wall
Episode 5
Heat 5
This episode aired on 17 July 2017 and concluded with 12 finishers. Former Bachelor Tim Robards participated but bowed out on the Cones to Cargo Net. The Berocca Performance of the Night went to Ben Polson
Quintuple Steps
Pole Rider
Bridge of Blades
Cones to Cargo Net
Swing Cycle
Warped Wall
Episode 6
Semi-final 1
This episode aired on 18 July 2017. This episode had three new obstacles after the Warped Wall, the Ring Jump, Pole Grasper and Chimney Climb. This semi-final included Johann Ofner, who died on set of a music video earlier in the year, but the footage of the stunt man was edited out. Rob Patterson had the Berocca Performance of the Night. Damian Istria was unfortunately unable to complete the course as the jump hang net snapped.
Quintuple Steps
Log Grip
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable%20artificial%20intelligence | Explainable AI (XAI), often known as Interpretable AI, or Explainable Machine Learning (XML), either refers to an AI system over which it is possible for humans to retain intellectual oversight, or to the methods to achieve this. The main focus is usually on the reasoning behind the decisions or predictions made by the AI which are made more understandable and transparent. XAI counters the "black box" tendency of machine learning, where even the AI's designers cannot explain why it arrived at a specific decision.
XAI hopes to help users of AI-powered systems perform more effectively by improving their understanding of how those systems reason. XAI may be an implementation of the social right to explanation. Even if there is no such legal right or regulatory requirement, XAI can improve the user experience of a product or service by helping end users trust that the AI is making good decisions. XAI aims to explain what has been done, what is being done, and what will be done next, and to unveil which information these actions are based on. This makes it possible to confirm existing knowledge, challenge existing knowledge, and generate new assumptions.
Machine learning (ML) algorithms used in AI can be categorized as white-box or black-box. White-box models provide results that are understandable to experts in the domain. Black-box models, on the other hand, are extremely hard to explain and can hardly be understood even by domain experts. XAI algorithms follow the three principles of transparency, interpretability, and explainability. A model is transparent “if the processes that extract model parameters from training data and generate labels from testing data can be described and motivated by the approach designer.” Interpretability describes the possibility of comprehending the ML model and presenting the underlying basis for decision-making in a way that is understandable to humans. Explainability is a concept that is recognized as important, but a consensus definition is not available. One possibility is “the collection of features of the interpretable domain that have contributed, for a given example, to producing a decision (e.g., classification or regression)”. If algorithms fulfill these principles, they provide a basis for justifying decisions, tracking them and thereby verifying them, improving the algorithms, and exploring new facts.
Sometimes it is also possible to achieve a high-accuracy result with a white-box ML algorithm that is interpretable . This is especially important in domains like medicine, defense, finance, and law, where it is crucial to understand decisions and build trust in the algorithms. Many researchers argue that, at least for supervised machine learning, the way forward is symbolic regression, where the algorithm searches the space of mathematical expressions to find the model that best fits a given dataset.
AI systems optimize behavior to satisfy a mathematically specified goal system chosen by the system desi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20key | The power key, or power button, is a key found on many computer keyboards during the 1980s and into the early 2000s. They were introduced on the first Apple Desktop Bus keyboards in the 1980s and have been a standard feature of many Macintosh keyboards since then. They are also found on an increasing number of Microsoft Windows keyboards, sometimes supplanted with additional keys for sleep. The power key is becoming increasingly rare, as most modern personal computers using USB allow the system to be started up by pressing any key on the keyboard.
Mac
The Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) was introduced on the Apple IIGS in 1986. This peripheral bus was intended to connect low-speed input devices like keyboards and computer mice. Looking for a low-cost connector, the design team selected the 4-pin mini-DIN connector, which is also used for S-Video. ADB only used one data pin and +5V and ground, leaving one pin free. This was used to implement the PSW connection, used to turn on the machine. A separate connection was required as the keyboard controller of machines of this era was not powered when the machine was powered down.
Introduced along with the IIGS was the Apple Keyboard, which featured a rather large power key roughly centered above the main part of the keyboard. A power key became a standard feature of all ADB keyboards, notably the lauded Apple Extended Keyboard and its follow-ons. It began to become less common on later USB-based keyboards as these machines keep the keyboard powered when the machine is sleeping, so any key can act as a power key. Power keys remain on some modern Macs, including the MacBook Air, but most others have replaced it with an "eject" key, formerly used to open the now-non-existent CD drive.
Windows
Early Windows PCs generally lacked the ability to control power through software, and power keys were not physically possible. The increasing use of USB connections allowed these, but the ability to use any key for "power on" generally negated their need in most cases. Power keys did become relatively common on some multimedia keyboards, where they were known as power management keys.
Special keycodes are associated with these functions, e05e for Power, e05f for Sleep, and e063 Wake. These are supported in Microsoft Windows and various Unix-like systems.
References
Computer keys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entre%20Campos%20Station | Entre Campos station is part of the Yellow Line of the Lisbon Metro.
History
It is one of the 11 stations that belong to the original Lisbon Metro network and opened on December 29, 1959. This station is located on Avenida da República. Its name reflects its location, between Campo Grande and Campo Pequeno.
The architectural design of the original station is by Falcão e Cunha. On July 15, 1973, the station was extended, based on the architectural design of Dinies Gomes. On December 11, 1993, the station was refurbished, based on the architectural design of Sanchez Jorge.
Connections
Urban buses
Carris
207 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Fetais
727 Estação Roma-Areeiro ⇄ Restelo - Av. das Descobertas
736 Cais do Sodré ⇄ Odivelas (Bairro Dr. Lima Pimentel)
738 Quinta dos Barros ⇄ Alto de Santo Amaro
744 Marquês de Pombal ⇄ Moscavide (Quinta das Laranjeiras)
749 ISEL ⇄ Estação Entrecampos
754 Campo Pequeno ⇄ Alfragide
783 Amoreiras (Centro Comercial) ⇄ Portela - Rua Mouzinho de Albuquerque
Aerobus
Linha 2 Aeroporto ⇄ Sete Rios
Rail
Comboios de Portugal
Sintra ⇄ Lisboa - Oriente
Sintra ⇄ Alverca
Alcântara-Terra ⇄ Castanheira do Ribatejo
Alcântara-Terra ⇄ Azambuja
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Leiria (Regional)
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Caldas da Rainha (Regional, InterRegional)
Lisboa - Santa Apolónia ⇄ Torres Vedras (Regional)
Lisboa - Oriente ⇄ Évora (InterCity)
Lisboa - Oriente ⇄ Faro (InterCity)
Porto - Campanhã ⇄ Faro (Alfa Pendular)
Fertagus
Setúbal ⇄ Roma-Areeiro
Coina ⇄ Roma-Areeiro
See also
List of Lisbon metro stations
References
External links
Yellow Line (Lisbon Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 1959
Railway stations in Portugal opened in the 20th century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Metro%20%28Minnesota%29%20light%20rail%20stations | Metro is a public transportation network consisting of light rail and bus rapid transit services covering the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. The light rail portion of the network, managed by Metro Transit, has 37 light rail stations in operation across two lines: the Blue Line, running from downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the Green Line, connecting downtown Minneapolis to downtown Saint Paul. In 2016, the Blue and Green lines respectively provided approximately 10.3 million and 12.7 million rides for a total of 23 million rides across both lines. By ridership, it is the ninth-largest light rail system in the United States.
Construction on the Blue Line, which was initially known as the Hiawatha Line, began in 2001. The line opened in two phases in 2004, beginning with a 12-station stretch from the Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station through the Fort Snelling station in June. In December, five more stations were opened, continuing service south of Fort Snelling to the Mall of America station. Two additional Blue Line stations opened in late 2009: a new northern terminus at Target Field and the American Boulevard station in Bloomington. Construction on the Green Line, which was initially designated as the Central Corridor, began in 2010. The line opened in its entirety in June 2014.
Fares for Metro light rail service are the same as those for most Metro Transit bus services and include unlimited transfers to other light rail and bus routes within 2.5 hours from the time a fare is paid. Two exceptions exist for Metro light rail services: fares within (but not between) downtown zones are less expensive than regular fares but may not be transferred; and there is no cost to ride between terminals 1 and 2 at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). Many stations connect with rail or bus routes. The Target Field station provides a connection to the Northstar commuter rail line, while the Mall of America station allows for transfers to the Metro Red Line bus rapid transit service. The A Line bus rapid transit line connects with the 46th Street Blue Line station and the Snelling Avenue Green Line stop. Two Metro light rail stations – 30th Avenue and Fort Snelling – have designated park and ride lots.
Extensions to both Metro lines are planned as of 2023. The Blue Line extension will branch northward from the Target Field station, adding 11 stations to the line: two more in Minneapolis, two in Golden Valley, one each in Robbinsdale and Crystal, and five in Brooklyn Park. The Green Line extension will branch west from Target Field station and include 16 new stations: five in Minneapolis, three each in Saint Louis Park and Hopkins, one in Minnetonka, and four in Eden Prairie. The Green Line extension was originally intended to open in 2018 but, as of 2022, was delayed until 2027. Passenger service was planned to begin on the Blue Line extension in 2023, but an issue with securing r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval%20Elovici | Yuval Elovici is a computer scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), where he is the incumbent of the Davide and Irene Sala Chair in Homeland Security Research. He is the director of the Cyber Security Research Center at BGU and the founder and director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University. In addition to his roles at BGU, he also serves as the lab director of Singapore University of Technology and Design’s (SUTD) ST Electronics-SUTD Cyber Security Laboratory, as well as the research director of iTrust. In 2014 he co-founded Morphisec, a start-up company, that develops cyber security mechanisms related to moving target defense.
Biography
Yuval Elovici was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1966. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer and electrical engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1989 and 1991, respectively (thesis title: Multi-Target Tracking Implementation onto a Parallel Multiprocessor System based on Transputers). He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Management's information systems program (dissertation title: Information Technology Evaluation, Investment Decisions and Benefits to the Organization over Time).
Career
Elovici began his academic career at BGU in 1998, where he served as a Senior Teaching Assistant/Instructor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management while pursuing his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University. In 2000 he became a Lecturer in BGU's Department of Information Systems Engineering. In 2006 he advanced to Senior Lecturer, and he received academic tenure in 2007. From 2010 through 2012 Elovici was an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems Engineering, and in 2012 he became a full Professor in this department which was recently renamed the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering. He has held a variety of positions in academic administration at BGU as well. Since 2014 Elovici has served as the Director of BGU's Cyber Security Research Center, and since 2005 he has been the Director of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at BGU. In the past, he has served as Head of the Software Engineering Program at BGU.
Research
Elovici's research interests include Privacy and Anonymity in the Electronic Society, Malware Detection, Mobile Phone Security, and Web Intelligence and Social Network Security. Elovici has published over 75 academic papers, and he has been awarded 20 patents. He is a co-author of the book, A Survey of Data Leakage Detection and Prevention Solutions and co-editor of another book, Security and Privacy in Social Network.
Privacy and Anonymity in the Electronic Society
Although surfing the World Wide Web (hereafter: the Web) feels as if it is a bilateral private interaction, this impression is far from being accurate, as users leave identifiable digital tracks at every website they vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSDIC | FOSDIC (Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers) is a family of optical scanners for converting data on microfilm to computer-readable magnetic tape. FOSDIC was designed and built by the United States National Bureau of Standards for use by the United States Census Bureau and other government agencies.
Although the Census Bureau entered the computer age with the introduction of UNIVAC I in 1951, its data processing speed was hampered by the continued reliance upon punched cards. Transferring questionnaire data to punch cards that UNIVAC "read" and stored on magnetic tape was a time-consuming process that remained relatively unchanged since the late nineteenth century.
To take advantage of UNIVAC's speed, National Bureau of Standards scientists and Census Bureau engineers began development of FOSDIC. Completed in 1954, the first generation of FOSDIC read the position of pencil-filled circles on questionnaires and translated the responses to computer code stored on magnetic computer tape.
The Census Bureau first used FOSDIC to process a decennial census in 1960. Enumerators transferred data collected on questionnaires to a "FOSDIC-readable schedule" on which questionnaire responses were recorded as pencilled-in circles. At the Census Bureau, technicians used extremely sensitive photography equipment to convert these forms into microfilm. In 1970 and later censuses, all questionnaires were FOSDIC readable, eliminating the need to have enumerators transfer data from questionnaires to FOSDIC schedules.
The shaded circles appeared as light dots on the microfilm. When the microfilm passed through the Census Bureau's new fleet of FOSDIC III machines (FOSDIC II had been designed for the Weather Bureau), they read the placement of the bright marks on the microfilm and translated them into computer code.
The Census Bureau used updated versions of FOSDIC for the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses. FOSDIC proved so successful that it was not replaced until the introduction of optical character recognition for the 2000 Census.
Technology
A series of systems were developed for use in the 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990 U.S. census. The first system, delivered in 1954 used vacuum tubes and analog processing. Later versions used software control with a PDP-11 minicomputer. FOSDIC used a flying-spot scanner to detect marks on forms that had previously been photographed on microfilm. Other applications included digitizing unemployment data, EPA Pollutant charts, NOAA Underwater current meter records and . The U.S. Postal Research Laboratory used a surplus FOSDIC system to make high-resolution images of dead-letter mail to create a data base for evaluating character-recognition techniques
The FOSDIC system was also use by the National Archives to digitize the images of Army enlistment records on punched card that were stored on 1,586 rolls of microfilm.
Sources
References
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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