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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20politics | Data politics encompasses the political aspects of data including topics ranging from data activism, open data and open government. The ways in which data is collected, accessed, and what we do with that data has changed in contemporary society due to a number of factors surrounding issues of politics. An issue that arises from political data is often how disconnected people are from their own data, rarely gaining access to the data they produce. Large platforms like Google have a "better to ask forgiveness than permission" stance on data collection to which the greater population is largely ignorant, leading to movements within data activism.
History
Data collection has had a long history, but the way humans are involved in its collection has grown exponentially in the years since the dot-com boom of the 1990s and the market crash in 2008. The primary goal of platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon is data collection through the applications and services they provide to consumers, such as wearable technology like FitBit and Apple Watch, as well as home devices like Google Nest and Amazon Alexa. The purpose of these devices becomes more clear when consumers understand the immense amounts of data that are being exhausted and sold to advertisers and data brokers Some scholars note the resemblance of platforms to sovereign states with their power and populations, as well as their surveillance capabilities. More recently, data collection has been seen as a trade off, privacy is disregarded and in return, consumers gain access to convenient applications and devices to stay connected.
Open government data
The principles behind open government data are data that are free to use without restrictions, available for reuse, unlicensed and non-discriminatory Other academics feel open government data should be focused on servicing citizens needs, rather than just providing them with raw data. This process would require training individuals to analyze data while also including them in the management and planning of data. Having access to government schedules does little for public engagement, but creating plans surrounding public issues, such as health and wellness, and making that data available may have positive impact on citizens lives. This type of practice has been called open innovation, which focuses on the collaborative aspects of open government. Speaking to the idea of open innovation, it has been said that although there should be no restriction on data availability, the focus on data for public policy and commercial use should be most important such as economic and transportation data.
Open data initiatives
In 2011 the Open Government Partnership was created requiring governments globally to adhere to standards relating to open government, including transparency, anti-corruption and promote technological innovation, and has been adopted by 72 countries, with more considered as eligible partners. Other efforts include the Global Open Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Western%20Assassin | "Mid-Western Assassin" is the sixth episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 10, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Todd Kubrak, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
A mass-shooting occurs at Kai Anderson's political rally. He appears to have been shot and several people are killed. The police arrive and Ally is shown holding the gun.
Earlier, Meadow Wilton tells Ally Mayfair-Richards that Ally is being targeted by a cult, of which her wife Ivy is a member, before Meadow is dragged away. Ally sneaks over to the Wilton's house and finds Meadow tied up. Ally rescues Meadow and takes her in the Mayfair-Richards' restaurant. Meadow tells Ally that the cult has been responsible for the events that happened to Ally recently, and explains why Ivy hates Ally and hence joined the cult. She also explains she fell in love with Kai, but after realizing the feeling wasn't reciprocated, she attempted to leave the cult but was caught.
A flashback to the day after the 2016 presidential election reveals that Ivy admitted to Kai that she hates Ally ever since their son Oz was born, as Ivy is infertile, and Ally wouldn't let her feed Oz. Kai uses this to manipulate Ivy into supporting him, and they plot on how Ivy can leave Ally while gaining full custody of Oz.
After leaving Meadow with Dr. Rudy Vincent, so Rudy can question Meadow and be Ally's witness, Ally goes to see Sally Keffler, a rival candidate to Kai, and tells her about the cult, which Sally believes. However, the cult arrive and Kai kills Sally, making her death appear like suicide. Ally hides, but is found by Ivy. However, Ivy doesn't notify the cult. When Ally returns to Rudy, he says Meadow left after, unknown to Rudy, she got a call from Kai. Rudy doesn't believe Ally about the cult.
At the rally, it's revealed Meadow was responsible for the shooting. When Ally tries to stop her, she reveals she is still loyal to Kai, and loves him. She then shoots herself. Kai is shown to have survived.
Production
On October 7, 2017, it was confirmed that the sixth episode of the season would be edited as a direct result of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that occurred six days earlier. The episode originally featured a scene lasting 2 minutes and 16 seconds where Leslie Grossman's character Meadow Wilton begins to fire at Evan Peters' character, as well as a crowd, during a campaign speech. The episode was edited to de-emphasize the violence and to mostly have it featured completely off-screen - as a result the opening sequence of the episode was cut in half, several on-screen deaths were removed and two separate close-up shots of the handgun firing were removed.
While only the edited episode was broadcast on FX, the original uncut episode was released via VOD, FXNOW and FX+.
Reception
"Mid-Western Assassin" was watched by 2.15 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Holes" is the fifth episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 3, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Crystal Liu, and directed by Maggie Kiley.
Plot
Beverly informs Kai that Bob is compromising news coverage of the clown murders and thereby hindering Kai's campaign. Kai, Beverly, Winter, Harrison, Detective Samuels, Ivy, Gary, and Beverly's cameraman, RJ, don clown masks, break into Bob's house, and kill him and a gimp he has suspended in his basement.
Ivy and RJ are deeply disturbed by the murders. Beverly later advises Kai to cut ties with RJ, whom she views as a weak link. Each cult member, beginning with Ivy, shoots a tied-up RJ in the head with a nail gun before Kai finishes him off. Meadow pleads to Ally for safety from the cult and lets it slip that Ivy is a member. Ally later sees Meadow lying in an open grave in her backyard.
Beverly probes Kai about the whereabouts of his parents and Kai divulges that his mom shot his abusive father and then herself in a murder–suicide. Dr. Rudy Vincent, revealed to be Kai and Winter's older brother, insisted that they cover up their deaths in order to protect his career and continue receiving their mom's pension and their dad's disability checks.
Reception
"Holes" was watched by 2.20 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.1 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Holes" holds an 86% approval rating, based on 14 reviews with an average rating of 7.8 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4 out of 5, saying "American Horror Story finds its scares in likely and unlikely places. The real world is much scarier than the supernatural one, especially when society is being shaped in a monster’s image by a monster politician. It’s easy to control the population through fear. [...] American Horror Story has a formula that runs arc-wide. We’ve learned who the conspirators are and now we will get to see the conspiracy. It feels like the trap that’s been set for Ally will be pulled soon."
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a B+, and appreciated that it was "connecting some very important dots". Moreover, she enjoyed the reveal of Kai's backstory as well as the twist on the identity of his brother. Vulture'''s Brian Moylan gave the episode a 4 out of 5, indicating a positive review. He praised in particular the character of Kai Anderson, and the twists of the episode. Finally, he gave a positive comment on the overall structure of the season, calling it "much better and more logical" than the past seasons.
Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a 7.8 out of 10, with a positive review. He said "Cult found solid footing with "Holes" and its angle focusing on the villains' side of the mass hoax, but it's best we don't linger here too long. Repetitive ruts have been American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20J.%20Brainard | Kate J. Brainard (February 18, 1835 - January 14, 1918) was a musical educator.
Early life
Kate Jones was born in New York City, on February 18, 1835. Her father. Rev. Darius K. Jones, compiler of the first hymn and tune book ever used and made popular in the United States, was of Welsh descent. Her mother, Ann Letts, was a woman of great natural gifts, both of voice and mind, and a regular contributor to the literature of the day. The daughter inherited in a marked degree their musical talent.
When but a very little girl, she studied the elements of music under her father and began piano lessons when seven years old. At an early age she surprised her friends by carrying the alto in part-singing, "making it up" with wonderful correctness. At fifteen she was obliged to begin to earn her living by teaching piano. At the same time her musical studies were faithfully carried on under the best masters. Vocal lessons were begun at that time and she made rapid progress in florid singing. Her last year in the East was spent with the best vocal teachers in Boston.
Career
In 1855 Kate Jones moved to Chicago and there became quite noted as a vocalist In 1858 she was married to Ira Shaler Brainard (1825-1910), and in 1865 moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she was looked upon as one of the leading sopranos, receiving a large salary in one of the choirs.
In 1866 Brainard assumed charge of the music in Mary Institute, the female department of Washington University, numbering at the time nearly four-hundred girls. Brainard's class-work, as systematized and developed in that institute, was remarkable. During her career in Mary Institute she frequently spent her vacations in the East with some prominent teacher, to obtain new ideas for her work. Among these was a trip to Europe, where she studied in Paris and London with Pauline Viardot, Manuel Garcia and Charlotte Sainton-Dolby.
Many girls with promising voices had been started on their musical career by Brainard. For twenty-five years her name was associated with the progress of musical art in St. Louis, and many singers referred to her as their conscientious guide during their struggles and studies.
She was deeply and actively interested in church work since she was thirteen years old, at which time she united with Dr. Hatfield's church in New York City.
She died on January 14, 1918, in St. Louis and was cremated.
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1835 births
1918 deaths
Educators from New York City
American music educators
American women music educators
American sopranos
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century
19th-century American women musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten%20Maple | Carsten Maple (born October 1971) is professor of cyber systems engineering at the University of Warwick. He was previously professor of applicable computing at the University of Bedfordshire. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society and vice-chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing, UK. He is also co-director of the National Centre for Cyberstalking Research and a trustee of Protection Against Stalking.
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External links
Academics of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the University of Leicester
German computer scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Living people
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran%20Martin | Ciaran Liam Martin, (born 19 September 1974), was the first CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). In September 2020 he was appointed Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
Life
Martin was appointed as head of cyber security at GCHQ in December 2013, he recommended the establishment of a National Cyber Security Centre within the intelligence and security agency. This was agreed by the Government and announced by the Chancellor George Osborne in November 2015. Martin became the first Chief Executive in February 2016, and it became operational in October of that year. On 14 February 2017, the NCSC's new headquarters in Victoria in Central London were opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
Prior to joining GCHQ, Martin was Constitution Director at the Cabinet Office from 2011, helping to agree the framework for the Scottish independence referendum. From 2008 to 2011, he was Director of Security and Intelligence at the Cabinet Office. His public service career has also included a series of roles in elsewhere in the Cabinet Office and in HM Treasury and the National Audit Office (NAO).
He was a member of the GCHQ Board.
He is a past pupil of Omagh CBS, where he was very much seen as an all-rounder, being head-boy, a member of the MacRory Cup Gaelic football squad and keyboard player with indie rock outfit "Some Kind of Wonderful".
He is a graduate of Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he studied History.
Martin was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to international and global cyber security.
Martin had planned on resigning in June 2020 but delayed his resignation until August because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was succeeded by Lindy Cameron.
In December 2002, Martin was the 'phone a friend' for Declan Montague on an episode of the ITV gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
References
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Civil servants in the Cabinet Office
GCHQ people
GCHQ
Living people
Civil servants in HM Treasury
Civil servants in the National Audit Office (United Kingdom)
Companions of the Order of the Bath
1974 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-Based%20Systems%20%28journal%29 | Knowledge-Based Systems is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering computer science, with a particular focus on knowledge-based systems. It was established in 1987 and is published 24 times per year by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Jie Lu (University of Technology Sydney). Hamido Fujita (Iwate Prefectural University), who led the journal in the period 2010–2019, is emeritus editor. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 8.038.
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Academic journals established in 1987
Computer science journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Semi-monthly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC.br | The Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR (English: Brazilian Network Information Center) is a non-profit organization created to implement the decisions and projects designed by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. Some of NIC.br's responsibilities include maintaining Registro.br, responsible for the .br domain name, handle internet security and network security in Brazil, handle infrastructure for the Internet in Brazil, and gather and publish statistics about internet usage in Brazil.
The organization is also responsible for the Brazilian chapter of the World Wide Web Consortium organization. In May 2020, CEPTRO.br launched the Layer 8 podcast, with monthly episodes to discuss issues related to Internet infrastructure, communication networks and technology.
Membership and composition
According to NIC.br's by-laws, its membership is composed of three types of members: founding, special and honorary. Generally speaking, they are always full members, acting alternates or former members of the CGI.br. However, only the acting members of the CGI.br have the right to vote.
Founders: are those members of the CGI.br who were in office when NIC.br was constituted, those who were in office when its statute was approved.
Special: are those who, not being founders, become so at a later date.
Honorary: those founding or special members who are no longer full members of the CGI.br and, eventually, those who have rendered relevant services to the Brazilian Internet, according to the criteria and approval by the entity's General Assembly.
Attributions
The registration and maintenance of domain names using .br, and the distribution of Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the country, through Registro.br.
Handling and responding to computer security incidents involving networks connected to the Internet in Brazil, activities of CERT.br.
Creating projects which support or improve the country's network infrastructure, such as the direct interconnection between networks (PTT.br) and the distribution of Brazilian Legal Time. These projects are the responsibility of CEPTRO.br;
The production and disclosure of indicators and statistics and strategic information on the development of the Internet in Brazil, under the responsibility of CETIC.br;
To promote studies and recommend procedures, norms and technical and operational standards, for the security of Internet networks and services, as well as for its increasing, facilitated and adequate use by the Brazilian society;
Technical and operational support to LACNIC, the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry.
Hosting the Brazilian Office of the W3C, whose main attribution is to develop Web standards.
See also
CGI.br (Brazilian Internet Steering Committee)
IX.br
Registro.br
Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
References
Bibliography
External links
(in Portuguese)
Internet in Brazil
Government agencies of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20sovereignty | Data sovereignty is the idea that data are subject to the laws and governance structures of the nation where they are collected. The concept of data sovereignty is closely linked with data security, cloud computing, network sovereignty and technological sovereignty. Unlike technological sovereignty, which is vaguely defined and can be used as an umbrella term in policymaking, data sovereignty is specifically concerned with questions surrounding the data itself. Data sovereignty as the idea that data is subject to the laws and governance structures within one nation is usually discussed in two ways: in relation to Indigenous groups and Indigenous autonomy from post-colonial states or in relation to transnational data flow. With the rise of cloud computing, many countries have passed various laws around the control and storage of data, which all reflect measures of data sovereignty. More than 100 countries have some sort of data sovereignty laws in place. With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their credentials, although a nation can still issue a digital identity in that paradigm.
History
The Snowden revelations on the National Security Agency's (NSA) PRISM program provided a catalyst for global data sovereignty discussions. It was revealed that the US was collecting vast swaths of data not only from American citizens, but from around the world. The program was designed “to "receive" emails, video clips, photos, voice and video calls, social networking details, logins and other data held by a range of US internet firms” such as American tech companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter among others. In the wake of the revelations, countries became increasingly concerned with who could access their national information and its potential repercussions. Their worries were further exacerbated due to the US Patriot Act. Under the act, US officials were granted access to any information physically within the United States (such as server farms), regardless of the information's origin. This meant that any information collected by an American server would have no protection from the US government.
Another instance that put data sovereignty in the news was a case between Microsoft and the US government. In 2013, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Microsoft grant the DoJ access to emails “related to a narcotics case from a Hotmail account hosted in Ireland”. Microsoft refused, stating that this transfer would result in the company breaking data localization and protecting laws in the EU. The initial ruling was in favour of the US government, with Magistrate James Francis concluding that American companies “must turn over private information when served with a valid search warrant from US law enforcement agencies. Microsoft asked for an appeal and went to court again in 2016 with the case Microsoft v. United States. John Frank, the VP for EU Government Affairs at Microsoft stated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atari%2C%20Inc.%20games%20%281972%E2%80%931984%29 | Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64. Atari began its operations by developing and producing some of the first arcade video games; the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space, was released in November 1971 by Atari founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering. The game in part marked the end of the early history of video games and the start of the rise of the commercial video game industry. After its founding in 1972, Atari released Pong, believed to be the third arcade video game after Computer Space and a clone game and the first commercially successful arcade video game machine, and thereafter produced numerous arcade games, including video games and pinball machines.
The arcade game market is split into manufacturers, distributors, and operators; manufacturers like Atari sell game machines to distributors—who handle several types of electronic machines—who in turn sell them to the operators of locations. In the early 1970s, distributors bought games on an exclusive basis, meaning that only one distributor in each distribution region would carry products from a given arcade game manufacturer, restricting the manufacturer to only the operators that distributor sold to. In 1973 Atari set up a secret subsidiary company, Kee Games, which was intended to sell clones of Atari's games in order to reach more distributors; Kee was merged with Atari the following year. Atari itself was sold to Warner Communications in 1976 and merged with Warner's WCI Games division, keeping the name Atari, Inc.
In 1975 Atari released Home Pong, its first of several Pong-based dedicated video game consoles, and in 1977 released its first home video game console, the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed the Atari 2600). From that point onward Atari developed both arcade games and console games, and in 1979 added games for their first home computers, the Atari 400 and 800. Atari produced a second home video game console in 1982, the Atari 5200, and four more home computer versions. Beginning in Summer 1981, Atari published the Atari Program Exchange, a quarterly mail-order catalog of software written for Atari computers by external developers which Atari then distributed to customers. In May 1983, Atari started the Atarisoft division, which produced ports of games by Atari and others for non-Atari home computers. In July 1984, as a result of falling sales due to the video game crash of 1983, Atari, Inc. was split apart by Warner Communications; the arcade division continued as a subsidiary of Warner under the name Atari Games, while the console and computer games divisions were sold off as Atari Corporation.
Games
Atari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20data%20ethics | Big data ethics also known as simply data ethics refers to systemizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct in relation to data, in particular personal data. Since the dawn of the Internet the sheer quantity and quality of data has dramatically increased and is continuing to do so exponentially. Big data describes this large amount of data that is so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them. Recent innovations in medical research and healthcare, such as high-throughput genome sequencing, high-resolution imaging, electronic medical patient records and a plethora of internet-connected health devices have triggered a data deluge that will reach the exabyte range in the near future. Data ethics is of increasing relevance as the quantity of data increases because of the scale of the impact.
Big data ethics are different from information ethics because the focus of information ethics is more concerned with issues of intellectual property and concerns relating to librarians, archivists, and information professionals, while big data ethics is more concerned with collectors and disseminators of structured or unstructured data such as data brokers, governments, and large corporations. However, since artificial intelligence or machine learning systems are regularly built using big data sets, the discussions surrounding data ethics are often intertwined with those in the ethics of artificial intelligence. More recently, issues of big data ethics have also been researched in relation with other areas of technology and science ethics, including ethics in mathematics and engineering ethics, as many areas of applied mathematics and engineering use increasingly large data sets.
Principles
Data ethics is concerned with the following principles:
Ownership - Individuals own their own data
Transaction transparency - If an individual's personal data is used, they should have transparent access to the algorithm design used to generate aggregate data sets
Consent - If an individual or legal entity would like to use personal data, one needs informed and explicitly expressed consent of what personal data moves to whom, when, and for what purpose from the owner of the data
Privacy - If data transactions occur all reasonable effort needs to be made to preserve privacy
Currency - Individuals should be aware of financial transactions resulting from the use of their personal data and the scale of these transactions
Openness - Aggregate data sets should be freely available
Ownership
Ownership of data involves determining rights and duties over property. The concept of data ownership is linked to the ability to exercise control over and limit the sharing of personal data. The question of ownership arises when one person records their observations on another person. The observer and the observed both state a claim. Questions also arise as to the responsibilities tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedunu%20Akase | ''Dedunu Akase (Mirror of Life'''; ) is a 2017 Sri Lankan Sinhala romantic film directed by Priyantha Colombage and produced by EAP Network Swarnavahini Production. It stars Hemal Ranasinghe in the lead role, along with newcomers Chulakshi Ranathunga and Shanel Fernando. The music was composed by Chitral Somapala. It is the 1288th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
Supporting actor Dasun Nishan committed suicide on 27 September 2017, prior to the screening of the film. The muhurath ceremony was held at Galadari Hotel, Colombo. The film has received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
While the dancing troupe of a college was practicing for a competition, one of their members get injured. To fill up the space, the teacher decides to join Pavani who’s a very attractive girl from the junior batch and the new roommate of Vihangi who’s a leading dancer in the troupe. Vihangi is in love with a boy named Samudra who’s also a leading dancer in the troupe, but even though she gives him so many hints about that, he never seems to understand. Time flies and after they leave college everyone’s on their own separate paths in life.
Samudra becomes a famous dancer in the country. His parents arrange for him a marriage to a family his father is friends with and the proposed girl turns out to be Pavani from his college. They’re both surprised and start to think they just met each other’s soulmates. They then happily marry and move to their own house. On the same day, Samudra hands over a pile of letters and asks Pavani to check them and separate the bills for him and Pavani comes across a letter from Vihangi in the pile. The letter says she’s carrying Samudra’s baby with all her love which makes Pavani stressed out. She doesn’t tell this to Samudra. Samudra finds Pavani stressed out, so to make her happy, he decides to take her on a ride in his fast car and they are met with an accident where Pavani dies. Samudra is left alone with the guilt that he killed his own wife.
8 years Later
Vihangi’s daughter, Sayuri grows up and lives with her mother and grandfather. But she never has seen her father. Even though Vihangi is a great dancer, Sayuri hates dancing. One day at school, Sayuri finds a pretty, young lady (Pavani’s soul) playing the piano in a quiet place at her school and the lady speaks to her. Pavani says she knows Vihangi and asks Sayuri if she knows who her father is. As the person who received that letter and destroyed it, she felt like it was her responsibility to introduce Samudra to Sayuri. Pavani convinces Sayuri to dance in the inter-school ballet competition and practices her for that, promising, in the end, she would bring her father to her. Sayuri agrees.
A colleague of Samudra visits him during one of Samudra’s visits to Sri Lanka and says Vihangi is now a teacher at a rural school and they decide to go see their old friend. But they couldn’t meet her as she wasn’t home that day.
A few days later Samudra receives an invitation as the ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Greenleaf%20episodes | Greenleaf is an American television drama series, created by Craig Wright, which premiered June 21, 2016, on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
The series follows the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family (Bishop James Greenleaf, his wife Lady Mae, and their once-estranged daughter Grace) with scandalous secrets and lies, and their sprawling Memphis megachurch with predominantly African-American members.
During the course of the series, 60 episodes of Greenleaf aired, between June 21, 2016, and August 11, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Season 3 (2018)
Season 4 (2019)
Season 5 (2020)
Ratings
References
External links
Greenleaf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Design%20of%20Design | The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist is a book by Fred Brooks.
References
2010 non-fiction books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Public%20Interest%20Research%20Group | Ontario Public Interest Research Group is a decentralized network of local Public Interest Research Groups located in the province of Ontario, Canada.
OPIRG was founded in 1972 after a speech by Ralph Nader at the University of Waterloo.
Unlike the U.S. PIRG, each OPIRG operates independently on the local level, with members deciding which action projects to pursue. OPIRG has no affiliations with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Multiple OPIRG groups have been targets of defunding campaigns by conservative groups.
References
External links
OPIRG Network
Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group
Mohawk PIRG
OPIRG Brock
OPIRG Carleton
OPIRG Guelph
OPIRG Kingston
OPIRG McMaster
OPIRG Peterborough
OPIRG Toronto
OPIRG Windsor
OPIRG York
OPIRG-GRIPO Ottawa
WPIRG
Public Interest Research Groups
Organizations based in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20with%20Talent | Youth with Talent is a Sri Lankan reality show that has been airing on ITN (Independent Television Network) since 2016. It was the first Sri Lankan reality talent show.
ITN initiated and executed Youth with Talent with assistance from the National Youth Services Council (NYSC). It was created and by Sandaruwan Jayawickrama, a musical and tele-drama director.
Youths between the ages of 15 – 35 participate in the contest to showcase their talents. The objective is to bring them to the international level and to make their dreams a reality. The main theme of the contest is, "If determination is, the victory – Talent should be extraordinary.”
Youth with Talent 2016 was judged by a panel of judges who voted on every round except the finale which was concluded by the judges and the final round was open to public vote. This selection methodology continues in the next seasons. Some of the acts include singing, dancing, acting, acrobatics, martial arts, and gymnastics.
Rounds
Auditions
Approximately twenty acts participate in each episode. About seven of those acts are chosen to compete in Round 2. The acts are chosen by the judges, without any input from the public.
Challenge round
This round is open to acts who were eliminated during the auditions. They have a chance to showcase their talent again, and the judges select a couple more acts to move on to Round 2.
Round 2
Each round has a guest judge. Together with the main panel of judges, they determine which acts compete in the semi-finals.
Semi-finals
Only two semi-final rounds are held. Acts chosen from Round 2 compete against one another, and five of those acts are chosen to compete in the Grand Finale in each episode.
Wild card round
One more act is chosen from those eliminated during the semi-finals, to compete in the Grand Finale.
Grand finale round
Eleven acts compete against each other and only the top three are awarded. The top three acts are chosen based on the judges' vote and the public vote.
References
Television in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Vida | Rede Vida (also styled as REDEVIDA) is a Brazilian Catholic television network headquartered in São José do Rio Preto, SP, covering 90% of the Brazilian territory through affiliated networks and satellite. It was founded on 1 May 1995. The channel is one of 16 commercial channels that is required for carriage on all satellite providers.
Programming
Rede Vida offers mainly Catholic programming, such as masses, novenas and rosaries, but also news, interviews, variety and sports programs. The channel broadcasts lower-division Campeonato Paulista football games (Série A2, A3 and Segunda Divisão) and Copa São Paulo.
See also
2005 in Brazilian television
Catholic television
Catholic television channels
Catholic television networks
Television in Brazil
References
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Television networks in Brazil
Catholic television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201994%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1994, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Éxitos internacionales en México" ("International Hits in Mexico"), which listed the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1994 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1994 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Computing%20Since%20Democritus | Quantum Computing Since Democritus is a 2013 book on quantum information science written by Scott Aaronson. It is loosely based on a course Aaronson taught at the University of Waterloo, Canada, the lecture notes for which are available online.
Contents
Aaronson has stated that he intends the book to be at the same level as Leonard Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum or Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality; Physics Today compared it to George Gamow's One Two Three... Infinity. The book covers everything from computer science to mathematics to quantum mechanics and quantum computing, starting, as the title indicates, with Democritus.
Author
Scott Aaronson is a professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was previously a member of faculty at MIT.
Reception
Michael Nielsen called the book "a beautiful synthesis of what we know", while Seth Lloyd praised it as "lucid", describing Aaronson as a "tornado of intellectual activity".
The Journal of the American Mathematical Society considered it to have "much insight, wisdom, and fun", but conceded that it "is not for everyone'.
References
Quantum computing
Quantum information theory
2013 non-fiction books
Popular science books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Almossawi | Ali Almossawi (born December 1, 1984) is an author of books on critical thinking and computer science education, and the creator of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. He is also a principal engineer at Apple, and was formerly a data visualization engineer at Mozilla. He has stated that his day job helps his writing by constraining his time.
Education
He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering in 2005 and holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a Master of Science in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Illustrated books
Almossawi published the first edition of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments in July 2013, by sharing it online for free and supporting the project with donations and sales of a print edition. In December 2013, the book was acquired by Experiment Books who released a second edition in September 2014.
Volunteers have translated the book into twelve languages and the book's website has been visited by 2.6 million visitors. The book has appeared in print in Russian, Italian, Korean, Slovak, French, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
In 2016, Almossawi announced that his second book Bad Choices, an introduction to computer science, had been acquired by Penguin Random House and was to be published the following year. He also shared that it was to be translated into Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Complex Chinese, Russian, and Turkish.
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf described the book as "one of the more clever ways of introducing computational thinking to the general public" and MIT Media Lab professor and physicist Cesar Hidalgo described it as "perfect for anyone wanting to understand the basics of Computer Science."
Data visualization
Almossawi's data visualization work has received press coverage. The Firefox Hardware Report, which he codeveloped while at Mozilla, was covered by Engadget and SD Times. His visualization of the Big Five US publishers and their imprints was featured on Tor and shared over 5,000 times on Facebook. His visualization of the education level of world leaders has received over 47,000 visits and was among 20 great visualizations of 2012. In 2015, Almossawi gave his only recorded talk on the practice of data visualization at Google's San Francisco office.
Personal life
Almossawi has stated that he identifies with humanist values.
Publications
Publications by Almossawi
Publications with contributions by Almossawi
"Visualizing ambiguity in an era of data abundance and very large software systems" by Almossawi in New challenges for data design. London, UK: Springer, 2015. .
"Don’t Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too" by Almossawi in Bright.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Massachusetts Institute o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Rogati | Monica Rogati is a data scientist, computer scientist and the former Vice President of Data of Jawbone. Before that, she was a senior data scientist at LinkedIn.
Early life and education
Rogati was born in Romania, where she attended the Tudor Vianu National College of Computer Science. Rogati has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
Rogati was Vice President of Data of Jawbone from 2013 to 2015. Previously, she was a senior data scientist at LinkedIn for five years, where she built the initial version of LinkedIn's job matching system and the first machine learning model for LinkedIn’s "People You May Know" feature. She is currently an equity partner at Data Collective (DCVC) and a scientific advisor to CrowdFlower.
Media
Rogati has been interviewed and featured by the New York Times, Recode, and others. In 2014, she was named a "Big Data All-Star" by Fortune and was named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company. In 2013, she was named an "Enterprise Superstar" by VentureBeat.
References
External links
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Data scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xafecopy%20Trojan | Xafecopy Trojan is a malware software targeting the Android operating system, first identified in September 2017 by cybersecurity and antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab. According to Kaspersky Lab, Xafecopy infected at least 4,800 users within a month in approximately 47 countries. Users in India were its primary victims, followed by users from Russia, Turkey, and Mexico.
History
Xafecopy was first discovered by Kaspersky in 2017 when it infected thousands of android-based devices in India. The malware was reported to be embedded in a variety of apps, most commonly in battery optimizers. Malicious code is downloaded onto the device without the knowledge or consent of the user. The app clicks on web pages that use the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) billing method, and Xafecopy subscribes the phone to a number of services which charge money directly to the user's mobile phone bill. The technology is also able to bypass Captcha systems.
Xafecopy has been found using JavaScript file names which was previously used by infamous Ztorg Trojan, triggering speculation of a possibility of code sharing between cyber criminal gangs.
Operation
Xafecopy disguises itself as a useful app, often a battery optimizer. It operates by clicking on web pages with WAP billing system which is a form of mobile payment system charged directly to the mobile bill. The malware works in WAP-enabled android devices over a GPRS or 3G wireless connection and is based on the Ubsod family. It was detected by Kaspersky Lab as Trojan-Clicker-AndroidOS.Xafekopy. Xafecopy receives the WAP billing URL addresses of the web pages through a command-and-control server. Once the URL address is received at the device, it clicks on the WAP billing links, which initiates a WAP session with the server, which then obtains the user's MSISDN and charges directly to the user's mobile carrier bill and subscribes to unwanted paid services.
Xafecopy appears to use technology which bypasses captcha systems. According to Kaspersky Lab, it shares significant coding obtained from other significant malware.
Modified versions of Xafecopy were also identified to have the capability of sending SMS from the device to premium-rate phone numbers, deleting incoming SMS from the mobile network provider, and hiding alerts about balance deduction by reading incoming messages and checking for words like "subscription".
It is also capable of switching a user from WiFi connection to mobile data, as WAP billing works only when the user is connected to a mobile connection.
See also
Trojan horse (computing)
WAP
References
Trojan horses
Android (operating system) malware
Spyware
Malware toolkits
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo%20%28TV%20series%29 | Oswaldo is an animated television series created by Pedro Eboli for Cartoon Network. The series was produced in Brazil by Birdo Studio, while the second season to the fourth and final season was produced in association with the Indian studio Symbiosys Entertainment. It first premiered on Cartoon Network in Brazil on October 11, 2017 and on TV Cultura on October 29, 2017.
The series is produced by Birdo Studio, which is notoriously recognized as one of the main Brazilian animation studios and gained worldwide fame by creating and developing the mascots of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Summer Paralympics. The studio also developed the short films involving the 2 mascots that were shown on Cartoon Network Brazil during the period prior to the games.
The show was a runner-up for an idea pitching project in Brazil, back in 2014, with 'Cartoon.Job' being the overall winner, however it was eventually picked up for a full series.
On September 23, 2017, it was announced that the series had its international distribution rights secured by Kid Glove. On February 7, 2018, it was announced the show had been renewed for a 39-episode second season starting June 3, 2019.
The title sequence of the show was done by Dutch-American director Fons Schiedon.
Plot
Oswaldo shows the daily life of a 12-year old penguin who is in the 6th grade. Together with his friends Tobias and Leia, he faces the challenge of surviving school. With agile humor and a lot of bites from Brazilian pop culture, the series follows the title character and his immense ability to transform the simplest situations in life into epic journeys. Oswaldo's oddities are part of the daily life of his family and friends who understand that it is our eccentricities that make each of us special.
Characters
Oswaldo (voiced by Joel Vieira) A 12-year-old penguin.
Leia (voiced by Melissa Garcia) Oswaldo's best friend.
Tobias (voiced by Vini Wolf) Oswaldo's best friend.
Voice cast
Brazilian Portuguese cast
Joel Vieira as Oswaldo
Melissa Garcia as Leia
Vini Wolf as Tobias
Episodes
International release
References
External links
Official Facebook page for the show
Official Facebook page for the company
2010s Brazilian animated television series
2017 Brazilian television series debuts
2017 Indian television series debuts
2017 animated television series debuts
Brazilian children's animated adventure television series
Indian children's animated adventure television series
Brazilian children's animated comedy television series
Brazilian flash animated television series
Portuguese-language television shows
English-language television shows
Cartoon Network original programming
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about penguins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bird | Peter Bird may refer to:
Peter Bird (IT manager) (1934–2017), British computer operator
Peter Bird (footballer) (born 1976), Australian rules footballer
Peter Bird (rower) (died 1996), British ocean rower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bird%20%28IT%20manager%29 | Peter John Bird (1934–2017) was a British computer operator in the early days of commercial computing, and rose to be a director of Lyons Computer Services.
Bird was born in 1934 in north London, the second son of Eileen (née Darnell) and Jack Bird, a solicitors’ clerk. He served in the Merchant Navy, eventually becoming a first officer.
Bird worked for J. Lyons and Co. from 1964 to 1991, initially as an operator of the LEO III computer.
From the late 1980s, he developed an interest on the history of computing at Lyons, and thus in the history of the company in general. This led to him writing two books, one on each topic.
He also developed a secondary career, as a consultant on Lyons' history for television programmes, on some of which he appeared.
The LEO Computers Society's 2016 book 'LEO Remembered' is dedicated to him. In later years, he lived in Wokingham.
He died on 16 August 2017, aged 82.
Bibliography
References
1934 births
2017 deaths
Writers from London
English non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Davies%20%28darts%20player%29 | Ben Davies (born 27 May 1980 from Crewe) is a professional English darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation events.
References
External links
Profile and stats on Darts Database
1980 births
Living people
English darts players
Professional Darts Corporation associate players
Sportspeople from Crewe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Cold%20Cash | Ice Cold Cash is a Canadian game show that ran from February 10 to June 6, 2012 for 28 episodes on Food Network.
Overview
Host Joseph Motiki dresses as an ice cream seller and pedals around in an ice cream cart. The general public approaches the cart as if to get ice cream or a frozen treat, only to be told he has nothing in stock. Motiki explains that he only has cash and that there are ten questions that may be food, drink, or culinary related. The first question is for $10 and every question thereafter doubles. When contestants reach $160, they can't leave with anything less.
There were two segments in the show. The first one was where people were given a kitchen gadget and asked if they knew what the kitchen gadget was. The correct response would get them $20. A second segment is a game of charades where one person acts out the item given to them to by Motiki.
The ice cream cart was built by Great Lake Scenic Studios.
Episodes
References
External links
2012 Canadian television series debuts
2012 Canadian television series endings
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Story%20in%20Shanghai | Love Story in Shanghai, also known as Symphony of Rain, is a 2001 Chinese period television drama series directed by Zhao Baogang, set in 1930s Shanghai.
The show was broadcast on 14 national networks almost simultaneously beginning in late May 2001, and more than 20 local networks during the year. It dominated ratings on Shanghai Television and was the top-rated show on Guangdong Television for the year. In Taiwan, it was broadcast on Taiwan Television in February/March 2001 and received respectable ratings. In Japan, the show was streamed on the website showtime.jp beginning in May 2007.
Cast
Zhou Xun as Du Xinyu
Chen Kun as Chen Zikun
Lu Yi as Li Yingqi
Luo Haiqiong as Fang Ziyi
Li Xiaoran as An Qi
Sun Honglei as Ah Lai
Liu Jui-chi as Wu Chuyu
Kou Hsi-shun as Du Yunhe
Xu Huanhuan as Fan Lijun
Liao Fan as Wu Boping
Yu Luosheng as Li Rongsheng
References
External links
2001 Chinese television series debuts
2001 Chinese television series endings
Television shows set in Shanghai
Television shows filmed in Shanghai
Mandarin-language television shows
Chinese period television series
Chinese romance television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniffing%20attack | Sniffing attack in context of network security, corresponds to theft or interception of data by capturing the network traffic using a packet sniffer (an application aimed at capturing network packets). When data is transmitted across networks, if the data packets are not encrypted, the data within the network packet can be read using a sniffer. Using a sniffer application, an attacker can analyze the network and gain information to eventually cause the network to crash or to become corrupted, or read the communications happening across the network.
General
Sniffing attacks can be compared to tapping of phone wires and get to know about the conversation, and for this reason, it is also referred as wiretapping applied to computer networks. Using sniffing tools, attackers can sniff sensitive information from a network, including email (SMTP, POP, IMAP), web (HTTP), FTP (Telnet authentication, FTP Passwords, SMB, NFS) and many more types of network traffic. The packet sniffer usually sniffs the network data without making any modifications in the network's packets. Packet sniffers can just watch, display, and log the traffic, and this information can be accessed by the attacker.
Prevention
To prevent networks from sniffing attacks, organizations and individual users should keep away from applications that are using insecure protocols, like basic HTTP authentication, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Telnet. Instead, secure protocols such as HTTPS, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), and Secure Shell (SSH) should be preferred. In case there is a necessity for using any insecure protocol in any application, all the data transmission should be encrypted. If required, VPN (Virtual Private Networks) can be used to provide secure access to users.
See also
Cloud computing security
Cyber security standards
Data loss prevention software
Network Security Toolkit
Wireless security
References
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin%20Reports | Pumpkin Reports is a Spanish-Malaysian-Italian computer animated science fiction comedy television series. It was produced by Motion Pictures and was broadcast from October 31, 2015, to April 23, 2016, on Nickelodeon, Clan, and Rai Gulp. 52 episodes were produced.
Plot
Loom and Ran are Kemiies who were sent to the Earth in order to send back reports and plan the invasion. Max Green's relatively normal life changes after he discovers that. Since his parents will not believe him, Max is left to stop the Kemiies' earth-dominating plots. Max receives help from his friends, including Violet – Max's friendly nemesis since kindergarten, Pixel – the town's nerd and most convinced alien believer, and Simon Sillicon – a genius scientist fallen into disgrace. Most of Loom's and Ran's plans are failed causing the invasion to be put off. All that comes to change later Loom's soulmate, who is a human. With his help the invasion is getting closer.
Characters
Loom Prxbtlyp
Loom Prxbtlyp, also referred to as her civilian name, Teresa Green (voiced by Onalea Gilbertson) is, upon first inspection, a polite, neatly-dressed, well-behaved pre-teen girl who was adopted by the Greens family. She's a straight-A student and respects her elders. But in actuality she is a Kemii dedicated to taking over the earth and enslaving its inhabitants, as her job is to send nightly reports describing the human race to the orbiting Kemii to speed up the impending invasion and later to start the invasion. She has trouble grasping the subtleties of human nature, and tends to see humans as illogical and like an ant farm. Loom has a very sensitive side and sometimes becomes more human than a Kemii. Later her soulmate came in the series and together they plan the invasion and their ruling.
Loom chose her disguise of a cute 12-year-old Teresa based on characters she saw on a movie billboard from across the Greens' house, and named his brother Goliath off of a dog's ID tag.
Ran Strb
Ran Strb, also referred to as his civilian name, Goliath Green (voiced by Pietro Ubaldi) is a 380-year-old Kemii who was nearing retirement when he got his assignment and thought the job would be a drag. Ran doesn't speak in any Earth languages, and instead speaks only the Kemii language. His body is heavily clothed and he has a mop of pumpkin-orange hair, so only a portion of his face is ever shown. He also has a long vegetal tail with a mind of its own, and can extend a slimy psedupodal green stalk-body on which he can elevate his kindergarten-sized self to an intimidating 20-feet high.
Victor Green
Victor Green (voiced by H.D. Quinn) is a loving, if somewhat distracted, father and a doting husband. He has the ambition of doing great things for his family. He and his son, Max share a positive outlook on life, and a slight tendency to be unrealistically optimistic. He is a mid-level executive at Cucurtown's biggest business, Cutlery Land.
Laura Green
Laura Green (voiced by Lindsay Sheppard) is Max's m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontiers%20of%20Computer%20Science | Frontiers of Computer Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal in English, co-published by Springer and Higher Education Press. It publishes research papers, review articles, and letters in computer science, including system architecture, software, artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, networks and communication, information systems, multimedia and graphics, information security, etc. The editor-in-chief is Wei LI (Beihang University, China); the executive editors-in-chief are Zhang XIONG (Beihang University, China) and Zhi-Hua ZHOU (Nanjing University, China).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
SCOPUS
INSPEC
Zentralblatt Math
Google Scholar
ACM Digital Library
Chinese Science Citation Database
Current Contents/Engineering
Computing and Technology
DBLP
EI-Compendex
Expanded Academic
OCLC
SCImago
References
External links
Official website
Computer science journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuintessenceLabs | QuintessenceLabs Pty Ltd. (or QuintessenceLabs) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Canberra, Australia with offices in San Jose, California. QuintessenceLabs produces encryption key and policy management products that conform to the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), as well as a hardware random number generator, development of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, and other encryption solutions that include automatic key zeroization.
The company was founded in 2008 by Dr Vikram Sharma, following research on quantum technology conducted at The Australian National University by Sharma, Thomas Symul, Andrew Lance and Ping Koy Lam.
Westpac Group, a major investor, extended two rounds of funding to QuintessenceLabs in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
In July 2017, QuintessenceLabs received a grant of AU$3.26M from the Australian Department of Defence's Innovation Hub to develop a free-space quantum key distribution system.
References
External links
Company website
Quantum key to unbreakable cryptography
First Look: QuintessenceLabs Trusted Security Foundation (TSF)
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Address to SINET61
The random number generator powered by the quantum 'crackle in the universe’
KMIP Implementations known to the KMIP TC
The Future of Cybersecurity Is in High-Speed Quantum Encryption
IBM warns of instant breaking of encryption by quantum computers
Time to invest in skills for quantum computing revolution
Quantum cryptography
Software companies of Australia
Random number generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Moffat%20%28mathematician%29 | James Moffat is a mathematician. He was a boffin in the 1982 Falklands war. He wrote Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare, which has 275 scholarly citations.
Moffat is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aberdeen, where he studies quantum gravity. He has published 135 articles. He is a recipient of the Napier Medal in Mathematics and the President’s Medal of the ORS; the 'nobel medal in analytics'. He is also a Fellow of OR, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and a Chartered Mathematician. His contributions to the literature cited 560 times include new theories for Loop Quantum Gravity based on the Mathematics of Operator Algebras.
Moffat was an early writer on the topic of the Agile Organization. Business agility, generally, had been discussed before, but agility, specifically in the context of military organizations, was a new field in 2005.
Selected publications
Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare, citation count of 275
The Agile Organization: From Informal Networks to Complex Effects and Agility, citation count of 138
Command And Control In The Information Age: Representing Its Impact, citation count of 60
References
1948 births
Living people
British mathematicians
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seidel%27s%20algorithm | Seidel's algorithm is an algorithm designed by Raimund Seidel in 1992 for the all-pairs-shortest-path problem for undirected, unweighted, connected graphs. It solves the problem in expected time for a graph with vertices, where is the exponent in the complexity of matrix multiplication. If only the distances between each pair of vertices are sought, the same time bound can be achieved in the worst case. Even though the algorithm is designed for connected graphs, it can be applied individually to each connected component of a graph with the same running time overall. There is an exception to the expected running time given above for computing the paths: if the expected running time becomes .
Details of the implementation
The core of the algorithm is a procedure that computes the length of the shortest-paths between any pair of vertices.
This can be done in time in the worst case. Once the lengths are computed, the paths can be reconstructed using a Las Vegas algorithm whose expected running time is for and for .
Computing the shortest-paths lengths
The Python code below assumes the input graph is given as a - adjacency matrix with zeros on the diagonal. It defines the function APD which returns a matrix with entries such that is the length of the shortest path between the vertices and . The matrix class used can be any matrix class implementation supporting the multiplication, exponentiation, and indexing operators (for example numpy.matrix).
def apd(A, n: int):
"""Compute the shortest-paths lengths."""
if all(A[i][j] for i in range(n) for j in range(n) if i != j):
return A
Z = A ** 2
B = matrix([
[1 if i != j and (A[i][j] == 1 or Z[i][j] > 0) else 0 for j in range(n)]
for i in range(n)])
T = apd(B, n)
X = T*A
degree = [sum(A[i][j] for j in range(n)) for i in range(n)]
D = matrix([
[2 * T[i][j] if X[i][j] >= T[i][j] * degree[j] else 2 * T[i][j] - 1 for j in range(n)]
for i in range(n)])
return D
The base case tests whether the input adjacency matrix describes a complete graph, in which case all shortest paths have length .
Graphs with weights from finite universes
Algorithms for undirected and directed graphs with weights from a finite universe also exist. The best known algorithm for the directed case is in time by Zwick in 1998. This algorithm uses rectangular matrix multiplication instead of square matrix multiplication. Better upper bounds can be obtained if one uses the best rectangular matrix multiplication algorithm available instead of achieving rectangular multiplication via multiple square matrix multiplications. The best known algorithm for the undirected case is in time by Shoshan and Zwick in 1999. The original implementation of this algorithm was erroneous and has been corrected by Eirinakis, Williamson, and Subramani in 2016.
Notes
Graph algorithms
Polynomial-time problems
Computational problems in graph theory
Articles with example P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Watson%20Studio | Watson Studio, formerly Data Science Experience or DSX, is IBM’s software platform for data science. The platform consists of a workspace that includes multiple collaboration and open-source tools for use in data science.
In Watson Studio, a data scientist can create a project with a group of collaborators, all having access to various analytics models and using various languages (R/Python/Scala). Watson Studio brings together staple open source tools including RStudio, Spark and Python in an integrated environment, along with additional tools such as a managed Spark service and data shaping facilities, in a secure and governed environment.
Watson Studio provides access to data sets that are available through Watson Data Platform, on-premises or on the cloud. The platform also has a large community and embedded resources such as articles on the latest developments from the data science world and public data sets. The platform is available in on-premises, cloud, and desktop forms.
History
IBM announced the launch of Data Science Experience at the Spark Summit 2016 in San Francisco. IBM invested $300 million in efforts to make Spark the analytics operating system for all of the company's big data efforts.
In June 2017, Hortonworks and IBM announced their partnership to collaborate on IBM's Data Science Experience. Hortonworks previously had a partnership relationship with Microsoft.
In 2018, the Data Science Experience platform was renamed IBM Watson Studio.
References
IBM software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolting%20Puppets | Revolting Puppets are a punk band that formed in Bern, Switzerland in 2014. Revolting Puppets are a characteristic bands in the cyberpunk scene and based in Switzerland, especially in Bern, where they have played in iconic concert halls like Reitschule.
The band has a characteristic cyberpunk style, which is particularly noticeable in their performances, as the band wears very particular costumes, with helmets made with electronic elements and LED illuminated glasses.
The band has a classic punk sound mixed with electronic tones, and also adds elements of noise and synthwave.
Style
Musical style
Revolting Puppets are characterized by a mixture of styles in a very aggressive way, so while a punk influence seems to prevail, there are many purely electronic effects and a strong influence of rock. Moreover, according to their cyberpunk style, the band uses chiptune effects to generate a retro style sound.
This eclectic musical style can also be appreciated in the band influences, since the band quotes as its inspirations not only classic rock bands like Pink Floyd, but also contemporary bands like Daft Punk.
Revolting Puppets universe
The Revolting Puppets have created a parallel universe around the band. In this fiction world, an evil elite, known as the M-Pire, rules all aspects of society and oppresses the weak. This Orwellian view of the world connects with our own world, and is used as a hyperbole to highlight where our society could become.
This clear cyberpunk vision is a symbol of the social engagement of the band, with frequent political allusions in its concerts and also with some songs like Dear MTV, openly critical with the evolution of MTV's musical selection which is a metaphor for modern society decadence.
References
External links
Revolting Puppets Official Website .
Swiss musical quartets
Musical groups established in 2010
Cyberpunk music
2010 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioData%20Mining | BioData Mining is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering data mining methods applied to computational biology and medicine established in 2008. It is published by BioMed Central and the editors-in-chief are Jason H. Moore and Marylyn D. Ritchie (University of Pennsylvania).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.079.
References
External links
BioMed Central academic journals
Biomedical informatics journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
Academic journals established in 2008
Continuous journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Michaelson | Sidney Michaelson FRSE FIMA FSA FBCS (5 December 1925 – 21 February 1991) was Scotland's first professor of Computer Science. He was joint founder of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. As an author he is remembered for his analysis of the Bible.
Life
He was born on 5 December 1925 in the East End of London into a relatively poor family. Academically brilliant he won a scholarship to Imperial College, London. He studied mathematics and graduated in 1946. Subsequently he was co-designer of the Imperial College Computing Engine with Tony Brooker and Ken Tocher. He began lecturing at Imperial College in 1949. In 1963 he moved to the University of Edinburgh as Director of its newly founded Computer Unit, and in 1969 became the first Professor of Computer Science.
Notable students included Rosemary Candlin.
In 1969 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Nicholas Kemmer, David Finney, Sir Michael Swann and Arthur Erdelyi.
He died in Edinburgh on 21 February 1991.
Family
His wife Kitty died in 1995. They had four children.
One of his sons, Greg, is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Recognition
In 1991 the University of Edinburgh created the Sidney Michaelson Prize in Computer Science his honour.
Michaelson Square in Livingston is named in his memory.
Publications
K. D. Tocher and S. Michaelson, The Imperial College Computing Engine, in R. V. Bowden (ed), Faster Than Thought, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1953, pp161-164.
R. E. D. Bishop, G. M. L. Gladwell and S. Michaelson, The Matrix Analysis of Vibration, Cambridge University Press, 1965.
S. Michaelson and A. Q. Morton, Positional Stylometry, in A. J. Aitken, R. W. Bailey and N. Hamilton-Smith, The Computer and Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 1973, pp69-83.
S. Michaelson, A. Q. Morton and N. Hamilton-Smith. To Couple is the Custom, CSR-22-78, Internal Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Revised November 1978.
S. Michaelson, A. Q. Morton and N. Hamilton-Smith, Justice for Helander, CSR-42-79, Internal Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, July 1979.
A Critical Concordance of I and II Corinthians (1979)
A Critical Concordance of the Letter of Paul to the Romans (1977)
A. Q. Morton and S. Michaelson, The Qsum Plot, CSR-3-90, Internal Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, April 1990.
References
1925 births
1991 deaths
Academics of Imperial College London
Mathematicians from London
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20L.%20Dill | David Lansing Dill (born January 8, 1957) is a computer scientist and academic noted for contributions to formal verification, electronic voting security, and computational systems biology.
In 2013, Dill was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the development of techniques to verify hardware, software, and electronic voting systems.
He is the Donald E. Knuth Professor, Emeritus, in the School of Engineering and Professor, Emeritus, of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Biography
Dill received an S.B. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1979, an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1987, also from Carnegie-Mellon University. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of the computer science department at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He became an associate professor in 1994 and a full professor in 2000. In 2016 he became the first recipient of the Donald E. Knuth Professorship, an endowed chair in the Stanford University School of Engineering. From July 1995 to September 1996, he was Chief Scientist at 0-In Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2004), and, from 2016 to 2017, he was Chief Scientist at LocusPoint Networks, LLC. He is currently a Lead Researcher working on blockchain infrastructure at Novi Financial (a subsidiary of Meta).
Work
Dill's interests include asynchronous circuit design, software and hardware verification, automatic theorem proving, electronic voting security, and computational systems biology.
His Ph.D. dissertation was an important contribution to asynchronous circuit verification and was published by MIT Press in 1989.
He contributed to the development of symbolic model checking, helping to improve the scalability of the technique.
Soon after arriving at Stanford, Dill and his students developed the murphi finite state verifier, which was later used to check cache coherence protocols in multiprocessors and CPU's of several major computer manufacturers.
He and Rajeev Alur extended classical automata theory with real-valued clocks, inventing timed automata.
In 1994, he and Jerry Burch published an influential paper on microprocessor verification, inventing a technique known as the Burch-Dill verification method.
He was also an early contributor to the research field known as satisfiability modulo theories (SMT), supervising the development of several early SMT solvers: the Stanford Validity Checker (SVC),
the Cooperating Validity Checker (CVC),
and the Simple Theorem Prover (STP).
And he contributed to the development of a key application of SMT solvers to software testing known as concolic testing.
Electronic Voting
In January 2003, Dill authored the "Resolution on Electronic Voting", which calls for a voter-verifiable audit trail on all voting equipment. The resoluti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub%20labels | In computer science, hub labels or the hub-labelling algorithm is a method that consumes much fewer resources than the lookup table but is still extremely fast for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks.
This method allows at the most with two SELECT statements and the analysis of two strings to compute the shortest path between two vertices of a graph.
For a graph that is oriented like a road graph, this technique requires the prior computation of two tables from structures constructed using the method of the contraction hierarchies.
In the end, these two computed tables will have as many rows as nodes present within the graph. For each row (each node), a label will be calculated.
A label is a string containing the distance information between the current node (the node of the row) and all the other nodes that can be reached with an ascending search on the relative multi-level structure. The advantage of these distances is that they all represent the shortest paths.
So, for future queries, the search of a shortest path will start from the source on the first table and the destination on the second table, from which it will search within the labels for the common nodes with the associated distance information. Only the smallest sum of distances will be kept as the shortest path result.
References
Mathematical logic
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20and%20Southern%20Electricity%20Networks | Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (the trading name of Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution Limited, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission plc, Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc and Southern Electric Power Distribution plc) is one of two energy companies in the UK to be involved both in electricity transmission and distribution.
The company forms part of the SSE plc group, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks manages two distribution networks and one transmission network. The company manages two of the fourteen distribution licenses in Great Britain. The company's electricity distribution and transmission networks carry electricity to over 3.7 million homes and businesses across the north of the Central Belt of Scotland, as well as Central Southern England. The company operates in the United Kingdom with head offices in Perth, Scotland and Reading, England.
History
Origins
The company has its origins in two public sector electricity supply authorities. Scottish Hydroelectric, founded as the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board in 1943, was established to design, construct and manage hydroelectricity projects in the Highlands of Scotland, and took over a further generation and distribution responsibilities when the UK's electricity industry was nationalized in 1948. Southern Electric, founded as Southern Electricity Board in 1948, was created to distribute electricity in Southern England. While the Southern Electricity Board was a distribution-only authority with no power generation capacity of its own, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board was a broader spectrum organisation which did have power-generating capabilities. Because of its history and location, the Hydroelectric Board was responsible for most of the UK's hydroelectric generating capacity.
Both authorities were privatized and re-branded in 1990/91, initially retaining their pre-privatization geographic and functional bases.
Post-privatization
In 1998, Scottish and Southern Energy was formed following a merger between Scottish Hydroelectric and Southern Electric. This part of the SSE plc group is now referred to as Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks.
Rebranding
In September 2016, the well-known trading names of Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD), Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD), Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission (SHET), and Southern Electric Power Distribution (SEPD), merged into a single trading entity known as the Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. The licensee names of the four did not change.
As part of the rebranding, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks changed their logo, color scheme, imagery set, social media channels, and website. They also introduced a new company motto centred around being a part of the community they serve: "Powering our Community."
Partnerships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20onion%20router | A wireless onion router is a router that uses Tor to connect securely to a network. The onion router allows the user to connect to the internet anonymously creating an anonymous connection. Tor works using an overlaid network which is free throughout the world, this overlay network is created by using numerous relay points created using volunteer which helps the user hide personal information behind layers of encrypted data like layers of an onion. Routers are being created using Raspberry Pi adding a wireless module or using its own inbuilt wireless module in the later versions.
This router provides encryption at the seventh layer (application layer) of the OSI model, which makes it transparent encryption, the user does not have to think about how the data will be sent or received. The encrypted data includes the destination and origin IP address of the data and the current relay point only knows the previous and the next hop of the encrypted packet. These relay points are selected in a random order and can only decrypt a single layer before forwarding it to the next hop where is the procedure is followed unless it is the destination point.
Applications
A wireless router which can use the onion router network can be used to keep the user safe from hackers or network sniffers. The data captured by them won't make any sense as it will only look like messed up text. These are small and handy which will give the user a freedom to carry this tool and connect to the network from anywhere. This setup does not require installation of Tor browser on the work station. Whistle blowers and NGO workers use this network to pass information or to talk to their family without disclosing any information. The applications of wireless onion router are common to a normal router, it provides access that allows it to be placed at a site and users can get connected.
Tor can be used in security focused Operating Systems, messengers, browsers. These can be anonymised using Tor network.
Weaknesses
A wireless onion router works on the Tor network and shares the same weaknesses, as mentioned in the Tor page. The University of Michigan has created a scanner capable of scanning almost 90% of bridges that are live in a single scan. The packets that transferred using Tor also are slow because of the increased amount of hops with encryption and decryption.
Anonymous System (Eavesdropping)
Anonymous systems if exists on both ends of the network, exit relay and entry relay can sniff the packets and statistically correlate the traffic which can point out the destination or the source address of the packet. This also includes eavesdropping at the exit nodes of the network. The data that is between the exit node and the destination server is not encrypted. These data packets can be captured easily. This captured data can reveal the source information, and as suggested by Egersta these nodes are costly to run and require a lot of bandwidth which could suggest that some intellig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Dill | David Dill may refer to:
David Bruce Dill (1891–1986), American physiologist
David K. Dill (1955–2015), American politician
David L. Dill (born 1957), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20frequency%20data | High frequency data refers to time-series data collected at an extremely fine scale. As a result of advanced computational power in recent decades, high frequency data can be accurately collected at an efficient rate for analysis. Largely used in financial analysis and in high frequency trading, high frequency data provides intraday observations that can be used to understand market behaviors, dynamics, and micro-structures.
High frequency data collections were originally formulated by massing tick-by-tick market data, by which each single 'event' (transaction, quote, price movement, etc.) is characterized by a 'tick', or one logical unit of information. Due to the large amounts of ticks in a single day, high frequency data collections generally contain a large amount of data, allowing high statistical precision. High frequency observations across one day of a liquid market can equal the amount of daily data collected in 30 years.
Use
Due to the introduction of electronic forms of trading and Internet-based data providers, high frequency data has become much more accessible and can allow one to follow price formation in real-time. This has resulted in a large new area of research in the high frequency data field, where academics and researchers use the characteristics of high frequency data to develop adequate models for predicting future market movements and risks. Model predictions cover a wide range of market behaviors including volume, volatility, price movement, and placement optimization.
There is an ongoing interest in both regulatory agencies and academia surrounding transaction data and limit order book data, of which greater implications of trade and market behaviors as well as market outcomes and dynamics can be assessed using high frequency data models. Regulatory agencies take a large interest in these models due to the fact that liquidity and price risks are not fully understood in terms of newer forms of automated trading applications.
High frequency data studies contain value in their ability to trace irregular market activities over a period of time. This information allows a better understanding of price and trading activity and behavior. Due to the importance of timing in market events, high frequency data requires analysis using point processes, which depend on observations and history to characterize random occurrences of events. This understanding was first developed by 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Robert Fry Engle III, who specializes in developing financial econometric analysis methods using financial data and point processes.
High frequency data forms
High frequency data are primarily used in financial research and stock market analysis. Whenever a trade, quote, or electronic order is processed, the relating data are collected and entered in a time-series format. As such, high frequency data are often referred to as transaction data.
There are five broad levels of high frequency data that are obtained |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb%20%28song%29 | "Interweb" is a song recorded by American singer Poppy from her debut studio album, Poppy.Computer, which was released on October 6, 2017. It was released on July 17, 2017 by Mad Decent Records as the fourth single from the record.
Composition
"Interweb" is an electro-infused new wave and 1990s-inspired EDM song with a length of three minutes and forty nine seconds. It moves at a tempo of 114 beats per minute in a 4/4 time signature. The song's instrumentation features a basic house beat and a disco bassline. The song features "internet-obsessive" lyrics.
Critical reception
Benjamin Groff of We Are The Guard wrote that the song "is a mockery of Taylor Swift Illuminati conspiracy theories, as well as bleaker, sadder realities - the isolation, depression, and searching common to so many of us." Jake Visnawath of Paper wrote that "Poppy seems to own her possessive powers for the first time in the track." Golden Boy Press wrote that the character of Poppy "doesn't disappear even when she sings, she keeps it going in a way that's new, fresh, and interesting."
Music video
The music video for "Interweb" was released on July 21, 2017. The visual piece features the singer under dark technicolor red and blue lights as two figures dance in the background. Paper magazine wrote that the video's dancers "practically perform hypnosis over the Web." Jordan Miller of Breathe Heavy called the video "beautifully bizarre."
Live performances
Poppy made her late night debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden on August 2, 2017, where she performed the single. "Interweb" was also on the setlist for the 2017-18 Poppy.Computer Tour.
Track listing
Taken from iTunes.
Release history
References
2017 singles
2017 songs
Songs about the Internet
Poppy (singer) songs
Songs written by Simon Wilcox
Songs written by Titanic Sinclair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonello%20Tarabella | Leonello Tarabella (born in Forte dei Marmi, Italy in 1948) is an Italian researcher, musician and composer. His activity runs on the academic/artistic double track.
Biography
Graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa, during the '70s he started his research work under the direction of M° Pietro Grossi who was pioneering Computer Music at the CNR (National Counsel of Research) in Pisa, Italy. Later, as a study grant holder, he specialized on the technology of computer music at the EMS (Electronic Music Studio), MIT-Boston and at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research on Music and Acoustics), Stanford University.
In his research activity at CNR in Pisa he designed and carried out languages for algorithmic composition and natural gesture recognition systems and devices for giving expression to interactive electro-acoustic music; to be quoted two of them he currently uses in his performances: PalmDriver, based on infrared beams technology and Handel, based on realtime processing of video captured images. As a musician he composes and performs with these systems his own computer music: Madrid, The Netherlands, Shanghai, Thessaloniki, New York, New Orleans, La Habana, Barcelona, Paris, Bourges, Venezia (Biennale), Kopenhagen, Utrecht, Esbjerg, Boston, Bratislava, Dublin, Istanbul, Athens...
As s professor at the Computer Science Faculty of Pisa's university, he used (1990-2012) to teach computer music and to be supervisor of a number of degree-thesis. He published many scientific articles also participating to many editions of International Conferences on computer music. Besides, he published 2 books: “Informatica e Musica” Jackson Libri (1992) and “Musica Informatica, filosofia, storia e tecnologia della computer music” Maggioli/Apogeo (2014).
He organized events, workshops and European projects such as: -International WS on man-machine interaction in live performance; -Interactive Arts in Italy, (collaboration with Summer Music Program, New York University); - Third International Symposium CMMR 2005, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval”; - MOSART (Music Orchestration System in Algorithmic Research and Technology, HPRN-CT-2000-00115; - MODEM, Music Open Distance Exchange Model, Programma Leonardo da Vinci nr. I/05/B/F/PP-154059.
He has been invited both as speaker and performer at national RAI-TV networks (Mediamente, Futura City,..) and at many editions of “La notte dei Ricercatori” (Pisa, Roma, La Spezia, Ferrara, Livorno...) and "Festival della Scienza", Genova and recently at RomeCUP, TEDxArezzo, TEDxUniversityofLuxembourg.
Thanks to a collaboration with the Steinhardt School of New York University he has been invited at Interactive ART Festival'99 and NYCElectronic Music Festival'13 in New York, Tulane University in New Orleans. With Lucrezia de Domizio, curator of artist Joseph Beuys's opera, he has been present in many Contemporary Art events such as La Biennale di Venezia (49a e 53a), ArsAevi Museum di Sarajevo.
On the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Solanas%20Died%20for%20Your%20Sins%3A%20Scumbag | "Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag" is the seventh episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 17, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Crystal Liu, and directed by Rachel Goldberg.
Plot
A news report unveils that Meadow has been identified as the shooter and Ally has been arrested. Harrison reads a prepared statement in regard to Meadow's actions, inciting Trump's victory as her motive. Kai is polling ahead and is the apparent winner of the city council seat.
Beverly, Ivy, and Winter meet a woman named Bebe Babbitt, former lover of radical feminist Valerie Solanas. Valerie sought to murder all men with the exception of gay men, deemed "gender-traitors". Among her attempted victims was iconic artist Andy Warhol. Valerie's shooting of Warhol launched a series of attacks by SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men) on couples, making a statement to women that "partnering with men would only get you killed". These attacks were accredited to the never-identified Zodiac Killer by the police and the media. Valerie discovered that gay male SCUM member Bruce wrote and sent the Zodiac Killer letters to the press. SCUM dismembered Bruce in retaliation. Valerie eventually presented herself to the police to take credit for the Zodiac killings but she was dismissed as delusional. Her schizophrenia began to intensify afterwards and SCUM disassembled as a result. Valerie's legacy became tied with shooting Warhol.
The day after, Winter finds Kai communing with their mummified parents. Winter tells Kai that she is not content with every action of his but that she still loves and supports him. Kai questions her loyalty and asks her about a copy of the SCUM Manifesto that he had found in her room. She dismisses it as an old college textbook. Kai tells her that the book inspired him to come up with his own acronym: FIT (Fear Is Truth). He notes that Harrison came up with MLWB (Men Lead, Women Bleed). That night, Beverly, Ivy, and Winter lure Harrison to the Butchery and Ivy dismembers him with a chainsaw.
Beverly reports on Harrison's corpse and suggests to the public that Kai's promise of law and order is not being kept. Kai and Bebe watch Beverly on the news together in his basement, revealing that Kai has been manipulating the others all along.
Reception
"Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag" was watched by 2.07 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag" holds an 86% approval rating, based on 14 reviews with an average rating of 7.0 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3.5 out of 5, saying "Fear is trust, after all, and American Horror Story: Cult puts its trust in historical hijackings to scare us into bringing the past into the fiction. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%20Zhang%20%28professor%29 | Xi Zhang (Chinese: 张曦) is a Full Professor and the Founding Director of the Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to quality of service (QoS) in mobile wireless networks.
His research interests include statistical delay-bounded QoS provisioning for multimedia mobile wireless networks, edge computing, finite blocklength coding theory, in-network caching, and offloading over 5G mobile wireless networks.
Education
Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical Engineering—Systems), The University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. (Advisor: Prof. Kang G. Shin)
M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.
M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Xidian University, in Xi'an, China
B.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Research Works
He has published more than 400 research papers on wireless networks and communications systems, network protocol design and modeling, statistical communications, random signal processing, information theory, and control theory and systems.
He received Best Paper Awards at international conferences of IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, and IEEE WCNC 2010, respectively.
One of his IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications papers has been listed as the IEEE Best Readings (receiving the top citation rate) Paper on Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks and Statistical QoS Provisioning over Mobile Wireless Networking.
Major Awards and Honors
IEEE Fellow for Contributions to the Quality of Service (QoS) Theory in Mobile Wireless Networks
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) EARLY CAREER Award in 2004
IEEE BEST READINGS (receiving top citation rate) PAPER for one of his IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications papers in Cognitive Radio Networks and Statistical QoS Provisioning Over Wireless Networks since 2008
Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018
Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2014, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2009, Hawaii, USA, 2009
Best Paper Award in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks Conference (WCNC) 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2010
Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2007, Washington, D.C., USA, 2007
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate on Statistical QoS Provisioning for Multimedia Transmission Over Multicast Wireless Networks, 2010
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical%20Variant%20Generation%20%28software%29 | Lexical Variant Generation (lvg) is a suite of CLI tools that are used to perform lexical transformations to text. The goal is to generate lexical variants in Natural language processing of patient clinical documents.
See also
Lexical semantics
Unified Medical Language System
References
External links
https://lexsrv3.nlm.nih.gov/LexSysGroup/Projects/lvg/2014/docs/userDoc/tools/lvg.html
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/new_users/online_learning/LEX_004.html
Natural language processing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20culture | Data culture is the principle established in the process of social practice in both public and Private sectors which requires all staffs and decision-makers to focus on the information conveyed by the existing data, and make decisions and changes according to these results instead of leading the development of the company based on experience in the particular field.
These data might include but are not limited to: general economical or Social Trends in the market, sales volume of products, or even performance of staffs pointing to their efficiency and productivity. Despite the business field, data culture is also applied in the social infrastructure system, such as Urban planning projects, to impact the process of data production and data practices of daily usage, such as Smart City programs.
In general, to build data culture, the departments and organizations have to let the data talk itself, and trust the steering of statistics. Being successful as a data-driven entity requires the active participation of all staffs involved in an organization, therefore open access to data is significant in the process.
History
The idea of data culture has been under the spotlight of business field since the beginning of the 21st century, and is gaining popularity in recent years. Although first introduced in a scientific approach, the idea is now associated with both the science field and social sectors.
In 2000, Geoffrey C. Bowker conveyed the idea of "local data culture" in his academic paper in terms of biodiversity.
In 2014, Microsoft made a series of announcements including their intention to build data culture into everyday life through their services including Office 365, Azure and SQL Server.
In 2015, Microsoft organized a series of workshops about data culture in alliance with Hortonworks and KPMG UK, offering data analysts and other professional working in the field of Big data an opportunity to understand the data culture of the company and help them build their own data culture in private sectors.
The Data Power Conference 2017 was held in Canada at Carleton University, Ottawa, 22–23 June 2017.
Components and roles
Participants
Participants are both producers of data and people who can contribute to the data culture by making influential changes. In the building process of data culture in a particular entity, employees at different levels are all supposed to obtain the ability of illustrating their works with relative statistics. This includes but is not limited to the goal of their job, the purpose of a specific task, and solutions they could bring up according to problems pointed out by data. Also, participants are allowed to make decisions within the section they take charge of, and experience changes happened due to their innovations.
Data scientists
Data analysts serve as an important part in the establishment of a data culture, as they often receive first-hand material and raw data, and the way they connect all the components t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20of%20Our%20Discontent%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Winter of Our Discontent" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 24, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Joshua Green, and directed by Barbara Brown.
Plot
Reduced to subservient roles for the new men in Kai's cult, Beverly and Ivy plan to rebel, but Winter defends her brother. Beverly urges Winter that Kai considers her expendable. Winter recounts a story where she and Kai infiltrated an ultra-conservative religious order led by a deranged Pastor who inflicted hideous tortures upon sinners. After that, Winter recounts, Kai went darker and became more intent on righting wrongs.
Winter visits Kai in the inner sanctum. He says that she is to bear the new Messiah through Samuels. As Samuels inseminates Winter, Kai intends to inseminate him, leaving her "pure". When the time comes for the "ritual," Winter and Samuels object and Kai insists that "no one is above the law".
Vincent shows Ally a family photograph and explains that Kai is his brother and Winter (Ivy's new lover) his sister. He says he will ensure that Ally is reunited with Oz. Ally invites Kai in for dinner, where she tells him that Vincent intends to commit Kai, and details his upcoming betrayal.
Samuels tells Winter how he met Kai and blackmailed Kai into being his partner. Samuels insists that he is not gay and tries to rape her. She takes his gun and shoots him through the head.
In the inner sanctum, a clown-masked Kai bids "bring the betrayers" to him as the cultists chant "my ruler". A hooded Beverly and Vincent are led in. Winter unmasks herself and looks on in horror as Kai slashes Vincent's throat and orders Beverly to be taken to the isolation chamber. Ally unmasks herself as the newest clown.
Reception
"Winter of Our Discontent" was watched by 2.06 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.0 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Winter of Our Discontent" holds a 77% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 7.88 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4 out of 5, saying "With "Winter of Our Discontent", American Horror Story: Cult goes really dark. The series ventures into a contemporary dystopia, just like the one we're living, only with more sad clowns. Ultimately everyone is a betrayer, and everyone gets stabbed in the back, unless they are knifed in the throat. The show doesn't end on a completely down note, though. In the series' traditional last-minute twist, we learn Ally is going to get her son back after all."
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a A−, and particularly enjoyed the last scene with its reveals. She is also pleased that the episode doesn't see the threesome scene through to its "repulsive conclusion". However, she criticized the use of the Judgement House, calling it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieseiceras | Chieseiceras is an extinct genus of ammonites in the family of Ceratitidae. Species are known from the Triassic of Hungary, Italy and Switzerland.
References
Chieseiceras at the Paleobiology Database
Ceratitida genera
Ceratitidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceccaceras | Ceccaceras is an extinct genus of ammonites in the family Ceratitidae. Species are known from the Triassic of United States (Nevada).
References
External links
Ceccaceras at The Paleobiology Database
Ceratitidae
Ceratitida genera
Fossil taxa described in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20refuge | Data Refuge is a public and collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data that is in danger of being lost. In particular, the initiative addresses five main concerns:
What are the best ways to safeguard data?
How do federal agencies play a crucial role in collecting, managing, and distributing data?
How do government priorities impact data's accessibility?
Which projects and research fields depend on federal data?
Which data sets are of value to research and local communities, and why?
Data Refuge began as a grassroots organization in opposition to government data on climate change and the environment not being archived systemically. Data Refuge's main goal is to collect and allocate data in multiple safe locations to create a sustainable way of archiving old and new data.
Data Refuge was initiated in 2016 to protect federal climate and environmental data that is vulnerable under an administration that denies climate change. The system aims to make public research-quality copies of federal climate and environmental data. Data Refuge is supported by the National Geographic Foundation, private donors, Libraries+ Network, Preserving Electronic Governance Initiative (PEGI), the Union of Concerned Scientists (USC), and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH).
Types of data
Data Refuge collects public federal data on the climate and environment in the form of satellite imagery, PDFs, and stories.
The data are stored in multiple trusted locations as they are less vulnerable if in only one location, and to ensure accessibility for researchers. Through the Data Rescue events, Data Refuge has accumulated 4 terabytes of data, 30,000 URLs, and 800 participants.
Storytelling
Data Refuge collects stories on vulnerable federal climate and environmental data through: surveys, oral history, photo essays, maps, video shorts, and animations. The stories are archived in a public bank that showcase how federal environmental data support health and safety in communities. Data Stories are collected at Data Rescue events, which are partnered with universities, city and town halls, and advocacy groups.
Data stories are collected and used to emphasize the importance of Data Refuge, in how the data on climate change and the environment are being used by people in the United States and across the world for meaningful practices.
References
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20West%20%28campaigner%29 | Jane West is an American cannabis activist and CEO of the cannabis lifestyle brand Jane West. She is best known as the founder of cannabis networking organization Women Grow. In 2016, Inc. magazine named her “the most widely recognized female personality in cannabis" and in 2019, InStyle magazine included her in its 2019 Badass 50 list highlighting women who are "changing the world."
Edible Events
In October 2013, West, a married mother of two living in a Denver suburb, created the pseudonym Jane West to anonymously host monthly bring-your-own-marijuana dinner parties. On February 28, 2014, she lost her job as a corporate event planner when her employer spotted her smoking vaporized marijuana on CNBC as part of its coverage of Colorado's legalization of cannabis. Adopting West as her full-time professional name, she continued to host marijuana-friendly gatherings through her production company Edible Events. She'd later write, “At times I’ve struggled with the feeling that I was in way over my head. But as I worked through the struggles, I found that Jane West was stronger, smarter and more powerful than the person I had been.”
In May 2014, West began collaborating with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra on “Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series,” a series of bring-your-own cannabis fundraising concerts. The series received international media attention after the Denver officials warned organizers that the events risked violating public marijuana consumption laws unless those responsible made the shows invitation only.
Women Grow
In August 2014, West raised $42,000 in seed money from 14 cannabis businesswomen and co-founded Women Grow in Denver with Jazmin Hupp. The organization focused on hosting networking events with notable speakers in order to serve “as a catalyst for women to influence and succeed in the cannabis industry as the end of marijuana prohibition occurs on a national scale.” While the first networking event drew 70 attendees, by February 2016 Women Grow had chapters in 44 cities, 21,000 newsletter subscribers and 30,000 followers on Instagram. In June 2016, West and Hupp stepped down from their respective roles as Women Grow's national events director and CEO. West and Hupp continue to serve on Women Grow's national board of directors, while Chanda Macias serves as its chairwoman.
Jane West lifestyle brand
In 2016, West announced she'd raised $1 million in capital financing to develop the Jane West lifestyle brand, one that aimed to feature “Luxe accessories for a modern, sophisticated cannabis experience.” The company's product lines include high-end glass bongs developed in collaboration with pipe developer Grav Labs, named by fashion website Refinery29 as one of “the most stylish ways to get high," as well as a series of portable smoking accessories that according to Entrepreneur magazine had "the potential to revolutionize the way adult women see cannabis.”
In late 2018, the company launched several products feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughgarden | Roughgarden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Joan Roughgarden (born 1946), American ecologist and evolutionary biologist
Tim Roughgarden (born 1975), computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20P.%20Sharma | Durga Prasad Sharma, better known as D. P. Sharma (born 1 May 1969), is an Indian computer scientist and disability rights activist.
Early life and career
Son of a small farmer Ninua Ram Sharma, Durga Prasad Sharma was born in Samona village of Rajakhera Tehsil in Rajasthan, India. He was the youngest brother of the second number among 5 brothers and 3 sisters. His left arm and right leg are affected by post-polio syndrome. After completing his primary level education, he had to walk 18 kilometers daily from his village Samona to attend the school in Rajakhera. Later he completed his degree-level education (BSc) from Government College Dholpur, Master of Computer Application (MCA), Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Information Technology, as well as Ph.D. (Intranetwares) from University of Rajasthan, India.
In 1994, Sharma joined a national advocacy campaign for the new disabled welfare and rehabilitation legislation in India which resulted in a new law passed by the Indian Parliament, "Equal Opportunity, Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act 1995".
In 2000, Sharma became Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Informatics and later promoted to Associate Professor and a Full Professor.
He is an expatriate research adviser at the Rajasthan Technical University, Kota (India). He has been serving as an honorary adviser to an international educational program run by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).
Achievements
In 2005, he developed a job search engine for people with disabilities which was later adopted by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India. It was designed to help disabled people in search of jobs based on their suitability of working environment and physical limitations. The search engine was featured as a cover story in the SMB edition of PCQuest in March 2008.
In 2017, Sharma was nominated as National Brand Ambassador (Academicians and Youth) by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, to the nation-wide campaign Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Drive) .
In 2019, on the basis of Sharma's recommendation, the Government of Rajasthan started a process of establishing a Technical University in Jaipur, Rajasthan to provide technology-enabled training, education, and rehabilitation to people with disabilities.
Sharma authored or co-authored 22 books, edited/reviewed several academic articles and contributed editorials on labour and disability issues for Rajasthan Patrika. He is also a member of editorial boards of two academic journals – the Maxwell Science Journal and the International Journal of Future Computer and Communication – both of which, however, have been included on Beall's List as predatory or questionable journals.
Sharma advocates for end-to-end transformations in the Indian education system. He is involved in designing policies for inclusive internet access.
Selected awards and honours
Civil Services Chronicle Award (1997) by Chronicle India Publications
Selected publi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress%20of%20Charlemont | The Fortress of Charlemont () is a French stronghold located near the Belgian border on the Meuse. It is a citadel, surrounded by a network of outworks, including the connecting forts (Givet and the Mont d'Hours). It dominates the town of Givet and when in use as a working fortress controlled the valley of the Meuse.
See also
Reduction of the French fortresses in 1815 — this fortress was the last to surrender to the Coalition.
Meuse Citadels — a group of forts situated along the Meuse river in southern Belgium.
Notes
References
Charlemont
Buildings and structures in Ardennes (department) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Conversation%20%28Singaporean%20TV%20program%29 | In Conversation, previously known as Conversation With (CW) from 1999 to 2018, is a Singapore television programme broadcast on Asian news network CNA. The show has been on the air for 22 years and was twice nominated for Best Talk Show at the Asian Television Awards. Notable guests on the interview show include former US President Barack Obama and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi.
History
CW, originally titled In Conversation, debuted on 28 April 1996. The show initially aired on Singapore domestic television, on Singapore's English-language station Mediacorp Channel 5 and was produced by the then Television Corporation of Singapore, which was renamed Mediacorp TV in February 2001.
CW began airing on CNA when the network was launched on 1 March 1999, and would later find an international audience when CNA began broadcasting regionally in September 2000. The show is today available in 28 territories, according to CNA, where the network is currently available. The program was reverted to its former name on 26 April 2019.
Format
Since its debut, CW has been a personality profile conducted through one-on-one interviews in episodes of 25 minutes duration. The show has a broad focus with celebrities such as Jackie Chan having been featured, although subjects are mostly political and business figures.
The first subject on CW was Singapore's then Economic Development Board CEO Philip Yeo, with former US Secretary of State James Baker featuring in the second episode.
In 2016, CW secured an exclusive interview with then US president Barack Obama on the sidelines of the US-ASEAN summit in Sunnylands, California.
The programme currently broadcasts on Thursday evenings, with a different telecast timing for India. Previous episodes are also available on the CNA website's Conversation With catch-up page.
Notable guests
Former US president Barack Obama
Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and 1st State Counsellor of Myanmar
Former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde
Uniqlo president and founder Tadashi Yanai
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata
Airbnb co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Nathan Blecharczyk
Actor Jackie Chan
Actress Michelle Yeoh
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro
References
External links
Conversation With catch-up page
Channel NewsAsia website
1996 Singaporean television series debuts
Singaporean television news shows
Channel 5 (Singapore) original programming
CNA (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVDB | OpenVDB is an open source software library for working with sparse volumetric data. It provides a hierarchical data structure and related functions to help with calculating volumetric effects in CGI applications. Volumetric effects apply to volumes, as opposed to just on surfaces. An example is fog.
Specifically catering for feature film production, the library was originally developed by DreamWorks Animation and is currently maintained by the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). The primary authors are Ken Museth, Peter Cucka, Mihai Aldén, and David Hill. OpenVDB is written in C++ and has Python bindings.
OpenVDB is supported in a wide range of CGI software, such as Blender (since April 2016), Cinema 4D, Houdini, and RenderMan. It was first used in the films Puss in Boots (2011) and Rise of the Guardians (2012).
What does VDB stand for?
Over the years VDB has been interpreted to mean different things, none of which are very descriptive: "Voxel Data Base", "Volumetric Data Blocks", "Volumetric Dynamic B+tree", etc. In early presentations of VDB even a different name was used, "DB+Grid", which was abandoned to emphasize its distinction from similarly named, but different, existing sparse data structures like DT-Grid or DB-Grid. The simple truth is that "VDB" is just a name.
References
External links
2012 software
C++ libraries
DreamWorks Animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VnStat | vnStat is a network utility for the Linux operating system. It uses a command line interface. vnStat command is a console-based network traffic monitor. It keeps a log of hourly, daily and monthly network traffic for the selected interface(s) but is not a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the proc filesystem. That way vnStat can be used even without root permissions.
History
vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor that uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources. vnStat had an Initial public release in 23-Sep-2002 (version 1.0) by Teemu Toivola.
On 8 March 2004 its webpage moved to https://humdi.net/vnstat/ and a man page was included.
On 4 November 2006 was included in Debian for Testing Watch and on 17 November 2006 was removed and next day was accepted 1.4-4 version. On 20 February 2010 was accepted 1.10-0.1 version in Debian. Nowadays Debian keeps a full history about vnstat by using a Rich Site Summary.
On 26 April 2012 was included in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
On 16 February 2017 a 1.17 version was released.
Control keys
vnStat is a command line program and uses sames control keys, for example, stops live monitoring.
See also
Free network management software
References
External links
Official repository: https://github.com/vergoh/vnstat
Linux network-related software
Free software programmed in C
Console applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo%3A%20Annals%20of%20the%20Dinochrome%20Brigade | Bolo: Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Keith Laumer, published in 1976.
Plot summary
Bolo includes six stories about cybertanks called Bolos.
Reception
C. Ben Ostrander reviewed Bolo in The Space Gamer No. 12. Ostrander commented that "Since the Bolo is somewhat similar to the Ogre, we recommend this book to the readers who might not have heard of Keith Laumer, Ogres, or Bolos. It will be a rewarding experience."
Reviews
Review by Rob Chilson [as by Robert Chilson] (1977) in Delap's F & SF Review, January 1977
Review by Spider Robinson (1977) in Galaxy, May 1977
Review by John Collick (1979) in Vector 96
Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1982) in Dragon Magazine, October 1982
References
1976 short story collections
American short story collections
Science fiction short story collections
Works by Keith Laumer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopRocks | PopRocks is a satellite radio music channel that plays pop rock music from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. It airs on Sirius XM Radio (channel 12) and Dish Network.
History
PopRocks debuted on August 17, 2017, as a full-time channel devoted to the pop-rock genre of music from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.
On June 18, 2020, PopRocks moved from channel 17 to channel 12, replacing WHTZ (Z100). The Bridge took over PopRocks' former slot.
Selected artists played
Avril Lavigne
Coldplay
Dave Matthews Band
Fall Out Boy
Gin Blossoms
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Maroon 5
New Radicals
Nickelback
No Doubt
Sheryl Crow
The Killers
Third Eye Blind
Train
Weezer
References
See also
List of Sirius XM Radio channels
Decades themed radio stations
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
1990s-themed radio stations
2000s-themed radio stations
Pop rock
Radio stations established in 2017
Sirius XM Radio channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Swift | The Swift is a line of laptop computers produced by Acer. They are designed to be lightweight and thinner than typical laptops. Laptops in the Swift series are the Swift 1, Swift 3, Swift 5 and Swift 7.
In an announcement in February 2023, Acer changed its model serial, with the Swift 3, Swift 5 and Swift 7 series renamed as the Swift Go, Swift and Swift X respectively.
List of Acer Aspire Swift models and specifications
S30-10
SF113-31
SF114-31
SF314-51
SF314-52
SF314-52G
SF314-53G
SF314-54G
SF314-55G
SF314-56G
SF314-57G
SF314-58G
SF314-59G
SF314-510G
SF314-511
SF315-51
SF315-51G
SF315-52
SF514-51
SF713-51
SFX14-41G
Notes:
References
Consumer electronics brands
Acer Inc. laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arief%20Rachadiono%20Wismansyah | Arief Rachadiono Wismansyah (born 23 April 1977) is the mayor of Tangerang since he was elected in 2013. Supported by the Democratic Party, he is also the owner of a hospital network.
Personal life
Wismansyah was born in Karawaci, a district of Tangerang, in 23 April 1977. He was the third son of Marsudi Haryoputro and Siti Rochayah, who were doctors operating their own clinic. His parents originated from the same village in Kebumen, Central Java.
He graduated from SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta, before resuming his higher education in Western Michigan University where he earned his bachelor's in engineering management on 2000. Later, he completed his master's course in Gadjah Mada University, obtaining a degree in healthcare administration in 2006.
Career
After returning from the United States, he joined his parents' business and later became the CEO of the hospital group. In 2008, he ran as deputy mayor under Wahidin Halim, and the couple won 576,894 votes (88.22%) placing them in the 2008-2013 tenure. Later, in May 2013, Halim resigned in order to run in the 2014 legislative elections, which resulted in Wismansyah becoming the acting mayor.
As mayor
In the 2013 elections, he ran with Sachrudin as his deputy, after initially failing to pass KPU's verification process due to administrative reasons. Partly due to this, the local elections committee was later dismissed from its role in the city elections with the provincial committee taking over. The pair proceeded to win 340,810 votes (49.05%), placing them ahead of the three other tickets. The result was challenged in the Constitutional Court, but the result was upheld and Arief-Sachrudin was officially appointed as mayors following a short delay caused by the incarceration of Banten governor Ratu Atut.
His programs throughout his tenure included the expansion of the city's waste banks and establishment of a BRT system, named Trans Tangerang. He ran once more in the 2018 elections as the only running candidate, being backed by all parties in the city council.
References
1977 births
Living people
Democratic Party (Indonesia) politicians
Mayors and regents of places in Banten
People from Tangerang
Mayors of places in Indonesia
Gadjah Mada University alumni
Western Michigan University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASPAR | JASPAR is an open access and widely used database of manually curated, non-redundant transcription factor (TF) binding profiles stored as position frequency matrices (PFM) and transcription factor flexible models (TFFM) for TFs from species in six taxonomic groups. From the supplied PFMs, users may generate position-specific weight matrices (PWM). The JASPAR database was introduced in 2004. There were seven major updates and new releases in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, which is the latest release of JASPAR.
Availability
The JASPAR database is an open-source and freely available for scientific community at http://jaspar.genereg.net/.
Similar databases
TRANSFAC – Transcription Factor Database
HOCOMOCO - HOmo sapiens COmprehensive MOdel COllection
PAZAR - Database with focus on experimentally validated transcription factor binding sites
TFe – the transcription factor encyclopedia
AnimalTFDB – Animal transcription factor database
PlantCARE – cis-regulatory elements and transcription factors in plants (2002)
RegTransBase - transcription factor binding sites in a diverse set of bacteria.
RegulonDB – Primary database on transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli
TRRD – Transcription Regulatory Regions Database, mainly about regulatory regions and TF-binding sites
PlantRegMap Plant Transcriptional Regulatory Map
MethMotif An integrative database of cell-specific transcription factor binding site motifs coupled with DNA methylation profiles.
References
Transcription factors
Scientific databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20A.%20Thompson | Elizabeth Alison Thompson (born May 22, 1949) is a British-born American statistician at the University of Washington. Her research concerns the use of genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations. She is the 2017–2018 president of the International Biometric Society.
Education and career
Thompson studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, earning first-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1970 and completing a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1971. She continued at Cambridge for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in statistics in 1974 under the supervision of A. W. F. Edwards.
After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics and mathematical statistics and fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She became a fellow of Newnham in 1981. She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in 1985, and added a joint appointment to the Department of Biostatistics in 1988. She became a U.S. citizen in 1997.
Awards and honors
Thompson received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge in 1988, and became an honorary fellow of Newnham in 2013.
She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.
In 2008 she joined the National Academy of Sciences. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.
She is the Carnegie Centenary Professor for 2017 at the University of St Andrews.
Selected publications
References
External links
Home page
1949 births
Living people
American statisticians
English statisticians
Women statisticians
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge
Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
University of Washington faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Gastev | Yuri Gastev (22 March 1928, in Moscow – 12 October 1993, in Boston) was a Soviet mathematician and cybernetician who became an active dissident, finally emigrating to the USA.
Yuri was the son of Aleksei Gastev, the revolutionary poet who later became an advocate of scientific management. Aleksei was arrested in 1938 as part of the Great Purge and murdered the following year. Yuri left school at 15 and started attending Moscow University. However two years later in 1945 he was arrested for anti-Soviet activity. Upon release he settled in Estonia working as a labourer and as a teacher.
At the time of Stalin's death in 1953 Gastev was in hospital. When it was announced on the radio that Stalin had fallen into Cheyne-Stokes breathing, another patient, being a doctor, recognised the significance of this and declared "Cheyne-Stokes is the end, time to get out the bottle". He included references to Cheyne-Stokes when defending his degree thesis, and added references to it in a book he wrote for the Soviet Cybernetics Council. This later cases was spotted leading to the editor being sacked. Gastev had already been sacked so no action was taken against him.
In 1981 he emigrated to France, then to the United States.
Gastev died of cancer in New England Deaconess Hospital on 12 October 1993.
Works
1964 "Metatheory" with I. Shmain in Filosofskaya entsiklopediya, Vol. 3, Moscow pp. 400–402
References
1928 births
1993 deaths
Soviet mathematicians
Soviet expatriates in France
Soviet emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Yudin | Erik Grigorevich Yudin (1930 – 15 January 1976) was a Russian philosopher and cybernetician.
In 1956, Yudin, publicly denounced the Russian invasion of Hungary. His employment was termination, he was expelled from the Communist Party, and then arrested by the KGB and imprisoned. In March 1960, he was released from prison after numerous petitions from his parents. He then started to attended seminars of the Moscow Methodological Group run by Georgy Shchedrovitsky.
He participated in the development of activity theory. He was the first person to differentiate between activity as a
“perspective” – which he calls an explanatory principle – and as an object of study.
Works
English:
Systems Theory: Philosophical and Methodological Problems(1977), (with Vadim Sadovsky and Igor Blauberg) Moscow: Progress Publishers
"Philosophical principles of systemicity and the systems approach," (1979) (with V. N. Sadovsky and Igor Blauberg) Soviet Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XVII, No.4, 1979, pp. 46-68
Russian:
Sistemnyi podchod i princip dejatel´nosti (1978) (The systems approach and the principle of activity) Moscow: Nauka.
References
1976 deaths
Soviet dissidents
1930 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Emmy%20Awards | 2017 Emmy Awards may refer to:
69th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2017 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 2016 – May 2017
44th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2017 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2016
45th International Emmy Awards, the 2017 ceremony honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Blauberg | Igor Viktorovich Blauberg (1928 – May 23, 1990) was a Soviet philosopher and cyberneticist. Blauberg was Head of Systems Approach and Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Research Institute for Systems Studies in Moscow. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of systems theory in Russia.
Selected publications
Blauberg, I. V., and E. G. Yudin. Formation and essence of system approach. Moscow: Science 271 (1973).
Blauberg, I. V., Sadovsky, V. N., & Yudin, E. G. (1977). Systems theory: Philosophical and methodological problems. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
Articles, a selection
Blauberg, I. V., V. N. Sadovskii, and B. G. Iudin. "Philosophical Principles of Systemicity and the Systems Approach." Soviet Studies in Philosophy 17.4 (1979): 44-68.
Blauberg, I. V., and E.M. Mirsky. "Interdisciplinary research groups in the structure of research front," Interdisciplinary Research Groups: Proceedings of the First International Conference, BRD-USA, 1980, pp. 26–33.
References
1928 births
1990 deaths
Soviet academics
Soviet cyberneticists
Systems scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACC%20Network | ACC Network (ACCN) is an American multinational subscription-television channel owned and operated by ESPN Inc. Dedicated to coverage of the Atlantic Coast Conference, it was announced in July 2016 and launched on August 22, 2019. The channel operates from ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, though some programming and staff is in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The network's digital platform, ACC Network Extra (ACCNX), streams on ESPN.com and the ESPN app for ACC Network subscribers, and carries ACC events not broadcast on television. ACCNX broadcasts are simulcast on ESPN+.
History
There had been repeated calls for the ACC to establish its own cable channel, similar to those that had or were being established by other Power Five conferences. From July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013 (in the midst of realignment that saw Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Louisville announce that they would join the ACC, Maryland leave for the Big Ten, and Notre Dame join the ACC outside of football), the ACC took in less television revenue than the Pac-12, SEC and Big Ten conferences. The Big Ten and Pac-12 had already launched their own channels, while ESPN and the SEC had announced the SEC Network would launch in 2014. SEC Network's first year of operation increased the conference's television revenue by around $100 million.
In discussions with ESPN management, there were uncertainties over whether an ACC channel would be economically viable, due to cord cutting and changing television viewing habits. The stability of the ACC itself was also questioned, but was addressed in 2013 by requiring the conference's current teams to grant the ACC control of media rights to all home games through the 2026–2027 season, even if they leave the conference. This policy effectively discourages schools from leaving the ACC, and left the SEC as the only Power Five conference to not have a similar grant requirement. Eric J. Barron, president of Florida State University, stated that the grant would "ensure that the conference will strengthen its position of leadership among Division I athletics", and stated that "we are also very pleased that we will be moving forward on the next phase of developing an ACC network."
On July 21, 2016, at a media event in Charlotte, North Carolina, ESPN announced a 20-year extension of its contract with the ACC, and that it would launch a cable channel dedicated to the ACC in 2019 known as the ACC Network. The announcement was attended by then-ESPN president John Skipper and ACC commissioner John Swofford. Ahead of the television network's launch, ESPN announced that it would begin to stream ACC events beginning in the upcoming 2016 season. Following the announcement, Skipper defended the decision to go on with launching a linear television network, arguing that sports were the most valuable property on television because they are "the only thing you have to watch live".
Each ACC school constructed production facilities so they can contribute programmin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience%20network | The salience network (SN), also known anatomically as the midcingulo-insular network (M-CIN) or ventral attention network, is a large scale network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the anterior insula (AI) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). It is involved in detecting and filtering salient stimuli, as well as in recruiting relevant functional networks. Together with its interconnected brain networks, the SN contributes to a variety of complex functions, including communication, social behavior, and self-awareness through the integration of sensory, emotional, and cognitive information.
The network is detectable through independent component analysis of resting state fMRI images, as well as seed based functional connectivity analysis. The functional connectivity has been linked with structural connectivity through diffusion tensor imaging, which reveals white matter tracts between the AI and dACC.
Anatomy
The salience network is primarily anchored at the AI and dACC. The node in the AI corresponds with the dorsal-anterior division distinguished in meta-analyses of task-positive network related neuroimaging studies. The AI and dACC are linked via a white matter tract along the uncinate fasciculus. Other regions of the network may include the inferior parietal cortex, right temporoparietal junction, and lateral prefrontal cortex.
The subcortical nodes have yet to be structurally linked to the AI and dACC, however both seed-based and resting-state studies have observed intrinsic connectivity of the cortical nodes, with subcortical nodes consisting of the sublenticular extended amygdala, the putamen, the ventral striatum, the dorsomedial thalamus, hypothalamus, and the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area. The salience network is also distinguished by distinct cellular components, including von Economo neurons in the AI/dACC. Cortico-striatal-thalamic loop circuits contribute to the salience network.
Function
While the function of the salience network is not exactly known, it has been implicated in the detection and integration of emotional and sensory stimuli, as well as in modulating the switch between the internally directed cognition of the default mode network and the externally directed cognition of the central executive network. Evidence that the salience network mediates a switch between the DMN and CEN comes from Granger causality analysis and studies utilizing transcranial magnetic stimulation. The timing of electrophysiological responses during the oddball task is consistent with interaction, as after the initial mismatch negativity response is transmitted "bottom-up" from sensory regions, a "top-down" signal localized to the AI and dACC occurs before a widespread evoked potential that corresponds to attentional shifting. It has also been hypothesized that the AI receives multimodal sensory input and the ACC and the associated dorsomedial prefrontal cortex sends motor output.
Clinical significance
Dysfunc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddler%27s%20Den | Riddler's Den is a 1985 action video game, made for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was authored by David W. Harper as the debut title from Electric Dreams Software.
Plot
The game's protagonist is Trunky the Manelephant, who has embarked on a quest to find the Great Golden God Gregogo.
Gameplay
The game is half a maze and half a puzzle solver, with elements of a role-playing game (RPG). It is similar to titles such as Atic Atac. It came packaged with a poem filled with clues that the player had to decipher to progress through the game.
The player could only carry a limited number of items. A flask displayed on the top right of the screen indicated the player's energy level. If this ran out the game ended. If holding the correct object, it was possible to sleep and regain energy. This would move the timer on to the next day. The game had to be completed within a certain number of days.
Reception
Sinclair User magazine asserted that the game was easy to play, but difficult to master. Your Spectrum magazine deemed the program both absorbing and frustrating due to its blending of two disparate genres: arcade and adventure.
References
1985 video games
Action games
Maze games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Electric Dreams Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Moon%20%28software%29 | Red Moon is a free software application for the Android operating system, designed to filter blue light from the device's display, helping reduce eye strain during night-time use and disruption of sleep patterns. It allows for independent adjustment of colour temperature, luminosity and filter level, making it also possible to lower the effective screen brightness below the usual minimum brightness level of the device. Red Moon does not require root.
See also
List of free and open-source Android applications
Redshift (software)
Night Shift (software)
Electronic media and sleep
Light effects on circadian rhythm
Delayed sleep phase disorder
References
External links
Source code
Red Moon at Google Play
Free and open-source Android software
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Guy%27s%20Grocery%20Games%20episodes | Guy's Grocery Games is an elimination cooking game show that is hosted by Guy Fieri. It airs on the Food Network and Food Network Canada.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013–14)
Season 2 (2014)
From this season forward, the show moved filming to a new, specially built supermarket set located in a warehouse in Santa Rosa, CA. This season included episodes that were produced during Season 3 production but carried over to this season.
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
The shopping spree format was tweaked with contestants no longer being able to pick and choose which item on the list to grab. Starting in aisle 1 and ending at aisle 10, they had 2 minutes to find 10 items, winning $2,000 for every item they got into their cart. If they couldn't find an item, they were allowed to skip it and move on to the next aisle.
Season 5 (2015)
Season 6 (2015)
Season 7 (2015)
Season 8 (2016)
Season 9 (2016)
Season 10 (2016)
Season 11 (2016)
Season 12 (2017)
Season 13 (2017)
Season 14 (2017)
Season 15 (2017/2018)
Season 16 (2018)
Season 17
Season 18 (2018)
Season 19
Season 20 (2019)
Season 21 (2019)
Season 22 (2019-20)
Season 23 (2020)
Season 24 (2020)
Season 25 (2020)
Season 26 (2021)
Season 27 (2021)
Season 28 (2021)
Season 29 (2022)
Season 30 (2022)
Food Blogger Heather Johnson was featured in Episode 10. The Food Hussy as she's better known (spoiler alert) won her episode with a spin on her loose meat sandwiches. The episode was called "Cooking the Books" and all four home-chefs were Guy Fieri superfans and cooked recipes from Guy Fieri's cookbooks.
Season 31 (2022-23)
Season 32 (2023)
This is the current season now airing.
References
Guy's Grocery Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections%20%281995%20video%20game%29 | Connections is a 1995 educational adventure video game.
Plot
Based on the show Connections on The Learning Channel, the game revolves around a plot of the player aiming to fix a computer program, by finding a series of connections that glue the world together.
Gameplay
Players progress through a series of graphic screens, and FMV video to find a series of connections. Items can be manipulated using hotspots. The game is narrated by James Burke. Players can toggle a hints system, adjust volume, save the game, and choose their gender.
Critical reception
Lisa Karen Savignano of Allgame wrote that the game was "exceptional" but that it had the potential to leave players endlessly frustrated. GameZone's Craig Majaski thought the game would appeal to players who had enjoyed Myst or Return to Zork. Meanwhile, The AV Club contributor Brian Clair said the game succeeded as a learning tool. MacWorld's George and Ben Beekman thought the game was well below the industry standard for the genre. Entertainment Weekly thought the game was a missed opportunity; instead of being interesting and unique it was merely "Myst with a twist".
The November 1996 edition of Computer Gaming World deemed the video game the #13 Top Sleeper Of All Time.
References
External links
Main page
Connections at CGW
1995 video games
Educational video games
Classic Mac OS games
Windows games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei%20Hong%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mei Hong (, born May 1963) is a Chinese computer scientist, a professor at Peking University, the director of Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies of Ministry of Education (MOE) at Peking University. He serves as President of the China Computer Federation (2020-2024), formerly the Vice President of The Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow.
Biography
Mei Hong was born May 1963 in Yuqing County, Guizhou, China. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1984 and his master's in 1987, both from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1992, he obtained his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Mei joined Peking University in 1992, and served as Dean of the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science from 2006 to 2014. He then became Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2013-2016), Beijing Institute of Technology (2016-2019), and The Academy of Military Sciences (2019-2023). In 2020, he became the President of the China Computer Federation (2020-2024).
Mei was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011, a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2013, and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2018. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his "contributions to software architecture and component-based software engineering". He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to software engineering research and translation, and establishing research standards in China".
References
1963 births
Living people
Academic staff of Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni
People from Yuqing County
Academic staff of Peking University
Scientists from Guizhou
Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni
Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
TWAS fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seriation%20%28statistics%29 | In combinatorial data analysis, seriation is the process of finding an arrangement of all objects in a set, in a linear order, given a loss function. The main goal is exploratory, to reveal structural information.
References
Combinatorics
Data analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhwa%20Networks | Samhwa Networks () is a Korean drama production company. Founded in 1980 by Shin Hyun-taek as a home video distributor, it later became well-known because of its drama productions.
As of 2019, Shin's family (including his eldest son and son-in-law, who are the co-CEO's of the company) owns 38.71% of its stocks. The rest are owned by the public.
List of works
Notes
References
External links
Mass media companies established in 1980
Television production companies of South Korea
Companies based in Seoul
Companies listed on KOSDAQ
South Korean companies established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinobase | Echinobase is a Model Organism Database (MOD). It supports the international research community by providing a centralized, integrated web based resource to access the diverse and rich, functional genomics data of echinoderm evolution, development and gene regulatory networks.
Genomic research data and tools are available for searching, browsing and bioinformatic analysis of genomes, genes, and transcripts.
Echinobase provides a critical data sharing infrastructure for other NIH-funded projects and enhances the availability and visibility of echinoderm data to the broader biomedical research community.
Supported Species
Echinobase offers two levels of integration for supported echinoderm species. Full support includes full genome integration in the database, including gene pages, as well as availability of the genomes to BLAST, browsing via JBrowse, and genome download. Partial support provides BLAST, JBrowse, and download options, but no gene page integration.
Current level one supported species (at various stages of integration) are:
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple sea urchin)
Patiria miniata (Bat star)
Lytechinus variegatus (Green variegated sea urchin)
Acanthaster planci (Crown-of-thorns starfish)
Current level two supported species (at various stages of integration) are:
Lytechinus pictus (painted urchin)
Anneissia japonica (Feather star, a crinoid)
Asterias rubens (Sugar star)
Software, Hardware and Platform
Echinobase runs in a cloud environment. Its virtual machines are running in a VMware vSphere environment on two servers, with automatic load balancing and fault tolerance. Its software uses Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, and CSS. It also uses Apache Tomcat and the IBM Db2 database. Echinobase is developed in tandem with Xenbase.
Functional Genomics
Echinobase is a resource for genomics research that is organized by gene models and represented using gene pages. Each gene page has a tremendous amount of gene specific information.
Genomics - Search and BLAST tools are available directly or through the gene pages that display gene model HGNC compliant names, orthology, GO terms and link to BLAST, the JBrowse genome browser, and a gene expression plotting tool.
Tabs beyond the summary provide gene specific literature, transcripts, expression data, protein sequences and interactants.
Genomic research tools are implemented to assist browsing, search and analysis and visualization of genomic sequence assemblies, annotations and features. Additionally, gene expression data collection, search and visualization is provided.
Gene search - Search genes by name, symbol or synonym directly from the landing page
Gene nomenclature guidelines - Echinobase is the official body responsible for echinoderm gene naming
Genome browser with tracks for RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data - Echinobase uses JBrowse
BLAST - Users can BLAST against supported genomes, RNA, and protein sequences
RNA-seq data visualization - Plots of temporal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumpartner%20TV | Traumpartner TV was a German free-to-air interactive TV channel, which could be received by satellite (DVB-S) and some cable networks (DVB-C). The subsidiary of RTL interactive GmbH (formerly RTL NEWMEDIA GmbH) started broadcasting via Astra 19.2°E on 1 December 2004 and offered a dating programming; broadcast daily live from 6 am to 10 pm.
On 1 October 2007, the management confirmed the termination of the program as of 31 October 2007. This was due to the fact that the targets had been set, were not achieved.
Interactivity
The interactivity was due to the possibility of paying for a chat on the screen via Short Message Service (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). In addition, there was the possibility to communicate with other participants via a connected online dating platform.
Hosts
The face of the station was long time Juliane Ziegler, a winner of the RTL television show The Bachelor. Shermine Shahrivar moderated from December 2004 to August 2005.
From time to time guest or co-moderators appeared, e.g.:
Carsten Spengemann
Nazan Eckes
Isabel Varell
Ruth Moschner
Oli.P (Oliver Petszokat)
References
External links
Defunct television channels in Germany
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
2004 establishments in Germany
2007 disestablishments in Germany
RTL Group
Mass media in Cologne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20First%20Data%20500 | The 2017 First Data 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on October 29, 2017, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 505 laps -- extended from 500 laps due to an overtime finish, on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track (extended from 500 laps), it was the 33rd race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, seventh race of the Playoffs, and first race of the Round of 8.
Report
Background
Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Along with this, Martinsville is the only NASCAR oval track on the entire NASCAR track circuit to have asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to cover the turns.
Entry list
Practice
First practice
Denny Hamlin was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 19.846 seconds and a speed of .
Final practice
Joey Logano was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 20.056 seconds and a speed of .
Qualifying
Joey Logano scored the pole for the race with a time of 19.622 and a speed of .
Qualifying results
Jimmie Johnson started from the rear after changing tires on the car following qualifying.
Race
Stage 1
Start
Joey Logano led the field to the green flag at 3:16 p.m, Ty Dillon and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wrecked in turn two on lap 37 to produce the first caution of the afternoon. NASCAR had planned to have a competition caution at lap 45 but chose to use the first true caution for the competition period.
The race restarted on lap 45 and it remained green for 18 laps, The second caution of the race flew on lap 63 when David Ragan spun out in turn 4, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the free pass under caution.
The race restarted on lap 69 and it remained green for 19 laps, Contact between Danica Patrick and A. J. Allmendinger sent his car sliding on lap 87, bringing out the race’s third caution.
The race restarted on lap 94.
Brad Keselowski, targeting Sunday’s race as a must-win, outran Kyle Busch by 1.1 seconds to win the race’s first stage on lap 130, Completing the top 10 were Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson, Martin Truex Jr., Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Kasey Kahne, Austin Dillon and Denny Hamlin. The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 132 to complete stage one.
Stage 2
The race restarted on lap 140 and it remained green for 122 laps.
The race’s second stage ended with a tense battle for the lead between Brad Keselowski and arch-rival Kyle Busch. They bumped fenders with three laps remaining in the stage, Keselowski eventually winning the race to the finish line by 1.1 seconds. Following in the top 10 were Joey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20shadow | Data shadows refer to the information that a person leaves behind unintentionally while taking part in daily activities such as checking their e-mails, scrolling through social media or even by using their debit or credit card.
The term data shadow was coined in 1972 by Kerstin Anér, a member of the Swedish legislature.
The generated information has the potential to create a vastly detailed record of an individual's daily trails, which includes the individual's thoughts and interests, whom they communicate with, information about the organizations with which they work or interact with and so forth. This information can be dispersed to a dozen organizations and servers depending on their use. Along with Individuals, the activities of institutions and organizations are also tracked. Data Shadows are closely linked with data footprints, which are defined as the data that has been left behind by the individual themselves through various activities such as online activities, communication information, and transactions.
In a chapter for the book Geography and Technology, researcher Matthew Zook and his co-authors note that data shadows have come as a result of people becoming "digital individuals" and that these shadows are continually evolving and changing. They are used to model and predict political opinions, and make inferences about a person's political values or susceptibility to advertising.
Digital footprint
The data or digital footprints are obtained from monitoring and tracking individuals’ digital activities. Digital footprints provide a drive for companies such as Facebook and Google to invest in obtaining data generated from these footprints, in order to be sold to marketers. As illustrated by Bodle, users are willing to give up their information to companies they trust.
Although collecting individuals’ data raises several ethical concerns, it can be valuable for the healthcare data analytics and new health services. For instance, access to such data can help healthcare services shed light on the causes of disease, the effects or side-effects the treatments might have and can facilitate a tailored analysis according to the individual's characteristics.
Dataveillance
Dataveillance gives rise to data shadows since it allows for the identification, classification and representation of individuals or organizations. Dataveillance is defined as a mode of surveillance which tracks, monitors or regulates an individual using digital activity including their personal details and social media activities. In 2013, Edward Snowden’s revelations on the National Security Agency's PRISM program, that the organization would “receive” emails, video clips, photos, voice and video calls, social networking details, logins and other data held by a range of US internet firms”. It is also revealed that corporate social networks share their information with the intelligence agencies. Platform owners such as Google and Facebook, anchor the trust of their us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20%28Manson%29%20in%20Charge | "Charles (Manson) in Charge" is the tenth episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 7, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, and directed by Bradley Buecker.
Plot
Kai resolves to orchestrate a “night of a thousand Tates”, referring to the infamous Tate murders. Gary and a few of Kai's followers break into a local Planned Parenthood office. Once inside, Gary is surrounded by Kai and his followers wearing their clown attire and he is stabbed to death. During an interview, Kai suggests that the incumbent senator is responsible for Gary's murder.
Kai begins to suspect that there is a mole in the cult. He begins having hallucinations where he receives advice from Dr. Vincent and Charles Manson. Ally tells Kai that she has found a listening device. The doorbell rings and Kai instructs Ally to stay where she is. Kai answers the door and finds Bebe standing there. They both go to the basement where Bebe tells Kai that he isn't keeping his end of the deal they made a year ago. Bebe pulls a gun on Kai and Ally shoots her in the back of the head.
That evening, Winter shaves Kai's head in the bathroom. Kai tells Winter that he feels as though she's slipping away and she tells Kai that every follower of his will leave him one day except for her. Kai tells Winter that he is planning on having her by his side when he is in the White House and they briefly hug each other. Kai then suggests that Winter run away to Montana and pulls out the train ticket she gave to Beverly earlier.
In the basement, Kai, convinced that Winter is the mole, demands her to confess. When she denies that she is the mole and refuses to confess, Kai tearfully strangles her to death. Speedwagon runs to his car afterwards and destroys a wire. Ally enters his car and greets him.
Reception
"Charles (Manson) in Charge" was watched by 1.82 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.8 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Charles (Manson) in Charge" holds an 80% approval rating, based on 15 reviews with an average rating of 7.08 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 3.5 out of 5, saying "While Kai's subversion and Ally's apparent conversion are unexpected, American Horror Story: Cult doesn't quite pull the rug out from under us this week. The recreation of the murders is expertly done, fulfilling the anticipation of the promised gore, but the American horror at the center of the episode is more sad than frightening. If nothing else, this episode convinced me that Butte, Montana, is the scariest place on earth."
Kat Rosenfield from Entertainment Weekly gave the episode an A−. She particularly praised the scenes with Charles Manson, calling them "horrifying even by AHS standards". She also enjoyed Billie Lourd's performance in this episode |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink%20the%20Kool-Aid%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Drink the Kool-Aid" is the ninth episode of the seventh season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 31, 2017, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Adam Penn, and directed by Angela Bassett.
Plot
Kai recounts the affairs of infamous cults and their leaders including Heaven's Gate, Branch Davidians, and the Peoples Temple. After affirming the loyalty of his militiamen, Kai declares his intention to run for Senate at a city council meeting.
Winter explains her plan on how to escape a cult to Ally and Ivy. Before they can set a plan in motion, Ally, Ivy, and Winter are escorted to the Anderson house by Speedwagon and the other militiamen and led to the basement where Beverly attacks Winter for blaming Samuels' death on her. Yearning to draw a connection between his own political movement and the mass suicide at Jonestown committed by Jim Jones, Kai requires each of his followers to drink presumably poisoned beverages. When they do so, Kai reveals that the drinks were untainted after everyone else has finished their cup.
Ally and Ivy intend to pick up Oz at school and flee but discover that he was picked up earlier by Winter. They frantically drive to the Anderson home to find Oz unharmed. Kai claims that he was the donor whose sperm inseminated Ally when she became pregnant with Oz. Ivy insists that Oz should stay with Kai, his purported father, for the time being. Back at home, Ally prepares dinner for Ivy and confronts her for attempting to gain sole custody of Oz with the aid of Kai and his cult. Ivy scoffs at Ally's threats of retaliation and warns her that she will revert to her old skittish ways but Ally had laced the pasta and wine Ivy has been consuming with arsenic. As Ivy begins succumbing to the poison, Ally notes that murdering her is an act of retribution that will remedy her phobias. The next day, Ally arrives at a fertility clinic and manages to acquire the records of Oz's sperm donor. She then bribes the clinic worker to falsify the file. Ally invites Kai to her house for dinner and presents him doctored evidence that he is Oz's father. After disposing and preserving Ivy's body with lye, Ally and Kai embrace Oz.
Reception
"Drink the Kool-Aid" was watched by 1.48 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode has been critically acclaimed. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Drink the Kool-Aid" holds a 100% approval rating, based on 14 reviews with an average rating of 7.7 out of 10.
Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode a 4 out of 5, saying "One of the best things about "Drink the Kool-Aid" is how some of the most horrifying subtext is played out in the most mundane of settings, a boring city council meeting with gaping apes or a quaint kitchen table set for two. American Horror Story: Cult ends the episode on a terrifyingly ambiguous note, Ally's ascension in Kai's attentions. We know she can't |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.R.I.N.D.%20Get%20Ready%20It%27s%20a%20New%20Day | G.R.I.N.D. Get Ready It's a New Day is a 2017 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Parungao, it stars Bruno Gabriel, Jazz Ocampo, Ayra Mariano, and Benedict Campos. It premiered on August 19, 2017 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Midnight Horror Stories. The series concluded on October 21, 2017 with a total of 10 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bruno Gabriel as Carlo Yuson
Jazz Ocampo as Solangermina Tamara "Solanj" Martinez
Ayra Mariano as Luisa Carmela "Lui" Gonzales
Benedict Campos as Reynaldo "RK" Katakutan Jr.
Recurring cast
Nanette Inventor as Lola Azon
Joanna Marie Katanyag as Flavy
Guest cast
Kate Alejandrino as Marty
Jenny Miller as Loretta "Lorry" Diomendes
Phoebe Gwenette Yor as Yuki
Princess Ayisha as Ayisha Gonzales
Joseph Daniel R. Aliazar as Fabio
David Licauco as Alco
Gileth Sandico as Amanda Gonzales
Maureen Larrazabal as Diana Martinez
Kim Rodriguez as Catherine "Cathy" Cruz
Lollie Mara as Greta Yuson
Lui Manansala as Betchay
Yayo Aguila as Heidi Katakutan
Ameera Johara as Valeriano "Valerie" Maligalig
Phytos Ramirez as Alfred
Rosemarie Sarita as Mrs. Capistrano
Yasser Marta as Calvin
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of G.R.I.N.D. Get Ready It's a New Day earned a 2% rating. While the final episode scored a 1.8% rating.
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7plus | 7plus (also stylised as 7+) is a video on demand, catch-up TV service run by the Seven Network. The service became available on 27 November 2017. 7plus also offers online live streaming of Channel 7, 7two, 7mate, 7Bravo, 7flix, Racing.com and 7Sport.
7plus is available across several platforms including Web, iOS and Android apps, FreeviewPlus certified TVs, Apple TV 4th Gen+, Fetch TV, Telstra TV, Chromecast, Android TV, Samsung TV, Sony Linux TV, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
History
2010–2017: PLUS7
PLUS7 was a catch up TV service run by the Seven Network through its Yahoo7 joint venture with Yahoo!. The service became available on 18 January 2010.
Some titles were exclusively available in Australia on PLUS7, including Other Space and Sin City Saints, as well as the British version of My Kitchen Rules, which were not broadcast on the Seven Network. In 2014, PLUS7 became the first commercial television catch-up service to provide optional closed captioning on most of its programming.
On 3 November 2015, PLUS7 launches a live streaming service called 7Live just in time for Melbourne Cup day, later in December 2015, 7live adds Channel 7 digital channels, 7two and 7mate.
PLUS7 was available across several platforms including iOS mobile operating systems (e.g. iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch), Apple TV, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows 10, Sony internet-enabled TVs & Blu-ray players, LG internet-enabled TVs, Samsung internet-enabled TVs & Blu-ray players, Panasonic internet-enabled TVs, Hisense internet-enabled TVs, Humax set top boxes, Windows Mobile 7 & 8 and Samsung devices running Android OS 4.0+ and above.
2017–present: 7plus
Following the acquisition of Yahoo! by Verizon Communications in June 2017, Seven announced plans to launch a wholly owned standalone service to replace PLUS7 within the following six months. In September 2017, Seven announced the new service would be known as 7plus and would launch in November 2017. With the introduction of 7plus, PLUS7 was shut down, becoming unavailable on most platforms from 12 December 2017, and on remaining devices on 31 March 2018.
In March 2019, the service added two American-based linear channels, Pac-12 Network and Outdoor Channel, as well as on-demand offerings from these providers.
On 23 July 2020, 7plus introduced a new logo styled as 7+.
On 4 August 2022, 7plus began airing Heartbreak Island, a reality television competition/contest, being deemed "too hot for TV".
Content and programming
7plus provides on-demand access to almost all the TV programs that are broadcast on the Seven Network linear broadcast channels (Channel 7, 7two, 7mate, 7Bravo and 7flix).
Programs are categorised by these genres:
Drama
Reality
Mystery & Crime
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Comedy
Documentary
Entertainment
Food & Cooking
Lifestyle
Travel
Movies
News
Sport
Kids
Live Sports
Hockey One (2023–present)
Hockeyroos Matches (2023–present)
Kookaburras Matches (2023–present)
Men's Ocea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade%2045 | Shade 45 is American rapper Eminem's hip-hop station on Sirius XM Radio channel 45 and Dish Network channel 6045.
History
Eminem established his channel, Shade 45, that plays uncut hip hop. Eminem also established a new morning show, Sway in the Morning with Sway Calloway, a lively morning show that airs at 8:00 a.m., Monday–Friday.
Eminem promoted the station in a 2004 mock national convention (the "Shady National Convention") at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, in which Donald Trump endorsed him. On his album Revival (2017), Eminem expressed his regret at having collaborated with Trump, rapping, "wish I would have spit on it before I went to shake his hand at the event".
Core artists
Eminem
Kanye West
Dr. Dre
Drake
50 Cent
Kendrick Lamar
Travis Scott
Action Bronson
Wiz Khalifa
Big Sean
Tech N9ne
Schoolboy Q
yelawolf
See also
List of Sirius XM Radio channels
References
Eminem
Radio stations established in 2004
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20%28Sirius%20XM%29 | Sirius XM Turbo is a commercial-free music channel that plays 1990s and 2000s hard rock and airs on Sirius XM Radio and Dish Network. It airs on channel 41 on Sirius XM Radio.
History
Turbo made its debut on August 17, 2017, as a full-time channel devoted to hard rock from artists like Metallica, System of a Down, Linkin Park and more.
PopRocks, which slots in on channel 17, plays lighter rock music from the 1990s and 2000s, a la Goo Goo Dolls, Train and Sheryl Crow; while Turbo, channel 41 (after a try-out as a streaming-only station), offers hard rock music from Linkin Park, Metallica and System of a Down.
Prior to August 17, the channel was on channel 314 as a US only Xtra Channel. This slot is now occupied by the now punk rock-exclusive formatted Faction which has been rebranded as Faction Punk, however it is available on both US and Canadian versions of the Sirius XM app.
On October 5, 2020, at noon EDT (16:00 UTC) until October 12, 2020, at 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC), Turbo switched over to Linkin Park Radio in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their debut studio album, Hybrid Theory. The first song played on Linkin Park Radio was "One Step Closer", and the last song played was "Happy Song" by Bring Me the Horizon.
Selected artists played
Metallica
Linkin Park
Korn
Slipknot
Pantera
Tool
Godsmack
Disturbed
System of a Down
Rage Against the Machine
3 Doors Down
A Perfect Circle
Adema
Audioslave
Breaking Benjamin
Buckcherry
Chevelle
Crossfade
Deftones
Drowning Pool
Evanescence
Foo Fighters
Flyleaf
Gravity Kills
Helmet
Hidner
Kid Rock
Limp Bizkit
Marilyn Manson
Mudvayne
Nickelback
Nine Inch Nails
Nonpoint
Orgy
Puddle of Mudd
P.O.D
Ra
Rammstien
Rob Zombie
Saliva
Seether
Sevendust
Shinedown
Staind
Stone Sour
Taproot
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Three Days Grace
White Zombie
X-Ecutioners
Hosts
See also
List of Sirius XM Radio channels
References
Decades themed radio stations
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2017
Sirius XM Radio channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202015 | The Billboard Tropical Airplay chart ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Tropical Songs
2015
2015 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20Marauders | Matrix Marauders is a 1990 racing video game. According to Psyclapse, it is a "superfast 3D abstract computer racing game."
Gameplay
The racing game is set in the future, where the player takes part in a racing challenge, in which they race cars in a speed test to see who can reach the finish-line first. The cars have power ups which can be deployed or fired during the game to aid competitors. There are holes on the tracks which must be jumped over. The screen has an interface that allows the player to lock on to opponents and offers warnings when competitors are encroaching, as well as a navigator that speaks to the player.
Development
The loading sequences of the game were designed by Jim Bowers, who also designed those of Psygnosis games Obliterator and Infestation. Bowers shaded and blended images from the game to give them a metallic look. The game was released after June 1990.
Reception
Kultpower gave the Atari ST version a 32%, and the Amiga version a 32% as well. Meanwhile, German magazine Datormagazin gave it a 7/10 while CU Amiga gave it 25%.
References
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Racing video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossing%20%26%20Ai | Bossing & Ai is a Philippine television comedy game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Vic Sotto and Ai-Ai delas Alas, it premiered on September 24, 2017 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up. The show concluded on February 4, 2018 with a total of 19 episodes.
Hosts
Vic Sotto
Ai-Ai delas Alas
Co-hosts
Boobsie Wonderland
Jelson Bay
Guests
Jose Manalo
Oyo Boy Sotto
Tart Carlos
Ciara Sotto
Pauleen Luna
Kristine Hermosa
Philip Lazaro
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Bossing & Ai earned a 4.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 4% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania%20media%20service%20Act%2C%202016 | The Government of United Republic of Tanzania has enacted four Acts concerning the control of freedom and regulation of media in the country. These are The Cybercrimes Act, 2015, The Statistics Act, 2013, The Media Services Act, 2015 and The Access to Information Act, 2015. The Government of the Republic of Tanzania on one side claims that the four Acts were highly needed to facilitate access to information and control the media sector. On the other, political analysts, activists and everyday people have criticized the Acts, predicting that they will negatively affect freedom of the media and, eventually, citizens' freedom of speech. The Acts give Tanzania's Minister responsible for information the power to ban any media which may seems to report, publish, print or broadcast information contrary to the code of conducts or threaten peace in the state.
Brief history
The Media Services Act, 2016, was enacted in 2016 by the parliament of the united republic of Tanzania on 5 November 2016 and signed by President John Pombe Magufuli two weeks later. The Act replaced the then restrictive newspaper Act of 1976. The expectation of many people was that the Act would become an updated media law adhering to international conventions like the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR), the East African Community Treaty and other sources which affect then liberty of citizens to access information. Instead, the Acts appears to many to act to deprive certain civil constitutional rights, including freedom of expression and freedom of access to information.
Reaction from the press
The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT), Legal and Human Right Centre (LHRC), and Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) on 11 January 2017 filed a petition at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) challenging the newly passed Media Service Act, 2016. The petition, supported by a team of lawyers from MCT, LHRC and THRDC claims that the Act deprives civil liberties and access to information rights guaranteed under Article 18, subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Constitution of Tanzania, respectively addressing:
freedom of opinion and to speech
the right to seek, receive and/or disseminate information, regardless of national boundaries;
the freedom to communicate and protection from interference
the right to be informed at all times of various important events of life and activities of the people and also of issues of importance to the society.
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Law of Tanzania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%20%28video%20game%29 | Episode or Episode Interactive is an interactive story video game developed by Pocket Gems.
The app is a storytelling network and platform that features interactive stories built for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Users enter one of the stories and make choices as the storyline progresses. The product also has a user generated content creation platform that enables users to create their own stories,
Gameplay and content creation
The game is structured as a visual novel, with many stories to choose from. Players customize their character, choosing their hair, makeup, and facial features. As the player progresses through the story, they are given action and dialogue choices that can influence the plot. Featured stories have micro-transactions that allow the player to unlock premium choices using in-game currency. Players have a set number of free chapters they can read each day, after which point they must purchase story packs to read more.
Community members can also create and publish their own stories for others to view. The app has its own proprietary scripting language that is designed to help users without animation or computer programming experience.
Controversies
Despite the app being marketed to children, many of the stories available on the Episode app feature sexually suggestive elements. User-generated stories are filtered for profanity, but this process does not eliminate sexual themes. Daniel Terry, co-founder, and chief creative officer of Pocket Gems stated in an interview that the stories are directly monitored to flag inappropriate content and that the company will "always have a monitoring system in place" as the platform increases in scale.
Online Presence
The game became a popular meme throughout 2018 involving people creating their own picture imitating the clickbait style advertising linked with the game, while adding a slightly sinister twist. The game also picked up attention from the social media platform TikTok along with other similar apps including Mafia City, in which viewers were presented with edited versions of the adverts for the apps.
References
External links
Official website
2010s interactive fiction
Adventure games
Android (operating system) games
iOS games
2014 video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowmon%20Networks | Flowmon Networks is a privately held technology company which develops network performance monitoring and network security products utilizing information from traffic flow. Its Flowmon product series consists of network monitoring probes, collectors for flow data (NetFlow, IPFIX and other standards) analysis and software modules which extend probes and collectors by analytical features for network behavior anomaly detection, network awareness application performance management, DDoS detection and mitigation and traffic recording.
History
The origins of the company dated back to 2002, when a group of scientists under the CESNET association started activities in the field of programmable hardware called Liberouter project. When participating on the development project for GEANT2, the Liberouter team developed a prototype of network monitoring probe called FlowMon. It became the basis of Invea-Tech company which was founded in 2007 as a spin-off company by Masaryk University, Brno University of Technology and UNIS company on the base of the technology transfer from CESNET association. With this prototype of network monitoring solution it was incubated as a start-up by the South Moravian Innovation Centre technology incubator programme.
In May 2013, it was recognized by Gartner as the only European vendor on the Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Market. To strengthen its position on the NBA market, Invea-Tech acquired another Czech company called AdvaICT specialized in network behavior analysis.
In 2014, the company was recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in CE region by Deloitte. In 2015, Invea-Tech was split into Flowmon Networks and Netcope Technologies.
In 2016, Flowmon Networks was recognized by Gartner in Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD).
In January 2016 the company purchased FerretApps company to supplement its application monitoring solution.
In November 2020, Flowmon Networks was acquired by Kemp Technologies to enable "early detection of advanced threats and network anomalies along with complete active feedback loops for remediation."
In September 2021, Progress announced the acquisition of Kemp and, with it, the Flowmon Network Visibility solution, which is now marketed as part of the Progress product portfolio.
Research Activities
Since the beginning, the company has participated in international research and development project focused on developing new measurement, analysis and data protection techniques across networks, i.e. DEMONS and ACEMIND. Flowmon also cooperates on local R&D projects with CESNET, Liberouter and Masaryk University endorsed by the funds of Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.
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Technology companies established in 2007
Czech companies established in 2007
Information technology companies of the Czech Republic
Software companies of the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5%20%28series%2013%29 | The thirteenth series of the children's television series Hi-5 aired between 17 October 2011 and 16 December 2011 on the Nine Network in Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star and Nine with Noel Price as executive producer.
This was the last series to feature Casey Burgess, Fely Irvine and Tim Maddren. Lauren Brant and Stevie Nicholson continued as cast members in the spin-off series Hi-5 House.
Production
Following the Nine Network and Southern Star's acquisition of the Hi-5 franchise in 2008, a deal was made to produce five new series of the program featuring the "new generation" cast. Southern Star produced two of these series in 2009 and 2010, and begun production of the third in 2011. Noel Price returned as the executive producer for his third series, and all five cast members; Lauren Brant, Casey Burgess, Fely Irvine, Tim Maddren and Stevie Nicholson, returned.
The thirteenth series premiered on 17 October 2011. The new set of episodes celebrated the program's musical history by reintroducing previous songs of the week to a new generation of fans. The classic songs were reinterpreted for the series, with new costumes and dance routines. Network directors Martin Hersov and Cathy Payne stated, "We know these will continue as hits with our new generation of fans.”
Irvine departed the cast in late 2011, soon after the series aired, with a network representative stating she was leaving to explore "other career options". This was the final series produced by the Nine Network and Southern Star, before Nine sold the Hi-5 franchise in 2012. The two remaining series originally ordered by Nine in 2009 were not produced.
Cast
Presenters
Lauren Brant – Body Move
Casey Burgess – Word Play
Fely Irvine – Puzzles and Patterns
Tim Maddren – Making Music
Stevie Nicholson – Shapes in Space
Episodes
Home video releases
Compilation releases
Full episode releases
Notes
References
External links
Hi-5 Website
2011 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5%20%28series%2012%29 | The twelfth series of the children's television series Hi-5 aired between 13 September 2010 and 12 November 2010 on the Nine Network in Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star and Nine with Noel Price as executive producer. The series featured the 500th episode.
Production
Following the Nine Network and Southern Star's acquisition of the Hi-5 franchise in 2008, a deal was made to produce five new series of the programme featuring the "new generation" cast. Southern Star produced the first of these five series in 2009, and begun production of the second in 2010.
Noel Price returned as the executive producer for his second series, continuing the goal of capturing the innocence and magic of the program's earlier episodes. All five cast members, Lauren Brant, Casey Burgess, Fely Irvine, Tim Maddren and Stevie Nicholson, returned for the twelfth series.
The twelfth series premiered on 13 September 2010. It contained the 500th episode of Hi-5, which aired in October. The series debuted nine new feature Songs of the Week and introduced a new element in the Sharing Stories segment; a "Hidden Treasure" for viewers to search for.
Cast
Presenters
Lauren Brant – Body Move
Casey Burgess – Word Play
Fely Irvine – Puzzles and Patterns
Tim Maddren – Making Music
Stevie Nicholson – Shapes in Space
Episodes
Home video releases
Compilation releases
Full episode releases
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Hi-5 Website
2010 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5%20%28series%2011%29 | The eleventh series of the children's television series Hi-5 aired between 31 August 2009 and 30 October 2009 on the Nine Network in Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star and Nine with Noel Price as executive producer.
This was the first series to be produced by Southern Star, taking over from Kids Like Us. It was also the first series to feature Lauren Brant, Casey Burgess, Fely Irvine and Tim Maddren, and the first series that did not feature any original cast members. The new line-up was known as a "new generation" of Hi-5.
Production
The Hi-5 franchise was sold by Kids Like Us (the joint company of the program's creators, Helena Harris and Posie Graeme-Evans) in March 2008, to the Nine Network and production company Southern Star. Harris and Graeme-Evans ended their involvement with the production of Hi-5, and the brand was placed under the direction of Nine and Southern Star executives, Martin Hersov and Cathy Payne. Along with the change of ownership, cast members Kellie Crawford, Nathan Foley and Sun Park left the group in late 2008. In December, it was alleged by News.com.au's Confidential reporter that Crawford and Foley had been asked to leave, and that the company were "opting to recruit younger, cheaper performers." However, Park denied the industry rumours.
The new members of Hi-5, Lauren Brant, Fely Irvine and Tim Maddren, were revealed in February 2009 after auditioning in late 2008 and beginning work in January. The trio joined established members Stevie Nicholson and Casey Burgess to form the "new generation" of the group. Along with the cast announcement, Nine committed to five new series featuring the new generation group, which would air through to 2013. However, only three of these planned series were produced. The eleventh series began production in early 2009, becoming the first series produced under Southern Star. The Song of the Week segments were filmed at Silk Studios in Willoughby, with the rest filmed at ABC Studios.
Noel Price from Southern Star, who had over a decade of experience in children's television, was assigned as the executive producer of the new series. Of the cast change in later years, Price explained how Hi-5 was designed so that its popularity would not rely solely on the cast members' individual appeal. Despite the change of cast and production company, the series retained many of the original producers and writers. Director Jonathan Geraghty explained that the brief for the series was "to rediscover the magic and excitement" that made the series such as success in its earlier years.
The eleventh series debuted on 31 August 2009. Hersov and Payne said "we're very excited to be launching the next phase of Hi-5".
Cast
Presenters
Lauren Brant – Body Move
Casey Burgess – Word Play
Fely Irvine – Puzzles and Patterns
Tim Maddren – Making Music
Stevie Nicholson – Shapes in Space
Episodes
Home video releases
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Hi-5 Website
2009 A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twoja%20Wizja | Twoja Wizja was a Polish television station launched on April 1, 1998. The channel was available on the TV platform Wizja TV. The channel presented the programming offer of all channels available on the Wizja TV platform and occasional sports events.
Twoja Wizja ended broadcasting on September 17, 1999. The same day, the channel was replaced by Wizja Sport.
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Defunct television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1999
1998 establishments in Poland
1999 disestablishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw |
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