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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Paulson | Barbara Jean Paulson (née Lewis; April 11, 1928 – February 26, 2023) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there. Paulson began working as a mathematician at JPL in 1948, where she calculated rocket trajectories by hand. She is among the women who made early progress at JPL.
Early life
Barbara Jean Lewis was born in Columbus, Ohio on April 11, 1928. She was raised with three siblings
(two older sisters and one younger brother), and when she was 12 years old her father died. Beginning in 9th grade, Paulson took four years of Latin and math while her sisters took short hand as Paulson did not want to be a secretary. After attending Ohio State University for one year, Paulson's sister, who was already working in Pasadena at the time, convinced her mother to move to Pasadena as well. In 1947 the family moved to Pasadena, California, where her career at JPL would begin.
In 1959 Barbara married Harry Murray Paulson in Pasadena where they lived until 1962 before moving to Monrovia. In 1975 they finally settled in Glendora.
Career
Paulson joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1948 as a computer, calculating rocket paths and working on the MGM-5 Corporal, the first guided missile designed by the United States to carry a nuclear warhead. Paulson and her colleagues were at one point invited to sign their names on the 100th Corporal rocket prior to its transport to the White Sands test range. The rocket exploded shortly after liftoff. On January 31, 1958., Paulson was assigned to the operations center for Explorer-1, the first satellite of the United States, launched during the Space Race with the Soviet Union. Paulson did the work with minimal equipment: a mechanical pencil, light table, and graph paper. The multi-stage launch that Paulson aided in calculations for allowed the Corporal could carry a warhead over 200 miles.
In 1960, when Paulson was 32 years old, her husband Harry were expecting their first child. When Paulson requested a closer parking space at work because she was pregnant, she was forced to quit as JPL did not employ pregnant women at the time and keeping a pregnant women on staff would result in insurance policy problems. JPL had no maternity leave, so women who were fired or forced to quit their positions did not have jobs to return to after giving birth. Paulson's supervisor, Helen Ling, worked hard to rehire women who'd been forced out with no parental leave, so in 1961, when her daughter was seven months old, Paulson accepted Ling's offer and returned to the lab. Paulson notably did not apply for a better parking spot when she got pregnant for the second time. At one point during Paulson's early years at JPL a beauty contest was held amongst the other female human computers. Paulson came in third place and the queen of the contest was called 'Miss Guided Missile'.
In the 1960s, with JPL's reputation cemented in the success of Explorer-1, JPL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCullough%20Free%20Library | The John G. McCullough Free Library is a library located in the village of North Bennington, Vermont. Established in 1921, the library is a member of the Catamount Library Network, a consortium of Vermont libraries with shared catalog and lending resources. The library serves North Bennington, Bennington, Shaftsbury, and surrounding towns.
Services
The library offers a wide array of services, both in-person and via the library’s website, including print items, videos, e-books, and audio books. Reference services are available at the main desk.
Public computer terminals and wireless Internet service are available on the library's high speed fiber optic network. The library’s website allows patrons to access database resources such as the Vermont On-Line Library and online courses such as Universal Class.
A local history collection houses items relating to the history of North Bennington, including yearbooks of North Bennington High School, which was shuttered in 1966. The entire second floor is dedicated to children’s services.
History
The library opened on August 24, 1921, a gift to the village from Eliza Hall Park McCullough in memory of her late husband John G. McCullough. It was designed by J. Lawrence Aspinwall of the New York architectural firm Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker.
References
Public libraries in Vermont
Libraries established in 1921
1921 establishments in Vermont
Buildings and structures in Bennington, Vermont
Library buildings completed in 1921 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Hardy | Ann Hardy (née Haley, born 20 April 1933) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for her pioneering work on computer time-sharing systems while working at Tymshare from 1966 onwards.
Early life and education
Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father had a small advertising agency and her mother, Ruth H. Ewing, was a high school math teacher and homemaker. Hardy was the eldest of five children in a conservative Methodist family. She grew up in Evanston, Illinois.
In 1951, Hardy graduated from Evanston Township High School. In 1955, Hardy graduated from Pomona College with a degree in physical education. She chose physical education because it was the only degree program which allowed her to take math and science courses after her desire to major in chemistry was stymied by the chemistry department head who was opposed to having women in the lab. Following her graduation, she took chemistry classes at Columbia University, but ultimately decided that a career in physical therapy had little appeal. On the advice of a friend working for IBM, she took the company's Programmer Aptitude Test when searching for a job.
Career
In 1956, Hardy entered the programming field after taking IBM's Programmer Aptitude Test. Her official title was System Service Girl, which is equivalent to the position of a current day system engineer. Hardy then switched to programming and worked in IBM Research, which was in Poughkeepsie, and then in Ossining, New York. She worked at IBM for five years.
A job on the STRETCH supercomputer project led to an offer to work at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in 1962. Hardy was one of a team of five who worked on the Livermore STRETCH's Fortran compiler from 1963 to 1966.
In February 1966, after her husband got a job at IBM in the Bay Area, Hardy got a job at Tymshare, a newly formed time-sharing company in Los Altos, California. She worked for Tymshare from 1966 to 1985.
Hardy worked on some of the first time-sharing systems and computer networks, used by a variety of corporations and government agencies. In 1968 she, with her husband Norm Hardy and LaRoy Tymes, first used minicomputers to log onto mainframe computers. She eventually rose to vice-president, the first woman in that role. Though Hardy was solely responsible for the writing the code for Tymshare's time-sharing product, many of her male colleagues assumed her husband had written the OS. It wasn't until she was in the hospital giving birth to her first child, and her coworkers encountered problems that they did not know how to fix, that they began to defer to her as the expert on the system she had written.
After Tymshare was acquired by McDonnell Douglas in 1984, she left to found KeyLogic, which sold the timesharing hardware and software developed at Tymshare, under a licensing arrangement, until changing market conditions forced its closure in the early 1990s. She subsequently co-founded Agorics, which focuses on web-based market |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20authority | Proof of authority (PoA) is an algorithm used with blockchains that delivers comparatively fast transactions through a consensus mechanism based on identity as a stake. The most notable platforms using PoA are VeChain, Bitgert, Palm Network and Xodex.
Proof-of-authority
In PoA-based networks, transactions and blocks are validated by approved accounts, known as validators. Validators run software allowing them to put transactions in blocks. The process is automated and does not require validators to be constantly monitoring their computers. It, however, does require maintaining the computer (the authority node) uncompromised. The term was coined by Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and Parity Technologies.
With PoA, individuals earn the right to become validators, so there is an incentive to retain the position that they have gained. By attaching a reputation to identity, validators are incentivized to uphold the transaction process, as they do not wish to have their identities attached to a negative reputation. This is considered more robust than PoS (proof-of-stake) - PoS, while a stake between two parties may be even, it does not take into account each party’s total holdings. This means that incentives can be unbalanced.
On the other hand, PoA only allows non-consecutive block approval from any one validator, meaning that the risk of serious damage is centralized to the authority node.
PoA is suited for both private networks and public networks, like POA Network or Eurus, where trust is distributed.
References
Algorithms
Blockchains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predecessor%20problem | In computer science, the predecessor problem involves maintaining a set of items to, given an element, efficiently query which element precedes or succeeds that element in an order. Data structures used to solve the problem include balanced binary search trees, van Emde Boas trees, and fusion trees. In the static predecessor problem, the set of elements does not change, but in the dynamic predecessor problem, insertions into and deletions from the set are allowed.
The predecessor problem is a simple case of the nearest neighbor problem, and data structures that solve it have applications in problems like integer sorting.
Definition
The problem consists of maintaining a set , which contains a subset of integers. Each of these integers can be stored with a word size of , implying that . Data structures that solve the problem support these operations:
predecessor(x), which returns the largest element in less than or equal to
successor(x), which returns the smallest element in greater than or equal to
In addition, data structures which solve the dynamic version of the problem also support these operations:
insert(x), which adds to the set
delete(x), which removes from the set
The problem is typically analyzed in a transdichotomous model of computation such as word RAM.
Data structures
One simple solution to this problem is to use a balanced binary search tree, which achieves (in Big O notation) a running time of for predecessor queries. The Van Emde Boas tree achieves a query time of , but requires space. Dan Willard proposed an improvement on this space usage with the x-fast trie, which requires space and the same query time, and the more complicated y-fast trie, which only requires space. Fusion trees, introduced by Michael Fredman and Willard, achieve query time and for predecessor queries for the static problem. The dynamic problem has been solved using exponential trees with query time, and with expected time using hashing.
Mathematical properties
There have been a number of papers proving lower bounds on the predecessor problem, or identifying what the running time of asymptotically optimal solutions would be. For example, Michael Beame and Faith Ellen proved that for all values of , there exists a value of with query time (in Big Theta notation) , and similarly, for all values of , there exists a value of such that the query time is . Other proofs of lower bounds include the notion of communication complexity.
For the static predecessor problem, Mihai Pătrașcu and Mikkel Thorup showed the following lower bound for the optimal search time, in the cell-probe model:
where the RAM has word length , the set contains integers of bits each and is represented in the RAM using words of space, and defining .
In the case where for and , the optimal search time is
and the van Emde Boas tree achieves this bound.
See also
Integer sorting
y-fast trie
Fusion tree
References
Data structures
Computational prob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Air1%20stations | The following is a list of full-power radio stations, HD Radio subchannels and low-power translators in the United States broadcasting Air1 programming, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, city of license, state and broadcast area.
Blue background indicates a low-power FM translator.
Gray background indicates an HD Radio subchannel.
References
External links
Air1 radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toya%20%28company%29 | TOYA is a Polish cable and digital television and telecommunications provider with headquarters in Łódź. The company's network covers eight cities – Łódź, Kraków, Mysłowice, Kutno, Przemyśl, Piotrków Trybunalski, Pisz and Pabianice. TOYA products and services are available in thirteen partner networks of other operators across 25 locations.
History and development
The limited company was founded in 1991 in Łódź by Witold Krawczyk and Jacek Kobierzycki. It was one of the first Polish companies permitted to offer Internet services – as early as 1999; the following year it had 1000 subscribers. In 2004 the service was extended to include subscribers in Przemyśl and Mysłowice.
By early 2006, TOYA's network in the eight cities covered over 80% of the area of each city. In October 2008, TOYA took over Pol-Net – a cable TV company from Piotrków Trybunalski; in 2017 it acquired the Kraków-based T-MONT.
According to the Polish Chamber for Electronic Communication (PIKE), the number of TOYA's subscribers in March 2010 was approximately 160,000 – the company came fourth on the list of the largest cable network operators in Poland. The 2017 PIKE statistics position TOYA in fifth place, with 175,000 subscribers in July. Additionally, the company provides access to its services to around 90,000 subscribers of partner networks.
TOYA was the first Polish cable TV provider to offer triple play (Internet, telephone, and TV) model packages to its customers.
Products and services
Television
The company delivers over 250 television channels both via analog TV and its own High Definition digital platform.
Internet
TOYA delivers Internet connections based on the DOCSIS technology. The company offers its customers a variety of Internet packages of varying speeds (from 6 to 250 Mbit/s). Internet signal is transmitted through Motorola and Cisco cable modems. According to a ranking by Speedtest.pl, in 2017 TOYA offered the fastest cable broadband Internet in Poland.
VoIP
TOYA provides VoIP telephony.
Mobile services
TOYA offers mobile phone and mobile Internet connections via the PLAY network.
Toya Group
TV TOYA
TOYA Studios
TOYA Studios is a group of recording, production and post-production studios for both audio and film. The studios are located at Łąkowa 29 in Łódź and previously belonged to the Łódź Feature Film Studios, which operated between 1945 and 1998 and produced several award-winning postwar pictures directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polanski and many others. The studio complex has been revitalized and now consists of sixteen studio and sound edit suites and two large halls which can accommodate up to 1200 and up to 2500 people. The studios deliver a few hundred hours of new audio for films and other productions every month, and have produced sound for over two hundred contemporary feature films.
Wytwórnia Club
Wytwórnia Club belongs to the Toya Group and is one of the largest, most active and progressive musi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32nd%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 32nd Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held on January 10–11, 2018. The JTBC network broadcast the show from the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Ilsan. It is the second consecutive year that the show was hosted at the venue. Lee Seung-gi and Lee Sung-kyung served as hosts on the first day, with Kang So-ra and Sung Si-kyung on the second.
Background
Organized by All Access Productions and HM Entertainment in cooperation with Lumos E&M and broadcasting company JTBC, the 32nd Golden Disc Awards was scheduled to take place at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila on January 10 and 11, 2018. It would have marked the Philippines' first opportunity to host the show, as well as the ceremony's fourth to be held in a foreign country. Ticket sales began on November 26, but JTBC announced that "[a]ll kinds of promotions or ticket sales that are currently in progress are not in anyway related to Golden Disc Awards" due to the ceremony's location remaining unconfirmed. The event was ultimately pulled from the country. All Access Productions cited its domestic financier's "failure to comply with their responsibility to the owner of the original Golden Disc Awards Ceremony" as the reason for cancellation.
The show was sponsored by Penta Global Advisers Fund and Genie Music, and was held at the Korea International Exhibition Center in the town of Ilsan in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province for a second consecutive year. The first day of the ceremony, which highlighted digital album sales, was hosted by Lee Seung-gi and Lee Sung-kyung. Kang So-ra and Sung Si-kyung served as hosts, for the second year in a row, on the following day which bestowed physical sales awards.
Criteria
Albums and songs released between December 1, 2016, and November 30, 2017, were eligible to be nominated for the 32nd Golden Disc Awards. The awards committee decided to eliminate online voting from the criteria of the Grand Prize Golden Disc, Best Artist, and Rookie Artist of the Year awards; winners were determined by music sales (80%) and a panel of 30 selected music experts (20%). The Popularity Award was calculated entirely from online votes.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first in alphabetical order and emphasized in bold.
Nominee lists adapted from Ilgan Sports. Winners adapted from Maeil Business Newspaper.
Genre and other awards
Multiple nominations
Record company YG Entertainment received the most nominations among any label with ten. Big Bang, AKMU, Zion.T, Hyukoh, Blackpink, G-Dragon, Psy, and Winner received digital song nominations, while Taeyang and Sechs Kies received album nominations. Including double nominees in multiple categories, it was followed by S.M. Entertainment with nine. Red Velvet, Girls' Generation, Super Junior, Taemin, Taeyeon, Exo, and NCT 127 all received album nominations; Red Velvet and Taeyeon were concurrently digital song nominees. JYP Entertainment garnered four nominations: Got7, JJ Project, and Twice were nominated in the album |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20on%20State%20Enterprises%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Moldova | According to data from the State Register in November 2016, there are 1583 state and municipal enterprises in the Republic of Moldova, which represents one percent of the total number of legal entities and individual enterprises in the country. Heads of state-owned enterprises received generous salaries last year, while the profitability of enterprises was not at the highest level. For example, the former deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova from the Liberal Democratic Party, Simion Grisciuc, became the director of S.A. Tobacco-CTC in May 2015. According to the wealth statement, he earned a salary of 150,972 lei per month exercising the position of director, while the average salary in Republic of Moldova is 5600 lei. All state and municipal enterprises will be reorganized or liquidated within two years. The Parliament voted a draft law on state enterprise and municipal enterprise. The founder of state-owned enterprises will be only the Public Property Agency and there will be only joint-stock companies.
Law No. 146 of 16 June 1994 on state enterprise
State enterprise is an enterprise whose social capital belongs entirely to the state. It is an independent economic entity with legal person rights, which, on the basis of state property, transfers them to management, carries out entrepreneurial activities. The enterprise has the right to open branches and representations and, with the consent of the public administration body, which organizes the department that exercises control over compliance with the antitrust legislation, to form consortium associations, consortia and other state-owned associations of enterprises on the basis of contracts concluded with other economic agents.
The decision on the establishment of the enterprise shall be adopted by the government, at the proposal of the central specialized body or of another administrative authority. The position of founder of the enterprise on behalf of the Government shall be exercised by the authority specified in the Government decision.
The board of directors is the collegiate body for the administration of the enterprise, represents the interests of the state and carries out its activity in accordance with this law, and the regulation of the board of the state enterprise approved by the founder. The members of the board of directors must be representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy, which will be the majority, representatives of the founder and the working group. Representatives of other central public administration authorities, industry specialists, economists and law specialists can also join.
The company sells its production, works, services and production waste at prices and tariffs established on the basis of supply and demand, and in the cases stipulated by the normative acts - at prices and tariffs regulated by the state. The enterprise's profit (loss) is determined in the manner prescribed by law. Net profit is formed after tax and o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List-labeling%20problem | In computer science, the list-labeling problem involves maintaining a totally ordered set S supporting the following operations:
insert(X), which inserts X into set S;
delete(X), which removes X from set S;
label(X), which returns a label assigned to X subject to:
label(X)
X,Y S, X < Y implies label(X) < label(Y)
The cost of a list labeling algorithm is the number of label (re-)assignments per insertion or deletion. List labeling algorithms have applications in many areas, including the order-maintenance problem, cache-oblivious data structures, data structure persistence,<ref
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Sometimes the list labeling problem is presented where S is not a set of values but rather a set of objects subject to a total order. In this setting, when an item is inserted into S, it is specified to be the successor of some other item already in S. For example, this is the way that list labeling is used in the order-maintenance problem. The solutions presented below apply to both formulations.
Upper bounds
The cost of list labeling is related to , the range of the labels assigned. Suppose that no more than items are stored in the list-labeling structure at any time. Four cases have been studied:
Exponential Labels
In the exponential label case, each item that is inserted can be given a label that is the average of its neighboring labels. It takes insertions before two items are at adjacent labels and there are no labels available for items in between them. When this happens, all items are relabelled evenly from the space of all labels. This incurs relabeling cost. Thus, the amortized relabeling cost in this case is .
Polynomial Labels
The other cases of list labeling can be solved via balanced binary search trees. Consider , a binary search tree on S of height . We can label every node in the tree via a path label as follows:
Let be the sequence of left and right edges on the root-to- path, encoded as bits. So if is in the left subtree of the root, the high-order bit of is , and if it is in the right subtree of the root, the high-order bit of is . Once we reach , we complete to a length of as follows. If is a leaf, we append s as the low order bits until has bits. If
is an internal node, we append one and then s as the low order bits until has bits.
The important properties of are that: these labels are in the range ; and for two nodes with keys and in if then . To see this latter property, notice that the property is true if the least common ancestor of and is neither nor , because and will share bits until their least common ancestor. If , then because is a search tree, will be in the left subtree and will
have a next bit of , whereas will be in the right subtree and will have a next bit of .
Suppose instead that, without loss of generality, the least common ancestor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unnumbered%20trans-Neptunian%20objects | This is a list of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) first observed since 1993 and grouped by the year of principal provisional designation. The data is sourced from the Minor Planet Center's (MPC) List of Trans Neptunian Objects and List Of Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects. These objects will eventually be numbered as secured discoveries with an official discoverer determined by the MPC. Until then, additional observations are needed to sufficiently decrease an object's orbital uncertainty. , there are 3,141 unnumbered objects, defined here as minor planets with a semi-major axis larger than 30.1 AU (Neptune's average orbital distance from the Sun).
The list also contains information from "Johnston's Archive", such as an object's diameter, its dynamical class and binary status with the satellite's diameter, as well as its albedo, spectral taxonomy and B–R color index. Members of the extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ESDOs, EDDOs and sednoids) – with a semi-major axis greater than 150 AU and perihelion greater than 30 AU – are also identified.
Statistics
List
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999–2007
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 1999
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2000
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2001
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2002
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2003
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2004
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2005
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2006
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2007
2008
2009–2018
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2009
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2010
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2011
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2012
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2013
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2014
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2015
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2016
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2017
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2018
2019
2020
List of unnumbered trans-Neptunian objects: 2020
2021
2022
2023
Ignored objects
The Minor Planet Center does not include the following 111 objects with a semi-major axis larger than that of Neptune in its respective lists (see ). The data is sourced from the List of Known Trans-Neptunian Objects at Johnston's Archive.
See also
List of unnumbered minor planets
List of the brightest Kuiper belt objects
List of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion
List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
Notes
References
External links
How many dwarf planets are there in the outer solar system?, Michael Brown, Caltech
OSSOS TNODB by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
Known extreme outer solar system objects, Scott Sheppard, Carnegie Science Center
Lists of trans-Neptunian objects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTB%20network | The HTB network consists of churches planted by Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) or by HTB plants themselves. As such, it is a network of Anglican churches within the Church of England and the Church in Wales that are linked back to HTB.
The network now comprises more than 30 of the approximately 490 churches in the Diocese of London, and 66 churches nationwide across 17 dioceses. In recent years the Church Commissioners have released tens of millions of pounds of funding to help HTB plants revitalise strategic churches.
List of church plants
This list is mostly drawn from the HTB website. Numbers refer to the maps below.
Maps
London
England & Wales
Notes
References
External links
HTB - Related Churches & Church Plants
Church Army research on early HTB plants
Church of England societies and organisations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNN%20%28disambiguation%29 | VNN may refer to:
Republic of Vietnam Navy, the navy of the former country of South Vietnam
Vanguard News Network, a Neo-Nazi and white supremacist website
Votorantim Novos Negócios, Brazilian private equity firm
Volksnationalisten Nederland ("People's Nationalists Netherlands"), former Dutch political party
Vought News Network (VNN): Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman, a 2021 promotional web series
Viral nervous necrosis, fish disease caused by viruses in the genus Betanodavirus
See also
VNN1 and VNN2, human genes encoding proteins of the Vanin family of proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202018 | The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in South Korea. Managed by the domestic Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST), its data is compiled by the Korea Music Content Industry Association and published by the Gaon Music Chart. The ranking is based collectively on each single's download sales, stream count, and background music use. In mid-2008, the Recording Industry Association of Korea ceased publishing music sales data. The MCST established a process to collect music sales in 2009, and began publishing its data with the introduction of the Gaon Music Chart the following February. With the creation of the Gaon Digital Chart, digital data for individual songs was provided in the country for the first time. Gaon provides weekly (listed from Sunday to Saturday), monthly and yearly charts. Below is a list of singles that topped the weekly and monthly charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Digital Chart
2018 singles
Korea, South singles
2018 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202018 | The Gaon Album Chart is a South Korean record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart, which launched in February 2010. The data are compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Music Content Industry Association based upon weekly/monthly physical album sales by six major South Korean distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Current Gaon Album Chart
2018
Korea, South albums
2018 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratama | Pratama may refer to:
Pratama (surname)
, a college in Purwokerto
Excelcomindo Pratama, a mobile phone network operator in Indonesia
, a state award in Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20Sekar | Kanakaraj Sekar is an Indian bioinformatician and a professor at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Known for his studies in the field of bioinformatics, Sekar heads the Laboratory for Structural Biology and Bio-computing at IISc. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2004.
Biography
Born in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Sekar did his master's degree at the University of Madras and after earning an MSc in biophysics and crystallography in 1982, he continued at the university for his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in biophysics in 1984. His post-doctoral work was on protein crystallography at two institutions, the first at the Indian Institute of Science until 1992 and later, at the Ohio State University from 1995. Returning to India in 1998, he joined the Indian Institute of Science as a senior scientific officer of structural biology and bio-computing at its Bioinformatics Centre and has been serving the institute since then. During this period, he has held various positions including those of a principal research scientist (2004–10) and an associate professor of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) department. He holds the position of a professor of CDS department since 2016 and heads the Laboratory for Structural Biology and Bio-computing.
Sekar's research in bioinformatics covered the fields of protein crystallography, crystallographic and internet computing as well as the development of value added knowledge bases and algorithms. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 211 of them. He has delivered keynote or plenary speeches at international seminars and conferences and has mentored many doctoral and post-doctoral scholars. He is also a member of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).
Sekar has held the junior research fellowships of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (1984–88) as well as the University Grants Commission of India (1988–89) and the senior research fellowship of the CSIR (1989–92). The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2004.
Selected bibliography
See also
X-ray crystallography
Crystallographic database
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
N-BIOS Prize recipients
Indian scientific authors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
University of Madras alumni
Ohio State University alumni
Indian computer scientists
Indian bioinformaticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201997 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1997 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelle%20Benson | Nelle Benson is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. Created by Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante, and introduced by executive producer Frank Valentini, Nelle is portrayed by actress Chloe Lanier, who made her first appearance on August 8, 2016.
Development
Creation and casting
General Hospital was planning to cast another actress to portray the role of Nelle Hayes, as Lanier was involved with another series, Kingdom at that time, but Laura Wright and Frank Valentini were adamant that Lanier was right for the role, so the storyline was put on hold until the actress became available. Lanier revealed to Soap Opera Digest that "Frank Valentini had called her personally and convinced her to do it. Which she's very happy that he did, because they were able to work out a deal, so she could do other projects on her time off which she's thankful for." On July 12, 2016, Soaps In Depth officially announced that actress Lanier, who previously portrayed the role of the Patricia Spencer for the 52nd anniversary, would be returning to the serial in the newly created role of Nelle. The information about her character was a mystery, as the serial stayed tight-lipped about the character and her connection to Port Charles. About Nelle's future, Lanier says "It will definitely take more than easy facts & logic to shift the dynamic, because Nelle grew up in a cult, being brainwashed by her father from an early age." In June 2018, it was announced that Lanier had opted to not renew her deal with the serial, and would exit the role. Lanier departed on August 7, 2018. Lanier briefly reprised the role for a "short-term stint," from October 12 to 15, 2018. On November 1, 2018, it was reported that Lanier will be making more appearances on the show. Lanier appeared on November 8, 2018. She also made an appearance on December 26, 2018. In May of the following year, Soaps.com announced that Lanier would reprise the role, beginning June 13. Willa Rose portrayed a young Nelle in flashback scenes for the April 8, 2020, episode. Lanier later exited the role and last appeared on September 1, 2020. Lanier then made a brief reappearance on September 6, 2022.
Characterization
A casting call was released for a General Hospital female character in her early 20s who is described as being "charismatic, dynamic and fiery." Any ethnicity actress was asked to audition for the role. According to Lanier, "As much as her character mostly has it out for Carly, Nelle has a good heart, and isn't entirely vicious and evil."
Introduction
Nelle was introduced as a school teacher whose kidney was sold on the black market in order to save her niece, Josslyn's life. There were speculations that she would be related to Pat Spencer since she previously played the younger version of her, but in March 2017, it was revealed that she is the daughter of Frank Benson and the adopted half-sister of Carly Corinthos.
Storylines
Janelle Benson, who goes by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20T2 | The Apple T2 (Apple's internal name is T8012) security chip is a system on a chip "SoC" tasked with providing security and controller features to Apple's Intel based Macintosh computers. It is a 64-bit ARMv8 chip and runs bridgeOS. T2 has its own RAM and is essentially a computer of its own, running in parallel to and responding to requests by the main computer that the user interacts with.
Design
The main application processor in T2 is a variant of the Apple A10, which is a 64-bit ARMv8.1-A based CPU. It is manufactured by TSMC on their 16 nm process, just as the A10. Analysis of the die reveals a nearly identical CPU macro as the A10 which reveals a four core design for its main application processor, with two large high performance cores, "Hurricane", and two smaller efficiency cores, "Zephyr". Analysis also reveals the same amount of RAM controllers, but a much reduced GPU facility; three blocks, only a quarter the size compared to A10.
The die measures 9.6 × 10.8 mm, a die size of 104 mm2, which amounts to about 80% of the size of the A10.
As it serves as a co-processor to its Intel based host, it also consists of several facilities handling a variety of functions not present in the host system's main platform. It is designed to stay active even if the main computer is in a halted low power mode. The main application processor in T2 is running an operating system called bridgeOS.
The secondary processor in T2 is an 32-bit ARMv7-A based CPU called Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) which has the task of generating and storing encryption keys. It is running an operating system called "sepOS" based on the L4 microkernel.
The T2 module is built as a package on a package (PoP) together with its own LP-DDR4 RAM. Mac configurations with 1 TB of SSD storage or greater receive 2 GB LP-DDR4, while lower storage configurations receive 1 GB.
The T2 communicates with the host via a USB-attached Ethernet port.
Security features
There are numerous features regarding security, including:
The SEP is used for handling and storing encryption keys, including keys for Touch ID, FileVault, macOS Keychain, and UEFI firmware passwords. It also stores the machine's unique ID (UID) and group ID (GID).
An AES Crypto Engine implementing AES-256 and a hardware random number generator.
A Public Key Accelerator is used to perform asymmetric cryptography operations like RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography.
A storage controller for the computer's solid-state drive, including always on, on-the-fly encryption and decryption of data to and from it. As a side effect, even if the SSD uses a standardized socket and is not soldered, it still can’t be replaced.
Controllers for microphones, camera, ambient light sensors and Touch ID, decoupling the main operating system's access to those.
The T2 is integral in the boot sequence and upgrading of operating systems, not allowing unsigned components to interfere.
Other features
There are other facilities present not direc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris%20Award%20%28Uruguay%29 | The Iris Awards (), created by the newspaper El País, are given for achievements in Uruguayan radio, television and social networks.
History
The first edition of the awards was in 1983, although they were not given again until 1995. Since then they have been delivered annually. There are more than 30 categories, among which the Golden Iris () is most prominent. The awards are given by the newspaper El País and disseminated by its entertainment supplement Sábado Show.
The trophy's shape is based on a human figure holding an eye with a square iris. Depending on the profession of the person who won it, a different silhouette appears under the figure's feet – a film reel, musical note, etc.
Since 2010, the ceremony has been broadcast live on television throughout Uruguay.
Currently some categories can be voted on by the public.
Television broadcast
Golden Iris Award
Other awards
2016
The following categories were awarded at the 2016 Iris Awards, for 2015 programs:
2017
The following categories were awarded at the 2017 Iris Awards, for 2016 programs:
See also
Iris Award (disambiguation)
Latin American television awards
References
External links
1983 establishments in Uruguay
Arts awards in Uruguay
Radio awards
Uruguayan television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena%20Desouza | Gena Desouza (Thai: จีน่า เดอซูซ่า) is a Thai singer and actress. She is known from the "MBO THE AUDITION หน้าใหม่ พร้อมเกิด" project of MBO Teen Entertainment under the network of GMM Grammy and debut with an official solo single, "จริง ๆ มันก็ดี (Drunk)".
Early life and education
Gena Desouza, born Natcha Desouza, was born on May 2, 1997.
The beginning in the music industry of "Jeena D." started from her posted her cover song clips on socialcam. Then a team of Classy Records found her clips. She was approached to sing for the album "Matters in February" in 2013, singing in the song "อาย (Shy)".
After that, Jeena participated "MBO THE AUDITION" project. She was chosen by Sis Four (Sakonrut Woraurai), and later became one of the MBO artists under GMM Grammy. Jeena D. has a solo single of her own in the title song. "จริงๆมันก็ดี (Drunk)"
Education, Graduated high school from Mater Dei School. At present, studying bachelor's degrees at the 3rd year in Faculty of Communication Arts, Advertising, Bangkok University.
Workings
Solo single
Participation song
Ost.
Album
"Matters in February" album of Classy Records, singing a song "อาย" (2014)
Advertising
Series
MC
Online
2019 : Stalk me ep.1 On Air YouTube:GENA DESOUZA
References
External links
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza
Living people
1997 births
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza
Gena Desouza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwood%20Computing%20Machine%20Company%20Factory | The Underwood Computing Machine Company Factory is a historic industrial complex at 56 Arbor Street in the Parkville neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Developed beginning in 1917 by the Underwood Typewriter Company, it was used by that company and its successors for manufacturing, research, and development until 1969. It presently houses the artistic collaborative Real Art Ways and other organizations. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Description and history
The former Underwood Computing Machine Company plant is located southwest of downtown Hartford in the Parkville neighborhood, on bounded by Arbor Street, Orange Street, and the CTfastrak busway. The main building is a four-story brick structure, in length, with projecting stair towers at the north end, and at the corner of Arbor and Orange. The towers have brownstone corner quoining, and windows set in recessed panels. The main walls consists mainly of rows of windows set in segmented-arch openings separated by brick piers. The principal building entrances are recessed in the bases of the towers, one of which has Art Deco stylistic elements.
The Underwood Computing Machine Company was founded in New York City in 1909 by John T. Underwood, then president of the Underwood Typewriter Company. The company manufactured calculators and accounting and billing machines for commercial use. Its early production facilities were located in Hartford's Chamber of Commerce building on Hawthorne Street. In 1916 that building was acquired by another tenant, and the Underwood Computing Machine Company sought new quarters. This facility was built beginning in 1917 to serve its needs, under a lease agreement that ended with the company buying it in 1927. The company itself was acquired by Elliot-Fisher in 1928, which moved production to a larger facility on Capitol Avenue. This plant was converted into a training, research and development facility in 1936. The company was purchased by Olivetti in 1959, and this facility was closed by Olivetti in 1969. It has since been rehabilitated and repurposed, housing the Real Art Ways collaborative among other organizations.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut
References
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut
Buildings and structures completed in 1917
Buildings and structures in Hartford, Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY%20problem | The XY problem is a communication problem encountered in help desk, technical support, software engineering, or customer service situations where the question is about an end user's attempted solution (Y) rather than the root problem itself (X).
The XY problem obscures the real issues and may even introduce secondary problems that lead to miscommunication, resource mismanagement, and sub-par solutions. The solution for the support personnel is to ask probing questions as to why the information is needed in order to identify the root problem X and redirect the end user away from an unproductive path of inquiry.
Terminology
The term XY problem was implicitly coined by Eric S. Raymond in How To Ask Questions The Smart Way when he wrote "How can I use X to do Y?" in the "Questions Not To Ask" section (note that in this original version X and Y are swapped):
Q: How can I use X to do Y?
A: If what you want is to do Y, you should ask that question without pre-supposing the use of a method that may not be appropriate. Questions of this form often indicate a person who is not merely ignorant about X, but confused about what problem Y they are solving and too fixated on the details of their particular situation.
Examples
Often, end users end up in XY problems when posing a question that does not directly address the desired outcome that originally motivated the question. Examples from software engineering include:
Asking about how to grab the last three characters in a filename (Y) instead of how to get the file extension (X), which may not consist of three characters
Asking about how to change Nmap output (Y) rather than how to prevent untrusted remote machines from detecting the operating system (X)
Asking about how to get a string between two delimiters (Y) rather than how to parse JSON (X)
Asking how to construct a regular expression to extract values from XML (Y) instead of how to parse XML (X).
See also
Attribute substitution
Einstellung effect
Garbage in, garbage out
Type III error
References
Help desk
Customer service
Problem solving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mobile%20network%20operators%20in%20Kenya | This is a list of mobile network operators in Kenya:
Safaricom
Airtel Kenya
Telkom Kenya
Jamii Telecommunications Limited
Market share
As of October 2018, the market share among Kenyan mobile telephone operators was as depicted in the table below.
Note:Totals are slightly off due to rounding.
See also
Communications Authority of Kenya
Economy of Kenya
References
External links
Website of Communications Authority of Kenya
MTN takes a firm grip on Kenya online business space
Telcos market shift as Airtel gains voice traffic, Safaricom drops As of 12 April 2018.
Safaricom’s dominance under threat from rivals As of 11 September 2018.
Nairobi
Kenya communications-related lists
Lists of companies of Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Paramount%2B%20original%20programming | This article lists all television programming produced for release on Paramount+, formerly known as CBS All Access, an American over-the-top subscription video on demand service owned and operated by Paramount Streaming, a division of Paramount Global. It features television shows, miniseries and specials from the libraries of CBS and Paramount Global as a whole, along with live streams of CBS for local affiliates in the United States pending availability.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Specials
Regional original programming
These shows are originals, because Paramount+ commissioned or acquired them and had their premiere on the service, but they are not available worldwide.
English language
Non-English language
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
Co-productions
Specials
Stand-up comedy
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Specials
Regional original programming
These shows are originals, because Paramount+ commissioned or acquired them and had their premiere on the service, but they are not available worldwide.
English language
Non-English language
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
In development
See also
List of TVING original programming
Notes
References
External links
Lists of television series by streaming service
Paramount Global-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiersten%20Todt | Kiersten Todt is the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She previously served as the managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute as well as a resident scholar at the University of Pittsburgh in Washington, DC with the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security and was appointed for this position on June 1, 2017. Before taking this position, she worked under Barack Obama in the national cybersecurity commission. She was the president and partner with Liberty Group Ventures, LLC. She has been a partner with Good Harbor Consulting. She was cognizant of the organization's North America crisis management practice.
Background and career
Todt graduated from Princeton University with a public policy degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1994. Her Master's degree is from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In 1999, she was named a Presidential Management Fellow.
Government service
Before working for Good Harbor, she worked for Business Executives for National Security (BENS). In this position she worked to bring together state and local emergency organizations and businesses. Ms. Todt served as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; she worked for the Committee Chairman, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and was responsible for drafting the cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, emergency preparedness, bioterror, and science and technology directorates of the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security. She also developed and executed federal and regional port and cyber security projects. Prior to BENS, she was a consultant for Sandia National Laboratories and worked with the California Governor’s Office and Bay Area Economic Forum to develop the homeland security preparedness plan for the Bay Area. Todt has been an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University.
Before working in the Senate, Todt worked on Vice President Gore’s domestic policy office and was responsible for coordinating federal resources with locally-defined needs, with priority on energy and housing. She was also the senior adviser on demand-reduction issues to Director Barry. R. McCaffrey at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). She received the outstanding service award while there.
On March 23, 2016, Todt joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Todt's role in the NIST was to create anticipated actions that the federal government would develop in the short and long term along with other government departments. Secretary Pritzker endorsed her appointment of Todt by describing her as having proven expertise in risk management. She was the Executive Director of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. She currently works on the team with Chairman Tom Donilon. “A recognized and highly accomplished leader in the field, Kiersten's experience in both the public |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirkus%20%28TV%20series%29 | () is a 2018 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Zig Dulay, it stars Mikoy Morales and Mikee Quintos. It premiered on January 21, 2018 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up replacing Road Trip. The series concluded on April 15, 2018 with a total of 13 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Miko and Mia, ran away with a travelling circus to escape a person who is after them. After their parents disappeared, they rely on the protection of a group of circus performers that include a magician, a fire-breather, an acrobat, a strongman, and a clairvoyant. They will discover that their new circus family is a group of magical folk in disguise. The circus becomes key to revealing the truth about their identities, as they will eventually discover that they have their own powers.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Mikoy Morales as Miko
Mikee Quintos as Mia
Supporting cast
Cherie Gil as Lara "La Ora"
Gardo Versoza as Leviticus "Levi"
Andre Paras as Martel
Sef Cadayona as Al
Chariz Solomon as Astra
Klea Pineda as Sefira
Divine Tetay as Luca
Gerry Acao as Facundo
Guest cast
Angelu de Leon as Liza
Zoren Legaspi as Miguel
Gina Alajar as Waya
Noel Trinidad as Lolo
Erlinda Villalobos as Lola
David Remo as young Levi
Barbara Miguel as young Lara
Addy Raj as Sandino
Lou Veloso as Nuno Ben
Elizabeth Oropesa as Victorina
Sue Prado as Nemila
Bruce Roeland as Magsino
Ashley Ortega as Lila
Fanny Serrano as Veritas
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of earned an 8.6% rating. The series got its highest rating on January 28, 2018 with an 8.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine fantasy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20T.%20Freeman | William T. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for contributions to computer vision.
Education
Freeman received his undergraduate degree in physics from Stanford University in 1979, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992.
Career and research
Freeman worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs before joining the faculty at MIT in 2001, where he is currently Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of electrical engineering and computer science. He served as the Associate Department Head from 2011 to 2014.
Freeman's research interests include machine learning applied to computer vision, Bayesian models of visual perception, and computational photography. He has also made research contributions on steerable filters and pyramids, orientation histograms, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, computer vision for computer games, and belief propagation in networks with loops. He received outstanding paper awards at computer vision or machine learning conferences in 1997, 2006, 2009 and 2012, and test-of-time awards for papers from 1990 and 1995.
Awards and honors
Freeman is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). In 2021, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in computer science and engineering.
References
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Artificial intelligence researchers
1957 births
Living people
Stanford University alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20V.%20Satyanarayan | Bondata Venkata Satyanarayan (9 May 1935 – 23 April 2004) was an Indian athlete. He competed in the men's long jump at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.
References
External links
1935 births
2004 deaths
Indian male long jumpers
Athletes from Andhra Pradesh
People from Guntur district
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for India
20th-century Indian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Bahn%20Mittelelbe | The S-Bahn Mittelelbe ("Central Elbe S-Bahn", called the S-Bahn Magdeburg until 2014) is part of the public transport network of the metropolitan area of Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. The S-Bahn is operated by the Elbe Saale Bahn, a subsidiary of DB Regio Südost, on behalf of the Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt ("public transport service of Saxony-Anhalt", a state government agency that plans, manages and funds public transport services in the state). The S-Bahn currently consists of one line between Schönebeck-Salzelmen, Magdeburg, Stendal and Wittenberge, using the Schönebeck–Güsten, Magdeburg–Leipzig and Magdeburg–Wittenberge lines.
History
The Magdeburg S-Bahn was opened on 29 September 1974 as a 38 kilometre-long line, on the Zielitz–Magdeburg–Schönebeck-Salzelmen route, running north–south. The halts (Haltepunkte) of Schönebeck-Frohse, Schönebeck Süd and Zielitz Ort were opened after 1974. The halt of Barleber See is served only between early May and late October as it serves leisure traffic to the lake of the same name, which is located north of Magdeburg. There was an hourly connection between Schönebeck and Haldensleben in GDR times with an S-Bahn set shortened to one carriage and hauled by a DR class 110 or DR class 112 diesel locomotive. Passengers could travel on this train to Magdeburg-Rothensee on an S-Bahn fare.
From 9 December 2007 until 13 December 2014, the S1 service operated only on Mondays to Fridays and only during the day except for a few trains; the stops were served by Regionalbahn services at the weekend. On 14 December 2014, the previous Regionalbahn service to/from Wittenberge, now to/from Stendal, was integrated into S-Bahn line 1, to end the parallel service by two different types of train service between Schönebeck-Salzelmen and Zielitz Ort. The trains changed their designated train class in Stendal station, but passengers did not need to change. This reverted after seven years to the S1 running between Schönebeck-Salzelmen and Zielitz Ort every 30 minutes on weekdays and hourly on the weekend. Due to the extension to the surrounding area, it was renamed from S-Bahn Magdeburg to the current name of S-Bahn Mittelelbe.
The change in train class in Stendal was abolished at the timetable change on 13 December 2015, so that the trains now run to/from Wittenberge as S-Bahn services. The service between Zielitz and Stendal was extended by two additional train pairs in the morning (Mon–Fri), creating a 30-minute cycle. A few trains run between Stendal and Salzwedel as Regionalbahn 32, changing train class in Stendal. In addition, during the peak, a train runs as the S1X service from Magdeburg to Wittenberge and back; this does not stop at all stops so that it can connect with long-distance services.
S-Bahn fares
The Magdeburg S-Bahn and all regional trains operated parallel to the S-Bahn until the establishment of the Magdeburger Regionalverkehrsverbund (Magdeburg Regional Transport, branded as marego |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Ghemawat | Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) is an Indian American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with Jeff Dean, has included big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and databases Bigtable and Spanner. Wired have described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age".
Ghemawat was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems.
Education and early career
Ghemawat studied at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained a PhD from MIT in 1995, with a dissertation titled, The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases. His advisors were Barbara Liskov and Frans Kaashoek.
Before joining Google, Ghemawat worked at the DEC Systems Research Center. There he began his long-time collaboration with Jeff Dean, who worked at another DEC research lab nearby. Their work at DEC included a Java compiler and a system profiling tool.
Career at Google
After DEC was acquired by Compaq, many of its researchers left the company. Dean took a position at the newly founded search-engine company Google, and was joined by Ghemawat in 1999. The two began working on Google's core infrastructure, making improvements to cope with the search engine's rapid growth in users in the early 2000s.
Ghemawat's work at Google includes:
MapReduce, a system for large-scale data processing applications.
Google File System, is a proprietary distributed file system developed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware.
Spanner, a scalable, multi-version, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database.
Bigtable, a large-scale semi-structured storage system.
LevelDB, an open-source on-disk key-value store.
TensorFlow, an open-source machine-learning software library.
Awards and honors
Ghemawat was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. In 2012, he and Dean received the ACM Prize in Computing for their work on internet infrastructure, and the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.
Selected publications
References
1966 births
Living people
American people of Indian descent
American computer scientists
American software engineers
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Google employees
Google Fellows
Cornell University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKLM%20%28FM%29 | KKLM (104.1 FM, "104.1 K-Love") is a religious radio station licensed to serve Murrieta, California. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation, it is an affiliate of the K-Love network, and airs its CCM music format. KKLM currently operates under a Class A nonprofit broadcast license. No local programming originates at the station, as it broadcasts complete wall-to-wall syndicated programming full-time.
KKLM's primary broadcast area includes the northern parts of San Diego County, and the Temecula Valley, with the transmitter on the valley floor. Due to the transmitter's location, it is also classified as being in the Inland Empire.
History
Origins
The Federal Communications Commission held a spectrum auction for the 104.1 frequency allotted to the Temecula Valley in 2009, an application was received on October 26. On June 27, 2014, the FCC awarded the construction permit to Audion Communications, LLC. The station was assigned the KLZC call letters on August 3, 2015, only to change to the KRXC callsign on November 16 of that year. On July 13, 2016, Audion requested an extension to its permit, which was granted in May 2017. The anticipated sign on date was now set for spring 2018.
In October 2017, Audion put the under-construction station up for sale. The Educational Media Foundation proceeded to acquire it with the intent to finish construction and sign on the station the following spring. The sale was approved on January 11, 2018. Shortly after the closure, the station received its current KKLM calls.
Early years
KKLM officially came on the air on March 9, 2018, airing CCM from the K-Love network, despite KLVJ and KKLQ already reaching the area. KKLM became the first new station to sign on since the 2000 launch of what is now KTMQ.
References
External links
Mass media in Riverside County, California
Radio stations established in 2018
2018 establishments in California
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
K-Love radio stations
KLM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon%20Chrome | Neon Chrome is a twin-stick shooter video game developed by 10tons.
Gameplay
Neon Chrome is a cyberpunk-themed twin-stick shooter video game played from a top-down perspective. The player takes control of remote controlled human clones and is tasked with eliminating the Overseer to stop their oppressive regime on the dystopic society. The player must ascend to the top floor of the company building where the Overseer is based. The game features procedurally generated levels and destructible environments. The game supports local cooperative play.
Development and release
Neon Chrome was developed and published by 10tons. The game was released for Windows on 28 April 2016, PlayStation 4 on 31 May 2016, Xbox One on 8 June 2016, Linux and macOS on 3 November 2016, and Nintendo Switch on 12 October 2017. In 2017, they released a survival mode called "Arena" as downloadable content.
Reception
Neon Chrome received "mixed or average" reviews on PC and consoles from professional critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic, however the mobile version was more positively received.
References
External links
2016 video games
Cooperative video games
IOS games
Linux games
MacOS games
Twin-stick shooters
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced games
PlayStation Vita games
Video games developed in Finland
Video games using procedural generation
Windows games
Xbox One games
10tons Entertainment games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsCenter%20Philippines | SportsCenter Philippines is the flagship newscast of One Sports, the sports division of TV5 Network. It aired on TV5 from December 17, 2017, to January 10, 2020. It is the local version of SportsCenter following TV5's partnership with global sports network ESPN after a few years ESPN in the Philippines was hiatus for 5 years after being replaced by Fox Sports Asia (SportsCenter Asia has been relaunched as Fox Sports Central Asia since 2013). It airs every Wednesday & Friday at 9:30 PM and Saturdays & Sundays at 9:00 PM.
History
Before the creation of SportsCenter Philippines, Sports5 had produced several editions of its own sports news show, mostly airs as a halftime show of its flagship broadcast property, the PBA.
AKTV Center
It was first known as AKTV Center, when TV5 airs its sports programs through AKTV block on IBC. It began airing on October 2, 2011, and serves as pre-game, halftime, and post-game show of the PBA games which began airing on AKTV on the same day. It was hosted by Patricia Bermudez-Hizon, with Mico Halili and Magoo Marjon as alternates. The format similar to Inside the NBA was adopted for the AKTV Center starting the 2011-12 Philippine Cup Quarterfinal round, usually having a three-man panel consisting of either Halili, Marjon, Bermudez-Hizon, Aaron Atayde and Dominic Uy. Special guests were added at the panel from time to time. Several characters were introduced for the segment, which also includes parodies of NBA players, namely "Kobesaya" (a look-alike of Kobe Bryant), "Jeremy Lin-ta" (Jeremy Lin) and "J.R. "Pepe" Smith" (J.R. Smith). AKTV Center airs from the IBC studios in Broadcast City but sometimes air from the playing venue during special occasions, notably the league's opening ceremonies and the jersey retirement of Robert Jaworski.
During the 2012 Commissioner's Cup, AKTV introduced "Home Court" with Lia Cruz as its host. The segment airs during the halftime break of the second game. However it only lasted for four episodes before returning to AKTV Center's original format.
AKTV Center ceased airing on May 31, 2013, along with AKTV block itself, following the expiration of blocktime agreement between TV5 and IBC by the end of the month. There were no formatted show aired during 2013 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals when the PBA games was transferred to TV5 and AksyonTV.
Sports5 Center
During TV5's airing of the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship from August 1–11, 2013, a similarly formatted pre-game show was included in the broadcast, which was named Sports5 Center. This incarnation was carried over for the PBA's 2013-14 season, however it was only aired during Sundays. Sports5 Center was replaced by Sports 360 in November 2014.
In November 2016, the pre-game show was again renamed as Sports5 Center, retiring the Sports 360 pre-game show.
Sports5 Center continued to air after Sports5 was renamed as ESPN5 on October 13, 2017. It ended on the Game 7 of the 2017 PBA Governors' Cup Finals on October 27.
With the launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202018%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish PROMUSICAE sales and airplay charts in 2018. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors.
Chart history
References
Spain Singles
Number-one singles
2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202018%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of singles. In 2018, 13 singles have claimed the top spot, including Ed Sheeran's "Perfect", which started its peak position in 2017. Six acts, Ariana Grande, Ty Dolla Sign, Childish Gambino, Dean Lewis, George Ezra and Bradley Cooper, reached the top spot for the first time.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2018 in music
List of number-one albums of 2018 (Australia)
List of top 10 singles in 2018 (Australia)
References
Australia singles
Number-one singles
2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202018%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales of albums and EPs. In 2018, 25 albums have claimed the top spot, including Ed Sheeran's ÷, which spent 21 weeks at number one on the chart in 2017. Nine acts, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, J. Cole, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Sheppard, Amy Shark, Travis Scott, Twenty One Pilots and Bradley Cooper, achieved their first number-one album in Australia.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2018 in music
List of number-one singles of 2018 (Australia)
References
2018
Australia albums
Number-one albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Vuduc | Richard Vuduc is a tenured professor of computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research lab, The HPC Garage, studies high-performance computing, scientific computing, parallel algorithms, modeling, and engineering. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). As of 2022, Vuduc serves as Vice President of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing. He has co-authored over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Education
Dr. Vuduc received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. He received his B.S in computer science at Cornell University in 1997. He is also an alumnus of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia.
Academic career
Vuduc was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has served as an associate editor of both the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He co-chaired the Technical Papers Program of the “Supercomputing” (SC) Conference in 2016 and was later elected to be Vice President of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing from 2016 to 2018. He also served as department’s Associate Chair and Director of its graduate (MS & Ph.D.) programs from 2013-2016.
Major honors and awards
Member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group
Recipient NSF CAREER award
Collaborative Gordon Bell Prize 2010
Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2013
Best Paper Awards, including the SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM, 2012) and IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, 2015)
Major publications
References
Living people
Georgia Tech faculty
Cornell University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafny | Dafny is an imperative and functional compiled language that compiles to other programming languages, such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Go and Python. It supports formal specification through preconditions, postconditions, loop invariants, loop variants, termination specifications and read/write framing specifications. The language combines ideas from the functional and imperative paradigms; it includes support for object-oriented programming. Features include generic classes, dynamic allocation, inductive datatypes and a variation of separation logic known as implicit dynamic frames for reasoning about side effects. Dafny was created by Rustan Leino at Microsoft Research after his previous work on developing ESC/Modula-3, ESC/Java, and Spec#.
Dafny is widely used in teaching because it provides a simple, integrated introduction to formal specification and verification; it is regularly featured in software verification competitions (e.g. VSTTE'08, VSCOMP'10, COST'11, and VerifyThis'12).
Dafny was designed as a verification-aware programming language, requiring verification along with code development. It thus fits the "Correct by Construction" software development paradigm. Verification proofs are supported by a mathematical toolbox that includes mathematical integers and reals, bit-vectors, sequences, sets, multisets, infinite sequences and sets, induction, co-induction, and calculational proofs. Verification obligations are discharged automatically, given sufficient specification. Dafny uses some program analysis to infer many specification assertions, reducing the burden on the user of writing specifications. The general proof framework is that of Hoare logic.
Dafny builds on the Boogie intermediate language which uses the Z3 automated theorem prover for discharging proof obligations.
Data types
Dafny provides methods for implementation which may have side-effects and functions for use in specification which are pure. Methods consist of sequences of statements following a familiar imperative style whilst, in contrast, the body of a function is simply an expression. Any side-effecting statements in a method (e.g. assigning an element of an array parameter) must be accounted for by noting which parameters can be mutated, using the modifies clause. Dafny also provides a range of immutable collection types including: sequences (e.g. seq<int>), sets (e.g. set<int>), maps (map<int,int>), tuples, inductive datatypes and mutable arrays (e.g. array<int>).
Imperative features
The following illustrates many of the features in Dafny, including the use of preconditions, postconditions, loop invariants and loop variants.
method max(arr:array<int>) returns (max:int)
// Array must have at least one element
requires arr.Length > 0
// Return cannot be smaller than any element in array
ensures forall j : int :: j >= 0 && j < arr.Length ==> max >= arr[j]
// Return must match some element in array
ensures exists j : int :: j>=0 && j < arr.Leng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMARTY | SMARTY is a mobile telephone flanker brand operated by Hutchison 3G UK Limited using its Three UK branded mobile network. It aims to attract customers primarily looking for cheaper deals than those available direct from Three, by offering a monthly rolling SIM-only service, limited to online-only support. On some plans the operator offers to buy back unused data by means of a bill discount, a practice which is not widespread in the UK but is exhibited elsewhere such as by US carrier Ting.
Tariffs
All plans are monthly, with no contract, and are paid in advance by credit card, debit card, or cash via PayPoint, rather than via the more prevalent direct debit method. The company states that no credit checks are made.
All plans (excluding data only plans) include unlimited UK calls and texts. In common with other networks, SMARTY offers a fixed amount of mobile data (or an unlimited amount) for a fixed monthly payment. It also offers "data discount" plans, where the customer pays a £5 per month service charge and buys a small number of gigabytes of data. Under these plans, customers who do not use all their data allowance receive a credit on their next month's bill for unused data, calculated per megabyte at the same price as they paid for it. This credit for unused data is unique among UK mobile operators, as is the unified price of data add-ons; 1GB of data is priced the same, regardless of whether it is bought in advance as part of a customer's monthly rolling plan, or bought as an add-on which is consumed only when a customer's monthly allowance is used up. In this respect, the data discount plans are functionally equivalent to standard pay-as-you-go (PAYG) tariffs offered by other providers, such as Three's own PAYG offering, since customers only pay for the exact amount of data that they use.
Around June 2020, SMARTY introduced group plans: a group of two or more customers can share a single online account and payment method, and receive a flat 10% discount on their plan. This discount does not apply to data add-ons.
Upon launch, SMARTY offered hotspot and tethering functionality, although they did not offer the ability to call foreign numbers, roam abroad, or dial premium numbers.
These features became available in 2018.
In early 2018, SMARTY launched a refer-a-friend program. If a customer refers a friend, both would get a free month on SMARTY. There were no limits to this, so if a customer refers one friend a month they would keep their mobile bill free. In 2022, this offer was replaced with a £10 gift card for both customers.
In 2022, SMARTY rolled out data only plans which do not include any calls or texts, unlike their other plans. There are a range of plans available from 2GB per month up to an unlimited data plan.
Network
SMARTY is 'Hutchison 3G UK Limited, trading as SMARTY.' SMARTY runs virtually on the 3UK mobile network, utilising operator code 23420 and Three's IP address range. SMARTY state that there are no speed restri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemage | Grant Henry (born April 3, 1979), better known by his stage name Stemage, is an American guitarist and composer. He is known for his video game and television soundtracks, including Cartoon Network's animated series Steven Universe. He is also known for his involvement in several video game cover projects, including Metroid Metal and Viking Guitar.
Career
Early work (1997–2002)
Stemage began writing and performing music in high school. He recorded an original album in 1997 named Organized Uproar, using a cassette 8-track in his dorm room. The album was later released for free via his website. He then joined a band named MiniVoid.
Metroid Metal and solo work (2003–2014)
In 2003, Stemage formed Metroid cover project Metroid Metal, later recruiting other artists such as Danimal Cannon. While the group were initially simply recording cover songs to release online, Metroid Metal made their live debut at MAGFest 7 in 2009, and became a recurring act at the event. Stemage released several albums with the group over the following years, including Varia Suite (2009), Expansion Pack (2010) and Other Album (2014). Stemage along with the other musicians from Metroid Metal Live formed the "backbone" of Yes Mayhem, a second band that produced original material beginning in 2010. During this time, he released five albums as a solo artist, both in the form of cover projects and original material. In 2010, Stemage was hired to perform the soundtrack for the Xbox Live game Alpha Squad. In an interview shortly before the game's release, he described composing for video games as "acting on a blue screen with a director telling you that the Master Control Program is off in the distance, and it's big—except that there's no director, and the MCP is a sketch of a dude with a gun."
Collaborative projects and Steven Universe (2014–2019)
Stemage joined Viking Guitar in 2014, alongside Travis Morgan, Mega Beardo, and founder Erik Peabody. Viking Guitar originated as a solo act fronted by Peabody, with which Stemage had featured as a guest on several occasions. The new incarnation of the band released their debut studio album Legion later that year while continuing the annual Danse Macabre projects that Stemage had been involved in earlier. In 2018, the group released their second studio album, Warpath.
Stemage had a brief tenure with LONELYROLLINGSTARS, working on their 2014 album CARNIVORTEX and performing live at MAGFest 12 to support the release. His departure later in the year was announced by the band in the form of a music video. During the video, Stemage walks out midway through a performance of Royal Rainbow Road to be replaced by new guitarist Mega Beardo.
In addition to the opening theme for the second season of Cartoon Network's Steven Universe, Stemage worked on guitars throughout the remainder of the show. The first volume of the Steven Universe soundtrack reached #22 on the Billboard 200. A second volume followed in 2019, peaking at #28 on the Billbo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Gottfried | Howard Kenneth Gottfried (November 13, 1923 – December 8, 2017) was an American film producer. He produced many films, including The Hospital, Network, Torch Song Trilogy and Suburban Commando.
Gottfried served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was raised in the Bronx and graduated from City College of New York and the New York University School of Law. He began practicing law in New York and produced off-Broadway theater in his spare time.
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2017 deaths
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Film producers from California
Film producers from New York (state)
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Film people from Beverly Hills, California
People from Manhattan
People from the Bronx
United States Army personnel of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20the%20Bush%20Patrol | The Adventures of the Bush Patrol (also known simply as Bush Patrol) is an Australian children's television series which first screened in 1996 on the Seven Network.
Plot
The series follows the adventures of Tracey, her brother Ben and their mother Maggie, who patrols the Katta-Moornda National Park as a Ranger.
Cast
Wendy Strehlow as Maggie Dean
Lisa Laird as Tracey Dean
Steele Scriberas as Ben Dean
Emma Booth as Dana Drysdale
Rodney Bell as Tony Harrison
Dylan Landre Dom
Kyle Morrison Gully
Blake Muir as Todd Catchpenny
Belinda Pedler as Pepa
Kate Whitbread as Kelly Davidson
Gillian Alexy as Eloise
Joseph Isaia as Mr. Clark
Brook O'Keefe as Minnie Clark
Kelton Pell as Wazza
References
External links
The Adventures of the Bush Patrol at Australian Television Information Archive
Australian children's television series
1996 Australian television series debuts
1998 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragia%20cordata | Tragia cordata, commonly called the heartleaf noseburn, is a species of herbaceous plant in the spurge family. It is native to North America, where it is found in scattered in the southeastern United States. Its natural habitat is in rocky calcareous woodlands and prairies.
This species is notable for its intensely painful stinging hairs. It is readily distinguished from other Tragia in the east by its vining habit and large heart-shaped leaves. It produces small green flowers in the summer and early fall.
References
cordata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend%20%28operating%20system%29 | The Friend OS or the Friend Unifying Platform is a network based Meta Operating System – a technology that can be used implementing a graphical user interface delivered through a browser, with a back-end that behaves like an operating system. This operating system connects resources and end-user software together in a seamless user experience that can be accessed anywhere. Additionally, it can be customized and prepped for any security requirements and is the first open source cloud operating system that aims to unify web applications and deliver an ecosystem for them to be used across all devices.
Friend OS offers users a device agnostic computing environment accessible via the Friend Workspace, an HTML5 and JavaScript based user interface where file management and applications can be run.
The project was started in 2014 by Friend Software Labs and they delivered their first open source version on GitHub in June 2017.
They announced a partnership with the Golem project in November 2017. Friend will integrate their operating system environment into Golem’s distributed computing platform.
Overview
Friend OS is a multi-user meta operating system. Based on the Friend Core kernel, it is designed to be a complete operating system which will evolve and adapt with information and communication technologies.
It employs a Blockchain based database structure for security, and is developed with decentralised flows of information in mind.
Friend OS is designed to fit the Liquid Computing workflow concept by using a desktop environment and applications that can be accessed via a web browser without the need for any additional plugins, meaning it can run on any device, from a smartphone, to a high end workstation.
It also fits the Web 4.0 outline of being a middleware where the Internet functions like an operating system. Where Friend OS enables more intuitive forms of resource management, or can be used between devices more easily. The term Web 4.0 itself is used to indicate another phase of the internet and World Wide Web — where humans and machines have a more symbiotic relationship. Friend OS fits within its framework, as well as future iterations of the Web, because it supports efficient and intelligent information flows.
Components
Friend Core
Friend Core is Friend’s kernel. It behaves like a web server and operates as an operating system kernel for Friend applications. It also handles user sessions and resources that are available on the remote server. Friend Core is primarily written in C for speed, which allows it to handle requests on high bandwidth networks with 2ms response times.
Features
Friend Core is a small and fast web server with an OS inside of it. Written mainly in C, it provides low-level system calls to its native applications. Friend Core also integrates with various file systems, provides clustering with other core instances via Friend Network and ensures secure user data storage.
Friend Workspace
The Friend Workspace is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%20Hicks | Mar Hicks is a historian of technology, gender and modern Europe, notable for their work on the history of women in computing. Hicks is a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science. Hicks wrote the 2017 book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.
Early life and education
Hicks received a B.A. in Modern European History from Harvard University with their thesis The Price of Excellence: Coresidence and Women's Integration at Oxford and Harvard Universities, 1964-1977. They studied history at University of Oxford for a year as a visiting student. After receiving a M.A. from the Department of History at Duke University, Hicks earned a Ph.D., also from the Department of History at Duke University.
Career
Prior to earning a Ph.D., Hicks worked at Harvard University as a UNIX system administrator. Hicks has said the position informed their later work on history of technology.
Hicks is currently an associate professor with tenure at the University of Virginia, in the School of Data Science. Hicks was previously a visiting assistant professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, a visiting assistant professor at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, an associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and an assistant professor of history of technology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until the closure of that university’s history of science department.
Hicks's work focuses on issues of inequality in high tech, particularly gender discrimination in the computing industry. Their book "Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge In Computing" reveals a switch in the 1960s and 1970s, where as computing roles became more powerful, women who dominated computer programming roles were systematically replaced with men.
Hicks is known for drawing from this history when writing about contemporary gender issues in the computing industry. Hicks has also written about the early history of computer dating in the mainframe era, showing that women were at the forefront of creating computer dating businesses, contrary to what was previously thought.
Hicks is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Hicks is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.
Selected membership
Society for the History of Technology, Executive Committee
Selected awards
2019 IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award for "Hacking the Cis-Tem: Transgender Citizens and the Early Digital State”
2018-2019: National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, North Carolina, Fellow
2019: American Historical Association, Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History for Programmed Inequality
2018: Society for the History of Technology, Hacker Prize for Programmed Inequality
2018: North American Conference on British Studies, Stansky Prize for Programmed Inequality
2018: Association of American Publish |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20Leburton | Jean-Pierre Leburton (, Liège, Belgium-) is the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
He is also a full-time faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
He is known for his work on semiconductor theory and simulation, and on nanoscale quantum devices including quantum wires, quantum dots, and quantum wells. He studies and develops nanoscale materials with potential electronic and biological applications.
Early life and education
Jean-Pierre Leburton was born on to Edmond Jules Leburton and Charlotte (Joniaux) Leburton in Liège, Belgium. His father, at one time Prime Minister of Belgium, sparked Jean-Pierre Leburton's interest in physics.
Jean-Pierre Leburton received his Licence (B.Sc.) in Physics in 1971 and his Doctorat (Ph.D.) in 1978 from the University of Liège, Belgium.
Career
Leburton worked as a research scientist at the Siemens AG research laboratory in Munich, Germany from 1979 to 1981.
From 1981-1983, Leburton worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) as a visiting assistant professor. In 1983 he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He became an associate Professor in 1987 and a full professor in 1991. He worked with Karl Hess, co-director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and became one of the original faculty members at the Beckman Institute in 1989.
He held the Hitachi LTD Chair on Quantum Materials as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992. He was also a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000.
In 2003, he was named the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois.
He has been the head of the Computational Electronics group at the Beckman Institute, and is currently a full-time faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group at the Beckman Institute.
In 2008 he also became a professor of physics at UIUC.
He has published more than 300 papers in technical journals and books.
He is first editor of Phonons in semiconductor nanostructures (1993) and co-editor of Contemporary Topics in Semiconductor Spintronics (2017), among others.
Research
Leburton has consistently been a pioneer, whose investigations of ideas begin at the farthest edges of what is possible. In addition to his own research team and other researchers at the University of Illinois, he collaborates with researchers at other institutions. His work has impact in a wide variety of areas, from computer design to medical diagnosis.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Leburton began to study quantum wires. He developed simulation tools to study quantum confinement using a combination of solid-state physics principles and device simulation.
He was the first to develop a technique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201443 | The IBM 1443 Printer (sometimes referred to as the 1443 Flying Type Bar Printer) is an obsolete computer line printer used in the punched card era. It was offered in three models: Models 1, 2 and N1; the last two could print up to 240 lines per minute (LPM) with a full character set.
The 1443 was initially introduced October 11, 1962 for use with the IBM 1440 system and withdrawn February 8, 1971.
It was announced in 1963 for the 1620 system.
The printer could also be used on the
IBM 1620 (announced 1963),
IBM 1710,
IBM 1800
and System/360.
Decades later IBM recycled the 1443 model number to refer to a different product.
Technology
Beginning in 1920, IBM developed a series of printers
IBM 405 - introduced in 1934 - top speed was 80 lines per minute.
IBM 402 - introduced after World War II - printed as many as 100 lines per minute.
These IBM printers, as did others of the early punched card era, use "type bars," originally developed for their line of accounting machines. (The model 1403 introduced new technology.)
Type bars are vertical bars, one for each print position in a line. Each bar is one character wide with the printer's entire character set: either alphabetic characters, including numerals and symbols, or just numerals and symbols, molded into the front surface in a single column. In printing, each bar is raised up until the correct character for that print position was opposite the paper, whereupon the bar is pushed toward the paper, so that the correct numeral or letter pressed against the ribbon, striking the paper much the way type slugs leave an impression on paper in a standard typewriter. This action is relatively slow, as it takes time for each bar to be brought up into the correct position and then drop back down in preparation to print the next line.
1443 printing capabilities
The IBM 1443 Printer was introduced as part of the IBM 1440 system. The 1443 Model 1 prints alphanumeric, upper-case only, output at a basic rate of 150 lines per minute, and it can print up to 430 lines a minute with a restricted character set, depending upon the type bars used. The Model 2's and Model N1's corresponding speeds are 240 and 600 LPM.
The typebars are easily interchangeable, with options for character sets containing 13, 39, 52, or 63 characters.
The print speeds vary according to the model and the character set.
The 1443 printer uses 120 or 144 print hammers and hammer magnets, conceptually similar to the IBM 1132 printer's one-per-column print magnets.
Output is formatted at 10 characters per inch, with a choice of six or eight lines per inch, with additional options for single, double or triple-spacing.
The 1443 uses fan-folded paper with perforated edges for tractor feeding. A carriage control tape specifies form length and the form line where printing was to begin so that paper of various sizes could be used. A carriage control tape simplifies use of pre-printed forms and the programming needed to allow proper alignme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bombe may refer to:
Bombe (Wolaita), administrative town in Boloso Bombe Woreda of Wolyaita, Ethiopia
Bombe, British electromechanical computer used to decode German Enigma messages in the Second World War
Bombe glacée (aka "bombe"), ice cream dish resembling a cannonball
Bombe Alaska, baked Alaska ice cream dish
Bombe Gulf, Libya; a protected area in Libya
See also
Bomb (disambiguation)
Bomba (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Instinct | Deep Instinct is a cybersecurity company that applies deep learning to cybersecurity. The company implements advanced artificial intelligence to the task of preventing and detecting malware. The company was the recipient of the Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum in 2017.
Overview
In 2015, Deep Instinct was founded by Guy Caspi, Dr. Eli David, and Nadav Maman. The headquarters of the company is located in New York City.
In July 2017, NVIDIA became an investor. According to Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA’s investment enabled access to a GPU-based neural network and CUDA platform, which they were using to achieve maximum vulnerability detection rates. As of February 2020, the company has raised $43 million in Series C funding round.
In April 2019, Deep Instinct commissioned an art project, titled The Persistence of Chaos, by Chinese artist, Guo O Dong, consisting of a laptop infected with 6 pieces of malware that represented $95 billion in damages. The art was auctioned with a final bid of $1,345,000.
In 2019, Globes reported that, HP Inc partnered with Deep Instinct to launch their security solution HP SureSense, which has been applied to the EliteBook and Zbook devices.
In April 2021, Deep Instinct raised $100 million in Series D funding to accelerate growth.
References
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Computer security organizations
Deep learning
Technology companies of Israel
Software companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots | Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition software to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria. It was released by the Future of Life Institute and Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Berkeley. On YouTube, the video quickly went viral, garnering over two million views and was screened at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meeting in Geneva the same month.
The film's implication that swarms of such "slaughterbots" — miniature, flying lethal autonomous weapons — could become real weapons of mass destruction in the near future proved controversial.
A sequel, Slaughterbots – if human: kill() (2021), presented additional hypothetical scenarios of attacks on civilians, and again called on the UN to ban autonomous weapons that target people.
Synopsis
The dramatization, seven minutes in length, is set in a Black Mirror-style near future. Small, palm-sized autonomous drones using facial recognition and shaped explosives can be programmed to seek out and eliminate known individuals or classes of individuals (such as individuals wearing an enemy military uniform). A tech executive pitches that nuclear weapons are now "obsolete": a $25 million order of "unstoppable" drones can kill half a city. As the video unfolds, the technology get re-purposed by unknown parties to assassinate political opponents, from sitting congressmen to student activists identified via their Facebook profiles. In one scene, the swarming drones coordinate with each other to gain entrance to a building: a larger drone blasts a hole in a wall to give access to smaller ones.
The dramatization is followed by a forty-second entreaty by Russell: "This short film is more than just speculation; it shows the results of integrating and miniaturizing technologies that we already have... AI's potential to benefit humanity is enormous, even in defense, but allowing machines to choose to kill humans will be devastating to our security and freedom."
Production
According to Russell, "What we were trying to show was the property of autonomous weapons to turn into weapons of mass destruction automatically because you can launch as many as you want... and so we thought a video would make it very clear." Russell also expressed a desire to displace the unrealistic and unhelpful Hollywood Terminator conception of autonomous weapons with something more realistic. The video was produced by Space Digital at MediaCityUK and directed by Stewart Sugg with location shots at Hertfordshire University and in Edinburgh. Edinburgh was chosen because the filmmakers "needed streets that would be empty on a Sunday morning" for the shots of armed police patrolling deserted streets, and because the location is recognizable to international audiences. All of the drones were added in post-production.
Reception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20Finder | Plane Finder is a United Kingdom-based real-time flight tracking service launched in 2009, that is able to show flight data globally. The data available includes flight numbers, how fast an aircraft is moving, its elevation and destination of travel. Several variants of the service are available as mobile apps including free, premium 3D and augmented reality versions. The flight tracking map and database can be accessed by web browsers.
Plane Finder allows registered users to share their ADS-B and MLAT data via the Plane Finder ADS-B Client, available for macOS, Windows and Linux. Plane Finder supports VFR charts from NATS and was the first major flight tracking app to introduce a replay feature, allowing users to replay flights dating back to 2011.
Flight tracking
Plane Finder collects data from its own global network of receivers, using the following sources.
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B)
A network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receivers gathers aircraft data such as callsign, position and speed. Plane Finder serves supplement this data with additional information, including aircraft registration/tail number, departure airport, destination, artwork, and photographs.
Plane Finder users can apply for an ADS-B receiver in exchange for their flight data.
Multilateration (MLAT)
To deliver aircraft position data where ADS-B is unavailable, Plane Finder uses multilateration (MLAT). Using three or more receivers running Plane Finder client software, monitoring the aircraft simultaneously, the aircraft’s position is calculated using receiver location and accurate timestamps.
While European airspace is widely covered, only some parts of North American airspace are covered.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) feed
ADS-B is prevalent across Europe and Australia, but not in North America. Where MLAT or ADS-B data is unavailable, a feed from the Federal Aviation Administration provides flight information. The FAA feed covers United States and Canadian airspace, including bordering areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
FLARM feed
Plane Finder collects data from a centralised FLARM feed, for monitoring small aircraft and gliders.
Flight data source
The Plane Finder website and database is widely used as an information source to support articles in the media. The Independent used Plane Finder flight tracking to demonstrate to readers the flight path of flight MT2706, which turned back as a result of last minute Egyptian government flight restrictions on 6 November 2015. The Independent also used Plane Finder information to demonstrate a timeline of the speed/altitude of flight 7K 9268, a Russian plane which crashed on 31 October 2015. The BBC cited Plane Finder in regard to the point at which at British Airways flight turned back to Heathrow Airport to make an emergency landing after smoke was seen coming from its engines.
Plane Finder data has also been used to create original imagery for the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkadot%20%28cryptocurrency%29 | Polkadot is a blockchain platform and cryptocurrency. The native cryptocurrency for the Polkadot blockchain is the DOT. It is designed to allow blockchains to exchange messages and perform transactions with each other without a trusted third-party. This allows for cross-chain transfers of data or assets, between different blockchains, and for decentralized applications (DApps) to be built using the Polkadot Network.
History
The protocol was created by the Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, Robert Habermeier and Peter Czaban, raising over $144.3 million in its Initial coin offering in October 2017. Another private sale in 2019 raised an additional $43 million. Gavin Wood is attributed in coining the term "Web3" in 2014. The white paper for Polkadot was published by Wood in 2016. The Web3 foundation was subsequently launched in 2017.
Polkadot's initial block (the "genesis block") was released in May 2020. The DOT is its native token, and DOTs were released with the launch of the genesis block.
Technical details
The Polkadot network has a primary blockchain named the "relay chain" and many user-created parallel chains called "parachains". The relay chain acts as the governance layer of the network, while parachains are auctioned, enabling independent projects to create and operate their own blockchains that live within the Polkadot infrastructure. The relay chain is responsible for validating data, achieving consensus and ensuring transactions are executed. It is estimated that 1,000 transactions per second can be processed by the network.
Proof of stake
The network uses a nominated proof-of-stake consensus algorithm. The protocol used, Blind Assignment for Blockchain Extension (BABE), is derived from Ouroboros, a protocol created by Aggelos Kiayias.
Bridges and Parathreads
The Polkadot network contains bridges, which connect blockchains and allow data transfer. Bridges provide interoperability with other networks such as Bitcoin or Cardano. Parathreads operate in a similar manner to parachains but follow a "pay as you go" model, not requiring continuous connectivity to the Polkadot network.
Consensus and the DOT token
There are three forms of stakeholders within the Polkadot proof-of-stake consensus model namely:
Nominators: securing relay chains and determining trusted validators.
Validators: used for staking DOT, validating proofs from collators and participating in consensus.
Collators: keep valid records of parachain transactions and send them to validators on relay chain.
DOT token is used for both staking and governance:
Staking: ensures network security such as in other proof-of-stake networks by incentivizing network participants to act honestly by holding DOT as collateral for "good" behavior (see Sybil attack). Staking generates rewards for those staking DOT.
Governance: DOT users have rights to vote based on weighted stake.
See also
Sybil attack
Proof of stake
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Cardano (blockchain platform)
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapt-N | Adapt-N is a precision nitrogen management solution operated by Agronomic Technology Corp. It was developed at Cornell University. It examines soil, weather, crop, field management data to provide an always-on, field-specific nitrogen recommendation that has been shown to improve financial and environmental performance.
Adapt-N simulates the nitrogen cycle, including nitrogen fixation, nitrification and denitrification through a combination of soil, weather, crop and field management modeling.
History
Adapt-N was funded by several foundations, agronomy groups and the USDA, and started development in 2004 through Cornell University, though some of its thirteen underlying model components have been developed and calibrated since the 1980s. Adapt-N was launched for testing in 2008, field tested with replicated strip trials starting in 2011, and launched commercially on April 1, 2014. The solution is meant to provide improved nutrient management for farmers applying nitrogen to their crops through more accurate, financially beneficial and measurable outcomes.
The commercial launch was executed by Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC) which is a member of Cornell's McGovern Center.
Agronomic Technology Corporation raised an undisclosed amount of funding in the seed round, consisting of investment by farmers.
In November, 2017, ATC and Adapt-N were acquired by the multinational chemical company Yara International.
Further reading
"Adapt-N tool by Fine Tune Nitrogen", "FineTuneNitrogen.com", 2013
"A tool for adaptive nitrogen in corn","Cornell.edu", 2014
"New_tool_recommends_n_rates_based_on_real-time_analysis', "AgWeb.com", April 30, 2014
"5 finalists named for $1 million Tulane nitrogen reduction prize", "Nola.com", December 5, 2016
"Taking Nitrogen To The Max", "PrecisionAg.com", January 27, 2017
"Better Nitrogen Management with Software", "Agriculture.com", March 27, 2017
References
Companies based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Academy%20for%20Computer%20Training%20and%20Research | National Academy for Computer Training and Research (NACTAR) is an autonomous government owned education and research institute in Bangladesh and is located in Bogura, Bangladesh. It is under the Ministry of Education.
History
The previous name of this academy was NTRAMS which stands for “National Training and Research Academy for Multilingual Shorthand” . It was established in 1984, at Bogura, for developing Secretarial Science and business management education system in Bangladesh.NACTAR, which stands for “National Academy for Computer Training and Research (NACTAR)”. It is Established after the NTRAMS abolished in 2005. It is an autonomous institution under the ministry of education, the peoples Republic of Bangladesh.
National Academy for Computer Training and Research (NACTAR) was established in 2005 through the passage of an act in parliament. The same year previous organisation National Training and Research Academy for Multilingual Shorthand had its declaration cancelled.
References
Research institutes in Bangladesh
2005 establishments in Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20clock | A broadcast clock or format clock is a template that displays a radio or television's hourly format in a graphical representation of a clock. Broadcast programming, especially radio, often follows an hourly pattern where certain segments such as news and commercials are repeated every hour at specific times. A broadcast clock displays these segments graphically which assist broadcasters in scheduling, thereby avoiding dead air and preventing random program selections by on-air staff.
References
Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanson%20Robotics | Hanson Robotics Limited is a Hong Kong-based engineering and robotics company founded by David Hanson, known for its development of human-like robots with artificial intelligence (AI) for consumer, entertainment, service, healthcare, and research applications. The robots include Albert HUBO, the first walking robot with human-like expressions; BINA48, an interactive humanoid robot bust; and Sophia, the world's first robot citizen. The company has 45 employees.
Hanson Robotics’ robots feature a patented spongy elastomer skin called Frubber that resembles human skin in its feel and flexibility. Underneath the Frubber are proprietary motor control systems by which the robots mimic human expressions.
History
In 2013, the company moved from Texas to Hong Kong Science Park and planned to develop a robotics hub in Hong Kong.
In October 2016, the company was selected as one of nine companies to join the Disney Accelerator program.
Humanoid robots
The company has focused on building robots that mimic the look of humans.
Sophia
Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ most well-known robot, is regularly featured in news outlets, and receives a great deal of public interest. The company's latest creation made her debut at the 2016 South by Southwest (SXSW) show, with her interview by CNBC reaching a broad audience. Since then, she has become a global media personality, having conducted numerous press interviews and appeared on broadcast television shows including CBS 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Good Morning Britain. She has also been a keynote and panel speaker at global conferences and events, including those hosted by ITU, United Nations.
Sophia was featured in AUDI's annual report and has graced the cover and centerfold of ELLE Magazine. Sophia is also the first United Nations Development Programme's first ever Innovation Champion, and the first non-human to be given any UN title. In 2018, Sophia won an Edison Award for Innovation in that competition's robotics category.
Alice
Alice was developed in 2008 for MIRA Labs in Geneva, Switzerland. The female robot has an emotionally expressive face. She acts to serve cognitive robotics research at the University of Geneva and is part of the INDIGO cognitive robotics consortium, where Hanson Robotics is a founding member.
Albert Einstein HUBO
Albert Einstein HUBO was, developed in November 2005 in collaboration with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) HUBO group of Korea. Inspired by German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, the expressive walking humanoid featured Einstein's head on a HUBO robot body. KAIST built the walking body, and Hanson Robotics built the animatronic head and the face, which uses elastic polymer called Frubber.
The robot debuted at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in November 2005.
Albert Einstein HUBO can perform realistic facial expressions and mimic Albert Einstein's voice via a voi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202018%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks in Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Black%20Mirror | Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. From 2011 to 2013, the first two series aired on British network Channel 4, as did the special "White Christmas" (2014); the following four series were released on the American streaming platform Netflix from 2016 to 2023. There are twenty-seven episodes in the show's first six series, and an additional interactive film Bandersnatch (2019). Inspired by The Twilight Zone, each episode of Black Mirror is standalone and explores the common theme of technology and its side-effects.
Black Mirror has received positive reception from critics and has been nominated for eighty-six awards, winning twenty-four of them. The most acclaimed episodes are "USS Callister", which won four Emmy Awards, and "San Junipero", which won two. Additionally, the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch won two Emmy Awards. As actors rarely appear in more than one episode, the only people to receive multiple awards for their work on the show are writer Charlie Brooker, who has won seven, and executive producer Annabel Jones, who has won four. The series has been nominated for seventeen British Academy Film Awards, winning two, and fifteen Emmy Awards, winning nine.
Statistics
Episodes
Sixteen of the show's twenty-two episodes have received awards or nominations, including those given to specific people for their work on the episode. The interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has also received awards and nominations.
People
Fifteen people have received two or more nominations for their work on Black Mirror.
Art Directors Guild Awards
The Art Directors Guild present the ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards for American film, television and other media with outstanding production design.
BAFTA Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) was founded in 1947 under the name British Film Academy to recognise excellence in the British film industry. In 1958, they merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, and began to give awards to British television programmes. In 2000, television awards were split into the British Academy Television Awards, given for work in production, and the British Academy Television Craft Awards, presented for technical achievements.
BAFTA Television Awards
BAFTA Television Craft Awards
Black Reel Awards
Established in 2000 and presented by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film, the Black Reel Awards are presented for African-American excellence in film and television. Initially limited to Hollywood, awards are now given to worldwide media.
Broadcast Awards
The Broadcast Awards, associated with the magazine Broadcast, are a series of awards given to British television programmes.
Cinema Audio Society Awards
These awards are presented by the American Cinema Audio Society for sound mixing in film and television.
Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards are given by the Academy of Television Arts & Sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over%20the%20Hill%20%28TV%20series%29 | Over the Hill is an Australian television drama which first screened on the Seven Network in 1994. Over the Hill was produced by Gary Reilly, written by John Flanagan and directed by Tony Osicka and Leigh Spence. It was not renewed after its first season of 13 episodes.
Synopsis
Over the Hill follows the story of a couple who realise the great Australian dream of buying a pub in the country.
Cast
Georgie Parker as Sandy Spencer
Nicholas Eadie as Don Spencer
Belinda Cotterill as Melissa Spencer
Nic Testoni as Jeremy
Darren Yap as Kevin
Roy Billing as Short Bob
Bruce Spence as Tall Bob
Peter Gwynne as Pat the Poet
See also
List of Australian television series
List of Seven Network programs
References
External links
Over the Hill at the Australian Television Information Archive
1990s Australian drama television series
Television shows set in New South Wales
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%2023 | Level 23 was an Australian lifestyle program that aired briefly on Network Ten in 1994. The show featured stories and interviews about a range of youth lifestyle issues.
Presenters
Brent Meyer
Anja Coleby
Nathan Harvey
Nic Testoni
Melissa Thomas
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
1994 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patatap | Patatap is a visual sound kit application with animations by computer programmer Jono Brandel and Japanese electronic duo Lullatone, consisting of Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida.
Summary
Patatap consists of unique palettes of colors, sounds, and shapes that are altered via the spacebar. The 26 melodic and rhythmic sounds that are in each set are triggered by pressing the A to Z keys. All of the sounds present a visual animation over the background when played. A writer for Co.design described the audio textures as ranging from "bells and snaps to pew-pewing lasers and alien spaceship landings."
Development
Jono Brandel had been experimenting with animations serving as visuals for music "over the last couple of years," he said in a 2014 interview. In October 2013, he got in touch with the Japanese duo Lullatone who conceived of making a musical instrument application that was based on visualizing music. As Brandel described the intentions of making Patatap, "we [were] interested in the mixing of aural and visual senses, and wanted to bring that to a format that anyone can enjoy."
In order to develop an instrument where a user with no musical abilities could create a song, Lullatone made sure all the sounds weren't "muddy if someone pressed too many buttons at once." The duo initially made a set consisting of more melodic notes than percussion hits, but they figured out that "too many melodic elements made it hard to create tracks with room to breathe." Thus, the final set of sounds consisted of an equal amount of thirteen melodic sounds and thirteen rhythmic sounds. As Lullatone's Shawn James Seymour explained, "We just chose sounds for each set that we thought would work well together to make a song with a few random dudes thrown it to give it some spice!"
Release and reception
Before its official release, Patatap was featured at the Monarch bar in San Francisco in 2012 and Gray Area's Creative Code program in 2013. Later on, Brandel and Lullatone presented the program at several conventions, such as the eighteenth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2014, Ableton's 2015 Loop convention in Berlin, The Tech Museum of Innovation in 2014, Rhizomatiks' 2014 "Super Flying Tokyo" event, and the Punto y Raya Festival. The app was released officially online on March 25, 2014 and on the iPhone OS on June 6, 2014.
Publications honored the application as "addictive," "only the very best in procrastination," "the most fun you'll ever have with your computer keyboard," and "delightful as the first time you banged on some piano keys or clanged on pots and pans and discovered: Hey, I can make noise!" Refinery29 journalist Colleen Nika stated that the charm of Patatap was that it "takes a familiar conundrum — being supremely bored in front of your computer — and saves you from backsliding into the rabbit hole of wonky cat gifs and "Which Lindsay Lohan Are You?" quizzes. Instead, it encourages you to open your browser, get free-associative, and create somet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy%20%28TV%20series%29 | Snowy is an Australian television drama thriller series that screened on the Nine Network in 1993 and was produced by Simpson Le Mesurier Films. The program was not renewed for a second season.
Synopsis
Snowy was set around the project to build the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in 1949. The Logan family run a small hotel in the remote and peaceful township of Cooma. The building of the Snowy project turns the Snowy Mountains region into a wild new frontier with the surge of hopeful immigrants, shady hustlers and colourful characters.
Cast
Rebecca Gibney as Lilian Anderson
Neil Melville as Jack Logan
Lucy Bell as Kate Logan
Bernard Curry as Michael Logan
Catherine Wilkin as Molly Logan
Jochen Horst as Wolfie Heimer
Annie Jones as Eva Kovac
William McInnes as Max Heimer
Charlie Powles as Bernie O'Donnell
Bill Kerr as Stuart McLachlan
Wynn Roberts
Episodes
Home media
Umbrella Entertainment released the complete series in May 2013 on DVD, Blu-Ray and on their steaming site.
Content Held By (National Film and Sound Archives)
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Snowy at the Australian Television Information Archive
Nine Network original programming
1993 Australian television series debuts
1993 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian drama television series
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamila%20Abbas | Jamila Abbas, is a computer scientist, software engineer, businesswoman and entrepreneur in Kenya. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MFarm Kenya Limited, an internet-based organisation that helps farmers find the best farm implements, seeds, access to weather reports and market information. She co-founded M-Farm in 2010.
Background and education
Jamila was born in Kenya and attended local schools for her pre-university education. She attended Strathmore University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Software engineering.
Career
Following her graduation from Strathmore University, Jamila was hired by Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). She also became member at iHub, a technology community, where techies gather to exchange ideas. There, she was reconnected with Susan Oguya, a friend from university. In September 2010, Jamila and Susan decided to actively do something about the plight of Kenyan small-scale farmers, using technology.
The two women, also joined AkiraChix, another forum for women with interest in information technology. There, they met three other Strathmore University students, Linda Omwenga, Lillian Nduati, and Catherine Kiguru. The five of them decided to enter IPO48, a software development competition. The event, involved 100 contestants, organised in seventeen teams. The objective was to develop a computer application, which can be turned into a marketable business, all within 48 hours.
The competition was organized by HumanIPO, from Estonia. In November 2011, the five women won the competition, with their M-Farm application, that connects farmers with agro-suppliers, cooperatives and enables them to access current market prices for their produce in a timely manner. The five ladies also won the top prize of KSh1 million (approx. US$10,000).
The group used their prize money to incorporate M-Farm Kenya Limited, with Jamila Abbas as CEO, Susan Oguya as COO. Linda Omwenga and Catherine Kiguru were marketing officers and Lillian Nduati was the public relations officers.
Other considerations
Abbas concurrently serves as the country director of New Vision Foundation, a Minneapolis-based non-profit organization.
See also
Susan Oguya
Agriculture in Kenya
Economy of Kenya
References
External links
Website of M-Farm Kenya Limited
Startup: MFarm Connecting Farmers
Living people
1984 births
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
Kenyan software engineers
Kenyan chief executives
Strathmore University alumni
Kenyan women business executives
People from Wajir County
Kenyan women computer scientists
Kenyan women chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansudae%20Television | Mansudae Television () is a state-owned entertainment television channel based in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It broadcasts movies, selected foreign films and entertainment programming every weekend with occasional advertising. Mansudae began transmissions on December 1, 1973, and broadcasts for three hours (19:00–22:00) on Saturdays, and nine hours (10:00–13:00, 16:00–22:00) on Sundays.
From its inception to July 13, 2015, broadcasting was carried out on channel 5 from the Pyongyang TV Tower and a special app on the Samjiyon tablet computer. In August 2016, the channel was added to the Manbang IPTV service, being available on the second button of the "Aircast" section.
Temporary closure
In July 2015, Mansudae Television ceased broadcasting for unknown reasons. However, two reasons were considered in the Newstopia online edition (South Korea): According to one reason, this step could be taken by the North Korean authorities to restrict the access of Pyongyang residents to foreign content broadcast on the channel. According to the other, reported by Radio Free Asia, in the editorial board there was an incident with unfiltered content, shown on air on the channel. It was also reported that the launch of the broadcasting of the new Athletic Television, carried out on August 15 of the same year, was made at a frequency previously owned by Mansudae Television. As a result of internal checks of the government of North Korea, the television channel was rehabilitated only in 2016 (according to other sources - in November 2015). The message of South Korean news agency Yonhap from May 18, 2016, reported that access to the television channel was proposed to be carried out through cable networks.
Pay channel proposal
In March 2018, Daily NK reported about the proposal by the North Korean government to convert the broadcasting of Mansudae Television on the principle of a paid subscription; however, according to the Daily NK, it was not established that the project is supposed to be carried out using traditional cable TV or Manbang IPTV. One of the main reasons for the decision of the North Korean government was the high popularity of films and programs that appear on the channel. The price was set at 650 won.
See also
Television in North Korea
References
Television channels in North Korea
Television channels and stations established in 1973
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015
Television channels and stations established in 2015
Korean-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australians%20%28TV%20series%29 | Australians (also known as Michael Willesee's Australians) is a thirteen part anthology documentary drama series which screened on the Seven Network in 1988.
There was a spin-off book.
The series was not the idea of Willesee's but his company, Transmedia was involved.
Episodes
The episodes focused on famous individuals (with one exception covering soldier settlers):
Mary Mackillop – starring Lorna Lesley
Errol Flynn – starring Christopher Stollery
Lola Montez
Betty Cuthbert
Lottie Lyell – starring Odile de Clezio
Jack Davey – starring Rhys McConnochie
Les Darcy – starring Peter Phelps
Private John Simpson – starring Robert Willox
Clyde Fenton
Vivian Bullwinkle – starring Rachel Ward
John Norton - starring John Ewart
Gordon Bennett
Ep One – Les Darcy
March 1, 1988. Written by John Upton, directed by Kevin Dobson.
Cast
Peter Phelps as Les Darcy
Gia Carides as Winnie O'Sullivan
Gus Mercurio as Tex Rickard
Robin Howering as William Hughes
Reception
The Age called it "a thumbnail sketch".
Ep Two – Private John Simpson
March 8, 1988. Written by Roger McDonald. Directed by Henri Safran.
Cast
Robert Willox as John Simpson
Ep Three - Vivian Bullwinkle
March 15, 1988. Written by Anne Brooksbank. Directed by Rod Hardy.
Cast
Rachel Ward as Vivian Bullwinkle
Barry Quinn as Private Kinsley
Ep Four - Mary MacKillop
March 22, 1988. Written by John Misto. Directed by Mark Callan.
Ep Five - Lotte Lyell
March 29, 1988. Written by Anne Brooksbank. Directed by Ben Lewin
Ep Six - Lola Montez
April 5, 1988. Written by Tony Morphett. Directed by Ian Gilmour.
Cast
Linda Cropper as Lola Montez
Nicholas Eadie
Peter Whitford
Danny Adcock as Harry Seekamp
Ep Seven - Clyde Fenton
April 12, 1988. Directed by John Power.
Cast
Scott Burgess
Kerry Armstrong
Bruce Spence
Ep Eight - Jack Davey
April 19, 1987. Written by Geoffrey Atherden. Directed by George Whaley.
Ep Nine - Betty Cuthbert
April 26, 1988. Written by Denise Morgan. Directed by Kathy Mueller.
Ep Ten - Gordon Bennett
May 3, 1988. Written by John Misto.
Ep Eleven - Soldier Settlers
May 10, 1988. Directed by George Ogilvie.
Ep Twelve - John Norton
May 17, 1988.
Ep Thirteen - Errol Flynn
May 24, 1988. Written by John Lonie. Directed by Michael Carson.
Cast
Christopher Stollery as Errol Flynn
Nell Schofield
Timothy Conigrave
Terence Donovan (actor)
Rhys McConnochie
Jeanette Cronin
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australians at the Australian Television Information Archive
1988 Australian television series debuts
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20DramaRama | Total DramaRama (originally titled Total Drama Daycare) is an animated comedy children's television series created by Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch that premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on September 1, 2018, and on Teletoon in Canada on October 7, 2018. The show, serving as a crossover prequel spin-off as well as the second spin-off of Total Drama following The Ridonculous Race, is set in an alternate universe of Total Drama and 6teen. The series is co-produced by Fresh TV and Corus Entertainment in association with Cartoon Network, and distributed by Cake Entertainment.
Premise
The series re-introduces some of the original "Total Drama" characters in an alternate universe where they are aged down from teenagers to toddlers, being taken care of by Chef Hatchet. Each episode features dream sequences, cutaways, visual jokes, confessionals, and flashbacks. A Ridonculous Race contestant, MacArthur, has made recurring appearances and several other characters from the Total Drama series and The Ridonculous Race have made cameo appearances throughout the series.
Episodes
Characters
Chef Hatchet (voiced by Deven Mack)
Courtney (voiced by Emilie-Claire Barlow)
Gwen (voiced by Lilly Bartlam)
Duncan (voiced by Drew Nelson)
Owen (voiced by Scott McCord)
Izzy (voiced by Katie Crown)
Noah (voiced by Cory Doran)
Bridgette (voiced by Kristin Fairlie)
Harold (voiced by Darren Frost)
Beth (voiced by Sarah Gadon)
Jude Lizowski (from 6teen) (voiced by Christian Potenza)
Leshawna (voiced by Bahia Watson)
Cody (voiced by Wyatt White)
Lightning (voiced by Kwaku Adu-Poku)
Sugar (voiced by Rochelle Wilson)
MacArthur (from The Ridonculous Race) (voiced by Evany Rosen)
Production
The show was under production as of December 19, 2017 under the title Total Drama Daycare. It first aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on September 1, 2018. Jennifer Pertsch revealed in an interview with TV Kids that Fresh took "11 favorites from the original cast and aged them down to 4".
On February 13, 2019, the series was green lit for a second season. On June 23, 2020, Corus Entertainment announced that the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered in Canada in mid-2021. Revenge of the Island contestant, Lightning, and Pahkitew Island contestant, Sugar, were aged down to join the cast.
Broadcast
Streaming
The first season is available to stream on HBO Max as of September 20, 2021. The second season is also available to stream on HBO Max. The first 25 episodes of the third season were added to HBO Max on June 6, 2022.
Reception
Critical
Total DramaRama has received mostly mixed reviews. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series three stars out of five and found that it was as entertaining as previous entries in the Total Drama franchise, declaring that "Total Drama fans who tune in for DramaRama will appreciate the humor in seeing these familiar characters' big personalities in little bodies." The Washington Post |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Comics%20Super%20Heroes%3A%20The%20Flash | Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash is a 2018 American computer-animated superhero comedy film. It is a superhero action-adventure comedy, based on the DC Comics and Lego brands. It is produced by DC Entertainment, The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and was released digitally on February 13, 2018 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 13, 2018. It is the seventh Lego DC Comics film. This is the first posthumous release for longtime DC producer Benjamin Melniker, who died a month before its release. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the action, humor, and animation.
Plot
The second Atom is introduced into the Justice League as the Joker poisons Metropolis with his Joker gas and remodels the Daily Planet. Flash arrives late after stopping for food and catching Captain Cold and Captain Boomerang. The Justice League is upset with his impulsive decisions when a yellow, vibrating speedster taunts Flash for his inferior speed. Following a chase, Flash wakes up in his bed the next day; after recognizing the events from the previous day, Flash realizes he traveled back in time to the morning of that day and is able to stop the Joker. The yellow speedster taunts the Flash again and the Flash enters a time loop, repeatedly chasing the speedster and stopping the crimes of that day. Batman gives Flash advice on how to stop it, but the yellow speedster gives Flash the chase again. In a dimensional gateway, Flash pushes his power past its maximum to overtake the speedster and break the loop.
In Central City, Flash's powers are gone and the city has turned against him. Superman and Batman removes him from the Justice League after being framed for pulling pranks on the League. The yellow speedster reveals himself as the Reverse Flashenvious of Flash's fame, Reverse Flash traveled from the future to steal his (and the Justice League's) fame. In atomic size, Atom hears everything, though as Reverse Flash restrains Flash, his suit short circuits preventing him from unshrinking. Atom frees Flash and phones Doctor Fate to help Flash regain his powers. Flash is teleported to Doctor Fate and Atom attempts returning to the Hall of Justice to explain Reverse Flash's plan to the League. Reverse Flash commits acts of heroism at a rate quicker than the Justice League, gaining him popularity with the public and leading the Justice League to announce their retirement.
Flash is introduced to Doctor Fate and his assistant Zatanna. After Flash explains his predicament, Doctor Fate explains the Speed Force and reveals that Flash broke his connection to it. Doctor Fate and Zatanna send Flash into the Speed Force, where he will complete various trials to prove his worthiness of his powers. Flash completes the trials and finds the Speed Force Nexus, the primary source of power in the Speed Force. Reverse Flash arrives, having planned for Flash to complete the trials so he could acquire t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20News%20Network | Illinois News Network may refer to:
Illinois News Network, a radio network owned by Alex Seith and Thom Serafin in the 1980s
Illinois News Network, a wire service division of Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetica%20%28Estonian%20company%29 | Cybernetica is an Estonian company best known for development of Estonia's e-Estonia X-Road and Internet voting system.
Established in 1997 as Küberneetika AS, it is a successor of the applied research unit of the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia, established in 1960.
References
Technology companies of Estonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiran%20Khuskivadze | Amiran Pimenovich Khuskivadze (born 5 May 1933) is a physicist, cyberneticist, philosopher, creator of the Theory of Integrity, author of two laws of nature's harmony: The Law of the Integral System Existence and The Law of Intrasystem Harmony.
Early life
A.P. Khuskivadze’s father was Pimen Vladimirovich Khuskivadze (1903–1937), a participant of collectivization in Georgia; his mother was Alexandra (Shura) Ilinichna Tskhadadze (1913–2000), a housewife.
In 1957, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Tbilisi State University.
In 1967–1970, he was a post-graduate student of the faculty and prepared a dissertation entitled “A Study on the Efficiency of Large Systems” for a PhD with dual major in Physics and Mathematics, specializing in Theoretical Cybernetics.
Career
In 1962, A.P. Khuskivadze began to study large (complex) systems. In 1970, he worked in the field of medical cybernetics and was head of the "Laboratory of Automated Management Systems of Medical Cybernetics Department at Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Georgian SSR".
After the transformation of the Medical Cybernetics Department into the Central Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Health of Georgian SSR, he became the head of Sector of System Studies of the Laboratory. In 1985–1997, A.P. Khuskivadze worked at the Research Institute of Experimental and the Clinical Therapy of Ministry of Health of Georgian SSR as head of Medical System Engineering Laboratory. In 1977, A.P. Khuskivadze permanently relocated to Russia.
From 1980–1985, A.P. Khuskivadze was a member of the Scientific Council for System Analysis in Medicine of the Committee for System Analysis of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1984–1985, he was also a member of the Task Group on System Analysis in Medicine and Biology of the Scientific Council "Medical and biological cybernetics" of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.
He is the author of more than 90 scientific publications.
Personal life
In 1961, A.P. Khuskivadze married Rosa Ivanovna Khuskivadze (maiden name Goloveshkina). They had two sons, Pimen (1962) and Amiran (1975–2004).
Monographs
Published manuscripts
Theory of Integrity. Decision making in large (complex) systems. Saarbruken, Deutschland, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. 304 pp.
Теория целостности. Принятие решения в больших – сложных – cистемах (Автор) – Saarbruken, - Deutschland, – Lambert Academic Publishing, – 2014. – 304 с. –
Theory of Integrity. Decision making in large (complex) systems. Second edition, revised and updated, 2015. 315 pp. .
Теория целостности. Принятие решения в больших - сложных – системах. Второе – переработанное и дополненное - издание. (Автор). – 2015. – 315 с. – .
World order. Medlinks.ru (Medical library). Fundamental medicine. Books and manuals, 2010. 110 pp.
Мироустройство (Автор). - Medlinks.ru - Медицинская библиотека. – Фундаментальная медицина. - Книги и руководства. – 2010. – 110 с. htt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20City%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bay City is an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 1993. The thirteen part series follows the lives of four children in a small city on Australia's west coast.
Bay City was produced by Douglas Stanley, directed by Andrew Prowse and Howard Rubie and written by Roger Vaughan Carr, Ken Kelso, Murray Oliver and Trevor Todd.
Cast
Michael Muntz as Mike Walker
Wendy Strehlow as Sue Walker
Christopher Fare as Steve Walker
Isla Fisher as Vanessa Walker
Rachel Goodman as Joanne Zandona
Shayne Vea as Luke Carter
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Bay City at the Australian Television Information Archive
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1993 Australian television series debuts
1993 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20for%20School | Late For School is an Australian television comedy series which screened for a single season on Network Ten in 1992.
The series is centred around Kathy Price, who returns to study at the school where she was educated sixteen years previously. This provides much embarrassment to her two teenage children who attend the school. The series is notable for introducing a number of young actors who went on to have success in other Australian television series such as Melissa Thomas, Matthew Newton, Stephen Curry, Anthony Engelman and Scott Major.
The series was produced by John Holmes, directed by Tina Butler and Riccardo Pellizzeri and written by Rob Menzies and Rob Caldwell.
Cast
Sarah Chadwick as Kathy Price
Ross Higgins as Stan Price
Melissa Thomas as Lily Price
Matthew Newton as Dennis Price
Frankie J. Holden as Principal S. Lavery
Harry Cripps as Mr. Dicks
Anne Phelan as Mrs. Dicks
Stephen Curry as Tim Hickey
Anthony Engelman as Sefton
Scott Major as Oates
References
External links
Late For School at Australian Television
1992 Australian television series debuts
1992 Australian television series endings
Network 10 original programming
1990s Australian comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturdee | Saturdee is an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 1986, adapted from the novel by Norman Lindsay. The ten part series is set in the small town of Redheap in the 1920s and tells the story of 12-year-old Peter Gimble and his friends.
Saturdee was produced by Steve Vizard, directed by John Gauci and written by Judith Colquhoun and Peter Hepworth.
Cast
Dominic McDonald as Peter Gimble
Troy Sussman as Conkey Menders
Tahnee Marks as Dolly Trimmer
Tamsin West as Trixie
Christine Amor as Ma Gimble
Wade Coleman as Bluey
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Saturdee at the Australian Television Information Archive
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's television series
1986 Australian television series debuts
1986 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Norman Lindsay
Television series set in the 1920s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27mon%20Kids%20%28TV%20series%29 | C'Mon Kids was an Australian children's television show which screened on the Nine Network from 1986 to 1990. It was produced in Adelaide, South Australia and screened on weekday afternoons.
Synopsis
The show had a number of hosts or presenters who were accompanied by puppet co-hosts Winky Dink, a puppet portrayed/voiced by actress Wendy Patching or Frank Duck, portrayed/voiced by actor Maurie Annese.
The show consisted of small educational editorials presented in a variety of segments and cartoons. The segments featured a number of regular presenters and reporters including Robin Roenfeldt, Tammy Macintosh, Narelle Higson, Joanna Moore, Vicki Radenge, Stephanie Raethal and Mark Fantasia.
See also
List of Australian television series
Wombat
Fat Cat and Friends
Play School
References
External links
Australian children's television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Nine Network original programming
1986 Australian television series debuts
1990 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Money%20%28Canadian%20TV%20program%29 | On the Money is a business and economics news program which aired on CBC News Network from September 12, 2016 to June 28, 2018. The program was developed as a replacement for the network's previous business news program, The Exchange. It was hosted by Peter Armstrong and aired weekdays at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT.
The program was cancelled on June 20, 2018 due to budget constraints at the CBC.
References
2016 Canadian television series debuts
2018 Canadian television series endings
CBC News Network original programming
2010s Canadian television news shows
Business mass media in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20Only | Kids Only is an Australian children's television show which screened on the Nine Network from 1986 to 1988 hosted by Glenn Ridge, who went on to host Sale of the Century.
See also
List of Australian television series
Wombat
References
External links
Australian children's television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Nine Network original programming
1986 Australian television series debuts
1988 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Weitz | Joshua S. Weitz is an American biologist. He is both a professor of biology and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland. Previously, he was a professor at Georgia Tech, where he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
He earned his A.B at Princeton University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.
Research
Weitz's interests are the dynamics and structure of complex biology systems. In particular, Joshua Weitz's research focuses on the quantitative evaluation of virus-host interactions. The quantitative edge that he brought to the field is summarized in the award winning book Quantitative Viral Ecology, which won the 2016 Postgraduate Textbook Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Biology.
While in graduate school, he co-authored a widely cited paper, Re-examination of the “3/4-law” of Metabolism, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. As a post-doctoral scholar, he published Coevolutionary arms races between bacteria and bacteriophage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His notable more recent publications include Statistical structure of host–phage interactions, PNAS (2011), Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles, F1000 Bio. Rep. (2012), Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space, Nature (2014), and An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback, PNAS (2016).
Other Activities
Weitz has published poetry, including a book of poems he wrote in college, Between Two Stones. He has also been politically active, writing in the Chronicle for Higher Education about advocating for science, and speaking at the Atlanta March for Science.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Georgia Tech faculty
21st-century American biologists
Princeton University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaurao%20Datar | Bhaurao Datar (14 January 1903 − 15 September 1982) was an Indian silent film actor, popularly known for his role as the 17th century Maratha king Shivaji.
Early life
Krishnaji Vishwanath Datar alias Bhaurao Datar was born on 14 January 1903 in a rich family which soon experienced a sudden financial downfall and was forced to move to Nasik, Maharashtra for better life. There his father started a tea stall near Vijayanand theatre. While helping his father to serve tea, young Datar observed renowned actors like Master Dinanath and Bal Gandharva and was attracted towards acting and learned the first lesson of acting.
With growing age, he joined a local gymnasium and soon became a wrestler and won many medals in Nasik Akhada. His well built physique and attractive personality gave him first chance to work in Dadasaheb Phalke's studio. His personal life and noted contribution in about 80 films as a lead actor have been recorded in Datar family history book named Datar Kulvrutant (1974)
Personal life
Bhaurao Datar married twice. His first wife was Kashi Bilwalkar and he had three daughters from his first marriage. After death of his first wife, he married Anusuya Vaidya and had one son and two daughters from his second wife.
Film career
Hero of Dadasaheb Phalke's silent movies.
Datar started his career in the era of silent films. He was associated with Phalke studio and acted in over 80 non talkie Marathi films, 20 talkie Marathi films and one Hindi film.
1922-1928
Out of Dadasaheb's 119 movies, 80 were made between 1918 and 1928. It is worth mentioning that out of 80 movies, 60 had Bhaurao Datar in different roles. He also acted in silent and talkie films with other renowned directors like Nanasaheb Sarpotdar, Master Vinayak and Bhalji Pendharkar. He acted in silent films but his performances were so lively that one used to be simply mesmerized.
1928-1933
After leaving Dadasaheb's company in Nasik, he set off to Nanasaheb Sarpotdar's company in Pune known as Aryan Company. He performed brilliantly in 15 out of 20 films made her. His role as ‘Thaksen’ in Prince Thaksen, Samsher in Samsher Bahaddar (Brave Samsher), Dr. Madan in Good Bye Marriage, Ramdas in Bhavani Talwar etc. were highly appreciated. With Lalita Pawar, he had many silent films like Dashrathi Ram, Subhadra haran, Chatur Sundari, Thakay Maushi, Samsher Bahadur and Prithviraj Sanyogita. They also worked together in ‘Duniya Kya hai’ and ‘Netaji Palkar’ later.
1933-1936
In 1933, he left Pune to enter into dazzling world of Mumbai's film industry. Ardeshir Irani's film company welcomed him. Here he played various roles in talkie films like Rukmini haran, Chalta Putla, Prithviraj Sanyukta and Devki. His role as a mentally challenged prince in ‘Chalta Putla’ was highly appreciated and famous.
1937-1944
He acted in Dharmaveer, Chimukla Sansar, Mazhe Bal of Master Vinayak, Netaji Palkar of Sir Bhalji Pendharkar
Immortal Shivaji of film industry
Dadasaheb Phalke first brought Shr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20Party%20%282017%20film%29 | Garden Party is a 2017 French 3D computer-animated short film directed by Illogic Collective, six French 3D artists during their studies at MoPA, animation school in France. This short film is their graduation film. The short has been presented and won awards in a number of festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the SIGGRAPH, and the Nashville Film Festival where it won the Oscar Qualifying prize of Grand Jury Prize for best animation.
The short was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
Plot
In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings. An emerald green frog swims through a murky swimming pool while being followed by a bigger toad. They eventually end up in a bed room that has all its sheets scattered about. A small yellow frog tries and fails to catch a butterfly to eat and a larger fatter toad awakens in a kitchen full of rancid food. This does not stop it from dining on caviar and macarons. The yellow frog makes its way into the house through one of the numerous bullet holes in the glass windows. An open safe and a gun can be seen, implying that a violent gun fight occurred there. As the night falls, the yellow frog finds the house's security room and begins accidentally turning on numerous switches; lighting up a painting that reveals the house's owner. Lights, music and water effects turn on outside as more amphibians show up to enjoy their new paradise. As they do so, the body of the house's owner, clad solely in a bathrobe, floats to the top of the pool, having been pickled and swollen from resting at the bottom for so long. The amphibians pay no mind to him.
Reception
Critical response
Garden Party has an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 9.00/10.
Awards
Since its launch, the film has received numerous awards, and selected in more than 180 festivals around the world.
The short was part of the world touring screening The Animation Showcase 2017.
References
External links
2017 films
2017 3D films
2017 short films
2017 comedy films
2017 computer-animated films
2010s French animated films
2010s fantasy comedy films
2010s animated short films
French 3D films
French computer-animated films
French animated fantasy films
French fantasy comedy films
French animated short films
3D animated short films
Animated films about frogs
Anthropomorphic amphibians
Films about parties
Works about suburbs
Animated films set in France
Films set in 2016
Summer in culture
Animated films without speech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfinity%20Flex | Xfinity Flex (formerly Xfinity Instant TV) is an American over-the-top internet television service owned by Comcast. The service – which is structured as a virtual multichannel video programming distributor – is only available to Comcast Xfinity internet customers. It is designed as an alternative to other competing OTT skinny bundles for cord cutters, offering a selection of major cable channels and on-demand content that can be streamed through smart TVs, digital media players, and mobile apps.
Supported devices
Supported Xfinity Stream TV devices include:
TV-connected
Amazon Fire TV
Roku
Apple TV
Samsung Smart TV
Chromecast
Mobile
Android mobile devices
Apple iOS mobile devices
Computer
macOS
Windows
See also
Xfinity
DirecTV Stream
FuboTV
HBO Now
LocalBTV
Locast
Now
Sling TV
YouTube TV
References
External links
Internet television streaming services
Comcast subsidiaries
Internet properties established in 2017
2017 software
American companies established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuitka | Nuitka (pronounced as ) is a source-to-source compiler which compiles Python code to C source code, applying some compile-time optimizations in the process such as constant folding and propagation, built-in call prediction, type inference, and conditional statement execution. Nuitka initially was designed to produce C++ code, but current versions produce C source code using only those features of C11 that are shared by C++03, enabling further compilation to a binary executable format by modern C and C++ compilers including gcc, clang, MinGW, or Microsoft Visual C++. It accepts Python code compatible with several different Python versions (currently supporting versions 2.6, 2.7, and 3.3–3.10) and optionally allows for the creation of standalone programs that do not require Python to be installed on the target computer.
Nuitka was discussed at the 2012 EuroPython conference, and serious development began at the end of the same year. It now supports virtually all of the features of the Python language. Additional compile-time optimizations are planned for future releases, including avoiding the use of Python objects for additional variables whose type can be inferred at compile time, particularly when using iterators, which is expected to result in a large performance increase.
Limitations
Currently it is not possible to cross-compile binaries (e.g. building the executable on Windows and shipping it to macOS).
Standalone binaries built using the --standalone command line option include an embedded CPython interpreter to handle aspects of the language that are not determined when the program is compiled and must be interpreted at runtime, such as duck typing, exception handling, and dynamic code execution (the eval function and exec function or statement), along with those Python and native libraries that are needed for execution, leading to rather large file sizes.
Nuitka's design heavily relies on the internals of the CPython interpreter, and as a result other implementations of the Python language such as PyPy, Jython, and IronPython cannot be used instead of CPython for the runtime interpreter and library.
Usage
Nuitka can be installed from the repositories of many Linux distributions. It can also be installed through pip and pip3, respectively. Compilation is done either with nuitka program.py or by calling Python itself and afterwards defining which module to run, which in this case is Nuitka (python -m nuitka program.py).
References
External links
- Source code and manual
Source-to-source compilers
Software using the Apache license
Python (programming language) implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QT%20Luong | QT Luong (born 1964) is a French-Vietnamese born American photographer known for his work in the U.S. National Parks, as well as for work in the theory of computer vision. In 2022, Luong received the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography from the Sierra Club.
Early life and career
Luong was born in Paris of Vietnamese parents and graduated from École Polytechnique. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science at University of Paris-Sud in 1992. His thesis, in computer vision, introduced the concepts of Fundamental matrix and camera auto-calibration. In 2008, together with Olivier Faugeras and Steve Maybank, he received the initial Koenderink Prize, for fundamental contributions in computer vision. Luong left his career as a research scientist at SRI International to become a full-time photographer in 2007.
Photography of the National Parks
While in school, Luong had developed an interest in photography as a means to capture his mountaineering outings. They would include climbs of difficult frozen waterfalls and a solo ascent of Denali.
After moving to California to work at UC Berkeley in 1993, influenced by the West Coast landscape photography tradition, he learned to use large format cameras, and in the process created the website largeformatphotography.info. His growing interest for large format photography and the exhilaration of discovering the diversity of the U.S. national parks inspired him to try to photograph each of them with a large format 5x7 film camera. He made his permanent home in California.
In 2002 he had photographed all the (then) 57 national parks and was the first to do so. He has since continued to work in the national parks in great depth using his uncommon wilderness skills, creating a singularly comprehensive record of America's landscape. In 2013, he was the first to photograph all the 59 national parks. He continued that streak in 2018, when Gateway Arch was established as the 60th national park and again in 2019 when Indiana Dunes was established as the 61st national park and White Sands was established as the 62nd national park. As of 2019, Luong continues to use a large format film camera to photograph the national parks. He is the only person known to have photographed each of the U.S. national parks on film.
In 2009, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan featured him as the only living artist in The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and used his photograph Yosemite, Winter Sunset for the series' cover. In 2016, the U.S. Postal Service used his photograph of the Little Missouri River winding through the badlands of North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park on a stamp celebrating the National Park Service’s Centennial. In 2020, Luong received the Robin W. Winks Award For Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks from the National Parks Conservation Association.
Photography of the National Monuments
In 2018, as a reaction to the review of national monuments via Executive Order 13792 and the subse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailando%202018 | Bailando 2018 is the thirteenth season of Bailando por un Sueño.
It started on September 3, 2018, on the El Trece network.
Cast
Couples
On July 24, the celebrities and professional partners were announced were officially confirmed at the press conference to present the program.
Hosts and judges
Marcelo Tinelli return as host, while judges Marcelo Polino and Ángel de Brito all returned this season. Pampita Ardohaín and Moria Casán did not return this season as a permanent judge. Laura Fernández, professional dancer, actress & host, and Florencia Peña, actress & comedian, become the new judge.
It also includes the incorporation of the BAR (Bailando Assistant Referee), inspired by the VAR (Video Assistant Referee), which is a video assistance system integrated by Lourdes Sánchez, Mariela Anchipi and Jorge Moliniers. Only the judges, choreographers, the head of coach and Marcelo Tinelli can ask for the BAR. The production is the one that authorizes if the BAR can intervene, the order is made after the judges score. In the galas, you will have the possibility to add or subtract a point. In the duel, the BAR can break the tie. In the semifinals and in the final, the BAR will have the possibility to choose the couple, according to their technical criteria, who better danced.
Scoring chart
In italics, partial scores without the secret ballot.
Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each style.
Green numbers indicate the highest score for each style.
Indicates the couple sentenced.
Indicates the couple was saved by the judges.
Indicates the couple was saved by the public.
Indicates the couple eliminated that round.
Indicates the couple withdrew.
Indicates the winning couple.
Indicates the runner-up couple.
Indicates the semi-finalists couples.
Notes:
A: All couples are sent to duel to define the semifinalists.
Highest and lowest scoring performances
The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' (more the BAR) 41-point scale are as follows:
Styles, scores and songs
Round 1: Disco
All songs will be sung live by guest singers.
Sentenced: Joaquín Álvarez (13), Anamá Ferreira (13), Esmeralda Mitre (16), Ezequiel Cwirkaluk & Bárbara Silenzi (16), Florencia Tesouro (22) and Benjamín Alfonso (22)
Saved by the judges: Joaquín Álvarez, Anamá Ferreira and Esmeralda Mitre
Saved by the public: Benjamín Alfonso (38.93%)
Eliminated: Florencia Tesouro (26.35%) and Ezequiel Cwirkaluk & Bárbara Silenzi (34.72%)
Round 2: Aquadance
Sentenced: Gabriel Usandivaras & Rebeca Vázquez (—), Anamá Ferreira (17), Sofía Jiménez (21), Marcela Baños (22) and Joaquín Álvarez (6 votes)
Saved by the judges: Gabriel Usandivaras & Rebeca Vázquez, Marcela Baños and Sofía Jiménez
Saved by the public: Anamá Ferreira (51.27%)
Eliminated: Joaquín Álvarez (48.73%)
Round 3: Trio Salsa
Sentenced: Anamá Ferreira (11), María Sol Pérez (14), Julián Serrano & Sofía Morandi (14), Benjamín Alf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronics%20industry%20in%20East%20Germany | East Germany was one of the leading computer producers in the Eastern Bloc as purchases of higher technologies from the West were under various embargoes. A program of illegal purchases, copying and reverse engineering of Western examples was established, after which GDR sold these computers to COMECON countries. Under the rule of Erich Honecker, electronics, microelectronics and data processing industries grew at average 11.4% in the 1970s and 12.9% during the 1980s.
Structure in 1989
In the years just before German Reunification, the electronics industry was structured into business conglomerates called Kombinate (combine). Semiconductor manufacturing equipment was produced by Kombinat Carl Zeiss Jena. Using this equipment VEB Kombinat Elektronische Bauelemente Teltow manufactured passive electronic components and VEB Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt active electronic components. In turn, VEB Kombinat Robotron Dresden assembled these components into a range of computers. VEB Kombinat Rundfunk- und Fernsehtechnik Staßfurt produced consumer electronics such as radio receivers, cassette decks, and television sets while telecommunications equipment was provided by VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik Berlin. With the exception of Carl Zeiss and Robotron, most components and devices were sold under the common trademark RFT (from Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik).[de]
History
From 1977 the attempt to achieve a competitive edge in microchips against the research and development resources of the entire western world – in a state of just 16 million people – was perhaps always doomed to failure, but swallowed increasing amounts of internal resources and hard currency. GDR was some five to eight years behind the leading producers of USA and Japan. To produce one 64kb chip cost 40 marks, while in the West it cost 4.50 marks. To produce one 256kb chip cost 534 marks, while in the West it cost 5.00 to 7.00 marks.
Microelectronics industry in Eastern Germany began in 1961 when the "Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden" (department of molecular electronics Dresden) was established in Dresden. Later it grew into "VEB Forschungszentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden".
The center of East German microchip industry was in Dresden, where research and production laboratories were located. Production equipment was built by Carl Zeiss Jena and "VEB Elektromat Dresden". The actual 13 mm x 5 mm U61000 microchip production was done by "VEB Forschungszentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden" and it was presented publicly in September 1988. In total some 50,000 U61000 microchips were produced in early 1990 before the GDR dissolved together with its microchip industry.
During the cold war 3,500 people were employed in this microelectronics center.
After reunification Dresden formed the nucleus for the modern day largest unified german cluster in semiconductor technologies Silicon Saxony with 40,000 employees.
See also
History of computer hardware in Eastern Bloc countries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism%20%28cybernetics%29 | Dualism in cybernetics refers to systems or problems in which one or more intelligent adversaries attempt to exploit the weaknesses of the investigator. Examples could include a game-playing opponent, adversarial law, evolutionary systems of predator/parasite and prey/host, or politics/enslavement attempts.
Background
Dualism in cybernetics emerged from the notion that there is another form of dualism besides the classical mind-matter dualism and this is the form-matter variant first proposed by the philosopher Anaxagoras and further developed by Plato and Aristotle. Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics, used this as the basis of his position that information is a different reality from matter and energy. In the foundational discipline of cybernetics that he developed, Wiener also drew from the Cartesian dualism, which differentiated non-cognitive body and non-extended/disembodied mind. He outlined a dualism that opposed matter/energy with information and proposed that it is possible for the living and non-living to be within the same wall that once divided them.
Gregory Bateson contributed to the development of this notion of dualism through his theory of mind, which proposed that the mind extends the boundaries of the brain and body so that it is able to take multiple feedback loops, which then creates the link between organisms and the rest of the natural world. The key element here is the concept of feedback, which allows the identification of causal loops so that a system can change its behavior and receive information back from the environment concerning the external changes resulting from that changed behavior, using it as a basis for future actions. This cybernetic idea challenged the traditional subject/object dualism.
Opposition vs complexity
Wiener contrasted "Manichean devils" (dualistic adversarial systems) with "Augustinian devils"—systems or problems that, though very complex and difficult to figure out, did not feature an adversary with contrary intent. Victories or "expansions of knowledge" in the latter type of system were able to be built upon incrementally, through science (experimentation expanding empirical knowledge bases). Wiener noted that temporary weaknesses (such as errors to perceive all components of a system) were not fatal in attempts to defeat "Augustinian devils" because another experiment could simply be pursued (and he noted that he had personally defeated many "Augustinian devils" with his contributions to science and engineering). By contrast, Wiener observed that temporary lapses in judgment against "Manichean devils" were more often fatal or destructive, due to the desire of the opponent to "win/survive at all costs", even by introducing deception into the system. He said that he had been defeated by many "Manichean devils", such as on occasions when he was temporarily careless in chess.
Although this duality between complexity (in the case of the Augustinian devils) and opposition (in the case |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20LC | The Macintosh LC is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1990 to March 1992.
Overview
The first in the Macintosh LC family, the LC was introduced with the Macintosh Classic (a repackaging of the older Macintosh SE) and the Macintosh IIsi (a new entry-level machine for the Macintosh II series), and offered for half the price of the Macintosh II but significantly lesser in performance overall. The creation of the LC was prompted by Apple's desire to produce a product that could be sold to school boards for the same price as an Apple IIGS. It was designed for inexpensive manufacturing, with five major components that robots could assemble. The computer had a $2,400 list price; it and the new $600 12-inch color display were $3,500 less expensive than the Macintosh II. Not long after the Apple IIe Card was introduced for the LC, Apple quietly removed the IIGS from its price list, forceably retiring it, as the company wanted to focus its sales and marketing efforts on the LC.
The original Macintosh LC was introduced in October 1990, with initial shipments to dealers following in December and January. It was replaced by Macintosh LC II, which was largely the same but was built around a Motorola 68030 processor.
Hardware
The LC uses a "pizza box" case with a Processor Direct Slot (PDS) but no NuBus slots. It has a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 microprocessor which lacks a floating-point coprocessor (although one could be added via the PDS). The LC has a 16-bit data bus, which is a major performance bottleneck as the 68020 is a 32-bit CPU. The LC's memory management chipset places a limit of 10 MB RAM no matter how much was installed.
The LC shipped with 256 kB of VRAM, supporting a display resolution of 512×384 pixels at 8-bit color. The VRAM is upgradeable to 512 kB, supporting a display resolution of 512×384 pixels at 16-bit color or 640×480 pixels at 8-bit color. The LC was commonly purchased with an Apple 12" RGB monitor which had a fixed resolution of 512×384 pixels and a form factor exactly matching the width of the LC chassis, giving the two together a near all-in-one appearance. An Apple 13" 640×480 Trinitron display was also available, but at a list price of $999, it cost around half as much as the LC itself. Until the introduction of the LC, the lowest resolution supported on color Macs had been 640×480. Many programs written for color Macintosh II family computers had assumed this as a minimum, and some were unusable at the lower resolution. For several years software developers had to add support for this smaller screen resolution in order to guarantee that their software would run on LCs (as well as Color Classics, introduced 2½ years later, which use the same resolution).
Overall, general performance of the machine was disappointing due to the crippling data bus bottleneck, making it run far slower than the 16 MHz 68020-based Macintosh II from 1987, which had an identical processor but ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Public%20Television%20Company%20of%20Armenia | This is a list of television programs which are currently, formerly, or are soon to be broadcast on Public Television Company of Armenia.
Current programming of Armenia 1
News and information
Agenda
The First on Economics
Parliamentary Week
Agenda: Interview
At the Square
360°
Off the Agenda
Journalism by Profession
First Pavilion
Dramas
Open Your Eyes
Against the Flow
Game shows
Love Formula
Bonus
Hay-Q
Hayastan Jan
Armenian Night
Reality/other
Lets cook together
Nice Evening
National Music Channel
Musical Post
National Music Awards
National Music Awards Diary
Emmy - First CD Presentation Solo Concert
Hot 10
Hot 10 Diary
Top 10
Top 50
Top 2006
Top 2007
Top 2008
Top 2009
Top 2010
Top 2011
Top 2012
Two Stars
Two Stars Diary
32 Teeth Club
Open Project
Foreign games
Rubicon
Rubicon +
Made in USSR
Golden Clarinet
Resolution
Europolis
Late Night
Saturday Evering
Health
Sanatorium
The First Program
The First Wave Cafe
Fairy-Tale Calling
Once Upon A Time
Faces
Quality Mark
Mechanics of Happiness
Found Dream
Canticle of Canticles
Open Lesson
Cities of the World
Quotation Marks
On the Roads of Armenia
The Devotees
Armed Forces
Life on Border
Tandem
Former programming
Benefis
Name that Tune
With the Whole Family
Towards Artsakh
References
External links
Armenia 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral%20optimization%20algorithm | In mathematics, the spiral optimization (SPO) algorithm is a metaheuristic inspired by spiral phenomena in nature.
The first SPO algorithm was proposed for two-dimensional unconstrained optimization
based on two-dimensional spiral models. This was extended to n-dimensional problems by generalizing the two-dimensional spiral model to an n-dimensional spiral model.
There are effective settings for the SPO algorithm: the periodic descent direction setting
and the convergence setting.
Metaphor
The motivation for focusing on spiral phenomena was due to the insight that the dynamics that generate logarithmic spirals share the diversification and intensification behavior. The diversification behavior can work for a global search (exploration) and the intensification behavior enables an intensive search around a current found good solution (exploitation).
Algorithm
The SPO algorithm is a multipoint search algorithm that has no objective function gradient, which uses multiple spiral models that can be described as deterministic dynamical systems. As search points follow logarithmic
spiral trajectories towards the common center, defined as the current best point, better solutions can be found and the common center can be updated.
The general SPO algorithm for a minimization problem under the maximum iteration (termination criterion) is as follows:
0) Set the number of search points and the maximum iteration number .
1) Place the initial search points and determine the center , ,and then set .
2) Decide the step rate by a rule.
3) Update the search points:
4) Update the center: where .
5) Set . If is satisfied then terminate and output . Otherwise, return to Step 2).
Setting
The search performance depends on setting the composite rotation matrix , the step rate , and the initial points .
The following settings are new and effective.
Setting 1 (Periodic Descent Direction Setting)
This setting is an effective setting for high dimensional problems under the maximum iteration . The conditions on and together ensure that the spiral models generate descent directions periodically. The condition of works to utilize the periodic descent directions under the search termination .
Set as follows: where is the identity matrix and is the zero vector.
Place the initial points at random to satisfy the following condition:
where . Note that this condition is almost all satisfied by a random placing and thus no check is actually fine.
Set at Step 2) as follows: where a sufficiently small such as or .
Setting 2 (Convergence Setting)
This setting ensures that the SPO algorithm converges to a stationary point under the maximum iteration . The settings of and the initial points are the same with the above Setting 1. The setting of is as follows.
Set at Step 2) as follows: where is an iteration when the center is newly updated at Step 4) and such as . Thus we have to add the following rules about to the Algorithm:
•(Step 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrassia%20subcordata | Thyrassia subcordata is a moth in the family Zygaenidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1854 from Sri Lanka. One subspecies is recorded, Thyrassia subcordata aurodisca Hampson, 1891.
References
Moths described in 1854 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK%20K.O.%21%20Let%27s%20Play%20Heroes | OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes is an action-adventure beat 'em up video game developed by Capybara Games and published by Cartoon Network Games. It is based on the show OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and was released digitally on January 23, 2018 for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, with a port to the Nintendo Switch launching physically in 2019. A physical release of the game bundled with Grumpyface Studios' Steven Universe: Save the Light for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch was released in May 2019.
Plot
When Lord Boxman takes away all the levels of the heroes' pow cards, K.O. must set things right and learn at heart that he is a true hero.
Gameplay
K.O. is controlled when fighting against villains. The player can use moves such as an uppercut, punch combo, low kick, etc. The player can collect their stats after defeating all enemies to earn new moves such as a charge punch, a controllable fist, and a stronger uppercut.
During combat, taking damage or dealing damage will raise a bar towards using a special ability called a Powie Zowie, where the player will summon the character in the card and get help. Some examples include Rad, who allows players to levitate and shoot beams, and Carol, who will appear and start doing a combo in front of the player.
Development
Ian Jones-Quartey, the creator of OK K.O., was cautious about tie-in videogames that were of poor quality, and wanted to collaborate with a game development studio that shared his passion for the material and to create a videogame in tandem with the show. This approach would ensure that neither the game developers nor animators would try to imitate each other. Cartoon Network connected him and OK K.O. Co-Executive Producer Toby Jones with Capy Games. Ian was already familiar with Capy and was thrilled to work with them. At the start of the collaboration, they were still brainstorming and developing the show, and wanted the game to develop in the same way. On December 7, 2017, the first trailer for the game was released.
Reception
Upon release, OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes received mostly positive reviews. A review by PlayStation LifeStyle remarked that the game "shows that licensed kids cartoon adaptations don’t have to be mediocre, and that they can be filled with the same charm as the television shows that made them beloved in the first place.", but was criticized for its repetitive combat.
References
External links
2018 video games
Action-adventure games
Capybara Games games
Cartoon Network video games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
Single-player video games
Video games based on television series
Video games developed in Canada
Windows games
Xbox One games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20arms%20race | A military artificial intelligence arms race is an arms race between two or more states to develop and deploy lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since the mid-2010s, many analysts have noted the emergence of such an arms race between global superpowers for better military AI, driven by increasing geopolitical and military tensions. An AI arms race is sometimes placed in the context of an AI Cold War between the US and China.
Terminology
Lethal autonomous weapons systems use artificial intelligence to identify and kill human targets without human intervention. LAWS have colloquially been called "slaughterbots" or "killer robots". Broadly, any competition for superior AI is sometimes framed as an "arms race". Advantages in military AI overlap with advantages in other sectors, as countries pursue both economic and military advantages.
History
In 2014, AI specialist Steve Omohundro warned that "An autonomous weapons arms race is already taking place". According to Siemens, worldwide military spending on robotics was US$5.1 billion in 2010 and US$7.5 billion in 2015.
China became a top player in artificial intelligence research in the 2010s. According to the Financial Times, in 2016, for the first time, China published more AI papers than the entire European Union. When restricted to number of AI papers in the top 5% of cited papers, China overtook the United States in 2016 but lagged behind the European Union. 23% of the researchers presenting at the 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference were Chinese. Eric Schmidt, the former chairman of Alphabet, has predicted China will be the leading country in AI by 2025.
Risks
One risk concerns the AI race itself, whether or not the race is won by any one group. There are strong incentives for development teams to cut corners with regard to the safety of the system, which may result in increased algorithmic bias. This is in part due to the perceived advantage of being the first to develop advanced AI technology. One team appearing to be on the brink of a breakthrough can encourage other teams to take shortcuts, ignore precautions and deploy a system that is less ready. Some argue that using "race" terminology at all in this context can exacerbate this effect.
Another potential danger of an AI arms race is the possibility of losing control of the AI systems; the risk is compounded in the case of a race to artificial general intelligence, which may present an existential risk.
A third risk of an AI arms race is whether or not the race is actually won by one group. The concern is regarding the consolidation of power and technological advantage in the hands of one group. A US government report argued that "AI-enabled capabilities could be used to threaten critical infrastructure, amplify disinformation campaigns, and wage war":1, and that "global stability and nuclear deterrence could be undermined".:11
Stances toward military artificial intellig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Holiday%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Holiday Bowl throughout the years.
Television
On June 15, 2017, it was revealed that the Holiday Bowl had not renewed its contract with ESPN—one of the network's longest relationships—and had entered into an agreement to move to FS1 beginning 2017.
On June 24, 2021, Fox Sports announced the bowl would move from FS1 to Fox. However, the 2021 game was never played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Radio
References
Holiday
Broadcasters
Holiday Bowl
Holiday Bowl
Holiday Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Citrus%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Citrus Bowl throughout the years.
ABC televised the game from 1987 to 2010, with NBC airing it in 1984–85 and the syndicated Mizlou Television Network doing so prior to 1984. In March 2010, ESPN announced extensions to their television contracts with the Capital One Bowl and the Outback Bowl, along with a new contract with the Gator Bowl. The contract for the now Citrus Bowl is through 2018. Under these new agreements, ESPN will broadcast all three games on either ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2.
Radio broadcast rights for the game are currently held by ESPN Radio. Sports USA Radio held the rights from 2003–2010.
Television
Radio
References
Citrus Bowl
Broadcasters
Citrus Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Citrus Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pop-Tarts%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Pop-Tarts Bowl throughout the years.
The bowl was known by various prior names; Blockbuster Bowl (1990–1993), Carquest Bowl (1994–1997), MicronPC Bowl (1998), MicronPC.com Bowl (1999–2000), Visit Florida Tangerine Bowl (2001), Mazda Tangerine Bowl (2002–2003), Champs Sports Bowl (2004–2011), Russell Athletic Bowl (2012–2016), Camping World Bowl (2017–2019) and Cheez-It Bowl (2020–2022).
Television
Radio
References
Cheez-It
Broadcasters
Cheez-It
Cheez-It
Cheez-It
Cheez-It |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gasparilla%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Gasparilla Bowl throughout the years.
The bowl has had several prior names, including St. Petersburg Bowl and Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl.
Television
Radio
References
External links
Gasparilla
Broadcasters
Gasparilla Bowl
Gasparilla Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Marcus | H. Gwen Marcus (born November 19, 1956), known as Gwen Marcus, is the Executive Vice President and General counsel at Showtime Networks Inc. She joined the company in 1984 as Assistant Council. Before then, she practiced entertainment law as an Associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Biography
Marcus was born in Hempstead, New York to Helen and Richard Marcus.
A 1974 graduate of George W. Hewlett High School, Marcus was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2013. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and cum laude from the New York University School of Law. At NYU, she was an Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She is a member of the New York Bar.
Personal life
Previously married and divorced, on May 10, 2003 she entered into a domestic partnership with Nancy Alpert. Marcus and Alpert met when Marcus was a summer intern at Paul Weiss and Alpert was an associate.
Honors
She has received several awards and honors.
50 Most Powerful Women in Cable by CableFAX: The Magazine
The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 list
She serves on the board and executive committee for the Theatre Development Fund and is a former board co-chair of the LGBT Community Center of New York, which awarded her with its Corporate Leader Award in 2006.
The Hollywood Reporter's 2018 Raising the Bar honoree
References
George W. Hewlett High School alumni
Brandeis University alumni
New York University School of Law alumni
American LGBT lawyers
LGBT people from New York (state)
1956 births
People from The Five Towns, New York
Living people
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people
Showtime (TV network) personnel
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American women lawyers
21st-century American LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite%20Calimpong | Granite Calimpong (born 1982/83) is a Pacific Northwest glass artist. He received an undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts at University of California San Diego in 2007. In 2013 he was artist-in-residence at Pittsburgh Glass Center for six weeks. Calimpong was a Master of Fine Arts candidate at University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design as of 2018.
In July–August 2018, Calimpong was scheduled to be an instructor at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. He has also taught workshops at the Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts.
His glass art is both blown and cold worked, and described as "form based".
References
External links
: Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, December 3, 2016
: North Lands Creative Glass, Scotland, February 23, 2016
1982 births
Artists from Seattle
American glass artists
Living people
University of California, San Diego alumni
University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananana | Bananana or Banananas may refer to:
Bananana, a children's programming block on ntv7
Bananana!, a children's programming block on 8tv
Banananas Music, the record label for the Dutch band Luv'
A misspelling or typically comedic and meme-like respelling of Banana
See also
Banana (disambiguation) |
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