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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20C.%20Browne | James Clayton "Jim" Browne (January 16, 1935 – January 19, 2018) was an American computer scientist.
Early life and education
Born in Conway, Arkansas, he attended Hendrix College, where he studied chemistry. In 1960, he earned a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Texas and joined the faculty. Between 1963 and 1967, Browne worked at Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, where he helped establish the school's first computational center. He was named a full professor upon his return to the University of Texas in 1968. For a time, Browne was chair of the department of computer science, and held the regents' chair #2 in computer sciences.
Career
Browne founded the James C. Browne Graduate Fellowship Fund at the University of Texas, and was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the British Computer Society.
Brown was married to Gayle, with whom he had three children, from 1959 to his death on January 19, 2018, aged 83.
References
1935 births
2018 deaths
American computer scientists
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Hendrix College alumni
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
People from Conway, Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KakaoStory | KakaoStory (Hangul: 카카오스토리) is a social network platform launched by Kakao. It was launched on March 22, 2012 as a photo sharing network but has then expanded to include others features allowing users to post various things on their page. As of 2017, KakaoStory has more active users in South Korea than Facebook.
References
External links
Official website
PC website
South Korean brands
Kakao
Social media
Image-sharing websites
South Korean social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Gram | The LG Gram (stylized LG gram) is a lineup of laptop computers manufactured by LG Electronics. They are designed to be extremely lightweight.
Models
The first Gram was released domestically in South Korea, called the 13Z940 and marketed as the LG Ultra PC Gram. It was made official in January 2014 and weighed only 980 grams. A 14 inch version (14Z950) was introduced at CES 2015. The 14 Gram proved popular in South Korea, exceeding 50,000 sales as of May 22.The Gram was announced internationally in September 2015 with two screen sizes available: 13.3" and 14". They were the first LG laptops to be released in the US. A 15.6" model was introduced during CES 2016. It was recognized as the lightest 15 inch laptop in the world.
During CES 2017, the 2017 edition of the Gram was introduced. During CES 2018, the 2018 edition of the Gram was introduced. During CES 2019, a larger 17" Gram alongside a 14" 2-in-1 Gram was introduced.
During CES 2021, a larger 16" Gram alongside a 16" 2-in-1 Gram was introduced.
In April 2022, the updated 2022 lineup of Gram was announced, which run on 12th generation Intel Core. Additionally, these come with the newer LPDDR5 type of RAM, and for the first time offer optional NVIDIA video cards for improved graphical performance.
The 2023 Gram models are upgraded to 13th generation Raptor Lake Intel Core processors and variable refresh rate displays.
Gram SuperSlim, Style, +View
The line was diversified with the LG Gram 2-in-1 in 2019. More 2-in-1 laptops in 14 and 16 inch versions were introduced in 2021.
At CES 2023, two new models of the Gram were introduced: Gram SuperSlim and Gram Style. The Gram SuperSlim was called the thinnest laptop at just 0.43 inches thick. The LG Gram Style meanwhile appears to change exterior color depending on angle and lighting.
The LG Gram +View portable monitor was released in 2022. In August 2023, an updated Gram +View was announced.
Reception and marketing
Gram's marketing is held with the light weight of it. As the weight 980 gram is the maximum weight that it could have in all condition, LG was famous for its modest marketing in Korea.
Comparison of Gram models
Gram
Gram 2-in-1/SuperSlim/Style
References
Consumer electronics brands
LG Electronics products
Laptops
ko:LG PC 그램 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagas | () is a Philippine television drama romance anthology broadcast by GMA News TV and GMA Network. It premiered on GMA News TV on February 9, 2013. The show aired its final episode on GMA News TV on May 25, 2019. It moved to GMA Network on September 2, 2019 on the network's morning line up. The series concluded on GMA Network on November 15, 2019, with a total of 55 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Throwback Pag-Ibig
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as July Aguilar
Mike Tan as Ryan Aguilar
Leanne Bautista as Chloe Liam / Smile Aguilar
Supporting cast
Regine Angeles as Amor
Angelica Ulip as Chelsie
Joel Palencia as Eric
Lovely Abella as Kristine
Jason Dewey as Hilton
Angelina Kanapi as Sara
Iyah Mina as Mama Ru
Rob Sy as Mario
Gigi Locsin as Susing
Antonette Garcia as Margaux
Wait Lang Is This Love?
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Mayumi "Yummy" Bubuyog
Jak Roberto as Eugene Bitao
Kristofer Martin as Cedrick Dacanay
Supporting cast
Yayo Aguila as Glorious "Gloria" Bubuyog
Tina Paner as Sonya Bubuyog
Rey "PJ" Abellana as Rex Dacanay
Ayra Mariano as Bane
Ashley Ortega as Sandy
Jun Sabayton as Andres
Mico Aytona as Eugene
Chrome Prince Cosio as Mr. Salazar
Guest cast
Bianca Umali as Monica
Migo Adecer as Waldo
Ana Roces as Rosemary
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
GMA News TV original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20International%20Agricultural%20Network%20Initiative | The Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) is a network-based communications platform which works to bring food security and agricultural development. It operates in line with 2030 Agenda, under the vision of “Ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture”. SIANI's mission is to facilitate inclusive and engaging dialogues around Sustainable Development Goal #2, with participation from academia, the private sector, public authorities and civil society.
SIANI seeks to generate impact by:
creating opportunities for evidence-based, gender-balanced dialogues
making knowledge available for informed decision-making in local, national and international arenas, and
facilitating cross-sector, multi-stakeholder, joint action.
Launched in 2009, with core funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and hosted by the Stockholm Environment Institute, (SEI) SIANI provides an open, interactive and neutral platform for multi-sector engagement and dialogue. SIANI seeks to improve sustainability and gender equality, but does not take any ideological stance and does not lobby for any particular farming method or practice. Individual members are welcome to express their opinions through SIANI activities and media. SIANI strives for gender balance and multi-stakeholder representation in its operation and activities.
History
SIANI work was initiated at the consultative workshop in 2008, where a wide range of stakeholders discussed a noted lack of attention given to agriculture's role in sustainable development, both within Sweden and internationally. It was argued that a lot of agricultural expertise existed amongst the Swedish resource base, but that this expertise was not used to its full potential.
This led to the launch of SIANI in 2010, with the goal of establishing a platform for cross-sectoral knowledge exchange about agriculture, food and rural development. Since then, SIANI has been working on awareness raising and knowledge production and exchange about the critical role of agriculture for sustainable development.
Since then SIANI has proceeded to other development phases: Phase 2 (2013-2016) was centered on network expansion and consolidation. That is when the SIANI platform anchored its position as a facilitator of choice for anyone who works with and is interested in sustainable agriculture, food security and nutrition, particularly in low-income countries.
In the spring of 2016, an external evaluation concluded that the SIANI network should no longer be seen as an initiative, but rather as a long-term investment aimed at tackling issues of poverty reduction, food security and sustainable agricultural development. In January 2016, SIANI entered phase 3 (2016-2020). To better reflect the 2030 Agenda it was determined that SIANI will focus and orient its actions on SDG2: Zero Hunger.
Vision/Goal
SIANI's vision is to promote knowledge-sharing, dialo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta%20AL390 | The Beretta AL390 is a semi-automatic shotgun first listed in the 1992 Beretta catalogue. The shotgun features a self compensating gas operating system and a 12 gauge barrel.
The field model features anodized light alloy receiver, scroll engraving, a matte black receiver top, and a walnut finish on the stock. The gun is typically used by hunting enthusiasts.
The AL390 came in five extra variants. These include the: Sporting variant, 20 gauge sporting variant, 20 gauge youth edition sporting, and a gold sporting variant.
References
Beretta firearms
Semi-automatic shotguns of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s%20the%20Question | That's the Question is an American television game show hosted by Bob Goen based on the original game show of the same name that is aired in The Netherlands. It premiered on Game Show Network October 2, 2006, airing for two seasons.
Gameplay
Two contestants compete in an attempt to answer questions by putting letters into a puzzle, similar to Hangman.
Each question has a set number of letters in it, and the letters in it are revealed through unscrambling clues. Each scrambled clue consists of a word or multiple words and one extra letter. The extra letter goes into the question after the answer to the clue is revealed.
The answer to the question is displayed under the question, and in order to correctly solve it, the contestant must give both the question and the answer.
Round one
The game begins with a toss-up question where the letters are revealed one at a time. The answer appeared below the question in the first season, but it did not during the second season. The first contestant to buzz in and correctly solve the question would play first in round one.
In round one, each question's answer is revealed to both contestants to start. Taking turns, beginning with the contestant that won the initial toss-up, letters are placed in the question one at a time using a randomizer that was stopped with the contestants' signaling devices. Correctly deciphering the scrambled word scored one point for each time the letter appeared in the question, if the contestant did not answer correctly, the letters were placed and nobody scored for that particular word.
Once a contestant felt he/she had enough information to solve, he/she would say "I know the question" and then be prompted to do so. Five points were awarded for correctly solving a question.
Round two
In the second round, the points doubled. Each letter placed in the question was now worth two points and correctly solving the question scored ten. The differences were that a correct answer to a scrambled word allowed a contestant to keep control and the solution to the question was not displayed when a question was first revealed, instead the letters were filled in as the round progressed (no points were scored for revealing them, however).
The contestant with the highest score at the end of round two won the game and $500.
Bonus round
The day's winner received an opportunity to increase their winnings to $5,000 by correctly solving one final question.
The champion's point total from the main game was converted into seconds and that became his/her allotted time for the round. Once again, letters were placed in the question by correctly unscrambling words. However, the letters could only be placed with a correct answer, this meant that multiple scrambled words with the same extra letter would be played until the champion correctly answered.
Once the champion's time ran out, he/she was given ten additional seconds to try and correctly solve both the question and the answer, the latter of which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melik%20Ajdar%20Mausoleum | Melik Ajdar Mausoleum or Jijimli Mausoleum is a mausoleum located in the high mountainous terrain of the Jijimli village of the Lachin District of Azerbaijan. According to the scientific research data, it was built in the 14th centuries.
Plan and the architectural features of the mausoleum
In the plan of the octagonal mausoleums of Azerbaijan, the corpus is usually determined in the form of a vertical prismatic volume. In contrast to them, the octagonal body of the Melik Azhdar Mausoleum has the shape of a convex truncated pyramid. The building’s walls are not filled with vertical lines, the silhouette is framed by soft features. The general shape of the mausoleum resembles a parabola.
The tomb's body stands on a low, three-stage plinth-pedestal. Its base's area significantly exceeds the area of the upper octahedron, which, in turn, is the foundation for a small parabolic dome made of roughly processed stones. The transition from the base of the mausoleum to the base of the dome was made by tilting along a smooth curve of planes tapering upwards, the joints of which are underlined by thin, semicircular cross-section columns-plaits. The base of the dome, both on the facade and in the interior, is beaten off by a small cornice.
According to the observations of various researchers, the mausoleum with its octahedral prismatic volume tapering to the top, and with the parabolic shape of the dome and the elegant chubuk-shaped corner columns was created as a result of the direct imitation of yurts, widespread among the Turks. Like the inner space, the outer volume of the mausoleum is one whole, the transitional strip between the body and the dome cover is practically absent. All sides of the body are lined with large, well-hewn stone slabs. The square capitals of the columns, covered with carved decorations, rest against the cornice. The front door is located on the north side of the building. The top of the doorway is covered with a solid architrave stone, which is shaped like a pointed arch. Traces of the hewn figure of a horseman are marked inside its border. A number of details of the monument are similar to the ones of the tombs in the village of Demirchilar, Gubadli district.
The corners of the octagonal body of the mausoleum are made in the form of thin stone columns, resembling rods, which form the basis of the yurt’s frame. According to the graphic description of M. S. Bulatov, “the architect who built the mausoleum used an ellipse to draw the silhouette of the structure.”
The wall’s inner surface rises vertically up to a height of 1.5 meters and then passes into a curved convex surface. The interior area, covered with gray plaster, repeats the outline of the outer part of the walls. In the southern part of the inner wall there is a small shallow niche of the mihrab facing the front door. The light enters the mausoleum through four small skylights at the base of the dome.
Another interesting feature of the mausoleum is that a rearing figu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20workers | Psychic worker is the term first used around 2010 by the DAMTP (DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique) to self define as a union of Data miners and psychic workers. The term was used initially to describe their activities instead of using the term 'artist', in order to "supersede the art strike.". It has subsequently also been used by members of DAMTP to describe and develop their avant-garde activities.
In 2011 the artist Emit Snake-Beings invented the multiple-use name Karen Kranak for their activities with the Industrial Union of Psychic Workers as a breakaway faction from the Industrial Workers of the World union.
References
Situationist International
Psychogeography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202001 | 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
2001 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2071 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 71 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Whitehaven and Workington on the Cumbrian coast to Kirby Knowle in North Yorkshire to join NCN Route 65. The route is fully open and signed in both directions.
Route
The route is discontinuous and is made up of three sections. Originally it was signed as Route 71 continuously from western trailhead to eastern trailhead. The creation of the Pennine Cycleway (Route 68) and Route 70 (W2W) resulted in sections of Route 71 being renumbered to those routes.
Workington or Moor Row to Penrith
Route 71 has two strands at its western end. The northern strand trailhead is in Workington and heads east via Cockermouth. The southern strand trailhead is on Route 72 in Moor Row. It heads east to meet the northern strand in Thornthwaite. Passing through the heart of the Lake District at Keswick the route continues east to Little Blencow where this western section of the route ends. Route 7 links to the middle section in nearby Penrith.
Penrith to Tan Hill
The middle section of Route 71 leaves Route 7 at Penrith through the beautiful Eden Valley via Great Strickland and Kings Meaburn to Appleby where it meets Route 68. To reach the east section, Route 68 can be followed through Great Asby and then Route 70 hence to Kirkby Stephen, Barras and Tan Hill.
Tan Hill to Kirby Knowle
The eastern section of Route 71 starts at the northern edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Descending into Swaledale to Reeth. It shares the Route of the Tour de France from Grinton over into Wensleydale and Leyburn and Bedale. It continues via Northallerton to the eastern trailhead at Kirby Knowle where it meets National Route 65.
Related NCN routes
The western section of the route is part of the popular coast to coast cycle route the Sea to Sea (C2C).
Route 71 meets the following routes:
Route 72 at Whitehaven and Moor Row
Route 6 at Threlkeld
Route 7 at Little Blencow and Penrith
Route 68 at Appleby in Westmoorland
Route 70 at Tan Hill
Route 657 at Upsall
Route 65 at Kirby Knowle
References
External links
Route 71 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20Success%20with%20Tabatha | Relative Success with Tabatha is a reality television show presented by Australian businesswoman, TV personality, author, and hairstylist Tabatha Coffey. It premiered on the network Bravo in the United States. The first four episodes aired on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. EST (9 p.m. CST), while the last four aired at the same time on Friday nights. The premise of the show surrounds struggling family-owned small businesses. Coffey visits each business for three weeks and improves aspects such as sales, inventory, and relationships between the relatives.
Coffey announced via Instagram that the March 23, 2018, episode of the series would be the last.
Episodes
References
2018 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
Bravo (American TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamak%20Yassemi | Siamak Yassemi (Persian: سیامک یاسمی) is an Iranian mathematician and is currently the Dean of Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Tehran, Iran. He has found basic techniques that have played important roles in the field homological algebra. His recent works have established relationships between monomial ideals in commutative algebra and graphs in combinatorics, which have stimulated the development of the new interdisciplinary field combinatorial commutative algebra. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he has received the COMSTECH International Award, the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award in Basic Science and the International Award from Tehran University, among others. He was the vice president of the University College of Sciences at the University of Tehran for more than three years, ending in 2007. He was the head of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences for more than two years. In 2015 he started to act as the head of the school of Mathematics, statistics and computer sciences at the University of Tehran. In 2018 he was elected by The World Academy of Sciences as a fellow member. That would make him the first Iranian mathematician who's ever been a member of TWAS. In 2019 he was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for distinguished effort on extended multi-dimensional cooperation, including scientific research projects (Jundi-Shapur), student-and professor- exchanges, and several schools and conferences.
Life
Yassemi was born in Khorramshar, Iran.
Education
Yassemi completed his PhD under the supervision of Hans-Bjørn Foxby at the University of Copenhagen in 1994. He has since devoted a substantial part of his career to mathematical education.
Honours
In 2009 he received the Khwarizmi International Award in basic sciences and in the same year he received the COMSTECH international award. The title of the project that has won the prize was "Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Commutative Algebra". He was an associate member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste-Italy) for eight years (1996–2004). He's visited the Max Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Paris, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai several times.
In 2018 he was elected by The World Academy of Sciences as a fellow member. That would make him the first Iranian mathematician who's ever been a member of TWAS.
In 2019 he was named Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for distinguished effort on extended multi-dimensional cooperation.
References
External links
Siamak Yassemi
Living people
21st-century Iranian mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Tehran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20COUNTER | Project COUNTER or simply COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international non-profit membership organization of libraries, publishers, and vendors. The organization continually develops a standard, the Code of Practice, designed to count the usage of library electronic resources: journals, databases, books, reference works, and multimedia databases.
Purpose
Formed in 2003, COUNTER's main function is to provide the Code of Practice. COUNTER maintains a list of compliant vendors of the Code of Practice.
COUNTER sets and maintains the standard known as the Code of Practice. COUNTER has developed the standard to be used with the ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014 protocol, called SUSHI, to retrieve usage data quickly.
History
In 2002, publishers and librarians approached usage statistics from very different perspectives. Some publishers, those who were the very first to support COUNTER, understood the potential benefits to their industry of providing usage statistics to an agreed standard; others saw it as an unnecessary extra cost. On the library side there was also a tension between those librarians who wanted a set of practical, implementable usage reports, while others wanted a whole range of very detailed usage data that publishers were unlikely to provide. There were arguments on both sides, but a consensus was reached, resulting in the launch in 2003 of Project COUNTER. Its mission, to develop standards for the recording and reporting of the usage of online publications.
Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases was published in 2003 and widely implemented by vendors, who proceeded to make the COUNTER Usage Reports available on their websites to their customers. As the number of COUNTER-compliant vendors expanded, the manual downloading of the COUNTER usage reports from a large and growing number of vendor websites became increasingly time-consuming, and ultimately a barrier to libraries making effective use of the COUNTER reports. COUNTER, having defined the protocols for the recording and reporting of online journal and database usage, lacked a method for the routine delivery of large volumes of usage data. By the time Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice was published in 2005 there were almost 100 COUNTER-compliant vendors, providing COUNTER reports for over 15,000 journals, as well as for databases and books. An automated way of downloading and consolidating the COUNTER reports was becoming essential, if librarians were to continue using the COUNTER reports. COUNTER discussed the problem with NISO and the result was the SUSHI protocol, developed by NISO, which enables libraries and library consortia to automate the retrieval of COUNTER usage reports.
Release 3 of the Code of Practice for Journals and Databases replaced Release 2 in August 2009. Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice, an integrated Code of Practice covering journals, databases and books, as well as multimedia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date%20Night%20%28TV%20series%29 | Date Night is an Australian reality dating television show which premiered on the Nine Network on 13 February 2018.
Premise
The program follows a bunch of singles from the comfort of their lounge rooms, using a dating app with help from family and friends who comment on the pictures and profiles of fellow daters as they go to help them find the man/woman of their dreams, when they eventually select a person they will go on a date with them.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Nine Network original programming
Australian dating and relationship reality television series
2018 Australian television series debuts
Television series by Screentime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil%20Huber-Stockar | Emil Huber-Stockar (July 15, 1865 - May 9, 1939) was a Swiss entrepreneur and railway pioneer. He was an instrumental figure in the electrification of the Swiss railway network and worked as lead engineer and consultant for the Swiss Federal Railways.
Life
Huber was born on July 15, 1865, in Riesbach, Switzerland the son of Peter Emil and Anna Marie (née Werdmüller). His father hailed from a wealthy textile manufacturer family. His father was a former chairman of Oerlikon Buehrle and a pioneer of the machinery and electric industry. He had a prosper upbringing in Zurich District 7.
After training as a mechanical engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ) and spending some years in America, Huber took over the management of the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, founded by his father Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller, near Zurich, Switzerland. He focussed on solving the difficulties of high power, electrically powered mainline railway systems. In 1904, he electrified the Seebach-Wettingen line with high-voltage alternating current (15,000 volts) at low frequency (15 Hertz). This experimental operation was successful. The first railway to use this system (standard in several European countries today, but with a frequency of 16.7 Hertz) was the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway. In 1925, Emil Huber-Stockar received an honorary doctorate from the ETHZ for his achievements.
Family
Emil Huber-Stockar was the son of Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller and brother of lawyer and diplomat Max Huber. In 1895, Emil married Marie Helena Stockar, daughter of Hans Julius, a lawyer
References
1865 births
1939 deaths
Swiss electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INews | iNews (short for Indonesia News, formerly named SUN TV and Sindo TV) is an Indonesian free-to-air television network founded by Media Nusantara Citra, a subsidiary of Global Mediacom unit of MNC Asia Holding. It broadcasting 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
History
iNews (Indonesia News) was launched on 5 March 2008 as SUN TV as a pay television channel. It later 2009, obtained a television license from the government to start broadcasting as a free-to-air channel on terrestrial television in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi. The channel was launched as TV3 in those cities and aired commercials.
In 2011, TV3 stopped carrying SUN TV and was acquired by CTV Banten.
On 26 September 2011, SUN TV changed its name to Sindo TV which was part of the synergy of Sindo Media with Sindo Trijaya FM and SINDOnews.com.
3 years later, precisely on 23 September 2014, the Minister of Communication and Information Republic of Indonesia officially granted a network station permit for Sindo TV and broadcasting once again in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi with the different transmission. Then on 15 December 2014, Sindo TV was officially launched as national television in the "Luar Biasa! (Extraordinary!)" Soft Launching event.
Sindo TV officially changed the name to iNews TV after the iNewsmaker Awards which was held on 6 April 2015. In addition, the local televisions under this television network lost its identity and also changed its name to "iNews TV". For East Kalimantan, Kaltim TV changed to "iNews Tenggarong" in 2019 and it was relaunched on the digital terrestrial television frequency and instead affiliated with Ajwa TV in 2022.
On 31 October 2017, the "TV" word was removed, so it changed the name to iNews, coinciding with the launching of the new name for news programmes that aired on RCTI (Seputar iNews), MNCTV (Lintas iNews), and GTV (Buletin iNews) at the Indonesia Awards.
While iNews is still clear at Telkom-4 at 108.0°, they use the Conax encryption replacing BISS for selected programs due to copyright protection in all sports programming since 2019 as MNC Media 3TV broadcast are encrypted due to being exclusively contained for free-to-air and all pay television providers in Indonesia.
Presenters
Current
Abraham Silaban (former tvOne anchor, also a presenter on the program AB+)
Aiman Witjaksono (former Kompas TV anchor, also a presenter on the program The Prime Show With Aiman)
Aldi Hawari (former TVRI and CNN Indonesia anchor)
Anggy Pasaribu (former MNC Business, NET. and BeritaSatu anchor, also a presenter at Sindonews TV and on the program Inside Story With Anggy)
Anisha Dasuki (former Metro TV anchor)
Aprilia Putri (former MNCTV Biro Jawa Timur anchor)
Arlista Hadhi
Ayaa Nufus
Baby Kristami (former Kompas TV reporter)
Bayu Pradhana
Bernadetha Ginting
Bremana Tenaya
Canar Haenda
Davie Pratama
David Silahooij (former SCTV, Bloomberg TV Indonesia and MNC TV anchor, also a presenter at Sindonews TV)
Di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence%20Lewin | Laurence Lewin (20 May 1944 – 12 November 2008) was an English-born Canadian accountant, computer programmer and entrepreneur, who was one of the co-founders of lingerie firm La Senza.
Lewin was working at clothing retailer Suzy Shier, in 1990, when he co-founded La Senza, a lingerie firm that was eventually licensed to 700 retail outlets around the world.
On 6 April 2006, La Senza issued a press release, quoting Lewin, to try to clarify its position as to whether one of its brassieres infringed a Victoria's Secret design.
The firm was acquired by lingerie giant Victoria's Secret, on 12 October 2006, for $710 million CAD.
Lewin immigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada, and settled in Montreal in the 1970s.
Lewin appeared on the first two seasons of the Canadian Dragons' Den TV series.
References
2008 deaths
Canadian company founders
1944 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy%20and%20paste%20%28disambiguation%29 | Copy and paste is a method for digital transfer of text or other data in computing
Copy and paste may also refer to:
"Copy, Paste", a song by American rapper Diggy Simmons
Copy & Paste (album), a repackaged version of Hurricane Venus by South Korean artist BoA
See also
Copypasta
Cut and paste (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Emmy%20Awards | 2018 Emmy Awards may refer to:
70th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 2018 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming during June 2017 – May 2018
45th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 2018 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming during 2017
46th International Emmy Awards, the 2018 ceremony honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLnet%20Labs | NLnet Labs is a network research laboratory founded in Amsterdam in 1999 by the board members of NLnet. They develop DNS-related software, such as NSD, Unbound, OpenDNSSEC and getDNS.
History
The roots of NLnet Labs have their origins in the NLnet Foundation. NLnet's core business is to support independent organisations and people that contribute to an open information society. For long term research projects, NLnet Labs was founded in 1999 by the board members of NLnet and Ted Lindgreen. One of the first activities was creating an implementation for DNSSEC. In 2001 the RIPE NCC asked NLnet Labs to write a DNS implementation geared especially to rootservers, but not containing any code of existing software. This marked the start of the development of NSD, the authoritative nameserver package.
Other major projects include a validating caching resolver Unbound, and the OpenDNSSEC project.
On 19 April 2023, NLnet Labs and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) sent a joint letter to the European Parliament committee working on the EU Cyber Resilience Act. The letter is a plea for fairness for non-profit developers of open-source software, because the Act mostly focuses on those who supply products in a business related context, while according to the two organisations the non-profit distribution of open source internet infrastructure software should not be regarded as a "commercial activity".
External links
References
Research institutes in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Raw%2025%20Years | Raw 25 Years was a special episode of WWE's weekly television series Raw, broadcast on the USA Network on January 22, 2018. The episode was a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the program's debut in January 1993.
The event was held in two separate venues in New York City – the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom in Manhattan, the latter of which hosted the first episode of Raw.The event also featured various appearances from WWE Hall of Famers and legends. These included, among others, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker—who both notably appeared on the very first episode of Raw—Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon (the then WWE Chief Brand Officer), Vince McMahon (the then principal owner and chief executive officer of WWE), Teddy Long, The Brooklyn Brawler, Brother Love, The Boogeyman, William Regal, Eric Bischoff, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase John Laurinaitis, MVP, John Bradshaw Layfield, Ron Simmons, Ric Flair, Christian, X-Pac, Kelly Kelly, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Trish Stratus, Lillian Garcia, Terri Runnels, Michelle McCool, Triple H, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, Gene Okerlund, Mark Henry Scott Hall and The Godfather
Background
The card consisted of nine matches, including four dark matches, that resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands. Storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live, and 205 Live, the latter of which is cruiserweight-exclusive. Raw first aired on January 11, 1993, on USA Network and since became the longest-running weekly episodic program in television history with no reruns albeit from its brief run on TNN (renamed to Spike TV in 2003 and now known as the Paramount Network) from 2000 to 2005. On October 30, 2017, WWE announced that Raw would celebrate its 25 anniversary on January 22, 2018.
Event
Dark matches
Before and during the event, there were a series of untelevised matches for the live crowds in attendance. The first match in the Barclays Center saw Goldust defeat Curt Hawkins and later Gran Metalik and Kalisto defeat Gentleman Jack Gallagher and TJP. The Manhattan Center saw two cruiserweight matches with Mustafa Ali defeating Lince Dorado and Akira Tozawa and Hideo Itami defeating Drew Gulak and Tony Nese. The matches from the Barclays Center were later shown on WWE Main Event.
Preliminary matches
The event opened in the Barclays Center with Vince McMahon and his children Stephanie and Shane celebrating the 25th anniversary of Raw. Later in the segment, Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin appeared to attack both Shane and Vince with Stone Cold Stunners.
In the first televised match at the Barclays Center, Asuka, Bayley, Mickie James, and Sasha Banks faced Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville, Alicia Fox, and Nia Jax. Banks forced Fox to submit to the Banks Statement for the win. After the match, Asuka threw her partners over the to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20drexelii | Datana drexelii, or Drexel's datana, is a species of prominent moth in the family Notodontidae. It is found in North America.
The MONA or Hodges number for Datana drexelii is 7904.
References
Lafontaine, J. Donald & Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys, vol. 40, 1-239.
Further reading
Notodontidae
Moths described in 1884 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Smart%20%28TV%20series%29 | Street Smart was an Australian television comedy series that debuted on Network Ten from 5 August 2018 until 1 October 2018.
Plot
Street Smart follows the story of Steve who puts together a disorganised criminal gang out of his parents' garage in a western suburb of Sydney. He is thwarted by his nemesis and cousin Joseph, a professional parking inspector with the help of his workmate, Tia, a probationary parking officer.
Cast
Tahir Bilgic as Steve
Rob Shehadie as Joseph
Neel Kolhatkar as Raj
Dave Eastgate as Shane
Andy Trieu as Hung
Maria Tran as Trans Phat
Casey Donovan as Tia
Simon Elrahi as Adil
Dina Gillespie as Zena
Neveen Hanna as Marie
Episodes
References
2018 Australian television series debuts
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Stay%20Married | How to Stay Married is an Australian television comedy series screening on Network 10. It premiered on 8 November 2018. The series is a spin-off of an episode of the 2013 anthology comedy series It's a Date on the ABC. The show is a Princess Pictures and Pablo Pictures co-production.
The show was renewed for a second season on 22 August 2018, before the first episode aired. All episodes of season 2 were initially released on streaming service 10 Play on March 26, 2020 for two weeks as part of Network Ten's "10 Shows in 10 Days" promotion during the COVID-19 pandemic. It later premiered on Network Ten on Tuesday, 5 May 2020. A third season premiered on May 4, 2021.
Synopsis
After fifteen years of marriage, the lives of Greg and Em Butler and their two daughters change when Em returns to work, Greg is made redundant and his brother Brad moves in.
Cast
Main cast
Recurring cast
Main characters
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2021)
References
External links
2018 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian comedy television series
Television shows set in Melbourne
Network 10 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJW | PJW may refer to:
Punjab Warriors, hockey team from Punjab, India
Paul Joseph Watson (born 1982), English YouTube personality
Peter J. Weinberger (born 1942), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena%20Groeger | Lena Groeger is an American investigative journalist, graphic designer and news application developer at ProPublica. She creates data visualizations and interactive databases on a variety of subjects, including education, politics and healthcare. She also writes about design's role in society in a series called Visual Evidence. In addition to her work at ProPublica, her science writing has appeared in Scientific American, Wired, Forbes, and Slate.
Early life and education
Groeger was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a B.A. in Biology and Philosophy from Brown University in 2008, and later earned an M.A. from New York University in Science Journalism in 2011. Because of her interest in design, she also took classes at the Rhode Island School of Design during her undergraduate years. Prior to attending Brown, she went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in her hometown for high school.
Groeger ran cross-country throughout high school and college. She ranked the 31st at the USATF New England Cross Country Championships during the 2006-2007 season.
Career
Groeger launched her career in science writing while pursuing her Master's degree under New York University's reputable Science, Health & Environmental Reporting (SHERP) graduate program. Between 2011 and 2012, she consecutively interned for Wired magazine's digital edition and Scientific American. She authored multiple notable articles, including her 2011 Wired report on British Social Entrepreneur Ken Banks and his FrontlineSMS messaging software and her 2012 Scientific American piece on the high-IQ Triple Nine Society, which Scientific American republished in 2014 and then in 2015. At the same time, she also contributed to ScienceLine, a journal affiliated to her graduate program.
Groeger has occasionally produced science journals since she joined ProPublica in 2011. Her influential coverage on mechanically separated meat in 2012 appeared in Forbes and Slate magazine.
Data and graphics
The then-science writer turned her reporting focus to social trends, electoral politics, and foreign policy when she joined ProPublica for an internship, which also initiated her lasting ProPublica career that allows her to shift gears between a data journalist, a news app developer, and a designer. Groeger now lives in San Francisco and produces graphic-aided and data-oriented investigations on topics including immigration, elections, and drones. Utilizing her proficiency in data, her literacy in political and social issues, and her background in design, Groeger also authors Visual Evidence, an essay series that zooms in on the social implications of biased default settings involved in technological and civic designs. Her writings and visualizations have been cited in many major news outlets such as The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate magazine, and The New Yorker.
Groeger's data-related work, however, is not limited to data journalism. She is also credited with multiple projects that agg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smriti%20Nagpal | Smriti Nagpal is an Indian television presenter, sign language interpreter, and social entrepreneur. She worked for the Doordarshan network where she presented the morning news bulletin for the hearing impaired. She is the founder of Atulyakala, an organisation promoting deaf education and awareness of sign language. Nagpal has also co-founded the Hearken Café in Shahpur Jat, which is run by deaf employees. She is an advocate of Indian Sign Language. Nagpal was included in the BBC's 100 Women series in 2015, in the "30 Under 30" entrepreneur category, In 2016, Nagpal received the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Award in the Youth Category, presented at International Civil Society Week in Bogotá, Colombia.
Biography
Nagpal joined the National Association of the Deaf at age 16 in response to her two older siblings who were hearing impaired. After getting her business administration degree, she landed a job with the state-run Doordarshan network as a news anchor where she was responsible for their hearing-impaired news bulletins.
Nagpal founded Atulyakala at the age of 22. The company has a mix of deaf and hearing employees who communicate with each other using Indian Sign Language. They sell products designed by deaf artists, works on design projects for publishing houses and conducts events to spread awareness about sign language.
Nagpal co-founded the Hearken Café in Shahpur Jat with her cousin Virat in November 2016. Its name taken from an ancient English word meaning "to listen", the café serves European cuisine. The café's servers are deaf or mute and communicate in sign language. Additionally, free sign language classes are held in the café, along with events such as mime acts.
References
External links
Profound Experiences that Shape Us – Smriti Nagpal – TEDxSSCBS (video)
Indian women business executives
Living people
Indian television presenters
Indian activist journalists
Indian social entrepreneurs
1990s births
Indian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Solomon | Martin Solomon may refer to:
Martin K. Solomon, professor of computer science
Martin M. Solomon (born 1950), American lawyer and politician from New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolema | Neolema is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. Eight described species currently are placed in Neolema.
Species
Neolema cordata R. White, 1993
Neolema dorsalis (Olivier, 1791)
Neolema ephippium (Lacordaire, 1845)
Neolema gundlachiana (Suffrian, 1874)
Neolema jacobina (Linell, 1897)
Neolema ovalis R. White, 1993
Neolema quadriguttata R. White, 1993
Neolema sexpunctata (Olivier, 1808) (six-spotted neolema)
References
Further reading
Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Criocerinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardman%20filmography | Aardman Animations is an animation studio in Bristol, England that produces stop motion and computer-animated features, shorts, TV series and adverts.
Filmography
Feature films
Released films
Note: Rights to the Aardman films produced with DreamWorks Animation are now owned by Universal Pictures, following NBCUniversal's purchase of DreamWorks in 2016.
Upcoming films
TV shows
Short films
Animated Conversations: Down and Out (1977)
Animated Conversations: Confessions of a Foyer Girl (1978)
Conversation Pieces: On Probation (1983)
Conversation Pieces: Sales Pitch (1983)
Conversation Pieces: Palmy Days (1983)
Conversation Pieces: Early Bird (1983)
Conversation Pieces: Late Edition (1983)
Sweet Disaster: Babylon (1986)
Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)
Creature Comforts (1989)
War Story (1989)
Going Equipped (1990)
Ident (1990)
Next (1990)
Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1991)
Rex the Runt: Dreams (1991)
Adam (1992)
Never Say Pink Furry Die (1992)
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (1993)
Not Without My Handbag (1993)
Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Pib and Pog (1995)
Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
Rex the Runt: North by North Pole (1996)
Pop (1996)
Wat's Pig (1996)
Owzat (1997)
Stage Fright (1997)
Al Dente (1998)
Humdrum (1999)
Minotaur and Little Nerkin (1999)
The Deadline (2001)
Len's Lens (2002)
Vacation (2002)
The Non-Voters (for the BBC Election coverage) (2004)
The Adventures of Jeffrey (2005)
Angry Kid: Who do you think you are? (2004)
The Pearce Sisters (2007)
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Gulp (2011)
The Itch of The Golden Nit (2011)
Pythagasaurus (2011)
Fly (2011)
DC's World Funnest ("DC Nation Shorts") (2012–2014)
Timmy Time – Timmy's Christmas Surprise (2011)
Timmy Time – Timmy's Seaside Rescue (2012)
Wallace & Gromit's Jubilee Bunt-a-thon (2012)
The Pirates! So You Want to Be a Pirate! (2012)
Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels (2012)
Darkside (2013)
Sphere (2013)
Zombie Fairy (2014)
Ray's Big Idea (2014)
Special Delivery (2015)
Full ANL (2015)
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015)
Aardman Nathan Love (2015)
Mac (2016)
NSPCC (2016)
Visualise This (2017)
Robin Robin (2021)
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021)
Star Wars: Visions: I Am Your Mother (2023)
Music videos
"Sledgehammer" (1986)
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" (1987)
"Barefootin" (1987)
"Viva Forever" (1998)
"OFFF Barcelona 2016 Main Titles" (2017)
"Daddy" (2019)
"Love Can Heal" (2023)
Commercials
This is a selected list of commercials produced by Aardman. By 2000, the studio had produced over 100 commercials, at a rate of 15–20 spots per year. In the year 2009 alone, the studio produced 106 commercials.
Lurpak (1986)
Hamlet (1987)
Jordans (1987)
Domestos (1987)
Purina
Creature comforts for the Electricity Board's "Heat Electric" campaign (1990)
Enterprise 64
Cadbury Creme Egg
Cadbury's Crunchie
Kellogg's Rice Krispies
Meg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Paynes | The Paynes is an American television sitcom that premiered on January 16, 2018, on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The show was created, written, and directed by Tyler Perry and serves as a sequel to his previous series, Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
Though the show was not renewed for a second season, a revival of the original series premiered in 2020 on BET.
Plot
The series begins in Sun Coast, Florida, where Curtis and Ella Payne come to attend the funeral of Curtis' Uncle Robert. Their trip takes an unexpected turn when Ella and Curtis get roped into a real estate deal, landing them in a new community with a new church and unfamiliar family members. The family land straight back into the issues they find in their everyday lives. As life lessons abound, Ella finds a new business, a new home, and a new purpose. On House of Payne season 9 episode 14 "Been A Long Time", this series is officially retconned out of existence as it is revealed that it was all a dream that Curtis had.
Cast and characters
Main
LaVan Davis as Curtis Payne, Ella's husband and JoAnn's cousin. Without consulting his wife, Curtis sells his old house and buys his late uncle's house and laundromat at his cousin's suggestion, only to find both in ruins.
Cassi Davis as Ella Payne, Curtis' wife. While Ella is furious at her husband for not consulting her, she soon comes to enjoy the effect of the move and lets her anger go to make a new start.
Jackée Harry as JoAnn Payne, Curtis' cousin and Ryan's mother, who tricked him into buying his late uncle's dilapidated home as well as a broken-down laundromat in order to make profits for her church.
Stephanie Charles as Nyla, Kenny and Lynn's mother. A young woman who works with JoAnn at the church. She begins to live with Curtis and Ella after they encounter her in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend Kendrick. She has two young kids, Kenny and Lynn.
Markice Moore as Ryan Payne, JoAnn's son and Curtis's nephew. He works at the laundromat and was amused when his relatives bought the dump. He often butts heads with Curtis, but comes to see him as family and reaches common ground with him.
JD McCrary as Kenny, Nyla's son
Sanai Victoria as Lynn, Nyla's daughter
Anthony O. Dalton as Terrance, the head contractor whom Ella hires to repair the laundromat
Matthew Law as Kendrick, Nyla's abusive boyfriend
Guest
Lance Gross as Calvin Payne, Curtis and Ella's only son
Allen Payne as Clarence "CJ" Payne Jr., Curtis and Ella's nephew
Demetria McKinney as Janine Payne, C.J.'s wife
Larramie "Doc" Shaw as Malik Payne, C.J. and Janine's son
China Anne McClain as Jazmine Payne, C.J. and Janine's daughter
Anthony Reynolds as Agent Simms
Polly W. LePorte as Margaret Davis
Monique Grant as Homeless Woman
Episodes
References
External links
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
Television series created by Tyler Perry
2018 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
American television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grubbdalen%20Nature%20Reserve | Grubbdalen Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Jämtland County in Sweden. It is part of the EU-wide Natura 2000-network.
The nature reserve consists of parts of a valley between the Norwegian parts of the Scandinavian mountains and a lower part of the mountain chain on the Swedish side of the border. At the bottom of the valley runs a small river, surrounded by tree-less bogs. Higher up the valley is richly forested, containing old-growth spruce forest and on the higher altitudes downy birch. The landscape has been characterized by its use by Sami people for a very long time, and formerly the valley also housed resident farmers; around 1900 eight families lived permanently here. Today there is no permanent population but the area is still used by the Sami as pasture for reindeer.
The flora of the nature reserve is relatively rich and includes among other species alpine yellow-violet, calypso orchid and February daphne. The fauna includes moose and brown bear, and occasionally also wolverine and Eurasian lynx.
References
Nature reserves in Sweden
Natura 2000 in Sweden
Tourist attractions in Jämtland County
Geography of Jämtland County
Protected areas established in 2003
2003 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotree | Academic Family Tree, which began as Neurotree, is an online database for academic genealogy, containing numerous "family trees" of academic disciplines. Neurotree was established in 2005 as a family tree of neuroscientists. Later that year Academic Family Tree incorporated Neurotree and academic genealogies of other scholarly disciplines.
Unlike a conventional genealogy or family tree, in which connections among individuals are from kinship (e.g., parents to children), connections in Academic Family Tree are from mentoring relationships, usually among people working in academic settings (e.g., doctoral supervisors to students).
Academic Family Tree has been used as sources of information for the history and prospects of academic fields such as psychology, meteorology, organizational communication, and neuroscience. Academic Family Tree has been used to address infometrics, to research issues of scientific methodology, and to examine mentor characteristics that predict mentee academic success.
Functioning and scope
Discipline-specific family trees of Academic Family Tree are volunteer-run; accuracy is maintained by a group of volunteer editors. Hierarchical connections between parents and children are defined as any meaningful mentoring relationship (research assistant, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or research scientist) between researchers. Continuous records extend well into the Middle Ages and earlier.
As of 29 September 2023, Academic Family Tree contained 871,361 people with 882,278 connections among them.
Academic Family Tree encompasses a broad range of discipline-specific trees. As of 29 September 2023, there were 73 trees spanning science (e.g., human genetics, microbiology, and psychology), mathematics and philosophy, engineering, the humanities (e.g., economics, law, theology, and music), and business (e.g., organizational communication and advertising).
All trees within Academic Family Tree are closely linked. A search for a person in one tree gives results not only from that tree, but also from any of the other trees in Academic Family Tree. A search from the main page of Academic Family Tree gives results from every tree of Academic Family Tree.
The data in Academic Family Tree are owned by the nonprofit academictree.org, but they are shared under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY 3.0). This means a person may use the data in any tree for any purpose as long as the source is cited.
Tools
All trees under Academic Family Tree have a set of tools similar to those of conventional genealogy applications. One is Distance that allows a user to enter two scholars' names and to determine the number of degrees of separation between the two. For example, the number of degrees of academic separation between Isaac Newton and Marie Curie is 11.
History
Neurotree was founded in January 2005 by Stephen V. David, then an assistant professor in the Oregon Hearing Research Center of Oregon Health and Science University, and by Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20science%20competition%20platform | A data science competition platform is used by businesses to host data science challenges that are hard to solve for one group. Historically, crowdsourcing challenges have been known to solve very complex problems. The Netflix Prize is one such competition. Since then there have been several platforms developed on the idea of data science competitions. Research has been completed on how competition can improve research performance. Companies like J.P. Morgan Chase also run internal contests involving large numbers of employees.
Examples of data science competition platforms include Bitgrit, Correlation One, Kaggle, InnoCentive, Microprediction, AIcrowd, and Alibaba Tianchi. Alibaba's competition platform was used in KDD 2017.
References
Challenge awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus%20Lau | Ventus Lau Wing-hong (; born 8 October 1993) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the convenor of the Shatin Community Network and the founding convenor of the Community Network Union, an alliance of the localist community groups in different districts. He came to media attention in the 2018 New Territories East by-election and his candidacy was disqualified by the returning officer for his previous pro-Hong Kong independence stance. For his participation in the 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries he was part of a mass arrest on national security charges in January 2021 and remains in jail as of October 2021.
Biography
Lau first participated in politics on the invitation of his secondary school teacher Tam Hoi-pong to join the pro-democracy Neo Democrats in early 2014. He became a community officer of Pok Hong in Sha Tin. During his study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he established the CUHK Local Society in 2014, aiming to disaffiliate the Chinese University Students' Union from the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) after the 2014 Hong Kong protests, in which the radical localists held the HKFS responsible for the failure of the movement.
Lau quit Neo Democrats over the dispute of the disaffiliating campaign as the Neo Democrats supported the unity of the HKFS, as well as the "Liberation" street actions launched by the militant localists such as Civic Passion and Hong Kong Indigenous targeting mainland parallel traders. He formed the Shatin Community Network and continued his community services in the district. In the 2015 District Council elections, the group won a seat in Chung Tin. In August 2017, the Shatin Community Network co-founded the Community Network Union, an alliance of the six localist community groups in different districts, in which Lau became the convenor of the union.
Lau declared his candidacy in the 2018 New Territories East by-election, a seat left vacant by localist Baggio Leung of Youngspiration over the oath-taking controversy. He claimed to have received Leung's endorsement and did not participate in the primary organised by the pro-democracy camp. He also declared that he no longer supports Hong Kong independence. He also resigned as the convenor of the Community Network Union and ran as an independent localist. After the end of the nomination period, Lau's candidacy was disqualified by the returning officer on the basis of his previous support for the idea of Hong Kong independence.
On 19 January 2020, Lau led a rally at Chater Garden to call for electoral reforms and a boycott of the Chinese Communist Party. Violence erupted when protesters began assaulting police officers at the scene. In response, the police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters. After speaking to reporters, Lau was arrested by authorities. The police spokesman said that the police liaison officers, who were injured, had maintained close contact with the organisers and said that Lau's characterisation of them as "suspected pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghemawat | Ghemawat () is an Indian surname.
Notable people with this surname include:
Pankaj Ghemawat (born 1959), Indian-American economist
Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966), Indian-American computer scientist
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Broussard | Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism.
Career
Broussard was previously a features editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a software developer at the AT&T Bell Labs and MIT Media Lab. Broussard has published features and essays in many outlets including The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Slate Magazine. She is the author of the nonfiction book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.
As a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she built Bailiwick, a tool designed to uncover data-driven campaign finance stories, created for the United States presidential election of 2016.
Currently, Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, a research director of the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and an advisory board member of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies.
Broussard appeared as herself in the 2020 Netflix documentary, Coded Bias, which follows researchers and advocates as they explore how algorithms encode and propagate bias. She has been interviewed on a number of topics, including algorithmic bias, for several media outlets, including The Verge, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Harvard Magazine.
Publications
Broussard has published a wide range of books examining the intersection of technology and social practice. Her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, published in April 2018 by MIT Press, examines the limits of technology in solving social problems. Her book More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech will be published in March 2023. She has been profiled in Communications of the ACM and cited by Christopher Mims of The Wall Street Journal as an expert in the future of self-driving car technology. Other publications and works of hers include:
"Broken Technology Hurts Democracy"
"Challenges of archiving and preserving born-digital news applications"
"How to Think About Bots"
"New Airbnb Data Reveals Some Hosts Are Raking In Big Bucks"
"The Irony of Writing Online About Digital Preservation"
"The Secret Lives of Hackathon Junkies"
"When Cops Check Facebook"
"Big Data in Practice: Enabling Computational Journalism Through Code-Sharing and Reproducible Research Methods"
"Preserving News Apps Presents Huge Challenges"
"Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing"
"Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting"
Selected academic publications
Broussard, Meredith. "Artificial intelligence for investigative reporting: Using an expert system to enhance journalists’ ability to discover original public affairs stories." Digital Journalism 3.6 (2015): 814-831.
Broussard, Meredith, et al. "Artificial intelligence and journalism." Journa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20McChord | Austin McChord (born October 8, 1985) is an American businessman and computer engineer. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Datto, a data backup company he founded in 2007. By 2015 Datto had a "purported valuation of $1 billion," making it the only "unicorn" company in the state of Connecticut. In December 2017 Datto was sold to Vista Equity Partners for around $1.5 billion and merged with Autotask, with McChord appointed CEO of the combined company. Named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list of leaders in enterprise technology in 2015, he is a periodic author for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.
Early life and education
Austin McChord was born in 1985 in Connecticut, spending his youth in Newtown, Connecticut. He developed an interest in technology by the time he was in the third grade, when he relates that his school had him use a computer in class to compensate for his bad handwriting. He soon started learning to program, and began writing games to play during class. In middle school he constructed Rube Goldberg machines, and while attending Newtown High School, he joined the Technology Club as a freshman. The club was responsible for the television station broadcast to the town, which McChord worked to upgrade from scrolling text to live TV and sports replays. Collecting old television sets from the dump, McChord repaired them and built necessary components for live sports broadcasts, also building his school's video-editing software. Graduating high school in 2003, he initially studied electrical engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2009 he received a Bachelor of Science degree in bioinformatics.
Career
While still attending college, throughout the summer of 2007 the 21-year-old McChord began creating a data recovery and backup device in his father's office basement. He recollects having an idea "around building a mass device that replicated data to servers in the cloud, and I thought I could build it cheaper than anything that was on the market.” He fashioned his first product using Linksys parts, Lego pieces, hot glue, a soldering iron, and his own software. McChord went on to secure several patents. His products take frequent snapshots of clients' server content and then encrypt and transmit the data to backup servers, allowing for quick reboots if client servers are hacked or crash.
He became the founding CEO of the company Datto to sell the product in 2007, with the product hitting the market in early 2008. Articles in blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo resulted in his first customers. He initially built a Linux-compatible backup device to market to a small number of resellers, before continuing to design new models.
In early 2013 McChord turned down a $100 million buyout offer from an unnamed security firm. McChord, who was Datto's sole shareholder at the time, disliked the firm's plan to dismantle Datto and lay off employees. That fall McChord instead raised $25 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia%20Lupi | Giorgia Lupi is an Italian information designer, a partner at design firm Pentagram, and co-founder of research and design firm Accurat. She is a co-author of Dear Data, a collection of hand drawn data visualizations, along with information designer Stefanie Posavec. Her work is also part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
Early life and education
Lupi was born 1981 in Italy. When she was a little girl she would spend a significant amount of time collecting and organizing all kinds of items into folders: colored sheets of papers, tiny stones, pieces of textiles from her grandmothers buttons, sales receipts and so much more grew in her collection. She has said she took pleasure in organizing and categorizing her treasures based on their, sizes, color and dimensions. She has said that her childhood interest in numbers, cataloguing and classifying rules and systems explains the origin of her work and her desires to play with data. These interests have also included the scales of large cities and urban mapping projects, and representing information layers underlining an architecture project.
She graduated from FAF in Ferrara, Italy, where she studied architecture. Lupi has her masters in architecture, but has not built any houses during her schooling career. An architect's job is not to build buildings, but they design representations of buildings, images of building's following a system of symbols that convey information about how to manufacture them. After graduating in 2006 She worked with two different interaction design firms in Italy, mostly working on interactive installations and mapping projects showing off difficult systems of knowledge. In 2011 she began her PhD in design at Milan Politecnico and started Accurat. In 2012 she moved to New York City where she lives now.
Career
In 2011, Lupi co-founded research and design firm Accurat, that combines design and data to create data visualizations, interfaces, and tools. Among their clients are Google, IBM, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Starbucks, United Nations, the World Economic Forum and the Museum of Modern Art. Lupi's influences for her work come from fascinations by geometrical feel and balance of abstract art compositions. Lupi's work has been influenced by data visualization and data art by Moritz Stefaner, Aaron Koblin and Jer Thorp. What drives Lupi in her career is the overlapping space between intuition and analysis, between beauty and logic, numbers and images.
In 2014 Lupi began the Dear Data Project with Stefanie Posavec. Every week for one year Lupi and Posavec exchanged a "data drawing", a hand drawn data visualization that represented a part of their daily life, through the mail. In 2016 these postcards were compiled and published in a book called Dear Data. The following year the Museum of Modern Art added the original Dear Data postcards to the Museum's collection.
In 2016, Giorgia Lupi published an article in Print Mag in which she introduced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Cybersecurity%20Research%20Conference | The Spanish Cybersecurity Research Conference (Spanish: Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (JNIC)), is a scientific congress that works as a meeting point where different actors working in the field of cybersecurity research (universities, technological and research centres, companies and public authorities) can exchange knowledge and experience with the shared goal of strengthening research in the Cybersecurity field at the national level.
Goals
The need to run these kind of conferences was identified during the drafting of the Summary report of the feasibility study and design of a network of centers of excellence in R&D in cybersecurity, with the consensus of participants.
The strategic plan of the Spanish Network of Excellence on Cybersecurity Research included on its measure #17, the creation of national cybsersecurity R&D+i conferences, intended to be the scientific meeting point in which both the Network of Excellence in particular and the research ecosystem in general could demonstrate their capacities, both in terms of knowledge and talent and in terms of research findings and their potential for transference to market.
Equally, the measure #12 of the same study, proposed the design of an open call for proposals with mechanisms to evaluate and select candidates in order to grant awards and acknowledgement for research excellence.
Organizers
Each edition of the conferences is organised by the institution selected according to the procedure laid out in the regulation of the JNIC.
An organising committee is named based on the regulations established for the JNIC, with the General chair of the committee being the representative from the organising institution who is responsible for the event.
The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) in its mission to support research in cybersecurity for strengthening the cybersecurity sector, collaborates in the organization of this conference.
Technology Transfer Program
With the aim of converting the JNIC into a scientific forum of excellence in national cybersecurity field that promotes the innovation, for the first time in the 2017 edition, a complete Technological Transfer Program has been designed, that was an instrument to bring final users (companies, organisms, etc.) in contact with researchers in order to solve cybersecurity problems that were unresolved, formulated as scientific challenges.
This initiative ran for several years until 2021 edition, helping to promote technology transfer.
Current edition
JNIC 2023, will be held in Vigo in June 2023 and organized by atlanTTic (University of Vigo) and Gradiant (foundation).
Past Editions
JNIC2015, held in León on 14, 15 and 16 September 2015 and organized by Universidad de León.
JNIC2016 held in Granada, on 15, 16 y 17 June 2016 and organized by Universidad de Granada.
JNIC2017, held in Madrid, on 31 May, 1 and 2 June 2017 and organized by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
JNIC2018, held in San S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20Imaging%20Data%20Structure | The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a standard for organizing, annotating, and describing data collected during neuroimaging experiments. It is based on a formalized file and directory structure and metadata files (based on JSON and TSV) with controlled vocabulary.
This standard has been adopted by a multitude of labs around the world as well as databases such as OpenNeuro, SchizConnect, Developing Human Connectome Project, and FCP-INDI, and is seeing uptake in an increasing number of studies.
While originally specified for MRI data, BIDS has been extended to several other imaging modalities such as MEG, EEG, and intracranial EEG (see also BIDS Extension Proposals).
History
The project is a community-driven effort. BIDS, originally OBIDS (Open Brain Imaging Data Structure), was initiated during an INCF sponsored data sharing working group meeting (January 2015) at Stanford University. It was subsequently spearheaded and maintained by Chris Gorgolewski. Since October 2019, the project is headed by a Steering Group and maintained by a separate team of maintainers, the Maintainers Group, according to a governance document that was approved of by the BIDS community in a vote. BIDS has advanced under the direction and effort of contributors, the community of researchers that appreciate the value of standardizing neuroimaging data to facilitate sharing and analysis.
BIDS Extension Proposals
BIDS can be extended in a backwards compatible way and is evolving over time. This is accomplished through BIDS Extension Proposals (BEPs), which are community-driven processes following agreed-upon guidelines. A full list of finalized BEPs and BEPs in progress can be found on the BIDS website
References
External links
Official BIDS website
HTML version of the BIDS specification
Source of the BIDS specification on GitHub
Data management
Magnetic resonance imaging
Electrophysiology
Neuroimaging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%20Thorp | Jer Thorp (born 1974/5) is a Canadian data artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. Before becoming a data artist, he was originally trained as a geneticist. He holds an adjunct faculty position at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He was the Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times in 2012, where he created Cascade, a tool for visualizing how stories were shared across social media. and the Innovator-In-Residence at the Library of Congress in 2017.
He and Jake Barton created an algorithm that arranged the names of those killed in the 9/11 attacks, respecting their familial, personal and business relationships with each other; his visualization of their relatedness is exhibited at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Thorp collaborated with Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, and Local Projects to create an interactive timeline of the attacks. Thorp's visualization of the influence of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity on contemporary scientific research appeared in Scientific American's September 2015 commemorative issue on Einstein and was featured in The Best American Infographics 2016.
Thorp is the co-creator of a data-based public artwork called Herald / Harbinger in downtown Calgary. He co-founded The Office for Creative Research, which was a Brooklyn data management and visualization consultancy. He is one of the founders of the Eyeo festival.
In 2021, Thorp released his first book, Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future.
References
External links
21st-century Canadian artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Information visualization experts
Artists from Vancouver
Tisch School of the Arts faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20T.%20Leek | Jeffrey Tullis Leek is an American biostatistician and data scientist working as a Vice President, Chief Data Officer, and Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is an author of the Simply Statistics blog, and runs several online courses through Coursera, as part of their Data Science Specialization. His most popular course is The Data Scientist's Toolbox, which he instructed along with Roger Peng and Brian Caffo. Leek is best known for his contributions to genomic data analysis and critical view of research and the accuracy of popular statistical methods.
Education
Leek graduated from Utah State University in 2003 with his Bachelors of Science. Then went on to study at the University of Washington achieving a Master's degree in 2005 and completed a PhD in Biostatistics in 2007 with John Storey as his doctoral advisor.
Research and career
Leek joined Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in Biostatistics in 2009, working at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2014 he became an associate professor in Biostatistics and Oncology.
Leek works in The Center for Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University creating statistical packages for analysis of genomes.
He also co-edits a blog, Simply Statistics with Roger Peng and Rafa Irizarry, which contains a mix of articles on statistics and meta-research.
Leek has conducted several talks at prestigious universities and locations such as a colloquium series at Harvard and a lecture at the New York Genome Center titled “Building a Comprehensive Resource for the Study of Human Gene Expression with Machine Learning and Data Science” as a part of their lecture series.
He is an expert in reproducibility, and his work and opinions have been published in notable scientific and medical journals such as Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Leek wrote a self-published book, The Elements of Data Analytic Style and is considered an expert on replication.
He is currently Vice President and Chief Data Officer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, WA.
Recognition
Leek was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.
Selected publications
Leek's highly cited works include
"Capturing Heterogeneity in Gene Expression Studies by Surrogate Variable Analysis"
"Tackling the Widespread and Critical Impact of Batch Effects in High-Throughput Data"
References
Living people
Biostatisticians
American statisticians
Data scientists
1979 births
University of Washington alumni
Utah State University alumni
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Silge | Julia Silge (born June 10, 1978) is an American data scientist and software engineer. She has developed tools for statistical modelling in the R programming language, including the text mining package tidytext. Silge currently works for Posit, formerly known as RStudio.
Education and career
Silge studied physics at Texas A&M University, graduating in 2000. She obtained her M.A. (2002) and PhD (2005) in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. She was an adjunct professor at University of New Haven and Quinnipiac University from 2006 to 2008.
Silge has worked as a data scientist for several companies, most recently Stack Overflow and RStudio. At Stack Overflow, she researched the popularity of different programming languages and skills for technologists. She also began working on tidytext, an R package for text mining, with colleague David Robinson. Their book Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach (2017) drew on examples of text analysis ranging from Jane Austen novels, popular songs, NASA metadata, and Twitter archives.
In February 2017, Silge made the news when she used a note attached to a pizza delivery to contact her senator Orrin Hatch to object to the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, after failing to reach Hatch by phone.
Selected publications
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
American statisticians
Women data scientists
Data scientists
Texas A&M University alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaya%20Khan | Janaya Khan is a social activist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Khan is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto as well as an international ambassador for the Black Lives Matter Network. Khan identifies as black, queer, and gender-nonconforming. Much of their work analyzes intersectional topics including the Black Lives Matter movement, queer theory, Black feminism, and organized protest strategies.
Personal life and education
Khan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to a Trinidadian father and a British Jamaican mother who emigrated to Canada. Khan received a Bachelor of Arts from York University, graduating with an honours degree in English language and literature. Khan currently resides in Los Angeles serving as program director for Color Of Change and as a speaker with Keppler Speakers Bureau. Khan is married to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. Khan is an author and competitive amateur boxer.
Activism
Khan believes that the sole responsibility of the police is to manufacture criminals and that the police do not keep people safe. They (Khan) would rather have "rapid response justice teams" in the place of police.
In a 2016 interview with Maclean's magazine, they recalled the difficulty of growing up with an intersectional identity in a society with limited resources and knowledge on intersectionality and transfeminism. Khan states that actions like carding (a Canadian police policy where people are stopped and questioned not in relation to a specific offence) made them realize how normalized their community had been to a heavy police presence accompanied by biased questioning. Incidences like this initiated their path into activism and the ultimate inception of Black Lives Matter Toronto.
In October 2014, Khan and Hudson organized an action of solidarity following the death of 33-year-old Jermaine Carby, who was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop in Brampton, Ontario, on September 24, 2014. This incident occurred a month after the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown in the United States. After announcing the protest, around 4,000 people gathered to demonstrate in solidarity outside the US Consulate. Wanting to build on this momentum, they decided to meet with Los Angeles-based Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. This meeting launched the foundations for Black Lives Matter to become an international movement rather than one based only in the United States. Khan founded the Toronto chapter alongside Sandy Hudson and controversial activist Yusra Khogali in November 2014, the first chapter to be established in Canada.
Khan has led a number of demonstrations and events in Toronto, mainly based on instances of police brutality in the United States and Canada. In July 2016, they helped organize a sit-in during Pride Toronto, where protesters came prepared with a list of demands including more representation of minority groups and no uniformed police prese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fightcade | Fightcade is a software client used to enable online capabilities to play of various arcade and home console systems via emulation. Fightcade utilizes networking middleware GGPO to mitigate the effects of network latency on gameplay, and functions as a successor of GGPO's now-defunct matchmaking client.
History
GGPO, the networking middleware which Fightcade uses for facilitating online play, was created by Tony Cannon in response to the poorly-received netcode of the 2006 Xbox 360 re-release of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting. GGPO was originally bundled with a client that enabled users to play networked multiplayer games via an embedded emulator. The GGPO client supported a wide variety of popular arcade games, such as Street Fighter II, King of Fighters, and Metal Slug.
Pau "Pof" Oliva, one of Fightcade's major contributors, noted that the GGPO client often suffered from intermittent service, sometimes going offline for several days at a time. Expressing concern over the future of GGPO, Oliva began work on Fightcade during a prolonged GGPO service outage. Oliva originally intended to only use the Fightcade client amongst friends, but positive reception from beta testers encouraged him to publicly release the client.
Fightcade launched into beta in late 2014, during a period where other contemporary netplay clients were noted to be largely unsupported by their creators, suffering from either lengthy outages or financial distress. Following the discontinuation of the GGPO client, Fightcade now functions as the GGPO client's de facto successor.
A significant portion of Fightcade's functionality was developed through reverse-engineering GGPO's client; Fightcade would go on to inherit many of the GGPO client's features. New features exclusive to Fightcade were also implemented, such as network hole punching, which forgoes the need to port forward when connecting to other users, and replays, which enable users to re-watch their game matches at a later time.
In October 2017, Fightcade 2.0 was released through a limited public beta. Features added in 2.0 include an overhauled GUI and an updated version of the bundled emulator, which enables Fightcade to support a broader range of arcade and console hardware.
Design
Fightcade contains a built-in emulator, "FinalBurn Alpha", which it uses to run supported games. GGPO is utilized for online multiplayer play, affording Fightcade the same "rollback" lag mitigation techniques present in GGPO's original client.
The software client supports a large variety of arcade hardware, including many Capcom boards (CPS-1, CPS-2, CPS-3) and SNK's Neo Geo. With the beta release of Fightcade 2.0, Fightcade features preliminary support for the Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16.
Although the software is free, players must acquire and install the ROM files themselves. This is done for legal reasons, as while the concept of emulation is perfectly legal, the necessary files are sometimes downloaded without permission fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-marginal%20Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings%20algorithm | In computational statistics, the pseudo-marginal Metropolis–Hastings algorithm is a Monte Carlo method to sample from a probability distribution. It is an instance of the popular Metropolis–Hastings algorithm that extends its use to cases where the target density is not available analytically. It relies on the fact that the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm can still sample from the correct target distribution if the target density in the acceptance ratio is replaced by an estimate. It is especially popular in Bayesian statistics, where it is applied if the likelihood function is not tractable (see example below).
Algorithm description
The aim is to simulate from some probability density function . The algorithm follows the same steps as the standard Metropolis–Hastings algorithm except that the evaluation of the target density is replaced by a non-negative and unbiased estimate. For comparison, the main steps of a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm are outlined below.
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
Given a current state the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm proposes a new state according to some density . The algorithm then sets with probability
otherwise the old state is kept, that is, .
Pseudo-marginal Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
If the density is not available analytically the above algorithm cannot be employed. The pseudo-marginal Metropolis–Hastings algorithm in contrast only assumes the existence of an unbiased estimator , i.e. the estimator must satisfy the equation Now, given and the respective estimate the algorithm proposes a new state according to some density . Next, compute an estimate and set with probability
otherwise the old state is kept, that is, .
Application to Bayesian statistics
In Bayesian statistics the target of inference is the posterior distribution
where denotes the likelihood function, is the prior and is the prior predictive distribution.
Since there is often no analytic expression of this quantity, one often relies on Monte Carlo methods to sample from the distribution instead. Monte Carlo methods often need the likelihood to be accessible for every parameter value . In some cases, however, the likelihood does not have an analytic expression. An example of such a case is outlined below.
Example: Latent variable model
Consider a model consisting of i.i.d. latent real-valued random variables with and suppose one can only observe these variables through some additional noise for some conditional density . (This could be due to measurement error, for instance.) We are interested in Bayesian analysis of this model based on some observed data . Therefore, we introduce some prior distribution on the parameter. In order to compute the posterior distribution
we need to find the likelihood function . The likelihood contribution of any observed data point is then
and the joint likelihood of the observed data is
If the integral on the right-hand side is not analytically available, importanc |
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| 509001 || || — || April 4, 2005 || Catalina || CSS || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
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| 509006 || || — || May 3, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.8 km ||
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| 509007 || || — || May 3, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
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| 509008 || || — || May 4, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
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| 509009 || || — || May 9, 2005 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 509010 || || — || May 3, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.3 km ||
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| 509011 || || — || June 13, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || EUP || align=right | 3.5 km ||
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| 509012 || || — || June 13, 2005 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 509013 || || — || June 29, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right data-sort-value="0.80" | 800 m ||
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| 509014 || || — || June 30, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 3.2 km ||
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| 509015 || || — || June 29, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
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| 511002 || || — || June 18, 2013 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || AMO || align=right data-sort-value="0.33" | 330 m ||
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| 511004 || || — || December 3, 2010 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
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| 511006 || || — || November 19, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.61" | 610 m ||
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| 511007 || || — || March 23, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 511008 || || — || January 12, 2010 || WISE || WISE || APOPHAcritical || align=right | 1.6 km ||
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| 511009 || || — || January 31, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
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| 511010 || || — || August 28, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
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| 511011 || || — || March 2, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 511012 || || — || May 12, 1996 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
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| 511013 || || — || February 27, 2012 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 511017 || || — || September 18, 2006 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 511018 || || — || September 21, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.51" | 510 m ||
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| 511019 || || — || June 18, 2013 || Catalina || CSS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
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| 511021 || || — || March 28, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla%3A%20City%20on%20the%20Edge%20of%20Battle | is a 2018 Japanese computer-animated kaiju film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita. Produced by Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures, in association with Netflix, it is the 33rd film in the Godzilla franchise, the 31st Godzilla film produced by Toho, the second entry in the franchise's anime trilogy, and the third film in the franchise's Reiwa period.
A sequel to the 2017 film Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the film continues the story of humans fighting to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla, this time with the help of a weapon known as Mechagodzilla. Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle was released theatrically in Japan on May 18, 2018, and was released worldwide on Netflix on July 18, 2018. A sequel, Godzilla: The Planet Eater, was released in Japan on November 9, 2018.
Plot
Following the events of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the Aratrum is unable to contact Haruo and the rest after their encounter with the original Godzilla. The Captain orders the Aratrums withdrawal if drones fail to find survivors within 48 hours. Haruo Sakaki is revealed to have been rescued by a native girl named Miana, who treated his wound with a strange powder. Haruo reunites with some of his teammates while they were confronted by who they later learned to be Miana's twin sister Maina before being captured by the latter's hunting party. The group are reunited with Martin Lazzari whose platoon have been healed by the twins' people who are known as the "Houtua", surviving descendants of humans who remained on Earth and safeguard the egg of their fallen deity.
The group are telepathically questioned by the twins and the Houtua leaders over why they burned their lands, letting them go once Haruo explains they were only attacking Godzilla. Accompanied by Miana and Maina as their protective guides and observers, the twins revealing they can also speak verbally, Haruo's group reunites with Metphies and the other survivors during an encounter with the Servum. During the fight, Galu-Gu realizes that the twins' arrowheads are laced with "nanometal", the nanotechnology used to create Mechagodzilla. Galu-Gu explains that the nanometal somehow survived and expanded itself over the past 20 millennia. Haruo is convinced by Galu-Gu to remain on Earth and resume the plan to kill Godzilla, sending a few crew members back to the Aratrum. The group trace the energy signature to the rebuilt facility that held Mechagodzilla, which Galu-Gu christens "Mechagodzilla City". The twins part ways with the group while warning Haruo that the nanometal is poisonous; the Bilusaludo assuring the group that the technology is only harmful to Godzilla.
The team soon finds that the surviving half of Mechagodzilla's head is the source of the nanometal as Galu-Gu accesses Mechagodzilla's brain to construct all necessary materials to trap Godzilla within the city and cover it with nanometal to finish it off with EMP harpoons. While overseeing the construction, her mech suit modified into |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia%20%28company%29 | Amelia, formerly known as IPsoft, is an American technology company. It primarily focuses on artificial intelligence and cognitive and autonomic products for business. Its main products are Amelia, a conversational AI platform, and Amelia HyperAutomation Platform (formerly 1Desk), an autonomic framework for IT operations.
The company is headquartered in New York City and has offices in 13 countries.
History
The company was founded as IPsoft, Inc., in New York City in 1998 by Chetan Dube, a former professor at New York University at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The company rebranded to Amelia in October, 2020.
Products
Amelia
Amelia is an AI-based digital assistant. The underlying technology is text-based, with text-to-speech capability. The avatar is based on Lauren Hayes, a professional model.
Amelia was first released in 2014. Version 3.0 was released on June 1, 2017. By 2018, Amelia had been deployed in some capacity for customer care by about 25 companies, including SEB Group, and Accenture.
Amelia HyperAutomation Platform
Released in 2017, Amelia HyperAutomation Platform (formerly 1Desk) is an enterprise-scale autonomic framework that integrates IT operations and shared services.
The platform integrates with Amelia to access the autonomic framework via a conversational interface.
Amelia HyperAutomation Platform features an integration framework to connect with any existing platform with an open API.
Its proprietary Machine Learning functionality (internally dubbed "IPconnect") recommends new automations based on observed behaviors of human workers.
IPcenter
IPcenter, a predecessor of the Amelia HyperAutomation Platform, was an autonomic IT management platform that automated monitoring and remediation of network services. It was first released in 1999.
IPcenter contains a library of more than 20,000 automations routines for network management, which are branded as "virtual engineers".
References
External links
Software companies established in 1998
Technology companies established in 1998
Multinational companies headquartered in the United States
Privately held companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20assets%20owned%20by%20NBCUniversal | NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media conglomerate that is a division of Comcast and is headquartered at the Comcast Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It has film, television, cable networks, and publishing operations.
This is a listing of all of its brands, as shown at the company's website.
NBCUniversal Media Group
NBCUniversal Syndication Studios
International Media Distribution
EMKA, Ltd.
NBC Entertainment
National Broadcasting Company
NBC Studios
Entertainment Networks
E! Studios
Wilshire Studios, reality studio
Syfy
USA Network
Bravo
E!
Oxygen
Universal Kids
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises
Telemundo
Noticias Telemundo
Universo
Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios
Telemundo Studios
Telemundo Global Studios
Telemundo Streaming Studios
Underground Producciones
Telemundo Internacional
Telemundo Films
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations
Affiliate Relations
NBC Owned Television Stations
Cozi TV
K15CU-D 15 – Salinas
KNBC 4 – Los Angeles
KNSD 39 (cable 7) – San Diego²
KNTV 11 – San Jose/San Francisco
KXAS 5 – Dallas/Fort Worth²
LXTV
NECN
WBTS-CD – Boston
WCAU 10 – Philadelphia
WMAQ 5 – Chicago
WNBC 4 – New York
WRC 4 – Washington
WTVJ 6 – Miami
WVIT 30 – Hartford
Telemundo Station Group
KBLR – Las Vegas
KCSO – Sacramento
KDEN-TV – Longmont, Colorado
KHRR – Tucson
KNSO – Fresno
KSTS – San Jose/San Francisco
KTAZ – Phoenix
KTDO – El Paso
KTMD – Houston
KTMW – Salt Lake City
KUAN – San Diego
KVDA – San Antonio
KVEA – Los Angeles
KXTX – Dallas/Fort Worth
TeleXitos
WKAQ – Puerto Rico
WNEU – Boston/Merrimack
WNJU – New York
WRDM – Hartford
WRIW – Providence
WRMD – Tampa
WSCV – Miami
WSNS – Chicago
WTMO – Orlando
WZDC – Washington
Skycastle Entertainment
NBC Sports Group
Golf Channel
MLB Network (5.44%) joint venture with Major League Baseball and other providers
NBC Olympics, LLC
NBC Olympic broadcasts
NBC Sports
NHL Network (15.6%) joint venture with National Hockey League
SportsEngine
Telemundo Deportes
NBC Sports Regional Networks
NBC Sports Bay Area (45%)
NBC Sports California
NBC Sports Chicago (20%)
NBC Sports Washington
NBC Sports Washington+
NBC Sports Boston
NBC Sports Philadelphia (75%)
NBC Sports Philadelphia+
SNY (8%) joint venture with Sterling Equities and Charter Communications
NBC Sports Films
NBC Sports Digital
Playmaker Media
Allstar Stats LLC.
NBC Sports Edge
Revolution Golf
GolfPass
NBC Sports Gold
GolfNow
NBC Sports Digital Network
NBC Sports Ventures LLC.
Alli Sports
NBC Sports Radio
World Long Drivers Association
World Long Drive Championships
American Century Championship
Father/Son Challenge (With IMG)
National Dog Show
Beverly Hills Dog Show
All-American Bowl
Direct-to-Consumer
Fandango Media (75%, joint venture with Warner Bros.)
Rotten Tomatoes Movieclips
Rotten Tomatoes
Fandango Latam
Movies.com
MovieTickets.com
Vudu
Stakes:
Snap Inc.
BuzzFeed
HuffPost
Complex Networks
First We Feast
Vox Medi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20border%20control%20system | Automated border control systems (ABC) or eGates are automated self-service barriers which use data stored in a chip in biometric passports along with a photo or fingerprint taken at the time of entering the eGates to verify the passport holder's identity. Travellers undergo biometric verification using facial or iris recognition, fingerprints, or a combination of modalities. After the identification process is complete and the passport holder's identity is verified, a physical barrier such as a gate or turnstile opens to permit passage. If the passport holder's identification is not verified or if the system malfunctions, then the gate or turnstile does not open and an immigration officer will meet the person. E-gates came about in the mid-2000s as an automated method of reading the then-newly ICAO mandated e-passports.
All eGate systems require the use of an e-passport that is machine readable or an identity card. Some countries permit only specific nationalities to use the automated border crossing systems, e.g. EU/EEA/Swiss citizens or CAN/JPN/SGP/UK/US passport bearers, etc. For all other nationalities, citizens must go to immigration officers to be questioned and then have their passports stamped. They come in different configurations, including a gate, kiosk and gate, or mantrap kiosk, and the process for each setup is the same for departing and arriving passengers.
In the gate configuration, an incoming passenger places their passport data page either on or under a scanner, looks at a camera that will take a live picture to compare to the picture in the passport, and walks through a set of barriers that will open if the citizen's identity is verified. At either the passport scan or photo stage, if either identity cannot be verified or a malfunction happens, an immigration officer will step in at that point. Fingerprint and/or iris scans can also be taken depending on the system. In the kiosk and gate configuration, a passenger approaches a kiosk for a facial, finger and passport scan. They then proceed to a set of doors and pass through using their fingerprint. In the mantrap kiosk configuration, a passenger walks through a first set of barriers to a kiosk for a facial, finger and passport scan. They then proceed out through a second set of barriers.
The number of e-gate units deployed globally is expected to triple from 1,100 in 2013 to more than 3,200 in 2018, according to a 2014 report by Acuity Market Intelligence. Most e-gates have been deployed in airports in Europe, Australia and Asia.
Privacy issues
Automated border control systems typically collect personal information such as the information on the biometric page of the passport: name, sex, date of birth, passport number, passport photograph, nationality, and the country of origin of the passport.
Other information may also be collected, such as travel details, and the facial biometric template.
Travellers’ passport booklets are typically no longer stamped if they are proc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halyini | Halyini is a tribe of stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. The tribe has been described as a "dumping ground" for numerous genera, many of which have been removed to other tribes. Databases like BugGuide, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, and Encyclopedia of Life record one genus and at least 20 described species in Halyini. More recent revisions such as that presented in Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea) (2018), indicate multiple genera in Halyini.
Genera
The following genera are included within Halyini, as of the 2018 revision presented by McPherson:
Agaeus
Anchises
Apodiphus
Atelocera
Auxentius
Babylas
Brizica
Brochymena
Cahara
Carenoplistus
Ectenus
Elemana
Epitoxicorus
Eurus
Faizuda
Goilalaka
Halys
Jugalpada
Mimikana
Parabrochymena
Paranevisanus
Phricodus
Platycoris
Poecilmetis
Polycarmes
Pseudatelus
Sarju
Solomonius
Tachengia
Theseus
Tinganina
Tipulparra
Zaplutus
References
Further reading
Pentatominae
Hemiptera tribes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biedl | Biedl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
(born 1938), German computer scientist
Arthur Biedl (1869–1933), Hungarian pathologist
(1904–1950), Austrian philologist
Therese Biedl, Austrian computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Surprise%3A%204%20Mani%20%E2%80%93%20Nanga%20Than%20Ini | Sunday Surprise: 4 Mani – Nanga Than Ini is a 2018 Tamil language weekly programming segment that will feature the world television premieres of eight feature films on Zee Tamil HD from 4 February 2018 on every Sunday at 16:00 (IST).
List of films
References
External links
Zee Tamizh Official website
2010s Tamil-language television series
2018 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY%20Rescue | DIY Rescue is a home renovation television series which screened on the Nine Network in 2003. It was loosely based on the British television series DIY SOS.
DIY Rescue was hosted by Leah McLeod and featured Luke Van Dyk, Greg Norton, and Tara Dennis.
References
Australian non-fiction television series
Nine Network original programming
2003 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratbags | Ratbags is an Australian comedy series which screened on Network Ten in 1981. The show was loosely based on the life and times of office rat, Benny Gordon.
Cast
Rod Quantock
Mary Kenneally
Benny Gordon
John Derum
Adam Bowen
Joanne Samuel
Heather Mitchell
Robyn Moase
Format
Ratbags featured sketch comedy and parodies of well known personalities, pop stars, music videos, television programs and advertisements of the day, or simply sent-up well-known social situations. It also featured musical performances.
See also
Australia You're Standing In It
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian television sketch shows
Network 10 original programming
1981 Australian television series debuts
1981 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepheloleuca%20floridata | Nepheloleuca floridata is a species of geometrid moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida and Mexico.
The MONA or Hodges number for Nepheloleuca floridata is 6986.
References
Further reading
Ourapterygini
Moths described in 1883 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%20Friends%21 | is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's Data Carddass line of machines, which launched on April 5, 2018. It is the successor to the Aikatsu! and Aikatsu Stars! series of arcade games. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions.
An anime television adaptation by BN Pictures aired from April 5, 2018 to September 26, 2019, replacing the Aikatsu Stars! series. A manga adaptation by Chihiro Komori began serialization in Shogakukan's shōjo manga magazine Ciao from April 3, 2018. The series was followed by a sequel title, Aikatsu on Parade! on October 5, 2019.
Plot
Aine Yūki, who is a regular student at Star Harmony Academy's normal division, meets Mio Minato from the idol division, who invites her to join Aikatsu to fulfill Aine's goal to make friends. She also befriends Maika Chōno and Ema Hinata who are also idols. Aine and Mio form a pair to become best friends to become the bright "Diamond Friends". Karen Kamishiro and Mirai Asuka are categorized as "Diamond Friends" and are in the Diamond Class!
Media
Anime
An anime television series produced by BN Pictures began airing on TV Tokyo from April 5, 2018 succeeding the Aikatsu Stars! anime series in its initial timeslot.
A second season titled "Aikatsu Friends! ~Kagayaki no Jewel~" has been announced, and it aired from April 4 to September 26, 2019, succeeding the first season of Aikatsu Friends! anime series in its initial timeslot. This was also the last installment of the Aikatsu! series to be produced in the Heisei period and the first to be produced in the Reiwa period.
Notes
References
External links
2018 anime television series debuts
2018 video games
Aikatsu!
Bandai Namco games
Bandai Namco Pictures
Japanese idols in anime and manga
Shogakukan manga
Shōjo manga
TV Tokyo original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriended%3A%20Dark%20Web | Unfriended: Dark Web is a 2018 American screenlife horror film written and directed by Stephen Susco in his directorial debut. Shot as a computer screen film, it stars Colin Woodell, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Betty Gabriel, Connor Del Rio, Andrew Lees, Stephanie Nogueras, and Savira Windyani. It is a stand-alone sequel to the 2015 film Unfriended, as none of the previous films' events or characters are mentioned. The plot follows a group of friends who find a laptop that has access to the dark web, only to realize they are being watched by the original owners, a group of cybercriminal hackers.
The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival on March 9, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 20, 2018, by Universal Pictures' OTL Releasing and Blumhouse Productions' BH Tilt. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and grossed $16 million worldwide, against a production budget of $1 million.
Plot
Matias takes home a laptop left at a cyber café. While Skyping with his friends Damon, A.J., Lexx, Serena, and Nari, he receives messages from "Erica," who is its owner, Norah C. IV. demanding the laptop back. Matias decides to return it before receiving messages from "Charon68". A.J. realizes the laptop is connected to the dark web. When Charon68 mentions trepanation, Matias stops responding.
Matias finds snuff films on the laptop and traces an address in one to the home of missing 17-year-old Erica Dunne. Matias receives a video call from his deaf girlfriend Amaya, but it is Norah, demanding the laptop and threatening to kill Amaya if the police are contacted. When Nari seeks help, Matias claims it is an alternate reality game he is developing, though Nari remains suspicious. Matias convinces Amaya to visit him; Norah follows her. Matias removes cryptocurrency from Norah's account, promising to return the money and laptop in exchange for Amaya and Erica's safety.
Matias directs Amaya and Norah to the subway - once their signal is lost, he tells his friends the truth. More Charon accounts join the chat, posting a video of Lexx being thrown off a roof and a deepfake of A.J. planning to attack a shopping mall. As police storm A.J.'s house, the Charons play a gun-loading sound effect from his computer, and the police fatally shoot him. They ask Serena to save either her terminally ill mother or Nari; when she refuses, all three are killed. Matias meets Amaya, leaving the laptop open so Damon can copy its files. Damon tells the Charons that everything has been recorded. The Charons create a deepfake of Matias kidnapping Erica and bringing an unconscious Erica to Matias' apartment. Damon realizes the Charons intended for Matias to find the laptop so they could frame the group for their crimes. A Charon hangs Damon by his closet door while another writes a false confession and suicide note. Amaya calls Matias, who realizes the Charons hacked his messages to lead her astray. He helplessly watches as she |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202018%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The international Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly and monthly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranks songs according to their performance on the Gaon Download, Streaming, and BGM charts.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
Korea international
International 2018
2018 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infraud%20Organization | Infraud Organization was an international cybercrime organization, operating between October 2010 and February 2018, that was involved in carding, stealing personal credit cards and online banking information. The organization was created by Svyatoslav Bondarenko, a 34-year-old man from Ukraine. In February 2018, authorities in the United States indicted 36 individuals involved with the organization on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, possession of 15 or more access devices, and aiding and abetting. As of February 2018, 13 of the 36 have been arrested. The US Justice Department stated that as of March 2017, the organization had 10,901 registered members and was the "largest cyber fraud enterprise prosecutions ever undertaken by the Department of Justice" and had resulted in $530 million in actual losses, with an estimated $2.2 billion in intended losses.
Presently (01/22/2022)
History
The organization was formed by Svyatoslav, a 34-year-old man from Ukraine. He intended for the organization to grow into the internet's largest carding group. The website was a place where vendors could advertise stolen or counterfeit credit cards or related items. According to the indictment, the first vendor to advertise their items was Muhammad Shiraz who advertised large dumps of stolen credit card details for sale.
At the time of the date (1/22/2022)
FSB arrested members of this organization
According to the card file of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, Andrey Novak was sent to a pre-trial detention center yesterday. TASS calls this person the alleged founder of the hacker group The Infraud Organization. The operation was carried out with the assistance of American intelligence agencies, who were looking for him on charges of cyberfraud.
According to media reports, three more alleged members of the group were placed under house arrest.
A case was initiated against Novak under Part 2 of Art. 272 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal access to computer information).
Organization Roles
The organization was split into different roles, the administrators, the super moderators, the moderators, vendors, VIP members and members.
The administrators served as the governing council of the group, initially made up of "reputable" vendors. They handled management decisions, long-term strategic planning and managing of users of the site. Administrators had full privileges and access to the computer servers hosting Infraud's websites.
Super Moderators oversaw subject-matter specific areas of the forums which were either part of their expertise or was part of their geographical location. They were limited to editing and deleting posts by members as well as resolving disputes. They often reviewed other vendor's products or services which was in their area of expertise.
Moderators were similar to super moderators, however, they had less authority within the forums and were generally limited to moderating one or two specific sub-forums.
Vendors sold illicit produ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20National%20Seismic%20System | The Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) is a collaboration of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and regional, state, and academic partners that collects and analyzes data on significant earthquakes to provide near real-time (generally within 10 to 30 minutes) information to emergency responders and officials, the news media, and the public. Such information is used to anticipate the likely severity and extent of damage, and to guide decisions on the responses needed.
Data is collected by eleven regional seismic networks and the National Seismic Network ("ANSS backbone") of dedicated stations, with additional inputs from overseas seismic networks. Analysis is done at the regional data centers, and at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), with the results posted at the USGS earthquake web page (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/).
The National Strong Motion Project of the ANSS has instrumented 168 structures to record their response to very strong shaking. This data is used in research on earthquake-resistant engineering.
Products and services
The ANSS provides a range of products and services:
Earthquake detections, location, depths, magnitudes, and origin times.
Earthquake source information, including focal mechanisms, moment tensors, and finite fault models.
ShakeAlert: Earthquake early warning messages in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Immediate notification of earthquakes to government and emergency managers.
Earthquake Notification Service (ENS): customized notifications via e-mail and text messages.
ShakeMap: a map of the anticipated severity and extent of ground shaking, based on the measured strength of ground shaking and known characteristics of the affected locality.
ShakeCast: automated delivery of ShakeMaps customized for critical infrastructure, providing an estimate of shaking experienced.
Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER): combines ShakeMap results with an inventory of buildings and construction types to provide an immediate estimate of
Did-You-Feel-It? (DYFI): crowd-sourced reports of shaking that augment and interpolate instrumental data.
Ground Failure: estimations of the impacts of landslides and liquefaction caused by earthquake shaking.
The ANSS Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat) is a repository of data from the participating seismic networks. For significant earthquakes the NEIC prepares a summary of the tectonic setting, nearby fault systems, and historical seismicity.
These can be accessed at the USGS Earthquake page: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.
Participating regional networks
As of 2023 the following networks were participating in the ANSS:
Alaska Earthquake Center of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), the principal units of which are networks and data centers operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California (UC) Berkeley, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Data%20Center | Columbia Data Center is Microsoft's data center in Quincy, Washington. Property at Quincy was purchased in 2006; the building opened in April, 2007; and the data center reached operational status in May, 2007. It was said to be the largest data center in the world as of 2015. The company located there due to low land costs, abundant data fiber, and extremely low cost electricity provided by Grant County PUD for as little as 1.9 or 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Building began with a facility in 2006 and several expansions followed, occupying with of floorspace in two buildings on a complex by 2016.
The data center consumed 30 to 50 megawatts in 2012 and employs 50 people.
References
Buildings and structures in Grant County, Washington
Data centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor%20%28website%29 | Tenor, Inc. is an online GIF search engine and database owned by Google. Its main product is the GIF Keyboard, which is available on Android, iOS, and macOS.
History
The company was founded by entrepreneurs David Macintosh, Erick Hachenburg and Frank Nawabi in February 2014 as Riffsy. Tenor was funded by Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Cowboy Ventures and Tenaya Capital.
On March 27, 2018, Tenor was acquired by Google. The company will continue to operate as a standalone brand.
Partnerships
Tenor is available in numerous keyboards and messaging apps.
On April 25, 2017, Tenor introduced an app that makes GIFs available in MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. Users can scroll through GIFs and tap to copy it to the clipboard.
On September 7, 2017, Tenor announced an SDK for Unity and Apple's ARKit. It allows developers to integrate GIFs into augmented reality apps and games.
Censorship
On November 6, 2017, in response to users having utilized Tenor and similar services to distribute GIFs with content that is illegal under local laws, the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics threatened to block WhatsApp. The regulator acknowledged that despite being from third-party providers, WhatsApp was wholly responsible for allowing the content to be disseminated to users, because the feature was part of their platform. The next day, Tenor was blocked in the country. The threats were later dropped.
References
External links
GIF hosting websites
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Google acquisitions
American search engines
American companies established in 2014
Internet properties established in 2014
Companies based in San Francisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixgill | Sixgill is an Israeli B2B cyber intelligence company that analyses and monitors the deep web and dark web for threat intelligence. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
History
Sixgill was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2014, by Avi Kasztan and Elad Lavi. The idea for Sixgill was developed by Kasztan. Soon after the company was established, it joined the Citibank accelerator program.
The Sixgill platform uses algorithms and technology to create profiles and patterns of dark web users and hidden social networks. It identifies and tracks potential cyber criminals to prevent malicious activity such as hacking and data breaches. Customers of Sixgill include; global 2000 enterprises, financial services, managed security service providers (MSSPs), government and law enforcement agencies.
In 2017, Sixgill was responsible for tracking ISIS cyber activity in relation to threats made towards Prince George and the British royal family. In 2019, Sixgill agents uncovered the money laundering activities undertaken by cyber criminals through the Fortnite Battle Royale online game in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, English and Spanish.
Sixgill offers autonomous threat intelligence to help organizations detect and protect against phishing, data leaks, fraud, malware and vulnerability exploitation in order to enhance cyber resilience and minimize risk exposure in real-time. The Investigative Portal provides covert access to threat intel from the deep and dark web, with context and actionable insights for remediation. Integrated into existing security systems, Darkfeed™ improves endpoint protection by preemptively blocking malicious IOCs, while CVE insights from the DVE Score™ transform vulnerability management, predicting the immediate risk of vulnerability exploitation based on threat actor intent.
Funding
In 2014, Sixgill received its initial funding of $1 million from Terra Labs. In 2016, the company raised an additional series A round of $4.3 million composed of $800,000 from Terra Labs and $3.5 million from Elron Electronic Industries.
In March 2022, Cybersixgill announced a $35 million Series B funding round raised from seven investors, bringing the company's total investment to $56 million.
Awards and recognition
2019 - Cool Vendor in Security Operations Threat Intelligence, by Gartner Inc.
References
External links
Security software
Software companies of Israel
Technology companies of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Doctorate%20in%20Translation%20Studies | The International Doctorate in Translation Studies (ID-TS) is a worldwide network of doctoral Translation Studies programs and doctoral programs that include a Translation Studies component.
History
The International Doctorate in Translation Studies was initiated by the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and organized by the TS-Doc working group and the ID-TS committee.
It was officially launched in Vienna on September 19, 2017.
Aims
The International Doctorate in Translation Studies seeks to promote doctoral programs all over the world based on the conviction that they are a major means of advancing scholarship in the discipline. Translation research is regarded as a broad field encompassing translation, interpreting, audiovisual translation, localization and adaptation.
The network's agenda appears on its Foundation Document. The document outlines the objectives of a doctoral program in Translation Studies and the activities required so that students in these programs can acquire the necessary competences. Its aims include the following: promoting the cooperation between existing doctoral programs; developing a database of online course materials such as model syllabi, presentations and video lectures; providing training for supervisors; compiling a list of translation scholars willing to supervise and co-supervise PhDs in their fields of expertise; facilitating joint doctorates, especially those involving different countries; assisting students whose research work necessitates travelling to other countries; organizing ID-TS students' conferences; tightening the collaboration with the industry and governmental and non-governmental institutions; raising external funding for the activities of the network.
Member Institutions
In 2018, there are 14 members which represent doctoral programs from 11 countries: Aston University (Britain), Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Boğaziçi University (Turkey), Charles University – Prague (Czech Republic), Jagiellonian University – Krakow (Poland), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Bologna (Forlì, Italy), University of Geneva (Switzerland), University of Leeds (Britain), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Tampere (Finland), University of Turku (Finland), University of Vienna (Austria). New members are accepted tri-annually based on submitting an application dossier which testifies to the quality of their programs.
See also
European Society for Translation Studies
Translation Studies
References
External links
Foundation Document
Application Dossier
Translation studies
Translation associations
Organizations established in 2017
Translation organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment%20Data%20Standards%20Organization | The Investment Data Standards Organization (IDSO) is a U.S.-based organization that publishes Alternative Data standards. IDSO was established to support the growth of the Alternative Data industry through the creation, development, and maintenance of industry-wide standards and best practices. IDSO is a non-profit 501(c)(6) organization made up of companies in the Alternative Data industry such as data originators, intermediaries, and institutional investment funds.
Overview
The Investment Data Standards Organization is an independent, non-governmental organization that publishes Alternative Data standards and best practices for personally identifiable information (PII), web crawling, and other security and compliance-related topics. Consisting of companies in the Alternative Data industry such as data originators, research providers, aggregators, and investment funds, the Investment Data Standards Organization (IDSO) represents the interests of Alternative Data industry participants and supports the acceptance and adoption of Alternative Data by institutional investors. The use of standards enables robust and reliable Alternative Data products and services that meet U.S. privacy and security requirements.
Membership
IDSO serves managers and compliance teams in the Alternative Data industry who are interested in regulatory guidance. Companies that participate in the Alternative Data ecosystem include:
Raw data originators, who collect or generate data,
Research providers, who produce original research and derived signals,
Aggregators, who enrich and aggregate data, and
Investment funds, who use data to add value to their investment process.
IDSO publications are developed by working groups composed of representatives from these Alternative Data organizations. IDSO members work together in teams to create and edit standards and best practices.
Membership Functions
Investment Data Standards Organization (IDSO) members access IDSO publications, interact with industry participants, and drive change to help shape the future of the Alternative Data industry.
Publications
IDSO's main products are standards, checklists, technical reports, technical specifications, and guides. The standards currently available are related to personally identifiable information (PII), web crawling, and dataset compliance for sensitive information (SI):
Personally identifiable information (PII): The PII publications develop processes and risk management strategies for identifying, maintaining, and securing personally identifiable information (PII) in data sets used for investment management.
Web crawling: The web crawling publications provide processes and procedures for data harvested or scraped from the web.
Dataset compliance for sensitive information (SI): The dataset compliance publications assign a dataset compliance-level to datasets that contain sensitive information (SI).
References
Data management
Non-profit organizations based in New |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler-Ransomware | Hitler-Ransomware, or Hitler-Ransonware, is a form of ransomware created in 2016 originating in Germany. It requests payment within one hour; otherwise, it will delete files from the infected computer.
History
Hitler-Ransomware was first developed in 2016. The ransomware activates with a lock screen with an image of Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute. The message on it states "This is the Hitler-Ransonware. Your files was encrypted! Do you decrypt your files?". It then demands payment in the form of a €25 Vodafone mobile phone gift card and gives the owner of the computer one hour to pay with a countdown timer accompanying. Failing to pay the ransom when the one hour countdown timer reaches zero results in the system crashing with a blue screen of death and when the computer reboots, all of the files in the computer's user profile folders have been deleted. Contrary to what it claims, the ransomware does not encrypt the computer files; instead, it runs a script that disassociates all file types to mislead people into thinking their files have been encrypted.
The virus was discovered by the AVG Technologies analyst Jakub Kroustek. Upon further investigation of it, he determined that it likely originated in Germany as a prototype given that the batch file associated with it had the words "Das ist ein Test" (German: This is a Test) in it. It is noted that while the Hitler ransomware's demand for payment in gift cards instead of Bitcoin was uncommon, it was not unique to this ransomware. Spelling mistakes made in the demands have led technology journalists to joke that it could upset Grammar Nazis.
An updated version of Hitler-Ransomware disguised as "CainXPii" called "Hitler 2" was later released. This version was similar to the original except that it corrected the spelling of "ransomware" and removed the countdown timer. In January 2017, an updated version known as "The FINAL version" of Hitler-Ransomware was released.
References
Ransomware
Windows trojans
Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaritzCX | MaritzCX LCC was a customer experience (CX) and market research company providing consumer data analysis in real time. In February 2020, it was announced that MaritzCX would be acquired by InMoment, another Utah-based customer feedback management company. MaritzCX provided platforms for strategy and design consulting, mystery shopping, data analysis models, comprehensive program management, and data collection and validation services. MaritzCX served the automotive, business-to-business (B2B), consumer technology, financial, government, retail, travel, and hospitality industries.
Overview
MaritzCX was headquartered in Lehi, Utah, and was a subsidiary of the international sales and marketing services company, Maritz Holdings LLC. In addition to its main campus in Utah, the company had offices throughout the United States and Canada as well as England, Germany, and Australia.
History
MaritzCX was formed in January 2015, after Maritz Holdings bought Allegiance, Inc., in November 2014. After working together for several years, the two companies paired Allegiance's innovative CX software and Maritz's research and strategic consulting industries. Emerging as MaritzCX, the firm had over 900 employees and earned nearly $200 million in revenue during its first year. In June 2017, MaritzCX partnered with a fintech and consultant company Protiviti Inc.
In February 2020, MaritzCX merged with InMoment, retaining the InMoment brand. The deal was backed by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners which already had a stake in InMoment since May 2019.
In 2021, InMoment acquires Lexalytics, a language processing and analytics firm.
References
External links
Market research companies of the United States
American companies established in 2015
Privately held companies based in Missouri
Business services companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotnick | Slotnick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barry Slotnick (born 1939), American attorney
Daniel Slotnick (1931–1985), American mathematician and computer architect
Joey Slotnick (born 1968), American actor
Stuart Slotnick (born 1969), American attorney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin%20Lowe%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gavin Lowe is a British academic. He is a professor of computer science and tutorial fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, a professor at the University of Oxford, and President of the Senior Common Room of St Catherine's College, Oxford. His research interests include computer security, for which he developed the cryptographic protocol analysis tool Casper, and concurrency.
Education
Lowe studied mathematics as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford, then took an MSc in computation at the University of Oxford. He undertook a DPhil at St Hugh's College, Oxford, writing a thesis titled Probabilities and Priorities in Timed CSP. He published a paper detailing an attack on the Needham–Schroeder protocol, as well as a method to fix the issue, in 1995. The fixed version of the protocol described in the paper is referred to as the Needham–Shroeder–Lowe protocol.
Career
His research interests have included computer security, for which he developed the cryptographic protocol analysis tool Casper. This tool translates a security protocol description into CSP, which is then processed by the FDR refinement checker. Recently, he has moved to researching the field of concurrency.
He was Program Co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis and Issues in the Theory of Security in 2010.
Lowe is a distinguished teacher, having won teaching awards in 2008 and 2010. Along with Peter Millican, he is responsible for the development and establishment of a new joint degree in Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2012.
Personal life
Lowe enjoys caving. He was the secretary of the Oxford University Cave Club from 1988 to 1989, and tackle master in 1990.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
Fellows of St Catherine's College, Oxford
British computer scientists
Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salimicrobium%20luteum | Salimicrobium luteum is a bacterium from the genus of Salimicrobium.
References
External links
Type strain of Salimicrobium luteum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacillaceae
Bacteria described in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Stepdaughters%20episodes | The Stepdaughters is a Philippine television drama series starring Megan Young and Katrina Halili. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Afternoon Prime block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from February 12 to October 19, 2018, replacing Impostora.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 35th-week run, and with a total of 178 episodes. It was replaced by Asawa Ko, Karibal Ko.
Series overview
Episodes
February 2018
March 2018
April 2018
May 2018
June 2018
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20flying%20platform | Networked flying platforms (NFPs) are unmanned flying platforms of various types including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, tethered balloon and high-altitude/medium-altitude/low-altitude platforms
(HAPs/MAPs/LAPs) carrying RF/mmWave/FSO payload (transceivers) along with an extended battery life capabilities, and are floating or moving in the air at a quasi-stationary positions with the ability to move horizontally and vertically to offer 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) cellular networks and network support services.
Deployment configurations
There are following two possible NFPs deployment configurations:
Deployment configuration 1: NFPs are expected to complement the conventional cellular networks to further enhance the wireless capacity, expand the coverage and improve the network reliability for temporary events, where there is a high density of mobile users or small cells in a limited/hard to reach area or in a remote region where infrastructure is not available and expensive to deploy, e.g., sports events and concert gatherings
Deployment configuration 2: NFPs can be deployed for unexpected scenarios, such as in emergency situations to support disaster relief activities and to enable communications when conventional cellular networks are either damaged or congested. In addition, owing to their mobility, NFPs are expected to deploy quickly and efficiently to support cellular networks, enhance network quality of service (QoS) and improve network resilience under emergency scenarios
NFPs can be manually (non-autonomously) controlled but mainly designed for autonomous pre-determined flights. NFPs can either operate in a single NFP mode where NFPs do not cooperate with other NFPs in the network, if exists or a swarm of NFPs where multiple interconnected NFPs cooperate, collaborate and perform the network mission autonomously with one of the NFPs designated as mother-NFP
References
External links
BT Drone flights to connect Isle of Lewis with mainland
Qualcomm Technologies releases LTE drone trial results
Intel testing drones over AT&T LTE Networks, Verizon starts 5G Trials with Samsung
Project Skybender: Google's secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed
Wireless networking
Telecommunications
Radio technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-Oids | Apple-Oids (also written as Apple-oids) is a clone of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids arcade video game. It was written by Tom Luhrs for the Apple II and published by California Pacific Computer Company in 1980. The asteroids in Apple-oids are in the shape of apples.
Gameplay
The ship is rotated with the paddle knob and propelled forward with the paddle button. Firing is done via the keyboard, with the asterisk key. Pressing any other key warps the ship to a random location—a.k.a. hyperspace.
Reception
Forrest Johnson reviewed Apple-Oids in The Space Gamer No. 42. Johnson commented that "I have never figured out why anyone would send a perfectly good ship to shoot at asteroids, but if that's your scene, you will enjoy this game".
In a Creative Computing review alongside The Asteroid Field and Asteron, the authors concluded: "For those who like Asteroids, any of these three games is a good choice".
References
External links
Softalk review
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Peelings II
1980 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
California Pacific Computer Company games
Multidirectional shooters
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellic%20Quest | Pellic Quest was a computer-moderated science fiction play-by-mail (PBM) game appearing as early as 1978. Conflict Interaction Associates published it as a spinoff of Flying Buffalo's game Starweb. In the game, 10–15 players competed to dominate a universe strewn with artifacts left by a super-race, the Pellics. Players role-played one of six character types with options to develop their position, expand through conquest, conduct diplomacy, and other actions. The game received generally positive reviews in gaming magazines in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The publisher appeared to close the game by 1988.
Development
Conflict Interaction Associates published the game as a "licensed 'spinoff'" of Starweb. The games shared many similarities, with Pellic Quest having more tactical detail. It was reviewed as early as 1978 in an issue of Dragon magazine. The game was moderated by computer. The cost in 1978 was $6 for the rulebook, and $1.50 per turn. By 1981 turn fees had increased to $2.25. In a 1988 issue of Flagship, the editors indicated that the game was likely not running anymore.
Gameplay
Pellic Quest was a PBM game for 10–15 players in which each player commands an alien race, able to jump between over 200 worlds. The science fiction setting presented a universe where a departed "super-race called the Pellics" left various artifacts. Players attempted to dominate the galaxy. Ground combat was also a game element.
Players started by choosing to be one of six role types. Each had different abilities, and each earned victory points in a different way. The Emperor used people and material to earn victory points while the Crusader conquered and subjugated planets. The Brigand was a pirate who raided planets and built space fleets. The were robots who earned points by destroying planet life and building more . Traders used the production potential of each world. And the were insectoid warriors that bred at a high rate and tried to destroy everything in their path.
Each player started on a different home world with a given industrial capacity, production capability, number of soldiers and a stockpile of material (the game's currency). Each turn, players mailed in an order sheet with computer codes for various orders. These orders related to: (1) creating star fleets, industries and soldiers, (2) movement, (3) combat, (4) reconnaissance, (5) developing alliances, and (6) diplomacy. Three types of star fleets were available: scout, battle, and all-purpose.
The player who amassed a certain number of victory points first was the winner.
Reception
In the September 1978 edition of Dragon (Issue 18), Dave Minch liked the fact that the game was computer moderated, which he had not experienced before. "With this there can be no bad die rolls, no faulty judge interpretation, and no over-balanced character overrunning the game. You play against known character types and can react accordingly so that you don’t make mistakes because of total ignorance. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Newquist%20II | Harvey P. Newquist is an American athlete and computer manufacturing executive. Newquist was the first manufacturing vice president of minicomputer manufacturer Data General.
Early life and education
Harvey Paul Newquist was born July 29, 1932, in Racine, WI, the fourth of five sons of Harvey Newquist and Mabel Hartmann. He attended Marmion Military Academy and graduated from DeKalb High School in DeKalb, IL in 1950. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1954. A track athlete, he won three ND monograms and established six school records in hurdles, of which three still remain. He was an NCAA Championship finalist and qualified for the hurdle events in the 1952 and 1956 U.S. Olympic Team tryouts. He was mentioned in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.
Career
Newquist's industrial management career included General Electric in Utica, NY where he led aerospace programs and the development of the existing U.S. Navy E3A aircraft. At the 3C-Honeywell firm in Framingham, MA, he produced minicomputers and simulators for the NASA Apollo Program. From 1968 to 1973, he led the manufacturing and field service operations at Data General Corporation. His work on minicomputers is featured in the Oral History collection of the Computer History Museum.
Awards and honors
Newquist led the team responsible for the 1987 Papal Visit to Phoenix, AZ, and was awarded the papal medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by John Paul II for his service to the Church.
Personal life
Newquist married Patricia Starr on October 12, 1957, with whom he had eight children. They include writer HP Newquist and musician Jimmy Newquist.
References
Engineers from Arizona
American business executives
American Roman Catholics
University of Notre Dame alumni
Living people
1932 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiscalNote | FiscalNote Holdings, Inc., or commonly FiscalNote, is a publicly traded software, data, and media company headquartered in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Timothy Hwang, Gerald Yao, and Jonathan Chen in 2013. FiscalNote provides software tools, platforms, data services, and news through the FiscalNote Government Relationship Management (GRM) service, its core product. The company also uses an artificial intelligence platform to analyze proposed US legislation based on key phrases, comparison to similar bills, lists of strengths and weaknesses, a timeline of the committees it has passed, information about the bill's sponsors, and past legislator voting records.
In July 2018, FiscalNote acquired CQ Roll Call, a publishing company that produces several publications, including Roll Call and CQ (formerly Congressional Quarterly), that cover legislative processes, policies, and elections in the United States Congress.
In July 2022, FiscalNote launched FiscalNote ESG Solutions, a suite of services designed to assist organizations in meeting environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) targets.
History
FiscalNote was founded in 2013 in Sunnyvale, California, by Timothy Hwang, Gerald Yao, and Jonathan Chen, all former schoolmates at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland. Hwang, who had just finished his junior year at Princeton, brought Chen and Yao together to Silicon Valley to pitch the company to investors. The company was founded in a Motel 6, where early employees Dan Maglasang and Dev Shah worked to build the product.
In May 2017, FiscalNote announced its initial expansion outside the U.S., providing data sets for Australia and New Zealand.
In June 2017, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a major job training program in partnership with FiscalNote. The program was announced alongside a $750,000 economic development package, introduced as an incentive for the company to stay in DC. FiscalNote moved its headquarters to 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue that year.
In July 2017, FiscalNote announced the availability of data sets for Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, and the United Kingdom.
In 2018 FiscalNote acquired CQ Roll Call, which helped bring stable financial flow with a consistent subscriber base and a competent data set. By adding CQ Roll Call, FiscalNote gained an entryway into the media world and an opportunity to cover what certain bills may mean to subscribers instead of having to interpret the raw data.
In July 2022, FiscalNote unveiled FiscalNote ESG Solutions, a suite of services designed to assist client organizations in meeting environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals. Alongside from the suite's main offering – an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to streamline data collection and management – tools offered include ESG-related news, research, and analysis briefings, expert advisory services, and access to peer discussion communities.
Funding and acquis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurements%20of%20Earth%20Data%20for%20Environmental%20Analysis | The Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis (MEDEA) was a post-Cold-War project of the intelligence community of the United States to leverage US global surveillance records and capabilities for the scientific study of climate change.
In 1992, at the behest of the Council on Foreign Relations and then-Senator Al Gore and with the direction of Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, the Environmental Task Force (ETF) was formed, which in 1993 became MEDEA. More than 860,000 historical satellite photographs were analyzed by a group of dozens of scientists and new satellite photographs were captured and declassified.
The program was shut down early in the George W. Bush administration, re-started in 2010 under the Obama administration, and concluded in 2015.
References
External links
UNCLASSIFIED, MEDEA Program Overview, nopp.org
Central Intelligence Agency operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Silverman | Ruth Silverman (born 1936 or 1937, died April 25, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.
Education and career
Silverman completed a Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of Washington.
She was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology,
an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State College, a computer science instructor at the University of the District of Columbia, and a researcher in the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Contributions
Silverman's dissertation, Decomposition of plane convex sets, concerned the characterization of compact convex sets in the Euclidean plane that cannot be formed as Minkowski sums of simpler sets.
She became known for her research in computational geometry and particular for highly cited publications on k-means clustering and nearest neighbor search. Other topics in Silverman's research include robust statistics and small sets of points that meet every line in finite projective planes.
Selected publications
References
External links
2011 deaths
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women computer scientists
American women mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
University of Washington alumni
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Southern Connecticut State University faculty
University of the District of Columbia faculty
Year of birth uncertain
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Y.%20Wu | Angela Yuen Wu is an American computer scientist, a professor emerita at American University. She is known for her research in computer vision and computational geometry, and especially for her highly cited publications on k-means clustering and nearest neighbor search.
Other topics in her research include embeddings of tree-structured parallel systems into the hypercube internetwork topology and voxel-based object representations.
Education
Wu did her undergraduate studies at Villanova University, majoring in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Cornell University. She completed her studies with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978. Her dissertation, Cellular Graph Automata, was supervised by Azriel Rosenfeld.
Professional service
Wu was the founder of the annual Vision Geometry Conference, and for many years served as the chair of the conference. She became president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon for the 2002–2003 term, and again for 2008–2009.
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Villanova University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inday%20Will%20Always%20Love%20You | Inday Will Always Love You (International title: Happy Together) is a 2018 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Puno Parungao and Rember Gelera, it stars Barbie Forteza in the title role. It premiered on May 21, 2018 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing The One That Got Away. The series concluded on October 5, 2018 with a total of 100 episodes. It was replaced by Pamilya Roces in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Happylou moves to Cebu in order to help her family who lives beside a train track. She also starts searching for her father that she has never met. She will eventually meet the people that will give answers to her lifelong questions.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Happylou "Inday" M. Fuentes-Melendez
Supporting cast
Derrick Monasterio as Patrick Melendez
Juancho Trivino as Ernest Pascual
Ricky Davao as Philip Fuentes
Gladys Reyes as Amanda Melendez
Manilyn Reynes as Marta Magtibay-Fuentes
Nova Villa as Loleng Magtibay
Tina Paner as Madonna
Kim Rodriguez as Ericka Ferraren
Super Tekla as Kimberlou / Dominador
Sherliz Simon as Happyliz "Lizliz" Magtibay
Buboy Villar as Paeng
Kimpoy Feliciano as Frank Santiago / Rocky
Charice Hermoso as Kisses
Charlotte Hermoso as Tricia
Vangie Labalan as Tessa
Guest cast
Ex Battalion as themselves
Archie Alemania as Archie
Archie Adamos as a demolition leader
Sue Prado as Keri
Carmelo Gutierrez as Chosa
Antonette Garcia as Chubbyleta
Sanya Lopez as Lea
Solenn Heussaff as Joanna
Christopher Roxas as Byron
Arny Ross as Gina
Nina Ricci Alagao as Christina Lazo
Wendell Ramos as Perry Fuentes
Lharby Policarpio as David
Tonio Quiazon as General
Ayra Mariano as Sunshine Fuentes
Giselle Sanchez as Lorna
Beverly Salviejo as Dixy
Kim Domingo as Chuchay
Andrea del Rosario as Amelia
Bryan Benedict as Lando
Jet Alcantara as Isko
Omar Flores as Ton
Kristoffer King as Boyet
Alma Concepcion as Marcy Ferraren
Alexander Lee as a tourist
Dasuri Choi as a tourist
Katrina Halili as herself
Betong Sumaya as Britney
Lovi Poe as Lovejoy
Epi Quizon as Volta
Divine Aucina as a wet market vendor
Jade Lopez as a wet market vendor
Boobay as Norman
Therese Malvar as young Amanda
Maey Bautista as the host of 'Search for Carcarian Queen'
Franchesca Salcedo as Jing
Thea Tolentino as Ruby
Tony Mabesa as San Pedro
Jean Garcia as Florence
Kyline Alcantara as Leslie Anne
Jason Abalos as Russell
Victor Neri as Budots
Lotlot de Leon as D
Keempee de Leon as Joaquin
Angelu de Leon as Ricka
Pen Medina as Afredo
Ruru Madrid as Pabs
Willie Revillame as himself
Sunshine Dizon as Martina Lazo
Nonong de Andres as Teggy
Accolades
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television People audience shares, the pilot episode of Inday Will Always Love You earned a 42% rating. The series got its highest rating on May 25, 2018 with a 51.5% rating. Whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Forever%20Ko%27y%20Ikaw | Forever (International title: Close to You / ) is a 2018 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Tata Betita, it stars Camille Prats and Neil Ryan Sese. It premiered on March 12, 2018 on the network's afternoon line up. The series concluded on May 4, 2018 with a total of 38 episodes. It was replaced by My Guitar Princess in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story revolves around Ginny and Lance, single parents who are still both attached to their past while hoping for a new chance at love. Their lives will start to intertwine with each other.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Camille Prats as Maria Virginia "Ginny Dyosabel" Peche-Capurian/Dimaigue
Neil Ryan Sese as Lance "Driveucrazy / Nuno Sa Puso" Dimaigue
Supporting cast
Ayra Mariano as Marione Capurian
Bruno Gabriel as Benjamin "Benjie" Dimaigue
Cai Cortez as Marissa "Issa / Queenie" Mercado-Lastimosa
Archie Alemania as Marco "Maoy" Lastimosa
Odette Khan as Taneneng Capurian
Rubi Rubi as Eew
Rener Concepcion as Yak
Adrian Pascual as Dax
Joshua Jacobe as Jigs
Kelvin Miranda as Raki
Jude Paolo Diangson as Gino
Guest cast
Aubrey Miles as Maya Reyes
Arthur Solinap as Mario Capurian
Bryan Benedict as Geraldo Roque
Kyle Vergara as Mac / Nerdy
Aira Bermudez as Honey Darling
Princess Guevarra as Cheska
Mel Kimura as Madam Seer
Arianne Bautista as Margaret
Ash Ortega as Liezel
Marika Sasaki as Diane
Mega Unciano as Gerry
Carlos Agassi as Andrew
Episodes
March 2018
April 2018
May 2018
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Forever earned a 4.3% rating.
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Net | S-Net is a worldwide inter-satellite communications network consisting of four satellites and being operated by the Technical University of Berlin.
Description
The project has the goal to investigate and demonstrate inter-satellite communication technology within a distributed and autonomously operating nanosatellite network. All satellites are equipped with a S-Band radio emitter and receiver, which not only enables communication with the ground-based control center but also allows for communication between the individual satellites. The number of satellites in the network was set to four as this number represents the best cost-benefit-ratio. With four satellites, a total of six independent communication links are possible, while only three are possible with three satellites. Moreover, four is the lowest number that enables multi-hop communication.
The satellites are powered by solar cells and batteries and have a planned lifetime of one year.
Future applications of the technology may be more effective monitoring of global issues like climate change, disaster management, maritime systems monitoring and even enable satellite constellations for high-bandwidth internet access.
Launch
The four satellites were successfully launched on a Soyuz-2.1A rocket from Vostochny Site 1S in Russia on 1 February 2018. The launch was originally scheduled for 22 December 2017, however due to the failure of a Soyuz-2.1B rocket, Roscosmos decided to delay the mission. The spacecraft were released into orbit at an altitude of approximately 580 kilometers at an interval of 10 seconds. The launch represents the tenth mission of the TU Berlin, sending a total of 16 satellites to space.
See also
2018 in spaceflight
Iridium satellite constellation
References
External links
TU-Berlin Website
Spacecraft launched in 2018
2018 in Germany
Technical University of Berlin
Satellites of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cities%20Culture%20Forum | The World Cities Culture Forum is a network of local governments and cultural sector leaders from 39 world cities.
History
The World Cities Culture Forum was established in London in 2012 with eight cities (London, New York City, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Istanbul, Sydney and Johannesburg) convened by the Mayor of London.
Member Cities
The World Cities Culture Forum has 39 participating member cities across six geographic regions.
Africa:
- Lagos
- Dakar
- Cape Town
East Asia:
- Chengdu
- Nanjing
- Shanghai
- Shenzhen
- Hong Kong
- Tokyo
- Seoul
- Taipei
South Asia:
-Mumbai
Europe:
- Vienna
- Brussels
- Helsinki
- Paris
- Dublin
- Rome
- Milan
- Amsterdam
- Oslo
- Warsaw
- Lisbon
- Moscow
- Stockholm
- Zurich
- Istanbul
- London
- Edinburgh
Latin America:
- Buenos Aires
- Bogotá
North America:
- Montreal
- Toronto
- Austin
- Los Angeles
- New York City
- San Francisco
Southeast Asia & Oceania:
- Melbourne
- Sydney
- Singapore
Governance
The World Cities Culture Forum is convened by Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries, Greater London Authority, at the request of the Mayor of London.
The activities of the World Cities Culture Forum are organised and delivered by BOP Consulting, a specialist consulting firm, on behalf of the Greater London Authority and the members of the Forum.
In 2016, the World Cities Culture Forum set up two advisory committees in order to involve members in co-designing its programme and research. There is an Event Advisory Committee and a Research Advisory Committee with five different cities represented on each committee.
World Cities Culture Summit
Each year, members of the World Cities Culture Forum meet at the three-day World Cities Culture Summit. The Summit is an opportunity for members to share best practice.
The event is by invitation only. Two delegates from each member city – deputy mayors, senior policymakers or advisors in culture – are invited to attend.
Previous Summits have taken place in San Francisco, Seoul, Moscow, London, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Buenos Aires.
The 2019 World Cities Culture Summit will take place in Lisbon.
Research and publications
Underpinning the World Cities Culture Forum’s work is an extensive programme of research and publications.
The World Cities Culture Report is the network’s flagship publication. It is a compendium of data and innovative policies in cities, providing an analysis of comparative data and identifying emerging issues. It is published on a triennial basis. The first version of this report was launched in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics. The latest edition of the World Cities Culture Report was published in November 2018.
The World Cities Culture Forum Policy & Practice Series highlight members’ best practice initiatives on specific topics. The most recent publications of this series are the ‘Making Space for Culture Han |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AudioOS | audioOS (publicly called HomePod Software) is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for its smart speakers, the HomePod and HomePod Mini. It was launched alongside the release of the original HomePod, released on February 9, 2018.
History
After the release of the HomePod's first update, iOS 11.3, users complained online that the update had worsened their HomePod's bass and decreased its loudness, which was not alluded to in Apple's official release notes. Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle agreed with these observations, though Apple denied that the update contained any updates to the HomePod's equalization settings.
The iOS 13.2 update had a bug which would brick HomePods if a system reset was attempted; Apple withdrew the update.
audioOS 14.1 added the Intercom feature.
In 2021, an Apple job listing referenced a non-existent "homeOS" operating system, echoing previous Bloomberg leaks about possible future Apple products for the living room that would merge the Apple TV and HomePod.
Features
audioOS's main user-facing features are AirPlay 2 and Siri.
Development
Though it was initially a fork of iOS, since version 13.4, it is a fork of tvOS. Software updates are installed automatically over-the-air, but can also be installed manually through the Home app.
While Apple publicly calls this OS "HomePod Software", the build manifest in .ipsw update files for the HomePod shows its name as "audioOS".
Version history
==See also==
HomePod
HomePod Mini
Fuchsia (operating system), Google's equivalent for their Google Home lineup of smart speakers
References
External links
Apple's official release notes for HomePod updates
IOS
Apple Inc. operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
Streaming media systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Verbaeten | Petrus Verbaeten, born April 23rd, usually called Pierre, is a Belgian professor emeritus in the Computer Science Department at the KU Leuven, and has more than 226 publications to its name. He managed the internet domain field .be from 1989 to 2000.
Biography
Verbaeten studied electronics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and graduated in 1969. The direction computer science was founded in 1971. His first contact with computer science was during his military service. He then followed Applied Mathematics, in which a few computer science fields occurred.
Functions
Former chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Chairman of the Board of Directors EURid of 2004
Member in the DistriNet research group at KU Leuven
Administrator of the top-level domain .be between 1989 and 2000
Member DNS.be of 2000
Professor at KU Leuven since 1982
References
External links
Pierre Verbaeten on be.linkedin.com
Interview Beyond the beginning of .be
Belgian computer scientists
Academic staff of KU Leuven
KU Leuven alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20Law%20%26%20Development%20in%20Africa | Women in Law & Development in Africa (WiLDAF) is a Pan-African women's rights organization and network which is non-profit and non-government (NGO) and contains 500 organizations, 1200 individuals and spreads over 27 countries. Even though WiLDAF functions as a multi-regional/transnational organization, it pays close attention to the economical, social and historical differences between states and countries.
This organization grew out of the "women's rights as human rights" movement, as a more assertive claim to rights for women than the previous rhetoric of "needs".
WiLDAF centers around the principle that equality and empowerment are essential to a healthy society, and they focus their efforts on development and the law in relation to women to advocate for and educate people. They believe that empowering women through education, workshops, communication and outreach around development and law is extremely valuable. In addition, they work at national and regional levels to spur institutional planning, development and building international connections for added support. The organization also provides aid in the case of a violation of women's rights by providing Emergency Response Systems and facilitating centers for women who have been abused psychologically, physically or morally (and in such cases can shelter the woman and help her to take legal action)
History
Women in Law & Development in Africa was established in February 1990 during a regional conference in Harare, Zimbabwe (with the theme of "Women, right and development: network for empowerment in Africa") as a result of 6 women coming together with the idea for a pan-African organization after attending the World Women's Conference held in Nairobi, 1985. This forum was also instrumental in the creation of WiLDAF because issues around women's rights became the topic of debate for the many African women participating in the forum.
The World Women's Conference was where the ideas around "women's rights as human rights" became a topic of debate.
Another notable point in the origin of WiLDAF was where humanitarian organizations lobbied for the formal recognition of woman's rights during the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna 1993.
An additional conference that furthered the "women's rights as human rights" movement was the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, where this movement was further defined. As well as providing a topic of debate around women's rights as human rights, the conference also spurred debate about empowerment through law.
The three aforementioned meetings were sponsored by the "Women in Law and Development" project by a US donor agency called OEF International.
OEF International facilitated the growth of regional networks of organizations to combine their efforts and work at local levels to spread education and information around women's rights issues. In addition to WiLDAF, OEF International supported the formati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Muay%20Thai%3A%209%20Satra | The Legend of Muay Thai: 9 Satra (; ; ) is a Thai 3D computer animated action-fantasy film released in 2018. It was released on Netflix (Thailand) on December 25, 2019.
The film was named "Film of the Year" at the 2019 Nine Entertain Awards on June 25, 2019.
Synopsis
A yaksha prince, Dehayaksa, has taken reign of the people of Ramthep Nakorn. However, when there is a prophecy that he is to be defeated by a warrior with a knowledge of Muay Thai and a weapon known as the 'Satravuth', he sets out to destroy all schools of Muay Thai and seeks to destroy the Satravuth, while imprisoning the royals of Ramthep Nakorn to prevent the prophecy from coming true.
A young boy named Ott and his stepfather are able to escape to the remote Nok-Aen Islands, where Ott trains in Muay Thai with the hopes of bringing the Satravuth back to Ramthep Nakorn and freeing its people. On his journey, he befriends a monkey prince named Vata, a red yaksha named Maratta, and a Chinese pirate named Xiaolan.
Characters
Ott, a young man trained in Muay Thai and a citizen of Ramthep Nakorn. He lives with his stepfather on the Nok-Aen Islands, training in Muay Thai with his mute teacher and practicing meditation with the local monk. He is tasked with bringing the Satravuth back to Ramthep Nakorn in order to free the city's people.
Xiaolan, a female Chinese pirate and the captain of a flying ship. She is headed for Ramthep Nakorn in order to rescue her brother, who is among those imprisoned.
Vata, a monkey prince whose kingdom has been invaded by yaksha armies. As a result, he is forced to flee and survives by picking pockets. He befriends the red yaksha Maratta.
Maratta, a red yaksha who has been labeled as a traitor among his kind due to his romance with a human woman. As a result, he has been exiled. Maratta later befriends Vata.
Dehayaksa, the oppressive yaksa ruler who has taken control of Ramthep Nakorn. When he is made aware of a prophecy that he will meet his demise at the hands of a warrior with a knowledge of Muay Thai and the Satravuth, he destroys all Muay Thai schools and searches for the weapon in order to destroy it as well. As a result of his actions, Muay Thai becomes a lost art form.
Voice cast
Kanokchat Munyad-on as Ott
Savitree Suttichanond as Xiaolan
Sirichai Charoenkijtanakul as Maratta
Rachphol Yamsaeng as Vata
Vorarit Fuangaromya as Dehayaksa
Release
The Legend of Muay Thai: 9 Satra received its theatrical release in Thailand on January 11, 2018. It was released in China on June 29, 2018. The film was then given a worldwide release on July 20, 2018.
The film was later released on Netflix on December 25, 2019.
Awards
2019 Thailand National Film Association Awards
Best Original Score (Ryan Shore)
Best Sound Mixing (Richard Hocks)
2019 Nine Entertainment Awards
Film of the Year
References
External links
2018 films
Muay Thai films
Muay Thai animation
Thai Muay Thai films
Thai animated films
Films scored by Ryan Shore
2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPIN | NPIN may refer to:
CDC National Prevention Information Network, a source of information and materials for communicable diseases
Native Plant Information Network, database of plants kept at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Open%20Access%20Network | Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) is an open-access network in the United States Pacific Northwest region. NoaNet is a public-benefit wholesale telecommunications organization that supplies solutions and resources for all aspects of broadband and telecom projects to serve Washington State including wholesale wide-area and last-mile bandwidth on optic fiber and other means from pooled public utility district (PUD) assets, as well as over 30 colocation centers. It was formed 1999 and began operating in 2000 on Bonneville Power Administration-owned fiber. By 2015, it had over of fiber.
Membership consists of the following Washington State PUDs: Benton County Public Utility District, Energy Northwest, Kitsap County PUD, Pend Oreille County PUD, Franklin County PUD, Mason County PUD, Clallam County PUD, Okanogan County PUD, Jefferson County PUD and Pacific County PUD. Grant, Chelan and Douglas PUDs have left the organization.
NoaNet Oregon began operating in 2004, also on Bonneville Power Administration fiber.
By 2010, NoaNet had received over $100 million in Federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. By 2015 it had completed a four-year $180 million National Telecommunications and Information Administration Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant. Though NoaNet has made use of federal grant programs, NoaNet does not collect any tax dollars or subsidies from rate payers in Washington State. All revenues from selling wholesale services on the open market are put back into the network to bring network and services into rural areas of the state.
NoaNet connects to the Internet at Seattle Internet Exchange and Northwest Access Exchange in Portland.
References
External links
Tackling the Digital Divide in the Pacific Northwest National Telecommunications and Information Administration blog (March 25, 2016)
1999 establishments in Washington (state)
Computer-related introductions in 1999
Wide area networks
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Communications in Oregon
Communications in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-WebSpyder | DR-WebSpyder is a DOS web browser, mail client and operating system runtime environment that was developed by Caldera UK in 1997. It was based on the DR-DOS operating system and networking components from Novell as well as the Arachne web browser by Michal Polák of xChaos software. The system was designed to run on low-end desktop systems, but being able to boot and execute from disk as well as from ROM or network, it was also tailored for x86-based thin clients and embedded systems with or without disk drives. Using the web browser as its principal user interface, it could be also used for kiosk systems and set-top boxes. It was ported to Linux in 1999 under the name Embrowser and was renamed Embedix Browser in 2000.
NIOS and IOS
DR-WebSpyder was originally conceived as project NIOS (Novell Internet Operating System) at Novell's European Development Centre (EDC), UK in 1994 by then DR-DOS engineer Roger Alan Gross, who was working on Novell's Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) initiative to create embedded system applications that connect intelligent devices to NetWare networks. NIOS was conceived as a thin client operating system that provided Novell with a graphical client operating system to run web applications hosted on NetWare, creating a Novell-centric platform for software as a service (SaaS) that did not require Microsoft's Windows operating system. NIOS comprised 32-bit versions of Novell's existing 16-bit DOS technologies including the DR-DOS operating system, Novell's modem dialer and TCP/IP stack from LAN Workplace for DOS / NetWare Mobile plus licensed third-party components such as the Kaffe Java virtual machine (JVM), Allegro for graphics, and Mosaic for the web browser.
WebSpyder, WebSpyder 32 and DR-WebSpyder
Gross's plans were interrupted when Caldera, Inc. acquired the remaining Digital Research assets including DR-DOS from Novell on 23 July 1996, but without the personnel. Gross telephoned Caldera's Ransom H. Love the same day offering to set up a new DR-DOS team outside of Novell. Gross subsequently joined Caldera as general manager of the Digital Research Systems Group (DSG) in December that year and set about rehiring the DRDOS/NIOS team in the UK to develop the new operating system and web browser. Under Caldera, NIOS was renamed IOS (Internet Operating System). The plan to use Mosaic was also dropped and instead Caldera licensed the source code of the 16-bit DOS web browser Arachne. The team replaced Arachne's dialer and packet drivers with Novell's dialer, ODI driver suite (from Personal NetWare etc.) and TCP/IP stack, added support for animated and scaled GIFs, an optional on-screen keyboard for mouse and touch panel usage (SoftKeyboards) for possible keyboardless operation, and an install program. Also, they completely changed the design of the browser (customizable chrome), implemented support for NetScape-compatible frames, and used Allegro for graphics. The browser also supported "execute links" to run and inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiRAC | Distributed Research using Advanced Computing (DiRAC) is an integrated supercomputing facility used for research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology in the United Kingdom. DiRAC makes use of multi-core processors and provides a variety of computer architectures for use by the research community.
Development
Initially DiRAC was funded with an investment of £12 million from the Government of the United Kingdom's Large Facilities Capital Fund combined with funds from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and a consortium of universities in the UK. In 2012, the DiRAC facility was upgraded with a further £15 million of UK government capital to create DiRAC II which had five installations.
DiRAC-3 was launched in 2021, with three services offered at four sites:
Data intensive service, jointly hosted by the universities of Cambridge (part share in the 'Cumulus' HPC platform) and Leicester (Data Intensive 3 and Data Intensive 2.5x supercomputers)
Memory intensive service, hosted by Durham University at the Institute for Computational Cosmology (Memory Intensive 3 (COSMA8) and Memory Intensive 2.5 (COSMA7) supercomputers
Extreme scaling service, hosted by the University of Edinburgh (Extreme Scaling 'Tursa' supercomputer)
Paul Dirac
DiRAC is a backronym which honours the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Paul Dirac.
References
College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-situ%20processing | In-situ processing also known as in-storage processing (ISP) is a computer science term that refers to processing data where it resides. In-situ means "situated in the original, natural, or existing place or position." An in-situ process processes data where it is stored, such as in solid-state drives (SSDs) or memory devices like NVDIMM, rather than sending the data to a computer's central processing unit (CPU).
The technology utilizes embedded processing engines inside the storage devices to make them capable of running user applications in-place, so data does not need to leave the device to be processed. The technology is not new, but modern SSD architecture, as well as the availability of powerful embedded processors, make it more appealing to run user applications in-place. SSDs deliver higher data throughput in comparison to hard disk drives (HDDs). Additionally, in contrast to the HDDs, the SSDs can handle multiple I/O commands at the same time.
The SSDs contain a considerable amount of processing horsepower for managing flash memory array and providing a high-speed interface to host machines. These processing capabilities can provide an environment to run user applications in-place. The computational storage device (CSD) term refers to an SSD which is capable of running user applications in-place. In an efficient CSD architecture, the embedded in-storage processing subsystem has access to the data stored in flash memory array through a low-power and high-speed link. The deployment of such CSDs in clusters can increase the overall performance and efficiency of big data and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
Reducing data transfer bottlenecks
Webscale data center designers have been trying to develop storage architectures that favor high-capacity hosts. In the following figure (from ), such a storage system is shown where 64 SSDs are attached to a host. For the sake of simplicity, only the details of one SSD are demonstrated. Modern SSDs usually contain 16 or more flash memory channels which can be utilized concurrently for flash memory array I/O operations. Considering 512 MB/s bandwidth per channel, the internal bandwidth of an SSD with 16 flash memory channels is about 8 GB/s. This huge bandwidth decreases to about 1 GB/s due to the complexity of the host interface software and hardware architecture. In other words, the accumulated bandwidth of all internal channels of the 64 SSDs reaches the multiplication of the number of SSDs, the number of channels per SSD, and 512 MB/s (bandwidth of each channel) which is equal to 512 GB/s. While the accumulated bandwidth of the SSDs’ external interfaces is equal to 64 multiply by 1 GB/s (the host interface bandwidth of each SSD) which is 64 GB/s. However, In order to talk to the host, all SSDs required to be connected to a PCIe switch. Hence, the available bandwidth of the host is limited to 32 GB/s.
Overall, there is a 16X gap between the accumulated internal bandwidth of all SSDs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20ledger%20technology%20law | Distributed ledger technology law ("DLT law") (also called blockchain law, Lex Cryptographia or algorithmic legal order) is not yet defined and recognized but an emerging field of law due to the recent dissemination of distributed ledger technology application in business and governance environment. Smart contracts, which are also enforceable legal contracts and were created through interaction of lawyers and developers, are called smart legal contracts.
DLT and law issues
Issue of situs and place for dispute resolution
In the legal context DLT and smart contracts are distinct and face their own problems and challenges. Issue of situs is an example which relates to DLT rather than smart contracts. International private law and legislation of various jurisdictions require to identify the location of an asset or place of an agreement in order to solve conflict of law problem and determine the applicable governing law. "However, the distribution of the register across nodes in multiple jurisdictions raises a seemingly intractable problem – under current legal principles at least – as to where the situs should be." Holding something on DLT, including smart contract or title to an asset, does not isolate it from the legal system and laws of respective jurisdiction. "Some blockchain enthusiasts may have misinterpreted the statement 'code is law' as implying that code can supersede the law or that decentralised networks create their own legal regimes."
In case of a dispute between the parties of the smart contract within the DLT, the issue arises where the distributed ledger is located in order to determine the place for dispute resolution. "Blockchain also poses questions concerning the ability to identify the parties to a transaction, to the extent a system utilizing this technology remains anonymous, which may rise a host of additional issues related to dispute resolution."
Issue of legal validity and update of code on DLT
An absence of legal compliance mechanism on DLT, self-executing nature of code on DLT and limited ability to update the code if the law changes create a number of legal issues. There are several possible solutions of addressing these issues. "One method could be a system in which the relevant jurisdiction creates a publicly available database and application programming interface (API) of relevant legal provisions. These would be provisions related to the terms of the contract. The smart contract would call these terms and would be able to update those provisions terms in accord with the jurisdiction's update of the database."
On more conservative side of DLT and law interaction spectrum are two solutions proposed by Alexander Savelyev:
"(1) To introduce the concept of a 'Superuser' for government authorities, which will have a right to modify the content of Blockchain databases in accordance with a specified procedure in order to reflect the decisions of state authority.
(2) To enforce decisions of state authorities in ' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20interface | An audio interface is a piece of computer hardware that allows the input and output of audio signals to and from a host computer or recording device.
Audio interfaces are closely related to computer sound cards, but whereas sound cards are optimized for audio playback an audio interface is primarily intended to provide low-latency analog-to-digital and digital format conversion for professional audio applications.
Audio interfaces may include microphone preamps, as well as analog line inputs, DI inputs, and ADAT or S/PDIF digital inputs. Outputs are analog line, headphones and digital. They're typically available as external units, either as desktop devices or in a 19-inch rackmount format. Audio interfaces range from two channels in and out, to over 30.
History
Standalone audio interfaces grew from the proprietary hard disk recording market of the 1980s and 1990s, but advances in processor power and hard drive speed meant that, by the mid-1990s, standard home computers were capable of recording multi-channel audio at 16-bit, 44khz compact disc standard.
Early systems such as Digidesign's Sound Tools (1989) and Session 8 (1993) and the Ensoniq PARIS (1998) consisted of an external unit that connected to the host computer with a ISA or SCSI card, but from the late 1990s onwards it became practical to use standard computer interfaces such as FireWire, USB, and eventually Thunderbolt instead.
Versus mixers
Although there is a degree of functional overlap, audio interfaces are differentiated from audio mixers in that they are intended to pass multi-channel audio directly to a host digital audio workstation, whereas mixers generally sum their inputs into a simple two-channel stereo pair. Audio interfaces are therefore often simple rackmount boxes, without faders, although as of 2020 some digital mixers provide multi-channel audio passthrough.
Manufacturers
Apogee Electronics
Arturia
Avid, optimised for Pro Tools
Behringer
Focusrite
M-Audio
MOTU
Native Instruments
PreSonus
Roland
Solid State Logic
Steinberg
TASCAM
Universal Audio
See also
Sound card
Mixing console
Hard disk recorder
References
External links
Sound production technology
Audio engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20O.%20Korbel | Jan O. Korbel (born 1975) is a German scientist working in the fields of Human Genetics, Genomics and Computational Biology. He is a tenured principal investigator and Head of Data Science at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany, senior scientist in the Genome Biology Unit, is leading a bridging research division at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and is an honorary professor ("Honorarprofessor") at Heidelberg University. A particular focus of the Korbel group is on investigating a particular form of mutation, genomic structural variation, which includes deletions, inversions and more complex chromosomal rearrangements such as chromothripsis events that can occur in healthy individuals and in context of disease. His group's principal research objective is to understand genomic structural variations as a basis of phenotypic variation and cancer development.
After receiving his PhD in 2005 from Humboldt University of Berlin, he pursued his postdoctoral research at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA).
In addition to his research activities, Jan Korbel is promoting interdisciplinary dialogues in Bioethics, and the application of genome sequencing in Genomic Medicine. He received several academic prizes including the Chica and Heinz Schaller Research Award (2014), the Manfred-Fuchs-Prize for his bioethical research (2015), the 2018 HMLS Investigator Award, and the Pezcoller Foundation–EACR Cancer Researcher Award (2018). He is an elected member of Germany's National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2015) and of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (2016). Jan Korbel is also a European Research Council (ERC) investigator.
References
1975 births
Living people
German geneticists
German bioinformaticians
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
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