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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories%20for%20the%20Soul | Stories for the Soul is a Philippine television drama anthology show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Manny Pacquiao, it premiered on October 29, 2017 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up. The show concluded on June 30, 2019 with a total of 17 episodes.
Premise
The show features stories inspired by characters and stories from the Bible.
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Stories for the Soul earned a 2.4% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20and%20Combinatorics | Algorithms and Combinatorics () is a book series in mathematics, and particularly in combinatorics and the design and analysis of algorithms. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media, and was founded in 1987.
Books
, the books published in this series include:
The Simplex Method: A Probabilistic Analysis (Karl Heinz Borgwardt, 1987, vol. 1)
Geometric Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization (Martin Grötschel, László Lovász, and Alexander Schrijver, 1988, vol. 2; 2nd ed., 1993)
Systems Analysis by Graphs and Matroids (Kazuo Murota, 1987, vol. 3)
Greedoids (Bernhard Korte, László Lovász, and Rainer Schrader, 1991, vol. 4)
Mathematics of Ramsey Theory (Jaroslav Nešetřil and Vojtěch Rödl, eds., 1990, vol. 5)
Matroid Theory and its Applications in Electric Network Theory and in Statics (Andras Recszki, 1989, vol. 6)
Irregularities of Partitions: Papers from the meeting held in Fertőd, July 7–11, 1986 (Gábor Halász and Vera T. Sós, eds., 1989, vol. 8)
Paths, Flows, and VLSI-Layout: Papers from the meeting held at the University of Bonn, Bonn, June 20–July 1, 1988 (Bernhard Korte, László Lovász, Hans Jürgen Prömel, and Alexander Schrijver, eds., 1990, vol. 9)
New Trends in Discrete and Computational Geometry (János Pach, ed., 1993, vol. 10)
Discrete Images, Objects, and Functions in (Klaus Voss, 1993, vol. 11)
Linear Optimization and Extensions (Manfred Padberg, 1999, vol. 12)
The Mathematics of Paul Erdös I (Ronald Graham and Jaroslav Nešetřil, eds., 1997, vol. 13)
The Mathematics of Paul Erdös II (Ronald Graham and Jaroslav Nešetřil, eds., 1997, vol. 14)
Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Michel Deza and Monique Laurent, 1997, vol. 15)
Probabilistic Methods for Algorithmic Discrete Mathematics (M. Habib, C. McDiarmid, J. Ramirez-Alfonsin, and B. Reed, 1998, vol. 16)
Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness (Oded Goldreich, 1999, vol. 17)
Geometric Discrepancy: An Illustrated Guide (Jiří Matoušek, 1999, vol. 18)
Applied Finite Group Actions (Adalbert Kerber, 1999, vol. 19)
Matrices and Matroids for Systems Analysis (Kazuo Murota, 2000, vol. 20; corrected ed., 2010)
Combinatorial Optimization (Bernhard Korte and Jens Vygen, 2000, vol. 21; 5th ed., 2012)
The Strange Logic of Random Graphs (Joel Spencer, 2001, vol. 22)
Graph Colouring and the Probabilistic Method (Michael Molloy and Bruce Reed, 2002, Vol. 23)
Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency (Alexander Schrijver, 2003, vol. 24. In three volumes: A. Paths, flows, matchings; B. Matroids, trees, stable sets; C. Disjoint paths, hypergraphs)
Discrete and Computational Geometry: The Goodman-Pollack Festschrift (B. Aronov, S. Basu, J. Pach, and M. Sharir, eds., 2003, vol. 25)
Topics in Discrete Mathematics: Dedicated to Jarik Nešetril on the Occasion of his 60th birthday (M. Klazar, J. Kratochvíl, M. Loebl, J. Matoušek, R. Thomas, and P. Valtr, eds., 2006, vol. 26)
Boolean Function Complexity: Advances and Frontiers (Stasys Jukna, 2012, Vol. 27)
Sparsity: Graphs, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Matveyevich%20Bayakovsky | Yury Matveyevich Bayakovsky (; 5 November 1937 - 17 June 2014) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of Computer graphics, Candidate of Sciences.
Biography
He was born in 1928 in the Lobva.
In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering. After graduation I went to work at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the position of computer engineer "M-20".
He participated in the debugging of the machine "Spring" and preparing it for state tests.
In the late 1960s, under the guidance of Bayakovsky, the development of a graphic programs library on Fortran Grafor began.
In 1990 he was admitted to the "Computer Graphics Pioneers Club" ACM SIGGRAPH. In 1991 he first helped organize the international "Graphicon" conference - conducted jointly with the American group SIGGRAPH of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Literature
Bayakovsky Y., Pervitsky A. Fundamentals on computer graphics and multimedia // GraphiCon. — 1996.
Bayakovsky Y. Computer Graphics Education Takes Off in the 1990s // Computer Graphics. — 1996. — Т. 30, № 3.
Штаркман В.С., Баяковский Ю.М. Машинная графика. — Препринт ИПМ АН СССР. — Москва: ИПМ, 1970.
Баяковский Ю.М., Галактионов В.А. Графические протоколы // Автометрия. — 1978. — № 5. — С. 3—12.
Баяковский Ю.М., Галактионов В.А., Михайлова Т.Н. Графор. Графическое расширение фортрана. — Москва: Наука, 1985.
References
Moscow Power Engineering Institute alumni
Soviet engineers
1937 births
2014 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20War%20Machine%20%28newsletter%29 | The War Machine was a gaming magazine first published in 1981 by Mike W. Costello.
Contents
The War Machine was a newsletter published bimonthly in the UK focusing on the link between computers and wargames.
Reception
Bruce F. Webster reviewed The War Machine in The Space Gamer No. 46. Webster commented that "It carries a hobbyist flavor reminiscent of the early Space Gamer, though the paper and print quality are better."
References
Wargaming magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPNFilter | VPNFilter is malware designed to infect routers and certain network attached storage devices. As of 24 May 2018, it is estimated to have infected approximately 500,000 routers worldwide, though the number of at-risk devices is larger. It can steal data, contains a "kill switch" designed to disable the infected router on command, and is able to persist should the user reboot the router. The FBI believes that it was created by the Russian Fancy Bear group. The FBI later announced that they believe that Fancy Bear and Sandworm (also known as Voodoo Bear) are the same group. In February 2022, the CISA announced that a new malware called Cyclops Blink produced by Sandworm had replaced VPNFilter.
Operation
VPNFilter is malware infecting a number of different kinds of network routers and storage devices. It seems to be designed in part to target serial networking devices using the Modbus protocol to talk to and control industrial hardware, as in factories and warehouses. The malware has special, dedicated code to target control systems using SCADA.
The initial infection vector is still unknown. The Cisco Talos security group hypothesizes the malware exploits known router security vulnerabilities to infect devices.
This software installs itself in multiple stages:
Stage 1 involves a worm which adds code to the device's crontab (the list of tasks run at regular intervals by the cron scheduler on Linux). This allows it to remain on the device after a reboot, and to re-infect it with the subsequent stages if they are removed. Stage 1 uses known URLs to find and install Stage 2 malware. If those known URLs are disabled, Stage 1 sets up a socket listener on the device and waits to be contacted by command and control systems.
Stage 2 is the body of the malware, including the basic code that carries out all normal functions and executes any instructions requested by special, optional Stage 3 modules.
Stage 3 can be any of various "modules" that tell the malware to do specific things, like sniffing network data, gathering credentials, serving as a relay point to hide the origin of subsequent attacks, or collecting data on industrial control devices (Modbus SCADA). Any exfiltrated data can then be encrypted via the Tor network.
Mitigation
Both Cisco and Symantec suggest that people who own affected devices do a factory reset. That is typically accomplished by using a small, pointed object, such as a straightened out paperclip, to push the small reset button on the back on the unit for 10 to 30 seconds (time varies by model). This will remove the malware, but also restores the router to all original settings. If the router has remote management enabled, a factory reset will often disable this (the default setting of many routers). Remote management is thought to be one possible vector for the initial attack.
Before connecting the factory-reset router to the internet again, the device's default passwords should be changed to prevent reinfection.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Magtanggol | Victor Magtanggol (International title: Heart of Courage) is a 2018 Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is inspired by Norse mythology. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Alden Richards in the title role. It premiered on July 30, 2018, on the network's Telebabad line up, replacing The Cure. The series concluded on November 16, 2018, with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Cain at Abel in its timeslot.
The series is originally titled as Mitho. It is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Many gods, including Thor, will not survive the Ragnarök. Before Thor's death, he orders his son Magni to hide his weapon, the hammer Mjölnir, until there is someone right to inherit it. Magni goes to the world of mortals to wait for the new taker of Mjölnir. There he meets Victor Magtanggol, the one who must eventually learn to use Mjölnir to protect the world and his loved ones from Móði, Thor's son and Magni's brother, who is upset for not inheriting Mjölnir, and Loki who plans to spread chaos in the mortal world.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Alden Richards as Victor "Hammerman" Magtanggol
Supporting cast
Coney Reyes as Vivienne Delos Santos-Magtanggol
Eric Quizon as Hector Regalado
Andrea Torres as Sif / Ms. S
Janine Gutierrez as Gwen Regalado-Corona
Pancho Magno as Móði
John Estrada as Loki / Mikolai
Al Tantay as Tomas Magtanggol
Freddie Webb as Renato Regalado
Chynna Ortaleza as Lynette Magtanggol-Domingo / Hel
Maritoni Fernandez as Alice Espiritu-Regalado
Dion Ignacio as Percival "Perci" Domingo
Kristofer Martin as Lance E. Regalado / Fenrir
Miguel Faustmann as Magni / Magnus
Yuan Francisco as Carmelo "Meloy" M. Domingo
Lindsay De Vera as Anne Magtanggol
Reese Tuazon as Honelyn De Mesa
Benjie Paras as Erwin Bravo
Lucho Ayala as Timothy Ferdinand "Tim" Corona
Jon Gutierrez as Mario Magtanggol
Flow-G as Luigi Magtanggol
Recurring cast
Noel Urbano as the voice of Níðhöggr and Ratatoskr
Guest cast
Conan Stevens as Thor
Matthias Rhoads as James
Diana Zubiri as Freya
Fabio Ide as Baldur
Natalia Moon as Frigg
Sheena Halili as Janice
Luri Vincent Nalus as Dennis
Michelle Dee as Gwen's boss
Chariz Solomon as Cynthia
John Feir as a construction worker
Pekto as Ringgo
Rob Moya as a construction worker
Kevin Santos as James
Carlos Agassi as Arvin
Sophie Albert as Edda
Pen Medina as Alcala
Glaiza de Castro as Ena
Kylie Padilla as Ami
Gabbi Garcia as Lena
Sanya Lopez as Aya
Janice Hung as Gunnlöð
Ian Ignacio as Þrymr
Tonio Quiazon as a gun smuggler
Dave Bornea as Iking
Julius Miguel as teen Meloy
Production
GMA Network tasked writers to come up for a television series based on Norse mythology. Jules Katanyag, concept creator of Victor Magtanggol described what he and other writers came up as "best reflects the Filipino condition," which is that of uncertainty.
The show is set in present-day Philippines, after several Norse deities including Thor died followi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikulski%20Archive%20for%20Space%20Telescopes | The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is an astronomical data archive. The archive brings together data from the visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelength regimes. The NASA funded project is located at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland and is one of the largest astronomical databases in the world.
The archive was named after Barbara Ann Mikulski, a long time champion of the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, in 2012. It is a component of NASA's distributed Space Science Data Services. The archive contains the data from a number of instruments like Pan-Starrs, Kepler, and TESS, as well as data for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
In October 2020 the project released the largest and most detailed 3D maps of the Universe, the classification and photometric redshift catalog "PS1-STRM". The data was created using neural networks and combines data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Users can query the dataset online or download it in its entirety of ~300GB.
References
External links
MAST home page
Databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of the American legal drama Suits was ordered on January 30, 2018, and began airing on USA Network in the United States July 18, 2018.
The season saw extensive cast changes with the departures of Patrick J. Adams (Mike Ross), Meghan Markle (Rachel Zane), and Gina Torres (Jessica Pearson) at the conclusion of the previous season. Previously recurring guest stars Amanda Schull (Katrina Bennett) and Dulé Hill (Alex Williams) were promoted to series regulars, while Katherine Heigl joined the main cast as senior partner Samantha Wheeler.
The second half of the season premiered on January 23, 2019.
Cast
Regular cast
Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter
Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt
Sarah Rafferty as Donna Paulsen
Amanda Schull as Katrina Bennett
Dulé Hill as Alex Williams
Katherine Heigl as Samantha Wheeler
Special Guest Cast
David Costabile as Daniel Hardman
Recurring cast
Wendell Pierce as Robert Zane
Rachael Harris as Sheila Sazs
Aloma Wright as Gretchen Bodinski
Ray Proscia as Dr. Stan Lipschitz
Jake Epstein as Brian Altman
Guest cast
Abigail Spencer as Dana Scott
Gary Cole as Cameron Dennis
Jeffrey Nordling as Eric Kaldor
Usman Ally as Andrew Malik
Neal McDonough as Sean Cahill
Sasha Roiz as Thomas Kessler
Ian Reed Kesler as Stu Buzzini
Episodes
Production
Development
On May 25, 2018, Entertainment Weekly released an interview with Katherine Heigl in which she described her character Samantha Wheeler as a "fierce and enigmatic lawyer who muscles her way into [the] central law firm, Zane Specter Litt." She also teased an antagonistic relationship between Samantha and the main protagonist Harvey Specter and an "uneasy dynamic" with Donna. The article included several exclusive first-look images from the season premiere and Heigl's character.
Series creator Aaron Korsh confirmed that Patrick J. Adams won't be returning for any guest appearances in the first ten episodes of the season. However, he did state that he and Adams had discussed it and are both open to the possibility somewhere in the future. At the same time, he confirmed that Gina Torres won't guest star on the eighth season nor will there be crossover episodes in order to establish the world from the Chicago-based spin-off series Pearson as separate from Suits itself.
Ratings
References
External links
08
2018 American television seasons
2019 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Johnson%20%28writer%29 | Troy Johnson (born August 13, 1973) is a writer, food critic, and television personality from San Diego. He has been on several Food Network shows as a panelist and a judge on Iron Chef America and The Best Thing I Ever Ate. He is best known as a judge on the Food Network show Guy's Grocery Games since its inception in 2013 and Campus Eats on the Big Ten Network since 2016. He previously hosted Crave which was also on the Food Network, an award winning music show in San Diego called Fox Rox, and a San Diego Padres pregame show entitled Outta Left Field.
Early life and education
Johnson was raised in Rancho Peñasquitos, a suburb of San Diego, and attended Mt. Carmel High School. He graduated in 1997 from California State University, Chico with a bachelor's degree in speech communications and poetry.
Career
After college, he began writing as a music journalist where from 2002 to 2007 he was the music editor of the San Diego CityBeat. During that time he wrote pieces for Billboard and Spin. He has also written articles for magazines such as Surfer, Rolling Stone, Mojo and Paper. He also wrote and hosted a San Diego TV show about indie rock called Fox Rox, which ran from 2001 to 2007. The show garnered a number of local Emmy Awards. From 2006-2007, he hosted a San Diego Padres pregame show entitled Outta Left Field. In 2007, he parlayed his music journalism into food writing. In 2007 as the senior editor of Modern Luxury’s Riviera magazine, working under James Beard Award winner Brad Johnson. Johnson soon developed a reputation as a food critic.
In 2008 when both shows were cancelled, lifestyle publication Riviera Magazine gave Johnson the opportunity to write about food. The next three years were spent editing the award winning food critic. That time was also spent cultivating his palate, studying flash cards, and talking to chefs. When that critic left, the opportunity to presented itself to become the next food critic. His first editorial of a local Italian restaurant impressed the editorial staff. It also won Best in Show for the San Diego Press Club.
In 2010, Johnson responded to a Food Network blog searching for hosts and submitted a six minute long audition tape. In 2011, he wrote and hosted the culinary travel series, filming nine episodes in six weeks. Crave aired in August 2011 on the Food Network. After two seasons and declining ratings, the show was cancelled. Later in 2011, he became the food and restaurant editor-at-large and dining critic for San Diego Magazine. He has appeared on other Food Network shows including Iron Chef America and The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
After becoming a fan favorite on Crave and it being the number two show in reruns on Fridays, the Food Network asked Johnson to become a judge on Guy's Grocery Games which started in 2013. He is still a rotating judge. He has published a book about growing up with a lesbian mother, titled Family Outing.
In 2016, Johnson started hosting another food related sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarazanmai | is a 2019 Japanese anime television series created by Kunihiko Ikuhara and jointly produced by MAPPA and Lapin Track. The series aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block from April 11 to June 20, 2019 for eleven episodes, and follows three middle school students who are transformed into kappas in order to collect shirikodama, mythical balls located in the anus that contains the physical manifestation of one's desires; Ikuhara broadly developed the series as a story about yōkai (supernatural monsters) for an adult audience.
In English-language markets, Sarazanmai is syndicated by Crunchyroll, which simulcast the series during its original broadcast run; a dubbed version of the series was produced by Funimation. The series was praised by critics for the quality of its animation and its thematic richness, notably its focus on anti-capitalism and materialism, but was criticized for its compressed storytelling. Sarazanmai spawned a range of spin-off and adapted media both prior and subsequent to its release, including a serialized manga series, a manga anthology, a dramatized Twitter account, two light novels, a radio series, and a stage play.
Synopsis
After accidentally breaking a statue of a kappa that serves as the guardian god of the district of Asakusa, middle school students Kazuki, Toi, and Enta are transformed into kappas by Keppi, the prince of the Kappa Kingdom. They come to assist Keppi in collecting the Dishes of Hope, which fulfill the wishes of whoever possesses them. Dishes are acquired by collecting the shirikodama of zombies created by Reo and Mabu, agents of the Otter Empire. The Otter Empire, in the guise of "Kappazon, Inc.", controls society by manipulating the desires of the masses, and has been the enemy of the Kappa Kingdom for generations. To defeat the zombies, the boys must say the phrase "Sarazanmai", which can only be produced when the three are united. They struggle to connect, as each time the sound is made, one of the boys' secrets is revealed.
Characters
Main characters
A second year middle school student who is transformed into a kappa alongside Toi and Enta. He formerly played soccer with Enta, where they were known as the "golden duo", though he quit the sport immediately prior to the events of the series. He also cross dresses as the idol Sara Azuma to take selfies for his brother Haruka.
A delinquent middle school student who is transformed into a kappa alongside Kazuki and Enta. A recent transfer student in Kazuki's class, he sells cannabis for his brother Chikai.
Kazuki's childhood friend and classmate who is transformed into a kappa alongside Kazuki and Toi. Harbors a secret crush on Kazuki.
Yōkai
A kappa who is the prince of the Kappa Kingdom. Prior to the events of the series, the trauma of the Kappa Kingdom being defeated by the Otter Empire caused his shirikodama to split in two. The half containing his despair became Dark Keppi, a weapon of darkness controlled by the Otter Empire. Keppi maint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariette%20Yvinec | Mariette Yvinec is a French researcher in computational geometry at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Sophia Antipolis. She is one of the developers of CGAL, a software library of computational geometry algorithms.
Yvinec is the co-author of two books in computational geometry:
Géometrie Algorithmique (with Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Edusciences 1995), translated as Algorithmic Geometry (Hervé Brönnimann, trans., Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Geometric and Topological Inference (with Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Frédéric Chazal, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, 2018)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
French mathematicians
French women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique%20Teillaud | Monique Teillaud is a French researcher in computational geometry at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Nancy, France. She moved to Nancy in 2014 from a different INRIA center in Sophia Antipolis, where she was one of the developers of CGAL, a software library of computational geometry algorithms.
Teillaud graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1985, she then got a position at École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise before moving to Inria in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at Paris-Sud University under the supervision of Jean-Daniel Boissonnat.
She was the 2008 program chair of the Symposium on Computational Geometry.
She is also the author or editor of two books in computational geometry:
Towards Dynamic Randomized Algorithms in Computational Geometry (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 758, Springer, 1993)
Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces (edited with Boissonat, Springer, 2007)
References
External links
Living people
French computer scientists
French mathematicians
French women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
1961 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2017%29 | The seventeenth season of American Idol premiered on March 3, 2019, on the ABC television network. It was the show's second season to air on ABC. Ryan Seacrest continued as host, while Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie returned as judges. Bobby Bones returned as the in-house mentor, and acted as a guest host for the episode taped on April 8, 2019.
Laine Hardy won the season on May 19, 2019, while Alejandro Aranda was the runner-up, and Madison VanDenburg finished in third place.
Regional auditions
American Idol announced in June 2018 that the Idol bus would visit 20 cities, beginning with Orlando, Florida, and San Diego, California, on August 25. Auditions could also be submitted on the official website or on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok. During the 2018 CMA Awards, three contestants who didn't enter the competition and didn't initially audition were given the chance to enter the competition. The winner of that vote was revealed to be Meghan Woods on Good Morning America on November 16, 2018. However, she was not shown in any episode.
Hollywood week
Hollywood week aired over two episodes on March 24 and 25 at the Orpheum Theatre. It featured three rounds: lines of ten, a group round, and a solo round. In the first round, each contestant sang individually, and after ten had sung, they gathered in a line. Those who impressed the judges and the producers were advanced to the next round, where the contestants performed together in groups of four or five. The contestants who passed the group rounds performed their final solos before advancing to the Showcase round.
Showcase round
The Showcase round aired on March 31, and featured the top 40 performing for the judges and a live audience at Disney's Aulani resort in Kapolei, Hawaii. The following day, the judges narrowed the number of contestants down from 40 to 20. The following is a list of the contestants who reached the top 20 and the song they performed at the Showcase. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 20
The Top 20 performed at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Each contestant performed one solo, and contestants are listed in the order they performed.
All-Star duets
The top 20 contestants were split into two groups of ten and each contestant performed one duet with a celebrity singer. The first group aired on April 7, and the second group on April 8. The judges then eliminated three contestants from each group, and the rest advanced to the top 14.
The artists who performed duets with the top 20 were Pat Benatar, Cynthia Erivo, Neil Giraldo, Lukas Graham, Ben Harper, Chris Isaak, Elle King, Lovelytheband, Julia Michaels, Jason Mraz, Shaggy, and Brett Young.
Bobby Bones served as a guest host for the April 8 episode, because Ryan Seacrest was out due to an illness.
Color key:
Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 14
The Top 14 performances aired on Sunday, April 14, followed by the live results show on Monday, April 15.
Color |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20OMG | MTV OMG was a British pay television music channel operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. It launched on 1 March 2018, replacing free-to-air sister music channel Viva. The audience profile on Sky Media showed that the channel had a 60/40 viewer bias in favor of women. The channel aired its own weekly OMG Top 20 charts, which were chosen by the channel.
The channel closed on 20 July 2020.
History
The network launched on 1 March 2018, one month after Viva's discontinuation, with a love song-focused video playlist branded as MTV Love airing throughout February. From 2018 until 2020, MTV OMG was temporarily renamed MTV Pride to coincide with Pride in London, which celebrates the LGBT+ community. Before 2018, this temporary renaming was carried out on its sister channel MTV Classic.
Programming
OMG's Weekend Hits!
2-4-1 Happy Hour Hits!
OMG's Pop Obsessions!
OMG! 00s Hits!
OMG Loves: (artist)
(artist) vs (artist): Pop Battle!
Tree Mendous Tinsel Tunes!
OMG! It's Goodbye!
Hottest 20 Girls in the World!
Summer is Fri-Nally Here! Hot 50 Summer Tunes!
All New! This Week's OMG Top 20
Top 50 OMG Music Moments
Closure
This channel, along with its sister channels Club MTV and MTV Rocks, was closed permanently on 20 July 2020, folding the channel space that had been established by TMF in October 2002. The last music video played on the channel was "Thank You for the Music" by ABBA.
References
External links
MTV OMG - presentation, screenshots
Prezentacja MTV Love UK & Ireland | Zapper (itizaps.net)
MTV 00s - presentation, screenshots
MTV channels
Music video networks in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2018 establishments in the United Kingdom
2020 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjan%20Dema | Marjan Dema (born May 27, 1957, in Klina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a professor of mathematics. He was involved for many years in the Balkan Universities Network and from March 2016 until September 2020 he was Rector of the University of Pristina
Biography
Marjan Dema earned a master's degree in mathematics with the thesis "Some interpolation features of analytical functions within the Hilbert transform and Doctor of Mathematical Sciences in 1987 with the work Multiple interpolation in HP premises, at the University of Pristina.
He has taught as visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tetova (1997-1999) and at the American College "Midwestern Baptist College" in Pontiac, United States (2002-2005). He has scientific connections within the framework of the Balkan Universities Network to the Trakya University in Edirne and especially with Hilmi Ibar.
In the years 2009-2012 he was a member of the University Council of the University of Pristina. After his election as Rector of the University of Pristina, he took office in March 2016.
In 2019, Rector Dema was the patron of an international seminar hosted by Rotary International with students from Germany, Greece, Turkey and Kosovo on the subject of malaria control.
References
External links
Webpage of the University Pristina
Webpage of Rektor Marjan Dema
Marjan Dema on Researchgate
Marjan Dema in Berkleycenter
Marjan Dema Member of DAAAM
Marjan Dema on USAID
Literature
Marjan Dema opening speech in: Manfred G. Raupp und Wolfgang Uebel: The fight against Malaria and other related mosquito-born Diseases, Results and proposed next Steps of the Rotary Seminar at the University Prishtina (Kosovo) 2019: Publisher: madora gmbh Lörrach & Lörrach International e.V. Mai 2019,
Living people
1957 births
Albanian mathematicians
University of Pristina alumni
Academic staff of the University of Pristina
Rectors of the University of Prishtina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Systems%20Down | All Systems Down is a 2018 techno-thriller novel by American writer Sam Boush. The novel deals with a cyberwarfare attack on Western countries, focusing on three groups of characters in the United States.
Plot
All Systems Down begins with a North Korean cyberattack that destroys infrastructure across Western nations, including banks, dams, and the power grid. Russia invades Eastern Europe while China and North Korea invade several US-allied nations in Asia.
The book focuses on one character in particular, Brendan Chogan, an out-of-work parking enforcement officer. While interviewing for a security guard position, Brendan recognizes danger when a computer virus strikes Portland, Oregon, destroying internet access across the city. This is just the beginning of the attacks. Soon, the country descends into further chaos when citizens nationwide lose their cellular service and electricity. Traffic backs up as vehicles are hacked. Local water systems collapse as generators fail.
Meanwhile, hacker Xandra Strandlien's boss at U.S. Cyber Command sends her to Oregon. Intelligence on Chinese–Russian joint military exercises has led to a fear of a post-cyberattack armed invasion, and the Oregon Coast, which has no military bases nearby, is a potential target.
As Brendan and Vailea struggle to secure their home and stockpile food and water, the city descends into chaos. It is there they meet up with refugees, whose storylines converge on Portland. These characters include Kelly and Orion, a pair of pilots whose Super Hornet gave out over the Pacific Ocean, and Annalore and Ireana, campers forced to cross the Coastal mountain range with their children. Both sets of refugees witnessed first-hand the invasion on the Oregon Coast — an armada of Chinese and Russian ships that have slammed into the shore near Tillamook.
At the same time, Xandra has flown across the country with a civilian pilot, Lorenzo, and his daughter Carmen. Each of the several groups has faced enormous challenges with the collapse of modern technology, fleeing and fighting as necessary, to finally converge at the home of Brendan and Vailea. There they concoct a plan not just to survive the cyber war, but to hit back against the enemy.
Kelly and Orion had spotted a Russian submarine in the Willamette River, which leads Xandra to reformulate some of the code the North Koreans used to dismantle the US Navy. Brendan, Xandra, Kelly, and Carmen jump out of Lorenzo's plane and into the river, adjacent to the submarine.
When Xandra is shot, she gives Brendan a thumb drive with the code, and with Kelly's help they sneak onto the submarine and upload the malware to the Russian intrafleet computer. The code does more damage than they could have hoped for. Not only does it disable the Russian submarine, but it also spreads across the armada.
In North Korea and in China, the hacking units are celebrating their victory when the lights in their cities go suddenly dark. and blackouts cascade across th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKHI%20%28FM%29 | WKHI (94.5 FM, "94.5 KHI") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Newark, Maryland, United States and serves the Delmarva Peninsula. The station is owned by The Voice Radio Network and broadcasts a classic hits format.
History
The station was granted an initial construction permit for 94.9 FM in November 2015. Originally called WMDS, it switched its call sign to WAMS in May 2016. On April 1, 2017, the station signed on the air with a triple-A format as "94.9 WAMS", programmed under an LMA between Miriam Media and Robin Rothschild. In October 2017, Seaford Media, LLC (now Vinco Media, LLC) purchased WAMS from Miriam Media; the new owner flipped the station to adult hits as "94.9 Jack FM" on November 1, moving that format from WSUX-FM.
On September 19, 2018, WAMS adopted the legacy WKHI call letters that were used previously at 99.9 FM (now WWFG) when it was a contemporary hit radio (CHR) station. On January 30, 2019, the station flipped to classic hits as "94.9 KHI". From May 1 to June 7, 2019, WKHI was simulcast on WXSH (106.1 FM).
In January 2020, WKHI was sold to The Voice Radio Network. The following month, the station relaunched its classic hits format with the new tagline "Delmarva's Super Hits", focusing on classic hits from the 1980s and 1990s. Promotion for the relaunch included former personalities of the 1990s CHR incarnation of WKHI.
In July 2022, WKHI changed frequencies to 94.5 FM.
Syndicated programming on WKHI includes Backtrax USA — the 1980s version on Saturdays and 1990s on Sundays.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%3ALock | Gen:Lock (stylized as gen:LOCK) is an American computer-animated science fiction streaming television series created by Gray Haddock and produced by Rooster Teeth. It is set in a dystopian future Earth where an international coalition known as The Polity fights a hostile, autocratic invading force known as The Union. The show follows the gen:LOCK program and its members, who participate in the development and testing of an experimental technology which allows for individuals with unique mental make ups to have their minds uploaded to giant suits of mecha armor called "Holons".
Cast and characters
Main cast
gen:LOCK team
Michael B. Jordan as Julian Chase, a Vanguard pilot and "All-American guy" from Brooklyn. After losing much of his body in the Battle of New York at the start of the war, Julian is recruited into the gen:LOCK program and becomes the first successful Holon pilot. Because his physical body is confined to a preservation tank, he mostly interacts with others through holographic projections or his Holon. As the most experienced pilot, Julian helps Weller form the rest of the team and assumes a leadership role. Julian pilots a Holon with teal markings which is later equipped with thrusters, wings, and propellers mounted on its back, allowing for long-range flight. It is later upgraded with a sleeker and more aerodynamic design. In addition to a rifle for offense, it can launch two large rockets attached to the wings, and missile batteries in both of its forearms. Julian's call sign is "Chaser".
Maisie Williams as Cameron 'Cammie' MacCloud, a Scottish hacker and the youngest gen:LOCK recruit at 17 years old. Cameron uses a Holon with green markings with a set of flaps on her head that resemble rabbit ears and equipped with two drones that provide near perfect 360 degree awareness of her surroundings and aim assistance. It is equipped with two handguns, and can automatically dispense and position two handgun magazines to its back for quick reloading. Cammie later upgrades her Holon to look like a rabbit with hind-legs and rabbit-like ears that function like satellite dishes, allowing for long-range sensory capabilities. It is the shortest in comparison to the other Holons, but is shown to be the most agile. Cammie's Holon can deploy five drones that are equipped with an antenna system and machine gun turrets. Smaller drones that allow for remote hacking can be deployed. It is equipped with a new set of dual pistols and disk-shaped remote explosive devices. Williams drew comparisons between Cammie and her Game of Thrones character Arya Stark, noting Cammie's naivety is comparable to Arya's at the start of Thrones: she jokingly remarked that Cammie would win in a fight between the two. Cammie's callsign is "Trixx".
Kōichi Yamadera as Kazu Iida, a transfer from the Japanese military, where he was demoted from the rank of Sergeant to kitchen duty on grounds of insubordination. Kazu uses a Holon with red markings, equipped with dual kata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing%20for%20Keeps%20%28TV%20series%29 | Playing for Keeps is an Australian drama television series, which began airing on Network 10 on 19 September 2018. The series was created from a concept by the network's head of drama Rick Maier. It centres on the wives and girlfriends of the players at the fictional Southern Jets Football Club. Its ensemble cast includes Madeleine West, Annie Maynard, Cece Peters, Olympia Valance, Isabella Giovinazzo, and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor. Playing for Keeps was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 16 October 2019.
Production
On 9 November 2017, the series was announced during Ten's upfronts. It focuses on the women behind the men of an Australian rules football club. The concept for the series was created by Rick Maier, the head of drama at the network. Playing for Keeps is produced by Screentime, and has received investment from Screen Australia and Film Victoria. The episodes have been written by Claire Phillips, Christine Bartlett, Ian Meadows, Ainslie Clouston, and Mithila Gupta, with Sian Davies, Scott Major, and Tori Garrett directing.
In May 2018, it was announced Madeleine West, Cece Peters, Annie Maynard, and Olympia Valance, had been cast as the wives and girlfriends. West plays Kath Rickards, who is married to the coach and acts as a "mentor and den mother." Peters plays Paige Dunkeley, a high school teacher who follows her boyfriend to the city. Maynard was cast as Maddy Cochrane, a lawyer and a mother of two. Valance is socialite Tahlia Woods, who is engaged to the captain of the Southern Jets. Of securing her role, Valance stated "When I read the script, I just knew that I had to play Tahlia. I was determined this character would be mine." The following month, Isabella Giovinazzo was cast as Jessie Davies, a former footballer married to one of the club's players.
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Jackson Gallagher, Kevin Hofbauer, George Pullar, James Mason, and Ethan Panizza also joined the ensemble cast. Taylor is the team's coach Brian Rickards, Gallagher plays Tahlia's fiancé Connor Marrello, Hofbauer is an "admired club veteran" Travis Cochrane, while Pullar, Mason and Panizza portray footballers Daniel Fletcher, Jack Davies, and Rusty O'Reilly respectively. Paul Ireland was cast as Andrew Macleish, the president of the Southern Jets. Of the casting process, Maier stated "This has been one of the most comprehensive casting calls we've done. The key roles dictate strong, independent, fascinating women. We think Nathan Lloyd and the team at Screentime have done a brilliant job securing a cast of this calibre."
Filming for the show began on 4 June 2018 in Melbourne. The eight-part series began airing on 19 September 2018 on Network Ten and WIN Television. The first episode was available to view one week early on the catch-up service 10Play.
On 14 November 2018, Network 10 announced the show had been renewed for a second season. It began airing on 16 October 2019. The first two episodes are directed by Major. Season 2 is set six months a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20open%20access | The idea and practise of providing free online access to journal articles began at least a decade before the term "open access" was formally coined. Computer scientists had been self-archiving in anonymous ftp archives since the 1970s and physicists had been self-archiving in arXiv since the 1990s. The Subversive Proposal to generalize the practice was posted in 1994.
The term "open access" itself was first formulated in three public statements in the 2000s: the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing in June 2003, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in October 2003, and the initial concept of open access refers to an unrestricted online access to scholarly research primarily intended for scholarly journal articles.
Efforts before the Internet
One early proponent of the publisher-pays model was the physicist Leó Szilárd. To help stem the flood of low-quality publications, he jokingly suggested in the 1940s that at the beginning of his career each scientist should be issued with 100 vouchers to pay for his papers. Closer to the present, but still ahead of its time, was Common Knowledge. This was an attempt to share information for the good of all, the brainchild of Brower Murphy, formerly of The Library Corporation. Both Brower and Common Knowledge are recognised in the Library Microcomputer Hall of Fame. One of Mahatma Gandhi's earliest publications, Hind Swaraj published in Gujarati in 1909 is recognised as the intellectual blueprint of India's freedom movement. The book was translated into English the next year, with a copyright legend that read "No Rights Reserved".
The modern open access movement (as a social movement) traces its history at least back to the 1950s, with the Letterist International (LI) placing anything in their journal Potlatch in the public domain. As the LI merged to form the Situationist International, Guy Debord wrote to Patrick Straram "All the material published by the Situationist International is, in principle, usable by everyone, even without acknowledgement, without the preoccupations of literary property." This was to facilitate détournement. It became much more prominent in the 1990s with the advent of the Digital Age. With the spread of the Internet and the ability to copy and distribute electronic data at no cost, the arguments for open access gained new importance. The fixed cost of producing the article is separable from the minimal marginal cost of the online distribution.
Early years of online open access
An explosion of interest and activity in open access journals has occurred since the 1990s, largely due to the widespread availability of Internet access. It is now possible to publish a scholarly article and also make it instantly accessible anywhere in the world where there are computers and Internet connections. The fixed cost of producing the article is separable from the minimal marginal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoot%20Networks | Scoot Networks (est. in 2011), also known as just Scoot or Scoot Rides, is an American company which provides public electric scooter and electric bicycle sharing systems. The company is based in San Francisco, California.
History
Scoot was founded in 2011 by Michael Keating. In 2012 he was joined by co-founders Matt Ewing (CCO), and Dan Riegel (CTO). Keating, Scoot's CEO, had a background in transportation software and urban planning, Ewing previously worked with MoveOn advocacy group, and Riegel was a co-founder of EnergyHub.
The company was the first to offer electric vehicle rentals through a smartphone app.
By September 2012, the company had raised $775,000 from investors including Lisa Gansky and Greenstart.
The company opened its service to public beta in San Francisco on September 26, 2012, with 10 electric motor scooters. Their fleet expanded to 50 in late 2012.
In 2014 the company introduced motor scooters with batteries that could be swapped at the curb by a technician in order to recharge the scooters without plugging them in. This enabled customers to end their rental by parking the scooter at the curb rather than in a garage with a power outlet - so called "free floating" vehicle sharing. This began a process that led to SFMTA issuing the world's first on-street parking permit for free-floating electric two-wheelers.
In August 2015 Scoot expanded its fleet to more than 400 with the addition of cargo scooters from German manufacturer GOVECS. The larger vehicles were intended to accommodate larger riders and couriers who rented them to make deliveries.
In October 2015, Scoot added electric mini-cars to its sharing service in partnership with Nissan and Renault. Marketed as Scoot Quads, the cars were Renault Twizy heavy quadracycles available for the first time in the United States as a pilot project.
By July 7, 2016, Scoot motor scooters had collectively accumulated over 1,000,000 miles of riding.
In 2016, the company received additional funding, primarily from Mahindra Partners and Vision Ridge Capital, for a new fleet of hundreds of electric motor scooters by GenZe. In June 2017, the company added Kunal Bhasin on the executive team as CTO to scale technology and product.
In November 2017, indicated its intentions to expand and include additional cities beyond San Francisco.
The company expanded to Barcelona in May 2018 with 500 electric motorbikes and the addition of bike sharing to its services with 1,000 electric bikes.
The company expanded to Santiago, Chile in October 2018 with electric stand-on scooters and later electric bicycles.
In October 2018, Scoot and competitor Skip were the only two companies granted permits by the City of San Francisco to operate shared, electric stand-on scooters in the city.
In July, 2019, after serving hundreds of thousands of riders with millions of rides, Scoot and its 200 employees were acquired by Bird, a competitor, for an undisclosed value. Scoot Rides became a wholly owned sub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Street%20light%20rail%20station | Queen Street light rail station is situated on the corner of Wardoo Street and Queen Street in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport. The station is part of the Gold Coast's G:link light rail network and services the local residential community that surrounds the station. Translink provides an integrated public transport network for the whole of South East Queensland and is responsible for ticketing and timetables, Queen Street station falls in zone 5 of the network.
The station is a central platform station, meaning that both north and southbound platforms are located in the middle, with tracks either side. The station itself sits in the middle of Queen Street, with traffic running either side of the platform. A ramp is located at the western end of the platform, with a signalised pedestrian crossing to either side of the road from that point. All stations on the G:link network are wheelchair accessible.
Location
Queen Street light rail station is located on the corner of Queen Street and Wardoo Street on the eastern side of Southport. Situated largely in a residential area the station also services the Southport General Cemetery, Southport State School and a light industrial estate to the west of the station. The station provides no transport links.{
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Metro%202 | Melbourne Metro 2 (MM2) is a proposed extension to the Melbourne rail network, consisting of a tunnel from Newport to Clifton Hill via the city centre. Conceived as a follow-up project to the under-construction Metro Tunnel, MM2 would link the Werribee and Mernda suburban rail lines and include stations in the Fishermans Bend development precinct, at Southern Cross and at Parkville, allowing passengers to connect with Metro Tunnel and City Loop lines. Although MM2 has been proposed and refined by a number of government-led and independent reports and proposals, no funding or policy commitment to its planning or construction is in place .
History
The first Metro Tunnel proposal gradually emerged in detail after the 2008 Eddington Report, which identified a new rail tunnel creating an end-to-end line from west to east through the city centre as a major priority for transport investment in Melbourne. In the period between 2008, when the tunnel was first envisaged, and 2016, when construction began, the Metro Tunnel underwent several changes to its scope and proposed delivery, including the combination of what was originally envisaged as a two-stage project into a single-stage construction.
During this period, the Public Transport Development Authority, trading as Public Transport Victoria (PTV), was established under the state government of Ted Baillieu to coordinate planning for Victoria's public transport services. In 2013, PTV released its Network Development Plan – Metropolitan Rail (NDPMR), which presented a 20-year plan in four stages to improve the suburban rail system. The projects suggested by the NDMPR focused both on increasing the capacity of the central rail system and extending the network's reach to serve the growing outer suburbs of Melbourne. To achieve this goal, PTV argued it would be necessary to invest in major infrastructure, starting with the Metro Tunnel, to segregate railway lines on their journey through the city, to maximise the connectivity of the system and minimise the possibility of disruption.
Among the projects envisaged for Stage 3 – the five-year period after the completion of the Metro Tunnel – was the creation of another end-to-end line with a tunnel from Clifton Hill to Southern Cross. The NDPMR suggested that the tunnel would provide the additional capacity needed to serve the booming patronage on the South Morang, as well as providing additional space in the existing Clifton Hill tunnel of the City Loop so that a new line to Doncaster could be accommodated alongside Mernda line services. The NDPMR also recommended that the tunnel be extended in Stage 4 from Southern Cross to a new station at Fishermans Bend, with a view to further expansion to Newport and the Werribee line.
By 2015, with planning work for the first Metro Tunnel underway, the Herald Sun began referring to the second tunnel as "Metro 2", as the state government confirmed that the new Parkville station would be designed with provision for fu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinas%20Sarap | () is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA News TV, GMA Network and GTV. Hosted by Kara David, it premiered on March 23, 2017. It moved to GMA Network on December 26, 2020 on the network's Sabado Star Power line up.
Premise
The show aims its audience to understand and learn more about Filipino food. Each episode showcases the history behind the featured local dish as well as the latest Filipino cuisine.
Production
The production was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on November 10, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
GMA News TV original programming
GTV (Philippine TV network) original programming
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20M20 | The Olivetti M20 is a Zilog Z8000 based computer designed and released by Olivetti in 1982. Although it offered good performance, it suffered from a lack of software due to its use of the Z8000 processor and custom operating system, PCOS. The company introduced the IBM PC compatible Olivetti M24 in 1983 and the M20 line was phased out.
History
System design began in 1979 in Cupertino, California at Olivetti's Advanced Technology Center. When announced on March 31, 1982, it was probably the first 16-bit personal computer in Europe with an expected price range of US$3,000-6,000.
InfoWorld magazine saw the M20 as an "answer to Tandy's Model 16, the IBM Personal Computer and the Apple III"; Olivetti itself compared its computer to the IBM PC, Sirius Victor, Commodore 8000 and Apple II in television advertising.
Although the computer was initially well received, its use of a non-standard OS (Olivetti's proprietary PCOS) and CPU (Zilog Z8001) proved to be its most serious limitations. The first major software package was a word processor by SofSys called Executive Secretary, followed later by another word processor, OliWord, and business software, Olibiz. There was also Microsoft BASIC 5.2 with full support for the hardware's features.
To alleviate a lack of applications, Olivetti sold a CP/M emulator for US$300 and distributed certain CP/M software packages (dBase II and SuperCalc) for their computer. Olivetti later introduced the "Alternate Processor Board" (APB 1086), based on an 8 MHz Intel 8086 CPU for compatibility with MS-DOS and CP/M-86 software.
In January 1984, Olivetti introduced a new IBM PC-compatible computer, the Olivetti M24, running MS-DOS as a "complement" to the Olivetti M20.
Olivetti sold around 50,000 M20 computers in the first year of production. Only a few games were released for the system.
Features
M20 uses Zilog Z8001 4 MHz CPU and 128 KB RAM, which can be expanded up to 512 KB by three 128 KB memory boards. Keyboard, motherboard and disk drives are contained in all-in-one unit with separate monitor. The computer has also parallel (IEEE-488) and serial port (RS-232-C).
Standard configuration includes two 5-inch 320 KB floppy disk drives (286 KB formatted capacity). Optional were 160 KB or 640 KB (compatible with 320 KB disks) drives or 5-inch hard disk in place of one of the floppy disk drives (9.2 MB formatted capacity).
Motherboard has two expansion slots intended for the hard disk controller board, additional parallel interface, twin serial interface or Corvus Omninet LAN card. This slot is also used by the APB 1086 CPU card.
M20 provides 512 × 256 display resolution on 12-inch monochrome or color monitor. With memory expanded by two 32 KB memory boards, the computer can display 8 colors. When using only one additional memory board, only 4 colors form 8 color palette are available. All graphics is pixel-generated (there is no specific text mode), text characters use resolution 64 characters per 16 rows (or 80 char |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20Equifax%20data%20breach | The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft. In a settlement with the United States Federal Trade Commission, Equifax offered affected users settlement funds and free credit monitoring.
In February 2020, the United States government indicted members of China's People's Liberation Army for hacking into Equifax and plundering sensitive data as part of a massive heist that also included stealing trade secrets, though the Chinese Communist Party denied these claims.
Data breach
A key security patch for Apache Struts was released on March 7, 2017 after a security exploit was found and all users of the framework were urged to update immediately. Security experts found an unknown hacking group trying to find websites that had failed to update Struts as early as March 10, 2017 as to find a system to exploit.
As determined through postmortem analysis, the breach at Equifax started on May 12, 2017 when Equifax had yet to update its credit dispute website with the new version of Struts. The hackers used the exploit to gain access to internal servers on Equifax' corporate network. The information first pulled by the hackers included internal credentials for Equifax employees, which then allowed the hackers to search the credit monitoring databases under the guise of an authorized user. Using encryption to further mask their searches, the hackers performed more than 9000 scans of the databases, extracted information into small temporary archives that were then transferred off the Equifax servers to avoid detection and removed the temporary archives once complete. The activities went on for 76 days until July 29, 2017 when Equifax discovered the breach and subsequently, by July 30, 2017, shut off the exploit. At least 34 servers in twenty different countries were used at different points during the breach, making tracking the perpetrators difficult. While the failure to update Struts was a key failure, analysis of the breach found further faults in Equifax' system that made it easy for the breach to occur, including the insecure network design which lacked sufficient segmentation, potentially inadequate encryption of personally identifiable information (PII), and ineffective breach detection mechanisms.
Information accessed in the breach included first and last names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver's license numbers for an estimated 143 million Americans, based on Equifax' analysis. Information on an estimated range of under 400,000 up to 44 million British residents as well as 8,000 Canadian residents were also compromised. An additional 11,670 Canadians were affected as well, later revealed by Equifax. Credit card numbers for approximately |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Civilization%20media | Civilization is a franchise composed primarily of a series of turn-based strategy video games and associated media. The core of the franchise is a series of six titles for personal computers, released between 1991 and 2016. Sid Meier developed the first game in the series and has had creative input for most of its sequels. The official titles of the series, core games, and most spin-offs include his name, as in Sid Meier's Civilization. In addition to the main titles, the franchise includes multiple expansion packs and spin-off games, as well as board games inspired by the video game series. The series is considered a formulative example of the 4X genre, in which players achieve victory through four routes: "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".
The first game in the series, Civilization (1991), was created by MicroProse co-founder Meier and Bruce Shelley. MicroProse continued the series for several years, producing Civilization II (1996) as well as a spin-off title, Sid Meier's Colonization (1994). Business changes after the consolidation of the company in 1996 with Spectrum HoloByte, which bought MicroProse in 1993, resulted in Meier leaving the company to found Firaxis Games in 1996. Firaxis created a spin-off title, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999), but did not have the rights to the "Civilization" name. MicroProse did not produce any further games in the series beyond licensing the name to Activision for the spin-off Civilization: Call to Power (1999) before being purchased by Hasbro Interactive in 1998. Hasbro Interactive, along with the "Civilization" brand, was in turn purchased by Infogrames in 2001, who licensed the name to Firaxis for Civilization III (2001). The rights to the franchise were sold in 2004, however, to Take-Two Interactive, which licensed it to Firaxis again for Civilization IV (2005) just before acquiring Firaxis itself in 2005. Firaxis has since served as the primary developer and Take-Two the sole publisher for the franchise, producing main-series games Civilization V (2010) and Civilization VI (2016) along with seven spin-off titles, including console and mobile versions of the franchise in Civilization Revolution (2008) and titles such as Civilization: Beyond Earth (2014).
In addition to video games, the franchise includes several board games, artbooks, and music albums. The first board game, Civilization: The Boardgame (2002), corresponds with Civilization III, while the second game by that name (2010) is based on Civilization IV, and the latest, Civilization: A New Dawn (2017), is based on Civilization VI. A card game, created by Civilization IV lead designer Soren Johnson and based on that game, was included with the Civilization Chronicles (2006) compilation. Books containing concept art and commentary for Civilization V and VI have been included in special editions of the game. Music CDs were included with the special editions of Civilization IV and V; digital albums have been sold for Civilization VI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%205.1 | The Nokia 5.1 is a Nokia-branded mid-range smartphone running the Android operating system. It was released in 2018 and is the successor of the Nokia 5.
Design
The Nokia 5.1 features a 5.5 inch IPS LCD display, a 2 GHz MediaTek Helio P18 chipset paired with either 2 or 3 GB of RAM and a 16 MP primary camera along with a wide-angle 8 MP front camera.
The device was initially shipped with Android Oreo, but can be updated to Android 10.
Reception
The Nokia 5.1 generally received positive reviews. Basil Kronfli of TechRadar and TrustedReviews praised the device for its design and screen, while criticizing the "Occasionally laggy UI, Mediocre camera performance and Bottom-firing mono speaker".
References
External links
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Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%202.1 | Nokia 2.1 is a Nokia-branded entry-level smartphone released by HMD Global in August 2018, running the Android operating system.
Design
The phone has an aluminium frame with a plastic back. It runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 System-on-chip with 1 GB of RAM. It has Dual Sim support.
Reception
The Nokia 2.1 received mixed reviews. Andrew Williams of TrustedReviews praised the phone’s "low price, large screen and stereo speakers" while criticising "poor storage and performance".
Reference List
2.1
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkwood%20light%20rail%20station | Parkwood light rail station is located on the corner of Napper Road and Smith Street Motorway in the Gold Coast suburb of Parkwood. The station is part of the Gold Coast's G:link light rail network and provides a 'park and ride' facilities for up to 1000 vehicles. Parkwood light rail station opened for service on 17 December 2017 when the extension to Helensvale was completed.
Location
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Couleur | John Francis Couleur (July 7 1925, Chicago – August 25 2007, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American computer engineer and executive. He was the recipient of over 40 patents.
Early life
During World War II, Couleur enrolled in the V-12 Navy College Training Program.
He graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University in Houston, Texas in 1946. During the Korean War, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
Career
Couleur joined the General Electric Company. In 1953, at GE's Heavy Military Electronics Department (HMED) in Syracuse, New York, he served as lead architect on the development of the MISTRAM tracking system for the Atlas Missile.
Later at GE, he was responsible for the development of the GE-635 computer system. At the request of MIT Project MAC, Couleur and Ted Glaser designed the modifications to turn the 635 system into what became the GE-645 for the Multics Operating System in 1972.
References
1925 births
2007 deaths
Computer architects
General Electric employees
Southern Methodist University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways%20of%20Henan | Henan, a Chinese province on the central plain area, has an expansive network consisting of national-level and provincial level expressways. As of 2017, the province had of expressways. 99 out of the 109 county-level divisions of Henan has expressway connections.
Numbering
The national-level expressways are numbered with a letter prefix G, which is short for "guojia" in Chinese meaning "national". For provincial-level expressways, a letter prefix S, which is short for "shengji" (province level). The numbering of provincial-level expressways in Henan follows the rules below:
For radial expressways leaving Zhengzhou (the province capital), use a number in 81–90. (except for S1)
For north–south expressways, use an odd number in 11–69. (in ascending order from east to west, except for S83)
For east–west expressways, use an even number in 10–70. (in ascending order from north to south, except for S81 and S86)
For connection or branch routes, use a number in 91–99.
Numbers 2-10 are reserved for radial expressways, and 71-80 are reserved for connection routes.
List of routes
National-level expressways
Provincial-level expressways
References
Expressways in Henan
Transport in Henan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Angel%20Network%20of%20Southeast%20Asia | Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia (BANSEA) is an angel investment network based in Singapore that provides information to potential investors about newly established businesses. The stated goal of BANSEA is to create business opportunities for angel investors, and aid in the development of profitable business networks.
BANSEA's core activities include monthly investor meetings, where startups are invited to pitch to BANSEA members. BANSEA focuses on early-stage companies seeking investment ranging from $100,000 to $1,000,000. It has two tiers of membership–chartered membership and ordinary membership–with membership qualification criteria.
History
BANSEA was established in 2001 by Dr. Poh Kam Wong, Professor and Director of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, and has been financially supported by SPRING Singapore since 2007. BANSEA maintains close relationships with the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and the National Research Foundation, and is also an investment partner of Info-comm Investments. The SPRING Seeds program by SPRING Singapore was the result of consultation between the government and BANSEA leadership.
In 2008, BANSEA announced a strategic relationship with the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR). In 2009, BANSEA announced a strategic alliance with the Angel Association of New Zealand. In 2013, BANSEA signed a collaboration agreement with the European Trade Association for Business Angels (EBAN) to foster cross-border investment, dissemination of initiatives, exchange of best practices and a close collaboration for future projects.
In 2016, BANSEA launched the BANSEA One fund, pooling capital from angel investors to invest in startups. It is also a co-founding member of the ASEAN Angel Alliance (AAA) (now known as ASEAN Business Angel Alliance (ABAA)) and joined the Global Business Angels Network, which allows angel investors to expand their network around the world.
In 2017, BANSEA announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) to grow investment opportunities, growth and market access for startups and angel investors in Southeast Asia. In 2018, BANSEA inked an agreement with Platform E to nurture angel investors and startups, as well as launched the BANSEA Two fund, pooling capital from angel investors to invest in startups following the success of the BANSEA One fund.
Investments
Startups that BANSEA and its members have invested in include Paktor, Bambu, Tokenize.exchange, Burpple, Carousell, 99.co, Carro, and Shopback.
See also
Seed funding
Series A funding
References
Angel investors
Venture capital firms of Singapore
2001 establishments in Singapore
Industry in Southeast Asia
Financial services companies established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archyala%20culta | Archyala culta is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. This species is endemic to New Zealand. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation. This species has only been collected at Opoho and is only known from its type specimen.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Alfred Philpott in 1931 from a specimen collected by Charles E. Clarke at Opoho, Dunedin on the 17 December 1921. In 1939 George Hudson discussed and illustrated the species. The holotype specimen is held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Description
Philpott described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species is only known from its type specimen and at its type locality of Opoho.
Life history
It has been hypothesised that larvae of this species inhabits dead wood, boring into it and feeding on it.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
Moths described in 1931
Tineidae
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Alfred Philpott
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Gender%20Champions | International Gender Champions (IGC) is a network of female and male leaders of member states, international organizations, and civil society working for gender equality. It is an initiative of Women@TheTable, and was founded in 2015 by Caitlin Kraft-Buchman of Women@TheTable, Ambassador Pam Hamamoto, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations in Geneva, and Michael Møller, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and current Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Purpose
Champions pledge to no longer sit on single sex panels, and commit to implementing two individual institutional commitments for gender equality in their work. According to co-founder Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, International Gender Champions’ strategy is to help make a wide range of organizations make “huge changes through tiny steps” by committing to realistic, achievable transformations for gender equality.
At the IGC launch in 2015, Møller stated, “With the unique concentration of Member States, international organizations, civil society, research and academic institutions and private sector entities, International Geneva provides an ideal platform to show that leadership in a most practical way. Together, our actions have a truly global impact, making a difference for peace, rights and well-being for all people across the planet. We have a special responsibility to capitalize on this potential for greater gender equality.”
Network
There are currently over 200 International Gender Champions in Geneva, New York, Vienna, and Nairobi. Champions include UN Secretary General António Guterres, the heads of UN Offices at Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi, the ILO, WHO, WTO, WIPO, ITU, UNHCR, OHCHR, IPU, UNIDO, and other member states and civil society groups. For example, Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Viet Nam to the United Nations Office and the World Trade Organization is a supporter. After joining IGC, Secretary General Guterres stated, “I encourage other senior leaders to be part of this campaign for equality. In a male dominated world, the empowerment of women must be a key priority. Women’s rights are human rights – and attacks on women are attacks on all of us. Our world needs more women leaders. And our world needs more men standing up for gender equality."
Impact Groups
IGC has organized impact groups, led by Champions which channel sector knowledge in greater detail on Representation, Trade, Change Management, Disarmament, and Standards. On the occasion of the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017, the IGC Trade Impact Group was joined by 120 WTO members and observers to issue the historic Joint Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment, the first international declaration to explicitly link women's economic empowerment and trade. Susana Malcorra, who presided over the conference, called the Declaration a “great su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur%20Cities%20Network | Mercosur Cities Network, or simply Mercocities, is a network that unites a group of municipalities of the countries that participate in the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), whether they are members or associates. This organization of cities aims to promote their integration on a regional scale and stimulate development and cooperation between them.
It currently comprises 353 municipalities of the following South American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
History
The idea of creating a Mercosur association of cities came up during the seminar "Mercosur: Opportunities and Challenges for Cities" held in March 1995 in Asunción, Paraguay. The mayors who participated in the meeting, which was convened by the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities–Southern Cone Sub-region, signed the so-called Declaration of Asuncion, where they expressed the need to create a forum for cooperation among municipalities.
In July 1995, the Porto Alegre Commitment (Brazil) was signed, which defined the main objectives of the new organization. Finally, in November of the same year, she signed the Founding Act of the Mercocities, in Asunción.
The founding members were the cities of Asunción, Rosario, La Plata, Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Salvador and Montevideo.
Instances of Mercociudades
Art. 8 of the Statutes stated different instances of work:
The Summit of Heads of Government.
The Assembly is the highest body for deliberation and direction of our Network. It is made up of mayors, mayors and prefects of the associated cities and its sessions are led by the President of Mercociudades. It meets once a year at the Mercocities Summit.
During the Assembly the annual Work Plan is approved, the authorities of that new period assume, and it is at the same time an instance of contact with various regional and world organizations interested in carrying out joint actions. The Assembly concludes with a political declaration.
The Council of Mercociudades.
It is the highest governing body between assemblies and is made up of two cities from each full member country of Mercosur and one city from each associated country, those that make up the Board of Directors and that which is exercised by the Executive Secretariat.
Council 2019-2020:
Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Avellaneda (Santa Fe), General Alvear, Hurlingam, San Justo, Villa María
Brasil: Foz de Iguazú, Porto Alegre, Santana de Parnaíba, Sāo Leopoldo, Sāo Paulo.
Paraguay: Asunción, Itá and Lambaré.
Uruguay: Canelones, Colonia, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandú, San José and Tacuarembó.
Bolivia: La Paz, Sucre and Tarija.
Colombia: Medellín.
Chile: Concepción, Coquimbo, Quilpué, Quilicura, Peñalolén, Puerto Montt and Valparaíso.
Ecuador: Cuenca and Río Bamba.
Perú: Los Aquijes, Parcona, Pueblo Nuevo, and Santiago de Ica.
Executive Direction.
It is made u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhonda%20Franklin | Rhonda Franklin (born 1965) is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota. She is a microwave and radio frequency engineer whose research focuses on microelectronic mechanical structures in radio and microwave applications. She has won several awards, including the 1998 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2013 Sara Evans Leadership Award, the 2017 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, and the 2018 Minnesota African American Heritage Calendar Award for her contributions to higher education.
Education
Franklin grew up in Houston, Texas. During high school, she received mixed advice on the career she should pursue. While her senior counselor thought she should become a secretary, her science teachers encouraged her to explore STEM fields by attending a summer camp run by the National Science Foundation. This exposure to science inspired Franklin to pursue and complete her bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering at Texas A&M University in 1988. She joined University of Michigan for her graduate studies, earning a Master's in 1990 and her PhD in 1995. Her supervisor was Linda Katehi. She was the first African American woman in the microwave engineering program, and one of only six African-Americans graduating with engineering Ph.D.s in the United States in 1995. Her graduate research was sponsored by the National GEM Consortium and involved three placements at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Awards
1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2002 NAE 8th Annual Symposium on Frontiers in Engineering
2003 NAE 6th Annual German-American Frontiers of Engineering (GAFOE) Symposium
2003 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award
2006 NAE 9th Annual German-American Frontiers of Engineering (GAFOE) Symposium
2012 CIC Academic Leadership Fellow (University of Minnesota)
2012 and 2013 U of Minnesota Morse Alumni Teaching Award Finalist (University of Minnesota)
2014 Sara Evans Faculty Scholar/Leader Award, (University of Minnesota)
2017 John Tate Advising Award (University of Minnesota)
2018 Minnesota African American Heritage Calendar Award
2018 Willie Hobbs Moore Distinguished Alumni Lecturer (University of Michigan ECE Department)
2019 N. Walter Cox Service Award (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society)
2020 IEM Abbott Professorship in Innovative Education
Research and career
Franklin researches radio-frequency microwave circuits. She identifies new ways to integrate communication devices. She was an instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, and joined the University of Minnesota's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty in 1998. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by Bill Clinton in 1998.
Her research areas include:
Biomedical and Biological Computational Methods Devices, and System
Fields, Photonics, Magnetic Recording Te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20code%20editors%20for%20Erlang | Erlang is an open source programming language. Multiple development environments (including IDEs and source code editors with plug-ins adding IDE features) have support for Erlang.
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
Syntax, parsing, code-assist
Goto, searching
Code generation
Build, debug, run
References
Integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian%20genetic%20programming | Cartesian genetic programming is a form of genetic programming that uses a graph representation to encode computer programs. It grew from a method of evolving digital circuits developed by Julian F. Miller and Peter Thomson in 1997. The term ‘Cartesian genetic programming’ first appeared in 1999 and was proposed as a general form of genetic programming in 2000. It is called ‘Cartesian’ because it represents a program using a two-dimensional grid of nodes.
Miller's keynote explains how CGP works. He edited a book entitled Cartesian Genetic Programming, published in 2011 by Springer.
The open source project dCGP implements a differentiable version of CGP developed at the European Space Agency by Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani and Alessio Mereta able to approach symbolic regression tasks, to find solution to differential equations, find prime integrals of dynamical systems, represent variable topology artificial neural networks and more.
See also
Genetic programming
Gene expression programming
Grammatical evolution
Linear genetic programming
Multi expression programming
References
Genetic programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cateristis%20eustyla | Cateristis eustyla is a species of moth in the family Tineidae. This species is found in New Zealand and Tasmania. It is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
C. eustyla was described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using specimen he found at Riccarton Bush in December. In 1928 George Hudson discussed the species. The lectotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
Distribution
This species is found in New Zealand. It is also found in Tasmania. This species has not been recorded in New Zealand since 1882.
Habitat
This species frequents forest habitat.
Conservation Status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
Moths described in 1889
Lyonetiidae
Moths of New Zealand
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Moths of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe%20Ablaze | Europe Ablaze is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Studies Group for the Commodore 64 and Apple II in 1985.
It is based on air warfare of World War II.
Gameplay
Europe Ablaze covers the period 1939 to 1945 and contains three scenarios that depict strategic bombings in Europe during World War II. The scenarios are based on Battle of Britain, Royal Air Force night bombings of summer 1943, and Allied bombings of Germany in 1945.
The game is built on a modified Carriers at War engine. The units of maneuver are air groups with 5 to 40 planes. The player can control forces of either Axis or Allied powers. Each side has one Commander-in-chief slot and up to three air Fleet Commander slots that can be occupied either by human players or by artificial intelligence.
Each scenario is broken down into days, which in their turn consist of five-minute intervals.
Reception
Ken McMahon of Commodore User gave the game a rating of 8 out of 10 and described Europe Ablaze as "one of the most extensive and accurate World War II simulations". In Computer Gaming World, Jay Selover praised the game for its multi-player, gameplay variety, and the possibility to create custom scenarios. Computer and Video Games reviewer noted that the game is not for beginners and gave it a score of 7 out of 10. Benn Dunnington of the U.S. magazine .info gave the game three and a half stars and wrote, "Europe Ablaze is about as close as you can get to military board-gaming without a board."
Reviews
The V.I.P. of Gaming Magazine #5 (Sept./Oct., 1986)
Jeux & Stratégie #37
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
References
1985 video games
Strategic Studies Group games
Commodore 64 games
Apple II games
Computer wargames
Strategy video games
Video games developed in Australia
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultist%20Simulator | Cultist Simulator is a card-based simulation video game developed by indie studio Weather Factory and published by Humble Bundle. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux computer systems in May 2018, with mobile versions developed by Playdigious and released in April 2019. A port for Nintendo Switch was released in February 2021.
In a 1920s Lovecraftian horror setting, the player amasses and expends human and nonhuman followers alongside occult texts and tools, in discovering and then pursuing any of a number of wildly differing paths to immortality, while carefully avoiding deaths arising from starvation, despair, madness, or the attention of powerful adversaries. The game is experienced through an array of playing cards moved about on a tabletop, with cards occasionally pulled from a map representing a transcendent reality accessible in dreams.
Success requires partial familiarization with an intricate "Secret Histories" mythology invented for this game and for connected Weather Factory projects "Book of Hours" (a followup game slated for 2023 release) and tabletop RPG "The Lady Afterwards." Reviewers praised the game's writing, while others criticized its pacing.
Gameplay
Cultist Simulator is a narrative-driven simulation game that has the player take on the role of a citizen in one of several 1920s European capitals, chiefly one resembling London. The player's actions may lead to their creating an illegal cult in pursuit of semi-divinity for themselves or others. The game's mechanics are presented as a combination of playing cards and timed "verb" boxes/action buttons in which the cards are placed. Cards can represent human and nonhuman NPCs, attributes such as health, passion or reason, language proficiencies, occult books and scraps of lore, rituals, day jobs, influences obtained from dream, obsessions, cities, excavation sites, magical tools and ingredients, currencies, etc. Player choices involve combining these cards within different "verb" boxes with varying, complex outputs. The player drops cards into verbs which may respond by demanding more cards if not directly pulling them from the table, both before and after the player commits the inserted cards starting a timer for when output cards can be collected. The initial, default "Aspirant" character begins with only a "Work" verb and two cards: a menial job and the health needed to work one shift of it. After the timer the player collects a temporarily exhausted Health card, the job, and cards representing some funds.
As the game progresses, new action buttons can appear. Some of these are beneficial, adding more options that players can do, such as Study, Talk, Explore, or Dream. Other action buttons are a detriment to the player's progress. For example, players will eventually get an action button that reflects the passage of their character's time in the game, which will automatically consume wealth cards; should the player have no wealth cards when this actio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safiya%20Noble | Safiya Umoja Noble is a professor at UCLA, and is the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is the author of Algorithms of Oppression, and co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture and Emotions, Technology & Design. She is a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. She was appointed a Commissioner to the University of Oxford Commission on AI and Good Governance in 2020. In 2020 she was nominated to the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity at the World Economic Foundation.
Early life and education
Noble grew up in Fresno, California where she attended Roosevelt School of the Arts. She went on to study sociology at California State University, Fresno with a focus on African American and Ethnic Studies. While at Fresno State, Noble was involved with the "campus political scene," protesting against apartheid and campaigning for racial and gender equality. She was a member of the Associated Students, Inc. and the California Statewide Student Association. After she graduated, Noble worked for more than a decade in multicultural marketing, advertising and public relations.
Noble attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for graduate studies where she earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. Her 2012 dissertation, Searching for black girls: old traditions in new media, considered how gender and race manifest on technology platforms.
Career
Noble was appointed assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the Department of African-American studies, the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communication Research. Noble joined University of California, Los Angeles's Department of Information Studies in 2014. She was awarded the University of California, Los Angeles Early Career Award in 2016. The same year she was appointed a Hellman Fellow in for research in a non-commercial public information index system. Noble received tenure at UCLA and was promoted to associate professor in 2018.
Noble joined the University of Southern California from 2017 to 2019 as a visiting assistant professor. At USC, she focused on the politics and human and civil rights concerns of digital media platforms, which includes the integration of these issues in STEM and engineering education.
On 25 September 2020, Noble was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook. In October 2020, she was featured in conversation with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex on the harms of technology, and her book Algorithms of Oppression has been cited by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex for how "the digital space really shapes our thinking about race."
Noble was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.
Research
Noble's research focuses on gender, technology an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Sundance%20TV | The following is a list of programs broadcast on Sundance TV and Sundance Now.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions and third-party exclusive distribution
Upcoming original programming
Unscripted
Docuseries
Acquired programming
Current
The Andy Griffith Show
Blue Bloods
Criminal Minds
Columbo
Gilligan's Island
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NCIS
Perry Mason
Former
All in the Family
Back
Barney Miller
Blue Planet II
The Bob Newhart Show
Breaking Bad
Burn Notice
Dynasties
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gomorrah
The Great Christmas Light Fight
Hogan's Heroes
JAG
Kath & Kim
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Major Crimes
Mama's Family
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H*
Monk
My So-Called Life
Orphan Black
The Returned
Rizzoli & Isles
Roots
Saved by the Bell
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Transparent
Notes
References
External links
Sundance TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Prefectures%20in%20Anhui%20Province%20by%20GDP | This is a list of prefectures, including prefecture-level cities and prefectures, of Anhui, China by gross domestic product (GDP).
2017 List
Historical Data
2016 List
2015 List
References
Economy of Anhui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Correa%20S%C3%A1nchez | Francisco Correa Sánchez (born 31 October 1955) is a Spanish businessman, convicted in 2018 on charges related to the Gürtel case, a major corruption scandal. He was the leader of a network which has become known to the public as Gurtel, a designation originally coined by the police in a cryptic allusion to his surname, Correa (see note). He was sentenced to 51 years in prison.
Correa began his career in the travel industry. He created a network of companies in Spain and abroad.
He was arrested by the Spanish authorities in 2009 during investigations into Gurtel. Facing charges of bribery, influence peddling, money laundering, tax fraud, conspiracy and documentary falsification, he was imprisoned on remand. He was released on bail in 2012: the judge had reduced the sum required to 200,000 euros, a reduction reflecting not only the accused's perceived ability to pay, but also the length of time he had been held on remand, which was approaching the maximum possible under Spanish law. His trial began in 2016.
Notes
1. "Correa" can be translated into English as "belt" or in German "Gürtel".
References
1955 births
Living people
20th-century Spanish businesspeople
21st-century Spanish businesspeople
Spanish prisoners and detainees
People named in the Paradise Papers
People named in the Pandora Papers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20microfluidics | Microfluidics refers to the flow of fluid in channels or networks with at least one dimension on the micron scale. In open microfluidics, also referred to as open surface microfluidics or open-space microfluidics, at least one boundary confining the fluid flow of a system is removed, exposing the fluid to air or another interface such as a second fluid.
Types of open microfluidics
Open microfluidics can be categorized into various subsets. Some examples of these subsets include open-channel microfluidics, paper-based, and thread-based microfluidics.
Open-channel microfluidics
In open-channel microfluidics, a surface tension-driven capillary flow occurs and is referred to as spontaneous capillary flow (SCF). SCF occurs when the pressure at the advancing meniscus is negative. The geometry of the channel and contact angle of fluids has been shown to produce SCF if the following equation is true.
Where pf is the free perimeter of the channel (i.e., the interface not in contact with the channel wall), and pw is the wetted perimeter (i.e., the walls in contact with the fluid), and θ is the contact angle of the fluid on the material of the device.
Paper-based microfluidics
Paper-based microfluidics utilizes the wicking ability of paper for functional readouts. Paper-based microfluidics is an attractive method because paper is cheap, easily accessible, and has a low environmental impact. Paper is also versatile because it is available in various thicknesses and pore sizes. Coatings such as wax have been used to guide flow in paper microfluidics. In some cases, dissolvable barriers have been used to create boundaries on the paper and control the fluid flow. The application of paper as a diagnostic tool has shown to be powerful because it has successfully been used to detect glucose levels, bacteria, viruses, and other components in whole blood. Cell culture methods within paper have also been developed. Lateral flow immunoassays, such as those used in pregnancy tests, are one example of the application of paper for point of care or home-based diagnostics. Disadvantages include difficulty of fluid retention and high limits of detection.
Thread-based microfluidics
Thread-based microfluidics, an offshoot from paper-based microfluidics, utilizes the same capillary based wicking capabilities. Common thread materials include nitrocellulose, rayon, nylon, hemp, wool, polyester, and silk. Threads are versatile because they can be woven to form specific patterns. Additionally, two or more threads can converge together in a knot bringing two separate ‘streams’ of fluid together as a reagent mixing method. Threads are also relatively strong and difficult to break from handling which makes them stable over time and easy to transport. Thread-based microfluidics has been applied to 3D tissue engineering and analyte analysis.
Capillary filaments in open microfluidics
Open capillary microfluidics are channels that expose fluids to open air by excluding t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Zhang | Sophie Zhang may refer to:
Sophie Zhang (whistleblower), data-analyst and Facebook whistleblower
Zhang Xueying, Chinese actress whose English name is Sophie Zhang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList | MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is an anime and manga social networking and social cataloging application website run by volunteers. The site provides its users with a list-like system to organize and score anime and manga. It facilitates finding users who share similar tastes and provides a large database on anime and manga. As of January 2023, the site reported having approximately 23,000 anime and 62,000 manga entries. In 2015, the site received 120 million visitors a month.
History
The site was launched in November 2004 by Garrett Gyssler and maintained solely by him until 2008. Originally, the website was called AnimeList, but Gyssler decided to incorporate the possessive "My" at the beginning, following the fashion of the most important social network in those years: Myspace.
On August 4, 2008, CraveOnline, a men's entertainment and lifestyle site owned by AtomicOnline, purchased MyAnimeList for an undisclosed sum of money. In 2015, DeNA announced that it had purchased MyAnimeList from CraveOnline, and that they would partner with Anime Consortium Japan to stream anime on the service, via Daisuki.
MyAnimeList announced in April 2016 that they had embed episodes from Crunchyroll and Hulu directly onto the site, with over 20,000 episodes being made available on the site.
On March 8, 2018, MyAnimeList opened an online manga store, in partnership with Kodansha Comics and Viz Media, allowing users to purchase manga digitally from the website. The service originally launched in Canada but later expanded to United States, the United Kingdom, and several other English-speaking countries.
MAL became inaccessible for several days in May and June 2018 when site staff took it offline for maintenance, citing security and privacy concerns. The site operators also disabled the API for third-party apps, rendering them unusable. The moves were done in an effort to conform to the European Union's GDPR program.
MyAnimeList was acquired by Media Do in January 2019; with their purchase, they announced their intention to focus on marketing and e-book sales to strengthen the site.
On September 25, 2019, HIDIVE and MyAnimeList announced a partnership which would incorporate MyAnimeList's content ratings into HIDIVE's streaming platform, while exclusively providing MyAnimeList users with a curated selection of embedded HIDIVE content for free.
On February 18, 2021, MyAnimeList announced it had conducted a third-party allotment of , with Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan, and parent company Media Do collectively investing . On May 31, 2021, it was revealed that Akatsuki, The Anime Times Company, DMM.com, and Kadokawa Corporation had invested during its initial third-party allotment. On July 26, 2021, it was revealed that Bushiroad, Dentsu, and other companies had invested , with the total third-party allotment raising to .
In October 2021, MyAnimeList collaborated with e-book publisher and parent company Media Do to release Fist of the North Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink%20Master%20%28season%2011%29 | Ink Master: Grudge Match – Cleen vs. Christian is the eleventh season of the tattoo reality competition Ink Master that premiered on Paramount Network on August 28, instead of its original air date September 4, and concluded on December 18, 2018, with a total of 16 episodes. The show is hosted and judged by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, with accomplished tattoo artists Chris Núñez and Oliver Peck serving as series regular judges. The winner received $100,000, a feature in Inked magazine and the title of Ink Master.
The premise of this season was to have Ink Master veterans Christian Buckingham and James "Cleen Rock One" Steinke return to coach two teams of nine artists, similar to the premise of the previous season, and for them to settle their rivalry that began on the seventh season of the show. The live finale featured the final Grudge Match between the coaches where the number of artists that were left on their respective team gave each of them the power to sabotage each other, in which the winning coach would also receive $100,000.
The winner of the eleventh season of Ink Master was Tony Medellin, with Teej Poole being the runner-up. The winner of the Grudge Match was James "Cleen Rock One" Steinke.
Judging and ranking
Judging Panel
The judging panel is a table of three or more primary judges in addition to the coaches. The judges and the coaches make their final decision by voting to see who had best tattoo of the day, and who goes home.
Jury of Peers
Season 11 once again featured the jury of peers. But this time, the artist that wins best tattoo of the day gives their respective team the power to put up one artist for elimination.
Contestants
The first episode featured 22 artists competing to be one of the 18 artists that were split into two teams of 9 artists. The top 14, who were chosen by the judges and the coaches in a blind critique, chose which team to be on while the remaining 8 artists that were not selected went head to head in the knockout round that determined who got the final spots on Team Christian and Team Cleen.
Names, experience, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes
Chosen
Not chosen
Contestant progress
Indicates the contestant was a part of Team Christian.
Indicates the contestant was a part of Team Cleen.
The contestant won Ink Master.
The contestant was the runner-up.
The contestant finished third in the competition.
The contestant advanced to the finale.
The contestant won Best Tattoo of the Day.
The contestant won the Tattoo Marathon.
The contestant was among the top.
The contestant received positive critiques.
The contestant received mixed critiques.
The contestant received negative critiques.
The contestant was in the bottom.
The contestant was put in the bottom by the Jury of Peers
The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
The contestant was put in the bottom by the Jury of Peers and was eliminated from the competition.
The contestant withdrew from the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20proprietary%20bioinformatics%20software | This is a list of computer software which is made for bioinformatics and is developed under proprietary licenses with articles in Wikipedia.
See also
List of sequence alignment software
List of open-source bioinformatics software
List of open-source healthcare software
List of biomedical cybernetics software
List of freeware health software
List of molecular graphics systems
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
References
External links
Free Biology Software – Free Software Directory – Free Software Foundation
Lists of bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseparty%20%28app%29 | Houseparty was a social networking service that enabled group video chatting through mobile and desktop apps. Users received a notification when friends are online and available to group video chat. On average, users spent more than 60 minutes per conversation on the app in group or one-on-one chats. It was launched by Life on Air, Inc. in 2016 and was available on iOS, Android mobile devices, macOS and Google Chrome. Sima Sistani is the company's chief executive officer and co-founder. Epic Games announced the decision to discontinue Houseparty on September 9, 2021 and removed it from the app stores on the same day. It continued to function for users who had already downloaded it until October 2021.
Development
In early 2015, Life On Air, Inc., a team headed by founder and CEO Ben Rubin, released the live streaming app Meerkat and raised $12 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners. Following the release, the creators began developing a new app called Houseparty that moved "away from public broadcasts in favor of private chats."
Houseparty was released to the App Store and Play Store in February 2016 under a pseudonym. It was developed over 10 months with a website redirecting to the Houseparty app in October 2016. The company raised $52 million in venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital in late 2016. It was available on macOS as of 2018.
Acquisition and expansion
Co-founder Sistani was announced as the company's chief executive officer in March 2019 and led the acquisition of Houseparty by Epic Games later that year. Life on Air, Inc. became a subsidiary of Epic Games and the monetary terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Sistani noted that Houseparty was being used by Fortnite players, so "the partnership made a lot of sense."
In May 2020, Houseparty announced "In The House", a three-day festival with live at-home performances by celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Neil Patrick Harris, Zooey Deschanel and Terry Crews.
On September 9, 2021, Epic Games announced that they were planning to shut down the Houseparty service in October of the same year, having announced that the app was to be delisted immediately from mobile app stores. Both the main video chatting service and the app's "Fortnite Mode" which integrated the app's video chat into Fortnite Battle Royale which was introduced in November 2020, were to function as usual until the service's discontinuation.
Technology
Houseparty is a "face-to-face social network" where up to eight participants can interact in a single session. Users receive a notification when friends are online and available to group video chat or float between chat rooms.
During early 2019, the company partnered with Ellen DeGeneres's app, "Heads Up!", which is similar to charades. In the summer of 2020, Houseparty partnered with Mattel to add Magic 8-Ball and the card game, Uno to the app. The app contains other popular games such as Quick Draw, Chips & Guac and trivia games that can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack%20Forums | Hack Forums (often shortened to 'HF') is an Internet forum dedicated to discussions related to hacker culture and computer security. The website ranks as the number one website in the "Hacking" category in terms of web-traffic by the analysis company Alexa Internet. The website has been widely reported as facilitating online criminal activity, such as the case of Zachary Shames, who was arrested for selling keylogging software on Hack Forums in 2013 which was used to steal personal information.
Security breaches
In June 2011, the hacktivist group LulzSec, as part of a campaign titled "50 days of lulz", breached Hack Forums and released the data they obtained. The leaked data included credentials and personal information of nearly 200,000 registered users.
On 27 August 2014, Hack Forums was hacked with a defacement message by an Egyptian hacker, using the online handle "Eg-R1z".
On 26 July 2016, Hack Forums administrator ("Omniscient") warned its users of a security breach. In an e-mail he suggested users to change their passwords and enable 2FA.
Alleged criminal incidents
According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Zachary Shames developed a keylogger in 2013 that allowed users to steal sensitive information, including passwords and banking credentials, from a victim's computer. Shames developed the keylogger known as "Limitless Logger Pro", which was sold for $35 on Hack Forums.
On 12 August 2013, hackers used SSH brute-force to mass target Linux systems with weak passwords. The tools used by hackers were then later posted on Hack Forums.
On 15 May 2014, the FBI targeted customers of a popular Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called 'Blackshades'. Blackshades RAT was malware created and sold on Hack Forums.
On 14 January 2016, the developer of the MegalodonHTTP Botnet was arrested. MegalodonHTTP included a number of features as "Binary downloading and executing", "Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attack methods", "Remote Shell", "Antivirus Disabling", "Crypto miner for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Omnicoin and Dogecoin". The malware was sold on Hack Forums.
On 22 September 2016, many major websites were forced offline after being hit with “Mirai”, a malware that targeted unsecured Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The source code for Mirai was published on Hack Forums as open-source. In response, on 26 October 2016, Omniscient, the administrator of Hack Forums, removed the DDoS-for-Hire section from the forum permanently.
On 21 October 2016, popular websites, including Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, were taken down by a distributed denial-of-service attack. Researchers claimed that the attack was stemmed from contributors on Hack Forums.
On Monday, 26 February 2018, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Ukrainian authorities had collared Avalanche cybercrime organizer Gennady Kapkanov, who was allegedly living under a fake passport in Poltava, a city in central Ukraine. He marketed the Remote Administration Tool (NanoCo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Kelly | Diane Kelly may refer to:
Diane Kelly (novelist), author of humorous, romantic mystery novels
Diane Kelly (microbiologist), professor of microbiology
Diane Kelly (computer scientist), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural%20Connectivity%20Group | The Rural Connectivity Group (RCG) is a joint venture by New Zealand’s mobile network operators – Vodafone, Spark, 2degrees. Crown Infrastructure Partners
has contracted with the Rural Connectivity Group to bring 4G mobile and wireless broadband coverage to rural New Zealand under the Rural Broadband Initiative Phase Two and the Mobile Black Spot Fund.
The RCG will build a minimum of 400 new mobile cell-sites, delivering high speed wireless broadband to at least 30,000 additional rural New Zealand households. This will increase New Zealand’s mobile land coverage area by up to 25 per cent, and deliver mobile calling and data service to a further potential 780 kilometres of New Zealand’s state highways. It aims to provide high-speed broadband to the greatest possible number of rural users and improve mobile on state highways and at key visitor destinations.
All three mobile network operators will share spectrum, network equipment and have one set of antennae on each tower, using Multi Operator Core Network (MOCN) technology.
Coverage and rollout
As of June 2018 one site had been installed at Haast on the West coast of the South Island. It was fast tracked due to lobbying from locals citing safety issues. It is only 3G initially (with satellite back-haul) and will be later upgraded to 4G when suitable infrastructure is available.
The original contract builds were due for completion by the end of 2022 however the new schedule (May 2018) aims to have them substantially finished by the end of 2021 – a year earlier than previously planned.
References
Internet in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Gay%20Flag%20Football%20League | DC Gay Flag Football League (DCGFFL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit LGBT flag football league consisting of 20 teams in Washington, D.C. It is a member of Team DC, which provides a network of sporting outlets for the LGBT community of the Washington Metropolitan area, and National Gay Flag Football League.
History
The DCGFFL has its roots in the 1990s when a group of gay men began to play seven versus seven pick up flag football at the National Mall on Sunday mornings. Another group that played near Dupont Circle later joined. In 1994, the league formed as an organized unit. DCGFFL incorporated on April 23, 2009. In September 2010, DCGFFL premiered in its first season as an official league. It operates under the National Gay Flag Football League and competes in the National Gay Bowl.
Teams
League teams are composed of both men and women, as well as LGBT and straight players. competing in four conferences.
The League has also organized a recreation league comprising four teams. It is designed to prepare players for the main competitive teams in the DCGFFL. The League is open to people of any orientation. More recently, the number of heterosexual players joining DCGFFL has increased.
In 2010, DCGFLL had 90 players and seven teams during its first season. In 2011, DCGFLL had 200 players and 12 teams during its second season. In 2014, DCGFLL had approximately 275 players and 20 teams. In 2015, DCGFLL had approximately 270 players and 20 teams during its 10th season. In 2017, DCGFLL has more than 300 players and 22 teams during its 13th season.
Travel teams
Currently, the Washington Generals, DC Admirals, DC Commanders, Delta Force, and Washington Senators are DCGFFL's all-star travel teams who compete annually at both Pride Bowl (Chicago) and Gay Bowl. In 2022, DC Space Force represented the city in Gay Bowl XXII in Hawaii. Teams composed of DCGFFL members also participate in South Florida's Flag Football League's annual Florida Sunshine Cup, including three time (2017, 2021, and 2022) champions, DC Assassins.
DCGFFL teams have won four Gay Bowls:
2019 - Gay Bowl XIX (New York City) - Washington Generals 32, LA Express Starz 27
2018 - Gay Bowl XVIII (Denver) - Washington Generals 29, San Diego Toros 13
2004 - Gay Bowl IV (Atlanta) - Washington Monuments 34, Boston Hancocks 33 (OT)
2003 - Gay Bowl III (Boston) - Washington Monuments 27, Chicago Spin 21
DCGFFL teams have placed as Runners-Up in two Gay Bowls:
2015 - Gay Bowl XV (San Diego) - San Diego Bolts 33, DC Admirals 12
2013 - Gay Bowl XIII (Phoenix) - San Diego Bolts 27, Washington Generals 26
Community Involvement
The League released a "Skins and Shirts" calendar in 2011 and 2016, with proceeds going to support LGBT high school athletes in the local area. Every season, DCGFFL takes a weekend off from games to host a day of service to volunteer for the local community.
The DCGFFL contributes annually to the Team DC Scholarship Fund, which supports local LGBTQ-identified student-athletes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike%20Index | Bike Index is a nonprofit online bike registry where anyone can register their bicycle for free. Bike Index is based in Chicago, Illinois. Unlike most other registers, the Bike Index database is openly available with an accessible API so that anyone can use it to find and return stolen bicycles. The registry being open to anyone can help track and recover bicycles in different cities or even countries, which would otherwise be difficult with multiple registries with closed access.
Users can register bikes themselves and specify frame serial numbers, list components, and any special characteristics and upload pictures. Bike Index affiliated organizations (i.e., some bike shops) can help the customer perform initial registration upon sale for free, and the customer can later update their registry as usual. In case of theft, the user can mark the bicycle as stolen at bikeindex.org, and having the complete bicycle information ready can also make it easier to file a police report. A user can also transfer the entry to another user if the bicycle changes ownership.
Bike Index also lets their users privately register serial numbers of the keys to their bike locks. Having the key registered can make it easier to contact the manufacturer for a replacement key in case the original key is lost.
History
The predecessor of Bike Index was the Stolen Bike Registry, founded in 2004 by Bryan Hance. Bike Index was founded in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign, and Stolen Bike Registry was merged into it in 2014.
In 2016, Bike Index announced integration with LeadsOnline, one of the USA's largest pawn search systems used by law enforcement officers to uncover stolen goods. According to Bryan Hance of Bike Index, "one of the first 'hits' was a bike that was stolen in Salt Lake City, Utah and pawned at a shop in Nevada — 400 miles away."
In 2017, data analysis by a student at the NYC Data Science Academy of the openly available Bike Index data showed that approximately a third of the cataloged bicycles were marked as stolen.
As of 2018, Bike Index has both national partner organizations in the US and international partner organizations across the six countries of Canada, China, India, Mozambique, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Bike Index claims to be the largest bike registry in the US, and the most widely used Bike Registry in the world.
How it works
Both stolen and non-stolen bikes can be registered and listed for free. The user can choose whether their bike information should be private or public and searchable.
By default, all serial numbers and other bike information is listed publicly to allow faster recovery by allowing everyone to look up the bicycle at Bike Index. This can be important in the early phase when a bicycle has been stolen but not reported stolen yet. If the bike has been marked as stolen at Bike Index, other Bike Index users can write the owner a message through their bike page.
Bike Index claims that restricting access to serial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Jensen | Kurt Jensen may refer to:
Kurt Jensen (musician) (1913–2011), Danish-Australian mandolin player
Kurt Jensen (computer scientist) (born 1950), Danish computer science professor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20H%C3%A4ndler | Wolfgang Händler (11 December 1920 in Potsdam – 19 February 1998) was a German mathematician, pioneering computer scientist and professor at Leibniz University Hannover (Lehrstuhl für elektronische Rechenanlagen) and University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung) known for his work on automata theory, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, man-machine interfaces and computer graphics.
Händler diagram (aka Mn graph, , , , , ) (1958)
See also
Händler's minimization graph
Telefunken
BESK
SUPRENUM (Supercomputer for Numerical Application)
(ECS)
Feng's classification
Flynn's taxonomy
Alwin Walther
Arthur Burks
Konrad Zuse
References
Further reading
External links
http://www.universitaetssammlungen.de/person/670
Author profile in the database zbMATH
1920 births
1998 deaths
20th-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists
Scientists from Potsdam
Computer science educators
Gdańsk University of Technology alumni
University of Kiel alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Academic staff of Saarland University
Academic staff of the University of Hanover
Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20census-designated%20places%20in%20Iowa%20by%20population | Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States that is divided into 99 counties and contains 62 census-designated places (CDPs). All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Census-Designated Places
See also
List of counties in Iowa
List of unincorporated communities in Iowa
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2012 | iOS 12 is the twelfth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. Aesthetically similar to its predecessor, iOS 11, it focuses more on performance than on new features, quality improvements and security updates. Announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, iOS 12 was released to the public on September 17, 2018. It was succeeded for the iPhone and iPod Touch by iOS 13 on September 19, 2019 and for the iPad by iPadOS 13 on September 24, 2019. Security updates for iOS 12 continued for five years following the release of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 for devices unable to run the newer versions. The last update, 12.5.7, was released on January 23, 2023.
Overview
iOS 12 was introduced by Craig Federighi at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address on June 4, 2018. The first developer beta version was released after the keynote presentation, with the first public beta released on June 25, 2018. The initial release of version 12.0 was on September 17, 2018.
System features
Performance
Performance optimizations were made in order to speed up common tasks across all supported iOS devices. Tests done by Apple on an iPhone 6 Plus showed apps launching 40% faster, the system keyboard activating 50% faster, and the camera opening 70% faster compared to iOS 11.
Screen Time
Screen Time is a new feature in iOS 12 that records the amount of time a user spent on the device. The feature also displays the amount of time the user used particular apps, the amount of time the user used particular categories of apps (such as games), and the number of notifications the user received.
Screen Time also provides blocking features to limit usage of apps (with time limits) or set other restrictions such as on purchases or explicit content. It replaces Restrictions in the iOS Settings app, but can also be used by adults to limit their own usage. These features can be used with or without a passcode. Without setting a passcode, the limits can easily be bypassed but may serve as a useful reminder of usage goals.
In January 2018, investors JANA Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System had issued a public letter to Apple, calling for them to take additional responsibility for the "unintentional negative consequences" that iPhones may have on younger users, and to seek out new ways to limit these effects. In June 2018, after the announcement of the Screen Time feature, Tim Cook publicly admitted that he "was spending a lot more time than [he] should" on his phone. JANA Partners and CalSTRS issued a second letter to express their support for the new feature.
Shortcuts
A dedicated application in iOS 12 allows users to set up Shortcuts, automated actions that the user can ask Siri to perform. Using the Shortcuts app, a user can create a phrase and type in the action they want Siri to do for them. Once they tell the phrase to Siri, Siri will automatically do the task they set for it in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20search%20appliance%20vendors | A search appliance is a type of computer which is attached to a corporate network for the purpose of indexing the content shared across that network in a way that is similar to a web search engine. It may be made accessible through a public web interface or restricted to users of that network. A search appliance is usually made up of: a gathering component, a standardizing component, a data storage area, a search component, a user interface component, and a management interface component.
Vendors of search appliances
Fabasoft
Google
InfoLibrarian Search Appliance™
Maxxcat
Searchdaimon
Thunderstone
Former/defunct vendors of search appliances
Black Tulip Systems
Google Search Appliance
Index Engines
Munax
Perfect Search Appliance
References
External links
7 Enterprise Search Appliances That Can Save the Day
Computer hardware
Information retrieval systems
Internet search
Computing-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh%20Saxena | Ashutosh Saxena is an Indian-American computer scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. His research interests include deep learning, robotics, and 3-dimensional computer vision. Saxena is the co-founder and CEO of Caspar.AI, which is an artificial intelligence company that automates peoples' homes and builds applications such as fall detectors for senior living. Prior to Caspar.AI, Ashutosh co-founded Cognical Katapult (NSDQ: KPLT), which provides a no credit required alternative to traditional financing for online and omni-channel retail. Before Katapult, Saxena was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and faculty director of the RoboBrain Project at Cornell University.
Education
Saxena received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2004. In 2009, with artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng as his advisor, Saxena received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science with an emphasis on artificial intelligence from Stanford University.
Career
In 2003, Ashutosh began his career as a research intern for Bose Corporation, where he developed mathematical models that use electronic circuits to engineer better speakers. Once Ashutosh completed his undergraduate degree, he became a researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, where he developed algorithmic models for medical devices. From 2010 to 2013, Saxena was the chief scientist of New York-based Holopad, where he worked with Steven Spielberg's team to create walkthroughs and 3D experiences for his movie TinTin.
Before Caspar, Saxena pursued other entrepreneurial ventures, such as ZunaVision, an artificial intelligence startup he co-founded with Andrew Ng that uses AI to assign advertising space within videos. Ashutosh served as the CTO of ZunaVision from 2008 to 2010. After ZunaVision, Saxena co-founded Cognical Katapult, which provided financing solutions to nonprime and underbanked consumers powered by artificial intelligence. From 2014 to 2016, Saxena served as the faculty director of the RoboBrain project, which was a joint venture that he started between Stanford University, Cornell University, Brown University, and the University of California, Berkeley that made a knowledge engine for robots.
Saxena co-founded Caspar.AI in 2015 with David Cheriton, who serves as chief scientist. Caspar.AI has been widely covered in several outlets including Forbes Japan, and MIT Technology Review. Ashutosh has been recognized for his work by receiving the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 2011, Google Faculty Research Award in 2012, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship in 2012, NSF Career award in 2013, One of the Eight Innovators to Watch by the Smithsonian Institution in 2015, and received TR35 Innovator Award by MIT Technology Review in 2018. He was named by San Francisco Business Times as a 40 under 40 young busines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2018–19 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2018 through August 2019. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2017-18 television season, for Canadian, American and other series.
CBC Television was first to announce its fall schedule on May 24, 2018, followed by Global on June 4, Citytv on June 5, and CTV and CTV 2 on June 7, 2018. As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after the networks have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. CTV 2 and Global are not included on Saturday as they normally only schedule encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
Legend
Light blue indicates Local Programming.
Grey indicates Encore Programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Magenta indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials.
Cyan indicates various programming.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold. Series that have changed network are not highlighted as new series.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time).
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
By network
CBC Television
Returning series:
22 Minutes
Anne
Back in Time for Winter
Baroness von Sketch Show
Battle of the Blades
Burden of Truth
Catastrophe
The Detectives
Diggstown
Dragons' Den
The Fifth Estate
Fortunate Son
Frankie Drake Mysteries
The Great Canadian Baking Show
Heartland
High Arctic Haulers
Hockey Night in Canada (shared with Citytv)
Little Dog
Kim's Convenience
Marketplace
Murdoch Mysteries
The National
The Nature of Things
Schitt's Creek
Still Standing
Vanity Fair
Workin' Moms
New series:
Canada's Smartest Person Junior
Coroner
Cavendish
In the Making
Unspeakable
Not returning from 2017-18:
Caught
Unspeakable
Rick Mercer Report
Versailles
Citytv
Returning series:
America's Got Talent
Bad Blood
The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
Black-ish
Bob's Burgers
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Dancing with the Stars
Family Guy
The Gifted (moved from CTV)
Hell's Kitchen
Hockey Night in Canada (shared with CBC)
Lethal Weapon
Life in Pieces
Modern Family
Mom
Murphy Brown
The Orville
The Simpsons (moved from Global)
New series:
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
The Cool Kids
Catch-22
Hudson & Rex
Manifest
A Million Little Things
Paradise Hotel
Rel
Single Parents
Songland
The Twilight Zone
Not returning from 2017-18:
The Blacklist (moved to Global)
Fubar: The Age of the Computer
Ghosted
LA to Vegas
The Last Man on Earth
Little Big Shots (returned for 2019-20)
The Mick
The Middle
The Mindy Project
New Girl
Nirvanna the Band the Show
The Resident (moved |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Initiative%20for%20Cybersecurity%20Education | The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is a partnership between government, academia, and the private sector focused supporting the country's ability to address current and future cybersecurity education and workforce challenges through standards and best practices. NICE is led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
History
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), established by President George W. Bush in January 2008, included over twelve Initiatives, one of which, Initiative 8, was aimed at making the Federal cybersecurity workforce better prepared to handle cybersecurity challenges.
In May 2009, the Cyberspace Policy Review, directed by President Barack Obama, elevated the CNCI Initiative 8, which had initially been focused on improving the Federal cybersecurity workforce's ability to perform cybersecurity work. The scope was expanded beyond the Federal workforce to include the private sector workforce, truly making it a national charge.
In March 2010, the Obama administration declassified limited material regarding the CNCI, making Initiative 8 public: Initiative #8. Expand cyber education. While billions of dollars are being spent on new technologies to secure the U.S. Government in cyberspace, it is the people with the right knowledge, skills, and abilities to implement those technologies who will determine success. However there are not enough cybersecurity experts within the Federal Government or private sector to implement the CNCI, nor is there an adequately established Federal cybersecurity career field. Existing cybersecurity training and personnel development programs, while good, are limited in focus and lack unity of effort. In order to effectively ensure our continued technical advantage and future cybersecurity, we must develop a technologically-skilled and cyber-savvy workforce and an effective pipeline of future employees. It will take a national strategy, similar to the effort to upgrade science and mathematics education in the 1950s, to meet this challenge. Additionally, the CNCI described training, education, and professional development programs as lacking “unity of effort”.
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 Title IV established the “National cybersecurity awareness and education program”, which is now known as the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).
Organization
NICE is headquartered at NIST facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The NICE Program Office activities are organized into three categories: government engagement, industry engagement, and academic engagement.
See also
List of computer security certifications
Cyber security standards
References
External links
Federal website for NICE
Workforce
Computer network security
Initiatives in the United States
2010 establishments in the United States
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS%20Mojave | macOS Mojave ( ; version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. Mojave was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, and was released to the public on September 24, 2018. The operating system's name refers to the Mojave Desert, and is part of a series of California-themed names that began with OS X Mavericks. It succeeded macOS High Sierra and was followed by macOS Catalina. macOS Mojave is the last version of macOS that features the iTunes and Dashboard apps.
macOS Mojave brings several iOS apps to the desktop operating system, including Apple News, Voice Memos, and Home. It also includes a more comprehensive "dark mode", is the final version of macOS to support 32-bit application software, is the last version of the macOS capable of being booted from an HFS+ partition without third-party patching, and is also the last version of macOS to support the iPhoto app, which had already been superseded in OS X Yosemite (10.10) by the newer Photos app.
Mojave was well received and was supplemented by point releases after launch.
Overview
macOS Mojave was announced on June 4, 2018, at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California. Apple pitched Mojave, named after the California desert, as adding "pro" features that would benefit all users. The developer preview of the operating system was released for developers the same day, followed by a public beta on June 26. The retail version of 10.14 was released on September 24, 2018.
System requirements
Mojave requires a GPU that supports Metal, and the list of compatible systems is more restrictive than the previous version, macOS High Sierra. Mojave drops support for various Macs released from late 2009 to 2011. Compatible models are the following Macintosh computers running OS X Mountain Lion or later:
iMac (Late 2012 or later)
iMac Pro (2017)
MacBook (Early 2015 or later)
MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or later)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or later)
Mac Mini (Late 2012 or later)
Mac Pro (2013, 2010–2012 supported with a Metal-capable graphics card)
macOS Mojave requires at least 2GB of RAM as well as 12.5GB of available disk space to upgrade from OS X El Capitan, macOS Sierra, or macOS High Sierra, or 18.5GB of disk space to upgrade from OS X Yosemite and earlier releases. Some features are not available on all compatible models. Mojave installations convert the installation volume to Apple File System (APFS), if the volume had not previously been converted from HFS+.
It is possible to install Mojave on many older Macintosh computers that are not officially supported by Apple. This requires using a patch to modify the install image.
Changes
System updates
macOS Mojave deprecates support for several legacy features of the OS. The graphics frameworks OpenGL and OpenCL are still supported by the operating system, but will no longer be maintained; developers are encouraged to use Apple's Metal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314%20Canadian%20network%20television%20schedule | The 2013–14 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2013 through August 2014. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2012-13 television season, for Canadian, American and other series.
CTV Two and Global are not included on Saturday as they normally only schedule encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
Legend
Light blue indicates Local Programming.
Grey indicates Encore Programming.
Light green indicates sporting events.
Red indicates Canadian content shows, which is programming that originated in Canada.
Magenta indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials.
Cyan indicates various programming.
Light yellow indicates the current schedule.
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold. Series that have changed network are not highlighted as new series.
All times given are in Canadian Eastern Time and Pacific Time (except for some live events or specials, including most sports, which are given in Eastern Time).
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Note: CTV aired The Tomorrow People at 7 p.m. during the fall.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
See also
2013–14 United States network television schedule
References
Canadian television schedules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela%20Chess%20Zero | Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source, and deep neural network–based chess engine and volunteer computing project. Development has been spearheaded by programmer Gary Linscott, who is also a developer for the Stockfish chess engine. Leela Chess Zero was adapted from the Leela Zero Go engine, which in turn was based on Google's AlphaGo Zero project. One of the purposes of Leela Chess Zero was to verify the methods in the AlphaZero paper as applied to the game of chess.
Like Leela Zero and AlphaGo Zero, Leela Chess Zero starts with no intrinsic chess-specific knowledge other than the basic rules of the game. Leela Chess Zero then learns how to play chess by reinforcement learning from repeated self-play, using a distributed computing network coordinated at the Leela Chess Zero website.
As of December 2022, Leela Chess Zero has played over 1.5 billion games against itself, playing around 1 million games every day, and is capable of play at a level that is comparable with Stockfish, the leading conventional chess program.
History
The Leela Chess Zero project was first announced on TalkChess.com on January 9, 2018. This revealed Leela Chess Zero as the open-source, self-learning chess engine it would come to be known as, with a goal of creating a strong chess engine. Within the first few months of training, Leela Chess Zero had already reached the Grandmaster level, surpassing the strength of early releases of Rybka, Stockfish, and Komodo, despite evaluating orders of magnitude fewer positions due to its deep neural network in its evaluation function and its use of Monte Carlo tree search.
In December 2018, the AlphaZero team published a new paper in Science magazine revealing previously undisclosed details of the architecture and training parameters used for AlphaZero. These changes were soon incorporated into Leela Chess Zero and increased both its strength and training efficiency.
The work on Leela Chess Zero has informed the similar AobaZero project for shogi.
The engine has been rewritten and carefully iterated upon since its inception, and now runs on multiple backends, allowing it to effectively utilize different types of hardware, both CPU and GPU.
The engine supports the Fischer Random Chess variant, and a network is being trained to test the viability of such a network as of May 2020.
Program and use
The method used by its designers to make Leela Chess Zero self-learn and play chess at above human level is reinforcement learning. This is a machine-learning algorithm, mirrored from AlphaZero used by the Leela Chess Zero training executable/binary code (called "binary") to maximize reward through self-play. As an open-source distributed computing project, volunteer users run Leela Chess Zero to play hundreds of millions of games which are fed to the reinforcement algorithm. In order to contribute to the advancement of the Leela Chess Zero engine, the latest non-release candidate (non-rc) version of the E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20%28typeface%29 | Network is a sans-serif typeface originally created by Monotype for use on the transport network in the Birmingham/West Midlands metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. The typeface is based on VAG Rounded, which was previously the typeface used by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive for public information in the county.
Network was in use for transport branding and signage until 2018, when it was phased out by Transport for West Midlands who introduced new shared branding across different transport modes, including the West Midlands Metro, using LL Circular by Lineto as the primary typeface.
See also
Public signage typefaces
Johnston (typeface) - the iconic typeface in use by Transport for London, in a similar fashion to Network
Notes
References
Government typefaces
Corporate typefaces
Transport in the West Midlands (county)
Sans-serif typefaces
Neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barons%20Group | The Barons Group is a collection of car and van dealerships owned by Group 1 Automotive.
The network is made up of over 70 new and used dealerships, and collision centres located across London, Anglia and South East England. Barons Group offers a range of lifestyle and luxury franchises.
History
In March 2007, Group 1 Automotive launched their UK operation - the Barons Group. The Barons Group was founded when Group 1 Automotive acquired their first BMW and MINI Dealerships based in Brighton, Hailsham and Worthing.
Essex Audi became part of the Barons Group in May 2012 when Group 1 Automotive acquired their first UK Audi dealerships. Made up of six Audi dealerships, Essex Audi is based in Chelmsford, Chingford, Colchester, Harold Wood, Stansted, Southend and surrounding areas.
In February 2013, Think Ford was founded. Originally part of Inchcape, the Farnborough, Guildford, Wokingham and Bracknell Ford Centres were acquired by Group 1 Automotive and became part of the Barons Group, and the Think Ford name was born.
In December 2014 Elms BMW and MINI were acquired to join the UK Barons Group network.
February 2016 saw Spire Automotive become part of Group 1 Automotive's subsidiary, the Barons Group, representing Audi, BMW, MINI, Volkswagen Commercial, SEAT and SKODA across Hertfordshire, London and Essex.
The Beadles Group was acquired by Group 1 Automotive in June 2017 to join their UK operation of Barons Group. Founded in 1987, the Beadles Group is based in Dartford, United Kingdom. Beadles represents Jaguar, Land Rover, Volkswagen, Kia, SKODA, Vauxhall and Toyota across Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.
In March 2018, the Barons Group acquired five Mercedes-Benz and three smart dealerships. Originally part of the Robinsons Motor Group, the Mercedes-Benz centres are based in Norwich, Peterborough, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds and King's Lynn, with smart dealers situated in Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough.
As of the 12th of January 2019 Barons Group has been rebranded under Group 1 Automotive.
Operations
As of June 2018, the Group 1 Automotive subsidiary Barons Group operates a UK network of 70 car and van dealerships.
The UK operation represents a wide range of vehicle manufacturers including premium brands such as Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz.
As well as premium brands, the Barons Group also represents lifestyle brands such as Ford, Kia, Toyota, ŠKODA, SEAT and Volkswagen.
References
Auto dealerships of the United Kingdom
Retail companies established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameAs | In data science, sameAs or exactMatch is a method of indicating that the subject of, or entity represented by, two resources is considered to be one and the same thing. It is a key part of the Semantic Web.
Uses
The concept of sameAs exists in a number of different schemas and systems:
JSON-LD
OWL - owl:sameAs
schema.org
SKOS - skos:exactMatch
Wikidata - Property:P2888 "exact match", with the alias "sameas"
The owl:sameAs predicate has been described as "an essential ingredient of the Semantic Web architecture".
Recognition
Google recognises sameAs relationships expressed via schema.org or JSON-LD, used by individuals or organisations, and uses them to populate the Google Knowledge panel in search results.
References
External links
sameAs.cc
sameas.org
`owl:sameAs` specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#sameAs-def
Semantic Web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujjwal%20Maulik | Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and a professor. He is the former chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He also held the position of the principal-in-charge and the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kalyani Government Engineering College.
Education
He did his schooling from Nabadwip Bakultala High School, Nabadwip, Nadia and Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, 24 Parganas (North) both in West Bengal. Subsequently, he completed B.Sc. in Physics and B. Tech. in Computer Science from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India in 1986 and 1989. He also received his M. Tech. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Engineering in 1992 and 1997 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He did post-doctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1999 and the University of Texas, Arlington, U.S. in 2001.
Research and other activities
Maulik and his research group have contributed towards the development of science and engineering especially in the areas of AI in Health Care, Bioinformatics, intelligent transport system, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, and Social and Biological Networks.
As an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher, he has worked at the German Cancer Research Center and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He was a senior associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy from 2012 to 2018.
He has also worked in Viswa Bharati University, India, Los Alamos National laboratory, USA, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA, Heidelberg University, Germany, Tsinghua University, China, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, University of Padova, Italy, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, University of Warsaw, Poland, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
He is the Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), National Academy Sciences India (NASI), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a Distinguish member of ACM. He is also a Distinguish Speaker of ACM and Distinguish Lecturer of IEEE CIS.
His research interests include data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, and the Internet of things. In these areas he has published twelve books.
Book
Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristic for Image Analysis, Wiley, UK, 2019
Soft Computing - Application to Image and Multimedia Data, Springer, Germany, 2013
Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Clustering: Applications in Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Springer, Germany, 2011
Awards and recognition
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Singapore, 2022.
Distinguish Speaker, IEEE CIS, 2022
Distinguish Member, ACM, 2021
Elected Fellow, National Acade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20C.%20Rosenthal | Mark C. Rosenthal is an American business executive who was the president and COO of MTV Networks from 1996 to 2004 and the CEO of Current TV from 2009 to 2011. He also served as an executive for Interpublic, Spot Runner, and, most recently, the Katz Media Group.
Career
Rosenthal began his career in 1980 working at CBS Cable, the arts and cultural network begun by CBS. In 1982, he joined the Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, the predecessor of Viacom's MTV Networks. He became executive vice president for affiliate sales and marketing for MTV Networks in the early 1990s. In August 1996, he was appointed to the newly created position of president and COO of MTV Networks where he was responsible for all of the day-to-day global business operations of the company and its properties which included MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, TV Land, and other cable networks. During Rosenthal's tenure, the company added Comedy Central and CMT (among others) to its list of properties.
In July 2004, he resigned his post at MTV Networks. At the time of his departure, the company had grown to make over $5 billion in annual revenue. In May 2005, he was hired as the chairman and CEO of media operations at the Interpublic Group (IPG) where he oversaw agencies like Universal McCann, Initiative Worldwide, and Magna Global. The new corporate entity he was in charge of eventually became Interpublic Media. In July 2006, Rosenthal took a medical leave of absence to treat colon cancer. In October 2006, IPG made the decision to dissolve Interpublic Media, and Rosenthal helped with the transition until leaving IPG at the end of 2006.
In April 2007, Rosenthal was asked to join the board of CNET. The following April, he was hired by Spot Runner to become vice chairman and president of that company's media platforms. At the company, Rosenthal oversaw the media-buying platform known as Project Malibu. In July 2009, he left Spot Runner to become the CEO of Current TV. Rosenthal had been on the company's board of directors for 4 years before his appointment to CEO. During his time at Current, Rosenthal oversaw a shift in content, opting for more long-form and investigative programming focusing on news analysis, political commentary, and documentaries. He was also responsible for recruiting Keith Olbermann to the network. In May 2011, Joel Hyatt, who co-founded Current with Al Gore and had been the company's CEO prior to Rosenthal, became co-CEO with Rosenthal. Rosenthal left Current two months later.
In September 2013, Rosenthal was appointed as the CEO of the Katz Media Group which is owned by iHeartMedia. At the time, the company represented over 3,000 radio stations and over 700 TV stations in the U.S. and Canada. In 2015, Rosenthal oversaw the creation of the first programmatic advertising platform for radio using Jelli technology called "Expressway". He ultimately decided to leave his post as CEO of Katz in March 2017, but stayed on at iHeartMedia in an advisory role.
Rosen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%2014%29 | The fourteenth season of the American reality television series titled Food Network Star premiered on June 10, 2018 on Food Network. Food Network chefs Bobby Flay and Giada de Laurentiis returned as judges.
Contestants
Winners
Christian Petroni - Port Chester, New York
Jess Tom - Princeton, New Jersey
Runner-up
Manny Washington - Orlando, Florida
Eliminated
Jason Goldstein - New York, New York
Chris Valdes - Miami, Florida
Samone Lett - Sanford, Florida
Rebekah Lingenfelser - Savannah, Georgia
Adam Gertler - Los Angeles, California
Harrison Bader - Los Angeles, California
Jess Tom - Princeton, New Jersey (returned to the competition after winning Star Salvation)
Katie Dixon - Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Palak Patel - New York, New York
Amy Pottinger - Honolulu, Hawaii
Contestant progress
: Manny was eliminated midway through the finale.
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and thus became the next Food Network Star.
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the selection committee's favorites for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed well enough to move on to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the selection committee's least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the selection committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Comeback Kitchen
Contestants
Trace Barnett, Season 13
Adam Gertler, Season 4
Debbie Lee, Season 5
Yaku Moton-Spruill, Season 12
Sarah Penrod, Season 10
Amy Pottinger, Season 13
Monterey Salka, Season 12
Jernard Wells, Season 12
Contestant progress
Star Salvation
This season of Star Salvation is hosted by Alex Guarnaschelli.
Contestant progress
Notes
1. Debbie was eliminated after the mentor challenge.
2. Yaku was eliminated after the mentor challenge.
3. Sarah and Jernard were eliminated after the star challenge.
4. Adam did not participate in Star Salvation.
References
2018 American television seasons
14 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Khabarovsk | The Tram in Khabarovsk () is the primary transportation in Khabarovsk, Russia. The first section opened on 5 November 1956. The last time the network was expanded in 1979. Today, the Khabarovsk Tram network consists of 4 operating routes.
List of routes
1. Chemical Pharmaceutical Factory – Khabarovsk Railway Station
2. Khabarovsk Railway Station – Ruberoidnyi zavod
5. Kirov Town – Khabarovsk Railway Station
6. No.19 School – Lazo District
See also
List of town tramway systems in Russia
References
External links
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20della%20Consolazione%20%28Perugino%29 | Madonna della Consolazione (English: Our Lady of Consolation) is an oil on panel painting by Perugino, datable ca. around 1496–1498. The work, completed in April 1498, was carried out in the Sala delle Udienze of the Collegio del Cambio. Since c. 1820 it is preserved in the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia.
History
The painting of the Mother of God under her title Our Lady of Consolation was accomplished for the Confraternita dei disciplinati di San Francesco in Perugia (lit: the Brotherhood of Disciples of Saint Francis in Perugia).
The figure of the Madonna is stylistically similar to works for which the artist's wife Chiara Fancelli modelled. Behind the Madonna and child are on both sides kneeling members of the brotherhood who wear their typical white cloaks with a badge. Above it are symmetrically arranged two angels in adoration, in the same manner as used for Perugino's San Francesco al Prato Resurrection, Madonna in Glory with Saints, Gonfalone della Giustizia and other works. The deep landscape background with a town in the distance is characteristic of the artist. He used a somewhat similar composition for the Tezi Altarpiece.
With the Napoleonic suppressions the Madonnna delle Consolatione was added to the collections of the National Gallery of Umbria.
References
Bibliography
Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino, in Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Florence, 2004
Pierluigi De Vecchi, Elda Cerchiari, I tempi dell'arte, volume 2, Bompiani, Milan, 1999
Stefano Zuffi, Il Quattrocento, Electa, Milan, 2004
Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Pietro Perugino
1498 paintings
Collections of the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria
Angels in art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmer%20%28given%20name%29 | Selmer is a masculine or feminine given name which may refer to:
Selmer Bringsjord (born 1958), American computer scientist
Selmer W. Gunderson (1890–1972), American politician
Selmer Jackson (1888–1971), American actor
Selmer M. Johnson (1916–1996), American mathematician
English unisex given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic%E2%80%93Adar%20index | The Adamic–Adar index is a measure introduced in 2003 by Lada Adamic and Eytan Adar to predict links in a social network, according to the amount of shared links between two nodes. It is defined as the sum of the inverse logarithmic degree centrality of the neighbours shared by the two nodes
where is the set of nodes adjacent to . The definition is based on the concept that common elements with very large neighbourhoods are less significant when predicting a connection between two nodes compared with elements shared between a small number of nodes.
References
Further reading
Data mining
Index numbers
Similarity measures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20Age | Interface Age, "published for the home computerist", was a computer magazine aimed at the early microcomputer and home computer market. Its first issue was published in August 1976 and the last one in September 1984. It had a technical focus for most of its print run.
The magazine started as the newsletter of the Southern California Computer Society, SCCS Interface, which was first published in December 1975. Its publisher, Robert S. Jones, offered to turn it into a professionally produced magazine and established an agreement with the SCCS in which the SCCS would provide a substantial part of the content of the magazine, while Jones would bear the costs of publishing and marketing, with the SCCS sharing in the profits. However, SCCS failed to produce a necessary flow of content, with Jones eventually providing all of the content through his own writers and columnists. Jones ended all connection with the SCCS, and the magazine became simply Interface Age. Its first issue under that name was released as Volume 1, Issue 9, continuing its numbering from the original publication.
Like many early personal computer magazines, Interface Age often contained type-in programs written in BASIC that could be used on most platforms of the era. It was perhaps best known for its use of "Floppy ROM"s, very thin vinyl record, known as "sound sheets" containing programs encoded in the Kansas City standard format. One of these included an implementation of a Tiny BASIC interpreter.
References
1976 establishments in California
1984 disestablishments in California
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1976
Magazines disestablished in 1984
Magazines published in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20S.%20Bain | Informed Sources links here, for the political discussion show see WYES-TV#Original programming
Willard S. Bain (May 4, 1938 – December 2, 2000) was an American writer.
Early life and education
Born Willard Slocum Bain Jr. in San Antonio, Texas, where his father was the president of the Mid-Texas Telephone Company, he graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1956 and enrolled in Reed College in Oregon, where he married his classmate Linda Logan in 1959 and graduated in 1960 with a BA in literature.
Career
After college he worked on the Desert Dispatch in Barstow, California before relocating to San Francisco where he worked for the Associated Press news wire service and collaborated with his former Reed classmate Jon Appleton writing musical comedies.
In March 1967 his novel Informed Sources: Day East Received, a satirical allegory of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the form of fictional news wire bulletins, was distributed in an edition of about 500 mimeographed copies by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward's hippie news bureau, the Communications Company, which distributed daily (and sometimes hourly) broadsides on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury district before and during the Summer of Love. Informed Sources was reissued by Doubleday in 1969, and in England by Faber in 1970 (). The book was critically well-received. Lawrence Lipton in the Los Angeles Free Press wrote: "The author, whoever he is, is the master arsonist of ideas, a light-bringer as well as a fire-bringer. This book may turn out to be the first major work of the hip era in writing."
Bain opened a bookstore called Paper Ships in Corte Madera, California in 1970.
References
External links
1938 births
2000 deaths
Reed College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishdom%20H2O%3A%20Hidden%20Odyssey | Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey is a hidden treasure hunting game released on April 10, 2009 by Russian studio Playrix. The game was originally released for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers, but was later released for the Nintendo 3DS on July 4, 2013 in North America. The game has the player go through the game as Jennifer (Jennie), an intern at a marine biology institute. Her grandpa, called Grandpa Jack throughout the game, says that she should create fish tanks with unique fish and decorations over her summer break in order to impress her boss, Old Barny. The game then has you dive for hidden treasure in various levels. The items the player must find are taken off of a list given to the player by Grandpa Jack. When all of the items are found, the player is rewarded with various amounts of money based on the speed of the items found and how many hints were used. The money you gain from diving can be used to purchase fish, decorations, and equipment (filter for the tank, fish vitamins, etc.).
Gameplay
The player must dive for treasure in 5 different levels and retrieve 12 items on a list given to them by Grandpa Jack. The game has over 1000 items, though sometimes different lists will have the same items. When all 12 items on the list have been found the player is rewarded with money. The amount of money depends on the speed that all of the items were found and how many hints were used. The money that the player receives is used to buy fish, decorations, and equipment. The aquarium has three meters, fish, beauty, and comfort. Fish fill up the fish meter, decorations fill up the beauty meter, and equipment fill up the comfort meter. Once all three meters have been filled, the player is rewarded a trophy for that tank. Then, the meters reset, and you have to buy even more items, fish, and equipment to fill them back to 100%. In order to fill the fish meter the second time, the player must buy at least 10 fish, though more expensive fish fill up the meter faster. To fill the beauty meter to 100%, the player must buy all decorations available for that tank, and the same goes for the comfort meter. Each tank can only have one of each decoration and piece of equipment, though you can have unlimited fish. There are three tanks in the game, Hawaiian Vacation, Jolly Roger, and Wild West. Each aquarium has its own set of decorations and fish, though equipment remains the same. In addition to the classic treasure hunt mode, when the player dives for treasure, they will sometimes randomly be assigned a speed challenge mode, where faster finding means much more money, a collection mode where the player must find 10 of the same item in a time limit, and gold rush, where the player gets as money gold items as possible. Gold rush rewards much more money than the other modes, but is the most uncommon mode to get.
References
2009 video games
Action-adventure games
MacOS games
Nintendo 3DS games
Scuba diving video games
Video games developed in Russia
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballerina%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ballerina is an open source general-purpose programming language designed by WSO2 for cloud-era application programmers.
The project started in 2015 by architects from WSO2 as a code-based alternative to the configuration-based integration tools such as EAI, ESB, and workflow products.
It has various constructs geared toward cloud-native development including support for various data formats and protocols, reliability, distributed transactions, APIs, and event streams.
History
Ballerina was first publicly announced in 2017 and version 1.0 was released on September 10, 2019.
Design
Ballerina is a general-purpose language with a familiar syntax along with a direct graphical representation of the code in the form of sequence diagrams. It has fundamental abstractions designed to make integration problems easier to program. Ballerina was designed by WSO2 to improve productivity for application developers that have to work with distributed computing. It is easy to write and modify and is suitable for application programmers.
The designers, who provided enterprise integration products for over 10 years, used their knowledge of the industry when designing the language, says WSO2 director and Ballerina founder James Clark.
Examples
Hello World
The regular Hello World program:
import ballerina/io;
public function main() {
io:println("Hello World!");
}
To execute the above program, place the source code in a .bal file and provide the path of the file to the bal run command.
$ ballerina run hello_world.bal
Hello World!
The service version of the Hello World program:
import ballerina/http;
service /greet on new http:Listener(9090) {
resource function get . () returns string {
return "Hello World!";
}
}
Services are executed in the same manner, except they don't terminate like regular programs do. Once the service is up and running, one can use an HTTP client to invoke the service. For example, the above service can be invoked using the following cURL command:
$ curl http://localhost:9090/greet
Hello World!
REST API
import ballerina/http;
service on new http:Listener(9090) {
resource function post factorial(@http:Payload string payload) returns http:Ok|http:BadRequest {
int|error num = int:fromString(payload);
if num is error {
return <http:BadRequest>{body: "Invalid integer: " + payload};
}
if num < 0 {
return <http:BadRequest>{body: "Integer should be >= 0"};
}
int result = 1;
foreach int i in 2 ... num {
result *= i;
}
return <http:Ok>{body: result};
}
}
$ curl http://localhost:9090/factorial -d 5
120
GraphQL API
import ballerina/graphql;
service /stocks on new graphql:Listener(4000) {
resource function get quote() returns StockQuote {
return {
ticker: "EXPO",
price: 287.5,
open: 285,
prevClose: 285.5,
low: 276.25,
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Currents | Computer Currents was a freely distributed United States computer magazine, with local editions across the country. It was often described as a resource for computer shoppers and users, and compared to other regional computer magazines like MicroTimes.
It was launched in 1983 as Computer Classifieds, and was renamed Computer Currents in 1984. Initially distributed in Northern California, the magazine established a franchise in Atlanta in 1987, Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston in 1988, and Chicago in 1993. By 1987, there were also regional editions for Southern California, Austin, New York, and Boston.
As of 1988, it was published biweekly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and monthly in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Texas (Houston, Dallas, Austin), and Atlanta. The magazine's media kit described an audited monthly circulation of approximately 612,000 readers.
The magazine was acquired by and merged into Computer User magazine in 2000.
Computer Currents described itself as:Computer Currents is the 411/911 magazine. It's a source of help and information for PC and Mac business users of all stripes. Computer Currents doesn't torture-test 200 modems or devote space to industry chitchat. Instead, it focuses on real-world solutions for PC and Mac business users, showing them how to buy products, what products to buy, where to buy them, and how to use them. Computer Currents is fundamentally pro-consumerist, and we'll go undercover to ferret out sloppy service and scams. We're also not afraid to poke fun at the industry. In fact, our Gigglebytes column by Lincoln Spector makes a point of it.The ISSN for the original Bay Area edition was 1090–7572.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1993
Magazines published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Magazines disestablished in 2000
Free magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size-change%20termination%20principle | The size-change termination principle (SCT) guarantees termination for a computer program by proving that infinite computations always trigger infinite descent in data values that are well-founded. Size-change termination analysis utilizes this principle in order to solve the universal halting problem for a certain class of programs. When applied to general programs, the principle is intended to be used conservatively, which means that if the analysis determines that a program is terminating, the answer is sound, but a negative answer means "don't know". The decision problem for SCT is PSPACE-complete; however, there exists an algorithm that computes an approximation of the decision problem in polynomial time. Size-change analysis is applicable to both first-order and higher-order functional programs, as well as imperative programs and logic programs. The latter application preceded by four years the general formulation of the principle by Lee et al.
Overview
The size-change termination principle was introduced by Chin Soon Lee, Neil D. Jones, and Amir M. Ben-Amram in 2001. It relies on intermediary objects called size-change graphs that describe the relationship between source and destination parameters in a given function call (for a functional program). The method analyzes these graphs to make conclusions about the existence of monotonically decreasing sequences of parameters throughout the execution of a program. The size-change termination principle is stated as such:If every infinite computation would give rise to an infinitely decreasing value sequence (according to the size-change graphs), then no infinite computation is possible.Size-change graphs express both the possible presence of a function call as well as whether parameters within function call decrease or do not increase. In order to derive termination from size-change graphs, Lee at al. formulate a sufficient condition in terms of the graphs (with no reference to the underlying program). This condition is decidable by an algorithm that operates solely on the graphs.
Size-change termination analysis is related to abstract interpretation, in particular to a technique called predicate abstraction.
Relationship to the halting problem
The halting problem for Turing-complete computational models states that the decision problem of whether a program will halt on a particular input, or on all inputs, is undecidable. Therefore, a general algorithm for proving any program to halt does not exist. Size-change termination is decidable because it only asks whether termination is provable from given size-change graphs.
References
External links
Amir Ben-Amram's SCT web page
Theory of computation
Static program analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON%20Web%20Encryption | JSON Web Encryption (JWE) is an IETF standard providing a standardised syntax for the exchange of encrypted data, based on JSON and Base64. It is defined by . Along with JSON Web Signature (JWS), it is one of the two possible formats of a JWT (JSON Web Token). JWE forms part of the JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) suite of protocols.
Vulnerabilities
In March 2017, a serious flaw was discovered in many popular implementations of JWE, the invalid curve attack.
One implementation of an early (pre-finalised) version of JWE also suffered from Bleichenbacher’s attack.
References
JSON
Internet Standards
Cryptographic protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential%20decision%20making | In artificial intelligence, sequential decision making refers to algorithms that take the dynamics of the world into consideration, thus delaying parts of the problem until it must be solved. It can be described as a procedural approach to decision-making, or as a step by step decision theory. Sequential decision making has as a consequence the intertemporal choice problem, where earlier decisions influences the later available choices.
References
Decision-making |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seren%20Network | The Seren Network is a set of eleven regional hubs in Wales to help sixth-formers in Welsh state schools to get into Russell Group universities. It was formed by the Labour Welsh government in 2015 in response to a fall in Welsh students applying to Oxbridge It includes around 2000 students.
Foundation
Murphy report
From 2008 to 2012 the number of Welsh students admitted to Oxbridge fell from 96 to 76. As a result, the politician Paul Murphy MP, who had studied history at Oriel College, Oxford, was asked by Education Secretary Leighton Andrews to become Wales's "Oxbridge Ambassador" and produce a report on the issue in 2013. Murphy took advice from Cambridge's Master of Magdalene College, Rowan Williams and Senior Tutor of Churchill College, Richard Partington. His team included seconded staff from both universities and their work involved comparing admissions between Wales and North East England. When published in 2014, the report commended the example of Swansea HE+, a consortium hub based in Gower College Swansea, partnered with Churchill College. The report recommended that the Welsh Government "Establish a network of hubs including pilot regions." The report recommended that 12 hubs be established, and that alumni be used as speakers to encourage applications.
Pilot
In response, hubs were piloted immediately in certain regions by the new Education Secretary, Huw Lewis. The nationwide network was then formally established in November 2015, with a broader mandate to encourage applications to all top universities. It consisted of 11 hubs, targeting not only Oxbridge but also more broadly the Russell Group and Sutton Trust 30 leading UK Universities, as well as institutions abroad such as Yale and Harvard.
Activities
Ambassadors
Initially, the network held a conference in December 2015 to launch the network and for teachers to share information. They then appealed for Welsh graduates from top universities to act as ambassadors and talk at the network's events. Those who responded included Sian Lloyd, a BBC News correspondent who studied law at the University of Leicester; Gareth Davies, Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union; Ciaran Jenkins, a journalist at Channel 4 who studied music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; and Chris Bryant, a Member of Parliament who studied at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Access fellows
The network's hubs have arranged talks and workshops from universities' lecturers and access fellows to encourage Welsh university applications. From Cambridge University Seren specifically works with Churchill College in South Wales and Magdalene College in North Wales. Similarly, at Oxford University the network liaises with Jesus College, Lady Margaret Hall and St Peter's College.
Conferences
The network's first national conference for Year 12 students was held in Newtown, Powys in March 2017. 800 students attended to meet representatives from universities including Oxford, Cambridge, King's College, London and Imperial College, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Scott%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kevin Scott (born 1972) serves as Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. He was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn from February 2011 – January 2017.
Education
Kevin Scott grew up in Gladys, Virginia. He holds a bachelor's degree from Lynchburg College in computer science and a master's degree from Wake Forest University in computer science.
He enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.
Career
Kevin Scott started his career at Google in 2003 and held numerous positions in search and ads engineering, including receiving a Google Founders' Award, before leaving the company in 2007. He was VP of engineering and operations at AdMob from July 2007 to June 2010. Google acquired AdMob in 2010 for $750 million (~$ in ) and Scott became Sr. Engineering Director of mobile ads engineering at Google.
LinkedIn
Kevin Scott joined professional networking site LinkedIn in February 2011, as senior vice president for engineering. LinkedIn held its initial public offering in May 2011 and Scott was credited with scaling the company's computer systems to keep up with accelerating demand. Business Insider called Scott "the engineer who saved LinkedIn".
Microsoft
In January 2017, soon after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, Scott was named Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer by CEO Satya Nadella. He retained the title of senior vice president of infrastructure at LinkedIn until September 2017. Scott described himself as feeling "like a kid in a candy store" because of all the exciting technologies Microsoft is working on.
Nonprofits and boards
Kevin Scott is the founder of Behind The Tech, a non-profit organization that profiles people that work in technology on its website through photographs and interviews with the goal of inspiring others. In 2014, Kevin and his wife Shannon Hunt-Scott created The Scott Foundation, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that focuses on issues such as education, hunger and STEM for children. He is also an emeritus trustee of the Anita Borg Institute and was a founding member of the ACM Professions Board. He advises several startups, is on the board of directors for Magic and is an angel investor.
Since January 17, 2021, he is member of the board of directors of the automobile manufacturer Stellantis as non-executive Director and member of the ESG Committee.Presentation at Stellantis global website
References
External links
Microsoft official profile
Living people
Chief technology officers
Businesspeople from Virginia
21st-century American businesspeople
American technology executives
University of Virginia alumni
American computer scientists
Microsoft employees
1972 births
Google employees
LinkedIn people
People from Campbell County, Virginia
Wake Forest University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20entities | Algorithmic entities refer to autonomous algorithms that operate without human control or interference. Recently, attention is being given to the idea of algorithmic entities being granted (partial or full) legal personhood. Professor Shawn Bayern and Professor Lynn M. LoPucki popularized through their papers the idea of having algorithmic entities that obtain legal personhood and the accompanying rights and obligations.
Legal algorithmic entities
Academics and politicians have been discussing over the last few years whether it is possible to have a legal algorithmic entity, meaning that an algorithm or AI is granted legal personhood. In most countries, the law only recognizes natural or real persons and legal persons. The main argument is that behind every legal person (or layers of legal persons), there is eventually a natural person.
In some countries there have been made some exceptions to this in the form of the granting of an environmental personhood to rivers, waterfalls, forests and mountains. In the past, some form of personhood also existed for certain religious constructions such as churches and temples.
Certain countries – albeit for publicity purposes – have shown willingness to grant (some form of) legal personhood to robots. On the 27th of October 2017, Saudi Arabia became to first country in the world to grant citizenship to a robot when it gave “Sophia” a passport. In the same year, official residency status was granted to a chatbot named “Shibuya Mirai” in Tokyo, Japan.
The general consensus is that AI in any case cannot be regarded as a natural or real person and that granting AI (legal) personhood at this stage is unwanted from a societal point of view. However, the academic and public discussions continue as AI software becomes more sophisticated and companies are increasingly implementing artificial intelligence to assist in all aspects of business and society. This leads to some scholars to wonder whether AI should be granted legal personhood as it is not unthinkable to one day have a sophisticated algorithm capable of managing a firm completely independent of human interventions.
Brown argues that the question of whether legal personhood for AI may be granted is tied directly to the issue of whether AI can or should even be allowed to legally own property. Brown “concludes that that legal personhood is the best approach for AI to own personal property.” This is an especially important inquiry since many scholars already recognize AI as having possession and control of some digital assets or even data. AI can also create written text, photo, art, and even algorithms, though ownership of these works is not currently granted to AI in any country because it is not recognized as a legal person.
United States
Bayern (2016) argues that this is already possible currently under US law. He states, that, in the United States, creating an AI controlled firm without human interference or ownership is already possible under cur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXPM-LP | KXPM-LP (100.3 FM) is a low-power broadcast radio station licensed to Perham, Minnesota.
The station receives part of its programming from Relevant Radio with local inserts and announcements.
References
External links
Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Low-power FM radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 2016
2016 establishments in Minnesota
Christian radio stations in Minnesota
Relevant Radio stations
Catholic Church in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5%20%28Nuremberg%29 | The S5 is a service on the Nuremberg S-Bahn network since 13 December 2020.
History
The Allersberg-Express has been integrated as the S5 in the system of the Nuremberg S-Bahn. For this purpose, a request for tender for a 12-year transport contract was made in mid-2013, which will provide annually seven million train kilometers. The timetable is expected to remain largely unchanged, and new vehicles will be used on the route. The Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft renounced according to own data for cost reasons to announce the new offer together with the München-Nürnberg-Express. An extension, for example to Ansbach, will be examined. In January 2015, the Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft announced that the National Express Germany had won both lots of the Nuremberg S-Bahn and thus also the Allersberg-Express and will operate this from December 2018. On 19 December 2016, it was decided that DB Regio Franken would continue operating the S5 from 2018 onwards. The new "S5" started service with the December 2020 schedule change. It is operated with two Alstom Coradia Continental (DB Class 1440) specially equipped with LZB to be able to operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway.
Network
References
External links
Nuremberg S-Bahn lines
2020 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy%20Nancy%20%28TV%20series%29 | Fancy Nancy (titled Fancy Nancy Clancy internationally) is an American computer-animated children's television series developed by Jamie Mitchell and Krista Tucker and produced by Disney Television Animation for Disney Junior based on the eponymous children's picture book series by Jane O'Connor with illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. The show follows the adventures of Nancy Clancy, a 6- (and then later 7-) year-old girl who loves everything fancy and French, while living with her family and friends in a fictional version of Plainfield, Ohio.
The series premiered on July 13, 2018, in the United States and in Canada the following day. Disney Junior renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on October 4, 2019, in the United States. On September 18, 2019, a third season was commissioned, and Krista Tucker confirmed that it would be the last for the entire series. The third season began simulcasting on Disney Junior, DisneyNOW and Disney+ on November 12, 2021. The series finale aired on February 18, 2022. Fancy Nancy received generally positive reviews from critics.
Premise
Six-year-old Nancy Clancy enjoys fancy and French things that range from her outfit to her creative elaborate attire as she plans to teach some fanciness to her ordinary family and her friends.
Characters
Nancy Margaret Clancy (voiced by Mia Sinclair Jenness) is a little girl who enjoys fancy things and is a bit of Francophile; she loves France and can speak French. She was 6 years old until the episode "Nancy's Parfait Birthday!", where she turned 7. Her favorite color is fuchsia, and she adores butterflies; she has an adorable Golden Doodle named Frenchy, her own secret delivery mailbox to share all her party invitations with her best friend Bree, and own playhouse. She also has a doll named Marabelle and sometimes carries her everywhere. Her mother sometimes uses her full name when she is in trouble. Her middle name is Margaret after her late maternal grandmother. In "Paris, Adieu!", Nancy starts saving money in hopes of eventually affording to visit Paris; she finally completes her goal in the series finale.
Josephine Jane "JoJo" Clancy (voiced by Spencer Moss) is Nancy's little sister. She has an imaginary friend named Dudley, is a PIT (Pirate in Training), loves to help, is 3 years old but she turned 4 in "Big Top Nancy", laughs a lot, and loves her stuffed animal "Mr. Monkey".
Doug (voiced by Rob Riggle) and Claire Clancy (voiced by Alyson Hannigan) are Nancy and Jojo's parents.
Mrs. Dolores Devine (voiced by Christine Baranski) is Nancy's elderly widowed neighbor. Her name is a play on the word "divine". Her late husband's name was Ronnie.
Frank Anderson (voiced by George Wendt) is Nancy's widowed maternal grandfather. He fixes a leaky pipe in "Nancy Goes to Work" where he's called "Grandpa Frank". His late wife was named "Margaret."
Frenchy (voiced by Fabio Tassone) is Nancy's Golden Doodle.
Poppy (Sid Clancy) (voiced by John Ratzenberger) is N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%2023 | Explorer 23 (also called S-55C) was the last of three S-55 NASA micrometeoroid satellites launched as part of the Explorer program. Its purpose was to obtain data on the near-earth meteoroid environment, thus providing an accurate estimate of the probability of penetration in spacecraft structures by meteoroids and allowing a more confident definition of the penetration flux-material thickness relation to be derived.
Spacecraft
The cylindrically shaped spacecraft, about , was built around the burned-out fourth stage of the Scout launch vehicle, which remained as part of the orbiting satellite. Explorer 23 carried stainless steel pressurized-cell penetration detectors, impact detectors, and cadmium sulfide cell detectors to obtain data on the size, number, distribution, and momentum of dust particles in the near-earth environment. In addition, the spacecraft was designed to provide data on the effects of the space environment on the operation of capacitor penetration detectors and solar cell power supplies. The spacecraft mass, neglecting the fourth stage vehicle hardware and motor, was .
Experiments
Cadmium Sulfide Cells
The objective of this experiment was to determine the size of penetrating meteoroids by measuring the size of holes produced by the impacts in two thicknesses of a plastic film using two light-sensitive Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) cells. The cells were both mounted on the forward face of the spacecraft, one beneath a sheet of 6.35-micron-thick PET film and the other beneath a sheet of 3.18-micron-thick PET film. Each detector provided 24-cm2 of surface area exposed to meteoroids. Each sheet of PET film had a thin coating of aluminum deposited on both sides. Penetration of the aluminized PET sheets would allow sunlight (direct or reflected) to illuminate the cell and reduce its resistance, the cell being calibrated to relate the resistance change to accumulative hole sizes in the PET film. Prior to liftoff, all detectors were functioning properly; however, on the first interrogation made shortly after fourth stage burnout, it was found that the CdS cells were saturated with light. Apparently the aluminized PET film covers were damaged during launch, preventing data acquisition.
Capacitor Detectors
The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether the space radiation environment had any adverse effects on the operation of the capacitor as a meteoroid-penetration detector. Observations in the laboratory indicated that energetic electrons in space might collect in the dielectric and produce false penetration counts. The instrumentation consisted essentially of two capacitors made up of a thin film polymer dielectric (bilaminate 3.8-micron thick, half-hard, type 302), which served as one electrode. A copper layer, about 0.65-micron thick, was vacuum-deposited on the outer surface of the dielectric, thus permitting it to serve as the second electrode. The capacitors were each mounted on a 0.63-cm-thick layer of polyurethane foam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried%20Wilhelm%20Leibniz%20bibliography | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a major contributor to mathematics, physics, philosophy, theology, logic, and early computer science; independent inventor of calculus in mathematics; inventor of energy and the action principle in physics; jurist, genealogist, diplomat, librarian; worked towards reunification of Catholic and Protestant faiths.
This in-progress article will list all his published and unpublished works primarily based on the Leibniz Library in Hannover, and its online catalog.
Table of works
Notes:
1. Dates in the table refer to the estimated date of completion of manuscripts if first publication occurred after Leibniz's death (1716).
2. Title and description link to English Wikipedia article if available.
See also
Leibniz outline
Transcribed collections
Collected Letters 1691–1693 (Hannover, 5th Band)
Opera omnia, nunc primum collectas; at Bibliothèque nationale de France
References
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Works by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Reform%20Initiative | The Arab Reform Initiative (), is a leading independent think-tank consisting of a network of independent Arab research and policy institutes, with partners from the Middle East, the Maghreb, Europe, South America, and the United States. It was founded in 2005; the executive director is Nadim Houry.
Members
In Arab countries
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Egypt
Arab Forum for Alternatives, Egypt
Arab Reform Forum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research - Baseera, Egypt
The Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan
Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon
Center D’Etudes et de Recherches en Sciences Sociales (CERSS), Morocco
Palestinian Center for Political and Survey Research, Palestine
King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Center for Sudanese Studies, Sudan
EtanaCenter, Syria
Syrian League for Citizenship, Syria
L'Observatoire Tunisien de la Transition Démocratique, Tunisia
Gulf Research Center, United Arab Emirates
Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights, Yemen
In Europe
European Institute for Security Studies, France
Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece
Casa Árabe, Spain
Center for European Reform, United Kingdom
In the Americas
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
US Middle East Project, United States.
Projects
The Supporting Arab Women at the Table (SAWT) Project
The Arab Hub for Social Protection against COVID-19
References
External links
Official Website
Political and economic think tanks based in Asia
Think tanks established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20monarchy | The network monarchy () is a conceptual framework developed by some academics of Thai politics to describe a political network involved in active interventions in the political process by the monarch and his proxies under the country's constitutional monarchy system. The monarch works with and through other political agencies, such as the elected parliament, and the consensus among the Thai elite is essential. The ideology is generally situated within right-wing politics, but may take on liberal features.
Definitions
Network monarchy was coined by Duncan McCargo in his influential journal article, 'Network monarchy and legitimacy crises in Thailand' in 2006. It involved active interventions in the political activity by King Bhumibol and his proxies, notably former prime minister and Privy Council President, Prem Tinsulanond. It developed considerable influence, but never achieved the conditions for domination, instead working through institutions in the government or parliament. It is essentially conservative, but also took on liberal forms during the 1990s. His work argued that widely used ideas such as constitutional monarchy, bureaucratic polity, transitional democracy and political reform failed to capture the recent politics of Thailand since the 1990s. In place of these ideas, McCargo proposed a model for Thai politics from the 1973 Thai popular uprising to the Thaksin Shinawatra era where the leading network was centred on the monarchy.
Ferrara claimed, shortly before the Supreme Court of Thailand delivered its verdict to seize Thaksin Shinawatra's assets, that the judiciary was a well-established part of Bhumibol's network and represented his main avenue to exercise extra-constitutional prerogatives despite having the appearance of being constitutional. He also noted how, in comparison to the Constitutional Court's 2001 acquittal of Thaksin, the judiciary was a much more important part of the "network" than it was in the past.
Asa Kumpha, Thai Khadi Research Institute, Thammasat University, attempted to give an analytical study on the relationship between the network monarchy and the Thai elite network. His study found the formation and dynamics of the network monarchy that correlates to the royal hegemony of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in each period. Asa noted that the consensus among the Thai elite is essential for the network.
Background
Since the 1991 coup and the Black May crisis in 1992, Prem Tinsulanond, President of the Privy Council of Thailand, acted on behalf of the monarch to restore political equilibrium. However, following the landslide election victories of popular prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2001 and 2005, Thaksin sought to displace network monarchy with new networks of his own formulation.
The network's ability to exercise power is based partly on Bhumibol's popularity and strict control of Bhumibol's popular image. According to Jost Pachaly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Bhumibol "plays an important role beh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Network%20%28Spanish%20TV%20channel%29 | Paramount Network is a Spanish free-to-air television network primarily programmed in a general entertainment format.
It was originally launched on March 30, 2012, as Paramount Channel, primarily broadcasting films from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as recent television series.
In May 2018, Viacom announced that the Spanish version of the channel would relaunch as Paramount Network (itself a relaunch of the former U.S. network Spike) on 10 June 2018, switching to a general entertainment format with television series and films.
Programming
Charmed
Columbo
Father Brown
The Librarians
Alice Nevers
Atrapa a un ladrón
Agatha Christie: Miss Marple
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Alaska y Mario
Alice Nevers
Cazatesoros
Central de cómicos
Cinexpress
Candice Renoir
Diagnosis: Murder
Don Matteo
Endeavour
Father Brown (2013 TV series)
Fotogramas TV
Gotham
Grantchester
Houdini & Doyle
Informe criminal
La Señora
Little House on the Prairie
Los vecinos en guerra
Man in an Orange Shirt
Mary Higgins Clark
Midsomer Murders
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
MovieBerto
Murder, She Wrote
Murdoch Mysteries
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: New Orleans
Papel pintado
Pata negra
Peliculeros
Scorpion
Section de recherches
Sherlock
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Un passo dal cielo
Waco
Yellowstone
References
Television networks in Spain
Paramount Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorimotor%20network | The sensorimotor network (SMN), also known as somatomotor network, is a large-scale brain network that primarily includes somatosensory (postcentral gyrus) and motor (precentral gyrus) regions and extends to the supplementary motor areas (SMA). The auditory cortex may also be included. The SMN is activated during motor tasks, such as finger tapping, indicating that the network readies the brain when performing and coordinating motor tasks.
Clinical significance
Dysfunction in the SMN has been implicated in various neuropsychiatric disorders.
Bipolar Disorder: The psychomotor disturbances that characterize the depressive and manic phases of bipolar disorder may be related to dysfunction in the sensorimotor network (SMN) and its balance with other large-scale networks such as the default mode network.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Altered functional connectivity patterns in the SMN may contribute to various symptoms in the neurodegenerative disease .
Nomenclature
In 2019, Uddin et al. proposed that pericentral network (PN) be used as a standard anatomical name for the network.
References
Neuroscience
Brain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathmaze%205000 | Deathmaze 5000 is TRS-80 computer game written by Frank Corr, Jr. and published by Med Systems Software in 1980. It was ported to the Apple II and followed by the second game in the Continuum series, Labyrinth.
Gameplay
Deathmaze 5000 is a first-person graphic adventure in which the player move through the labyrinthine hallways of a five-story building to escape and avoid starving to death. The adventurer must fight monsters, collect objects, and solve puzzles.
Reception
Russ Williams reviewed Deathmaze 5000 in The Space Gamer No. 47. Williams commented that "Deathmaze 5000 is an excellent game which will not be solved in a few weeks. If you like the prospect of a game that could last you for a very long time, get it. It's better than many [more expensive] games I've seen, both in price and in gaming value."
Reviews
Computer and Video Games
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
Deathmaze 5000 disassembly and analysis
1980 video games
Apple II games
Horror video games
Med Systems Software games
Survival video games
TRS-80 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein%3A%20Cyberpilot | Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot is a first-person shooter video game developed by Arkane Lyon in conjunction with MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks. A spin-off in the Wolfenstein series, Cyberpilot is a virtual reality experience. The game was released for Windows PC and PlayStation 4 in July 2019. It received mixed or average reviews upon release.
Gameplay
Unlike previous entries, Cyberpilot is a virtual reality experience. Cyberpilot is a side story that takes place chronologically a week prior to the events of Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Set twenty years after the events of The New Colossus, the protagonist is depicted as a computer hacker known as Cyberpilot who works for the French Resistance against the Nazi regime. Through hacking, the player character takes over hostile armored war machines and uses them against Nazi soldiers. The game features four levels and three pilotable machines, including the Panzerhund, the Zitadelle, and a small drone for a stealth mission. During combat, players can occasionally deploy a shield to defend themselves. In between missions, players can explore a Resistance bunker.
Development
Cyberpilot was primarily developed by Arkane Studios in Lyon, with franchise developer MachineGames providing additional development. Arkane Lyon envisioned the game as a "different" kind of Wolfenstein game, and therefore, did not try to emulate the gameplay of the main games in the series. The game was announced by publisher Bethesda Softworks during its press conference during E3 2018. It was released on July 26, 2019 for Windows PC and PlayStation 4.
Both Cyberpilot and Youngblood were the first in the franchise to make use of the "social adequacy clause" introduced by Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK; the German software ratings board) in August 2018, which allowed the use of Nazi imagery and symbols in video games in relevant scenarios, reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Despite being officially rated by USK, major German retailers, such as MediaMarkt, Saturn, and GameStop, refused to sell the uncensored version, offering only the separately sold German version, which lacks all Nazi imagery and references and features German as the only language option.
Reception
The game received generally "mixed or average" reviews upon release according to review aggregator Metacritic.
The game's visuals and presentation received some praise. Many critics criticized the combat for its simplicity and clunkiness, and remarked that firearms in the game lacked a sense of impact. Critics were also disappointed by the game's thin narrative, feeling that they did not reach the standard set by previous Wolfenstein games. Its short length and lack of replayability was also criticized.
References
External links
2019 video games
Action-adventure games
Arkane Studios games
Bethesda Softworks games
Dystopian video games
First-person shooters
Hacking video games
MachineGames games
Nazis in fiction
Nazism in fiction
PlayStation |
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