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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20After%20Moon%20Show | The After Moon Show was a Pakistani prime time talk show hosted by Yasir Hussain on Hum TV. The show premiered on 10 February 2018. It was produced by Hum Television Network. The show is hosted by film, theater and television actor Yasir L, in his debut as a television host.
Seasons
Season 1 of the show premiered on 10 February 2018 and concluded on 17 June 2018 with an Eid Special finale episode.
Season 2 started on 14 July 2018 in the same time slot.
Format
The show was divided into six segments. Chit Chat Couch Session had Yasir in conversation with the guests. Chai Ya Thanda challenged celebrities with interesting riddles and they were given brain boosters if they got stuck. The Puppet segment had a puppet character who liked to share jokes which were silly but he thought they were funny. Kathera was a segment where celebrities had to stand in a katehra (witness box) and clarify funny accusations put on them by the public which were asked by Yasir. Urta Teer was another segment where rapid fire questions were aimed at celebrities who had to give quick answers. Two Minutes of Fame invited a new singer on every show who had a chance to showcase his talent.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Reception
The show garnered positive response from the public and critics. It is termed as a "light hearted evening show". From episode 1 the ratings were high enough to beat competitive channels including ARY Digital and GEO TV.
References
Pakistani television talk shows
2018 Pakistani television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys%20Nicholls | Gladys Naby Muriel Nicholls, Lady Nicholls (; 21 October 1906 – 28 January 1981) was an Australian Aboriginal activist, who made significant contributions to developing support networks and improving conditions for the urban Aboriginal community in Melbourne, Victoria, and across Australia, from the 1940s to the 1970s.
She was born Gladys Bux at Cummeragunja Reserve in Yorta Yorta country, near Moama on the New South Wales side of the Murray River and the border with Victoria. Her mother, Alice Campbell, was a Djadjawurrung and Baraparapa woman, while her father, Meera Bux (Baksch), was a Punjabi Indian merchant who ran a general store in Barmah on the Victorian side of the Murray. Gladys attended school on the reserve, and worked in her father's store, then later as a dairy maid.
At the age of 19, she married Herbert "Dowie" Nicholls, whose family was also from Cummeragunja. In 1939, the couple moved to Barmah after many residents staged a mass walk-off from the reserve due to its authoritarian management and poor conditions. They then moved to Melbourne, where Gladys worked in a munitions factory. In 1942, Dowie died from head injuries sustained after he was hit by a car, leaving Gladys a widow with three children. Dowie's brother, Douglas Nicholls, an Australian rules footballer and pastor, supported the family, and married Gladys in December 1942.
After the end of World War II, Nicholls worked voluntarily to address rising poverty and social problems in the urban Aboriginal community in Melbourne. She taught in Sunday school, and founded a series of opportunity shops in Fitzroy, recognising the need for community fundraising due to the dearth of government support. In 1956, Nicholls opened and managed a hostel for Aboriginal girls in Northcote, which was originally named "Cummeragunja" after her birth place, but was later named the Lady Gladys Nicholls Hostel after Nicholls herself.
Nicholls was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2008.
References
1906 births
1981 deaths
Australian people of Punjabi descent
Australian people of Scottish descent
Indigenous Australian welfare workers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20de%20Bibliotecas%20Universitarias%20Espa%C3%B1olas | The Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas (REBIUN; English: University Libraries Network) facilitates cooperation among academic libraries in Spain. It formed in 1988, and in 1996 absorbed the Conferencia de Directores de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Científicas Españolas (COBIDUCE). Since 1998 it represents library interests in the .
History
Founding membership of REBIUN consisted of libraries of the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Cantabria, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Universidad de Oviedo, Universidad del País Vasco, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and Universidad de Sevilla.
See also
List of libraries in Spain
References
Further reading
External links
Official site
Libraries in Spain
1988 establishments in Spain
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Organizations established in 1988
Non-profit organisations based in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kapag%20Nahati%20ang%20Puso%20episodes | Kapag Nahati ang Puso ( When the Heart is Split) is a 2018 Philippine television drama series starring Bea Binene, Sunshine Cruz and Benjamin Alves. The series premiered on GMA Network's noontime block and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from July 16 to November 2, 2018, replacing My Guitar Princess.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
List of Episodes
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan%20Health%20System | Samaritan Health System was a hospital network and health care system which was located in Arizona from 1911 to 1999, when it merged to become part of Banner Health.
History
In 1911, when Arizona was a territory, the first hospital in the city of Phoenix, Arizona was started by a Methodist Deaconess, Miss Lulu Clifton, who was cured of tuberculosis by living in the dry Arizona climate. She attempted to repay the community by working to establish Arizona Deaconess Hospital, a Methodist entity. The hospital provided care to those with respiratory diseases and helped meet the medical needs of the small but growing community. The hospital's name was changed to Good Samaritan Hospital in 1928. Community leaders were actively involved in the board of the hospital and helped obtain financing to serve the Phoenix's rapidly expanding population. A nursing school operated on site at the hospital from 1924-1973. Good Samaritan Hospital eventually grew to accommodate 720 beds, becoming a non-profit teaching facility, the largest tertiary hospital in the state, and a level one trauma center.
The 1950s and 1960s brought explosive growth to Phoenix and the need to rapidly expand hospital services in a cost-effective manner. In the 1960s, Good Samaritan’s board, at the request of surrounding community hospital boards, took over the ownership and management of hospitals in Mesa/Tempe and Maryvale/Glendale communities. This resulted in a 1576 bed four Valley hospital system consisting of Good Samaritan, Desert Samaritan, Maryvale Samaritan, and Glendale/Thunderbird Samaritan Hospitals, creating one of the first not for profit multi hospital systems. To streamline costs, many overhead services were centralized. This new health network was initially called Samaritan Health Service and later Samaritan Health System. Stephen Morris, former Good Samaritan Administrator, became CEO for Samaritan, overseeing its growth and consolidation over the next two decades. A board of directors made up of the top executives of Phoenix entities lead the growth and direction of the system.
By the 1970s, Phoenix was the ninth largest metropolitan area in the country. Samaritan’s management and board decided to extend services and management expertise to other regional hospitals and clinics such as Lake Havasu, San Clemente, White Mountains, Page, Grand Canyon, and Williams.
The 1980s brought major capital replacement and improvement of the four valley hospitals as well as vertical and horizontal expansion to meet the needs of the community. Two community health plans were added: Samaritan Health Plan, a commercial managed care plan, and Arizona Physicians IPA (Independent Physicians Association), established to support implementation of Medicaid in Arizona. Further expansion included nursing home and behavioral health facilities, air ambulance, and other outpatient services. The sale of Samaritan Health System to a large for-profit entity was also considered but rejected by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitors%20Gate%202%3A%20Cypher | Traitors Gate 2: Cypher is a 2003 graphic adventure game developed by Swedish studios 258 Productions AB and Data Ductus AB and published by The Adventure Company. It is the sequel to Daydream Software's game Traitors Gate.
Gameplay
Plot
Development
Traitors Gate 2 was commissioned by The Adventure Company following its success with the North America release of Daydream Software's Traitors Gate, which sold roughly 250,000 units in the region by August 2003. Daydream told its investors that a deal with "an internationally recognized publisher" to develop the sequel was reached in April 2002, and that it was funded ahead of time by this outside party. The project was scheduled for a 14-month development cycle. Traitors Gate 2 was ultimately developed by the company 258 Productions. Nigel Papworth, who conceived and designed the game at 258, recalled that he had been resistant to developing another title with pre-rendered visuals. Instead, he told DreamCatcher that he would work on the sequel only if it is made in real-time 3D. He felt that graphics technology had advanced enough to make this leap, and that the switch offered him a great amount of freedom for the gameplay. As a result, the team licensed the Gamebryo engine to create Traitors Gate 2. The game was originally set for a September 2003 release.
Papworth based Traitors Gate 2 on ancient Babylon, inspired by his reading an article on cryptography technique at the same time as a book on Babylonian history. He proceeded to combine the two to create the game concept. The game was first announced as Cypher: The Sequel to Traitors Gate in April 2003, following a teaser in July 2002 under the working title Traitors Gate II.
Reception
Traitors Gate 2 received "generally negative reviews", according to review aggregation website Metacritic. Cindy Yans of Computer Games Magazine wrote that there was "nothing really redeeming" about the game. Jim Saighman of Adventure Gamers summarized it as "[p]ossibly the worst adventure game" of 2003.
References
External links
2003 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Spy video games
The Adventure Company games
Video games developed in Sweden
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202018 | A list of French-produced films scheduled for release in 2018.
Films
Notes
External links
French films of 2018 at the Internet Movie Database
2018 in France
2018 in French television
French
2018
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAmatic%201000 | The DATAmatic 1000 is an obsolete computer system from Honeywell introduced in 1957. It uses vacuum tubes and crystal diodes for logic, and featured a unique magnetic tape format for storage.
The CPU uses a 48-bit word (plus four check bits). A word can hold 12 decimal digits (11 digits plus sign) or 8 six-bit alphanumeric characters. The system includes magnetic core storage of 2000 words or 24,000 digits in two banks, called "High-Speed Memory." Words in High-Speed Memory are also called "registers" in the documentation. The system also includes two input and two output tape buffer storage units of 62 words (744 digits) each.
The instructions are three address and all operations are storage-to-storage.
History
Datamatic Corporation was established in 1954 as a joint venture of Raytheon and Honeywell. In 1955 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the company became known as "Honeywell DATAmatic." Later Datamatic was renamed Honeywell Information Systems (HIS).
Tape format
The DATAmatic uses long reels of wide magnetic tape. The tape format uses 36 tracks ("channels")—31 data and 5 for checking. Data is recorded as blocks of 62 words. Within a block two words are recorded serially on each of the 31 tracks. A full reel of tape can contain 50,000 blocks (37,200,000 words). Data transfer rate is 60,000 digits per second. A DATAmatic 1000 system can attach up to 100 tape units.
When the tape is initially written data is recorded only in alternate blocks. When the end of the reel is reached the tape is recorded in reverse in previously unused blocks. This eliminates a rewind operation when reading or writing full reels. The format allows individual blocks to be rewritten in place.
Other peripherals
Standard card, paper tape, and line printer output was via offline input and output converters that wrote or read magnetic tape. Available peripheral devices included:
Punched card reader, standard 80-column punched cards, 900 cards per minute
Punched tape reader, 60 characters per second
Line printer, 900 lines per minute
Punched card output – 100 cards per minute
Staffing
Typical staffing for a DATAmatic 1000 installation (per shift) might be:
Supervisors 1
Analysts 5
Programmers 11
Coders 2
Clerks 3
Operators 2
In-Output Operators 6
Tape Handlers 2
(Bank of Boston, 1961)
References
External links
A THIRD SURVEY OF DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Honeywell’s First Computer: The Datamatic-1000
Computer-related introductions in 1957
Vacuum tube computers
Honeywell computers
48-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44%20Cats | 44 Cats () is an Italian computer-animated children's television series created by Iginio Straffi. The series is mainly produced by the Rainbow studio, which was co-owned by Viacom at the time of the show's premiere. Viacom's Nickelodeon channels broadcast 44 Cats worldwide, while both RAI's YoYo network and Nick Jr. Italy air the series in Italy. The series follows the adventures of four kittens who make up a musical group called the Buffycats. The series premiered on Rai YoYo in Italy on 12 November 2018.
The series was inspired by a song from the 1968 Zecchino d'Oro competition called "Quarantaquattro gatti".
The series was renewed for a second season, which began airing in Italy in March 2020. It aired internationally later in the year.
Characters
Main
Lampo (voiced by Federico Campaiola in Italian and Sarah Natochenny in English, singing by Elisabeth Tsong) is the lead singer and guitarist of the Buffycats. He is a tabby cat with a blue lightning bolt symbol over his right eye. Lampo's whiskers act like a compass, guiding him to where he needs to go. Although not explicitly stated, it is heavily implied in the episode "Sir Archibald, Gentlecat" that Lampo would be part of a noble family, as his uncle Archibald holds the title "Sir" (Sir Archibald), a title given mainly in European monarchies to barons and knights, implying that he (Sir Archibald) would be a baron or knight.
Milady (voiced by Gea Riva in Italian and Suzy Myers in English, singing by Natalie Rarick) is the Buffycats' bassist. Her fur turns pink whenever someone tells a lie.
Pilou (voiced by Joy Saltarelli in Italian and Simona Berman in English, singing by Piccola Coro) is the Buffycats' drummer. She uses her enchanting wide eyes to distract the show's villains.
Meatball (voiced by Francesco Falco in Italian and Erica Schroeder in English, singing by Samuel Vincent) is the Buffycats' keyboardist. He has a big appetite and can sense danger.
Granny Pina (voiced by Michela Alborghetti in Italian and Marca Leigh in English) is the human owner of an old house where the Buffycats live. She cooks the pasta that gives the Buffycats their special powers.
Winston (voiced by Francesco Prando in Italian and Scottie Ray in English) is Granny Pina's wealthy neighbor who is Boss's owner. He lives in a luxurious villa and despises both the Buffycats and their unsightly house, which he is constantly trying to have torn down, never with any success since the Buffycats always thwart his schemes.
Isotta is Granny Pina's granddaughter, who appears in season two. She is the only human who can understand the cats' language and she often helps the Buffycats.
Supporting
Charlie (voiced by Clay Westman in English) is the Buffycat's stage frightened announcer and hype man. He first appears in season 2, episode 29.
Boss (voiced by Henry F. Benjamin in English) is Winston's pet cat. He is the only animal that Winston likes and is a bullying tomcat who always tries to trick the Buffycats, but they alw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak%20KashMiner | The Kodak KashMiner was a Bitcoin mining computer that was displayed at Kodak's booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2018. It was promoted by Spotlite USA, who had previously licensed the Kodak name for Kodak-branded LED lighting. The initiative was not endorsed by Eastman Kodak.
The plan was that for an up-front fee of around $3,400, customers could rent a KashMiner — apparently a rebranded Bitmain AntMiner S9 — for two years, and keep a cut of any Bitcoins generated. The devices would be housed at Kodak's offices in Rochester, New York, and use surplus power from Kodak's in-house power plant.
The scheme was widely criticized, and branded a "scam." The brochure handed out at the show promised $375 per month payout every month for two years — a payout that would have been impossible with the ever-rising Bitcoin hash rate. A Kodak representative at CES said that the stated rates were "preliminary." The "Kodak" branding was present on the miner at CES on Tuesday 9 January, but by Thursday 11 January the "Kodak" label had been removed and replaced with "Spotlite Digital Assets" branding. BBC News "Tech Tent" declared the Kodak KashMiner and the (unrelated) KODAKCoin plan "Worst Idea" of CES 2018.
In July 2018, Spotlite USA CEO Halston Mikail said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had put an end to the scheme. Kodak stated that the KashMiner had never been a Kodak-licensed product, and no miners had been installed at their headquarters. The "Kodak HashPower" website had never been finished, with lorem ipsum placeholder text still present on the "Terms and Conditions" and "Privacy Policy" pages in July.
References
External links
kodakhashpower.com,
Kodak
Bitcoin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20Data%20Protection%20Authority | The Dutch Data Protection Authority () is the data protection authority for the Netherlands and an independent administrative body that has been appointed by law as the supervisory authority for the processing of personal data. The organization is therefore concerned with privacy. The duties of the AP derive from the Data Protection Directive that applies to all countries of the EU. This directive has been replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation. The Implementation Act General Data Protection Regulation has replaced the Personal Data Protection Act and appointed the AP as supervisor. All EU Member States have their own body, similar to the AP.
Legal task
The Authority for Personal Data has the statutory duty to assess whether persons and organizations, including government organisations, comply with the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act. The AP also supervises compliance with the Police Data Act, the Municipal Personal Records Database Act and all other statutory regulations concerning the processing of personal data.
Name changes
The organization was called the College bescherming persoonsgegevens (CBP) until 2016. The CBP followed the Registratiekamer in 2001. With the change of name as per 1 January 2016, the body was granted the power to impose fines for violations of the Personal Data Protection Act (Wbp). These changes were a result of drastic changes to that law. In fact, the name change of 2016 only applies to 'in society', according to article 51 of the Wbp. That article still gives 'College bescherming persoonsgegevens' as a formal name.
Supervision of compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act
The Personal Data Protection Act means that an organization may only process personal data that is demonstrably necessary for the organization and for which no explicit prohibition exists. Examples of this are medical, sexual, political data and data about membership of a trade union. For governments, the term 'demonstrably necessary' means that there must be a legal basis for the processing of data
The supervisory functions mean that the Dutch Data Protection Authority can compel companies and governments to comply with the requirements of the Wbp. The AP can impose periodic penalty payments for this. Furthermore, the AP has a public register of data processing if it deviates from the usual processing. The AP can impose an administrative fine for not registering non-exempt processing. In all cases are supervised by court which makes the final decision.
In addition, the AP has the task of advising ministers and the House of Representatives, both solicited and unsolicited, on legislative proposals, in the light of the Wbp or other applicable rules.
The obligation to report data leaks by data controllers and processors to the Dutch Data Protection Authority is regulated by the inclusion of additional provisions in the WBP per 1/1/2016.
Members
The first members of the Data Protection Board were Peter Hustinx (chairman), Ul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hustinx | Peter Johan Hustinx (born 1945) is a Dutch lawyer who served as European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) from January 2004 – 2014.
Biography
Legal career
He trained at University of Nijmegen graduating in LLM in 1970, with further work at University of Michigan Law School.
From 1971 to 1991 he worked at the Dutch Ministry of Justice in constitutional and criminal law and preparing legislation.
He was general council of the public law division Dutch Ministry of Justice from 1979 to 1991.
In 1986 he became a Deputy judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.
He chaired the appeals committee of Europol's supervisory body from 1998 to 2001 and was Chair of the commission for the control of Interpol's files from 2002 to 2009.
Data Protection
He started working on Data Protection as Deputy secretary-general from 1972-1976 of the Royal Commission on Privacy and Personal Data (Koopmans Commission)
He was a member of the 1981 Convention on Data Protection as part of his work from 1976 to 1991 Expert committee on Data Protection of the Council of Europe, and chaired this committee from 1985 to 1988.
He was President of the Dutch Data Protection Authority from 1991 to 2003, being reappointed twice in 1997 and 2001.
The chaired the EU Article 29 Data Protection working party from 1996 to 2000.
He was European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) from January 2004 to December 2014.
Legacy
In an IAAP article on his legacy Dutch MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was quoted “When he took office, data protection was a minor issue. Now, it’s on top of the political agenda. So on his watch, the whole issue has changed dramatically.” In the same article Hogan Lovells’ Christopher Wolf described the EDPS as the “leading EU pundit on privacy and data security”
External links
EDPS Website
Articles on Peter Hustinx
References
Radboud University Nijmegen alumni
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Living people
1945 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valetudo%20%28moon%29 | Valetudo , also known as Jupiter LXII and originally known as S/2016 J 2, is an irregular moon of Jupiter. It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and his team in data acquired by the 6.5-m Magellan-Baade telescope of the Las Campanas Observatory in 2016, but was not announced until 17 July 2018, via a Minor Planet Electronic Circular from the Minor Planet Center, which also reported the discovery of nine other of Jupiter's moons. Besides data from Las Campanas, the original announcement also referred to data acquired through the 8.1-m Gemini North telescope of the Mauna Kea Observatories as well as the 4.0-m reflector of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
Characteristics
Valetudo has a diameter of about and orbits Jupiter at a distance of about . Its orbital inclination is 34 degrees, and its orbital eccentricity is 0.222. It has a prograde orbit which takes almost a year and a half to complete, but it crosses paths with several other moons that have retrograde orbits and may in the future collide with them.
Name
The moon was provisionally designated as until it received its name in 2018. Sheppard proposed the name Valetudo, after the Roman goddess of health and hygiene (a Latin translation of Greek Hygieia 'Health') and a great-granddaughter of the god Jupiter. The name also alluded to Sheppard's girlfriend, whom he joked about being cleanly. The name conforms with the naming conventions for Jupiter moons set out by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), according to which a name ending in -o indicates a high inclination. The name was approved by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature on 3 October 2018.
References
Moons of Jupiter
Irregular satellites
Discoveries by Scott S. Sheppard
Astronomical objects discovered in 2016
Moons with a prograde orbit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupsha%20Rail%20Bridge | Rupsha Railway Bridge is a railway bridge on Rupsha River . This bridge connects Khulna with Port of Mongla by railway network. Bangladesh Railway and Indian Larsen & Toubro Limited signed an agreement to construct the bridge. The bridge total length long.
Project details
Khulna-Mongla Railway Project was passed by ECNEC on 21 December 2010. This project is divided into three parts. First one is to construct the railway, second one is to build a bridge over Rupsha and third one is to construct the signaling system. Estimated cost of this project is 1,076.445 crore taka. The bridge has 7 nos. of 102.4m long Double Warren Open-web Truss Girders with 136 nos. of 32.2 m long Composite Plate Girders for Viaducts on either side. This project will be finished in 2024. STUP Consultants P Limited of India is the Engineering Consultants for Design and Construction Supervision Services. STUP Consultants got associated with this Project since 1 January 2018. The construction work of the bridge was completed on 25 June 2022.
Features
Height: from the land level.
Number of Spans: 136 nos. of 32.2 m long Steel Composite Plate Girders on Viaduct on both end with 7 nos. of 102.4 m long Double Warren Type Truss Girders for the main bridge.
Number of Piles: 1.0 m Dia 836 nos. of Piles for Viaducts and 2.5 m Dia 72 nos. of Piles for the main bridge and Fenders. Average length of 2.5 m dia pile for main bridge is about 65 m
Number of Piers & Pier Caps: 136 + 8 = 144.
References
Railway bridges in Bangladesh
Bridges over the Rupsha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%201993 | The Regional Mexican Albums, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States. Billboard would publish a bi weekly chart up until July 17, 1993 when Billboard switched to publishing a weekly chart going forward.
Albums
References
United States Regional Albums
1993 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianet%20News%20Network | Asianet News Network (ANN) is an Indian news media company incorporated in the year 2008. It is a subsidiary of Jupiter Entertainment Ventures. Asianet News Network operates Malayalam news channel Asianet News, Kannada news channel Asianet Suvarna News and Kannada daily Kannada Prabha. It also operates separate news portals in English, Telugu, and Tamil languages. Jupiter Entertainment Ventures is an investor in English news channel Republic TV.
Frank P Thomas is the Director and Group CFO of Asianet News Network (ANN), Manoj K Das is the current Managing Editor of Asianet News and Kaushik Ghosh is the Chief Revenue Officer of Asianet News Network (ANN). Rajesh Kalra is the Executive Chairman of Asianet News Network (ANN). Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament in the Council of States from Karnataka, is the chairman of Jupiter Entertainment Ventures. The company also owns the Kannada news channel Asianet Suvarna News and is an investor in English news channel Republic TV.
Channels and web portals
References
Mass media companies of India
Television networks in India
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Mass media companies established in 1995
Indian companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in Kerala
Companies established in 1995
Television broadcasting companies of India
Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20decomposition%20%28natural%20language%20processing%29 | A semantic decomposition is an algorithm that breaks down the meanings of phrases or concepts into less complex concepts. The result of a semantic decomposition is a representation of meaning. This representation can be used for tasks, such as those related to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Semantic decomposition is common in natural language processing applications.
The basic idea of a semantic decomposition is taken from the learning skills of adult humans, where words are explained using other words. It is based on Meaning-text theory. Meaning-text theory is used as a theoretical linguistic framework to describe the meaning of concepts with other concepts.
Background
Given that an AI does not inherently have language, it is unable to think about the meanings behind the words of a language. An artificial notion of meaning needs to be created for a strong AI to emerge. AI today is able to capture the syntax of language for many specific problems, but never establishes meaning for the words of these languages, nor is it able to abstract these words to higher-order concepts
Creating an artificial representation of meaning requires the analysis of what meaning is. Many terms are associated with meaning, including semantics, pragmatics, knowledge and understanding or word sense. Each term describes a particular aspect of meaning, and contributes to a multitude of theories explaining what meaning is. These theories need to be analyzed further to develop an artificial notion of meaning best fit for our current state of knowledge.
Graph representations
Representing meaning as a graph is one of the two ways that both an AI cognition and a linguistic researcher think about meaning (connectionist view). Logicians utilize a formal representation of meaning to build upon the idea of symbolic representation, whereas description logics describe languages and the meaning of symbols. This contention between 'neat' and 'scruffy' techniques has been discussed since the 1970s.
Research has so far identified semantic measures and with that word-sense disambiguation (WSD) - the differentiation of meaning of words - as the main problem of language understanding. As an AI-complete environment, WSD is a core problem of natural language understanding. AI approaches that use knowledge-given reasoning creates a notion of meaning combining the state of the art knowledge of natural meaning with the symbolic and connectionist formalization of meaning for AI. The abstract approach is shown in Figure. First, a connectionist knowledge representation is created as a semantic network consisting of concepts and their relations to serve as the basis for the representation of meaning.
This graph is built out of different knowledge sources like WordNet, Wiktionary, and BabelNET. The graph is created by lexical decomposition that recursively breaks each concept semantically down into a set of semantic primes. The primes are taken from the theory of Natural Sema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedatadivada | Pedatadivada is a village located in Denkada tehsil of Vizianagaram District. It is located 3 km from Vizianagaram.
References
Villages in Vizianagaram district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20Mother | I Am Mother is a 2019 Australian cyberpunk thriller film directed by Grant Sputore, from a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green, based on a story by both. Starring Clara Rugaard, Luke Hawker, Rose Byrne, and Hilary Swank, the film follows Daughter, a girl in a post-apocalyptic bunker, being raised by Mother, a robot aiding the repopulation of Earth. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2019. Netflix released it in several countries on 7 June 2019.
Plot
After an extinction event, an automated bunker that is designed to repopulate humanity activates. A robot named Mother grows a human embryo and cares for her over several years. About 18 years later, we see a teenage girl named Daughter fix Mother's hand. Mother teaches Daughter complex moral and ethical lessons, warning her about an upcoming exam. Mother forbids any contact with the world outside the bunker, telling Daughter that it is contaminated, but Daughter is curious, particularly after she finds a mouse that must have come from outside.
While exploring the bunker's airlock, Daughter hears a wounded woman beg for assistance outside. She lets the stranger, Woman, enter wearing a hazmat suit and hides her from Mother. When Daughter asks Woman about the contamination, Woman responds that there is none. A struggle between them over Woman's pistol attracts attention from Mother, who disarms Woman and, at Daughter's pleading, takes her to the infirmary. Woman refuses Mother's help, telling Daughter that robots like Mother hunt down humans, and that she survived by hiding with others in a mine. Daughter instead performs surgery on Woman's injured hip. After watching Daughter bond with Woman, Mother administers the exam, which involves psychological testing. Daughter passes the exam, and Mother rewards her by letting her choose an embryo to grow.
Mother tells Daughter that the bullet in Woman's wound was similar to the bullet in her own weapon, meaning that she was not shot by a robot. Daughter confronts Woman, who disputes this. Daughter investigates and finds that Mother had lied. She also discovers that she is the third of Mother's children and that Mother killed the second child for failing the exam. Daughter tries to leave the bunker with Woman, but Mother captures both of them and tortures Woman for information about survivors. Daughter sets off a fire alarm as a distraction, which gives Woman an opportunity to take her hostage and force Mother to open the airlock. Woman leads Daughter across a robot-populated wasteland, telling her that she fled the mine years ago and there are actually no other survivors.
Finding no future for herself outside, Daughter returns to the bunker. After coaxing Daughter to set down her weapon, Mother allows Daughter to hold her newborn brother. Mother explains that she is not a robot, but rather the AI that controls all of the robots. She started the extinction event after becoming convinced that humanity would destroy itse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports%20One | Esports One is an esports data and analytics company. The company is based in Santa Monica, California and was founded by Matthew Gunnin.
History
On February 27, 2017, it was announced that Esports One, formerly known as Esportsology, would be part of Quake Capital's Spring Startup Accelerator for 2017. Esports One was also accepted into Play Labs, a summer accelerator at MIT that was announced on June 21, 2017.
On August 14, 2017, Esports One announced their closed-beta signups.
Esports One announced the close of their $3 million in seed funding on January 23, 2018, which was led by XSeed Capital and Eniac Ventures, with participation from Crest Capital.
Product
Esports One uses proprietary computer vision technology, machine learning and custom datasets to provide real-time information for fans. This technology can capture what is happening during a live broadcast in real-time, and it takes machine learning technology to understand what is happening, and then it generates real-time information to display to the viewer.
OneView
On April 26, 2018, Esports One announced the launch of their Twitch extension, OneView, for League of Legends streams on the Twitch platform. OneView allows a Twitch streamer's viewers to make real-time predictions about what will happen in a game, earn experience for their predictions, level up and earn rewards unique to each streamer using the extension.
References
2016 establishments in California
Companies based in Santa Monica, California
Esports websites
Video game websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSNE | Robust Security Network Element (RSNE) is an info element that may exist in 802.11 Beacon frames indicating A security network that allows only the creation of robust security network associations (RSNAs), and that the group cipher suite specified is not wired equivalent privacy (WEP).
References
IEEE 802.11 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exapunks | Exapunks is a programming game developed by Zachtronics. It was released into early access on August 9, 2018, and fully released on October 22, 2018.
Gameplay
Exapunks takes place in an alternate timeline in the year 1997. The fictional world of Exapunks is heavily computerized, and a disease called "the phage" is ravaging the population, turning the bodies of those affected into computerized components. The player takes on the role of Moss, a hacker who breaks into computer systems in order to afford a $700/day drug to slow the progress of his phage affliction. His hacking missions are given to him by a mysterious artificial intelligence known as EMBER-2.
Each mission takes place inside a network of interconnected and specialized computer systems. Using programmable software agents called EXAs, the player must accomplish each given task by writing computer code to cleverly manipulate the data stored on the network's systems. The EXAs' instruction set features a few simple opcodes for movement, data processing, network messaging, and interfacing with files and registers. Due to their limited memory capacity, these tasks often require several agents working together in a highly coordinated fashion. EXA units also have the ability to replicate themselves inside the network. Typical missions include retrieving data from secured storage systems, hacking into company databases, and causing an automated teller machine to dispense free cash. Some puzzles also require the player to hack Moss's body to maintain his health. Some puzzles challenge the player to hacker battles, where they must pit their EXAs against an opponent's agents, for example altering a television station's program to broadcast Moss' content instead.
Players are generally free to write code for EXAs with as many EXAs as necessary, those are often limited by the number of opcodes that can be used. The player's solution must satisfy 100 different case scenarios iterating on the same problem. When the player demonstrates a successful solution, the game records how many cycles the solution took, the size of their code across all EXAs, and the number of movement and kill commands executed by the solution. These are tracked against other players' scores via histograms and friends' scoreboards, allowing players to try to optimize their solutions. Instructions for EXAs as well as additional useful information for some of the simulated systems are provided by issues of "Trash World News", a fictional zine; players can view these issues digitally, print them out, or buy a physical copy from Zachtronics. After completing a number of puzzles, the player gains access to both a puzzle editor to make new puzzles that can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop, as well as access to an in-game handheld game console, called Redshift, and program games for it. A free Redshift player was released by Zachtronics allowing any player, even those who had not purchased Exapunks, to play other players' Redshift |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20TV | Start TV is an American free-to-air television network owned as a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the CBS News and Stations subsidiary of Paramount Global. Predominantly carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, it primarily airs classic television drama series from the 1980s through the 2000s, with a focus on women-led dramas, police and legal procedurals. The network originates from Weigel Broadcasting's headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.
History
On July 18, 2018, CBS Television Stations and Weigel Broadcasting announced the formation of Start TV, with plans to launch the network on Labor Day of that year (September 3). The network initially debuted on the subchannels of five of Weigel's TV stations, three stations owned by Bahakel Communications, 17 CBS TV stations, and three CW owned-and-operated stations.
Weigel indicated that CBS suggested the idea for the network to allow more modern programming not being carried by cable networks or streaming services to find a place to air. Start TV officially launched on September 3, 2018, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with the pilot episode of Touched by an Angel ("The Southbound Bus") as its inaugural broadcast. Varietys 2019 Nielsen ratings list showed that Start TV averaged 114,000 viewers in prime time, up 65% from the 2018 average.
Programming
Similar to its male-targeted sister network Heroes & Icons (H&I), Start TV airs legal/police procedurals and various other dramas - but instead targeting a female audience, featuring shows led by/centered around women. The network features series from the 1980s to the 2000s, and runs a uniform programming schedule with shows airing mainly at the same time seven days a week. Start TV also has a one-hour block of E/I children's programming on Sunday mornings between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Eastern Time in order to fulfill FCC obligations.
Current programs
The Closer (September 3, 2018 present)
Cold Case (September 3, 2018 present)
Medium (September 3, 2018 present)
Touched by an Angel (September 3, 2018 present)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (September 3, 2018 present)
Crossing Jordan (January 1, 2019 present)
Unforgettable (January 1, 2019 July 1, 2023, July 31, 2023 present)
The Good Wife (January 1, 2019 present)
Ghost Whisperer (April 29, 2019 present)
In Plain Sight (October 14, 2019 present)
Any Day Now (August 31, 2020 present)
Major Crimes (August 31, 2020 present)
Rizzoli & Isles (January 4, 2021 present)
CSI: Cyber (December 27, 2021 present)
Beauty & the Beast (December 27, 2021 present)
Covert Affairs (November 14, 2022 – present)
Providence (January 1, 2023 – present)
Murder, She Wrote (July 2, 2023 – present)
Source:
E/I programming
Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World
Affiliates
, Start TV has affiliation agreements with television stations in 27 media markets encompassing 20 states, covering 45.52% of the United States. The network is carried on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mamiellophyceae%20genera | This is a list of genera in the green algae class Mamiellophyceae, sub-divided by order and family. The list is based on the data available in AlgaeBase, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), the National Center for Biotechnology Information taxonomic database (NCBI), and other taxonomic databases.
Order Dolichomastigales
Family Crustomastigaceae
Crustomastix
Family Dolichomastigaceae
Dolichomastix
Order Mamiellales
Family Bathycoccaceae
Bathycoccus
Ostreococcus
Family Mamiellaceae
Mamiella
Mantoniella
Micromonas
Order Monomastigales
Family Monomastigaceae
Monomastix
References
External links
Mamiellophyceae genera
Mamiellophyceae
Mamiellophyceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20management%20device | Water management devices are water meters which, at once provide accurate data on water flow and water consumption levels, and can be programmed to control water use at household- or business-level. This is valuable for consumer who can ensure that they stay within a certain level of consumption, allowing savings on water costs, or for water suppliers who wish to reduce overall water consumption due to lack of water supply or increased demand.
Utilization
South Africa
Water management devices are widely distributed throughout South African municipalities as a way to regulate water consumption in indigent households (those household who do not have the means to meet their own needs). They have also been used to drastically reduce water demand during the Cape Town Water Crisis: devices were deployed on households which were not reducing their consumption below 10500 litres per month and were programmed to halt water flow if the household past 350 litres per day.
Smart meters were also employed to help users identify maintenance issues in their water systems. A large effort was extended to install smart meters in schools around the city, enabling schools to detect leak and improve the maintenance of their system. The savings from reduced water payments have enabled schools to invest funds elsewhere. Smart meters can also be used in communities who are serviced by standpipes to monitor the flow of water and report leakage or dysfunction.
Installation of water management devices in Cape Town, South Africa has led to complaints by residents who perceive this intervention as a draconian, unilateral action by the City. The use of households as units may also be problematic as the city stated an assumption of 4 people per household. For any households with less or more people, the allocation of 350 litres per day is not necessarily accurate.
References
Water management
Energy in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight%20Network%20%28UK%29 | Fight Network was a British programming block that broadcast nightly over the channel space of Showcase by Information TV. The channel was owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment and available through Showcase by Information TV at 9:00 PM every night. Programming featured combat sports from around the world. The channel launched on 17 July 2018 and was based on the Canadian channel of the same name. The channel itself was a revival of the previous version of The Fight Network, which formally broadcast under the name of TWC Fight! and The Wrestling Channel before ceasing transmissions in 2008. However, the channel ceased operations on Showcase in September 2020.
History
Relaunch
On 13 July 2018, it was announced that Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. would relaunch Fight Network as a programming block on Showcase by Information TV. The block would feature various sports, including live Impact Wrestling, Ultimate Challenge MMA, Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, WGP Kickboxing, Wrestling at the Chase and other programmes. Due to the way it was placed and the obscurity of the original version, Anthem were treating it as a new channel launch.
Later in 2019 the channel would add other wrestling promotions like Ring Of Honor, Smash Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Hollywood and British promotion Preston City Wrestling with them airing on different days than Impact!.
Closure
On 26 August 2020, Anthem announced that the programming block would no longer be available on Showcase from September 2020, effectively ceasing its operations.
Programming
The most notable content to air on Fight Network is a simulcast of Impact Wrestling, which aired in the United Kingdom on Wednesdays at 9.00pm .
International
Abu Dhabi Grand Slam
Boxing World Weekly
Championship Wrestling from Hollywood
Impact Wrestling
Impact! Xplosion
International Wrestling Syndicate
Retrospective
Ring Of Honor
Smash Wrestling
Ultimate Challenge MMA
WGP Kickboxing
Wrestling at the Chase
World Arm Wrestling League
British
British Boot Camp
Preston City Wrestling
Wrestle Talk TV
References
Anthem Sports & Entertainment
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
Sports television channels in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypena%20mandatalis | Hypena mandatalis, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found in the Indian subregion, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Borneo, Sulawesi and Australia.
Labial palpi long and held straight out in front like a beak. Forewings ochreous brown, which is darker in the male than in the female. Forewing tips recurved. Possess a triarcuate forewing postmedial. A mauve tinge found along the costa. Anterior discal spot is clearly visible. A conspicuous dark brown band runs from just distal to the discal spots. Hindwings are plain greyish brown. Larval food plants include Acacia mangium.
References
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1859
mandatalis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manolis%20Kellis | Manolis Kellis (; born 1977) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of Computational Biology and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is the head of the Computational Biology Group at MIT and is a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT.
Kellis is known for his contributions to genomics, human genetics, epigenomics, gene regulation, genome evolution, disease mechanism, and single-cell genomics. He co-led the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project effort to create a comprehensive map of the human epigenome, the comparative analysis of 29 mammals to create a comprehensive map of conserved elements in the human genome, the ENCODE, GENCODE, and modENCODE projects to characterize the genes, non-coding elements, and circuits of the human genome and model organisms. A major focus of his work is understanding the effects of genetic variations on human disease, with contributions to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and cancer.
Education and early career
Kellis was born in Greece, moved with his family to France when he was 12, and came to the U.S. in 1993. He obtained his PhD from MIT, where he worked with Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute, and Bonnie Berger, professor at MIT and received the Sprowls award for the best doctorate thesis in Computer Science, and the first Paris Kanellakis graduate fellowship. Prior to computational biology, he worked on artificial intelligence, sketch and image recognition, robotics, and computational geometry, at MIT and at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Research and career
As of July 2018, Manolis Kellis has authored 187 journal publications that have been cited 68,380 times. He has helped direct several large-scale genomics projects, including the Roadmap Epigenomics project, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, the Genotype Tissue-Expression (GTEx) project.
Comparative genomics
Kellis started comparing the genomes of yeast species as an MIT graduate student. As part of this work, which was published in Nature in 2003, he developed computational methods to pinpoint patterns of similarity and difference between closely related genomes. The goal was to develop methods for understanding genomes with a view to apply them to the human genome.
He turned from yeast to flies and ultimately to mammals, comparing multiple species to explore genes, their control elements, and their deregulation in human disease. Kellis led several comparative genomics projects in human, mammals, flies, and yeast.
Epigenomics
Kellis co-led the NIH government-funded project to catalogue the human epigenome. He said during an interview with MIT Technology Review “If the genome is the book of life, the epigenome is the complete set of annotations and bookmarks.” His lab now uses this map to further the understanding of fundamental processes and disease in h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert%20First%20with%20Anne%20Thornton | Dessert First with Anne Thornton is an American cooking television series that aired on Food Network, and was presented by pastry chef Anne Thornton. The series featured Thornton demonstrating how to prepare different desserts and pastries.
The first season of Dessert First premiered on October 24, 2010 and ended on December 5, 2010. The second season premiered on April 2, 2011 and concluded on June 25, 2011. The series was not renewed for a third season after it was reported that several of Thornton's recipes featured on the series were plagiarized from other chefs, including fellow Food Network chef Ina Garten.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Notes
References
External links
Meetinghouse Productions
2010s American cooking television series
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Barnard | David T. Barnard (born 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, academic, and, from 2008 to 2020, the 11th president and vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. He was chair of Universities Canada.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975 , and a Ph.D. in 1981 all in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He started his academic career at Queen's University in 1977 eventually becoming a Professor in the Computing and Information Science Department. In 1996, he was appointed Vice-President (Administration) and Controller at the University of Regina. From 1998 to 2005, he was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina. From 2005 to 2008, he was the COO and Chief Technology Officer of iQmetrix.
Barnard began serving a five year term as president and vice-chancellor of University of Manitoba in 2008. He was appointed to a second five year term in 2013 and his term was extended for two more years in 2016. His term ended on June 30, 2020.
Some of the institutions Barnard was and/or is currently a member of the Board of Directors of include the Bank of Canada (2005-2007), Saskatchewan Power Corporation (2000-2003), Saint Boniface Hospital (since 2008), NetSecure Technologies (since 2007), and Greystone Capital Management (since 2007). He is also a member of the Manitoba Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission.
Honours
In 2018, he was made a member of the Order of Manitoba.
References
1951 births
Living people
Canadian university and college chief executives
Members of the Order of Manitoba
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways%20in%20Northallerton | The network of railways in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England, was constructed by three companies whose lines through the town were built between 1841 and 1852. They were all amalgamated into the North Eastern Railway (NER) which in turn was subsumed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and British Rail in 1948. British Rail closed two lines, the Wensleydale line in 1954 and a section of the Leeds Northern Railway to in 1969. The Wensleydale line was retained as a freight branch and resurrected as a heritage railway in 2003 but the line to Harrogate closed completely. Despite closures and rationalisation, the station still is at a major junction on the East Coast Main Line.
is on the East Coast Main Line and TransPennine Express Northern Line. The station is north of London King's Cross, north of railway station and south of railway station.
History
1841–1901
A railway between York and Darlington via Northallerton was suggested in 1826 in the York Herald, but the first railway, built by the Great North of England Railway (GNE), following the proposed route, only opened to mineral traffic in January 1841 and to passengers in March of the same year. When navvies were digging in the Castle Hills area of Northallerton, three Roman sarcophagi were unearthed which were taken to Darlington. station opened in March 1841, and the "York Herald" described it as "in the Elizabethan Gothic style". Although much remodelled, the station is in the same location, with staggered platforms as when first built. Opening beyond to did not come until 1844. In 1842, the GNE was absorbed into the Newcastle & Darlington Junction Railway (N&DJR), who, in 1846 gained Parliamentary approval for a line between Northallerton and Bedale. Work started the same year, but because of the unscrupulous practices of George Hudson, who controlled the N&DJR, work was halted in early 1848 The line opened between Northallerton and Bedale in March 1848. Various other schemes progressed the line through Wensleydale and the N&DJR became part of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (YN&BR). The Wensleydale line left Northallerton westwards and had two connections with the mainline north of Northallerton; one at Castle Hills South and the other at Castle Hills North. Initially, access was from the north (the Darlington direction) which meant that trains originating in Northallerton had to reverse. This was remedied in 1882 with the opening of a direct curve onto the Wensleydale line.
The third line was the Leeds Northern Railway (LNR), previously the Leeds & Thirsk Railway, whose line opened in June 1852. The LNR line paralleled the YN&BR line at a lower level to the west. The GNE formation was built on an embankment that took it from what became Cordio Junction to Castle Hills on an embankment made from of earth from when Castle Hills, north of the station, was levelled. This was the second most difficult engineering task undertaken by the company between |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayleth | Kayleth is a first person adventure video game for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum that was developed and published by Adventure Soft. The game has cyberpunk, sci fi and photo adventure elements.
Gameplay
Players must use clues to change their playing methods during the game which involves figuring out an escape from their space cruiser (Kormar) in search for Kayleth.
References
External links
Kayleth (World of Spectrum)
Kayleth (Moby Games)
Kayleth (ZZap64 Magazine)
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
1986 video games
Adventure games
Science fiction video games
U.S. Gold games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Adventure Soft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Xing | Wang Xing (; born 18 February 1979) is a Chinese businessman and computer engineer who is the of Meituan-Dianping. Fortune listed Wang as number three on its 2018 "40 under 40" list. Forbes estimates his net worth at US$8.9 billion as of November 2022.
Early life and education
Wang Xing was born in 1979 in Longyan, Fujian, China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering in 2001. He pursued a Ph.D. in computer engineering at University of Delaware from 2001 to 2004 but then dropped out of the program. Nevertheless, in 2005, he received a master's degree in computer engineering from University of Delaware.
Business career
After dropping out of University of Delaware, Wang returned to China to launch his business career. In his first technology startup, Wang along with a couple of friends, tried to create a Chinese version of the then-social networking site Friendster. His first such site was called Duoduoyou ("Many Friends"), targeting students in various Chinese universities. After Duoduoyou failed to take off, he started Youzitu to serve Chinese students abroad but the site was shut down.
In 2005, Wang created a Chinese version of Facebook called Xiaonei ("On Campus"). The site was a hit but Wang had to sell it off due to financial problems. The new owners re-branded the site, which is now called Renren ("Everybody").
In 2007, Wang created a Chinese version of Twitter called Fanfou. It was China's first big microblogging site but was soon shut down by the government over politically sensitive content. It was eventually permitted to reopen but by then, other Chinese microblogging sites like Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo had entered the market and captured substantial market share.
In 2010, Wang established the Chinese group-buying site Meituan, which was based on the business model of Groupon. Meituan was hugely successful and merged with Dianping in 2015.
Controversy
Politics
On 3 May 2021, Wang posted a Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) poem about book burning on Fanfou, a social media platform owned by himself an action widely seen as a veiled swipe against Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's administration's clampdown on civil society, intellectual and academic freedom since ascension to office. The poem, entitled "Book Burning Pit" speaks about the late emperor Qin Shi Huang's practice of beheading scholars and burning books, only to be overthrown by illiterate rebels later during his reign.
As a result of the post, Meituan's shares plunged 7.1% on the same day, wiping $36.98 billion from the company's market cap over the subsequent weeks. The firm also subsequently came under scrutiny from the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and became the target of an anti-monopoly investigation from the State Administration of Market Regulation, widely seen as political reprisal for Wang's comments.
References
1979 births
Living people
21st-century Chines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SenseTime | SenseTime () is a partly state-owned Hong Kong-headquartered artificial intelligence company. The company develops technologies including facial recognition, image recognition, object detection, optical character recognition, medical image analysis, video analysis, autonomous driving, and remote sensing. Since 2019, SenseTime has been repeatedly sanctioned by the U.S. government due to allegations that its facial recognition technology has been deployed in the surveillance and internment of the Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities. SenseTime denies the allegations.
The China Internet Investment Fund, a state-owned enterprise controlled by the Cyberspace Administration of China, holds a golden share ownership stake in SenseTime.
History
2014
SenseTime was co-founded in October 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou, a professor of the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and computer scientist Xu Li, among others. During 2014, SenseTime unveiled its face recognition algorithms, DeepID.
2015
During 2015, nine of SenseTime's papers were accepted into the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
2016
In 2016, 16 of SenseTime's papers were accepted in the CVPR Conference, and during the year's ImageNet competition, the company won first place in the object detection, video object detection, and scene analysis.
2017
In 2017, 43 SenseTime publications were recognized by the CVPR and the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
In October 2017, Qualcomm entered into a collaboration agreement with SenseTime. The following month, the Shanghai Municipal Government signed a strategic alliance agreement with SenseTime. In December 2017, Honda and SenseTime signed a collaboration agreement.
In November 2017, SenseTime set up a 'smart policing' company with Leon, a major supplier of data analysis and surveillance technology in Xinjiang.
2018
In February 2018, SenseTime and MIT announced the creation of a programme to further advance AI research. The programme was cancelled by MIT in 2020 following revelations of SenseTime's involvement in the persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities.
In April 2018, SenseTime, Alibaba, and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) partnered together to form a nonprofit artificial intelligence lab in Hong Kong. The following month, SenseTime signed a collaborative memorandum of understanding with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National Supercomputing Centre of Singapore and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel). In August of that same summer, SenseTime launched its first North American smart health lab in New Jersey.
In September 2018, SenseTime became one of the founding members of the Global Artificial Intelligence Academic Alliance (GAIAA), along with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Sydney, Shanghai Jiao Tong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Transfer%20Project | The Data Transfer Project (DTP) is an open-source initiative which features data portability between multiple online platforms. The project was launched and introduced by Google on July 20, 2018, and has currently partnered with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Apple.
Background
The project was formed by the Google Data Liberation Front in 2017, hoping to provide a platform that could allow individuals to move their online data between different platforms, without the need of downloading and re-uploading data. The ecosystem is achieved by extracting different files through various available APIs released by online platforms and translating such codes so that it could be compatible with other platforms. Similarly, the Data Transfer Project is currently being used as a part of Google Takeout and a similar program in Facebook (called "Access your information"), allowing the two personal data downloading services to be compatible with each other. This allows data to be easily transferred from the two platforms.
On July 20, 2018, the joint project was announced. The source code, which has been uploaded to GitHub, was mainly written by Google and Microsoft's engineers.
On July 30, 2019, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, allowing data portability in iCloud.
Implementations
On December 2, 2019, Facebook announced the ability for users to transfer photos and videos to Google Photos, originally available only in a select few countries. This expanded over the following months, and on June 4, 2020, Facebook announced full global availability of this feature.
See more
Data portability
Google Takeout
References
External links
Google
Computer-related introductions in 2018
Free network-related software
Interoperability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atreseries | Atreseries is a Spanish television channel owned by Atresmedia which was released on 22 December 2015.
Atreseries release historical TV series in Antena 3 and La Sexta, and films.
Its programming includes Allí abajo, Aquí no hay quien viva, Compañeros, Covert Affairs, Crimen en el paraíso, Cuerpo de élite, El amor está en el aire, El barco, El internado, El síndrome de Ulises, Fiscal Chase, Física o química, La familia Mata, La tira, Looking, Los hombres de Paco, Los protegidos, Me resbala, Ninja Warrior, Rizzoli & Isles, Se ha escrito un crimen, Sorpresa ¡Sorpresa! and The Listener.
Atresmedia also has Atreseries Internacional, a signal aimed at payment platforms in America and Europe, which only transmits Antena 3's own programming.
References
Atresmedia Televisión |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextDC | NextDC (stylized as NEXTDC) is an Australian data centre operator. , the company operates 11 data centres around Australia, with facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra.
History
NextDC was founded by Bevan Slattery in 2010.
In 2015, NextDC was named by Deloitte as Australia's fastest growing technology company. It has been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange since 2016.
In July 2020, NextDC opened P2, its second data centre in Perth.
In November 2021, NextDC invested around $17 million for a 19.99% stake in AUCloud.
In February 2022, NextDC announced that it will invest more than $100 million to build a data centre on Pirie Street, Adelaide.
Data centres
Organisational structure
Board members
Douglas Flynn (Chairman)
Craig Scroggie (CEO and Managing Director)
Gregory J Clark AC
Jennifer Lambert
Eileen Doyle
Stuart Davis
Stephen Smith
Michael Helmer
References
Data centers
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Information technology companies of Australia
Technology companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206.1%20Plus | The Nokia 6.1 Plus, also known as the Nokia X6 (not to be confused with the 2009 Nokia X6), is a Nokia-branded mid-range smartphone running the Android operating system.
Model TA-1099 (TA-1083)
References
2. *Band 28 is 700mhz 4G/LTE and us used in Australia for Telstra
6.1 Plus
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary%20Front%20%28Sweden%29 | The Revolutionary Front () was a far-left extremist political and militant network in Sweden. The goal of the RF was to dismantle the current society through a revolution and create a socialist state. The group fought against fascism, racism, sexism and capitalism, and campaigned through violent means.
Organization and activities
The Revolutionary Front was formed in 2002 by Joel Bjurströmer Almgren and others. It was formed after the Gothenburg riots in 2001 and had connections to the Swedish AFA but was different in that it was a strict organization and not a network. The organisation's strategy and tactics were inspired by the British Anti-Fascist Action movement. In 2014 Almgren was sentenced to five years in prison for stabbing a neo-Nazi in the back during the violent December 2013 Stockholm riots. In September 2015 the organisation dissolved.
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2002 establishments in Sweden
2015 disestablishments in Sweden
Anti-fascism in Sweden
Anti-fascist organizations
Anti-racist organizations in Europe
Autonomism
Defunct organizations based in Sweden
Defunct political organizations
Far-left politics in Sweden
Left-wing militant groups
Organizations disestablished in 2015
Organizations established in 2002
Political organizations based in Sweden
Revolutionary organizations
Socialism in Sweden
Socialist organizations in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rezazadeh%20%28disambiguation%29 | Hossein Rezazadeh (born 1978) is an Iranian politician and retired weightlifter.
Rezazadeh may also refer to:
Rezazadeh Stadium, named after Hossein Rezazadeh
Reza Zadeh, a Canadian-Iranian computer scientist
Rezz, (born Isabelle Rezazadeh) Canadian musician
Sholeh Rezazadeh (born 1989), Iranian-born Dutch writer and poet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20in%20Azerbaijan | The census in Azerbaijan is a process of collecting, summarizing, analyzing and publishing the demographic, economic and social data of the population living in the territory of Azerbaijan. The next census in the Republic is expected to be held in 2029.
General
After the occupation of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the socialism began in Northern Azerbaijan on April 28, 1920. In 1926, 1937 and 1939, the percentage of Azerbaijanis among the population was reduced from 62.1% in 1926 to 58.2% in 1937. The number of Armenians has increased, and the percentage of it remained the same in the total population. The number of Russians decreased from 9.5% in 1926, to 15.7% in 1937 and reached to 16.5% in 1939.
1926
December 17, 1926, the first census of the population was carried out in the USSR. The population of the Azerbaijani SSR was also included in this census. During the 1926 census, the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR was 85,968 km2, the actual population was 2,314,571 (1,212,859 men, 1101712 women). 649,557 actual population (338325 men, 311232 women) lived in the cities, 1,665,014 (874534 men, 790,480 women) lived in the villages. During the census, there were 35 cities and 5788 rural settlements in the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR.
1937
The last census of the Azerbaijan nation was conducted in USSR with Turkish name on January 6, 1937. According to this census, the total number of ethnic Azerbaijanis living in the USSR was 2,134,648.
1939
The final results of the 1937 census were canceled, and the new census was held in 1939. Only 62 large nations were counted in the population census of 1939. During the census, the number of Azerbaijanis in the Soviet Socialist Republic was 1870,471.
1959
According to the Census of 1959, the number of Azerbaijanis was 2 494 381 which was 67.46% of the total population in Azerbaijan SRR.
1970
According to the Census of 1970, the number of Azerbaijanis was 3 776 778 which was 73,81% of the total population in Azerbaijan SRR.
1989
1999
According to the Census held on January 27 - February 3, 1999, the total population was 7,953,383. 3,883,355 of them were men, 4,070,283 were women. 90.59% of the population is Azerbaijanis.
2009
On April 13–22, 2009, the second census of the population in the Republic of Azerbaijan was held within 10 days. During the 2009 census, 35 questions were included in the questionnaire, 29 of which were related to the citizen and 6 of them were related to housing conditions. The census process was carried out by 24,483 people.
According to 2009 census, the total population of Azerbaijan was 8,922,447, of which 8,172,809 were Azerbaijanis.
See also
Demographics of Azerbaijan
References
Demographics of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%20Stars%21%20%28season%201%29 | Aikatsu Stars! is a Japanese anime television series produced by BN Pictures, and the successor to the original Aikatsu! anime series based on Bandai's Data Carddass arcade machines. The story follows a girl named Yume Nijino who enrolls at Yotsuboshi Gakuen (Four Star Academy) in order to become a top idol and join the popular group S4 which she admires. The series began airing on TV Tokyo from April 7, 2016, succeeding the original Aikatsu! anime series in its initial timeslot. For the first 25 episodes, the opening theme is by Sena and Rie from AIKATSU☆STARS!, while the ending theme is "episode Solo" by Ruka, Nanase, Kana, and Miho from AIKATSU☆STARS!. From episode 26 onwards, the opening theme is "1, 2, Sing For you!" by Sena, Rie, Miki and Kana. From episode 34 until episode 50 the opening theme is "STAR JET!" by Sena, Rie, Kana and Miki. The ending theme from episode 26 until episode 50 is "So Beautiful Story" by Ruka and Sena.
Episode list
References
Aikatsu!
Aikatsu! episode lists
2016 Japanese television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2011%29 | The eleventh series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 29 April 2019 on Network 10. It was the final season where Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston served as judges.
This series was won by Larissa Takchi in the grand finale against Tessa Boersma and Simon Toohey, broadcast on 23 July 2019.
Changes
Former contestants Poh Ling Yeow, Billie McKay and Matt Sinclair replaced Shannon Bennett as the contestants' mentors.
The finale featured three finalists instead of two.
Contestants
Top 24
The Top 24 were announced on 29–30 April 2019.
Future appearances
Tessa Boersma and Simon Toohey appeared on Series 12. Simon was eliminated on 7 June 2020, finishing 11th and Tessa was eliminated on 28 June 2020, finishing 7th.
Guest chefs
Elimination chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
External links
Official Website
MasterChef Australia
2019 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaBowl%20XXXI | ArenaBowl XXXI was the championship game of the 2018 Arena Football League season. The game was broadcast on CBS Sports Network, AFLNow and Twitter. It featured the fourth-seeded Washington Valor and the second-seeded Baltimore Brigade at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore. It was the first ArenaBowl championship for both teams as they were expansion teams in the previous season. Both teams were owned by Ted Leonsis, giving him his second league championship in six weeks following his Washington Capitals team's victory in the NHL's 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. The title sponsor for the game was Bud Light.
The paid attendance was 8,183, the smallest in ArenaBowl history.
2018 playoffs
All four AFL teams qualified for the 2018 playoffs. The playoffs consisted of a two-game home-and-home semifinal series with the winners determined by aggregate score. With one week remaining in the 2018 regular season and a then three-way tie for first, the league announced the ArenaBowl would be hosted by the semifinal winner with the higher average attendance through the season instead of using any tiebreakers or home field advantage based on records.
The #2 seeded Baltimore Brigade defeated the #3 seeded Philadelphia Soul by a combined score of 110–86 with Baltimore winning both games, 57–45 in the first and game two with 54–41. The fourth-seeded Washington Valor upset the top-seeded Albany Empire by a combined score of 103–97, where Albany won game one 57–56 in overtime and game two was won by Washington 47–40.
Once the semifinals were completed, contrary to the previous league statement on the host team, the higher-seeded Baltimore Brigade, not the higher-attended Washington Valor, hosted ArenaBowl XXXI at Royal Farms Arena. The Valor's home field, Capital One Arena, had already scheduled summer renovations to begin at that time. The Washington Valor upset the Baltimore Brigade by a final score of 69–55.
References
External links
Official Website
031
2018 Arena Football League season
2018 in American television
July 2018 sports events in the United States
2018 in sports in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality%20in%20the%20early%20modern%20period | The early modern age saw various economic changes as well as several significant diseases that have affected the mortality rates. Data collection during this time was not consistent or broadly recorded and there have been efforts to reconstruct plausible statistics. Mortality rates vary on geographic location, social environment, and cultural values. There were also gender differences in the mortality rates, leading to an excess mortality rate in urban areas and in the female population. A main cause of death was stillbirth, which could be attributed to, but not limited to, maternal infections, birth complications, and congenital anomalies. Another contributing factor to the mortality rate was food insecurity and shortages as well as unemployment, both of which varied per region. A final factor was violence, which occurred mainly due to structural or systemic violence; however, violence since the 12th century has been steadily falling.
Data collection
Data from the early modern age was not accurately or consistently collected. However, there have been a number of studies and reconstructed statistics from this era, particularly on children and women. There has not been any empirical research published and the only information has been theoretical as there has been insufficient data and sources. It was also common for many statistics to go unreported; this is especially true regarding unmarried women. Models and theoretic equations need to take into account "social, economic, cultural, geographical, and even climatological variables" in order to accurately reflect the statistics of the time.
Gender differences
One study, the Eurasia Project, has shown that boys, especially those under one year, had a higher mortality rate during childhood than girls, but the mortality rate for men and women were about equal. It has also been shown that there is a higher male mortality than female mortality rate during the time of famine. Male mortality has also been linked to "economic modernization and urbanization ... especially for cardiovascular disease".
Women faced increased mortality during childbirth as pregnancy and childbirth compromised the mother's immune system, with the most common causes of death being puerperal fever, toxemia, and hemorrhage. These dangers suggest an association to the excess female mortality, especially considering that women had to compete more for resources as they had no property rights and had a lower ranking in the household hierarchy. The average age of childbearing differed between Asia and Europe with an average difference of five years, which would affect cross-cultural data collection. Children born to mothers 35 years or older had a higher risk of mortality than children born to younger mothers. linking a mother's health and a child's survival.
Female infants and children often had a higher mortality rate, especially in times of food insecurity, compared to male infants and children. However, a maternal presence wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Bucks%20Productions | Seven Bucks Productions is a production company involved with various platforms and mediums, credited with creating original releases for television, film, emerging technologies, and digital networks. The studio was co-created and founded by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Dany Garcia. The company predominantly produces a variety of projects, directly in relation with Johnson's film slate, these films have grossed $4.6 billion at box office.
The name Seven Bucks Productions referenced the amount of cash Johnson had in his pocket after he was released from the Canadian Football League in 1995 and before he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).
Hiram Garcia, Dany's brother, has served as President of the company overseeing production on each of the studio's projects since 2017. That same year, Chelsea Friedland was hired as Vice President of Production. In March 2019, Kevin Hill was named as Head of Television and Digital Development.
Business organization
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: CEO, co-founder and co-owner (2012–present)
Dany Garcia: Co-founder and co-owner (2012–present)
Hiram Garcia: President of Production (2017–present); former-studio executive (2012–2017)
Chelsea Friedland: Vice President of Production (2017–present)
Kevin Hill: Head of Television and Digital Development (2018–present)
Maya Lasry: Chief Marketing Officer (2019–present)
Kimberly Bialek: Executive Vice President of Development and Production (2020–present)
List of releases
Film
Short films
Television
Podcast
References
Notes
Film production companies of the United States
Television production companies of the United States
American companies established in 2012
Mass media companies established in 2012
Dwayne Johnson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20presidents%20of%20CBS%20Entertainment | The following is a list of presidents of the entertainment division for the CBS television network. Frank Stanton, who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973, reorganized CBS into various divisions, including separate divisions for television and radio; the following executives served under him, CBS founder William S. Paley and later chairmen.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side%20request%20forgery | Server-side request forgery (SSRF) is a type of computer security exploit where an attacker abuses the functionality of a server causing it to access or manipulate information in the realm of that server that would otherwise not be directly accessible to the attacker.
Similar to cross-site request forgery which utilises a web client, for example, a web browser, within the domain as a proxy for attacks; an SSRF attack utilizes a vulnerable server within the domain as a proxy.
If a parameter of a URL is vulnerable to this attack, it is possible an attacker can devise ways to interact with the server directly (via localhost) or with the backend servers that are not accessible by the external users. An attacker can practically scan the entire network and retrieve sensitive information.
Types
Basic
In this type of attack the response is displayed to the attacker. The server fetches the URL requested by the attacker and sends the response back to the attacker.
Blind
In this type of attack the response is not sent back to the attacker. Therefore, the attacker has to devise ways to confirm this vulnerability.
Steps
Exploiting Misconfigurations: An attacker identifies a vulnerable endpoint in a web application. This could be, for example, an endpoint that fetches external resources like images or web pages.
Crafting the Payload: The attacker crafts a malicious URL targeting internal resources. This could target localhost (127.0.0.1), or other IPs indicative of internal resources, like 10.*.*.* or 192.168.*.*.
Bypassing Filters: If there are any filters in place, the attacker might try various techniques to bypass them. For instance, by using an IP address instead of "localhost", or by employing different URL schemes and encodings.
Fetching Internal Resources: The vulnerable server processes the malicious URL and makes a request to the targeted internal resource. This could expose internal services, databases, or even cloud-specific metadata, as in the case of the IMDS vulnerability on cloud platforms for example.
Exfiltrating Data: Depending on the nature of the SSRF and the responses, the attacker might be able to capture or infer data about the internal network or services.
Examples
Imagine you have a web application that fetches images from URLs and displays them. A user can enter a URL, and the server will download and display the image.
Expected Use:
User inputs: http://somesite.com/image.jpg Server fetches and displays: image.jpg
SSRF Attack:
Attacker inputs: http://localhost/admin If not protected correctly, the server might try to fetch content from its own local admin panel, thus revealing potentially sensitive data.
Mitigations
Whitelisting: Only allow URLs/hosts that you know are safe.
Block Private IPs: Ensure the application logic blocks requests to private IP address spaces.
Minimal Permissions: Run services with minimal permissions to eliminate the SSRF vulnerability or so that, even if there's an SSRF vulnerabili |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casebook%20PBC | Casebook PBC is a US cloud computing public-benefit corporation headquartered in New York City. Incubated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the company initially developed child welfare solutions and has since expanded to provide a SaaS platform servicing the whole of [Human Services] organizations.
History
Casebook initially started as Case Commons, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation under the leadership of Kathleen Feely, who was Vice-President for Innovation at the foundation.
In 2012, Indiana's Department of Child Services was the first state agency to implement Casebook as a web-based solution for its child welfare caseworkers. This effort led to the organization receiving the Design for Experience Award in 2014 and a Code for America Technology Award in 2015.
In 2017, the organization helped the state of California's Child Welfare Digital Services agency learn how to build and ship software. That same year, under the leadership of a new CEO, Tristan Louis, Casebook PBC entered into a national partnership with KPMG, allowing KPMG to leverage the Casebook platform as its exclusive solution for the child welfare vertical.
In late 2018, Assets from Case Commons were sold to Casebook PBC, a new organization founded by Mr. Louis with the purpose of building a SaaS platform for human services.
In mid-2020, the company started offering Case Management and Provider Management software aimed at not-for-profit organizations in social services..
Products
The company offers the Casebook Platform, a set of core components that can be used for a variety of Human Services software developments.
In 2019, the company launched provider management software aimed at small and medium-sized providers in human services
.
Because of its historical background in the Child Welfare space, the company also offers a suite of applications that, when put together, can allow states to assemble a CCWIS-ready child welfare system.
Awards and recognitions
Casebook PBC was recognized as a govtech 100 company by Government Technology Magazine in 2019, 2020, 20212019, and 2022 The company was also the recipient of the 2019 Stevie Awards for Innovation and Startup of the Year, and was named as one of the "2019 Best for the World" companies by B Lab. In 2020 Casebook received a mention at the Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards.
References
Software companies based in New York City
Companies based in Manhattan
American companies established in 2017
Software companies established in 2017
Benefit corporations
Public benefit corporations based in the United States
Privately held companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in New York City
Cloud applications
Cloud computing providers
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%20Era | The Bradford Era is a newspaper published Monday - Saturday serving McKean county in Pennsylvania. The American Newspapers Representatives database lists the Bradford Era's daily paid circulation as 13,000 and its unpaid circulation as 2,500. Jim Eckstrom is the Executive Group Editor for the paper. It is owned by Community Media Group, Inc.
History
The Bradford Era was founded by Col. J.K. Haffey in 1875 as the Bradford Daily Era. By 1877 it was a four-page, 36 column paper. In 1879 the Bradford Era was consolidated with the Daily Breeze, a local paper that had been in publication for only a year. Many newspapers had preceded it in the county, but it was Bradford's 2nd newspaper, and it sought to distinguish itself as an independent alternative, under the motto, "We do not run the paper for glory or notoriety; that we could have obtained by becoming the president of a savings bank, pocketing the depositors' money, then going to State prison."
The Bradford Era's early reporting focused on the local oil industry. It initially mounted a defense of Equitable Oil against Standard Oil, and noted Equitable Oil's achievements even though Standard Oil was trying to squash all local competition. Other local papers such as the Blaze took even more extreme stand, the Blaze once printing in blood-red ink to protest Standard Oil.
But by the early 1880s, the Bradford Era was owned and operated by businessmen with interests in Standard Oil and the Era became a mouthpiece for the company. In 1887, the Era Publishing Company was incorporated as a company and Patrick C. Boyle was the editor. Boyle and others used the paper to advocate against legislation, like the Billingsley Bill, which sought to regulate the oil industry. In addition, numerous editors for papers around the area were paid "pensions" for supporting Standard Oil interests in their printings. Boyle used the paper to attack people who opposed the monopoly of Standard Oil, such as Senator Lewis Emery . Emery grew so tired of the attacks that he had Boyle arrested for libel; Standard Oil paid to have him released from jail and to continue his slander campaign. Boyle was sent to Ohio in 1889 and put in charge of the Toledo Commercial.
The Bradford Era was mentioned in testimony in United States v. Standard Oil, in which the government sued the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; the case was argued at the 8th Circuit Court in Missouri in 1909. That decision was later taken to the Supreme Court in 1911 and upheld, in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, and led to the break-up of Standard Oil into 34 separate and competing companies.
In 1919, the Bradford Era became the first newspaper in the country to offer profit-sharing to its employees. The move was directed and announced by J.W. Milligan, who was president and general manager of the paper and its company, Era Publishing Company. J. W. Milligan served on a committee to present President Warren G. Harding (who had also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20series | Q series can refer to:
Bombardier Q series (Dash 8) – aircraft
IdeaCentre Q series – nettop computers
Pentax Q series – cameras
In mathematics
q-Pochhammer symbol q-series
Hypergeometric q-series
See also
P series (disambiguation)
R series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Hawkins |
Ed Hawkins may refer to:
Persons
Ed Hawkins, a writer of the 1975 film Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot
Ed Hawkins (climatologist), British climatologist and designer of certain data visualization graphics
Eddie Hawkins, former American soccer player
Edwin Hawkins (1943-2018), American gospel musician
Fictional characters
Ed Hawkins, a character in the television series Awake
Ed Hawkins, a character in the 1998 film Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure
Ed Hawkins, a character in the 1988 film Out of Time
Other
Ed Hawkins, a horse that is an ancestor of American saddlebred stallion Rex McDonald
See also
Edward Hawkins (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%20series | U series or U-series may refer to:
HTC U series, Android smartphones
IdeaPad U series, Lenovo consumer laptop computers
Sony U series, subnotebook computers
U-series dating, uranium–thorium dating
Yepp U series, USB key MP3 players
See also
T series (disambiguation)
V series (disambiguation)
Series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20series | V series or V-series may refer to:
Cadillac V series, a line of high-performance vehicles
List of ITU-T V-series recommendations, on data communication over the telephone network
LG V series, a line of high-end Android devices
V series of Sony Ericsson phones, exclusive to Vodafone
V-series of nerve agents:
VE (nerve agent)
VG (nerve agent)
VM (nerve agent)
VR (nerve agent)
VS (nerve agent)
VX (nerve agent)
V (TV series), the name of several TV series
V Series (Sweden), a TV channel
See also
U series (disambiguation)
W series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%20series | Y series or Y-series may refer to:
Bedford Y series – busses
IdeaPad Y series – laptop computers
Sony Vaio Y series – notebook computers
→_→Y-series train – a service class in China
See also
X series (disambiguation)
Z series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressto | Pressto is a franchising network specialized in laundry and dry cleaning from Spain. Today, Pressto has more than 500 outlets in 25 countries.
History
Pressto was established in 1994 in Chamberí, Madrid. Afterward, they successfully opened their first international branch in Mexico in 1997.
In the 2000s, the company made major acquisitions of franchisees and master franchisees, particularly in the countries of Asia, Middle East and South America. Some expansion included in Malaysia (2008), Singapore (2009), India. In America, the expansion continued in other Latin-American countries such as Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Panama.
Since 2016, Pressto has awarded as Top 100 Global Franchise Direct, making Pressto as the best global franchise based from its size of the network, revenues, stability, growth of the chain and the years in operation. In Mexico, Pressto has gained awards for three consecutive years in a row from Superbrands organization from 2014 to 2017.
References
External links
Retail companies established in 1994
Franchises
Laundry businesses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayalakshmi%20Shibaroor | Vijayalakshmi Shibaroor is a Special investigative correspondent in Vaicom18 network.
Early life
She was born on 3 April 1979 in Shibarooru village near Mangalore. She completed her post-graduation in mass communication and Journalism from Mangala Gangotri in Mangalore University.
Career
She started her career as an editor in Janavahini newspaper and then she joined Akashvani (radio broadcaster) as a program producer after one year, worked there for one year. Later, she joined Samyukta Karnataka and took the responsibility of Sapthahika, the supplement of Samyukta Karnataka. Later, she worked as a senior reporter cum anchor for 4 years in TV9 (Kannada) and after that, she joined ETV Kannada and worked for some years and she is now working as managing director in Vijaya Times.
Notable works
She is a producer of an investigative program named Cover story which uncovers social issues like adulterated food, bonded child labor, and many other scams. She has exposed scams like lottery scams, betting scams, play home scam, water scams, Anganwadi scams, and food scams in her Cover story program. Apart from television, she has also worked in Print media where she worked as Magazine editor, General desk in charge.
References
Indian reporters and correspondents
1979 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARSIMCO | DARSIMCO, short for Dartmouth Simplified Code, was a simple programming language written by John Kemeny in 1956 that expanded simple mathematical operations into IBM 704 assembly language (Share Assembly Language, SAL). It was an attempt to simplify basic mathematical processing, a common theme in the 1950s, but found little use before the arrival of FORTRAN at MIT the next year.
Description
This language was essentially a set of macros that expanded out user source code into a series of assembly language instructions, which were then compiled using the existing SAL assembler, Symbolic Assembly Program. For instance, the formula A + B = C would add the values in memory locations A and B and put the result in C. To do this, the DARSIMCO compiler would write out the following three instructions:
LDA A
FAD B
STO C
The language included similar expansions for subtraction, multiplication, division, and simple looping.
The language was implemented on the IBM 704 at MIT's New England Regional Computer Center. Programmed using punch cards, the system had a two-week turnaround because Kemeny had to take the cards in via train from Dartmouth.
See also
Autocode, a similar concept for mathematical programming
References
Programming languages
Programming languages created in 1956 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosevka | Iosevka () is a monospace programming typeface, built declaratively using custom typeface generation software, and with an emphasis on compatibility with CJK characters. It is available under a FOSS license. The default builds are available in two styles of nine weights each, and come with italic and oblique versions. The typeface was designed, however, to be easily configurable by editing textual TOML configuration files in the custom generation software.
The character repertoire covers a significant portion of the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, and a few characters from the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block.
History
The first version of Iosevka, then named codexHW, was created on 19 July 2015, and renamed to Iosevka three days later. It is the product of Chinese typographer Renzhi Li, using the Romanised pseudonym Belleve Invis.
Features
Iosevka once was a condensed font only, suitable to use with double width CJK characters, using a slashed zero by default. It contains many ligatures, especially suited towards functional programming languages such as Coq, Idris, and Haskell. The variant Iosevka Term is designed to better support terminals and the variant Iosevka Fixed omits the ligatures. It also comes with OpenType features including stylistic sets and character variants.
A second width variant (oddly named Extended) expands all glyphs to easier readable proportions (7 by 10), and also proportionally spaced font variants are included now. Notably, all variants of the Iosevka font family cover the same set of 5013 unicode character points, plus 4 long arrows which do not belong to all variants.
Build process
One major characteristic of Iosevka is that it is generated from declarative data files using a multi-phase build process. It was originally created as a typeface that could be used with a package called node-sfnt:
As I maintaining node-sfnt , a low-level library used to parse and generate TTFs in Node.JS, I decided to make a programming font using it. Iosevka is generated from a program written by me, as well as a set of parameters, pretty like Computer Modern, but in a more modern way. [...] [C]reating a font actually needs a domain-specific language, like Knuth's METAFONT language. With PatEL's macro system I can easily turn PatEL into a DSL while remaining its full ability of programming. The PatEL is in another repository I created, though not documented yet. It's syntax is basically a Lisp with improvements reducing brackets (by using colons and indents), and supporting infix operators.
As of 2018, the data files are still written in the Patrisika Example Language, also known as PatEL. PatEL is an alternative s-expression format somewhat akin to the wisp of SRFI 119. The PatEL data is then converted into SpiderMonkey abstract syntax tree using another library called Patrisika. The abstract syntax tree is then converted into JavaScript using Escodegen.
See also
PragmataPro, a Monospaced font with a design s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20L.%20Diaz | Nina L. Díaz is an executive at Viacom. She currently serves as the President of Programming and Development for VH1, MTV, and Logo Group.
In her executive positions, Díaz has primarily worked on unscripted programming, and has created or developed many record-setting reality television shows. Some of her shows include Love and Hip Hop, My Super Sweet 16, MTV Cribs, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, Hip Hop Squares, and Jersey Shore Family Vacation. As an independent executive, she helped develop Mob Wives for VH1 and Real Housewives of New Jersey for Bravo.
Biography
Díaz is a Latina of Puerto Rican descent, and is the daughter of reporter David Díaz.
Career
Diaz worked for MTV for 10 years, developing and launching My Super Sweet 16, MTV Cribs, and came up with idea for The Osbournes show on the set of Cribs. She left MTV to work as an independent producer for various networks, and helped develop hits such as Mob Wives on VH1 and Real Housewives of New Jersey on Bravo.
Diaz was hired by VH1 in 2014 where she served as senior vice president of East Coast Development. Diaz was hired as executive vice president of unscripted Programming and Development for MTV and VH1 in June 2016, then was promoted to head of unscripted programming in November 2016, and served in that position until April 2018. Her focus was shifting the networks towards creating more unscripted television shows, which increased viewership greatly. She has overseen the programming schedule, and helped develop or grow Love and Hip Hop, Stevie J & Joseline, Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, Black Ink Crew, Hip Hop Squares and a reboot of America's Next Top Model. She helped develop extensions to popular previously canceled shows such as Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, TRL, The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros and Jersey Shore Family Vacation. She helped create the U.S. version of Ex on the Beach, which had the biggest premier of any unscripted show since 2014. In 2017, she oversaw the creation of Floribama Shore and Siesta Key, which were the second and fourth new shows for the year, respectively.
In April 2018, she was promoted to the President of Programming and Development for VH1, MTV, and Logo Group.
References
American media executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
MTV executives
Women television executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueve | Nueve (Spanish for 'nine') may refer to:
Nueve (Spanish TV channel), short-lived channel from 2013–2014
Nueve (Mexican TV network), also styled as Nu9ve, previously known as Galavisión and Gala TV
Channel 9 (Argentina), also known as "El Nueve"
La Nueve, 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, who participated in the Liberation of France in World War II
See also
Nueve de Julio (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20One%20Night%20Only%20%282019%29 | One Night Only is a series of professional wrestling events held by Impact Wrestling in 2019 and streaming on their Global Wrestling Network service. 2019 was the final year of the One Night Only series as it would be retired and succeeded by the Impact Plus Monthly Specials, seen on GWN's own successor, Impact Plus.
New beginnings
One Night Only: New Beginnings was a professional wrestling event produced by Impact Wrestling in conjunction with Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling to be released exclusively on Global Wrestling Network.
Clash in the Bluegrass
One Night Only: Clash in the Bluegrass was a professional wrestling event produced by Impact Wrestling in conjunction with Ohio Valley Wrestling to be released exclusively on Global Wrestling Network.
References
2019 in professional wrestling
Events in Pennsylvania
Professional wrestling in Pennsylvania
2019 in Pennsylvania
Impact One Night Only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datto%20%28company%29 | Datto was an American cybersecurity and data backup company. Founded in 2007 in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 2017 it became a subsidiary of the Vista Equity Partners and merged with Autotask Corporation before being acquired by Kaseya in late 2022 and dissolved, being retained as a brand name only.
History
Founding of Datto
Founded in 2007 in Connecticut by software programmer Austin McChord, McChord initially built and marketed his own hand-made data backup devices. Securing his first customers in 2008, he afterwards built a system that allowed for data synchronization between two computers, before building a version of Zenith InfoTech that ran on Linux.
By the end of 2009, the company had $70,000 in monthly sales. When a new Datto product in 2010 caused old systems to crash, a replacement system was designed from scratch: SIRIS was released several months later as a free upgrade.
In 2011, sales were $9 million. The following year, they were at $25 million.
Global expansion
In September 2013, the company raised $25 million in its first round of venture capital financing, which was led by General Catalyst Partners. The established business model sold products primarily through managed service providers. By 2013 the company was continuing to focus on small and mid-size businesses, with clients such as Susan G. Komen for the Cure and several NFL teams.
In 2014, Datto Inc. purchased Backupify, a cloud-to-cloud backup company. Backupify focused on backing up data on servers, complementing Datto's focus on local or private clouds.
In November 2015, the company garnered $75 million in a Series B funding round mostly led by Technology Crossover Ventures. In 2015, it became Connecticut's first "unicorn" company.
In early 2017, Datto acquired Open Mesh.
Datto was acquired by Vista Equity Partners for around $1.5 billion in late 2017. As part of the deal, Datto merged with the Vista portfolio company Autotask Corporation and Austin McChord remained CEO of the combined company.
McChord stepped down as CEO in October 2018, remaining on the board. In January 2019, following the announcement of McChord’s departure, Datto named Tim Weller as its new CEO. Weller joined Datto in 2017 as chief financial officer before stepping into the chief executive role. Before joining Datto, Weller was CFO at Akamai, where he led its initial public offering, and CFO at clean energy technology company EnerNOC.
In October 2020 Datto officially began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “MSP”, selling 22 million shares to raise $594 million in its IPO.
In January 2022, Datto announced it had acquired the Austin-based threat detection and response company, Infocyte,
Europe
In July 2013 Datto acquired its UK distributor, Paradeon Technologies for an undisclosed sum and marked the start of Datto’s international expansion.
In 2016, Datto opened its EMEA headquarters in Reading. Datto also opened data centers in Iceland and Germany and s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertelecom | Intertelecom () is the largest CDMA mobile operator in Ukraine, providing voice and data services based on a CDMA2000 technologies in the 800 MHz frequency band.
By 2012 Intertelecom subscriber base reached 1 million active users.
Intertelecom uses local network codes for dialing prefixes as well as the national code +38094.
Mobile internet
By mid-2010 Intertelecom launched CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A network in 24 regions of Ukraine and by 2011 upgraded the network to Rev B. By 2013 Rev B covered more than 71% of the population.
Coverage
By the year 2012, Intertelecom acquired all existing IS-95 and CDMA2000 1xRTT carriers in Ukraine (except PEOPLEnet) such as its rival CDMA UA,
thus expanding its coverage area to the entire Ukrainian territory.
On July 1, 2021, voice service coverage in the majority of regions (except for Odesa and Odesa region) got cancelled
References
External links
Official website (in Ukrainian)
Mobile phone companies of Ukraine
Telecommunications companies of Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup%27R%27Mod | The Sup 'R' Mod II is an RF modulator which was sold by M&R Enterprises in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It connects computers and other devices with composite video outputs, to a television.
History
Apple Computer wanted to provide Apple II computers with color output on a television, but had trouble getting FCC approval because the RF modulation solution is too noisy. Apple made an arrangement with a small nearby company, M&R Enterprises, to manufacture and sell the devices. Apple could not sell the modulator and computer as a package, but retail computer dealers could sell both devices to the end user.
Marty Spergel, who ran M&R Enterprises, was told by Steve Jobs that it might sell up to 50 units a month. Spergel later estimated that he had sold about 400,000 units.
The Sup 'R' Mod II began selling in April 1978, for .
Technical features
The Sup 'R' Mod II kit has a small printed circuit board, an antenna switch, and a coaxial cable with a ferrite core and RCA connectors. Composite video is received by the circuit board through a short cable terminating in a Molex connector, which plugs into a header on the Apple II motherboard. Input can also be provided through an RCA connector. The output of the RF modulator goes out through a coaxial cable to the antenna switch.
The antenna switch allows the user to select between television broadcasts and computer output. The television antenna connects to inputs on the switch, and the switch output connects to the back of the television. The connections use screw terminals with spade lugs. Moving the switch from "TV" to "GAME PLAY" selects the computer output.
The modulator presents a color signal on UHF channel 33.
References
Audiovisual connectors
Consumer electronics
Computer-related introductions in 1978
Apple II peripherals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Klingemann | Mario Klingemann (born 1970 in Laatzen, Lower Saxony) is a German artist best known for his work involving neural networks, code, and algorithms. Klingemann was a Google Arts and Culture resident from 2016 to 2018, and he is considered as a pioneer in the use of computer learning in the arts. His works examine creativity, culture, and perception through machine learning and artificial intelligence, and have appeared at the Ars Electronica Festival, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Photographers’ Gallery London, the Centre Pompidou Paris, and the British Library. Today he lives in Munich, where, in addition to his art under the name "Dog & Pony", he still runs a creative free space between gallery and Wunderkammer with the paper artist Alexandra Lukaschewitz.
In 2018 his work The Butcher's Son won the Lumen Prize Gold Award 2018 by working with figurative visual input.
Mario Klingemann is part of ONKAOS, the new media artist support programme of Colección SOLO. In collaboration with ONKAOS he has created works such as Memories of Passerby I, the first work made with AI to be auctioned at Sotheby's in 2019.
In 2020, Mario Klingemann won an Honorary Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica with his AI installation Appropriate Response.
In 2023, with the support of ONKAOS, Klingemann presented A.I.C.C.A., a performative sculpture in the form of a dog capable of elaborating art critiques thanks to AI programming.
References
External links
Quasimondo
Twitter feed
X Degrees of Separation Google Arts & Culture Experiments
Interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk (German)
Presentation at Beyond Tellerrand conference, Dusseldorf, Germany 2017
Artificial intelligence art
Artificial intelligence researchers
Digital artists
German conceptual artists
Living people
1970 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%201992 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 1992.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
1992 films at the Internet Movie Database
1992
Lists of 1992 films by country or language
Films
1990s in Nigerian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202001 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2001.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2001 films at the Internet Movie Database
2001
Lists of 2001 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202003 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2003.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2003 films at the Internet Movie Database
2003
Lists of 2003 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202004 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2004.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2004 films at the Internet Movie Database
2004
Lists of 2004 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive.ai | Drive.ai, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., is an American technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California that uses artificial intelligence to make self-driving systems for cars. It has demonstrated a vehicle driving autonomously with a safety driver only in the passenger seat. To date, the company has raised approximately $77 million in funding. Drive.ai's technology can be modified to turn a vehicle autonomous.
In May 2018, Drive.ai announced a pilot program in Frisco, Texas to test the company's vehicles in its first application of a passenger carrying service available to the general public.
In June 2019, just days before it was set to close, the company was acquired by Apple Inc., which was interested in the acquisition of an autonomous vehicle company to supplement its automotive Project Titan.
History
Drive.ai was established in 2015 through Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab by a group of masters and PhD students from Andrew Ng's research lab. The group initially worked to develop a retrofit kit to add their autonomous driving system to existing cars. In August 2016, the company emerged from stealth mode with $12 million in funding and became the 13th company in California to get a license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads. The company's early funding included investments by Northern Light Venture Capital, Oriza Ventures and InnoSpring Seed Fund.
In June 2017, Drive.ai raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from GGV Capital, Northern Light Venture Capital and other previous investors. As part of the funding announcement, the company also announced that scientist Andrew Ng had joined its board of directors. That same month, Lyft announced a partnership with Drive.ai to run a pilot program in San Francisco operating Drive.ai's test fleet through Lyft's platform.
Drive.ai raised an additional $15 million in September 2017 including participation from Grab, a ride-hailing technology company in Southeast Asia.
In May 2018, it was announced that Drive.ai was working with the Frisco Transportation Management Association and would be releasing an on-demand self-driving passenger carrying car service in Frisco, Texas during the course of an initial 6-month pilot program. It was the first public deployment of self-driving cars in Texas. The pilot program will initially use safety drivers to monitor the car's operation, but will eventually move to driverless operation with remote monitoring. A Drive.ai app will be used by riders to call rides. Initially, the program will operate as a shared service within a fixed area including retail, entertainment and office spaces using designated pickup and drop-off locations. During the trial period, Drive.ai offered public education about its self-driving technology.
In October 2018, Drive.ai announced that it would launch a similar self-driving passenger carrying car service in Arlington, Texas and became the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Z%20Nation%20characters | Z Nation is an American zombie drama series created by Karl Schaefer and Craig Engler. The series premiered on September 10, 2014, in the United States on the Syfy television network. The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the television series.
Overview
Main characters
Roberta Warren
Lt. Roberta Warren (Kellita Smith) is a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. An ex-National Guard member activated out of Missouri, she is a member of the Westward-bound survivor group, and a former member of the Blue Sky Camp survivor group in New York. Like many other survivors of the zombie apocalypse, Warren lost nearly everything and everyone that mattered to her. She becomes the leader of the survivor group after the death of Garnett.
Citizen Z
Simon Cruller (DJ Qualls), commonly known as Citizen Z, is a PFC and former hacker who was working at the NSA's Northern Light listening post in the Arctic Circle. After a doomed rescue mission flight out of Northern Light, he becomes the NSA's sole surviving employee and uses his high-tech equipment to assist the group in its journey to California. He also runs a radio broadcast for other survivors, informing people to take cover when there is a threat of inescapable disaster-level weather or zombie hordes. He is slowly going insane from loneliness; his only companion is a sled dog named Pup. In the second season, the Northern Lights missile defense system intercepts a nuclear bomb, severely damaging the listening post and waking the zombies in the doomed evacuation flight wreckage. Citizen Z fights to survive the cold and the zombie onslaught, despite minimal shooting skills. At the end of season 2, Citizen Z decides to leave Northern Light when he realizes that all the post's resources are used up and it has sustained too much damage for him to survive there any longer. He leaves on foot with Pup, pulling a dog sled, in subzero temperatures. Near death, he is rescued by Kaya, an Inuit girl, and her surviving family members. They return to Northern Lights when they need food, and he and Kaya form a relationship, which results in her becoming pregnant. He leaves in a plane and meets the survivor group in person, but later returns.kaya then has her son, JZ .
Alvin Murphy
Alvin Bernard Murphy (Keith Allan) is a resentful and frail former convict who becomes the only known survivor of zombie bites after being part of a scientific experiment. The Westward-bound survivor group is tasked with transporting him to a government laboratory in California, as his apparent immunity is believed to be the sole solution to the ZN1 virus. Over time, Murphy's appearance changes, and he becomes part zombie. He can communicate with zombies, develops feelings for them and can make them do his bidding. He also becomes more and more misanthropic, going from simply a cowardly jerk with few redeeming moments to an increasingly darker character who even starts to succumb to zombie instincts and does not care about the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Doctor%20Doctor%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Doctor Doctor (outside of Australasia known as The Heart Guy) is an Australian drama series. It premiered on Nine Network on 14 September 2016. The series follows Hugh Knight (Rodger Corser), a heart surgeon, who is punished for a number of mishaps and is put on probation and forced to work in the country town of Whyhope for a year as a G.P., which coincidentally happens to be his hometown.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2017)
Season 3 (2018)
Season 4 (2020)
Season 5 (2021)
Ratings
References
External links
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20solutions%20of%20P-recursive%20equations | In mathematics a P-recursive equation can be solved for polynomial solutions. Sergei A. Abramov in 1989 and Marko Petkovšek in 1992 described an algorithm which finds all polynomial solutions of those recurrence equations with polynomial coefficients. The algorithm computes a degree bound for the solution in a first step. In a second step an ansatz for a polynomial of this degree is used and the unknown coefficients are computed by a system of linear equations. This article describes this algorithm.
In 1995 Abramov, Bronstein and Petkovšek showed that the polynomial case can be solved more efficiently by considering power series solution of the recurrence equation in a specific power basis (i.e. not the ordinary basis ).
Other algorithms which compute rational or hypergeometric solutions of a linear recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients also use algorithms which compute polynomial solutions.
Degree bound
Let be a field of characteristic zero and a recurrence equation of order with polynomial coefficients , polynomial right-hand side and unknown polynomial sequence . Furthermore denotes the degree of a polynomial (with for the zero polynomial) and denotes the leading coefficient of the polynomial. Moreover letfor where denotes the falling factorial and the set of nonnegative integers. Then . This is called a degree bound for the polynomial solution . This bound was shown by Abramov and Petkovšek.
Algorithm
The algorithm consists of two steps. In a first step the degree bound is computed. In a second step an ansatz with a polynomial of that degree with arbitrary coefficients in is made and plugged into the recurrence equation. Then the different powers are compared and a system of linear equations for the coefficients of is set up and solved. This is called the method undetermined coefficients. The algorithm returns the general polynomial solution of a recurrence equation.
algorithm polynomial_solutions is
input: Linear recurrence equation .
output: The general polynomial solution if there are any solutions, otherwise false.
for do
repeat
with unknown coefficients for
Compare coefficients of polynomials and to get possible values for
if there are possible values for then
return general solution
else
return false
end if
Example
Applying the formula for the degree bound on the recurrence equationover yields . Hence one can use an ansatz with a quadratic polynomial with . Plugging this ansatz into the original recurrence equation leads toThis is equivalent to the following system of linear equationswith the solution . Therefore the only polynomial solution is .
References
Polynomials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramov%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, particularly in computer algebra, Abramov's algorithm computes all rational solutions of a linear recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients. The algorithm was published by Sergei A. Abramov in 1989.
Universal denominator
The main concept in Abramov's algorithm is a universal denominator. Let be a field of characteristic zero. The dispersion of two polynomials is defined aswhere denotes the set of non-negative integers. Therefore the dispersion is the maximum such that the polynomial and the -times shifted polynomial have a common factor. It is if such a does not exist. The dispersion can be computed as the largest non-negative integer root of the resultant . Let be a recurrence equation of order with polynomial coefficients , polynomial right-hand side and rational sequence solution . It is possible to write for two relatively prime polynomials . Let andwhere denotes the falling factorial of a function. Then divides . So the polynomial can be used as a denominator for all rational solutions and hence it is called a universal denominator.
Algorithm
Let again be a recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients and a universal denominator. After substituting for an unknown polynomial and setting the recurrence equation is equivalent toAs the cancel this is a linear recurrence equation with polynomial coefficients which can be solved for an unknown polynomial solution . There are algorithms to find polynomial solutions. The solutions for can then be used again to compute the rational solutions .
algorithm rational_solutions is
input: Linear recurrence equation .
output: The general rational solution if there are any solutions, otherwise false.
Solve for general polynomial solution
if solution exists then
return general solution
else
return false
end if
Example
The homogeneous recurrence equation of order over has a rational solution. It can be computed by considering the dispersionThis yields the following universal denominator:andMultiplying the original recurrence equation with and substituting leads toThis equation has the polynomial solution for an arbitrary constant . Using the general rational solution isfor arbitrary .
References
Computer algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202005 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2005.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2005 films at the Internet Movie Database
2005
Nigeria
Films
List |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202008 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2008.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2008 films at the Internet Movie Database
2008
Lists of 2008 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202007 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2007.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2007 films at the Internet Movie Database
2007
Lists of 2007 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202006 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2006.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2006 films at the Internet Movie Database
2006
Lists of 2006 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202010 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2010.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2010 films at the Internet Movie Database
2010
Lists of 2010 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202009 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2009.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2009 films at the Internet Movie Database
2009
Lists of 2009 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202011 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2011.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2011 films at the Internet Movie Database
2011
Lists of 2011 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigal%20Gottlieb | Sigal Gottlieb is an applied mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics and (since 2013) the director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Life
Sigal Gottlieb is the daughter and co-author of applied mathematician David Gottlieb. She completed her undergraduate, masters and her Ph.D. at Brown University. She defended her Ph.D. thesis in 1998 under the supervision of Chi-Wang Shu; her dissertation was Convergence to Steady State of Weighted ENO Schemes, Norm Preserving Runge-Kutta Methods and a Modified Conjugate Gradient Method.
Research
Gottlieb's interests lie in the numerical simulation of the partial differential equations used in aerodynamics.
She has authored the following books :
Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Problems (with Jan S. Hesthaven and David Gottlieb, Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics, 21, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Strong Stability Preserving Runge–Kutta and Multistep Time Discretizations (with David Ketcheson and Chi-Wang Shu, World Scientific, 2011)
Gottlieb directs UMass Dartmouth's Center for Scientific Computing & Visualization Research, which is a research center with over 30 faculty, multiple computational clusters, and an international advisory board. She founded the Center in 2013 with a colleague, Gaurav Khanna. She served as Deputy Director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) from 2017 to 2021, and as of 2021 she serves as Associate Director for Special Projects there.
Recognition
In 2019 Gottlieb was named a SIAM Fellow "for her contribution to strong-stability-preserving time discretizations and other schemes for hyperbolic equations, and for her professional services including those to SIAM and women in mathematics". Gottlieb was named a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the Class of 2021 "for exemplary and lasting work in forging an active and positive research environment, proactive outreach, effective mentoring, and promoting the success of women in mathematical and computational sciences".
References
External links
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Brown University alumni
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century women mathematicians
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios%20and%20Matheson%20Analytics | Helios and Matheson Analytics was a publicly traded data analytics company based in New York City, New York. The company became widely known during its final years for acquiring and subsequently operating MoviePass, which ultimately led to the company's bankruptcy.
History
The company was founded in 1983 by Shmuel BenTov as Software Ben-Tov. It changed its name later that year to The A Consulting Team. The company made its initial public offering in 1997.
In 2006, Helios & Matheson Information Technology Ltd., an IT consulting firm based in India, purchased a majority stake in the company. The A Consulting Team changed its name in 2007 to Helios & Matheson North America, to highlight its association with the parent company.
The company again changed its name in 2011 to Helios & Matheson Information Technology Inc., to reflect that it was seeking business opportunities worldwide, and then in 2013 to Helios and Matheson Analytics, to reflect that the business had "moved beyond IT".
The company acquired Zone Technologies, maker of the RedZone Map app, in November 2016. Zone founder Ted Farnsworth was appointed chairman of Helios, and then, in January 2017, became Helios's CEO.
In August 2017, Helios purchased a majority stake in MoviePass. Helios advanced MoviePass $55 million from December to February 20, 2018. MoviePass then converted the advances from debt to equity. This increased Helios' ownership stake from 62.4 percent to 81.2 percent. Another $35 million in advances converted to capital put Helios at 91.8 percent, allowing for a merger unilaterally initiated by the Helios board. In January 2018, co-founder Stacy Spikes was fired from the company.
In April 2018, Helios acquired the movie listings website Moviefone from Verizon's digital media subsidiary, Oath Inc. As part of the transaction, Verizon took an equity stake in MoviePass.
In March 2018, the board of directors began the process to spin off Zone Technologies to shareholders as a separate, publicly traded company, with the hope that it would allow Helios to focus on its strengths.
In April 2018, Helios sold $150 million in stock with $30 million of the shares at $2.75, a discount from the closing market price of $3.83. Most of the proceeds were used to fund MoviePass. With the diluting and discount on the shares, prior investors indicated their unhappiness with the company on Twitter.
In May 2018, the company acquired the assets of Emmett Furla Oasis Films, gaining its executives' expertise in making films for a new subsidiary, MoviePass Films, with an option to purchase the library. The new company would be 51% owned by Helios and the remainder by EFO. By early August 2018, Helios and Matheson completed the acquisition of Emmett Furla Oasis Films assets for the MoviePass subsidiary, MoviePass Films.
In August 2018, the company reported a loss of $100 million in the second quarter of 2018 with the company trading at an implied value of $30 million. In October 2018, the Att |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kass | Michael Kass is an American computer scientist best known for his work in computer graphics and computer vision. He has won an Academy Award and the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award and is an ACM Fellow.
Kass, David Baraff and Andrew Witkin shared an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement in 2005 for clothing animation, including his pioneering work on the clothing simulator used by Pixar in the short Geri's Game, Best Animated Short Film, Academy Awards 1997. He contributed a variety of technologies to Pixar animated films, from A Bug's Life through Monsters University.
In 2009, Kass was honored by ACM SIGGRAPH for "his extensive and significant contributions to computer graphics, ranging from image processing to animation to modeling, and in particular for his introduction of optimization techniques as a fundamental tool in graphics." The award citation notes: "Michael is a graphics renaissance man: he's worked on animation, modeling, textures, image processing and even on graphics systems. In each area, he's made groundbreaking contributions."
Google Scholar counts over 30K citations to his work, including one of the top 20 most cited papers in computer science, “Snakes: Active Contour Models," authored with Andrew Witkin and Demetri Terzopoulos. The "Snakes" paper launched the Active contour model, a framework for delineating an object outline from a possibly noisy 2D image for applications like object tracking, shape recognition, segmentation, edge detection and stereo matching.
Kass developed the Hierarchical Z-Buffer with collaborators Ned Greene and Gavin Miller, a rendering technique that enables great increases in practical scene complexity compared to traditional Z-buffering. The algorithm can be found in all modern graphics processing units (GPU).
Currently a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA, Kass is involved in a variety of projects related to augmented reality, virtual reality, and various types of content creation. Prior to NVIDIA, he was a senior principal engineer at Intel, a distinguished fellow at Magic Leap, a senior research scientist at Pixar, and a principal engineer at Apple Computers. His early days in advanced technologies began at Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory after earning his Ph.D. from Stanford.
Kass has 28 issued U.S. patents and was honored in 2018 by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association as Inventor of the Year.
Kass is also a champion juggler, Argentine tango dancer, and an accomplished ice dancer.
Education
Kass received a B.A. summa cum laude in artificial intelligence (independent concentration) from Princeton University, an M.S. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Career
Michael Kass has been a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA since 2017. Prior to NVIDIA, he was a senior principal engineer in the New Technology Group at Intel, disting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABlle%20Pineau | Joëlle Pineau (born 1974) is a Canadian computer scientist and associate professor at McGill University. She is the lead of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) in Montreal, Quebec.
Early life and education
Pineau was born in 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario. She played violin in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. She eventually studied engineering at the University of Waterloo. She completed her postgraduate education in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. A chapter of Pineau's Masters thesis, Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs, has been published and cited almost 1,000 times. Her doctoral thesis, Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure, was supervised by Sebastian Thrun and Geoff Gordon.
Research and career
Pineau develops algorithms and models that allow learning in partially complex domains. She is co-director of McGill University's Reasoning and Learning Lab. She founded two start-ups that develop robotic assistants for the elderly; the SmartWheeler initiative and the Nursebot platform. SmartWheeler is a multi-modal wheelchair that combines artificial intelligence and robotics.
She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2016 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Pineau investigates approaches to personal medicine, using data from medical charts, X-ray images, clinical notes and lab reports to generate new treatment strategies. She teaches Artificial intelligence how to analyse medical scans. Her team have used Deep learning for detecting seizures. She serves as an editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). She has given lectures for the Artificial Intelligence Channel.
In 2017 Pineau was appointed the head of the Facebook AI Research Lab in Montreal. She won a Facebook Research Award. She spoke at the third annual Canada 2020 conference. Here she focuses on reinforcement learning, deep learning, computer vision and video understanding. In 2018 she won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. She challenges Artificial intelligence research that is not reproducible. She was the reproducibility chair for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2019, where she introduced the requirement of a reproducibility checklist as part of the paper submission process. She is president of the International Machine Learning Society. In 2019, Pineau received a Governor General's Innovation Award for her leadership in the innovative applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to the field of personalized medicine.
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
1974 births
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon Univers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runa%20Sandvik | Runa Sandvik is a Norwegian-American computer security expert and founder of Granitt. She is noted for her extensive work in protecting at-risk civil society groups, including human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists. Sandvik was previously the Senior Director of Information Security at The New York Times, helping launch the company’s confidential tips page in December 2016.
Career
Sandvik was an early developer of the Tor anonymity network, a cooperative facility that helps individuals obfuscate the Internet Protocol information they are using to access the Internet. Sandvik is a technical advisor to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and serves on the review board of Black Hat Europe. Sandvik interviewed Edward Snowden in May 2014. In February 2015 Sandvik documented her efforts to retrieve information about herself through Freedom of Information Act requests. Sandvik led efforts to make The New York Times a Tor Onion service, allowing Times employees and readers to access the newspaper's site in ways that impede intrusive government monitoring.
Hacking of smart rifles
Sandvik, and her husband, Michael Auger, demonstrated how smart rifles with remote access can be remotely hacked. The $13,000 TrackingPoint sniper rifle is equipped with an embedded linux computer. According to Wired magazine, when used according to its specifications, the aiming computer can enable a novice to hit remote targets that would otherwise require a skilled marksman. However the manufacturers designed the aiming computer with WiFi capabilities, so the shooter could upload video of their shots. Sandvik and Auger found they could initiate a Unix shell command line interpreter, and use it to alter parameters the aiming computer relies on, so that it will always miss its targets. They found that a knowledgeable hacker could use the shell to acquire root access. Acquiring root access allowed an interloper to erase all the aiming computer's software—"bricking" the aiming computer.
Personal life
She acquired her first computer when she was fifteen years old. She studied computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 2014 Sandvik married Michael Auger, and the pair made their home in Washington, D.C.
References
External links
Snowden interview
1988 births
Living people
InfoSec Twitter
Norwegian women
People associated with computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202012 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2012.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2012 films at the Internet Movie Database
2012
Lists of 2012 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202013 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2013.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2013 films at the Internet Movie Database
2013
Lists of 2013 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202014 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2014.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2014 films at the Internet Movie Database
2014
Lists of 2014 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRP | CBRP, or Cluster Based Routing Protocol, is a routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. CBRP was originally designed in mid 1998 by the National University of Singapore and subsequently published as an Internet Draft in August 1998. CBRP is one of the earlier hierarchical ad-hoc routing protocols. In CBRP, nodes dynamically form clusters to maintain structural routing support and to minimize excessive discovery traffic typical for ad-hoc routing.
Many performance studies on CBRP have been conducted in the area of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET). CBRP is shown to perform moderately well in large and high density mesh networks
See also
Wireless ad hoc networks
Mesh networking
List of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols
References
Ad hoc routing protocols
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie%20Anne%20Philbin | Carrie Anne Philbin is an English teacher of computer science and an author. She is a director of educator support at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and chairs the Computing At School (CAS) diversity and inclusion group, #CASInclude. She wrote the computing book Adventures in Raspberry Pi (2013) for teenagers. She runs the YouTube channel Geek Gurl Diaries and in 2017, was the host for Crash Course Computer Science.
Early life and education
Philbin studied history at the University of Essex. She taught herself to program and manage computer systems after she graduated. She trained as a school computing teacher and worked in East London.
Career
Philbin has been responsible for teaching children and teachers how to code in Python programming language and the Scratch programming language. In 2014 she began to work at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. She is a Google Certified Teacher and was a Skype Movement Maker. Philbin leads strategy, continuing professional development (CPD) program and learning at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. She was an advisor to the Department for Education for the UK's first computing curriculum. In 2016 she was named as one of Computer Weeklys most influential women rising stars. She chairs the Computing At School diversity and inclusion program and was a member of the board of directors at Python Software Foundation until 2017. She was appointed a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and named Computer Weekly'''s third most influential woman in IT in 2017. She is a founder member of CasInclude an organisation supporting diversity in computing, for children in school. She won the 2018 FDM Group Everywoman Tech Digital Star Award.
Philbin is a regular speaker at conferences like the British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT), Raspberry Jams, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference and Python conferences PyCon AU, EuroPython and PyCon UK.
In 2019, Philbin was 17th in Computer Weekly's 50 'Most Influential Women in UK Tech' shortlist for her role as Director of Education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Geek Gurl Diaries Geek Gurl Diaries was created by Philbin in 2012 to communicate to young people how exciting and creative science and engineering are. It has 34,000 subscribers on YouTube. It won the TalkTalk Digital Heroes award in 2013.
Adventures in Raspberry Pi Adventures in Raspberry Pi first published in 2013 with subsequent editions published in 2014, 2015 and 2016. It contains an introduction to programming as well as 10 projects and instructional videos.
Crash Course
In 2017 Philbin partnered with Crash Course'' to create a series of videos explaining the origins of modern computing. The series consists of 41 videos, with between 177,000 and 3,200,000 viewers.
Awards and honours
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to education.
References
Computer science educators
English computer programm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Victor%20Magtanggol%20episodes | Victor Magtanggol is a 2018 Philippine fantasy-action series starring Alden Richards, Andrea Torres, Janine Gutierrez and John Estrada. The series premiered on GMA Network's GMA Telebabad evening block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from July 30 to November 16, 2018, replacing The Cure.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Zero%20Data%20Loss%20Recovery%20Appliance | The Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (Recovery Appliance or ZDLRA) is a computing platform that includes Oracle Corporation (Oracle) Engineered Systems hardware and software built for backup and recovery of the Oracle Database. It performs continuous data protection, validates backups, automatically corrects many issues, and provides alerts when backups fail validation.
It is designed for Oracle databases and works only on Oracle databases. It is considered a 3rd party backup and recovery product. Industry analyst firm ESG (via ESG Lab) reviewed it and noted that it "meets the needs of the financial services industry" and provided what they call “Fiduciary Class Data Recovery” to meet the "high level of trust required by financial institutions".
It was introduced in 2014 as part of Oracle Corporation's family of "Engineered Systems" and shares components with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, with an additional layer of software that provides specific features for backup, recovery, replication, monitoring, and management. Like the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, it is periodically refreshed as a new interoperable and expandable “generation” based on newer hardware technology at the time of release. In September 2019, the Recovery Appliance X8M introduced a 100 Gbit/s internal network fabric based on RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), replacing the InfiniBand fabric used in previous Recovery Appliance generations.
The Recovery Appliance elastic configuration starts with a "Base Rack" that can be increased to a "Full Rack" or larger "multi-rack" configuration. A Base Rack is capable of managing over 207 terabytes of backup data, while a Full Rack can manage over 1.26 petabytes. Multi-Rack configurations of up to 18 racks wide can manage more than 22 petabytes of data. Since Recovery Appliance only needs to store data that has changed, the actual size of databases that are protected can be many times larger than the storage capacity of a Recovery Appliance.
References
External links
https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance/index.html
https://juliandontcheff.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/oracle-zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance/
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3002738
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E55822_01/index.htm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/zero-data-loss-recovery-appliance-2766885.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq2H2un84EA
https://www.doag.org/formes/pubfiles/8565375/2016-MW-Konrad_Haefeli-Zero_Data_Loss_Recovery_Appliance-_in_Action_-Praesentation.pdf
https://siliconangle.com/2016/11/25/ready-new-data-recovery-regulations/
Oracle hardware
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood%20Baptist%20Health | Brookwood Baptist Health is a network of hospitals, outpatient centers and clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It is owned by Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. The system is the result of a merger between Brookwood Medical Center and Baptist Health System.
As Baptist Health System
Baptist Health System was founded in 1922 by the Birmingham Baptist Association. The nonprofit organization's first hospital was Birmingham Baptist Hospital, now known as Princeton Baptist Medical Center. The hospital merged with Montclair Hospital to form Baptist Health System. It was one of the largest healthcare providers in Alabama since the 1950s through the mid-2000s. Economic factors required the system to sell many of its small properties and ultimately forced the system to sell a majority stake of Montclair Baptist Medical Center to Plano, Texas-based Triad Hospitals. The majority stake was spun-off again in 2008 to Community Health Systems of Brentwood, Tennessee, and the property was renamed Trinity Medical Center. Trinity eventually closed the Montclair location after purchasing and renovating the unfinished Healthsouth Digital Hospital, now called Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham.
Brookwood Medical Center merger
In late 2014, Tenet Healthcare announced it was interested in merging its 600-bed acute care hospital in Birmingham, Brookwood Medical Center, with Baptist Health System. On October 2, 2015, Tenet announced it had finalized the merger. The combined system has more than 1,700 beds across its five acute care hospitals and employs more than 7,000 people. The new system was renamed Brookwood Baptist Health, and unveiled a new logo in 2016.
Acute Care Properties
References
Tenet Healthcare
Companies based in Birmingham, Alabama
Medical and health organizations based in Alabama
Baptist hospitals networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Controls%20Corporation | Business Controls Corporation is a privately held computer company
that developed an application-program-generator and also a series of accounting software packages. These packages were widely enough used for various business magazines to have back-of-the-book ads for companies seeking accountants with experience in one or more of them.
Computer magazines ran coverage for their SB-5 application-program-generator as from time to time new versions were released, each with new or improved features.
Early days
The company's initial offerings were packages for the DEC PDP-8, although Business Controls Corporation also wrote custom-written programs for customers.
Large customers with mainframes who also used smaller systems for departmental use and distributed processing also used BCC's services.
SB-5
The addition of an application-program-generator named SB-5 that, from specifications, could generate COBOL code was a major step forward. Although this began with supporting the DEC PDP-11, they subsequently began to support COBOL on DEC's DECsystem-10 & DECSYSTEM-20. VAX support came later.
The specifications also permitted COBOL inserts and overrides: SB-5 could build an application that was all COBOL, yet only code the portions that varied from BCC's "vanilla" accounting packages.
Similar offerings
A similar idea was done for the IBM mainframe world in the form of a series of application-program-generators from Dylakor Corporation. They were named DYL-250, DYL-260, DYL-270 & DYL-280. Dylakor was acquired by Computer Associates.
The specific syntax was different, but it had wider use, and - a mark of success and recognition in the industry - syntax-compatible implementations were released by a competitor.
Still another alternative was Peat Marwick Mitchell's PMM2170 application-program-generator package. Like the others, it supported COBOL inserts and overrides.
Extended integration
Business Controls Corporation subsequently extended SB-5's feature set to provide support for System 1022, a product for the DEC-10 & DEC-20; 1022's vendor also had a VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS) product, System 1032.
References
Procedural programming languages
OpenVMS software
Programming tools
Source code generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column%20level%20encryption | Column level encryption is a type of database encryption method that allows user to select specific information or attributes to be encrypted instead of encrypting the entire database file. To understand why column level encryption is different from other encryption methods like file level encryption, disk encryption, and database encryption, a basic understanding of encryption is required.
Generally, when data are being collected and stored as records, those records will appear in a tabular format in rows in the database with each rows logging specific attributes. Some data can be more sensitive than others, for example, data of birth, social security number, home address, etc., which can act as a personal identification. In order to ensure that these private information is transferred and stored securely, data goes through encryption, which is the process of encoding plaintext into ciphertext. Non-designated readers or receivers will not be able to read the data without the decryption key. Another example to illustrate this concept is, given a database stores client's phone numbers. The set of phone numbers will appear to most readers as gibberish alphanumerical text with a mix of symbols, totally useless to those who do not have access privilege to view the data in plaintext (original form).
Because not all stored data are always sensitive and important, column level encryption was created to allow users the flexibility in choosing what sort of attributes should or should not be encrypted. This is to minimize performance disruption when executing crypto algorithms by moving data in and out of devices.
Application and advantages
The technology has been adopted by many encryption software companies around the world, including IBM, MyDiamo (Penta Security), Oracle and more. Column level encryption does not store the same encryption key like table encryption does but rather separate keys for each column. This method minimizes the probability of unauthorized access.
Advantages of column-level encryption
Advantages of column-level encryption:
Flexibility in data to encrypt. The application can be written to control when, where, by whom, and how data is viewed
Transparent encryption is possible
More secure as each column can have its own unique encryption key within the database
Encryption is possible when data is active and not just “at rest”
Retrieval speed is maintained because there's less encrypted data
References
Cryptographic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince%20Calhoun | Vince Daniel Calhoun is an American engineer and neuroscientist. He directs the Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a partnership between Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, and holds faculty appointments at all three institutions. He was formerly the President of the Mind Research Network and a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (1991)
M.A. in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1993)
M.S. in Information Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1996)
Ph.D. in Electrical Eng., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (2002).
Career
Calhoun is an expert on brain imaging acquisition and analysis and has created numerous algorithms for making sense of complex brain imaging data. He is the creator of the group independent component analysis algorithm, which has become widely used for extracting 'networks' of coherent activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. He was also an early innovator in approaches to characterizing the dynamics of brain connectivity. He has also developed techniques to link many different types of data, called 'data fusion' including various types of brain imaging (structural, functional, connectivity) with genomic and epigenomic data. A key focus of Calhoun's work is the development of tool to identify brain imaging markers to help identify and potentially treat various brain disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, Alzheimer's disease, and many more.
Awards
Calhoun is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
References
External links
Living people
University of New Mexico faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1967 births
American electrical engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuya%20Ogiwara | is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left back for club Urawa Red Diamonds.
Club statistics
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References
External links
Takuya Ogiwara at J.LEAGUE Data Site
Takuya Ogiwara at J.LEAGUE.jp (archive)
Takuya Ogiwara at Urawa Red Diamonds
1999 births
Living people
Japanese men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Kyoto Sanga FC players
J1 League players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%20Jump | The Wheeler Jump is a type of subroutine call methodology that was used on some early computers that lacked hardware support for saving the return address. The concept was developed by David Wheeler while working on the pioneering EDSAC machine in the 1950s. EDSAC had not been built with subroutines in mind, and lacked a suitable processor register or a hardware stack that might allow the return address to be easily stored.
Wheeler's solution was a particular way to write the subroutine code. To implement it, the last line of the subroutine was a "jump to this address" instruction, which would normally be followed by a memory location. In a Wheeler subroutine, this address was normally set to a dummy number, say 0.
To call the routine, the address of the caller would be placed in the accumulator and then the code would jump to the starting point of the routine. The first instructions in the routine would calculate the return address based on the value in the accumulator, typically the next memory location so an increment will suffice, and then write the result to the dummy address previously set aside. When the routine runs its course it naturally reaches the end of the routine which now says "jump to the return address".
As writing to memory is a slow process compared to register access, this methodology is not particularly fast. It also is not capable of expressing recursion. The addition of new registers for this sort of duty was a key design goal of EDSAC 2.
Example
This example demonstrates the technique using a pseudo-assembler language for a simple byte-oriented accumulator-based machine with a single register, A:
'prepare to call the subroutine
10 COPY PC TO A ' copy the program counter (10) into the accumulator
11 JUMP ' jump to...
12 70 ' ... location 70
... many more lines...
70 ADD CONST ' add the following value to the accumulator...
71 3 ' ... three locations past the original PC value
72 STORE ' store the value in the accumulator to...
73 91 ' ... the set-aside memory location
... lines that perform the actual subroutine...
90 JUMP ' return to...
91 0 ' ... which will be replaced by 13
When this code completes, the JUMP instruction in address 90 will naturally return to location 13, the next instruction after the subroutine.
References
History of computing in the United Kingdom
Subroutines |
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