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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latastia%20longicaudata | Latastia longicaudata, also known as the southern long-tailed lizard or common long-tailed lizard, is a species of lizard found in Senegal, Mali, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Djibouti, and Mauritania.
References
Reptiles described in 1834
Latastia
Taxa named by Adolph Reuss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z80-RIO | The Z80 Operating System with Relocatable Modules and I/O Management (Z80-RIO) is a general-purpose operating system developed by Zilog in the late 1970s for various computer systems including the Z80 Micro Computer System (MCZ-1) series and the Z80 Development System (ZDS). The MCZ systems were primarily used for software development and automation solutions. RIO was designed to facilitate the development and integration of user's programs into a production environment.
Features
The system provides a modest environment with a minimum of system support and an enhanced environment.
The modest environment provides a program debugger with file manipulation capability, a floppy disk driver (supporting up to eight disk drives), and a basic console driver with provision for paper tape operation.
The enhanced environment provides access to the RIO Executive and to system support utilities such as the Zilog Floppy Disk File System (ZDOS), and the Zilog Hard Disk File System (DFS). It also provides access to a number of disk-resident software such a text editor, macro assembler, and linker.
Commands
The following list of commands are supported by Z80-RIO.
ACTIVATE
ALLOCATE
ASM
BRIEF
CAT
CLOSE
COMPARE
COPY
COPY.DISK
COPYSD
DATE
DEACTIVATE
DEALLOCATE
DEBUG
DEFINE
DELETE
DISK.FORMAT
DISK.REPAIR
DISK.STATUS
DISPLAY
DO
DUMP
ECHO
EDIT
ERROR
ERRORS
EXTRACT
FORCE
FORMAT
HELP
IMAGE
INITIALIZE
LADT
LINK
MASTER
MEMORY
MOVE
PAUSE
RELEASE
RENAME
RESTORE_TABS
SAVE_TABS
SET
STATUS
VERBOSE
XEQ
Clones
UDOS, a Z80-RIO compatible clone by VEB Robotron, was available for a number of computers by the same company, such as the A 5120 or the PC 1715, which were based on the U880 processor (the latter being a clone of Zilog's Z80). UDOS was also one of the operating systems available for the P8000, a microcomputer system developed in 1987 by the VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow „Friedrich Ebert“ (EAW) in the German Democratic Republic (DDR, East Germany).
See also
Federico Faggin
References
External links
Zilog website
RIO & PLZ reloaded
Les Bird's MCZ utilities and RIO OS disk images
Discontinued operating systems
Disk operating systems
Microcomputer software
Proprietary operating systems
Z80 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC%20Mesh | NYC Mesh is a physical network of interconnected routers and a group of enthusiasts working to support the expansion of the project as a freely accessible, open, wireless community network. NYC Mesh is not an internet service provider (ISP), although it does connect to the internet and offer internet access as a service to members. The network includes over 1,000 active member nodes throughout the five boroughs of New York City, with concentrations of users in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Aim
The goal of NYC Mesh is to build a large scale, decentralized digital network, owned by those who run it, that will eventually cover all of New York City and neighboring urban areas.
Participation in the project is governed by its Network Commons License.
This agreement, partially modeled on a similar license in use by Guifi.net, lists four key tenets:
Participants are free to use the network for any purpose that does not limit the freedom of others to do the same,
Participants are free to know how the network and its components function,
Participants are free to offer and accept services on the network on their own terms, and
By joining the free network, participants agree to extend the network to others under the same conditions.
Other similar projects include Freifunk in Germany, Ninux in Italy, Sarantaporo.gr in Greece, the People's Open Network in Oakland, CA, and Red Hook Wi-Fi in Brooklyn, NY.
Technology
Like many other free community-driven networks, NYC Mesh uses mesh technology to facilitate robustness and resiliency. NYC Mesh previously used BGP for routing within the network, though this was found to be too static so the network was changed to use OSPF routing instead.
The network relies on a variety of wireless links to connect individual nodes and larger sections of the network together. Most nodes use both a long range directional antenna for up-link to a hub along with a shorter range omni-directional antenna that provides connections to other nearby nodes. This omni-directional antenna also includes a router and 5 port network switch.
From the roof, cables are run to each apartment which is provided with Wi-Fi from an indoor Wi-Fi access point. Each node can support up to 4 apartments by itself, but can be upgraded to support more with additional equipment.
History
NYC meshnet was founded in 2012 and was originally based on the Cjdns protocol.
In 2014 a new NYC Mesh website was launched and the first antennas were installed using firmware from Guifi.
In 2015 NYC Mesh received a grant from ISOC-NY, the New York chapter of the Internet Society.
NYC Mesh connects to the internet via the DE-CIX internet exchange point (IXP) at its first super node, Sabey Data Center at 375 Pearl Street, peering with companies such as Akamai, Apple, Google, and Hurricane Electric. Later, another supernode was opened up on the roof of the DataVerge (formerly ColoGuard) datacenter in Industry City, Brooklyn
The project received a membership |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Kendziorski | Christina Marie Kendziorski is a biostatistician whose research involves genomics, statistical genetics, and the statistical analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Education and career
Kendziorski grew up in the housing projects of Chicago, in an apartment shared by her mother and grandmother, neither of whom had a college education.
She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998 from Marquette University, where she studied mathematics with a specialization in biostatistics. Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Tonellato, was A Physiologially Based Mathematical Model of Arterial Pressure Recordings.
After completing her doctorate, Kendziorski became a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was hired as regular-rank faculty there in 2001. Since 2010, she has headed the Statistical Genetics and Genomics program in Wisconsin's Institute for Translational and Clinical Research.
Recognition
Kendziorski became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Women statisticians
Biostatisticians
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20simulation | Hamiltonian simulation (also referred to as quantum simulation) is a problem in quantum information science that attempts to find the computational complexity and quantum algorithms needed for simulating quantum systems. Hamiltonian simulation is a problem that demands algorithms which implement the evolution of a quantum state efficiently. The Hamiltonian simulation problem was proposed by Richard Feynman in 1982, where he proposed a quantum computer as a possible solution since the simulation of general Hamiltonians seem to grow exponentially with respect to the system size.
Problem statement
In the Hamiltonian simulation problem, given a Hamiltonian ( hermitian matrix acting on qubits), a time and maximum simulation error , the goal is to find an algorithm that approximates such that , where is the ideal evolution and is the spectral norm.
A special case of the Hamiltonian simulation problem is the local Hamiltonian simulation problem. This is when is a k-local Hamiltonian on qubits where and acts non-trivially on at most qubits instead of qubits. The local Hamiltonian simulation problem is important because most Hamiltonians that occur in nature are k-local.
Techniques
Product formulas
Also known as Trotter formulas or Trotter–Suzuki decompositions, Product formulas simulate the sum-of-terms of a Hamiltonian by simulating each one separately for a small time slice.
If , then for a large ; where is the number of time steps to simulate for. The larger the , the more accurate the simulation.
If the Hamiltonian is represented as a Sparse matrix, the distributed edge coloring algorithm can be used to decompose it into a sum of terms; which can then be simulated by a Trotter–Suzuki algorithm.
Taylor series
by the Taylor series expansion. This says that during the evolution of a quantum state, the Hamiltonian is applied over and over again to the system with a various number of repetitions. The first term is the identity matrix so the system doesn't change when it is applied, but in the second term the Hamiltonian is applied once. For practical implementations, the series has to be truncated , where the bigger the , the more accurate the simulation. This truncated expansion is then implemented via the linear combination of unitaries (LCU) technique for Hamiltonian simulation. Namely, one decomposes the Hamiltonian such that each is unitary (for instance, the Pauli operators always provide such a basis), and so each is also a linear combination of unitaries.
Quantum walk
In the quantum walk, a unitary operation whose spectrum is related to the Hamiltonian is implemented then the Quantum phase estimation algorithm is used to adjust the eigenvalues. This makes it unnecessary to decompose the Hamiltonian into a sum-of-terms like the Trotter-Suzuki methods.
Quantum signal processing
The quantum signal processing algorithm works by transducing the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian into an ancilla qubit, transforming the ei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Hunter | Cyber Hunter is a 2019 Chinese sci-fi battle royale video game for mobiles and PC platforms developed and distributed by NetEase. It was released on 26 April 2019.
The mobile app of Cyber Hunter was banned in India (along with other Chinese apps) on 2 September 2020 by the government, the move came amid the 2020 China-India skirmish.
Release
The game was announced as Project:Battle by NetEase in May 2018 and initially released in October 2018 as beta test on Android and iOS mobile platforms and released globally on 26 April 2019.
Gameplay
The gameplay consists of traditional battle royale format with futuristic theme and some distinct elements such as players (referred in-game as Wanderers) are dropped on jet-fueled hoverboards which aid in landing early, fancy weapons such as microwave guns, weaponized vehicles, vertical climbing, parkour, gliding through the air using droids which are AI robots, building various structures for defense, detailed customization of characters, etc.
Reception
Josh Ye of AbacusNews.com criticizes Cyber Hunter for its lack of creativity and core innovation, calling it another PUBG Mobile clone. The game has borrowed many mechanics from several other games such as climbing, gliding and battlefield design from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Ash Mayhew of DroidGamers.com praises the game for genuine innovation in battle royale genre such as letting players create their own playing style. Though movement mechanics are borrowed from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there are many strategic options at players' disposal when stuck in a combat.
References
External links
2019 video games
Android (operating system) games
Battle royale games
IOS games
Video games developed in China
Video games scored by Keiichi Okabe
Windows games
NetEase games
Free-to-play video games
Internet censorship in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20India | AI expenditure in India is expected to reach $11.78 billion by 2025 and add $1 trillion to India’s economy by 2035, as per a World Economic Forum report. The AI in Healthcare Market is projected to grow from $14.6 Billion in 2023 to $102.7 Billion by 2028.
The following is a list of notable AI companies of India, along with their corporate headquarters location.
References
AI companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister%27s%20Revenge%21 | Twister's Revenge! is a 1988 American action comedy film directed by Bill Rebane and released direct-to-video.
Plot
Three bumbling criminals have repeatedly tried to steal the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own. They make one last attempt with an M60 tank.
Cast
Dean West as Dave
Meredith Orr as Sherry
David Alan Smith as Kelly
R. Richardson Luka as Bear
Jay Gjernes as Dutch
Tena Murray as Lulu
William Dexter as Kelly's Father (credited as Bill Dexter)
J. Worthington Kratz as Kelly's Mother
Elizabeth Gray as Love Bird Singer
Angailica as Love Bird Dancer (credited as Angel Rebane)
Featured Monster Truck show in Ionia, Michigan featured the following drivers as themselves:
Rob Fuchs, driving First Blood
Mark Bendler, driving Kodiak
Jim Miller, driving Barbarian
Allen Pezo, driving Lone Eagle
Production
Twister's Revenge! was filmed in Gleason, Wisconsin at a cost of $95,000. Rebane said that "We had a strong lead actor [Dean West] for "Twister's Revenge" but the girl — the lead actress — [Meredith Orr] was very weak."
Mr. Twister was a custom-made monster truck belonging to a local man, David Staszak. Its computer control system included an AT&T PC 6300.
Release
Twister's Revenge! was released on VHS by Video First Entertainment of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin in 1988. It was also released in West Germany, under the title Ein Supertruck auf Gangsterjagd! ("A Supertruck on a Gangster-Hunt!") and in Japan.
It was rereleased by Mill Creek Entertainment in 2006, as part of their "Drive-in Movie Classics" series.
Reviews
1000 Misspent Hours and Counting awarded the film 2½ stars, noting that Mr. Twister's onboard AI was clearly a ripoff of Knight Rider's KITT and saying that the film had a "demented mismatch between tone and subject matter. The very idea of a funny vigilante revenge film is bizarre. I hasten to emphasize that Twister’s Revenge! is not a parody of Death Wish wannabes, but rather a Death Wish wannabe that is also a comedy."
Josiah Chiappelli gave the film 3/5 on his "Hipster Holy Grail" series.
Twister's Revenge! was featured on a 2019 episode of RedLetterMedia's "Best of the Worst" series.
References
External links
1987 films
1980s crime comedy films
American exploitation films
1987 comedy films
1988 comedy films
1988 films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%20Legacy%20Field | The Hubble Legacy Field is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, containing an estimated 265,000 galaxies. The original release was composed of Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a 16-year period. Looking back approximately 13 billion years (between 400 and 800 million years after the Big Bang) it has been used to search for galaxies that existed at that time. The image was taken in a section of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field, allowing much better viewing of dimmer, more distant objects. It builds on the data collected for the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field and the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey.
Located southwest of Orion in the southern-hemisphere constellation Fornax, the approximately rectangular image is about 25 arcminutes to an edge. This is almost the angular diameter of a full moon viewed from Earth (which is about 31 arcminutes, or a half a degree).
The images and data release were announced on May 2, 2019, by NASA.
Planning
As with the earlier fields, this one was required to contain very little emission from our galaxy, with little Zodiacal dust. The field was also required to be in a range of declinations such that it could be observed both by southern hemisphere instruments, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and northern hemisphere ones, such as those located on Hawaii. It was ultimately decided to observe a section of the Chandra Deep Field South, due to existing deep X-ray observations from Chandra X-ray Observatory and two interesting objects already observed in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey sample at the same location: a redshift 5.8 galaxy and a supernova. The coordinates of the field are right ascension , declination (J2000).
Observations
The Hubble Legacy Field is composed of data from 7,500 exposures, with a total exposure time of 250 days.
Video
See also
List of deep fields
List of UDF objects (1–500)
References
External links
Scalable interactive Hubble Legacy Field. Wikisky.org
Hubble Legacy Field at HubbleSite
Hubble Space Telescope images
Physical cosmology
Sky regions
Fornax
Astronomy image articles
2019 works
2010s photographs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20%26%20Destroy | is a third-person shooter video game with dating sim elements co-developed by Arc Entertainment and Inti Creates. It was released by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) for the PlayStation exclusively in Japan in 1999. Set in the near future, the plot depicts an alien invasion which nearly brings about human extinction. To save humanity, a scientist sends three remaining mechs and their robotic, female navigators back in time where they recruit the unnamed, male protagonist as a mech pilot to stamp out the invasion. Bringing out the full, offensive potential of a mech requires a positive, emotional link between the human pilot and navigator.
Part of the gameplay in Love & Destroy is made up of 3D shooter missions, where the player battles enemies after choosing one of three navigators and her respective mech, each equipped with a unique set of weapons. These action segments alternate with romantic interactions between the player character and the navigators. The story unfolds differently depending on the player's use of navigator, on-screen choices, and performance during missions.
Staff members for SCEI subsidiary Arc Entertainment were previously known for their work on the Arc the Lad series of role-playing games, while Love & Destroy marked new developer Inti Creates' second overall release. Love & Destroy features character designs by manga artist Masakazu Katsura and animated cutscenes by the studio Production I.G. The game sold poorly and critical reception has been mixed.
Gameplay
Love & Destroy is a third-person shooter consisting of a series of missions where the player uses a Battle Pod mech to eliminate either a single, large boss or a group of smaller enemies. These battles have a five-minute time limit and take place in large, 3D cityscapes through which the player can freely maneuver. The environments are highly destructible, allowing the player to demolish any building. The game supports DualShock controller functionality with the analog sticks mapped to movement and aiming. The player can choose one of three mechs and its respective Q-Tron navigator for any mission. All of them come equipped with a basic vulcan cannon for targeting and firing at enemies from a distance, though each Battle Pod varies in speed and has a unique set of weapons. ViVi's "V-Silhouette" is the fastest but uses mostly weak, short-ranged melee attacks; LuLu's "L-Silhouette" is the slowest but uses mostly powerful, long-ranged projectiles; and KiKi's "K-Silhouette" has balanced speed and uses medium-ranged lasers that deal intermediate damage. One Battle Pod may present more of an advantage over another depending on the situation. Performing well increases the player's score and unlocks more powerful upgrades. If the player's health gauge depletes, the mission is a failure though it will not result in a game over. The storyline will progress regardless of whether a player accomplishes or fails a mission.
The game features dating sim mechanics betw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20Minds%20%28game%20show%29 | Master Minds is an American game show airing on the Game Show Network. The show debuted on June 10, 2019, under the title Best Ever Trivia Show, hosted by Sherri Shepherd and regularly featuring Ken Jennings, Muffy Marracco, Jonathan Corbblah, Arianna Haut, and Ryan Chaffee. The series was renamed Master Minds on April 6, 2020, with Brooke Burns replacing Shepherd.
Gameplay
In both cases, the show features three contestants competing against three "trivia experts." The pool of experts includes Muffy Marracco, Raj Dhuwalia, Arianna Haut, Ryan Chaffee, Susannah Brooks, David Schuchinski, Jonathan Corbblah and Mark Labbett. The winning contestant faces off against the best-performing expert in the "Ultimate Trivia Challenge."
Best Ever Trivia Show
Round 1
In the first round, one of the contestants selects one of two categories for the round, and then also selects one of the three experts to play along with the round. The contestants are asked four questions in the category, each question has three multiple-choice options. Everyone (including the other two experts) secretly and simultaneously locks in their answers, a contestant's correct answer is worth 50 points if the chosen expert got it right, and 100 points if not.
Answers given by the experts not chosen are generally not revealed.
Round 2
The second round is played similarly to the first round. However:
The category not selected in the first round is made available again, along with a new category.
The selection of category and expert is now made by the leading contestant.
A different expert must be selected.
There are only three questions in this round.
The value for each question is now 100 points if the expert gets it right, and 200 points if not.
Round 3
The last remaining expert plays in this round, and the leading contestant chooses one of two new categories. Unlike in the previous rounds, the chosen expert secretly submits an answer first, and then, without disclosing their answer, states how confident they are in their answer. Based on the expert's stated confidence level, and their own knowledge, the contestants may either use the expert's answer, sight unseen, for 200 points, or try to select the correct answer themselves for 400 points. This round lasts for a maximum of three questions, the contestant with the most points at the end of this round wins $1,000 and plays the "Ultimate Trivia Challenge.“ If it becomes mathematically impossible for both of the trailing players to overtake the leader, the game ends immediately.
In the event of a tie, the players involved in the tie are asked one additional question. The player who submits the correct answer the fastest wins the game.
Ultimate Trivia Challenge
The day's winner plays the Ultimate Trivia Challenge against the expert who performed the best on all questions asked during the game (based on most correct answers and fastest time). The contestant and the expert are asked five questions, again with three multiple choice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Impostora%20%282017%29%20episodes | Impostora () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is loosely based on the 1993 film, Sa Isang Sulok ng mga Pangarap (). It aired from July 3, 2017 to February 9, 2018 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Legally Blind.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 32nd-week run, and with a total of 160 episodes. It was replaced by The Stepdaughters.
Series overview
Episodes
July 2017
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
November 2017
December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Discover | The Samsung Galaxy Discover (SGH-S730M/G) is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the Android operating system. It was released to the budget market and was known to perform poorly due to its obsolete specifications. Because of its poor specs, this device is one of the few Android phones released by Samsung to not use TouchWiz or any custom skin. This device was available through prepaid carriers such as Cricket Wireless and TracFone.
Features
The Galaxy Discover is a 3G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA. The display is a -diagonal TFT LCD with a 320x480 px resolution supporting up to 256,000 colors. Unlike most Samsung Galaxy phones, the Galaxy Discover comes with the stock Android UI rather than TouchWiz. This phone did not officially receive any software updates, but custom ROMs have been made for the device allowing it to run Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean".
See also
Samsung Galaxy S III Mini
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Samsung mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Stein | Dorothy Josephine Del Bourgo Kellogg Stein (March 31, 1931 – March 16, 2019) was an early computer programmer, psychologist, author and social activist. Her activities landed her on the cusp of or ahead of her time. She is best known for researching and writing the book Ada, which argued that Ada Lovelace was not the first computer programmer and did not have the mathematical ability to assist Charles Babbage as much as was believed.
Early life
She was born Dorothy Josephine del Bourgo in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first of two daughters of Jacob Del Bourgo, a civil engineer and Charlotte Del Bourgo (née Styler). Jacob was a Sephardic Jew born to a family of pearl traders, and Charlotte was of Ashkenazi descent, fleeing Eastern Europe as a youth. The two sisters were raised as culturally Jewish but not particularly devout, and Dorothy had fond memories of bacon as a special treat during the Great Depression.
Jacob Del Bourgo was unable to find work in the United States for some time, and so moved the family to Venezuela. In the aftermath of World War II, engineers became more in demand and employment discrimination against Jews declined, allowing the family to settle in New York. Stein graduated high school early and attended Cornell University, earning her degree in Physics in 1951. Work on her second degree, involving experiments with a cloud chamber, was interrupted by meeting and eventually marrying Paul Kellogg, then completing his PhD in physics at Cornell.
After a year in Copenhagen at the high energy physics institute led by Niels Bohr, the couple returned to America, where in 1955 Stein worked on one of the first computers, calculating missile trajectories, while her husband worked in nuclear physics and the new field of solar plasma. In 1956, they moved to Minnesota, where Paul became a professor in the physics department of the University of Minnesota. There Dorothy gave birth to their two sons, Kenneth in 1956 and David in 1959.
Dorothy and Paul divorced in 1964, and two years later Dorothy married Burton Stein, a professor of Indian history. In 1968 Dorothy finished a PhD in child psychology that established, using dichotic listening techniques, that syllables are not phonemes, but are psychologically real (the precise implications of this remain indistinct).
Career
The Steins moved to Hawaii, where Burt became a Professor at the University of Hawaii. During the rise of the feminist movement, Stein helped to establish a Women’s studies department there with Joan Abramson and Doris Ladd. When Burt retired from teaching in 1980, they moved to London, where Burt wrote histories of India.
Stein became interested in the life of Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, who at the time was believed to have written the very first computer programs (the US Defense Department, which Stein used to work for, had just named the ADA programming language after her). Through assiduous work at the Bodleian librar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danqi%20Chen | Danqi Chen (, IPA: [ʈ͡ʂʰə̌n tan t͡ɕʰǐ]; born in Changsha, China) is a Chinese computer scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University specializing in the AI field of natural language processing (NLP). In 2019, she joined the Princeton NLP group, alongside Sanjeev Arora, Christiane Fellbaum, and Karthik Narasimhan. She was previously a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University and her BS from Tsinghua University.
Chen is the author of Neural Reading Comprehension and Beyond, a dissertation on using artificial intelligence to access knowledge in ordinary and structured documents. She is the author or co-author of a number of journal articles, including Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions.
Google's SyntaxNet is based on algorithms developed by Danqi Chen and Christopher Manning at Stanford.
Her primary research interests are in text understanding and knowledge representation and reasoning.
She won a gold medal at the 2008 International Informatics Olympiad. She is known among friends as CDQ. A well known algorithm in competitive programming, CDQ Divide and Conquer, is named after this acronym.
She is married to Huacheng Yu, an assistant professor in theoretical computer science at Princeton University.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Chinese women computer scientists
Writers from Changsha
Princeton University faculty
Scientists from Hunan
Stanford University alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Educators from Hunan
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20Protocol%20Data%20Unit | The Transaction Protocol Data Unit (TPDU) is a packet-based protocol originally designed for financial transaction processing over an X.25 network.
References
Data unit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjersti%20Engan | Kjersti Engan (born 1971) is a Norwegian researcher in signal and image processing who works as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Stavanger.
Engan was born in 1971 in Bergen. She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1994 from Bergen University College. She then moved to the University of Stavanger for graduate study, completing her doctorate in 2000. At Stavanger, she was promoted to full professor in 2008.
Engan is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
References
External links
Home page
1971 births
Living people
Norwegian electrical engineers
Norwegian women engineers
Bergen University College alumni
University of Stavanger alumni
Academic staff of the University of Stavanger
members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
21st-century women engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clash%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Philippine television reality competition show, The Clash was broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Rayver Cruz, Julie Anne San Jose, Ken Chan and Rita Daniela, it premiered on September 21, 2019, on the network's Sabado Star Power and Sunday Grande line up replacing StarStruck.
The season ended with 26 episodes on December 15, 2019, having Jeremiah Tiangco as the winner.
Production
Development
During the conclusion of the first season on September 30, 2018, the show's original host, Regine Velasquez announced the second season. The latter did not return due to her shifting commitments to GMA's rival network, ABS-CBN. She was replaced by Rayver Cruz and Julie Anne San Jose, meanwhile Ken Chan and Rita Daniela took over as the co-hosts, replacing Andre Paras and Joyce Pring.
Marc Lopez became the musical director, replacing Velasquez's brother-in-law Raul Mitra, who followed her to ABS-CBN.
Auditions
Auditions took place in the following cities in the Philippines:
The segment Duet with Me from the Philippine variety show Studio 7 features battles against two singers performing a duet with an artist. The winner will automatically advance to the top 64 preliminary round of The Clash.
Top 64
Originally, the 12 winners of Duet with Me, a segment of the musical variety show Studio 7, automatically advances to the first round after Remy Luntayao and Krezia Mae Toñaco withdrew from the competition before the final auditions of the remaining top 52 clashers selected by vocal coach Jai Sabas-Aracama; songwriter, music producer, and South Border lead vocalist Jay Durias; and TV director Bert de Leon. Jeniffer Maravilla and Pamela Quidol, who both battled and lost to Luntayao and Toñaco respectively, are brought back by the show to replace them and join the Top 64.
The 64 clashers were electronically paired to battle it out in a singing duel with the winner advancing to the next round. A wild card round was announced in the tenth episode after the judges chose to eliminate the selected clasher and its opponent during their battle in Round 2. The judges selects two of the temporarily eliminated clashers from round two to compete for the sixteenth seat for the third round.
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
Finalists
Eliminated in the Fourth Round
Eliminated in the Third Round
Eliminated in the Second Round
Eliminated in the First Round
Italicized names are the winners of the Duet with Me challenge
Underlined name was the clasher who won the Wild Card round.
aFor the first time in the show's history, Nicole Apolinar and Mark Mendoza, who battled in Round 2, have not advanced after the judges couldn't decide between the two of them before eliminating both Apolinar and Mendoza as a result.bAntonette Tismo was reinstated in the competition after beating out Janina Gonzales, who defeated her previously on the third week, in The Clash Back on December 8, 2019.
Round 1: One on One
The randomizer electronically select |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CM%20Browser | CM Browser () was a web browser developed by Cheetah Mobile. The browser is based on Chromium and supports both the WebKit and Trident browser engines. Jinshan Network claims that CM Browser is the first secure dual-engine browser with a "browser intrusion prevention system".
On June 3, 2013, CM Browser was released on Android and iOS.
Controversies
Version 1 of CM Browser used version 17 of Chromium, which was much lower than the official version of Chromium. This prevented the use of the Chrome Web Store on CM Browser.
On September 21, 2014, Jinshan was ordered to pay Youku ¥300,000 for violating Chinese competition laws by allowing CM Browser to filter video ads on Youku's website. In the preceding trial, Youku claimed to suffer an economic loss as a result of CM Browser's ad filtering, as the company earned revenue from ads and premium subscriptions that allowed users to skip ads. Jinshan stated that CM Browser's ad filtering feature was vendor-neutral and that users must opt-in to activate the feature.
In November 2018, the Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee commissioned an evaluation of the application permissions of 18 popular mobile apps, including CM Browser. The study found that CM Browser requested sensitive phone- and SMS-related permissions that allowed the browser to monitor the phone's outbound calls. A representative for CM Browser responded that the browser needed to determine whether a phone call is active in order to prevent interference when the browser is playing audio. The representative indicated that CM Browser would be updated to address the privacy concerns.
In February 2020 all of Cheetah's applications have been pulled from the Play Store. Following that, the company had been accused of spying on its users based on a unofficial report published by Gabriel Cirlig, an unknown proclaimed security researcher. The report suggestively conspired that CM Browser was sending encrypted data to its Chinese servers exfiltrating the URLs visited by all its users and selling them to various third parties.
Ban in India
In June 2020, the Government of India banned CM Browser along with 58 other Chinese origin apps, citing data and privacy concerns. The border tensions in 2020 between India and China might have also played a role in the ban.
See also
360 Secure Browser
QQ browser
Further reading
References
External links
Web browsers
Windows web browsers
IOS web browsers
Android web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%202xx%20%28Europe%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes (MCC) and mobile network codes (MNC) for networks with country codes between 200 and 299, inclusive. This range covers Europe, as well as: the Asian parts of the Russian Federation and Turkey; Georgia; Armenia; Greenland; the Azores and Madeira as parts of Portugal; and the Canary Islands as part of Spain.
National operators
A
Abkhazia – GE-AB
Albania – AL
Andorra – AD
Armenia – AM
Austria – AT
B
Belarus – BY
Belgium – BE
Bosnia and Herzegovina – BA
Bulgaria – BG
C
Croatia – HR
Cyprus – CY
Czech Republic – CZ
D
Denmark (Kingdom of Denmark) – DK
E
Estonia – EE
F
Faroe Islands (Kingdom of Denmark) – FO
Finland – FI
France – FR
G
Georgia – GE
Germany – DE
Gibraltar (United Kingdom) – GI
Greece – GR
Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark) – GL
Guernsey (United Kingdom) – GG
H
Hungary – HU
I
Iceland – IS
Ireland – IE
Isle of Man (United Kingdom) – IM
Italy – IT
The Vatican is served by Italian networks Iliad Italia, TIM, Vodafone Italy and Wind Tre.
J
Jersey (United Kingdom) – JE
K
Kosovo – XK
L
Latvia – LV
Liechtenstein – LI
Lithuania – LT
Luxembourg – LU
M
Malta – MT
Moldova – MD
Monaco – MC
Montenegro – ME
N
Netherlands (Kingdom of the Netherlands) – NL
North Macedonia – MK
Norway – NO
P
Poland – PL
Portugal – PT
R
Romania – RO
Russian Federation – RU
S
San Marino – SM
The Republic of San Marino is partially served by Italian networks Iliad Italia, TIM, Vodafone Italy and Wind Tre.
Serbia – RS
Slovakia – SK
Slovenia – SI
Spain – ES
Sweden – SE
Switzerland – CH
T
Turkey – TR
U
Ukraine – UA
United Kingdom – GB
See also
List of mobile network operators of Europe
List of LTE networks in Europe
References
Telecommunications lists
Europe-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%209%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. Seven Network announced that the show would be returning to their network in 2019 for its ninth season. It had previously aired on Seven for six seasons from 2007 to 2012, and on the Nine Network for two seasons in 2013 and 2016. It had an all new judging panel of Nicole Scherzinger, Shane Jacobson, Manu Feildel & Lucy Durack, and Ricki-Lee Coulter as series host. The season premiered on 28 July 2019.
The semi-final format changed from previous seasons: finalists were decided by a golden buzzer and judges' vote, with no public vote until the final.
The final was on September 22, and the winner was pole dancer Kristy Sellars.
Semi-finalists
Semi-final summary
Buzzed Out | |
Semi-final 1 (August 19)
Guest Judge: Jessica Mauboy
Semi-final 2 (August 25)
Guest Judge: Joel Creasey
Semi-final 3 (September 1)
Guest Judge: Hans
Semi-final 4 (September 8)
Guest Judge: Todd McKenney
Semi-final 5 (September 15)
Guest Judge: Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Finals summary
In the final, the judges chose a top four, which was then chosen by SMS votes from viewers in the eastern states. The final was pre-recorded, with four different endings filmed, one for each of the four possible winners. The winner of the season was pole dancer Kristy Sellars.
The Grand Finale had nine acts because one semi-final golden buzzer act (Captain Ruin) was unavailable.
Guest performers: Samantha Jade, Cosentino
Ratings
References
Australia's Got Talent
2019 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%203xx%20%28North%20America%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 300 and 399, inclusively – a region that covers North America and the Caribbean. Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are included in this region as parts of the United States.
National operators
A
Anguilla (United Kingdom) – AI
Antigua and Barbuda – AG
Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands) – AW
B
Bahamas – BS
Barbados – BB
Bermuda – BM
British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) – VG
C
Canada – CA
Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) – KY
Cuba – CU
D
Dominica – DM
Dominican Republic – DO
F
French Antilles (France) – BL/GF/GP/MF/MQ
includes
French Guiana (France) – GF
Guadeloupe (France) – GP
Martinique (France) – MQ
Saint Barthélemy (France) – BL
Saint Martin (France) – MF
G
Grenada – GD
Guam (United States of America) – GU
H
Haiti – HT
J
Jamaica – JM
M
Mexico – MX
Montserrat (United Kingdom) – MS
N
Former Netherlands Antilles (Kingdom of the Netherlands) – BQ/CW/SX
includes
Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius (Kingdom of the Netherlands) – BQ
Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands) – CW
Sint Maarten – SX
Northern Mariana Islands (United States of America) – MP
P
Puerto Rico – PR
S
Saint Kitts and Nevis – KN
Saint Lucia – LC
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) – PM
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – VC
T
Trinidad and Tobago – TT
Turks and Caicos Islands – TC
U
United States of America – US
United States Virgin Islands (United States of America) – VI
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Americas
List of LTE networks in the Americas
References
Telecommunications lists
North America-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%204xx%20%28Asia%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 400 and 499, inclusively – a region that covers Asia and the Middle East. However, the Asian parts of the Russian Federation and Turkey are included in Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 2xx (Europe), while Maritime South East Asia and Thailand are listed under Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 5xx (Oceania).
National operators
A
Afghanistan – AF
Azerbaijan – AZ
B
Bahrain – BH
Bangladesh – BD
Bhutan – BT
C
Cambodia – KH
China – CN
H
Hong Kong – HK
I
India – IN
Iran – IR
Iraq – IQ
Israel – IL
J
Japan – JP
Jordan – JO
K
Kazakhstan – KZ
North Korea – KP
South Korea – KR
Kuwait – KW
Kyrgyzstan – KG
L
Laos – LA
Lebanon – LB
M
Macau (People's Republic of China) – MO
Maldives – MV
Mongolia – MN
Myanmar – MM
N
Nepal – NP
O
Oman – OM
P
Pakistan – PK
Palestine – PS
(Uses the MCC of Israel)
Q
Qatar – QA
S
Saudi Arabia – SA
Sri Lanka – LK
Syria – SY
T
Taiwan – TW
Tajikistan – TJ
Turkmenistan – TM
U
United Arab Emirates – AE
Uzbekistan – UZ
V
Vietnam – VN
Y
Yemen – YE
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region
List of LTE networks in Asia
References
Telecommunications lists
Asia-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%205xx%20%28Oceania%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 500 and 599, inclusively – a region that covers Oceania, Maritime South East Asia, and Thailand. Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as parts of the United States are listed under Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 3xx (North America).
National operators
A
American Samoa (United States of America) – AS
Australia – AU/CC/CX
includes
Cocos Islands (Australia) – CC
Christmas Island (Australia) – CX
B
Brunei – BN
C
Cook Islands (Pacific Ocean) – CK
E
East Timor – TL
F
Fiji – FJ
French Polynesia (France) – PF
I
Indonesia – ID
K
Kiribati – KI
M
Malaysia – MY
Marshall Islands – MH
Federated States of Micronesia – FM
N
Nauru – NR
New Caledonia (France) – NC
New Zealand – NZ
Niue – NU
Norfolk Island – NF
P
Palau – PW
Papua New Guinea – PG
Philippines – PH
S
Samoa – WS
Singapore – SG
Solomon Islands – SB
T
Thailand – TH
Tokelau – TK
Tonga – TO
Tuvalu – TV
V
Vanuatu – VU
W
Wallis and Futuna – WF
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Asia Pacific region
List of LTE networks in Oceania
References
Telecommunications lists
Oceania-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%206xx%20%28Africa%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 600 and 699, inclusively – a region that covers Africa and the surrounding islands (excluding the Canary Islands and Madeira, which are part of Spain and Portugal, respectively).
National operators
A
Algeria – DZ
Angola – AO
B
Benin – BJ
Botswana – BW
Burkina Faso – BF
Burundi – BI
C
Cameroon – CM
Cape Verde – CV
Central African Republic – CF
Chad – TD
Comoros – KM
Congo – CG
D
Democratic Republic of the Congo – CD
Djibouti – DJ
E
Egypt – EG
Equatorial Guinea – GQ
Eritrea – ER
Eswatini – SZ
Ethiopia – ET
F
French Departments and Territories in the Indian Ocean (France) – YT/RE
Includes
Mayotte (France) – YT
Réunion (France) – RE
G
Gabon – GA
Gambia – GM
Ghana – GH
Guinea – GN
Guinea-Bissau – GW
I
Ivory Coast – CI
K
Kenya – KE
L
Lesotho – LS
Liberia – LR
Libya – LY
M
Madagascar – MG
Malawi – MW
Mali – ML
Mauritania – MR
Mauritius – MU
Morocco – MA
Mozambique – MZ
N
Namibia – NA
Niger – NE
Nigeria – NG
R
Rwanda – RW
S
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha – SH
São Tomé and Príncipe – ST
Senegal – SN
Seychelles – SC
Sierra Leone – SL
Somalia – SO
South Africa – ZA
South Sudan – SS
Sudan – SD
T
Tanzania – TZ
Togo – TG
Tunisia – TN
U
Uganda – UG
Z
Zambia – ZM
Zimbabwe – ZW
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Middle East and Africa
List of LTE networks in Africa
References
Telecommunications lists
Africa-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20network%20codes%20in%20ITU%20region%207xx%20%28South%20America%29 | This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 700 and 799, inclusively – a region that covers South and Central America. The Falkland Islands are included in this region, while the Caribbean is listed under Mobile Network Codes in ITU region 3xx (North America).
National operators
A
Argentina – AR
B
Belize – BZ
Bolivia – BO
Brazil – BR
C
Chile – CL
Colombia – CO
Costa Rica – CR
E
Ecuador – EC
El Salvador – SV
F
Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) – FK
French Guiana (France) – GF
G
Guatemala – GT
Guyana – GY
H
Honduras – HN
N
Nicaragua – NI
P
Panama – PA
Paraguay – PY
Peru – PE
S
Suriname – SR
U
Uruguay – UY
V
Venezuela – VE
See also
List of mobile network operators of the Americas
List of LTE networks in the Americas
References
Telecommunications lists
South America-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20North%20West%20Line | The Metro North West Line is a rapid transit rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The first and currently the only line on the Sydney Metro network, it commenced operation on 26 May 2019, running between and .
Construction
The current section completed in May 2019 under the Sydney Metro Northwest project involved the construction of an entirely new line between Tallawong and Epping, along with the conversion of the Epping to Chatswood railway line which previously operated under suburban Sydney Trains services. The second stage, the Sydney Metro City & Southwest, is currently under construction and involves extending this line from Chatswood to Bankstown, similarly involving a combination of constructing a new line from Chatswood to Sydenham and converting a section of the Bankstown railway line from Sydenham to Bankstown, which previously operated as the suburban T3 Bankstown Line under Sydney Trains.
Service
Services on the line are operated by Metro Trains Sydney, a joint venture between the MTR Corporation, John Holland and UGL Rail. Services take 37 minutes to traverse the current 13 stations from end to end, at a frequency at each station of every four minutes during peak hours and every ten minutes in the off peak. Upon initial opening, the line previously operated at a frequency at each station of every five minutes during peak hours.
North West Night Bus
In the first six months of operations, regular metro services on the line were supplemented by a late night bus service known as the North West Night Bus, with 13 stops in close proximity to these stations. The bus service operated from Sunday to Wednesday nights after about 9.30 pm in both directions, filling in for final metro services at 10.05 pm from Chatswood and 9.25 pm from Tallawong, charging metro fares and operating at a frequency of every ten minutes. This service was temporary and was withdrawn six months later on 5 November 2019, when the metro reached full operations. The bus service was jointly operated by Transdev NSW and Hillsbus, both of whom previously jointly operated the Station Link services between September 2018 and May 2019.
Stations
References
External links
Metro North West Line at Transport for NSW
Sydney Metro
Rapid transit lines
Railway lines opened in 2019
2019 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Felipe%20Felzenszwalb | Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb is a computer scientist and professor of the School of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Brown University.
Career
Felzenszwalb studied computer science at Cornell University, receiving his B.S. in 1999. There, he began researching computer vision and artificial intelligence with Daniel P. Huttenlocher. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
Felzenszwalb joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 2004 and was made associate professor in 2008. He joined Brown University as an associate professor in 2011 and became a full professor in 2016.
In 2010 Felzenszwalb was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize for his work in the field of computer vision. In 2013, he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award by the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to the problem of object recognition in pictures and video. In 2014, he was awarded the Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE for his work with object recognition with deformable models. In 2018, Felzenszwalb received the Longuet-Higgins Prize for fundamental contributions to computer vision a second time. This prize was first awarded in 2005, and Felzenszwalb is among a select group of repeat winners.
Selected publications
References
External links
Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb on the Brown University website
Living people
American computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Chicago faculty
Brown University faculty
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanggang%20sa%20Dulo%20ng%20Buhay%20Ko | (International title: Obsession / ) is a 2019 Philippine television drama horror series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jorron Lee Monroy, it stars Kris Bernal, Rayver Cruz, Kim Domingo and Megan Young. It premiered on July 22, 2019 on the network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Dragon Lady. The series concluded on October 19, 2019, with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Magkaagaw in its timeslot.
Originally titled as The Haunted Wife, it was later renamed to Hanggang sa Dulo ng Buhay Ko. The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Yvie Cardeñas and Matteo Divinagracia are childhood sweethearts who fall in love and eventually get married. They happily moved into their new family home, along with their adopted son and Yvie's cousin, Katya Calderon. Matteo's former girlfriend, Naomi Espiritu will put fear into their lives and disrupt their lives.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Naomi Espiritu
Rayver Cruz as Matteo Divinagracia
Kim Domingo as Katherine "Katya" De Jesus Calderon / Naomi Espiritu
Megan Young as Yvette “Yvie” Cardeñas-Divinagracia
Supporting cast
Boots Anson-Roa as Adora "Abuela" Divinagracia
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Valentina "Tina" De Jesus-Cardeñas
Francine Prieto as Mercedes "Mercy" De Jesus-Calderon
Beverly Salviejo as Vanessa "Vane" Espiritu
Euwenn Aleta as Santino "Santy" Cardeñas Divinagracia / Matteo Espiritu Divinagracia Jr.
Denise Barbacena as Brooke
Analyn Barro as Tyra Espiritu
Joaquin Manansala as Paul
Rob Moya as Bob
Guest cast
Gileth Sandico as Mariana
Patricia Javier as Loida
Rodjun Cruz as Ben
Patani Daño as Trinity
Kevin Sagra as Carlson
Hannah Precillas as Nina
Boboy Garovillo as Daryl
Rodolfo Muyuela as Kulas
Patricia Tumulak as Michelle
Rey PJ Abellana as Ross
Cherry Malvar as Pearl
Marlon Mance as Darius
Bryan Benedict as Bustamante
Visam Arenas as Gino
Andrew Ferrer as Kicks
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the series got its highest rating on July 24, 2019 with a 5.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine horror fiction television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%20of%20Antarctic%20Marine%20Species | The Register of Antarctic Marine Species, also known as RAMS, is a taxonomic database that provides a list of marine species found in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.
Its purpose is to provide authoritative and comprehensive information on the diversity of marine life in the region, which provides a reference point for marine science, research, conservation and sustainable management.
The database includes marine species found on the sea floor, in the water column, and around sea-ice. RAMS is a regionally-focused database within the World Register of Marine Species.
References
Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abema | is a Japanese free ad-supported streaming television (FAST). The service was first launched on April 11, 2016, under the name It primarily functions as an online television network, featuring multiple channels including news, sports, entertainment, anime, and more. Most channels can be watched for free, with the option to become a premium member to view past programs on demand.
Abema is majority-owned by CyberAgent, with a 55.2% stake, and TV Asahi, with a 36.8% stake, while the remaining ownership belongs to various other companies, mostly in the media and entertainment industry.
In 2022, Abema made headlines by broadcasting all 64 matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with all 380 matches of the Premier League starts 2022–23 season until 2024–25 season, which attracted a large audience. Abema continues to provide a popular option for Japanese viewers to watch a wide range of content online for free, while also generating revenue through advertising.
History
Established by CyberAgent and TV Asahi
CyberAgent and TV Asahi announced on March 31, 2015 that they would jointly establish a fixed-rate video distribution company called AbemaTV in April of that year. The company became subsidiaries of CyberAgent, and Shun Fujita, the President of CyberAgent, was appointed as the President of AbemaTV.
On April 11, 2016, CyberAgent and TV Asahi launched the free ad-supported streaming television service, AbemaTV. However, some channels were pre-released starting from March 1 of the same year. AbemaTV can be watched for free in real-time, like regular TV programming, but missed programs can only be watched by becoming a premium plan member, which costs 960 yen per month.
CyberAgent had previously used the brand Ameba, but chose not to use it for AbemaTV due to the existence of a Canadian service called Ameba TV. According to President Fujita, he wanted to convey that AbemaTV was a new and fresh service that was an extension of Ameba, which has been around for over 10 years. However, he also admitted that the name AbemaTV can be difficult to remember, pronounce, and often mistaken, stating that he himself occasionally misspeaks it.
Established position in Japan
On May 7, 2017, AbemaTV's live show Win 10 Million Yen if You Beat Koki Kameda set a new record with 14.2 million views, causing the service's servers to crash. AbemaTV offered the match footage for free on a special website. In December of the same year, AbemaTV announced that the 72 Hour Honne TV program featuring three former members of SMAP had garnered 74 million views. However, according to the financial statement as of September 30, 2017, AbemaTV recorded a net loss of 19.125 billion yen and a deficit of 28.38 billion yen in retained earnings. Despite this, CyberAgent plans to continue investing in AbemaTV in the fiscal year 2018 and expand into peripheral businesses such as radio channel launch and broadcast of shopping programs. The reason for disclosing the losses is to deter other co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Lahore%20bombing | The 2019 Lahore bombing was a suicide bomb attack that occurred on the morning of 8 May 2019 outside Data Darbar in Lahore, Pakistan. It killed at least 13 people (including five policemen) and injured at least 24 others. CCTV footage of the blast showed the bomber targeted an Elite Police mobile parked outside the shrine. Hizbul Ahrar - a splinter group of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan - claimed responsibility for the attack. On 9 May 2019, security forces arrested four suspects during a raid in Lahore's Garhi Shahu area. On 10 May 2019, the provincial government formed a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe the incident.
See also
July 2010 Lahore bombings
List of terrorist incidents in May 2019
Terrorist incidents in Lahore since 2000
References
2019 in Punjab, Pakistan
2019 murders in Pakistan
2019 bombing
21st-century mass murder in Pakistan
2019 bombing
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2019
Mass murder in 2019
2019 bombing
May 2019 crimes in Asia
May 2019 events in Pakistan
Suicide bombings in 2019
2019
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20DC%20Batman%3A%20Family%20Matters | Lego DC Batman: Family Matters is a 2019 American computer-animated superhero comedy film. It is a superhero action-adventure comedy based on the DC Comics and Lego brands produced by DC Entertainment, The Lego Group and Warner Bros. Animation, and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, it premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2019 and was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital on August 20, 2019. It is the ninth Lego DC Comics film. The DVD release includes a free 84-piece LEGO set. The film received positive reviews, with praise for the humor and action, although the consumerism was criticized.
Plot
After foiling Solomon Grundy, Batman heads off to his company Wayne Enterprises in his civilian identity where his employees discuss a new AI system named Brother Eye. While Bruce likes the idea of the system's OMAC drones doing work for others, he later dismisses the system as he goes home.
Being bored throughout the meeting and believing that time in his civilian identity cuts out time as a vigilante, Batman decides to sell Wayne Enterprises. Two-Face discovers this and teams up with Red Hood to get revenge on Batman for overshadowing him and to increase his reputation.
Returning home, Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl and Batwoman receive a message to meet at a particular alleyway. Batman agrees to this with Robin eventually joining in with the rest of the Bat Family, despite Batman's demands.
After defeating Red Hood's robot minions, Red Hood reveals that he knows the Bat-Family's secret identities and has placed bombs across Gotham, one of which will only be revealed if the rest are disarmed. The Bat Family split up to disarm the bombs, with Nightwing taking Robin with him and telling Batman to be less overprotective.
Batwoman disarms a bomb at the GCPD while facing Killer Croc, Batgirl finds a bomb at the Fairgrounds guarded by Scarecrow, and Nightwing and Robin battle Penguin and Riddler in a railway yard. They successfully defeat their respective opponents, but are apprehended by Red Hood.
Batman arrives at the Monarch theater and meets Billy Batson, an orphan who wants to have Bruce solve the financial problems of his orphanage. At that moment, Two-Face shows up and reveals the fourth bomb. As Batman fights Two-Face, Billy disarms the bomb with help from an unknown individual: (Shazam Wizard). Two-Face is defeated but manages to escape. Red Hood then tells Batman to return to the Batcave.
At the Batcave, Batman deduces that Red Hood is his former protege Jason Todd, who left after believing that Batman did not care for him. Batman apologizes and then reveals that after Jason left, he attempted to find him but ultimately lost track. Accepting Batman's apology, Red Hood releases the Bat Family and reveals that the bombs are harmless. However, their reunion is cut short when Two-Face informs via video that he bought Wayne Enterprises and proceeds to cause havoc and unleash the OMAC drones in Gotham. He then demands to see Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu%20%28Unix%20utility%29 | cu ("call Unix") is a Unix utility for establishing a connection between two computer systems via a serial port to another computer system. When cu was originally created, connections to remote systems were most often done by phone, and cu was used in conjunction with UUCP utilities to transfer data via a modem. Now that intersystem communications are much more easily and reliably handled via Internet connections, its more typical use is to establish a terminal connection to another system via a modem or direct cabling.
It was originally released as part of the 4.2BSD Unix operating system in 1983, and is included in many Unix and Unix-like operating systems, including Solaris and Linux.
Command-line arguments
cu [-v] [--speed <bps>] [--line device] (<hostname> | <phone-number>)
See also
tip (Unix utility)
References
Unix software
Communication software
Terminal emulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoyorozu | was a Japanese animation studio producing anime using cel shading and 3D computer graphics technology.
History
The company was founded in Minato, Tokyo by the screenwriter Ishidate Uraaka in August 2013. It was a subsidiary of .
The company won the third edition of the award on December 28, 2017.
On April 1, 2020, it was announced that Yaoyorozu had been dissolved and folded into a new company called 8million, a move meant to consolidate company assets under a single name; little would change in the company's day-to-day business.
Works
Television series
References
External links
Defunct mass media companies of Japan
Animation studios in Tokyo
Japanese animation studios
Japanese companies disestablished in 2020
Japanese companies established in 2013
Mass media companies established in 2013
Mass media companies disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20News%20Network | Big News Network is an international news agency founded in 1998. The agency is currently headquartered in Dubai Media City in Dubai, UAE with administrative offices in Sydney. Big News Network operates multiple news portals distinct to the regions, nations and major cities around the world. The agency is in strategic alliance and conglomeration with Midwest Radio Network and Mainstream Media.
Operational history
Big News Network was established as a news search engine in the United States, in 1998, by Hayden Enterprises. The group was acquired in 2000, by an Australian-owned interests, to originate news content for the establishment of a global directory of news portals with the News.Net extension. News.Net is a network of region specific news portals, founded in 1999 by Mainstream Media. In 2003, Bignewsnetwork.com was renovated and relaunched, becoming the flagship portal of the agency. Later that year, News.Net was acquired as an associate news distribution platform of the agency. eNewspapers, a collection of international newspapers from around the world, was launched in 2004. Later in 2004, Big News Network received operational license as a news agency by the Dubai Government within the Gulf Cooperation Council at which time it was incorporated in the UAE as Big News Network FZ LLC.
Today, Big News Network is an international conglomerate of global news distribution systems consisting of three platforms, Bignewsnetwork.com, News.Net directory of sites and eNewspapers network. Mainstream Media, a United Kingdom based digital news media organization, administers News.Net in conjunction with Big News Network. The eNewspapers platform of the agency is regulated by Midwest Radio Network, an Australian broadcasting and digital media company, on behalf of Big News Network. Big News Network is also among the largest shareholders in Ireland's national radio station iRadio. The company first entered the shareholder register in March 2014. In 2019 iRadio's Broadcasting Authority of Ireland license was renewed for 10 years. It was announced in August 2023 Bauer Media Audio Ireland had agreed to acquire iRadio for an undisclosed sum. The deal was subject to regulatory approval. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission cleared the transaction in September 2023.
In 2020, the non-governmental organization EU DisinfoLab found that the Big News Network was part of a disinformation campaign run by Asian News International (ANI) which comprised a "network of 500+ fake local media in 95 countries that have helped reproduce negative iterations about Pakistan (or China)". However in a follow-up report published in February 2023, EU DisinfoLab appears to resile from its claims. The only reference to Big News Network in the NGO’s latest report is a depiction of the group’s logo, together with those of several other media outlets that take syndicated content from ANI. At the conclusion of the report EU DisinfoLab says it contacted Big News Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACOM | FACOM ("Fujitsu Automatic COMputer") is a trademark used for Fujitsu's computers. The first product is FACOM 100, built in 1954. In May 1990, the brand name of FACOM was abolished and changed to Fujitsu.
FACOM numbering roughly follows the following scheme, but the numbering of some early relay computers is irregular:
100s: relay computers
200/210: parametron computers
220 and above: electronic computers (transistors, integrated circuits)
Products
Relay computers
Relay computers or electromechanical computers include:
FACOM 100, electromechanical computer built by Fujitsu in 1954
FACOM 128, relay-based electromechanical computer built by Fujitsu in the late 1950s
FACOM 138A
Irregularly numbered relay computers include: FACOM 318A, FACOM 415A, FACOM 416A, FACOM 426A, FACOM 426B,FACOM 514A,FACOM 524A
Parametron computers
FACOM 200
FACOM 201
FACOM 202
FACOM 212 shipped in 1959
Transistor computers
Early transistor computers:
FACOM 222
FACOM 231
FACOM 230 series:
FACOM 230 / FACOM 230-30
FONTAC / FACOM 230-50
FACOM 230-10
FACOM 230-60 (1968)
FACOM 230-5 series
FACOM 230-25, FACOM 230-35, FACOM 230-45 (1968)
FACOM 230-45S, FACOM 230-55 (1974)
FACOM 230-75
FACOM 230-75 APU (1977) - A computer for scientific and technological calculations with enhanced computing power by adding a pipeline system "array processor" (vector processor) to FACOM 230-75. FACOM 230-75 APU achieved 22M FLOPS. It was delivered to the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (JAXA). It's only one year behind the Cray-1. This machine will lead to the later VP series.
FACOM 270 series:
FACOM M series: IBM System/360, System/370 compatible
FACOM M-190 (1974): This is a super-large machine that uses LSI, and has two to three times the performance of IBM System/370. The fastest computer in the world at this time.
FACOM M-200 (1978): The fastest computer in the world at this time.
FACOM M-130F, M-140F, M-150F, M-160F, M-170F (1979): Supports Japanese language. Includes software supporting Japanese, a device for inputting Japanese, and a Kanji dot impact printer.
FACOM M-380, M-382 (1981): Supports 31-bit address space (2GB). A super-large machine that uses ECL / TTL LSI.
FACOM M-780 (1985): A super-large machine that uses an ECL LSI with 10,000 gates / chip. Maximum physical memory 256 Mbytes, maximum 64 channels. Water cooling.
FACOM VP series (supercomputers)
Supercomputers include:
FACOM VP-100, VP-200 (1982): VP-200 achieved up to 500 MFLOPS
FACOM VP-400 (1985): Beyond 1 GFLOPS for the first time in the world
FACOM VP2000 family (1988): The VP2600 measured processing performance exceeding 5GFLOPS and set a world record in 1990.
FACOM A series (superminicomputers)
Superminicomputers include:
A-30, A-50, A-70
A-300, A-400, A-500, A-600
FACOM V series
Office computers.
FACOM K series
Office computers.
FACOM G series
Workstations include:
FACOM G-140, G-150, G-150A (1987)
FACOM G-250, G-250C (1988)
Personal computer
Personal computers include:
FACOM 9 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns%20over%20Chinese%20involvement%20in%205G%20wireless%20networks | Concerns over Chinese involvement in 5G wireless networks stem from allegations that cellular network equipment sourced from Chinese vendors may contain backdoors enabling surveillance by the Chinese government (as part of its intelligence activity internationally) and Chinese laws, such as the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, which compel companies and individuals to assist the state intelligence agency on the collection of information whenever requested. The allegations came against the backdrop of the rising prominence of Chinese telecommunication vendors Huawei and ZTE in the 5G equipment market, and the controversy has led to other countries debating whether Chinese vendors should be allowed to participate in 5G deployments.
All members of the Five Eyes international intelligence alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—have declared that the use of Huawei telecommunications equipment, particularly in 5G networks, poses "significant security risks". The United States, Australia, and Vietnam have banned Chinese companies from providing its 5G equipment due to security concerns. The United Kingdom is also expected to implement a complete ban following resistance from MPs.
These concerns led to The Clean Network, a US government-led, bi-partisan effort to address what it describes as "the long-term threat to data privacy, security, human rights, and principled collaboration posed to the free world from authoritarian malign actors." It has resulted in an "alliance of democracies and companies," "based on democratic values." According to the United States, The Clean Network is intended to implement internationally accepted digital trust standards across a coalition of trusted partners.
According to Hudson Institute senior fellow Arthur L. Herman and former US security advisor Robert C. O'Brien, writing in The Hill, in December 2021, only 8 countries have been willing to ban Huawei's 5G equipment, but more than 90 countries have signed up with Huawei, including some NATO members.
Background
5G succeeds 4G LTE wireless technology. Developments have been focused on enabling low-latency communications, and promises of a minimum peak network speed of 20 gigabits per/second (20 times faster than the equivalent on 4G LTE networks), and uses within Internet of things and smart city technology.
The initial development of 2G, 3G, and 4G technologies were centred upon Japan, Europe, and the United States, respectively. China's five-year plan for 2016–2020 and the Made in China 2025 initiative both identified 5G as a "strategic emerging industry", with goals for Chinese companies to become more competitive and innovative in the global market, and avert the country's prior reputation for low-quality and counterfeit goods. All wireless carriers in China are state-owned, which has helped the government to expedite the development of 5G networks, and access to the wireless spectrum. It has been |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20rate | Drop rate may refer to:
Drop rate (video gaming), the chance of obtaining a random item
Packet drop rate, the rate at which packets are lost in a network connection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20Energy | Alpine Energy Limited is an electricity distribution business based in Timaru, New Zealand. The company own and operates the electricity distribution network in South Canterbury.
The company's distribution network consists of of lines, supplying electricity to approximately 33,000 customers. The network covers the towns of Timaru, Temuka, Waimate, Pleasant Point, Fairlie, Lake Tekapo, Twizel, and Mount Cook Village.
Alpine Energy holds the naming rights to Fraser Park, the home ground of the South Canterbury rugby union team and an alternate home ground for the Crusaders Super Rugby team, which means it is known as Alpine Energy Stadium.
References
External links
Electric power distribution network operators in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%20Engler | Dawson R. Engler is an American computer scientist and an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University.
Career
After graduating from University of Arizona, Engler earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 while working with Frans Kaashoek in the MIT CSAIL Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group. The focus of his graduate studies was the exokernel.
Engler is currently an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. In 2002, he co-founded Coverity with several of his students to commercialize his group's work in static code analysis for bug-finding technology.
Awards and honors
Engler and his co-authors received the Best Paper award at USENIX's OSDI conferences in 2000, 2004, and 2008. With his students Cristian Cadar and Daniel Dunbar, he was jointly awarded the 2018 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for their paper at the 2008 conference.
Engler won the 2006 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his work in operating systems research. In 2008, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award for "ground-breaking work on automated program checking and bug-finding".
Selected publications
References
External links
Dawson Engler on the Stanford University website
Living people
American computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Software testing people
Arizona State University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University faculty
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2013 | iOS 13 is the thirteenth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone, iPod Touch and HomePod. The successor to iOS 12, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 3, 2019, and released on September 19, 2019. It was succeeded by iOS 14, released on September 16, 2020.
As of iOS 13, the iPad lines run a separate operating system, derived from iOS, named iPadOS. Both iPadOS 13 and iOS 13 dropped support for devices with less than 2 GB of RAM.
Overview
iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 were introduced by Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi at the WWDC keynote address on June 3, 2019.
The first beta was made available to registered developers after the keynote. The second beta was released to registered developers on June 18, 2019, and the first public beta was released on June 24, 2019. The initial release of iOS 13 was version 13.0, which was released to the public on September 19, 2019.
System features
Privacy
iOS 13 changes the handling of location data. When an app requests access to location, the user chooses whether to grant access whenever they are using the app, never, or only once. The user will receive similar prompts for background location access, and when an app requests access to Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (which may also be used for non-consensual location tracking).
In August 2019, it was reported that beginning in April 2020, the PushKit API for VoIP would be restricted to internet telephone usage, closing a "loophole" that had been used by other apps for background data collection.
User interface
A system-wide dark mode allows users to enable a light-on-dark color scheme for the entire iOS and iPadOS user interface, all native applications, and supported third-party apps. It can be manually turned on or set to automatically switch between light and dark modes based on the time of day.
The volume indicator was redesigned, replacing the larger, centered overlay with a slimmer bar shown vertically near the volume keys in portrait orientation, or at the top in landscape. The bar can also be manipulated directly.
The card UI elements from Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books has been implemented system-wide, being an option for third-parties to use in their apps.
Siri
Siri uses a software-generated voice called "Neural TTS", intended to sound more natural than previous versions that use clips of human voices. Siri also became more functional and new sound control is available. The Siri Shortcuts app is installed by default. Siri also uses HomePod to learn and recognize voices of different people. It is also possible for Siri to automatically read incoming messages aloud on AirPods.
Keyboard
The QuickType virtual keyboard features QuickPath, allowing the user to swipe their finger across the keyboard to complete words and phrases. This functionality was previously exclusively available via third-party keyboard applications such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Skinner%20%28actress%2C%20born%202002%29 | Emily Noelle Skinner (born November 30, 2002) is an American actress. She is known for her work with the Brat network (2018–2020) and her role as Amber on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack (2017–2019).
Personal life
Skinner was born in Mission Viejo, and was raised in Trabuco Canyon. Her parents are Jennifer and Steve, and she has an older sister, Lauren.
She has supported and been involved in charity and activism, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mattel Children's Hospital, Time's Up, and the March for Our Lives.
Career
Skinner began acting at the age of six, when she was enrolled into an acting class, and she later signed with Abrams Artists Agency. Her first role was in a 2009 episode of NUMB3RS.
In 2010, Skinner starred as one of the leads in short film Sodales, directed by Jessica Biel, which was a part of Glamour Magazine's "Reel Moments". She has also had several guest roles on television shows including Shake it Up, Days of Our Lives, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Austin & Ally, The Mindy Project, Sam & Cat, Criminal Minds, Rizzoli & Isles, and more. In 2015, she appeared in the music video for "Broken Arrows", an Avicii song. She starred in her first theatrical film, Blood Ransom, in 2014.
Skinner landed her first major role as Amber on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack, which premiered in 2017. She auditioned for the roles of Andi, Buffy, and Amber, and participated in a chemistry read with Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Asher Angel. In 2018, Skinner began working with the Brat network. Her roles include Diana in Total Eclipse and Chloe in Crown Lake. She has also made an appearance in the network's talk show, Brat Chat. In November 2018, she and Lilia Buckingham released a single, "Denim Jacket" and donated a portion of the proceeds to GLAAD.
Skinner starred as Cindy Stallings in the 2019 dance film, Next Level. She appeared in another MarVista film Secrets in the Water as well as the Lifetime television film Saving My Daughter. She has upcoming roles in The Lies I Tell Myself, Something's More Than One Thing, and #FBF.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web
Music videos
References
External links
Living people
2002 births
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from California
American child actresses
American web series actresses
People from Mission Viejo, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Geo%20Kahani | Geo Kahani is a premium entertainment network by Geo Group, which airs a variety of ended series from Geo TV, and sometimes produces original programming.
Current programming
Reruns of ended series
Tum Se Hi Talluq Hai
Banno
Darr Khuda Say
Kahin Deep Jaley
Kurulus Osman Season 2
Saibaan
Dolly Darling
Nadaaniyaan
Former programming
Original programming
Dramas
Aas
Champa Aur Chambeli
Devraniyaan
Ghar Aik Jannat
Jeevan Saathi
Naagin
Kiran
Kyun Hai Tu
Soha Aur Savera
Talk shows
Subh-e-Pakistan
Subh Ki Kahani
Iftar Mulaqat
Acquired Programming
From Geo Entertainment
Bharosa Pyaar Tera
Raaz-E-Ulfat
Ghar Ek Jannat
Jeevan Saathi
Mann Ke Moti
Yeh Zindagi Hai
Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat Hai
Malika-e-Aliya
Malika-e-Aliya Season 2
Umm-E-Haniya
Roshni
Saaya
Nanhi
Ay Dil Tu Bata
Kurulus Osman Season 1
Meri Maa
Naadaniyaan
Piya Naam Ka Diya
Yaariyan
Khoobseerat
Kahin Deep Jaley
Khaali Haath
Munafiq
Joru Ka Ghulam
Sangdil
Kam Zarf
Aap Ki Kaneez
Bandhay Aik Dor Say
Ab Dekh Khuda Kya Karta Hai
Mohabbat Tumse Nafrat Hai
Inteqam
Saaya (season 2)
Yaariyan
Romeo Weds Heer
Indian
Badi Bahu
Bhoomi Kay Sapnay
CID
Darr Sabko Lagta Hai
Doli Armaano Ki
Dosri Shaadi
Mrs.Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani
Haasil
Jeet Gayi Toh Piya Morey
Jodha Akbar
Kaala Teeka
Kumkum Bhagya
Kundali Bhagya
Mehrunnisa
Razia Sultan
Satrangi Sasural
Suno Pratibha
Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum
Yeh Vaada Raha
Turkish
Intekam
Iffet
Mera Ishq
Mera Sultan
Muhabbat
Noor
Sheharzaad
Bewafai
References
Geo TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20antidepressant%20consumption | This is a list of countries by antidepressant consumption according to data published by the OECD.
OECD list
The source for the data below is the OECD Health Statistics 2018, released by the OECD in June 2018 and updated on 8 November 2018.
The unit of measurement used by the OECD is defined daily dose (DDD), defined as "the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used on its main indication in adults". The sources used by the OECD are primarily national health authorities. Definitions, sources and methodology per country is explained further in a document available on the OECD website. The OECD have not included the United States in these reviews, but if added the country would have the highest or second-highest rate.
See also
Antidepressant
List of countries by suicide rate
Notes
References
External links
Lists of countries
Health-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Network%20of%20Asset%20Managers | Canadian Network of Asset Managers (CNAM) is the association of public infrastructure asset management in Canada. CNAM is a not-for-profit organization composed of both government and private sector members. The organization is committed to developing policy, tools and technologies that improve public infrastructure assets in Canada. The organization was initially founded by seven Canadian municipalities. It later grew and formed partnerships in and outside Canada. Among the main tasks of CNAM are educating municipalities on asset management and engaging younger generation in municipal asset management.
References
2009 establishments in Canada
Asset management associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Ordination%20Worldwide | Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is an ecumenical network of groups whose primary mission is to allow Roman Catholic women admission to all ordained ministries. The WOW network includes organizations from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Japan, Malta, Poland, Western Europe, and the United States.
Leadership and views
WOW is led by a Steering Committee of representatives from all member groups. It draws on scriptural and theological sources to argue for the participation of women in the Catholic priesthood.
History
WOW was founded in 1996 in Austria during the First European Women's Synod. In 2001, Ireland's Brothers and Sisters in Christ (now merged with We Are Church Ireland) organized WOW's first international conference in Dublin. WOW's second international conference was held in Ottawa, Canada in July 2005. Speakers at the Ottawa conference included Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and Rosemary Radford Ruether. The third was sponsored by the U.S.-based Women's Ordination Conference in Philadelphia, PA in September 2015. The 2015 conference took place ahead of the first visit by Pope Francis to the U.S.
Controversy
Catholic priests have been sanctioned for their involvement with WOW. Two days after appearing at the Philadelphia conference, Precious Blood Fr. Jack McClure was told that he could no longer celebrate Mass at Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco. Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, was dismissed from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers for his support of women's ordination and has participated in WOW actions.
See also
Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
Women in the Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Womenpriests
Women's Ordination Conference
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
References
Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
Christian women's organizations
Women's ordination activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppotron | The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.
It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.
Development
First version
The first version of the instrument was built in 2011 and consisted of two floppy drives and an ATMega microcontroller. The sound is generated by the magnetic head moved by its stepper motor. To make a specific sound, the head must be moved with appropriate frequency.
The invention gained public notoriety with a demonstration of the Imperial March posted on YouTube achieving more than 6 million views.
2.0 version
In 2016 Paweł Zadrożniak improved his previous version of the Floppotron with 64 floppy drives, 8 hard drives, and two flatbed scanners. Every column of 8 FDDs was connected to one 8-channel controller built on ATMega16 microcontroller; the HD was controlled by 2 push-pull outputs built with discrete SMD MOSFETs. The Scanner head controllers were built using off-the-shelf boards – an Arduino Uno. On June 6, 2022, Floppotron 2.0 was officially decommissioned.
3.0 version
On June 13, 2022, a 3.0 version of the Floppotron was unveiled with 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners. The first piece played publicly on the Floppotron 3.0 is Entry of the Gladiators.
Operating principles
Any device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound. Scanners and floppy drives use stepper motors to move the head with sensors which scan an image or perform read/write operations on a magnetic disk. The sound generated by a motor depends on its driving speed: the higher the frequency, the greater the pitch. Hard disks use a magnet and a coil to position the head. When voltage is supplied for long enough, the head speeds up and hits the mechanical stop making the "drum hit” sound.
The Floppotron translates MIDI music files into a series of discrete commands telling the devices when to buzz, click, and remain silent.
Song covers
As of April 2019 there are more than one hundred songs played with the Floppotron in Zadrożniak's YouTube page. The songs include Queen's "Bohemian Rapsody", Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", White Stripes's "Seven Nation Army", Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams", Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and "Song 2" by Blur.
References
External links
Inventor Paweł Zadrożniak home page
Experimental musical instruments
Musical instruments invented in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau | Damerau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dietmar Damerau (1935–2011), German artist
Frederick J. Damerau (1931–2009), American researcher on natural language processing and data mining
Damerau–Levenshtein distance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Shechtman | Anna Shechtman (born 1990/1991) is an American journalist and crossword compiler. Shechtman is film editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and compiles crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Early life
Shechtman grew up in a Jewish family in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood. She earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, and in 2020 received a PhD in English Literature and Film & Media Studies at Yale University.
Crosswords
Shechtman was 19 when her first crossword appeared in the New York Times. Until she was 25, she created most of her puzzles by hand using graph paper and dictionaries rather than crossword software. Shechtman is the second youngest female crossword creator to be published in the New York Times. After graduating college, Will Shortz asked Schechtman to be his assistant at the New York Times.
In May 2019, The Guardian called her "the new queen of crosswords".
She has been praised for including youthful references and lighthearted clues such as "'state of being awesome, in modern slang' (answer: epicness)."
References
Living people
The New York Times writers
The New Yorker people
Crossword creators
Swarthmore College alumni
1990s births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded%20exposure%20photography | Coded exposure photography, also known as a flutter shutter, is the name given to any mathematical algorithm that reduces the effects of motion blur in photography. The key element of the coded exposure process is the mathematical formula that affects the shutter frequency. This involves the calculation of the relationship between the photon exposure of the light sensor and the randomized code. The camera is made to take a series of snapshots with random time intervals using a simple computer, this creates a blurred image that can be reconciled into a clear image using the algorithm.
Motion de-blurring technology grew due to increasing demand for clearer images in sporting events and other digital media. The relative inexpensiveness of the coded exposure technology makes it a viable alternative to expensive cameras and equipment that are built to take millions of images per second.
History
Photography was developed to enable imaging of the visible world. Early cameras utilized film made of plastic coated with compounds of silver. The film is highly sensitive to light. When photons (light) hit the film a reaction occurs which semi-permanently stores the data on its surface. This film is then developed by exposing it to several chemicals to create the image. The film is highly sensitive and the process is complicated. It must be stored away from light to prevent spoilage.
Digital cameras utilize digital technologies to create images. This process involves exposing light-sensitive material to photons, creating electrical signals that are recorded in computer files. This process is simple and has improved the availability of photography. One problem that digital cameras have faced is motion blur. Motion blur occurs when the camera or the subject are in motion. When motion blur happens, the resulting image is blurry, fuzzy edges and indistinct features. One solution to remove motion blur in photography is to increase the shutter speed of the camera. Unlike the coded exposure process, shutter speed is a purely physical process where the camera shutter is opened and closed more quickly, resulting in short exposure time. This reduces the amount of motion that occupies each frame. However shorter exposure times increase the 'noise', which can affect image quality.
Coded exposure
Coded exposure solves the motion blur problem without the negative effects of shorter exposure times. It is an algorithm designed to open the camera's shutter in a pattern that enables the image to be processed in such a way that motion blur and noise are almost completely removed. Contrary to other methods of de-blurring, coded exposure does not require additional hardware beyond a digital camera.
The key element of the coded exposure process is the formula that affects the shutter frequency. The process calculates the relationship between the exposure of the light sensor and the randomized code. The digital camera takes a series of snapshots at random intervals. This crea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20Once%20Read%20Forever | Write Once Read Forever (WORF) is a data storage method which allows users to write data once and allows storage of the users data without ever being refreshed. This differs from common digital storage techniques such as drives that need to be re-written often to prevent loss or corruption of data. WORF was tested on the International Space Station in 2019.
Method
WORF uses a novel high-density patented data storage mechanism based on silver halide, which after substantial testing has been determined to last for more than a century under conventional ambient environmental conditions. WORF digital data is stored as microscopic, metallic, interference-created standing waves (representing narrowband ‟colors” ) embedded in a modern, super-resolution, dye-free, photosensitive emulsion. Wavelengths encode multiple superimposed states allowing complex data permutations to be stored per data region. Permutations enable extremely high data density to be stored on WORF media. Multi-state data architecture within each domain also enhances data integrity, error-checking, and accelerates parallel writing and reading for the entire media module. Once data is written to WORF, energy is needed only for reading—no periodic refresh is necessary, and data is both immutable and truly permanent. Human readable text and images are embedded in the WORF module adjacent to the digital data. This text and imagery contain meta- information about the media's content, and instructions for decoding for future generations.
NASA Experiment
WORF payload was delivered and docked to the International Space Station (ISS) via SpaceX CRS-17 on May 9, 2019. NASA's ISS test will determine if WORF media can survive a hostile space environment during long-term space missions, such as Lunar, Mars missions, and beyond. The WORF media payload will stay on the ISS for up to one year.
Due to a previous NASA mission already named WORF, NASA renamed the experiment HELIOS (Hardened Extremely Long Life Information Optical Storage). The HELIOS mission returned to Earth and was deemed a success with the stored data showing no significant decay after six months of space conditions and solar radiation. WORF technology for the HELIOS experiment uses a proven archival media, redesigned, re-purposed and patented by CTech to store digital data for long periods, measured in decades and possibly centuries.
References
External links
WORF @ Creative Technology
Data storage
Computer data storage
Solid-state computer storage
Computer storage devices
Science experiments
International Space Station experiments
Space science experiments
Space exposure experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna%20Kupferman | Orna Kupferman is a Professor of Computer Science and former Vice Rector at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2016.
Early life and education
Kupferman served in the Israel Defense Force from 1986 to 1988. She earned her PhD at the Technion in 1995, where she was supervised by Orna Grumberg. In 1996 Kupferman joined the technical staff at Bell Labs. She moved to University of California, Berkeley in 1997, working with Thomas Henzinger.
Research and career
In 1998 Kupferman was appointed a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She acted as Head of Computer Science from 2005 to 2008, and as Head of Engineering between 2008 and 2011. She was made a Full Professor in 2008. In 2012 Kupferman was awarded a European Research Council grant to study high-quality reactive systems. She is developing formal verification and synthesis computer systems for both hardware and software. She uses automata theory approaches to check branching-time models.
Kupferman has served as the Advisor on Gender Issues for the President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has spoken about the challenges achieving gender balance in academia at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She called for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to end gender segregated education.
Kupferman was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2016. She was also awarded the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Michael Milken Prize for long-standing Excellence in Teaching.
Kupferman has served on the editorial board of Formal Methods in System Design and Logical Methods in Computer Science. She is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.
Selected publications
References
Israeli women computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Members of Academia Europaea
20th-century women scientists
21st-century women scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates-Dell%20Complex | The Gates-Dell Complex (Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Hall, abbreviated to GDC) is a building that houses the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Austin. It was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, and completed in 2013 at a cost of $120 million. The building is named after Bill and Melinda Gates, and Susan and Michael Dell, who donated $30 million and $10 million, respectively, to the construction of the building.
The complex is organized into a north building and a south building, connected by a large glass atrium and a series of bridges. It is located at 2317 Speedway, Austin, TX - 78712.
References
University of Texas at Austin campus
School buildings completed in 2013
2013 establishments in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Lennon | Gary Lennon is an American playwright, television writer and executive producer. He is currently a showrunner on Power and Hightown, both for the Starz network, where he has an overall development deal. He is also an executive producer on Euphoria for HBO. In 2013, Lennon won a Peabody Award for the first season of Orange is the New Black along with his fellow writers and producers.
Early life
Lennon grew up in Hell's Kitchen. He was orphaned by age 11, he dropped out of high school, and he did not attend college.
Career
Lennon began his career as an aspiring actor. He studied under Geraldine Page, who encouraged him to write about his own life. Lennon compiled his monologues to create his first play, Blackout. After being rejected by the Circle Repertory Company as a young playwright, Lennon left one of his plays backstage at a theater attended by Marshall W. Mason, the founder of the company. Mason read the play that Lennon had addressed to him, and set him up on his first meetings.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
American writers
American film producers
Showrunners
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20international%20calls%20regulations | Regulation 2018/1971 sets the maximum price caps for intra-EU international communications made from subscribers' home network countries. Regulation is in force since 15 May 2019.
Territorial extent
Regulation applies to 30 EEA member countries (All 27 EU member countries as well as 3 EFTA member countries - Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).
Prices
Local price limits
When maximum prices are denominated in other currencies other than the euro, the initial limits is calculated using the average of the reference exchange rates published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJoEU) on 15 January, 15 February and 15 March 2019. From 2020, the limits in currencies other than the euro is revised annually. The revised limits shall apply from 15 May using the average of the reference exchange rates published in the OJoEU on 15 January, 15 February and 15 March of that year.
References
International telecommunications
European Union regulations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPDA | IPDA may refer to:
Isophorone diamine, a chemical compound
International Public Debate Association, a US national debate league
International Planetary Data Alliance, a planetary research data organization
Internet Philatelic Dealers Association, an association of internet stamp dealers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN%20Time-Sharing%20System | The BBN Time-Sharing System was an early time-sharing system created at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) for the PDP-1 computer. It began operation in September 1962.
History
J. C. R. Licklider left MIT to become a vice president at Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1957. He learned about time-sharing from Christopher Strachey at a UNESCO-sponsored conference on Information Processing in Paris in June 1959.
Digital Equipment Corporation's prototype PDP-1 was ready in November, 1959, and the machine was featured in the November/December issue of Datamation magazine. BBNer Ed Fredkin saw a prototype system at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference in Boston in December 1959, and was extremely interested. Given BBN's interest, DEC's founder and President Ken Olsen visited and explained that DEC had just completed construction of a prototype PDP-1, and that they needed a test site for a month. BBN agreed to be the test site, at its regular hourly rates, and then in early 1960 obtained the prototype PDP-1. The first production PDP-1 arrived in November 1960, and was formally accepted in April 1961.
With the PDP-1 installed at BBN, in 1960 Licklider took on MIT's John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky as consultants. McCarthy had been advocating for the concept of time-sharing computers since the same year, but had found slow progress at MIT. At BBN, Licklider and Fredkin were keenly interested. In particular, Fredkin insisted that "timesharing could be done on a small computer, namely, a PDP-1." As Fredkin recounts:
John’s invention of time-sharing and his telling me about his ideas all occurred before the PDP-1 existed. When I first saw the PDP-1 at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference, I realized that it was the perfect low-cost vehicle for implementing John's ideas. That is why I specified that several of the modifications for time sharing be part of the PDP-1b.
McCarthy recalled in 1989:
I kept arguing with him. I said "Well, you’d have to ... get an interrupt system." And he said, "We can do that. You'd have to get some kind of swapper." I said “We can do that."
Accordingly, a BBN team, largely led by Sheldon Boilen, built custom hardware add-ons to the company's second PDP-1 to provide an external interrupt system and a magnetic drum for swapping storage. To this end, BBN acquired the first UNIVAC FASTRAND rotating drum, with a 45-Mbyte storage capacity and an access time of about 0.1 second.
In Fall 1962, BBN conducted a public demonstration of the BBN Time-Sharing System, with one operator in Washington, D.C., and two in Cambridge.
Hardware support for time-sharing
As described in McCarthy et al., the computer's hardware was as follows: "The PDP-1 is a single address binary computer with an 18 bit word and five microsecond memory cycle; most instructions require ten microseconds to execute. The basic memory size is 4096 words, but up to 65,536 words may be addressed indirectly. The machine we used has 8192 words, 4096 of which are reserved for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural%20Data%20Sampling | The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities are a set of weaknesses in Intel x86 microprocessors that use hyper-threading, and leak data across protection boundaries that are architecturally supposed to be secure. The attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities have been labeled Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load), ZombieLoad., and ZombieLoad 2.
Description
The vulnerabilities are in the implementation of speculative execution, which is where the processor tries to guess what instructions may be needed next. They exploit the possibility of reading data buffers found between different parts of the processor.
Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS),
Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS),
Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS),
Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM),
Transactional Asynchronous Abort (TAA), CVE-2019-11135
Not all processors are affected by all variants of MDS.
History
According to Intel in a May 2019 interview with Wired, Intel's researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in 2018 before anyone else. Other researchers had agreed to keep the exploit confidential as well since 2018.
On 14 May 2019, various groups of security researchers, amongst others from Austria's Graz University of Technology, Belgium's Catholic University of Leuven, and Netherlands' Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in a disclosure coordinated with Intel, published the discovery of the MDS vulnerabilities in Intel microprocessors, which they named Fallout, RIDL and ZombieLoad. Three of the TU Graz researchers were from the group who had discovered Meltdown and Spectre the year before.
On 12 November 2019, a new variant of the ZombieLoad attack, called Transactional Asynchronous Abort, was disclosed.
Impact
According to varying reports, Intel processors dating back to 2011 or 2008 are affected, and the fixes may be associated with a performance drop. Intel reported that processors manufactured in the month before the disclosure have mitigations against the attacks.
Intel characterized the vulnerabilities as "low-to-medium" impact, disagreeing with the security researchers who characterized them as major, and disagreeing with their recommendation that operating system software manufacturers should completely disable hyperthreading. Nevertheless, the ZombieLoad vulnerability can be used by hackers exploiting the vulnerability to steal information recently accessed by the affected microprocessor.
Mitigation
Fixes to operating systems, virtualization mechanisms, web browsers and microcode are necessary.
, applying available updates on an affected PC system was the most that could be done to mitigate the issues.
Intel incorporated fixes in its processors starting shortly before the public announcement of the vulnerabilities.
On 14 May 2019, a mitigation was released for the Linux kernel, and Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon released emergency patches for their products to miti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20N.%20Baird | George N. Baird is an American computer scientist. From 1967 into the 1970s, Baird worked on computer programming languages in the United States Navy under Grace Hopper. He later worked for the National Bureau of Standards. In 1974, he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1974 for "his successful development and implementation of the Navy's COBOL Compiler Validation System."
References
Further reading
Living people
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express%20Data%20Path | XDP (eXpress Data Path) is an eBPF-based high-performance data path used to send and receive network packets at high rates by bypassing most of the operating system networking stack. It is merged in the Linux kernel since version 4.8. This implementation is licensed under GPL. Large technology firms including Amazon, Google and Intel support its development. Microsoft released their free and open source implementation XDP for Windows in May 2022. It is licensed under MIT License.
Data path
The idea behind XDP is to add an early hook in the RX path of the kernel, and let a user supplied eBPF program decide the fate of the packet. The hook is placed in the network interface controller (NIC) driver just after the interrupt processing, and before any memory allocation needed by the network stack itself, because memory allocation can be an expensive operation. Due to this design, XDP can drop 26 million packets per second per core with commodity hardware.
The eBPF program must pass a preverifier test before being loaded, to avoid executing malicious code in kernel space. The preverifier checks that the program contains no out-of-bounds accesses, loops or global variables.
The program is allowed to edit the packet data and, after the eBPF program returns, an action code determines what to do with the packet:
XDP_PASS: let the packet continue through the network stack
XDP_DROP: silently drop the packet
XDP_ABORTED: drop the packet with trace point exception
XDP_TX: bounce the packet back to the same NIC it arrived on
XDP_REDIRECT: redirect the packet to another NIC or user space socket via the AF_XDP address family
XDP requires support in the NIC driver but, as not all drivers support it, it can fallback to a generic implementation, which performs the eBPF processing in the network stack, though with slower performance.
XDP has infrastructure to offload the eBPF program to a network interface controller which supports it, reducing the CPU load. In 2022, many network cards support it, e.g. Netronome, Intel and Mellanox.
Microsoft is partnering with other companies and adding support for XDP in the MsQuic protocol.
AF_XDP
Along with XDP, a new address family entered in the Linux kernel starting 4.18. AF_XDP, formerly known as AF_PACKETv4 (which was never included in the mainline kernel), is a raw socket optimized for high performance packet processing and allows zero-copy between kernel and applications. As the socket can be used for both receiving and transmitting, it supports high performance network applications purely in user space.
See also
Application layer
Network layer
Data link layer
References
External links
XDP documentation on Read the Docs
AF_XDP documentation on kernel.org
XDP walkthrough at FOSDEM 2017 by Daniel Borkmann, Cilium
AF_XDP at FOSDEM 2018 by Magnus Karlsson, Intel
eBPF.io - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations, Cloudflare
Unimog: Cloudflare's edge load balance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Turkmenistan%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Turkmen regions and the capital city of Ashgabat by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Human Development Index
Regions By Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grav%20%28CMS%29 | Grav is a free software, self-hosted content management system (CMS) written in the PHP programming language and based on the Symfony web application framework. It uses a flat file database for both backend and frontend.
Grav is designed to have a shallow learning curve, and to be easy to set up. The focus of Grav is speed and simplicity, rather than an abundance of built-in features that come at the expense of complexity.
The name Grav is a shortened version of the word gravity.
Grav is the most starred PHP CMS on GitHub, with over 14,020 stars.
A lot of interesting articles about Grav CMS and its possibilities are available in the Czech language on the microweb Grav.cz (gravcz.github.io).
Awards
CMS Critic Awards - Best Flat File CMS 2021
CMS Critic Awards - Best Flat File CMS 2020
CMS Critic Awards - Best Flat File CMS 2019
CMS Critic Awards - Best Flat File CMS 2017
CMS Critic Awards - Best Open Source CMS 2016, Best Open Source CMS 2016
See also
Content management system
List of content management systems
References
Content management systems
Free content management systems
Free software
Free software programmed in PHP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru%20Ishida | is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in multi-agent systems. He has been working on action research projects including Digital City Kyoto, Intercultural Collaboration Experiments, and the Language Grid. He is a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, and currently a visiting professor of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Biography
Toru Ishida graduated from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1976, and received master's and PhD degrees from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1978 and 1989. He became a senior research engineer with NTT Information Communication Processing Laboratories in 1989, and with NTT Communication Science Laboratories in 1991. After moving to Kyoto University, he became a professor in the Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Engineering. From 1998 to 2019, he served as a professor in the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. From 2019 to 2022, he served as a professor of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. He has also served as a visiting scientist/professor at Columbia University, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Le Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, Xinjiang University, and Hong Kong Baptist University.
He was elected as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2004, and Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2008. He became an honorary member of the IEICE in 2018. His services for IEICE include Chair of the Information and Systems Society (IEICE-ISS) from 2011 to 2013, Vice President from 2014 to 2016, President Elect from 2020 to 2021, and President from 2021 to 2022. He was a research supervisor at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) PRESTO Information Environments and Humans, and a member of the Science Council of Japan from 2011 to 2017.
Work
Toru Ishida has been working on Autonomous agents and Multi-agent systems since 1988. He worked toward creation of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). He served as a General Co-Chair of the first AAMAS. He was a board member of the International Foundation on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).
He has led several research projects, such as Digital City Kyoto, Intercultural Collaboration Experiments and the Language Grid. The Digital City Kyoto project aimed at integrating a city's physical space and information activity. This project established a community forum that involved more than 100 people from the industry, academics, government, and local citizens. He initiated the Intercultural Collaboration Experiment (ICE) with Chinese, Korean, and Malaysian colleagues in 2002, a year after 9.11. The concept "intercultural collaboration" was coined dur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATNET | SATNET, also known as the Atlantic Packet Satellite Network, was an early satellite network that formed an initial segment of the Internet. It was implemented by BBN Technologies under the direction of the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The first heterogeneous computer network was implemented in 1973, connecting the ARPANET to University College London. This evolved into SATNET. The first Transmission Control Program demonstration, linking SATNET, the ARPANET, and PRNET took place on November 22, 1977.
History
Background
SATNET had its origins in Larry Roberts' 1970 proposal for a link between the ARPANET and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) network. The NPL network was developed by Donald Davies, one of two independent inventors of the concept of packet switching. ARPA had an existing 2.4 kilobit/second link to NORSAR (used for seismic research), which at the time passed through a satellite station in the UK, then continued via cable to Norway.
Peter T. Kirstein's research group at University College London (UCL) was chosen instead of NPL in 1971 to connect the ARPANET. Funding was finally approved in 1973, by which time the trans-Atlantic connectivity had changed: the NORSAR link now crossed the Atlantic via the Nordic satellite station in Tanum, Sweden, then continued via cable to Norway. Two ARPANET Terminal Interface Processors (TIPs) were installed in Norway and connected to the ARPANET via satellite in June and September 1973. The UCL connection via a terrestrial circuit to Norway became operational in July 1973 at 9.6 kilobits/second. At this point, UCL was connected to the ARPANET, forming the first heterogeneous interconnected network in the world. UCL later provided a gateway for an interconnection with the NPL network and subsequently the SRCnet, the forerunner of UK's JANET network.
In that same year, Larry Roberts proposed that it would be possible to use a satellite's 64 kilobit/second link as a medium shared by multiple satellite earth stations within the beam's footprint.
Development
This proposal was implemented by Bob Kahn, and resulted in SATNET. Key participants in SATNET included BBN Technologies, COMSAT, the Linkabit Corporation, UCLA, University College London, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Britain. By the late 1970s, SATNET connected research sites in the US, UK, Norway, Germany, and Italy.
In 1973, Bob Kahn considered the interconnection of the ARPANET with other networks. He enlisted Vint Cerf, who was teaching at Stanford. The problem was that the ARPANET, SATNET, and radio-based PRNET all had different interfaces, packet sizes, labelling, conventions and transmission rates. Linking them together was very difficult. In response, Kahn and Cerf set about designing a net-to-net connection protocol. Cerf led the newly formed International Networking Working Group (INWG). In September 1973, the two gave their first paper on the new Transmis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinne%20Tonight | Kinne Tonight is an Australian sketch comedy television series created, written and directed by Troy Kinne and Max Price first airing as a pilot, on 17 August 2018 on Network 10. The first season premiered on 27 May 2019.
In October 2019, Kinne Tonight was renewed for a second season which premiered on 25 May 2020 at 9:40 pm.
Cast
Troy Kinne
Sarah Bishop
Max Price
Genevieve Hegney
Nicolette Minster
Oliver Clark
Josh Lawson
Anna Hutchison
Dave Thornton
Nina Oyama
Ashlea Renae
Laura Dunemann
Elliot Loney
Ash Williams
Des Dowling
Natalie Tran
Tom Seigert
Daniel Connell
Tommy Flanagan
Bev Killick
Episodes
Pilot Episode
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
See also
Kinne
References
External links
Big Yellow Taxi Productions
Network 10 original programming
English-language television shows
2018 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian comedy television series
2020s Australian comedy television series
Television shows set in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Tumasov | Mikhail "Misha" Tumasov (he/they) is a Russian LGBTQ activist and human rights defender. Tumasov founded the Avers LGBT movement in Samara in 2011 and is currently the network director for the Russian LGBT Network.
Born in 1975, Tumasov comes from Astrachan, a city in southern Russia. He moved to Samara when he was in his mid-twenties, where he lived a quiet life together with his partner, Denis, and worked as a sales and distribution manager for local media companies. He met Denis in 2005, and they have been together ever since.
Mikhail's activism began in 2011, when he decided he needed to speak out in protest against the anti-gay propaganda legislation that was spreading across Russia. He collected signatures protesting against the 'Milonov law', which bans so-called 'propaganda' of homosexuality, that had just been passed in St Petersburg, and eventually founded the 'Avers LGBT Movement'. Avers is a social regional movement aimed at protecting human rights and freedoms, developing civil society institutions, fighting against discrimination, defamation and violation of human rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The movement also promotes gender equality in the society and deals with socially dangerous diseases prevention. After Samara passed its anti-gay propaganda law the following year, Tumasov and several others sued to overturn it, but were unsuccessful. Despite the regional and federal laws, Avers has continued to organize events, including discussions and seminars on emotional and legal topics.
In April 2012, Tumasov was violently assaulted after coming out to a recent acquaintance. He reported the incident to the police, but nothing came of the complaint. The magistrate threw it out for being incorrectly formulated and asked for it to be redone, but the deadline passed while Mikhail was in the hospital recovering from the concussion and other injuries he had received.
In 2014, Tumasov moved to St. Petersburg with his partner to work at the Interregional Movement of the Russian LGBT (MRLGBT) Network. His colleague, Oksana Berezovskaya, now leads Avers.
References
Living people
Russian LGBT rights activists
Russian gay men
Russian activists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENEX%20%28operating%20system%29 | TENEX is an operating system developed in 1969 by BBN for the PDP-10, which later formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-20 operating system.
Background
In the 1960s, BBN was involved in a number of LISP-based artificial intelligence projects for DARPA, many of which had very large (for the era) memory requirements. One solution to this problem was to add paging software to the LISP language, allowing it to write out unused portions of memory to disk for later recall if needed. One such system had been developed for the PDP-1 at MIT by Daniel Murphy before he joined BBN. Early DEC machines were based on an 18-bit word, allowing addresses to encode for a 256 kiloword memory. The machines were based on expensive core memory and included nowhere near the required amount. The pager used the most significant bits of the address to index a table of blocks on a magnetic drum that acted as the pager's backing store. The software would fetch the pages if needed, and then resolve the address to the proper area of RAM.
In 1964 DEC announced the PDP-6. DEC was still heavily involved with MIT's AI Lab, and many feature requests from the LISP hackers were moved into this machine. 36-bit computing was especially useful for LISP programming because with an 18-bit address space, a word of storage on these systems contained two addresses, a perfect match for the common LISP CAR and CDR operations. BBN became interested in buying one for their AI work when they became available, but wanted DEC to add a hardware version of Murphy's pager directly into the system. With such an addition, every program on the system would have paging support invisibly, making it much easier to do any sort of programming on the machine. DEC was initially interested, but soon (1966) announced they were in fact dropping the PDP-6 and concentrating solely on their smaller 18-bit and new 16-bit lines. The PDP-6 was expensive and complex, and had not sold well for these reasons.
It was not long until it became clear that DEC was once again entering the 36-bit business with what would become the PDP-10. BBN started talks with DEC to get a paging subsystem in the new machine, then known by its CPU name, the KA-10. DEC was not terribly interested. However, one development of these talks was support for a second virtual memory segment, allowing half of the user address space to be mapped to a separate (potentially read-only) region of physical memory. Additionally, DEC was firm on keeping the cost of the machine as low as possible, such as supporting bare-bones systems with a minimum of 16K words of core, and omitting the fast semiconductor register option (substituting core), at the cost of a considerable performance decrease.
BBN and PDP-10s
BBN nevertheless went ahead with its purchase of several PDP-10s, and decided to build their own hardware pager. During this period a debate began on what operating system to run on the new machines. Strong arguments were made for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Google%20data%20breach | The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users.
Google+ managers first noticed harvesting of personal data in March 2018, during a review following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The bug, despite having been fixed immediately, exposed the private data of approximately 500,000 Google+ users to the public. Google did not reveal the leak to the network's users. In November 2018, another data breach occurred following an update to the Google+ API. Although Google found no evidence of failure, approximately 52.5 million personal profiles were potentially exposed. In August 2019, Google declared a shutdown of Google+ due to low use and technological challenges.
Overview of Google+
Google+ was launched in June 2011 as an invite-only social network, but was opened for public access later in the year. It was managed by Vic Gundotra.
Similar to Facebook, Google+ also included key features Circles, Hangouts and Sparks.
Circles let users personalize their social groups by sorting friends into different categories. Once allowed into a Circle, users could regulate information in their individual spaces.
Hangouts included video chatting and instant messaging between users.
Sparks allowed Google to track users' past searches to find news and content related to their interests.
Google+ was linked to other Google services, such as YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail, giving it access to roughly 2 billion user accounts. However, less than 400 million consumers actively used Google+, with 90% of those users using it for less than five seconds.
The breaches
In March 2018, Google developers found a data breach within the Google+ People API in which external apps acquired access to Profile fields that were not marked as public. 500,000 Google+ accounts were included in the breach, which allowed 438 external apps unauthorized access to private users' names, emails, addresses, occupations, genders and ages. This information was available between 2015 and 2018. Google found no evidence of any user's personal information being misused, nor that any third-party app developers were aware of the leak.
In November 2018, a software update created another data breach within the Google+ API. The bug impacted 52.5 million users, where, similarly to the March breach, unauthorized apps were able to access Google+ profiles, including users' names, email addresses, occupations and ages. Apps could not access financial information, national identification, numbers, or passwords. Blog posts, messages and phone numbers also remained inaccessible if marked as private. Unlike the previous breach, access was only available for six days before Google+ learned of the breach. Once more, Google+ found no evidence data being misused by third-party developers.
Responses
In October 2018, the Wall Street Journal published an article outlining the initial breach and Goog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedioplanis%20undata | Pedioplanis undata, known commonly as the plain sand lizard or the western sand lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. The species is endemic to Southern Africa.
Geographic range
P. undata is found in southern Namibia and in South Africa (northwestern Cape Province).
Description
P. undata is a small and slender species, closely resembling P. namaquensis. However, the lower eyelid of P. undata has a "window" formed by 2–4 semitransparent large scales. Adults of P. undata have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and the tail is very long, nearly three times SVL.
Diet
P. undata preys upon small insects.
Reproduction
P. undata is oviparous. Each hatchling has a total length (including tail) of .
References
Further reading
Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Eremias undata, p. 92).
Conradie W, Measey GJ, Branch WR, Tolley KA (2012). "Revised phylogeny of African sand lizards (Pedioplanis), with description of two new species from south-western Angola". African Journal of Herpetology 61 (2): 91–112.
Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des Reptiles. Tome cinquième [Volume 5]. Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Lacerta undata, new species, pp. 316–317). (in French).
Kirchhof S, Hipsley CA, Corl A, Dell'Mour H, Müller J (2014). "Pedioplanis undata (A. Smith, 1838), Western Sand Lizard". African Herp News, Newsletter of the Herpetological Association of Africa 61: 30–33. (Figures 1, 2, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D).
Smith A (1838). "Contributions to the Natural History of Southern Africa". Magazine of Natural History 2: 92–94. (Lacerta undata, new species, p. 93).
Pedioplanis
Lacertid lizards of Africa
Reptiles of Namibia
Reptiles of South Africa
Reptiles described in 1838
Taxa named by Andrew Smith (zoologist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20sublime | The digital sublime is the mythologization of the impact of computers and cyberspace on human experiences of time, space and power. It's also known as cyber sublime or algorithmic sublime. It is a philosophical conception of emotions that captivate the collective conscience with the emergence of these new technologies and the promises and predictions that emerge from them. These emotions are the awe, the astonishment, the rationality-subsuming glory, and the generally intense spiritual experience.
This feeling is essentially provoked by intentionally black-boxed algorithms or by the lack of knowledge about algorithms. The sublime can be either utopian or dystopian depending on the individual's interpretation of their emotional response. The utopian interpretation of the digital sublime is known as digital utopianism and the dystopian is referred to as digital dystopia.
The Classical Notion of the Sublime
The classical notion of the sublime was fathered by Immanuel Kant in his work Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764). He defined the Sublime in his piece Critique of Judgment (1790) as:
“an object (of nature) the presentation of which determines the mind to think of nature's inability to attain to an exhibition of ideas.”The nature of the classical sublime according to Kant was the sensation produced in the individual when confronted with something that:
Was beyond the realms of the mind's comprehension
Overawed the imagination
The result was an overwhelming sense of empowerment at being able to stand before such a spectacle and exhilaration at how fragile a person is in the face of such tremendous power and immensity. Examples for Kant were standing before a mountain or overlooking the raging sea.
Edmund Burke's (1756) work, "Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" is another contributor to this classical notion, written at a similar time to Kant. For him, the sublime emerges from the terrible or that which invokes terror.
Origins of the Digital Sublime
Vincent Mosco is one of the leading thinkers in the development and distinction of the digital sublime as a highly respected academic amongst the international community and is currently a professor at Queen's University in Canada. His seminal work "The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace" explains that the digital sublime did not have a definite beginning. However, he outlines how it emerged as a progression from the technological sublime, which was the beginning of a shift in conceptions of the sublime connected to the industrial revolutions of the late 19th century and early 20th Century. Inventions such as the railroad, electricity, the radio, and the aeroplane all captivated the collective conscience in the possibility of ushering in a global village.
Mosco argues that there has not been a significant change in our approach to the appearance of new technologies, with the same prophecies of revolutionizing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deno%20%28software%29 | Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that is based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language. Deno was co-created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js.
Deno explicitly takes on the role of both runtime and package manager within a single executable, rather than requiring a separate package-management program.
History
Deno was announced at JSConf EU 2018 by Ryan Dahl in his talk "10 Things I Regret About Node.js". In his talk, Dahl mentioned his regrets about the initial design decisions with Node.js, focusing on his choices of not using promises in API design, usage of the legacy build system GYP, node_modules and package.json, leaving out file extensions, magical module resolution with index.js and breaking the sandboxed environment of V8. He eventually presented the prototype of Deno, aiming to achieve system call bindings through message passing with serialization tools such as Protocol Buffers, and to provide command line flags for access control.
Deno was initially written in Go and used Protocol Buffers for serialization between privileged (Go, with system call access) and unprivileged (V8) sides. However, Go was soon replaced with Rust due to concerns of double runtime and garbage collection pressure. Tokio was introduced in place of libuv as the asynchronous event-driven platform, and FlatBuffers was adopted for faster, "zero-copy" serialization and deserialization but later in August 2019, FlatBuffers was removed after publishing benchmarks that measured a significant overhead of serialization in April 2019.
A standard library, modeled after Go's standard library, was created in November 2018 to provide extensive tools and utilities, partially solving Node.js' dependency tree explosion problem.
The official Deno 1.0 was released on May 13, 2020.
Deno Deploy, inspired by Cloudflare Workers, was released on June 23, 2021. Announced May 4, 2022 Beta 4 improves the dashboard and adds billing functionality. General availability of Deno Deploy is eyed for the third quarter of 2022.
Deno Fresh 1.0 was announced June 28, 2022. It features a new full stack web framework for Deno that sends zero JavaScript to the client. The framework has no build step which allows for an order of magnitude improvements in deployments times. Version 1.1 was released September 8, 2022.
Deno SaaSKit beta was announced April 4, 2023. It is an open-source, modern SaaS template built with Fresh and Deno.
Overview
Deno aims to be a productive and secure scripting environment for the modern programmer. Similar to Node.js, Deno emphasizes event-driven architecture, providing a set of non-blocking core I/O utilities, along with their blocking versions. Deno could be used to create web servers, perform scientific computations, etc. Deno is open source software under the MIT License.
Comparison with Node.js
Deno and Node.js are both runtimes built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the same engine used in Google Chr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRNET | The Packet Radio Network (PRNET) was a set of early, experimental mobile ad hoc networks whose technologies evolved over time. It was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Major participants in the project included BBN Technologies, Hazeltine Corporation, Rockwell International's Collins division, and SRI International.
History
ARPA initiated the PRNET project in 1973, funding both theoretical and experimental research. Its goals were outlined in a 1975 paper by Bob Kahn, namely, to investigate the feasibility of using packet-switched, store-and-forward radio communications to provide reliable computer communications in a mobile environment. The earlier ALOHAnet served as an inspiration, but PRNET tackled a significantly harder set of problems, namely, multi-hop communications between mobile vehicles without a central station. In Kahn's initial conception, the overall system design was "predicated upon the existence of an array of low cost repeaters", where he defines the term to mean "a particular kind of packet radio which is equipped to retransmit by radio some or all packets which it receives by radio". In today's terminology, this might be called a router or a packet switch, rather than a radio repeater.
The first PRNET was established under the auspices of SRI in the San Francisco Bay Area, with BBN contributing network technology and Collins creating the Experimental Packet Radios (EPRs), which implemented L-band spread-spectrum waveforms and supported half-duplex communications at 100 or 400 kilobits/second. There was also a smaller network at BBN, for software development and testing. The first packet radios were delivered in mid-1975 for initial testing and a quasi-operational network capability was established for the first time in September 1976, shortly after the prototype networking software was developed. By 1977, this software included radio network routing control; a gateway to other networks; network measurement; debugging tools; and configuration tools.
PRNET was sufficiently advanced by 1977 to participate in the initial three-way internetworking demonstration, which linked a mobile vehicle in PRNET with nodes in the ARPANET, and via SATNET, to nodes in London run by Peter Kirstein's research group at University College London. Afterwards, it was usually attached to the ARPANET so that BBN software developers could access and update it from Cambridge. By June 1978, about 25 radio nodes were available.
By September 1979, "Ron [Kunzelman] reported that SRI is now operating two PRNETs in the San Francisco bay area, and one PRNET at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. The net at Ft. Bragg is now eight terminals on two TIUs, and will grow to forty terminals."
The Experimental Packet Radios were later replaced by Upgraded Packet Radios (UPR), circa 1978, and in 1986 by Low-Cost Packet Radio (LPR) as part of DARPA's follow-on SURAN project.
See also
History of the Internet
References
Robert E. Kahn, "The organiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20Senior%20%28Polish%20TV%20series%29 | The Voice Senior is a Polish reality talent show premiered on December 7, 2019, on the TVP 2 television network. The Voice Senior is part of the international syndication The Voice and The Voice Kids based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands as The Voice of Holland, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. However, participation is only open for candidates of more than 60 years old.
Format
The show consists of four different phases: production auditions, blind auditions, the "sing-off", and the live finale. The production auditions are not filmed, and this is where contestants are selected to go to the blind auditions.
Blind auditions
The contestants sing during the blind audition while the chairs of the coaches are turned over. Each candidate has the chance to sing a song of their choice for about a minute and a half. Coaches can only choose the contestant on the basis of musicality and voice by pressing the button, causing their chairs to turn around and facing the artist. If two or more coaches want the same artist, the artist chooses which coach they want to continue in the program. The blind auditions end when all teams are full.
Semifinal
Each coach pairs two or three singers from his team who have to compete against each other by performing a song chosen by the coach. After the performances, the coach chooses one contestant from each pair to advance to the next round.
Live finale
The remaining contestants from each team will be in the final. The live finale will be broadcast live on TVP 2. The contestants are mentored by their coach and choose a song that they want to sing in the final. The coach then decides one act to remain; the other act will then be eliminated. The final winner is chosen by the public at home by televoting.
Coaches
On 19 July 2019, it was announced that Marek Piekarczyk, Urszula Dudziak, Alicja Majewska and Andrzej Piaseczny would become coaches for the show's first season, with Tomasz Kammel joining Marta Manowska to be hosts. On 17 August 2020, it was announced that Majewska and Piaseczny would return as coaches for season two, while new coaches Izabela Trojanowska and Witold Paszt would replace Piekarczyk and Dudziak. On 18 August 2021, it was announced that Majewska and Paszt would return as coaches alongside new coaches Piotr Cugowski and Maryla Rodowicz for the third season. On 16 August 2022, it was announced that Rodowicz and Cugowski would return as coaches, while Paszt and Majewska would be replaced by Alicja Węgorzewska and Tomasz Szczepanik in season four. On 15 August 15, 2023, it was confirmed that Rodowicz, Szczepanik and Węgorzewska would return as coaches in the fifth season, joined by Halina Frąckowiak, who replaced Cugowski.
Timeline
Gallery
Line-up of coaches
Hosts
Key
Main presenter
Backstage presenter
Timeline
Coaches and finalists
Season summary
Warning: the following table presents a significant amount of different colors.
Season 1 (2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kioxia | Kioxia Holdings Corporation (), simply known as Kioxia and stylized as KIOXIA, is a Japanese multinational computer memory manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company was spun off from the Toshiba conglomerate as in June 2018. It became a wholly owned subsidiary company of Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation on March 1, 2019, and was renamed Kioxia in October 2019. In the early 1980s, while still part of Toshiba, the company was credited with inventing flash memory. In the second quarter of 2021, the company was estimated to have 18.3% of the global revenue share for NAND flash solid-state drives. The company is the parent company of Kioxia Corporation.
Name
Kioxia is a combination of the Japanese word kioku meaning memory and the Greek word axia meaning value.
History
In 1980, Fujio Masuoka, an engineer at Kioxia predecessor Toshiba, invented flash memory, and in 1984, Masuoka and his colleagues presented their invention of NOR flash.
In January 2014, the Toshiba Corporation completed its acquisition of OCZ Storage Solutions, renaming it OCZ and making it a brand of Toshiba.
On June 1, 2018, due to heavy losses experienced by the bankruptcy of the Westinghouse subsidiary of former parent company Toshiba over nuclear power plant construction at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in 2016, Toshiba Memory Corporation was spun off from the Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba maintained a 40.2% equity in the new company. The new company consisted of all of Toshiba memory businesses. Toshiba Memory Corporation became a subsidiary of the newly formed Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation on March 1, 2019.
In June 2019, Kioxia experienced a power cut at one of its factories in Yokkaichi, Japan, resulting in the loss of at least 6 exabytes of flash memory, with some sources estimating the loss as high as 15 exabytes. Western Digital used (and still uses) Kioxia's facilities for making its own flash memory chips.
On July 18, 2019, Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation announced it would change its name to Kioxia on October 1, 2019, including all Toshiba memory companies. On October 1, 2019, Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation was renamed Kioxia Holdings Corporation and Toshiba Memory Corporation was renamed Kioxia Corporation. This renaming also included companies associated with Toshiba's solid-state drive brand OCZ.
On August 30, 2019, Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation, not yet renamed Kioxia, announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Lite-On's SSD business for . The acquisition closed on July 1, 2020.
In February 2022, Kioxia and Western Digital reported that contamination issues have affected the output of their flash memory joint-production factories, with WD admitting that at least 6.5 exabytes of memory output being affected. The Kiakami and Yokkaichi factories in Japan stopped producing due to the contamination.
In April 2022, Kioxia announced they will be donating million (US$790,00 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha%20Punjabi | Maha Punjabi is a Punjabi music & movies channel launched on 1st of march, 2019. It is Free-to-air channel launched by Teleone Consumers Products which is part of DV Group.
Programming
Bhotu Da Vehra
Dhansu Beats
Swag Punjab Da
Vardaat
Daawat By Chef
Bhotu De Vehra HD
Dhansu Beats HD
References
Coming soon
HD version coming soon
Television stations in India
Music television channels in India
Video quality
HD version coming soon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2019 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 95th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 17, 2019, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network. Ridden by jockey Javier Castellano, Point of Honor won the race by a half length over runner-up Ulele. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:40 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club supplied a purse of $250,000 for the 95th running. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:51.87. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day record attendance of 51,573. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was a record crowd for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day and the fifth largest for a thoroughbred race in North America in 2019.
Payout
The 95th Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (8–3) paid $ 71.20
$1 Trifecta: (8–3–4) paid $ 210.30
$1 Superfecta: (8–3–4-78) paid $ 678.20
The full chart
Winning Breeder: Sienna Farms, LLC; (KY)
Final Time: 1:47.88
Track Condition: Fast
Total Attendance: Record of 51,573
See also
2019 Preakness Stakes
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Stakes "top three finishers" and # of starters
References
External links
Official Black-Eyed Susan Stakes website
Official Preakness website
2019 in horse racing
Horse races in Maryland
2019 in American sports
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
2019 in sports in Maryland
May 2019 sports events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20sonification | Data sonification is the presentation of data as sound using sonification. It is the auditory equivalent of the more established practice of data visualization.
The usual process for data sonification is directing digital media of a dataset through a software synthesizer and into a digital-to-analog converter to produce sound for humans to experience.
Applications of data sonification include astronomy studies of star creation, interpreting cluster analysis, and geoscience.
Various projects describe the production of sonifications as a collaboration between scientists and musicians.
A target demographic for using data sonification is the blind community because of the inaccessibility of data visualizations.
References
Further media
External links
Sounds of the Sea at NASA.gov
Data
Data visualization
Augmentative and alternative communication
Assistive technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20in%20Rio%20Grande%20do%20Sul%20by%20HDI | This is a list of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul ordered by Human Development Index (HDI) according to data released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) of the United Nations for the 2010. The Human Development Index was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and the Indian economist Amartya Sen.
Criteria
Categories
The index varies from 0 to 1, considering:
Very high – 0.800 to 1.000
High – 0.700 to 0.799
Medium – 0.600 to 0.699
Low – 0.500 to 0.599
Very low – 0.000 to 0.499
Components
The HDI of the municipalities is an average between the income index, life expectancy index and educational index.
List
References
See also
Geography of Brazil
List of cities in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%203%20%28Mauritian%20TV%20channel%29 | MBC Digital 3 is a Mauritian free-to-air television channel owned by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation and launched in March 1996. Its programming consists of news and cultural TV programmes Not To Be Confused With The Middle Eastern Channel Of The Same Name
See also
Kids Channel (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 1 (Mauritian TV channel)
MBC 2 (Mauritian TV channel)
BTV (Mauritius)
List of Shows Broadcast by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
References
External links
Official Schedule,^ Official MBC Digital 3 Website.
Television channels in Mauritius
Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20cyberattacks%20on%20Sri%20Lanka | The 2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of powerful cyberattacks on at least 10 Sri Lankan domestic websites with the public domains of .lk and .com. The cyberattack is speculated to have been conducted on 18 and 19 May 2019, the day following the Vesak festival and amid the persistent temporary social media ban in the country. The website of the Kuwaiti Embassy operating in Sri Lanka was also affected by the cyberattacks. The investigations are currently carried out by Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team along with Sri Lanka Signals Corps.
Background
Sri Lanka, an island nation located in South Asia, has experienced its share of socio-political challenges over the years, including ethnic conflicts and political instability. In this context, cybersecurity emerged as a critical concern for the country's stability and national security.
As Sri Lanka embraced digitalization, recognizing the potential rise in cybersecurity threats and the rapid expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, the nation took proactive steps. The Sri Lanka Coordination Centre (CERT|CC) was established as the country's official National CERT under the auspices of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka. This institution's primary mission was to fortify Sri Lanka's resilience against emerging cyber threats and to adapt to the changing cybersecurity landscape.
As noted by Sri Lanka CERT, the nation has a documented history of prior cyber incidents. This history includes a range of incidents reported to Sri Lanka CERT during the year 2016, as detailed in the APCert report of 2016. This historical context may serve as a noteworthy indicator of the potential for future significant cyberattacks, such as the 2019 cyberattack.
The Event
In May 2019, Colombo experienced a series of cyberattacks that targeted multiple Sri Lankan websites, including those with the .lk and .com domains. Notably, the cyberattacks extended beyond national borders to affect a foreign embassy located in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) reported that among the victims of these cyberattacks were the websites of the Kuwait Embassy in Colombo, the Tea Research Institute in Talawakelle, The Rajarata University in Mihintale, and 10 private institutions. SLCERT, along with TechCERT and the Cyber Operations Center operating under the Ministry of Defence, is actively engaged in ongoing investigations to ascertain the nature and origins of these attacks.
After the incident the CEO of SLCERT, Dileepa Lathsara, revealed that several of the targeted websites have already been restored to their previous states. These cyberattacks were particularly impactful on websites that possessed minimal cybersecurity safeguards, highlighting the importance of enhanced cybersecurity measures. SLCERT emphasizes the need for the general public to prioritize the security of their websites to prevent future incidents.
References
Hacking in the 2010s
2019 in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkBook | ThinkBook is a line of business-oriented laptop computers and tablets designed, developed and marketed by Lenovo.
The ThinkBook line is marketed towards small business users and gets the same market position as Lenovo's ThinkPad E series. The ThinkBook does not have a TrackPoint, physical touchpad buttons, and has a simplified keyboard layout. However, the ThinkBook has an aluminum case (instead of a plastic Thinkpad E case).
13s and 14s
The first product lineup launched in 2019 with the ThinkBook 13s and 14s. Both laptops include TPM 2.0 security chips, fingerprint readers, webcam shutters similar to those on ThinkPads, and dedicated buttons for Skype. They support 8th Generation Intel Core processors, AMD Radeon 540X graphics, M.2 SSD storage, USB-C Docks, and run Windows 10 Pro. The ThinkBook 13s has a 13-inch screen and the 14s has a 14-inch screen.
See also
Lenovo IdeaPad
IBM/Lenovo ThinkCentre
IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad
HP ProBook
Dell Vostro
References
External links
Official Lenovo ThinkBook website
Think
Consumer electronics brands
Computer-related introductions in 2019
Products introduced in 2019
Business laptops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secrets%20She%20Keeps | The Secrets She Keeps is an Australian psychological thriller drama television series that officially premiered on Network 10 on 22 April 2020 at 8:45 pm. The series is written by Sarah Walker and Jonathan Gavin, based on the psychological thriller novel by Michael Robotham.
The first season was given a special release on 10 Play on 4 April 2020 as a part of the streaming website's "10 shows in 10 days" promotion during the COVID-19 pandemic. A second season premiered on streaming service Paramount+ on 12 July 2022.
Premise
The series is set in Sydney and is about two women from vastly different backgrounds with explosive secrets that could destroy everything they hold dear.
Cast
Laura Carmichael as Agatha Fyfle
Jessica De Gouw as Meghan Shaughnessy
Michael Dorman (season 1) and Todd Lasance (season 2) as Jack Shaughnessy
Ryan Corr as Simon Beecher
Michael Sheasby as Hayden Cole
Cariba Heine as Grace
Jenni Baird as Rhea Bowden
Elizabeth Alexander as Renee Cole
Hazem Shammas as Cyrus Haven
Mansoor Noor as Jeremy Clay
Eva Greenwood as Lucy Shaughnessy
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
Season 2 (2022)
International broadcast
In Ireland, the series was broadcast on RTÉ One from 9 June 2020 and made available to stream on RTÉ Player. Season 2 was broadcast from 2 August 2022 on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.
In the United Kingdom, the series is broadcast through the BBC. The first season was allocated a primetime slot on BBC One in July 2020, and all episodes were concurrently available on BBC iPlayer.
The show screens on streaming service Sundance Now in the United States.
References
External links
– official site
The Secrets She Keeps production site at Lingo Pictures
2020 Australian television series debuts
2020s Australian drama television series
2022 Australian television series endings
APRA Award winners
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
Paramount+ original programming
Television shows based on books
Television shows set in New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizia%20Mealli | Fabrizia Mealli (born 22 July 1966) is an Italian statistician at the University of Florence, known for her research on causal inference, missing data, and the statistics of employment. In 2013 she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Mealli earned a laurea in economics from the University of Florence in 1990, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics at the same university in 1994.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Leicester she returned to Florence as a faculty member in statistics.
References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
Italian statisticians
Women statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2018%29 | The eighteenth season of American Idol premiered on February 16, 2020, on the ABC television network. Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie returned as judges, while Ryan Seacrest continued as host. Bobby Bones returned as the in-house mentor.
Taping was suspended after the top 19 were revealed and the contestants were sent home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed production in late April, with the on-air talent and contestants filming from their homes. The stay-at-home and social-distancing mandates, according to Billboard, compelled producers "to get very, very creative this time around to keep season 18 afloat amid the most challenging conditions in show history." Up to forty-five remote sites were used and each contestant was treated equally, with access to similar equipment and resources. Segments were usually taped a day in advance, except for the judges' critiques and voting results, which aired live.
On May 17, 2020, Just Sam was crowned as the winner, with Arthur Gunn finishing as the runner-up.
Regional auditions
Hollywood week
Hollywood week was filmed December 2–5, 2019, at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. There were several changes in format this season. In the first round, each contestant chose and performed a song from a selection of musical genres (pop, rock, R&B, soul, country, or singer-songwriter). Those who impressed the judges and the producers were advanced to the next round. Instead of group performances as had been done in previous seasons, contestants paired up and performed duets. They were given twelve hours to rehearse, which included a session with a vocal coach and a stage rehearsal. Judges could advance either, neither, or both of the contestants to the next round, where they performed their final solos before advancing to the Showcase round.
Showcase round
The Showcase round aired on March 29 and April 5, and featured the top 40 performing for the judges and a live audience at Disney's Aulani resort in Kapolei, Hawaii. The following day, the judges narrowed the number of contestants down from 40 to 20. The following is a list of the first nineteen contestants who reached the top 20 and the song they performed at the Showcase. For the twentieth and final spot, Grace Leer and Lauren Mascetti's result was determined by a vote from the public, which was revealed on April 19. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Finals
After a short hiatus, production resumed and all contestants performed remotely due to safety measures in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, Ryan Seacrest and the judges were also broadcast from their homes.
Color key:
Top 20 (April 26)
The ten contestants who received the most votes continued on, while the judges were granted a one-time judges' save, which they used to save Makayla Phillips from elimination. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 11 (May 3)
Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 7 – Disney & Moth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Delaney%20Mayer | David Delaney Mayer (born 1992) is an American documentary filmmaker and social entrepreneur. Mayer produced/directed the PBS special limited series, "Food Town," as well as Complex Network's "Road to Raceday." Mayer is the co-founder of DreamxAmerica, a Harvard Innovation Lab-based social enterprise joining filmmaking and impact investing to highlight and support immigrant entrepreneurs.
A former Duke University men's basketball player under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, Mayer quit the team after his first year to pursue film. He graduated with a focus in documentary filmmaking, where he was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies’ Julia Harper Day Award and Benenson Award in the Arts.
Honor
In December 2019, Mayer was named as one of Forbes' 30 under 30 in Law and Policy.
References
1992 births
Living people
American documentary filmmakers
Social entrepreneurs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus%20cuspidata | Eucalyptus cuspidata is a species of small, spreading mallee that is native to the south-west of Western Australia.
It was first formally described in 1849 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the journal, Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. In 1867, George Bentham listed it in Flora Australiensis as a synonym of Eucalyptus incrassata var. angulosa occurring in Western Australia as did Joseph Maiden in A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. In 1988, George Chippendale listed it in Flora of Australia as a synonym of Eucalyptus angulosa. Nevertheless, it is an accepted name by the Australian Plant Census.
It grows on plains and on the edges of seasonal swamps in the Esperance Plains biogeographic region.
Conservation status
Eucalyptus cuspidata is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
See also
List of Eucalyptus species
References
Eucalypts of Western Australia
cuspidata
Myrtales of Australia
Mallees (habit)
Plants described in 1849
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Life%20%28African%20TV%20channel%29 | Star Life Africa is an English Bollywood channel launched by Disney Star, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India on 27 August 2018. The channel showcases programming from the Star India library including series, films, and variety programming. It broadcasts in both English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Programming
Star Life airs series daily from 6pm to 12am. Reruns of older shows air every weekday from 3pm to 6pm. Bollywood movies are broadcast weekends. Every month, a new movie is telecasted.
Current Programming
Availability
The channel is available on OpenView,DStv, GOtv and StarTimes.
Sister Channel
Star Select is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel launched by Disney Star, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India on 06 April 2023. The channel showcases programming from Star India including series, films, and variety programming. It broadcasts in Hindi with English subtitles. It's available only on South Africa's pay-tv Ultraview under the Spice Bouquet.
Current Broadcasts
May I Come In Madam?
Dill Mill Gayye
Amrit Manthan
Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara
Banni Chow Home Delivery
Kya Qusoor Hai Amala Ka?
Dil Se Di Dua...Saubhagyavati Bhava?
Chashni
Ajooni
Former Broadcasts
Bohot Pyaar Karte Hai
Swayamvar - Mika Di Vohti
References
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Disney television networks
Television in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery%20Singer | Avery Singer (born 1987) is an American artist known for creating digitally assisted paintings created through 3D modeling software and computer-controlled airbrushing.
Early life and education
Singer was born to artists Janet Kusmierski and Greg Singer. She graduated from Cooper Union in 2010. She has since been working out of studios in the Bronx and later in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Work
In her work, Singer uses architectural, automation and other modelling software (and an animation specialist) to create the backdrop before then airbrushing layers of images using a computer-controlled printer that was designed to transfer logos on to trucks and aeroplanes. The images she uses are oftentimes culled from Internet image searches based in genres and trends inherited from the history of art. She has cited Charline von Heyl as a source of inspiration. In her earlier work, she primarily used a narrow palette of black, white, and grays; only later she started using color.
Exhibitions
In 2016, curator Beatrix Ruf presented Singer's first European museum solo at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, showing works from 2012 onwards. It was also the first time her work could be seen in the Netherlands. Singer presented the big installation that was so impressive during her exhibition ‘Statements’ in Art Basel in 2015. Since then it is part of the Stedelijk Museum's collection.
She is an applicant for the dearMoon project.
Collections
Singer's paintings are in the public collections of the Museum Ludwig, Stedelijk Museum, The Whitney Museum, the Hammer Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017, her Google SketchUp–inspired Anxiety Painting (2014) became her first work to enter the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Recognition
In 2017, Singer won the annual Prix Jean-François Prat.
Art market
Singer is represented by Hauser & Wirth (since 2020) and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. From 2017 until 2020, she worked with Gavin Brown's Enterprise.
In 2021, Singer's Untitled (Tuesday) (2017) sold for HKD 35 million ($4.5 million) at Christie’s in Hong Kong.
References
Further reading
External links
1987 births
21st-century American painters
Living people
American conceptual artists
American digital artists
Painters from New York City
American contemporary painters
21st-century American women painters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2019–20 daytime network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 2019 to August 2020. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series; no new series or series canceled after the 2018–19 season are included at present, as the daytime schedules of the four major networks that offer morning and/or afternoon programming is expected to remain consistent with the prior television season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Fox does not offer daytime network programming nor network news on weekdays; as such, schedules are only included for Saturdays and Sundays. Also not included are MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20art | Climate change art is art inspired by climate change and global warming, generally intended to overcome humans' hardwired tendency to value personal experience over data and to disengage from data-based representations by making the data "vivid and accessible". One of the goal of climate change art is to "raise awareness of the crisis", as well as engage viewers politically and environmentally.
Some climate change art involves community involvement with the environment. Other approaches involve revealing socio-political concerns through their various artistic forms, such as painting, video, photography, sound and films. These works are intended to encourage viewers to reflect on their daily actions "in a socially responsible manner to preserve and protect the planet".
Climate change art is created both by scientists and by non-scientist artists. The field overlaps with data art.
History
The Guardian reported that in response to a backlash in the 1990s against fossil fuels and nuclear plants, major energy companies stepped up their philanthropic giving, including to arts organizations, "to a point where many major national institutions were on the payroll of the fossil fuel giants," effectively silencing many environmentally-focused artists.
In 2005 Bill McKibben wrote an article, What the Warming World Needs Now Is Art, Sweet Art that argued that "An intellectual understanding of the scientific facts was not enough – if we wanted to move forward and effect meaningful change, we needed to engage the other side of our brains. We needed to approach the problem with our imagination. And the people best suited to help us do that, he believed, were the artists." According to climate change in the arts organization The Arctic Cycle, "It took some time for artists to heed the call."
In 2009 The Guardian reported that the art world was "waking up to climate-change art." Reporting on the 2020 We Make Tomorrow conference on climate change and the arts in London, Artnet News commented that "instead of being seduced by sponsorships from deep-pocketed organizations invested in the fossil-fuel industry, institutions should look for new funding models."
Effects and influence
Representation and interpretation
According to Artnet News, climate change can be represented meaningfully through art because "Art has a way of getting ahead of the general discourse because it can convey information in novel ways." Climate change artworks differ in how they are interpreted by and how they impact the viewer. Laura Kim Sommer and Christian Andreas Klöckner (both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology) conducted a survey of attendees of the Parisian art festival ArtCOP21 in 2015 (that was held at the same time as the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference) regarding 37 artworks within the festival. The responses led Sommer and Klöckner's research to develop four characterizations of the works of art in terms of their content and the response |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Liberal%20Women | The International Network of Liberal Women (INLW) is an association of women from around the world who support liberal values, which they define as "Individual freedom, human rights, the rule of law, tolerance, equality of opportunity, social justice, free trade and market economy." It is a member of Liberal International.
INLW's aims include empowering women and expanding their participation in politics. INLW sends consultants to conferences such as the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats, and the Istanbul Convention to provide expertise on issues such as discrimination and violence against women. Chapters include the Netherlands, Morocco, West Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
History
INLW was founded in 1990 at the Congress of Liberal International (LI) in Helsinki by a group of women representing Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Barbro Westerholm, a member of the Swedish parliament, was the group's first Coordinator.
Leadership
At the General Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, on November 28, 2018, the following leaders were elected: Jayanthi Devi Balaguru of Malaysia, President; Khadija El Morabit of Morocco, Deputy President; Lysbeth van Valkenburg, Treasurer; and several regional vice presidents including Sal Brinton (Europe), Maysing Yang (Asia), Loubna Amhair (MENA), Awa Gueye Kebe (Africa), and Patricia Olamendi (Latin America). Leticia Gutíerrez and Ruth Richardson were appointed to the board. The group also created a Consultative Committee with members from Spain, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the Ivory Coast.
INLW patrons include Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, former president of Liberation International; Beatrice Rangoni Machiavelli of the Italian Liberal Party; Lorna Marsden, Canadian politician and academic; Annette Lu, former vice president of Taiwan; Kandia Camara, Minister of Education for the Ivory Coast; and Hakima El Haité, former INLW vice president and environmental minister of Morocco.
See also
Yabloko, Russian women's rights organization and INLW member
Fouzia El Bayed, Moroccan politician and first president of the Moroccan chapter of INLW
References
Organizations established in 1990
International women's organizations
International nongovernmental organizations
Liberal International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao%20Mao%3A%20Heroes%20of%20Pure%20Heart | Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart is an American animated television series created by Parker Simmons for Cartoon Network. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Titmouse, it premiered on July 1, 2019. The show is based on the independent teaser short I Love You Mao Mao, which Simmons had initially produced for the annual Titmouse Inc. "5-Second Day" on February 21, 2014 and subsequently posted on Newgrounds. The series was renewed for a second season on July 23, 2020.
On January 1, 2021, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart was added to the HBO Max streaming service. On August 18, 2022, it was removed from the service as a result of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger despite the second season renewal. Cartoon Network subsequently removed all references to the show from their official websites, YouTube channels, and Twitter feeds. On October 14, Cartoon Network restored videos of the show to their YouTube channel and references to the show on their Twitter.
Plot
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart centers on its coming-of-age story, with the title character, Mao Mao, a daring cat who has high intentions for action and adventure. During one of his adventures, he gets stuck in a cute and cuddly town called Pure Heart Valley with his co-hero Badgerclops, a cyborg-armed badger, and meets Adorabat, a cute little bat. Together, the three go on adventures to protect their citizens of Pure Heart Valley from the forces of evil while they find a way to fix the Ruby Pure Heart to its original state.
Characters
Main characters
Mao Mao (full name Mao Mao Mao) (voiced by Parker Simmons), a righteous yet uptight cat who gets stuck in Pure Heart Valley where he spends time helping the citizens while also finding a way to fix the Ruby Pure Heart which he inadvertently broke in the first place.
Colleen Clinkenbeard voices a young Mao Mao.
Badgerclops (voiced by Griffith Kimmins), a sassy cyborg badger with a robotic arm and an eyepatch, and Mao Mao's co-hero and partner.
Adorabat (voiced by Lika Leong), a cute, blue, five-year-old bat with a yellow heart symbol and peg leg in place of her right leg.
Villains
Sky Pirates
Orangusnake (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), an orangutan-snake hybrid pirate captain who wants to steal the Ruby Pure Heart to take over the world. He is actually a criminal duo named Coby (snake) and Tanner (orangutan) who after a fateful encounter with Mao Mao and Bao Bao decided to combine themselves to become the greatest villain in the world.
Ramaraffe (voiced by Debra Wilson), a female cybernetic giraffe pirate with the ability to stretch her neck. She has been seen to be good at thinking of plans.
Boss Hosstrich (voiced by Christopher McCulloch), a cybernetic ostrich pirate with a southern accent and attire. He has the ability to shoot eggs from a cannon on his chest and is quite a gentleman. He got into a manners battle with King Snugglemagne.
Ratarang (voiced by Parker Simmons), a small rat pirate that can turn into a boomerang, who of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantinuum | Quantinuum is a quantum computing company formed by the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions. The company's H-Series trapped ion quantum computers set the highest quantum volume to date of 524,288. This architecture supports all-to-all qubit connectivity - allowing entangled states to be created between all qubits – and enables a high fidelity of quantum states.
Quantinuum has developed middleware and software products that run on trapped-ion and other quantum computing platforms for quantum chemistry, quantum machine learning and quantum artificial intelligence. The company also offers quantum-computing-hardened encryption keys designed to protect data assets and enhance cryptographic defenses.
History
Formed in 2021, Quantinuum is the combination of the quantum hardware team from Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS) and the quantum software team at Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC).
HQS was founded in 2014. The company used a trapped ion architecture for its quantum computing hardware, which Honeywell believed could be used to fulfill the needs of its various business units in aerospace, building technology, performance materials, safety and productivity solutions.
CQC was founded in 2014 as an independent quantum computing company through the University of Cambridge’s “Accelerate Cambridge” program. CQC focused on building tools for the commercialization of quantum technologies with a focus on quantum software and quantum cybersecurity. By coming together as Quantinuum, the company offers an integrated, end-to-end quantum platform.
Ilyas Khan, the founder of Cambridge Quantum and the founding Chairman of the Stephen Hawking Foundation and Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, was named the CEO of Quantinuum. Tony Uttley, formerly an operations manager at NASA and President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions, was named the President and Chief Operating Officer. In 2023, Quantinuum named Rajeeb “Raj” Hazra, formerly a corporate vice president and general manager at Intel, as the new CEO of Quantinuum. Hazra has over 30 years of experience working in supercomputing, quantum and other technical roles. Khan was named Chief Product Officer and Vice Chair of the board of directors.
Technology and Products
H-Series
When developing its H-Series quantum computers, Powered by Honeywell, Quantinuum chose a quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture as its path to scalable universal quantum computing because it allows for full connectivity between identical high-fidelity qubits (atomic ions).
Quantinuum launched its first generation of quantum computers with the System Model H1-1, a trapped-ion computer running on 12 qubits, in 2020.
In May 2023, Quantinuum launched the System Model H2, with a quantum volume of 65,536 (216), the largest on record at that time. The H2 achieved the largest GHZ state on record, the first demonstration of magic state distillation, and the first demonstration of the creation and control of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS | HarmonyOS (HMOS) () is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, TVs, smart watches, and other smart devices. It has a multikernel design with dual frameworks: the operating system selects suitable kernels from the abstraction layer in the case of devices that use diverse resources.
The operating system was officially launched by Huawei in August 2019.
Architecture
HarmonyOS is designed with a layered architecture, which consists of four layers; the kernel layer at the bottom provides the upper three layers, i.e., the system service layer, framework layer and application layer, with basic kernel capabilities, such as process and thread management, memory management, file system, network management, and peripheral management.
In the kernel layer, the system applies a multikernel design and selects an appropriate kernel for a device with different resource limitations. For wearables, screenless I/O devices and IoT devices, the system is based on real-time operating system LiteOS; while for smartphones and tablets, the system operates by utilizing a Linux kernel subsystem and executing the AOSP code with a modified EMUI user interface, enabling Android apps and HarmonyOS apps to run seamlessly through a compatibility layer in the userland outside the kernel.
The system includes a communication base called DSoftBus for integrating physically separate devices into a virtual Super Device, allowing one device to control others and sharing data among devices with distributed communication capabilities. To address security concerns arising from varying devices, the system provides a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to prevent leakage of sensitive personal data when they are stored or processed.
It supports several forms of apps, including the apps that can be installed from AppGallery on smartphones and tablets, installation-free Quick apps and lightweight Meta Services accessible by users.
History
Early development
Reports surrounding an in-house operating system being developed by Huawei date back as far as 2012. These reports intensified during the Sino-American trade war, after the United States Department of Commerce added Huawei to its Entity List in May 2019 under an indictment that it knowingly exported goods, technology and services of U.S. origin to Iran in violation of sanctions. This prohibited U.S.-based companies from doing business with Huawei without first obtaining a license from the government. Huawei executive described an in-house platform as a "plan B" in case it is prevented from using Android on future smartphone products due to the sanctions.
Prior to its unveiling, it was originally speculated to be a mobile operating system that could replace Android on future Huawei devices. In June 2019, an Huawei executive told Reuters that the OS was under testing in China, and could be ready "in months", but by July 2019, some Huawei executives described the OS as being an embed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20algorithm | A galactic algorithm is one that outperforms other algorithms for problems that are sufficiently large, but where "sufficiently large" is so big that the algorithm is never used in practice. Galactic algorithms were so named by Richard Lipton and Ken Regan, because they will never be used on any data sets on Earth.
Possible use cases
Even if they are never used in practice, galactic algorithms may still contribute to computer science:
An algorithm, even if impractical, may show new techniques that may eventually be used to create practical algorithms.
Available computational power may catch up to the crossover point, so that a previously impractical algorithm becomes practical.
An impractical algorithm can still demonstrate that conjectured bounds can be achieved, or that proposed bounds are wrong, and hence advance the theory of algorithms. As Lipton states: Similarly, a hypothetical large but polynomial algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem, although unusable in practice, would settle the P versus NP problem, considered the most important open problem in computer science and one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
Examples
Integer multiplication
An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers, which is based on a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform. It needs bit operations, but as the constants hidden by the big O notation are large, it is never used in practice. However, it also shows why galactic algorithms may still be useful. The authors state: "we are hopeful that with further refinements, the algorithm might become practical for numbers with merely billions or trillions of digits."
Matrix multiplication
The first improvement over brute-force matrix multiplication (which needs multiplications) was the Strassen algorithm: a recursive algorithm that needs multiplications. This algorithm is not galactic and is used in practice. Further extensions of this, using sophisticated group theory, are the Coppersmith–Winograd algorithm and its slightly better successors, needing multiplications. These are galactic – "We nevertheless stress that such improvements are only of theoretical interest, since the huge constants involved in the complexity of fast matrix multiplication usually make these algorithms impractical."
Communication channel capacity
Claude Shannon showed a simple but impractical code that could reach the capacity of a communication channel. It requires assigning a random code word to every possible -bit message, then decoding by finding the closest code word. If is chosen large enough, this beats any existing code and can get arbitrarily close to the capacity of the channel. Unfortunately, any big enough to beat existing codes is also completely impractical. These codes, though never used, inspired decades of research into more practical algorithms that today can achieve rates arbitrarily close to channel capacity.
Sub-graphs
The problem of deciding whether a graph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWKD-FM | DWKD (98.5 FM), broadcasting as 98.5 iFM, is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the 3rd Floor, OMA Bldg. Rizal Ave., Cauayan, Isabela.
References
External links
iFM Cauayan FB Page
iFM Cauayan Website
Radio stations in Isabela (province)
Radio stations established in 2017
IFM stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntegraXor | IntegraXor is a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine interface (HMI) software system developed by Ecava and first released in 2003.
Function
As a commercial web SCADA system, it is used by engineers as a tool to develop and customize web-based SCADA applications.
Security
Security researchers have found numerous vulnerabilities including a Zero Day vulnerability where major manufacturers and industrial companies in the UK, US and over 30 other countries are being urged to adopt a rapidly-released fix by IntegraXor. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) itself discovered vulnerabilities in IntegraXor.
In 2013, Ecava released the first known bug bounty program for ICS. However, they received a backlash for offering store credits instead of cash which does not incentivize security researchers.
References
External links
Industrial automation software
SCADA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20Progressive%20Telugu%20Association | America Progressive Telugu Association (, also referred to as APTA) is a non-profit organization primarily aimed at networking for Telugu people in United States of America. It is incorporated in Wichita, Kansas. APTA was founded in January 2008.
The association
This United States-based non profit Telugu association not only connects Telugu people of Indian origin but also provides scholarships to underprivileged merit students each year.
References
External links
APTA website
Gidestar Profile
Telugu society
Telugu organizations in North America
Telugu American
Non-profit organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%202110 | SMPTE 2110 is a suite of standards from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) that describes how to send digital media over an IP network.
SMPTE 2110 is intended to be used within broadcast production and distribution facilities where quality and flexibility are more important than bandwidth efficiency.
History
SMPTE 2110 was based on the TR-03 and TR-04 work published by the Video Services Forum on 12 November 2015. The first four parts of SMPTE 2110, -10, -20, -21 and -30, were published by SMPTE on 27 November 2017.
Standard
SMPTE 2110 is specified in several parts:
ST 2110-10 - System architecture and synchronization: essences, RTP, SDP and PTP
ST 2110-20 - Uncompressed video transport, based on SMPTE 2022-6
ST 2110-21 - Traffic shaping and network delivery timing
ST 2110-22 - Constant Bit-Rate Compressed Video transport
ST 2110-30 - Audio transport, based on AES67
ST 2110-31 - Transport of AES3 formatted audio
ST 2110-40 - Transport of ancillary data
ST 2110-43 - Transport of Timed Text Markup Language for captions and subtitles in systems conforming to SMPTE ST 2110-10.
ST 2110-10: System architecture and synchronization
There are several important features of ST 2110-10:
Individual audio, video and ancillary data tracks or clips are carried as separate individual streams. These streams are referred to as "essences", e.g., a 5.1 JPEG mp4 clip could have 9 essences: a video essence, 6 separate audio essences, and two closed caption essences, English and Chinese.
Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is used to transmit streaming essences.
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used to manage the connection and distribution of RTP streams including IP multicast one-to-many distribution.
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) provides global microsecond accuracy timing of all essences. Synchronization is based on SMPTE 2059.
ST 2110-20: Uncompressed video transport
SMPTE 2110-20 defines the key requirements for transporting uncompressed video essence and is built on the IETF , RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video.
ST 2110-21: Transmission timing
SMPTE 2110-21 defines three classes of devices based on their transmission timing behavior: NL (for Narrow Linear), N (for Narrow), and W (for Wide). NL senders transmit at a constant bit rate. N senders may suspend transmission during the vertical blanking interval. W senders are intended to support software implementations of 2110 and adhere to less rigorous transmission timing requirements. A type W receiver should be able to receive from any type of sender.
ST 2110-22: Constant bit-rate compressed video transport
SMPTE 2110-22 defines the key requirements for transporting compressed video essence. The compression standard needs to provide a constant bitrate, a defined RTP payload and low latency to satisfy the needs of Live production.
The majority of the SMPTE 2110-22 implementations uses the JPEG XS lightweight low latency compression standard created by the Joint |
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