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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday%20or%20One%20Day | Someday or One Day () is a Taiwanese TV drama released in 2019 directed by Huang Tien-jen (黃天仁), and stars Alice Ko, Greg Han, Patrick Shih and Kenny Yen. It was produced by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, Hualien Media International, and Three Phoenixes Production Co. Ltd. (三鳳製作), and received NT$22 million in subsidy from the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development.
The drama aired on CTV every Sunday at 10:00pm, from November 17, 2019, to February 16, 2020. After its finale, Someday or One Day was screened on Star Chinese Channel every other Saturday, with behind-the-scenes footage titled "想見你 不見不散" (lit. 'Wanting to see you - don't leave until we see each other') following each episode.
A theatrical version of the series (which serves as a semi-continuation and adaptation) was released in 2022.
Premise
After the death of her boyfriend, Wang Chuan-sheng (Greg Hsu), Huang Yu-hsuan (Ko Chia-yen) misses and longs to see her deceased boyfriend. Out of grief, Yu-hsuan frequently sends him text messages, hoping that he will somehow receive them.
One day, Yu-hsuan receives a parcel containing an old-school Walkman portable cassette player and a cassette tape of Wu Bai's album The End of Love. While listening to the tape on a bus, she falls asleep. Upon awaking, she discovers she has been transported to 1998, and has taken over the body of a high school girl named Chen Yun-ru. The night before, Chen Yun-ru had been hit by a car. When Yu-hsuan regains consciousness in Yun-ru's body, she sees a boy beside her hospital bed, who looks exactly the same as her late boyfriend. At first, Yu-hsuan believes she has been reunited with Chuan-sheng, but she learns things are not how they appear.
Trapped in living another person's life, Yu-hsuan tries to rewrite Yun-ru's fate. As she plays with destiny, Yu-hsuan learns about Yun-ru's "mysterious traffic accident".
Cast
Main cast
Ko Chia-yen (柯佳嬿) as Huang Yu-hsuan (黃雨萱) / Chen Yun-ru (陳韻如)
Greg Hsu (許光漢) as Wang Chuan-sheng (王詮勝) / Li Zi-wei (李子維)
Patrick Shih (施柏宇) as Mo Jun-jie (莫俊傑)
Yen Yu-lin (顏毓麟) as Hsieh Chih-chi (謝芝齊) / Hsieh Tsung-ju (謝宗儒)
Other cast
Yen Yi-wen (嚴藝文) as Wu Ying-chan (吳瑛嬋)
Lin Ho-hsuan (林鶴軒) as Chen Si-yuan (陳思源)
Chang Han (張翰) as Wu Wen-lei (吳文磊)
Da-Wen (大文) as Kun-Bu (昆布)
Da-Fei (大飛) as A-Tsai (陳財裕 / 阿財)
Zhang Kuang-chen (章廣辰) as A-Tuo (阿脫)
Lin Zi-shan (林子珊) as Hsiao Dai (小黛)
Special appearance
Chan Jia-huei (張家慧) as Madam Na (娜姐)
Joanne Tseng as Ms. Sunny (Sunny老師)
Dewi Chien as Vicky
Prince Chiu as Yan Li-zheng (顏力正)
Bokeh Kosang as Instructor
Erato Liang (梁洳瑄) as Tsai Wen-jou (蔡雯柔)
Scott Yang (楊翹碩) as Chang Chi-en (張奇恩)
A-Han (阿翰) as Lin-Yue (澟月)
Ma Hui-zhen (馬惠珍) as Grandma Mo (莫奶奶)
Any.C (Any安偉) as A-Nan (阿南)
Zhu Zhi-ying (朱芷瑩) as Yang Bi-yun (楊碧雲)
Simon Lian as A-Zhe (阿哲)
Alien Huang as Du Chi-min (杜齊閔)
Production
Background and creation
Screenwriters Chien Chi-feng and Lin Hsin-hui were nominated for "Best Writing for a Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian%E2%80%93Mediterranean%20Corridor | The Scandinavian–Mediterranean Corridor, shortened as Scan–Med Corridor and known also as Helsinki–Valletta Corridor, is the 5th of 10 priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network.
Description
The Scan–Med Corridor is the longest of the nine TEN-T Core Network Corridors, it develops its network from the Seine to the Danube on the following three axes and through the following European cities (see route in magenta on the official TEN-T map published on the European Union website visible below in the note).
Helsinki – Turku – Stockholm – Malmö – København – Fehmarn – Hamburg – Hannover
Bremen – Hannover – Kassel – Würzburg – Nürnberg – München – Innsbruck – Brenner – Bozen (Bolzano) – Trento – Verona – Bologna – Rome – Naples – Bari
Naples – Strait of Messina Bridge – Palermo – Valletta
Latest news
On 18 May 2021 the European Commission in an answer to a written question from a parliamentarian, confirmed that the Messina Bridge (the connection between Sicily and the Italian mainland) is of fundamental importance to the objective of the Green Deal since it guarantees connectivity and accessibility of all European regions is at the heart of the TEN-T policy. However, it is up to the Italian State to contract out the work, for which some EU programs could contribute under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework.
See also
Berlin–Palermo railway axis
Strait of Messina Bridge
Notes
References
External links
Scandinavian–Mediterranean Corridor
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors
Strait of Messina Bridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covilh%C3%A3%20Data%20Center | The Covilhã Data Center is one of the biggest data centers in the world and the biggest in Portugal. It's part of the Altice Portugal data centers.
See also
Altice
Altice Portugal
References
Altice Portugal
Data centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%20Temple%20of%20Omaha | Hindu Temple of Omaha is a Hindu Temple in Omaha and serves the Hindu population of the Omaha Metropolitan Area. Many members of the Hindu Temple of Omaha are in Medical, Engineering and Computer Science fields within the Omaha area. Several members are also students studying at University of Nebraska and Creighton University. 98% of the member population is of Indian descent with the remaining 2% being Nepalese.
History
Starting in the 1970s, Hindus started immigrating to Nebraska to be students at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Omaha to work in Engineering and Medical Fields. The demand for an area to worship, resulted in informal gatherings in homes or rented rooms at convention centers. In 1993, The Hindu Temple of Omaha was created after an Italian restaurant was bought in West Omaha and work began on renovating it and redesigning it to serve as a Permanent Hindu Temple. On August 30, 2004, The temple was finished and a Pran Pristhista ceremony was held. In 2012, HT Omaha held a prayer for the victims of the 2012 Sikh Temple Shooting with dozens in attendance.
Design
After buying the abandoned Italian restaurant, the Hindu Temple hired 11 Indian sculptors to sculpt the exterior of the Hindu Temple. The total renovation and sculpting costs of the temple amounted to $1.2 Million. The temple has several pillars each adorned with a Hindu Deity. The Temple has an inner main Sanctrum that has a 2.5 Ton statue of Ganesha. The Temple also has a cafeteria, library, classroom, rooms for yoga and a prayer hall. The temple also has Sunday school classes and a youth group.
Charity
Hindu Temple of Omaha has engaged in many notable charity acts such as raising $35,000 for earthquake victims in 2001 Gujarat earthquake. HT, Omaha also engages in holding an annual health fair to raise awareness of AIDS. The temple also attends several interfaith dialogues in Omaha, educating people about Hinduism and allows world religion classes to visit the temple regularly. In 2019, the Hindu Temple held a luncheon to fundraise $54,000 for the Mississippi River Floods of 2019 and presented the check to Governor Ricketts in a ceremony held at the Hindu Temple.
References
Buildings and structures in Douglas County, Nebraska
Hinduism in the United States
Religious buildings and structures completed in 2004
2004 establishments in Nebraska
Religious organizations established in 1993
Indian-American culture in Nebraska
Asian-American culture in Nebraska
21st-century Hindu temples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunel%20station | Lunel station (French: Gare de Lunel) is a French railway station in Lunel, Occitanie, southern France. Within the TER Occitanie network, it is served by line 6 (Narbonne–Marseille), 21 (Narbonne–Avignon), and 22 (Portbou–Avignon).
References
Railway stations in Hérault
Railway stations in France opened in 1845 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cowboy%20Channel%20Canada | The Cowboy Channel Canada is a Canadian English language licence-exempted specialty channel broadcasting programming dedicated to western sports and the western lifestyle airing programs such as rodeo, bull riding, team roping, reining, barrel racing, and other western sports genres, along with western fashion, music, and movies. The channel is owned by Ryan Kohler through Wild TV Inc.
History
The channel launched on February 1, 2020 on Shaw Direct television systems in high definition through a partnership with Rural Media Group, licensing the brand and majority of its content from its American counterpart, The Cowboy Channel.
References
External links
The Cowboy Channel Canada website
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
HD-only channels
2020 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFD-TV%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | RFD-TV Canada is a Canadian English language licence-exempted Category B specialty channel broadcasting programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and the rural lifestyles, along with traditional country music and entertainment. The channel is owned by Ryan Kohler through Wild TV Inc.
History
The channel launched on February 1, 2020 on Shaw Direct television systems in high definition through a partnership with Rural Media Group, licensing the brand and majority of its content from its U.S. counterpart, RFD-TV.
References
External links
RFD-TV Canada website
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
2020 establishments in Canada
Agricultural television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Westervelt | Amy Westervelt (born 1978) is an American environmental print and radio journalist. She is the founder of the podcast network Critical Frequency and hosts the popular podcast Drilled, which has been downloaded more than a million times. She is also co-host of the podcast Hot Take, along with climate writer Mary Annaïse Heglar, on the Critical Frequency podcast network. She has contributed to The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The New York Times, Huffington Post and Popular Science. Westervelt won an Edward R. Murrow Award as lead reporter for a series on the impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada, aired on Reno Public Radio in 2017.
Personal life
Amy Westervelt was born in 1978. She lives in Truckee, California. She has talked about her upbringing in interviews, particularly about her brother. "I have a brother who is a quadriplegic. And he's totally just a guy. He tells bad dirty jokes, and he's mean sometimes. He's human. There's a tendency to put people who struggle on a pedestal, because we don't know what category to place them in. But the reality is they're normal, like everyone else," she told Werk in 2017.
Career
Print journalism
Westervelt's career has been largely devoted to reporting on issues related to the environment and, later, feminism and the economy. As her career went on she found greater intersections among these three topics. From 2006 to 2015, Westervelt wrote on occasion for GreenBiz. In 2009 and 2010, Westervelt contributed to InsideClimate News. Westervelt covered green technology for Forbes from 2011 to 2013, writing about companies, regulations and environmental issues. During this time, she published two travel guides: Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Great Destinations (2008) and Explorer's Guide Upper Peninsula (2012).
Westervelt contributed to The Guardian from 2014 to 2018. In those years, she was also a co-founder of Climate Confidential, which published investigative reports on environmental issues from 2014 to 2016.
Podcast network
Westervelt founded the podcast network Critical Frequency, which is home to 14 podcasts including Drilled, a show reported and hosted by Westervelt that digs into climate change denial. Critical Frequency was a launch partner for Slate's subscription and membership podcast platform Supporting Cast in 2019.
Drilled won a 2019 Online News Association Online Journalism Award for excellence in digital audio storytelling. "In the months since its release, Drilled has been downloaded more than a million times; been recommended by The New Yorker, Esquire, and New Scientist; and been quoted on the floor of the U.S. Senate," the award citation reads.
In April 2020, Westervelt's Drilled News site launched the Climate & COVID-19 Policy Tracker, an ongoing news feature documenting many climate and energy-related regulation rollbacks and suspensions, fossil fuel lease sales, financial relief offered to the fossil fuel industry, and other related moves taken by the Trump administra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B23 | C++23 is the informal name for the next version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language that will follow C++20. The final draft of this version is N4950.
In February 2020, at the final meeting for C++20 in Prague, an overall plan for C++23 was adopted: planned features for C++23 are library support for coroutines, a modular standard library, executors, and networking.
The first WG21 meeting focused on C++23 was intended to take place in Varna in early June 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as was the November 2020 meeting in New York and the February 2021 meeting in Kona, Hawaii. All meetings until November 2022 were virtual while the November 2022 meeting was hybrid.
New features
In the absence of face-to-face WG21 meetings during the COVID pandemic, few new features were added to the C++23 draft in early standards meetings. The following were added after the virtual WG21 meeting of 9 November 2020, where they were approved by straw polls:
Literal suffixes for std::size_t and the corresponding signed type
A member function for and , to check whether or not the string contains a given substring or character
A stacktrace library (), based on Boost.Stacktrace
A type trait
The header , for interoperability with C atomics
After the virtual WG21 meeting of 22 February 2021, following features are added where they were approved by straw polls:
Removing unnecessary empty parameter list from lambda expressions.
Repairing input range adaptors and .
Relax the requirements for .
for classes that are derived from .
Locks lock lockables.
Conditionally borrowed ranges.
.
After the summer 2021 ISO C++ standards plenary virtual meeting of June 2021, new features and defect reports were approved by straw polls:
Consteval if ().
Narrowing contextual conversions to .
Allowing duplicate attributes.
-based string-stream ().
and .
for , , and .
Iterators pair constructors for (stack) and (queue).
Few changes of the ranges library:
Generalized and for arbitrary ranges.
Renamed to and new .
Relaxing the constraint on .
Removing constraint from concept .
Range constructor for .
Prohibiting and construction from .
.
Improvements on .
Adding default arguments for 's forwarding constructor.
After the autumn 2021 ISO C++ standards plenary virtual meeting of October 2021, new features and defect reports were approved by straw polls:
Non-literal variables, labels, and gotos in functions, but still ill-formed to evaluate them at compile-time.
Explicit object parameter.
Changes on character sets and encodings.
New preprocessors: and . Both directives were added to C23 (C language update) and GCC 12.
Allowing alias declarations in init-statement.
Overloading multidimensional subscript operator (e.g. ).
Decay copy in language: or .
Changes in text formatting library:
Fixing locale handling in chrono formatters.
Use of forwarding references in format arguments to allow -lik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Sports | 1Sports is an Indian sports channel owned by Lex Sportel Vision Pvt. Ltd.(Times Network), launched after Discovery India took control of their DSport channel. 1Sports broadcasts live sporting action from around the world, including high-profile content as I-League.
History
On 6 February 2017 Discovery Communications (DC) launched the DSport channel to broadcast different kind of sporting actions in Indian subcontinent. During the launch former MD of ESPN Star and former CEO of Dish TV RC Venkateish had joined the channel to work as content provider (acquisition) for the channel. Since then Venkateish (owner of Lex Sportel) acquired sporting rights of multiple events which were broadcast on DSport, until November 2019. In January 2020 Discovery applied a name change of their sports channel to Eurosport, which was challenged by Lex Sportel as the one who made the uplinking license deal of the channel. Delhi High Court went in favor of Discovery and as a result Lex Sportel went out of the deal. Then Lex Sportel started showing ads about the launch of their new channel and a scroll text on DSport channel that contents of the channel belongs to Lex Sportel's server based in Hong Kong, until 24 January when Discovery took full control of the channel. Though this was scheduled to take effect on 14 February, Discovery took control of the channel three weeks before the original date, but the court dismissed the matter. Finally, on 28 January Lex Sportel launched their own channel 1Sports.
Events
Lex Sportel has acquired some premium sports events from around the world and provides over 4,000 hours of live content every year. They have broadcasting license of Afghanistan Premier League and Everest Premier League. 1Sports airs Coppa Italia, Coupe de France and UAE Pro League, among others. The channel also broadcasts Pro-Wrestling (Ring of Honor, WOS Wrestling and WIN: Dangal Ke Soorma), MMA (Bellator and Cage Warriors), Golf (The Open, The Masters, European Tour, LPGA and Ryder Cup), Tennis (Laver Cup) and Motor Sports (Dakar Rally and Monster Jam).
Cricket
Afghanistan Premier League
Everest Premier League
Zambia T10 league
British Columbia T20 league
Asian Challenger Trophy
Football
Coppa Italia
Coupe de France
UAE Pro League
Golf
Australian Open
The Open Championship
Masters Tournament
European Tour
LPGA
Ryder Cup
Hero Indian Open
Hero Women's Indian Open
Motor Sport
Dakar Rally
Monster Jam
Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator MMA
Cage Warriors
Tennis
Laver Cup
References
External links
Sports television networks in India
Television channels and stations established in 2020
English-language television stations in India
2020 establishments in Haryana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%20Xiujing | Lu Xiujing (; 406–477), known by the courtesy name Yuande (元德) and the posthumous name Jianji (簡寂), was a Taoist compiler and ritualist who lived under the Liu Song dynasty. His education was of Confucianist leaning. Nevertheless, he chose to study Taoism. Lu was devoted to his faith to the point of abandoning his family.
During his pilgrimages to the various mountains where eminent Taoists had lived, Lu had the chance to collect the scriptures of various currents. His most important accomplishments are his edition of the Lingbao texts and his compilation of the first Taoist Canon. The structure of the canon, called "Three Caverns", will be used from the Tang dynasty onward.
When he was working on the Lingbao compendium, Lu helped structure and expand the already complex set of rituals. Although Lu attributed a lot of importance to the rituals, he put them in second position in the Taoist Canon, that is in the second cavern.
Lu was eloquent and hard-working, and he played a key role in the promotion of the Lingbao school of thoughts, and of the Taoist school of thoughts at large. He was very highly regarded in his lifetime but, after his death, his attempt at unifying the Taoist practices into one canon encountered a lot of criticism. Eventually his reputation was restored under the Tang.
Biography
Lu Xiujing was born in 406 in Wuxing, a district of the historical Dongqian 東遷, modern Zhejiang province. He came from a family of literati and received a strong education including, as it should be, the Confucian classics. Nevertheless, he showed a clear preference for Taoism and the wandering hermit life, for which he renounced his family. The earliest biography of Lu Xiujing includes a passage where Lu is said to have declined to heal his gravely ill daughter, despite his family's laments and supplications. He was only passing by, and the story goes that his daughter had miraculously recovered the day after he had departed. Whether based on a true event or not, the story illustrates the detachment of Lu Xiujing from earthly concerns and the seriousness of his quest to find the Tao.
He was first a hermit on Mount Yunmeng in Henan province. Traveling from mountain to mountain, his name became more and more famous. Eventually, he settled in the Capital Jiankang and opened a trade in medicinal plants. Emperor Wendi, who had heard of Lu's growing influence, had him called to the palace, where he made an impression on the Dowager Empress Wang. She was already a follower of the Huang–Lao, a school of thought with both Legalist and Taoist affinities, and she became a follower of Lu Xiujing.
In 453, Wendi's death gave way to a period of political instability which forced Lu to flee south. This is how he arrived at Mount Lu where tradition makes him meet Huiyuan and Tao Yuanming, although their dates of birth refute the possibility of such a meeting. Mount Lu at the time was an active Buddhist center, which explains why Lu's practice often takes from B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Sea%E2%80%93Baltic%20Corridor | The North Sea–Baltic Corridor is the number 2 of the ten priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
History
The original corridor of the Core Network to be called Warsaw–Midlands (route Warsaw – Poznań – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin – Hannover – Osnabrück – Enschede – Utrecht – Amsterdam/Rotterdam – Felixstowe – Birmingham/Manchester – Liverpool), but following the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union following Brexit, the axis would no longer reach the British Islands, therefore it was enlarged and redesigned according to the current route from Helsinki to the Benelux.
Description
The North Sea–Baltic Corridor develops its network from the North Sea to the Baltic on the following twelve axes and through the following European cities.
Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga
Ventspils – Riga
Riga – Kaunas
Klaipeda – Kaunas – Vilnius
Kaunas – Warszawa
Warszawa – Poznań – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin – Hamburg
Berlin – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover
Hannover – Bremen – Bremerhaven/Wilhelmshaven
Hannover – Osnabrück – Hengelo – Almelo – Deventer – Utrecht
Utrecht – Amsterdam
Utrecht – Rotterdam – Antwerp
Hannover – Cologne – Antwerp
See also
Rail Baltica
References
External links
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Ware | Colin Ware is a professor at the University of New Hampshire, cross-appointed between the Departments of Computer Science and Ocean Engineering. Ware is the director of the Data Visualization Research Lab in the university's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
Education
Ware attended the University of Toronto from 1975 to 1980 and received his PhD in the psychology of perception. He then went on to attend the University of Waterloo in 1983, eventually receiving his MMath degree in computer science in 1985.
Ware's combined interests in basic and applied research alongside his specialization in advanced data visualization led to his involvement in the applications of visualization to ocean mapping.
He has experience with the National Research Council (Canada) as a Research Associate (1980-1983), where he researched human color vision. He also has past experience in both teaching and research as a professor of computer science at the University of New Brunswick from 1985 to 2000.
Books
Ware has written and published two books. The first, published in 2000, is called Information Visualization: Perception for Design and is now in its fourth edition. 2008 followed Visual Thinking for Design. It describes the psychology of how humans think about using graphics displays as tools.
Career
From 1980 to 1983 Ware was a research scientist at the National Research Council in Ottawa. He conducted research into human color vision in collaboration with William Cowan and used an Ikonas, the very first frame-buffer based computer graphics system. From 1985 to 2000 he was a professor of computer science at the University of New Brunswick working in the fields of human-computer interaction and data visualization. It was there that he became one of the founding members of the Ocean Mapping Group, together with David Wells and Larry Mayer. In 2000 he moved to the University of New Hampshire to establish the Visualization Research Lab in the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.
Research
Colin Ware's main contribution to the emerging field of data visualization has been to propose that it should be studied as a field of applied human perception which he called experimental semiotics. The key idea is that understanding human perception can provide insights into how data can be portrayed so that it can be interpreted efficiently. He has developed this discipline in more than 150 articles as well as two books [4,5]. In addition to the books he has published studies on the effective use of various visual parameters such as color, texture, stereoscopic viewing and motion.
Ware has made several notable contributions to the field of Human Computer Interaction. In 1993 he developed the concept of “Fish Tank Virtual Reality” to describe a form of virtual reality which is not “immersive”, but rather bounded and contained within the normal working environment. He argued that this mode of viewing allows for a better interactive expe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20chat%20%28television%29 | Adult chat television channels and programs (also known as babe channels or babeshows) are a format of phone-in live television programming that has developed in Europe since 2002, often having elements similar to webcam modelling and softcore pornography.
Adult chat channels were noted in Screen as "challenges to conventional notions" of television – viewers can make premium-rate phone calls to the channel's presenters, but the calls are not heard on screen during the program. Thus, the channels' format and content is openly influenced by the pursuit of revenue, "pay-to-participate", without the traditional "audience subscription, advertising or sponsorship".
Broadcast live from a studio, the shows usually feature female presenters advertising a phone sex line or chat line, speaking on the phone, promoting extra online content and photos, or responding to viewers' online messages, text messages and photos.
Formats
Many adult chat programs have been established in mainland Europe (mainly on Hot Bird) and in the United Kingdom (mainly on Sky) since the beginning of SexySat TV and Babestation in 2002. These programs and channels mainly aim for profits drawn from phone calls, at the expense of production values, which are rarely high. The presenters of the shows are often glamour models, fetish models or porn stars, and have included Cathy Barry and Dani Thompson.
Some eventual channels began as shorter shows on unrelated TV stations; for example, Babestation was initially a 2-hour phone-in on Game Network. Some babe channels broadcast for part of the day, and some for 24 hours a day. A typical night show, when content is more sexually explicit, may run from 9pm or 10pm until 5.30am (in the UK). Many of the same channels also run daytime shows. Adult chat companies have also operated various extra online streams and web shows.
Analysis
While television usually "address[es] itself to an overhearing audience", babe channels were noted in Screen as "challenges to conventional notions" of television" due to their novel format, which prioritises revenue from phone calls that are seen but unheard in the broadcast. As well as this, Stephanie Marriott identified the channels' promise of a "fully bilateral engagement" with the host as an unusual idea in television. De Montfort University professor of film studies, I.Q. Hunter, names adult chat television as representative of how "commercialised erotic representation" changed radically in the digital age.
The rise of adult chat was linked to that of similar "participation television" programs, quiz, psychic and dating channels in the early 21st century. An independent Ofcom report highlighted the contradiction in the nature of the channels: "‘Babe’ TV was treated as ‘advertising’ by non-viewers but among viewers it was felt to provide engaging programming that could be enjoyed without calling in." According to viewers, "All respondents implied that the purpose of watching or calling ‘Babe’ channels was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20chat | Adult chat may refer to:
Phone sex, sexually explicit phone conversations
Adult chat (television) channels and programs
Adult video chat with webcam models
See also
Cybersex
Chat room |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Juuni%20Senshi%20Bakuretsu%20Eto%20Ranger%20episodes | Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger was originally made in Japan by Shaft. 39 episodes aired from 7 April 1995 to 26 January 1996 on TV Tokyo.
References
External links
(anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Lists of anime episodes
Lists of Japanese television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%20Corridor | The Mediterranean Corridor is number 3 of the nine priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
Rail
The Mediterranean Corridor crosses six EU countries (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary), over more than 6.000 km along the route: Almeria-Valencia/Madrid-Zaragoza/Barcelona-Marseille-Lyon-Turin-Milan-Verona-Padua/Venice-Trieste/Koper-Ljubljana-Budapest-Záhony.
Main branches
The five main branches of the Mediterranean Corridor are:
Algeciras-Bobadilla-Madrid-Zaragoza-Tarragona
Seville-Bobadilla-Murcia
Cartagena-Murcia-Valencia-Tarragona
Tarragona-Barcelona-Perpignan-Marseille/Lyon-Turin-Novara-Milan-Verona-Padua-Venice-Ravenna/Trieste/Koper-Ljubljana-Budapest
Ljubljana/Rijeka-Zagreb-Budapest
References
External links
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Mediterranean Corridor at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient/East%E2%80%93Med%20Corridor | The Orient/East-Med Corridor is the number 4 of the ten priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
Description
This corridor will connect central Europe with the maritime interfaces of the North, Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas.
Hamburg–Berlin
Rostock–Berlin–Dresden
Bremerhaven/Wilhelmshaven–Magdeburg–Dresden
Dresden–Ústí nad Labem–Mělník/Prague–Kolín
Kolín–Pardubice–Brno–Vienna/Bratislava–Budapest–Arad–Timișoara–Craiova–Calafat–Vidin–Sofia
Sofia–Plovdiv–Burgas
Plovdiv–Turkey border
Sofia–Thessaloniki–Athens–Limassol–Nicosia
Athens–Patras/Igoumenitsa
References
External links
Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at European Union official web site
Orient - East Med at European Union official web site
Transport and the European Union
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oswaldo%20episodes | Oswaldo is an original animated series from the production company Birdo Studio. The series was created by Pedro Eboli and premiered on October 11, 2017 on Cartoon Network and on October 29, 2017 on TV Cultura. On February 7, 2018, it was announced the show had been renewed for a 13-episode second season starting June 3, 2019. The series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on January 6, 2020. The series concluded with the fourth season, which premiered on November 4th, 2020 and ended on January 27, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2017–18)
Season 2 (2019)
Season 3 (2020)
Season 4 (2020-21)
References
Lists of animated television series episodes
Lists of Brazilian television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXT%20UK%20TakeOver%3A%20Dublin | NXT UK TakeOver: Dublin was a scheduled professional wrestling show and WWE Network event that would have been produced by WWE. It would have been the fourth NXT UK TakeOver event held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT UK brand division. The event was scheduled to take place at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, which would have made it the first NXT UK TakeOver held outside the United Kingdom.
The event was originally to be held on 26 April 2020, but was rescheduled to 25 October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which began affecting all of WWE's programming in mid-March that year. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the event was rescheduled once again, this time to 20 June 2021. However, on 30 April, the event was officially cancelled.
Production
Background
TakeOver was a series of professional wrestling shows that began on 29 May 2014, when WWE's NXT brand held their second live special on the WWE Network. The NXT UK brand debuted in June 2018 and subsequently adopted the TakeOver name for their live WWE Network specials, beginning with NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool in January 2019. TakeOver: Dublin would have been the fourth NXT UK TakeOver event. It was scheduled to be held at the 3Arena and was named after the venue's city of Dublin, Ireland. It would have marked the first NXT UK TakeOver event held outside the United Kingdom.
TakeOver: Dublin was originally scheduled to take place on 26 April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the event was postponed and rescheduled to occur on 25 October. The ongoing pandemic caused the event to be rescheduled again, this time to 20 June 2021. However, on 30 April, the event was removed from the 3Arena's scheduled events, and WWE confirmed that they had cancelled the event.
References
External links
Dublin
2021 in Ireland
2021 in professional wrestling
Events in Dublin (city)
Professional wrestling in Ireland
Sports events cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Cancelled events in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Patrol | Fantasy Patrol () is a Russian computer-animated fantasy series created by Vadim Volya and Evgeniy Golovin. The series follows the adventures of four young sorceress girls who live in the city of Myshkin. The series is produced by Studio Parovoz. It premiered on the multi-series newsreel, Moolt in Cinema on April 30, 2016, and was later released to YouTube on May 19, 2016.
A spin-off series, Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles premiered on August 2, 2019. An animated film based on the series, Koshchey: The True Story is in production, planned to be released in theaters.
Plot
The series takes place in the mysterious city of Myshkin (Fableton in the English version), which is filled with many fairytale heroes and unusual adventures and miracles. The ordinary residents of the city are unsuspecting of the true nature of the city. Three young girls who also appear to be ordinary but are actually young sorceresses; Varya, Masha, and Snowy, move to Myshkin where they meet Helena, a local city girl. They soon become best friends with each other, forming a superhero team called the Fantasy Patrol. Their task is to observe the behavior of any fairytale characters that inhabit the city and help them, while protecting the calm side of the city from any harm, maintaining a balance between both worlds.
Cast
Main
Miroslava Karpovich, Anfisa Wistingausen as Helena
Olga Kuzmina as Varya
Yuliya Aleksandrova as Masha
Polina Kutepova as Snowy
Recurring
Glafira Tarkhanova as Alice
Alex Louis
Episodes
Broadcast
Fantasy Patrol has been broadcast in Russia on Moolt and Ani since May 2016, on Carousel by the end of 2016, and later on Super in 2018. In South Africa, the series premiered on eToonz on March 25, 2019. The first season is available in English on iTunes. 17 episodes of the show in English have been uploaded so far onto the Moolt Kids YouTube channel.Fantasy Patrol also released in Urdu in Pakistani Channel Kids zone Pakistan YouTube channel.
Songs
The music for the series was written by Russian band, Slot.
Accolades
Merchandise
Books
Russian writer and screenwriter, Oleg Roy set to work on a series of books based on Fantasy Patrol. In total, 12 books are planned to be published for the series. So far, 6 books have been released.
Games
Four apps were released for the series; "Fantasy Patrol", "Fantasy Patrol: Adventures", "Music Patrol", and "Fantasy Patrol: Cafe". All of these games were released on Android and iOS platforms.
Magazines
In November 2018, Fantasy Patrol magazines were released. Posters, stickers, and stories from Oleg Roy also come with the magazines.
Spin-off
A spin-off series of Fantasy Patrol was previewed on the main stage of Mooltimir on June 1, 2019 titled "Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles". The series premiered on Moolt on August 2, 2019, and the first episode was then released to YouTube on August 27.
Film
In August 2017, the director of Parovoz, Anton Smetankin, announced the production of an animated film, Koschey: The E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fantasy%20Patrol%20episodes | Fantasy Patrol is a Russian computer-animated fantasy web television series created by Vadim Volya and Evgeniy Golovin. The series premiered on the multi-series newsreel, Moolt in Cinema on April 30, 2016, and was later released to YouTube on May 19, 2016.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016–18)
Season 2 (2019–20)
Season 3 (2021–present)
The Chronicles (2019–20)
A spin-off series to Fantasy Patrol, titled Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles, premiered on August 2, 2019.
Film (2021)
An animated film based on Fantasy Patrol, "Koshchey: The True Story", is originally scheduled to release in 2020, but it was delayed to 2021 due to the.
References
2010s television-related lists
Lists of Russian animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Patrol%3A%20The%20Chronicles | Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles () is a Russian computer-animated series, and is a spin-off of the 2016 TV series, Fantasy Patrol. The series was created by Evgeniy Golovin and Dmitry Mednikov, and just like the original series, it is produced by Studio Parovoz. The first episode was previewed on the main stage of Mooltimir on June 1, 2019, and the series later premiered on Moolt on August 2, 2019. The first episode was then released to YouTube on August 27.
Plot
Each episode of Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles goes into depth about the main characters of Fantasy Patrol; Helena, Valery, Mary, and Snowy, as well as many others. The stories told are in the style of motion comics, and are meant to explain the motives of their actions.
Cast
Miroslava Karpovich (first season), Anfisa Wistingausen (second season) as Helena
Polina Kutepova as Snowy
Olga Kuzmina as Valery
Yulia Alexandrova as Mary
Episodes
References
External links
Fantasy Patrol: The Chronicles on Carousel
2010s Russian television series
2020s Russian television series
2019 Russian television series debuts
Russian children's animated adventure television series
Russian children's animated comedy television series
Russian children's animated fantasy television series
Computer-animated television series
Russian-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20With%20Me%20%282021%20TV%20series%29 | Lie With Me is a television drama series that premiered on Channel 5 on 12 July 2021 and on Network 10 on 3 November 2021.
Synopsis
A couple moves to Australia after an affair, and encounters a nanny who brings more trouble into their lives.
Cast
Charlie Brooks as Anna Fallmont
Brett Tucker as Jake Fallmont
Phoebe Roberts as Becky Hart
Caroline Gillmer as Cynthia Fallmont
Alba Nicholls as Grace Fallmont
Hunter Hurley and Ned Kennelly as Oliver Fallmont
Alfie Gledhill as Liam Henderson
Isabella Giovinazzo as Caroline Wilder
Nadine Garner as Detective Taormina
Frank Magree as Officer Page
Stephen Lopez as Detective Garrison
Neil Melville as Ray Tucker
John Marc Desengano as Pavan
Bert La Bonté as Phil
Irene Chen as Dr Katherine Lee
Renai Caruso as Jo Murray
Production
The four part series is filmed in Melbourne with funding assistance from Film Victoria.
Episodes
Reception
In 2022, Jason Herbison, Margaret Wilson and Anthony Ellis received an AWGIE Award nomination for Best Script for Television – Limited Series.
References
External links
2021 British television series debuts
2021 British television series endings
2020s British drama television series
2021 Australian television series debuts
2020s Australian drama television series
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows set in Melbourne
Network 10 original programming
English-language television shows
Television episodes written by Jason Herbison |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20D%27Ignazio | Catherine D'Ignazio (also known as kanarinka) is an American professor, artist, and software developer who focuses on feminism and data literacy. She is the director of the Data + Feminism lab at MIT. D'Ignazio is best known for her hackathons, such as "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck", and for her book Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein.
Early life and education
D'Ignazio was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and grew up in North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, and Michigan. Her father, Fred D'Ignazio, is an American author, educator, and television commentator. D'Ignazio received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in international relations from Tufts University. She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in studio art, design and theory from Maine College of Art and a Master of Science (M.S.) in media arts and sciences from MIT in 2014.
Career
D'Ignazio works as an assistant professor at MIT and has published several works in her field of study as well as an acclaimed book, Data Feminism. She has organized several women's health hackathons, including "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck," which has now been featured in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition, Designs for Different Futures. She has also worked on news recommendation systems, and different types of data visualization.
D'Ignazio started to work in software development and taught for seven years in the Digital + Media graduate program at Rhode Island School of Design. She then moved on to work in the Journalism Department at Emerson College, as an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization and Civic Media. Having years of experience as a professor, she then became an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. D'Ignazio maintains this role today, and also acts as the Director of the Data + Feminism Lab.
Works
with Lauren Klein, Data Feminism (2020)
edited with Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Annie Ring, and Kristin Veel, Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (2020)
References
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American feminist writers
American software engineers
People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Tufts University alumni
Maine College of Art & Design alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
Rhode Island School of Design faculty
Emerson College faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime%20predictive%20analysis | Runtime predictive analysis (or predictive analysis) is a runtime verification technique in computer science for detecting property violations in program executions inferred from an observed execution. An important class of predictive analysis methods has been developed for detecting concurrency errors (such as data races) in concurrent programs, where a runtime monitor is used to predict errors which did not happen in the observed run, but can happen in an alternative execution of the same program. The predictive capability comes from the fact that the analysis is performed on an abstract model extracted online from the observed execution, which admits a class of executions beyond the observed one.
Overview
Informally, given an execution , predictive analysis checks errors in a reordered trace of . is called feasible from (alternatively a correct reordering of ) if any program that can generate can also generate .
In the context of concurrent programs, a predictive technique is sound if it only predicts concurrency errors in feasible executions of the causal model of the observed trace. Assuming the analysis has no knowledge about the source code of the program, the analysis is complete (also called maximal) if the inferred class of executions contains all executions that have the same program order and communication order prefix of the observed trace.
Applications
Predictive analysis has been applied to detect a wide class of concurrency errors, including:
Data races
Deadlocks
Atomicity violations
Order violations, e.g., use-after-free errors
Implementation
As is typical with dynamic program analysis, predictive analysis first instruments the source program. At runtime, the analysis can be performed online, in order to detect errors on the fly. Alternatively, the instrumentation can simply dump the execution trace for offline analysis. The latter approach is preferred for expensive refined predictive analyses that require random access to the execution trace or take more than linear time.
Incorporating data and control-flow analysis
Static analysis can be first conducted to gather data and control-flow dependence information about the source program, which can help construct the causal model during online executions. This allows predictive analysis to infer a larger class of executions based on the observed execution. Intuitively, a feasible reordering can change the last writer of a memory read (data dependence) if the read, in turn, cannot affect whether any accesses execute (control dependence).
Approaches
Partial order based techniques
Partial order based techniques are most often employed for online race detection. At runtime, a partial order over the events in the trace is constructed, and any unordered pairs of critical events are reported as races. Many predictive techniques for race detection are based on the happens-before relation or a weakened version of it. Such techniques can typically be implemented effic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20Zedan | Hussein S. M. Zedan (1 July 1953 – 23 February 2019) was a computer scientist of Egyptian descent, mainly based in the United Kingdom.
Hussein Zedan was born in 1953. He received his PhD degree in 1981 at the University of Bristol, studying under John Derwent Pryce and Hubert Schwetlick for a thesis entitled Modified Rosenbrock-Wanner methods for solving systems of stiff ordinary differential equations.
Zedan was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Prof. Zedan then headed the Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL) as Technical Director at De Montfort University. He was also Head of Computing Research. Later STRL was headed by Zedan's PhD student and subsequently colleague François Siewe. Zedan was subsequently appointed Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Development at the Applied Science University in Manama, Bahrain, until 2017.
Hussein Zedan died on 23 February 2019. He was married with two daughters.
Selected publications
– republished as:
References
External links
Hussein Zedan on ResearchGate
Hussein Zedan on Academia.edu
Hussein Zedan on LinkedIn
Hussein Zedan on DBLP
Hussein Zedan on IEEE Xplore
1953 births
2019 deaths
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Egyptian computer scientists
Egyptian expatriates in England
British computer scientists
Formal methods people
Software engineering researchers
Academics of the University of York
Academics of De Montfort University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadieh%20Bremer | Nadieh Bremer is a data scientist and data visualization designer. She is based out of a small town outside of Amsterdam.
Education
Bremer graduated cum laude from Leiden University with Masters of Science in Astronomy. She also attended University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Early in her career, Bremer worked as a Senior Consultant of Advanced Analytics and Data Visualizations at Deloitte. She is currently a freelance data designer under the name "Visual Cinnamon," working with small startups to provide custom visualizations of their data.
Publications
Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Bloomberg CityLab, Scientific American, The Week, and DigitalArts, among others.
She co-authored Data Sketches with Shirley Wu in February 2021.
Awards
"Politics & Global", Gold - Information is Beautiful Awards (2018)
Best Data Visualization - North American Digital Media Awards (2018)
Best Investigative Data Journalism - Online Journalism Awards (2018)
Best Individual - Information is Beautiful Awards (2017)
"Unusual", Gold - Information is Beautiful Awards (2017)
"Science & Tech", Silver - Information is Beautiful Awards (2017)
Rising Star - Information is Beautiful Awards (2016)
References
External links
Nadieh Bremer
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Leiden University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Data scientists
Information graphic designers
Dutch artists
21st-century Dutch astronomers
Dutch women scientists
Women data scientists
Deloitte people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20%28Russia%29 | “Network” («Сеть») was allegedly an anti-government anarchist organization active in Russia in 2015–2017. Its alleged "members" were arrested in 2017 and sentenced on February 10, 2020 by the Russian military court in Penza to prison terms from 6 to 18 years.
Dmitri Pchelintsev — sentenced to 18 years in maximum security prison.
Ilya Shakursky — sentenced to 16 years in maximum security prison and a fine of 50,000 roubles (about $700).
Andrew Chernov — sentenced to 14 years in maximum security prison.
Maxim Ivankin — sentenced to 13 years in maximum security prison.
Mikhail Kulkov — sentenced to 10 years in maximum security prison.
Vasiliy Kuksov — sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Arman Sagynbaev — sentenced to 6 years in prison.
The case of “Network” caused a wide condemnation in Russia, with many protesting against the trials and sentencing. Andrei Kolesnikov from the Carnegie Moscow Center went on to label the story of the “Network” as “the return of Stalinist Show Trials”. According to Amnesty International's representative, the organization itself had never existed; Amnesty International had previously expressed concern about torture and other ill-treatment used by FSB to extract confessions from the defendants. Memorial Society from Moscow also claimed that the whole case was fabricated and politically motivated, and designated the accused as political prisoners.
"Network" is listed as a terrorist group in Russia.
See also
Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing
People's Self-Defense (Russia)
Azat Miftakhov
References
Further reading
Russia Sentences Anti-Fascists on Bogus Terror Charges, Critics Say, The New York Times, Feb. 10, 2020.
Russian antifascist group given 'monstrous' jail terms, The Guardian, Feb. 10, 2020.
Political repression in Russia
2020 in Russia
Defunct organizations designated as terrorist in Europe
Organizations designated as terrorist by Russia
Anarchism in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkay%20Altintas | Ilkay Altintas is a Turkish-American data and computer scientist, and researcher in the domain of supercomputing and high-performance computing applications. Since 2015, Altintas has served as chief data science officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has also served as founder and director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence (WorDS) since 2014, as well as founder and director of the WIFIRE lab. Altintas is also the co-initiator of the Kepler scientific workflow system, an open-source platform that endows research scientists with the ability to readily collaborate, share, and design scientific workflows.
Born in Aydın, Turkey, Altintas attended Middle East Technical University before embarking on a research career. While pursuing her career as a research scientist, she completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2011. In addition to her work as a research scientist, she is a computer science lecturer at the University of California, San Diego. Altintas is also a co-founder and board member of the Data Science Alliance nonprofit. She serves on the advisory board of several national agencies and companies, and as an editor of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Education
Altintas graduated from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999, and a master's degree in computer engineering in 2001. In 2011, she received a PhD in computational science from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, for her work and contributions toward workflow-driven collaborative science.
Career and research
After graduating from Middle East Technical University in 2001, Altintas was hired as a research programmer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). She went on to serve SDSC as the assistant director of the National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research (NLADR), the founder and director of the Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Laboratory, and deputy coordinator for research. Currently, she is the chief data science officer of SDSC, where she is also the founder and director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence (WorDS); the founder and director of the WIFIRE lab; and the division director for Cyberinfrastructure Research, Education and Development. The WorDS hub at SDSC serves to promote the utilization and distribution of workflow services in the context of a variety of domains and projects, ranging from the WIFIRE lab (which Altintas founded and currently directs) to the Kepler scientific workflow system (which Altintas serves as the co-initiator of).
WIFIRE Lab
On October 26, 2003, Altintas experienced California wildfires for the first time, after witnessing the Cedar Fire in San Diego County. The environmental and economic toll that this natural disaster had on the residents of San Diego County inspired Altintas to contribute to improving the then-current |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20DFT | In applied mathematics, the sliding discrete Fourier transform is a recursive algorithm to compute successive STFTs of input data frames that are a single sample apart (hopsize − 1). The calculation for the sliding DFT is closely related to Goertzel algorithm.
Definition
Assuming that the hopsize between two consecutive DFTs is 1 sample, then
From this definition above, the DFT can be computed recursively thereafter. However, implementing the window function on a sliding DFT is difficult due to its recursive nature, therefore it is done exclusively in a frequency domain.
Sliding windowed infinite Fourier transform
It is not possible to implement asymmetric window functions into sliding DFT. However, the IIR version called sliding windowed infinite Fourier transform (SWIFT) provides an exponential window and the αSWIFT calculates two sDFTs in parallel where slow-decaying one is subtracted by fast-decaying one, therefore a window function of .
References
FFT algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badabun | Badabun Network is a Mexican audiovisual production company that creates digital content, primarily on YouTube. Badabun began in 2014 as a YouTube channel that uploaded videos such as top-ten lists and "street surveys" of members of the public, which often contained an element of humor. In subsequent years, Badabun rapidly rose in popularity as many Internet celebrities shared and discussed its content. It has created several video series, including Atrapando infieles, Entrevistamos A, Mansión del influencer, and Exponiendo infieles, the last of which is one of their most popular productions. They have had internet personalities such as Alex Flores, Daniel Alfaro, and Lizbeth Rodríguez partner with their channel. In the 2019 edition of YouTube's video series YouTube Rewind, Badabun was listed as the most popular Spanish-language channel on the site.
Badabun has received a lot of criticism, because their content has been described as "sensationalistic" and "false", and because Badabun employees have come forward with allegations of workplace harassment, sexual harassment, and homophobia within the company.
History
Badabun was founded in 2010 by six law students from the Autonomous University of Baja California, including Ever Rafael Bojórquez Ibarra, Lizbeth Elorza Soriano, Marco Antonio Zuno Sierra, Ricardo Morales Jimenez and the former CEO of the company, César Morales Jimenez. Originally, they were considering creating a mobile app that would allow users to locate lawyers via geolocation in order to have their questions about legal issues answered, which the creators dubbed "an Uber for lawyers". However, the project failed due to a lack of funds and interest. Three years later, Morales was creating a blog about historical events, which did not interest viewers. His first post to become viral was an article titled "Seven things you didn't know about El Chapo". Soon, some of his other articles also became successful. During that time, the Badabun company was focused on helping users monetize Facebook pages, and teaching them how to earn money online. In spite of this, the founders noticed that their videos tended to gain more attention than the articles, and in 2015 they decided to exclusively generate video content. Shortly after the site began to obtain attention online, radio host Víctor González joined the Badabun team, becoming the new face of the company's channel.
Their Youtube channel was created in October 2014, and their first video titled "Ten qualities that every man seeks in a woman" was published on 5 December of the same year. Their early videos discussed interesting curiosities, tricks, experiments, and other general viral content. In December 2016, when the channel reached one million subscribers, the channel's content continued in the same direction, but with the addition of "street surveys" where Badabun interviewed members of the public. By the end of the following year, they had five million subscribers, and premiered |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%E2%80%93Janis%20algorithm | In general relativity, the Newman–Janis algorithm (NJA) is a complexification technique for finding exact solutions to the Einstein field equations. In 1964, Newman and Janis showed that the Kerr metric could be obtained from the Schwarzschild metric by means of a coordinate transformation and allowing the radial coordinate to take on complex values. Originally, no clear reason for why the algorithm works was known.
In 1998, Drake and Szekeres gave a detailed explanation of the success of the algorithm and proved the uniqueness of certain solutions. In particular, the only perfect fluid solution generated by NJA is the Kerr metric and the only Petrov type D solution is the Kerr–Newman metric.
The algorithm works well on ƒ(R) and Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton theories, but doesn't return expected results on Braneworld and Born–Infield theories.
See also
Birkhoff's theorem (relativity)
References
Algorithms
Exact solutions in general relativity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%2011 | Android 11 is the eleventh major release and 18th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. It was released on September 8, 2020. The first phone launched in Europe with Android 11 was the Vivo X51 5G and after its full stable release, the first phone in the world which came with Android 11 after Google Pixel 5 was OnePlus 8T. As of August 2023, Android 11 was the third most commonly used version of the Android OS with a share of 19.36 percent.
History
Android 11 (internally codenamed Red Velvet Cake) was intended for three monthly developer preview builds to be released before the first beta release, initially due in May, with a total of three monthly beta releases before the actual release. A state of "platform stability" was planned for July 2020, and the final release occurred on September 8, 2020.
The first developer preview build of Android 11 was released on February 19, 2020, as a factory image for supported Google Pixel smartphones (excluding the first-generation Pixel and Pixel XL). Developer Preview 2 was then released on March 18, followed by Developer Preview 3 on April 23. On May 6, Google released an unexpected Developer Preview 4, as they pushed the whole roadmap for Android 11 forward a month, setting the date for the first beta for June 3.
The release of the first public beta was originally set to take place on June 3 at Google I/O, which was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an online release event being planned instead. Following the George Floyd protests, Google announced that the release of the first Android 11 beta would be postponed. Beta 1 was finally released on June 10, 2020, followed by Beta 2 on July 8. A hotfix Beta 2.5 was then released on July 22, with Beta 3 released on August 6. It was released on September 8, 2020.
Features
User experience
Android 11 introduces "conversations" notifications; they are designed for chat and messaging, and can be presented in pop-up overlays known as "bubbles" when supported by apps. Conversations can also be marked as "priority" to give them greater prominence (pushing them to the top of notifications, and allowing them to bypass do not disturb mode). Notification history over the past 24 hours can also be displayed. Bubbles is designed to replace the existing overlay permission, which is being deprecated in the future due to security (due to its use by clickjacking malware) and performance concerns.
The menu displayed when holding the power button now includes an area devoted to controlling smart home devices (only on Pixel devices). The screenshot button is moved to the recents screen (only on Pixel devices). Apps can be pinned on the share menu.
Android 11 includes a built-in screen recorder. Media controls are displayed as part of the quick settings area and no longer as a persistent notification, and can be swiped sideways to access those for other apps.
Accessibility
The voice control sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteka%20Nauki | Biblioteka Nauki is a Polish digital library containing in its database full texts of articles published in Polish scientific journals and full texts of selected scientific books.
Przypisy
Polish digital libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverzedge | Riverzedge is a non-profit arts organization centered on providing arts education and programming for underserved youth in the Woonsocket area.
Riverzedge was founded in 2002. In 2014, the organization moved into its Second Avenue Studio Complex, in the building of a closed elementary school, and purchased that building, from the city of Woonsocket for $10 in 2017. In 2018, Riverzedge received three grants to renovate their Second Avenue Studio Complex: $249,000 from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Champlin Foundation, and the June Rockwell Levy Foundation.
Riverzedge offers arts programs throughout the year, including an Arts and Entrepreneurship for teens, the Woonsocket Parent Leadership Training Institute, and a mobile studio that visits Woonsocket schools.
Riverzedge has become a model for after school arts programs. In 2009, the Afterschool Alliance analyzed Riverzedge statistics, noting that 100% or Riverzedge students graduated in Woonsocket, a city with a 35% graduation rate. After In 2013, Riverzedge was featured as a case study for after school arts programs in The Wallace Foundation's publication, "Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban You and Other Experts."
Awards
2009 Afterschool Innovator Award, Afterschool Alliance and the Metlife Foundation
2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program
References
Arts organizations based in Rhode Island
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
2002 establishments in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Rhode Island |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20544001%E2%80%93545000 |
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| 544008 || || — || February 28, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
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| 544012 || || — || March 26, 2003 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
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| 544013 || || — || February 4, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
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| 544019 || || — || January 11, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.9 km ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Jetix%20%28block%29 | This is a list of television programs broadcast on the Jetix blocks on Toon Disney and ABC Family.
Former programming
1 Also aired on ABC Kids.
2 Integrated into the Disney XD initial lineup.
ABC Family
Original programming
Programming from ABC
Programming from UPN
Acquired programming
Toon Disney
Original programming
Programming from Disney Channel
Programming from ABC
Programming from UPN
Programming from 4Kids TV
Acquired programming
Notes
References
Jetix original programming
Television programming blocks in the United States
Disney Channel related-lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoblepharus%20novocaledonicus | The New Caledonian shore skink (Cryptoblepharus novocaledonicus) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
References
External links
TIGR Reptile Database in Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist
Cryptoblepharus
Reptiles described in 1928
Taxa named by Robert Mertens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20identity | White identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a white person and as relating to being white. White identity has been researched in data and polling, historically and in social sciences. There are however polarized positions in media and academia as to whether a positive white racial identity which does not diminish other racial groups is plausible or achievable in the Western world's political climate.
Background
Historian David Roediger has outlined how works, beginning in the 1980s, from writers such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, began explicitly discussing "white identity's intricacies and costs". In 1999, La Salle University's Charles A. Gallagher proposed that perceptions of a racial double standard were creating a "foundation for a white identity based on the belief that whites are now under siege". Two decades later, political activist Leah Greenberg referred to a "white identity grievance movement".
A 2016 New York Times piece, describing "a crisis of white identity", analyzed some of the complex political, economic and cultural interconnected factors involved with it:
The struggle for white identity is not just a political problem; it is about the "deep story" of feeling stuck while others move forward. There will not likely be a return to the whiteness of social dominance and exclusive national identity. Immigration cannot be halted without damaging Western nations' economies; immigrants who have already arrived cannot be expelled en masse without causing social and moral damage. And the other groups who seem to be "cutting in line" are in fact getting a chance at progress that was long denied them.
In April 2019, AP covered activist Rashad Robinson's suggestion that 2020's Democratic Party candidates needed to do more than address white identity, by transforming privilege into action that tackled inequality. Defensiveness, or white fragility, have been described as a way of constructing a "blameless white identity".
In 2020, Julia Ebner, a terrorism and extremism researcher, outlined how the subsiding of alternative identities in individuals can cause white identity to become an "all-embracing" centralized medium for interaction in the world.
Study of the concept
The study of white identity began in earnest as the field of modern whiteness studies became established in universities, and within academic research during the mid-1990s. The work of Ruth Frankenberg, among other significant concepts, considered the relationship between whiteness and white identity and attempted to intellectually "disengtangle each from the other". In 2001, sociologist Howard Winant proposed how deconstructionist methodology, as opposed to abolitionist, could help re-examine white identity and its association to whiteness.
Trump presidency and Republican Party
Since the mid-2010s, sections of media in the United States have increasingly associated white identity with the emergence of Donald Trump's presidency. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Models%20of%20Human%20Cancer%20database | The laboratory mouse has been instrumental in investigating the genetics of human disease, including cancer, for over 110 years. The laboratory mouse has physiology and genetic characteristics very similar to humans providing powerful models for investigation of the genetic characteristics of disease.
The Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) is a unique, comprehensive online knowledgebase of mouse models of human cancer hosted by The Jackson Laboratory with funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). MMHCdb is part of the Mouse Genome Informatics consortium (MGI) and was first released in 1998 as the Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB) database. MMHCdb contains genetic and genomic information about inbred mouse strains, genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) and Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) models of human cancer. Data in MMHCdb is expertly curated from peer-reviewed scientific publications or obtained as direct data submissions from individual investigators and large-scale research initiatives. MMHCdb, in collaboration with EMBL-EBI, co-developed the PDCM Finder resource which serves as a global catalog of PDX models.
Inbred Mouse Models
Inbred mouse strains are the result of at least 20 generations of successive brother/sister matings which lead to a population with minimal segregating genetic variation. Inbred strains of mice allow researchers to investigate the role that genetics plays in cancer susceptibility and treatment response. The first inbred strain, DBA (dilute brown agouti), was developed in 1909. Among the earliest references to the use of inbred mice in cancer was the observed susceptibility of the A family of inbred mice to spontaneous lung tumors. MMHCdb provides interactive graphical summaries of the characteristic cancers observed in over 700 different inbred mouse strains. Figure 1 shows one of these tools, the Tumor Frequency Grid, which displays the frequency of different types of tumors across different inbred strains.
Genetically Engineered Mouse Models (GEMMs)
Molecular biology and genome editing technologies transformed the use of mice in cancer research by allowing researchers to develop animal models with specific mutations or that expressed human genes (transgenics). The genetic background of genetically modified animals can influence the observed phenotypes and must be taken into account when mouse models of human cancer are developed and when interpreting the data generated by these models. For example, transgenic mice on a mixed C57BL/6J and SJL background expressing human HRAS have a mammary gland carcinoma frequency of 45-50% whereas the same transgene expressed in FVB/N mice result in 100% of the animals having mammary gland carcinomas. MMHCdb provides search tools and displays to show the tumor frequencies of similar genetic modifications on different genetic backgrounds. Fig.2 shows the results of a search for lung adenocarcinomas with pathology images using the Advanced Search page a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice%20Upon%20a%20Time%20%281998%20film%29 | Twice Upon a Time (1998) is a fantasy romantic comedy TV movie made for the Lifetime cable network, starring Molly Ringwald and George Newbern and directed by Thom Eberhardt. It was written and co-produced by Scott Fifer (who went on to found GO Campaign) for ABC Pictures and Chris/Rose Productions. The film also features Ringwald's own father, blind jazz pianist Robert Ringwald, in a brief role.
Plot Summary
A discontented woman (Ringwald) finds herself in a parallel universe where she is living with an old flame from years ago, but soon begins to wish she was back in her old world with her present lover (Newbern).
References
External links
1998 television films
1998 films
1998 romantic comedy films
1998 fantasy films
Lifetime (TV network) films
Films directed by Thom Eberhardt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGorty%20junk%20news%20websites | The McGorty junk news websites are a network of fake news websites that were run by Matt McGorty. Buzzfeed News found over 100 sites from 2015 to 2020.
Typically the sites started with plagiarized news from other sites, with updated publish dates, to gain credibility. They would then add press releases and other sources. These would then be featured in Google News and be monetized with Google AdSense and other schemes. Content was typically locally oriented or related to finance.
McGorty worked for Thomson Reuters and Intrado, a subsidiary of NASDAQ. McGorty said he was unaware that the content provider was publishing copied content.
Google News terminated AdSense accounts used by the websites and tuned Google News to not show its content.
The links between the sites were discovered through shared whois records, advertising accounts, web tracking accounts, and other methods, which were linked to a Destin, Florida address. They were confirmed by MarketBeat, a company that paid McGorty for newsletter signups. Some sites had fake names for editors or claimed to be owned by a nonexistent person named Scott Gentry.
Sites
Local-oriented sites include:
Oracle Beacon (active since 2015)
Richland Standard (claimed to be based in Bedford, Texas)
River Dale Standard (claimed to be based in Buckner, Kentucky, copied content from CNN Digital)
Denton Daily
Livingston Ledger
Hoback Herald
Driscoll Register (copied content by Monique O. Madan from Miami Herald)
Gentry Business Leader
Darby Digital News
DFS Caller
Finance-oriented sites include:
Cora Courier
Stock Daily Dish (copied content from the Associated Press, The Journal News)
Daily Stock Dish
The Stock Muse
Unconfirmed sites include:
Wellston Journal
Jackson Observer
Valliant News
MarketBeat
MarketBeat, a financial media company owned by Matthew Paulson, paid the McGorty sites for newsletter signups as part of its affiliate program. Its spokesperson said the network of MarketBeat sites are unrelated to the McGorty sites, but operated in a similar manner and contained at least one story plagiarized from the Washington Post.
MarketBeat sites include:
Cody Courier
Jamestown Journal
Torrington Tribune
See also
Fake news
Fake news websites in the United States
References
Internet fraud
Internet hoaxes
Internet manipulation and propaganda
Journalistic hoaxes
News media manipulation
Mass media and entertainment controversies
Internet-related controversies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20distributed%20by%20American%20Public%20Television | The following is a list of programs currently or formerly distributed to PBS stations through American Public Television.
Current programming
Reality programs
Entertainment programs
Children's programs
Former programming
News programs
Entertainment programs
Children's programs
Short-form programming
Children's specials
See also
List of programs broadcast by PBS
List of programs broadcast by PBS Kids
References
External links
APTOnline.org: Search programs A-Z
American Public Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOMM%20TV | SOMM TV is a food and wine streaming network launched in 2019.
The network shows original films, such as SOMM, SOMM: Into the Bottle, SOMM 3, and The Delicacy as well as original series productions and educational content. It also shows licensed wine and food content such as Bottle Shock and Supersize Me.
Verticals, which features vintages that defined a winery or winemaker, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival in fall 2019. In 2021 the service released a documentary titled Verticals: Lafite Rothschild. The program is narrated by Éric and Saskia de Rothschild.
In April 2020, the documentary A Chef's Voyage, which had been slated for a traditional release, instead premiered on SOMM with rental fees going to the LEE Initiative's Restaurant Workers Relief Program to support those laid off because of the COVID pandemic.
In 2021 it released a new reality TV competition show, Sparklers. It was nominated for a 2022 James Beard Foundation Award in the Reality or Competition Visual Media category. Production was set to begin on a second season in spring 2023 with Joel McHale as a guest judge.
In February 2022, it premiered Saving The Restaurant, which followed Colorado restaurateur Bobby Stuckey as he tried to help restaurants avoid closure during the pandemic. When Stuckey's own restaurants close, Stuckey helped form the Independent Restaurant Coalition.
In June 2022 it premiered The Whole Animal. It won a James Beard Award in 2023 in the Visual Media - Long form category.
In July 2022 it released Auction Lot 288, the story of the world's most expensive Champagne, featuring a bottle of 1874 Perrier-Jouët.
The Oldest Vine was released in December 2022 and tells the story of a more than 200 year old vine, still producing wine in Los Angeles at Mission San Gabriel.
References
Wine websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Gallery%20Theorems%20and%20Algorithms | Art Gallery Theorems and Algorithms is a mathematical monograph on topics related to the art gallery problem, on finding positions for guards within a polygonal museum floorplan so that all points of the museum are visible to at least one guard, and on related problems in computational geometry concerning polygons. It was written by Joseph O'Rourke, and published in 1987 in the International Series of Monographs on Computer Science of the Oxford University Press. Only 1000 copies were produced before the book went out of print, so to keep this material accessible O'Rourke has made a pdf version of the book available online.
Topics
The art gallery problem, posed by Victor Klee in 1973, asks for the number of points at which to place guards inside a polygon (representing the floor plan of a museum) so that each point within the polygon is visible to at least one guard. Václav Chvátal provided the first proof that the answer is at most for a polygon with corners, but a simplified proof by Steve Fisk based on graph coloring and polygon triangulation is more widely known. This is the opening material of the book, which goes on to covers topics including visibility, decompositions of polygons, coverings of polygons, triangulations and triangulation algorithms, and higher-dimensional generalizations, including the result that some polyhedra such as the Schönhardt polyhedron do not have triangulations without additional vertices. More generally, the book has as a theme "the interplay between discrete and computational geometry".
It has 10 chapters, whose topics include the original art gallery theorem and Fisk's triangulation-based proof; rectilinear polygons; guards that can patrol a line segment rather than a single point; special classes of polygons including star-shaped polygons, spiral polygons, and monotone polygons; non-simple polygons; prison yard problems, in which the guards must view the exterior, or both the interior and exterior, of a polygon; visibility graphs; visibility algorithms; the computational complexity of minimizing the number of guards; and three-dimensional generalizations.
Audience and reception
The book only requires an undergraduate-level knowledge of graph theory and algorithms. However, it lacks exercises, and is organized more as a monograph than as a textbook. Despite warning that it omits some details that would be important to implementors of the algorithms that it describes, and does not describe algorithms that perform well on random inputs despite poor worst-case complexity, reviewer Wm. Randolph Franklin recommends it "for the library of every geometer".
Reviewer Herbert Edelsbrunner writes that "This book is the most comprehensive collection of results on polygons currently available and thus earns its place as a standard text in computational geometry. It is very well written and a pleasure to read." However, reviewer Patrick J. Ryan complains that some of the book's proofs are inelegant, and reviewer David |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncapher | Uncapher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Keith Uncapher (1922–2002), American computer engineer and manager
Rick Uncapher (born 1970), American bass player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Homicide%20episodes | Homicide is an Australian police procedural television series which aired from 1964 to 1977 on Seven Network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1964)
Season 2 (1965)
Season 3 (1965–66)
Season 4 (1967)
Season 5 (1968)
Season 6 (1969)
Season 7 (1970)
Season 8 (1971)
Season 9 (1972)
Season 10 (1973)
Season 11 (1974)
Season 12 (1975)
Season 13 (1976)
References
External links
Homicide
Homicide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Simmon | Robert Simmon is a Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Planet Labs, a commercial Earth observation company in San Francisco. Prior to moving in 2014, he was employed as a Senior Program Analyst at Goddard Space Flight Center where he was affiliated with the Climate and Radiation Laboratory and the NASA Earth Observatory. While serving as a Lead Data Visualizer and Information Designer at this division of NASA, Simmon is most notable for his visualization of the Western Hemisphere of planet Earth. Well known as the Blue Marble, this image that would become the default wallpaper on the first iPhone in 2007. Furthermore, in Simmon's field of information visualization, through his work with NASA, he strove to "help people better understand how the Earth works."
Blue Marble
Originally produced in 2002 and then later finding its place as the wallpaper for the original iPhone in 2007, Simmon was able to use a series of light data, collected from NASA's Terra satellite in order to construct the final result. Gathering data over the course of 4 months, as the satellite spun around its path, light data could be gathered from pole to pole of the surface below. Once the entirety of the surface data was collected, layers such as Specular Maps and Color Maps were able to be extracted and utilized to generate the representation of the Earth. Afterwards, the final images would be digitally composited together and applied to the surface of a computer generated sphere and composited together in Photoshop in order to render the final result.
Due to the nature of the data collection process, a part of Simmon's responsibility would to be conceal any holes left by the satellites imaging. To accomplish this, areas around missing patches left in the cloud layers required additional touch-ups in Photoshop. Likewise, elements such as the atmosphere halo could not be collected from the satellite data and thereby had to be generated completely in Photoshop.
References
Living people
NASA people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Clay | Roy Clay Sr. (born 1929) is an American computer scientist and inventor. He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created the HP 2116A. He is the Chief Executive Officer of ROD-L electronics and has been involved with the development of electrical safety equipment.
Early life and education
Clay was born in Kinloch, Missouri. At the time, Kinloch was the oldest African American community that was incorporated in Missouri. During his summer holidays he worked as a gardener in Ferguson, Missouri, but was encouraged by the local police to leave the majority white town. Despite experiencing racism throughout his childhood, Clay's mother told him to "you will face racism the rest of your life, but don't ever let that be a reason why you don't succeed". Clay attended a segregated school and eventually was awarded a scholarship to study mathematics at Saint Louis University (SLU). Whilst at SLU Clay wanted to become a Baseball player. He was one of the first African-Americans to graduate from SLU with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and, after struggling to find work in technology, Clay started work as a school teacher. At an interview for McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Clay was taken aside and told "Mr. Clay, I'm very sorry, we don't hire professional Negroes". He taught himself to code, and by 1958 was a programmer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His early work involved creating a radiation tracking system to study the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. Whilst working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Clay was introduced to David Packard, who encouraged Clay to apply for a job. After leaving LLNL Clay worked at Control Data Corporation, where he created new Fortran compilers.
Career
In 1962 Clay moved to Palo Alto, California. Clay joined Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he helped to launch and lead the Computer Science division in 1965. He was director of the team who developed the HP 2116A, one of Hewlett-Packard's first mini-computers. Clay stayed at HP until the mid seventies, eventually rising to being the highest-ranking African-American member of staff. Whilst working at HP Clay developed several initiatives to improve the representation of African-Americans in Silicon Valley. He recognised the need to test electrical products for safety, and left HP in 1971 to start his own business.
Clay is the founding director of ROD-L Electronics, which is based in Menlo Park, California. The company is recognised not only for its technical innovation but its community work. Clay invented the dielectric withstand test, or high potential (hipot) safety test. In 2002 Clay was elected by the African American Museum and Library at Oakland as one of the most important African-Americans working in technology. San Mateo County awarded ROD-L Electronics the Dads Count Family Friendly Employer Award and Clay was inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in 2003.
Clay was involved with local |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance%20Director%20%28Navy%29 | Finance Director (Navy), according to gov.uk, is responsible for management and decision support relating to Navy Command's delegated budget; delivery of the programming function and Portfolio Office; implementation of civilian HR policy and representation of civilian workforce dimensions in strategic decision making; conduct of ministerial and parliamentary business, corporate communications and management of the Command Secretariat.
Current Finance Director (Navy)
Since 24 January 2019, Nick Donlevy has been the Finance Director (Navy)
Since March 2017, Donlevy has also served in HM Treasury as the Deputy Director, Health and Social Care. He graduated from Oxford University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Before his appointment, Second Sea Lord Tony Radakin said 'I look forward to welcoming Nick and working with him over the coming months as we continue to work towards delivering the Navy's transformation programme and proposition.’
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Ministry of Defence Navy Department
Naval Staff Directorates of the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
Royal Navy appointments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe%20Women%27s%20Resource%20Centre%20and%20Network | The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN) is a gender and development organization established in 1990 in Harare.
The ZWRCN published the magazine WomanPlus, and in 1995 collaborated with other women's organizations to publish Zimbabwe Women's Voices.
References
Further reading
External links
ZWRCN website
1990 establishments in Zimbabwe
Women's organisations based in Zimbabwe
Development organizations
Women's rights in Zimbabwe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Walloon%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon Wallonia is a Belgian pay television channel, working as the local variant of US kids network Nickelodeon in that country. The network has two sister networks, Nick Jr. Wallonia and MTV Wallonia.
History
The Walloon variant of Nickelodeon was officially launched on 14 July 2006, sharing its analog feed with MTV Wallonia's. It gains revenue through advertisement and product sells. According to the Centre d'Information sur les Médias, Nickelodeon Wallonia was the most watched channel among kids aged 4 and up. During this time, the channel premiered new shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Avatar: the Last Airbender.
A Nick Jr. channel in French was launched in digital television on 28 August 2009.
In 2010, Nickelodeon Wallonia adopted the new US logo and rebranded its graphical package. In 2011, it switched its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. In 2014, Nickelodeon Wallonia premiered Rabbids Invasion, an original series of the channel, which premiered earlier that year on Nickelodeon France.
Nickelodeon timeshared with MTV, airing between 6am to 6pm. Nickelodeon and MTV were split in two 24h channels on digital platforms on 4 October 2011.
In 2019, Nickelodeon is the 1st kids channel in Southern Belgium with 15,66% share for the 4–14 years old range, in front of Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Studio 100 TV. All ages combined, Nickelodeon is ranked 11th regionally with a 1,29% share, behind the free-to-air state-owned La Trois with 1,36% who air the kids block Ouftivi all day.
As of April 6, 2020, the channel operates as an alternate video and audio track to Nickelodeon Commercial Light. Both channels' schedule are the same and operate under the same licence.
Programming
Current
Atchoo
Alviiin!!! and the Chipmunks
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Butterbean's Café
Danger Force
Henry Danger
Game Shakers
I Am Frankie
ICarly
It's Pony
Lego City Adventures
Lego Jurassic World
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
Noobees
PAW Patrol
School of Rock
SpongeBob SquarePants
Spyders
The Casagrandes
The Loud House
The Thundermans
Tyler Perry's Young Dylan
Victorious
44 Cats
References
External links
Official website
Wallonia
Television channels and stations established in 2006
French-language television stations in Belgium
2006 establishments in Belgium
Television channels in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi%20Onuoha | Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian American visual artist and academic based in Brooklyn, NY whose work examines the effect of data collection and technology on society.
Early life and education
Onuoha majored in anthropology at Princeton University. She earned a Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Work
Onuoha's work, including The Library of Missing Datasets, has explored the idea of "missing datasets," which she describes as "blank holes in otherwise data-saturated systems," such as information about citizen surveillance by the police. These gaps in modern data collection can both harm and help vulnerable communities. Onuoha points out that Google Maps lacks map data for Brazil's favelas, leaving out communities where more than a million people live. She is also interested in the effects of artificial intelligence and how people are classified and abstracted by data. Onuoha is the co-author of A People's Guide to AI with Mother Cyborg.
Onuoha has been a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow and an artist in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, Studio XX, Data & Society Research Institute, Columbia University’s Tow Center, and the Royal College of Art. She also taught at Bennington College. She is currently an adjunct professor at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
References
External links
Princeton University alumni
New York University alumni
American artists
American people of Nigerian descent
Living people
American women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphine%20Collective | The Seraphine Collective is a Detroit-based feminist DJ network for women, femme, and non-binary DJs, musicians, and artists. The group provides workshops, organizes events, and provides space and resources for under-resourced and under-represented artists through its collectively run record label and venue.
History
The Seraphine Collective was founded in 2013 by Lauren Rossi, who was discouraged by the lack of representation of female artists in music. Rossi started a blog documenting the work of female musicians, which led to the formation of the Seraphine Collective. The group organizes training workshops, the Best Fest Forever music festival, shows, and they have released several mixtapes.
Notable members of the collective include Dina Bankole, Rachel Thompson, Miz Korona. Other noteworthy affiliates include Mother Cyborg, Girls Rock Detroit and the Foundation for Women in Hip Hop. The Seraphine Collective is a sponsored project of the Allied Media Projects.
In 2016, the collective was a recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge Grant. They have also received funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the Awesome Foundation.
References
External links
Homepage
Music organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebet%20Lesan | Chebet Lesan (born c. 1989) is a Kenyan entrepreneur who has received various awards by creating charcoal briquettes from waste material and then selling it on to a network of women. The resulting product creates affordable fuel in Kenya and avoids trees from being used and its smoke free burn gives health benefits. The awards include the Queen's Young Leader Award and a Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
Early life and education
Lesan was born in 1989 and she attended the University of Nairobi where she graduated in Industrial Design.
Career
Lesan is a Mandela Washington Fellow. She says that she was inspired to her idea by seeing the loss of trees around Mount Kilimanjaro. She decided that she could make charcoal briquettes from biomass. Waste can come from sawdust or discarded flour. The waste material is carbonised and then the material, called char, is then pressed into briquettes with three different densities and heat output. The company she founded is called BrightGreen. Irrespective of their density they are sold by weight where they are targeted at normal consumers. Many consumers are living on $4 a day so the approximate charge of $0.55 per kilo is affordable. In 2017 they had supplied 300 households in total with 100 tons of briquettes. Demand is high as Kenya has used up 98% of their indigenous forest and this means that fuel for cooking can cost $25 for a 35 kg bag.
Her invention was estimated to have saved 800 tons of trees in Kenya by the end of 2017. Moreover, the briquettes burn with no smoke meaning that they are less harmful than the smoke filled hut she remembered her grandmother had to cook in.
Lesan chooses to distribute her fuel via women entrepreneurs who sell on the product. In 2019 the company was moving into profit but funds from competing in business contests like the CartierWomen's Initiative were targeted at extending the company's distribution area further.
Awards
Queen's Young Leader Award in 2017
Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
2017 Scale-Up Fellow at MIT
Cartier Women's Initiative 2019 finalist
Africa's Business Heroes Awards 2022, 1st Prize Winner
References
1990s births
Living people
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
University of Nairobi alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petros%20Drineas | Petros Drineas is a Greek-American computer scientist known for his contributions to the theory of data science and the development of Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA). In a 2012 paper Michael W. Mahoney and Drineas introduced CUR matrix approximation for improved big data analysis. Drineas' work on the application of principal component analysis to population genetics disproved the long-standing hypothesis that the Minoan civilization had North African origins.
Drineas earned his BS in 1997 from University of Patras in Greece. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Yale University in 2003 where his advisor was Ravi Kannan. Drineas was on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 2003 to 2016 and was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research and Sandia National Laboratory. He is currently a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Drineas is a co-editor with Peter Bühlmann, Michael Kane and M. van der Laan of "Handbook of Big Data" published in 2016.
References
American computer scientists
Purdue University faculty
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Greek computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner%20Doomsday%20Video | "Turner Doomsday Video" is the internal title of a video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world. The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network's 1980 launch, is a performance of the Christian hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands.
History
The recording was made right after "The Star-Spangled Banner" was recorded for CNN's sign-on (which also appeared in TNT's sign-on from 1988). After they recorded it, Turner asked if they would record a song just in case the world came to an end.
At CNN's launch, Ted Turner declared, "Barring satellite problems, we won't be signing off until the world ends":
The video is in standard definition and the 4:3 aspect ratio in use at the time of its production.
In popular culture
Rumors of the video have existed as early as 1988, when The New Yorker published an article describing it. However, the video did not become available to the public until 2015, when a writer for Jalopnik revealed a copy of the video that he had recorded during a 2009 internship.
In the 1990 comedy film Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the character Daniel Clamp has a similar "end of civilization" video ready to air on his news network. After the leak of the CNN video, director Joe Dante joked, "I think ours was better."
The 1994 British television satirical comedy series The Day Today features such a broadcast in Episode 3, after Queen Elizabeth II and then Prime Minister John Major had a fight. The film consists of a sequence of subtly humorous scenarios (stockbrokers spend "playtime" outside the London Stock Exchange jumping and skipping; a paramedic comforting an injured old woman gives her a brief kiss on the cheek; a man with a cigarette gets the offer of a light from a group of six-year-olds), all set against a backdrop of patriotic British music.
In response to the leak, National Public Radio undertook a search of their archives for similar recordings, and "found" one — or, rather, NPR produced a satirical send-up of such an "end of the world" recording that poked fun at the network's own reputation. An "excerpt" was broadcast on the January 10, 2015 edition of Weekend Edition. The recording is of Robert Siegel (as identified in the transcript, since the speaker in the recording quips, "I'm — well, who cares? I won't be for long.") announcing special coverage of the end of the world (specifically one from an imminent asteroid impact). In the recording, Siegel announces the approach of the asteroid, confidently remarks that NPR would have the best analysis of the impact the day after, and assures listeners that they can still become members of their local public radio station.
See also
Sign-on and sign-off
References
External links
CNN Collection database entry
1980 in American television
1980 works
Apocalypticism
CNN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay%E2%80%93Herriot%20model | The Fay–Herriot model is a statistical model which includes some distinct variation for each of several subgroups of observations. It is an area-level model, meaning some input data are associated with sub-aggregates such as regions, jurisdictions, or industries. The model produces estimates about the subgroups. The model is applied in the context of small area estimation in which there is a lot of data overall, but not much for each subgroup.
The subgroups are determined in advance of estimation and are built into the model structure. The model combines, by averaging, estimates of fixed effects and of the random effects type. The model is typically used to adjust for group-related differences in some dependent variable.
In random effects models like the Fay–Herriot, estimation is built on the assumption that the effects associated with subgroups are drawn independently from a normal (Gaussian) distribution, whose variance is estimated from the data on each subgroup. It is more common to use a fixed-effects model instead for many systematically different groups. A mixed random effects model like the Fay–Herriot is preferred if there are not enough observations per group to reliably estimate the fixed effects, or if for some reason fixed effects would not be consistently estimated.
The Fay–Herriot is a two-stage hierarchical model. The parameters of the distributions within the groups are often assumed to be independent, or it is assumed that they are correlated to those measured for another variable.
Model structure and assumptions
In classical Fay–Herriot (FH), the data used for estimation are aggregate estimates for the subgroups based on surveys.
The model can also be applied to microdata. Consider rows of observations numbered j=1 to J, in groups from i=1 to I, with predictive data for dependent variable . If the model includes random effects only, it can be expressed by:
A probability distribution is assumed for the random effects , typically a normal distribution. A different distribution can be assumed, e.g. if the sample distribution is known to have heavy tails.
Often fixed effects are included, making it a mixed model, with auxiliary data and economic or probability assumptions that make it possible to identify these effects separately from one another and from sampling variation .
Estimation
The parameters of interest including the random effects are estimated together iteratively. Methods can include maximum likelihood estimation, the method of moments, or a Bayesian way.
Fay–Herriot models can be characterized either as mixed models, or in a hierarchical form, or a multilevel regression with poststratification.
The resulting estimates for each area (subgroup) are weighted averages from the direct estimates and indirect estimates based on estimates of variances.
Tests of consistency
For random effects models to make consistent estimates, it is necessary that the subgroup-specific effects be uncorrelated to th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20of%20Alan%20Turing | Alan Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He left an extensive legacy in mathematics, science, society and popular culture.
Awards, honours, and tributes
Turing was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire 1946. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951. Several things are named in his honour:
Alan Turing Institute
Church–Turing thesis
Good–Turing frequency estimation
Turing completeness
Turing degree
Turing fixed-point combinator
Turing Institute
Turing Lecture
Turing machine
Turing patterns
Turing reduction
Turing switch
Turing test
Posthumous tributes
Various institutions have paid tribute to Turing by naming things after him including:
The computer room at King's College, Cambridge, Turing's alma mater, is called the Turing Room.
The Turing Room at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics houses a bust of Turing by Eduardo Paolozzi, and a set (No. 42/50) of his Turing prints (2000).
The University of Surrey has a statue of Turing on their main piazza and one of the buildings of Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences is named after him.
Istanbul Bilgi University organises an annual conference on the theory of computation called "Turing Days".
The University of Texas at Austin has an honours computer science programme named the Turing Scholars.
In the early 1960s, Stanford University named the sole lecture room of the Polya Hall Mathematics building "Alan Turing Auditorium".
One of the amphitheatres of the Computer Science department (LIFL) at the University of Lille in northern France is named in honour of Alan M. Turing (the other amphitheatre is named after Kurt Gödel).
The University of Washington has a computer laboratory named after Turing.
Oxford Brookes University has a building named after Turing.
Alan Turing Road in the Surrey Research Park and the Alan Turing Way, part of the Manchester inner ring road. Alan Turing road in Loughborough are named after Turing.
Carnegie Mellon University has a granite bench, situated in the Hornbostel Mall, with the name "A.M. Turing" carved across the top, "Read" down the left leg, and "Write" down the other.
The University of Oregon has a bust of Turing on the side of Deschutes Hall, the computer science building.
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has a road and a square named after Turing (Chemin Alan Turing and Place Alan Turing).
The Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, has a lecture room named "Turing Auditorium".
The Paris Diderot University has a lecture room named "Amphithéâtre Turing".
The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Würzburg has a lecture hall named "Turing Hörsaal".
The Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse has a lecture room named "Amphithéâtre Turing" (Bâtiment U4).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR | EICAR may refer to:
École Internationale de Création Audiovisuelle et de Réalisation, a film school in Paris
European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research
EICAR test file
EICAR (antiviral) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwiftOnSecurity | SwiftOnSecurity is a pseudonymous computer security expert and influencer on Twitter who pretends to be Taylor Swift. As of September 2022, they have over 375,500 followers. The account was originally created to post Taylor Swift-related memes about the Heartbleed bug. The name was chosen due to Swift's caution with regard to digital security, and the account's original focus on cybersecurity. The account has been cited in news articles about computer security. They are a Microsoft MVP, and work as an endpoint monitoring lead for a Fortune 500 company. Their blog contains general computer security advice, with a large amount dedicated to Windows and phishing.
Atlassian
In December 2019, SwiftOnSecurity tweeted about an issue in Atlassian software that embedded the private key of a domain. This turned out to be a security vulnerability, and was assigned .
References
External links
SwiftOnSecurity on the Fediverse
decentsecurity.com, the blog of SwiftOnSecurity
Taylor Swift
Living people
Computer security specialists
Year of birth missing (living people)
InfoSec Twitter
Unidentified people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVTN%20702 | HVTN 702 was a clinical trial which the HIV Vaccine Trials Network organized to develop an HIV vaccine. In February 2020 the organizers halted the trial after finding no evidence of efficacy.
Around December 2019 various media outlets reported that HVTN 702 could be an effective vaccine in preventing HIV.
In 2016 various media outlets announced the start of the research.
HVTN 702 was based on outcomes of the RV 144 trial.
References
External links
profile at ClinicalTrials.gov
HIV vaccine research
Clinical trials related to HIV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Mushrooms%20%28video%20game%29 | Magic Mushrooms is a platform game published in 1985 by Acornsoft for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers. It includes a built-in level editor.
Gameplay
The objective is to guide Murphy, a beer-bellied man with a large nose, and remove all the magic mushrooms that populate the levels.
The screen has a series of green bricks on a black background. To move, the player can use the left, right and jump buttons, as well as climb ladders. Once Murphy has gathered all the mushrooms, the player must use the level's exit platform before time runs out.
There are some obstacles in the player's route: wobbly platforms which make Murphy less stable on his feet, conveyor belts which can send the character backwards or slow them, ice platforms which make Murphy slide in one direction until he reaches the end of it, glass which disintegrates under his feet, and finally some enemies that look like mutant tomatoes.
References
External links
BBC Micro Games Archive
1985 video games
Acornsoft games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron-only games
Europe-exclusive video games
Fictional fungi
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video game level editors
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games with user-generated gameplay content |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLLD | CLLD may refer to:
Community-led local development, a European Union initiative to support the decentralised management of development projects
Cross-Linguistic Linked Data, a project coordinating over a dozen linguistics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s%20Institute%20of%20Technology%2C%20Bihta | Mother's Institute of Technology, Bihta, is a private degree engineering college situated in Gaya, Bihar, India.
About college
It offers undergraduate degree engineering in computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering. This college is affiliated with the Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU).
See also
References
External links
http://www.mitbihta.org/
Aryabhatta Knowledge University
Engineering colleges in Bihar
Colleges affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University
1989 establishments in Bihar
Educational institutions established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Timing%20Centre | The United Kingdom National Timing Centre is the proposed network of atomic clocks consisting of a central building, and a series of other locations across the UK.
The cost of the new system will cost £36 million, but additionally the UK government has given £6.7 million through Innovate UK Funding and £40 million toward a new research program Quantum Technologies for fundamental physics to support UK research and investment.
Locations: University of Birmingham; University of Strathclyde; University of Surrey; BT Adastral Park, Suffolk; BBC, Manchester; National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.
History
Discussions around a United Kingdom National Timing Centre began on 19 February 2020 as a response to the United Kingdom's over reliance on the European Union Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the United States of America's (USA) GNSS Systems.
References
External links
National Timing Centre at the National Physical Laboratory
Standards organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper%20in%20the%20Castro | Caper in the Castro is a murder mystery video game developed by C.M. Ralph and released in 1989. It is the earliest known computer game to focus on LGBT themes. The game was originally released for Mac computers and distributed freely on bulletin board systems as charityware to raise money for the AIDS epidemic.
Gameplay
Caper in the Castro is a single-player point-and-click game. The player takes on the role of Tracker McDyke, a lesbian private detective, who must find her kidnapped friend and drag queen, Tessy LaFemme. To accomplish this, the player examines various locations on Castro Street to search for information on LaFemme's disappearance. The setting is based on the historically gay San Francisco neighborhood, the Castro.
Development and history
Caper in the Castro was developed with the Mac HyperCard and the original game description file says that it was created over the course of 6 months. C.M. Ralph has stated that they worked on it outside of their full-time job in Silicon Valley. In interviews, they have mentioned that they were inspired to create the game so they could give back to the LGBT community.
Ralph made the game as charityware and asked for people to donate to an AIDS charity of their choice instead of paying for the game. In this way, it was one of the only games in the 1980s and 1990s to directly reference HIV/AIDS. The game was distributed freely over bulletin board systems (BBS), which allowed programs and information to be shared between computers using telephone lines. These systems provided a way for diverse communities to network easily. The game was specifically shared on the LGBT BBS.
In 1989, C.M. Ralph released an alternative version of the game called Murder on Mainstreet for commercial sale. This version swapped out the main characters' names and other details to exclude LGBT themes, so that they could sell it to a publisher that might not have been interested in an LGBT-related game. Heizer Software sold this version of the game in mail order catalogs.
From 2014 to 2017, the game was thought to be lost because there were no known floppy disk copies left, and since the game was distributed through BBS, it was unlikely any copies would have survived. However, in 2017, C.M. Ralph found original floppy disks of both Caper in the Castro and Murder on Mainstreet while in the process of moving. Adrienne Shaw, the director of the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, reached out to The Strong National Museum of Play to find a way to access the data on the floppy disks. From there, Andrew Borman, the Digital Games Curator at The Strong, came up with a solution to access the game. In 2017, playable versions of both Caper in the Castro and Murder on Mainstreet were hosted online through the Internet Archive. In 2019, the game was exhibited at Schwules Museum in Berlin, during the Rainbow Arcade, the first exhibit on the history of LGBTQ video games.
References
External links
Caper in the Castro - Internet Archive
1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20the%20Continuous%20Discretely | Computing the Continuous Discretely: Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra is an undergraduate-level textbook in geometry, on the interplay between the volume of convex polytopes and the number of lattice points they contain. It was written by Matthias Beck and Sinai Robins, and published in 2007 by Springer-Verlag in their Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series (Vol. 154). A second edition was published in 2015, and a German translation of the first edition by Kord Eickmeyer, Das Kontinuum diskret berechnen, was published by Springer in 2008.
Topics
The book begins with a motivating problem, the coin problem of determining which amounts of money can be represented (and what is the largest non-representable amount of money) for a given system of coin values.
Other topics touched on include face lattices of polytopes and the Dehn–Sommerville equations relating numbers of faces; Pick's theorem and the Ehrhart polynomials, both of which relate lattice counting to volume; generating functions, Fourier transforms, and Dedekind sums, different ways of encoding sequences of numbers into mathematical objects; Green's theorem and its discretization; Bernoulli polynomials; the Euler–Maclaurin formula for the difference between a sum and the corresponding integral; special polytopes including zonotopes, the Birkhoff polytope, and permutohedra; and the enumeration of magic squares. In this way, the topics of the book connect together geometry, number theory, and combinatorics.
Audience and reception
This book is written at an undergraduate level, and provides many exercises, making it suitable as an undergraduate textbook. Little mathematical background is assumed, except for some complex analysis towards the end of the book. The book also includes open problems, of more interest to researchers in these topics. As reviewer Darren Glass writes, "Even people who are familiar with the material would almost certainly learn something from the clear and engaging exposition that these two authors use."
Reviewer Margaret Bayer calls the book "coherent and tightly developed ... accessible and engaging", and reviewer Oleg Karpenkov calls it "outstanding".
See also
List of books about polyhedra
References
Polytopes
Lattice points
Volume
Mathematics textbooks
2007 non-fiction books
2015 non-fiction books
Springer Science+Business Media books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Macias | Amanda Macias is an American journalist who reports on national security subjects for the financial news network CNBC.
Early life and education
Amanda Macias was born at Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas. She grew up in a military family and has lived on U.S. Army installations around the world.
She is a 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and Finance. In 2021, she attended Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program.
Career
In 2008, Macias worked as a general assignment news reporter and then anchor for NBC News affiliate KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. She later joined Reuters as a field producer in Brussels,Belgium where she covered EU political institutions and NATO. In 2013, she moved to New York City and joined Business Insider as a national security correspondent. In 2016, Macias moved to Washington, D.C., where she joined the national security team at CBS Radio.
In 2018, Macias joined financial news network CNBC as a national security reporter. In addition to national security, her beat includes the defense industry, State Department and the United Nations as well as the intelligence community.
Government investigation
Macias became embroiled in the government arrest of a counterterrorism analyst with whom she was romantically involved, according to prosecutors. The government referred to her as "Journalist 1," and a second journalist involved in the leaks as Courtney Kube, a senior reporter for NBC News. NBC and CNBC is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
The analyst pled guilty to agreeing to disclose classified information because it would support Macias' career and was sentenced to 30 months in prison but was released early.
Personal life
She lives in the historic Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and speaks three languages.
References
Living people
21st-century American journalists
Missouri School of Journalism alumni
Mass media people from El Paso, Texas
American women journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Robinson%20%28data%20scientist%29 | David G. Robinson is a data scientist at the Heap analytics company. He is a co-author of the tidytext R (programming language) package and the O’Reilly book, Text Mining with R. Robinson has previously worked as a chief data scientist at DataCamp and as a data scientist at Stack Overflow. He was also a data engineer at Flatiron Health in 2019.
Education
Robinson graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Statistics in 2010. He received a PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton University.
Career
Robinson previously worked at Flatiron Health, where he used data science in the fight against cancer on the Data Insights Engineering team. He has three courses on DataCamp published, which assist people with learning R and data science. He also co-authored Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach with Julia Silge. The book was published by O'Reilly in July 2017 and is a guide to drawing insights from text using the tidytext package in R. Another book authored by Robinson is Introduction to Empirical Bayes: Examples from Baseball Statistics, an e-book demonstrating the statistical method of empirical Bayes, based on the example of estimating baseball batting averages.
Robinson is known for his author profiling and sentiment analysis of Donald Trump's tweets in 2016, when he found that posts from Trump's official account came from multiple sources.
Publications
Robinson has numerous publications including, "Widespread changes in mRNA stability contribute to quiescence-specific gene expression patterns in a fibroblast model of quiescence", "broom: An R package for converting statistical analysis objects into tidy data frames", "A nested parallel experiment demonstrates differences in intensity-dependence between RNA-seq and microarrays", "subSeq: Determining appropriate sequencing depth through efficient read subsampling", "Design and Analysis of Bar-seq Experiments", and "OASIS: an automated program for global investigation of bacterial and archaeal insertion sequences".
As mentioned, his book, "Introduction to Empirical Bayes", helps readers understand Bayesian methods for estimating binomial proportions, through a series of examples drawn from baseball statistics.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Princeton University alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Data scientists
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovie%20Simone | Lovie Simone Oppong (born November 29, 1998) is an American actress, best known for her role as Zora Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf.
Life and career
Simone was born in New York City at The Bronx and raised in Orange County, New York. Here, she attended Monroe-Woodbury High School from her freshman year to senior year. Her mother is African American and her father is Ghanaian. She has a twin sister named Yuri, who's a musician that goes by Reiyo The Giant and a younger brother and sister. She studied at an acting school in New York and later appeared in a national commercial for JC Penney.
In 2016, Simone began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf playing the role of Zora Greenleaf, the daughter of Kerissa (Kim Hawthorne) and Jacob Greenleaf (Lamman Rucker). Simone was originally cast as a recurring cast member, but was promoted to a series regular as of the second season. Simone later made her film debut in a supporting role opposite Jennifer Hudson in the 2018 drama film Monster, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The following year, she appeared in two drama films that premiered at 2019 Sundance Film Festival: Share and played a leading role in Selah and the Spades. Both films has received positive reviews from critics. In 2020, Simone played one of leads in writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones' horror film The Craft: Legacy, a sequel to the 1996 film The Craft.
In 2021, Simone starred in the first season of Starz crime drama series, Power Book III: Raising Kanan. In 2022, she was cast opposite Tobias Menzies Apple TV+ limited series, Manhunt. She starred in the period drama film The Walk, and in 2023, starred in the science fiction thriller 57 Seconds.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Living people
1998 births
American television actresses
21st-century American actresses
African-American actresses
American film actresses
Actresses from New York City
American people of Ghanaian descent
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie%20Garr | Dixie Tyran Garr (born 1956) is an American computer engineer who served as Vice President at Cisco Systems and Head of Software Engineering at Texas Instruments.
Early life and education
Garr was born in Dubach, Louisiana. She was the youngest of her eight brothers and sisters, and graduated top of her class. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in computer science from Grambling State University in 1975. During her college degree she interned at General Motors. She was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked as a Hughes Aircraft Company Fellow. She earned a PhD in computer science and engineering, before joining Hughes Aircraft Company as an engineer.
Career
Garr moved to Texas Instruments in 1981.
Garr worked at TI for almost twenty years. She held several leadership positions at TI, including advanced development manager, manager of the Information Technology group and manager of digital imaging. She was the first African-American Level 3 Director of software engineering at TI. At TI Garr launched a minority leadership program that included guest speakers, a sponsorship scheme and professional development for people from minoritised backgrounds. In 1997 Garr was named the "Black Engineer of the Year in Industry" by the council of engineering deans at historically black colleges and universities. She attended the Stanford University Executive Program. Garr returned to TI to lead the engineering teams working on programmes in defence and communications.
In 1998 Garr was headhunted by Cisco Systems. At Cisco Garr led teams that looked after customer satisfaction and corporate quality.
References
1956 births
Living people
American computer scientists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira%20Radinsky | Kira Radinsky (; born July 28, 1986) is a Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining.
She gained recognition after being selected by the MIT Technology Review to the "35 Innovators Under 35" list. Her work was described in the popular press as predicting the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba, based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a drought often follow by a cholera outbreak.
While working on her Ph.D. she co-founded a company, SalesPredict, based on similar ideas, but with different algorithms (the intellectual property of her work belongs to Technion). It was acquired by eBay in 2016, where Kira Radinsky worked as chief scientist and the director of data science during 2016–2019.
Radinsky is a member of the World Economic Forum. In the year 2021, she was declared among its 'Young Global Leaders' to be part of the proactive multistakeholder community of the world’s next-generation leaders to inform and influence decision-making and mobilize transformation".
Since the end of 2021, Radinsky also serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, Tel Aviv, which she co-founded in 2019. She is also a visiting professor at Technion teaching the applications of predictive data mining in medicine. She has co-authored over 10 patents and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Awards and recognition
2016 selected as the "Woman of the Year" by Lady Globes magazine.
2015 Included into the Forbes "30 under 30" young innovators and entrepreneurs list
2013: Included into the MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" list
References
External links
Kira Radinsky personal website
1986 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Israel Defense Prize recipients
20th-century Israeli businesswomen
20th-century Israeli businesspeople
Ukrainian emigrants to Israel
Ukrainian Jews
Data miners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIBN | CIBN may refer to:
Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, professional organization for bankers in Nigeria
China International Broadcasting Network, Chinese media company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Langan | Dan Langan is an American baker, blogger, television host and television personality. He has appeared in and hosted several baking shows for the Food Network.
Early life
Langan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child he started baking with his mother and grandmother. In middle school he began teaching himself to decorate cakes In high school Langan worked as a cake decorator at a bakery .
Langan graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2012. The same year, he started his blog, Baked By Dan.
Career
In 2016, Langan first appeared on television as a finalist on Season 2 of Spring Baking championship. He later was a winning contestant Cake Wars. Langan has since appeared as a judge on Christmas Cookie Challenge, Winner Cake All, Duff's Halloween Cake Off and Chopped Sweets.
In 2018 Langan got his own Food Network digital series, Dan Can Bake It. In the show, Langan receives a bakery box that contains a message and visual clues of his baking challenge of the week. Season 2 of Dan Can Bake It premiered in January 2019.
In 2019 Langan became part of the Food Network Kitchen app, appearing in several on-demand cooking classes. In December 2019 Langan made his first guest appearance on Good Morning America. In February 2020, Food Network announced that Langan would be a judge and mentor on Bakeaway Camp With Martha Stewart, which premiered on May 11, 2020.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Food Network
American bakers
American television hosts
People from Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20of%20Special%20Conservation%20Interest | An Area of Special Conservation Interest (ASCI) is a protected area in Europe or North Africa, part of the Emerald network established by the countries who have signed the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats.
The purpose of the ASCIs is to conserve and protect habitats and species defined in the convention.
Emerald Network
The Emerald Network is an ecological network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest.
The Council of Europe launched the network when it adopted Recommendation No. 16 (1989) of the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention.
The European Union's Natura 2000 network covers the portion of the Emerald network within the EU.
The network also include conservation units in non-community European states such as Andorra, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Norway, Switzerland and Ukraine, and in several African states.
In the United Kingdom, Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas are Areas of Special Conservation Interest.
The African signatories to the Bern Convention include Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal.
Criteria
An ASCI should meet one or more of the following criteria as defined at UNEP-WCMC 2014, Biodiversity A-Z website: www.biodversitya-z.org, UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK:
Contributes substantially to the survival of threatened species, endemic species, or any species listed in Appendices I and II of the Bern convention;
Supports significant numbers of species in an area of high species diversity or supports important populations of one or more species;
Contains an important and/or representative sample of endangered habitat types;
Contains an outstanding example of a particular habitat type or a mosaic of different habitat types;
Represents an important area for one or more migratory species;
Otherwise contributes substantially to the achievement of the objectives of the convention.
Notes
Sources
Biogeography
Environment of Europe
Protected areas of Europe
Protected areas of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Crampton%20Smith | Gillian Crampton Smith is a British educator, interaction designer, and a pioneer of computer desktop publishing. Since the early 1980s she has developed several academic graduate programs focused on digital graphic design, typesetting and human-computer interaction, notably at Saint Martin's School of Art, the Royal College of Art (1992-2000), Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (2000-2005) and Iuav University of Venice (2006–2014). She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and an advisor at the MIT Senseable City Lab.
Career
Crampton Smith studied philosophy and history at Cambridge University. Through the 1970s she worked in publishing for The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement. In the early 1980s, she designed and developed a page-layout program for the Apple II computer, which convinced her of the potential of artists and designers in the creation of information technologies.
In the 1980s she started developing academic programs that focused on digital interactive design. In 1983 she joined Saint Martin's School of Art, where she set up a new postgraduate course in graphic design and computers for practicing designers. In 1989 she moved to the Royal College of Art where she built the Computer Related Design (CRD) program. The CRD program later achieved an international reputation as a leading centre for interaction design. In 2000 she founded and directed the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy, then from 2006-2014 the Interaction Design Programme at Iuav University of Venice.
Awards
Crampton Smith won the ACM SIGCHI 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Practice Award for outstanding contributions to the practice and understanding of human-computer interaction.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand%20Together | Stand Together is an American philanthropic organization that was first established in 2003 and is often referred to informally as the Koch Network. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia, and was founded by Charles Koch to assist philanthropic activities across the United States. Formerly known as The Seminar Network, its renaming as Stand Together was announced on May 20, 2019. The founding CEO is Brian Hooks.
Founding and history
In 2003, Charles Koch began hosting annual meetings of business leaders and philanthropists to support various education and policy initiatives. From these seminars grew a philanthropic community of organizations working to address issues such as poverty, addiction, recidivism, gang violence and homelessness. In 2019, this advocacy organization became the Stand Together Foundation.
As it exists today, Stand Together seeks to identify and mentor organizations addressing society’s biggest challenges. A key part of the organization’s strategy is to work through what it refers to as “key institutions of society” – education, business, communities, and government – to discover innovative ways to “remove barriers so every person can rise.”
In a speech in January 2019 in Palm Springs, Charles Koch signaled he would shift away from partisan politics and focus on goals that cut across ideologies. Stand Together is considered a manifestation of those stated intentions. Charles Koch is considered less political than his brother, David Koch.
Brian Hooks is the current Chairman and CEO. He previously served as executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and is also president of the Charles Koch Foundation. Other leadership members include Evan Feinberg, Amy Pelletier, and Kevin Lavelle.
Operations
Hooks has explained the goal of Stand Together is to seek non-partisan, bottom-up solutions to societal issues, rather than focusing on partisan, top-down approaches. Founder Charles Koch has admitted that a political approach his organizations had taken in prior years proved unsuccessful and divisive. Despite this aim, some organization within the Stand Together community engage in policy and politics. In recent years, leaders of affiliated organizations have stated an intention to endorse policies and candidates regardless of political party.
Stand Together works on issues including education, poverty, criminal justice, immigration, free expression, trade, foreign policy, economic opportunity, technology and business as a force for good.
Similarly, on issues of policy, Stand Together led a broad bipartisan coalition on criminal justice reform – which saw leaders like Van Jones and organizations like the ACLU coming together with Senate Republicans and The Heritage Foundation – to pass the First Step Act in 2018. Stand Together has cited this approach as a key to its effectiveness and continues to bridge divides on this issue and many others like foreign policy and immigrati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20security%20awareness | Internet security awareness or Cyber security awareness refers to how much end-users know about the cyber security threats their networks face, the risks they introduce and mitigating security best practices to guide their behavior. End users are considered the weakest link and the primary vulnerability within a network. Since end-users are a major vulnerability, technical means to improve security are not enough. Organizations could also seek to reduce the risk of the human element (end users). This could be accomplished by providing security best practice guidance for end users' awareness of cyber security. Employees could be taught about common threats and how to avoid or mitigate them.
Cyber security awareness, training, education
A cyber security risk mitigating end user program could consist of a combination of multiple approaches including cyber security awareness, cyber security training, and cyber security education. According to, and adopted from, see the below table that provides a comparison of the approaches.
Threats
Threat agents or threat actors are the perpetrators of the threat and usually look for the easiest way to gain access into a network, which is often the human element. However, these cyber threats can be mitigated. Some common threats include but are not limited to below.
Social engineering is when someone uses a compelling story, authority, or other means to convince someone to hand over sensitive information such as usernames and passwords. An end user with cyber security awareness will have the ability to recognize these types of attacks which improves their ability to avoid them.
Phishing is a form of social engineering. It is a popular attack that attempts to trick users into clicking a link within an email or on a website in hopes that they divulge sensitive information. This attack generally relies on a bulk email approach and the low cost of sending phishing emails. Few targets are fooled, but so many are targeted that this is still a profitable vector.
Spear phishing is an email crafted and sent to a specific person to whom it may appear to be legitimate. It is a form of phishing, but it is more convincing and more likely to succeed than traditional phishing emails because it tailors the email to the victim. Its deployment can range from a bulk automated process, such as accessing the address book of a past victim and sending simple phishing attacks to their contacts (thus appearing to come from a recognized past contact), to more sophisticatedly hand-written communications to target specific recipients.
Vishing or voice phishing is a form of social engineering that involves contacting individuals via traditional landlines, telephony (i.e., Voice over IP), automated text-to-speech systems, or other forms of voice communications to trick them into divulging sensitive information like credit card data.
Smishing or SMS phishing is social engineering that leverages SMS or text messages as th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion%20recognition%20in%20conversation | Emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) is a sub-field of emotion recognition, that focuses on mining human emotions from conversations or dialogues having two or more interlocutors. The datasets in this field are usually derived from social platforms that allow free and plenty of samples, often containing multimodal data (i.e., some combination of textual, visual, and acoustic data). Self- and inter-personal influences play critical role in identifying some basic emotions, such as, fear, anger, joy, surprise, etc. The more fine grained the emotion labels are the harder it is to detect the correct emotion. ERC poses a number of challenges, such as, conversational-context modeling, speaker-state modeling, presence of sarcasm in conversation, emotion shift across consecutive utterances of the same interlocutor.
The task
The task of ERC deals with detecting emotions expressed by the speakers in each utterance of the conversation. ERC depends on three primary factors – the conversational context, interlocutors' mental state, and intent.
Datasets
IEMOCAP, SEMAINE, DailyDialogue, and MELD are the four widely used datasets in ERC. Among these four datasets, MELD contains multiparty dialogues.
Methods
Approaches to ERC consist of unsupervised, semi-unsupervised, and supervised methods. Popular supervised methods include using or combining pre-defined features, recurrent neural networks (DialogueRNN), graph convolutional networks (DialogueGCN ), and attention gated hierarchical memory network. Most of the contemporary methods for ERC are deep learning based and rely on the idea of latent speaker-state modeling.
Emotion Cause Recognition in Conversation
Recently a new subtask of ERC has emerged that focuses on recognising emotion cause in conversation. Methods to solve this task rely on language models-based question answering mechanism. RECCON is one of the key datasets for this task.
See also
Emotion recognition
Sentiment analysis
References
Emotion
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atomwaffen%20Division%20members%20in%20the%20United%20States%20who%20faced%20criminal%20charges | Members of the , an international neo-Nazi terrorist network, have been alleged to have been responsible for a number of murders, planned terrorist attacks, as well as other criminal actions. This list contains some of those who have been criminally charged for activities done in connection with the Atomwaffen Division in the United States, including those who have been convicted.
Convicted members
Brandon Russell
In May 2017, on the night of Devon Arthurs' arrest, his third roommate, a 21-year-old, Brandon Russell was also arrested and questioned by local police and the FBI. While it was determined that Russell was not involved in the homicides and was released, the deaths drew investigators' attention to a large stash of explosives at the same location.
When the authorities searched Russell's garage, they found explosive precursors ammonium nitrate, nitromethane, homemade detonators and an explosive compound hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. HMTD has been used to make improvised explosive devices by groups such as al-Qaeda, and ammonium nitrate and nitromethane were used by Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing. The authorities also found thorium and americium, two radioactive substances, in Russell's bedroom. Russell, a former student of nuclear physics at the University of South Florida and a Florida Army National Guardsman, had a framed photograph of Timothy McVeigh in his bedroom. The authorities also discovered guns, various Atomwaffen paraphernalia and neo-Nazi propaganda.
The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Russell on explosives charges and the FBI bulletin warned he might be planning a terrorist attack. Russell was arrested again with another member in Monroe County. The car they were driving contained assault rifles, body armor and more than 1000 rounds of ammunition which they had acquired after the shooting. Russell claimed the explosives were used to power model rockets, but according to an FBI bomb technician the explosives were powerful enough to destroy an airliner. The prosecutors alleged Russell "planned to use the explosives to harm civilians, nuclear facilities and synagogues."
In September 2017, Russell pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered destructive device and illegally storing explosives in federal court; in January 2018, he was sentenced to five years in prison for those crimes. He was released from prison August 23, 2021.
Baltimore Arrests
In February 2023 Russell and a Maryland woman were charged with allegedly conspiring to attack electric substations in the Baltimore area. Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, have been arrested for planning to attack numerous Baltimore electrical substations, aiming to “completely destroy this whole city” in an apparently racially motivated attack.
Vasillios Pistolis
In August 2017, during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Vasillios Pistolis, a corporal in the United States Marine Corps who was also a member of Atomwaffen D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20single-source%20shortest%20path%20algorithm | A central problem in algorithmic graph theory is the shortest path problem. One of the generalizations of the shortest path problem is known as the single-source-shortest-paths (SSSP) problem, which consists of finding the shortest paths from a source vertex to all other vertices in the graph. There are classical sequential algorithms which solve this problem, such as Dijkstra's algorithm. In this article, however, we present two parallel algorithms solving this problem.
Another variation of the problem is the all-pairs-shortest-paths (APSP) problem, which also has parallel approaches: Parallel all-pairs shortest path algorithm.
Problem definition
Let be a directed graph with nodes and edges. Let be a distinguished vertex (called "source") and be a function assigning a non-negative real-valued weight to each edge. The goal of the single-source-shortest-paths problem is to compute, for every vertex reachable from , the weight of a minimum-weight path from to , denoted by and abbreviated . The weight of a path is the sum of the weights of its edges. We set if is unreachable from .
Sequential shortest path algorithms commonly apply iterative labeling methods based on maintaining a tentative distance for all nodes; is always or the weight of some path from to and hence an upper bound on . Tentative distances are improved by performing edge relaxations, i.e., for an edge the algorithm sets .
For all parallel algorithms we will assume a PRAM model with concurrent reads and concurrent writes.
Delta stepping algorithm
The delta stepping algorithm is a label-correcting algorithm, which means the tentative distance of a vertex can be corrected several times via edge relaxations until the last step of the algorithm, when all tentative distances are fixed.
The algorithm maintains eligible nodes with tentative distances in an array of buckets each of which represents a distance range of size . During each phase, the algorithm removes all nodes of the first nonempty bucket and relaxes all outgoing edges of weight at most . Edges of a higher weight are only relaxed after their respective starting nodes are surely settled. The parameter is a positive real number that is also called the "step width" or "bucket width".
Parallelism is obtained by concurrently removing all nodes of the first nonempty bucket and relaxing their outgoing light edges in a single phase. If a node has been removed from the current bucket with non-final distance value then, in some subsequent phase, will eventually be reinserted into , and the outgoing light edges of will be re-relaxed. The remaining heavy edges emanating from all nodes that have been removed from so far are relaxed once and for all when finally remains empty. Subsequently, the algorithm searches for the next nonempty bucket and proceeds as described above.
The maximum shortest path weight for the source node is defined as , abbreviated . Also, the size of a path is defined to be the n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20Witness | Eye Witness is an adventure published by FASA in 1994 for the near-future dystopian fantasy cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Description
Eye Witness is 72-page softcover book written by Mike Nystul that describes the details of a complete Shadowrun adventure.
Plot summary
A young investment broker in Seattle is turned into a goblin by a genetic quirk, and he replaces the human employees of his company with ghouls. Troubleshooters (the players) are sent in to put things back to normal by terminating the ghouls.
Reception
In the June 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #206), Rick Swan thought this adventure was far more memorable than many recent Shadowrun publications, "thanks to the satirical subtext added to the usual mix of fantasy and cyberpunk." He concluded with a recommendation, saying, "[Author] Nystul balances the chills with chuckles, and his rollicking plot should leave even in the most jaded Shadowrun-ners gasping for breath."
Reviews
White Wolf #47 (Sept., 1994)
Backstab #5
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20Brewers%20Radio%20Network | The Milwaukee Brewers Radio Network (branded as the Brewers Radio Network) is a 33-station radio network in Wisconsin and Michigan that broadcasts baseball games and related programming for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball, and is operated in lieu of the Brewers by Good Karma Brands. The network's flagship is WTMJ/620 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was purchased by Good Karma Brands in 2018. WTMJ served as the flagship station for the network for all but three years of the Brewers' existence (the exceptions being WEMP in 1970 and WISN in 1981 and 1982).
Announcers
Hall of Fame member Bob Uecker has been part of the Brewers Radio Network since 1971. Jeff Levering has been part of the Brewers Radio Network since 2015. Lane Grindle has been part of the Brewers Radio Network since 2016. Josh Maurer joined the team to do road games in 2022.
Programming
Pre-game
The pre-game show is entitled as the On-Deck Show Built By Menards.
Post-game
The post-game show is entitled the Sartori Cheese Post Game Show, which is usually done by either by Levering or Grindle.
Stations
Affiliates (33 stations)
Wisconsin
Michigan
Bold denotes the Flagship station.
Source:
See also
List of Milwaukee Brewers broadcasters
References
Milwaukee Brewers
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20Format | A pixel format refers to the format in which the image data output by a digital camera is represented.
In comparison to the raw pixel information captured by the image sensor, the output pixels could be formatted differently based on the active pixel format.
For several digital cameras, this format is a user-configurable feature; the available pixel formats on a particular camera depends on the type and model of the camera.
The image sensors in digital cameras contain pixels, each of which measures the amount of incoming light.
The pixel format of the image sensor dictates or determines the color depth (often referred to as bit depth), color filter array filtering patterns that are used by the sensor, and the method by which pixel information is stored (packed pixel and planar pixel).
The pixel format for the sensor is typically user-configurable.
Common pixel formats
The European Machine Vision Association provides recommendations for the creation of pixel format labels, and these are followed by some manufacturers
Monochromatic Formats
Monochromatic formats are often labeled by sensor manufacturers with the following indicators:
An indication that the pixel is measuring the entire spectrum it is sensitive to, for example with the word "mono"
A number to indicate the color depth
An indication of the method by which the data is stored, packed pixel or planar pixel
Color Formats
Sensors that collect color information (as opposed to broadband monochromatic information) do so in a myriad of ways.
Manufacturers typically label these formats with the following indicators:
An indication of how the color information is collected throughout the sensor
A number to indicate the color depth (e.g., 8, 10, or 12 bits per pixel)
An indication of the method by which the data is stored, such as packed pixel or planar pixel
See also
Color image pipeline
Color filter array
Bayer filter
RGBE filter
Chroma subsampling
Image sensor format
Raw image format
References
External links
Website for The European Machine Vision Association
Camera features |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20Force | The National Cyber Force (NCF) is intended to consolidate offensive cyber activity in the United Kingdom, by enabling an offensive capability to combat security threats, hostile states, terror groups, extremism, hackers, disinformation and election interference.
Organisation
The specialist unit is a joint initiative between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and GCHQ, one of the British intelligence agencies.
Around £76m will be invested in the NCF in its first year.
It will operate alongside the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which primarily concentrates on defensive cyber activities to protect government departments, strategic infrastructure and industry.
Its first commander was named in The Economist as James Babbage
History
Plans for the unit were reported in the media in September 2018. It has since been reported to have been delayed because of "distractions caused by uncertainties over Brexit and frequent changes of ministers and secretaries of state in the MoD" and turf wars between the MOD and GCHQ.
An April 2021 report produced by academics from King's College London and the Offensive Cyber Working Group has produced a set of recommendations for the NCF, with an aim to increase public debate on offensive cyber in the UK.
In October 2021 it was announced that the NCF will be based in the village of Samlesbury, as part of a new 'cyber corridor'.
See also
UK cyber security community
Joint Operations Cell
Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group
National Cyber Crime Unit
United States Cyber Command
References
Computer security in the United Kingdom
GCHQ operations
Hacker groups
Hacking (computer security)
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppValley | AppValley is an independent American digital distribution service operated and trademarked by AppValley LLC. It serves as an alternative app store for the iOS mobile operating system, which allows users to download applications that are not available on the App Store, most commonly tweaked "++" apps, jailbreak apps, and apps including paid apps on the app store.
Legality
AppValley is among several services that violate enterprise developer certificates from Apple. The terms under which these are granted make clear that they are for companies who wish to distribute apps to their employees. AppValley uses these certificates to distribute software directly to non-employees, thereby bypassing the AppStore. AppValley's conduct had implications in U.S. sanctioned markets like Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, which have all been subject to commercial sanctions.
Among the software offered by AppValley and other services is pirated software, including paid apps on the app store and premium versions of Instagram, Spotify, Pokémon Go, and others. For instance, AppValley distributes an ad-free version of the music streaming app Spotify even on the free tier.
History
The website was founded in May 2017, releasing late that month with a very basic version of the app. There were less than 100 apps available for download at this time. On Jan 19, 2018, a new version dubbed AppValley 2.0 was released bringing dark mode, more categories, a search, and a much faster interface. On February 14, 2019, a Chinese partner "Jason Wu" allegedly took control of the main Twitter account and domain, causing the original AppValley developers to migrate to the domain and the Twitter account handle @App_Valley_vip. AppValley LLC is an alternative to Apple Appstore where app developers can publish their applications.
Features
AppValley is a mobile app installer which can also support iOS version that can be installed and downloaded on the mobile or the devices of the people who wish to get access to many different applications available. AppValley also contains apps that have been modified or tweaked for user preferences, and allows the user to by pass national restrictions on the use of apps, without having to resort to jailbreaking. As of June 2, 2020, there are over 1300 apps available for download.
References
External links
Application software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20Bucks%20Radio%20Network | The Milwaukee Bucks Radio Network (branded as the BMO Bucks Radio Network) is a 16-station radio network in Wisconsin and Michigan that broadcasts basketball games and related programming for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Since the Bucks inaugural season, WTMJ/620 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has served as the flagship station for the network.
Announcers
Former Dallas Mavericks broadcaster Ted Davis was part of the BMO Bucks Radio Network from 1997 to 2021. Dennis Krause, the sports director of Spectrum's local news channel Spectrum News 1, was part of the Bucks Radio Network from 1996 to 2021. Davis did play-by-play for every game, with Krause providing color commentary at home games.
After the 2021 NBA Finals, which ended with the Bucks' winning their first NBA Championship in 50 years, Davis announced his retirement in August 2021. Davis was replaced by David Koehn, who'd been the play-by-play broadcaster for the University of Virginia men's basketball team. Krause also left as the color commentator prior to the 2021-22 Bucks season for undisclosed reasons, and was replaced by Ben Brust, a former Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball player and analyst for the Big Ten Network.
Programming
Pre-game
The pre-game show is Buck Shots.
Post-game
The post-game show is made up of two parts, the first half hour being the Radio.com Post Game Show, and the last hour being Bucks And-One (branded as Bucks And-One Presented by Noble Vines), which airs only on ESPN Milwaukee and ESPN Madison. Both parts are hosted by Justin Garcia.
Stations
Affiliates (15 stations)
All radio streams are blacked out beyond their station's coverage area due to NBA streaming rules.
Wisconsin
Michigan
Bold denotes the Flagship station.
Source:
References
Milwaukee Bucks
National Basketball Association on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits%20%28European%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Hits is a 24-hour pop music television channel from Paramount Networks EMEAA launched on 27 May 2014. The channel is widely available throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
History
On 1 October 2017, MTV Hits, MTV Dance and MTV Rocks ceased broadcasting in Benelux.
A localized version of MTV Hits replaced MTV Brand New in Germany on 6 January 2021 and in the Netherlands on 1 February 2021. This version shares the same schedule as the main channel, albeit one hour ahead. The standard MTV Hits channel is also available in Germany from local ISPs.
On 1 June 2021, the channel replaced MTV Music 24 in South Africa. A year after transmission, it was announced that the channel would go off air in the region by 31 October 2022.
On 1 July 2021, MTV Hits stopped broadcast in Russia and CIS Country's along with Club MTV and Spike Russia under the decision of the legal owner.
On 1 August 2023, the channel replaced the Australian feed of MTV Hits.
Format
MTV Hits is a non-advertisement channel, dedicated to worldwide songs from 10s era and beyond. Occasionally, in special segments, songs from 00s and earlier eras can also be seen.
(Since February 2023, songs from the 00s have been appearing in several programs, e.g. Party Hits!)
Since VH1 Europe 's closure, MTV Hits began creating new segments - top 50, artists' greatest hits, programmes dedicated to the day/month's theme - to fit in for the previous programming of that channel.
Programmes
Regular programming
Non-Stop Hits
Party Hits
Totally 10s!
Today's Top Hits
Worldwide Hits!
Weekend Hitlist
MTV Top 20 (alt. name: MTV Euro Top 20)
Daily specials
Artist: Collaborations
Ed Sheeran
Justin Bieber
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Hit Collaborations
The Boys
The Girls
Euro
Hits!
Dance Hits!
Top 50
Party Hit Collaborations
Collaborations of the 10s
Collaborations: The Boys
Europop Hits!
Euro Boys! 50 Global Hits
Eurodance Hits!
Special
We Love:
Harry Styles
Justin Bieber
Global Video Premiere
The Flipper's Skate Heist
Yearly events
Valentine's Day
Boys In Love!
Girls In Love!
R&B Love Songs!
20s Love Songs!
Women's Day
International Women's Day Takeover
Superwomen! 20 Global Girls (8 March 2022)
Europe Day
Euro Hits!
Pride Month
Born This Way: MTV Pride
Love Is Love! Pride Icons
New Year
Happy New Year from MTV Hits!
New Year's Party Hits!
Other
August 2022
Isle Of MTV: Malta 2022
September 2022
R'n'b & Hip Hop
Nothing But R&B & Hip-Hop!
October 2022
Keep Fit Hits (only on 10 October 2022)
VMAs
VMAs Hall Of Fame: The Winners!
2022 MTV VMAs
Nominees: The Boys
Nominees: The Girls
The Nominees!
November 2022
I Want My MTV: Joel Corry
EMAs
MTV EMAs: Past Winners!
2022 MTV EMAs
The Nominees
The Boys
The Girls
September 2021
00s
Girls Of The 00s: Biggest Hits!
Boys Of The 00s: Biggest Hits
October 2021
10s videos
MTV Hits Most Played Videos Of The 10s
Going Gaga For Lady Gaga
Iconic 10s Videos That Made MTV
Discontinued
2023
Artist: Greatest Hits (alt. n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20of%20things | The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is the combination of Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the Internet of things (IoT) infrastructure to achieve more efficient IoT operations, improve human-machine interactions and enhance data management and analytics.
In 2018, KPMG published a foresight study on the future of AI including scenarios until 2040. The analysts describe a scenario in detail where a community of things would see each device also contain its own AI that could link autonomously to other AIs to, together, perform tasks intelligently. Value creation would be controlled and executed in real-time using swarm intelligence. Many industries could be transformed with the application of swarm intelligence, including: automotive, cloud, medical, military, research, and technology.
In the AIoT an important facet is AI being done on some Thing. In its purest form this involves performing the AI on the device, i.e. at the edge or Edge Computing, with no need for external connections. There is no need for an Internet in AIoT, it is an evolution of the concept of the IoT and that is where the comparison ends.
The combined power of AI and IoT, promises to unlock unrealized customer value in a broad swath of industry verticals such as edge analytics, autonomous vehicles, personalized fitness, remote healthcare, precision agriculture, smart retail, predictive maintenance, and industrial automation.
Artificial Intelligence Through Medical Devices
As defined by the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, a medical device is a device that performs a function in healthcare with the intention of using it "in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals".
Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, all AI systems falling within this definition are regulated by the FDA. Medical devices are classified into three classes by the FDA based on their uses and risks. The higher the risk is, the stricter the control. The Class I category includes devices with the smallest risk and Class III has the greatest risk. Approved medical devices that utilize artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) has been increasing steadily. By 2020, the United States The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved very many medical devices that utilized AI/ML. A year later, the FDA released a regulatory framework for machines that use AI/ML software, in addition to the EU medical device regulation, which replaced the EU medical. As technology continues to improve, it has rapidly increased the medical fields' method of working and diagnosing. Various AI applications can improve productivity and reduce medical errors, such as diagnoses and treatment selection, and creating risk predictions and stratifying diseases.
AI also helps patients by providing patients' data, electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifi%20Sports | unifi Sports (formerly HyppSports HD) is an in-house subscription IPTV network in Malaysia dedicated to broadcasting sports-related content 24 hours a day. It is available exclusively on unifi TV.
History
Launched in 2012 as one of unifi TV original channels, HyppSports Illustrated HD (a joint-venture between unifi TV and Sports Illustrated Asia) offers a sports of international sporting events such as football, badminton, motorsport, rugby, volleyball and golf. unifi TV also operates two sister channels, HyppSports Illustrated 2 HD and HyppSports 3 HD on channels 702 & 703 respectively, along with a high definition simulcast of all channels.
The network was eventually closed in 2019 but after TM regain broadcasting rights of the top Malaysian football competitions/tournaments, a year later, unifi TV relaunch the sports network with its new name, unifi Sports.
Current rights
Mixed martial arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Former rights
Soccer
FAM (until 2022)
Malaysia FA Cup
MFL
Malaysia Cup
Malaysia Super League
Piala Sumbangsih
Malaysia Premier League (until 2022)
Motorsports
Malaysia Superbike Championship
Malaysia Speed Festival
MSF SuperMoto
MSF SuperTurismo (until 2022)
Sister names
DEGUP
Dunia Sinema
Inspirasi
Salam HD
Sensasi
Broadcast platform
Malaysia: unifi TV
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2020
References
Sports television in Malaysia
Astro Malaysia Holdings television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping%20Up%20with%20the%20Kardashians%20%28season%2018%29 | Keeping Up with the Kardashians is an American reality television series that airs on the E! cable network. The show focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian–Jenner blended family. Its premise originated with Ryan Seacrest, who also serves as an executive producer. The series debuted on October 14, 2007 and has subsequently become one of the longest-running reality television series in the country. The eighteenth season premiered on March 26, 2020.
Cast
Main cast
Kim Kardashian
Kourtney Kardashian
Khloé Kardashian
Kendall Jenner
Kylie Jenner
Kris Jenner
Scott Disick
Kanye West
Recurring cast
MJ Shannon
Corey Gamble
Larsa Pippen
Jonathan Cheban
Malika Haqq
Mason Disick
North West
Development and production
On February 25, 2020, it was announced that the season will premiere in March and that for the first time in the history of the series, the screening will be on Thursdays rather than Sundays as has been the case so far.
Due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the last episode of the season was filmed using mobile phone cameras.
Episodes
Ratings
References
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Television shows related to the Kardashian–Jenner family
2020 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Universitario%20Rey%20Juan%20Carlos | The Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos is a general hospital in Móstoles, Spain, part of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS) network.
Inaugurated on 21 March 2012, it is the second hospital in the municipality of Móstoles, after the Hospital Universitario de Móstoles. The management was allocated to Capio, a private company; this was a cause of protests at the time of the opening.
References
Hospitals in the Community of Madrid
Móstoles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitermes%20floridensis | Amitermes floridensis, commonly known as the Florida darkwinged subterranean termite, is a species of eusocial insect in the family Termitidae. It feeds on rotting wood, reached by a network of tunnels. It is endemic to west central Florida and was first described in 1989.
Taxonomy
During a survey of termites in Florida in the late twentieth century, a few winged specimens of an unidentified dark-winged termite in the family Termitidae were seen. This family contains around 1600 species but none had previously been found in the eastern United States. In 1988, swarms of these dark-winged termites were seen near the original location and further searches enabled workers of this species to be identified. The species was formally described in 1989 by the Florida entomologists Scheffrahn, Su, and Mangold; they named the new species Amitermes floridensis because it seemed to be restricted to the state of Florida.
Description
Workers are up to long. The thorax is constricted and the abdomen inflated, giving them a plump appearance. The head capsule is colourless and the abdomen transparent, so that the gut and its contents can be seen through the cuticle, giving them an overall greyish-colour. Soldiers are a similar size but the larger head capsule is pigmented and armed with black, crescent-shaped mandibles, each with a distinctive tooth on its inner surface. Nymphs develop in mature colonies during the spring; these are larger than the workers, have wider thoraxes and have wing pads. These develop into alates, winged males and females, which are dark brown, with bodies long and a total length with wings of . The wings are slender, with dark veins on the leading edge. The queen and king live deep below the ground but have not been observed in this species.
Distribution and habitat
The Florida darkwinged subterranean termite has only been found in west central Florida, particularly around St. Petersburg. Its range extends from Tarpon Springs in the north to Sebring in the east and Punta Gorda in the south. It lives in an underground colony with extensive foraging passages. Where these emerge onto the surface in feeding locations, the above-ground portions are quite short.
Ecology
The termite colony has subterranean chambers and extensive underground foraging passages, rotting timber being the main diet. This species does not form galleries inside timber, but forms tubes along the surface, grazing on the wood, but not rising far above the ground. These tubes have faecal matter incorporated into them and are black. Structures attacked include fallen logs, fence posts, tree trunks, sheds and porches.
Winged reproductives emerge from the nest through special free-standing short "swarm tubes" during the day between July and September. Swarms often occur soon after rainfall, or even before the rain has stopped; the numbers of insects can be very large, resembling columns of smoke issuing from the ground. The insects are weak fliers and many get stuck t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Dot%20Network | The Blue Dot Network (BDN) is a joint project of the United States, Japan, and Australia that supports investment in high-quality infrastructure projects around the world. The BDN works to raise money from investors by certifying projects to strict quality standards.
It was founded in 2019 with $60 billion in initial funding. In 2021, the success of the program influenced the adoption of the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative by the Group of Seven (G7) nations.
The program was seen as a response to China's One Belt One Road international development project.
History
Founding
On 4 November 2019, Overseas Private Investment Corporation acting CEO David Bohigian formally launched the Blue Dot Network at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum (IPBF) in Bangkok, Thailand, revealing the network's details during a panel discussion. The panel included Bohigian, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach, Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Richard Maude, and Japan Bank for International Cooperation's Tadashi Maeda.
Bohigian and Australian and Japanese government officials emphasized that the infrastructure built under the project would be high quality. He also highlighted the differences between BDN and China's Belt and Road Initiative, noting that infrastructure development is beneficial “when it is led by the private sector and supported on terms that are transparent, sustainable, and socially and environmentally responsible."
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation managed to raise $60 billion for the project. In January 2020, the U.S. announced the commitment of $2 million in seed money and invited all G-7 member nations to join.
The project is named after the book Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
Initiatives
BDN acts as a certification program for international Infrastructure projects, with a focus on Asian projects, particularly gas lines, renewable energy, seaports and airports. Standards are set by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and are meant to assess environmental sustainability, financial transparency, and economic impact. The network relies soley on private sector funding and lacks any lending capacity. The BDN draws from existing standards like the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, the G7 Charlevoix Commitment on Innovative Financing for Development, the Equator Principles, and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Projects are evaluated on a scale and can be awarded up to three blue dots, similar to the Michelin star rating system.In June 2021, the G-7 announced the adoption of the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative built off the progress and principles of the Blue Dot Network to counter China's BRI.
In April 2023, the United Kingdom announced that it joined the network's Steering Committee.
See also
Transport in Australia
Transport in Japan
Transport in the United States
Quadrilater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20de%20Jager | Peter de Jager is a South African-born Canadian computer engineer, best known for his Y2K early 1990s outcry warning, and was the namesake of the de Jager Year 2000 index that began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1997.
De Jager co-authored "Countdown Y2K: Business Survival Planning for the Year 2000 and periodically writes for Canada's Municipal World magazine, focusing on Change Management.
Y2K
From around 1980, as an IBM employee, he internally alerted them to the problem.
In 1993 de Jager wrote a three-page item titled "Doomsday 2000" about the effects of simple date calculations, and "testified before Congress in 1996." His initial estimation of "the cost of fixing Y2K at between $50 billion and $70 billion" was subsequently reported to have been too low: Numbers like "only" $200 Billion to over $300 Billion proved more correct (for world-wide expenditures), with $120 Billion by USA firms.
De Jager registered and built www.year2000.com, a website he later sold.
Part of his "we don't know in advance what will fail, ... so we have to fix everything" message was quoted by The New York Times in the summer of 1998, which listed examples of cascading effects on "smoke alarms, lighting systems and even thermostats in individual apartments." Fears of elevators that would go up and not come down were reported.
Although de Jager was quoted as not owning "a single share of any year-2000 stock" and that he "never mentioned a vendor from the stage" his year2000.com website had "a list of Y2K consultants and experts;" Forbes magazine wrote that he "makes money selling advertising on his Y2K web site."
In 2009, the Lifeboat Foundation presented de Jager with its Guardian Award, with this citation: "The 2009 Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award has been given to Peter de Jager on the tenth anniversary of Y2K which he helped avert. This award is in recognition of his 1993 warning which alerted the world to the potential disaster that might have occurred on January 1, 2000 and his efforts in the following years to create global awareness of the problem, and the possible solutions. His presentations, articles, and more than 2,000 media interviews contributed significantly to the world’s mobilization to avoid that fate."
Personal life
De Jager was born in South Africa in 1955.
De Jager and his wife, Antoinette, have two sons.
References
External links
Peter de Jager autobiography, 20 years after Y2K
1955 births
Living people
Canadian computer specialists
South African emigrants to Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Into%20The%20Fight | Into The Fight is a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight for their DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. The event has been held annually since 2005 (except in 2006 and 2022), airing domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and later as an internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. The event is usually held around February.
Events
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20National%20Security%20Algorithm%20Suite | The Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) is a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as a replacement for NSA Suite B Cryptography algorithms. It serves as the cryptographic base to protect US National Security Systems information up to the top secret level, while the NSA plans for a transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.
The suite includes
Advanced Encryption Standard with 256 bit keys
Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm with curve P-384
SHA-2 with 384 bits, Diffie–Hellman key exchange with a minimum 3072-bit modulus, and
RSA with a minimum modulus size of 3072.
The CNSA transition is notable for moving RSA from a temporary legacy status, as it appeared in Suite B, to supported status. It also did not include the Digital Signature Algorithm. This, and the overall delivery and timing of the announcement, in the absence of post-quantum standards, raised considerable speculation about whether NSA had found weaknesses e.g. in elliptic-curve algorithms or others, or was trying to distance itself from an exclusive focus on ECC for non-technical reasons.
In September 2022, the NSA announced CNSA 2.0, which includes its first recommendations for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.
CNSA 2.0 includes
Advanced Encryption Standard with 256 bit keys
CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium with Level V parameters
SHA-2 with 384 or 512 bits
eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme (XMSS) and Leighton-Micali Signatures (LMS) with all parameters approved, with SHA256/192 recommended
Note that compared to CNSA 1.0, CNSA 2.0:
Suggests separate post-quantum algorithms (XMSS/LMS) for software/firmware signing for use immediately
Allows SHA-512
Announced the selection of CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium early, with the expectation that they will be mandated only when the final standards and FIPS-validated implementations are released.
RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and elliptic curve cryptography will be deprecated at that time.
References
Cryptography standards
National Security Agency cryptography
Standards of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20300 | The IBM ThinkPad 300 is a notebook computer series that was created by Zenith Data Systems for IBM. It was released in North America in October 1992, alongside the ThinkPad 700 series. It was the second series for the ThinkPad line of notebook computers, and was a cost saving alternative to the 700. It was however known as one of IBM's failures, with most not working properly or being dead after leaving the production line. It was also grey instead of black, and was missing a TrackPoint, which made them unappealing to consumers. The ThinkPad 300 was received as decent, but did not sell well.
Development
Contrary to earlier IBM computers, IBM sought for an OEM to develop the 300. Eventually, executive authorization was granted. Because of a pre-existing agreement with Zenith/BULL, IBM negotiated with them about the notebook that would become the 300.
The ThinkPad 300 was made by Zenith Data Systems, instead of IBM. It was launched on October 5, 1992 alongside the ThinkPad 700 series.
Although introduced at a price of $2,375, by February of 1993 the price dropped to $1,999 then even lower to $1,699 by May of 1993. This was due to poor sales of the ThinkPad 300.
Specifications
The 300 was based on the 25 MHz Intel 386SLC with 4 MB of memory, and had a nickel metal hydride battery that was claimed by IBM to last up to 10 hours. It also had the option of an 80 or 120 MB hard disk drive and it had a 9.5in 640x480 monochrome screen with 64 scales of grey. Other features it had was DOS 5.0 preinstalled, and for ports was a modem, serial, VGA, parallel, ethernet, and port replicator. Alongside the hard drive, it had a built in 3 1/2 1.44 MB floppy disk drive.
As the 300 was meant to be low-end and cheaper, it was missing some features the 700 series had, such as the TrackPoint device.
Although the thinkpad came with monochrome screens, they could later be upgraded to an active color TFT screen.
Comparison
Reception
PC Mag regarded the ThinkPad 300 as a decent choice, thanks to the good screen and above average battery life backed by flexible power management.
References
External links
oldcomputers.net - ThinkPad 300
Thinkwiki.de - 300
ThinkWiki.org - 300
ThinkPad 300
300
Zenith Data Systems laptops |
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