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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowt%20%28podcasting%29 | Sowt (Arabic: صَوْت), Arabic for "voice", is an Arabic-language independent podcasting network based in Amman, Jordan. It was launched in 2017 by Hazem Zureiqat, Tarek Zureiqat, and Ramsey Tesdell. Sowt curates and produces podcasts on issues of political, social, and cultural nature. Among its most popular programmes are ‘Eib’, ‘Dom Tak’ and ‘Blank Maps’.
History
Sowt started in the early 2010s as a social networking platform where users could share audio clips on a public feed. The application did not gain enough traction and in 2017, when former Nieman Lab contributor Ramsey Tesdell joined as managing partner, Sowt transformed into a podcasting network. Sowt produces its content with the support of grants from local and international organisations.
Programs
Sowt currently produces the following shows, most of which are narrative-driven:
Eib: Arabic for “shame”, a podcast that addresses social, cultural and religious taboos in Arab society such as divorce, homosexuality and sexual violence.
Dom Tak: a narrative-driven podcast, produced in collaboration with Ma3azef, that explores the stories of unsung female singers in the Arab world.
Masaha: a podcast offering women of various backgrounds the space to discuss their views on economic and social issues facing the region.
Parliament: a regular podcast that facilitates a conversation between the public and the Jordanian House of Representatives.
Razan: a narrative-podcast following the progress of the Syrian civil war through the kidnapping of lawyer and human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh.
Religion and State: a podcast exploring the relationship between state and religion in the Arab world from a philosophical and political lens.
Blank Maps: a podcast depicting stories of victims of statelessness across the Arab world.
Ya Rayeh: a podcast recounting stories of immigration attempts and experiences of citizens of Algeria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Ma Alaml: a podcast interviewing foreign domestic workers in the Middle East discussing the discrimination and legal difficulties they face.
Ali Alkadri: a podcast discussing Ali Alkadri's theories and the region's development difficulties.
Visualizing Conflict: a short series produced in cooperation with the University of Copenhagen to highlight the importance of images in conflict zones.
References
Companies of Jordan
Organisations based in Amman
Podcasting companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20Canadian%20television%20broadcasts%20of%202010 | The following is a list of most watched Canadian television broadcasts of 2010 (single-network only) according to BBM Canada.
Most watched by week
Notes
References
Canadian television-related lists
2010 in Canadian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Shoes%20and%20the%20Seven%20Dwarfs | Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs, known in Korean as simply Red Shoes (, Redeu Syujeu), is a 2019 South Korean computer-animated fantasy film produced by Locus Corporation. It is based on the 1812 German-language fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm, and its name is derived from the 1845 Danish fairy tale The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen. The English dub of the film features the voices of Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Claflin, Gina Gershon, Patrick Warburton, and Jim Rash.
Plot
A group of heroic princes called the Fearless Seven—Merlin, Arthur, Jack, Hans, and identical triplets Pino, Noki and Kio—save a Fairy Princess from a dragon. However, once they see her green face, they assume that she is a witch and attack her. To teach them a lesson, she curses them to transform into green dwarfs whenever people look at them, and the only way to undo the curse is if they receive a kiss from "the most beautiful woman in the world".
Seven years later, the King's overweight but strong daughter, Princess Snow White ("Snow"), returns to her family castle, where her stepmother, Queen Regina, has taken over. She finds a diary about how Queen Regina had taken over the kingdom with a warning from her father, the rightful king, not to touch the shoes she finds hanging on a tree. Snow puts on the shoes regardless, and they transform her into a slim version of herself. Queen Regina suddenly attacks her, unaware that she is Snow. Snow escapes but crashes at the dwarves' house, alerting the seven nearby. They prepare to attack, thinking she is the Fairy Princess, but welcome her into their home upon seeing her. In the dwarves' house, Snow is shocked when she sees herself in the mirror and introduces herself as "Red Shoes". The seven are immediately smitten by her and strive to impress her so she might kiss them. Regina hires the selfish Prince Average of a neighboring realm, who sends his soldiers after Snow, though she is saved by Merlin. Average attacks the dwarves and tries to abduct Red Shoes but fails. That night, Snow and Merlin grow emotionally closer. Regina gives Average and his bodyguards a magic apple and turns them into monsters.
In a secluded forest, Snow tries to give Merlin a hint about her real self but instead confesses her feelings for him, and they kiss. Merlin is shocked to see that the kiss did not undo his curse as he still thinks Snow is the prophetic beautiful woman. He fights off an attack by Average, who falls into a river, taking Merlin with him. Snow saves Merlin but accidentally loses her shoes and reverts to her true appearance. She calls out Merlin for helping her only because of her looks, causing him to leave in shame. She then puts on her shoes again, hoping to reconcile with him. Merlin talks with his dwarf self and, realizing that Snow White likes him for himself, decides to help her. In the forest, Queen Regina disguises herself as Merlin and asks Snow to eat the apple and take off her shoes, but the real Merlin arrive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel%20surveillance | Sentinel surveillance is the "monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific diseases/conditions through a voluntary network of doctors, laboratories and public health departments with a view to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population". It also describes the study of disease rates in a specific cohort such as a geographic area or subgroup to estimate trends in a larger population. In zoonotic diseases, sentinel surveillance may be in a host species.
Purpose
A sentinel surveillance system is used to obtain data about a particular disease that cannot be obtained through a passive system such as summarizing standard public health reports. Data collected in a well-designed sentinel system can be used to signal trends, identify outbreaks and monitor disease burden, providing a rapid, economical alternative to other surveillance methods.
Method
Sentinel systems involve a network of reporting sites, typically doctors, laboratories and public health departments. Surveillance sites must offer:
commitment to resource the program
a high probability of observing the target disease,
a laboratory capable of systematically testing subjects for the disease,
experienced, qualified staff.
relatively large population with easy site access
Passive surveillance
Passive surveillance systems receive data from "all" (or as many as possible) health workers/facilities and is the most common method of tracking communicable diseases. Passive surveillance does not require health authorities to stimulate reporting by reminding health care workers. Workers may receive the surveillance training in how to complete surveillance forms. Passive surveillance is often incomplete because of the limited reporting incentives.
Systems
Sentinel systems collect data on Haemophilus influenzae type b, meningococcus and pneumococcus.
Because sentinel surveillance is conducted only at selected locations, it is not as appropriate for use on rare diseases or outbreaks distant from sentinel sites.
COVID-19
The state of Hawaii conducts a sentinel surveillance program for COVID-19. From March 1-April 11, 2020, Hawaii's system detected 23 cases of COVID-19 among 1,084 specimens tested (2.1%). Samples were selected to match the state's geographic and age distribution. In Santa Clara, California, researchers analyzed sentinel surveillance data from March 5–14, 2020. From this sample, 19 out of 226 participants (8%) had COVID-19.
See also
Epidemiology
References
External links
Infectious diseases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Money%20Heist | Money Heist (, The House of Paper) is a Spanish heist crime drama television series created by Álex Pina. Netflix acquired global streaming rights in late 2017.
In the first four programming seasons, the Spanish TV series garnered a total of 30 nominations by winning 26 times.
In 2017 the series received two Award nominations (one victory) at the Fotogramas de Plata, other two (no victories) at the FesTVal and got an Award win at the Premios Iris. In total, therefore, five nominations and two wins.
In 2018 five nominations (no victories) at the Premios Feroz, five nominations (one victory) at the Spanish Actors Union, two nominations (one victory) at the Premios Iris, and the series got a victory in three others, at 46th International Emmy Awards, at the Golden Nymph and at the MiM Series, three nominations (no victories) at the Camille Awards, two awards at the Festival de Luchon and one nomination (no victory) at the Premios Fénix. In total, therefore, twenty-one nominations and seven wins.
In 2019 five nominations (five victories) at the Premios Iris, three nominations (one victory) at the Spanish Actors Union. In total, therefore, seven nominations and six wins.
In 2020 three nominations (no victories) at the Premios Feroz, two nominations (one victory) at the Spanish Actors Union and two nominations (no victories) at the Fotogramas de Plata, four nominations (three victories) at Platino Awards. In total, therefore, eight nominations and four wins.
By years
2017
2018
2019
2020
References
External links
Money Heist Awards on IMDb
Awards
Money Heist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Chaudhary%20%28writer%29 | Sanjay Raghuveer Chaudhary (born 25 April 1963) is an Indian writer, professor, and computer scientist from Gujarat, India. He is a professor of computer science at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. He has authored several books in Gujarati and English. His literary work Girnar (2009) received Gujarat Sahitya Akademi's Best Book Prize in Essays and Travelogue category. He has published and edited several books on computer science. He is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Biography
Sanjay Chaudhary was born on 25 April 1963 in Ahmedabad to his parents Raghuveer Chaudhary, renowned Gujarati literary writer, and Parubahen.
After completing his schooling from Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas Vidyalaya in 1980, Chaudhary joined St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad from where he received his BA in Economics in 1983. He received his MA in economics in 1985 and post-graduate diploma in Computer Science and Applications in 1986 from Gujarat University. He received M.Phil. and Ph.D. in computer science from Gujarat Vidyapith in 1996 and 2004 respectively. He submitted his doctoral dissertation, Crop Production Information System: Analysis, Design and Information Presentation, under Bharatbhai Buddhadev.
He married Sunita in 1988.
Career
Chaudhary joined Gujarat University's Department of Computer Science in 1987 and continued there till 2001. From 2001 to 2013, he worked at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar as a professor and as a dean of Academic Programs. Sanjay was one of the founding faculty members of DA-IICT. In 2013, he joined Ahmedabad University as a professor, and worked there as Associate Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science (2016–2019). As of 2020, he is the interim dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science.
He writes a weekly column titled Technology Ne Tirethi (English: On the Banks of Technology) in NavGujarat Samay, a Gujarati daily. The column is based on Information Technology.
Works
Literary works
Chaudhary published his book Girnar in 2009, which is a travelogue and collection of articles on mount Girnar, located at Junagadh. The book provides historical, geographical, cultural and archaeological details on Girnar. It presents the history of Junagadh, its flora and fauna, and folk-literature. Chaudhary is also a short story writer; his short stories have appeared in several prestigious Gujarati magazines including Shabdasrishti, Kumar, and Parab.
Research
Chaudhary's research focuses on cloud computing, distributed computing, big data analytics, blockchain technology, ICT applications in agriculture.
Chaudhary has investigated, demonstrated, and advocated the use of Geo-spatial analytics for developing multidisciplinary applications, helping in planning, managing and utilizing natural resources efficiently using spatial analysis. Along with his research fellows, he worked on common standards for data integration and effe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuguo%20Chen | Yuguo Chen is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work mainly focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and network analysis.
He received a B.S. in mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 2001 under the supervision of Tze Leung Lai and Jun S. Liu. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University from 2001 to 2005.
Chen was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.
Selected publications
"State and parameter estimation of hydrologic models using the constrained ensemble Kalman filter". Water Resources Research.
"Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Analysis of Tables". Journal of the American Statistical Association 100:109–120.
References
External links
University of Illinois homepage
Living people
American statisticians
Stanford University alumni
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Babbage%20Premium | The Charles Babbage Premium was an annual award "for an outstanding paper on the design or use of electronic computers".
The award was established in 1959. It was initiated by the British Institution of Radio Engineers, which became the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers. In 1988, it merged with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), which later became the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2006. Winners have been announced in journals such as Nuclear Power, Electronic Engineering, British Communications and Electronics, and the Software Engineering Journal.
The Premium was named after the mathematician Charles Babbage FRS (1791–1871), inventor of the Analytical Engine, a design for an early mechanical computer.
The IET now makes separate Premium Awards for papers in each of its journals, named after the journal itself. This includes the IET Software Premium Award, the nearest equivalent to the Charles Babbage Premium Award.
References
1959 establishments in the United Kingdom
1988 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1959
Awards disestablished in 1988
Awards for scholarly publications
British awards
Computer science awards
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Premium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20Canadian%20television%20broadcasts%20of%202011 | The following is a list of most watched Canadian television broadcasts of 2011 (single-network only) according to BBM Canada.
Most watched by week
References
Canadian television-related lists
2011 in Canadian television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Polani | Daniel Polani is a professor of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research (CCSIR), and Head of the Adaptive Systems Research Group, and leader of the SEPIA (Sensor Evolution, Processing, Information and Actuation) Lab at the University of Hertfordshire.
Daniel Polani is best known for his work in artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robotics, applying the tools of information theory to cognitive modelling and analysing intelligent agent behaviour and decision making in complex adaptive systems and sensor evolution.
Rooted in embodied cognition and dynamical systems Polani's work on relevant information and empowerment stem from the concept of organisms as Shannon information processing entities and the treatment of the perception-action loop as an information channel.
Editorial positions
Associate Editor of Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Associate Editor of Advances in Complex Systems
Editorial Board Member of Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics
References
External links
Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research
Adaptive Systems Research Group
Academic Homepage
List of Publications
Artificial intelligence researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activ8me | Activ8me is the trading name of an Australian telecommunications carrier and Internet service provider (ISP) operated by Australian Private Networks Pty. Ltd. Activ8me specialise in regional and remote Australian telecommunications and are the largest provider of satellite broadband services in Australia.
Their clients include the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
Activ8me are a Retail Service Provider of fiber to the x broadband internet through wholesale access agreements with NBN and OptiComm to sell Internet access to end users.
They are primarily focused on regional and remote Australian internet and phone services, including NBN Fixed_wireless and Sky Muster services.
The company was founded in 2002, before beginning trading as Activ8me in 2005, when headquarters and a warehouse facility were set up in Preston, Victoria.
Activ8me was contracted by the Australian Federal Government to build and maintain Remote Community Telecommunications Units (Solar powered public phone/WiFi equipment) which provides broadband and phone services to remote Australian communities for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Remote Australia Strategies Programme.
Activ8me has installed over 300 community phones since 2009 as part of the Programme.
As of July 2020, they are the largest Retail Service Provider of Sky Muster services in Australia.
History
Australian Private Networks was founded in 2002 in South Australia initially providing satellite internet to 120 residential customers.
Timeline
2005 - Commenced trading as Activ8me. Headquarters is moved to Melbourne.
2006 - First Australian ISP to commercialise the IPSTAR satellite services and offer them to the regional Australian market.
2007 - First Australian ISP to offer a satellite VoIP service.
2009 - Activ8me is contracted by the Australian Federal Government to install 301 satellite-connected and solar powered public telephones in remote and isolated Indigenous communities.
2012 - Activ8me connected the first Fixed Wireless customer to fixed wireless access (FWA) services over nbn’s network.
2016 - Started offering satellite services over nbn’s Sky Muster satellite network, providing 25Mbit/s services.
2019 - Entered a three-year major service partnership with the Royal Flying Doctor Service to install NBN ground stations offering WiFi, external airstrip lighting and emergency phone access to remote airstrips frequented by the RFDS that were previously ‘black spots’.
In the News
In 2018, Activ8me purchased Melbourne NBN provider Boom Broadband, absorbing all their nbn fixed line, fixed wireless and ADSL2+ customers.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Activ8me offered free data to customers due to the increase in demand due remote work and distance education.
References
External links
Internet service providers of Australia
Companies based in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RER%20Vaud | RER Vaud () is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is centered on Lausanne and began operating in December 2004.
History
With the December 2022 timetable change the RER Vaud network was substantially reorganized:
Lines
the network consists of the following lines:
: – (– )
: Grandson – Lausanne (– Cully)
: – Lausanne – (– )
: / Vallorbe – Lausanne – Aigle (– St-Maurice)
: – Lausanne –
: Allaman – Lausanne – Palézieux (– )
: – , called the Vine Train ()
: Palézieux – (– )
: Lausanne –
All lines except the S7 and S8 serve Lausanne, which serves as the main hub of the network.
References
External links
Vaud
RER
2004 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarDog%20and%20TurboCat | StarDog and TurboCat is a 2019 British 3D computer-animated superhero film produced by Head Gear Films and Screen Yorkshire and distributed by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution and animated by Red Star 3D. Originally titled SpaceDog and TurboCat, the film was directed and written by Ben Smith and features the voices of Nick Frost, Luke Evans, Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Ben Bailey Smith, Charli D'Amelio and Cory English.
It received mixed reviews from critics, who generally approved of the film's animation but considered the film itself unsophisticated.
Plot
In 1969, a Golden retriever named Buddy is launched into space with a backpack in a space capsule by his owner, David. However, soon after leaving Earth, the capsule malfunctions and shocks Buddy, mutating his DNA and giving him superpowers before flying out of orbit, leaving Buddy frozen and floating in space.
50 years later, the capsule reenters Earth's atmosphere, causing Buddy to crash land back on Earth in the fictional town of Glenfield, where he awakes in a dumpster. After Buddy attempts to speak with a human, he is met with frightened and angry reactions from the townspeople, to the confusion of Buddy. He discovers that the capsule has gone missing. He sees a police truck and chases it for several blocks until it stops at the police station. Buddy finds a caged dog called Victor in the trunk of the truck, who asks Buddy to help free him. Officer Peck then exits the vehicle and takes Victor into the station, which is connected to the local animal pound.
Buddy runs into a nearby alley, where he is introduced to a tuxedo cat named Felix (known by his superhero alias TurboCat) who lassoes and electrocutes Buddy, who he believes is a stray dog, dragging him into a Batmobile-like vehicle. TurboCat then drives away into his gadget-filled secret hideout in the Glenfield Museum, where his robot butler, Sinclair, awaits him. Once there, TurboCat reveals to Buddy that humans hate animals in Glenfield, and that Officer Peck is responsible for putting stray animals in the pound, where they are never seen again. Buddy explains his situation to TurboCat, which he does not believe, and tells him that he wants to find the space capsule so that David might find him, to which TurboCat replies that he might be willing to assist Buddy if he brings him milk. Buddy finds milk in the lunch packed by David and brings it to him, but is turned down. Buddy also hands Felix the carrot he found, and it is revealed that the carrot belonged to Cassidy, a former magician's rabbit who Felix has a crush on.
Felix goes off to find Cassidy, but is stopped by Officer Peck. As Felix runs away, he is followed closely by Buddy. Eventually, Felix hops on Buddy's back, and Buddy suddenly starts to run with superhuman speed. After escaping Officer Peck, Buddy and Felix arrive at a grocery store called the Mega Store, where Cassidy's carrot came from. The two break into the store and Buddy becomes distracted by items in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan%20Atleon | The Nissan Atleon is a truck produced by the Japanese automobile company Nissan and was distributed through European dealer networks.
L/M-Series (1980–2000)
Nissan acquired a stake in the Spanish car manufacturer Ebro in 1980 and acquired it entirely in 1987. The models produced by Ebro gradually became Nissan models. They just launched Ebro L / M series, which replaced the Ebro P-Series was also sold as Ebro as was the Ebro F-Series. After the takeover in 1987, the Ebro F-series became the Nissan Ebro Trade and later the Nissan Trade. Also in 1987, the Ebro L / M series became the Nissan Ebro L / M series. From 1990 the name Ebro ceased to exist and the Nissan L / M series was built until 2000. The L / M series was gradually offered in all European countries from 1990, with the market launch in Germany taking place in 1995.
ECO-T (Atleon) (1997–2000)
From 1997 there was a revised model of the L / M series that was sold in many markets (such as Germany) as the Nissan ECO-T or Nissan Camiones ECO-T (Spain) and in some markets with the addition Atleon. The model name is called Nissan ECO-T / Nissan Camiones ECO-T or Nissan ECO-T Atleon / Nissan Camiones ECO-T Atleon. Only with the model built from 2000 onwards was the name Atleon introduced in all markets.
Nissan Atleon (2000–2013)
From September 2000, until 2013 the Atleon was built in the Barcelona plant by Nissan Motor Ibérica. It was available ex works as chassis, flatbed truck or with box body. The smallest version with a total weight of 3.5 tons was created in order to be able to drive it with a Class B driving license. It was initially delivered with the Nissan type B660TiL, type B660TiH and type B440Ti turbo diesel engines, all of which had direct injection.
In 2006 there was a facelift. The front was adapted to the Nissan Cabstar F24. Since then, the Nissan ZD30 with 110 kW at 3400 / min and the Cummins ISB5-4H - 136 kW at 2500 / min have had new diesel engines with common rail combined with one six-speed manual transmission. In mid-2013, the Atleon was replaced by the Nissan NT500.
References
Atleon
Vehicles introduced in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Fake | Real Fake (stylized as REAL⇔FAKE) is a Japanese television mini-series that aired on MBS on the channel's programming block, . The series was written and directed by Nobuhiro Mouri, with production by Dub, Inc. The production stars Yoshihiko Aramaki, Keisuke Ueda, Ren Ozawa, Masanari Wada, Ryuji Sato, Ryunosuke Matsumura, Toshiyuki Someya, and Shouta Aoi, all of whom have been involved in 2.5D musicals. A second season titled Real Fake 2nd Stage is scheduled for broadcast on June 15, 2021.
Plot
Stellar Crowns is a project group made up of actors and singers, but one of the members, Akane, disappears before their debut. However, Stellar Crowns' agency gets a tip stating that he is still alive but has been kidnapped by a traitorous member in Stellar Crowns. The president of Queen Record, Sasakida, enlists Hidetoshi Moriya, an aspiring filmmaker and Akane's former classmate, to investigate under a pretense of filming a documentary about Stellar Crowns. Eventually, Moriya learns that Akane's brother, a songwriter, had committed suicide after being targeted by Sasakida, and in order to protect Akane, Stellar Crowns had staged his disappearance. After the truth is discovered, Sasakida is removed from his position from the agency while Akane is made its president.
Characters
Played by: Yoshihiko Aramaki
Nagisa is a member of Stella Crowns. He is a former idol singer struggling to break into acting.
Played by: Keisuke Ueda
Yusuke is a member of Stella Crowns. He is an actor and was a former classmate of Kakeru's.
Played by: Ren Ozawa
Rin is a member of Stellar Crowns. He is an actor and has mostly appeared on variety shows. He and Reijiro were childhood friends.
Played by: Ryuji Sato
Kakeru is a member of Stellar Crowns. He is a singer from Akane's agency and was recruited as his replacement.
Played by: Ryunosuke Matsumura
Reijiro is a member of Stellar Crowns. He studied and worked abroad as a radio personality in Australia. He is the final person who joined the group.
Played by: Masanari Wada
Masayuki is a member of Stella Crowns. He is a friend of Nagisa and fan of Akane.
Played by: Toshiyuki Someya
Moriya is an aspiring filmmaker and Akane's classmate from high school.
Played by: Shouta Aoi
Akane is popular singer known for his angelic singing voice. He was originally a member of Stella Crowns, but disappears before their debut.
Production
Real Fake began airing on MBS as part of their programming block, , on September 2, 2019, and later aired on TBS on September 4, 2019. The series is written and directed by Nobuhiro Mouri and produced by Dub, Inc. The cast features actors who have previously acted in 2.5D musicals. The opening theme song is "Real Fake" by the main cast as their characters, credited as Stellar Crowns with Akane. The ending theme song is "Fake of Fake" by Shouta Aoi, which was released as a B-side on his single "Harmony."
A second season titled Real Fake 2nd Stage was announced in December 2020 and scheduled for broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Chartier | Timothy P. Chartier (born 1969) is Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College, known for his expertise in sports analytics and bracketology, for his popular mathematics books, and for the "mime-matics" shows combining mime and mathematics that he and his wife Tanya have staged.
The National Museum of Mathematics announced him as 2022-23 Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics, in June 2021.
Education and career
Chartier majored in applied mathematics at Western Michigan University, graduating in 1993, and stayed at Western Michigan for a master's degree in computational mathematics in 1996. He completed a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2001, with the dissertation Algebraic Multigrid Based on Element Interpolation (AMGe) and Spectral AMGe supervised by Steve McCormick. He has also studied mime, at the Centre du Silence in Colorado, at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California, and with Marcel Marceau.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, he joined the Davidson College faculty in 2003. As well as his academic work, he is also a frequent consultant on sports analytics for ESPN, NASCAR, the National Basketball Association, and other groups.
Books
Chartier is the author of Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (2014), which won the Euler Book Prize in 2020, and of When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology (2015), which won the Beckenbach Book Prize in 2017.
He is also the author of X Games In Mathematics: Sports Training That Counts! (2020) and the coauthor, with Anne Greenbaum, of Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms (2012).
References
1969 births
Living people
21st-century American mathematicians
Western Michigan University alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Davidson College faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANSYT | TRANSYT (TRAffic Network StudY Tool) is traffic engineering software developed by the Transport Research Laboratory. It is used to model signalised highway networks and has the ability to model platooning.
The current release is version 16.
Method
The user inputs saturation flows and observed traffic flows on the relevant highway links which are controlled by signals. TRANSYT then optimises the green time for each signal to minimise the overall number of stops and delay time.
Worldwide use
The software was developed in the UK and the first version was released in 1967. It has been adapted for use in other countries including Chile.
In the US, the Federal Highway Administration adapted the product into TRANSYT-7F.
Other software
TRANSYT's main competitor is LINSIG.
References
Traffic simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect%20social%20networks | The social network of colonies of social insects have been extensively studied as model biological networks.
Social Networks Across Taxonomy
Social Networks in Hymenopterans
Ant social networks have three main types of individuals or casts. The three types - the queen, workers, and drones - all serve a specific purpose within the colony. The queen is the reproductive member of the colony. Some ant species will only have one queen, while others will form polygynous colonies of multiple queens, such as Argentine ants Linepithema humile. The workers are responsible for supporting the queen, maintenance, and foraging. Unlike queens and drones, workers are born wingless. Some polymorphic ants can have workers who look morphologically very different from each-other each, with specific jobs and behaviours. Examples of these polymorphisms can be seen in the big-headed ants Pheidole dentata, where the different casts of workers (majors with large heads and minors with regular sized heads) increase colony efficiency and what the colony is able to accomplish. The drones are the only males in ant social structures, and have little to do with colony activities. Their sole purpose is to transport DNA. The drones leave the colony on a nuptial flight or mating flight, find a virgin queen to reproduce with, and then die shortly after.
Bee and wasp social structure is very similar to that of ants, except all of the members have wings. Both bees and ants communicate very effectively using pheromone methods. For example, honey bees use brooding pheromone to increase eggs laid by the queen. Unlike ants, bees also use "dance language". This very complex behaviour allows foraging bees to communicate to their sisters the location of resources and dangers in the foraging space all through dancing movements. However, inside the dark chambers of the nest itself, complex pheromone systems are used to communicate and organize the group.
Social Networks In Blattodea
Termites, in the order Blattodea, also have an advanced social network. The termite social network evolved separately from the Hymenoptera, and has some key differences. Instead of just a reproductive queen, termites have a reproductive royal pair, the king and queen, that stay in the colony to produce offspring. The other colony members are divided into workers and soldiers. Workers and soldiers can be male or female, and lack wings, eyes, and developed sex organs unlike the reproductive members. Workers perform all of the colony's maintenance, such as caring for young, cleaning, building tunnels, and feeding the other members. The soldiers primary goal is to defend and guard the entrance to the colony.
Trophallaxis networks
The network of trophallaxis events differs from the network of social contacts. In the trophallaxis network of Lasius niger, foragers have higher betweenness and centrality than domestic workers, and the domestic workers appear to form three clusters. There also appear to be some dom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried%20de%20Beauclair | Wilfried de Beauclair (4 April 1912 – 22 April 2020) was a Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist. His work on automated computing technology makes him one of the first-generation computer pioneers.
Biography
De Beauclair was born on 4 April 1912 in Ascona, Switzerland, as the second son of the painting couple Alexander Wilhelm de Beauclair and Friederike de Beauclair. He grew up with his brother Gotthard de Beauclair in the artists' colony on Monte Verità. In 1920, his mother moved with the two children to Darmstadt, where the family came from. From 1921 to 1930 he went to school in Darmstadt.
In 1930, de Beauclair began studying general mechanical engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology. After completing his studies, he was initially taken on as a research assistant and then as an assistant at the Institute for Practical Mathematics (IPM), headed by Alwin Walther. There, he was involved in the construction of an automatic calculator with punched tape programming, which was destroyed during the bombing of Darmstadt like the entire IPM. He also worked on the development of devices for Fourier analysis. From 1939, he developed together with Hans-Joachim Dreyer, both from IPM to the company OTT in Kempten, a new type of electromechanical cutting wheel integration system to solve differential equations, the DGM-IPM-Ott, of which there are still assemblies in the inventory of the German Museum Munich.
In 1942, he met Konrad Zuse in Berlin, who showed him the Z3 computer system. As head of the precision engineering workshop at the IPM, de Beauclair subsequently supported Zuse with the work on the Z4. Among other things, the IPM supplied punching devices for punched tape that were used to control the program sequence and to save intermediate results. Zuse and de Beauclair became friends. In January 1945, de Beauclair became Dr.-Ing. with Alwin Walther at the TU Darmstadt with a thesis on multidimensional Fourier synthesis doctorate.
In April 1945, he was interned by the French military, and brought to Alsace while traveling to the Allgäu. In December 1945, his civilian status was recognized and de Beauclair released from internment. However, he was seriously ill with tuberculosis, was unable to work and had to be hospitalized from 1946 to 1950. In 1949, his doctoral thesis was published.
After being released from the hospital, the family moved to Stuttgart in late 1950. Initially de Beauclair worked for the Göttingen company PHYWE in sales, then from 1955 as a development engineer and laboratory manager at SEL, where Dr.-Ing. Dreyer was active. There, he was involved in the development of the ER 56 electronic computer and suitable peripheral devices. After the SEL Informatik plant was closed in 1960, he moved to the German Bundespost, where he worked as head of the computerization department at the Central Post Office in Darmstadt where the postal check and savings bank services worked and was there in particular responsib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley%20Hooper | Dudley W. Hooper MA FCA (1911 – 12 January 1968) was a British businessman in the UK National Coal Board (NCB) and an early President of the British Computer Society (BCS). He was an accountant and an early promoter of electronic data processing (EDP).
Dudley Hooper was educated at Charterhouse School and Clare College, Cambridge. In 1935, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He spent 1940–45 on war service, mostly in Africa and as a staff officer, during World War II.
Hooper had training and experience in mathematics, accountancy, and the use and development of office technology. He was at the National Coal Board for almost two decades, from 1948 initially as a
technical specialist in the application of accounting machines. He served as Chief Organising Accountant of the NCB during 1954–64. He then joined the Institute of Chartered Accountants as Technical Officer. Hooper had his first ideas on data processing in 1948, about five years before suitable computer equipment was actually available for office applications. He was a pioneer in training business users of computers.
Dudley Hooper was involved in the formation of the British Computer Society in the late 1950s. In April 1956, he chaired a meeting of the London Computer Group (LCG) at the Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, formed in the same year. The British Computer Society was formed in 1957 from the merger of the LCG and an association of scientists. Hooper was the first Chairman of British Computer Society and was later the President during 1961–62. He was a member of the Editorial Board of The Computer Journal, the journal of the British Computer Society. He was also founder and first editor of The Computer Bulletin of the British Computer Society.
Hooper lectured at Northampton Polytechnic (later City University).
A Dudley Hooper Memorial Lecture was given in Hooper's memory. It was delivered on 28 January 1969 by Lord Robens of Woldingham, Chairman of the National Coal Board, at the William Beveridge Hall, University of London, under the auspices of the British Computer Society.
References
1911 births
1968 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School
Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
British Army personnel of World War II
20th-century British businesspeople
British accountants
British businesspeople in the coal industry
Businesspeople in information technology
Academics of City, University of London
Academic journal editors
Presidents of the British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt%20Haas | Zygmunt J. Haas is a professor and distinguished chair in computer science, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) also the professor emeritus in electrical and computer engineering, Cornell University. His research interests include ad hoc networks, wireless networks, sensor networks, and zone routing protocols.
Education
Haas received his BSc in electrical engineering in 1979 and MSc in electrical engineering in 1985. He earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1988.
Career
In 1988, he joined AT&T Bell Labs in the Network Research Department. There he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, fast protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. From September 1994 to July 1995, Haas worked for the AT&T Wireless Center of Excellence, where he investigated various aspects of wireless and mobile networking, concentrating on TCP/IP networks. Since August 1995, he has been with the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Since August 2013, he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is now a Professor and Distinguished Chair.
Haas is an active author in the fields of high-speed networking, wireless networks, and optical switching. He has organized several workshops, delivered numerous tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences, and has served as editor of several journals and magazines, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Springer Wireless Networks journal, the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal, the Journal of High Speed Networks, and the Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal. He has been a guest editor of IEEE JSAC issues on "Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks." Haas is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to wireless and mobile ad-hoc networks, an IET Fellow, and a Fellow of EAI. He has served in the past as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC). His interests include mobile and wireless communication and networks, biologically-inspired networks, and modeling of complex systems.
Research
Haas has published over 300 technical papers, 21 patents and participated in the editing of 25 books or book chapters.
Selected publications
Zhou, Lidong, and Haas, Zygmunt J., "Securing ad hoc networks." IEEE network 13.6 (1999): 24-30.
Papadimitratos, Panagiotis, and Haas, Zygmunt J., "Secure routing for mobile ad hoc networks." Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS 2002).San Antonio, TX, January 27–31, 2002.
Haas, Zygmunt J., "The zone routing protocol (ZRP) for ad hoc networks." IETF Internet draft, draft-ietf-manet-zone-zrp-01. txt (1998).
Haas, Zygmunt J., and Pearlman, Marc R., "The performance of query control schemes for the zone routing protocol." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20motivation%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | Intrinsic motivation in the study of artificial intelligence and robotics is a mechanism for enabling artificial agents (including robots) to exhibit inherently rewarding behaviours such as exploration and curiosity, grouped under the same term in the study of psychology. Psychologists consider intrinsic motivation in humans to be the drive to perform an activity for inherent satisfaction – just for the fun or challenge of it.
Definition
An intelligent agent is intrinsically motivated to act if the information content alone, or the experience resulting from the action, is the motivating factor.
Information content in this context is measured in the information-theoretic sense of quantifying uncertainty. A typical intrinsic motivation is to search for unusual, surprising situations (exploration), in contrast to a typical extrinsic motivation such as the search for food (homeostasis). Extrinsic motivations are typically described in artificial intelligence as task-dependent or goal-directed.
Origins in psychology
The study of intrinsic motivation in psychology and neuroscience began in the 1950s with some psychologists explaining exploration through drives to manipulate and explore, however, this homeostatic view was criticised by White. An alternative explanation from Berlyne in 1960 was the pursuit of an optimal balance between novelty and familiarity. Festinger described the difference between internal and external view of the world as dissonance that organisms are motivated to reduce. A similar view was expressed in the '70s by Kagan as the desire to reduce the incompatibility between cognitive structure and experience. In contrast to the idea of optimal incongruity, Deci and Ryan identified in the mid 80's an intrinsic motivation based on competence and self-determination.
Computational models
An influential early computational approach to implement artificial curiosity in the early 1990s by Schmidhuber, has since been developed into a "Formal theory of creativity, fun, and intrinsic motivation”.
Intrinsic motivation is often studied in the framework of computational reinforcement learning (introduced by Sutton and Barto), where the rewards that drive agent behaviour are intrinsically derived rather than externally imposed and must be learnt from the environment. Reinforcement learning is agnostic to how the reward is generated - an agent will learn a policy (action strategy) from the distribution of rewards afforded by actions and the environment. Each approach to intrinsic motivation in this scheme is essentially a different way of generating the reward function for the agent.
Curiosity vs. exploration
Intrinsically motivated artificial agents exhibit behaviour that resembles curiosity or exploration. Exploration in artificial intelligence and robotics has been extensively studied in reinforcement learning models, usually by encouraging the agent to explore as much of the environment as possible, to reduce uncertainty about the dyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scioto%20Audubon%20Metro%20Park | Scioto Audubon Metro Park is a public park and nature preserve in Columbus, Ohio. The park is managed by the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks and is part of the Scioto Mile network of parks and trails around Downtown Columbus. The park features numerous trails, wetlands, rock climbing, volleyball and bocce courts, and numerous other amenities. At the western edge is the Grange Insurance Audubon Center, considered the first nature center built in close proximity to a downtown area.
The site was formerly industrial and required extensive remediation. Planning began in 2003, and the park opened in 2009 with , later expanded to 120 acres.
Attributes
Scioto Audubon Metro Park is located on Columbus's Whittier Peninsula. It borders the Brewery District to the east, Interstate 71 and the Scioto River to the north and west, and downtown to the northeast, and it is partially isolated by railroad tracks. The park is a 10-minute walk from downtown and gives views of the city skyline. It was designed by MKSK, an urban planning and landscape architecture company that has made many Columbus-area works, including the Scioto Mile.
Specific features include a central activity area, with a climbing wall, water tower with two observation platforms, and three sand volleyball courts. The park also has a dog park, an obstacle course with nine stations, and seven small wetlands of about total. Nearby are recreation fields, a sledding hill, butterfly garden, bocce courts, a park office and visitor center, a boat ramp, fishing docks, and a maintenance area. The park includes multiple restrooms, picnic tables, grills, and parking lots. The nearby Greenlawn Avenue dam widens the river into a slack water lake, attractive to migrating birds. Thousands of birds utilize the area during spring migrations, including over 200 species. The park is an Important Bird Area, named by Audubon and BirdLife International. The Columbus Rotary Obstacle Course has an 8-foot wall, cargo rope climb, balance beams, monkey bars, a tunnel crawl, and a belly crawl. The park features four trails: the Hermit Thrush Trail has 0.125 miles through forest, the Columbus Rotary Running Track is 0.5 miles, and the Wetland Trail is 0.4 miles. The longest is the Scioto Greenway Trail, which runs through the park for about 2 miles. It also connects north to the Olentangy Trail, which runs 14 miles to Worthington.
The Metro Park climbing wall is high, made of fiberglass, with three towers and two arches. The structure is considered the largest free outdoor climbing wall in the United States. The wall can handle up to 20 climbers at a time, and can be used for bouldering as well as lead and top-rope climbing. Although access to the wall is free, climbers are required to bring their own gear.
The butterfly garden, planted in 2016, has seven raised mounds and a wide variety of plants aimed to attract 40 different butterfly species, as well as bees, wasps, and beetles. The plants include shrubs, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrian%20Green | Dorrian Green is a park by the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The park is part of the Scioto Mile network of parks and trails around downtown Columbus. Dorrian Green neighbors COSI, the city's science and children's museum.
The park has numerous gardens: sensory, reading, butterfly and pollinator, and prairie. There is a plaza with an interactive fountain, flanked by two pavilions and flowering cherry tree groves. The park's northwest and southwest corners have salvaged limestone structures salvaged from the Central High School building that was repurposed and expanded into COSI. There are play areas for children and adults. "The Spectrum Tree", a kinetic tree-shaped sculpture, references Isaac Newton's discovery that sunlight contains the entire spectrum of colors. The park is named for Hugh J. Dorrian, the city's treasurer and auditor, working for the city for 52 years. Dorrian was a Franklinton resident, and helped revitalize the Short North, the Arena District, University District, Scioto Mile and Franklinton.
See also
List of parks in Columbus, Ohio
References
External links
Scioto Mile page
Parks in Columbus, Ohio
Broad Street (Columbus, Ohio)
Franklinton (Columbus, Ohio) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scioto%20Mile%20Promenade | The Scioto Mile Promenade, also known simply as the Promenade, is a public park and promenade in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The park is part of the Scioto Mile network of parks and trails around the city's downtown area, and has a riverwalk stretching along the east bank of the Scioto River, from Battelle Riverfront Park to Bicentennial Park.
The promenade has a multi-use trail, part of the Scioto Greenway Trail, used by bicyclists, pedestrians and runners.
History
When Columbus was founded, the only planned green spaces downtown were around the Ohio Statehouse and in front of the Carnegie Library. The 1908 Columbus Plan urged the removal of the numerous factories, coal yards, boarding houses, and tenements stretching along the riverfront downtown. The city's prison, storage facilities, and a junk shop were also located on the riverfront there. The plan was not directly adopted, but the Great Flood of 1913 in Columbus destroyed many of these buildings. In 1920, the city pushed for a remade riverfront, though its bond issue did not receive enough public approval. The "Avenue of Flags", flagpoles along Civic Center Drive with each of the 50 state flags, was dedicated on Columbus Day in 1967. The flags were replaced with 25 Ohio flags and 25 Columbus flags in 2002, because of complaints about Confederate symbols on other states' flags.
The original Scioto Mile Promenade was planned around 2007, with only the park's street-level walkway to be developed from April 2008 to fall 2009. Construction of "the Riverwalk" park space was planned to be completed later on. The walkway portion of the park opened on July 7, 2011.
The park space was constructed from 2011 to 2015. The riverfront road Civic Center Drive was reduced from five to three lanes, and the park space along the entire Scioto River was redeveloped at this time. The river was stagnant and muddy due to the Main Street Dam, a low head dam built in 1918 to control flooding, but which doubled the width of the river to . The dam removal in 2013, along with sediment removal, narrowed the river to , giving the city access to of previously-submerged shoreline. The parks have helped revitalize the city's downtown area.
From about 2011 to 2014, Ron Pizzuti, founder of the Pizzuti Collection, planned to finance construction of a six-story sculpture on the Promenade. "Columbiad", designed by New York artist Brian Tolle, was to be an hourglass-shaped steel sculpture built on the Prow portion of the park.
Attributes
The Scioto Mile Promenade includes a street-level promenade stretching from Broad to Town Streets, connecting Battelle Riverfront Park with Bicentennial Park. Fountains and benches line the promenade. The entire park follows the curve of the Scioto River on the eastern bank, below the Ohio Judicial Center, home of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Within the park lies Huntington Plaza, an open-air space directly across the street from the Ohio Judicial Center. It features seasonal flowers and three |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20Football%20League%20on%20ABC | Arena Football League on ABC was the de facto title for broadcasts of Arena Football League (AFL) games on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network. ABC was the first major television network in the United States to give exposure to the Arena Football League. Prior to 1998, when ABC televised ArenaBowl XII, the most exposure that the league would receive was on ESPN, which would air tape-delayed games, often well after midnight.
Background
ABC's coverage of the AFL was usually relegated to solely the annual championship game, the ArenaBowl. From 1998-2002, ABC's ArenaBowl broadcasts were aired as under the Wide World of Sports anthology umbrella.
Following a four-year spell with NBC, coverage of the AFL would resume on ABC in 2007. As part of a five-year deal with sister network ESPN, a minimum of 17 regular-season games and nine playoff games—including a minimum of three Wild Card games were televised. Also televised were three Divisional Playoff games, both Conference Championships and the ArenaBowl on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. To clarify, both the 2007 season opener and ArenaBowl were on ABC, where three wild card games, two divisional games and one conference championship were on ESPN and the seventeen regular season Monday night games, one wild card game, two divisional games and one conference championship game was all on ESPN2. This particular arrangement with ABC was again in place in 2008 before NFL Network took over the broadcasting rights for the ArenaBowl for the next three seasons.
In 2017, the ArenaBowl was televised by WPVI-TV, ABC's owned-and-operated station in Philadelphia. The game was also streamed on Twitter and AFLNow, the league's streaming service.
Commentators
Mike Adamle (play-by-play, 1998)
Ray Bentley (color commentator, 2008)
Sherdrick Bonner (color commentator, 2017)
Tim Brant (play-by-play, 2002)
Ed Cunningham (color commentator, 2000 & 2002)
Gary Danielson (color commentator)
Mike Gleason (play-by-play, 1999–2000)
Mike Golic (color commentator, 2007)
Mike Greenberg (play-by-play, 2007)
Merril Hoge (color commentator, 1998–1999)
Brent Musburger (play-by-play, 2001)
Lynn Swann (sideline reporter, 2001–2002)
Stan Verrett (sideline reporter, 2007)
Marcellus Wiley (sideline reporter, 2007)
Bob Wischusen (play-by-play, 2008)
Ari Wolfe (play-by-play, 2017)
See also
List of events broadcast on Wide World of Sports (American TV program)
References
External links
Wide World of Sports Events
ABC
ABC Sports
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1998 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
2007 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
American television series revived after cancellation
English-language television shows
Wide World of Sports (American TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimcontu%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Vimcontu Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine radio network of the Visayas-Mindanao Confederation of Trade Unions, a trade union organization under the Associated Labor Unions (ALU) through the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines. Its corporate office is located at the 2nd Floor, JSU-PSU Mariners' Court-Cebu, ALU-VIMCONTU Welfare Center, Pier 1, Cebu City.
Vimcontu Stations
AM Stations
FM Stations
Former stations
References
Philippine radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpana%20Viswanath | Kalpana Viswanath is a social entrepreneur in India. She is the co-founder and CEO of Safetipin, a social enterprise which uses technology and apps to collect data for the safe movement of women in urban spaces. Viswanath is on the advisory board of UN Habitat, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime and SLOCAT. She was part of a study group with Delhi government to prepare a report on Women's Safety in Delhi.
Career
Viswanath studied sociology at the University of Delhi. Her PhD thesis was on ‘A Sociological Analysis of the Contemporary Women’s Movement in India’.
Viswanath served as the director of Jagori Women's Resource Centre from 2000 till 2007. She worked on issues such as migration, trafficking of women workers and violence against women. She also worked with government and non-government stakeholders on the Safe Delhi campaign, which focused on violence against women in public spaces.
Viswanath was a project director for the Gender Inclusive Cities Project with Women in Cities International. The research was carried out in Tanzania, Argentina, Russia and India from January 2009 to March 2012. She is the chair of the International Advisory Committee of Women in Cities International.
She has also worked as a senior advisor at UN Habitat. She created partnerships with government and other stakeholders in New Delhi for the programme on safer cities from April 2010 to September 2013.
In 2013, Viswanath co-founded Safetipin with Ashish Basu. Safetipin addresses the need to combat increasing violence against women and girls in public places, with its app. The platform has been used by individuals as well as urban stakeholders such as governments. Safetipin has worked with various countries, researching and generating reports to make their cities safe for women. Its work includes listing data on the presence of street lights and mapping unsafe routes and transport availability.
Viswanath writes columns for the Hindustan Times, The Wire, and Mint.
Publications
Viswanath, K., & Basu, A. (2 January 2015). SafetiPin: an innovative mobile app to collect data on women's safety in Indian cities. Gender & Development, 23, 1, 45–60.
Kalpana, V., & Surabhi, T. M. (28 April 2007). 'Shall We Go out?' Women's Safety in Public Spaces in Delhi. Economic and Political Weekly, 42, 17, 1542–1548.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Delhi University alumni
Indian social entrepreneurs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasper%20Hornb%C3%A6k | Kasper Hornbæk is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He was inducted into the CHI Academy in 2020.
Kasper Hornbæk received both his M.Sc. as well as his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen. He is best known for his work on usability in human-computer interaction.
He is section head of the Human Centered Computing group at the UCPH Department of Computer Science.
In 2020 he was induced into the CHI Academy.
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Roskilde
University of Copenhagen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Danish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20platform%20%28disambiguation%29 | The term IBM platform could refer to any of the hardware and operating systems below.
Current
IBM Power Systems, a family name for the merged System p and System i
PureSystems, an IBM product line of factory pre-configured components and servers also being referred to as an "Expert Integrated System"
IBM Z, a family name used by IBM for all of its z/Architecture mainframe computers from the Z900 on; this is the most recent architecture descended from IBM System/360
IBM System z, an older name for IBM Z
IBM z System, an older name for IBM Z
IBM PC compatible, a machine compatible with the IBM PC and successors.
IBM i, an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems, preceded by:
CPF, the operating system for the S/38
OS/400, the operating system for the AS/400
i5/OS, the operating system for the eServer i5
z/OS, a 64-bit operating system for IBM mainframes; this is the most recent incarnation of OS/360 and successors
Discontinued
IBM System i, preceded by S/38, AS/400 and eServer i5, is a line of midrange computer systems from IBM that uses the IBM i operating system
IBM System p, formerly known as RS/6000, was IBM's RISC/UNIX-based server product line.
IBM System/360, the predecessor to S/370
IBM System/370, the predecessor to XA/370
IBM Extended Architecture/370 (XA/370), the predecessor to ESA/370
IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370), the predecessor to IBM System/390
IBM System/390, the predecessor to IBM System z
IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform
Operating System/360 (OS/360), IBM's flagship operating system for S/360 and early S/370
OS/VS1, successor to OS/360 MFT
SVS, OS/VS2 Release 1, successor to OS/360 MVT and predecessor to MVS
MVS/370 is a generic term for all versions of the MVS operating system prior to MVS/XA
OS/VS2 Release 2 through 3.8
MVS/System Extension (MVS/SE)
MVS/System Product (MVS/SP) Version 1
MVS/XA, predecessor of MVS/ESA
MVS/ESA, predecessor of OS/390
OS/390, predecessor of z/OS
Suprercomputer platforms:
IBM Scalable POWERparallel (1993-2000)
QCDOC (1998-1999)
IBM Blue Gene (1999-2015)
IBM iDataPlex (2008-2014)
IBM PERCS (2011)
IBM Intelligent Cluster, (2001-2014, now Lenovo Intelligent Cluster)
See also
IBM System (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Australian drama television series Prisoner (commonly known as Prisoner: Cell Block H) premiered on Network Ten on 22 January 1980. It consists of 86 episodes and concluded on 12 November 1980.
This season's storylines include the escape of Roslyn Coulson, aided by terrorist Janet Dominguez and the subsequent shooting of Erica Davidson; Lizzie's exoneration; the bomb explosion which causes the deaths of Jim Fletcher's family; Bea Smith's feud with new prisoner Kay White; Judy Bryant's planned revenge on corrupt officer Jock Stewart for the murder of her girlfriend Sharon Gilmour; the season finale tunnel escape collapse.
Cast
Main
Patsy King as Governor Erica Davidson
Fiona Spence as Vera Bennett
Peta Toppano as Karen Travers
Val Lehman as Bea Smith
Elspeth Ballantyne as Meg Jackson
Colette Mann as Doreen Anderson
Sheila Florance as Lizzy Birdsworth
Barry Quin as Greg Miller
Gerard Maguire as Jim Fletcher
Monica Maughan as Pat O'Connell
George Mallaby as Paul Reid
Betty Bobbitt as Judy Bryant
Central supporting
Amanda Muggleton as Chrissie Latham
Sigrid Thornton as Roslyn Coulson
Recurring
Deidre Rubenstein as Janet Dominguez
Penelope Stewart as Kathleen Leach
Penny Ramsay as Leila Fletcher
Ray Meagher as Geoff Butler
Judith McGrath as Colleen Powell
Jeanie Drynan as Angela Jeffries
Carmel Millhouse as Mary McCauley
Cornelia Frances as Carmel Saunders
Henry Cuthbertson as Dr. Herbert
Lloyd Cunnington as Mr. Goodwin
Graham Rouse as Mal James
John Higginson as Tony Reid
Rosalind Speirs as Caroline Simpson
Bernadette Gibson as Vivienne Williams
Terry McDermott as Brian Williams
Ian Gilmour as Kevin Burns
Joan Letch as Rhonda West
Charmayne Lane as Shirley
Margot Knight as Sharon Gilmour
Lester Morris as Mr. Muir
Jane Clifton as Margot Gaffney
Kate Turner as Sally Blakely
Rob Forza as Bill Harris
Peter Ford as Michael Simpson
Carl Bleazby as Hugh Gilbertson
Babs Wheelton as Louisa Burns
Fay Mokotow as Mrs. Seymour
Tom Oliver as Ken Pearce
Nanette Wallace as Sally Nichols
Simon Reichelt as Andrew O'Connell
Jentah Sobott as Heather "Mouse" Trapp
Dina Mann as Debbie Pearce
Reylene Pearce as Phyllis Hunt
Kevin Summers as Det. Sgt. Parsons
Paul Young as Capt. Lloyd Barton
Penny Downie as Kerry Vincent
Rod Mullinor as David Austin
Michael Duffield as Charles Baldwin
Kirk Alexander as Dr. East
Tommy Dysart as Jock Stewart
Ian Smith as Ted Douglas
Stephen O'Rourke as Harry Bone
Eugene Schlusser as Mr. Westmore
Sidney Jackson as Det. Sgt. Teagan
Caroline Gillmer as Helen Smart
Judith Dick as Marcia/Ellen Huntley
Michelle Argue as Josie
Tracey-Jo Riley as Leanne Bourke
Jude Kuring as Noeline Bourke
Susanne Haworth as Gail Summers
Jeremy Higgins as Tim Summers
John Lee as Andrew Reynolds
John Larking as Vince Talbot
Joy Westmore as Joyce Barry
Jack Harris as Terry Barry
Rob Steele as Dr. Rupert
Sandy Gore as Kay White
Janet Lord as Mrs. Blakely
Anne Scott |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20News%20Network | The Northwest News Network is a network of radio stations based in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It has 61 member stations in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The network was founded in 2003 and has been headquartered in Portland, Oregon, since 2008.
Members
Partner stations
Coast Community Radio (Astoria, Oregon)
Jefferson Public Radio (Ashland, Oregon)
KBCS (Bellevue, Washington)
KLCC (Eugene, Oregon)
KNKX (Tacoma, Washington)
KSVR (Mount Vernon, Washington)
KUOW (Seattle, Washington)
KWSO (Warm Springs, Oregon)
Northwest Public Radio
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Spokane Public Radio
References
External links
Radio stations in Idaho
Radio stations in Oregon
Radio stations in Washington (state)
2003 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA%20on%20Lifetime | The WNBA on Lifetime refers to the presentation of Women's National Basketball Association games on the Lifetime television network.
Coverage
From its inaugural season in 1997 to 2000, Lifetime was one of three broadcasters of the WNBA, alongside NBC and ESPN. Lifetime as well as NBC and ESPN didn't pay the WNBA in rights fees.
By 1999, Lifetime was broadcasting 11 regular-season games on Friday nights, the All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden and three playoff dates.
In 2000, Lifetime phased out its live broadcasts and replaced them with an original series documenting the lives of WNBA players. The network stated that it wanted to focus on "stories" rather than event coverage; Lifetime transferred its package of games to ESPN2.
Lifetime's final live WNBA broadcast was Game 1 of the 2000 WNBA Championship on August 24.
Ratings
At the conclusion of the first WNBA season in 1997, Lifetime Television registered a 0.5 household rating, while ESPN scored a 0.8. Ratings were up 20 percent on Lifetime and 16 percent on ESPN from 1998 to 1999. However by 2000, Lifetime's WNBA ratings were down by 20 percent, and ESPN dropped by 29 percent.
Lifetime had created a problem in that being a specialty channel aimed at women, whenever a WNBA game aired on the network, the chances were that they were neglecting male viewers who would otherwise, not watch cable channels marketed towards women.
Commentators
Christine Brennan (color commentator)
Persefone Contos (studio host)
Maura Driscoll (studio host)
Camille Duvall-Hero (studio host)
Fran Harris (color commentator)
Ann Meyers (sideline reporter)
Reggie Miller (color commentator)
Mary Murphy (color commentator)
Meghan Pattyson (color commentator)
Summer Sanders (sideline reporter)
Michele Tafoya (play-by-play)
Suzyn Waldman (play-by-play)
In 1997, the American Women in Radio and Television honored Michelle Tafoya with a Gracie Award for "Outstanding Achievement by an Individual On-Air TV Personality" for her play-by-play calling of WNBA games on Lifetime Television.
Upon being let go by the Sacramento Monarchs, Mary Murphy was hired by Brian Donlon, Lifetime Television's vice president of sports and executive producer, to be part of its WNBA broadcast team along with Michele Tafoya and Reggie Miller. Murphy started with her own halftime feature, "Murphy's Law" before joining Miller and Tafoya as a game analyst. When Lifetime ended its WNBA broadcasts in 2000, Murphy moved to ESPN for women's NCAA tournament games and WNBA broadcasts while Fox would bring her on board to call the Pac-12 women's games on FSN in the early 2000s.
In the league's inaugural season, Fran Harris was a member of the Houston Comets. She started one game for the Comets but played in 25 games coming off he bench, scoring a total of 104 points on the season as the Comets won the first-ever WNBA Championship. The next season, she was a starter for the Utah Starzz. At the end of the season, she was waived from the team's roster, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS%2014 | iPadOS 14 is the second major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for their iPad line of tablet computers. It was announced on June 22, 2020 at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) as the successor to iPadOS 13, making it the second version of the iPadOS fork from iOS. It was released to the public on September 16, 2020. It was succeeded by iPadOS 15 on September 20, 2021.
Features
Home screen
Widgets
To the left of the first page, the Today View now has new redesigned widgets. Widgets may be added, with options for small, medium, or large widgets, but the widgets can no longer collapse or expand. Widgets of the same size may be stacked over each other and swiped between for convenience; a Smart Stack may be placed which automatically show the most relevant widget to the user based on the time of day. Unlike in iOS 14, widgets cannot be placed directly on to the home screen in iPadOS 14; this was only allowed starting in iPadOS 15.
Compact UI
A series of changes were made in iPadOS 14 to reduce the visual space taken by previously full-screen interfaces; such interfaces now appear and hover in front of an app, allowing for touch (and therefore multitasking) on the app behind. Voice calling interfaces, including Phone, or other third-party apps such as Skype, are made substantially thinner, taking approximately as much space as a notification. Siri's interface is now also compact.
Search and Siri
Improvements to the Search feature on the home screen were made, including a refined UI, quick launcher for apps, more detailed web search, shortcuts to in-app search, and improved as-you-type search suggestions. The search function now appears and functions more like the Spotlight Search feature of macOS.
In addition to being made compact, Siri can now answer a broader set of questions and translate more languages. Users can also share their ETA with contacts and ask for cycling directions.
Storage
iPadOS 14 gains the ability to mount encrypted external drives. However, this capability is limited to APFS-encrypted drives. Upon connecting an APFS-encrypted external drive to the USB-C port on the iPad, the Files app will present the external drive on the sidebar. Selecting the drive will prompt the user to enter the password to unlock the drive.
Supported devices
All the devices that supported iPadOS 13 also support iPadOS 14. Devices include:
iPad Air 2
iPad Air (3rd generation)
iPad Air (4th generation)
iPad (5th generation)
iPad (6th generation)
iPad (7th generation)
iPad (8th generation)
iPad Mini 4
iPad Mini (5th generation)
iPad Pro (all models)
Version history
The first developer beta of iPadOS 14 was released on June 22, 2020 and the first public beta was released on July 9, 2020. iPadOS 14 was officially released on September 16, 2020. There was no public beta testing of 14.1.
References
External links
– official site
– official developer site
iOS Reference Library at the Apple Developer site
14 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tze%20Leung%20Lai | Tze Leung Lai (June 28, 1945 – May 21, 2023) was a Chinese-American statistician of Hong Kong descent. He was the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, as well as a professor of Biomedical Data Science and of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. He co-directed the Center for Innovative Study Design (CISD) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the highest honors in statistics, in 1983.
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1967. He received an M.A. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1971 in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia University.
He supervised 79 doctoral theses and 7 postdoctoral trainees.
He died on May 21, 2023.
Honors and awards
He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1983. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship the same year.
He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association (1986), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Academia Sinica (1994).
References
External links
Stanford homepage
American statisticians
Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1945 births
2023 deaths
Members of Academia Sinica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20of%20Laboratories%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Research%20in%20Europe | The Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE) is a European organisation, created to strengthen artificial intelligence (AI) and human-centred AI research and innovation, in Europe. CLAIRE is referred to as the world's largest network for artificial intelligence research.
CLAIRE was launched in 2018, with a vision document signed by over 550 experts in AI. The founders of CLAIRE are Holger Hoos, Philipp Slusallek and Morten Irgens. CLAIRE aims to establish a network of Centres of Excellence in AI, across all of Europe, and a European AI Hub (or "Lighthouse Centre"), a new, central facility with state-of-the-art infrastructure similar to CERN.
Headquartered in The Hague, CLAIRE has opened administrative offices in Saarbrücken, Prague, Rome, Brussels, Oslo, Paris and Zürich, with further offices planned to open in 2022 and 2023.
Support
CLAIRE has the support of more than 4,000 people, representing the vast majority of Europe’s AI community, spanning academia and industry, research and innovation, including 2295 AI experts (PhD-level expertise in AI or equivalent) and 1126 supporters in industry.
Furthermore, nine advisory groups with 48 members from 18 countries have been established, covering all areas of AI, along with the topics of ethical, legal and social implications of AI.
The CLAIRE vision for excellence in European AI has received official letters of support from the governments of nine European countries, from over 30 scientific associations across all of Europe. CLAIRE is also actively liaising, on an ongoing basis, with other important organisations, including ELLIS, the HumanE AI, the Big Data Value Association, euRobotics, AI4EU, the Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, several European Union funded projects, and cooperates closely with ESA.
The CLAIRE Network
The CLAIRE Network consists of the Research, the Innovation and the Rising Researchers Networks and collectively creates the world‘s largest AI network of labs and institutions, companies and start-ups, and graduate students involved in AI research, that are committed to working together towards developing European sovereignty in trustworthy AI and fostering close links between non-profit research and impactful industrial applications.
Started in 2019, CLAIRE's Research Network now consists of over 440 research groups and research institutions, covering jointly more than 25 000 employees in 37 countries.
The Innovation Network, launched in 2021, comprises companies, legal entities, and groups or units within these companies that develop or use Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods or technologies (for-profit), and consists of 12 members from 6 countries across Europe.
The Rising Researchers Network, launched in early 2022, The CLAIRE | Rising Researchers Network aims to gather graduate students, especially Ph.D. students, postdocs, and master students, involved in AI research, who believe in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of the Canadian reality competition show Top Chef Canada was broadcast on Food Network in Canada. It is the Canadian spin-off of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. The program takes place in Toronto, and is hosted by Eden Grinshpan. Season eight features 12 chefs of various backgrounds considered to be the next generation of culinary stars in Canada. The final challenge was held at the historic Elora Mill in Elora, Ontario, with shopping done at the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market in St. Jacobs, Ontario.
Contestants
12 chefs competed in season 8. Contestants are listed in the alphabetical order of their surnames.
Francis Blais, 27, Chef de Cuisine, Montreal, QC
Brock Bowes, 41, Chef/Food Truck Owner, Kelowna, BC
Dominique Dufour, 32, Chef/Restaurant Owner, Ottawa, ON
Adrian Forte, 31, Chef Consultant, Toronto, ON
Shaun Hussey, 40, Chef/Deli Owner, St. Johns, NL
Xin Mao, 36, Chef/Bistro and Bar Owner, Vancouver, BC
Lucy Morrow, 26, Executive Chef, Charlottetown, PE
Jo Notkin, 43, Catering Chef, Montreal, QC
Stephanie Ogilvie, 36, Chef de Cuisine, Halifax, NS
Elycia Ross, 27, Chef/Food Truck Owner, Calgary, AB
Nils Schneider, 27, Pastry Chef, Calgary, AB
Imrun Texeira, 25, Sous Chef, Ottawa, ON
Contestant Progress
The top four of this quickfire were exempt from cooking during this elimination challenge.
Stephanie and Imrun were involved in a cook-off for the last place in the finals which took place in episode 8. Stephanie won which meant that Imrun was eliminated.
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(IMMUNE) The chef was immune from elimination, and exempted from cooking during this Elimination Challenge.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
(IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
Episodes
References
Canada, Season 8
2020 Canadian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Network%20of%20Sites%20of%20Memory | The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Sites of Memory (RESLAC, for its initials in Spanish) is an organization whose mission is to promote democracy and the observance of human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean through the recovery, construction and dissemination of collective memories about serious human rights violations and resistance, to achieve truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition measures. The network brings together 44 institutions from 12 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay). Globally, it is one of the seven regional networks that make up the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, which has more than 275 members in 65 countries.
RESLAC is made up of various initiatives that can be historical sites, museums, memorials, research centers, archives or territorial organizations. The network is linked by common interests in the defense of human rights. In each of them a clear link is established between past, present and future. Each of these institutions develops programs and projects that, in different ways, seek to influence their societies to build the ideal of “Never Again” (Nunca Más in Spanish) to violence and state terrorism. In this sense, they promote communication actions; investigation; formal and non-formal educational programs; preservation and enhancement of archives and collections.
Projects and activities
RESLAC produces materials, audiovisuals, educational resources, exhibitions, reports, which are accessible on its website. Every year the network carries out a meeting in which axis of work and projects are agreed and developed year by year. These projects are carried out jointly among sites, for example the exhibition "Transiciones, de las dictaduras a las democracias en América Latina" (Transitions, from dictatorships to democracies in Latin America, in English) which was created in 2010 and was exhibited in many sites of the network..
The fist meeting of the network was in June 2006 with: "Public Use of Historic Sites for the Transmission of Memory", held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2019, the XII meeting was held in San Pablo, Brazil, which sought to work mainly with the Truth Commissions of the region, their historical role, legacy and recommendations not addressed in the present.
References
Organizations based in South America
Latin America and the Caribbean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbors%20%28app%29 | Neighbors by Ring, also known as simply Neighbors, is a hyperlocal social networking app owned by Ring LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.
The app allows users to anonymously discuss crime and public safety issues within their local community. It integrates with Ring's smart doorbell and surveillance camera products, allowing users to share photos and video clips from the devices' cameras to accompany their posts. The app is also used as part of partnerships between Ring and local law enforcement agencies, who can make verified public service posts on the service, and use an online portal to collect footage posted on Neighbors to assist in investigations.
Usage
The app displays posts and notifications that fall within a five-mile (8 km) radius of the user's home address. Users can report on news and events within their neighborhood, as well as share photos and video. Users can comment on these reports in order to provide additional information. Unlike competing services such as Nextdoor, the service focuses exclusively on public safety, and posts are moderated to remove off-topic content.
Verified law enforcement agencies can post public bulletins on Neighbors to request assistance for investigations, such as locating a missing person or a suspect in a crime. Members of police departments can request access to the "Neighbors Portal" to collect publicly-posted multimedia from Neighbors to assist in investigations: a case number is required, but no evidence is needed. Up to 12 hours of footage from within the past 45 days can be collected, within a maximum area of 0.5 square miles. Users are automatically notified and asked for permission for footage to be released.
Reception
Neighbors has received criticism over Ring's partnerships with law enforcement agencies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation stated that apps such as Neighbors "facilitate reporting of so-called 'suspicious' behavior that really amounts to racial profiling." Fight for the Future has considered Ring and Neighbors to be a private surveillance network, backed by partnerships with law enforcement that "undermine our democratic process and basic civil liberties".
Further reading
See also
Nextdoor
References
External links
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Crime mapping
American social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studierfenster | Studierfenster or StudierFenster (SF) is a free, non-commercial open science client/server-based medical imaging processing online framework. It offers capabilities, like viewing medical data (computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), etc.) in two- and three-dimensional space directly in the standard web browsers, like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Other functionalities are the calculation of medical metrics (dice score and Hausdorff distance), manual slice-by-slice outlining of structures in medical images (segmentation), manual placing of (anatomical) landmarks in medical image data, viewing medical data in virtual reality, a facial reconstruction and registration of medical data for augmented reality, one click showcases for COVID-19 and veterinary scans, and a Radiomics module.
Other features of Studierfenster are the automatic cranial implant design with a neural network, the inpainting of aortic dissections with a generative adversarial network, an automatic aortic landmark detection with deep learning in computed tomography angiography scans, and a GrowCut algorithm implementation for image segmentation.
Studierfenster is currently hosted on a server at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, and expanded jointly with the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM) in Essen, Germany.
History
Studierfenster was initiated within two bachelor theses during the summer bachelor program of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG) at Graz University of Technology, Austria, in cooperation with the Medical University of Graz, Austria, in 2018/2019.
The name Studierfenster (or StudierFenster) is German and can be translated to 'StudyWindow', whereby window refers here to a browser window. The word Studierfenster is an adaption from the word ('study room'), which was an augmented reality project at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.
Architecture
Studierfenster is set up as a distributed application via a client–server model. The client side (front-end) consists of HTML and JavaScript with WebGL to enable 2D and 3D visualization, rendered on the client.
The server side (back-end) handles client requests via C, C++ and Python. It interfaces to common open source libraries and software tools like the Insight Toolkit, the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), the X Toolkit (XTK) and Slice:Drop. The server communication is handled by AJAX requests were needed.
Studierfenster employs a Flask server.
Features
Dicom browser
This allows client-side parsing a local folder with DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files. Afterwards, the whole folder can be converted to compressed (nearly raw raster data) files and downloaded as a single file.
Nrrd is a library and file format for the representation and processing of n-dimensional raster data. It is intended to support scientific visualization and (medical) image processing applications. With the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%202024%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | This is a tentative timeline of major events leading up to, during, and after the 2024 United States presidential election. This will be the first presidential election to be run with population data from the 2020 census. In addition to the dates mandated by the relevant federal laws such as those in the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral Count Act, several milestones have consistently been observed since the adoption of the conclusions of the 1971 McGovern–Fraser Commission.
2020
November 7: Joe Biden is declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election by a consensus of major news outlets projecting the results, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.
December 18: The U.S. Supreme Court delivers its per curiam decision in Trump v. New York regarding the 2020 United States census, effectively allowing Trump's July 2020 presidential memorandum to stand, which ordered the Department of Commerce exclude the estimated counts of illegal immigrants. The per curiam decision vacated the U.S. District Court's previous ruling on the basis that the case was premature due to lack of standing and ripeness. Justice Stephen Breyer files a dissent, which was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, arguing that the Court should have considered the case.
December 31: The U.S. Census Bureau misses the deadline to deliver the 2020 census results and the new apportionment counts to outgoing President Donald Trump.
2021
January 6: United States Capitol attack: Trump supporters attack and storm the Capitol building in an attempt to stop the counting of the electoral votes.
January 13: President Trump is impeached for a second time in relation to the events that took place the prior week.
January 20: Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, along with Kamala Harris as the 49th vice president.
February 13: Trump is acquitted by the Senate, maintaining his eligibility for a non-consecutive re-election bid.
April 26: The apportionment figures of the 2020 census are released, determining the distribution of electoral votes for the 2024 and 2028 elections.
June 26: Trump begins a series of campaign-style rallies.
November 20: President Biden and some of his aides inform some allies that he plans to run again in 2024.
2022
January 19: President Biden commits to keeping Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2024.
February 27: Former President Donald Trump wins the 2022 CPAC straw poll by over 30 points.
March 8: 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, declares she will not run again in 2024.
March 10: Corey Stapleton, former Secretary of State of Montana, announces he has formed a formal exploratory committee for a possible run for president.
March 16: Donald Trump announces that if he runs for re-election, his former Vice President Mike Pence will not be his running mate.
April 9: U.S. intelligence officials suggest that Russian President Vladimir Pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLM | LLM may refer to:
Master of Laws (), a postgraduate degree
LLM Communications, a defunct lobbying firm
LLM Lettering, a typeface
Large language model, the use of large neural networks for language modeling
Logic learning machine, a machine learning method |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Jerusalem%20Hospitals%20Network | The East Jerusalem Hospitals Network (EJHN) () is a network of six hospitals in East Jerusalem. The network was founded in 1997 with the support of Palestinian politician Faisal Husseini. The network plays a crucial role in the Palestinian health care system.
The six hospitals
The six hospitals are as follows:
Augusta Victoria Hospital, As-Sawana (within At-Tur (Mount of Olives))
Makassed Hospital, At-Tur (Mount of Olives)
Saint John Eye Hospital Group, Sheikh Jarrah
Red Crescent Maternity Hospital (also called Palestinian Red Crescent Society Hospital)
Princess Basma Centre for Children with Disabilities
St. Joseph's Hospital, Sheikh Jarrah, (run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition)
Conferences
First Annual Conference: Annual East Jerusalem Hospitals Conference: “Building a Network, Improving Patient Care”, 8–9 December 2011, in Jerusalem
Second Annual Conference: 2nd Annual East Jerusalem Hospitals Conference "Striving for Excellence Under Crisis", 30 January 2013, Jerusalem
Management
Abdel-Qader Husseini, Chairman
Walid Namour, Secretary General
References
Hospitals in Jerusalem
1997 establishments in the Palestinian territories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%21%20OS | Pop!_OS is a free and open-source Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu, and featuring a customized GNOME desktop environment known as COSMIC. The distribution is developed by American Linux computer manufacturer System76. Pop!_OS is primarily built to be bundled with the computers built by System76, but can also be downloaded and installed on most computers.
Pop!_OS provides full out-of-the-box support for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. It is regarded as an easy distribution to set up for gaming, mainly due to its built-in GPU support. Pop!_OS provides default disk encryption, streamlined window and workspace management, keyboard shortcuts for navigation as well as built-in power management profiles. The latest releases also have packages that allow for easy setup for TensorFlow and CUDA.
Pop!_OS is maintained primarily by System76, with the release version source code hosted in a GitHub repository. Unlike many other Linux distributions, it is not community-driven, although outside programmers can contribute, view and modify the source code. They can also build custom ISO images and redistribute them under another name.
Features
Pop!_OS primarily uses free software, with some proprietary software used for hardware drivers for Wi-Fi, discrete GPU and media codecs. It comes with a wide range of default software, including LibreOffice, Firefox and Geary. Additional software can be downloaded using the Pop!_Shop package manager.
Pop!_OS uses APT as its package manager and initially did not use Snaps or Flatpak, but Flatpak support was added in version 20.04 LTS. Software packages are available from the Ubuntu repositories, as well as Pop!_OS's own repositories. Pop!_OS features a customized GNOME Shell interface, with a Pop!_OS theme.
There is a GUI toggle in the GNOME system menu for switching between different video modes on dual GPU laptops. There are four display modes: hybrid, discrete, compute and iGPU only.
There is also a power management package developed from the Intel Clear Linux distribution. Pop!_OS currently uses Xorg as its display manager, with Wayland available optionally.
TensorFlow and CUDA enabled programs can be added by installing packages from the Pop!_OS repositories without additional configuration required.
It provides a Recovery Partition that can be used to 'refresh' the system while preserving user files. It can be used only if it is set up during initial installation.
From the 21.04 release, Pop!_OS included a new customized GNOME desktop environment called COSMIC, an acronym for "Computer Operating System Main Interface Components" developed by System76. It features separate views for workspaces and applications, a dock included by default, and supports both mouse-driven and keyboard-driven workflows.
System76 stated it will be creating a new desktop environment not based on GNOME. This desktop environment will be written in Rust and developed to be similar to COSMIC. System76 cites limitations with GNOME extensio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Bytes | Magic Bytes is an international video game publishing label. It originated in Germany as the primary computer game brand of micro-partner Software GmbH, already active since 1986 and dedicated to the internal development of some of the games. Initially, Bertelsmann subsidiary Ariolasoft and Gremlin Graphics in the United Kingdom distributed most Magic Bytes games.
History
Micro-Partner was founded by Thomas Meiertoberens, coming from Rainbow Arts of which he was co-founder, in 1986 in Gütersloh, Germany. At that time the initial team was formed by the owner Meiertoberens, the programmer Rolf Lakämper and the graphic designer Bettina Wiedner, all three in their twenties, and made itself known with the success of Mission Elevator, published in different countries of the world, the first German video game to have notable international success. In 1986, Meiertoberens obtained licenses to produce and market video games in Europe of comic characters Clever & Smart, Pink Panther and Tom & Jerry. The Magic Bytes brand was created in 1987 and was subsequently used to publish almost all micro-partner's games. Magic Bytes debut took place in 1987 with the European release of Western Games and Clever & Smart. Most games were adapted for Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore C64 & Amiga, some for MSX, ZX Spectrum and later mostly for PC's.
On May 20, 1988, Meiertoberens founded an US counterpart, Magic Bytes USA Inc., in Tampa and agreed with US company Digitek, also in Tampa, to mutually publish the other company's titles on their continent and micro-partner published Digitek games in Europe under the Magic Bytes label.
In 1991, micro-partner ceased operations due to non-payment of some of their wholesalers and publishing rights for Magic Bytes games changed to Magic Bytes Verlag R. Kleinegräber in German speaking countries and Magic Bytes Verlag started selling video games directly to end-users by mail-order or to Karstadt department stores. Magic Bytes Verlag started publishing video games from external German game developers and had notable success in Germany with BIING from reLINE in 1993 and Have a N.I.C.E. day from Synetic in 1997. In 2000, the last Magic Bytes game was released for that time period.
In 2017, Thomas Meiertoberens, who in the meantime had moved to the United States in 1997 to manage a real estate company, brought the brand back into business by founding Magic Bytes LLC, of which he is CEO. The new US company, headquartered in Lewes and operating with representatives in Orlando and Bielefeld, Germany, is developing an Android game called Toonworld of which an early access version has been released in February 2021.
Games
References
External links
Video game companies established in 1986
Video game companies of Germany
Video game development
Video game publishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%2031 | One 31, fully known as Channel One 31 () and branded as One31 or One HD 31, is a Thai digital terrestrial television channel owned by GMM Grammy under The One Enterprise. The network offers a variety of content such as drama, variety programs, competition, news and entertainment programs.
One 31 first aired on December 1, 2011 with the name 1-Sky One (วัน-สกาย วัน) with content and television programs produced by companies under GMM Grammy. On April 1, 2012, it changed its name into GMM Z Hitz (จีเอ็มเอ็มแซต ฮิตส์).
On November 1, 2012, the channel changed its name to GMM One. Its current name, One 31 was adopted on December 2, 2015.
Presenters
Current
Thema Kanchanapharin
Anuwat Fuengthongdang
Orachun Rintharawitoon
Srisuphan Thammawut
Navanan Bamrungphruk
Veenarat Laohapakakul
Bancha Kaengkan
Chainon Hankhirirat
Saranphat Tangpaisanthanakul
Nitirath Buachan
Orarin Yamokgul
Sujira Aroonphiphat
Natphatsorn Simasathien
Lily McGrath
Phattana Chanpantarak
Kajornkit Phonphai
Piyawat Khemphet
Thanyaret Engtrakul
Pornchita Na Songkhla
Panita Thammawattana
Thansita Suwatcharathanakit
Darunee Suthipitak
Passakorn Ponbun
Takkatan Chollada
Supaporn Wongthuithong
Pennueng Wongphudorn
Former
Chawankon Wattanaphisitkul
Aniporn Chalermburanawong
References
External links
Television stations in Thailand
GMM Grammy
Television channels and stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaca | Yaca may refer to:
yaca, the concept of a namesake in Fijian tradition
yacA, a gene
See also
Yacas, a computer algebra system
Yacca (disambiguation)
Yacka (disambiguation)
Yaka (disambiguation)
IACA (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Positioning%20Augmentation%20Network | The Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) is a joint initiative of the Australian and New Zealand Governments that provides Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for Australia and New Zealand. On 26 September 2022, SouthPAN early Open Services became live, with safety-of-life certified SouthPAN services planned for 2028. SouthPAN is the first SBAS in the Southern Hemisphere.
SouthPAN will implement the following services:
L1 SBAS. L1 SBAS augments GPS and is an Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service (ARNS). This signal will be used for Safety-of-Life applications and therefore needs to be certified by the National Aviation Authorities—that is, the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
DFMC SBAS. Dual Frequency Multi Constellation (DFMC) SBAS is a future ARNS that will be defined in ICAO Annex 10 Amendment 93. This service will have the potential to be certified as a safety critical system for aviation and other sectors in the future.
PVS. Precise Point Positioning (PPP) via SouthPAN (PVS) service will provide horizontal accuracies of 15cm (95% Confidence) to a range of industries following a convergence time in the tens of minutes. The PVS service will be open access and able to be incorporated onto mass-market GNSS devices across Australia, New Zealand and their maritime zones.
Test Transmission
Between 2017 and 31 July 2020, Geoscience Australia ran a SouthPAN SBAS test-bed project to assess the economic, social and environmental benefits of improved positioning technology through industry case study projects.
References
External links
Positioning Australia
LINZ
Satellite-based augmentation systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Warner | Ben Warner is a British data scientist.
Education
Warner earned a PhD at University College London for research investigating single molecule spintronics. The research was supervised by Cyrus Hirjibehedin and was awarded the Marshall Stoneham prize.
Career
Warner was a postdoctoral research fellow in quantum physics at the centre for nanotechnology at University College London. He left to join ASI Data Science (now Faculty), a company founded by his brother Marc Warner in 2014, where he is now a commercial principal.
Warner was a key figure in the computer modelling used by Vote Leave's successful 2016 referendum campaign. He was brought in by Dominic Cummings to run the Conservative Party's private computer model for the 2019 general election, which predicted that the Conservative Party would win 364 seats (they won 365).
Warner served as one of the 23 participants of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Dominic Cummings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Action%20Network%20Latin%20America | Climate Action Network Latin America (CAN-LA or CANLA) is a Latin American climate justice organisation. Founded in 2009 and based in Buenos Aires, it is the regional network of the Climate Action Network and considered a "node" helping to collaborate in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It links over 30 non-governmental organisations, which are engaged in climate justice issues and active against climate change (as of 25 April 2020).
Structure
The regional network is composed of more than 30 organizations from different countries in Latin America. Currently, it is coordinated by Alejandro Aleman from the Nicaraguan organisation Centro Humboldt (as of 25 April 2020). Within CAN International, there is a regional officer. At the moment Karla Maass hold this position (as of 25 April 2020).
Member organisations of CAN-LA are located in:
Argentina
Barbados
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Peru
United States (Ciudadnía Sustentable frente al Cambio Climatico, A.C.)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Activities
The regional node tries to foster networks between different organisations working in Central and Latin America. The organisation's reasoning behind it is that through collaboration, the organisations can more easily further the cause of climate justice.
One of the most important functions of the organisation is Latin American representation at UN climate conferences. Delegates of CAN-LA attend the climate negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They are present at the conferences of the parties (COP) and the intersessionals in Bonn. Since COP20 in 2014, they have press conferences to inform the public about their views. During COPs, they organise side events where they can set their own agenda and invite panelists. They also inform the public and publish reports, analyses and comments, for example in the Chilean newspaper "El dínamo". Before COP23, the network organised a webinar called "Camino a la COP23: Una visión desde América Latina y el Caribe".
After COP25, they wrote a report about their view on the negotiations and reflecting on the outcome. That the climate conference in 2019 was moved from Chile to Spain was considered a missed opportunity for Latin America, not only because many representatives could not be present, but also because a bigger cohesion within the region was not reached.
They reacted to the postponement of COP26 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with a common declaration highlighting that the health crisis is connected to the bigger ecological crisis and the most vulnerable communities are affected the most by both crises.
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CAN-LA at the website of Climate Action Network
Twitter-Account of CAN-LA
Environmental organisations based in Argentina
International climate change organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOtv%20Africa | GOtv Africa is a pay television terrestrial service in sub-Saharan Africa owned by broadcaster MultiChoice and founded 2011. It mainly consists of African and international programming.
History
The terrestrial TV service was founded in October 2011 by MultiChoice. It features news channels such as the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN, sports channels such as SuperSport and ESPN, local & international content from Africa Magic and M-Net Movies among others, including free-to-air channels. It is currently available in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda. The current director general of the company is John Ugbe.
In Kenya, one can use the GOtv Paybill Number 423655 to pay for their subscription via M-PESA Make sure your GOtv decoder is turned on before making payment.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonino%20Letteriello | Antonino (Nino) Letteriello (born August 11, 1979, in Italy) is the first President of the Data Association Management Italy Chapter and European Coordinator for the International Data Association Management.
Letteriello started his career in the public transport industry in 2006, working for transport networks including Metropolitana Milanese and Transport for London before assuming the role of Head of Programme Management for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was invited to the UK Olympic Expert Panel by then President of London 2012 Lord Coe.
He founded Enne Limited in 2014 and is also founder and CEO of FIT Strategy. Since 2020, Letteriello has been a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's CDO Symposium Programme Committee and in 2021 was nominated High Level Facilitator Tracker for policy on building confidence and security in the use of ICTs.
Holder of a Data Management Excellence Award, in 2021, Letteriello was nominated as one of the DataIq 100 most influential people in data. He has also written for the World Economic Forum. He lives in Modena with his wife Renata and their son.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20of%20network%20ensembles | A set of networks that satisfies given structural characteristics can be treated as a network ensemble. Brought up by Ginestra Bianconi in 2007, the entropy of a network ensemble measures the level of the order or uncertainty of a network ensemble.
The entropy is the logarithm of the number of graphs. Entropy can also be defined in one network. Basin entropy is the logarithm of the attractors in one Boolean network.
Employing approaches from statistical mechanics, the complexity, uncertainty, and randomness of networks can be described by network ensembles with different types of constraints.
Gibbs and Shannon entropy
By analogy to statistical mechanics, microcanonical ensembles and canonical ensembles of networks are introduced for the implementation. A partition function Z of an ensemble can be defined as:
where is the constraint, and () are the elements in the adjacency matrix, if and only if there is a link between node i and node j. is a step function with if , and if . The auxiliary fields and have been introduced as analogy to the bath in classical mechanics.
For simple undirected networks, the partition function can be simplified as
where , is the index of the weight, and for a simple network .
Microcanonical ensembles and canonical ensembles are demonstrated with simple undirected networks.
For a microcanonical ensemble, the Gibbs entropy is defined by:
where indicates the cardinality of the ensemble, i.e., the total number of networks in the ensemble.
The probability of having a link between nodes i and j, with weight is given by:
For a canonical ensemble, the entropy is presented in the form of a Shannon entropy:
Relation between Gibbs and Shannon entropy
Network ensemble with given number of nodes and links , and its conjugate-canonical ensemble are characterized as microcanonical and canonical ensembles and they have Gibbs entropy and the Shannon entropy S, respectively. The Gibbs entropy in the ensemble is given by:
For ensemble,
Inserting into the Shannon entropy:
The relation indicates that the Gibbs entropy and the Shannon entropy per node S/N of random graphs are equal in the thermodynamic limit .
Von Neumann entropy
Von Neumann entropy is the extension of the classical Gibbs entropy in a quantum context. This entropy is constructed from a density matrix : historically, the first proposed candidate for such a density matrix has been an expression of the Laplacian matrix L associated with the network. The average von Neumann entropy of an ensemble is calculated as:
For random network ensemble , the relation between and is nonmonotonic when the average connectivity is varied.
For canonical power-law network ensembles, the two entropies are linearly related.
Networks with given expected degree sequences suggest that, heterogeneity in the expected degree distribution implies an equivalence between a quantum and a classical description of networks, which respectively corresponds to the von N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels%20Ain%27t%20Listening | "Angels Ain't Listening" is a song by Swedish musician Basshunter, released as a single on 29 May 2020 by Central Station Records, nextBird Records, Planetworks, PowerHouse, Roton, Teta Records, and Yeni Dünya Müzik. It was written by Basshunter, Jimmy Joker, Thomas G:son, and Bilal Hajji, and produced by Jimmy Joker. "Angels Ain't Listening" is Basshunter's first song he sings in seven years. It shows his emotional side and was inspired by the pop music of the 1980s. It peaked at number 27 on the Swiss Dance Chart.
Background
"Angels Ain't Listening" is two minutes and 49 seconds long, and has a tempo of 153 beats per minute. The cold wave song was written by Basshunter, Jimmy Joker, Thomas G:son, and Bilal Hajji, and produced by Jimmy Joker. It reveals the emotional side of Basshunter and was inspired by the pop music of the 1980s. It is Basshunter's first song he sings in seven years. He said he had lost his will to sing and did not have much self-confidence, having found the competition from other singers, who he felt had more personality and were better at singing than he was, too fierce. When he recorded "Angels Ain't Listening", he felt he could actually sing.
Basshunter described the song as being about having to find oneself before devoting one's life to someone else. He realized that having a good relationship with oneself is needed before becoming involved in a relationship. He said everyone makes mistakes and learns the hard way, but it is important to maintain a positive attitude and have fun throughout life.
Release
Basshunter's previous single, "Home", had been released on 27 September 2019. Basshunter announced his new song "Angels Ain't Listening" and previewed a fragment during a 24 April 2020 interview with Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1. A fragment of the song was also played on the radio programme P3 Musikdokumentär broadcast by Sveriges Radio.
"Angels Ain't Listening" was released as a promotional single on 27 May 2020 by Central Station Records. Two days later, the song was publicly released by Central Station Records, nextBird Records, Planetworks, PowerHouse, Roton, Teta Records, and Yeni Dünya Müzik.
The track was added to the Swedish top download and stream playlist on 5 June 2020. "Angels Ain't Listening" became one of the most-downloaded foreign tracks by radio stations in Russia. It was also added to the lists of the best songs of the week by Dagens Nyheter and Zero Music Magazine. "Life Speaks to Me" is the next single released on 19 November 2021.
Lyric video
A lyric video for "Angels Ain't Listening" directed by Jay Jayveesualz was released by Basshunter on 29 May 2020. It stars Oskar Sternulf as a man who is trying to deal with his loneliness and to nurture self-love and self-acceptance. Jayveesualz was looking for a man aged 35–50 years who could play a mentally unstable person, and used the comic-book character Joker played by Joaquin Phoenix in the 2019 film of the same name as an example. He received 40 ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole%20Megow | Nicole Megow is a German discrete mathematician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and online algorithms for scheduling. She is a professor in the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Bremen.
Education and career
Megow earned a diploma in mathematical economics from the Technical University of Berlin in 2002, and completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) from the same university in 2006. Her dissertation, Coping with Incomplete Information in Scheduling, was supervised by Rolf H. Mohring.
After working as a researcher and visiting professor at the Technical University of Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, she became an assistant professor at the Technical University of Munich in 2015, and took her present position as professor at the University of Bremen in 2016.
Recognition
Megow was one of the 2013 winners of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20inequality%20in%20South%20Korea | South Korea was the 5th most equal country in the world in 2019, however economic inequality is growing. According to data from 2010, low-income earners (those earning 12 million won or less) make up 37.8% of South Korea's labour force. Conversely, the highest income earners (those earning 100 million won or more) make up 1.4% of the labour force.
Current situation
Among other countries in OECD, South Korea performs relatively well when considering indicators such as the Gini coefficient and Palma ratio, especially when limiting the comparison to countries with similar populations.
However, income polarization (the income gap) has not eased since the IMF stimulus, and thus is becoming more serious as of 2018.
In 2014, the poverty gap index was 39%, which ranked third overall among OECD countries. According to Wells X, the nation's top-tier 1390 people monopolize assets worth around 270 trillion won, comparable to the national budget.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated economic inequality in South Korea. South Korea's President, Moon Jae-in, attributed a deepening wealth gap between the rich and the poor to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
The following table shows the number of people and earned income by annual salary in Korea.
Counterargument
In 2019, an article published on Xinhua claimed that the government-led economic growth policy resulted in a drop in South Korea's Gini index from 2018. However, it should be cautioned that the figure has only improved due to sluggish economic growth among high-income earners.
The 2019 film Parasite depicted drastic economic inequality between South Korea's wealthy and the poor, which is not necessarily reflected in reality. In contrast, 1% of the United States' top income earners earn 20% of the country's income, whereas the ratio is smaller in South Korea, with 12.2% of the population earning the same percentage of South Korea's total income.
Problems created by economic inequality
Economic polarization creates many problems, though some of the following are more evident in South Korea:
Effects on South Korean youth
Economic inequality is often linked to low or limited social mobility, a situation which may instill a sense of hopelessness among South Korea's youth. Gambling, though extremely limited due to its legality in South Korea, can be a dangerous source of debt for South Koreans who are susceptible to gambling and gambling addiction. In 2017, the availability of cryptocurrency in South Korea, combined with a lack of legal outlets for gambling, has contributed to gambling problems and associated debt.
Causes
There are many causes for economic inequality, but the following causes are mainly talked about in Korea.
Foreign exchange crisis
Not only the financial crisis itself, but also the ensuing contraction in domestic investment and worsening overall employment conditions. A slump in the domestic economy and strengthening the nation's economic structure dependent on exports. Be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trouble%20with%20Maggie%20Cole | The Trouble with Maggie Cole is a British comedy-drama television series directed by Ben Gregor, and written by Mark Brotherhood. The show's first episode premiered on British television network ITV on 4 March 2020. It stars Dawn French in the role of Maggie Cole as well as Mark Heap, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Vicki Pepperdine, Patrick Robinson, Emily Reid and Gwyneth Keyworth.
Premise
The six-part series takes place in the coastal village of Thurlbury and follows the local busybody Maggie Cole (Dawn French). Maggie refers to herself as the "local historian" and runs the local heritage/gift shop, while her husband Peter is the headmaster of the local primary school.
Production and filming
The show was initially planned to be named Glass Houses while in production in early 2019. Filming for the series took place across South Devon and Cornwall, primarily in the village of Noss Mayo. Other locations where filming took place are Mothecombe, Launceston Castle, Cargreen, Burgh Island, Bigbury-on-Sea beach, Morwellham Quay, Saltash, and a primary school in Ivybridge.
Cast
Dawn French as Maggie Cole
Mark Heap as Peter Cole
Julie Hesmondhalgh as Jill Wheadon
Vicki Pepperdine as Karen Saxton
Patrick Robinson as Marcus Ormansby
Phil Dunster as Jamie Cole
Gwyneth Keyworth as Becka Cole
Chetna Pandya as Dr. Carol Tomlin
Jamie Talbot as Tommy Jarvis
Emily Reid as Roxanna Dubiki
Rocco Padden as Josh Roberts
Joe Layton as Neil Roberts
Lee Boardman as Brian Daniels
Hollie Edwin as Sydney Hurst
Laurie Kynaston as Liam Myer
Kerry Howard as Kelly Roberts
Tomi May as Emil Dubiki
Arthur McBain as Alex Myer
Karen Henthorn as Jenny Myer
Shane Attwooll as Patrick
Ray Strasser-King as Phil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Merrill | Richard Merrill may refer to:
Richard Merrill (computer scientist), inventor of the programming language FOCAL
Richard B. Merrill, American inventor of Foveon X3 sensor
Richard L. Morrill, academic
Dick Merrill, aviation pioneer
See also
Richard Merrill Atkinson, U.S. Representative from Tennessee
Richard Merrill Rowell, Distinguished Flying Cross recipient
USS Richard M. Rowell (DE-403), WWII navy ship named after Richard Merrill Rowell
Richard M. Cohen (Richard Merrill Cohen), American journalist
Richard M. Mills Jr. (Richard Merrill Mills Jr.), American diplomat
Dick Sudhalter (Richard Merrill Sudhalter), American jazz musician and writer
Merrill (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraf%20Lex | Paragraf Lex is a Serbian-language computer-assisted legal research service based in Novi Sad. It was the only Serbian law database listed in a 2018 legal reference on Serbian criminal law.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueDot | BlueDot Inc. (formerly Bio.Diaspora) is a Canadian artificial intelligence software company based in Toronto, Ontario. The company's flagship product is Insights, a software-as-service used to map the spread of infectious diseases.
Background
Founding
The company was initially founded in 2008 under the project name Bio.Diaspora by Dr. Kamran Khan, a professor at the University of Toronto and infectious disease specialist at St. Michael's Hospital. Initial development took place in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Ryerson University, the University of Manitoba and several commercial airport and air transport organizations.
According to Khan, the project's initial business concept was inspired by the detrimental effects of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak on the City of Toronto. The company is said to have “attracted interest from public health, biodefense and industry groups worldwide, all of which are looking for real-time, global epidemic intelligence to protect their interests.”
Bio.Diaspora produced a report in 2009 titled “An Analysis of Canada’s Vulnerability to Emerging Infectious Disease Threats via the Global Airline Transportation Network” with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
In June 2011, St. Michael’s Hospital brought Bio.Diaspora to MaRS Innovation for market potential evaluation. By 2011, Bio.Diaspora had helped several countries anticipate and react to the spread of disease at mass gatherings such as the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the FIFA World Cup, and the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
Bio.Diaspora partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Harvard University to integrate the program with HealthMap, a technology that monitors public websites and global online media for news of emerging diseases.
Relaunch
Bio.Diaspora was relaunched as BlueDot in 2013. After Ebola spread across Africa in 2014, BlueDot predicted its migration out of West Africa and published its results in the The Lancet. BlueDot then reportedly predicted a Zika virus outbreak in Florida six months before it occurred.
The company secured funding from Horizons Ventures in a Series A round in 2015. This was followed by an additional $9.4 million in 2019, with its primary investors being Horizon Ventures, The Co-operators, and BDC Capital's Women in Technology Venture Fund.
COVID-19
BlueDot and its software received significant coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, with several jurisdictions using BlueDot software to track outbreaks of COVID-19.
According to BlueDot, the company was the first in the world to detect the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China. It sent an alert to its customers on December 31, 2019, and used data on airline tickets to accurately predict the virus' apparent travel to Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo. This came six days before the World Health Organization sent out its own public warning. |
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The Uluzzian Culture is a transitional archaeological culture between the Middle paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic, found in Italy and Greece.
A team led by archaeological scientist Katerina Douka has dated the Uluzzian as lasting from shortly before 45,000 to around 39,500 years before present (BP), at a similar date or slightly earlier than the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption.
Geographical extent: In Italy: Apulia (the Grotta del Cavallo and the Uluzzo cave), Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Tuscany, and Fumane (the northernmost point). Outside of Italy, only in Argolis, Greece (the cave of Klissoura).
Discovery
Excavations by 1963 Arturo Palma di Cesnola of the Grotta del Cavallo ("Cave of the Horse") in southern Italy uncovered the first remains later called "Uluzzian". The cave is on the Salento peninsula in Apulia, overlooking the Gulf of Taranto. The only human remains were two deciduous teeth (Cavallo B and Cavallo C) from the Uluzzian deposit of Grotta del Cavallo identified as human by (Benazzi et al., 2011). These teeth, dated to 43,000–45,000 BP, are the oldest currently-known remains of modern humans in Europe.
Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition
The Uluzzian is one of several techno-complexes considered to be "transitional assemblages": Uluzzian, Châtelperronian, Szeletian, and Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician.
Culture
The Uluzzians made and used beads from shells of marine molluscs such as scaphopods, snails (Columbella rustica, Cyclope neritea), and other species.
See also
Bacho Kiro cave
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Harrison%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Rachel Harrison is a British computer scientist and software engineer whose research interests include mobile apps and object-oriented design. She is a professor of computer science at Oxford Brookes University.
Education and career
Harrison has master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Oxford and in computer science from University College London, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Southampton. Before joining Oxford Brooks, she has been professor and head of the computer science department at the University of Reading, and a consultant in the computing industry. At Oxford Brookes University, she leads the Applied Software Engineering Group.
In 2009, Harrison became editor-in-chief of the Software Quality Journal, a position she still holds as of 2020.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michela%20Taufer | Michela Taufer (born 23 April 1971) is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Senior Member. In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
Education
Taufer attended the University of Padua where she obtained a Laurea in Computer Engineering in 1996. She later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) in 2002. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) was titled, Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing, and was supervised by Thomas M. Stricker and Daniel A. Reed.
Research
Her current research interests include high performance computing, scientific applications, and their programmability on multi-core and many-core platforms. She applies advances in computational and algorithmic solutions for high-performance computing technologies (i.e., volunteer computing, accelerators and GPUs, and in situ analytics workflows) to multi-disciplinary fields including molecular dynamics, ecoinformatics, seismology, and biology.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Del%20Valle | Sara Yemimah Del Valle is a senior scientist and mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). At the LANL, Del Valle leads the Fusion Team, where she combines internet data with satellite imagery to forecast disease outbreaks. During the COVID-19 pandemic Del Valle created a computational model that could predict the spread of COVID-19 around the United States.
Education
Del Valle attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she studied applied mathematics. Here she was awarded the Excellence in Mathematics Award in 1996. She earned her bachelor's degree in 2001. For her graduate studies she moved to the University of Iowa, where she developed mathematical models to describe outbreaks of smallpox. She showed that the spread of smallpox is particularly sensitive to how rapidly people self-isolate. She developed a differential equation that could describe the spread, which revealed that the epidemic size depended on how quickly the population developed immunity. After completing her doctorate in 2005, Del Valle joined the LANL as a postdoctoral researcher. Her early worked involved modelling the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, and accurately predicted the peak and number of people who would be infected.
Research and career
Del Valle was appointed a permanent staff member at LANL after completing her postdoctoral research. Her research involves the development of mathematical and computational models to mitigate the spread of viruses. She has shown that it is possible to use social media to predict epidemics, which includes searching social media platforms for terms such as vaccine or mask as well as capturing public sentiment. These findings are used by Del Valle in predictive agent-based models. Alongside the computational models, Del Valle has developed algorithms that can quantify their uncertainty. She was appointed lead of the pandemic project at the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center.
In 2012 Del Valle studied the economic benefits of wearing face masks during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. She predicted that an unmitigated pandemic could cause over $800 billion of damage to the United States economy. Her estimate made use of earnings, costs associated with staying in hospital and loses in income due to illness. Del Valle demonstrated that if face masks were used by half of the population, economic losses of up to $573 billion could be avoided.
Del Valle studied the ways that Wikipedia can be used to monitor for disease outbreaks. Making use of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic as a model, Del Valle showed that Wikipedia had the potential to be an effective, community driven monitoring system to identify emerging diseases as well as storing and sharing data. She used natural language processing to capture critical information and case counts from Wikipedia articles. Del Valle believes that the history sections of Wikipedia pages not only gauge pub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufer | Taufer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mel Taufer (born 1998), Ethiopian-born Italian footballer
Michela Taufer (born 1971), Italian American computer scientist
Veno Taufer (1933–2023), Slovenian poet, essayist, translator, and playwright |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Rafique%20%28mathematician%29 | Muhammad Rafique (2 January 1940 — 16 June 1996) was a Pakistani mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Punjab University. He was a versatile scholar who authored textbooks on computer language and special relativity. He was the co-author of textbook Group Theory for High Energy Physicists, which was eventually published years after his death in 2016.
Biographical overview
Rafique was born in Lahore, Punjab in British India on 2 January,1940 in Lahore, Punjab in India and was educated at the Punjab University where he graduated with BA with first-class honours in Mathematics in 1960. He served in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Punjab University where he graduated with MA in Mathematics in 1964, and earned a scholarship to study mathematics in the United Kingdom. He attended the University of North Wales where he graduated with a PhD in Mathematics in 1967.
Upon returning to Pakistan, he joined the Punjab University and taught there until 1971 when he joined the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy as a post-doctoral scholar. From 1972 to 1977, Rafique worked at the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology where he contributed his work on fast neutron calculations for atomic weapons which built his interests in the theory of relativity and nuclear physics.
From 1977 to 1982, he served on the faculty of University of Tripoli in Libya, and served as the Head of Department of Mathematics at the Punjab University from 1983 until 1992 when he went to teach mathematics at the King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia. His tenure at the King Fahd University was short-lived. He died due to cardiac arrest in June 1996. Although a mathematician, Rafique was a prolific author on physics, was writing a college text on group theory's applications on high energy physics with Mohammad Saleem at the time of his death in 1992. The college book was eventually published in 2015-2016 by British publisher Taylor & Francis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ%20Villard%27s%20Fairy%20Tales | JJ Villard's Fairy Tales is an American adult animated horror comedy television series created by J.J. Villard. The series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim on May 11, 2020.
Cast
J.J. Villard as Police Officer (Little Red Riding Hood) / Cops / Squire / Chaffino
Sheryl Lee as Doreen
Maika Monroe as Snow White
Keith David as Prince Lionel
Finn Wolfhard as Boypunzel / Manpunzel
Milly Shapiro as Princess Jezebel / Goldilocks
Jennifer Tilly as Little Red Riding Hood
Warwick Davis as Rumpelstiltskin
Cassandra Peterson as Queen
Corey Feldman as Huntsman / Guard / Leechy
Edwin Neal as Wormy / Earwig / Crabby
Peter Weller as Sergeant Hardcop
Linda Blair as Grandma Sicario Hernandez / Mama Bear / Goldilocks’ Mom
David Patrick Kelly as the Woodsman
Catherine Hicks as Fairy
Alan Oppenheimer as Bearstein / Mirror Max / Roach / Flea Circus
Robert Englund as Hive Head / Porridge Daddy / Toilet
Doug Bradley as Kenneth
John Kassir as Pinocchio / Gelato
Ashley Laurence as Jizzelda
Heather Langenkamp as Charla
Kevin Van Hentenryck as Officer Big Bad Wolf
Episodes
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2020 American television series debuts
2020 American television series endings
2020s American adult animated television series
2020s American black comedy television series
Adult Swim original programming
American adult animated comedy television series
American adult animated horror television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto%20Duavit%20Jr. | Gilberto "Jimmy" Roy Duavit Jr. (born October 16, 1963) is a Filipino businessman, philanthropist, producer, and writer. He is the president and chief operating officer of GMA Network Inc., one of the largest media networks in the Philippines. Duavit inherited the position from his father, Gilberto "Bibit" Duavit Sr., who was the network's founding chairman. Duavit first became involved with GMA in 1993 as a film producer for the network's production company, GMA Pictures, which was then named Cinemax Studios and later GMA Films. He produced some of the company's most successful films, including José Rizal (1998) and Muro-Ami (1999), both of which won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Picture successively. After his promotion as the network's vice president in 2000, Duavit became involved in the network's television production, having created the shows Liwanag ng Hatinggabi (1999–2000), Ang Iibigin ay Ikaw (2002–03), and Hanggang Kailan (2004).
Since Duavit assumed the presidency from the network's longtime chairman Felipe Gozon, who was appointed CEO, he and Gozon have been attributed for the network's rise as one of the country's leading media networks. The network had won several Peabody Awards, Asian Television Awards, and the New York Television Festival awards during Duavit's presidency.
Duavit is the thirty-third-wealthiest person in the Philippines, with a net worth of $440 million, according to Forbes.
Early life
Duavit was born on October 16, 1963, as the second eldest child of GMA Network chairman Gilberto Duavit Sr. (1934–2018) and Vilma
Roy Duavit, the daughter of former Philippine Senator Jose Roy (1904–1986). His older sister, Judith Duavit Vasquez, previously served as a GMA board member. His youngest brother, Michael John Duavit, currently serves as a representative for Rizal's 1st district, which he has served for five terms since 2001, a position that his father and second youngest brother, Joel Roy Duavit, also served; Duavit Sr. served as the district's congressman from 1994 to 2001, while Joel served the position for two consecutive terms from 2010 to 2016. Duavit graduated from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy.
Career
Film and television producer (1991–2000)
Since 1991, Duavit has served as the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Film Experts Inc., a magnetic storage and optical disc manufacturer based in Makati.
In 1995, the GMA Network launched Cinemax Studios with Duavit as one of the supervisors. In 1998, Cinemax Studios was renamed to GMA Films in order to avoid confusion with HBO's sister channel Cinemax, which had then recently entered into the Southeast Asian market. Duavit was involved in the production of the studio's first films following the move, Sa Pusod ng Dagat and José Rizal, serving as the two films' producer. Both films were directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and were critical and commercial successes. José Rizal won all t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilios%20Avgouleas | Emilios Avgouleas is a Greek professor and researcher specialising in international financial markets and blockchain technology. He holds the chair in international banking law and finance at the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the stakeholder group of the European Banking Authority.
He is also an independent member of the Euro-working group select panel for the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, which was set up to stabilize the Greek banking sector during the 2010 banking crisis.
Education
Avgouleas graduated in law from the University of Athens, and in 1999 gained his doctorate in law and economics from the London School of Economics.
Career
Avgouleas practised law as an associate at Clifford Chance and in investment banks. By 2000, he was a partner at Linklaters and then Tsibanoulis & Partners in Athens. In 2007, he switched into academia, taking up the post of professor of international financial markets and financial law at the University of Manchester.
In 2012, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, as a professor of international banking. He is an associate director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law.
He is also on the staff of Edinburgh University's blockchain technology lab and IOHK, the blockchain engineering company developing Cardano.
Avgouleas was called as an expert witness by the House of Lords select committee on the European Union for a 2012 report on MiFID II.
Since 2015, he has been a member of the stakeholder group of the European Banking Authority.
Visiting professorships include Yale, Harvard, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University, Duke Law School, China University of Political Science and Law, and the Athens University of Economics and Business.
On the issue of the coronavirus crisis, he warned in 2020 that if it lasted more than a few months, "Tens of millions of jobs could be lost despite trillions of dollars being spent on saving businesses and industries". Furthermore, it could be "the kiss of death for countries and the stability of their financial systems".
Findings on the Greek banking crisis
Avgouleas was critical of early attempts to stabilize the Greek banking sector during the banking crisis after a bailout by the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2010. In 2014, he delivered a paper on ethics and restoring confidence at a conference organised by the Hellenic Bank Association, Greece’s national banking trade group. That same year he published a "critical evaluation" of bank bail-in regimes with Charles Goodhart. In 2015, he described the disposal of banking assets as "a fire sale", resulting in an "enormous loss" for Greek taxpayers.
Avgouleas was appointed in January 2016 as an independent member of a selection and evaluation panel for board members of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, and contributed to the interim and final financial reports. He returned to the issue of bank bail-ins with Goodhart at the end of the year.
In May 2018, he worked |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENET%20210 | The TENET 210 was a mainframe computer designed for timesharing services. The machine was designed for high throughput and expandability, including 20 direct memory access (DMA) channels and eight slots for core memory, allowing up to 128k 32-bit words of RAM. The sales materials boasted that it guaranteed user responses within one second.
The 210 was the only product of TENET Inc, formed by several former members of Fairchild Semiconductor during its heyday in the late 1960s. The company sold only a single 210 before going out of business.
History
The TENET 210 ultimately traces its history to a project within Fairchild Semiconductor's research and development center in Palo Alto, California run by Gordon Moore. A new group organized by Rex Rice was developing a machine specifically for the timesharing market. Known as the Symbol IIR, the design concept was a machine that ran a PL/1-like language as its native assembler language, and would be implemented entirely in hardware - no microcode or firmware was allowed.
In 1966, Chuck Runge was working for the Atomic Energy Commission, writing programs on a machine at Iowa State University. Rice visited the campus on a recruiting drive and Runge interviewed with Moore that March. Runge joined the company in June, but quickly became disillusioned with the no-software decree, and was convinced the project would never ship. He found a like-minded engineer in Dave Masters, who knew Fairchild president Bob Noyce.
The two approached Noyce with the idea of developing a new computer design. The system was initially pitched as a controller for Fairchild Instrumentation's new Sentry product, a software-controlled semiconductor testing system. This produced the 24-bit Fairchild FST-1, as well as the FACTOR programming language used to program the test suites. Although it was by most measures a general-purpose minicomputer, Fairchild was uninterested in marketing it as such.
At the time, the timesharing market was developing rapidly, and had split into two solution classes; the minicomputer end was aimed at smaller users who would buy a complete system for in-house use, like the HP 2100, while at the other end were large mainframes that sold services on a per-minute basis to users on remote computer terminals, like the GE 635. In 1968, Runge and Masters left Fairchild to form TENET with the intent of building a mid-range system with the price of the mini offerings but the power of the mainframes.
To fund development, Runge took a contract with Fairchild to develop the specification for FACTOR. When this was complete, they managed to arrange a 1969 meeting with Fred Adler, a NY trial attorney who had helped fund Data General. Adler put together a $2 million package to fund the development of two prototypes. Development of the first machine was completed within two years. To introduce the design, in January 1971 they held an open house in which a concert pianist used the prototype as a music synthesizer. Howe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Latin%20Rhythm%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202008 | The Latin Rhythm Albums chart is a music chart published in Billboard magazine. This data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States to determine the top-selling Latin rhythm albums in the United States each week. The chart is composed of studio, live, and compilation releases by Latin artists performing in the Latin hip hop, urban, dance and reggaeton, the most popular Latin rhythm music genres.
There were seven number-one albums in 2008. Panaminian DJ Flex hit the chart for the first time and peaked number one for 16 weeks with his debut album Te Quiero. Reggaeton Duo Wisin & Yandel stayed at the number one forn 18 weeks with Los Extatrestres and become the second best selling Latin album of the year with 250,000 copies.
Albums
References
Rhythm 2008
United States Latin Rhythm Albums
2008 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fishes%20of%20Wyoming | The state of Wyoming, being a land locked state, has a wide variety of freshwater fish in its lakes, rivers, and streams.
References
“Wyoming Fishing Network: Species of Fish in Wyoming.” Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wyomingfishing.net/species.htm.
“Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Native Fish Species of Wyoming.” Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Fishing-and-Boating/Fish-of-Wyoming/Native-Fish-Species-of-Wyoming.
“Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Non Native Fish Species of Wyoming.” Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Fishing-and-Boating/Fish-of-Wyoming/Non-Native-Fish-Species-of-Wyoming.
Accessed April 27, 2020. http://projects.warnercnr.colostate.edu/cofishguide/index.cfm?step=literature.
Fish
Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursed%20Films | Cursed Films is an American documentary streaming television series produced by Shudder, a streaming service owned by AMC Networks. Written, edited and directed by Jay Cheel, the series covers alleged instances of curses surrounding films. It premiered April 2, 2020 on Shudder with mixed to positive reviews.
In August 2020, Shudder renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on April 7, 2022.
Description
The documentary series focuses on alleged curses that afflicted the production of notable horror/non-horror films. Each episode focuses on a single film and includes interviews with individuals who worked on said films. The series also includes interviews with journalists and film critics who comment on the alleged curses.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
Season 2 (2022)
See also
Superstitions
New Hollywood
Twilight Zone accident
Urban legends
References
External links
IMDb
Official website
Official trailer
American documentary television series
Shudder (streaming service) original programming
2020 American television series debuts
Documentary television series about films
Film and video fandom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20WNBA%20All-Star%20Game%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers that have broadcast the WNBA All-Star Game.
2020s
2010s
Notes
No official All-Star Game was held in 2010. Instead, there was an exhibition game matching the USA national team against a WNBA All-Star team, with Team USA winning 99–72 at Mohegan Sun Arena. And as previously mentioned, no games were held at all in 2012 and 2016 due to the Summer Olympic games.
2000s
Notes
In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star Game are held by ABC. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games will be broadcast on any of the three stations. Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" will be "dispersed to the league's teams".
In 2004, the game was not played in its usual format due to the WNBA players competing in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. That year, the USA national team defeated a team of WNBA All-Stars 74-58 at Radio City Music Hall. This game is officially considered to be an exhibition rather than an All-Star Game. The league also took a month-long break to accommodate players and coaches who would be participating in the summer games. The tradition of not playing the WNBA All-Star Game during an Olympic year has continued in 2008, 2012, and 2016 (along with the tradition of taking a month-long break during the regular season.)
1999
See also
List of WNBA Finals broadcasters
List of current Women's National Basketball Association broadcasters
List of NBA All-Star Game broadcasters
References
External links
And They Say It Gets Colder: WNBA All-Stars Low on ABC
Episode List: WNBA All-Star Game - TV Tango
ABC Sports
ESPN announcers
All-Star Game
All-Star Game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VITAL%20%28machine%20learning%20software%29 | VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences) was a Board Management Software machine learning proprietary software developed by Aging Analytics, a company registered in Bristol (England) and dissolved in 2017. Andrew Garazha (the firm's Senior Analyst) declared that the project aimed "through iterative releases and updates to create a piece of software capable of making autonomous investment decisions." According to Nick Dyer-Witheford, VITAL 1.0 was a "basic algorithm".
On 13 May 2014, Deep Knowledge Ventures, a Hong Kong venture capital firm, claimed to have appointed VITAL to its board of directors in order to prove that artificial intelligence could be an instrument for investment decision-making. The announcement received great press coverage despite the fact commentators consider this a publicity stunt. Fortune reported in 2019 that VITAL is no longer used.
Criticism
Academics and journalists viewed VITAL's board appointment with skepticism. University of Sheffield computer science professor Noel Sharkey called it "a publicity hype". Michael Osborne, a University of Oxford associate professor in machine learning, found it is "a gimmick to call that an actual board member". Simon Sharwood of The Register, wrote there is "a strong whiff of stunt and/or promotion about this". In a 2019 speech, the Chief Scientist of Australia, Alan Finkel, commented, "At the time, most of us probably dismissed Vital as a PR exercise. I admit, I used her story three years ago to get a laugh in one of my speeches."
Florian Möslein, a law professor at the University of Marburg, wrote in 2018 that "Vital has widely been acknowledged as the 'world's first artificial intelligence company director'". Vice journalist Jason Koebler suggested that the software did not have any article intelligence capabilities and concluded "VITAL can’t talk, and it can’t hear, and it can’t be a real, functional executive of a company." Sharwood of The Register noted that because VITAL was not a natural person, it could not be a board member under Hong Kong's corporate governance laws. However, in a 2017 interview to The Nikkei, Dmitry Kaminskiy, managing partner of Deep Knowledge Ventures, stated that VITAL had observer status on the board and no voting rights.
University of Sheffield computer science professor Noel Sharkey said of VITAL, "On first sight, it looks like a futuristic idea but on reflection it is really a little bit of publicity hype." Vice journalist Jason Koebler said "this is a gimmick" and said "There is literally nothing to suggest that VITAL has any sort of capabilities beyond any other proprietary analysis software". Michael Osborne, a University of Oxford associate professor in machine learning, found VITAL's appointment to be noncredible, saying it is "a bit of a gimmick to call that an actual board member". Osborne said that a core duty of board members to converse with each other, which the algorithm is incapable of doing, so its more lik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU%20Writer | CU Writer, also known as "Word Chula", is a word processor capable of Thai language processing. First released to the public domain in 1989, the application runs on IBM PC compatible machines with Hercules graphics card. Later versions can run whit VGA, EGA, EDA, and other graphic technology. CU Writer was one of the most popular word processors in Thailand, until Windows gets more adoption and DOS application faded away.
References
External links
CU Writer 1.41 source code
CU-Writer original homepage at Wayback Machine
DOS word processors
Free software
Thai-language computing
1989 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Sawyer%20%28historian%29 | Edmund Sawyer (died 1759) was an English barrister. He became a master of chancery, and is known also as an officer of arms and historical compiler.
Life
Born shortly after 1687, he was probably ayounger son of Edmund Sawyer of White Waltham, Berkshire, by his wife Mary, second daughter of John Finch of Fiennes, Berkshire. He was of the Inner Temple, but then on 28 April 1718 was admitted member of Lincoln's Inn.
Undertaking legal business for John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, Sawyer became through the Duke's connection gentleman-usher to the Order of the Bath in 1725, and Brunswick herald in 1726. The latter involved him in the 1727 in the coronation of George II of Great Britain. In 1738 he was made a master in chancery, and around this time he vacated the posts with the Order of the Bath. In 1750 he and Richard Edwards were nominated commissioners to examine the claims of the creditors of the African Company of Merchants.
Sawyer died a master in chancery, on 9 October 1759.
Works
Sawyer compiled Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James London, 3 vols. 1725. It used the papers of Sir Ralph Winwood and Sir Henry Neville.
Notes
External links
Attribution
Year of birth missing
1759 deaths
English barristers
English officers of arms
English antiquarians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20Discrimination%20Observatory | The Genetic Discrimination Observatory (GDO) is a Montreal-based international network of researchers and other stakeholders who support the research and prevention of genetic discrimination (GD)—discrimination based on genetics or other predictive health information. Their headquarters are currently located at the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University in Montreal.
Staff and funding
The GDO staff comes from various fields such as genetics, ethics, law, sociology, and public policy. The GDO received initial funding from Genome Canada (Génome Québec in French), the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé, and the Network of Applied Medical Genetics (RMGA).
Projects
Forum québécois sur la discrimination génétique
In 2018, the GDO initiated its first project, the "Forum québécois sur la discrimination génétique" (Quebec forum on genetic discrimination) in Quebec.
World views
The GDO provides information about different countries and areas using interactive world views that show studies related to genetic discrimination and other categories in a live map format on the GDO's website. It is planned to cover nineteen different jurisdictions.
Case reporting
The GDO provides individuals from Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States the opportunity to report specific cases of genetic discrimination or health-based discrimination confidentially.
See also
Genetic discrimination
References
Genetics organizations
McGill University
International medical and health organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autologistic%20actor%20attribute%20models | Autologistic actor attribute models (ALAAMs) are a family of statistical models used to model the occurrence of node attributes (individual-level outcomes) in network data. They are frequently used with social network data to model social influence, the process by which connections in a social network influence the outcomes experienced by nodes. The dependent variable can strictly be binary. However, they may be applied to any type of network data that incorporates binary, ordinal or continuous node attributes as dependent variables.
Background
Autologistic actor attributes models (ALAAMs) are a method for social network analysis. They were originally proposed as alteration of Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) to allow for the study of social influence. ERGMs are a family of statistical models for modeling social selection, how ties within a network form on the basis of node attributes and other ties in the network. ALAAMs adapt the structure of ERGM models, but rather than predicting tie formation based on fixed node attributes, they predict node attributes based on fixed ties. This allows for the modeling of social influence processes, for instance how friendship among adolescents (network ties) may influence whether they smoke (node attributes), influences of networks on other health-related practices, and how attitudes or perceived attitudes may change.
ALAAMs are distinct from other models of social influence on networks, such as epidemic/SIR models, because ALAAMs are used for the analysis of cross-sectional data, observed at only a single point in time.
Nodal attributes can be binary, ordinal, or even continuous. Recently, the software of a Melbourne-based research group has incorporated a multilevel approach for ALAAMs in their MPNet software for directed and undirected networks, as well as valued ties (dyadic attributes). It must be noted that the software strictly does not accept missing variables. Cases will need to be deleted if one of their nodal variables is missing. The software is also not able to study ties 'out of the network cluster.' For example: when pupils in classes not only mention friends in their class, but also friends outside of the class(/school).
An alternative to this model to study a nodal attribute as a dependent variable in cross-sectional data is the Multiple Membership model extension for network analysis (can also be extended to make it longitudinal). Unlike ALAAM, it can be used on a continuous dependent variable, is able to handle missingness, can make use of multiple networks (multiplex) and can take ties 'out of the cluster' into account as well.
Definition
ALAAMs, like ERGMs, are part of the Exponential family of probability models. ALAAMs are exponential models that describe, for a network, a joint probability distribution for whether or not each node in the network exhibits a certain node-level attribute.
where is a vector of weights, associated with ,the vector of model parameters, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20American%20Games%20on%20television | ABC was the first American television network to broadcast the Pan American Games in 1963, when they devoted one episode of their Wide World of Sports anthology program to the games. They doubled their coverage to two episodes of the show in 1967. CBS then bought the rights to the 1975 and 1979 Games at the same time. Their coverage in 1975 was mainly shown on CBS Sports Spectacular, their equivalent to Wide World of Sports. CBS repeated the process of airing most of its coverage on CBS Sports Spectacular in 1979.
For the 1983 games, CBS aired all of its coverage on weekend afternoons. These games also marked the first of three consecutive hosting assignments of Brent Musburger. CBS endured numerous obstacles in the run up to the games, including missing video tape machines and mobile units, inexperienced technicians from several countries, a last minute disagreement with the host broadcaster that left CBS scrambling to add 5 more cameras to the 3 it planned to use at the opening ceremony, and more. In addition, when a large doping scandal broke out at the games, including the sudden departure of 12 American athletes to avoid drug testing, Musburger made special reports on the scandal during the CBS Morning News and CBS Evening News, as well as during the regularly scheduled coverage.
CBS broadcast its fourth consecutive Pan American Games in 1987 and provided the host feed as well. This would be the last time that CBS would broadcast the games. Brent Musburger as previously alluded to, returned as host.
In 1991, ABC sought the rights to the Pan Am Games in Havana. The negotiations became bogged down in the U.S. embargo against Cuba, which forbade direct payments to Cuba. After a protracted negotiation with the U.S. Justice Department, ABC eventually signed a deal to broadcast the games. The fee was paid indirectly to avoid the embargo. ABC partnered with Ted Turner's TNT cable channel for the Havana games. TNT aired the prime time coverage with Ernie Johnson Jr. as host, while Brent Musburger (who had been fired by CBS in March 1990) anchored ABC's weekend afternoon coverage. This would be the last time the games were broadcast by a major broadcast network in the United States. All coverage since has aired on cable or Spanish-language networks.
Since 1995
No major U.S. networks covered the 1999 Pan Am Games from Winnipeg, Canada, except for the Spanish-language network Univisión, while newspapers only sent second-string reporters instead and the stories never made front page news. Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray became nationally well known as a result of the Games and thanks to extensive coverage by the CBC, anchored by CBC Sports' Brian Williams.
In the United States, ESPN and ESPN Deportes held the broadcasting rights for the Pan American Games through 2019.
2015 Pam American Games
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) served as the host and domestic broadcaster of the 2015 Pan American Games from Toronto; locally, coverage was broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pan%20American%20Games%20commentators | ABC was the first American television network to broadcast the Pan American Games in 1963, when they devoted one episode of their Wide World of Sports anthology program to the games. The doubled their coverage to two episodes of the show in 1967.
1960s
1963
1967
Notes
On Saturday, July 29, ABC's Wide World of Sports (5-6:30 p.m. EST) aired highlights of the swimming and track-and-field events at the Pan American Games, live from Winnipeg, Canada.
1970s
1975
1979
1980s
1983
1987
1990s
1991
See also
List of Wide World of Sports (American TV series) announcers
References
External links
Sports / Non-ceremonial videos
Turner Sports
CBS Sports
ABC Sports
CBS Sports Spectacular
Announcers
ESPN announcers
CBC Sports
Lists of announcers of American sports events |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Web%20Archive | The Australian Web Archive (AWA) is an publicly available online database of archived Australian websites, hosted by the National Library of Australia (NLA) on its Trove platform, an online library database aggregator. It comprises the NLA's own PANDORA archive, the Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) and the National Library of Australia's ".au" domain collections. Access is through a single interface in Trove, which is publicly available. The Australian Web Archive was created in March 2019, and is one of the biggest web archives in the world. Its purpose is to provide a resource for historians and researchers, now and into the future.
History of the three components
The PANDORA service started archiving websites in October 1996.
In 2005, the NLA started archiving annual snapshots of the entire Australian web domain (URLs with the suffix. ".au"), collected via large crawl harvests. Later, the earliest websites from the .au web domain, dating back to 1996, were obtained from the Internet Archive. In 2019 this content was first made publicly accessible through Trove.
The PANDORA infrastructure, which works well for a selective small scale archiving, does not adapt to large scale "bulk harvesting" of web content, so a new technical system had to be developed whereby a web archiving service which would integrate the delivery of archived websites within a live website interface delivering the archived websites seamlessly to the user, which is difficult to achieve technically.
AGWA
Australian Government websites are Commonwealth records, and are therefore publications to be managed in accordance with the Archives Act 1983.
The Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) consists of bulk archiving of Commonwealth Government websites. The NLA began regular harvests of the websites in June 2011, after a significant obstacle had been overcome with an administrative agreement made in May 2010 allowing the NLA to collect, preserve and make accessible government websites without having to seek prior permission for each website or document, as was the case before that. The service uses the Heritrix web crawler for harvesting, WARC files for storage and Open Wayback for delivery of the service. There is a huge amount of publishing by the government, but many challenges to overcome trying to preserve content, such as its sudden disappearance. In March 2014, the AGWA was made publicly accessible.
The AGWA meets the preservation and retention requirements for websites as "retain as national archives" (RNA) material under the Archives Act; however videos and document files ( such as PDFs or Word documents) are not always captured, so must be managed separately.
As of early 2015, the AGWA included content dating from 2005, which amounted to about 144 million files occupying 15 terabytes. It only included Commonwealth Government websites collected through bulk harvests of nearly 1000 seed URLs. The scheduling of the harvests was not yet routinely estab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20Together%3A%20America%20Honors%20the%20High%20School%20Class%20of%202020 | Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 is an American television special that was simulcasted on the major television networks and online on May 16, 2020. Created by the XQ Institute, the LeBron James Family Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the special was curated by basketball player LeBron James in collaboration with high school students and educators across the United States, including the American Federation of Teachers. The broadcast included a variety of commencement addresses, celebrity performances and inspirational vignettes aimed at high school students, whose graduation ceremonies and proms were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, due to it causing the closure of most schools worldwide.
Appearances
LeBron James, host
Zendaya, actress
Kevin Hart, actor
Yara Shahidi, actress
Kane Brown & Maren Morris, singer
Timothée Chalamet, actor
Rodney Robinson, educator
Megan Rapinoe, athlete
Bad Bunny, singer
Kumail Nanjiani, actor (via Animal Crossing)
Olivia Wilde, actor
Malala Yousafzai, activist
Lena Waithe, screenwriter
Julianne Moore, actress
Shaquille O'Neal, athlete
Chris Harrison, television personality
Dave Matthews, musician
Loren Gray, singer
The Dolan Twins, internet personalities
Lana Condor, actress
Liza Koshy, actress
Pharrell Williams, singer
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
Students
Performances
Broadcast
The special was simulcasted on May 16, 2020, at 8pm EST on the major U.S. broadcast television networks ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, except PBS due to flex programming on member stations over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. It was also simulcasted on television networks California Music Channel and The CW, on Spanish-language network Univision, and on cable networks CNN, Fox Business, Fox News, Freeform, and MSNBC. It was also available for streaming in platforms such as ABC News Live, Associated Press, Bleacher Report, Complex Networks, Facebook, FoxNow, Hulu, Instagram, NBC News Now, NowThis News, PeopleTV, The Roku Channel, Roland Martin Unfiltered, Reuters, Sirius XM, Snapchat, TikTok, USO, The Washington Post, and YouTube.
Viewership
United States
Broadcast network
Cable network
Total Viewership = 14.674
References
External links
2020 concerts
2020 television specials
May 2020 events in the United States
Music television specials
Simulcasts
Television shows about the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic benefit concerts
LeBron James
Cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phunware | Phunware Inc. is an American mobile software and blockchain company. It produces mobile applications for advertising and marketing purposes such as personalized ad targeting, location tracking, and cryptocurrency brand loyalty programs.
In 2020, Phunware was the fifth largest advertising technology company in politics, receiving criticism for its involvement with the Trump 2020 re-election campaign. In November of that year, it had more than 940 million monthly unique active devices and has 5 billion daily transactions, and had raised more than $120 million in capital since its founding.
History
The company was founded as Phunware, Inc. in Austin, Texas, on March 25, 2009, by Alan Knitowski (CEO) and Luan Dang (CTO).
In 2014, as part of a $30 million expansion, Phunware acquired Digby Mobile Commerce, also based in Austin. The acquisition included Dibgy's subsidiary Movaya, based in Seattle and Chengdu, for an undisclosed sum.
In 2017, the company acquired Odyssey, Simplikate, Digby, Tapit! ($23 million acquisition in 2017) and GoTV.
Their customers in 2019 included Fox Networks Group, HID Global, American Made Media Consultants, Presidio Networked Solutions, and MD Anderson. Previous customers included Warner Brothers, NASCAR, NFL, and NBC Sports. Applications that send data to Phunware servers include the campus map for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and GunDealio, an app for gun sales from Gun Talk Media. Phunware's location tracking was used, for instance, to target 2018 Democratic ads at participants in the anti-Trump 2017 Women's March in DC.
Phunware provided campaign data, including "users' daily digital trail", to the Trump reelection campaign, through a $3 million contract awarded by Brad Parscale's American Made Media Consultants. They also built the TrumpPence reelection app for the campaign in November 2019.
Phunware performed a reverse merger with Stellar Acquisitions III, a special-purpose acquisition company (or shell company) in December 2018, placing Phunware on the NASDAQ exchange.
The company's non-GAAP adjusted net revenues were stated at $19 million in 2019, down from $22.5 million in 2018. The GAAP gross revenue was $19 million in 2019 and $30.8 million in 2018. Fox Networks Group was 50% of the company's 2019 sales, up from 42% the previous year. Phunware's active Fox contract was completed in 2019, meaning the sales could go to zero. The company had 93 employees at the end of 2019, after reducing their workforce by 44. In March 2020 the company furloughed 37 people.
In 2020, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger served on their advisory board.
On April 10, 2020, Phunware received $6.1 million in federally backed small business loans from JP Morgan Chase as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The company received scrutiny over this loan for its connections to Donald Trump and Fox News. In defense, Crowder (COO) said companies that didn't apply "aren't doing their fiduciary duty", and said "Banks aren't loaning to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump%20Trading | Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm with a focus on algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies. The firm has over 700 employees in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Tel Aviv, Singapore, Shanghai, Bristol, Gurgaon, Gandhinagar, Sydney, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Paris and is active in futures, options, cryptocurrency, and equities markets worldwide.
The company is a member of the Principal Traders Group, an advisory group formed by the Futures Industry Association (FIA) to represent principal traders (i.e. independent proprietary trading firms that trade only on their own accounts).
Jump has been privately funded throughout its existence.
History
Jump Trading was founded in 1999 by two former pit traders, Paul Gurinas and Bill Disomma, who met in the Deutsche Mark pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). While the firm got its start in the open outcry pits, Jump Trading does most of its trading electronically.
The company has made substantial investments in high-frequency trading and infrastructure, including a Belgian microwave tower once owned by NATO, purchased in 2013 by a U.K. affiliate.
Following the 2010 flash crash, Disomma, Gurinas, and COO Matt Schrecengost met with CFTC chairman Gary Gensler to discuss the definition of spoofing as a disruptive trade practice as well as transparency and access to SEFs. This meeting contributed to regulatory efforts to implement new market rules stemming from the Dodd–Frank Act.
In April 2014, Jump was one of six high-speed trading firms subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman regarding their trading strategies, as well as the special arrangements they may have with exchanges and dark pools.
In May 2018, Jump was fined $250,000 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to a malfunction in one of its trading algorithms leading to the accidental accumulation of a short position worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Gurinas and DiSomma also founded a venture capital firm, Jump Capital, in June 2012. By January 2016, the firm had invested in 30 companies. Jump Capital also invested $5 million in The Small Exchange in May 2019, a start-up retail trading futures exchange.
Jump Trading is a registered broker-dealer and member of multiple exchanges including the CME Group and the New York Stock Exchange.
They are also members of most European exchanges including Eurex and the London Stock Exchange.
In September 2021, Jump announced their cryptocurrency business through a new brand named Jump Crypto.
Lawsuit
On May 9, 2023, a class action suit was filed against Jump Trading and the President of Jump Crypto, Forbes 30 under 30 alumni Kanav Kariya, for violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC Regulations, and unjust enrichment. The lawsuit alleges Jump Trading participated in market manipulation of the stable coin UST and aided and abetted Do Kwon, alleging, "Jump had made over $1.28 billion in profits from selling the LUNA tokens it received at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20telecommunications%20terminology | This is a List of telecommunications terminology and acronyms which relate to telecommunications.
C
Coded set
Customer office terminal
D
Data forwarder
Digital multiplex hierarchy
Duplex
E
Exempted addressee
F
Frame synchronization
Free-space optical communication
Functional profile
G
Group alerting and dispatching system
H
Hop
Horn
Hybrid routing
M
Mechanically induced modulation
Micro-mainframe link
Multiplexing
N
Noise (signal processing)
P
Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
Primary station
R
Radio receiver
Ringaround
S
Spatial application
T
Transmission medium
Transmitter
W
Wireless mobility management
See also
Federal Standard 1037C
List of telecommunications encryption terms
Outline of telecommunication
Telecommunications
External links
"http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/fs-1037c.htm"– Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
References
Technical terminology
Electronics lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20history%20matching | Bayesian history matching is a statistical method for calibrating complex computer models. The equations inside many scientific computer models contain parameters which have a true value, but that true value is often unknown; history matching is one technique for learning what these parameters could be.
The name originates from the oil industry, where it refers to any technique for making sure oil reservoir models match up with historical oil production records. Since then, history matching has been widely used in many areas of science and engineering, including galaxy formation, disease modelling, climate science, and traffic simulation.
The basis of history matching is to use observed data to rule-out any parameter settings which are ``implausible’’. Since computer models are often too slow to individually check every possible parameter setting, this is usually done with the help of an emulator. For a set of potential parameter settings , their implausibility can be calculated as:
where is the expected output of the computer model for that parameter setting, and represents the uncertainties around the computer model output for that parameter setting. In other words, a parameter setting is scored based on how different the computer model output is to the real world observations, relative to how much uncertainty there is.
For computer models that output only one value, an implausibility of 3 is considered a good threshold for rejecting parameter settings. For computer models which output more than one output, other thresholds can be used.
A key component of history matching is the notion of iterative refocussing, where new computer model simulations can be chosen to better improve the emulator and the calibration, based on preliminary results.
References
Bayesian statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SentinelOne | SentinelOne, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company listed on NYSE based in Mountain View, California. The company was founded in 2013 by Tomer Weingarten, Almog Cohen and Ehud ("Udi") Shamir. Weingarten acts as the company's CEO. Vats Srivatsan is the company's COO. The company has approximately 2,100 employees and offices in Mountain View, Boston, Tokyo, and Berlin. The company uses machine learning for monitoring personal computers, IoT devices, and cloud workloads. The company's platform utilizes a heuristic model, specifically its patented behavioral AI. The company is AV-TEST certified.
Funding
In June 2019, SentinelOne received $120 million in a Series D funding round led by Insight Partners. The company received an additional $200 million in Series E funding in February 2020. The Series E round placed SentinelOne at a valuation of about $1.1 billion. In 2020, SentinelOne closed a round for $267 million in funding, bringing its total valuation to $3.1 billion.
On June 30, 2021, SentinelOne completed an initial public offering on the NYSE, raising $1.2 billion.
Acquisitions
In February 2021, SentinelOne announced the acquisition of cloud-scale data analytics platform Scalyr for $155 million in cash and equity.
In March 2022, SentinelOne announced the acquisition of the identity detection and response technology company, Attivo Networks, for $616.5 million in cash and equity.
Sponsorships
Since 2021, SentinelOne has been the official cybersecurity sponsor of the Aston Martin Cognizant F1 Team.
References
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Software companies established in 2011
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American companies established in 2013
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20water%20tower%20of%20Bydgoszcz | The old water tower is a historic water tower belonging to the municipal water supply network of Bydgoszcz, Poland. Its importance in the local history has been acknowledged in 1986 by a registering on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List.
Location
The tower stands on the southern hills of the city, part of a green park, the municipal Henryk Dąbrowski Park (). Its formal location is 2 Filarecka street.
History
At the end of the 19th century, following the dramatic economic and demographic development of the city, necessary municipal investments had to be carried out, such as a gasworks plant (1860), horse-powered tram lines (1888), an electrical power plant (1896) and a water supply and sewage network (1890s). Till that time, people could only get water from wooden wells built in the 1880s for city districts away from the Brda river.
In 1881, as Bromberg authorities started working on the design and construction of a new water supply and sewage network, first geological surveys began and a geological map of Bydgoszcz was issued. Specific construction works were carried out between 1898 and 1899, laying down a network of 30 of waterpipe up to the water tower.
In 1900, the city supply system comprised 20 deep wells in the northern municipal forest () from which water was pumped out using a gas-driven contraption scheme into the network and the water tower. The network also included a capacity reservoir with a dual role:
collecting water during the period of minimum consumption;
supplementing the network shortages during rush hour.
The present tower was erected from 1899 to 1900, on a design by architect Franz Marshall. The construction work was carried out by the firm Wilhelm Rothe & Cie. The edifice location was chosen with care, on the edge of the city southern hill, overlooking the old town. In 1894, Lewin Louis Aronsohn became the administrator of the tower.
As a matter of fact, thanks to its situation, the tower was also regularly used as a city viewpoint. Before long, a viewing platform was constructed on the conical roof, which could be accessed for a fee of 10 pfennigs in Prussia time, then 10 grosze during interwar.
After WWII, a pumping station was built next to the tower, allowing to supply water to the households on the heights of Bydgoszcz, for the districts of Błonie, Szwederowo, Wzgórze Wolności, Wyżyny, Kapuściska. At that time, the vantage platform ceased to be used, before being finally decommisionned in 1990.
In 1991, a rehabilitation of the building enabled the housing of the Water tower artistic Association (), gathering together artists, art historians, critics and other people associated with Bydgoszcz cultural life. The tower became a meeting place for artistic exhibitions and happenings
Today, the tower is the property of Bydgoszcz waterworks municipal company (). The firm has renovated and adapted the building for the benefit of the Bydgoszcz Waterworks History Museum () which opened on 30 October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry%20Towers | Sherry Towers is an American and Canadian statistician and data scientist working as an independent consultant and an affiliate scholar with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany following a seven year position as a faculty research associate at Arizona State University. Towers is perhaps best known for her study of the contagion effect of mass shootings. She is also the founder and owner of Towers Consulting LLC, a consulting company that provides visual analytics, data mining, applied statistics, and computational modeling services to industry, academia, and the public sectors.
Education
Towers earned a B.Sc in Physics at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. She then earned a PhD in Physics at Carleton University in 2000. Her doctoral dissertation, A Study of decays of the tau lepton with charged kaons, was supervised by . In 2010, Towers earned an M.S. in Applied Statistics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.
Career and research
Towers worked as a research scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, developing advanced machine learning techniques from 2000-2005. Following this position she started Towers Consulting LLC (2007) and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University, modeling the spread of pandemic influenza. From 2012-2017 she served as a faculty research associate at the Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, at Arizona State University. She modeled the dynamics of social systems, including modeling the spread of panic in a population, developed predictive crime analytics, and studied attitudes toward gun control. She is best known for her work showing the contagious effects of mass shootings. She currently is an independent consultant and an affiliate scholar at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, and works on a variety of research topics, including election violence, the spread of political and partisan sentiments in a society, social media analytics, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Selected publications
"Beyond Ebola: Lessons to mitigate future pandemics, 2015"
"Contagion in mass killings and school shootings, 2015"
"Estimate of the reproduction number of the 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Barranquilla, Colombia, and estimation of the relative role of sexual transmission, 2016"
"Quantifying the relative effects of environmental and direct transmission of norovirus, 2018"
References
Living people
Carleton University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Simon Fraser University alumni
Arizona State University faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century Canadian scientists
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Women data scientists
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American expatriate academics
American expatriates in Germany
Canadian expatriates in Germany
Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritone | Veritone, Inc. is an artificial intelligence tech company based in Irvine, California founded in 2014. Veritone's aiWARE technology and solutions are licensed and utilized by such industries as global media conglomerates, professional sports teams, federal government agencies, energy utilities, and state and local police departments. Veritone services more than 1,500 customers around the world. It is traded on NASDAQ Global Market as VERI.
The company’s products and services are used by its wholly owned subsidiaries: advertising agency Veritone One and Veritone Digital, which provides content management solutions and licensing services. Its proprietary operating system, aiWARE, is deployed across more than 2,000 customers, including police agencies, state and local district attorney offices, media conglomerates, radio and TV stations, and movie studios.
In addition to the company's Costa Mesa office, they have offices in San Diego, California, Denver, Colorado, Binghamton, New York, New York City, Washington, D.C., and London, England.
Chad Steelberg is Veritone’s Chairman of the Board and CEO. His brother, Ryan Steelberg, is the company's president.
History
The company was founded in 2014.
In 2017 the company acquired Atigeo Corporation. The company IPOed on May 12, 2017. Their losses were $59.6 million that year.
In 2018 the company acquired Machine Box (for $4.5 million), Wazee Digital (for $12.6 million), Performance Bridge (for $9.1 million), and S Media Limited. The company reported $27 million in revenue, with losses of $61.1 million.
In 2019 the company's advertising arm placed more than $200 million in ads for their clients, including 1-800-FLOWERS.com, Audible, DraftKings, HelloFresh, LinkedIn, SimpliSafe, and Uber. As of February 2020 the company had 277 employees. The company reported $50 million in revenue, with losses of $62.1 million.
In April 2020, the company received a $6.5 million in federally backed small business loans from Sunwest Bank as part of the Paycheck Protection Program. The company received scrutiny over this loan, which meant to protect small and private businesses. Washington Post noted the high compensation to the Steelberg brothers.
In May 2020 Veritone announced it would return the full $6.5 million loan and issued a statement that it had "adequate financial flexibility and additional avenues to maintain our capital position."
Veritone AI uses
Media and Entertainment
Veritone Attribute and Discovery are used by radio and TV broadcasters to verify and measure the efficacy of pre-recorded ads, live-reads and organic mentions by correlating air time with activity on the advertiser's website. The products are used by such customers as iHeartMedia, the largest radio station owner in the U.S.
NotForgotten Digital Preservation Library digital time capsules use Veritone's cognitive capabilities adding automated video transcription and metadata creation to make large volumes of video content in the Time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail%20%28disambiguation%29 | A thumbnail is a reduced-size version of a computer graphic.
Thumbnail may also refer to:
Thumbnail (anatomy), part of the thumb
Thumbnail (album), by AKB48
Thumbnail (cliff), in Greenland
See also
Thumb (disambiguation)
Nail (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%2085%20%28Iceland%29 | () or Route 85 is a primary road in northeastern Iceland. It connects Húsavík, Tjörneshreppur, Þórshöfn, Bakkafjörður, and Vopnafjörður to the main road network.
Roads in Iceland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier%20programming | Multitier programming (or tierless programming) is a programming paradigm for distributed software, which typically follows a multitier architecture, physically separating different functional aspects of the software into different tiers (e.g., the client, the server and the database in a Web application). Multitier programming allows functionalities that span multiple of such tiers to be developed in a single compilation unit using a single programming language. Without multitier programming, tiers are developed using different languages, e.g., JavaScript for the Web client, PHP for the Web server and SQL for the database. Multitier programming is often integrated into general-purpose languages by extending them with support for distribution.
Concepts from multitier programming were pioneered by the Hop and Links languages
and have found industrial adoption in solutions such as Ocsigen, Opa, WebSharper, Meteor or GWT.
Multitier programming provides a global view on the distributed system. This aspect has been shown similar to other programming paradigms such as choreographic programming, macroprogramming, and aggregate computing.
Context
The code of the different tiers can be executed in a distributed manner on different networked computers. For instance, in a three-tier architecture, a system is divided into three main layers – typically the presentation, business, and data tiers. This approach has the benefit that by dividing a system into layers, the functionality implemented in one of the layers can be changed independently of the other layers. On the other hand, this architectural decision scatters a cross-cutting functionality belonging to several tiers over several compilation units.
In multitier programming, the different tiers are implemented using a single programming language. Different compilation backends take into account the destination tier (e.g., Java for a server and JavaScript for a web browser). Consequently, a functionality that is spread over tiers can be implemented in a single compilation unit of a multitier program.
Example
At their core, multitier languages allow developers to define for different pieces of code the tiers to which the code belongs. The language features that enable this definition are quite diverse between different multitier languages, ranging from staging to annotations to types. The following example shows an Echo client–server application that illustrates different approaches. In the example, the client sends a message to the server and the server returns the same message to the client, where it is appended to a list of received messages.
Echo application in Hop.js
service echo() {
var input = <input type="text" />
return <html>
<body onload=~{
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:" + ${hop.port} + "/hop/ws")
ws.onmessage = function(event) { document.getElemenetById("list").appendChild(<li>${event.data}</li>) }
}>
<div>
${input}
<button oncli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Star%20Maa | Star Maa is an Indian Telugu language general entertainment private broadcast television network owned by the Disney Star, a subsidiary of an Indian multinational mass media corporation which is in turn owned by American mass media and entertainment conglomerate The Walt Disney Company. This is a list of the current and former programmes broadcast by the channel.
Current broadcast
Drama series
Dubbed series
Reality shows
Spiritual shows
Former non-fiction shows
50-50 It's My Game Show - Hosted by Ohmkar
70MM Movie Masters - It’s a movie based quiz show. The prize money is Rs. 18 Lacs. Hosted by Uttej
100% Luck - Hosted by Ohmkar
Aasha - It’s an AIDS awareness program
Aadivaram with Star Maa Parivaram (Season 1) - A gameshow with the Star Maa celebrities to play musical games and challenge each other for cash prizes.
Adrushtam - Hosted by Ohmkar
Airtel Brain of Andhra - This is a gameshow, with 5 lacs of money at stake, every day, from Monday to Thursday, Participation is through lucky draw of participants answering correct answers to questions
Airtel Lakshadhikari - This Is a housie show with a difference…..LIVE and exclusively meant for Airtel subscribers
Ali Talkies - a film-based talk show hosted by ace comedian Ali; film celebrities come to Ali Talkies to chat up regarding their recent releases.
Andamaina Jeevitam(1-2)- talk show- Jayasudha and Paruchuri Gopala Krishna are hosts
Avakaya - Hosted by Suma Kanakala
Atha Kodallu - Focusing on a very curious relation – the Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law. Hosted by Vanisri as Mother in law and Surekhavaani as the Daughter in law
BB Jodi - Hosted by Sreemukhi.
Bethala Kathalu - Its an anchor based programme. Every week one newly released movie will be selected and the anchors who are disguised in Vikram and Bethal, will discuss about the movie and performance of the star cast, highlights of the movie.
Bhale Chance Le (Season 1) - a traditional Snake and Ladders game hosted by Sreemukhi.
Bhale Chance Le (Season 2) - a traditional Snake and Ladders game hosted by Suma Kanakala.
Bigg Boss 1 - Hosted by Jr NTR.
Bigg Boss 2 - Hosted by Nani.
Bigg Boss 3 - Hosted by Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishnan (Guest Host in Week 6).
Bigg Boss 4 - Hosted by Nagarjuna and Samantha Akkineni (Guest Host in Week 7).
Bigg Boss 5 and 6 - Hosted by Nagarjuna
Cera Comedy Show - This is a comedy show, which aims to entertain through comedy.
Challenge - A dance reality show hosted by Ohmkar
Colors - An anchor based program, with lovely, vivacious, peppy, ebullient, irrepressible, exuberant, young teenage girl- "Swati" as the anchor,
Comedy Stars (Season 1) - Hosted by Varshini Sounderajan
Comedy Stars (Season 2) - Hosted by Sreemukhi
Comedy Stars Dhamaka (Season 3) - Hosted by Deepika Pilli
Connexion - Hosted by Suma Kanakala
Dancee Plus - Hosted by Ohmkar with Monal Gajjar, Anne Master, Mumaith Khan, Raghu Master, Baba Bhaskhar, Yashwanth as judges ( It is the Telugu version of the show Da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Cernich | Alison Nenos Cernich is an American neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury and computerized neuropsychological assessment. She is the deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Cernich was previously deputy director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, assistant professor of neurology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, and chief of neuropsychology at the VA Maryland Health Care System.
Education
Cernich graduated from St. Mary's Dominican High School in 1993. She earned a B.A. at Loyola University New Orleans where she completed an honors undergraduate thesis under advisor Catherine Wessinger. Cernich completed a predoctoral research fellowship in outcomes measurement at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. In 2002, she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her dissertation was titled Predictors of post-injury substance use in traumatic brain injury: Neuropsychological and motivational variables. Neil A. Massoth was her doctoral advisor. Cernich was a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neurosciences at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital.
Career and research
Cernich is a board-certified neuropsychologist. She was traumatic brain injury (TBI) Liaison to the Department of Defense, chief of neuropsychology, and Director of the Polytrauma Support Clinic at the VA Maryland Health Care System, and a funded investigator through the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. She was an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM) where she investigated traumatic brain injury (TBI) and computerized neuropsychological assessment.
Cernich worked for 10 years in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, where she served as the acting deputy director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE). In this role, she coordinated prevention, education, research, and clinical care efforts for service members and veterans diagnosed with TBI.
National Institutes of Health
From 2015 to 2019, Cernich served as the director of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). As NCMRR director, she oversaw a $72 million research portfolio aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities. Cernich led the development of the congressionally mandated NIH Rehabilitation Research Plan, an effort that included coordination with 17 institutes and centers and multiple external stakeholders. She also served on multiple interagency strategic planning committees and government oversight committees for research initiatives in the federal government r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20Mobile%20Services | Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is a collection of proprietary services and application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Its hub known as HMS Core serves as a toolkit for app development on Huawei devices. HMS is typically installed on Huawei devices running the HarmonyOS operating system, and on its earlier devices running the Android operating system including devices already distributed with Google Mobile Services.
HMS consists of seven key services and the HMS Core. The key services are Huawei ID, Cloud, AppGallery, Themes, Huawei Video, Browser, and Assistant. Huawei Quick Apps is the alternative to Google Instant Apps.
By January 2020, over 50,000 apps had been integrated with HMS Core. Its rival, Google Mobile Services has 3 million apps on Google's Play Store. The AppGallery claimed 180 billion downloads in 2019.
In March 2020, HMS was used by 650 million monthly active users across 170 countries.
A Chinese phone manufacturer, LeTV, hosted a smartphone business communication meeting in Beijing on September 27, 2021, to demonstrate its phone, the LeTV S1. This was the first smartphone from a third-party manufacturer to include Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
HMS on Android and HarmonyOS
Huawei Mobile Services on Android goes all the way back to August 2016 as Huawei ID services for phones, basic functionalities for Huawei P9 series.
However, in May 2019 proved to be a significant change to HMS when Google was prohibited from working with Huawei on any new devices. This also included bundling Google's Apps, including Gmail, Maps and YouTube.
Any new Huawei devices launched after 16 May 2019 were unable to receive updates from Google services and would be considered 'uncertified' meaning Huawei's only solution at the time was to turn HMS into a genuine competitor to Google and incentivize app developers to utilize the platform.
Huawei officially launched Huawei Mobile Services in China on December 24, 2019, as a beta. Huawei expanded Huawei Mobile Services in Europe in February 2020 and other markets in Asia, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Canada, Mexico followed outside banned US market.
HMS is available on the Honor 9X Pro, View 30 Pro, Huawei Mate XS. HMS is also available, alongside GMS, on many other Huawei models launched before the ban.
Huawei promised developers it would take, “less than 10 minutes", to port their app over to HMS - to illustrate the ease of portability between Google's Play Store and the HMS AppGallery.
On January 15, 2020, HMS Core 4.0 (Huawei Mobile Services Core 4.0) was officially launched. Huawei announced that at this time, there were already 1.3 million developers and 55,000 applications on board. The next day, Huawei held a developer day event in London and invested £20 million to encourage developers in the United Kingdom and Ireland to use HMS.
On July 15, 2021, Huawei expanded HMS with HarmonyOS support with HMS Core 6.0 for app development with native |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosports | Metrosports was an American sports syndication network. Founded in Rockville, Maryland in 1972, they produced television and radio broadcasts of sports games, primarily college football and basketball, for various local stations. In 1984, they were acquired by Total Communications Systems (TCS) and became TCS/Metrosports. After failing to make payments to sports conferences and losing rights deals, TCS/Metrosports filed for bankruptcy in 1985.
History
In 1972, Metrosports was incorporated under the name Metro Communications, Inc. in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by husband-and-wife Lenny Klompus and Marsha Cherner.
In 1984, the Washington Post called Metrosports "one of the nation's leading independent syndicators of college basketball games", citing its syndication deals with the Big East Conference and the Pacific-10 Conference.
After the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision in June 1984 voiding the NCAA's exclusive television contracts with CBS and ABC, schools and conferences were free to seek television deals with other broadcasters and syndicators. In the wake of this, Metrosports signed a $3 million rights deal with the Pacific-10 Conference. However, it only managed to pay $2.5 million, leading the Pac-10 to file suit for the remaining $500,000.
In April 1984, Metrosports was bought out by Total Communications Systems (TCS) and became TCS/Metrosports.
In August 1984, the athletic departments of Penn State, Notre Dame, West Virginia, Temple and Rutgers announced the formation of a National Independent Football Network in conjunction with TCS/Metrosports.
On January 31, 1985, the Big Ten Conference announced it was severing its rights deal with TCS/Metrosports due to non-payment.
On March 15, 1985, TCS/Metrosports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
References
American companies established in 1972
Entertainment companies established in 1972
Telecommunications companies established in 1972
American companies disestablished in 1985
Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1985
Television syndication distributors
Defunct film and television production companies of the United States
College sports television networks
1972 establishments in Maryland
Companies based in Rockville, Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-CIX%20Istanbul | DE-CIX Istanbul, is a carrier and data center-neutral Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2015 by DE-CIX. It is the only Internet exchange point that connects to both Europe and Asia within the same country.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
Internet exchange points in Turkey
Telecommunications in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20J.%20Hulme | Daniel Hulme (born 21 February 1980) is a British businessman, academic and commentator, working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), applied technology and ethics. He is the CEO and founder of Satalia that exited to WPP plc in 2021 where he is also Chief AI Officer. Hulme is also an angel investor in emerging technology companies.
Hulme founded Satalia in 2007, a company that provides AI products and consultancy for governments and companies such as Tesco, PwC and the BBC. He received a doctorate in AI from University College London (UCL), and is now their Computer Science Entrepreneur in residence, where he teaches how AI can be applied to solve business and social problems. After exiting Satalia to WPP plc Hulme took the dual role of Chief AI Officer at WPP where he is responsible for informing and coordinating AI across the group. Hulme is and angel investor and also a frequent public speaker and writer on the topics of AI, ethics, technology, innovation, decentralization and organisational design.
Early life and education
Hulme was born in 1980. He grew up in the seaside town of Morecambe in north west England. After completing secondary school Hulme moved to London to study at University College London. On completing his under graduate degree, Hulme stayed at UCL to complete a master's degree and then a EngD. All three degrees were in subjects related to AI. In 2009 Hulme was awarded a Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship, which saw him visit institutes in the United States to better understand their culture of innovation, and what UK business people could learn from it. This included a tour of Stanford, MIT, Berkeley and Harvard, along with a placement at Cisco Systems HQ in Silicon Valley.
Career
Satalia
Hulme founded NPComplete Limited in 2007, and incorporated it in 2008, a few months before completing his PhD. NPComplete Limited trades as Satalia. The London-based company provides full-stack AI consultancy and products, helping organisations harness data science, machine learning and AI to solve complex problems, including real-time optimisation. NPComplete refers to mathematical NP-completeness, which describes a class of exponential problems in the field of computational complexity theory. The trading name of NPComplete, Satalia, is intended as a portmanteau of SAT (Short for satisfiability, as in the Boolean satisfiability problem) and the Latin phrase Et alia. Satalia seeks to solve hard problems, in particular the class of exponentially hard problems found in academia and industry known as NP-hardness.
While much of Satalia's focus in on helping firms cut costs and increase revenue, Hulme has stated the firm also has a higher vision. Which is to help anyone, from any part of the world, to contribute to innovations, and "enable everyone to live beyond themselves", even if this is not the reality within Satalia itself. In 2016, Satalia was the only UK company to appear in the Gartner Cool Vendors list for dat |
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