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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromia%20Media%20Network | The Oromia Media Network (OMN) is an Oromo news channel headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.. OMN is established as a non-profit independent media outlet 501(c)(3) organization, licensed under the Federal Communications Commission funded by public donors from the broader Oromo diaspora.
History
Jawar Mohammed established the OMN following a movement which he called "Oromo first". The "Oromo first” movement later grew into a political campaign, raising funds to establish the satellite TV station, launched 2013, along with Facebook and Twitter accounts using the brand Oromia Media Network (OMN). During the launch, Jawar Mohammed was appointed as an Executive Director.
OMN was inaugurated on 1 March 2014. Jawar in his inaugural speech said "We've now liberated the airwaves of Oromia. We will liberate the land in the coming years." On 1 January 2020, Jawar stepped down from his position on at OMN to join the Oromo Federalist Congress and has since been replaced by Girma Gutama.
OMN grew to become an influential voice of the youth, known as Qeerroo, a label which was created in 1990s the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). OMN and ESAT were both targeted by the Ethiopian government which used Spywares to target journalists working for the stations.
The OMN is one of the media outlets which broadcast to Ethiopian audiences from abroad, along with the ESAT. After the drop of charges against the OMN and its executive director on 29 May 2018, the inauguration of the Addis Ababa office was held in the presence of Oromia Regional State Chief Administrator Lemma Megersa at the Millennium Hall on 5 July 2018.
Lemma in his inaugural speech said "OMN has played a big role in bringing tangible change in the regional state."
In June 2020, following the death of Hachaluu Hundessa, riots reignited Oromo protests. Jawar Mohammed was then arrested on 30 June 2020, in Addis Ababa. OMN’s local office was raided by federal security agents and several journalists were detained. Hachalu gave an interview to the Oromia Media Network (OMN), which had sparked outrage on social media, a week before his murder. The interview was aired with live stream on Facebook, which was seen by 24,000 viewers.
Programming
Most of its contents are from Ethiopia, but also covers some international news. The majority of broadcasts are in Oromo with some programs in Amharic and English. It has studios located in Minneapolis, Seattle, London, Melbourne and Cairo.
References
External links
Official OMN Facebook
Official OMN website
Television in Ethiopia
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television stations in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Oromo language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20engine | A knowledge engine is part of a decision-support system that combines data with data models and inference rules to provide an interface for people who want to make decisions or discover related data. It may involve automatically extracting and structuring knowledge from less-structured sources, using these models and rules.
History
In the late 1990s, the Decision Support Group at the University of Fribourg developed a model for decision support software. This described the interface between data and models on one hand, and graphical interfaces for exploring them and making decisions on the other, as a knowledge engine. They also developed a mathematical modeling language, LPL, in concert with that work.
With the rise of the semantic web, natural language processing, and topical knowledge bases, a number of other analytical tools have been categorized as knowledge engines, including in genomics (KnowEnG), modeling human action (PaStaNet), and speeding up general-purpose question answering.
General-purpose search and discovery tools such as Wolfram Alpha have also described themselves as knowledge engines.
See also
Knowledge engineering
Knowledge engineer
References
Knowledge engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessio%20Sundas | Alessio Sundas (born 2 December 1971) is an Italian sports agent and founder of Oracle Genius Algorithm Soccer that rates and compares the value of top players such as Ronaldo, Pelé, Neymar, Maradona, Lionel Messi with young players in clubs such as Liverpool, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Anderlecht, Ajax, and Barcelona using a certified KPI data which rates performance from one to 1,000 points to determine level of proficiency of young players. He is also a media entrepreneur, author, television personality and Managing director of American Group Sport Management Company for university scholarships. In 2003, Sundas established Gutenberg Publishing House, that publishes Millennium Magazine and Cinque Terre Magazine. He established Miami Magic FC Academy in Miami, United States to training Americans European style of soccer and negotiates transfer of players to Major League Soccer, MLS. In February 2021, he negotiated the transfer of Brazilian player Alexandre Pato from São Paulo to Orlando City in Major League Soccer.
Early life and education
Alessio Sundas was born in Italy. Sundas early education was at Linguistic High School after which he proceeded to CEPLAT where he earned a degree in Physiotherapy specializing in sports with a licence to operate ligaments. Sundas later obtained a degree in Marketing and Communication in Milan.
Career
Sundas had a stint in television programs starting at the age of 19 when he first appeared in a program, Maurizio Costanzo Show. Later, Sundas appeared in Marta Flavi show on Canale 5 as a guest and Uomini e Donne TV show along with Maria De Filippi on same Canale 5.
American Group Sports Management
Expanding his career to the United States in 2019, Sundas established American Group Sports Management one of the largest agencies in America that values Boca Raton players. The agency broker exchanges of players between European leagues and the Major League Soccer (MLS) and other lower leagues in the US. In January 2021, the company made its first major deal in the MLS with the transfer of Brazilian player Alenxdre Pato to Orlando City FC.
Agent career
In 2000, Sundas took a career in football and became Fifa agent and player manager. He later diversified to Formula 1, F2, F3 and F4 and Nascar where he connects athletes with sponsors. In 2015, Sundas was registered as a member of Italian sports agent and managed Dei Giovani. Later he extended his managerial services to women's football managing the transfer of a Brazilian national player, Andressa Alves da Silva from FC Barcelona to AS Roma and Ferjani Sassi who played in the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup for Tunisia national team.
After discussion with Real Madrid's Sports Director, Secura to bring Lionel Messi to Italy to play in serie A club, Napoli was unsuccessful, Sundas initiated discussions with foreign clubs for the transfer of goalkeeper Riccardo Piscitelli. In 2019, Sundas became the manager of the Italian-Tunisian goalkeeper, Aladin Ayoub who was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railways%20in%20Sardinia | The railway network of Sardinia includes lines that develop for a total of about 1,038 km in length, of which 430 km with an ordinary gauge and about 608 km narrow gauge (950 mm), with an average density of 43 m of rail per km2, a figure that drops to 25 m/km2 considering only public transport lines.
Railway operations on the island are managed by two companies. The first, the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane group, manages the 4 ordinary gauge railway lines that make up the main network of the island through the subsidiaries RFI and Trenitalia. The remaining 4 sections active in public transport, all narrow gauge, constitute the secondary network, extended by 169 km and entirely managed by ARST Sp A., a transport company wholly owned by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. This company also controls 438 km of tourist lines, always narrow gauge, active especially in summer and at the request of groups of tourists.
The Sardinian railway network is present in all provinces, even if there are areas without railways. There are also several railways (all narrow gauge) which over the decades have been closed and dismantled.
History
The construction of Ferrovie Reali
Sardinia, immediately after the Unification of Italy, found itself to be the only territory in the Kingdom without a railway network for public transport: the only lines present were in fact private railways for industrial use. In this regard, the first railway ever to enter into operation on the island was the one between the mine of San Leone and the pier of La Maddalena near Capoterra, a line open to traffic in 1862 . The lack of a public railway network led island politicians several times to request government intervention to grant this service also to Sardinia.
After various doubts and objections from national politicians, in 1862 an Italian-English consortium, headed by cavalier Gaetano Semenza, obtained the concession for the construction of the network that would link Cagliari to Iglesias, Porto Torres and Terranova Pausania (in Olbia). The consortium formed the Royal Company of the Sardinian Railways in London, which between studies of the routes, problems of conventions with the State and of various kinds, opened the first stretch of railway (Cagliari- Villasor) in April 1871.
The construction of the planned lines, based on a project by the Welsh engineer Benjamin Piercy, ended in 1881, but in the meantime, for the traffic of passengers to the continent, it was decided to use the new maritime docking of Golfo Aranci instead of that of Terranova. The fact made it necessary to build an extension of the railway, which joined the two Gallura ports in 1883.
Sardinia finally had its own railways and, as of December 31, 1899, 30 steam locomotives, 106 carriages, 23 baggage and 436 wagons for freight service were operating on the Royal Railways.
The connection of peripheral areas
However, the layout of the Royal Railways network excluded various areas of the island from the poss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Express | Mighty Express is a Canadian 3D computer-animated children's television series created by the British producer Keith Chapman. The series is produced by Spin Master Entertainment in partnership with Netflix, while the animation is produced by Atomic Cartoons. It was released on September 22, 2020.
The show was followed by a Christmas special, titled A Mighty Christmas, released on December 5, 2020. The second season was released on February 2, 2021, while the third season was released on April 13, 2021. The fourth season was released on July 27, 2021, while the fifth season was released on October 12, 2021. Ahead of its sixth season premiere, a special, titled Train Trouble, was released on January 18, 2022. The sixth season was released on March 29, 2022, while the seventh and final season was released on August 29, 2022. The show was followed by an interactive special, titled Mighty Trains Race, released on December 5, 2022.
Unlike the previous three seasons, which had ten-minute-long episodes placed in their regular ten-minute units, the episodes from the final four seasons however, despite being ten minutes long, were placed back to back in half-hour units with two segments each, and unlike the previous six seasons, which all had ten-minute-long episodes, the seventh and final season however, despite still having ten-minute-long episodes, has a double-length episode and two compilation episodes featuring the shorts from the series.
Plot
The series takes place in Tracksville, a town located in a reality where human adults (with the exception of Santa Claus) have never existed and where kids run the stations and other locations and work together with the Mighty Express trains (who have the ability to talk and are intelligent) on epic adventures. The trains all have their own roles and duties within Tracksville, and their own individual set of tools and cargo cars to help them with their adventures so they always ensure to make their home a better place where trains and human kids alike live together in peace and harmony.
Characters
Trains
Main
The series follows the adventures of eight trains each with a different purpose and skill.
Freight Nate (voiced by Dylan Schombing in the US dub, Ben Riley in the UK dub and Tony Daniels when singing opera in Big Bart's Wild Ride) is a mighty and fast red train. His job is hauling heavy freight. He is strong, fast, friendly and heroic. Nate is equipped with an onboard crane with a hydraulic claw at the end of his cable. He also has a set of stabilizer legs to help him keep steady while loading his cars.
Mechanic Milo (voiced by Leo Orgil in the US dub and Tom Rimmer in the UK dub) Mechanic Milo's main job is keeping the tracks in tip top shape, but he will happily tackle any puzzle that gets thrown his way. He is curious and dependable and highly detail oriented. Milo has a hydraulic arm mounted on his back, with a claw on the end resembling a monkey wrench. He can also fire tracks from his front b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2067 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 67 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Long Whatton to Northallerton. The route is in length and is open but with sections missing.
History
Many sections of the route are Railway Paths including ex Great Central Railway Five Pits Trail and ex North Eastern Railway Nidderdale Greenway.
Route
The route is incomplete with gaps to the planned northern and southern trailheads and there are gaps south of Chesterfield. Between Leeds and Bramham the gap is filled by NCN Route 66.
Long Eaton to Heanor
The southern end of route 67 is at junction with NCN Route 6 in Long Eaton. Running north for to Heanor, it is a traffic free path (98%) through Shipley Country Park known as the Nutbrook Trail.
Blackwell to Grassmoor
There is a gap for approximately before NCN 67 restarts at Blackwell. This off road route to Grassmoor is known as the Five Pits Trail.
Chesterfield to Leeds
The longest continuous section of NCN 67 is the Trans Pennine Trail (Central) route from Chesterfield to Leeds. It passes through the eastern sides of Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield. On reaching the south east of Leeds, it meets NCN Route 66 which can be followed east for to reach the next section.
Bramham to Ripon
From Bramham the route uses paths adjacent to the A1(M) to Wetherby where it uses the Harland Way railway path to Spofforth. The route is the a mixture of on-road, traffic free and railway path through Harrogate to its current northern terminus at a junction with NCN Route 688 near Fountains Abbey. Route 688 can be followed for to reach Ripon.
Related NCN routes
Route 67 is part of the Trans Pennine Trail (Central) route along with:
Route 67 meets the following routes:
at Leeds and Bramham
at Wetherby
at Harrogate
at Fountains Abbey
at Wombwell and
at Meadowhall and Long Eaton
at Sheffield
References
External links
Route 67 on the Sustrans web site
Trans Pennine Trail official web site
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahim%20Saleh | Fahim Saleh (; December 12, 1986 – July 13, 2020) was a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur and computer programmer who founded Gokada in Nigeria, Pathao and JoBike. Saleh was also a founding partner of Adventure Capital, a Manhattan-based venture capital firm.
Biography
Saleh was born in Saudi Arabia, to Bangladeshi parents who frequently relocated for work, before settling in Rochester, New York. He taught himself to program at a young age, and created a variety of online projects such as a website for his family, a teenage social platform and a prank dial service, PrankDial, after his graduation from Bentley University. When he had grown older, Saleh said that he wanted to create something that "adds legitimate value to humanity". He created his first company while still in high school. He used income from PrankDial to fund his further ventures. PrankDial was somewhat controversial because it was abused as a tool for harassment.
He went on to co-found the ride company Pathao, which was popular in Bangladesh and Nepal, in 2015. The company was valued at $100 million. In 2018, Saleh also helped found Nigerian Gokada, a Nigerian ride-hail startup for motorbike taxis, that had millions of dollars in funding and gained a lot of traction in the country. The company faced a setback after authorities in Lagos banned motorbike taxis in 2020. Fahim also invested in another ride-sharing company named Picap in Colombia.
Friends called Saleh the "Elon Musk of the developing world". Complex estimated his net worth to be $150 million.
Death
On July 14, 2020, Saleh was found dead in his luxury apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Police stated that he was killed the day before.
On the night of July 13, neighbors heard yelling from Saleh's unit and contacted his sister. After her attempts to contact him failed, she visited his condo on July 14 and found a grisly scene. She called the police, who found Saleh's torso next to an electric saw, and his head and limbs in garbage bags elsewhere in the apartment. An autopsy report from the Chief Medical Examiner concluded that Saleh died from multiple stab wounds. Detectives classified this case as a homicide. A police source told The New York Times that Saleh was followed by a man dressed in black into the key-secured elevator that led to his apartment on the seventh floor. Security footage depicted Saleh struggling out of the elevator and onto his apartment floor. Detectives suspect that the killer fled the scene through the backdoor after Saleh's sister arrived looking for him, according to another police source.
On July 17, Saleh's personal assistant, 21-year-old Tyrese Devon Haspil, was arrested and charged with murder, since Haspil had been the prime suspect of murder with incriminating surveillance videos that show him using the tech CEO's credit card after the murder and buying cleaning supplies, electric saw at Home Depot. However Haspil has pleaded not guilty. The case against Haspil was adjo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Buren%20v.%20United%20States | Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and its definition of "exceeds authorized access" in relation to one intentionally accessing a computer system they have authorization to access. In June 2021, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6–3 opinion that one "exceeds authorized access" by accessing off-limit files and other information on a computer system they were otherwise authorized to access. The CFAA's language had long created a circuit split in case law, and the Court's decision narrowed the applicability of CFAA in prosecuting cybersecurity and computer crime.
Background
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is a federal law passed in 1986 to strengthen laws around unauthorized access to computer systems. The law was passed partially based on fears from Congress members who saw the 1983 film WarGames. Among its core statutes at is that intentionally accessing a computer system "without authorization or exceeds authorized access" to obtain protected information, financial records, or federal government information is considered a federal crime that can include fines and imprisonment as a penalty.
The exact definition of "exceeds authorized access" is not clear and created a 4–3 circuit split of cases at the Circuit Courts. In the First, Fifth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits, the courts upheld a broad view of the statement, that accessing a computer with authorization but for an improper purpose is a violation of the CFAA. The Second, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits took a more narrow view that a violation only occurs if the authorized user accesses information they were prohibited from accessing.
Because of the case law split, there has been debate on whether the language should be treated narrowly or broadly between cybersecurity researchers and law enforcement among others. For cybersecurity practitioners, a narrow interpretation of "exceeds authorized access" language in §1030(a)(2) would allow them to better conduct work identifying and resolving security problems with computer hardware and software as to make the Internet safer. The vagueness of the statute otherwise puts these job functions at risk. Law enforcement and the U.S. government in general prefer a broader interpretation as this allows them to prosecute those who use hacking to bring down or take advantage of insecure systems under the CFAA. There are additional concerns as the language of CFAA, if broadly interpreted, could apply to commonly-accepted activities at businesses or elsewhere, such as using office computers for browsing the web. Jeffrey L. Fisher, a law professor at Stanford University who represents the petitioner in the present case, states that the law's language is outdated with modern computer usage, and its broad interpretation "[makes] a crime out of ordinary breaches of computer restrictions and terms of service that people likely don’t even know about and if t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issues%20relating%20to%20iOS | The iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. has had a wide range of bugs and security issues discovered throughout its lifespan, including security exploits discovered in most versions of the operating system related to the practice of jailbreaking (to remove Apple's software restrictions), bypassing the user's lock screen (known as lock screen bypasses), issues relating to battery drain, crash bugs encountered when sending photos or certain Unicode characters via text messages sent through the Messages application, and general bugs and security issues later fixed in newer versions of the operating system.
iOS 4
Alarm clock bugs
The Alarm feature of the built in Clock app in the iPhone and iPod Touch has been plagued by major bugs in all versions of iOS 4. The first bug noticed was the "DST bug" which was first seen when some countries switched to/from daylight saving time from/to standard time in October or November 2010. It caused recurring alarms to start going off an hour too early or late. Apple promised the bug would be fixed in iOS 4.2, but according to some reports it still exists even in iOS 4.3.1.
The second alarm clock bug discovered was the "New Year's Day bug" which showed up on January 1, 2011 and January 1, 2012. It caused non-recurring alarms to never work. However, two days after each New Year's Day, on January 3, 2011, they "magically" started working again. This bug was seemingly fixed in iOS 4.3.
iOS 5
Battery drain bugs
Apple confirmed that several battery life bugs were negatively affecting battery life in iOS 5. They attempted to fix these bugs with iOS 5.0.1 and 5.1 but the problem still remained. Finally, these bugs were fixed in iOS 5.1.1.
Wi-Fi
The launch of the iOS 5 update on October 12, 2011 (including iOS 5.0.1 released on November 10, 2011), led many users to report a major bug causing the device to lose Wi-Fi access. This problem has supposedly been fixed with the release of iOS 5.1.1
SIM card
Some users of the iPhone 4S and iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) reported issues with the SIM card in iOS 5.0, and even though Apple attempted to fix these issues in version 5.0.1 build 9A406 (for iPhone 4S only), they still remained.
Echo bugs
Some users of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S reported issues with having echo problems during phone call in the initial release of iOS 5, which causes echoes to appear randomly during phone calls made through earbuds. The other party in the call is generally unable to hear the conversation due to this problem. Apple has since released version 5.1.1 in an attempt to fix the problem.
iOS 6
Maps
Apple admitted that there were several bugs in the mapping app on iOS 6, with cities in the wrong location, some places being missed off altogether, some places misnamed and places of interest in the sea. Problems submitted by users were gradually addressed with daily updates to Maps.
Bluetooth
Many users reported a problem with Bluetooth audio streaming to a range of compatible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%20and%20Wolves%3A%20Pig%20Deal | Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal () is a 2019 Russian 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film. The story is the sequel to original film Sheep and Wolves and contains the elements of the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids. Wizart Animation and CTB Film Company were joint animation production studios for the film that is produced by Sergey Selyanov, Yuri Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolaev and directed by Vladimir Nikolaev and Mikhail Babenko.
The original Russian version of the film features Maxim Matveev as the voice of Grey and also includes voice talents of Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Galina Korneva, Anton Yuriev, Alexey Sigaev, Mikhail Belyakovich, , Daniel Eldarov and Mikhail Tikhonov. The international versions stars Graham Halstead as Grey and also features Kate Bristol, Vanessa Gardner, Melissa Hope, Billy Bob Thompson, Major Attaway, Tyler Bunch, Oliver Wyman and Jason Griffith.
Grey, the peaceful wolf, leads a grassy utopia village where wolves and sheep live in harmony. Unexpected guests appear – an arctic vixen Simone and sheep girl Josie who are saved from the Black Wolves. The wolves appetite for the newcomers forces them to attack the village and demand Grey to extradite them. Instead of satiating their appetite, Grey raises the walls as pacifists are ready to protect against war marauders. Nashe Kino distributed the film in Russia at the premiere of 24 January 2019 followed by a global release. The movie released in the UK on 10 August 2020. The film opened in USA on 29 January 2021.
The movie was nominated for several awards, including the Pulcinella Award at Cartoons on the Bay in Italy and won the award for Best Storyline at the Catalina Film Festival. Like its predecessor, the film received negative reviews from critics outside of Russia, who felt that the film is "more of a carbon-copy" of the original.
Plot
At a dark grotto, an emissary wolf meets Gark, the leader of a warring wolf clan, the Black Wolves sitting atop his walrus throne. The emissary reports the rumors that Mami, the gypsy is selling souvenirs. However, she is close to the harmonious village where sheep and wolves live in peace. Gark and the pack agree to capture this new animal that suddenly appeared to them in the food chain. They succeed in capturing Mami. Back at the egalitarian society of wolves and sheep, Belgour names Grey the new successor.
The wolf Grey becomes the unanimous leader. During those times unexpected guests arrives: a small ewe named Josie (who was originally a crocodile until she accidentally drank Mami's potion) with polar vixen named Simone who sought refuge from the predator wolves. Grey welcomes them with open arms despite peremptory suspicions from Ziko the ram. The wolf clan learns of this news and attacks the village to extradite the new animals for feasting. However they avoid an all out war because they know Grey the wolf will overcome his identity crisis and be a wolf again. Then they can easily handle the sheep village. Gark defeats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM%20algorithm%20and%20GMM%20model | In statistics, EM (expectation maximization) algorithm handles latent variables, while GMM is the Gaussian mixture model.
Background
In the picture below, are shown the red blood cell hemoglobin concentration and the red blood cell volume data of two groups of people, the Anemia group and the Control Group (i.e. the group of people without Anemia). As expected, people with Anemia have lower red blood cell volume and lower red blood cell hemoglobin concentration than those without Anemia.
is a random vector such as , and from medical studies it is known that are normally distributed in each group, i.e. .
is denoted as the group where belongs, with when belongs to Anemia Group and when belongs to Control Group. Also where , and . See Categorical distribution.
The following procedure can be used to estimate .
A maximum likelihood estimation can be applied:
As the for each are known, the log likelihood function can be simplified as below:
Now the likelihood function can be maximized by making partial derivative over , obtaining:
If is known, the estimation of the parameters results to be quite simple with maximum likelihood estimation. But if is unknown it is much more complicated.
Being a latent variable (i.e. not observed), with unlabeled scenario, the Expectation Maximization Algorithm is needed to estimate as well as other parameters. Generally, this problem is set as a GMM since the data in each group is normally distributed.
In machine learning, the latent variable is considered as a latent pattern lying under the data, which the observer is not able to see very directly. is the known data, while are the parameter of the model. With the EM algorithm, some underlying pattern in the data can be found, along with the estimation of the parameters. The wide application of this circumstance in machine learning is what makes EM algorithm so important.
EM algorithm in GMM
The EM algorithm consists of two steps: the E-step and the M-step. Firstly, the model parameters and the can be randomly initialized. In the E-step, the algorithm tries to guess the value of based on the parameters, while in the M-step, the algorithm updates the value of the model parameters based on the guess of of the E-step. These two steps are repeated until convergence is reached.
The algorithm in GMM is:
Repeat until convergence:
1. (E-step) For each , set
2. (M-step) Update the parameters
With Bayes Rule, the following result is obtained by the E-step:
According to GMM setting, these following formulas are obtained:
In this way, a switch between the E-step and the M-step is possible, according to the randomly initialized parameters.
References
Machine learning
Regression models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20Faithful%20Husband%20episodes | My Faithful Husband is a 2015 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from August 10, 2015 to November 13, 2015 replacing The Rich Man's Daughter.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracies%20II%20-%20Lethal%20Networks | Conspiracies II - Lethal Networks () is a FMV adventure video game developed and published by Greek studio Anima Interactive. It is the sequel to the 2003 video game Nick Delios - Conspiracies. Set in a dystopian future, and taking place several months after the events of the previous game, players again take on the role of series protagonist Nick Delios, a special government agent framed for attempted murder, and uncover a massive conspiracy that could threaten humanity.
Gameplay
In Conspiracies II, players take control of protagonist Nick Delios and can navigate 3D environments in first-person, search for clues, and use inventory items, some of which can be taken apart or combined with others, thus making up the majority of the game's puzzles. In addition, Lethal Networks incorporates action game elements, such as the character climbing and crouching, as well as physics-based pushing or pulling of large objects and vehicle driving. Contrary to the first game, Conspiracies II features game over screens, in which case players have to restart from a previously saved game.
Similar to the previous game, Lethal Networks makes use of full motion video technology, meaning characters, with whom the player interacts, are played by real actors and actresses, while the game's environmental graphics are in 3D. The plot unfolds throughout the game's twelve chapters, and features two different endings.
Story
Conspiracies II is set in the year 2063, and takes place several months after the events of the first Conspiracies. Earth has recently joined a conglomerate body of alien governments known as the Peripheral Galactic Alliance, expecting a significant improvement of its dystopian situation. Players once again take on the role of Nick Delios, who has given up his career as a private investigator and taken on the role of a government secret agent, tasked with uncovering the alien civilizations' true agenda for Earth.
Delios soon finds himself entangled in another intergalactic conspiracy, after he is framed for the attempted murder of his ex-fiancé Annita Argyriou, the sister of the corporate tyrant Dimitris, and current president of the powerful company Detronics S.A. During his quest to clear his name, Delios uncovers multiple conspiracy networks, hidden agendas, lies and corruption throughout the Peripheral Galactic Alliance, which threaten the fate of entire universe.
Development and release
Fueled by the commercial success of the first Conspiracies game, development on Conspiracies II began at the end of 2004, with a projected release date set for mid 2008. The game stuck in development hell for eight years however, as it was significantly delayed after Anima's lead programmer quit the project, which resulted in the development team having to build the real-time graphics engine from scratch. Conspiracies II eventually released in March 2011.
Critical reception
Conspiracies II received mixed reviews from critics upon its release.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20time%20property | In model checking, a branch of computer science, linear time properties are used to describe requirements of a model of a computer system. Example properties include "the vending machine does not dispense a drink until money has been entered" (a safety property) or "the computer program eventually terminates" (a liveness property). Fairness properties can be used to rule out unrealistic paths of a model. For instance, in a model of two traffic lights, the liveness property "both traffic lights are green infinitely often" may only be true under the unconditional fairness constraint "each traffic light changes colour infinitely often" (to exclude the case where one traffic light is "infinitely faster" than the other).
Formally, a linear time property is an ω-language over the power set of "atomic propositions". That is, the property contains sequences of sets of propositions, each sequence known as a "word". Every property can be rewritten as "P and Q both occur" for some safety property P and liveness property Q. An invariant for a system is something that is true or false for a particular state. Invariant properties describe an invariant that every reachable state of a model must satisfy, while persistence properties are of the form "eventually forever some invariant holds".
Temporal logics such as linear temporal logic describe types of linear time properties using formulae.
This article is about propositional linear-time properties and cannot handle predicates about program states, so it cannot define a property like: the current value of y determines the number of times that x toggles between 0 and 1 before termination. The more general formalism used in Safety and liveness properties can handle this.
Definition
Let AP be a set of atomic propositions. A word over (the power set of AP) is an infinite sequence of sets of propositions, such as (for the atomic propositions ). A linear time (LT) property over AP is a subset of i.e. a set of words. An example of an LT property over the set is "the set of words that contain a infinitely often". The word w is in this set, because a is contained in , which occurs infinitely often. A word not in this set is , as a only occurs once (in the first set).
An LT property is an ω-language over the alphabet (and vice versa).
We denote by pref(w) the finite prefixes of w (i.e. in the above case). The closure of an LT property P is:
Applications
Using the theory of finite-state machines, a program or computer system can be modelled by a Kripke structure. LT properties then describe restrictions on the traces (outputs) of a Kripke structure. For instance, if two traffic lights at an intersection are represented by a Kripke structure then the atomic propositions may be the possible colours of each light and it may be desirable that the traces satisfy the LT property "the traffic lights cannot both be green at the same time" (to avoid car collisions).
If every trace of the Kripke structure TS is a tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi-Sat-1 | Phi-Sat-1 (also known as ɸ-Sat-1) is a CubeSat mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth observation. The mission will collect a large number images from space in the visible, near-infrared and thermal-infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and then filter out the images which are covered with clouds using AI algorithms. This reduces the number of images to be downlinked from space and therefore improve efficiency. The Phi-Sat-1 mission has two main objectives:
To acquire images in the visible, the near-infrared and thermal infrared regions
Demonstration of AI inference engine for cloud detection demonstrating the capabilities of the Myriad chip
The mission was proposed by Spain's Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and developed by a consortium of European companies and institutes. The idea was originally presented at the 2017 Copernicus Masters and was the overall winner.
Payload and communications
The Phi-Sat-1 payload devices on-board of the satellite are:
Hyperspectral/TIR optical payload - HyperScout®-2
AI chip - Intel Movidius board with a Myriad II chip (VPU)
AI Cloud Detection Experiment
The Phi-Sat-1 represents one of Europe's first artificial intelligence in space. The main task of the AI chip is to comb through huge sets of images (which will be used for the monitoring of vegetation changes and water quality) and filter out the ones of low quality due to cloud coverage.
The AI chip will process large amounts of data which otherwise would be sent for processing on Earth. The main advantage is that the on-board processing makes the delivery more efficient as the "cloudy" images have already been removed.
The AI cloud detection experiment is aimed at validating the performance of the on-board inference engine based on a machine learning algorithm for cloud detection. The inference engine runs on a VPU embedded in the hyperspectral instrument and it will reduce the content of the downloaded data. One of the key issues for hyperspectral instruments in small satellite missions is to simultaneously lower costs while respecting on-board resources (power, mass, etc.) and at the same time to maximize the relevant information to be downlinked by the Ground Segment. Hyperspectral missions typically produced big amounts of information from the observed scenes, such as land, water and ice observations, but sometimes the data cannot be exploited due to the presence of clouds. For instance, more than 30% of the images in Sentinel-2 are cloudy.
Launch
The satellite was scheduled to be launched on 17 August 2020. Launch of the Vega rocket occurred on 3 September 2020 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying Phi-Sat-1 among 53 satellites on its new dispenser called the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS). This launch is a proof-of-concept flight to demonstrate and validate the SSMS, a new rideshare launch service for small satellites. The SSMS dispenser is lightweight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan%20Stoyanov | Ruslan Stoyanov is a Russian computer scientist. In December 2016, he was arrested on charges of treason as part of the Mikhailov case. In 2019, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Career
From around 2000 to 2006, Stoyanov worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia) investigating cyber crime.
In 2010, Stoyanov was reportedly the owner of Indrik, a computer crime investigative firm, until it was bought by Kaspersky Labs in 2012. From then on, he worked in the computer incident investigation department of Kaspersky Labs until his arrest in 2016.
Arrest
In early December 2016, Stoyanov was arrested by the FSB on charges of treason. In Russia, treason is defined possessing secret information. even without sharing it, or as sharing information with a foreign state that damages state security. The new law does not require authorities to prove a suspect damaged state security.
In Stoyanov's case, he was accused of sharing information about convicted Russian cyber criminal Pavel Vrublevsky with American authorities. Stoyanov, along with two other men involved in the conviction of Vrublevksy, were among those accused.
Conviction
In February 2019, a Moscow court convicted Stoyanov of high treason, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.
He was alleged to have caused Russian state secrets about convicted cybercriminal Pavel Vrublevsky's company, ChronoPay, to be passed along to the FBI. He was specifically accused of giving information about Vrublevksy's criminal operations to Kimberly Zenz, a private sector cybersecurity researcher that the court accused of being an American agent.
Zenz denied all such accusations and asked the court to permit her to testify. The Russian court ignored her request. Zenz discussed her experience with the accusations, and the infighting among the Russian security services that she believes played a role in the accusations. In their book, The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan report that the case was also motivated by a desire by Russian security services to stop international cooperation between Russian investigators and researchers and those in the West.
Hospitalization
In October 2018, Stoyanov had reportedly suffered a pulmonary embolism.
References
Russian computer scientists
Living people
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita%20Casadio | Rita Casadio is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna.
Career
Her work in machine learning has been used for protein structure prediction and methods from her group have been highly ranked in international competitions, such as the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) and the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA).
Awards and honours
She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
See also
ELIXIR
References
External links
Living people
Italian bioinformaticians
Academic staff of the University of Bologna
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century women scientists
Women biochemists
Computational biologists
Women computational biologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Health%20Sciences%20Literature | The Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (in Portuguese), acronym LILACS, and previously called Latin American Index Medicus, is an on-line bibliographic database in medicine and health sciences, maintained by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (also known as BIREME, located in São Paulo, Brazil. Similar to MEDLINE, which was developed by the United States National Library of Medicine, it contains bibliographic references to papers that have been published in a set of scientific and medical journals of the region, and that are not covered by MEDLINE.
The database is structured using the LILACS Methodology, which comprises:
LILDBI-Web, and more recently, FI-ADMIN Software: programs used to make the description and indexing of documents, in addition to performing data checking, required by the Methodology;
SeCS Software - Periodical Publications Collection Control System: used to control the collection of journals and control the titles of magazines;
DeCS vocabulary - Health Sciences Descriptors: controlled vocabulary used in indexing to ensure accurate retrieval of bibliographic references;
Bibliographic Description Manual (7th revised edition - 2008): guides you in filling in the LILDBI-Web and FI-ADMIN data fields;
Indexing Manual: guides in indexing the documents described in LILDBI-Web and FI-ADMIN. LILACS indexing follows an indexing policy quite similar to the NLM - National Library of Medicine;
Document Selection Guide: guides in the selection of documents and journal articles that will be inserted in the LILACS database.
References
Bibliography
LILACS Methodology
External links
LILACS Portal
VHL Regional Portal
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Scholarly search services
Databases in Brazil
Medical databases
Latin America and the Caribbean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selce%2C%20%C5%A0tip | Selce () is a village in the municipality of Štip, North Macedonia.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Selce had 140 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Turks 107
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 16
Macedonians 15
Serbs 2
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 169 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Turks 146
Macedonians 18
Serbs 5
References
Villages in Štip Municipality
Turkish communities in North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWCN%20%28Cagayan%29 | 91.7 Magik FM (DWCN 91.7 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Century Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located along College Ave., Tuguegarao.
References
External links
Magik FM Tuguegarao FB Page
Radio stations in Cagayan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWPY | Pasalingaya 88.1 (DWPY 88.1 MHz) is an FM station by PEC Broadcasting Corporation and operated by Pasalinggaya Media Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Store #15, Casiguran Plaza Market, M.C. Escudero St., Brgy. Central, Casiguran, Sorsogon.
References
External links
Pasalingaya FB Page
Radio stations in Sorsogon
Radio stations established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia%20Shen | Chia Shen is a Chinese-American computer scientist specialized in human–computer interaction, visual learning, and computer-supported collaborative learning. She is a program director at the National Science Foundation overseeing cyberlearning and STEM education initiatives.
Education
Shen completed a B.S. in computer science at Stony Brook University in 1983. She earned a M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) in computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation was titled An Integrated Approach to Dynamic Task and Resource Management in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems.
Career
Shen joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in 1993 as a research scientist. She served as associate director and senior research directory from 2003 to 2006. Shen was an adjunct graduate faculty member at the University of Toronto from 2007 to 2010. From 2008 to 2016, Shen was affiliated with Harvard University first as a visiting senior scientist and later as a senior research fellow and director of the Scientists' Discovery Room Lab in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Starting in March 2016, she became a program director in the division of research on learning in formal and informal settings at the National Science Foundation. She oversees programs on cyberlearning and STEM education.
Shen's research specialties include human–computer interaction, visualization, visual learning, learning technologies, computer-supported collaborative learning, and interaction design.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stony Brook University alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Mitsubishi Electric people
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
United States National Science Foundation officials
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
People in educational technology
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischnothele%20caudata | Ischnothele caudata is a spider in the family Ischnothelidae, found from Mexico to Brazil. It was first described in 1875 by Anton Ausserer. Ausserer did not explain the choice of specific name, but the Latin word caudatus means 'tailed'.
References
Mygalomorphae
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America
Spiders described in 1875 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeAnna%20Burt | DeAnna Marie Burt (born February 15, 1969) is a United States Space Force lieutenant general who has served as the deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear since 2022. She previously served as the
commander of Combined Force Space Component Command and vice commander of Space Operations Command from 2020 to 2022. She is the first woman to hold the rank of major general in the U.S. Space Force.
Burt entered the United States Air Force in 1991 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Her career has included numerous satellite operations and staff positions in Air Force Space Command and United States European Command. Burt has commanded the 2nd Space Operations Squadron, the 460th Operations Group, and the 50th Space Wing. She is a graduate and former instructor of the USAF Weapons School and a graduate of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. She also served as the vice commander of the United States Air Force Warfare Center, Nellis AFB, Nevada.
Education
1991 – Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida
1995 – Master of Science degree in Human Resources Management, Troy State University, Alabama
1997 – Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
1999 – U.S. Air Force Weapons School, Distinguished Graduate and Academic Award, Nellis AFB, Nevada
2005 – Air Command and Staff College, Distinguished Graduate and Commandant's Leadership Award, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
2006 – School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
2012 – National War College, Distinguished Graduate, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
2015 – Leadership Enhancement Program, Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina
2015 – Air Force Enterprise Leadership, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, North Carolina
2016 – Enterprise Perspective Seminar, Alan Freed Associates, Washington, D.C.
2020 Advanced Senior Leader Development Seminar, Arlie Center, Warrenton, Va.
2021 Combined Force Air Component Command Course, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
Military career
Burt was nominated for promotion to major general on May 4, 2020, and was confirmed in the rank by the United States Senate seventeen days later. She is the first woman to hold the rank of major general in the U.S. Space Force.
In October 2022, Burt was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear.
Assignments
October 1992 – January 1993, student, Undergraduate Space Training, Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado
January 1993 – December 1995, crew commander, deputy flight commander, and chief of current operations, 4th Space Warning Squadron, Holloman AFB, New Mexico
December 1995 – October 1997, chief of space systems tactical warning operations and chief of standardization and training, 76th Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, Colorado
October 199 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahlman | Fahlman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gregory Fahlman (born 1944), Canadian astronomer
Scott Fahlman (born 1948), American computer scientist
Sven Fahlman (1914–2003), Swedish fencer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosetse%E2%80%93Kazungula%E2%80%93Livingstone%20Railway | The Mosetse–Kazungula–Livingstone Railway is a prospected cape gauge international railway connecting the Botswana railway network at Mosetse, Botswana with the Zambian railway network at Livingstone, Zambia over the new Kazungula Bridge on the Zambezi River.
The railway line will offer a direct railway transport route of goods and people between the two countries, as well between Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the port of Durban in South Africa, being an alternative to the existing route through Zimbabwe. The completion of the combined railway and road bridge over the Zambezi and the new railway link is supposed to allow for swifter transport of goods and people in the Southern African region.
Route
In Botswana the new line will branch off the existing Francistown–Sua Pan railway line at the village of Mosetse in the Central District, some 115 km northwest of Francistown. It is not known if the existing line to Francistown needs upgrading to allow for the supposedly increase in railway transports.
It is prospected that the railway will follow a merely straight northern direction along the A3 road from Mosetse to Nata, Botswana and then along the A33 highway between Nata and Kazungula on the south bank of the Zambezi river, a distance of 367 km. It will then pass the 923 metre long Kazungula Bridge directly from Botswana to Zambia. On the Zambian side of the Zambezi river, a 60 km railway line in eastern direction along the M10 road to Livingstone is required to connect to the Cape to Cairo Railway.
References
Rail transport in Zambia
Rail transport in Botswana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinenui%20/%20Nancy%20Sound | Hinenui / Nancy Sound is a fiord on the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the fiords that form the coast of Fiordland.
Geography
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Hinenui / Nancy Sound is located between Taiporoporo / Charles Sound and Te Awa-o-Tū / Thompson Sound, part of the Doubtful Sound complex. The fiord runs straight in a northwesterly direction for most of its 15.4 kilometre length, with the exception of a bend to the west near its entrance and a nearly right-angle bend near its head. This section, known as 'Foot Arm' due to its resemblance to a human foot (along with similarly-named 'Heel Cove' and 'Toe Cove' at their respective positions), runs in a southwesterly direction before turning at Heel Cove to join the main channel of the Fiord.
The fiord has two small islands at its entrance. One of these, the aptly-named Entrance Island, sits to the north of the main channel, off the coast of Burnett Point. The other, Anxiety Island, is in a similar position to the south, sitting just north of Anxiety Point. The seafloor between these two islands is relatively shallow, at a depth of approximately . Once inside the fiord, the seafloor decreases to a maximum depth of in the Acheron basin, named after HMS Acheron which first surveyed the area in 1851.
As with most of the fiords in Fiordland, Hinenui is flanked by steep mountains. To the southwest of the main channel, the Master Ridge runs roughly parallel to the fiord, with Mount Napier at in the middle. There is not a well-defined ridgeline to the same extent to the northeast of the fiord, however Command Peak sits roughly opposite Mount Napier on this side. This includes a small tarn, the runoff from which drains through a small river into the fiord at the end of Foot Arm.
Name
As with many other places in Fiordland, the exact origins of the European name for the fiord - Nancy Sound - are unclear, due primarily to most of the early European exploration coming from sealers and whalers. The most likely origin for the name is that the fiord was named after the Nancy, a ship under the command of John Grono, who in turn was one of the first Europeans to explore the area prior to 1823.
In October 2019, the name of the fiord was officially altered to include the Māori name for the fiord, Hinenui (translating as 'big woman'). The name change to Hinenui / Nancy Sound was part of a proposal to officially add dual names to all of the fiords in Fiordland, as previously only Milford Sound / Piopiotahi and Doubtful Sound / Patea had dual names. This was done to "recognise the significance of both names and provide a window to rich stories in both Māori and English". Other features in the fiord maintain Māori names which have not been officially gazetted, such as Tā-te-kākāpō for Foot Arm, which recognised the former prevalence of kakapo in the area.
References
Sounds of Fiordland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-NOVA | V-NOVA is a multinational IP and Technology company headquartered in London, UK. It is best known for innovation in data compression technology for video and images. V-Nova has partnered with large organizations including Sky, Xilinx, Nvidia, Eutelsat, and Amazon Web Services to provide its video compression technology.
History
V-NOVA was founded in 2011 by Guido Meardi, Pierdavide Marcolongo and others. In 2012, Mr Federico Faggin was among V-NOVA’s investors and founding members.
In 2016, Sky acquired a minority stake in V-NOVA for £4.5 million [8], and Eutelsat subsequently acquired a minority stake for an undisclosed amount. In the same year, Eutelsat deployed V-NOVA's technology for the 4K contribution feeds of the UEFA Euro Championship 2016 and, subsequently, acquired a minority stake for an undisclosed amount. Also in 2016, V-NOVA became a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
In 2017, V-NOVA acquired the entire Faroudja patent portfolio to improve its Perseus codec.
In April 2019, V-NOVA technology was selected by MPEG for the working draft of the MPEG-5 codec enhancement standard. In the same year V-Nova became a member of the Advanced Television Systems Committee.
In 2020, V-NOVA and Amazon Web Services collaborated.
In May 2021, V-NOVA announced its partnership with SOUTHWORKS for LCEVC Integration Services.
In June 2021, V-NOVA partnerred with D-Orbit and Unibap to demonstrate VC-6 for on-orbit satellite imagery acceleration. The satellite was launched in Summer 2021. In July, multiple professional investors, including Intesa's Venture Capital arm Neva SGR, invested €33m into V-NOVA.
In November 2021, V-NOVA and PresenZ released a Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) movie on the Steam Store. The movie uses V-NOVA’s point-cloud compression technology combined with 6DoF volumetric movie format from PresenZ.
In January 2022, SBTVD Forum approved a selection of technologies for SBTVD 3.0 which include MPEG-5 LCEVC, V-NOVA & Harmonic Inc.’s submission.
Technology
In 2015, the company announced a new digital data-encoding technology based on multi-layer coding, parallel processing and deep learning called Perseus for efficient video streaming with a focus on enabling UHD/4K services at lower bandwidths. It was claimed that it could be streamed to TVs and other devices using only around 50% of the bandwidth required by existing streaming technologies.
V-NOVA’s technology was later selected to provide the essential IP for the ISO/IEC 23094-2 standard MPEG-5 Part 2 Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), a codec-agnostic enhancement codec that can be combined with other video codecs to improve their coding and processing efficiency. It also maintains compatibility with the device ecosystem of the enhanced codec.
V-NOVA also developed another international standard codec, SMPTE VC-6 ST 2117, aimed at professional video and Artificial Intelligence applications.
In April 2021, MPEG Video validated the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%20Sulzbacher | Willy Sulzbacher (7 August 1876 – 15 August 1908) was a French fencer. He competed in the men's épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Some sources, including the IOC athlete database, list him as a German competitor because he was named to the Games by Deutscher und Österreichischer Fechterbund, a German fencing club. He committed suicide by shooting himself in 1908.
References
External links
1876 births
1908 suicides
1908 deaths
French male épée fencers
Olympic fencers for France
Fencers at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Saint-Cloud
Suicides by firearm in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20That%27s%20My%20Amboy%20episodes | That's My Amboy is a 2016 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from January 25, 2016, to April 29, 2016, replacing Because of You.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
April 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Gippsland | Triple M Gippsland (official callsign: 3SEA) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Triple M network. The station is broadcast to townships in the Gippsland region of Victoria from studios in Warragul.
The station commenced broadcasting in 2002 as 94.3 Sea FM as a supplementary license to 3GG. On 4 July 2005, the station relaunched as Star FM in line with Macquarie Regional RadioWorks' other Victorian stations, retaining its contemporary hit radio music format. On 15 December 2016, the station was again relaunched as Hit Gippsland.
On 20 July 2020, the station flipped formats to mainstream rock as Triple M. Networked programming, including Carrie & Tommy and Hughesy & Kate were replaced by that of the Triple M network. Despite being part of the Hit Network, the station had previously broadcast Triple M AFL coverage as the only Southern Cross Austereo-owned station in the Gippsland region.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the station's Warragul studios from 6am–9am weekdays. The station's local output consists of a three-hour breakfast show presented by Ed Cowlishaw.
Networked programming originates from studios in Albury, and Melbourne.
Shows
6am-9am - Ed for Breakfast
9am-12pm - Guy Mylecharane
12pm-3pm - Leisha Brodyk
3pm-4pm - The Marty Sheargold Show
4pm-6pm - The Rush Hour with JB and Bill
Transmission Quality
The station transmits from a main transmitter and a repeater:
94.3 FM is broadcast from the main transmitter which is a site near Yarragon South (coords) at 7 kW Power.
97.9 FM is broadcast from the repeater which is a site near Tyers (coords) at a power of 500W.
References
External links
Mainstream rock radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 2002
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
2002 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%20Fiction%3A%20A%20Synthcore%20%22Soundtrack%22 | Cyberpunk Fiction: A Synthcore "Soundtrack" is a various artists compilation album released on November 17, 1998 by Re-Constriction Records.
Reception
Aiding & Abetting gave it mixed review, praising the execution while saying "the spoken parts sound a little hokey" and the "music sounds like rote walkthroughs." Sonic Boom called the album a parody masterpiece and "not only are most of the cover interpretations by Synthcore and Electro bands dazzling but the re-written dialogue is the funniest thing I have heard in years." Chris Best of Lollipop Magazine praised the "concoction of heavy beats and eerily juxtaposed melodies", saying "the fit is strange and awkward, but the accidental result is that each group transforms their sound from typical dance floor industrial into a totally new beast."
Track listing
Accolades
Personnel
Adapted from the CyberPunk Fiction - A Synthcore "Soundtrack" liner notes.
Production and design
Chase – compiling
Scott Gorham – mastering
Kevin Marburg – cover art
Josquin des Pres – mastering
Additional musicians
Kait Ellen Cottengim – voice (1)
Kyle Cottengim – voice (1)
Dave Creadeau – voice (2, 8, 15)
DJ Twitch – voice (7)
Kari Beth Hodson – voice (8)
Satan Ferrell – voice (13)
Roman Greene – voice (2, 15, 17)
John "Ur-Grue" Holder – voice (13)
Release history
References
External links
1996 compilation albums
Alternative rock compilation albums
Industrial rock compilation albums
Re-Constriction Records compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Pollard | Katherine Snowden Pollard is the Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.
Education
Pollard received a B.A. summa cum laude in anthropology and mathematics from Pomona College and an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She was awarded a Ph.D. in 2003 from UC Berkeley for research supervised by Mark van der Laan.
Career and research
Pollard is a leader in developing statistical models and open-source software for big data, especially in genomics. Pollard and her team pioneered the identification and named the fastest-evolving regions of the human genome, known as human accelerated regions (HARs). Pollard has also designed methods to study the human microbiome and other microbial communities, these studies set the stage for using metagenomics in precision medicine.
Prior to working at UCSF, she held a postdoctoral research position with Sandrine Dudoit at UC Berkeley and worked with David Haussler at UC Santa Cruz.
Honors and awards
Member, National Academy of Medicine
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2021.
Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology. 2020.
Gladstone Institutes Mentoring Award. 2019.
Women Who Lead in the Life Sciences. SF Business Times. 2018.
75 Most Influential Alumni, UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 2018.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. 2017–present.
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences. 2013–present.
Breakthrough Biomedical Research Award, UCSF. 2009–2010.
Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2008–2010.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIGMS/NIH NRSA. 2003–2005.
Evelyn Fix Prize, Chin Long Chiang Biostatistics Student of the Year, UC Berkeley. 2003.
Valedictorian, High Scholarship Prize, Math Prize, Anthropology Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Award, Pomona College. 1995.
Sophomore Math Prize, Pomona College. 1993.
References
External links
Homepage
Gladstone Institutes Homepage
Publications
Human Accelerated Regions
Living people
American bioinformaticians
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Pomona College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Biostatisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20Transmission%20Selection | Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) is a network scheduler scheduling algorithm that has been defined by the Data Center Bridging Task Group of the IEEE 802.1 Working Group. It is a hierarchical scheduler that combines static priority scheduling and a bandwidth sharing algorithms (such as Weighted round robin or Deficit round robin).
Description
The Enhanced Transmission Selection algorithm is one scheduling algorithm supported by IEEE 802.1Q. In Enhanced Transmission Selection, they are two types or queues: Strict priority or Credit-based queues, and bandwidth-assigned queues. Each bandwidth-assigned queue has a bandwidth parameter, and the total for all bandwidth-assigned queue must be 100%.
If there is no frame ready for transmission, in the Strict priority and Credit-based queues, a frame from the bandwidth-assigned queue can be transmitted. A bandwidth-sharing algorithm is in charge of selecting the queue such that the bandwidth consumed by each queue approaches its percentage of the bandwidth leftover by the Strict priority and Credit-based queues. If a queue uses less than its percentage, the remainder of its percentage used by other queues.
The standard does not specify which bandwidth-sharing algorithm must be used since there are a number of variants of bandwidth sharing algorithm, but gives some constraints and references Weighted round robin. The Linux implementation of ETS does not consider Credit-based queues and uses Deficit round robin as bandwidth-sharing algorithm. ETS is also implemented in Microsoft Network Drivers
See also
Deficit round robin
Fairness measure
Max-min fairness
Scheduling algorithm
Statistical time division multiplexing
Weighted round robin
Data center bridging
802.1Qaz working group home page
References
Network scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult%20Swim%20Games | Adult Swim Games (stylized as adult swim games) (formerly Williams Street Games) is the video game publishing division of the Adult Swim brand of Cartoon Network. While Adult Swim had been publishing games since 2005, primarily based on their in-house franchises, it became an official publisher of original indie games in 2011. The publishing division has been praised by critics for the originality and quality of its games.
History
Early history (2005–2010)
Adult Swim partnered with Midway Games in 2005 to begin development on video games based on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Brak Show and Sealab 2021. The game based on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, was released on November 5, 2007, for PlayStation 2. The game is a golf game with fighting and racing levels. A video game based on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law has been released by Capcom for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii on January 8, 2008.
Various third-party Flash-based games, such as Robot Unicorn Attack and the Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) series, were once available for free play on the Adult Swim website, but have been removed from the site in 2020, due to the discontinuation of Flash Player. Adult Swim have also published a number of iPhone, iPad, and Android games, including Robot Unicorn Attack 1 & 2, Amateur Surgeon, Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself): Wedding Day, and Pocket Mortys.
In December 2012, Valve announced costumes for the online first person shooter Team Fortress 2 based on Adult Swim characters. The video game Saints Row: The Third features an in game "radio station", which shuffles a collection of songs that were featured on Adult Swim shows and was hosted by Jon from Adult Swim show Delocated. The video game Poker Night 2 features Brock Samson from The Venture Bros. as a main character.
Adult Swim Games (2011–present)
In 2011, Adult Swim hired Steve Gee to run their games division, in an effort to find original content that fit the brand of Adult Swim - described as "bizarre and absurd humor". This effort was inspired by the financial success of earlier mobile games such as Robot Unicorn Attack and Amateur Surgeon. The publisher began to seek out new indie games to partner with and publish, in an effort to provide a platform for indie games.
On February 15, 2013, Adult Swim published Super House of Dead Ninjas on Steam under their Adult Swim Games publishing label. Adult Swim Games continued to publish select indie games on Steam, including Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe, Völgarr the Viking, Kingsway, Rain World, Jazzpunk and Duck Game.
On May 22, 2018, Adult Swim acquired their first video game development, Big Pixel Studios, the development studio behind Pocket Mortys. The studio would later close at the end of 2020 following WarnerMedia's decision to restruct the division.
In 2020, Adult Swim released Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, meant to serve as a conclusion to the series.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20to%20Arms%20%281982%20video%20game%29 | Call to Arms (also known as Conquest) is a 1982 computer wargame published by Sirius Software.
Gameplay
Call to Arms is a game in which players can fight opponents in Europe during 1942 or in Scotland during 1750 as a strategy wargame.
Reception
Mark Lacine reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Conquest is a very enjoyable game, simple to learn and challenging enough for the serious computer gamer."
Reviews
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games - Nov, 1983
References
External links
Review in PC World
Review in Personal Computer News
1982 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Sirius Software games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Europe
Video games set in Scotland
Video games set in the 18th century
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach%20Schwitzky | Zachary Schwitzky is an American computer security expert. He is also known for his rare choice of commuter vehicle. Schwitzky, who lives in Hoboken, NJ, paddles a kayak to work - weather permitting.
Academic career
Schwitzky earned a bachelor's degree at San Diego State University, where he played on the college's baseball team. He went on to study at Seton Hall University.
Computer career
Schwitzky founded Newlio, a market research firm, in 2012.
Schwitzky would later found Limbik, a firm that uses artificial intelligence to analyze video. Customers who monitor their users' video watching use Limbik's software to automatically classify video recordings. Limbik's customers use Limbik's classifications to serve users new videos that Limbik's software predicts they will like. Limbik's software's analysis performs facial recognition on the videos. CNN quoted Schwitzky briefly summarizing how tricky it could be to determine the gender of individuals through watching video. Schwitzky told CNN that his firm's software had been trained to classify some individuals as "non-binary".
By 2020, Schwitzky was recognized as an expert in computer security. When Ali Soufan, the counter-terrorism expert, and founder of The Soufan Group, became the target of an online hate campaign, Schwitzky was one of the experts hired to analyze the attacks. The New Yorker magazine quoted Schwitzky's conclusions that the attacks on Soufan bore all the signs of an organized conspiracy, and confirmed that he was being targeted by many of the same attackers who targeted Adnan Khashoggi, before his assassination.
References
American computer scientists
1983 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Television%20Network | Water Television Network is a Canadian English language licence-exempted Category B specialty channel broadcasting programming targeting water sport enthusiasts, including programming on sail boating adventures, scuba diving, fresh and saltwater angling, kayaking, camping, and more. The channel is owned by Ryan Kohler through Wild TV Inc.
History
The channel launched on July 16, 2020 on Shaw Direct in high-definition.
References
External links
Office website
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Digital cable television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
2020 establishments in Canada
HD-only channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Shudder%20original%20programming | Shudder is an American over-the-top subscription video on demand service featuring horror, thriller and supernatural fiction titles, owned and operated by AMC Networks.
Original programming
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
Continuations
Original films
Feature films
Documentaries
References
External links
Shudder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Ninja%20Warrior%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the sports entertainment reality competition series Australian Ninja Warrior premiered on 26 July 2020 on the Nine Network. The season is hosted by Rebecca Maddern, Ben Fordham, Freddie Flintoff and Shane Crawford.
Production
On 17 October 2019, the series was officially renewed for a fourth season at Nine's upfronts, also confirming Fordham, Maddern and Flintoff were returning. The series was again relocated, with filming taking place at Melbourne Showgrounds in Ascot Vale. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production introduced audience lock-out, meaning members of the public could not attend as audience; only family members of contestants were allowed to attend. Co-host Rebecca Maddern, was temporarily placed in self-isolation and replaced by Shane Crawford for two heats, before being cleared and returning to filming. Crawford returned to the season as the sideline commentator for the semis and Grand Final after Freddie Flintoff had to fly back to the UK before coronavirus pandemic measures came into effect.
Format Changes
Power Tower - The Power Tower will see the two furthest fastest Ninjas from each heat and semi-final run go head-to-head side by side on an all new obstacle, climbing five 1.5m high steps, before a 2.35m leap to the first bar, travel 4.5m to the vertical pole, which they will slide down to an unsteady horizontal beam, move across a 3m beam to the next pole and climb 5.5m, then lache 1.75m to the horizontal ladder before leaping onto the platform and race to hit the buzzer.
Advantages
Heats - The winner will receive a 10-second time advantage into the semi-finals, meaning 10 seconds will be taken off their final time.
Semi-finals - The winner will receive a second chance advantage into the Grand Final, meaning if they make a mistake during their run, they can re-run the course again.
Rounds
Underline represents the contestant who won the Speed Pass in the qualifying heats as a result of winning the head to head competition on the Power Tower.
represents the contestant who won the Safety Pass in the semi-finals as a result of winning the head to head competition on the Power Tower.
Italics denotes female competitors.
Episode 1
Heat 1
This episode aired on 26 July 2020. Only 6 competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the Doorknob Drop. Returning athlete Ashlin Herbert received a 10-second advantage for the semi-finals, after beating Daniel Mason on the Power Tower.
Quintuple Steps
Tic Toc to Net
Bridge of Blades
Doorknob Drop
Double Squirrel
Warped Wall
Episode 2
Heat 2
This episode aired on 27 July 2020. Only 2 competitors completed this course, with a large number of athletes bowing out on the Doorknob Drop. Returning athlete Ben Polson received a 10-second advantage for the semi-finals, after beating Olivia Vivian on the Power Tower.
Quintuple Steps
Tic Toc to Net
Bridge of Blades
Doorknob Drop
Flying Shelf Grab
Warped Wall
Episode 3
Heat 3
This e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matula%20%28surname%29 | Matula (Czech feminine: Matulová) is a surname. It may refer to:
David Matula (born 1937), American mathematician and computer scientist;
Iosif Matula (born 1958), Romanian engineer and politician;
Kim Matula (born 1988), American actress;
Milan Matula (born 1984), Czech footballer;
Rick Matula (born 1953), American baseball player;
, Philippine lawyer and labor leader;
Vili Matula (born 1962), Croatian actor;
Vlasta Matulová (1918–1989), Czech actress.
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%2016%29 | The sixteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block premiered on 23 August 2020 on the Nine Network. Hosts Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, site foremen Keith Schleiger and Dan Reilly, and judges Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, all returned from the previous season.
Production
In July 2019, it was reported by the Herald Sun that The Block and Channel 9 had acquired a vacant block of land in the exclusive bayside suburb of Brighton on 360 New Street, Brighton. Newly renovated houses are expected to be built on the land in 2020 for the 16th season of the Block.
Applications for the sixteenth season of the series opened in August 2019 until 15 September 2019, looking for couples aged between 18 and 65 years old being sought by casting agents. Filming for the season is slated to begin in late January 2020.
In October 2019, the sixteenth season and location of The Block were officially confirmed at Nine's upfronts.
In March 2020, the season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and the potential risk it could cause to the crew, workers and contestants. After more than a month of suspension, the season resumed production on 4 May 2020 with extra safety precautions set in place.
Due to the health and safety standards caused by COVID-19, The Block’s open for inspection will be a virtual experience which took place on 9Now on Monday, 16 November 2020. The Block auctions (or Block-tions) for the houses were held on Saturday, 21 November 2020, with the final episode of 2020 airing the next day on Channel Nine and 9Now at 7:00pm (AEDT) on Sunday, 22 November 2020.
Jimmy and Tam won the series with their house selling for over $4.2m. All houses sold on auction day with all teams profiting well over $400k.
Contestants
This is the eighth season of The Block to have five couples instead of the traditional four couples.
Score history
Weekly Room Budget
Weekly Room Prize
Results
Judges' Scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Challenge scores
Auction
Ratings
Notes
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
Throughout the course of the series, the teams total room score will be accumulated to decide which team will choose the auction order for all other teams.
The original score of Jimmy & Tam's Master Ensuite was 28, but they used a bonus point they won in the “Block It In Challenge”. Their score was changed to 29.
The original score of Daniel & Jade's Kitchen was 28½, but they used a bonus point they won in the “Pottery Challenge”. Their score was changed to 29½.
These are the rooms each teams has built Upstairs:
Sarah & George: Study, Powder Room & Bedroom
Luke & Jasmin: Living Room & Bedroom
Daniel & Jade: Bedroom, Living Room & Study
Harry & Tash: Bedroom & Study
Jimmy & Tam: Media Room & Bedroom
The original score of Jimmy & Tam's Stairway, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian%20cyberwarfare | Cyberwarfare is a component of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014. While the first attacks on information systems of private enterprises and state institutions of Ukraine were recorded during mass protests in 2013, Russian cyberweapon Uroburos had been around since 2005. Russian cyberwarfare continued with the 2015 Ukraine power grid hack at Christmas 2015 and again in 2016, paralysis of the State Treasury of Ukraine in December 2016, a Mass hacker supply-chain attack in June 2017 and attacks on Ukrainian government websites in January 2022.
History
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare is a component of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014. Russian cyberweapon Uroburos had been around since 2005. However, the first attacks on information systems of private enterprises and state institutions of Ukraine were recorded during mass protests in 2013. In 2013, Operation Armageddon, a Russian campaign of systematic cyber espionage on the information systems of government agencies, law enforcement, and defense agencies, began, thought to help Russia on the battlefield.
Between 2013 and 2014, some information systems of Ukrainian government agencies were affected by a computer virus known as Snake / Uroborus / Turla. In February–March 2014, as Russian troops entered Crimea communication centers were raided and Ukraine's fibre optic cables were tampered with, cutting connection between the peninsula and mainland Ukraine. Additionally Ukrainian Government websites, news and social media were shut down or targeted in DDoS attacks, while cell phones of many Ukrainian parliamentarians were hacked or jammed. Ukrainian experts also stated the beginning of a cyberwar with Russia.
Cybersecurity companies began to register an increase in the number of cyberattacks on information systems in Ukraine. The victims of Russian cyberattacks were government agencies of Ukraine, the EU, the United States, defense agencies, international and regional defense and political organizations, think tanks, the media, and dissidents. As of 2015, researchers had identified two groups of Russian hackers who have been active in the Russian-Ukrainian cyber war: the so-called APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear, Cozy Duke) and APT28 (also known as Sofacy Group, Tsar Team, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear).
Russia has conducted cyberattacks against Ukraine's wartime satellite internet service Starlink.
Cyberattacks
Russian cyberattacks
Operation "Armageddon", 2013
Operation "Snake", February 2014
Attacks on the automated system "Elections", June 2014
First Ukraine power grid hack, December 2015. Attacks using the Trojan virus BlackEnergy on energy companies in Ukraine which provide energy to Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi regions This was the first successful cyber attack on a power grid.
Second Ukraine power grid hack, December 2016.
Paralysis of the State Treasury of Ukraine, Decembe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole%20Atmosphere%20Community%20Climate%20Model | The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) is used to generate computer simulations of the dynamic processes interacting between the terrestrial and solar systems that impact on Earth's climate. The original model was developed around the turn of the millennium with the most recent iteration, version 6 (WACCM6), released in 2019. The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with thermosphere and ionosphere extension (WACCM-X) extends the model to space weather and space climate.
References
Climate modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Howard%20%28mathematician%29 | James P. Howard, II, is an American mathematician at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he works as a data scientist and statistician.
Early life
Howard was born in Dayton, Ohio and attended schools in southwest Ohio. He studied mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park, environmental science at the Johns Hopkins University, and public policy at the University of Baltimore. He earned his doctorate in 2014 in public policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research focused on the economic costs of the National Flood Insurance Program.
Career
He is a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where his work focuses on data science. In addition, he has led research projects on blockchain, augmented reality, and public health. Howard also maintains the R package phonics for managing phonetic spellings in R.
Howard joined the Board of Appeals for Howard County in 2011, where he has taken part in several controversial land use decisions. In addition, Howard has been a member of the Maryland Defense Force since 2006, where he has served as information management chief. He also served as a member of the Howard County Charter Review Commission in 2019 recommending changes to make redistricting independent and insulate decisions from political influence. Howard ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018 and ran for delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention pledged to Elizabeth Warren.
Awards
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Books
Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online, co-edited with John F. Beyers, CRC Press, New York, 2020,
Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research, co-edited with Natalie M. Scala, CRC Press, New York, 2020,
Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R, CRC Press, New York, 2017,
Socioeconomic Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2016,
Game credits
Designer, GURPS Disasters: Hurricane, Steve Jackson Games, 2019
References
External links
Campaign website
Date of birth missing (living people)
1979 births
21st-century American mathematicians
Data scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
GURPS writers
Living people
Johns Hopkins University alumni
People from Columbia, Maryland
R (programming language) people
Senior Members of the IEEE
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni
University of Baltimore alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Boy%20Network | The Old Boy Network is a British comedy television series which first aired on ITV in 1992. Created by the writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it is a parody of various spy films and series.
Main cast
Tom Conti as Lucas Frye (7 episodes)
John Standing as Peter Duckham (7 episodes)
Robert Lang as Sir Roland White (6 episodes)
Georgia Allen as Tamsin (5 episodes)
Jayne Brook as Parker Morrow (4 episodes)
Annie Lambert as Sophie Duckham (2 episodes)
Brian Miller as Percy (2 episodes)
Richard Syms as Munton (2 episodes)
References
Bibliography
Horace Newcomb. Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge, 2014.
External links
1992 British television series debuts
1992 British television series endings
1990s British comedy television series
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Matthews%20%28radio%29 | Ken Matthews is an American talk radio show host, professional speaker, and event host. He had been hosting a national show syndicated by Talk Media Network until his show was terminated in July 2022. His flagship station was WHP (AM) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was a regular rotating host for The Rush Limbaugh Show, and hosted the last two episodes of the program, after Limbaugh's passing. Matthews has repeatedly been named one of the 100 most important talk radio show hosts in America, the "Heavy Hundred", by TALKERS Magazine.
Early
Matthews was born in New Jersey in 1966, and grew up in Florida. He attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina and studied political science.
Career
During orientation at NC State in August 1980, Matthews visited the campus radio station, WKNC-FM. Within a month, he was hosting an overnight show "spinning classical hits from Bach to Debussy". He then did a jazz show followed by a rock in the morning. He planned to do pre-law and then attend University of North Carolina Law School, but he didn't finish his undergraduate studies, he would joke, as he “was doing too much broadcasting.”
Matthews did morning contemporary hit radio format in Portland, Maine, oldies format in Cincinnati, and CHR again in Charleston, South Carolina. His "most successful run" was decade and a half at WAEB B104 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. After being asked to leave in 2006, he "explored other options", e.g., teaching, speaking, real estate, marketing, and television while getting active on Facebook and Twitter. This led to his first talk show host position when the programming director from New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW) contacted him with the idea of doing a show based on his Facebook content. He was first asked to fill in for Bob Durgin, who had hosted his own show for 24 years at WHP-AM 580 in Harrisburg, in 2011-2012 — then hired as his full-time replacement in 2013. He considers this his greatest achievement in radio, a thrilling assignment, considering Durgin was "a market legend". "It's a heritage station with a great team, and it's what I enjoy doing."
"We need more great conversation in public," Matthews says about his show. "I like to talk about issues that sometimes make people uncomfortable, but there's a way to talk about any issue that will get people engaged in the conversation and okay with it." Jeff Hurley, Regional Program Manager at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Harrisburg, considers Matthews "the perfect host to drive political discussion in Central Pennsylvania. He brings energy and excitement that’s infectious to everyone around him."
Matthews radio career "comeback" was profiled by local TV station '69 News' WFMZ in early 2019. He appeared as a guest on Tucker Carlson's FoxNews TV program just prior to the general election in 2020.
Matthews considers Glenn Beck, whose "approach to marketing, business, and media" he admires, a major influence.
National syndication
Ken Matthews be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most%20watched%20United%20States%20television%20broadcasts%20of%201988 | The following is a list of most watched United States television broadcasts of 1988 (single-network only) according to Nielsen Media Research.
Most watched by week
References
Most watched 1988
1988 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ecoregions%20in%20Belarus | This is a list of ecoregions in Belarus as defined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World database.
Terrestrial ecoregions
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Central European mixed forests
Sarmatic mixed forests
Ecoregions
Belarus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20music%20channels%20in%20Pakistan | This is a list of Pakistani music channels. These are current and past music channels in Pakistan with their launching year, closing year, network, headquarter, languages, and slogans arranged alphabetically.
Channels
See also
List of television channels in Pakistan
List of news channels in Pakistan
References
Lists of television channels in Pakistan
Television stations in Pakistan
Music television channels
Music organisations based in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-Native%20Network%20Function | A Cloud-Native Network Function (CNF) is a software-implementation of a function, or application, traditionally performed on a physical device, but which runs inside Linux containers (typically orchestrated by Kubernetes). The features that differ CNFs from VNFs (Virtualized Network Functions), one of the components of Network Function Virtualization, is the approach in their orchestration.
In ETSI NFV standards, the Cloud-Native Network Functions are a particular type of Virtualized Network Functions and are orchestrated as VNFs, i.e. using the ETSI NFV MANO architecture and technology-agnostic descriptors (e.g. TOSCA, YANG). In that case, the upper layers of the ETSI NFV MANO architecture (i.e. the NFVO and VNFM) cooperate with a Container Infrastructure Service Management (CISM) function that is typically implemented using cloud-native orchestration solutions (e.g. Kubernetes).
The characteristics of Cloud-Native Functions are:
Containerized microservices that communicate with each-other via standardized RESTful APIs
Small performance footprint, with the ability to scale horizontally
Independence of guest operating system, since CNFs operate as containers
Lifecycle manageable by Kubernetes, using container images registries such as OCI Docker, and OS container runtime.
Relation to Network Function Virtualization
These characteristics address many of the common issues found with the first generation of VNFs, by incorporating many of the innovations deployed commonly in the internet infrastructure. These include auto-scaling, supporting a continuous delivery/DevOps deployment model, and efficiency gains by sharing common services across platforms. Through service discovery and orchestration, a system based on CNFs will be more resilient to node failure. A specification of criteria to classify and characterize Cloud Native VNF implementations can be found in ETSI GS NFV-EVE 011.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Linux Foundation backed Cloud Native Computing Foundation project is actively supporting companies in contributing to open-source projects like Kubernetes or Prometheus, upon which Cloud Native Network Functions can be based on. The CNCF project also created a CNF Testbed, in order to facilitate a common test-ground for various cloud-native network functions.
References
11. Cloud Native Computing Foundation, (http://www.cncf.io)
Cloud infrastructure
Network topology
Virtualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20Assault | Close Assault is a 1982 computer wargame published by Avalon Hill.
Gameplay
Close Assault is a game in which the player is the top-ranked officer commanding World War II squads in tactical infantry combat.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "I can't say that Close Assault is Avalon Hill's best computer wargame, but it IS their best for the Apple and TRS-80. I recommend it strongly to anyone who is looking for a first computer wargame."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
References
External links
Review in Softalk
Review in Family Computing
1982 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Computer wargames
TRS-80 games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Europe
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Ambush | Computer Ambush is a 1980 video game published by Strategic Simulations.
Gameplay
Computer Ambush is a game in which the player controls 10 soldiers in man-to-man combat in World War II.
Reception
David Long reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, stating that: "Computer Ambush (Second Edition) has been well worth the wait! It's fast, smooth flowing, and surprisingly realistic. This game could set the standard for tactical simulations for a long time to come. At least, until the Third Edition comes out."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
Casus Belli #8 (April 1982)
Moves #57, p13
References
External links
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Electronic Games
Review in Antic
Review in Atari Explorer
Entry in "Things To Do With Your Atari Computer"
Article in Video Games
1980 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Strategic Simulations games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Facts%20in%20Five | Computer Facts in Five is a 1982 video game published by The Avalon Hill Game Company.
Gameplay
Computer Facts in Five is an adaptation of the board game Facts in Five in which each player in each round must supply five answers each to five separate classes of subject matter from popular topics to academic ones.
Reception
Ed Curtis reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "When the desire comes upon you for a change from arcade games, or from fighting against some historic army or mythological beast, CFIF should definitely be considered. Played solitaire or as a party game (where its abilities shine best), this game, with the vast number of options combinations available, will continue to be enjoyable for years to come."
Reviews
PC Magazine - Nov, 1983
References
External links
Review in SoftSide
Review in Electronic Games
1982 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
DOS games
Quiz video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatoglossum%20chapmanii | Spatoglossum chapmanii is a marine brown algal species in the family Dictyotaceae, endemic to New Zealand.
References
External links
spatoglossum chapmanii occurrence data from GBIF
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Spatoglossum chapmanii Lindauer (Species)
Flora of New Zealand
Dictyotaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20Technology%20file%20format | The MOS Technology file format is a file format that conveys binary information in ASCII text form.
History
The KIM-1 single-board computer specified a file format for magnetic tape and a format for paper tape. The paper tape format was adapted slightly and has been used to interchange files for computers based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor.
The open-source Srecord package simplified this tape format by eliminating the and characters.
Format
Each record begins with a semicolon (), followed by two hexadecimal digits denoting the length of the data in the record. The next two bytes represent the starting address of the data, in big-endian (most-significant byte first) hexadecimal. Up to 24 bytes of data follow. Then, there is a 2-byte (4-character) checksum: the sum of the other non- data in the record. Finally, a record ends with a carriage return (), a line break (), and six null characters ().
The last record on the paper tape is empty (its length field is ), with the starting address field representing the total number of data bytes contained in the transmission. The file ends with a .
See also
Binary-to-text encoding, a survey and comparison of encoding algorithms
Intel hex format
Motorola S-record hex format
Tektronix hex format
Texas Instruments TI-TXT (TI Text)
References
Binary-to-text encoding formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Juan%20Happy%20Love%20Story%20episodes | Juan Happy Love Story is a 2016 Philippine television drama comedy romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from May 16, 2016, to September 2, 2016, replacing Because of You.
Mega Manila and Urban Luzon ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2016
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydata%20%28album%29 | Mydata (stylised as mydata) is the fourth studio album by Australian experimental pop musician Katie Dey. It was released through Run for Cover Records on 24 July 2020.
Release
The album's first single, "Dancing", was released on 24 June 2020, The second single named "Happiness" was released on 7 July 2020.
Critical reception
Teodor Zetko of Exclaim! reviewed "Mydata conjures real emotion from the digital void." Colin Joyce of Pitchfork said "Mydata suggests the possibility of perseverance, connection, and kindness to oneself and others. Dey finds peace in knowing that this kind of love is just as real as any other."
Track listing
References
2020 albums
Katie Dey albums
Run for Cover Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Security%20and%20Privacy | The Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) is a computer science research institute founded in May 2019 and located in Bochum, Germany. The institute mission is to study and develop the technical foundations and interdisciplinary aspects of cyber security and privacy.
The institute is one of six researching computer science as a part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The founding directors are Gilles Barthe and Christof Paar with the intention to recruit further tenure-track faculty each year.
References
External links
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Homepage
Computer science institutes in Germany
Security And Privacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Problem%20Solving%20from%20Nature | Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, or PPSN, is a research conference focusing on the topic of natural computing.
Other conferences in the area include the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and EvoStar (Evo*).
In 2020 PPSN got a CORE rank of A, corresponding to an "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area".
History
The idea behind PPSN emerged around 1989-1990 when Bernard Manderick, Reinhard Männer, Heinz Mühlenbein, and Hans-Paul Schwefel, realised they shared a common field of study that was not covered by the conferences on Operations Research, Physics, or Computer Science they attended regularly.
The field of Genetic Algorithms had already been established in the form of the ICGA conference in 1985, but the "fathers" of PPSN wanted a wider focus, with algorithms that included problem solving, parallel computing and the use of natural metaphors (such as Darwinian evolution or Boltzmann dynamics).
The success of the first PPSN event at Dortmund encouraged its organisers to start a biennial conference series, as a European counterpart to the American-based ICGA (which in 1999 merged with the Genetic Programming conference to give rise to GECCO).
Analogies to natural processes included the thermodynamic process of annealing, immune systems and neural networks, as well as other paradigms, with Darwinian evolution being by far the most frequently used metaphor.
In this way, evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation became the common denominator for the PPSN approach to problem solving by mimicking evolutionary principles like population, birth and death, mutation, recombination, and natural selection.
Editions
So far, seventeen PPSN conferences have been held:
Dortmund (October 1–3, 1990), Brussels (September 28–30, 1992), Jerusalem (October 9–14, 1994), Berlin (September 22–26, 1996), Amsterdam (September 27–30, 1998), Paris (September 16–20, 2000), Granada (September 7–11, 2002), Birmingham (September 18–22, 2004), Reykjavik (September 9–13, 2006), Dortmund (September 13–17, 2008), Krakow (September 11–15, 2010), Taormina (Sicily) (September 1–5, 2012), Ljubljana (September 13–17, 2014), Edinburgh (September 17–21, 2016), Coimbra (September 8–12, 2018) Leiden (September 5–9, 2020), and Dortmund (September 10-14, 2022).
The last-but-one edition, held in Leiden, counted on Thomas Bäck and Mike Preuss as General Chairs and Carola Doerr, Michael Emmerich and Heike Trautmann as Programme Committee Chairs. André Deutz and Hao Wang were Proceedings Chairs and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Ofer Shir and Vanessa Volz were Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions Chairs, respectively; Anna Kononova was Local Chair.
Proceedings
Proceedings of PPSN have been historically published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (except in the second edition in 1992).
2020: LNCS 12269, LNCS 2070
2018: LNCS 11101, LNCS 1110 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemmle | Stemmle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brian Stemmle (born 1966), Canadian skier
Karen Stemmle (born 1964), Canadian skier
Michael Stemmle (born 1967), American computer game writer, designer, and director
Robert A. Stemmle (1903–1974), German screenwriter and film director |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20%28Swamp%20Terrorists%20album%29 | Killer is the fourth and final studio album by Swamp Terrorists, released on March 25, 1996 by Cyberware Productions. The band expanded their membership during the recording sessions with the inclusion of bassist Andrej A., percussionist Piet H. and guitarist Spring.
Reception
A critic for Sonic Boom described Killer as being the band's most consistent album since Grow – Speed – Injection, saying "instead of focusing on a handful of filler tracks and remixes as in the past, the majority of the album consists of full length original songs, thereby choosing to relegate the fluff to a more appropriate remix album. Despite criticizing Swamp Terrorists for not growing musically Sonic Boom gave the album a positive review, noting that "the same zany lyrical style and freaked out power guitar chords are still present along with more than their fair share of pulsating dance electronics which seem to keep the Swampies a favorite in clubs."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Killer liner notes.
Swamp Terrorists
Andrej A. – bass guitar
Michael Antener (as STR) – sampler
Piet H. – drum programming
Ane Hebeisen (as Ane H.) – lead vocals, cover art, illustrations, photography
Spring – guitar
Additional musicians
Mike Belac – guitar (6)
DJ Dave – scratching (3)
Dan Schilliger – guitar (9)
Production and design
Bern – recording, mixing
Glenn Miller – mastering
FM – typesetting
Stögu – typesetting
Release history
References
External links
1996 albums
Swamp Terrorists albums
Metropolis Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Australian%20season%2013%29 | Big Brother Australia 13, also known as Big Brother 2021, is the thirteenth season of the Australian reality television series Big Brother. It began airing on 26 April 2021 on Seven Network. Sonia Kruger returned as host of the series. The concept for this season is More Than Meets The Eye.
This season revolved around strangers living in a house together with no communication with the outside world as they competed for $250,000. They were constantly filmed during their time in the house and were not permitted to communicate with those filming them. Over the course of the competition, housemates will compete in challenges for power and safety before voting each other out of the house. When three housemates remain, the Australian public decided which finalist would win the grand prize.
The series was filmed from October to December 2020 and aired from April to late June in the following year on Seven Network. The live finale was aired on 29 June 2021, where Marley Biyendolo was declared the winner and won a prize of $250,000 with Christina Podolyan and Sarah Jane "SJ" Adams being declared as the Runners-up. In addition, Biyendolo also won a prize of $10,000 after winning the challenge on Episode 26.
Production
In June 2020, during the release of the twelfth season, it was announced that Big Brother Australia had been renewed for a thirteenth season set to air in 2021. As in the previous season, the show was pre-recorded and was filmed between October and December 2020. On 11 April Seven announced that the season would premiere on 26 April.
International broadcast
The season was broadcast in New Zealand online-only, via TVNZ OnDemand, starting 4 May 2021 with the first four episodes and each subsequent episodes being released within 48 hours of the Australian broadcast. This marked the return of the show to TVNZ after a 16-year absence following the conclusion of the 2005 season.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The live finale was impacted by the on-going pandemic, as the plan was to broadcast from Hordern Pavilion at Fox Studios in Randwick in front of an audience of 2,000 people with all 26 housemates in attendance. As the result of lockdowns announced on June 24, 2021, it was confirmed the following day that no audience would be in attendance for the finale. In addition, due to inter-state travel restrictions nine housemates opted to appear via video link despite an initial desire from Endemol Shine Australia to still have everyone appear in-person. Lillian Ahenkan, the second evictee of the series, did not participate in the finale as she was given the option to not attend in-person due to the lockdowns - but did not appear via video link like other housemates that were unable to attend in-person.
Housemates
On 14 March 2021, Channel Seven revealed Sarah Jane Adams as the first housemate for the series. More housemates were revealed over the following weeks, with the full cast of the 20 original Housemates being introduced on 25 April. A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Locally%20Elected%20Women%20of%20Africa | The Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa (Réseau des Femmes Elues Locales d'Afrique, REFELA) is a network of women elected local government officials in Africa. REFELA was founded in 2011.
History
REFELA was founded at the first Forum of Locally Elected Women of Africa, held at Tangier in Morocco in March 2011.
From 2012 until December 2015 REFELA's president was Fatimatou Abdel Malick, Mayor of Tevragh-Zeina in Mauritania. In November 2015 the Cameroonian politician Célestine Ketcha Courtès was elected to succeed Abdel Malick as president. In 2019 Ketcha Courtès was succeeded as president by Macoura Dao, Mayor of Foumbolo in Ivory Coast.
2021 was Rohey Malick Lowe, the Lord Mayor of Banjul City Council (BCC) / Gambia elected.
References
Women's organizations based in Africa
Organizations for women in politics
2011 establishments in Africa
Professional associations for women
Professional associations based in Africa
Organizations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehradun%20canals | Dehradun canals refers to the heritage network of canals that was once spread across Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India, with the earliest, Rajpur Canal, dating back to early 17th century. After the city became the state capital in 2000, rapid and unchecked road-widening schemes led to the covering, or in some cases demolition, of most of the historic canals. One of the last remaining canals was covered in 2007.
Despite public protests and advisories from environmentalists about the ecological benefit of the canals, they were covered to make room for ever-increasing traffic. Many environmental groups have campaigned for the revival of the historic network, citing its aesthetic value and positive effects on the city's urban environment and microclimate. Currently, the Government of Uttarakhand has not announced any plans of reviving or restoring the canal network.
History
The construction of the first canal, Rajpur Canal, in the early 17th century has been attributed to Rani Karnavati of Garhwal. The next phase of canal development occurred during the British Raj, when the engineer Proby Cautley expanded five canals in the 1850s.
Significance
The canals ensured natural drainage flow of the city that prevented waterlogging, which is regularly seen in the city today. They also irrigated the paddy fields where Dehradun basmati rice were grown. Because of the water streams criss-crossing the city, a cooler microclimate was produced. The canals that were demolished or covered include Kalapathar, Bijapur, Rajpur and Jakhan canals. Kalanga canal, being on the outskirts of the city, survives and parts of Bijapur canal are still visible.
References
External links
Uttarakhand Irrigation Department - Historic Canals
Dehradun
Geography of Uttarakhand
Canals in India
Buildings and structures in Uttarakhand
Buildings and structures in Dehradun
History of Uttarakhand
History of Dehradun
Tourist attractions in Dehradun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX%20Spectrum%20Next | ZX Spectrum Next is an 8-bit home computer, initially released in 2017, which is compatible with software and hardware for the 1982 ZX Spectrum. It also has enhanced capabilities. It is intended to appeal to retrocomputing enthusiasts and to "encourage a new generation of bedroom coders", according to project member Jim Bagley.
Despite the name, the machine is not directly affiliated with Sinclair Research Ltd., Sir Clive Sinclair or the current owner of the trademarks, Sky Group.
History
The Next started life in 2010 in Brazil, as a variant of the TK95 Spectrum clone. In 2016, Victor Trucco and Fabio Belavenuto announced the "TBBlue" firmware, named after the two creators and the colour of the solder mask of the motherboard, a bare circuit board implementation of the product for advanced hobbyists.
With the help of Henrique Olifiers the duo wanted to export the TBBlue to the UK, the ZX Spectrum's original home, having received moderate success with the board in Brazil.
The Next was first announced as a distinct product in 2016 after the participation of original Spectrum industrial designer Rick Dickinson was secured. A crowdfunding campaign was launched on the Kickstarter platform in January 2017 with an initial funding goal of £250,000. At the end of the campaign 3,113 backers pledged £723,390. While the campaign was successful in creating a userbase for the new platform, it was not a commercial success. Due to what campaign creators call "bad tax advice" the production of the machines ended up causing costs instead of revenue to the creators.
Although initially intended to use the original ZX Spectrum's Z80 chip, the design was altered to use the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, to allow "hardware sprites, scrolling, and other advanced features to be incorporated within the machine itself".
The board-only computer was delivered to backers in December 2017. After some design and production delays, the first batch of finished units were delivered to backers in March 2020.
A second Kickstarter launched on 11 August 2020 at 21:00 BST and reached 100% funding (£250,000) within minutes. The campaign closed on 10 September 2020 with £1,847,106 (738% funding)
Industrial design
The Next's case design is by Rick Dickinson who designed the original 48K Spectrum and Spectrum+, but passed away during the development of the keyboard of the computer. It takes design cues from the Spectrum+ and Spectrum 128, not the later Spectrum +2 or +3 manufactured by Amstrad.
Reception
The Next has received generally favorable reviews in the specialist press. In the official Raspberry Pi magazine "MagPi", Lucy Hattersley called it "a lovely piece of kit", noting that it is "well-designed and well-built: authentic to the original, and with technology that nods to the past while remaining functional and relevant in the modern age".
In PC Pro magazine, columnist Gareth Halfacree called the Next "undeniably impressive" while noting that the printed manual lacks an index, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20of%20the%20Seas | Santiago of the Seas is an American computer-animated children's television series created by Niki Lopez, Leslie Valdes, and Valerie Walsh Valdes that premiered on Nickelodeon on October 9, 2020. The series features the voices of Kevin Chacon, Justice Quiroz, Alyssa Cheatham, and Valentino Cortes.
On February 18, 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on January 7, 2022.
Premise
The show follows Santiago, an 8-year-old pirate, and his crew as they embark on rescues, uncover hidden treasures and keeps the Caribbean high seas safe. The show is infused with Spanish language and Latino-Caribbean culture and curriculum.
Characters
Main
Santiago Montes (voiced by Kevin Chacon in season one and Valentino Cortes in season two) is an 8-year old pirate, and leader of his crew.
Tomás (voiced by Justice Quiroz) is Santiago's cousin and sidekick whose guitar makes special sonic sounds.
Lorelai (voiced by Alyssa Cheatham) is Santiago's best friend and other sidekick who can turn into a mermaid using a magic bracelet.
Villains
Bonnie Bones (voiced by Kyndra Sanchez)
Sir Butterscotch (voiced by John Leguizamo in season one and Eric Lopez in season two)
Pepito (voiced by Robin de Jesús)
Release
The series premiered on October 9, 2020 on Nickelodeon and on the Nick Jr. Channel internationally.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020–21)
Season 2 (2022–23)
Reception
Critical response
The series received a positive reception. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media called the series "exceptional" and praised it for celebrating kindness and courage. She also stated that the series is "visually appealing" and argued that the dedication of the characters to work together and their personalities make for a "feel-good viewing." She further praised the series for exposing preschoolers to the Spanish language through "useful terms that are easily learned" in the context of the series.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's television series
2020s Nickelodeon original programming
2020 American television series debuts
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American computer-animated television series
American preschool education television series
English-language television shows
Nick Jr. original programming
Animated television series about children
Television series about pirates
Fictional Hispanic and Latino American people
Hispanic and Latino American television
Spanish-language education television programming
Animated preschool education television series
2020s preschool education television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Res%20Computer%20Golf%202 | Hi-Res Computer Golf 2 is a 1982 video game published by Avant-Garde Creations for the Apple II.
Gameplay
Hi-Res Computer Golf 2 is a golf game which has a demonstration course, a practice hole and an 18-hole golf course for beginners.
Reception
Stanley Greenlaw reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "There is no doubt that this is the best golf simulation on the market. Any serious student of the game of golf will find in this game the mental challenges that he faces in the real thing as well as the need for practice to develop a "good swing" which is essential to the actual game."
References
External links
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Softalk
Review in Electronic Games
Review in GAMES Magazine
1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Golf video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20%28photograph%29 | Los Angeles is a colour photograph made by German visual artist Andreas Gursky in 1998. It is an edition of six. The image was manipulated by computer, following the artist usual process. Its one of the largest examples of the artist's work.
Description
The photograph was taken from the Griffith Observatory, and is a south panoramic view of Los Angeles, California, at night, under a very dark sky, apparently devoid of any visible stars, with only the city lights shining through. The cosmic-like vision of the city even gives the impression of showing part of the Earth's curvature. The Phillips website states that "Breath-taking in its impactful splendour, the sheer scale of the three-meter-long Cibachrome print is a paragon of photography, an exemplary celebration of the possibilities of the medium.(...)/ Showcasing the grandeur of the scene, Gursky unveils a moment in time, suspended in his perfected tension between flatness and perspective, his capturing of localized detail lending itself to the overarching essence of sublime abstract composition." The picture sense of style and perspective draws influence from the German photographic couple Bernd and Hilla Becher, who had been Gursky's teachers, and other artists like Barnett Newman and Dan Flavin.
Art market
A print of Los Angeles was sold at Sotheby's, London, by $2,900,000, on 27 February 2008. Another print, signed and dated in the reverse: "A Gursky "Los Angeles" 4/6 '98'" sold at Phillips, London, on 6 October 2017 for £1,689,000.
Public collections
Prints of the picture are held at The Broad, in Los Angeles, and at the Harvard Art Museums, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See also
List of most expensive photographs
References
Color photographs
Photographs by Andreas Gursky
1998 works
1998 in art
1990s photographs
Collection of The Broad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Index%20Medicus | The World Health Organization maintains the Global Index Medicus (GIM). The GIM database draws into one reference source several WHO regional databases that cover bio-medicine and social welfare issues. Among these are: The African Index Medicus – AIM (maintained by AFRO/WHO); the Scientific and Technical Literature of Latin America and the Caribbean – LILACS (maintained by AMRO-PAHO/WHO through its specialized center BIREME); Index Medicus for Eastern Mediterranean Region – IMEMR (EMRO/WHO); Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region – IMSEAR (SEARO/WHO); and the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus – WPRIM (WPRO/WHO).
The Global Index Medicus began consolidating the contents of the above listed databases in 2012.
References
External links
GIM Multilingual Thesaurus
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Bibliographic database providers
Medical search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Someone%20to%20Watch%20Over%20Me%20episodes | Someone to Watch Over Me is a 2016 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 5, 2016, to January 6, 2017, replacing Juan Happy Love Story.
Urban Luzon and NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20City%20Interaction | Human-City Interaction is the intersection between human-computer interaction and urban computing. The area involves data-driven methods such as analysis tools, prediction methods to present the solutions to urban design problems. Practitioners, Designers, software engineers in this area employ large sets of user-centric data to design urban environments with high levels of interactivity. This discipline mainly focuses on the user perspective and devises various interaction design between the citizen (user) and various urban entities. Common examples in the discipline include the interactivity between human and buildings, Interaction between Human and IoT devices, participatory and collective urban design, and so on. The discipline attracts growing interests from people of various background such as designers, urban planners, computer scientists, and even architecture. Although the design canvas between human and city is board, Lee et al. proposed a framework considering the multi-disciplinary interests (Urban, Computers and Human) together, in which the emerging technologies such as extended reality (XR) can serve as a platform for such co-design purposes.
References
Urban design
Information society
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball%20%28American%20game%20show%29 | Cannonball is an American game show that aired on the USA Network from July 9 to September 3, 2020. Inspired by the British series of the same name, it featured 16 contestants from across America facing off in a series of water-based obstacle courses to win a cash prize of $10,000.
The series premiered on NBC as a special preview on June 29, 2020. The simulcast was made permanent shortly after, albeit in the form of a slightly edited broadcast television version, after receiving satisfactory response from audience.
Episodes
Production
The series was ordered at the USA network on July 17, 2019, with a 10 episode order. On January 14, 2020, it was announced that The Miz would promulgate the play-by-play, Rocsi Diaz would provide color commentary, and that comedian Simon Gibson would act as the sideline reporter.
Filming on the series took place at the Hansen Dam Recreation Park in Los Angeles, California.
Reception
NBC ratings
References
External links
English-language television shows
USA Network original programming
2020s American game shows
2020 American television series debuts
2020 American television series endings
American television series based on British television series
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows filmed in Los Angeles
Cannonball (game show) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCD%20Study | The ABCD (Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development) Study is an ongoing longitudinal research study being undertaken by a consortium of 21 data collection sites across the United States. It is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the US. The study collects data on the behavior and brain development of over 11,500 children beginning at age 9-10 and continuing through young adulthood. The study collected data from youth in seven primary domains: physical health, mental health, brain imaging, biospecimens, neurocognition, substance use, and culture and environment. Data are also collected from participating youths' parents, including physical health, mental health, substance use, and culture and environment.
Motivation
The ABCD Study is primarily motivated by the need to develop a "baseline" for adolescent brain development. A primary goal of the study is to characterize the development of youth before initiation of substance use, as well as characterizing the impact of substance exposure on adolescent neurocognitive development". Data are also collected on sleep habits, screen time, demographics, clinical measures, imaging, and biological samples to allow a holistic picture of adolescent development.
Timeline
The ABCD Consortium was established in 2015 and data collection began in 2017. The baseline data collection spanned 2017-2018 and was released in 2018. It contained data from all seven original domains. Each year, the subjects return for data collection, but imaging data is only obtained every other year. In addition to the annual comprehensive data collections, there are 15-minute mid-year phone interviews with subjects. The most recent data release was Data Release 4.0 (2021) which contains the baseline data, 1-year follow-up (no imaging), and 2-year follow-up (includes imaging). The mid-year full cohort follow-ups for 6―18 months is also included. There is also limited data (not all subjects) from the 3-year follow-up (no imaging) and 2nd- and 3rd-year mid-year interviews. Data Release 5.0 was originally slated for 2022, but its release has been pushed back. It is estimated to be released in the spring of 2023.
Youth domains
There are seven domains covered in the baseline data collection, including biospecimens, brain imaging, culture & environment, mental health, neurocognition, physical health, and substance use. In year two and the following years, mobile technology & other data sources was added as an eighth domain.
Behavior
Several behavioral tests and measures are administered, including measures of IQ, language, and working memory.
Biospecimens
Several different biospecimen samples are collected for the analysis of hormones, DNA, and neurotoxic substances. These biospecimens include hair, blood, saliva, and deciduous (baby) teeth.
Deciduous teeth can be tested for environmental neurotoxins that were encountered at specific ages (even as early as prenatally) by analyzing the chemical content |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%E2%80%93March%202020%20in%20science | This article lists a number of significant events in science that have occurred in the first quarter of 2020.
Events
January
1 January
Researchers demonstrate an artificial intelligence (AI) system, based on a Google DeepMind algorithm, that is capable of surpassing human experts in breast cancer detection.
Astrophysicist Ronald Mallett proposes a theoretical way of building a time machine, albeit with limitations, based on ring lasers and special and general relativity equations.
3 January
Astronomers report evidence that suggests that the planet Venus is currently volcanically active, and the residue from such activity may be a potential source of nutrients for possible microorganisms in the Venusian atmosphere, according to researchers.
3–5 January – Chinese virologist Zhang Yongzhen sequences the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 genome.
6 January
The American College of Physicians issues clinical guidelines for exogenous testosterone treatment in adult men with age-related low levels of testosterone. The guidelines are supported by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
NASA reports the discovery of TOI 700 d, the first Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The exoplanet orbits the star TOI 700 101.4 light-years away in the Dorado constellation.
Astronomers report that a repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) (namely, FRB 180916), the second such FRB precisely located, originated from a medium-sized spiral galaxy 500 million light-years away.
The Chinese paddlefish is found to be extinct after extensive surveys failed to find any living specimens, pending official IUCN confirmation.
A rare circumbinary planet, called TOI 1338 b, is discovered by Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
7 January
Astronomers describe the "Radcliffe Wave", a large ribbon of gas extending 9,000 light years in length and flowing 500 light years above and below the galactic plane, with approximately three million solar masses.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) renames the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO) in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin who is notable for her pioneering work with galaxy rotation rates which provided evidence for the existence of dark matter.
8 January
The American Cancer Society reports a 2.2% drop in the cancer death rate between 2016 and 2017, the largest single-year decline in mortality for this disease ever recorded in the United States.
Scientists publish evidence from Siberian caves suggesting that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean plays an essential role in stabilising permafrost and its large store of carbon.
10 January – Scientists report the discovery of the oldest known occurrence of an animal digestive tract, found in fossils, unearthed near Pahrump, Nevada, of Cloudinidae, an extinct wormlike organism that lived during the late Ediacaran period about 550 millio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20data%20leak | The Nintendo data leak, also known as the Nintendo Gigaleak, is a series of leaks of data from the Japanese video game company Nintendo on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. The leak started in March 2018, but became most prominent in 2020. Ten main sets of data leaked on 4chan, ranging from game and console source code to internal documentation and development tools. The name "Gigaleak" mainly refers to the second leak on July 24, 2020, which was 3 gigabytes in size. The leaks are believed to have come from companies contracted by Nintendo in the design of these consoles, and/or from individuals previously convicted of intrusion into Nintendo systems. An earlier, much smaller leak had also occurred in 2018 which contained the Nintendo Space World 1997 demos for Pokémon Gold and Silver.
The leaks are infamous for the sheer size and the amount of internal material leaked; video game journalists have described the magnitude of the leaks as unprecedented, and suggested that they might have significant effects for emulation and to preservationists, in addition to the legal questions posed by the leak. In June 2022, Nintendo acknowledged the leaks whilst assuring an increase to their overall security.
Background
Nintendo is a Japanese video game developer and publisher that produces both software and hardware. Its hardware products include the handheld Game Boy and Nintendo DS families and home consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super NES, Nintendo 64 (N64), GameCube, and Wii. Software Nintendo produces includes popular franchises such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon. Ethan Gach of Kotaku described Nintendo as "notoriously secretive" about development.
Nintendo is aggressive in ensuring its intellectual property in both hardware and software is protected. In a notable case, Nintendo, with the assistance of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, sought enforcement action against Ryan Hernandez, a hacker who infiltrated Nintendo's internal database to leak plans of what games and hardware Nintendo planned to announce for upcoming shows like the Electronic Entertainment Expo. In January 2020, Hernandez pled guilty to stealing the information from Nintendo.
Leaks
Beginning in March 2018, information began to spread about a trove of stolen data from Nintendo's servers being leaked by hackers via the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. The leaks began with smaller releases, such as iQue Player ROMs and early Pokémon designs. The leaks began to gain significant traction in early May 2020, when source code for Nintendo's consoles appeared online. Because the leaked material included specifications related to the Wii, the company BroadOn, which Nintendo had contracted to help design the console, was identified as one potential source of the leaks. Another possible source was Zammis Clark, a Malwarebytes employee and hacker who in 2019 pleaded guilty to and was sentenced to 15 months in prison for infiltrating Micro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YOLO%20%282020%20TV%20series%29 | YOLO is an adult animated television series created by Michael Cusack for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim, and streaming in Australia on Stan as an exclusive. The series is loosely adaptated from Cusack's web series of the same name. The first season, entitled YOLO: Crystal Fantasy premiered on August 10, 2020; the pilot was aired on April 1, 2020 as a part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' Day event alongside another project of Cusack's, Smiling Friends. A second season titled YOLO: Silver Destiny was slated to air on January 16, 2023 on Adult Swim but was delayed to January 23, 2023. On October 12, 2023, it was announced the series was renewed for a third season titled YOLO: Rainbow Trinity.
The series follows the adventures of friends Rachel and Sarah as they travel through Australia.
Voice cast
Main
Sarah Bishop as Sarah Dale
Todor Manojlovic as Rachel / additional voices
Michael Cusack as Lucas the Magnificent / additional voices
Guest
Michelle Brasier as Miki
Jarrad Wright as Pink Wizard
Naomi Higgins as Maddison
Greta Lee Jackson as Donna
Flying Lotus as himself
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1: Crystal Fantasy (2020)
Season 2: Silver Destiny (2023)
Release
The series premiered on Adult Swim in the United States on August 10, 2020. It later was acquired by Australian streaming service Stan as a "Stan Exclusive"
References
Notes
External links
2020 American television series debuts
2020s Australian animated television series
Australian adult animated comedy television series
2020s American adult animated television series
2020s American animated comedy television series
Adult Swim original programming
American adult animated comedy television series
American flash adult animated television series
Australian flash animated television series
Television series created by Michael Cusack
English-language television shows
Television series by Williams Street
Television shows set in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manik%20Varma%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Manik Varma is an Indian computer scientist and a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research India. He also holds an adjunct professor of computer science position at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He completed his undergraduate degree in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD from the University of Oxford under the guidance of Andrew Zisserman working on Texture Classification in Computer Vision. He also held a post-doctoral fellowship at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley before joining Microsoft Research.
He currently conducts research in the broad fields on Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Computational Advertising. In 2013, he started and popularized a new area in machine learning called Extreme Classification (also known as Extreme Multi-label Classification). Extreme Classification focuses on Multi-Label Classification at the scale of millions of labels and helps rethink traditional problems of ranking and recommendation. Extreme Classification is thriving in both academia and industry with product integrations in Bing and Amazon. Manik Varma along with his colleagues at MSR India also proposed another paradigm in machine learning called Edge Machine Learning to enable machine learning predictions on tiny IoT devices with as little as 2 KB of RAM assisting in low-energy, low-latency and privacy preserving applications of AI. In the past, he worked on statistical approaches to texture classification, object detection, multiple kernel learning and ranking.
He has been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2019. His research works won the WSDM Best Paper award and BuildSys Best Paper Runner-Up award in 2019. He is also an Elected Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and held the Visiting Miller Professorship at University of California, Berkeley. His professional services include being an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
References
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academic staff of IIT Delhi
University of California, Berkeley people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20American%20Song%20Contest | The Great American Song Contest is an international music competition run annually by Songwriters Resource Network since 2000.
Overview
The contest runs annually, organised by Songwriters Resource Network, an educational resource for songwriters, lyricists and composers. According to the book 2015 Songwriter's Market, the purpose of the contest includes helping songwriters develop their craft, market their songs and learn about songwriting opportunities It judges works from songwriters and lyricists, performance and production quality is not weighted.
It is notable because it is a long running competition run by songwriters for songwriters, composers and lyricists, it is facilitated by high profile industry players and is responsible for discovering, promoting and preserving important works, some examples:
It recognised a song which now forms part of the Nelson Mandela Memorial Collection and another that went on to be used in Idols as well as in films,
Judging and reviews are by people in the music industry like Pat Pattison, whose students have won Grammys, including John Mayer and Gillian Welch and Robin Frederick, former Director of A&R for Rhino Records, past president of Los Angeles Women In Music and co-founder of the Indie Nation Music Conference.
John Stano's This Old Guitar from his Digging Out in the Heartland album that made the finals of “The Great American Song Contest.” charted on a Folk DJ list at #2 out of 100
Importantly, it offers the chance to co-write with top artists that have included Rodney Crowell, Ashley Monroe, Chris Stapleton, Bobby Braddock, Lee Brice and Mary Gauthier.
Contest
Entries are limited to 5,000 per contest.
The stated aim is to identify and develop songwriting talent. Each entry receives feedback on the submitted work.
Artists submit work from a number of categories: Pop, Adult Contemporary, Folk/Americana, Singer/Songwriter, Country, Rock/Alt, Special, R&B/Hip Hop, Christian/Inspirational, Instrumental, Lyric Writing.
Prizes
Cash prizes on offer to winners are modest. Instead, winners are rewarded with memberships, access to CD services, songwriting software and other tools and information that may be useful for developing and marketing works, like a demo recording package and a co-write opportunity.
Grand and First Prize winners are listed on the Great American Song Hall of Fame to promote their songs to record labels, music publishers, producers and music media. The top 5 in each category are awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting Award.
Judging
Judging consists of three rounds:
Level One - All categories are judged by music-industry professionals selected for his or her expertise in specific style categories (Pop, Country, Folk, etc...)
Level Two - 100 songs (top 10 songs in each category) move to Level Two.
Five songs from each are selected to receive Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting awards.
Top song in each category wins a First Place Award and advances to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chemical%20databases | This is a list of websites that contain lists of chemicals, or databases of chemical information. There is further detail on the content of these and other resources in a Wikibook of information sources.
References
Databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Krizhevsky | Alex Krizhevsky is a Ukrainian-born Canadian computer scientist most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. Shortly after having won the ImageNet challenge in 2012 with AlexNet, he and his colleagues sold their startup, DNN Research Inc., to Google. Krizhevsky left Google in September 2017 after losing interest in the work, to work at the company Dessa in support of new deep-learning techniques. Many of his numerous papers on machine learning and computer vision are frequently cited by other researchers. He is the creator of the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.
Alex was a PhD student at University of Toronto under Geoffrey Hinton.
References
External links
Alex Krizhevsky's home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Computer vision researchers
Ukrainian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-WHO%20Focus%20Group%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20for%20Health | The ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI for Health) is an inter-agency collaboration between the World Health Organization and the ITU, which created a benchmarking framework to assess the accuracy of AI in health.
This organization convenes an international network of experts and stakeholders from fields like research, practice, regulation, ethics, public health, etc, that develops guideline documentation and code. The documents address ethics, assessment/evaluation, handling, and regulation of AI for health solutions, covering specific use cases including AI in ophthalmology, histopathology, dentistry, malaria detection, radiology, symptom checker applications, etc. FG-AI4H has established an ad hoc group concerned with digital technologies for health emergencies, including COVID-19. All documentation is public.
The idea for the Focus Group came out of the Health Track of the 2018 AI for Good Global Summit. Administratively, FG-AI4H was created by ITU-T Study Group 16. Under ITU-T's framework, participation in Focus Groups is open to anyone from an ITU Member State. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Chaesub Lee). It was first created at the July 2018 meeting with a lifetime of two years, at the July 2020 meeting this was extended for another two years, where the focus group also submitted its deliverables to its parent body. It was also presented at the NeurIPS 2020 health workshop.
The outline of the benchmarking framework was published in a commentary in The Lancet.
AI for Health Framework
The Deliverables (outputs) of the Focus Group AI for Health are structured in the AI for Health Framework, which roughly corresponds to the dashed-line area in the above ecosystem diagram. Depending on their primary domain being health or ICT, the individual components of the AI for Health Framework were ratified by the corresponding United Nations Specialized Agency, as WHO Guidelines and ITU Recommendations respectively.
Standards drawn up by FG-AI4H are titled as:
AI4H ethics considerations
AI4H regulatory [best practices | considerations]
AI4H requirements specification
AI software life cycle specification
Data specification
AI training best practices specification
AI4H evaluation considerations
AI4H scale-up and adoption
AI4H applications and platforms
Use cases of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on AI for Health
See also
World Health Organization (WHO)
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Digital health
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
References
World Health Organization
International Telecommunication Union
Scientific organizations established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cyberflesh%20Conspiracy | The Cyberflesh Conspiracy is a various artists compilation album released in 1992 by If It Moves.... The theme of the album is anti-ivory, as indicated by the display of an elephant killed for its tusks on the front cover.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from The Cyberflesh Conspiracy liner notes.
Chase – compiling
Trevor Henthorn – mastering
Paulkun Noy – cover art
Release history
References
External links
The Cyberflesh Conspiracy at Discogs (list of releases)
1992 compilation albums
Electro-industrial compilation albums
Re-Constriction Records compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macoura%20Dao | Macoura Dao, born Macoura Coulibaly, is an Ivorian local politician. She is mayor of Foumbolo. In 2019 she succeeded Célestine Ketcha Courtès as President of the Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa (REFELA).
Career
In the 2013 Ivorian local elections Macoura Dao stood for the RDR party, receiving 35.22% of the mayoral vote in Foumbolo.
In 2017 she won an Excellence Award from the Ministry of the Interior and Security, taking second place prize for the best locally elected official. Macoura Dao was appointed President of REFELA at a meeting in Cairo on June 17, 2019.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mayors of places in Ivory Coast
Women mayors of places in Ivory Coast
People from Vallée du Bandama District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong%20Ho-wa | Wong Ho-wa (, also known as Howa Wong) is a Hong Kong data scientist and pro-democracy activist. He led the open government data community g0vhk from 2016 to 2021. He was an Election Committee member representing the information technology (IT) industry from 2016 to 2021 and ran for the Information Technology constituency in the 2020 Hong Kong legislative election as part of the pro-democratic caucus.
Early life
Wong grew up in North District, Hong Kong and lived in a public housing estate. He attended Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kap Yan Directors' College and Saint Francis of Assisi's College, and was a three-time medallist in the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics. His personal interest in democratic activism began when with the 500,000-strong demonstration against the National Security Bill 2003, in which he participated as a secondary school student.
He studied computer engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and began his professional career in software engineering. He worked in Beijing in 2013-14. He relocated back to Hong Kong around the time of the Umbrella Movement protests and began taking part internet freedom advocacy alongside his data scientist career.
Open data activism
In 2016, Wong founded g0vhk on the model of g0v Taiwan, a technology advocacy group for open government data. He led the creation of a g0vhk open political data platform collating attendance, speech, and voting records of incumbent Hong Kong legislative councillors, and information about candidates in the 2016 general election. Later that year, Wong ran for election to the Election Committee as a member of the IT Vision slate, part of the Democracy 300+ caucus to increase the pro-democratic camp's influence in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. IT Vision won all 30 seats in the Information Technology subsector due to the multiple non-transferable vote system.
Wong advocates that public bodies not only need to make content available to the general public, but also make them available in machine-readable formats. He criticized the complacency of civil servants who think they have complied with open data regulations but only post scan images of documents. He supports legislating a Public Records Act to codify the requirements for public bodies to disclose information, because the existing Code on Access to Information lacks enforceability.
Wong believes in an approach to open data that balances the right to know and the right to privacy. He criticized the Hong Kong public sector for using privacy concerns as an excuse to withhold data, exemplifying this issue with the abundance of rumours that stemmed from the Hong Kong Police Force's reluctance to publish data about tear gas use and about arrestees at protests. On the other hand, he also campaigned against the introduction of smart lamp-posts that have the hardware capability to record pedestrians' faces. Wong opined that, even if the Hong Kong government promises not to use f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastned | Fastned is a Dutch company that owns and operates a network of over 1 500EV charging stations in the Netherlands, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland. A large majority of its stations are located at Dutch highway rest areas. Fastned was founded in 2012.
The company, a besloten vennootschap, is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Nxchange. As of 2019, 11% of the company can be traded, while the remaining shares are owned by co-founders Bart Lubbers (51%) and Michiel Langezaal (30%) and by investment firm Breesaap (8%). Fastned's headquarters are located in Amsterdam, and its CEO is Langezaal.
History
Fundraising and first stations
Fastned B.V. was founded in February 2012 by Michiel Langezaal and Bart Lubbers, the son of former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers. The company received a permit that same year to build and operate charging stations at 201 rest areas in the Netherlands for a period of fifteen years. The first four locations opened in November 2013, the first of which was located at rest area Palmpol in Terschuur, Gelderland.
Building a single charging station required about €200,000. That money came from a number of funds owned by wealthy families, one of which was the Lubbers family fund called "Breesaap", that loaned €10 million. That loan was later converted to shares. Besides, the company started issuing stock certificates on NPEX, a stock exchange aimed at SMEs, in July 2014, raising €3.2 million in one and a half years.
The fiftieth charging station near Goes was opened by former Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende in January 2016. Due to the low proportion of electric vehicles in the Netherlands at the time, most charging stations were used between two and four times per day according to Fastned. In April, Fastned became the first company to be listed on Nxchange when it raised €3 million in five weeks through the issue of stock certificates. The company also issued bonds with a total face value of €22 million in 2016 and 2017.
Further expansion
In 2018, the usage of Fastned's charging stations had slowly increased to an average of five to six customers daily. According to Langezaal, nearly one third of the stations were breaking even, having between 15 and 20 customers per day. The company's first foreign charging station was opened in June 2018 close to Limburg an der Lahn in Germany. Fastned also started constructing some smaller locations at Albert Heijn supermarkets and reached the mark of 100 charging stations in June 2019.
The company started being listed on Euronext Amsterdam on 21 June 2019, one week later than planned, making it possible for investors to convert their Nxchange stock certificates to Euronext certificates. The price rose from €11 to €53 on its first day, but returned to a price slightly above the initial price in the following days. Fastned had also planned an IPO that day in order to raise between €27 million and €30 million by issuing at most three million stock certificates. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Wilcox | Lauren G. Wilcox (Lauren G. Wilcox-Patterson) is an American professor and researcher in responsible AI, human–computer interaction, and health informatics, known for research on enabling community participation in technology design and development and her prior contributions to health informatics systems.
Education
Wilcox earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2013, collaborating closely with graduate students and faculty in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Columbia University, which she earned before returning for her Ph.D.
Career
Prior to her research career, Wilcox was a Staff Software Engineer at IBM in Austin, Texas and was recognized as an Early Tenure Inventor. After completing her Ph.D., Wilcox joined the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in April 2020.
She is a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Group Manager in Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology at Google. She directed the Health Experience and Applications Lab at Georgia Tech. At Georgia Tech, Wilcox expanded her research scope to focus on how computing technology can meet the health needs of adolescents, including adolescent chronic condition management and adolescent health data privacy. She has also contributed foundational studies on how computing systems can support mental well-being, and the consideration of human well-being as an integral part of technology design.
Wilcox was an inaugural member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy (ACM FCA) and co-authored an ACM FCA blog post in 2018, urging the computing research community to leverage the peer review process to identify and address the broader impacts of computing advancements on society. Since the publication of the blog post, there have been examples of computing conferences requiring authors to submit statements on the broader impacts of their contributions.
Wilcox joined Google in 2019, where she contributed to one of the first published studies examining the use of a deep learning-based AI system in patient care.
External links
Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
Microsoft Research - Principles of Intelligence: Learning, health and wellness
Health Experience and Applications Lab at Georgia Tech
References
Living people
Georgia Tech faculty
Human–computer interaction researchers
Health informaticians
American women social scientists
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Google employees
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana%20D%C3%A1vila | Ileana María Dávila Rodríguez (born 24 January 1975) is a Mexican football manager. Dávila currently works as a football analyst for Televisa Deportes Network.
Career
Early career
Ileana Dávila was born on 24 January 1975 in Córdoba, Veracruz.
After seeing an ad in a newspaper for a football coach program, Dávila started her formation at the Mexican Football Federation school and she later successfully graduated from the program, being the only woman in her class.
She started her career coaching college and indoor football teams, and in 2017 she went to the Club Universidad Nacional looking for a job. Initially, Dávila asked to be the first team's kit manager, since UNAM did not have any women's football program at the moment, but club chairman Rodrigo Ares de Parga refused. Ares de Parga still hired her, but she was appointed as manager of UNAM's Academy lowest youth category, the U13, instead. Dávila was the first ever female football coach in any team of the Club Universidad Nacional.
UNAM Women
Back in December 2018, the Mexican Football Federation had created the Liga MX Femenil, Mexico's women's football top league, the league was set to start in July 2017. In April 2017, a few months behind the start of the season, Dávila was appointed manager of UNAM Women.
Dávila officially debuted as manager of UNAM Femenil on 10 March 2017 in a match of the 2017 Copa MX Femenil against UANL Women, which the team won 4–1. UNAM lost their two next matches against América and Monterrey and did not qualify to the knockout stage.
For the Apertura 2017, the Pumas UNAM finished seventh, therefore not qualifying to the playoffs. The club would have the exact same fate for the Clausura 2018.
For the 2018–19 season, Dávila lead the team to the playoffs on both the Apertura and Clausura tournaments, but were eliminated on quarterfinals twice.
On 21 May 2021, Dávila was removed as manager of Pumas. Dávila was considered by Monterrey Women as manager, but the team finally hired Eva Espejo.
Managerial statistics
References
1975 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Córdoba, Veracruz
Mexican football managers
Liga MX Femenil managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy%20DiSalvo | Elizabeth "Betsy" DiSalvo (born 1969) is an American professor and Interim Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing. She is known for her research on informal learning, the impact of cultural values on technology use and production, computer science education, and the learning sciences.
Career
In 2012, DiSalvo graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing and began work as an assistant professor in the same school. In 2018, DiSalvo was promoted to the position of associate professor. She is founder and director of the Culture and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) at Georgia Tech, which established a range of research programs focused on using participate design methods to inform informal learning and families in minority communities. Much of her work focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education with an emphasis on computer science. DiSalvo has also continued to work in game studies and looks at race and masculinity as part of play practices.
DiSalvo ran the Glitch Game Testers program, which introduced young Black men to technology careers through entry-level work as game testers, from 2009 to 2012. In a similar work training model, she launched the DataWorks program in 2020 to introduce young people from minority communities to entry-level work as "data wranglers" in data science.
DiSalvo was named a Georgia Tech Serve-Learn-Sustain Smart Cities and Connected Communities Fellow in 2017, received a Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award in 2014, and received Honorable Mention for Outstanding Dissertation in the Georgia Tech College of Computing in 2012.
DiSalvo completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Dallas in Fine Art in 1991. She has continued to exhibit and work with cultural institutions on public engagement projects such as the Kitchen Lab Walker Art Center.
References
External links
Home page
Georgia Tech faculty
Georgia Tech alumni
People in educational technology
American women social scientists
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
1969 births
Living people
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20Research%20International%20Documentation | The TRID Database (Transportation Research International Documentation) is a database that combines the records from
USA Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) database and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. The merging of these databases formed the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information. As of July 2020 TRID contains more than 1.25 million records of published and ongoing research, covering all modes and disciplines of air, ground, and water transportation—books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles. Many records contain links to full-text documents. The records in TRID are indexed with a standardized vocabulary from the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) which has integrated both the TRIS and ITRD thesauri. Aspects of the Australian Road Research Board's ATRI and ROAD Thesauri are also incorporated.
Among the transportation modes covered are highways and streets, public transport, railroads, maritime traffic, aviation, pipelines, pedestrians and bicycles.
Among the professional disciplines from which documents in TRID arise are: public planning, management, finance, design, engineering, construction, materials science, environmental issues, safety and human factors and ergonomics, and operations.
TRID indexes documents held by the TRB Transportation Research Library and ITRD and also receives records from several external sources: 1) the J-STAGE database maintained by the Japan Science and Technology Agency; 2) Northwestern University Transportation Library; 3) the Australian Transport Index (ATRI); and 4) SafetyLit. The TRID database publishes monthly an update of the more than 800 serials from which articles arise.
References
External links
U.S. Transportation Research Board
TRID Website
American websites
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Bibliographic database providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20TV%20Philippines | NBA TV Philippines is a Philippine pay television sports-oriented network owned by MediaQuest Holdings through its subsidiary Cignal TV. The channel is a joint venture between Cignal and NBA TV and is a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States.
Features
NBA TV Philippines is the sister channel of One Sports, One Sports+, PBA Rush, and UAAP Varsity Channel, but the channel is slated to air more games and NBA-content than its sister channel or TV5 (free TV partner).
History
Upon the expiration of the decade-long contract of Solar and NBA, Sky of ABS-CBN Corporation and Cignal TV of TV5 Philippines in their joint statement said that they were jointly negotiating directly with the NBA to make games and programming available to millions of fans in the Philippines. However, Sky and ABS-CBN
Corporation later dropped out of the bid due to its issue on legislative franchise renewal which led both ABS-CBN and its sister station, an all-sports channel S+A ceased broadcast on free-to-air television on May 5, 2020, as well as the dissolution of its sports division on August 31, 2020, as part of the company's retrenchment after the denial of its franchise renewal, leaving Cignal as a sole bidder.
On the start of the 2019-20 NBA season, the NBA was left without broadcast partner in the Philippines, they temporarily streamed their games in the NBA Philippines page via Facebook Watch and Twitter, it was only on November 16 when NBA temporarily went onto an agreement with CNN Philippines to air their games albeit only on weekends, the broadcast of games continued throughout the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.
After months of negotiations on July 27, 2020, Cignal TV announced the multi-year partnership deal with the NBA, on the announcement it was also mentioned that the provider will launch the channel along with the airing of games through its free-to-air channels, TV5 and One Sports. The channel was launched on July 31, 2020, the same day when the NBA's restart of the current season started (July 30 in Orlando time).
Cignal plans to offer the channel for syndication to other cable operators.
In addition, the deal would allow Smart Communications to provide a livestreaming of NBA TV Philippines on Smart's official website for Smart prepaid and TNT subscribers with GigaVideo subscription, as well as for Smart Signature postpaid subscribers. The livestream, however, is separate from the league's own streaming service NBA League Pass.
The deal with Cignal TV was renewed in September 2023, ahead of the 2023–24 NBA season, which adds the NBA 2K League as part of its programming. Cignal's sports streaming app Pilipinas Live will broadcast NBA and NBA 2K League games that are aired on the network's television channels.
See also
TV5
One Sports (sports division)
One Sports (TV channel)
PBA Rush
UAAP Varsity Channel
5 Plus (defunct channel)
AKTV (defunct programming block)
Hyper (defunct channel)
NBA Premium TV (defunct chann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl%20May%20Dent | Beryl May Dent (10 May 19009 August 1977) was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of schoolteachers. The family left Chippenham in 1901, after her father became head teacher of the then recently established Warminster County School. In 1923, she graduated from the University of Bristol with First Class Honours in applied mathematics. She was awarded the Ashworth Hallett scholarship by the university and was accepted as a postgraduate student at Newnham College, Cambridge.
She returned to Bristol in 1925, after being appointed a researcher in the Physics Department at the University of Bristol, with her salary being paid by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1927, John Lennard-Jones was appointed Professor of Theoretical physics, a chair being created for him, with Dent becoming his research assistant in theoretical physics. LennardJones pioneered the theory of interatomic and intermolecular forces at Bristol and she became one of his first collaborators. They published six papers together from 1926 to 1928, dealing with the forces between atoms and ions, that were to become the foundation of her master's thesis. Later work has shown that the results they obtained had direct application to atomic force microscopy by predicting that noncontact imaging is possible only at small tipsample separations.
In 1930, she joined Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Ltd, Manchester, as a technical librarian for the scientific and technical staff of the research department. She became active in the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (ASLIB) and was honorary secretary to the founding committee for the Lancashire and Cheshire branch of the association. She served on various ASLIB committees and made conference presentations detailing different aspects of the company's library and information service. She continued to publish scientific papers, contributing numerical methods for solving differential equations by the use of the differential analyser that was built for the University of Manchester and Douglas Hartree. She was the first to develop a detailed reduced major axis method for the best fit of a series of data points.
Later in her career she became leader of the computation section at MetropolitanVickers, and then a supervisor in the research department for the section that was investigating semiconducting materials. She joined the Women's Engineering Society and published papers on the application of digital computers to electrical design. She retired in 1960, with Isabel Hardwich, later a fellow and president of the Women's Engineering Society, replacing her as section leader for the women in the research department. In 1962, she moved with her mother and sister to Sompting, West Sussex, and died there in 1977.
Early life
Beryl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Destiny%20Rose%20episodes | Destiny Rose is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from September 14, 2015 to March 11, 2016 replacing Healing Hearts.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
February 2016
March 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot%20Family | Bigfoot Family is a 2020 computer-animated comedy film directed by Ben Stassen and Jeremy Degruson. It is the sequel to the 2017 film The Son of Bigfoot. The film was also released as Bigfoot Superstar.
Plot
2 months after Bigfoot returns home, Adam becomes overwhelmed with the attention his father's newfound fame has brought the family. He is also struggling to confess his feelings to his crush Emma.
Bigfoot wants to use his fame for a good cause. After some protestors send him a letter about trying to stop a dodgy oil company in Alaska which is believed to have zero environmental impact on wildlife. Bigfoot decides to travel to Alaska to help them.
Adam helps his father by uploading a promotional video to social media. Swathes of protestors arrive to support Bigfoot, but at night while trying to get a closer look at the company after hearing a loud rumble, he mysteriously disappears. Adam and his mother Shelly journey to Alaska to find and rescue him along with their animal friends.
Arriving in Alaska, Adam and Shelly meet with the protestor who last saw Bigfoot, Arlo Woodstock. Shelly follows Arlo to the last location he saw Bigfoot while Adam and his animal friends are ambushed by guards from the company. He escapes and encounters a wolf who almost threatens to hurt him, but he strikes a deal with Adam to help him.
The wolf guides him to where the oil company is working before departing, which is revealed to be destroying the wildlife by using small explosions to send puddles of oil. Adam explores the inside and finds Connor planning to set up a massive bomb to excavate the oil easier, in which Adam starts recording on his phone to expose him. Afterwards, Adam is founded by Arlo but finds out that he actually works for the company and is responsible for taking Bigfoot. Adam ends up getting captured and falls into the mines.
Connor is preparing to destroy the valley using a bomb, so that he can excavate the present oil easier. After finding Shelly and freeing his father, Adam escapes with them through the mines while ambushing drones sent to stop them, but Bigfoot manages to destroy them. Adam turns back and defuses the bomb, but Connor gets a backup bomb to trigger the explosion and cannot be turned off. Soon enough Bigfoot manages to take hold of it and throws it in the air creating a signal explosion. Connor confronts them but the news shows up in a helicopter which saw the activity as well as the police. Connor attempts to escape, but is interrupted by a moose and is thrown into a puddle of oil alongside Arlo.
A few days later, Adam later meets with Emma and she reveals that he accidentally sent a video exposing his feelings to her. He asks Emma out and she accepts. Emma kisses Adam while his eavesdropping family congratulates him.
The movie ends as Trapper asks for another pancake and it goes on his face, much to his dismay.
Voice cast
Jules Wojciechowski as Adam, Bigfoot's son (voiced by Pappy Faulkner in the previous film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Family%20Secrets | Deep Family Secrets is a 1997 American drama television film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, that first aired on April 15, 1997 on the CBS television network.
The film is based on the true story of Gaylynn Morris, who was found guilty for the murder of his wife Ruby Morris, after Ruby disappeared in 1989. The names were changed to Clay and Renee Chadway in the television movie.
Plot
Renee has just surprised her husband, Clay, with her younger sister, Ellen, while they are at a restaurant. This impromptu meeting persuades her that her husband is cheating on her. Devastated, Renee returns home, hesitating to talk to her husband. Soon after, Renee disappears, mysteriously.
JoAnne, the couple's young daughter, does not know what to think of all these events and does not take long to bring back stories that had until then been carefully kept secret. Clay soon appears as the prime suspect in Renee's disappearance. Was she kidnapped or is it a murder?
Cast
Richard Crenna as Clay Chadway
Angie Dickinson as Renee Chadway
Molly Gross as JoAnne Chadway
Craig Wasson as Jack Winters
Meg Foster as Ellen
Jeff Kaiser as Bobby Chadway
Scott Paetty as Sam
Christie Lynn Smith as Lisa Chadway
Tony Musante as Lennox
Christine Healy as Hadley Brood
Christopher Titus as Cowboy #1
References
External links
1997 television films
1997 films
1997 drama films
CBS network films
Crime films based on actual events
Drama films based on actual events
Films directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberFight | , operating simply as CyberFight (CF), is a Japanese professional wrestling parent company based in Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of the CyberAgent internet advertising company. CyberFight serves as an umbrella brand for two existing promotions: Pro Wrestling Noah and DDT Pro-Wrestling and for DDT's two sub-brands Ganbare Pro-Wrestling and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling.
History
DDT Pro-Wrestling
In April 1997, following the success of the first Judgement event held on March 25, Sanshiro Takagi, Mikami and Nosawa Rongai left the Pro Wrestling Crusaders promotion to start their own promotion called Dramatic Dream Team with Takagi and Shoichi Ichimiya as owners. In June 2000, the promotion was incorporated as and Koichiro Kimura was appointed director. In 2003, Ichimiya was appointed representative director. In April 2004, the company changed its name to . On December 28, 2005, Ichimiya announced his retirement from professional wrestling and stepped down from his position in the company, leaving Takagi as the sole owner and new president. In 2009, DDT changed its legal form of incorporation to a kabushiki gaisha.
Pro Wrestling Noah
On January 31, 1999, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) founder Giant Baba died and left the company to his widow Motoko Baba as owner and Mitsuharu Misawa as president. Disagreements over the proposed direction for the company led Misawa to leave AJPW on May 28, 2000, to form a new promotion called Pro Wrestling Noah. He was followed in this venture by almost the entire AJPW roster. The promotion quickly rose in popularity and was even named best promotion in 2004 and 2005, as well as having the best weekly television show in 2003 by the Wrestling Observer.
On June 13, 2009, after taking a belly to back suplex from Akitoshi Saito, Misawa lost consciousness in the ring and was taken to a hospital. He was pronounced dead in the hospital later that day due to spinal damage. Two weeks later, Akira Taue was named as Misawa's successor, taking over as president of Noah.
In March 2012, a scandal revealed that some of the Noah management had had ties to a Yakuza syndicate between 2003 and 2010. As part of the fallout, Noah lost its TV show. In the years that followed, many major stars such as Kenta Kobashi, Kenta and Jun Akiyama left the company.
On October 1, 2016, it was announced that Noah had been purchased by IT company Estbee, Co., Ltd. As a result, former AJPW president Masayuki Uchida replaced Taue as president. On November 7, Estbee changed its legal name to . At the end of 2016, relations between Noah and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) reportedly turned "extremely sour" and NJPW pulled all of its wrestlers from Noah. In the months following the end of the relationship, Noah's attendance numbers went down by 29%. On January 29, 2019, Uchida announced that Lidet Entertainment had acquired 75% of Noah's shares.
CyberAgent and the creation of CyberFight
On September 1, 2017, 100% of DDT's shares were sold to the CyberAgent co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20district%20heating | Cold district heating is a technical variant of a district heating network that operates at low transmission temperatures well below those of conventional district heating systems and can provide both space heating and cooling. Transmission temperatures in the range of approx. 10 to 25 °C are common, allowing different consumers to heat and cool simultaneously and independently of each other. Hot water is produced and the building heated by water heat pumps, which obtain their thermal energy from the heating network, while cooling can be provided either directly via the cold heat network or, if necessary, indirectly via chillers. Cold local heating is sometimes also referred to as an anergy network. The collective term for such systems in scientific terminology is 5th generation district heating and cooling. Due to the possibility of being operated entirely by renewable energies and at the same time contributing to balancing the fluctuating production of wind turbines and photovoltaic systems, cold local heating networks are considered a promising option for a sustainable, potentially greenhouse gas and emission-free heat supply.
Terms
As of 2019, the fifth generation heating networks described here have not yet been given a uniform name, and there are also various definitions for the general technical concept. In the English language technical literature the terms Low temperature District Heating and Cooling (LTDHC), Low temperature networks (LTN), Cold District Heating (CHD) and Anergy networks or Anergy grid are used. In addition, some publications have definitional conflicts in the delimitation to "warm" district heating networks, because certain authors consider Low temperature District Heating and Cooling as well as Ultra-low temperature District Heating as subforms of 4th generation district heating. In addition, the definition of so-called low-ex networks allows to classify them as both fourth and fifth generation.
History
The first cold district heating network is the heating network in Arzberg in Upper Franconia, Germany. In the Arzberg power station there, which has since been shut down, uncooled cooling water was taken from between the turbine condenser and the cooling tower and piped to various buildings, where it was then used as a heat source for heat pumps. This was used to heat the school and the swimming pool in addition to various residential buildings and commercial enterprises.
Another very early plant was put into operation in Wulfen in 1979. There, 71 buildings were supplied with heat energy, which was taken from the groundwater. Finally, in 1994, the first cold heating network was opened, using waste heat from an industrial company, a textile company. Also in 1994 (according to Pellegrini and Bianchini already in 1991 ) a cold local heating network was built in the Swiss village Oberwald, which is operated with seepage water from the Furka base tunnel.
As of January 2018, a total of 40 schemes were in operation in E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Cullum | Jane Grace Kehoe Cullum (born 1938) is an American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical algorithms and control theory, who became president of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
Education and career
Cullum studied chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, graduating in 1960. She continued at Virginia Tech for a master's degree in mathematics in 1962, with the master's thesis Applications of the analog computer to mathematical problems. She completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966. Her dissertation, Continuous Optimal Control Problems with Phase Space Constraints, concerned control theory, and was supervised by Stephen Diliberto.
She worked for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1967 until 1998, when she moved to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She served as president of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1989.
Books
With Ralph A. Willoughby, Cullum is the coauthor of the books Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations: Vol. I, Theory and Lanczos Algorithms for Large Symmetric Eigenvalue Computations: Vol. II, Programs (Birkhäuser, 1985). The first volume was reprinted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2002, as volume 41 of their Classics in Applied Mathematics book series.
Recognition
The IEEE Control Systems Society gave Cullum their Distinguished Member Award in 1989. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1990, "for contributions to practical numerical algorithms for large-scale systems".
References
1938 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Virginia Tech alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Fellow Members of the IEEE
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Monekosso | Dorothy N. Monekosso is a British academic. She is a professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science at University of Durham. She researches ambient assisted living (AAL), intelligent environments, smart homes, and assistive robotics.
Monekosso began her career in space technology research at Surrey Satellite Technology, developing on-board computers and other systems for small satellites and spacecraft. During her PhD at the Surrey Space Centre, she became interested in machine learning, and moved into developing intelligent and robotic systems for security and healthcare applications.
In 2015, she moved from Bournemouth University to take up her current professorship of computer science at Leeds Beckett University.
In March 2020, she was among the 40 black women professors celebrated in the photographic exhibition Phenomenal Women. Also in 2020, Monekosso was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Computer Society for her work on Smart Homes for people living with dementia and for her campaigning work to promote diversity in the tech sector.
Works
(ed. with Paolo Remagnino and Yoshinori Kuno) Intelligent environments: methods, algorithms and applications. London: Springer, 2008.
ed. with Paolo Remagnino and Lakhmi C. Jain) Innovations in defence support systems. 3, Intelligent paradigms in security. Berlin: Springer, 2011.
(with Myo Thida, How-lung Eng and Paolo Remagnino) Contextual analysis of videos. San Rafael, California : Morgan & Claypool, 2013.
References
External links
Academic webpage at Leeds Beckett University
Truly smart homes could help dementia patients live independently, The Conversation
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
Black British women academics
British women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Academics of Bournemouth University
Academics of Leeds Beckett University
Fellows of the British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20metaheuristics | This is a chronological table of metaheuristic algorithms that only contains fundamental algorithms. Hybrid algorithms and multi-objective algorithms are not listed in the table below.
Categories
Trajectory-based
Nature-inspired
Evolutionary-based
Swarm-based
Bio-inspired
Physics/Chemistry-based
Human-based
Plant-based
Art-inspired
Ancient-inspired
The table
References
Metaheuristics |
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