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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Terra%20Data | The Terra Data is a novel by E. C. Tubb published in 1980.
Plot summary
The Terra Data is a novel in which Dumarest seeks knowledge.
Reception
Tom Easton reviewed The Terra Data for Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and commented that "the Dumarest series is too blamed long. When it was new, I looked forward to six or eight more books before a final answer. Now that it is stretching toward two dozen, I am getting impatient. Come on, Tubb! Give the man a break!"
Dave Langford reviewed The Terra Data for White Dwarf #66, and stated that "hero Dumarest, tepidly pursued by omniscient yet inept Cybers, fights through unconquerable barriers of padding to obtain the secret whereabouts of lost Earth, only to suffer his 22nd failure. Soporific."
References
1980 British novels
British science fiction novels
DAW Books books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20variable | A visual variable, in cartographic design, graphic design, and data visualization, is an aspect of a graphical object that can visually differentiate it from other objects, and can be controlled during the design process. The concept was first systematized by Jacques Bertin, a French cartographer and graphic designer, and published in his 1967 book, Sémiologie Graphique. Bertin identified a basic set of these variables and provided guidance for their usage; the concept and the set of variables has since been expanded, especially in cartography, where it has become a core principle of education and practice.
History
Graphic techniques have been used in maps and statistical charts to represent non-visual information since the 17th Century, and information visualization blossomed in the 19th Century, highlighted by the work of William Playfair and Charles Joseph Minard. However, the direct study of this abstract use of graphical appearance began with the emergence of cartography as an academic research discipline in the mid-20th Century. In The Look of Maps (1952), often considered the genesis of American cartographic theory, Arthur H. Robinson discussed the role of size, shape, and color in establishing contrast in maps. At the same time in France, Jacques Bertin published an early version of his list of visual variables: shape, value, and "sparkling" (grain). Robinson, in his 1960 Elements of Cartography, which quickly became the dominant textbook on the subject, discussed size, shape, color, and pattern as the qualities of map symbols that establish contrast and represent geographic information.
Bertin was a cartographer at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) in Paris, where he created maps and graphics for faculty from various disciplines using a wide variety of data. Seeing recurring patterns, he created a system for symbolizing qualitative and quantitative information, apparently inspired by the sciences of semiotics, Human vision, and Gestalt psychology (it is sometimes hard to tell because his early works rarely cite any sources), culminating in Sémiologie Graphique. Despite having a background in cartography, and deriving many of his ideas by evaluating maps, he intended for Sémiologie Graphique to be applied to all forms of graphic design and information visualization. Soon the idea was gaining international acceptance; in 1974 Joel Morrison presented a very similar system in the context of cartographic generalization, citing neither Bertin nor Robinson but saying that it was a "traditional categorization," suggesting its widespread nature by that point. Several terms were proposed for this set of categories, including Bertin's "retinal variables" (used to distinguish them from his two spatial location variables), as well as "Graphic Variables," "Symbol Dimensions," and "Primary Graphic Elements," before eventually settling on "Visual Variables," as used almost universally (in English) today.
Bertin has largely been given cred |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20Yorkshire | Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire is a radio station regional sub-network serving Yorkshire, Lincolnshire & the North Midlands as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network. Whilst all programming is shared either across the region, or nationally, the local areas which were formerly separate stations retain local identities (e.g. GHR West Yorkshire), with local news, travel updates, weather forecasts and advertising. It is not possible therefore to listen to a station branded "Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire".
History
Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, Greatest Hits Radio is permitted to share all programming between thirteen licences located in the ITV Yorkshire broadcast region.
Prior to the launch of Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, there were four medium-wave stations:
Viking Gold, a separate service from Viking Radio, began broadcasting to the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire on 31 October 1988.
Classic Gold, a separate service from Radio Hallam, began broadcasting to South Yorkshire and the North Midlands on 1 May 1989.
Magic 828, a separate service from Radio Aire, began broadcasting to Leeds and West Yorkshire on 17 July 1990.
Pulse 2 began broadcasting as Pennine Radio to Bradford in September 1975, later expanding to Calderdale and Kirklees.
Ten local FM licences are folded into the regional station:
Radio Aire began broadcasting to Leeds and West Yorkshire on 1 September 1981.
Minster FM began broadcasting to York and surrounding areas in July 1992, extending to the Thirsk and Northallerton area four years later.
Yorkshire Coast Radio began broadcasting to Scarborough, Whitby and surrounding areas in November 1993, before expanding to the Bridlington area in November 1999.
Stray FM began broadcasting to Harrogate and Ripon in July 1994, before expanding to the Yorkshire Dales in January 2012.
Peak FM began broadcasting to north Derbyshire in October 1998.
Trax FM began broadcasting in November 1998, initially providing separate services to Doncaster and Bassetlaw.
Ridings FM began broadcasting to Wakefield in October 1999.
Compass FM began broadcasting to Grimsby in June 2001.
Dearne FM began broadcasting to Barnsley and the Dearne Valley in October 2003.
Rother FM began broadcasting to Rotherham in October 2006.
In May 2020, Bauer announced it would merge the AM and FM stations to form the Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire sub-network as part of a wider restructuring of its local radio stations.
On 16 July 2020, Bauer announced Radio Aire would close and switch from the Hits Radio network to GHR, merging with the aforementioned stations in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
The regional station launched on 1 September 2020.
A single DAB-only station for Lincolnshire launched in November 2020. On 3 April 2023, this was extended to FM utilising the analogue frequencies of Lincs FM, with Lincs FM's contemporary music programming continuing to operate on digital radio. From this point GHR Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20Maynard | Diana Maynard is a British computer scientist and computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.
Education and career
Maynard is originally from Chertsey. She was educated in Manchester, earning a bachelor's degree in 1995 at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a master's degree from the University of Manchester in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000, completed despite becoming nearly blind from complications of childhood diabetes during her graduate studies.
Research
Maynard has been a researcher associated with the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) project at Sheffield since 2000. Her research with the project includes the development of the Java Annotation Patterns Engine (JAPE) for using regular expressions to process annotations, as well as research on information extraction and sentiment analysis.
She is also associated with the Centre for Freedom of the Media, a research centre based at Sheffield, with whom she has worked on tools for monitoring attacks on journalists.
Books
Maynard is a coauthor of the books Text Processing with GATE (University of Sheffield, 2011) and Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web (Morgan & Claypool, 2017).
References
External links
Home page at Sheffield
Personal blog
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Chertsey
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20Force | Carrier Force is a 1983 computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64.
Carrier Force was Grigsby's fourth game. While he had started developing games part-time while working for the United States Department of Defense, he left to become a full-time game developer halfway through his third title, North Atlantic '86.
Gameplay
Carrier Force is a computer wargame that simulates aircraft carrier warfare.
Development
Carrier Force was the fourth game by designer Gary Grigsby. It was released in 1983, the same year he debuted North Atlantic '86.
Reception
Tom Cheche reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "CF has been exhaustively researched, and beautifully produced. In many ways it is the kind of game that we had in mind several years ago when we were daydreaming about where the wargaming hobby was headed now that the computer had arrived."
In a 1985 survey of computer wargames for Current Notes, M. Evan Brooks called Carrier Force "worth the effort for anyone desirous of learning about the period", but considered it "extremely slow in execution" and saw it as having historical errors. In his similar 1989 survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play found that the game was "hampered by very slow execution" and offered it a middling score.
Reviews
Casus Belli #23 (Dec 1984)
Successor
Grigsby decided to build on Carrier Force in his later game Carrier Strike. He told Electronic Games, "I liked the subject matter and, given the evolution in computer capability and my programming skills, I wanted to refine it."
See also
Carriers at War
References
External links
Article in Tilt (French)
1983 video games
Aircraft carriers in fiction
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Japan in non-Japanese culture
Naval video games
Pacific War video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquering%20Worlds | Conquering Worlds is a 1983 video game published by Datamost.
Gameplay
Conquering Worlds is a game in which the player is the Supreme Commander who takes control of enemy planets in the star system.
Reception
James A. McPherson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The scenario for Conquering Worlds is not new, and only slightly different in overall concept from other games. It is similar to Galactic Attack and Titan Empire. If you own either of the two games, you will find Conquering Worlds to be similar."
References
External links
Review in Softalk
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
1983 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Datamost games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in outer space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone%20naming | The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that uses Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. iPhone naming has followed various patterns throughout its history.
Nomenclature
Current naming style
iPhones are named with "iPhone" followed by a number, which denotes the iPhone generation, and sometimes a suffix (such as C, S, Plus, Pro, Pro Max). The current naming pattern is that "Plus" or "Max" indicates a physical larger iPhone model of the same generation (iPhone XS Max, 11 Pro Max, 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro Max, 14 Plus, 14 Pro Max, 15 Plus, 15 Pro Max). "Pro" indicates the higher end model (iPhone 11 Pro, 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 Pro, 15 Pro). Currently, models with just a number (i.e. without a suffix) indicate the lower-priced iPhones (iPhone 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). The "SE" used in the iPhone SE line stands for "Special Edition".
Previous naming style
"S" used to denote a slight upgrade (iPhone 3GS, 4S, 5S, 6S & 6S Plus, XS & XS Max), but it has since been dropped; iPhone XS and XS Max were the last models to feature the "S" (iPhone 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max instead of iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max). "C" used to denote the lower-priced and smaller sized iPhones (iPhone 5C). iPhone X (pronounced "10"), iPhone XR (pronounced "10R") and iPhone XS and XS Max (pronounced "10S") are currently the only iPhones to have been branded with roman numerals (X).
iPhones
42 different iPhone models have been produced:
iPhone (2007–2008)
iPhone 3G (2008–2010)
iPhone 3GS (2009–2012)
iPhone 4 (2010–2013)
iPhone 4S (2011–2014)
iPhone 5 (2012–2013)
iPhone 5C (2013–2015)
iPhone 5S (2013–2016)
iPhone 6 (2014–2016)
iPhone 6 Plus (2014–2016)
iPhone 6S (2015–2018)
iPhone 6S Plus (2015–2018)
iPhone SE (1st) (2016–2018)
iPhone 7 (2016–2019)
iPhone 7 Plus (2016–2019)
iPhone 8 (2017–2020)
iPhone 8 Plus (2017–2020)
iPhone X (2017–2018)
iPhone XR (2018–2021)
iPhone XS (2018–2019)
iPhone XS Max (2018–2019)
iPhone 11 (2019–2022)
iPhone 11 Pro (2019–2020)
iPhone 11 Pro Max (2019–2020)
iPhone SE (2nd) (2020–2022)
iPhone 12 mini (2020–2022)
iPhone 12 (2020–2023)
iPhone 12 Pro (2020–2021)
iPhone 12 Pro Max (2020–2021)
iPhone 13 mini (2021–2023)
iPhone 13 (2021–present)
iPhone 13 Pro (2021–2022)
iPhone 13 Pro Max (2021–2022)
iPhone SE (3rd) (2022–present)
iPhone 14 (2022–present)
iPhone 14 Plus (2022–present)
iPhone 14 Pro (2022–2023)
iPhone 14 Pro Max (2022–2023)
iPhone 15 (2023–present)
iPhone 15 Plus (2023–present)
iPhone 15 Pro (2023–present)
iPhone 15 Pro Max (2023–present)
Timeline
Models never made
No models called the iPhone 2, iPhone 7S, iPhone 8S, iPhone 9, iPhone 11S, iPhone 12S, iPhone 13S and iPhone 14S were ever produced; however, iPhone 9 was the rumored name for the iPhone SE (2020).
The 1st-generation iPhone was colloquially known, retr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kae%20Nemoto | Kae Nemoto () is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for her research on photonics, superradiance, quantum energy transport, and linear optical quantum computing. She is a professor at the National Institute of Informatics and at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, director of the Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science at the National Institute of Informatics, and co-director of the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics. Since 01 April 2022, she leads the Quantum Information Science and Technology Unit at OIST Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan.
After studying physics at Tokai University, Nemoto did her graduate studies at Ochanomizu University, where she earned a master's degree in 1993 and completed a doctorate in 1995.
In 2015, Nemoto was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Quantum Information, "for pioneering the theory for quantum optical implementations of quantum information processing and communication". She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Japanese physicists
Japanese women physicists
Quantum information scientists
Optical physicists
Women in optics
Tokai University alumni
Academic staff of Ochanomizu University
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the Institute of Physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20%28German%20TV%20series%29 | Galileo is a German television program series produced and broadcast on ProSieben television network. It is also sold to broadcasters in other countries (namely Russia and Poland).
The first show was broadcast in 1998, and is now stored in the Arctic World Archive in Svalbard, Norway, after being transferred to special film created by Piql.
Galileo has also a YouTube channel which has more than 3 million subscribers as of September 2020.
Former German national rugby player Aiman Abdallah is one of the presenters.
References
External links
Official website (in German)
Galileo on YouTube
1998 German television series debuts
1990s German television series
2000s German television series
2010s German television series
2020s German television series
German television series
German documentary television series
ProSieben original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros%20%28protocol%29 | Ouroboros is a family of proof-of-stake consensus protocols used in the Cardano and Polkadot blockchains. It can run both permissionless and permissioned blockchains.
Ouroboros was published as "the first provable secure PoS consensus protocol". It was postulated by an academic team led by Aggelos Kiayias at the Annual International Cryptology Conference in 2017. Later that year, Ouroboros (Classic) was implemented by IOHK as the basis of the Cardano blockchain platform and various upgrades. Ouroboros versions include:
Ouroboros BFT was an interim version used in 2020 to enable the switch between the Classic and Praos versions of Cardano using a hard fork combinator that preserved the blockchain history;
Ouroboros Praos (2017) provided security against fully-adaptive corruption in the semi-synchronous model. At team at Cornell University discussed Ouroboros Praos and their own provably secure proof-of-stake protocol called Snow White. In 2020, Praos was used to introduce decentralized block production on Cardano by stake pools;
Ouroboros Genesis (2018) provides security with a dynamic participation model;
Ouroboros Chronos (2019) is independent of global time;
Ouroboros Crypsinous (2019) gives higher levels of privacy
Research in 2020 tested Ouroboros Hydra, a protocol version that used "off-chain state channels" (called "heads") to enable peer-to-peer transactions. Such "layer 2" protocols manage transactions off the main blockchain, and each head could potentially process "up to 1,000 transactions per second". In theory, Ouroboros Hydra could rival the 30,000 simultaneous transactions offered by conventional payment systems such as Visa by running scores of heads.
Cardano's founder Charles Hoskinson has described the Ouroboros consensus mechanism as energy efficient. Nguyen et al. compared Ouroboros to other PoS protocols.
References
External links
Ouroboros at Cardano Foundation
Digital currencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20arcade%20video%20games | An arcade video game is an arcade game where the player's inputs from the game's controllers are processed through electronic or computerized components and displayed to a video device, typically a monitor, all contained within an enclosed arcade cabinet. Arcade video games are often installed alongside other arcade games such as pinball and redemption games at amusement arcades. Up until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest and most technologically advanced sector of the video game industry.
The first arcade game, Computer Space, was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the founders of Atari, Inc., and released in 1971; the company followed on its success the next year with Pong. The industry grew modestly until the release of Taito's Space Invaders in 1978 and Namco's Pac-Man in 1980, creating a golden age of arcade video games that lasted through about 1983. At this point, saturation of the market with arcade games led to a rapid decline in both the arcade game market and arcades to support them. The arcade market began recovering in the mid-1980s, with the help of software conversion kits, new genres such as beat 'em ups, and advanced motion simulator cabinets. There was a resurgence in the early 1990s, with the birth of the fighting game genre with Capcom's Street Fighter II in 1991 and the emergence of 3D graphics, before arcades began declining in the West during the late 1990s. After several traditional companies closed or migrated to other fields (especially in the West), arcades lost much of their relevance in the West, but have continued to remained popular in Eastern and Southeastern Asia.
Early arcade games
Since the early 20th century, skee ball and other pin-based games had been a popular arcade game. The first pinball machines had been introduced in the 1930s but gained a reputation as games of chance and had been banned from many venues from the 1940s through the 1960s. Instead, newer coin-operated electro-mechanical games (EM games), classified as games of skill took their place in amusement arcades by the 1960s.
Following the arrival of Sega's EM game Periscope (1966), the arcade industry was experiencing a "technological renaissance" driven by "audio-visual" EM novelty games, establishing the arcades as a healthy environment for the introduction of commercial video games in the early 1970s. In the late 1960s, a college student Nolan Bushnell had a part-time job at an arcade where he became familiar with EM games such as Chicago Coin's racing game Speedway (1969), watching customers play and helping to maintain the machinery, while learning how it worked and developing his understanding of how the game business operates.
Arrival of arcade video games (1971−1977)
While early video games running on computers had been developed as far back as 1950, the first video game to spread beyond a single computer installation, Spacewar!, was developed by students and staff at MIT on a PDP-1 mainframe computer in 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinungaling%20Mong%20Puso%20episodes | Sinungaling Mong Puso is a 2016 Philippine television drama suspense series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide on GMA Pinoy TV from July 18, 2016 to October 28, 2016, replacing Hanggang Makita Kang Muli.
Urban Luzon ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Smith%20%28general%29 | James Earl Smith (born January 10, 1973) is a United States Space Force brigadier general who serves as the assistant deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber, and nuclear. He previously served as the deputy United States military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He was previously the commander of the 50th Space Wing before it was inactivated and replaced by the Peterson-Schriever Garrison. He was also nominated for transfer to the U.S. Space Force and promotion to brigadier general.
Smith was commissioned in 1997 as the top graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. His operations experience includes directing range support for launch operations from the Eastern Range, Cape Canaveral, Fla., and providing command and control for national reconnaissance and Global Positioning System spacecraft. He transferred to the U.S. Space Force in April 2021.
Education
1991 graduate of Meridian High School in Meridian, Idaho
1997 Bachelor of Science, Astronautical Engineering and Japanese language minor, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
1999 Master of Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2001 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
2003 Air Force Intern Program, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
2003 Certificate Program, Organizational Management, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2007 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala. by correspondence
2010 Master of Airpower Art and Science, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
2012 Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence
2017 Master of Science, National Resource Strategy, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, Washington, D.C.
2018 Enterprise Leadership Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assignments
1. May 1997 - May 1999, Graduate Student and Charles Stark Draper Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
2. May 1999 - June 2002, Spacecraft Systems Engineer and Chief, GPS Spacecraft Systems Analysis, 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, Colo.
3. June 2002 - June 2003, Intern, Air Force Intern Program, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
4. July 2003 - May 2006, Chief, Space Control Demonstration Operations Flight and Wing Executive Officer, Space Superiority Materiel Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif.
5. June 2006 - June 2008, Chief, Space Operations Division and Assistant Operations Officer, Space Operations Squadron, Aerospace Data Facility - Colorado, Buckley AFB, Colo.
6. July 2009 - June 2010, Student, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
7. July 2010 - July 2012, Chief, Mission Area Architecting Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colo. (January 2012 - June 2012, Program Manager and Acting Commander, Defense Contract Management Agency-Northern Afghani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless%20%282020%20film%29 | Fearless (styled as Fe@rLeSS_) is a 2020 computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed by Cory Edwards, written by Cory Edwards and John Murphy. The film was produced by Vanguard Animation, and was released on Netflix on August 14, 2020. Featuring the voices of Gabrielle Union, Jadakiss, Miguel J. Pimentel, Yara Shahidi and Miles Robbins, the story follows two high school seniors as they try to return three babies to the video game they came from after they mysteriously arrive on Earth. The film received mixed reviews.
Plot
Reid, who goes by the username "Fe@rLeSS_" is a teen video gamer who is an expert at the superhero action-adventure video game Planet Master. While battling in the second to last level, the game's protagonist, Captain Darius Lightspeed, reveals he has three children, Kira, Xander, and Titus, all of whom he brought to the battle with him. In-game, Reid decides to drop them off at a daycare before he plays the final level of the game, where Lightspeed attaches an "interplanetary communicator" to one of the babies so the daycare workers can call Lightspeed in case of emergency. While in daycare, the game's antagonist and Lightspeed's nemesis, Dr. Arcannis steals the babies and imprisons them on his spaceship in order to attempt to steal their superpowers so he can conquer Earth.
While in captivity, the babies accidentally use their powers to escape, and end up mistakenly walking into an escape pod and launching it towards Earth in the real world. The United States Armed Forces, headed by General Jayne Blazerhatch, detects the aircraft which entered American airspace. The escape pod ends up crashing in front of Reid's home. Meanwhile, Melanie, Reid's school partner, arrives at his house to complete a science project together. Melanie and Reid are both shocked to discover the babies who have entered the home, and after a debate on what to do, Reid convinces her the babies came from the game, and they decide to take care of them. Meanwhile, Arcannis has tracked the babies' whereabouts to Reid's home, and the military brainstorms ideas on what to do.
The following morning, Reid discovers the interplanetary communicator, and gets a call from Lightspeed, who explains that those are his babies and that he will track their location to retrieve them, also explaining that Arcannis is after them; one of the babies however throws down the communicator, breaking it and making Lightspeed unable to finish the location tracking. Melanie suggests to Reid that they have to get away from their home in order to stay safe, and the two do so. Arcannis arrives at the home after they left, vowing to find them. The military later captures Reid, Melanie and the babies, believing the babies to be dangerous aliens. Arcannis proceeds to arrive, and after defeating the military, steals the babies and transports them to his ship.
Reid steals a motorcycle from the military in order to follow Dr. Arcannis' tracks, and Melanie fixes the interplaneta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28Sub-Saharan%20African%20TV%20channel%29 | Nick Jr. is a South African pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. It launched on 30 September 2014, along with sister channel Nicktoons, North Africa receives the Arabic-Language version of the channel Nick Jr. MENA.
Unlike other feeds, the end credits on shows are replaced with short credits including the show name, production year and production company and the promos and bumpers do not contain any text other than the Nick Jr. logo. since launch.
History
Before its launch, all Nick Jr. programming was broadcast on Nickelodeon.
A Nick Jr. block began airing on Nicktoons in 2017, airing every morning and sometime in 2020 on Nickelodeon.
The channel also has an Ethiopian feed.
Programming
44 Cats
The Adventures of Paddington
Abby Hatcher
Anna & Friends
Baby Shark's Big Show!
Barbapapa: One Big Happy Family!
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom
Blaze and the Monster Machines
Blue's Clues & You!
Bubble Guppies
Butterbean's Café
Corn & Peg
Deer Squad
Dora and Friends: Into the City!
Dora the Explorer
Fresh Beat Band of Spies
Go, Diego, Go!
Nella the Princess Knight
PAW Patrol
Peppa Pig
Santiago of the Seas
Shimmer and Shine
Sunny Day
Top Wing
References
Africa
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television stations in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Maker%20%28Reston%20Publishing%29 | Movie Maker (also referred to as Reston Movie Maker) is a computer program published by Reston Publishing Company in 1984 which allows users to author computer-animated visual sequences with audio. Self-playing movies can be viewed without the Movie Maker software. It was developed by Interactive Picture Systems for the Atari 8-bit family. In 1985 it was re-published by Electronic Arts, including a port to the Commodore 64.
Reception
David P. Stone reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "if you have a need, or desire, for presenting non-game, impressive animation sequences, then MMTK won't let you down. But, to fully enjoy MMTK you must have the deep personal conviction that 'getting there is half the fun'."
A 1984 Antic review contained an addendum from the editor: "ANTIC was so impressed with Movie Maker that we asked the Interactive Picture Systems people to design an animated greeting card for us, which they did to the delight of all who have seen it." The only major dislike from the reviewer was having to use sounds from the existing, fixed library.
Gregg Williams reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World and stated that, "a so-called animation studio that promises 'dazzling animated graphics made easy.' The reality is four-color 'movies' (four colors—on an Atari?!) so amateurish and primitive that they would impress only a 4-year-old."
References
External links
Review in the Christian Science Monitor
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
Review of Electronic Arts version in Antic
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Page 6
1984 software
Animation software
Atari 8-bit family software
Commodore 64 software
Electronic Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Barrows | Marjorie Barrows (1892 - 1983) was an American magazine editor, book compiler, and author.
Career
Barrows was an editor of Child Life Magazine and Family Weekly, as well as a book reviewer for The Continent. A 1932 article from the Spring Lake Gazette stated that Barrows was "a famous editor of Child Life Magazine and that she was an "internationally recognized editor" of the same magazine. An article from School Life reported in 1933 that she "has the endorsement of leading children's librarians".
A 1932 review in the Standard-Examiner reported that The Picture Book of Poetry, which was compiled by Barrows, has "gems of verses by writers who understand boys and girls". The Denton Record-Chronicle reviewed The Family Reader in 1961, stating, The Family Reader is a book for your lighter moments, for the times you want to relax and lose yourself in a good story".
Bibliography
The Children's Hour
One Thousand Beautiful Things
Muggins Mouse
Muggins Takes Off
Muggins' Big Balloon
Muggins Becomes A Hero
The Quintessence Of Beauty And Romance
The Family Reader
Treasures Of Love Inspiration
1000 Beautiful Things
One Hundred Best Poems For Boys And Girls
Jojo
A Treasury Of Humor And Toastmaster's Handbook
The Peoples Reader
Timothy Tiger
The American Experience
The Children's Treasury
Look! A Parade
Fraidy Cat
Pet Show
A Book Of Famous Poems For Older Boys And Girls
A Book Of Famous Poems
Pet Show
Ezra the Elephant
Currents In Drama
Scamper
Science Fiction & Readers Guide
Hoppity
Lancelot
Pudgy the Little Bear
Pulitzer Prize Poems
The Frances Tipton Hunter Picture Book
Sukey, You Shall Be My Wife And Other Stories
Snuggles
Whiskers
References
1892 births
1993 deaths
Women magazine editors
American magazine editors
20th-century American women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekeyan%20Cultural%20Association | The Tekeyan Cultural Association (, TCA) is a network of Armenian cultural organizations active in 16 countries.
History
It was established in 1947 in Beirut, Lebanon, named after the poet Vahan Tekeyan. It aims to preserve the Armenian culture and heritage in the Armenian diaspora, and to promote cultural, spiritual and educational ties with the homeland, irrespective of political and ideological barriers. Hampartzoum Berberian, Gersam Aharonian and Barunak Tovmasian were among the founders.
The TCA is part of a network of similarly affiliated branches in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Armenia. The various branches have their own regional cultural centres, schools and publications. In the US, the Association publishes the trilingual weekly newspaper Abaka in Montreal, an English language weekly newspaper The Armenian Mirror-Spectator in Boston, Baikar Weekly, AZK, HayDzayn, Nor Ashkhar and Nor Or newspapers.
A TCA branch has operated in Armenia since its independence in 1991.
Awards
Tekeyan Armenian Cultural Association set annual awards to five spheres of culture: literature, music, fine arts, theatre and cinema. The "Diamond Ararat" medal was awarded to baroness Caroline Cox (England), benefactor Habet Torosyan (US), academician Fadey Sargsyan, duduk player Jivan Gasparyan for outstanding service in the promotion and development of Armenian culture.
The Tekeyan Cultural Association also grants Haykashen Uzunian annual awards.
See also
Nor Serount Cultural Association
References
External links
Official website
Tekeyan Cultural Association, London
Tekeyan Cultural Association, Yerevan
Tekeyan Cultural Association, Montreal
Culture of Armenia
Armenian diaspora
Organizations established in 1947
Ethnic organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASCNN%20algorithm | In graph theory, LASCNN is a Localized Algorithm for Segregation of Critical/Non-critical Nodes The algorithm works on the principle of distinguishing between critical and non-critical nodes for network connectivity based on limited topology information. The algorithm finds the critical nodes with partial information within a few hops.
This algorithm can distinguish the critical nodes of the network with high precision, indeed, accuracy can reach 100% when identifying non-critical nodes. The performance of LASCNN is scalable and quite competitive compared to other schemes.
Pseudocode
The LASCNN algorithm establishes a -hop neighbor list and a duplicate free pair wise connection list based on -hop information. If the neighbors stay connected then the node is non-critical.
Function LASCNN(MAHSN)
For ∀ A ∈ MAHSN
If (A->ConnList.getSize() == 1) then
A->SetNonCritical() = LEAF
Else
Continue = TRUE
While (Continue == TRUE)
Continue = FALSE
For ∀ ActiveConn ∈ ConnList
If (A∉ActiveConn) then
If (A->ConnNeighbors.getSize() == 0)
A->ConnNeighbors.add(ActiveConn)
Continue = TRUE
else
If (ActiveConn ∩ ConnNeighbors == TRUE)
ActiveConn ∪ ConnNeighbors
Continue = TRUE
Endif
Endif
Endif
End For
End While
Endif
If (A->ConnNeighbors.getSize() < A->Neighbors.getSize())
A->SetCritical() = TRUE
else
A->SetNonCritical() = INTERMEDIATE
Endif
End For
End Function
Implementation
The Critical Nodes application is a Free Open-Source implementation for the LASCNN algorithm. The application was developed in 2013 using Programming Without Coding Technology software.
See also
Connectivity (graph theory)
Dynamic connectivity
Strength of a graph
Cheeger constant (graph theory)
Critical point (network science)
Depth-first search
Breadth-first search
References
External links
Critical Nodes application
Networks
Network theory
Graph algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Mitchell%20Hedetniemi | Sandra (Sandee) Mitchell Hedetniemi (born July 5, 1949, née Sandra Lee Mitchell) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her research in graph theory and algorithms on graphs. She is a professor of computer science at Clemson University.
Education and career
Hedetniemi majored in applied mathematics at Centre College in Kentucky, graduating in 1971. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 1977 at the University of Virginia under the supervision of Stephen T. Hedetniemi. Her dissertation was Algorithms on Trees and Maximal Outerplanar Graphs: Design, Complexity Analysis, and Data Structures Study.
She joined the University of Louisville faculty as an instructor in applied mathematics and computer science 1973, and became an assistant professor there in 1975. She moved to the department of computer and information science at the University of Oregon in 1978, and was given tenure there in 1981. In 1982 she moved again to Clemson University, taking a half-time position as an associate professor of computer science, and she was promoted to full professor in 1994.
Personal life
Hedetniemi is originally from Louisville, Kentucky; her father, Wilber A. Mitchell, was a US Navy veteran, psychiatrist, and hospital administrator. She married Stephen T. Hedetniemi, her former advisor, in 1979, when both were faculty members at the University of Oregon.
References
External links
Home page
1949 births
Living people
Scientists from Louisville, Kentucky
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Graph theorists
Centre College alumni
University of Virginia alumni
University of Louisville faculty
University of Oregon faculty
Clemson University faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON%E2%86%92URL | JSON→URL is a language-independent data interchange format for the JSON data model suitable for use within a URL/URI query string. It is defined by an open specification, though not through a standards body.
Data types and syntax
JSON→URL implements the JSON data model:, with support for the following data types
Number: a signed decimal number that may contain a fractional part and may use exponential E notation, but cannot include non-numbers such as NaN. The format makes no distinction between integer and floating-point.
Boolean: either of the values true or false
null: an empty value, using the word null
String: a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters. Strings may be delimited with single-quotation marks if the unquoted value would otherwise be interpreted as a boolean, null, or number. Otherwise, they need not be quoted. Characters which are not valid in a URL must be percent encoded. Space is encoded as + or %20.
Array: an ordered list of one or more values, each of which may be of any type. Arrays use parentheses notation with comma-separated elements.
Object: a collection of one or more name–value pairs where the names (also called keys) are strings. Objects are intended to represent associative arrays, where each key is unique within an object. Objects are delimited with parentheses and use commas to separate each pair, while within each pair the colon character separates the key or name from its value.
Empty: the empty composite value
Example
The following example shows a possible JSON→URL representation describing a person.
(firstName:John,lastName:Smith,isAlive:true,age:27,address:(streetAddress:21+2nd+Street,city:New+York,state:NY,postalCode:10021-3100),phoneNumbers:((type:home,number:212+555-1234),(type:office,number:646+555-4567)),children:(),spouse:null)
Differences from JSON
JSON→URL implements the JSON data model, however, it does not differentiate between an empty object and an empty array. Instead, it defines an empty composite value as ().
Data portability
JSON→URL exchange in an open ecosystem must be encoded in UTF-8. The encoding supports the full Unicode character set, including those characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+10000 to U+10FFFF). Unlike JSON, JSON→URL does not define a separate syntax for escaping characters within a string literal. Such characters are simply composed of one or more percent encoded octets.
Numbers in JSON→URL are agnostic with regard to their representation within programming languages. While this allows for numbers of arbitrary precision to be serialized, it may lead to portability issues. For example, since no differentiation is made between integer and floating-point values, some implementations may treat 42, 42.0, and 4.2E+1 as the same number, while others may not. The JSON→URL standard makes no requirements regarding implementation details such as overflow, underflow, loss of precision, rounding, or signed zeros.
Semantics
While JSON→URL provides a syntact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14%20rating | 14 rating refers to a type of age-based content rating that applies to media entertainment, such as films, television shows and computer games. The following articles document the rating across a range of countries and mediums:
Classification organizations
Brazilian advisory rating system (14)
Canadian motion picture rating system (14A)
Canadian Home Video Rating System
Manitoba Film Classification Board
Maritime Film Classification Board
British Columbia Film Classification Office
Saskatchewan Film and Video Classification Board
Ontario Film Review Board
TV Parental Guidelines (TV-14)
Common Sense Media (14+)
Systems
Motion picture content rating system, a range of classification systems for films that commonly use the age 14 as part of its regulatory criteria
Television content rating system, a range of classification systems for television broadcasts that commonly use the age 14 as part of its regulatory criteria
Video game content rating system, a range of classification systems for video games that commonly use the age 14 as part of its regulatory criteria
Mobile software content rating system, a range of classification systems for mobile software that commonly use the age 14 as part of its regulatory criteria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Serbian%20regions%20by%20GDP | This is a list of Serbian regions by GDP, GDP per capita and GVA.
Data for 2018 estimates (international US$ using 2018 PPP conversion factor from the International Monetary Fund).
Regions by GDP
Regions of Serbia by GDP in 2018 according to data by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
Regions by GDP per capita
Regions of Serbia by GDP in 2018 according to data by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
Districts by GDP (PPS) per inhabitant
Districts of Serbia by GDP (PPS) per inhabitant in 2018 according to data by the Eurostat.
Districts by GVA and GVA per capita
Districts of Serbia by Gross value added (GDP + Subsidies on products - Taxes on products) and Gross value added per capita in 2018 according to data by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia.
See also
Economy of Serbia
List of Serbian regions by HDI
References
Serbian regions by GDP
GDP
Serbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Finucane | Hilary Kiyo Finucane is an American computational biologist who is Co-Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute. Her group combines genetic data with molecular data to understand the origins and mechanisms of disease.
Early life and education
Finucane grew up in Maryland. She has said that her family enjoyed music and science. Finucane became interested in policy as a child, and started an Amnesty International student chapter at her high school. She was an undergraduate student at Harvard College, where eventually majored in mathematics and spent her spare time taking part in chamber music. After graduating from Harvard in 2009 Finucane moved to Israel where she joined the Weizmann Institute of Science. Here she focused on theoretical computer science, completing a dissertation on geometric group theory. She developed an analytical tool (the maximal information coefficient) that allows users to search complex data sets in an effort to identify meaningful relationships. Finucane became interested in the application of complex theoretical mathematics to the real world. She returned to the United States in 2012, where she worked toward a doctorate in applied mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She eventually started working with Alkes Price, with whom she developed statistical methods for understanding the genetic basis of human disease. In particular, Finucane considered how specific parts of the genome relate to activity in different cell types, making use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to model these relationships.
Research and career
Finucane was appointed a Schmidt Fellow at the Broad Institute. She was awarded an National Institutes of Health Independence Award to combine data from ENCODE, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, with GWAS and other biological information to better understand the cell types relevant to a particular disease. Soon after joining the Broad Institute, Finucane was made Associate Director of Medical and Population Genetics.
Selected publications
Personal life
Finucane is married to Yakir Reshef, a computer scientist who works on the immune system. She met him during middle school.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
People from Maryland
Computational biologists
Women computational biologists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah%20Lauderback | Leah Gaye Lauderback is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and cyber effects operations of the United States Air Force since August 5, 2022. She most recently served as the director for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance of the United States Space Force from 2020 to 2022. She previously served as the director of intelligence of the United States Space Command and director for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations of the U.S. Air Force.
Awards and decorations
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Clemson University alumni
Central Michigan University alumni
National Intelligence University alumni
Naval War College alumni
United States Air Force generals
Female generals of the United States Air Force
Office of the Chief of Space Operations personnel
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
1971 births
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20Grows%20New%20York | Here Grows New York is a 2018 English-language American urban planning film directed by Myles Zhang and advised by urban historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Gergely Baics. The data visualization follows the history of New York City’s infrastructure and street system development from 1609 to the present day. The video was released onto YouTube by Myles Zhang, an undergraduate in architectural history at Columbia University, on October 25, 2018. The video quickly went viral, gaining over four million views.
Synopsis
Through analysis of geo-referenced historic maps, this film follows the spatial history of New York City’s five boroughs from the initial Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in the seventeenth century, through the British colonial era, Industrial Revolution, and into the modern era. This illustrates New York City’s slow but steady growth in the pre-modern era, followed by the rapid explosion of the city’s surface area, infrastructure, and population in the twentieth century. The resulting short film presents a sequence of “cartographic snapshots” of the historic extent of urbanized area for every twenty to thirty years. The film ends by rewinding four centuries of urban development in a reverse time-lapse. In the final scene, a quote from E.B. White’s 1949 soliloquy to New York City flashes across the screen: “The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races, and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”
Production and release
Hundreds of maps from the New York Public Library’s digital collections and the Library of Congress were analyzed for this film. The maps most representative of urban development at different intervals in urban history were then selected and incorporated into the animation. Since the source maps all had different scales and graphics, it was necessary to meticulously redraw these old maps with a consistent design. This coherence allowed the rate and trends in urban growth to be read more easily and compared between eras.
In addition to winning the 2019 award for best data visualization from Columbia University’s Data Science Institute, the video is frequently used in introductory urban history courses. The animation was inspired by, or has inspired, similar urban history data visualizations for Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, and Berlin.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack volume rises with the pace of urban growth and has added sound effects of urban life appropriate to each time period New York City's development traveled through. The sounds of nature, water, and machinery evoke the soundscape of each era in urban history. The music is adapted from the 2002 album, The Language of Cities, from the instrumental rock band Maserati.
References
External links
Official website
Here Goes New York on YouTube
2018 films
American documentary films
Films set in New York City
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai%20Automotive%20South%20Africa | Hyundai Automotive South Africa (Pty) Ltd. is a dealer network and automobile manufacturer based in Bedfordview, South Africa and a subsidiary of Hyundai.
History
The company was formed in 1999 as a collaboration between the holding company Associated Motor Holdings and Hyundai. It succeeded the dealer network Hyundai Motor Distributors (HMD).
The HMD network founded by Billy Rautenbach, with 52 branches, was able to offer vehicles that were inexpensively assembled by the Motor Company of Botswana and an extended warranty of three years. With these and other aggressive methods, it had achieved a ten percent market share in South Africa.
Hyundai has been assembling trucks in Gauteng since July 2014. In March 2015, the assembly of the H100 was added.
References
External links
Official Website
Hyundai Motor Company
Car manufacturers of South Africa
Companies based in Germiston
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in South Africa
South African subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud%20Samir%20Fayed | Mahmoud Samir Fayed (born December 29, 1986) is a computer programmer, known as the creator of the PWCT programming language. PWCT is a free open source visual programming language for software development. He also created or designed Ring. He is a researcher at King Saud University. Prior to that, he worked at the Riyadh Techno Valley in the Information and Communication Technology Incubator.
Background
Fayed started to learn computer programming at 10 years old under the supervision of his father who works as a computer programmer. He started using the Clipper programming language under MS-DOS. In 2006 he wrote free Arabic programming books. He studied computer science at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Egypt, graduating in 2008.
Fayed received a Master's degree in 2017, from the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
Career
PWCT language
In 2005 Fayed began work on a new visual programming language called PWCT and distributed it as a free-open source project in 2008.
Supernova language
In 2009 Fayed began work on a new programming language called Supernova and distributed it as a free-open source project in 2010. The language support writing the source code in Arabic/English keywords at the same time and it's a Domain-specific language for GUI development using natural code. Supernova is developed using PWCT.
JVLC Journal
In 2013 Fayed worked with other researchers as a reviewer for the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. The journal is published by Elsevier.
LASCNN algorithm
In 2013–2014 Fayed worked with other researchers on designing the LASCNN algorithm. In graph theory, LASCNN is a Localized Algorithm for Segregation of Critical/Non-critical Nodes. The LASCNN algorithm establishes k-hop neighbor list and a duplicate free pair wise connection list based on k-hop information. If the neighbors are stay connected then the node is non critical.
Ring language
In 2013 Fayed began work on a new programming language called Ring and distributed it as a free-open source project in 2016. Ring aims to offer a language focused on helping the developer with building natural interfaces and declarative DSLs.
Papers
Fayed et al., PWCT: a novel general-purpose visual programming language in support of pervasive application development, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 2020
Imran, MA Alnuem, MS Fayed, A Alamri, Localized algorithm for segregation of critical/non-critical nodes in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, Procedia Computer Science, 2013
References
Further reading
Ayouni (2020) Beginning Ring Programming, Apress (part of Springer Nature)
Hassouna (2019) Ring Basics (Arabic Book), Hassouna Academy
Fayed (2016) Ring Programming Language, Code Project
Fayed (2010) Supernova Programming Language, Code Project
External links
PWCT and other stuff
Ring programming language
Supernova programming language
Fayed home |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20%281801%20Fowey%20ship%29 | Ann was launched at Fowey in 1801. She did not appear in the registers before 1808, though there were mentions of her in ship arrival and departure data before that. She traded widely and was effectively last listed in 1815.
Career
Ann first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1808, and in the Register of Shipping (RS) in 1809.
Fate
Ann was last listed in LR in 1815, and in RS in 1822, with data stale since 1815. She was last surveyed in 1814.
Citations
References
1801 ships
Age of Sail merchant ships of England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Jensen%20%28internet%20pioneer%29 | Mike Jensen (born 1958) is a South African ICT expert who was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a "Global Connector" in 2017. He is particularly known for his work to build networks connecting the non-profit sector and for assisting developing countries to establish network connectivity.
Education
Jensen grew up in Johannesburg in South Africa, the son of Anton Jensen and Berrell Jensen (née Jay), a contemporary sculptor. He studied biology at Queen's University Belfast from 197680 and, as a post-graduate at the University of Guelph in Canada, specialized in acid-rain pollution research. However, he began to question the value of writing scientific papers that seemed to have little impact on policy making. At that time the Reagan administration in the USA was denying the linkage between pollution and acid rain and Jensen started to write about pollution for student newspapers. After receiving his MSc he returned to South Africa and was, for a time, a technology journalist on the anti-apartheid Rand Daily Mail.
Early innovations
When the Rand Daily Mail closed down in 1985 due to its inability to attract advertisers as a paper that targeted both black and white readers, Jensen decided to emigrate to Canada. In 1982, while studying for his MSc, he had been introduced to the CoSy online messaging system. CoSy was being developed by the University of Guelph and was subsequently selected in 1985 by Byte magazine for that magazine's BYTE Information eXchange, a networked bulletin board. While he waited in Toronto for his Canadian immigration clearance in 1986, Jensen opened a computer account at the University of Toronto that was using Usenet newsgroups for online discussions and information sharing. He had started volunteering with the Ontario Environmental Network (OEN) and wondered whether something similar to Usenet could be put together for environmental groups.
Jensen set up a multi-user network for the OEN, using a cheap personal computer and a PC-based version of the Unix operating system, thereby offering the potential for cheaper internet access than that provided by commercial mainframe systems. Together with Kirk Roberts, he founded an Internet service provider for the non-profit sector, known as "The Web". Subsequently called Web Networks, “The Web” predated the World Wide Web by three years and provided cheaper internet access for NGOs than any commercial systems available at the time. The emergence of similar movements elsewhere, such as the Institute for Global Communications (IGC Internet) in California and GreenNet in London, led to the formation of an International NGO computer network. Web Networks was a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), established in 1992, which provides ICT policy advice and support for non-profits and similar groups and with which Jensen continues to maintain close contact.
In the early days of internet, technicians had to travel to install software and to prog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Millionaire%27s%20Wife%20episodes | The Millionaire's Wife is a 2016 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from March 14, 2016 to June 24, 2016, replacing Destiny Rose.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20L.%20Moore | Charles L. Moore Jr. (born October 3, 1966) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command. He previously was the Deputy Director for Global Operations of the Joint Staff. In July 2020, the United States Senate confirmed his promotion to lieutenant general and nomination to become the deputy commander of the Cyber Command, replacing United States Navy Vice Admiral Ross A. Myers.
Awards and decorations
Effective dates of promotions
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals
Major generals
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
1966 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20Duel | Justice Duel is a platform game developed and published by Mega Cat Studios. It was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 2017. Players battle one another while riding cybernetically enhanced eagles. The game plays similarly to Joust.
Gameplay
The player controls a cyborg version of a past President of the United States riding a cybernetically enhanced eagle to duel either against other human players or the game's AI. The player duels by firing projectiles at their opponents; a level is completed once there are no remaining opponents. Players can pick up power-ups in the form of mines and traps to use against opponents.
Justice Duel supports multiplayer for up to four players through the NES Four Score.
Development
Besides Joust, the game's developers cite TowerFall and Balloon Fight as having inspired elements of the game's design.
Evercade Release
Mega Cat Studios released Justice Duel in a compilation cartridge for the Evercade, along with several other titles from the studio, including Little Medusa, Log Jammers, and Coffee Crisis.
Child's Play Edition
In 2018, Mega Cat Studios released a special edition of Justice Duel to raise money for the charity Child's Play; it debuted at PAX East and was part of the Omegathon tournament. This special edition of the game features two additional playable characters: Della and Rod, who ride a duck and a quail, respectively.
Reception
Justice Duel has received a generally positive reception from the press, being praised for its aesthetic and fast paced gameplay.
References
External links
2017 video games
Birds in popular culture
Cyborgs in fiction
Fictional presidents of the United States
Homebrew software
Indie games
Mega Cat Studios games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Unauthorized video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibera%20Community%20Library | knls, Kibera Community Library is one of the 64 branches in the Kenya National Library Service network, it is located in Kibera which is one of the biggest impoverished settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. It is home to an estimated one million people covering an area of 2.5 square kilometres. The library was set up in 2012 by the Kenya National Library Service (knls) in partnership with Practical Action (an NGO) and Berkley Foundation (UK). Kibera Community Library is surrounded by over 25 primary schools, 4 secondary schools and a tertiary college.
The Library, which receives over 500 visitors daily, is an invaluable resource for schools when it comes to implementing the Social Pillars of the Kenya. One of the key projects offered by the Kibera Community Library is “Kids on the Tab” project which was started in 2012. The main objective of the project was to meet and stimulate the desire for education among the younger population of the slum area and to match opportunities for children from poor families to interact with technology to advance their learning and improve school performance. The library also often holds reading campaigns for children within the slum area.
See also
Kenya National Library Service
Nairobi Area
References
Libraries in Kenya
Libraries established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyton%20Group | Blyton Group is an Australian media and entertainment company. The company primarily operates in the radio industry under its subsidiary Capital Radio Network and owns hospitality, service and entertainment businesses in New South Wales.
History
The company was started by Kevin Blyton who first acquired a radio station 2XL (now XLFM) in the Snowy Mountains and has since grown the radio network and expanded into hospitality. With the exception of XLFM, Snow FM and 3GG, all radio stations are operated as a 50/50 joint venture with Grant Broadcasters.
The current COO of Blyton Group is Josh Elliot. Former radio host with Capital Radio Network, Andrew Dunkerley, served as Operations Manager until his departure in July 2020.
In 2020, Blyton Group announced a 10-year master-plan for continued development of its Charlotte Pass Snow Resort, beginning with an upgraded chair lift.
In November 2021, Grant Broadcasters sold their wholly owned radio stations to ARN. Their share of Capital Radio Network stations and wholly owned Geelong stations K Rock and Bay 93.9 remained with the Grant Broadcasters' owners, the Cameron family.
Radio Network
Operating under the name Capital Radio Network, the Blyton Group wholly owns three radio stations and has a joint venture with Grant Broadcasters for the remaining stations. The radio network operates in 5 locations across Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. The Snowy Mountains radio station organised the automated music for the Blyton Group's Magic Mountain amusement park speakers.
Wholly owned stations
Snowy Mountains, New South Wales
XLFM
Snow FM
Gippsland, Victoria
3GG
Joint venture with Grant Broadcasters
Australian Capital Territory
2CC
2CA
MyDAB Canberra
Snow FM (relayed from Snowy Mountains on DAB+)
KIX Country
New South Wales
Southern Tablelands
GNFM
Eagle FM
KIX Country
Snowy Mountains
KIX Country
Perth, Western Australia
6iX
X Digital
KIX Country
MyDAB Perth
Former stations
In the 1990s, Kevin Blyton held a 40% stake in Newcastle's NXFM.
Outside of buying and selling stations in the same stations/territories as current stations, he has also held stations in Tasmania and owned Q92fm in Queenstown, New Zealand which he purchased in 1992.
Hospitality and services
Blyton Group operates two snow resorts in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains region. The two resorts are Charlotte Pass Snow Resort and Selwyn Snow Resort.
The company also has multiple hotels as a part of their operations in the region:
Kosciuszko Chalet Hotel, Charlotte Pass
Lucy Lodge, Charlotte Pass
Stillwell Hotel, Charlotte Pass
Selwyn Accommodation Centre, Selwyn Snow Fields
In the 2019-2020 Australian summer bushfires, the Selwyn Snow Resort burned down, the Blyton Group has committed to rebuilding.
In addition to the resorts and hotels, the Blyton Group owns the Snowy Mountains Airport Corporation, which operates Cooma-Snowy Mountains Airport and as a part o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmailSanta.com | emailSanta.com is a Christmas-themed entertainment website that claims to allow children to send emails to the legendary character Santa Claus and receive a computer-generated response from the website. It also provides various other Christmas-themed simulations.
History
emailSanta.com was started in 1997 by Alan Kerr. Kerr started the website after a strike by Canada Post workers prevented his niece and nephews from sending letters to Santa Claus, which are replied to by volunteers at Canada Post. During the first two weeks of the site's existence, emailSanta received over 1,000 emails.
In 2000, a "Santa Tracker" feature was added to the site, allowing users to simulate the tracking of Santa year-round, similar to NORAD Tracks Santa provided by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Google Santa Tracker by Google. The site also features a blog and various other Christmas-themed games and apps.
The website is available in several languages.
The website was incorporated in Alberta, Canada as emailSanta.com Inc. in 2011. Individuals and entities in 26 different countries have been involved in creating emailSanta.com.
In a 2021 letter to the Search Engine Journal, Kerr noted the declining traffic of his website. He wrote that his website was historically "rewarded with #1 positions for very competitive keywords using only white hat methods" and that his website "once – briefly – beat out [the] Google [Santa Tracker] and NORAD [Tracks Santa]", but that "the site’s ranking and organic traffic has been falling hard these past two years" and that "the drop possibly happened in March 2019".
Website
Users compose their letter by filling in blank fields. Personal information, such as full name or e-mail address, is not required.
The website then simulates the process of the process of the email being sent and then compiles an immediate and personalized reply to the sender based on the user's input. The reply is automatically generated server-side using an ASP script written by Kerr, but the letter is claimed to have been written by Santa Claus himself. Optionally, the user can request to "see Santa live," in which case a video recording of an actor's portrayal of Santa would be shown to the user before the reply letter is shown, simulating a video call with Santa.
From the website's inception, children whose letters contained pleas for help were directed to a special web page on the site listing online resources for assistance and counselling helplines. In dire circumstances, police have been contacted.
Impact on popular culture
Prior to the Internet, letters to Santa were traditionally delivered by post. Tanya Gulevich, in her Encyclopedia of Christmas and New Years Celebrations wrote:
In 1997 postal workers all over the [U.S.] reported the first decline ever in the numbers of letters sent to Santa Claus at Christmas time... No one knows why so many kids all at once lost interest in writing letters to Santa. Perhaps they sudden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Medhi | Deepankar (Deep) Medhi is an Indo-American computer scientist and inventor. He is on leave as Curators' Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is a fellow of IEEE.
Prior to joining the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he worked as a technical officer at AT&T Bell Laboratories, routing and designing teletraffic networks. While at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he co-invented the Facility Diverse Routing system.
He is currently working as a program director in the computer and network systems (CNS) division of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.
Birth and family
Deepankar Medhi was born in Guwahati in 1962. His father was statistician Jyotiprasad Medhi and his mother was Prity Medhi. His great-grandfather Kaliram Medhi is an Assamese writer.
Book
Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures
Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks
Honors and awards
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018.
N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity, UMKC, 2012.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, UMKC, 2012.
Curators' Distinguished Professor Designation by the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri System, 2011.
Kansas City Star's Tech 50 List, Summer 2002.
References
Indian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1962 births
Living people
University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty
Scientists from Guwahati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Archives%20du%20spectacle | Les Archives du spectacle – The Performing Arts Archive – is an online French database covering live performance (theatre, dance, opera, puppetry, etc.). It was created in 2007.
The site is designed to provide free information about plays, actors, actresses, directors, playwrights and other people and companies involved in the development of a show, a play, a musical or an opera in a French-speaking country (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada). Details are given of major revivals as well as new works. Foreign shows performed in France are sometimes covered. The site offers no judgments on the quality of the shows it covers.
The site is run from the city of Montpellier. It operates in co-operation with the French Performing Arts Archives and ARTCENA, a national centre created by the French Ministry of Culture to coordinate and increase digital resources on circus, street and theatre arts.
References
Online databases
Theatre databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Institute | The Polish Institutes is a network of establishments reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Poland. there are 25 of them. Their mission is described as "creating a positive image of Poland abroad" by promoting Polish culture, history, science, language and national heritage. Other tasks include supporting cultural exchange, in particular, within the framework of the European Union National Institutes for Culture, as well as implementation of various international cultural programmes.
Polish institutes cooperate with local institutions and NGOs in organizing various events.
The names may slightly differ in some countries. For example, in London and New York, the institute is called "Polish Cultural Institute".
Locations
See also
Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
References
Culture of Poland
Cultural organisations based in Poland
Foreign relations of Poland
Government agencies of Poland
Cultural promotion organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20D.%20Welch | Peter D. Welch is a scientist and researcher in the area of computer simulation, as well as applied mathematics, applied statistics, and computer science. A former IBM researcher, he is best known for his work with Welch's method to reduce signal noise.
Education
Welch attended University of Chicago. He received his M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin (1951), M.S. in Physics from New Mexico State University (1956) and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University (1963).
Career
Welch joined IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he conducted research and development for over three decades. At IBM Research he worked in the areas of speech recognition, spectral estimation, queueing theory, seismic signal processing, fast Fourier methodology, pattern recognition, computer and communication system performance modeling, simulation output analysis, and graphics system design.
Welch played a role in promoting simulation as a rigorous discipline during his service as the Simulation Department Area Editor of Operations Research (1983-1987). Welch's paper on the "use of fast Fourier transform for the estimation of power spectra" or Welch's method, has been cited over 5,000 times and remains widely used to reduce noise caused by imperfect and finite data.
Awards
Welch received the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society "Distinguished Service Award" in 2010 and its "Lifetime Professional Achievement Award" in 2013. The INFORMS Lifetime Professional Achievement Award cites Welch's 62-year career marked by "contributions of fundamental importance not only in the field of computer simulation but also in the broader fields of applied mathematics, applied statistics, computer science." Since the mid-1970s, states INFORMS, "Peter has made groundbreaking contributions to the theory and practice of computer simulation, to the dissemination of knowledge in that field, and to the development of simulation-related software systems."
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Wisconsin alumni
New Mexico State University alumni
Columbia University alumni
IBM Research computer scientists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nationality missing
University of Chicago alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20F.%20O%27Brien | Mary F. O'Brien is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the director for command, control, communications, and computers/cyber and chief information officer of the Joint Staff since August 5, 2022. She most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects Operations from 2019 to 2022. Prior to serving in that position, O'Brien commanded the Twenty-Fifth Air Force.
O'Brien is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. In April 2022, O'Brien was nominated for appointment as director of command, control, communications, and computers/cyber and chief information officer of the Joint Staff.
Effective dates of promotions
References
Air War College alumni
George Washington University alumni
Living people
Recipients of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Air Force Academy alumni
United States Air Force generals
United States Air Force personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Year of birth uncertain
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozella%20B.%20Smith | Rozella B. Smith (1911–1987) was an American herpetologist and data archivist and analyst.
Biography
Rozella Pearl Beverly Blood was an only child, born 18 May 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, to Charles Gillman Blood and Sarah Dorothy "Dollie" Sherman. She died in Boulder, Colorado on 15 December 1987.
Rozella Blood enrolled in Wichita High School in 1929 and then became a student at the institution then-called the University of Wichita, earning a B.A. in 1932 and an M.S. in entomology in 1933. She went on to attend the University of Kansas Medical School as a graduate student and assistant instructor in anatomy, neurology and histology, also working as a staff artist, from 1933 to 1937. After earning a teaching certificate in Kansas, she taught science and mathematics for a year at Altoona High School starting in the fall of 1937.
Researcher and teacher
In 1938, she married fellow graduate student and herpetologist Hobart M. Smith in Chicago, Illinois, and changed her name to Rozella B. Smith. They would go on to have two children, Bruce and Sally. Following the wedding, the pair left on a two-year research trip to Mexico, where they gathered more than 20,000 amphibians and reptiles, which were all preserved, tagged and transported to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. After the trip's conclusion, the Smiths moved to Washington for a year to oversee the integration of their specimens into the Smithsonian's collections.
At the University of Illinois, she attended classes as "an unattached graduate student" from 1953 to 1961. Later, in 1963, she earned a second a Master of Science degree, this time in library science. Then, she earned a second teaching certificate so she could lead classes in ancient history for a year at the University High School beginning in 1965.
After moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 1968, where she worked at the University of Colorado, she gave "guidance to undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members in her own and other departments, and to affiliates of the Center for Computer Research in the Humanities, in techniques of her special forte of fixed-field data processing and retrieval, and of correlation indexing." In August 1982, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Colorado in recognition of her work with undergraduate and graduate students.
Data analysis
Smith was working as head cataloger in the library of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1966, when she began customizing new cataloging software on computers that had just been made available.
She took on the job of digitizing the large quantity of data and graphics accumulated over nearly 30 years of collecting by herself and her co-author and husband. Throughout this time, supported from 1971 to 1985 with grants from the National Library of Medicine and several National Science Foundation divisions, she created the computational structures, input mechanisms, data analysis techniq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofqual%20exam%20results%20algorithm | In 2020, Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, exams and tests in England, produced a grades standardisation algorithm to combat grade inflation and moderate the teacher-predicted grades for A level and GCSE qualifications in that year, after examinations were cancelled as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
In late March 2020, Gavin Williamson, the secretary of state for education in Boris Johnson's Conservative government, instructed the head of Ofqual, Sally Collier, to "ensure, as far as is possible, that qualification standards are maintained and the distribution of grades follows a similar profile to that in previous years". On 31 March, he issued a ministerial direction under the Children and Learning Act 2009.
Then, in August, 82% of 'A level' grades were computed using an algorithm devised by Ofqual. More than 4.6 million GCSEs in England – about 97% of the total – were assigned solely by the algorithm. Teacher rankings were taken into consideration, but not the teacher-assessed grades submitted by schools and colleges.
On 25 August, Collier, who oversaw the development of Williamson's algorithm calculation, resigned from the post of chief regulator of Ofqual following mounting pressure.
Vocational qualifications
The algorithm was not applied to vocational and technical qualifications (VTQs), such as BTECs, which are assessed on coursework or as short modules are completed, and in some cases adapted assessments were held. Nevertheless, because of the high level of grade inflation resulting from Ofqual's decision not to apply the algorithm to A levels and GCSEs, Pearson Edexcel, the BTEC examiner, decided to cancel the release of BTEC results on 19 August, the day before they were due to be released, to allow them to be re-moderated in line with Ofqual's grade inflation.
The algorithm
Ofqual's Direct Centre Performance model is based on the record of each centre (school or college) in the subject being assessed. Details of the algorithm were not released until after the results of its first use in August 2020, and then only in part.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27s%20emergent%20cyclical%20levels%20of%20existence | Graves's emergent cyclical levels of existence (E-C theory or ECLET) is a theory of adult human development constructed from experimental data by Union College professor of psychology Clare W. Graves. It produces an open-ended series of levels, and has been used as a basis for Spiral Dynamics and other managerial and philosophical systems.
Names
Graves used a variety of names for his theory during his lifetime, ranging from the generic Levels of Human Existence in his earlier work to lengthy names such as Emergent Cyclical, Phenomenological, Existential Double-Helix Levels of Existence Conception of Adult Human Behavior (1978) and Emergent Cyclical Double-Helix Model of the Adult Bio-Pyscho-Social Behaviour (1981).
In his posthumously published book, The Never Ending Quest, Graves titled the chapter introducing the theory "The Emergent Cyclical Model," and used the phrases "emergent cyclical conception" ("E-C conception") and "emergent cyclical theory" ("E-C theory") repeatedly as short names throughout the subsequent chapter on verifying his work.
However, "levels of existence" is the more commonly known part of the phrase, and was used in the title of the peer-reviewed 1970 article in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, the single such academic psychology publication Graves made during his lifetime (although he also presented at academic conferences).
Graves himself considered the levels to be artifacts of the theory, therefore this article adopts the following conventions:
emergent cyclical theory (E-C theory) is used for the theory itself
levels of existence refers to the open-ended set of levels generated by the theory
Gravesian theory, Gravesian thought, or ECLET is used when such precision is not needed, or when there is need to discuss the body of work as a whole
Typographically, this article adopts the letter pair formatting chosen for The Never Ending Quest, which places the letters directly adjacent to each other (AN) rather than hyphenated (A-N). This is the form used in the manuscript abandoned in 1977. Graves used both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms, both before and after abandoning his manuscript. In contrast, in the same source "E-C" for "emergent cyclical" is always hyphenated.
Motivation and experimental design
Graves began his work in response to questions from his students regarding which of various conflicting psychological theories was correct. Rather than construct a hypothesis about how the conflicting systems could be resolved, Graves posed several open-ended questions and looked to see what patterns would emerge from his data. While not typical at the time, these approaches would later become known as grounded theory and inductive thematic analysis.
Graves settled on the following questions to frame his experiments:
What will be the nature and character of conceptions of psychological maturity, in the biologically mature human being, produced by biologically mature humans who are intelligent but r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Griesemer | Robert Griesemer (born 1964) is a Swiss computer scientist. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language. Prior to Go, he worked on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the Sawzall language, the Java HotSpot virtual machine, and the Strongtalk system.
Background
Robert Griesemer studied at the ETH Zurich, where he did his doctorate under the supervision of Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth on the subject of a programming language for vector computers. He works at Google.
Papers
Robert Griesemer, Srdjan Mitrovic, A Compiler for the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, The School of Niklaus Wirth (2000), pp. 133–152
Tushar Deepak Chandra, Robert Griesemer, Joshua Redstone, Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective (2006 Invited Talk), Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM press (2007)
Patents
Interpreting functions utilizing a hybrid of virtual and native machine instructions
Method and apparatus for dynamically optimizing byte-coded programs
Apparatus and method for uniformly performing comparison operations on long word operands
See also
Rob Pike
Ken Thompson
Brian Kernighan
References
External links
Video: Google I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Video: GopherCon 2015: Robert Griesemer - The Evolution of Go
Programming language designers
Swiss computer scientists
1964 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sa%20Piling%20ni%20Nanay%20episodes | Sa Piling ni Nanay is a 2016 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from June 27, 2016 to January 27, 2017, replacing The Millionaire's Wife.
Mega Manila, Urban Luzon, and NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
Episodes notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20Chain%3A%20The%20Cyber%20War%20on%20America%27s%20Elections | Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections is an American television documentary film produced by Ish Entertainment, Blumhouse Productions and HBO Films. The film examines the American election system and its vulnerabilities to foreign cyberwarfare operations and 2020 presidential election interference. The film also features hackers at the conference DEF CON in their attempts to test the security of electronic voting machines.
The film was released on March 26, 2020 by HBO Films.
In 2021 the film was nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary.
The film reveals the hacking attack on the presidential election in 2016, through the exclusive on-camera interview with the hacker known as CyberZeist. CyberZeist penetrated the Alaska Division Of Elections' state vote tabulation computer system on 6 and 7 November 2016, and on election day, 8 November 2016. CyberZeist successfully achieved this attack only weeks after the Alaska Division Of Elections admitted that Russian hackers had attempted to carry out a comparable attack.
The film's world famous elections cybersecurity expert, Harri Hursti, discovered that most hackers install a range of software that will be hidden in multiple components of a computer, so that even wiping the hard drive will not remove the hackers’ access. CyberZeist told him, “I’ll go under their radar even if they are 24/7 monitoring it [the vote-counting server].” When reviewing the hack on the Alaska Division of Elections’ servers, Hursti discovered that CyberZeist could read or write any file, including system files: In other words, CyberZeist could have planted vote-stealing software that might still be there, waiting for a command to activate. As Hursti showed in Kill Chain, threat-actors might not even be looking to change results in an election, but to sabotage democracy and bring the process into disrepute.
Reviews
Meanwhile A Deeper Danger Than The Pandemic - Forbes.com review of Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections
References
External links
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSVN_dgio8&t=7s
HBO original programming
HBO documentary films
Blumhouse Productions films
2020 documentary films
2020 films
2020s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollhunters%3A%20Rise%20of%20the%20Titans | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans is a 2021 American computer-animated science fantasy film directed by Johane Matte, Francisco Ruiz Velasco, and Andrew Schmidt, and written by Guillermo del Toro, Marc Guggenheim and Dan and Kevin Hageman (who also produced the film). It is the finale of the Tales of Arcadia franchise by Guillermo del Toro, which features the television series Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards. Following a year after the events of Wizards, the Guardians of Arcadia reunite for the final time as they battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who have reawakened the primordial Titans.
It was released on Netflix on July 21, 2021, and it received generally positive from critics but a negative to mixed response from audiences and fans, with praise given to the animation and voice performances but criticism for its ending.
Plot
Following the events of Wizards, master wizard Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan and former Arcane Order member Nari lure their pursuers Belloc and Skrael onto a moving subway train in New York City where they launch a surprise attack with former Trollhunter Jim Lake Jr. and his girlfriend Claire Nunez. Jim is wounded during the fight while his best friend Toby Domzaski accidentally snaps the train’s brakes, causing the train to be unable to stop, and complicating things for Prince Krel Taron, Steve Palchuck and Stuart as they are tasked to use 'trifurcate radiation' to negate the wizards' magic. The subway then breaks out of the station and almost collides into a shop in Times Square , narrowly avoiding the crowd. Then, Belloc and Skreal start a fire, in the middle of Times Square, with innocent civilians at risk. They threatened the lives of New York's people unless Nari comes with them. Douxie has a genius idea, and swaps his mind with Nari's. It ultimately ends in the Arcane Order capturing Nari, unaware that Douxie swapped minds with her prior to her capture, the group being detained by the police before they escape.
Jim recovers in a newly rebuilt Camelot while learning his mother Barbara is engaged to his former teacher and principal, the changeling Strickler. The group are then joined by Queen Aja Tarron and matured Eli Pepperjack, Steven unknowingly made himself pregnant when he kissed Aja for the seventh time. Blinky Galadrigal relays what he learned to reveal the Order's plan to awakening the Titans and have them converge at Arcadia Oaks, the center of the universe, to unite and recreate the world by destroying the current one. At that time, Order discovers Douxie’s spell and reverts the two back to their normal bodies, but not before Nari alerts Jim, "Trollhunter make the ninth configuration, Krohnisfere will make right". The heroes enter the Round Table and discover that the Arcane Order is already preparing a ritual to break the Genesis Seals. The heroes fail to prevent the ritual from carried out with each member of the order piloting their respective titan.
The heroes split up: Claire, Blinky, Douxie’s fami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare%20Change%20%28video%20game%29 | Spare Change is an action game designed by Dan and Mike Zeller and published in 1983 by Broderbund for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit home computers. A Commodore 64 version was written by Steven Ohmert and released the same year. Ports for FM-7 and Sharp X1 were released in 1985. The difficulty of Spare Change can be customized through seven settings at the "Zerks Control Panel".
Plot
Spare Change is a game in which the player is the owner of the Spare Change Arcade and is trying to keep two animated characters called Zerks from stealing enough game tokens to retire after escaping from their game.
Gameplay
The player is competing with the Zerks to collect tokens. If the Zerks get five tokens stored in their piggy bank, then they win and the game ends. If the player fills the two token bins with a total of ten tokens, then the level advances. The Zerks can be distracted by the jukebox, popcorn machine, and pay phone—each of which is operated with tokens. Activating the jukebox causes the Zerks to dance. The player also needs to keep the arcade operating by refilling the token machines and cash register. When ten tokens are collected, the Zerk Show booth is unlocked, which allows the opportunity to steal tokens from the Zerks.
Reception
David Stone reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "In sum, SCA is an exceptionally good game because it has increasing levels of difficulty, strategy is required to outwit the Zerks, and you are given rewards (the cartoons) for mastering each level." Keith Valenza called it "zany fun" in the August 1984 issue of Antic. He criticized the lack of visual detail in the Zerks and the slow progression of game difficulty, but liked the tuning afforded by the Zerks Control Panel.
Reviews
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games - Mar, 1984
References
External links
Review in Ahoy!
Review in Creative Computing
Review in Softalk
Review in Softline
1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in GAMES magazine
Review in Electronic Games
Article in Electronic Games
Review in Electronic Games
1983 video games
Alien invasions in video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Broderbund games
Commodore 64 games
FM-7 games
Sharp X1 games
Video games about video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%20Bridge%20%28software%29 | The Brooklyn Bridge from White Crane Systems was a data transfer enabler. Although it came with some hardware, it was the software which was the basis of the product. It also could transform the data's format.
Overview
The New York Times described its category as being among "communications packages used to transfer files." In an era of 300 baud, Brooklyn Bridge operated at "115,200 baud" so that a transfer which "at 300 baud took 4 minutes and 36 seconds" only needed
5 seconds. Unlike some communications packages, this one retains the original version-date, so as not to alarm people
when they seem to have what looks like an update, when it's not.
Description
Once the software is installed, users comfortable with typing the word "COPY" can do so as readily as they sneakernet. An earlier review described it as "less cumbersome than conventional communications software" The use of neither specialized hardware nor specialized software is ideal in an era when this can be done using online or other "outside" services.
See also
BLAST (protocol)
Kermit (protocol)
Zamzar
References
Communication software
Computer data
Data management
History of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Scullion | Toni Scullion is a Scottish computer science teacher who founded the charity dressCode, which aims to advance computing science in schools, with a particular focus on closing the gender gap. She also co-founded the Ada Scotland Festival, which "brings together partners involved in addressing the issue of gender balance in computing science education in Scotland."
She has taught computing science at St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian. She has received a number of accolades recognising her work to advance Computing Science and to improve diversity, including being nominated for a secondary teacher of the year at the Scotland Women in Technology awards three times, of which she has won twice and her charity dressCode has received multiple awards
Talks
Scullion has been a speaker at many events talking about her work with dressCode and closing the gender gap in computing science.
EduTech conference, 2019
MBN Solutions, "If they can't see it, they won’t be it"
Cyber Scotland connect, volume 5
Edinburgh's Women in Tech conference
PWC TechSheCan charter Scottish launch
Hoppers International Women's day conference, 2020
Institution of Engineering and Technology
West Lothian College, Interrupt19 Festival
Awards
Scullion has won a variety of accolades for her work in furthering women in technology throughout her career.
Champion of Champions at the Scottish Cyber Awards 2017.
Secondary teacher of the year at the Scottish Women in Tech Awards 2018
Cyber Security Teacher of the Year at the Scottish Cyber Awards 2019.
Secondary Teacher of the Year at the Scottish Women in Tech Awards 2019.
Highly Acclaimed Security Serious Unsung Heroes awards 2019
Gender Diversity Champion of the Year at the Scottish Women in Tech Awards 2019.
Secondary Teacher of the Year at the Scottish Women in Tech Awards 2019.
Women in Tech Employer awards - Best Mentor 2020
Women in Tech Excellence awards - Team Leader of the Year 2020
Women in Tech Excellence awards - Hero of the Year 2020
Security Serious - Best Educator Award 2020
Recognition
Scullion work in advancing computing science at schools and furthering women in technology has been recognised on a number of platforms.
Helped support USW efforts with the new degree to attract more female students (page 116)
Recognised in Edtech50 magazine
Motion in Scottish Parliament congratulating her on success at Cyber Security awards
Motion in Scottish Parliament commending her on launching her charity dressCode
Motion in Scottish Parliament congratulating her on success at Scotland Women in Technology awards
UN #sheinnovates campaign
Featured in project with Edinburgh University to help encourage more people to consider being a Computing Science teacher
Recognised in recommendations of Scottish Governments Scottish technology ecosystem: review
SC Magazine, Women of influence: 30 top cybersecurity leaders 2021
References
External links
dressCode official website
Q&A with Toni Scullion, Founder @ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%20mourras%20moins%20b%C3%AAte... | Tu mourras moins bête... (You will die less stupid...) (German name: Wer nicht fragt, stirbt dumm! (He who doesn't ask dies stupid!)) is a French television show on Franco-German TV network Arte. The animation series is based on the blog Tu mourras moins bête by French comic artist Marion Montaigne.
Plot
In the stories, the omniscient Professor Moustache (German name: Professor Schnauzbart) finds answers to curious questions from the world of science.
Synchronous voices
The synchronous work for the German version is carried out by Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion, and the dialogue direction is made by Olaf Mierau.
Episode list
Reception
On the occasion of the broadcast of the first episode of Tu mourras moins bête, in 2015, the cultural magazine Télérama rewarded the series with two T's,which in its rating system means We like a lot. The critic highlights in particular the author's sense of humor: "Marion Montaigne masters in any case perfectly the mechanisms of laughter: she is able to tease our armpits with the Higgs boson, the operation of a nuclear power plant or ophthalmology in animals.
In October, during the broadcast of the second season of the series, the Arte channel made known its satisfaction by noting nearly thirteen million views of episodes in total, and a strong acceleration of the audience of the Youtube channel Tu mourirras moins bête,whose number of subscribers has experienced "a very strong increase, from 33,000 to 177,000 subscribers, an increase of more than 500% in just over a month,"adding that "Every new video is in the top 10 of YouTube Uk Trends.
Literature
Marion Montaigne: La science, c'est pas du cinéma! Ankama, Paris 2011,
Marion Montaigne: Quoi de neuf, docteur Moustache? Ankama, Paris 2012,
Marion Montaigne: Science un jour, Science toujours! Delcourt, Paris 2014,
Marion Montaigne: Professeur Moustache étale sa science! Delcourt, Paris 2015,
External links
Tu mourras moins bête... on IMDb
References
2016 French television series debuts
2010s French animated television series
French-language television shows
French children's animated education television series
Science education television series
Television series based on French comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate%20of%20Origin | Plate of Origin is an Australian competitive cooking game show that was broadcast on the Seven Network. Celebrity chef Manu Feildel hosts the series alongside former MasterChef Australia judges chef Gary Mehigan and food critic Matt Preston. The series is described as "The World Cup of Cooking" or "Country of Origin on a Plate"', with teams competing by cooking international food cuisines.
The series was originally conceived and marketed as a spin-off edition of successful cooking game show My Kitchen Rules but was later developed as a separate program. It was originally scheduled to air following the 2020 Summer Olympics, but was slightly delayed due to the postponement of the Olympic Games because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic also impacted production, resulting in a lower than expected number of episodes being completed.
The series aired over four weeks, which began on Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 7:00pm. The series finale aired on Tuesday, 22 September 2020. Despite elevated expectations and the high profile of the judges, the series was a ratings disappointment. Seven did not renew the show for a second series.
Teams
List of the ten competing teams.
Elimination history
Competition details
Head-to-Head
During this round, two teams will compete head-to-head with each team both delivering a two-course dinner for the judges consisting of a main and dessert, they are then scored on both dishes by each three judges with the lower scoring team sent to an elimination challenge.
Australia vs China
Episode 1
Airdate — 30 August
Greece vs France
Episode 2
Airdate — 31 August
Cameroon vs Vietnam
Episode 3
Airdate — 1 September
India vs Lebanon
Episode 4
Airdate — 6 September
Italy vs Venezuela
Episode 5
Airdate — 7 September
Elimination Challenge
The five losing teams from the head-to-head rounds will face off in the elimination challenge where they will be tasked to create an Australian classic, the Meat pie, using the flavours of their nation. The team with the worst dish is eliminated. Two teams who each had the secondary worst dishes are both sent to a second round where they must each create a tart, the team with the worst dish from this round is also eliminated.
Episode 6
Airdate — 8 September
Quarter-finals
Round 1
Episode 7
Airdate — 14 September
Description - The first four of eight remaining teams enter the quarter-finals Fast and Furious round. Two teams go head-to-head to cook a chicken dish that celebrates a true taste of their cuisine in just 45 minutes. At the end of each round, two teams will be eliminated and two teams will go to the Semi-finals.
Round 2
Episode 8
Airdate — 15 September
Description - The remaining four of eight teams enter the quarter-finals Fast and Furious round. Two teams go head-to-head to cook a beef dish that celebrates a true taste of their cuisine in just 45 minutes. At the end of each round, two teams will be eliminated and two teams will go to the Grand Final
Fin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Network%20%28album%29 | Night Network is the eighth studio album by English band The Cribs. It was released on 20 November 2020 via PIAS, under the band's own Sonic Blew imprint. The album is the band's first fully self-produced album. The album was recorded over spring / summer of 2019, at the Foo Fighters' Studio 606 in Los Angeles, California, and at Halfling Studios in Portland, OR.
Background
Following the release of their fourth consecutive UK top 10 album 24-7 Rock Star Shit, the band almost immediately parted company with their long time UK management and found themselves stuck in what Gary (lead vocals, bass) described as "legal morass", unable to record or release new music. What followed was an eighteen month period of inactivity, resulting in 2019 being the only year since the band's inception in 2002 whereby the band did not play a live concert, following their final gig of the 24-7 Rock Star Shit tour in Glasgow in September 2018. In a position of uncertainty about how to continue beyond the already booked gigs, following a show where The Cribs had supported Foo Fighters in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium in June 2018, Dave Grohl learned of the band's struggles and offered for the band to use his recording studio Studio 606; "Forget about all that business stuff, just come out to L.A. and make a record at our studio".
During 2020, the band was active on Twitter to participate in Tim Burgess' "Listening Parties", offering behind the scenes insight for their most commercially successful album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever on 7 April. Due to the positive response, this was followed up with another listening party of fan favourite The New Fellas on 28 May.
On 8 June, the band announced on their social media pages, with 4 hours notice, their first live performance in nearly 2 years. This turned out to be a pre-recorded webcam broadcast of "Be Safe", featuring Lee Ranaldo performing spoken word, from the bands residences across the world (Ryan in Queens, New York, Gary in Portland, Oregon, Ross in Wakefield and Lee in Manhattan, New York).
On 12 August 2020, a day over three years since their last new material 24-7 Rock Star Shit, the band's social media profile pictures changed to a stylised test card. The following day on 13 August 2020, the band announced their return with a new song to be broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music. The song turned out to be lead single "Running Into You" and subsequently the band announced new album "Night Network" to be released on 13 November 2020, along with artwork, tracklisting and a video for "Running Into You" starring Sam Riley.
The album marks the return of Lee Ranaldo as guest musician, playing guitar on "I Don't Know Who I Am".
Released into the UK COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, the band had all of their scheduled headline touring to support the album delayed. The album release was therefore celebrated with a socially distanced performance at Liverpools legendary Cavern Club on the 21st November. This performance wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drovorub | Drovorub (, "woodcutter") is a software toolkit for developing malware for the Linux operating system. It was created by the 85th Main Special Service Center, a unit of the Russian GRU often referred to as APT28.
Drovorub has a sophisticated modular architecture, containing an implant coupled with a kernel module rootkit, a file transfer and port forwarding tool, and a command and control server. Drovorub has been described as a "Swiss-army knife for hacking Linux".
The U.S. government report that first identified Drovorub recommends the use of UEFI Secure Boot and Linux's native kernel module signing facility to resist Drovorub attacks.
References
Malware toolkits
Hacking in the 2020s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkada | Verkada Inc. is a San Mateo, CA-based company that develops cloud-based building security and operating systems. The company combines security equipment such as video cameras, access control systems and environmental sensors, with cloud based machine vision and artificial intelligence.
The company was founded in 2016. In 2021, it was the target of a data breach that accessed security camera footage and private data.
History
Verkada Inc. was founded in 2016 in Menlo Park, California by three Stanford University graduates: Filip Kailiszan, James Ren, and Benjamin Bercowitz, who were joined by Hans Robertson, co-founder and former COO of Meraki (now Cisco Meraki). Kaliszan, Ren, and Bercowitz had previously collaborated on Courserank, a class data aggregation platform that was acquired by Chegg in 2010.
Verkada exited the beta development stage in September 2017, with a product offering of two camera models.
In 2019, Forbes included Verkada in its Next Billion Dollar Startups list, as well as that year’s AI 50 list of most promising artificial intelligence companies. In April, the company announced a $40 million Series B funding round, which valued the company at $540 million.
In January 2020, the company raised $80 million in a Series C funding found led by Felicis Ventures, giving the company a $1.6 billion valuation. In spring 2020, the company launched its first access control device, the first move in a shift to moving beyond cameras, and integrating security cameras and locks onto a single platform. In June during the COVID-19 crisis Verkada instituted a program to offer free surveillance kits to businesses and healthcare institutions in order to remotely monitor high-risk locations. It also added features to let customers detect when crowds are forming, and to identify high traffic areas that might need more cleaning. In September, the company launched a line of integrated environmental sensors. In September, it introduced a line of environmental sensors for facilities monitoring.
In April 2021, news site Bloomberg News reported allegations by former employees accusing the company of having a "bro" culture, with lax device security, excessive focus on profit, and parties during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Bloomberg reporting, Verkada acknowledged an internal lapse in judgment, and was reportedly working to create a more inclusive work environment, including reviewing gender pay equity and implementing better training. In September, the company began donating security cameras to Asian Pacific American business communities, starting with the Oakland California Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, to address growing anti-Asian threats and violence against its members.
In August 2022, the company announced a mailroom product to help companies keep track of mail packages and shipments coming into their facilities. In September, the company raised $205 million in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to $3.2 billion.
Data breach
On March |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once%20Ni%C3%B1as%20y%20Ni%C3%B1os | Once Niñas y Niños (Eleven Girls and Boys) is a Mexican children's television network owned by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. It is a companion to the Canal Once public television network. Once Niñas y Niños is broadcast as a subchannel on the IPN's Canal Once transmitters and is a required channel for carriage on all pay television systems in Mexico; it also airs a programming block of children's programs on the main Canal Once channel.
History
Canal Once launched Once Niños as its first digital subchannel on August 24, 2015. The channel would serve as an extension of the main channel's original children's programming for children between the ages of four and twelve; overnight, between midnight and 6am, it would not air programming, but instead an image inviting kids to go to sleep.
The name was modified from Once Niños to Once Niñas y Niños on January 15, 2020, as part of an initiative to promote gender parity; the name in Spanish had previously read Eleven Boys.
Coverage
Once Niñas y Niños is available on the entire IPN-owned transmitter network, though not from SPR transmitters. It is also available as a subchannel of XHZHZ-TDT, the state-owned television station in the state of Zacatecas.
References
Television networks in Mexico
Public television in Mexico
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
2015 establishments in Mexico
Children's television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA%20AlphaDogfight | The DARPA AlphaDogfight was a 2019–2020 DARPA program that pitted computers using F-16 flight simulators against one another. The computers were managed by eight teams of humans, which competed in a single-round elimination for the right to battle a skilled human dogfighter. Heron Systems corporation wrote a deep reinforcement learning software tool that bested the human pilot by a score of 5–0. The tournament program was managed by the Applied Physics Laboratory. The trials took place in October 2019 and January 2020 while the finals were held in August 2020.
References
DARPA
Applied machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain%20Avril | Romain Avril is a French born celebrity chef based in Toronto, Ontario. He was a guest judge twice on Food Network Canada's Top Chef and a finalist on Food Network Chopped Canada. Recently he launched his YouTube channel Frenchy Cooks.
Early life and education
Avril grew up in his native country, France, where he started his passion for cooking at the age of 13. He enrolled in cooking school at Lycee Branly (La Roche sur Yon, Vendee, France) at 14 where he graduated with his BEP Cuisine in 2002 and his BAC PRO Cuisine in 2004. In 2006, Romain moved to Nantes and obtained his BTS in F&B and Hospitality Management. Finally, he graduated with his Degree in Chinese and French Gastronomy and Art of Dining in 2007 from University of Angers while getting the possible marks with his thesis highlighting the use of plants and flowers in French and Chinese cuisine.
Career
In 1999, Romain had his first real experience in a kitchen at a local restaurant in Les Sables d’Olonne. This couple of weeks in field would have him deciding to enroll in cooking school the following year. In 2001, he had his first internship at the Hotel Restaurant L’Ocean in St-Vincent sur Jard. From 2002 to 2004, Romain worked weekends while at school during the week at a local restaurant called La Flambée.
In 2004, Romain got his first Michelin experience working at Le Domaine de La Bretesche. He once again got a summer job here and spent 6 months altogether in the establishment. In 2005, he got his second one-star Michelin experience working at the Noga Hilton in Cannes. He also worked a summer job at The Walts in Disneyland Paris.
In 2007, Romain moved to the United Kingdom and started to work at The Greenhouse, a 2 Michelin star restaurant in Mayfair, London. From 2007 to 2009, he worked at The Langshott Manor, a Surrey restaurant pushing for its first Michelin star. From mid-2009 to late 2010, Romain moved to his last venue in the UK working as a Senior Sous-chef at The Branksome Hotel in Haslemere, Surrey. In September 2010, Romain took moved to Toronto on a twelve-month visa. He started to work a week later at a French Restaurant called Le St Tropez as an Executive Chef. He then got hired at Claudio Aprile's Colborne Lane as Chef de partie and was soon promoted to Sous Chef.
In 2014, Romain opened a new Claudio Aprile restaurant, known as Origin North, as an Executive Sous Chef and became the Chef de Cuisine. From 2014 to 2016, he took on the project to revive a popular French brasserie owned by Charles Khabouth, La Societé, as Executive Chef. In 2015, he participated as a candidate for Chopped Canada and was a finalist. In 2016, Romain was approached by Peter Freed to open the project, Lavelle, a 16000 square foot rooftop patio and restaurant in the heart of downtown Toronto's King West neighbourhood. This led him to being a guest judge on Food Network's Top Chef Canada.
In 2017, he got his first ambassadorships with Nespresso Canada (2020) and Monogram Canada. This led |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD%20Win%20Max | The GPD Win Max is a Windows-based palmtop computer manufactured by Gamepad Digital (GPD). It is the successor to the GPD Win 2, and was crowdfunded, like its predecessor. Announced in the first quarter of 2020, the crowdfunding campaign was launched on Indiegogo on May 18, 2020, priced at $779. The campaign concluded on July 1, 2020 with more than 3,500 backers having contributed more than $2.8 million dollars in total.
The GPD Win Max is rated to run AAA video game titles and emulate consoles from the sixth generation and earlier, with some support for consoles up to the eighth generation.
History
Following the GPD Win 2 in 2018, and the larger GPD Pocket 2 in 2019, GPD announced their largest device yet as the GPD Win Max. This device is the size of a Netbook, and retains GPD's signature embedded controller. The Win Max was leaked and received media coverage as early as April 2019, with conclusive coverage coming in April, 2020.
After the conclusion of the Indiegogo campaign on July 1, 2020 the price of the Win max rose from $779 to $800 while remaining on sale via Indemand until July 15.
Specification
Design
With the Win Max being GPD's largest gaming device as of release, there was room for additions such a scissor switch keyboard which would support touch typing, similar to what is available on their GPD Pocket Range, as well as a touchpad, and an 8" screen. This unit also introduces GPD's first instance of clickable analog sticks, one of which has been moved inside the ABXY buttons, as well as buttons with a very similar style to the PlayStation Vita (with a layout and markings similar to the Xbox). The Win Max speakers have been moved underneath the unit towards the user. Access to the M.2 drive has been reduced, as the unit must be disassembled to change this drive. An ethernet port has been added to the right side of the device, which would prevent a user from effectively holding the console while this port is in use.
This increase in size has also allowed an increase in cooling potential of the Max with dual fans and Heat pipes.
Otherwise, the Win Max maintains a similar design to previous units with a milled magnesium aluminum alloy chassis and an ABS plastic shell. With the far side of the device providing access to two USB-A ports, four shoulder buttons, a USB-C port as well as a Thunderbolt 3 port, and a small reset button. The back panel also includes another change: the win series' first full-size HDMI port.
Performance
Release and Reception
Win Max units started shipping to Indiegogo backers on August 17, 2020. Some users have reported failure of the included USB-C power supply.
See also
Comparison of handheld game consoles
GPD Win
GPD Win 2
GPD Win 3
GPD XD
PC gaming
Handheld game console
References
Handheld gaming computers
Indiegogo projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tig%20n%27%20Seek | Tig n' Seek (originally called Tiggle Winks) is an American animated television series created by Myke Chilian for Cartoon Network. Prior to the series, Chilian served as a designer on Rick and Morty as well as a writer and storyboard artist on Uncle Grandpa. The series is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was originally set to premiere on Cartoon Network, but was moved to the then-upcoming streaming service, HBO Max. The first season premiered on July 23, 2020, on the streaming service. The series was renewed for a second season which premiered on March 11, 2021. The series made its linear premiere on Cartoon Network on August 6, 2021, with some episodes aired out of order. The third season was released on September 16, 2021, only six months after the show's second season premiered. The fourth season was released on May 26, 2022. The show also was the last to feature the voice of Louie Anderson before his death on January 21, 2022. On August 18, 2022, the series was removed from HBO Max.
Premise
Tig n' Seek follows the adventures of Tiggy, an 8-year-old detective, and his cat Gweeseek as they solve cases and retrieve lost items at the Department of Lost & Found.
Cast
Main cast
Myke Chilian as Tiggy
Jemaine Clement as This Guy
Rich Fulcher as Boss
Wanda Sykes as Nuritza
Vatche Panos as Prangle Penguin
Kari Wahlgren as Gweeseek (pilot)
Supporting cast
Maryann Strossner as Mrs. Grendelsons
Vartui Rosie Chilian as Rosie Penguin
Grey DeLisle as Carla Tetrazzini
Louie Anderson as Chester
Kayla Melikian as Skippy
Guest stars
Kate Freund as Linda Buckles
James Adomian as H. G. Fluffenfold
Sam Jay as Captain Delilah
Zach Hadel as Darryl Barryl
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
Season 2 (2021)
Season 3 (2021)
Season 4 (2022)
Production
The show was originally part of the Cartoon Network Shorts Program in 2015, before being greenlight for a series in May 2019. Rough Draft Studios handles most of the animation for the series, which is done through traditional animation techniques at the studio in Seoul, South Korea.
International broadcast
In Canada, the series premiered on Teletoon on November 8, 2020.
References
External links
(archived)
Tig n Seek Online
2020 American television series debuts
2020s American animated television series
2022 American television series endings
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
Animated television series about children
Television series by Cartoon Network Studios
Cartoon Network original programming
English-language television shows
HBO Max original programming
Television series set on fictional islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau%20Bridge-class%20container%20ship | The Millau Bridge class is a series of 10 container ships that are now operated by the Japanese shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 13,900 TEU.
The first ships were ordered by K Line in 2013. In 2014, K line announced it had ordered 5 additional ships that would be delivered in 2018.
List of ships
References
Container ship classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Let%20the%20Love%20Begin%20episodes | Let the Love Begin is a 2015 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from May 4, 2015 to August 7, 2015, replacing Once Upon a Kiss.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Network%20for%20Music%20Education | The Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) is a state-sponsored organization that supports professionalization of music teacher education across eight countries in Northern Europe. It includes the 18 institutions in the Nordic and Baltic states that award professional postgraduate (Master) degrees in the specialized field of music education.
Network activities
Sponsored by the Nordplus program of the Nordic Council of Ministers, for over 20 years the NNME has annually offered an intensive joint Master course for ECTS credits, and supported 'mobility' exchange of music lecturers and Master students across the member institutions, enabling the sharing of research-based knowledge in this field. Founded by Torunn Bakken Hauge, since 2018 it is managed by David Hebert at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. NNME multi-year projects have focused on several themes over the years: democratic approaches, sustainability of music, universality of music, and digitization of heritage. The NNME has also produced a book, and various online resources related to musical heritage and music teaching in the Nordic-Baltic Eight nations.
International collaboration
Notable keynote speakers for NNME intensive courses have included Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Even Ruud, Sandra Trehub, Lucy Green, Thomas Adam Regelski, Randall Allsup, David J. Hargreaves, Marie McCarthy, Lauri Vakeva, Patrick Schmidt, Øyvind Varkøy, Catherine Grant, Bo-wah Leung, Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Juniper Hill, Mara Marnauza, Henrik Frisk, Stefan Östersjö, and Alex Ruthmann.
The NNME's institutional coordinators, across the eight Nordic and Baltic countries (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), have included notable music education researchers such as Lars Brinck, Cecilia Ferm Almqvist, Goran Folkestad, Eva Georgii-Hemming, Helga Rut Guðmundsdóttir, Marja Heimonen, Geir Johansen, Harald Jorgensen, Kai Karma, Kristi Kiilu, Mara Marnauza, Frede V. Nielsen, Fredrik Pio, Heidi Partti, Eva Saether, Ulrik Volgsten, and Maria Westvall, to name a few.
See also
European Association of Conservatoires
European Music Council
International Society for Music Education
International Society for Philosophy of Music Education
MayDay Group
Music Education
Music education for young children
Music school
Musicology
Research in Music Education
References
Music education organizations
Nordic organizations
Organizations with year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKW%20%28Dipolog%29 | 90.9 Magik FM (DXKW 90.9 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by Century Broadcasting Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at the 2nd Floor, SCT Bldg., General Luna St., Dipolog.
References
External links
Magik FM Dipolog FB Page
Radio stations established in 2012
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Norte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Baron%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | David Baron is an American computer scientist, web browser engineer, open web standards author, technology speaker, and open source contributor. He has written and edits several CSS web standards specifications including CSS Color Module Level 3, CSS Conditional Rules, and several working drafts. He started working on Mozilla in 1998, and was employed by Mozilla in 2003 to help develop and evolve the Gecko rendering engine, eventually as a Distinguished Engineer in 2013. He was Mozilla’s representative on the WHATWG Steering Group from 2017-2020. He has served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) continuously since being elected in 2015 and re-elected subsequently, most recently in 2020. In 2021 he joined Google to work on Google Chrome.
Notable inventions
Reftests — automated visual tests of browser engine rendering
CSS animations implementation in Gecko
Writing
Baron is the author and editor of several W3C web standards:
CSS Color Module Level 3 Recommendation
CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation
CSS Animations Level 1 Working Draft
CSS Overflow Module Level 3 Working Draft
CSS Transitions Working Draft
Baron was also a technical reviewer of the book "Transitions and Animations in CSS: Adding Motion with CSS".
References
External links
W3C Interview of David Baron
Mozilla developers
Free software programmers
Open source people
Computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Mozilla people
American bloggers
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Syrdal | Ann Kristen Syrdal (December 13, 1945July 24, 2020) was an American psychologist and computer science researcher who worked with speech synthesis technology. She developed the first female-sounding voice synthesizer.
Early life
Syrdal was born on December 13, 1945, in Minneapolis. Her father, Richard, was a physicist and engineer; her mother, Marjorie () was a sales clerk. She was raised by her mother after her father died when she was two years old.
Career
Syrdal became interested in psychology after helping with laboratory experiments involving rats, and subsequently completed a bachelor and then PhD degree in psychology.
After receiving her PhD, she began research work at the University of Texas at Dallas's Callier Center for Communication Disorders. In the early 1980s she received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, and began studying the mechanics of human speech at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After the grant ended, Syrdal took a job at AT&T Bell Laboratories. At the time, synthesized voices were primarily male. In 1990 she developed a system that could generate a female voice. In the 1990s she joined a project that developed a new method of speech synthesis; instead of creating the sounds artificially, the synthesis joined fragments of recorded speech to create new words and sentences. Sydral oversaw the initial recordings, of six women's voices. In 1998, AT&T's "Natural Voices" system won an international competition for speech synthesizers, using a female voice.
She was named a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2008, for her work in female speech synthesis.
Syrdal died of cancer on July 24, 2020, in San Jose, California.
Personal life
Syrdal married and divorced three times; at the time of her death she had been in a domestic partnership for 23 years. She had three children, a son and two daughters.
References
1945 births
2020 deaths
American women psychologists
Deaths from cancer in California
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Human–computer interaction researchers
Scientists from Minneapolis
University of Minnesota alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil%20Pump%202 | Lil Pump 2 is the third studio album by American rapper Lil Pump. It was released through Repost Network on March 17, 2023, serves as the sequel to his self-titled debut studio album (2017). Work on the album commenced in mid-2019 and concluded in 2023. The album consists of 16 tracks and features guest appearances from Smokepurpp, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Ty Dolla Sign, Rio Da Yung Og and G4 Boyz. The album was executive produced by CBMix. Production was also handled by Bighead, Carnage, Ronny J, among others. The album serves as the follow-up to Pump's second studio album, Harverd Dropout (2019), as well as No Name (2021), his mixtape with Ronny J.
It was supported by five singles – "All the Sudden", "Splurgin", "Mosh Pit", "She Know", and "Tesla". The deluxe version of the album, was released on September 15, 2023. Lil Pump 2 received positive reviews, however the album failed to land on any chart and was projected to earn significantly less units in its first week than his previous album Harverd Dropout.
Background and release
Lil Pump released his eponymous debut album in October 2017, which marked his official transition from being a SoundCloud rapper to being in the mainstream eye. Its sequel was announced in 2019 but was delayed in favor of a collaborative album with Ronny J titled No Name, which was quietly released on December 10, 2021, to no fanfare. It was later announced that the project was slated for release in August 2022, but was delayed because Garcia claimed to have lost the hard drive containing the album in a lake.
Pump first announced the album on May 27, 2019. Since announcing Lil Pump 2 in 2019, Lil Pump often teased new projects that have since been scrapped such as "Pump Rock" and "Red Ain't Dead", but in 2022, he confirmed that Lil Pump 2 was his next project. A slew of singles were released during the span of 2020 and 2022 to help tease the album, but none of the singles ended up making it on the album.
In August 2022, during an interview with Inked Magazine, Lil Pump originally confirmed that it would be dropping that same month, however, that ended up not being the case.
That same month, an early tracklist surfaced online, consisting of twenty-two tracks, with a wide variety of features in which the majority but a few features and songs teased were cut from the final tracklist. On March 10, 2023, Lil Pump took to Instagram to reveal the album's cover art and tracklist, with features ranging from YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Rio Da Yung Og, the previously mentioned Smokepurpp, Ty Dolla Sign, and G4 Boyz.
Singles and promotion
Pump released the album's lead single, "All the Sudden", on April 12, 2022. It was followed by the second single, "Splurgin", which was released on July 20, 2022. The third single, "Mosh Pit", was released on September 27, 2022. "She Know" featuring Ty Dolla Sign was released as the fourth on December 7, 2022. "Tesla" with Smokepurpp was released as fifth and final single for the alb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20%28crystallography%29 | Mercury is a freeware developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, originally designed as a crystal structure visualization tool. Mercury helps three dimensional visualization of crystal structure and assists in drawing and analysis of crystal packing and intermolecular interactions. Current version Mercury can read "cif", ".mol", ".mol2", ".pdb", ".res", ".sd" and ".xyz" types of files. Mercury has its own file format with filename extension ".mryx".
History
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) developed and launched two programs, named ConQuest and Mercury that run under Windows and various types of Unix, including Linux. ConQuest as a search interface to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), with Fortran code that performs a large variety of tasks, such as two dimensional and three-dimensional substructure searching. Mercury introduced as a crystal structure visualizer having the facilities for exploring the intermolecular contacts. The mercury program entirely written in object oriented C++. The C++ Qt library is used for building the GUI and OpenGL for three-dimensional graphics rendering. The primary objective of the first generation Mercury is to provide the three dimensional viewing of crystal structures with .MOL2, .PDB, .CIF, .MOL file formats. The first version have approximately 2800 users signed on to the Mercury e-mail announcement list. Mercury 2.0 launched in 2008, with additional tools to interpret and compare packing trends in crystal structures. Mercury version released in 2015 and later provides an additional functionality to generate 3D print. The current Version 4.0 of Mercury developed its visual interface up to a greater extent by comparing with its old versions.
Licence
Mercury is available as a free download software and full version Mercury with more advanced features available with a CSD licence, advanced features are disabled in the absence of such a licence. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) provides CSD licence to academic institutions.
See also
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Crystallographic Information File
International Union of Crystallography
Protein Data Bank (file format)
CrystalExplorer
References
External links
Computational chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20Against%20Violence%20Europe | Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) is a non-profit feminist women's organization which was established in 1994 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. It is the only European network focused exclusively on the elimination of violence against women and children, and it lobbies state governments and relevant bodies of the Council of Europe at the EU level to gain sustainability of women's services. In keeping with the aims of the United Nations, WAVE highlights ending all forms of violence against women and children in both public and private life, following document such as the Vienna Declaration, the Declaration on Violence Against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action. The current executive director of Women Against Violence Europe is Stephanie Futter-Orel.
Background and history
The inspiration for WAVE began in 1993 at the World Conference on Human Rights, which was held in Vienna. The conference explicitly named violence against women as a violation of human rights, which was outlined in the resulting Vienna Declaration. The Declaration defined violence against women, and called for states to take concrete steps to prevent it. Following this, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in December 1993. In October 1994, women gathered at the Vienna NGO Forum to prepare for the 4th UN Conference on Women in Beijing, where the idea of creating a European network dedicated to eliminating violence against women appeared. At the Beijing Conference from September 4 until 15 1995, progress was made on forming the network and initiators ran a working group, with the Platform for Action being developed as a result. The WAVE founding group held its constituent session during the World Conference and, in October 1996, WAVE held its first networking session in Utrecht. The group was originally named the “Information Centre Against Violence” before changing its title to “Women Against Violence” and then “Women Against Violence Europe”.
The organization's first meeting took place at the Intervention Centre Against Domestic Violence in Vienna in December 1996, and in 1997 WAVE held its first conference in Belgrade, Serbia. WAVE's work has been supported by the European Commission since 1997. In 2014, WAVE became a legal entity in Austria.
Organization structure
WAVE Network Members
WAVE consists of various European women's NGOs who seek to combat violence against women and children. There are currently over 150 members supported by WAVE who work at national level in 46 European countries. Members include network organizations, single organizations and individuals. Each country is represented by the delegate and co-delegate of their choice.
Board members
The WAVE board includes up to eight members serving for two years. Since January 2019, Pille Tsopp-Pagan and Marcella Pirrone have been serving as president and vice president accordingly.
Advisory board members
The adv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Kross%20%28EP%29 | Red Kross is the debut EP of Benestrophe, self-released in 1990.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Red Kross liner notes.
Benestrophe
Dwayne Dassing – programming, engineering, mixing, mastering
Gary Dassing – programming, engineering, mixing, mastering
Richard Mendez – vocals
References
External links
Red Kross at Discogs (list of releases)
1990 debut EPs
Benestrophe albums
Alfa Matrix EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Black%20Arts%20Alliance | The National Black Arts Alliance (NBAA), originally known as the Black Arts Alliance (BAA) when it was established in 1985, is a British national members' network committed to the development of arts and artists from Black cultural communities through advocacy, training and events. The Alliance was formed by a group of community artists attending the Sheldon Trust, "who considered that Black art was being marginalised in the UK by funders, art audiences, and politicians alike", and it became the UK's largest network of Black artists, working across all artforms with a wide range of both national and international artists (including Ntozake Shange, August Wilson and James Early).
A registered charity run by Black artists, NBAA is managed by a board of trustees and a development group of active members, with membership is open to Black artists, cultural activists and those who facilitate and enable their work.
Since the mid-1980s, poet and arts curator SuAndi has also been the organization's freelance Cultural Director. In 2015, she gave a paper to arts practitioners, funders, and policymakers that was described by campaigning group Platform as arresting, in which she spoke on "justice in arts funding" in the context of the NBAA's experience and the history of Black cultural contributions ("using Black in the correct political sense of cultural unity"), saying: "We have never wanted a separate sector but to be acknowledged as mature enough to handle our own budgets, to sit at the head table, not merely serve the after-dinner coffee. We are not refugees, there is no country called Refugee-land. Even at our very lowest those of us who have survived wars and famine we are still cultural ambassadors extending our arms to share with you. This landscape so green, this homeland which has benefited from its colonial past of conquer and plunder has never looked back and thought maybe it is over-time for recompense. Our cultural influences are visible ... in architecture, language, indeed at every level of arts, culture and society."
Library
The NBAA has donated its library, comprising "a broad and unique collection of arts, culture and literature", to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre at the University of Manchester.
References
External links
Official website
"National Black Arts Alliance", Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG).
1985 establishments in England
Arts organisations based in the United Kingdom
Black British culture
Arts organizations established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20Pearl | After Pearl is a 1984 video game published by SUPERware.
Gameplay
After Pearl simulates naval warfare in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
Reception
Bob DeWitt reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, stating "for those who are not dyed-in-the-wool wargamers, and who simply enjoy strategic planning and maneuvering without a lot of detail, this game may prove to be a mental exercise in the power of position."
References
External links
Review in Current Notes
Review in Atari Computer Enthusiasts
1984 video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Claudia%20Arias | Ana Claudia Arias (born 1973) is a Brazilian American physicist who is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers printed electronic materials and their application in flexible electronics and wearable medical devices.
Early life and education
Arias was born in Londrina, PR, Brazil. She studied physics at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, where she earned her master's degree in 1997. Arias moved to the United Kingdom as a graduate student, where she worked in the research group of Richard Friend. Her doctoral research involved investigations into phase-separation within conjugated polymer thin films used in solar cell and OLEDs. Friend and Arias filed several patents on printed electronic devices and materials.
Research and career
Arias worked as a postdoc in the Optoelectronics group at the University of Cambridge, where she helped with the formation of the spin-off company Plastic Logic. At Plastic Logic Arias was responsible for the semiconductor group. Arias left Plastic Logic in 2003, and joined the research team at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). At PARC, Arias was responsible for flexible and printed electronics. She worked on the fabrication of wearable sensors, including devices capable of preventing brain injuries in the battlefield. These devices worked by wirelessly monitoring of pressure and acoustic levels.
In 2011 Arias joined the University of California, Berkeley as a Professor of Flexible and Printed Electronics, where she serves as Faculty Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. At Berkeley, she started to develop sensing systems that look track a patient's vital signs, and provide instant feedback to healthcare professionals. As part of these efforts, she created a wearable system for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning of babies. Conventional MRI systems make use of hard, bulky metal radio frequency coils to receive the MRI signals. The coils are heavier than the babies being scanned, which means that babies must be anaesthetised to obtain clear images. In an attempt to mitigate this, Arias created a flexible, lightweight radiofrequency coil that could be embedded within a swaddle blanket. The flexible MRI receivers entered clinical trials in 2016.
Arias worked with Cambridge Display Technology to develop lightweight skin-like pulse oximeters. The oximeters make use of carbon-based (organic) semiconductors, which allow for the fabrication of low-cost electronic devices on flexible substrates. The sensor makes use of an array of red and near-infrared OLEDs and photodetectors to detect blood-oxygen levels. Beyond the measurement of blood oxygen, Arias has developed a multi-sensor platform capable of photoplethysmography and biomarker detection from human sweat. These sensing platforms allow insight into the physiological state of the human body. The sweat sensors developed by Arias consist of lactate, sodium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20the%20Black%20World%2021st%20Century | The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) (IBW21) is a resource center and database engine developing and strengthening the empowerment of black communities and organizations using collaborative, cooperative strategies and methods. The mission of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century is to elevate Black communities in the U.S. and internationally to achieve economic, social-cultural and political stakehold and help push for a better quality of life.
References
Black (human racial classification) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise%20Remacle | Françoise Remacle is a Belgian theoretical physical chemist whose research topics have included fast time scales in chemistry, the chemical interactions of quantum dots, and DNA computing. She is a director of research for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, and head of the Theoretical Physical Chemistry group at the University of Liège.
Education and career
Remacle was a student at the University of Liège, earning an undergraduate degree in chemistry in 1986, and a Ph.D. in 1990 under the supervision of Jean-Claude Lorquet. She also earned a habilitation from the University of Liège in 2001.
After postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she became a researcher (chargé de recherches) for the National Fund for Scientific Research, affiliated with the University of Liège, in 1993. She was promoted to director of research in 2005.
Recognition
Remacle was the 1996 winner of the Prix Louis d’Or of the Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. In 2009 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, "for studies of systems with a high density of states such as Rydberg systems, quantum dot arrays and peptides, and their utilization in molecular information processing and attoscience". In 2017, the European Physical Society named her as the recipient of their EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics, "for ground breaking contributions to interdisciplinary domains bridging Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, for her leading role in European and International research projects and for her excellent mentoring activity".
References
External links
Theoretical physical chemistry at the University of Liège
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian chemists
Belgian women chemists
University of Liège alumni
Academic staff of the University of Liège
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Semmel | Ralph D. Semmel is an American engineer and computer scientist. He became the eighth director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland on July 1, 2010.
Biography
A native of Monroe, New York, Semmel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Science degree in systems management from the University of Southern California, a Master of Science degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Career
Prior to joining APL, Semmel held leadership and technical positions with Wang Laboratories and the MITRE Corporation. He joined APL in 1986 after serving in the U.S. Army.
From 1997 to 2010, Semmel served as chair of the graduate programs in Computer Science, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Engineering for Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering’s ‘Engineering for Professionals’ program.
In 2017, Semmel was named an "International Business Leader" by the World Trade Institute. On May 24, 2019 Semmel delivered the commencement speech, and received an honorary associate of arts degree, at Howard Community College. The Daily Record recognized Semmel as an "Influential Marylander" in an issue released March 29, 2019 and as a top 30 "Power in Higher Education" in 2022.
Under Semmel's leadership, the Lab had a wide variety of accomplishments, including the successful Pluto flyby of APL-built New Horizons, and the data modeling for the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center and the successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which was the world's first planetary defense test mission. APL was also selected multiple times as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators and as ComputerWorld's Top 10 Best Places to Work in I.T.
Research
Semmel has published papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, database systems, and software engineering. His published works include research on a prototype query tool for the U.S. Army, automated query formation using an entity-relationship conceptual schema as well as a prototype interface that would allow better data retrieval from the Hubble Telescope. Semmel also did research on how to include context into conceptual schema, integrated reengineered databases to support data fusion, knowledge-based information access and spacecraft distributed modeling and simulation.
While at the University of Maryland, Semmel's dissertation discussed automated query formulation.
Semmel also served as the co-chair for the Defense Science Board's task force report on Next-Generation Unmanned Undersea Systems.
References
External links
21st-century American engineers
University of Southern California alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%20Shwedo | Bradford James Shwedo is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers/Cyber and Chief Information Officer of the Joint Staff. Prior to that, he was the Chief of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. He now serves as the first director of the United States Air Force Academy's Institute of Future Conflict.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Air Force generals
Lieutenant generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Rosa%20Elevated%20Walkway | The De La Rosa Elevated Walkway is a network of elevated pedway in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. Measuring , the structure is the longest elevated pedway in the Philippines. It runs mostly along De La Rosa Street in Legazpi Village of Makati Central Business District from Greenbelt at Ayala Center to Salcedo Street. It physically links buildings such as the Ayala North Exchange, Makati Medical Center, Eton Tower Makati, De La Rosa Car Park 1 & 2, The Enterprise Center Tower, and Greenbelt.
The pedway's construction began in early 1990s. The first phase of the pedway network was completed at the length of . In the mid-2010s, pedway was extended by with the new portion inaugurated in November 2016 but was completed in 2018.
References
Pedestrian infrastructure in the Philippines
Skyways
Buildings and structures in Makati
Transportation in Metro Manila
Makati Central Business District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames%20Stereo%20Pipeline | The NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline (ASP) is an open-source software package for photogrammetry. It can create digital elevation models and ortho images from stereo planetary data acquired with NASA spacecraft, including for the Moon, Mars, and all other bodies with a solid surface, and also from commercial Earth-orbiting satellites, such as Digital Globe and any vendors who support the RPC camera model, e.g., Pléiades and Cartosat. For stereo correlation ASP uses block-matching and semi-global matching. ASP also provides tools for correcting the input camera poses using bundle adjustment, registration of obtained terrain models using iterative closest point, and a tool for refining a 3D terrain model with shape from shading. ASP integrates the ISIS software for processing planetary data. Binary releases are available for Linux and OSX.
See also
Comparison of photogrammetry software
Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers
References
External links
Official website
Code repository
Documentation
Photogrammetry software
NASA
Free and open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Disney%20Channel%20%28Southeast%20Asia%29 | This is a list of final and former television programs on Disney Channel in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh.
Former Programming
Disney Channel Originals
Animated
Live Action
Disney XD Originals
Animated
Live-action
Acquired programming
Animated
Live-action
Notes
References
External links
Disney Channel Asia Schedule (except Singapore & Indonesia)
Disney Channel Indonesia Schedule
Disney Channel
Disney Channel related-lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20U%20Soon | C U Soon (stylized as c u soon.) is a 2020 Malayalam-language Indian screenlife mystery thriller film written and directed by Mahesh Narayanan. The film is set in a computer screen and stars Fahadh Faasil, Roshan Mathew and Darshana Rajendran, with Saiju Kurup, Amalda Liz and Maala Parvathi in supporting roles. Produced by Fahadh Faasil and Nazriya Nazim, the film was released on 1 September 2020 on Amazon Prime Video.
The film was shot on iPhone. Upon its OTT release, the film received positive reviews from the critics. It is India's first screenlife film.
Plot
Jimmy works as a Client Executive in Union National Bank in the UAE. He meets Anu on a dating app and falls in love with the timid girl. He chats with her on Hangouts and Duo, but she does not reveal the background of her room, mostly chatting from bed. Despite never meeting her in person, Jimmy introduces Anu to his mother and cousin and proposes to her via video call. Jimmy's mother is curious to know more about the girl and asks Jimmy's cousin Kevin, who is a cyber security specialist, for help to get more details about her. Kevin, though reluctant, agrees and finds some basic information about Anu by hacking into her IP address. Unknown to Kevin, his girlfriend Sanjana places a bug on Anu's phone in order to understand Kevin's sudden interest in Anu. Sanjana becomes jealous and possessive and keeps messaging him, infuriating Kevin.
Things get complicated when Anu calls Jimmy one day to inform him that she was hurt as her father Joseph beat her leading to a few injuries. Jimmy who loves Anu brings her to his own home and provides her with medicine prescribed by his friend Dr. Prashanth who advises Jimmy to report the incident to police and also tells him that live in relationships are illegal in UAE. Later, Jimmy confronts Anu's father for his behavior who apologizes to him and asks for Anu's phone number. Jimmy shares it with him and updates Anu about the confrontation. Anu leaves a suicide note-video to Jimmy and goes missing. The police get involved and takes Jimmy into custody.
To prove Jimmy's innocence and solve the mystery, Jimmy's family seeks the help of Kevin. Kevin hacks Anu's Facebook account and finds that she came to UAE via an agency as a housemaid. She is then sold as a prostitute and when she doesn't cooperate, gets beaten up. Joseph Tharakan, whom Anu calls father was not her father but a family man in Kerala and a pimp in Dubai, who hires girls from India for jobs as maids and when they come to Dubai, forces them into prostitution. Kevin informs Jimmy's mother about Anu's situation. Jimmy gets to know the truth about Anu and is angry with Kevin because he didn't tell him about this, especially since Jimmy thought Anu had cheated him.
Kevin finds out that Anu's last known location was the Indian Consulate General in Dubai. Further checking reveals that Anu reported the prostitution racket to the officials and all those involved were caught. Anu was sent back to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Half%20Sisters%20episodes | The Half Sisters is a 2014 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Afternoon Prime line up from June 9, 2014, to January 15, 2016, replacing Villa Quintana.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines. The series ended, but its the 84th-week run, and with 418 episodes. It was replaced by Wish I May.
Series overview
The series was originally set to air for 13 weeks. However, due to high ratings and feedback from viewers, the network decided to extend its run until January 2016. It was hailed as the network's longest running series for 2010's.
Episodes
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
November 2014
December 2014
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
November 2015
December 2015
January 2016
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20Modern | Not Modern is an EP by Babyland, released in 2008 by Mattress Recordings.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Not Modern liner notes.
Babyland
Dan Gatto – lead vocals, programming, mixing
Michael Smith – programming, mixing
Production and design
Larry Goetz – engineering
Giuliana Maresca – cover art, illustrations, photography
Release history
References
External links
Not Modern at Discogs (list of releases)
2008 EPs
Babyland albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20The%20Powerpuff%20Girls | Lego The Powerpuff Girls (stylized as LEGO The Powerpuff Girls) was a Lego theme based on the Cartoon Network television series of the same name created by Craig McCracken. It was licensed from Cartoon Network. Before the launch of the Lego The Powerpuff Girls theme, two packs were released for the Lego Dimensions toys-to-life video game in 2017. The theme was introduced in August 2018 and was discontinued by the end of 2019.
Overview
Lego The Powerpuff Girls was based on The Powerpuff Girls television show. The product line focuses on The Powerpuff Girls features Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three superheroes whose purpose is to reduce crime in between living a normal childhood. Lego The Powerpuff Girls aimed to recreate the main characters in Lego form, including Princess Morbucks, Octi, Donny the Unicorn, Mojo Jojo, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.
Development
Prior to the theme's official launch, The Powerpuff Girls was included in the Lego crossover video game, Lego Dimensions, with two packs being released in 2017. Lego The Powerpuff Girls was inspired by 2016 TV series The Powerpuff Girls. The Lego construction toy range was based on the TV series and developed in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises. The construction sets were designed to recreate the story and characters of the TV series in Lego form.
Launch
Following the released of the two packs for the Lego Dimensions toys-to-life video game in 2017. Lego The Powerpuff Girls theme was launched at the New York Toy Fair in 2018 with only two toy sets after the Lego Dimensions video game was released. As part of the marketing campaign, The Lego Group released two toy sets based on the television show. Each set featured different mech suit, playground, buildings and vehicles. Minifigures were released as well, including Princess Morbucks, Octi, Donny the Unicorn, Mojo Jojo, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.
Characters
Blossom: She is the leader of the Powerpuff Girls. She loves organization and hates when things are messy and out of order. She has a perfect attendance record and is an overachiever.
Bubbles: She is the sweetest of the Team. Bubbles is an animal lover and usually tries to save the day the nice way. She can be a bit naive but can also get angered very easily. When in bed she has Octi by her side.
Buttercup: She is the toughest yet goofiest of the Team. Buttercup is a tomboy who loves to get into action and likes to play sports, hanging out with boys and having fun, She has a fear of spiders. She has a temper that can usually get out of control. Her trail is green with little triangles.
Octi: Bubbles' cute and cuddly purple stuffed octopus.
Donny the Unicorn: He is a young unicorn who is best friends with Bubbles.
Mojo Jojo: He is considered the arch-enemy of the Powerpuff Girls. He was originally the Professor's lab assistant and his main goal is none other than to destroy the Powerpuff Girls.
Princess Morbucks: She is another enemy of the Powerpuff G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DABUS | DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) is an artificial intelligence (AI) system created by Stephen Thaler. It reportedly conceived of two novel products — a food container constructed using fractal geometry, which enables rapid reheating, and a flashing beacon for attracting attention in an emergency. The filing of patent applications designating DABUS as inventor has led to decisions by patent offices and courts on whether a patent can be granted for an invention reportedly made by an AI system.
DABUS itself is a patented AI paradigm capable of accommodating trillions of computational neurons within extensive artificial neural systems that emulate the limbo-thalamo-cortical loop within the mammalian brain. Such systems utilize arrays of trainable neural modules, each containing interrelated memories representative of some conceptual space. Through simple learning rules, these modules bind together to represent both complex ideas (e.g., juxtapositional inventions) and their consequences as chaining topologies. An electro-optical attention window scans the entire array of neural modules in search of so-called “hot buttons,” those neural modules containing impactful memories. Detection of such hot buttons within consequence chains triggers the release or retraction of synaptic disturbances into the system, selectively reinforcing the most salient chain-based notions.
History in different jurisdictions
Australia
On 17 September 2019, Thaler filed an application to patent a "Food container and devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention," naming DABUS as the inventor. On 21 September 2020, IP Australia found that section 15(1) of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) is inconsistent with an artificial intelligence machine being treated as an inventor, and Thaler's application had lapsed. Thaler sought judicial review, and on 30 July 2021, the Federal Court set aside IP Australia's decision and ordered IP Australia to reconsider the application. On 13 April 2022, the Full Court of the Federal Court set aside that decision, holding that only a natural person can be an inventor for the purposes of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) and the Patents Regulations 1991 (Cth), and that such an inventor must be identified for any person to be entitled to a grant of a patent. On 11 November 2022, Thaler was refused special leave to appeal to the High Court.
European Patent Office
On 17 October 2018 and 7 November 2018, Thaler filed two European patent
applications with the European Patent Office. The first claimed invention was a "Food Container" and the second was "Devices and Methods for Attracting Enhanced Attention."
On 27 January 2020, the EPO rejected the applications on the grounds that the application listed an AI system named DABUS, and not a human, as the inventor, based on Article 81 and Rule 19(1) of the European Patent Convention.
On 21 December 2021, the Board of Appeal of the EPO dismissed Thaler's appeal from the EPO' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flix%20%28programming%20language%29 | Flix is a functional, imperative, and logic programming language developed at Aarhus University, with funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, and by a community of open source contributors. The Flix language supports algebraic data types, pattern matching, parametric polymorphism, currying, higher-order functions, extensible records, channel and process-based concurrency, and tail call elimination. Two notable features of Flix are its type and effect system and its support for first-class Datalog constraints.
The Flix type and effect system supports Hindley-Milner-style type inference. The system separates pure and impure code: if an expression is typed as pure then it cannot produce an effect at run-time. Higher-order functions can enforce that they are given pure (or impure) function arguments. The type and effect system supports effect polymorphism which means that the effect of a higher-order function may depend on the effect(s) of its argument(s).
Flix supports Datalog programs as first-class values. A Datalog program value, i.e. a collection of Datalog facts and rules, can be passed to and returned from functions, stored in data structures, and composed with other Datalog program values. The minimal model of a Datalog program value can be computed and is itself a Datalog program value. In this way, Flix can be viewed as a meta programming language for Datalog. Flix supports stratified negation and the Flix compiler ensures stratification at compile-time. Flix also supports an enriched form of Datalog constraints where predicates are given lattice semantics.
Overview
Flix is a programming language in the ML-family of languages. Its type and effect system is based on Hindley-Milner with several extensions, including row polymorphism and Boolean unification. The syntax of Flix is inspired by Scala and uses short keywords and curly braces. Flix supports uniform function call syntax which allows a function call f(x, y, z) to be written as x.f(y, z). The concurrency model of Flix is inspired by Go and based on channels and processes. A process is a light-weight thread that does not share (mutable) memory with another process. Processes communicate over channels which are bounded or unbounded queues of immutable messages.
While many programming languages support a mixture of functional and imperative programming, the Flix type and effect system tracks the purity of every expression making it possible to write parts of a Flix program in a purely functional style with purity enforced by the effect system.
Flix programs compile to JVM bytecode and are executable on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
The Flix compiler performs whole program compilation, eliminates polymorphism via monomorphization, and uses tree shaking to remove unreachable code.
Monomorphization avoids boxing of primitive values at the cost of longer compilation times and larger executable binaries. Flix has some support for interoperability with programs written in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbase%20%28disambiguation%29 | In chemistry, a superbase is a compound that has a particularly high affinity for protons.
Superbase may also refer to:
Superbase (database), an end-user desktop program first associated with the Commodore 64 computer
Its homophone Superbass may refer to:
SuperBass, a 1997 jazz album by Ray Brown, Christian McBride, and John Clayton
"Super Bass", a 2010 song by Nicki Minaj
See also
Brooklyn Superbas, an earlier name of the American baseball team the Brooklyn Dodgers
Superbus (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20K.J.%20Lin | Dennis K.J. Lin is a Taiwanese-American statistician, who works in the areas of design of experiments, quality assurance, data mining, and data science.
Education and early life
He was born in Taiwan, ROC, and obtained a bachelor's degree (in mathematics) in June 1981 from National Tsing-Hua University, ROC. He received a Ph.D. (in statistics) in December 1988 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in computer science.
Career and research
From 1995 to 2020, Lin worked as a statistician for Pennsylvania State University, and became a university distinguished professor. Since July 2020, he has been the head at the department of statistics at Purdue University.
Lin published a total of over 200 papers in professional journals.
Lin is known for his contributions to the design of experiments, industrial statistics and Ghost Data.
Professional fellowships
Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2013)
Elected Fellow, American Society for Quality (2006)
Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association (1998)
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (1994)
(Elected) Fellow, Royal Statistical Society (1988)
See also
Quality assurance
Design of experiments
References
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
National Tsing Hua University alumni
Taiwanese statisticians
Purdue University faculty
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20African%20Climate%20Justice%20Alliance | Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) is a network of more than 1000 organisations from 48 countries in Africa. It is based in Kenya and consists of NGOs, grassroots organisations, trusts, foundations, indigenous communities, farmers, community-based organisations, and religious organisations. It advocates for climate and environmental justice and it is a people-centered consortium. It was co-founded by climate activists Augustine B Njamnshi and Mithika Mwenda.
Objectives
The PACJA wants to promote poverty reduction and develop positions based on equity, which are relevant for Africa in international climate change politics. The network wants a global environment without the threats of climate change and advocates for a development process based on equity and justice for all human beings. The goal of the network is to be an African platform for civil society organisations to make information available, to find strategies, to engage with African governments and other important stakeholders, and to stand for justice and fairness in the international climate change dialogue. It aims at creating sustainable development processes in order to protect both the climate, the human rights, and the pro-poor growth.
Activities
In 2017, the PACJA created a petition to stop France and the EU from interfering in the African Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI). The AREI unit is based at the African Development Bank (AfDB) headquarters in Abidjan. Organisations from across dozens of countries supported the petition, including groups such as Greenpeace Mauritius, Somali Climate Change Network, Human Rights and Legal Aid Network of Sudan, Journalists for Climate Change in Nigeria, and Young Volunteers for Environment Zambia. These groups were worried about the EU and France interfering with investment plans in developing renewable energy in Africa.
The PACJA created the ACCER Awards in 2013 to reward and sustain excellence in environmental journalism.
References
Climate change
Non-profit organizations based in Africa
Renewable energy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haris%20Doukas | Haris Doukas (born 12 May 1980 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek mechanical engineer and Professor of energy policy and management at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Doukas is the Mayor-elect of Athens and will assume office on 1 January 2024.
Haris Doukas field of expertise is related with the development of decision support systems for energy and climate policy, placing the human factor at the core of the modelling processes and policymaking towards sustainable development.
His integrative frameworks are based on co-creation with citizens, along with co-ownership where feasible. H. Doukas uses linguistic variables for capturing the essence of human behaviour in energy and climate policymaking, enabling the design of policies that listen to “what people want” and “what people can do”, which is fundamental for their success.
He has more than 150 scientific publications in international scientific journals with reviewers is the abovementioned fields, he is the co-author of the Greek Book “Multiple Criteria Decision Models for Energy and Environmental Systems”, the co-Editor of the open access Book “Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy: Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society” and the co-author of the English Book “Multicriteria Portfolio Construction with Python”. Moreover, H. Doukas is an Associate Editor of the Operational Research International Journal and the General Secretary of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS).
Haris Doukas participates as an expert at the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network (WREC / WREN) where he has received a special award for his contribution, the World Energy Council (WEC) and the EU GCC Clean Energy Technology Network.
On 3 August 2023, Doukas launched his campaign to be elected mayor of Athens in the 2023 Greek local elections under the banner of PASOK – Movement for Change. Running under the Athens Now party, Doukas campaigned to develop Athens into a green city. His campaign was successful, defeating the incumbent mayor Kostas Bakoyannis in the runoff.
Bibliography
See complete bibliography: Haris Doukas Google Scholar page
The top 5 of his most cited articles up to 29 July 2021, are listed below:
Haris Doukas, Konstantinos D Patlitzianas, Konstantinos Iatropoulos, John Psarras. "Intelligent building energy management system using rule sets". Building and environment Journal, Volume 42, Issue 10, 1 October 2007, Pages 3562-3569
Haris Ch Doukas, Botsikas M Andreas, John E Psarras. "Multi-criteria decision aid for the formulation of sustainable technological energy priorities using linguistic variables". European journal of operational research, Volume 182, Issue 2, 16 October 2007, Pages 844-855
Haris Doukas, Christos Nychtis, John Psarras. "Assessing energy-saving measures in buildings through an intelligent decision support model". Building and environment Journal, V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Biorisk%20Advisory%20Council | The Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC), a Division of ISSA, is a network of international leaders in the field of microbial-pathogenic threat analysis, mitigation and response and recovery. GBAC provides services intended to assist individuals, institutions, companies and governments in assessing preparedness. It also offers education and training to respond and recover in critical biohazardous events with an emphasis on microbial containment and psychological surety.
History
GBAC started from a conversation among professionals in biosafety, infection control, forensic restoration and bio-decontamination and cleaning, in which they identified gaps within those industries that could be closed through collaboration.
In 2019, GBAC merged with ISSA, the Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association. Patricia Olinger serves as GBAC’s Executive Director. Olinger is a Registered Biosafety Professional, a Certified Forensic Operator and Certified Bio-Forensic Restoration Specialist, and has held board and committee leadership positions with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Biological Safety Association and the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association.
Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, an emergency management and infectious disease expert, serves as GBAC’s Director and Jeff Jones is the Director of Forensic Restoration. GBAC’s Scientific Advisory Board is composed of industry professionals.
In May 2020, GBAC introduced the GBAC STAR facility accreditation program on cleaning, disinfection and infectious disease prevention.
GBAC STAR Accreditation
GBAC STAR establishes requirements to assist facilities with work practices, protocols, procedures and systems to control risks associated with infectious agents, such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. It provides third-party validation to ensure the implementation of protocols across 20 program elements with specific performance and guidance criteria.
Organizations that have committed to achieve or have earned GBAC STAR accreditation include:
American Airlines
Chase Center in San Francisco
The Dubai Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta
Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL)
Hyatt Hotels
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas
Orange County Convention Center
Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas
Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey
STAPLES Center in Downtown Los Angeles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune%20Miku%3A%20Colorful%20Stage%21 | Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, known in Japan as , abbreviated to PJSK or Proseka, subtitled Brand New World from its 3rd anniversary, is a rhythm game developed by Colorful Palette, a studio of CyberAgent's Craft Egg, who also was involved in development before it shifted to Colorful Palette, and published by Sega Corporation. The game is a spin-off from Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series, and features Crypton Future Media's virtual singers Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin and Len, MEIKO, and KAITO, alongside the cast of 20 original human characters that are split into five units, each with a unique theme. Set in the real world where Virtual Singers only exist as fiction, the characters come across another world called "Sekai," where various "true feelings" are projected. The game was released for Android and Apple devices on September 30, 2020. It was developed with Unity, and uses the Piapro Studio NT engine for voice synthesis.
Sega released an English-language server of the game worldwide on December 7, 2021, with expansion to 5 countries in Southeast Asia in September 25, 2023. The Taiwanese server, published by Ariel Network, was released on September 30, 2021. A Korean server was released on May 20, 2022 in South Korea, published by Nuverse.
Setting
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage is set in the real world, specifically in Shibuya, Tokyo. In this game, Hatsune Miku and her friends are famous fictional singers existing in the real world as Virtual Singers. They sing songs from creators all over the world, but they also exist in a mysterious world different from the real world that is created from a person's "true feelings", featuring various visual appearances based on the person. There are as many Sekai as there are emotions, and its form changes depending on the person's emotions. Therefore, the focus of the game is on the original characters and their journeys to find their "true feelings" with the help of the Virtual Singers.
In order to enter Sekai, one must find and play the song "Untitled." This silent song has no melody or lyrics and is created at the same time as the Sekai, and is mysteriously inserted on their devices. It can be anything, such as a game console, a smartphone, a smartwatch, a TV, a tablet, and a computer. When they play an "Untitled" song, they can travel between the real world and the Sekai. As one is able to discover their true feelings, the song will contain a playable melody and lyrics, and well as its title.
Plot
Each of the five groups and teams has their own story, focusing on their journey to convey their "true feelings":
Leo/need: Ichika Hoshino wishes to recover her memories with her childhood friends Saki Tenma, Shiho Hinomori, and Honami Mochizuki to make them come together again, as their friendship had become strained in the aftermath of various circumstances that occurred during middle school. She entered Sekai and met a punk-rock-styled Miku, who told her to convey her feelings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiant%20Earth%20Foundation | Radiant Earth Foundation is an American non-profit organization founded in 2016. Its goal is to apply machine learning for Earth observation to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. The foundation works on developing openly licensed Earth observation machine learning libraries, training data sets and models through an open source hub that support missions worldwide like agriculture, conservation, and climate change. Radiant Earth also works on a community of practice that develop standards, templates and APIs around machine learning for Earth observation. According to scholar David Lindgren, the foundation „serves to make satellite imagery widely accessible and usable for development practitioners".
The Foundation is funded by Schmidt Futures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, McGovern Foundation and the Omidyar network
See also
Notes
External links
"Satellites and AI Can Help Solve Big Problems—If Given the Chance" Retrieved 2022-07-11
"The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world" Retrieved 2022-07-11
"Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in NASA" Retrieved 2022-07-11
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20Hruby | Aubrey Hruby is an investor and co-founder of InsiderPR and Africa Expert Network, and she speaks and writes regularly on African business issues in media. As a Senior Fellow at the Africa Center, Atlantic Council, she has worked with government agencies and policy-makers on business and is an advisor on Africa-focused investments.
Hruby earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from Georgetown University, where she currently teaches. She is the co-author of the award-winning book The Next Africa (Macmillan, 2015)., a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Young Leader at the Milken Institute.
In 2018, Hruby co-founded Tofino Capital, a venture capital firm that targets early-stage startups in emerging markets.
References
Living people
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Georgetown University alumni
Georgetown University faculty
Atlantic Council
American writers
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea%20G.%20Sikes | Rhea Gaynelle Sikes (June 14, 1922 – November 5, 2019) was an American television producer and educator. She worked for networks including PBS and local television stations WQED and WNET.
Early life and education
Rhea Sikes was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. She attended Greensboro High School and went to University of North Carolina Women’s College. During her undergraduate studies, Sikes’ artwork was displayed several times, including works with media lithographs and oils. There she earned her bachelor’s degree in Art and minored in Drama. She earned her Master’s of Arts in Television in 1954 from Syracuse University. With this educational experience, she had a strong background in script-writing, producing, and directing.
Career
Sikes started her television career working for WFMY-TV in Greensboro, NC. She also traveled the United States to present educational programs for the Good Teeth Council.
In July 1955, Sikes began her career at WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as producer of Television Teaching Demonstration. She then transitioned to the position of director of educational services. Sikes produced programming for the first telecast classrooms to elementary schools for the Metropolitan School Service in 1955. She helped sustain WQED's instructional television service for almost twenty years, helping to plan and encourage the use of instructional television in Pennsylvania and in the wider Eastern Educational Network.
In 1970, Sikes produced the television series “The Turned on Crisis” at WQED about the issues of drug abuse in the Pittsburgh area; the series won the 1970 Community Service Award competition. In 1971, Sikes was the director of educational activities at WQED. During her time working at WQED, Sikes served many positions, including assistant program manager, producer, director of school services, and executive producer for educational programming.
In 1973, began working at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and became the first coordinator of educational services at WNET. In this position, Sikes reviewed, evaluated, and coordinated informational and educational programming presented to general and classroom audiences. In 1978, Sikes left her job at PBS to become an independent consultant. She consulted for other television stations, school systems, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Sikes was honored with the George Peabody Award for television education (1971), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Community Service Award (1971), and a citation for contributions to the advancement of education from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (1974). Sikes was a member of the organization American Women in Radio and Television.
Sikes died on November 5, 2019.
List of works
Robertson, James; Sikes, Rhea G. (1978). KRMA: its present status, its future potential : a study for the Denver Public Schools. Denver, CO: Robertson Associates, Inc. OCLC 842289606.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona%20Gurkewitz | Rona Gurkewitz is an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for her work on modular origami. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Western Connecticut State University, and the former head of the department of computer science there.
Origami
Gurkewitz became interested in origami after meeting origami pioneer Lillian Oppenheimer at a dinner party and becoming a regular visitor to Oppenheimer's origami get-togethers. She has written several books on origami, exhibited works at international origami shows, supplied a piece for the set design of the premiere of the Rajiv Joseph play Animals Out of Paper, and has made modular origami quilts as well as polyhedra.
Books
With retired mechanical engineer Bennett Arnstein, Gurkewitz is the coauthor of books including:
3D Geometric Origami: Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1996)
Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality (Dover, 2002)
Beginner's Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra: The Platonic Solids (Dover, 2008)
With Arnstein and Lewis Simon, she is a coauthor of the second edition of the book Modular Origami Polyhedra (Dover, 1999), extended from the first edition by Arnstein and Simon.
References
External links
Rona Gurkewitz' Modular Origami Polyhedra Systems Page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women mathematicians
American women computer scientists
Western Connecticut State University faculty
Origami artists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiya%20Saito | is a Japanese foil fencer.
He won the individual silver medal at World Championships in 2017.
References
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1997 births
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Fencers at the 2018 Asian Games
Living people
Japanese male foil fencers
Asian Games medalists in fencing
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in fencing
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic fencers for Japan
21st-century Japanese people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20East | Greatest Hits Radio East is a regional radio network serving the East of England, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
Stations
After acquiring several businesses in early 2019, in May 2020, Bauer announced many of their radio stations would rebrand and join the Greatest Hits Radio network, including six stations in the East of England:
Essex - Greatest Hits Radio Essex
Ipswich & Suffolk
Norfolk & North Suffolk - The Beach, North Norfolk Radio and Radio Norwich 99.9
King's Lynn and West Norfolk - KL.FM 96.7
Cambridgeshire
Peterborough
Programming
The station carries primarily a schedule of networked programming, produced and broadcast from Bauer's Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester studios.
On weekdays, the station opts out of networked programming for a regional three-hour afternoon show from 1-4pm with Heidi Secker, originating from Bauer's Norwich studios.
News
Bauer's Norwich newsroom broadcasts local news bulletins hourly from 6am to 7pm on weekdays and from 7am to 1pm at weekends. Headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, alongside traffic bulletins. National bulletins from Sky News Radio are carried at other times.
References
External links
Official website
Bauer Radio
Greatest Hits Radio
Radio stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89%20News%20%28TV%20channel%29 | The RTÉ News channel is an Irish free-to-air news television network operated by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). The channel launched as RTÉ News Now available exclusively online on 12 June 2008. The channel began broadcasting as a free-to-air channel on 29 October 2010 on Saorview.
The channel broadcasts free-to-air and commercial-free. It is available in Ireland and globally online, on mobile phones and an iPhone/iPad application is also widely available free. It is operated by RTÉ's department RTÉ News and Current Affairs and broadcasts in the Irish, English and ISL languages.
The channel was rebranded from RTÉ News Now to RTÉ News channel in August 2020 with minor changes to its programming line-up. As part of the rebrand, the channel is complemented with a new-look app.
History
RTÉ News NOW was originally available only to online users of the RTÉ website and on mobile phones when the channel launched on 12 June 2008. Availability of the channel improved during test trials of Saorview in December 2009. The channel was made available since May 2010 on train services within Dublin city and surrounding regions under a special agreement between CIÉ and RTÉ. Previously, Sky News provided such a service.
Since October 29, 2010 the channel is available free-to-air to 98% of homes throughout the Republic of Ireland through Saorview. Upon the announcement in February 2011 that RTÉ News NOW would become a permanent fixture to the Saorview line-up a number of media organizations criticized such a move claiming RTÉ would continue to have a monopoly over news output within Ireland.
In 2017, Head of News and Current Affairs at RTÉ Jon Williams suggested that he could discontinue RTÉ News Now to save money and therefore in August 2020, he re-branded the channel as RTÉ News.
In 2022 RTÉ Radio developed two visual news rooms from which Morning Ireland and This Week broadcast from.
Advertising
RTÉ News is currently one of two RTÉ channels that does not carry advertising. The other being RTÉjr. In January 2015, it was reported that RTÉ intend to ask the Minister for Communications to allow them carry advertising on RTÉ News Now as part of an overhaul of the service. Such a proposal needs government approval.
Format
The channel regularly simulcasts live news bulletins and current affairs programmes as they are broadcast on RTÉ One, and also that of the children's news programme RTÉ news2day which airs on RTÉ2. The remaining programming on the channel serves as a replay service of the most recent news, sport and weather bulletins, the streaming of raw feeds of breaking news stories and 'filler' programmes such as 'news headlines'. The channel also airs the latest breaking news stories from Ireland and around the world.
Scheduling
The channel airs live news programmes such as Six One, as they are broadcast on other RTÉ channels, along with weather forecasts. During other periods, live current affairs programmes such as Prime Time are shown. Outside of th |
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