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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine%20Safety%20Net | Vaccine Safety Net (VSN) is a global network of websites aimed at helping people judge the quality of online information on vaccine safety. It was established in 2003 by the World Health Organization (WHO), which had previously set up the independent Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), prompted by concern from public health officials regarding the dissemination of potentially harmful health information via the web. By appraising websites, using credibility and content criteria defined by GACVS, the VSN has been developed to deliver information that is easy to access and up-to-date. As of 2020, the initiative has 89 member sites in 40 countries and 35 languages.
Prior to inclusion in the list, each website is assessed for its credibility, accessibility, content and design. A peer-reviewed study of 26 websites listed by VSN in 2008 noted "the transparency of financing, the lack of links to the pharmaceutical industry, the transparency of site management and responsibility and the proven scientific quality and constant updating of contents" of its assessed resources.
Purpose
The WHO's VSN is a "trusted" website for reliable vaccine related sources. The purpose of the VSN is to evaluate the variable reliability of on-line vaccine related information and address concerns caused by websites which circulate partially complete or misleading content, including speculative rumours or falsified research, which may consequently damage vaccination programmes. It aims to regularly review the vaccine related content disseminated on-line by different health-related organizations around the world, thereby validating them by including them on their list as websites that observe "good information practices".
History and membership
In developed countries, more than 90% of young people use the internet regularly, running the potential for misinformation related to vaccination reaching a large proportion of society. This has also been challenging in low and middle income countries. In 1999, concern from public health officials regarding the dissemination of potentially harmful health information via the web led the WHO to establish the 'Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety' (GACVS), the purpose of which is to deliver an assembly of independent professionals that can advise both the public and those involved in national vaccine policy, after assessing evidence pertaining to vaccine safety concerns that require a quick and impactful response. In 2003, the WHO created the VSN, devised to "help counteract misinformation about vaccines" and deliver easily accessible information to up-to-date accurate evidence, by appraising websites that provide material on vaccination. The credibility and content criteria are defined by GACVS. As a result, the reliability and standards set by WHO's GACVS and available at VSN has been created to help people judge the quality of the website information they read.
In the year of its creation, the VSN approved 23 w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment%20March%3A%20Get%20Your%20Knee%20Off%20Our%20Necks | The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks was an event held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020. The march was organized by the National Action Network, and was led by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The march's speakers included relatives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, among others. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke virtually.
See also
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
References
External links
2020 in Washington, D.C.
August 2020 events in the United States
Protests in Washington, D.C.
Shooting of Jacob Blake |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforger%20%2788 | Reforger '88 is a 1984 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations. It takes place in a near-future setting and covers a hypothetical conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact nations.
Gameplay
Reforger '88 is a computer wargame that simulates the hypothetical invasion of West Germany by the Warsaw Pact alliance, met with retaliation by NATO forces.
Development
Reforger '88 was designed by Gary Grigsby and released in 1984, the same year he launched Objective: Kursk and War in Russia. Reforger was built with the game engine and mechanics from Kursk.
Reception
Jasper Sylvester reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Reforger '88 is an excellent game using a free-flowing and user-friendly system which is satisfying to play from the initial boot to the last turn of battle. It is the product of an incredible amount of research and even a perusal of the list of weapon systems makes some Pentagon budget considerations seem clearer."
In a 1985 survey of computer wargames for Current Notes, M. Evan Brooks called Reforger '88 a flawed title that "suffer[s] from the same defects as Objective: Kursk", although he considered it "somewhat more successful". In his similar 1989 survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play called Reforger "somewhat dated" and offered it a middling score.
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1991
Jeux & Stratégie #31
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
References
External links
Review in Family Computing
Article in Tilt (French)
1984 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Cold War video games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Stock%20Market | Video Stock Market is a video game published by Computer Adversary Publishing.
Gameplay
Video Stock Market is a game in which stock market trading is simulated in an investment strategy game.
Development
The game was developed by Computer Adversary Publishing, a company based in Iowa. It was the first release by the company.
Reception
Jasper Sylvester reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "It's a quick (averages 1 and 1/2 hr.) and easy game, useful as a light and friendly evening among other "beer and pretzel" games."
References
Business simulation games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%20at%20Waterloo | Napoleon at Waterloo is a 1984 video game published by Krentek Software.
Gameplay
Napoleon at Waterloo is a game in which the player controls Napoleon while the computer commands the forces of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.
Reception
Mark Bausman reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The mechanics are easy to master and the game responds quickly to the joystick."
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Oct, 1990
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in ROM Magazine
1984 video games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Napoleonic Wars video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the Netherlands
Works about the Battle of Waterloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20South | Greatest Hits Radio South is a regional radio station serving the South of England, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
Coverage
The seven local stations broadcast to Salisbury, Dorset, West Sussex, North Hampshire, Berkshire, Aylesbury and Oxfordshire from central studios in Manchester, Liverpool and London, and a regional studio in Segensworth, Fareham for opt-outs.
History
After acquiring several businesses in early 2019, in May 2020, Bauer Radio announced many of their radio stations would rebrand and join the Greatest Hits Radio network, including several stations in the south of England:
Jack FM in Oxfordshire
Eagle Radio in Guildford
Spire FM in Salisbury
Wessex FM in Dorchester
Mix 96 in Aylesbury
Spirit FM in Chichester
The Breeze in Andover, Newbury, Basingstoke and Reading, branded as Greatest Hits Radio Berkshire & North Hampshire
Jack FM rebranded and joined the network on 30 October 2023 after being acquired by Bauer.
Programming
During the week most programming is shared with the Greatest Hits Radio network. A regional three-hour afternoon show is broadcast from studios in Segensworth near Fareham by former Spire FM presenter Martin Starke.
Each localised area in the South has their own latest local news, weather and travel news updates.
Technical
References
External links
Greatest Hits Radio
Bauer Radio
Greatest Hits Radio
Radio stations in the United Kingdom
2020 establishments in the United Kingdom
Radio stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataGraph | DataGraph is a graphing and data analysis software application for the macOS operating system, developed by Visual Data Tools in Chapel Hill, NC. DataGraph is used for creating publication quality graphics, particularly for research and science.
Visual Data Tools was founded in 2002. In 2005, Visual Data Tools was awarded an Apple Design award for the Best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution for DataTank. In 2006, Visual Data Tools released DataGraph, initially called DataPlot. In 2011, DataGraph was among the first applications available on the mac App store.
Both DataTank and DataGraph were created by David Adalsteinsson, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
See also
List of statistical software
References
DataGraph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Sports%20%28EP%29 | Water Sports is an EP by DIN, released in 1993 by DOVe.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Water Sport liner notes.
DIN
Jean-Claude Cutz (as Din) – vcoals, synthesizer, drum programming
Additional performers
Dave Rout – drum programming (A1)
Release history
References
External links
1993 EPs
DIN (musician) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum%20EP%201.0 | Ultimatum EP 1.0 is the second EP by SMP, self-released in 1997.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Ultimatum EP 1.0 liner notes.
SMP
Jason Bazinet – lead vocals, drums, drum programming
Xian Di Marris – drums
Additional performers
Mike Ditmore – drums, drum programming
Release history
References
External links
Ultimatum (Catastrophe Version) at iTunes
1997 EPs
SMP (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot%20%28EP%29 | Shot is a remix EP by SMP, released on August 12, 2011, by Music Ration Entertainment.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Shot liner notes.
SMP
Jason Bazinet – lead vocals, programming
Release history
References
External links
Shot at Discogs (list of releases)
Shot at iTunes
Remix EPs
2011 EPs
SMP (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Scouts%20%28Thailand%29 | The Cyber Scouts is a Thai state-sponsored youth-based online vigilante network that German academic Wolfram Schaffar has characterised as 'reminiscent of fascist vigilante groups'. It was founded in 2010 and currently operates under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society. The program trains high school and university students nationally in ultra-royalist ideology via workshops. Its two main objectives are indoctrinating Thai youth with ultra-royalist values and creating a youth-based nationwide network dedicated to detecting and reporting lèse-majesté violations through online surveillance.
History
The Cyber Scouts have been described as "reminiscent of the anticommunist, right-wing paramilitary Village Scouts of the 1970s" in that both programs are state-backed. The program was launched in December 2010 by the conservative Abhisit Vejjajiva administration, under the Thai Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Information and Communication Technology. It was shut down in 2011 during the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, but it was reactivated by the military regime following the 2014 coup. As of 2016, 112 schools were involved, with over 120,000 members.
Objectives
According to a 2010 Ministry of Justice training document, the Cyber Scouts originally had five objectives:
1. To create a Cyber Scout volunteer network... that observes... [online] behavior that is deemed a threat to national security and to defend and protect the royal institution.
2. To collect the work of the Cyber Scout volunteers.
3. To set up a network of Cyber Scout volunteers to contact.
4. To promote the moral and ethics with the help of the volunteers, to ensure the correct behavior, build reconciliation and awareness towards the use of information with regard to morality and safety of individuals in society.
5. To promote and support to various sectors of society to careful and responsible usage of information technology.
In the 2014 reboot, the objectives were "to jointly observe threats and monitor informations that are dangerous to the [monarchy] institution [and] national security, (...) to handle online information appropriately, as well as to incite to youth [with that knowledge] so that they will use technology the right way".
Tactics
Participants are encouraged to register on a website and are trained in one-day workshops. They receive ideological instructions on the history and importance of the Thai monarchy and are trained in how to use Facebook; they are incentivized through a points-based system. The Cyber Scouts' tactics includes befriending potential suspects on Facebook and initiating conversations on sensitive topics. They then report alleged violations of lèse-majesté.
See also
Lèse-majesté in Thailand
Nawaphon
Red Gaurs
Rubbish Collection Organization
Social Sanction (Thailand)
Village Scouts
References
Further reading
Sombatpoonsiri, Janjira; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2018). "Conservative Civil Societ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Witness%2C%20Take%20Action | Bear Witness, Take Action is a pair of American livestreams, the first one streamed on YouTube on June 13, 2020, as part of a YouTube Original programming supporting the Black Lives Matter movement in correspondence with the George Floyd protests. It gathers notable people of color in the United States such as Patrisse Cullors, Rashad Robinson, Alicia Garza, Prince Ea, John Legend, etc., and hosted by Keke Palmer and Common. It centers around the history and experiences as people of color in America, as well as exploring ways to raise awareness and end the long inequality. On November 17, 2020, it was announced that a sequel titled Bear Witness, Take Action 2: Continuing The Movement will premiere on December 5, 2020. It lasted for two hours.
Background, production, and release
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes, as Floyd begged for his life and repeatedly said "I can't breathe."
As a result, an ongoing series of protests and civil unrest began, starting in Minneapolis, as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. "I can't breathe" became a human rights slogan, heard chanted in nearly all protests created nationally and globally.
Representing YouTube, CEO Susan Wojcicki says that YouTube will be doing a US$100 million "project" to "amplify and develop the voices of [b]lack creators and artists and their stories," which will be a YouTube Original program "bring[ing] together creators, artists, influential public figures and prominent activist voices for roundtable discussions and musical performances." Viewers can also choose to donate to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) via an icon set to the livestream. In the livestream's teaser. A day later, ET Canada reported a US$1 million of donations to the nonprofit via the livestream, which reflects donations received by Google announced on June 3. YouTube's monetary response is also similar to that of PayPal, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Nike in response to the protests. In addition to YouTube's BLM response, content policies will also be updated, preventing hate videos from spreading. A previous programming, Dear Class of 2020, also briefly highlighted the protests.
A 39-second teaser was posted two days before. The teaser also featured an icon to the EJI. The teaser featured several lonely-looking shots, backgrounded with protesters chanting. The livestreamed is then streamed on July 13, 2020, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Summary
The livestream is divided into 21 sequences, or chapters.
The second chapter, titled 20 Days of Unrest, is a grayscale-altered mashup of footages related to racism in America. Attorney Bryan Stevenson talks about the history of slavery and racism in the United States. Soledad O'Brien interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kimberly Foster, and Rashad Robinson around the theme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20VTV%20Awards | The 2020 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV 2020 - Dấu ấn 50 năm) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2019 to July 2020. Different from previous years, Voting Round 2 was opened 3 days after Round 1 closed. This year, the ceremony is also an occasion to celebrate 50 years of VTV. It took place on September 5, 2020 in Hanoi and hosted by Thành Trung, Phí Linh & Trần Ngọc.
For the first time, there are two versions of the ceremony to be aired: TV version on VTV1 channel and digital/backstage version on VTV Go mobile app.
Winners and nominees
(Winners denoted in bold)
Presenters/Awarders
Special performances
References
External links
List of television programmes broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
2020 television awards
VTV Awards
2020 in Vietnamese television
September 2020 events in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassadors%20of%20Nazi%20Germany | The German foreign office (Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) had a sizable network of diplomatic missions when Nazis came to power in 1933. While it was a deeply traditional and elitist organisation within the German civil service, it enthusiastically helped the Nazis prosecute an ambitious foreign policy.
Listed here are the ambassadors and other senior diplomats of the AA during the Third Reich, including those with the ranks of envoy (Gesandter), ambassador (Botschafter) consul and consul general as well as chargé d'affaires (Geschäftsträger)
Abyssinia
(1932–1935)
(1935–1936)
Afghanistan
(1933–1936)
(1937–1945)
Albania
(1930-1936)
(1936-1941)
(1941-1944)
Argentina
(1933–1942)
(1942–1944)
Austria
(1931–1934)
Franz von Papen (1934–1938)
Belgium
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1931-1934)
(1934-1936)
(1936-1938)
(1938-1940)
(1940-1943)
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy)
(1942-1943)
(1943-1945)
Bolivia
Maximilian König (1932–1936)
(1938–1942)
Brazil
(1933–1937)
Karl Ritter (1937–1938)
Curt Max Prüfer (1939–1942)
Bulgaria
Eugen Rümelin (1923–1939)
Herbert von Richthofen (1939–1941)
Adolf-Heinz Beckerle (1941–1944)
Chile
Hans Kurd von Reiswitz und Kaderzin (1932–1934)
(1936–1943)
China and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China
Oskar Trautmann (1935–1938)
Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1941-1943)
Ernst Woermann (1943-1945)
Consul General in Canton
Felix Alternburg (1934-1938)
Franz Siebert (1939-1945)
Consul General in Hankou
Enno Bracklo (1938-1947)
Consul in Jinan
Franz Siebert (1925-1938)
Consul General in Nanjing
(1941-1944)
Consul in Qingdao
Enno Bracklo (1932-1938)
Consul General in Shanghai
Hermann Kriebel (1934-1937)
(1939-1945)
Walther Dietrich Hoops (1945)
Consul General in Tienstin
(1936-1941)
Fritz Wiedemann (1941-1945)
Colombia
Erdmann Karl Maria von Podewils-Dürniz (1928–1934)
Werner von Hentig (1934–1936)
Wolfgang Dittler (1936–1941)
Croatia, Independent State of
Hermann Neubacher (1941–1941)
Siegfried Kasche (1941–1945)
Cuba
(1937–1939)
Czechoslovakia
Walter Koch (1920-1935)
Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938)
(1938–1939)
Danzig, Free City of
(1933-1936)
(1936-1938)
Martin von Janson (1938-1939)
Denmark
Herbert Freiherr von Richthofen (1930–1936)
Cécil von Renthe-Fink (1936-1942)
Werner Best (1942-1945)
Ecuador
Karl Pistor (1932–1936)
Eugen Klee (1936–1942)
Egypt
Eberhard von Stohrer (1926–1936)
Estonia
Otto Reinebeck (1932–1936)
Hans Frohwein (1936–1940)
Finland
Hans Büsing (1932–1935)
Wipert von Blücher (1935–1944)
France
Roland Köster (1933–1936)
Johannes von Welczeck (1936–1939)
Otto Abetz (1940–1944) ambassador
invested by Germany
Consul General in Algiers
Erich Windels (1926–1934)
Hermann Terdenge (1934–1937)
Johannes Erhard Richter (1937–1939)
Consul General in Damascus
(1934–1935)
Ferdinand Sailer (1935-1939)
Consul in Hanoi
(1928-1936)
Neumann |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe%20Entrepreneur%20Alliance | The Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance is a US-based business network for African entrepreneurs that provides funding, university scholarships and a support ecosystem. The Alliance was founded by Okendo Lewis-Gayle and is supported by Cisco and the Oppenheimer Generations Foundation, amongst others. Members of the Harambe Alliance have raised over $500 million from Google Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Alibaba to support their ventures.
Partnerships
The Alliance is supported by and is partnered with:
Cisco Systems
Oppenheimer Generations Foundation
The IDP Foundation
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Yale School of Management
Saïd Business School
Notable Members
Eyram Tawia, founder of Leti Arts
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, former MD of Flutterwave and co-founder of Andela
Lungisa Matshoba, CTO of Yoco
Kelechi Ofoegbu, COO of Impact Hub Accra
Adeteyo Bamiduro of Max.ng
References
Venture capital
Investment funds
International development in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoly%20Pride | Idoly Pride (stylized as IDOLY PRIDE) is a Japanese idol-themed multimedia project created by CyberAgent's subsidiary's QualiArts, Straight Edge, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan subsidiary's MusicRay'n, with character designs by QP:flapper.
The series has been adapted into two manga series. An anime television series by CAAnimation and Lerche aired from January to March 2021.
Plot
A small entertainment company, Hoshimi Production, based in Hoshimi City, produced one of the rising stars of the idol industry: Mana Nagase. One day, she died in a road accident on her way to the Venus Grand Prix finals, devastating the people around her, but also inspiring some of them to become idol at the same time.
A few years later, Hoshimi Production holds an audition to find a new idol. Kotono Nagase, the younger sister of Mana, appears on stage along with Sakura Kawasaki, a girl with a voice just like Mana's. Starting with just Kotono and Sakura, and later totaling to a group of ten girls which are divided into two groups: Moon Tempest and Sunny Peace, they all gather and start living together in a dormitory.
The story also features TRINITYAiLE, who want to surpass Mana, in addition to LizNoir, who have an extraordinary rivalry with Mana. Standing up to each other and competing with the pride in their hearts, they aim for their best as the emotions surrounding Mana and the rivalry become entangled.
Characters
Hoshimi Production
is a small talent agency focused on idols, located in the suburbs of Kanto, headed by Shinji Saegusa.
Mana was a high school student who instantly became popular the moment she debuted as a solo idol. She personally asked her high school classmate, Kōhei Makino, to be her manager at Hoshimi Production because he sat next to her. She was to appear in the Venus Grand Prix finals, only to be killed in a traffic accident while on her way there. She later appears in front of Kōhei as a ghost. It is implied that she had feelings for Kōhei, which are confirmed in the last episode as she kisses him before returning to the afterlife.
Mana's classmate at high school and later manager at Hoshimi Production. A kind of person who cannot say "no" when asked, he is looking after the girls at Hoshimi Production, along with Mana's spirit, whom he can see. Kōhei also serves as the protagonist in the game version, albeit unnamed and is simply referred as "Manager". It is implied that he had feelings for Mana.
Hoshimi Production's President. He used to work for a Van Production, a bigger entertainment company, but decided to quit as he desires to have his own company. He was the one who first scouted Mana, and later employed Kōhei as her manager at her request.
Idols
The ten girls associated with Hoshimi Production are later divided into two groups: and . Together, they are collectively referred to as Hoshimi Production.
Kotono is Mana's younger sister who decided to become an idol to live her sister's dream. A stoic and serious person, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets%20United | Pets United is a 2019 computer-animated comedy film animated film directed and written by Reinhard Klooss and starring Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan and Jeff Burrell. It serves as a standalone sequel to the 2010 film Animals United.
The film premiered in China on November 8, 2019. In the United States, Netflix added the film to its streaming service on September 11, 2020, and was panned by critics.
Cast
Patrick Roche as Roger (speaking voice and vocal effects), a Robin hood-esque blue heeler, and the main protagonist.
Stephen Mangan as Bob, a robot with feelings "that was not the most successful business idea".
Natalie Dormer as Belle (speaking voice and vocal effects), a Siamese cat.
Eddie Marsan as Frank Stone, Roger's long-lost owner, and The Mayor, Frank Stone's evil cyborg counterpart, the main antagonist.
Jeff Burrell as Ronaldo, a black and white Italian-accented poodle.
Harvey Friedman as Walter, a pug.
Ian Odle as Sheriff Bill, a robot policeman who chases after Roger but fails at every turn, and Brian, a elderly Chinese-accented tarsier.
Bryan Larkin as Beezer, a Scottish-accented proboscis monkey, and as Slomo, a red panda obsessed with smoothies.
Naomi McDonald as Joy, and Chichi, a Chihuahua.
John Tara as Tiger, a hamster.
Andres Williams as Edgar, a guinea pig with a pink ribbon, and as Victor, a dim-witted Komodo dragon.
Teresa Gallagher as Sophie (speaking voice and vocal effects), a hillbilly bushpig.
Frank Schaff as Asgar (speaking voice and vocal effects), a Russian-accented Siberian tiger.
Tom Haywood as Stan, a hysterical spotted hyena.
Mike Ryan as Boris, an armored robot who is one of The Mayor's henchmen, until he turns against him.
Plot
In a place called Robotic City, Roger tries to get himself some chicken drumsticks, but he instead successfully gives boxes of cat food to stray cats in the alley. Then, he gets taken to a place called Pampered Pets where he encounters various pets. They have a mission to stop the mastermind of chaos.
Release
Pets United was released on November 8, 2019 in China.
Reception
Pets United earned $4,440,894 at the global box office.
Roger Moore of "Movie Nation" gave it 1.5 out of 4 and wrote : "Could struggle a bit even to keep a toddler distracted for 92 minutes."
References
External links
Animated films about dogs
Animated films about cats
Films about animals
Animated films about robots
German animated feature films
2019 animated films
2019 computer-animated films
Films directed by Reinhard Klooss
Films based on works by Erich Kästner
Films about pets
2019 films
Films scored by David Newman
Animated post-apocalyptic films
2010s English-language films
2010s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXTM | N93 (DXTM 93.3 MHz) is an FM station owned and operated by M.I.T. Radio Television Network. Its studios and transmitter are located at Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Jimenez, Misamis Occidental.
References
External links
N93 FB Page
Radio stations in Misamis Occidental
Radio stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%20Jing%20Society | The Hua Jing Society is an organization based in Hong Kong that serves to network princelings. It is a social club for princelings who have studied outside of China and then moved to Hong Kong.
Founding by Fang Fang
The organization was started in 2011 by Fang Fang, who was CEO of JP Morgan's China division. Fang resigned in March 2014 while JP Morgan was under investigation for hiring princelings, and was quoted as saying "You all know I have always been a big believer of the Sons and Daughters program." Fang was involved in the giving Gao Jue, son of Gao Hucheng, a job within JP Morgan even though Gao Jue was deemed unqualified by the bank. The New York Times stated that Fang's "deep network of contacts in Chinese government and business circles helped introduce a flow of lucrative underwriting and advisory roles to the bank."
Two days after his resignation, ICAC searched JP Morgan's office in Central to get documents from his office. Fang was arrested by ICAC in May 2014 and released on bail, with the condition that he not leave Hong Kong. In 2016, JP Morgan paid USD $264 million to the United States to resolve allegations it hired Chinese princelings. In 2017, The Federal Reserve of the United States said it was seeking to fine Fang Fang $1 million and permanently ban him from working in the banking industry for his involvement in a corrupt hiring program.
History
According to the 2019 book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong, the organization participates in activities that emphasize cultivating interactions between Hong Kong and mainland China. It was a supporter of CY Leung's election in 2012, and after he became Chief Executive, many members of the Hua Jing Society were appointed into government committees. Examples listed by the book include Fang Fang, who was appointed to the government's Commission of Strategic Development twice, spanning 2013 to 2017. Another member, Judy Chen Qing, served in the Central Policy Unit, the Major Sports Events Committee, and the Civic Education Committee. Chen Shuang, another member, was appointed to the newly-created Financial Services Development Council in 2013.
Notable members and description
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong provides backgrounds about some members as of May 2017, including but not limited to the following:
Chairman:
Fang Fang- In 2008 he became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in 2010, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the All China Youth Federation
Chair:
Judy Chen Qing- Daughter of Chen Zuo'er, who was the Deputy Head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. Her husband is the nephew of Li Ka-Shing. She is a member of the 11th committee of All-China Youth Federation.
Executive Chair:
Zhang Yi- member of the Shanghai Political Consultative Conference and All-China Youth Federation
Vice Chair:
Dong Jie- Granddaughter of Dong Qiwu, a former general of the PLA. Dong Jie is married to Fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agner%20Fog | Agner Fog is a Danish evolutionary anthropologist and computer scientist. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and has been present at DTU since 1995. He is best known for coining the term "Regality Theory" and for writing extensive optimization manuals for machines running the x86 architecture.
Social sciences
Agner Fog is the main investigator of Regality Theory, the proposition that the environment a group is in selects for certain psychological traits. As a result, a harsher environment selects for more regal (warlike) social structures while a safer environment selects for more kungic (peaceful) ones.
Programming and mathematics
Optimization
Agner Fog is known as a "CPU analyst" to tech websites covering x86 CPUs. He maintains a five-volume manual for optimizing code for x86 CPUs, with details on the instruction timing and other features of individual microarchitectures. He also maintains a Vector Class Library for SIMD math, an assembly subroutine library ("asmlib"), as well as many other utilities.
Agner Fog has also written extensively on the behavior of Intel C++ Compiler and Intel MKL on non-Intel CPUs, coining the term "cripple AMD" to describe the bias.
Vector Class Library
Agner Fog is the main author of the C++ Vector Class Library. This is an open source C++ class library for optimizing SIMD code.
ForwardCom instruction set
Agner Fog has designed the ForwardCom instruction set. This is a high performance open source CPU Instruction set architecture with variable-length vector registers. The instruction set is neither RISC nor CISC, but a compromise with few instructions and many variants of each instruction.
Other subjects
Fog has written a few pseudorandom number generators with a variety of distributions, with a focus on performance (SIMD) and correctness with regard to floating-point behavior and statistical properties. These are used in simulations for his anthropology research.
References
Free software programmers
Danish computer programmers
Danish social scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterweil | Osterweil is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Leon J. Osterweil, American computer scientist
See also
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, award by PEN America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20North%20West | Greatest Hits Radio North West is a regional radio network serving North West England and North Wales, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
Stations
Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, GHR North West is permitted to share all programmes between seven licences located in the ITV Granada broadcast region.
Previously, these licences broadcast as separate stations:
Piccadilly Radio began broadcasting to Greater Manchester on 2 April 1974.
Radio City began broadcasting to Merseyside and parts of Cheshire and North Wales on 21 October 1974.
Red Rose Radio began broadcasting to Central Lancashire on 5 October 1982.
Radio Wave began broadcasting to Blackpool and The Fylde on 25 May 1992.
Wish FM began broadcasting to the Wigan and St Helens areas on 1 April 1997.
Wire FM began broadcasting to the Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn areas on 1 September 1998.
Tower FM began broadcasting to the Bolton and Bury areas on 20 March 1999.
The Revolution began broadcasting to the Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside areas on 30 August 1999.
CFM began broadcasting to Cumbria and South West Scotland on 14 April 1993.
History
Radio City initially ran a single service on AM and FM, but by 1989, it launched a separate daytime talk service on AM, City Talk. However, poor ratings saw the station revert to a classic hits format, Radio City Gold, two years later.
By 1998, Radio City Gold fell into the ownership of Emap, who rebranded the station as Magic 1548, which would adopt an increasing amount of networked programming until its local breakfast show was axed in March 2013.
Tower FM, Wish FM and Wire FM would become part of The Wireless Group, which was brought in 2005 by UTV Media, before being sold again to News Corp in 2016. These three stations co-located to studios in the Orrell area of Wigan in 2009, while maintaining separate identities and local programming.
In 2008, the Magic stations in the North West were sold to Bauer, who would launch the Greatest Hits ('Bauer City 2') network under local branding in January 2015. The following December, Radio City 2 swapped frequencies with sister station Radio City Talk on 105.9 FM and reintroduced local programming at peak times.
In January 2019, Greatest Hits Radio replaced the localised Bauer City 2 branding. The following month, the Wireless Group's network of local radio stations - including Tower, Wish and Wire - were sold to Bauer Radio, although this sale was only ratified in March 2020 following an inquiry by the Competition and Markets Authority.
In May 2020, Bauer announced the Wireless Group stations would rebrand and join the Greatest Hits Radio network. Two months later, Tower, Wish and Wire entered a transition period - carrying local breakfast shows and voicetracked programming ahead of the full relaunch on 1 September 2020. The former Wireless Group studios in Orrell, Wigan were closed, although local newsgathering and sales staff were retained.
As of Novemb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainu%20%28website%29 | Bainu ("how are you?") is a Chinese social networking website written in the Mongolian language. it had about 400,000 users, concentrated in Inner Mongolia.
It was reported by Voice of America (VOA) that the Chinese authorities blocked Bainu on 23 August 2020 in order to prohibit Mongolians from discussing the issue of the authorities’ implementation of "bilingual education" in elementary schools.
References
External links
Bainu
Chinese websites
Social media
Mongolian-language computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20HBO | HBO is an American premium television network that is the flagship property of Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional stand-up comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs (consisting of short films and making-of documentaries). HBO does not accept traditional advertising, although programming promotions are typically aired between shows; it also presents content without editing for profanity, violence, sexual depictions, nudity, drug use or other subjectively objectionable material, which—besides being able to depict mature subject matter usually not allowed to air on advertiser-supported television networks—has allowed the network to give program creators full creative autonomy over their projects.
The oldest and longest continuously operating subscription television service in the United States, Home Box Office pioneered modern pay television when it launched as a microwave-transmitted regional service (initially debuting in northeastern Pennsylvania, before gradually broadening its coverage area to encompass much of the northern Mid-Atlantic and southern New England regions) on November 8, 1972, and was a leader in the development and growth of the cable television industry as the first television service to be directly transmitted and distributed to individual cable systems; the first television channel in the world to begin transmitting its signal via communications satellite; the first pay television network to operate a standalone companion service (Take 2, now defunct; followed later by Cinemax and the now-defunct Festival); the first cable-originated network to win Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Awards; and one of the first two American pay television services (alongside Cinemax) to offer multiplexed channels complementary to the parent service.
HBO has since expanded to include seven multiplex channels in the United States; and, through its namesake parent subsidiary, twelve active and three defunct international services (either owned by Warner Bros. Discovery directly or through programming and brand licensing agreements with domestic media companies) across four continents, and various television, film and home entertainment ventures. This article details the history of HBO tracing to its founding by Sterling Communications (founded in 1950 as Sterling Movies U.S.A; then controlled by Time Inc.) in July 1971, and its operational history from the channel's November 1972 launch to its current ownership by Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Background, development and preparation to air (pre-1972)
HBO's origins trace to December 1, 1965, when Charles Dolan—a former marketer and distributor of sports and industrial films for television syndication, who had already done pioneering work in the commercial use of cables—was granted a franch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Rich%20Man%27s%20Daughter%20episodes | The Rich Man's Daughter is a 2015 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from May 11, 2015 to August 7, 2015, replacing Second Chances.
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/Digital%20Wings%201 | Digital Wings 1 is a various artists compilation album released in 1997 released by The Cyberden.
Reception
In their review of the album, Chaos Control said "the production is always good, making Digital Wings 1 an ideal sampler of current underground electronic acts." Electro Zine said "while some of the tracks arent fabulous they are all still a great effort, the standouts of Course being the opening track by Xorcist, Gridlock's track from their debut cd and the nice piece of darkwave ambient by Seofon." Last Sigh said "this CD heralds an array of verytasty bands and sounds not to be missed by those of you who enjoy the dark electro death-ambient definitive power glide of said genres" and called it "an excellent compilation for the power electro enthusiast."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Digital Wings 1 liner notes.
Release history
References
External links
Digital Wings 1 at Discogs (list of releases)
1997 compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony%20Network%20NZ | HARMONY Network NZ (acronym for Happiness, Autonomy, Resilience, Motivation, Opportunity, Nature and Young) was an unregistered political party in New Zealand. According to a press release from the party, it was environmentalist and supports happiness and autonomy.
The party contested one electorate in the 2020 New Zealand general election; Sophia Xiao-Colley, in Northland She received 28 votes, coming last out of twelve candidates. It did not field any candidates in the 2023 general election.
References
Political parties in New Zealand
Political parties established in 2020
2020 establishments in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Placement%20Test | The Oxford Placement Test (OPT), also called the Oxford Online Placement Test (OOPT), is an on demand computer-adaptive test of the English language for non-native speakers of English, reporting at Pre-A1, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The test was developed by Oxford University Press (OUP) to provide institutions with a quick, reliable way to place English language students into the correct level English class. Placement testing is a key stage in the learning cycle.
History
The Oxford Placement Test, the first globally available online computer-adaptive placement test, was launched in 2009 and has placed millions of test takers since it was launched. It tests British English, American English, or a mix of the two language variants. The OPT replaced the now retired Quick Placement Test, a CD-ROM test provided in partnership with Cambridge English. The success of the Oxford Placement Test led to the design of the Oxford Test of English, and online computer-adaptive English Proficiency test, used as proof of English ability for university entry and employment.
Test specifications
The Oxford Placement Test is designed to provide a quick, accurate measurement of a test taker's English language ability on the CEFR scale. The test consists of two sections: Language Use and Listening. Within the Use of English Section, in addition to standard grammar, lexis and listening questions, the test design focuses on meaning beyond the sentence, including implied meaning; the language sampled in the test is an accurate predictor of general language ability. The test has been independently reviewed and found perform better than other placement tests.
Computer adaptive
The Oxford Placement Test uses computer-adaptive testing (CAT) technology. Computer adaptive tests can be more efficient and provide more precise measurement than traditional tests. The adaptive test works by selecting each successive question from a large bank of questions, based on the test taker's response to the previous question. This makes for a better test experience for test takers than traditional language tests.
The OPT's online Learning Management System (LMS) allows institutions to administer the test at physical institutions, or for the test to be taken at the test taker's home.
Results
Results are available immediately and are reported as a CEFR band (Pre-A1 to C2) and as a standardized score (0-120) on the OPT scale. Report cards provide a breakdown by section, including the time taken to complete each section. Report cards can carry the institution's branding. The CEFR levels and standardized scores are shown in this table:
References
Standardized tests for English language
Test |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20%28Pakistani%20TV%20channel%29 | Pop is a Pakistani children's free-to-air television network in Pakistan similar to the United Kingdom feed. The channel was launched on June 3, 2018. It dubs its programmings in Urdu. The channel is available on Paksat-1R and Apstar 7 in HD.
History
The channel was launched on June 3, 2018 as a free-to-air channel broadcasting cartoons in Urdu. In March 2020 Pop started to show HD format broadcasting.
Current Programming
ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Big Top Academy
Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot
Grizzy And The Lemmings
Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
Transformers: Cyberverse
Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
Winx Club
Former Programming
44 Cats
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Dragon Ball Super
Lego Elves
Nexo Knights
Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Power Rangers Beast Morphers
Sonic Boom
Spirit Riding Free
Talking Tom and Friends
Related channels
Pop (stylised as POP) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. Its target audience is 8 to 12-year old children.
It made its debut in the UK in 2002. In Pop's early years, links were presented by Rorry, a lime green dragon with a Scottish accent, who was animated live. He was accompanied by Purrdy, a dragon/cat hybrid who also appeared in the original Tricky programme which had aired on ITV. Originally, the network focused on music videos, with animated programming also being part of the schedule, but with the numerous music video network options on British television at the time, this focus was quickly abandoned in 2004, when the animated content became much more prominent. Music videos continued to be carried on and off until 2007, before eventually being abandoned entirely. Pop was originally launched on 1 October 2002 by CSC Media Group as Toons and Tunes. Toons and Tunes was then later re-branded as Pop in May 2003.
References
Children's television channels in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies
Television stations in Karachi
English-language television stations in Pakistan
2018 establishments in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20Midlands | Greatest Hits Radio Midlands is a regional radio station serving the East & West Midlands as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
Localised variants
The station has seven variants:
Birmingham & The West Midlands (formerly Greatest Hits Radio West Midlands)
Black Country & Shropshire (formerly Signal 107)
Coventry & Warwickshire (formerly Free Radio 80s C&W; DAB only)
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire (DAB & FM only)
Herefordshire & Worcestershire (formerly Signal 107 (Kidderminster) & Free Radio 80s H&W)
Staffordshire & Cheshire (DAB & FM only formerly Signal 1)
Stamford & Rutland (formerly Rutland Radio)
Peterborough (DAB only)
History
Under relaxed OFCOM requirements for local content on commercial radio, Greatest Hits Radio Midlands is permitted to share all programmes between seven licences located in the ITV Central region.
Previously, these licences broadcast as separate stations:
Signal Radio began broadcasting to Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas in September 1983. It later expanded its coverage area to South Cheshire in 1989 and Stafford a year later.
107.7 The Wolf began broadcasting to Wolverhampton and surrounding areas in October 1997.
Rutland Radio began broadcasting to the Rutland and Stamford areas in December 1998.
Telford FM began broadcasting to Telford and surrounding areas in May 1999.
Kerrang! Radio began broadcasting a specialist rock music service to the West Midlands in June 2004.
The Wyre began broadcasting to the Kidderminster and Bromsgrove areas in September 2005.
The Severn launched separate services for Shrewsbury and Oswestry in September 2006.
Signal 1 launched separate services for Congleton and Stafford in 1989 and 1990.
High Peak Radio began broadcasting to the Peak District in April 2004.
Gem launched a separate service for the East Midlands in 1997 as Radio 106 FM and Century 106.
Signal Radio began carrying split programming on AM in 1992, initially airing a 'Golden Breakfast Show' on weekdays before expanding into a full-time sister station, Signal Gold (later Signal 2) in January 1993.
Telford FM, The Severn and The Wyre - all under the ownership of the Midlands News Association - initially ran separate services but gradually shared most programming outside Breakfast and local news. In 2010, Telford FM merged with The Severn and began sharing all output. The stations were earmarked for closure in November 2011 unless a buyer could be found.
In February 2012, MNA sold its radio assets to UTV Media, which also owned Signal Radio since 2005. The following month, The Severn and The Wyre merged with 107.7 The Wolf to form a new regional station, Signal 107. UTV sold off its radio assets - including the three Signal-branded stations - to News Corp (Wireless Group) in September 2016.
In June 2013, Kerrang! Radio ceased broadcasting on FM in the West Midlands and was replaced by a similar classic rock service, Planet Rock, following its sale to Bauer. In September 2015, the 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Paula%20Maia | Ana Paula Maia (born 1977) is a Brazilian writer and screenwriter.
Career
She graduated in computer science and communication science. Maia's first book, O Habitante das falhas subterrâneas was published in 2003. She is the author of the Saga dos Brutos (Saga of Brutes) trilogy , started with the short novels Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (“Between Dog Fights and Pig Slaughter) and O Trabalho sujo dos outros (The dirty work of others) —published in a single volume— and concluded with the novel Carvão animal (carbo animalis).
Personal life
Maia was born in Nova Iguaçu, in the state of Rio de Janeiro; her mother is a literature teacher and his father is a bar owner. Maia grew up with books in her childhood, but lost interest in them in her adolescence, playing in a punk rock band during her teenage years.
Influences
Maia's writing is influenced by Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone's films, TV series and pulp literature, among others. The main characters of her narratives are men, people working in essential and hazardous jobs, such as garbage collectors, coal miners and slaughterhouse workers.
She stated having no interest in writing about women, having said: "I am already a woman twenty-four hours a day. I want to be a man a little bit, a little rough. (...) I want to do something different. And I can only do that in literature, because in this life I won't be able to do that, I don't have that possibility.."
Awards
Maia won the São Paulo Prize for Literature for Best Novel twice, with Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra, in 2018 and Enterre Seus Mortos, in 2019.
Works
2003: O habitante das falhas subterrâneas
2007: A Guerra dos Bastardos
2009: Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos. Published together with O trabalho sujo dos outros (Saga dos brutos #1 and #2)
2011: Carvão Animal (Saga dos Brutos #3)
English edition: Saga of Brutes; translated by Alexandra Joy Forman, Dalkey Archive Press, 2016.
2013: De Gados e Homens
2017: Assim na Terra como embaixo da Terra
2018: Enterre Seus Mortos
2021: " De cada quinhentos uma alma"
References
External links
Author's page at Companhia das Letras (in Portuguese)
page at Editora Record (in Portuguese)
Living people
1977 births
Brazilian screenwriters
21st-century Brazilian women writers
People from Nova Iguaçu
Afro-Brazilian people
Brazilian women screenwriters
21st-century Brazilian novelists
21st-century screenwriters
Brazilian women novelists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Pelachaud | Catherine Pelachaud is a French computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction and known for her work virtual assistants and on recognizing and generating facial expressions. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), a shared research center of CNRS and Sorbonne University.
Education and career
Pelachaud completed a Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, jointly supervised by Norman Badler and Mark Steedman. After postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and Sapienza University of Rome, she became a professor at the University Institute of Technology of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis in 2002. She became a director of research for CNRS in 2008, affiliated with the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI) of Télécom Paris, and moved to ISIR in 2016.
Recognition
Pelachaud was the 2015 winner of the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, "for her sustained and substantial contributions to the area of intelligent virtual agents".
In 2016, the University of Geneva gave Pelachaud an honorary doctorate.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20Desk%20HQ | Decision Desk HQ is an American website that focuses on reporting election results in the United States. The company's president is Drew McCoy. Decision Desk HQ uses an application programming interface (API) to get election results at the same time as they are published on websites provided by election officials.
Decision Desk HQ was the first major election reporting organization to call the 2020 United States presidential election for Joe Biden.
History
Decision Desk HQ, originally named Ace of Spades Decision Desk, was founded in 2012 by Brandon Finnigan as an alternative to what he deemed "slow" election calls by the Associated Press.
It has called major races since the 2012 United States elections, and it first became known for calling the upset defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during his reelection bid to Virginia's 7th congressional district in 2014.
In 2020, Decision Desk HQ was considered one of nine "official sources" for election results by Twitter and provided election results to The Economist, BuzzFeed, Vox and Business Insider.
Decision Desk HQ was the first major election reporting organization to call the 2020 United States presidential election for Joe Biden. The call was made shortly before 9 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6th. It made this call after projecting that Biden's lead in outstanding mail-in ballots from Pennsylvania left incumbent Donald Trump with no realistic path to win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. McCoy told Vox that the great majority of mail-in ballots from Pennsylvania were from heavily Democratic areas around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. According to McCoy, Biden was winning the mail-in vote in those areas by a margin large enough to make his lead in the state insurmountable. By Decision Desk HQs accounting, adding Pennsylvania to Biden's total gave Biden 273 electoral votes, three over the threshold to make him president-elect. Vox, who partnered with Decision Desk HQ, called the election for Biden shortly after. Statistician Nate Silver praised Decision Desk HQs call and hoped other sources would follow suit.
During the 2022 United States elections, Decision Desk HQ provided election data to media outlet NewsNation, ultimately calling control of Congress on November 15, 2022, 6:13 pm EST, a day before other media outlets.
Decision Desk HQ News
In 2021, Decision Desk HQ announced the creation of Decision Desk HQ News and the subsequent acquisition of its first site: Elections Daily. The new undertakings are designed to expand Decision Desk HQ's local news and international elections coverage.
See also
Decision desk
References
External links
2012 establishments in the United States
Aggregation websites
American political blogs
Internet properties established in 2012
Data journalism
American political websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dplyr | One of the core packages of the tidyverse in the R programming language, dplyr is primarily a set of functions designed to enable dataframe manipulation in an intuitive, user-friendly way. Data analysts typically use dplyr in order to transform existing datasets into a format better suited for some particular type of analysis, or data visualization.
For instance, someone seeking to analyze an enormous dataset may wish to only view a smaller subset of the data. Alternatively, a user may wish to rearrange the data in order to see the rows ranked by some numerical value, or even based on a combination of values from the original dataset.
Authored primarily by Hadley Wickham, dplyr was launched in 2014. On the dplyr web page, the package is described as "a grammar of data manipulation, providing a consistent set of verbs that help you solve the most common data manipulation challenges."
The five core verbs
While dplyr actually includes several dozen functions that enable various forms of data manipulation, the package features five primary verbs:
filter(), which is used to extract rows from a dataframe, based on conditions specified by a user;
select(), which is used to subset a dataframe by its columns;
arrange(), which is used to sort rows in a dataframe based on attributes held by particular columns;
mutate(), which is used to create new variables, by altering and/or combining values from existing columns; and
summarize(), also spelled summarise(), which is used to collapse values from a dataframe into a single summary.
Additional functions
In addition to its five main verbs, dplyr also includes several other functions that enable exploration and manipulation of dataframes. Included among these are:
count(), which is used to sum the number of unique observations that contain some particular value or categorical attribute;
rename(), which enables a user to alter the column names for variables, often to improve ease of use and intuitive understanding of a dataset;
slice_max(), which returns a data subset that contains the rows with the highest number of values for some particular variable;
slice_min(), which returns a data subset that contains the rows with the lowest number of values for some particular variable.
Built-in datasets
The dplyr package comes with five datasets. These are: band_instruments, band_instruments2, band_members, starwars, storms.
Copyright & license
The copyright to dplyr is held by Posit PBC, formerly RStudio PBC. Dplyr was originally released under a GPL license, but in 2022 Posit changed the license terms for the package to the "more permissive" MIT License. The chief difference between the two types of license is that the MIT license allows subsequent re-use of code within proprietary software, whereas a GPL license does not.
References
Data analysis software
Statistical software
Free R (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Steele%20%28conspiracy%20theorist%29 | Mark Steele (born 1960) is a British conspiracy theorist who is best known for his videos alleging that 5G, WiFi and other communication networks are part of a distributed weapon system. He lives in Gateshead, England, which is the focus of much of his activism. Steele describes himself as a "weapons expert", claiming to have worked on undisclosed projects for the Ministry of Defence, and studied psychology and social sciences at the Open University.
Promotion of conspiracy theories
5G conspiracy theory
Steele claims that the 5G mobile phone network is a deadly technology, responsible for 400 deaths. According to Steele, the 5G telephone network is part of a distributed "Kill Grid" which includes other street-furniture such as lamp-posts. He has repeated claims first disseminated by David Icke, that 5G networks are the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2016, a neighbour informed Steele that she believed newly installed street lights to be the cause of her nose-bleeds. Steele became convinced that these lamp-posts housed components of a 5G network, despite the council's claims to the contrary, and that this was the cause of his neighbour's illness. Subsequently Steele expanded on this theory, claiming that children were being “microwaved in their beds“ by 5G.
In 2018, Steele addressed the Democrats and Veterans Party, on the subject of 5G Networks. The video of his speech was widely shared on YouTube. In 2019, he spoke at the "5G Apocalypse event", organised by "Bali-based New Age influencer" Sacha Stone. BuzzFeed News and Vice News have reported that Steele and Stone used such events as well as legal defence funds to make money from their followers.
Gateshead council trial
Steele's activism has focused on Gateshead council, who he has claimed are "secretly trialling the technology, causing cancer and microwaving babies in their beds". Steele has described Gateshead councillors as “baby killers”, and has claimed that the installation of 5G equipment in Gateshead has destroyed the local sparrow population.
Gateshead council issued a statement that, contrary to Steele's claims, their street-lighting was not part of a "secret government trial", does not use any 5G mobile technology, and would not cause nosebleeds, miscarriages or cancer. Steele's claims were publicised by the Daily Mail, causing the story to go viral online.
In October 2018, Steele won a court case overturning a July 2018 "gagging order", which had previously prevented him from blogging his claims on his personal website, but was placed under an injunction to stop him harassing council staff and councillors. Later in October, Steele was convicted of having made threats against members of Gateshead council in April.
COVID-19 denialism and conspiracy theories
Steele has promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation linking the launch of 5G Networks in Wuhan, China to the COVID-19 pandemic. Steele describes 5G as "genocide" carried by "the deep state". When asked about |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pari%20%27Koy%20episodes | Pari 'Koy is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from March 9, 2015 to August 21, 2015, replacing More Than Words.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNL%20Network | FNL Network (Fashion News Lifestyle Network) is an American television network founded by Rocco Leo Gaglioti in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is available on a variety of devices including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and all Android and Apple iOS devices. Its signature program, Fashion News Live, goes backstage at all the major fashion weeks around the globe. Past co-hosts include Brana Dane and Carmen Carerra.
Programming
FNL Network offers a combination of fashion, film, travel, beauty, health and reality TV.
List of original programs
A Shaded View on Fashion Film
Beauty Tips
Carol Alt's Living Room
City Showcase
Courtney
Entertainment and Fashion Clips
Fashion News Live
FNL Vintage
Film Corner
Flashback Friday
International Digital Fashion Week (IDFW)
Behind the Scenes of Fashion News Live
IndestruXtable
Inside Amato
Fashion News Live in ASL
Miss and Mister Deaf International
Model Diaries
Model Monday
Street Style
The Bird's Eye View
Ask Rocco
The Wishwall
13th A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF)
References
External links
English-language television stations in the United States
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace%20Data | Peace Data or PeaceData is a fake news website run by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian outlet connected to the country's government, which publishes in English and Arabic.
History
Part of its object was to interfere in the 2020 United States elections with the intention of helping Donald Trump to be re-elected by defeating the Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. The aim was to reduce support for the Biden-Harris ticket among liberal voters. According to Graphika, a social media analytics firm, only about 5 percent of the website's English-language content concerned the American elections, but "this facet of the operation suggests an attempt to build a left-wing audience and steer it away from Biden's campaign". It also targeted left-wing voters in the UK, and featured articles about Algeria, Egypt and Turkey. The website hired unsuspecting journalists in the United States as well as inventing false personas with computer created avatars. These fake identities included the three permanent staff members listed on the website, according to Graphika.
On September 1, 2020, Facebook and Twitter announced they had been warned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the disinformation effort and said they had removed or suspended accounts associated with it. The Daily Beast website reported that the operation tried and failed to place content with Jacobin, In These Times and Truthout.
See also
List of fake news websites
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
References
Fake news websites
Russian news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri%20Nichols | Sherri Nichols is an American software engineer, data scientist, and baseball statistician most known for her contribution to baseball's Sabermetrics movement. Growing up loving baseball and math, Nichols fused the two passions together to start analyzing baseball in a stats-driven manner. Her influence on the infant stages of the Sabermetrics movement in the 1980s-1990s can be depicted from various works such as Nichols' Law of Catcher Defense, her work collecting play-by-play data, and most notably her cocreation of Defensive Average. Nichols' assertiveness and knowledge has greatly influenced other notable baseball statisticians and paved the way for other women to enter the male dominated industry.
Early life
Nichols grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, as a baseball fan of the Cincinnati Reds. She was able to bond with her father and brother through her admiration for baseball. Along with baseball, she had a love for math and science. Nichols attended Tennessee Tech University to get an undergraduate degree in physics. She later went to Carnegie Mellon University to study computer science as a graduate student.
Career
Early career
While studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon, Nichols came across Usenet, which is similar to the internet, but in the 1980s. In the network, she started contributing to rec.sport.baseball, a blog-like page on Usenet where baseball analysts from the 1970s-80s discussed new approaches to analyzing the game with one another. Contributors of rec.sport.baseball have become prominent figures in sports analytics, including the main contributors to the first editions of Baseball Prospectus, an organization that posts topics on baseball analytics that is still widely interacted with today. Rec.sport.baseball is where Nichols first realized the importance of overlooked statistics such as on-base percentage that influenced team performance in a baseball game. It was during her rec.sport.baseball days when she created Nichol's Law of Catcher Defense, the first of many physical marks she made on Sabermetrics. Nichol's Law of Catcher Defense states that "a catcher's defensive reputation is inversely proportional to their offensive abilities."
Project Scoresheet
In October 1983, an influential baseball statistician by the name of Bill James created Project Scoresheet, which called for a nationwide effort to collect play-by-play baseball data that was not recorded ever before. Seeing this opportunity, Nichols and her husband, David Nichols, volunteered for the Pittsburgh branch to track game data. Working on Project Scoresheet led Sherri and David to start attending annual conventions held by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), a leading baseball analytics organization where the term "sabermetrics" stems from. The annual conventions are where Sherri met Pete DeCoursey, who worked on Project Scoresheet in a different branch. While using the data collected through Project Scoresheet, the two joined heads |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E5%20in%20France | The European route E5 in France is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network, running from the portal city of Le Havre in northwestern France towards the border with Spain in Hendaye. The E5 originates in Scotland and crosses the English Channel near Southampton. It continues to southern Spain.
Route
The E5 in France starts in the major port city of Le Havre, Normandy arriving on a non-existing ferry from Southampton, United Kingdom. It follows the N282 until the outskirts of the city, where the A131 starts until it joins the A13 motorway. It passes the capital of Normandy Rouen before arriving in the western suburbs of the French capital of Paris. Paris is passed using the Boulevard Périphérique (ring road) from the Porte d'Auteuil to the Porte d'Orléans. There the E5 shortly follows the A6 through the southern neighbourhoods of Paris, before entering the A10 motorway due south. The A10 continues southwest to the major city of Bordeaux, passing several large cities like Orléans, Blois, Tours, Châtellerault, Poitiers, Niort and Saintes, to end at the Bordeaux ring road. The E5 bypasses the city on the east side, before continuing further south using the A63 motorway. This motorway traverses the sparsely populated Landes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park, to reach the coastal cities of Bayonne and Biarritz and finally end at the Spanish border near Hendaye. It continues south towards San Sebastián, Madrid to end at Algeciras. The E5 passes through four regions (Normandy, Île-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine) as well as 15 departments and the city of Paris. The E5 is a toll road at the Tancarville Bridge, between Bourneville-Sainte-Croix and Buchelay on the A13 as an open toll system, from Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines to Monnaie and from Sorigny to Virsac on the A10 as a closed system, and from Saugnacq-et-Muret to Biriatou on the A63 as an open system. The road covers a total distance of 985 km (612 mi) in France.
Detailed route
References
France
Road transport in France
E05 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20De%20Mol | Christine De Mol (born 23 April 1954) is a Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist interested in inverse problems, regularization, wavelets, and machine learning, and known for her work on proximal gradient methods and the application of proximal gradient methods for learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and the former chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science.
Education
De Mol was educated at the Université libre de Bruxelles, earning a licence in physics in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1979, with a dissertation Sur la régularisation des problèmes inverses linéaires
under the joint supervision of Jean Reignier and Mario Bertero.
Career
De Mol became a researcher for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), obtaining a permanent position there in 1981 and becoming a director of research in 1996. Meanwhile, she had obtained a habilitation from the Université libre de Bruxelles; her habilitation thesis was Super-résolution en microscopie confocale. In 1998 she gave up her position with the FNRS, becoming an honorary researcher with them, to become a full professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She was head of the mathematics department at the university for 2009–2010, and chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Imaging Science for 2012–2013.
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
Belgian mathematicians
Belgian physicists
Women mathematicians
Women physicists
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenzied%20Computer%20Resonance | Frenzied Computer Resonance is a various artists compilation album released in 1994 by Fifth Colvmn Records. The collection comprises tracks by Acumen, Chemlab, haloblack and Perceptual Outer Dimensions, which were released on their albums Transmissions from Eville (1994), Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar (1993), Tension Filter (1994) and The Journey to Planet POD (1994).
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Frenzied Computer Resonance liner notes.
Klacorous Inebirtatus – cover art, illustrations, design
Release history
References
External links
Frenzied Computer Resonance at Discogs (list of releases)
1994 compilation albums
Fifth Colvmn Records compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870s%20Pacific%20typhoon%20seasons | This article encompasses the 1870s Pacific typhoon seasons. While data is not available for every storm that occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to give data of typhoon occurrences.
1870 season
There were 8 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1870, 6 of which were typhoons.
1871 season
There were 7 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1871, 5 of which were typhoons. In March, 11 people died when a typhoon wrecked their boat.
1872 season
There were 4 tropical cyclones in the Philippines in 1872, 2 of which were typhoons. In August 1872, a typhoon struck Guam.
1873 season
There were 6 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1873, 4 of which were typhoons. A typhoon in October killed at least 200 people in the Philippines.
1874 season
There were 8 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1874, 6 of which were typhoons.
The 1874 Hong Kong typhoon hit Hong Kong during the night of Tuesday 22 September and the morning of Wednesday 23 September 1874. It killed about 10,000 people. A typhoon struck Ailinglaplap in the Marshall Islands, killing more than 300 people.
1875 season
There were 6 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1875, 4 of which were typhoons. A typhoon in December killed four people in the Philippines.
1876 season
There were two typhoons in the Western Pacific in 1876. One of them struck the Philippines in November, killing 150 people.
1877 season
There was at least one tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific in 1877.
1878 season
There were 4 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1878, 3 of which were typhoons.
1879 season
There were 9 tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific in 1879, 8 of which were typhoons.
References
Pacific typhoons
Pacific typhoons
Pacific typhoons
Pacific typhoons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melt%20-%20Scandinavian%20Electro/Industrial%20Compilation | Melt - Scandinavian Electro/Industrial Compilation is a various artists compilation album released in 1994 by Cyberware Productions. The album was reissued on April 9, 1996, by Fifth Colvmn Records.
Reception
Aiding & Abetting called "Melt "inconsistent" and "for every decent gothic pop bit like Neuroactive's "Obsession" there's at least one song that just doesn't work." AllMusic awarded the collection two and a half out of five stars and said "Melt culls releases from the Scandinavian-based label Cyberware Records, whose roster of artists runs the gamut from industrial to techno to ambient." Sonic Boom noted that "the first half of the compilation consists of more popular EBM style electro with the music slowly transitioning to darkwave instrumentals of a more experimental nature as the album progresses."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Melt - Scandinavian Electro/Industrial Compilation liner notes.
Karri Suksia – compiling
Jarkko Tuohimaa – mastering
Release history
References
External links
1994 compilation albums
Fifth Colvmn Records compilation albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Health%20Code | Hong Kong Health Code () is an online system established on 10 December 2021 for qualified individuals to transfer their personal data including negative nucleic acid test result and vaccination records to the computer system of the Guangdong Health Code or Macao Health Code to facilitate health declaration upon entry to Guangdong or Macao.
History and Developments
In May 2020, Dr. Pak-Leung Ho, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, suggested that the Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macau Area was ready for a more lenient border control policy. He also suggested that the Hong Kong government could introduce a “health code” policy to replace the existing quarantine procedure, which was already implemented in Macau and part of Mainland China. The proposed health code mobile app would include the users’ nucleic acid test results so that travelers would not have to present hard copies of their test results.
On 11 June 2020, the Hong Kong government disclosed that it would soon announce the details of a mutual recognition system for health codes of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, intending to restore the traffic between the three regions. It also stated that the government of the three regions were discussing the details and had nearly come to an agreement, and that the details may be announced in as soon as a week if the epidemic remains stable. However, the announcement of the scheme was later postponed, reportedly to 27 June or 28 June. It was also reported that the scheme may be adjusted to be initially between Hong Kong and Guangdong only, and that Macau would only be included in the scheme at a later stage if the scheme is successful. However, the policy was further postponed to August as the epidemic in Hong Kong deteriorated in July.
At a press conference held on 21 August, the Chief Executive Carrie Lam stated that the health code policy will be implemented after the epidemic in Hong Kong stabilizes, but its usage will be limited to border control only and will be without any tracking functions. It was suggested by some pro-establishment parties that all citizens should be required to show their health codes before entering a restaurant, to which Carrie Lam has criticized for being impractical.
Opinions in the year 2020
Pro-establishment parties
On 9 August 2020, multiple pro-establishment parties including the DAB, the BPA, the HKFTU, and the NPP held a joint press conference and urged the government to implement a mutual recognition system for health codes in the Greater Bay Area. The BPA further suggested that citizens without a health code should be prohibited from entering public spaces such as restaurants or malls.
Medical Industry
The pulmonologist Dr. Chi-Chiu Leung commented that the health code policy “lacks any scientific evidence” as an epidemic preventive measure, since there was no successful precedent and that it was contrary to epidemiological analysis. As COVID-19 has a quite fluid incubation period, c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade%20in%20Europe%20%28video%20game%29 | Crusade in Europe is a computer wargame published by MicroProse in 1985 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. It was designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever.
Gameplay
Crusade in Europe is a game in which its five available major operations include Normandy, Race for the Rhine, Market Garden, Bulge and the Campaign Scenario.
Reception
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "CIE offers five scenarios in one package, a bargain."
Reviews
Zzap! - Nov, 1985
Computer Gamer #8 (1985-11)
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in Commodore Power/Play
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Family Computing
Review in Commodore User
Article in VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
Article in Tilt (French)
1985 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
MicroProse games
Operation Overlord video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in France
Video games set in Germany
Video games set in the Netherlands
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20in%20the%20Desert | Decision in the Desert is a computer wargame designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever and published by MicroProse in 1985. Versions were released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and IBM PC compatibles.
Gameplay
Decision in the Desert is a game in which five battles are depicted: Sidi Barrani, Crusader, Gazala, First Alamein and Alam Halfa.
Reception
M. Evan Brooks reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "While DITD lacks a campaign scenario, the scale offers a reasonable explanation."
Reviews
Zzap! - Dec, 1985
Computer Gamer #8 (1985-11)
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1991
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in Commodore Power/Play
Review in ANALOG Computing
Review in Family Computing
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Page 6
Article in Tilt (French)
Article in Commodore Disk User
Review in Ahoy!
Article in VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
1985 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
MicroProse games
North African campaign
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Egypt
Video games set in Libya
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan%20Front | Golan Front is a 1985 video game published by Simulations Canada.
Gameplay
Golan Front is a computer wargame in which the battle fought by Israel against Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan in the Golan Heights is simulated. It features elements of board wargaming, such as counters and a physical map, in addition to computer play.
Reception
William H. Harrington reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "GF is a first rate military simulation." Commodore Microcomputers named it one of the top computer wargames of 1986.
References
External links
Review in Tilt
1985 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Mass media about the Arab–Israeli conflict
Simulations Canada video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games set in 1973
Video games set in Israel
Video games set in Syria
Yom Kippur War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet%20%28children%27s%20television%20block%29 | Magnet was an children's programming block aimed to preteens that aired on HBO Family. It first aired on August 26, 2001 alongside Jam, a block made for preschoolers. Until 2004, the block aired on afternoons and evenings at 5pm to 7pm every day.
History
In August 2001, HBO announced the blocks Jam and Magnet for their family channel, HBO Family, both of which first began on August 26, 2001. Magnet's initial programming lineup was 30 by 30: Kid Flicks, Animated Tales of The World, Crashbox, Dear America, and The Worst Witch. Later on, Jam and HBO Family's programming were added on Magnet's lineup like The Little Lulu Show, Freshman Year, and What Matters.
In 2004, the block moved its timeslot to 1:30pm and runs until 3:30pm. When this happened, some of the programming was dropped and was replaced with a full hour of Crashbox. Also during this time, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child moved its place from Jam to Magnet. The only show that survived this change was The Little Lulu Show, a show that also aired on Jam. By late 2004, the block dropped its own branding, leaving it unbranded. In June 2005, the block was entirely removed from HBO Family's lineup. As a result, Animated Tales of the World and Crashbox moved to Jam; while the former did not last long there, the latter still airs to this day, as Jam is now known as HBO Kids. This also caused Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child to move back to Jam permanently.
Programming
Shows
A History of US
30 by 30: Kid Flicks (August 26, 2001 – 2004)
Animated Tales of The World
Crashbox (August 26, 2001 – 2005)
Dear America
Freshman Year
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2004–05)
The Adventures of Tintin
The Little Lulu Show (2002–05)
The Worst Witch (August 27, 2001 – 2004)
What Matters
Short-form programming
30 by 30: Short Spots
Buzzwatt
Frog Blues
HBO Family: 411
The Booth in The Back
The Way I See It
Yuk
References
HBO original programming
Television programming blocks
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Broadcasting%20System | The Christian Broadcasting System (CBS) is a South Korean religious radio and television network aimed at the country's Christian population.
History
CBS commenced broadcasting on December 15, 1954, as a radio station (with the call sign HLKY) for the purpose of establishing the first religious missionary network in Korea.
The network was known for its contributions to human rights, democratization of economy, and for its political stance against the authoritarian regimes of the 1960s to the 1980s. As a result, the network was affected by the Policy for Merger and Abolition of the Press, which limited press freedom in the country.
In 1992, the network moved its headquarters to from Jongno to Mok-dong.
In 1995, the station opened CBS Music FM
In 1998, CBS launched another radio station, CBS Pyojun FM.
In 2002, CBS TV was launched.
From 2005, CBS commenced international broadcasting, with its programs available in the United States.
See also
No Cut News, a daily newspaper owned by the network
References
South Korean radio networks
Broadcasting companies of South Korea
Christian media
Christianity in South Korea
Religious broadcasting
Mass media companies established in 1954
South Korean companies established in 1954
Radio stations established in 1954
Radio stations established in 1995
Television channels and stations established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie%20Moggach | Lottie Moggach is an English journalist and author.
Career
Her debut novel, Kiss Me First, was published in 2013. It is about Leila, a woman who is obsessed with computers, who helps a woman called Tess disappear without anyone realising by taking over Tess's email and social media accounts. It won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Specsavers National Book Awards. The book was adapted into a TV series.
In 2017, she published her second novel Under the Sun. It is set in 2008 and centres on Anna who has moved from London to Southern Spain with her partner, Michael. The story focuses on what happens after he leaves her suddenly. While it begins as a love story, it turns into something more political and focuses on topics such as displacement and institutional racism.
Her third novel, Brixton Hill, was published in 2020. It focuses on Rob, a prisoner coming to the end of his sentence in an open prison who is allowed to work in a charity shop where he meets a woman called Steph.
Her work as a journalist has appeared in The Times, Financial Times, Time Out, Elle, and GQ.
Personal life
She is the daughter of author Deborah Moggach. Lottie was in a relationship with Chris Atkins, the pair remain close and have one son.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English women journalists
English women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfram%20Gerstner | Wulfram Gerstner (born 1963 in Heilbronn) is a German and Swiss computational neuroscientist. His research focuses on neural spiking patterns in neural networks, and their connection to learning, spatial representation and navigation. Since 2006 Gerstner has been a full professor of Computer Science and Life Sciences at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he also serves as a Director of the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience.
Career
Gerstner studied physics at the University of Tübingen and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 1989, he received his Master's degree with a thesis in experimental quantum optics. He then joined the theoretical biophysics group of William Bialek at University of California, Berkeley as a visiting researcher. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1993 under supervision from Leo van Hemmen. He did post doctoral work at Brandeis University and at Technical University of Munich, where he worked in theoretical neuroscience.
In 1996, he was nominated as assistant professor and in February 2001 he was promoted as an associate professor with tenure at EPFL. In August 2006, Gerstner was appointed full professor at EPFL in both the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the School of Life Sciences.
Research
Gerstner's research is focused on models of spiking neurons, spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), neuronal coding in single neurons and neuron populations. He also investigates models of the hippocampus and their application in the spatial representation for navigation of rat-like autonomous agents.
He is also one of the initiators of The Deep Artificial Composer (DAC), a deep-learning algorithm that can generate melodies by imitating a given style of music.
Books
Gerstner is the author of neuroscientific text books such as Spiking Neuron Models: Single neurons, populations, plasticity (Gerstner, W. and Kistler, W.M., 2002, Cambridge University Press) that introduced the field of spiking neural networks, and Neuronal dynamics: From single neurons to networks and models of cognition (Gerstner, W., Kistler, W.M., Naud, R. and Paninski, L., 2014, Cambridge University Press) on the field of computational neuroscience that was also published as an online version including exercises and video lectures.
Selected publications
Distinctions
Gerstner has been an editorial board member of journals such as Science, The Journal of Neuroscience, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, and Neural Computation.
He is the recipient of the Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2018 and in 2010 he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. Gerstner is an elected member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
References
External links
Web site of Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience
Online version of the textbook Neuronal dyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Once%20Upon%20a%20Kiss%20episodes | Once Upon a Kiss is a 2015 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from January 5, 2015 to May 1, 2015, replacing Strawberry Lane.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2015
February 2015
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-Tec | Cyber-Tec is the debut EP of C-Tec, released on August 1, 1995 by Synthetic Symphony. The release peaked at No. 7 on the CMJ RPM Chart in the U.S..
Reception
Larry Dean Miles of Black Monday recommended Cyber-Tec to techno listeners interested in dance but noted "all the songs sound alike, it gets very repetitive." Sonic Boom said "I think that while there are only really four distinct songs on this EP, they all do an excellent job of providing the listener with a wide inflection of vocals from slower lyrical style used in 'Human' to the more traditional EBM speed employed on "Cauterize"."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Cyber-Tec liner notes.
Cyber-Tec Project
Ged Denton – instruments
Jean-Luc De Meyer – vocals, instruments
Jonathan Sharp – instruments
Production and design
Keith Banks – mastering
Zalman Fishman – executive-production
Bruno Marcandella – cover art, design
Paul Michael Green – photography
Release history
References
External links
Cyber-Tec at iTunes
1995 debut EPs
C-Tec albums
Fifth Colvmn Records EPs
Synthetic Symphony EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20/%20DOA | DNA / DOA is the first published adventure for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun, released by FASA in 1989. Written by Dave Arneson, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, it was criticized for being more like a D&D adventure than a modern high-tech cyberpunk scenario.
Plot summary
DNA / DOA is an adventure in which the player character Runners are hired to break into a lab via a city sewer to steal data from Aztechnology. However, the Runners discover that the lab is over-run by mutagenic experiments, and a terrorist cell also wants the data. When the break-in goes awry, the Runners take shelter in the sewers underneath Tacoma, where they must negotiate with the Orks who live there.
Publication history
In 1989, FASA published the Shadowrun role-playing game. DNA / DOA, the first adventure created for the game, was written by D&D co-designer Dave Arneson, with additional material by Kent Stolt, artwork by Dana Andrews, Tim Bradstreet, Rick Harris, Todd F. Marsh, and Jim Nelson, and cover art by John Zeleznik. It was published by FASA in 1989 as a 64-page book.
Reception
Most reviewers noted the strong flavor of Dungeons & Dragons in the cyberpunk adventure.
In the April–May 1990 edition of White Wolf (Issue #20), Stephan Wieck believed that the adventure, with its extended time in sewers, was more like a D&D dungeon crawl than a modern cyberpunk data theft. He did admit that for players more used to AD&D "The adventure's dungeon atmosphere will make the characters feel more at home while still introducing them to some aspects of Shadowrun." He concluded by giving it a below-average rating of only 2 out of 5 overall.
In the May 1990 edition of Games International, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood noted that "In outline, the adventure is little more than a high-tech dungeon and suffers the limitations of being such." He also criticized the game for being "combat heavy and shows little originality with its opponents." However, he did admit that "there is enough shady dealing going on to keep the scenario interesting." He concluded by giving the adventure an average rating of 7 out of 10, saying, "one of the first adventures to integrate the game's high fantasy and cyberpunk origins rather than tack one on the other. Nice try."
In the French magazine Casus Belli, Mathias Twardowski noted that Dave Arneson, more widely known for his work on D&D, was the author and commented, "DNA/DOA had a lot of trouble getting published and we understand why when we read it: it's a disaster! The characters find themselves in a maze of underground corridors, with tables of wandering monster to provide a little animation." Twardowski concluded, "Obviously, Dave Arneson got stuck in the monster-treasure stage. May he do everyone a favor and write only for his own game."
Other reviews
Games Review Vol. 2 Issue 4 (Jan 1990)
Fantasywelt #36 (Sep/Oct 1992, "Spielkiste")
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial%20%28Shadowrun%29 | Mercurial is an adventure published by FASA in 1989 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Plot summary
The adventure is set in Seattle in 2050. The Runners are hired to protect the rock star Maria Mercurial from her former manager, who apparently wants to harm her after she broke their contract. Soon it becomes clear that this is not a simple bodyguarding gig, as first a Yakuza gang and then a second group appears, and details of Maria's unhappy past begin to surface.
Publication history
Following the publication of the role-playing game Shadowrun in 1989, FASA immediately followed up with the first adventure supplement Mercurial, an 80-page softcover book written by Paul Hume, with interior art by Joel Biske, Timothy Bradstreet, Barry Crain, Tammy Daniels, Tara Gallagher, Earl Geier, Rick Harris, and Jim Nelson, and cover art by Jeff Laubenstein.
Reception
In the January 1990 edition of Games International (Issue 12), Lee Brimmicombe-Wood admired the production and layout, especially the "debugging" instruction for gamemasters in each section, "for getting players back on track if they wander off course." Although Brimmicombe-Wood thought the adventure "fairly straightforward and unchallenging [...] little more than a linear shoot-em-up", he admitted that the adventure possessed "enough pizzazz and ideas to make it rattle along at a furious pace [...] it's loud and noisy enough to keep a largish group of players happy for a couple of sessions." Brimmicombe-Wood didn't like an element of fantasy included in the thriller plot, "confirming that FASA have yet to get the cyberpunk/fantasy blend right." Brimmicombe-Wood concluded by giving the adventure an average rating of 3 out of 5, saying, "for a referee who is not afraid to handle plenty of action and turn up the style this is a tight, compact little scenario to throw (grenade-like) at his or her group. Handle with care."
In the May 1990 edition of White Wolf (Issue #20), Stephan Wieck gave it an above average rating of 4 out of 5 overall, stating, "Mercurials only weakness may be that some of its storyline transitions are difficult for the players to follow and for gamemaster to run."
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989
Shadowrun adventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Samurai%20Catalog | Street Samurai Catalog is a supplement published by FASA in 1989 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Street Samurai Catalog is a supplement that presents new weapons, vehicles, cyberware, and other accessories, using the conceit that this is the equipment catalog of a fictional company called Ares. The book is divided into two parts: items for the general public, and items for security and quasi-military forces. As well as a variety of firearms and personal weaponry, several cybernetic implants are also described. Each item takes up one page and is accompanied by an illustration.
The book also includes new rules for some of the items, new street samurai archetypes and a blank street samurai character sheet.
Publication history
Street Samurai Catalog was written by Tom Dowd, and was published by FASA in 1990 as a 116-page softcover book, with illustrations by Timothy Bradstreet, Jeff Laubenstein, and Karl Martin, and cover art by Steve Venters.
In 1996, this book was updated to the rules for the second edition of Shadowrun, resulting in a slightly smaller page count of 109 pages.
In 1999, material was taken from this book, updated to the new rules for Shadowrun 3, and then divided between Man & Machine (1999), and Cannon Companion (2000).
Reception
Stephan Wieck reviewed Street Samurai Catalog for White Wolf #20, rating it 3 out of 5 overall, and stated that "If you've got [the money] to spare I'd say buy it because you will enjoy it and the Catalog will enrich your Shadowrun campaign, but you can get by without it."
In the November 1992 edition of Dragon (#187), Allen Varney said that this book "belong[s] in any Shadowrun game player's library." Varney noted the items listed in the book already "figure prominently in many of the published adventures." He concluded with a strong recommendation, saying, "its extensive illustrations, samurai archetypes, and cyberware rules enhance every campaign."
Several months later, in the April 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue #192), Rick Swan was less impressed. Although he liked some of the items in the book, especially cyberguns and shock gloves, he found that "too many mundane items (such as precision arrows and — yawn — survival knives) result in a less-than-memorable volume." He concluded that the book wasn't worth the money, pointing out that "each entry fills an entire page, much of it empty space, which hardly makes this a bargain."
Reviews
Casus Belli #69 (May 1992)
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl%20Sites | Sprawl Sites is a supplement published by FASA in 1990 for the near-future cyberpunk role-playing game Shadowrun.
Contents
Sprawl Sites is a supplement that contains material about life in a cyberpunk city that a gamemaster can use to provide a deeper background for an adventure. Material covered includes
maps and building blueprints of places like a bank, a bus station, restaurants, and a hospital
random encounter tables
new archetypes such as dwarf mercenary or ex-tribal warrior
various non-player characters
background information such as weapons permits and credsticks.
Publication history
Sprawl Sites was written by Boy F. Petersen Jr., John Faughnan, and Mike Stackpole, with a cover by Steve Venters, and was published by FASA in 1990 as a 96-page softcover book. Illustrations are by Earl Geier, Jeff Laubenstein, and Jim Nelson, and cover art is by Steve Venters.
Reception
Stephan Wieck reviewed Sprawl Sites for White Wolf #20, rating it 5 out of 5 overall, and stated that "The Sprawl Sites sourcebook is an incredible reference for Shadowrun GMs. The book is well organized and easy to use. Your campaign shouldn't be without it."
In the November 1992 edition of Dragon (#187), Allen Varney called this book "an unusually useful Swiss Army knife of a supplement." He pointed out that the many unrelated items could be a lifesaver for a referee, and related his own experience of needing a blueprint of a typical city fire station map, which is available in this book. Varney commented that he was "no fan of either random-encounter tables or maps, but when you need them, Sprawl Sites presents them with imagination and without pretension." He concluded, "The game background's intricacy rewards those who undertake a full campaign. For this I strongly recommend Sprawl Sites."
References
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1990
Shadowrun supplements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20BASIC | Extended BASIC may refer to:
TI Extended BASIC, for the TI-99/4A home computer
Data General Extended BASIC (also known as Nova Extended BASIC), for the Data General Nova series minicomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv%20Ramdas | Shiv Ramdas is an Indian writer of science fiction, humour, fantasy and horror.
His dystopian cyberpunk novel Domeсhild was published by Penguin India in 2013.
His short story "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing", published in 2019 in Strange Horizons, is set during the Bengal famine of 1943. It was nominated for both the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. He is one of only two Indian writers to be nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in the same year.
He is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
A Twitter thread by Ramdas regarding the accidental ordering of a lorry full of rice by his brother-in-law went viral in 2020.
References
Created via preloaddraft
Indian science fiction writers
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Indian writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likewise%2C%20Inc. | Likewise, Inc., is an American technology startup company which provides a social networking service for finding and saving content recommendations for movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts. A team of ex-Microsoft employees founded Likewise in October 2017 with financial investment from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
The company is led by CEO Ian Morris and now has a team of about 35 employees. Its headquarters operates in Bellevue, Washington. As of July 2020, 1 million users have joined the platform.
History
Ideation (October 2017)
In 2017, former Microsoft Communications Chief Larry Cohen came up with the idea for Likewise in Bill Gates’ private office, Gates Ventures. Cohen currently serves as Gates Ventures’ CEO and managing partner.
Cohen collaborated with colleagues Michael Dix and Ian Morris to co-found what would become Likewise, with Morris as its CEO. Gates funded the company's early development.
The company developed its platform in stealth mode before launching publicly in October 2018. Gates served as the “ultimate beta tester” during development, giving his input on the app's design, and remains an active user and advisor.
Release (October 2018)
Likewise officially released its platform in the US and Canada on October 3, 2018.
Growth (2020 COVID-19 Pandemic)
Likewise experienced accelerated growth alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. From March 2020 to July 2020, the platform's monthly active users tripled in numbers. The company reached one million users in July 2020.
Applications
Mobile
Likewise is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Users receive recommendations from the Likewise algorithm, people they follow, and the Likewise editorial team.
Likewise TV
In October 2019, the company launched its Apple TV app called Likewise TV. The television app organizes shows across streaming services under one watchlist. On July 20, 2020, Likewise TV expanded to Android TV and Amazon Fire TV users.
References
External links
Likewise website
2017 establishments in Washington (state)
Software companies based in Washington (state)
IOS software
Software companies established in 2017
Software development
Software companies of the United States
Web applications
Cloud applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20n.T.i. | Crisis n.T.i. was the music project of United Kingdom-based composer Ged Denton, known for his work in The Cyber-Tec Project. Under the moniker Denton released the album The Alien Conspiracy for Fifth Colvmn Records in 1995.
History
Crisis n.T.i. was founded in 1995 out of Cumbria as a solo outlet for composer Ged Denton's compositions. That year Genton released The Alien Conspiracy on Fifth Colvmn Records. The album combines EBM with dark ambient and industrial programming. The music's concept is about the media's coverage of close encounters. Crisis n.T.i.'s debut was reissued by Fifth Colvmn Records on October 17, 1995.
Discography
Studio albums
The Alien Conspiracy (1995, Fifth Colvmn)
Compilation appearances
Cyber-Tec America (1995, Invisible)
Fuckin' Hardfloor Volumes 1+2 (1995, Atomic)
Sound-Line Vol. 3 (1996, Side-Line)
Untitled (1996, Infected/Cyber-Tec)
Neurostyle Vol. IV (1996, Neuro Style)
Sacrilege: A Tribute to Front 242 (1999, Cleopatra)
References
External links
Musical groups established in 1995
Musical groups established in 1999
1995 establishments in the United Kingdom
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
Ambient musicians
English electronic musicians
English industrial musicians
Electronic body music musicians
Fifth Colvmn Records artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alien%20Conspiracy | The Alien Conspiracy is the debut and only studio album by Crisis n.T.i., released in 1995 by Synthetic Symphony and Cyber-Tec Records. The album was reissued by Fifth Colvmn Records on October 17, 1995.
Reception
Sonic Boom praised Gentons artistic growth as a composer, saying "add a grittier focused edge to the music, a concise theme used throughout the album, and the logical progression from Cyber-Tec to Crisis N.T.I. is obvious."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from The Alien Conspiracy liner notes.
Crisis n.T.i.
Ged Denton – instruments
Additional performers
Kevin Gould – instruments
Richard McKinlay – instruments
Production and design
Stef Michalski (Room237) – cover art, illustrations, design
Zalman Fishman – executive-production
Release history
References
External links
1995 debut albums
Fifth Colvmn Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Walang%20Hanggang%20Paalam%20episodes | Walang Hanggang Paalam (International title: Irreplaceable / ) is a Philippine television drama action series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. It premiered on the network's Primetime Bida evening line up from September 28, 2020, to April 16, 2021, replacing A Soldier's Heart.
Series overview
iWantTFC shows two episodes first in advance before it broadcasts on TV.
Episodes
Season 1
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Strawberry%20Lane%20episodes | Strawberry Lane is a 2014 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from September 15, 2014 to January 2, 2015, replacing Niño.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
September 2014
October 2014
November 2014
December 2014
January 2015
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta%20News%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Calcutta News is a 24×7 satellite news channel also a free to air Bengali news channel based in Kolkata, West Bengal owned by AKD Group. It aired on 14 February 2016 by Calcutta Television Network Pvt. Ltd. It serves not only the people of West Bengal but also the Bengali communities throughout the globe.
The vision of the channel is 'Apnar kotha Amader Kontho' () Your words are our voice is best defined as a responsible channel tends to provide news concerning the needs of people from every sector of the Bengali community.
See also
CTVN AKD PLUS
CN Rashtriya
ABP Ananda
Zee 24 Ghanta
References
External links
Calcutta News on YouTube
Calcutta News on Facebook
Calcutta News on Twitter
Calcutta News on Instagram
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Kolkata
Bengali-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca%20Metro | The Cluj-Napoca Metro is an underground rapid-transit system under construction in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. When opened, it will become Romania's second mass transit network after the Bucharest Metro. The system is of light metro type with a transport capacity of around 15,200–21,600 passengers per hour per direction.
Background
In late 2018 studies began for a proposed Cluj-Napoca Metro, with mayor Emil Boc confirming "I hope we'll be able to launch the call for the tenders of the pre-feasibility study in the first 10 days of November. Investments higher than EUR 75 million need pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, according to the law". Boc signed contracts in April 2020 for the feasibility study of the metro along with a suburban rail network. As of December 2021, the costs of the investment are estimated at over 2 billion euros, with an estimated project implementation time of about 10 years.
In December 2022, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure signed the financing contract for the construction of the Cluj-Napoca Metro with a value of 13.69 billion lei. In February 2023, the design and execution works of the Line I of the Cluj metro were awarded to the association Gülermak – Alstom Transport – Arcada Company. The construction contract was signed on 25 May 2023.
Route
The initial segment of the metro will follow an east-west axis from Florești situated in the western area of the city to the Aurel Vlaicu /Pod IRA area, via future regional hospital, VIVO! Cluj and Mănăștur areas, and the city centre. The complete route Florești – Piața Unirii – Piața Mărăști – Muncii / Europa Unită – Depou Sopor will have a total length of and 19 underground stations.
Works on the first stage of the project (), between Sfânta Maria – Europa Unită (9 stations and the depot), are expected to be completed by August 2026. The next stage foresees the construction of the last two sections, Țara Moților – Sfânta Maria (7 stations) and Piața Mărăști – Muncii (3 stations), which total .
References
Proposed rail infrastructure in Romania
Rapid transit in Romania
Rail transport in Romania
Underground rapid transit in Romania
Cluj-Napoca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Divine%20Invasion%20%28album%29 | The Divine Invasion is the third studio album by Electro Assassin, released on September 26, 1995 by Synthetic Symphony and Cyber-Tec Records.
Reception
AllMusic awarded The Divine Invasion three out of five possible stars. Sonic Boom said "the musical growth exhibited by Electro Assassin within the last several years has been nothing less than astonishing" and "They have forsaken the inane samples and pointless lyrics of previous albums and focused their new work entirely on a dark cyberculture concept which has become immensely popular recently."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from The Divine Invasion liner notes.
Electro Assassin
Kevin Gould – instruments
Richard McKinlay – instruments
Production and design
Stef Michalski (Room237) – cover art, illustrations, design
Zalman Fishman – executive-production
Release history
References
External links
The Divine Invasion at iTunes
1995 albums
Fifth Colvmn Records albums
Electro Assassin albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Ginzburg | Abraham Ginzburg (1926–2020) was a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. He served as Vice President of the Technion Institute, and President of the Open University of Israel
Biography
Ginzburg was born on 1 August 1926 in Navahrudak, Belarus. He began acquiring his education during World War II, after which he taught the children of Sh'erit ha-Pletah mathematics. In 1949, Ginzburg immigrated to Israel, and began studying in the Technion Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he received his BSc summa cum laude. Three years later, he acquired a Master's degree in electrical engineering and in 1959, he received his PhD in mathematics, and was appointed lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics of the Technion.
During 1965–1967, he served as a visiting lecturer in Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon returning to Israel in 1967, he was appointed associate professor of Mathematics in the Technion Institute, and in 1971 to a professor of Computer Science. Ginzburg founded the Department of computer science in the Technion, and served as its first head of department. Later, he served as the vice president of development of the Technion.
In 1976, Ginzburg took part in the formation of the Open University of Israel, as its vice president, and from 1977 until 1987 served as its president
Ginzburg received an Honorary degree from the UK Open University in 1988, an Honorary PhD from the Weizmann Institute in 1990, and, in 2002 was awarded a Rotary Prize for the promotion of higher education in Israel.
Ginzburg was married to Pnina, and was a father of five.
Research
Ginzburg completed his PhD in mathematics in the year 1959. The thesis title was "Multiplicative Systems as Homomorphic Images of Square Sets", and was done under the supervision of Prof. Dov Tamari.
During the early '60s, Ginzburg was involved in research in basic group theory, graph theory and automata, and frequently collaborated with Michael Yoeli.
In 1961, Ginzburg, in collaboration with Paul Erdős and Abraham Ziv, proved the Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv Theorem. This Theorem is an important result in Abelian group theory, and is cited to this day.
In 1968, Ginzburg published his book "Algebraic Theory of Automata".
Ginzburg also invested a lot of time in writing several Textbooks in mathematics, for high school and first degree Mathematics and Engineering students.
References
External links
CS Founder Prof. Avraham Ginzburg Passed Away, at the Technion site.
1926 births
2020 deaths
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Academic staff of the Open University of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n%20Proto | Cap’n Proto is a data serialization format and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework for exchanging data between computer programs. The high-level design focuses on speed and security, making it suitable for network as well as inter-process communication. Cap'n Proto was created by the former maintainer of Google's popular Protocol Buffers framework (Kenton Varda) and was designed to avoid some of its perceived shortcomings.
Technical overview
IDL Schema
Like most RPC frameworks dating as far back as Sun RPC and OSF DCE RPC (and their object-based descendants CORBA and DCOM), Cap'n Proto uses an Interface Description Language (IDL) to generate RPC libraries in a variety of programming languages - automating many low level details such as handling network requests, converting between data types, etc. The Cap'n Proto interface schema uses a C-like syntax and supports common primitives data types (booleans, integers, floats, etc.), compound types (structs, lists, enums), as well as generics and dynamic types. Cap'n Proto also supports Object Oriented features such as multiple inheritance, which has been criticized for its complexity. @0xa558ef006c0c123; #Unique identifiers are manually or automatically assigned to files and compound types
struct Date @0x5c5a558ef006c0c1 {
year @0 :Int16; #@n marks order values were added to the schema
month @1 :UInt8;
day @2 :UInt8;
}
struct Contact @0xf032a54bcb3667e0 {
name @0 :Text;
birthday @2 :Date; #fields can be added anywhere in the definition, but their numbering must reflect the order in which they were added
phones @1 :List(PhoneNumber);
struct PhoneNumber { #Compound types without an static ID cannot be renamed, as automatic IDs are deterministically generated
number @0 :Text;
type @1 :PhoneType = mobile; #Default value
enum PhoneType {
mobile @0;
landline @1;
}
}
}Values in Cap'n Proto messages are represented in binary, as opposed to text encoding used by "human-readable" formats such as JSON or XML. Cap'n Proto tries to make the storage/network protocol appropriate as an in-memory format, so that no translation step is needed when reading data into memory or writing data out of memory. For example, the representation of numbers (endianness) was chosen to match the representation the most popular CPU architectures. When the in-memory and wire-protocol representations match, Cap'n Proto can avoid copying and encoding data when creating or reading a message and instead point to the location of the value in memory. Cap'n Proto also supports random access to data, meaning that any field can be read without having to read the entire message.
Unlike other binary serialization protocols such as XMI, Cap'n Proto considers fine-grained data validation at the RPC level an anti-feature that limits a protocols ability to evolve. This was informed by experiences at Google where simply changing a field from mandatory to optional would cause complex oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchase%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberchase is an American-Canadian animated educational children's television series.
Cyberchase may also refer to:
Cyberchase: Carnival Chaos, a 2003 computer game based on the TV series
Cyberchase: Castleblanca Quest, a 2003 computer game based on the TV series
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, a 2001 direct-to-video Scooby-Doo film
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (video game), a 2001 video game based on the Scooby-Doo film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallypop | Hallypop is a digital entertainment channel owned by Jungo TV in partnership with Cinedigm, based in the United States. The channel airs programming content from Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) which focuses on Korean variety shows, music, dramas and live concerts.
Programming
The channel primarily airs content outsourced from SBS, including reality (Running Man), music variety (Music Bank, K-pop Star, and JYP’s Party People), drama and lifestyle.
International versions
A Philippine version of the channel was launched in 2020 by GMA Network after GMA signed a partnership with Jungo TV in 2019. It will air in September 20, 2020 as part of its channel lineup on GMA Affordabox digital set-top-box and GMA Now along with GMA, GTV, Heart of Asia and I Heart Movies.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Television networks in the United States
Korean-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocuration | Biocuration is the field of life sciences dedicated to organizing biomedical data, information and knowledge into structured formats, such as spreadsheets, tables and knowledge graphs. The biocuration of biomedical knowledge is made possible by the cooperative work of biocurators, software developers and bioinformaticians and is at the base of the work of biological databases.
Biocuration as a profession
A biocurator is a professional scientist who curates, collects, annotates, and validates information that is disseminated by biological and model organism databases. It is a new profession, with the first mentions in the scientific literature dating of 2006 in the context of the work in databases like the Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource. Biocurators usually are PhD-level with a mix of experiences in wet lab and computational representations of knowledge (e.g. via ontologies).
The role of a biocurator encompasses quality control of primary biological research data intended for publication, extracting and organizing data from original scientific literature, and describing the data with standard annotation protocols and vocabularies that enable powerful queries and biological database interoperability. Biocurators communicate with researchers to ensure the accuracy of curated information and to foster data exchanges with research laboratories.
Biocurators are present in diverse research environments, but may not self-identify as biocurators. Projects such as ELIXIR (the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information) and GOBLET (Global Organization for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training) promote training and support biocuration as a career path.
In 2011, biocuration was already recognized as a profession, but there were no formal degree courses to prepare curators for biological data in a targeted fashion. With the growth of the field, the University of Cambridge and the EMBL-EBI started to jointly offer a Postgraduate Certificate in Biocuration, considered as a step towards recognising biocuration as a discipline on its own. There is a perceived increase in demand of biocuration, and a need for additional biocuration training by graduate programs.
Organizations that employ biocurators, like Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen), often provide specialized materials and training for biocuration.
Biological knowledgebases
The role of biocurators is best known among the field of biological knowledgebases. Such databases, like UniProt and PDB rely on professional biocurators to organize information. Among other things, biocurators work to improve the data quality, for example, by merging duplicated entries.
An important part of those knowledgebases are model organisms databases, which rely on biocurators to curate information regarding organisms of particular kinds. Some notable examples of model organism databases are FlyBase, PomBase, and ZFIN, dedicated to curate information about Drosophila, Schi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ni%C3%B1o%20episodes | Niño is a 2014 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from May 26, 2014 to September 12, 2014, replacing Carmela: Ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Mundong Ibabaw.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
May 2014
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20J.%20White | Timothy J. "TJ" White is a United States Navy vice admiral who served as commander of the United States Fleet Cyber Command and United States Tenth Fleet from 2018 to 2020.
References
United States Navy personnel of the Gulf War
Living people
National Defense University alumni
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Naval Academy alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20D.%20Haugh | Timothy D. Haugh is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy commander of the United States Cyber Command. He previously commanded the Sixteenth Air Force from 2019 to 2022.
In May 2023, Haugh was nominated for promotion to general and appointment as commander of the United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service.
Effective dates of promotions
References
Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy alumni
Lehigh University alumni
Lieutenant generals
Living people
Naval Postgraduate School alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Southern Methodist University alumni
United States Air Force generals
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muna%20Luqman | Muna Luqman is a Yemeni activist, peace builder, founder of the organization Food4Humanity and co-founder of the Women in Solidarity Network.
Luqman's career includes social work in the areas of health care, water projects and demining with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. She has also worked with Save the Children and the Hayel Saeed Anam Group. In 2015 she founded Food4Humanity a Yemeni Foundation composed of Yemeni women volunteers, focusing on the cities of Hodeida, Sanaa, and Taiz.
She is a member of the Women's Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL). She co-founded the Women in Solidarity Network which encourages women to participate in peace and security efforts.
In 2019, Muna was the recipient of the International Young Women's Peace and Human Rights Award presented by Democracy Today. The same year she participated in a U.S. Congressional Briefing titled Women Bring Peace:The War in Yemen and Women's Leadership in Peacebuilding.
References
External links
Covid Impacts on Peace and Security: Muna Luqman, Food4Humanity Foundation, Yemen YouTube video
Living people
Yemeni women activists
Yemeni human rights activists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Rosen-Zvi | Michal Rosen-Zvi () is an Israeli academic and researcher in the fields of artificial intelligence and deep learning and their applications to healthcare. She is research director for Healthcare Informatics at IBM Research in Haifa.
Education and career
After completing a PhD in computational physics at Bar-Ilan University, Rosen-Zvi pursued postdoctoral studies in machine learning at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and Hebrew University.
She has worked for IBM since 2005, and is director of healthcare informatics at IBM Research in Haifa. She has specialised in the fields of medical image analysis, machine learning, and cognitive computing, including creation of a structured dataset on governmental responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic based on Wikipedia coverage. She is a member of the Israeli National Council of Digital Health and Innovation.
She has also taught at a number of colleges, including the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University.
Research
Rosen-Zvi is known for her work in document classification, where she introduced the author–topic model.
This is an extension of latent Dirichlet allocation, a method for understanding the word frequencies of documents by fitting them to a model in which a document is associated with a mixture of topics, each of which is a probability distribution over words. The author-topic model was introduced in a paper by Rosen-Zvi and three other authors in 2004. It adds the identity of document authors and their preferences for topics to the model, and became "one of the earliest attempts at modeling the interests of authors" used in this area of machine learning.
More recent research of Rosen-Zvi has focused on the application of machine learning techniques to problems in healthcare including medical diagnosis, choice of treatment, and causal inference in the observation of medical treatments and their outcomes.
References
External links
Living people
Israeli women academics
Israeli educators
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Year of birth missing (living people)
Israeli women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Josefovna%20Poliakova | Maria Josefovna Poliakova (27 March 1908 – 7 May 1995) was a Jewish Soviet colonel and 4th Department spy who played the principal role in organising the Soviet espionage network in Switzerland, that was later known as the Rote Drei.
Life
Poliakova's father was Joseph Aronovich Poliakov (or Polyakov; 1887–1937), a native of Romny. He was a Menshevik, who during the Soviet era served in the Commissariat for Foreign Trade. His work involved extensive travel to various European countries including England, Germany and France. On 20 September 1937, he was shot dead, as part of Stalin's purges.
Her mother, Basia Solomonovna Poliakova, was a seamstress. In 1917 she was a candidate for the Kiev City Duma and for the council of the Jewish community of the city for the General Jewish Labour Bund. During the Soviet era, she was a secretary of the Foreign Trade Commissariat. Her brother was writer Ariy Polyakov.
Poliakova was married to a professional Czech revolutionary Joseph Ditska. They had a daughter, Svetlana. Joseph Ditska died in August 1941, while on a special mission in Poland, the rear of the German forces.
Career
Between 1921 and 1925, Poliakova studied abroad - in Germany and Great Britain, where her parents worked in trade missions for the USSR. As the family travelled with her father, Poliakova learned several languages including French, German and English. In 1925, she moved to Moscow.
Between 1925 and 1932 she participated in the Young Communist International and the Comintern as a dedicated communist. In 1931, the central committee of the Komsomol recommended Poliakova for training to Soviet Military Intelligence. Poliakova attended a course at the Higher Intelligence School.
From 1935, Poliakova served in the Red Army. From January 1935 to January 1936, she studied at the School of Intelligence Administration of the Frunze Military Academy, after which, on 19 June 1936, Poliakova was promoted to Senior lieutenant ()
During the 1930s, Poliakova was posted on several assignments abroad in France and Switzerland. Her aliases were Mildred, Gisela, and Vera.
In 1936–37, Poliakova was an illegal resident in the Soviet military intelligence network in Switzerland, that was later known as the Rote Drei. Her contacts in Switzerland were Rachel Dübendorfer, Selma Gessner–Bührer, and, in France, Henry Robinson. In 1937, Poliakova was recalled to the Soviet Union. She survived the purges. However, her brother and father were shot. As a result of the murders of her father and brother, Poliakova became embittered of Stalin's regime. In 1937-41 she worked in the central apparatus of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army headquarters, Moscow. She trained new employees, worked in military-technical and military intelligence units.
In 1944, Poliakova was promoted from Captain to Major. She remained active as an espionage agent in the GRU until 1953.
References
1908 births
1995 deaths
Military personnel from Saint Petersburg
Female wartime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Decisions | Computer Decisions was a computer industry monthly magazine published in the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1989 InformationWeek noted the loss to the industry of this and another competitor, Infosystems.
Collectors have described the magazine as being hardware-oriented and management-oriented; one issue ran over 10 pages on "Is there a shortage of computer programmers" in 1980. JSTOR listed them in a bibliography regarding computer ethics.
The magazine's name is included in lists of "published in" such as Columbia University's Graduate Alumni Magazine.
See also
List of computer magazines
References
External links
Archive, Computer Decisions magazine
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines with year of disestablishment missing
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Monthly magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Riders%3A%20Division%20Earth | Space Riders: Division Earth is a Canadian science fiction comedy web series, which premiered in 2014 on CTV Television Network's web platform CTV Extend. The series stars Mark Little and Dan Beirne as Ken and Phillip, two slackers who unexpectedly become superheroes after the Earth is invaded by alien supervillain Orson Ooze (Kayla Lorette). The series was generally labelled by critics as a parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The series won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media, Fiction at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, and the series won two Canadian Comedy Awards, for Best Web Series and Best Direction in a Web Series (Jordan Canning) at the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards. Following the second season's airing in 2017, Lorette was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
References
External links
2014 web series debuts
Canadian comedy web series
Canadian science fiction web series
CTV Television Network original programming
Best Digital Fiction Series Canadian Screen Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchrist%20%28EP%29 | Cyberchrist is the second EP by Sphere Lazza, released in 1993 by Reactor Records.
Music
The song "Justified?" from Cyberchrist was released on Blood and Computers II: The Return of the Cyberpunks by Paradise Movement and later on the band third EP +incinerate and Electro Industrial Assassins by Cleopatra Records in 1995. The album was remastered and packaged with the band's next release, titled +incinerate, for the band's 1995 compilation album Incinerate on Fifth Colvmn Records.
Reception
Sonic Boom called Cyberchrist "habitually addictive dance industrial" and said "very original work here, a bit of the deep background percussion is mildly reminiscent to older Front by Front area Front 242, but the comparison ends there."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Cyberchrist liner notes.
Sphere Lazza
Tony Spaz – instruments
David Trousdale – vocals, instruments
Release history
References
External links
Cyberchrist at Discogs (list of releases)
''Cyberchrist' at iTunes
1993 EPs
Sphere Lazza albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2Bincinerate | +incinerate is the third EP by Sphere Lazza, released in 1994 by Arts Industria.
Music
The song "Justified?" had previously been released on the Cyberchrist EP and on the various artists compilations Blood and Computers II: The Return of the Cyberpunks by Paradise Movement and Electro Industrial Assassins by Cleopatra Records in 1995. The song "Kiss the Serpent" was released on 1994's compilation Transatlantic Techno Trip by Electro Pulse. Four tracks from +incinerate were remastered and released with most of the band's Cyberchrist EP on the band's 1995 compilation album Incinerate, released in 1995 by Fifth Colvmn Records.
Reception
Sonic Boom said +incinerate has "a unique sound quite its own" and said "stylistically this album approaches Noise Unit in programming and vocal mixing.."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the +incinerate liner notes.
Sphere Lazza
Tony Spaz – instruments, production
David Trousdale – vocals, production
Production and design
Arts Industria – cover art, illustrations, design
Release history
References
External links
+incinerate at Discogs (list of releases)
+incinerate at iTunes
1994 EPs
Sphere Lazza albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babelio | Babelio is a French social cataloging website and a mobile app dedicated to literature. It is a social network for users to review books and generate personal library catalogs, which can be shared and commented on by other users.
It has been called the French equivalent of Goodreads.
History
Babelio was launched in January 2007 by three bibliophiles: Guillaume Teisseire, Vassil Stefanov and Pierre Fremaux. It began as a social media website specializing in books. In France, Babelio was the first of its kind to be created. It is supported by publishers such as Éditions Albin Michel, Éditions du Seuil and Fayard. Many of the site's most active users receive copies of books in advance from various publishers and are invited to share their reviews. Users can participate in the "Masse critique" contest to win book copies.
In October 2018, Babelio had 650,000 users and was visited monthly by approximately 3.7 million internet users. By June 2020, Babelio had a community of 950,000 users. By June 2021, Babelio had a community of 1.1 million users.
Features
For the general public
For the books that are in their library, users have the ability to rate, write a review, extract quotes, create thematic lists, participate in games and create quizzes. Members also have a personalized home page that offers a news feed related to their literary tastes. Based on members' libraries and the ratings they have given to books, the site also offers users the opportunity to discover other user with similar literary tastes. Users also have the opportunity to converse through a group function, allowing them to send public messages. A thematic labeling system also allows users to navigate the database of books. Users thereby explore using keyword clouds, offering a collaborative and community form of classification.
Babelio offers excerpts from reviews and links to the vast majority of professional literary columns published in the general and specialized press. Columns from a large number of media sources are thus included in the cataloging data of each book.
The site also offers a mobile application compatible with the iOS and Android operating systems.
At the beginning of 2018, Babelio launched a Spanish-language version of their website.
For literary professionals
Babelio offers a social network of authors intended to connect writers and their readers according to their literary tastes. The site also offers public libraries the opportunity to enrich their catalogs with community content (reviews, quotes, keyword clouds) through its Babelthèque website.
Prix Babelio
In 2019, Babelio launched its annual readers' prize, the Prix Babelio, which rewards 10 winners in 10 categories. The first edition of the prize was awarded on 19 June 2019 and was decided as the result of 29,000 votes by 7,000 participating users. The 2nd Prix Babelio was awarded on 17 June 2020 as the result of 50,000 votes by 11,500 voters participating users. The 3rd Prix Babelio was awarded on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Soul | Computer Soul is an EP by Black Rain, released on January 18, 2019, by Blackest Ever Black.
Reception
Magnetic Magazine said Computer Soul "explores a timeless world through eerie dub-filled rides, distorted vocals, and gothic trepidation." They listed "Black Mother Kali Gandaki" at number nine of their "Best Ambient and Chill Tracks of January 2019" and said "windswept drones make for a chilly and somber track, fitting the overtone of Black Rain's album."
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from the Computer Soul liner notes.
Black Rain
Stuart Argabright – instruments, production
Production and design
Matt Colton – mastering
Release history
References
External links
Computer Soul at Bandcamp
Computer Soul at iTunes
2019 EPs
Black Rain (band) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Regional%20Mexican%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%202012 | Regional Mexican Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine that features Latin music sales information for regional styles of Mexican music. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at department stores and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number-one albums
References
United States Regional Albums
2012 in Latin music
Regional Mexican 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Air%20%284th%20generation%29 | The iPad Air (4th generation), informally referred to as iPad Air 4, is a tablet computer designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced by Apple on September 15, 2020. Pre-orders began on October 16, 2020, and shipping began a week later on October 23, 2020 alongside the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro. The device closely resembles the design of the 11-inch iPad Pro (3rd generation) and has several features that were previously exclusive to the iPad Pro line, such as support for Magic Keyboard and the second-generation Apple Pencil. It is available in five colors: Space Gray, Silver, Rose Gold, Green, and Sky Blue.
The 4th generation iPad Air was discontinued on March 8, 2022, following the announcement of its successor, the 5th generation iPad Air.
Features
Hardware
There are 11.9 billion transistors inside of the Apple A14 Bionic SoC, which allows for higher efficiency in terms of both power and performance. The chip has a 6-core CPU that is 40 percent faster than the A12, a 4-core GPU that is 30 percent faster, and Apple's 16-core Neural Engine, which is twice as fast and features improved machine learning. The Neural Engine can process more than 11 trillion operations per second.
It has a wider 60Hz 10.9-inch 2360 by 1640 Liquid Retina Display display with 3.8 million pixels. The display is laminated and has an anti-reflective coating, as well as featuring wide color and True Tone.
The Home Button is removed; the Touch ID sensor has been relocated to the Sleep/Wake button attached on the top right edge of the device. Landscape stereo audio effect is also added to the system's audio recording system.
It features a rear 12MP camera capable of 4K video recording at up to 60fps as well as a 7MP FaceTime camera capable of 1080p 60fps video.
Connectivity
With the release of its fourth-generation iPad Air, Apple discontinued the proprietary Lightning port in favor of a universal USB-C port that is used for charging as well as connecting external devices and accessories. The port is capable of transferring up to 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s), allowing for fast connections to cameras and external storage, as well as support for monitors with up to 4K resolution. For wireless connection, the device comes with Bluetooth 5.0 and WiFi 6 (802.11ax).
Accessories
It is compatible with the second-generation Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard for iPad, and Smart Keyboard Folio.
Reception
Apple's fourth-generation iPad Air has drawn criticism for being more expensive than its predecessor. In general, though, the iPad Air 4 has been widely praised by consumers and tech reviewers alike, with Henry T. Casey of Tom's Guide saying it is "the best tablet for most people" and "one of the best iPads ever," and with James Peckham of TechRadar calling it "a phenomenally well-made tablet." PCMag.com included the iPad Air (4th generation) in its Best Tech Products of the Year list in 2020 and awarded it their Editors' Choice for high-end tablets.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-CERT | TR-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team of the Republic of Turkey, Turkish: Ulusal Siber Olaylara Müdahale Merkezi (USOM)) is an organization within the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) which is the national regulatory authority of the Turkish electronic communication sector. It is responsible for the analysis and risk mitigation of large-scale cyber threats and vulnerabilities, communicating information regarding malicious cyber activities or possible vulnerabilities to computer security incident response teams (CSIRT) and the public.
Background
TR-CERT was established on 27 May 2013 within the ICTA, in accordance with the 4. clause "National Cybersecurity Strategy and 2013-2014 Action Plan" (Turkish: Ulusal Siber Güvenlik Stratejisi ve 2013-2014 Eylem Planı) issued by the Cabinet of Turkey and published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey.
Mission
The mission of TR-CERT is to protect the Turkish government's and its citizens' cyberspace, taking measures for the protection of critical infrastructures, both public and private, such as energy production and distribution, water management, and telecommunication institutions and facilities in Turkey. TR-CERT also takes both proactive and reactive actions toward cyber incidents that would affect the country as a whole, such as botnets, malware, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
There are over 1300 CSIRTs and over 4000 cyber security professionals in nearly every sector in Turkey that coordinate with TR-CERT regarding cyber incidents. These CSIRTs are mostly institutional CSIRTs (such as the CSIRT of a bank), but there are also industry-specific CSIRTs that coordinate with TR-CERT (such as the CSIRT of the finance industry).
Activities
The Cyber Star (Turkish: Siber Yıldız), a 24-hour online capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition organized by TR-CERT, had over 20,000 contestants working either in teams or individually, during the latest competition held in February 2019. In the previous Cyber Star event held in January 2017, TR-CERT had nearly 15,000 contestants and some of the most successful contestants were hired by TR-CERT later on.
In December 2019, TR-CERT organized the "Cyber Shield 2019", an international cybersecurity exercise with simulated cyber attacks, malware, phishing, and industrial control systems (ICS). Held at the ICTA headquarters in Ankara, contestants from 17 countries competed to identify cybersecurity emergencies and take the necessary measures within the scenarios and technical infrastructure prepared by TR-CERT. The exercise was supported by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agency of the United Nations and the Cybersecurity Alliance for Mutual Progress (CAMP). International Cyber Shield 2019 was organized to increase preparedness to combat cybersecurity incidents and foster international cooperation in dealing with them.
On 10 February 2020, TR-CERT's security operations center (SOC) was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitriy%20G.%20Stankevich | Dmitriy G. Stankevich (born 1956) is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in computer modeling of light scattering by regoliths of planets and the Moon, as well as in digital processing of astronomical images. Winner of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in Science and Technology (1986).
Biography
In 1978, Dmitriy G. Stankevich graduated from Kharkiv State University. He worked at the Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR on the development of software and hardware for digital processing of astronomical and space images. For these works, he received the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in Science and Technology in the field of science and technology in 1986.
In 1988 Stankevich moved to work at Kharkiv University. He continued his research on processing of astronomical and space images, and worked on the issues of light scattering by surfaces of celestial bodies. In 1989 he defended his PhD thesis "Investigation of the surface of Venus by digital image processing methods".
Since 2001, Stankevich has been working as an associate professor at the Department of Astronomy at the School of Physics of Kharkiv University. He teaches General Astronomy, Theoretical Astrophysics, and Computer Technologies in Astronomy. He also directs bachelor's and master's theses of students, supervises research works of schoolchildren at the Minor Academy of Sciences, gives popular science talks.
Honours and awards
State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in Science and Technology (1986)
References
Sources
200 лет астрономии в Харьковском университете / Шкуратов Ю. Г. (ред.). — Харків : ХНУ, 2008. — 632 с. — 500 прим.
Станкевич Дмитро Геннадійович, фізичний факультет ХНУ ім. В. Н. Каразіна
Stankevich, Dmitriy G. in Scopus
1956 births
Ukrainian astronomers
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Living people
Academic staff of Kharkiv Observatory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Visualization%20Lab | The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) is a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The AVL specializes in creating cinematic scientific visualizations of large, three-dimensional, time-evolving data. The AVL has contributed to a number of scientific documentaries including the IMAX films "A Beautiful Planet". and "Hubble 3D", a number of fulldome films, and television documentaries.
History
Cinematic visualization work at the NCSA started in 1994 under University of Illinois Art + Design Professor Donna Cox, and was formalized under the "Advanced Visualization Lab" name in 2006. Cox coined the term "Renaissance Team" to describe the combination of artists, technologists, and scientists that it takes to create cinematic scientific visualizations. Unlike many visualization teams who use visualization software to create their imagery, the AVL relies primarily on visual effects tools and techniques to achieve a cinematic look
As of 2020, the core AVL team members are Donna Cox (director), Robert Patterson (designer), Stuart Levy (senior programmer), Kalina Borkiewicz (senior programmer), AJ Christensen (programmer/designer), and Jeff Carpenter (multimedia specialist).
References
Further reading
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135550
Rubin, J. (2015, March). Visualizing the Data. Planetarian, 44(1), 12-16. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ips-planetarium.org/resource/resmgr/planetarian/201503planetarian.pdf
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ncsa-visualization-team-co-produces-birth-of-planet-earth/
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/1-5-million-grant-to-ncsa-to-put-big-data-on-big-screen/article_eae796d9-a5a6-541d-b28b-04f47347cb17.html
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Lawrence | Neil David Lawrence is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, senior AI fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting professor at the University of Sheffield.
Education
Lawrence obtained a Bachelors in Engineering degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Southampton, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on variational inference in probabilistic models, supervised by Christopher Bishop.
Career and research
Lawrence spent a year at Microsoft Research before serving as a senior lecturer in machine learning and computational biology at the University of Sheffield for six years. From 2007 to 2010, Lawrence was research fellow at the University of Manchester's Department of Computer Science, returning to the University of Sheffield in 2010 as the collaborative chair of neuro and computer science.
In 2016, he was appointed director of machine learning at Amazon in Cambridge, where he collaborated with , who became director of machine learning at Amazon in Berlin.
Upon his appointment as the inaugural DeepMind Professor Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in September 2019, Ann Copestake stated Lawrence' addition would have a "transformative effect".
Lawrence' research interests are in machine learning, gaussian processes, and probabilistic models with applications in computational biology, personalised health and developing economies.
Ambassadorship
Lawrence has advocated for data transparency and privacy, writing several prominent articles in The Guardian discussing issues ranging from the privacy implications of Machine Learning algorithms deployed on citizens, the current "state of the art" in the field, the importance of data-sharing and academic transparency, to the possibilities for Machine Learning to advance developing nations such as African nations. These efforts have been called "commendable" by Demis Hassabis.
More recently he has been solicited for his opinion on the absence of Machine Learning algorithms during the COVID-19 pandemic, to which he stated
Lawrence did host a podcast with Katherine Gorman called Talking Machines.
References
Living people
British computer scientists
British engineers
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202020%20cyberattacks%20on%20U.S.%20schools | List of cyberattacks on schools From 2016 to 2019 there have been 855 cyberattacks on U.S. School districts. Microsoft Security Intelligence has said there are more attacks on schools and school districts than any other industry. There were 348 reported cyberattacks on school districts in 2019. School districts are allocating millions of dollars for their computer systems to support virtual learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Miami-Dade Public Schools invested in a $15.3 million online learning system. In 2020 their system was hacked with a Denial of Service Cyber attack.
The two main types of cyberattacks on schools are Distributed denial of service DDoS - an attack which overwhelms the targets internet bandwidth, and Ransomware - where the hacker takes control of the target's computer system and demands money. In 2020 because of reliance on distance learning, schools braced for cyberattacks. The average cost for organizations that do not pay the ransomware demands was $730,000.
Legislation
U.S. Representative Josh Harder introduced a bill in congress entitled: Protecting Students from Cybercrimes Act. The bill's goal is to give schools $25 million in grants to implement cyber security. In 2019 U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Rick Scott also authored a bill to safeguard school computer systems. The bill is called The K-12 Cybersecurity Act.
Cyberattacks on schools alphabetical
A
Allegheny County Schools (NC) ransomeware attack
Athens Independent School District (Texas) ransomware attack
B
Burke County Public Schools (NC) ransomeware attack
Baugo Community Schools (Indiana) cyberattack
C
Conejo Valley Unified school district (California) DDoS
Cherry Hill School District Philadelphia malware attack
D
E
F
G
Gadsden Independent School District (Sunland Park NM) ransomware attack
H
Hartford Public Schools ransomware attack
Hamden school district (Connecticut) malware attack
Haywood County Schools ransomeware attack
Humble Independent School District (Texas) DDoS attack
Huntington Beach Unified High School District (California) ransomeware attack
I
J
Jackson Public School District (Mississippi) malware attack
Jay Public School District (Oklahoma) virus
K
King George County Schools ransomware attack
L
Lumberton Township Public Schools in Burlington County (New Jersey) Zoom malicious pornographic intrusion
M
Madison Public Schools (Connecticut) Zoombombing attack
Miami-Dade Public Schools System cyberattack
Mitchell County Schools (North Carolina) ransomware attack
The Mountain View-Los Altos High School District (California) ransomware attack
N
Community School Corporation of New Palestine Indiana (DDoS) cyberattack
O
P
Penncrest School District (Pennsylvania) ransomware attack (paid $10,000)
Pittsburg Unified School District of Pennsylvania ransomeware attack
Ponca City Public Schools (Oklahoma) ransomware attack
Q
R
Richmond school district (Michigan) ransomware attack
S
Surry County Schools ransomeware attack
Sou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20My%20Destiny%20episodes | My Destiny is a 2014 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from June 30, 2014 to October 17, 2014, replacing Kambal Sirena.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2014
July 2014
August 2014
September 2014
October 2014
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlotta%20Berry | Carlotta Berry is an American academic in the field of engineering. She is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program. She is a co-founder of Black In Engineering and a co-founder of Black In Robotics.
Early life and education
Berry received bachelor's degrees in mathematics (1992) and electrical engineering (1993) through a dual degree program between Spelman College and Georgia Tech. At Georgia Tech she observed the scarcity of female and African-American students and faculty within the engineering program, which sparked her desire to become an engineering professor to encourage greater participation of underrepresented populations in the profession. After graduation, she worked in industry to repay her student loans while concurrently pursuing a masters degree at Wayne State University. She earned her masters in control systems from Wayne State University in 1996, and a year later left industry to pursue a doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University. Berry was part of the Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL), and was advised by Kazuhiko Kawamura and Julie Adams. Her doctoral thesis was on human-robot interface development for a mobile robot, specifically the enhancement of the interface through graphical visualization of the robot's short-term memory.
Career and research
Berry is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where her academic interests include educational mobile robotics, human-robot interaction, and recruiting and retention of underrepresented populations in engineering. In 2008, Berry and her colleague Deborah Walter created the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity (ROSE-BUD) program, which attracts talented female and underrepresented minority students in computer science and electrical, computer, and software engineering through scholarships and other program activities. Berry also worked with a cross-department team of faculty at Rose-Hulman to establish a multidisciplinary robotics minor degree program, for which she continues to serve as co-director. Berry has been a guest speaker at several Women in Engineering outreach events, and she has written articles for the New York Times and ASEE Prism magazine on her experiences as a professor from an underrepresented group.
Awards and recognition
Berry has received several awards for her work increasing diversity in STEM fields, including the Women and Hi Tech Leading Light award and the INSIGHT Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM award. In 2020, Berry was named Indiana FIRST Game Changer, One of 30 women in Robotics You need to Know about and Reinvented Magazine Interview of the Year award on Purpose and Passion. In 2021, Berry was named Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was also awarded the TechPoint Foundation for Youth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Namma%20Metro%29 | The Blue Line or ORR-Airport Metro Line is part of the Namma Metro rail network for the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It consists of two sections - Phase-2A (Silkboard to KR Puram) and Phase-2B (KR Puram to Airport). Construction of Phase-2A began in August-2021. Construction of Phase-2B is expected to begin in February-2022. The 58.19 km line connects Central Silk Board with the Kempegowda International Airport. The Line is mostly elevated but also has an at-grade (surface) section close to the Airport and 2 short underground sections where it passes the Jakkur Aerodrome and Yelahanka AFB. There are 30 stations on the line of which the two station/s at the Airport may be at surface level or underground. Blue Line will have interchanges with the Yellow Line at Central Silk Board, Purple Line at KR Pura, Pink Line at Nagawara and with the future /proposed Orange Line at Hebbal.
In June 2022, BMRCL launched the first ever U Girder span on ORR-Airport metro line. The extension of the Purple Line and construction of the Pink and Yellow Lines is currently in progress. Pink, Yellow and the Blue Line will be CBTC signaling enabled, unlike Namma Metro's first two lines (Purple and Green Lines use distance-signaling). In June 2023, the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka D. K. Shivakumar informed that Metro line to Kempegowda International Airport will be completed by June 2026, plus or minus 3 months.
History
The routes under Phase-2A and Phase-2B (Blue Line) were actually part of Phase-3 but 'fast-tracked' and prioritized under Phase-2. As early as in February 2012, the Central government had also requested BMRC to start work on the airport link during Phase 2 itself.
The route from Central Silkboard to K R Puram along the eastern part of Outer Ring Road (ORR) was included as Phase-2A since development on that part of ORR had leap-frogged much ahead of the rest of the city with huge number of new office buildings. As a result, traffic increased several fold with employees traveling from different parts of the city to this new CBD. Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah announced in September 2016 that a new 18 km (11 mi) line connecting Central Silk Board with K.R.Puram along ORR would be included in Phase 2 as Phase-2A of the project at an estimated cost of ₹4202 crores.
Kempegowda International Airport (opened during May 2008) being very far from city center (about 35 km), commuting time by road in traffic congestion is time-consuming. Hence, attention for building a fast mass transit was in the minds of planners from the very beginning, especially since air traffic had kept increasing. The old airport in Bengaluru, the HAL Airport, located well within the city, had closed for commercial operations as part of the terms of the PPP for the new airport.
To connect airport to city, there had initially been a proposal to build a 33 km (21 mi) high speed rail line from MG Road to Kempegowda International Airport (KIA). Cost was estimated at ₹ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark%20Health | Lark Health is an American digital health company based in Mountain View, California. It provides a 24/7 nursing platform for chronic conditions, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and has a text-messaging type interface. Lark also provides AI nurses for type 2 diabetes care, hypertension care, tobacco cessation, stress management, obesity, and more for 1.5 million patients.
Lark is notable for being preloaded on all Samsung Galaxy S5 phones by 2014.
History
Lark was founded by Julia Hu and Jeff Zira. It first produced a sleep health monitor worn on a person's wrist. It was designed to wake up the individual wearing the device without disturbing anyone else who might be sleeping nearby. The product was soon sold in all Apple stores globally.
Lark eventually focused more on artificial intelligence and less on hardware. By 2014, Lark was preloaded on all Samsung Galaxy S5 phones.
The Lark apps focus on common chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes prevention, diabetes, and hypertension. Lark Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is officially recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an online DPP.
Lark's efficacy has been evaluated by a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Diabetes,
Products and services
Lark has specialized health plans focusing on patients with diabetes, hypertension, prediabetes or at high risk for type 2 diabetes, and overall health. Lark's services are delivered and automatically syncs with certain bluetooth-enabled health monitors devices such as home blood pressure monitors, glucometers, activity trackers, and body weight scales. Some programs allow for both the app and one or more connected devices to be used.
References
External links
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Health informatics
Telehealth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%202077%3A%20Trauma%20Team | Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team is a comic series by Dark Horse Comics, set in the world of the video game Cyberpunk 2077. First published in September 2020, the series is written by Cullen Bunn and illustrated by Miguel Valderrama.
Plot
Set in the year 2077, the plot follows Nadia, an EMT for the privately owned and heavily militarized healthcare company named Trauma Team International. When a shootout leaves the rest of her team dead, Nadia agrees to continue working for the company.
Release
Trauma Team was created by Dark Horse Comics in partnership with CD Projekt Red, sharing the same setting as CD Projekt's video game, Cyberpunk 2077. Writing was led by Cullen Bunn (who had previously written for Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men, and X-Men Blue), with illustrations by Miguel Valderrama (who had previously worked on Giants with his brother, Carlos), colorizing by Jason Wordie, and lettering by Frank Cvetkovic.
The first announcement of the comic was made from the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account on June 21, 2020, several days after confirmation that the release date for Cyberpunk 2077 would be moving back from September 17 to November 19, 2020.
The first issue in the Trauma Team series was released on September 9, 2020. This first issue was also made available in a limited edition bundle, featuring a variant cover and matching lithograph by artist Robert Sammelin. Volume 1 of the series, collecting together the first four issues, was released on February 9, 2021.
References
External links
Cyberpunk 2077 Volume 1: Trauma Team profile page on Dark Horse website
2020 comics debuts
Comics based on video games
Comics set in the 21st century
Cyberpunk (role-playing game)
Dark Horse Comics titles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUniverCities | EUniverCities is a network of European universities and cities that was founded on January 27, 2012
Partners
Aveiro (University of Aveiro)
Exeter (University of Exeter)
Ghent (Ghent University)
Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck)
Lausanne (University of Lausanne)
Linköping (Linköping University)
Lublin (Maria Curie Sklodowska University - Lublin)
Magdeburg (Otto-von-Guericke University and University of Applied Sciences)
Malaga (University of Malaga)
Norrköping (Linköping University – Campus Norrköping)
Parma (University of Parma)
Timisoara (West University of Timişoara)
Trondheim (University of Science and Technology)
Turku (University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University).
References
External links
Organizations established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Oldies%3A%20Volume%201%20-%20Computer%20Software%20Classics | Golden Oldies: Volume 1 - Computer Software Classics is a retrospective compilation of four games from prior to the microcomputer era: Adventure, Eliza, Life, and Pong. It was published in 1985 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and DOS. Atari ST and Amiga versions followed in 1986. Despite the "Volume 1" in the title, no further collections were released.
Reception
Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "These games are pure and simple, yet still fun to play and enjoy." Steve Panak, writing for ANALOG Computing, called the manual "superb," and concluded, "If you're interested in researching and reliving this portion of our recent history, Golden Oldies is a rich vein to tap."
References
External links
Review in Antic
Review in PC Magazine
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
Review in Info
Review in Atari Explorer
1985 video games
Amiga games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Video game compilations
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20National%20Primate%20Research%20Center | The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) is a federally funded biomedical research facility located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The WNPRC is part of a network of seven National Primate Research Centers which conduct biomedical research on primates. As of 2020, the center houses approximately 1,600 animals.
Research
The WNPRC describes its mission to involve researching human diseases, studying primate biology, providing "expertise, resources and training" to scientists, and disseminating information about the center. In 2020, the center consisted of 1,600 animals, 190 employees, and 190 trainees.
Incidents and controversies
1960s and 1970s
During the 1960s and 1970s, psychologist Harry Harlow led experiments at the WNPRC in which young monkeys were subjected to social isolation, causing the monkeys to experience severe emotional distress. As part of his experiments, Harlow developed a device called the "pit of despair", which was an isolation chamber where young monkeys were kept for up to ten weeks.
2010–2014
In June 2012, a seven-month-old macaque died after its head was caught between a support bar and enclosure.
In July 2014, a USDA inspection report revealed that since January 1, 2013, there had been 36 incidents of non-human primates escaping from their enclosures. Five of these incidents involved significant injuries to the animals which required surgery or primary closure of wounds. Furthermore, many of these escapes were the result of human errors such as incorrectly closing or securing enclosures.
In February 2013, a five-year-old marmoset was killed as the result of improper use of an anesthesia machine by a veterinary technician.
In October 2013, a macaque sustained a thermal injury after a heat lamp, which was intended to warm the animal, malfunctioned.
In June 2014, a two-year-old macaque died after her head was caught in a chain her cage.
In 2014, psychiatrist Ned Kalin was approved for experiments in which newborn monkeys were to be separated from their mothers, subjected to anxiety-inducing tests, and then euthanized. Kalin's experiments sparked outrage and condemnation, and a petition against Kalin's experiments was signed by over 290,000 people.
In July 2014, a USDA inspection report revealed that since July 2014, there had been two incidents of non-human primates escaping their cages due to technician error, which resulted in the animals experiencing injuries which required amputation and closure of wounds. The same report revealed that there had been three incidents of animal mis-pairing due to technician error, which resulted in injuries and wounds to the animals.
2015–2019
In January 2016, a USDA inspection report revealed that there had been 12 incidents of primates escaping their enclosures. Nine of these cases were due to human error, and three were due to enclosure hardware failure. After their escape, many primates were injured after interacting with other primates. Some of these |
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