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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS%20Glue | AWS Glue is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. It was introduced in August 2017.
The primary purpose of Glue is to scan other services in the same Virtual Private Cloud (or equivalent accessible network element even if not provided by AWS), particularly S3. The jobs are billed according to compute time, with a minimum count of 1 minute. Glue discovers the source data to store associated meta-data (e.g. the table's schema of field names, types lengths) in the AWS Glue Data Catalog (which is then accessible via AWS console or APIs).
Languages supported
Scala and Python are officially supported .
Catalog interrogation via API
The catalog can be read in AWS console (via browser) and via API divided into topics including:
Database API
Table API
Partition API
Connection API
User-Defined Function API
Importing an Athena Catalog to AWS Glue
See also
Event-driven architecture
Serverless Framework
Serverless computing
Function as a service
Oracle Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Functions
Azure Functions
References
External links
Glue
Serverless computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie%20Creese | Sadie Creese is a British cybersecurity specialist. She is Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the Oxford Martin School, co-director of the university's Cyber Security Centre and of the Martin School's Institute for the Future of Computing, and a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Biography
She has a B.Sc. (mathematics and philosophy), M.Sc. (computation) and D.Phil. (computer science, 2001) from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis title was "Data independent induction : CSP model checking of arbitrary sized networks" and her thesis adviser was Bill Roscoe.
Creese worked at Qinetiq where she was Director of Strategic Programmes in the Trusted Information Management Division, and from 2007 to 2011 was Professor and Director of e-Security at the International Digital Laboratory at the University of Warwick, before moving to Oxford. Her research interests include "threat modelling and detection with particular interest in the insider threat and threat from AI, visual analytics for cybersecurity, risk propagation logics and communication, resilience strategies for business, privacy requirements, vulnerability of distributed ledgers and block-chains, understanding cyber-harm and how it emerges for single organisations, nations and the potential for systemic cyber-risk, and the Cyber Security Capacity Maturity Model for Nations" and she teaches "operational aspects of cybersecurity including threat detection, risk assessment and security architectures". She also lectures on cybersecurity in the Blavatnik School of Government and the Saïd Business School.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has recognised her as a RISE Leader ("Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers").
References
External links
Includes 6 min video of Creese talking about the centre
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer security specialists
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academics of the University of Warwick
British women academics
Qinetiq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Ollie | Lost Ollie is an American live action/computer animated miniseries created by Shannon Tindle. The series is based on the 2016 children's book Ollie's Odyssey by William Joyce.
Lost Ollie was released on August 24, 2022, by Netflix.
Synopsis
A lost rabbit toy, Ollie, finds himself at lost and found section at an antique shop. He remembered that he was separated from his best friend, Billy. Having only a few recollections of his past, Ollie decides to take a journey to find Billy. Meanwhile, he slowly rediscovers his own fond memories with Billy and his family alongside their misfortunes and sorrows.
Cast
Voice cast
Jonathan Groff as Ollie
Mary J. Blige as Rosy
Tim Blake Nelson as Zozo
Live-action cast
Gina Rodriguez as Momma
Jake Johnson as Daddy
Kesler Talbot as Billy
William Carson as young Billy
BJ Harrison as Flossie
Everett Andres as Mike Apple
Zoë Noelle Baker as Jolene
Isabel Birch as Suzy
James Pizzinato as Suzy's dad/Older Billy
Episodes
Production
Development
On October 6, 2020, Netflix director Teddy Biaselli revealed that Lost Ollie had been picked up by the streaming platform, mentioning that the series had been in the works since 2016.
Casting
On March 9, 2021, Jonathan Groff was cast in the title role, with Mary J. Blige, Tim Blake Nelson, Gina Rodriguez, Jake Johnson, and Kesler Talbot also joining the series and production beginning in Vancouver.
Filming
Principal photography for the series began on February 1, 2021, with filming taking place inside and outside College Park Elementary from February 9 to February 11 in Port Moody. According to Production Weekly, filming concluded in March 2021. Scenes were also shot in and around Tindle’s hometown of Shepherdsville, Kentucky.
Release
The series was released on August 24, 2022.
Reception
The series overall was received positively.
Rendy Jones of RogerEbert.com gave the series 3.5/4 stars praising its visuals, writing, and characterization. He emphasized the "breathtaking" visuals on the series as well as the dark and sentimental approach to the formula. Stephanie Snyder of Common Sense Media gave the series 4/5 stars praising its cinematography and storytelling while criticizing its "inauthentic" Southern accent of the characters. Joel Keller of Decider similarly praised its visuals provided by the effects team of ILM while criticizing the characters' "unnatural" accent.
References
External links
2022 American television series debuts
2022 American television series endings
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's television series
2020s American television miniseries
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
American television shows based on children's books
American television series with live action and animation
American television shows featuring puppetry
Animated television series about rabbits and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election%20apportionment%20diagram | An election apportionment diagram is the graphic representation of election results and the seats in a plenary or legislative body. The chart can also be used to represent data in easy to understand terms, for example by grouping allied parties together.
Background
Votes in an election are often represented using bar charts or pie charts, often labeled with the corresponding percentage or number of votes. The apportionment of seats between the parties in a legislative body has a defined set of rules, unique to each body. As an example, the Senate of Virginia says,
Instead of using a bar or pie chart, the apportionment of seats between the parties in a legislative body such as a parliament can be represented more clearly by displaying the individual representatives of each party as dots in a pattern, because the number of representatives is also significant, and is easily understood visually. The dots are typically coded according to the political color of the respective parties. This was traditionally presented as a seating chart of a plenary hall, but can also be represented in a more abstract fashion which more loosely corresponds to the seating arrangement in a legislature, for example a form of half-donut chart as an abstract representation of a hemicycle, or a stylized representation of the Westminster Parliament, showing government, opposition, speaker and crossbenchers. In Germany, the order of the bars usually corresponds from left to right to the placement of the parties in the previous election and is thus based on the order given on the ballot, which is regulated in Section 30 of the .
These charts can also be used to represent data in easy to understand terms. An example of this is politicians’ responses to the Orlando shootings.
Gallery
See also
Red states and blue states
References
Further reading
External links
Parliament diagram creation tool
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND ITS MEMBERS
House seating plan
Apportionment (politics)
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth%20%28operating%20system%29 | Thoth is a real-time, message passing operating system (OS) developed at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario Canada.
History
Thoth was developed at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The curriculum at Waterloo includes a Real Time Operating Systems course and an associated "Train lab", where students must develop a real-time operating system (RTOS) to control a model track with multiple trains.
In 1972, the B programming language, a derivative of BCPL, was brought to Waterloo by Stephen C. Johnson while on sabbatical from Bell Labs. A new language derived from B, named Eh, was developed at Waterloo. Thoth was written originally in Eh with some assembly language.
Initial development of Thoth occurred on a Honeywell 6050 computer. It was first run on a Data General Nova 2 in May 1976, and was next ported to a Texas Instruments TI990/10 in August 1976.
In October 1976, the University of Waterloo published Laurence S. Melen's Master's Thesis, titled "A Portable Real-Time Executive, Thoth".
Eh was later upgraded, in part with the addition of data types, and renamed Zed. Thoth was then rewritten in Zed.
One of the early principal developers of Thoth was David Cheriton. Cheriton would go on to develop the Verex kernel, and the V-System OS; both influenced by Thoth. Another early developer was Michael Malcolm, who would later found Waterloo Microsystems, Network Appliances, Inc., Blue Coat Systems, and Kaliedescape, several of whose operating systems are believed to have been derived from or influenced by Thoth.
Certain papers describe DEMOS as the inspiration for Thoth. As prior art Cheriton cited Per Brinch Hansen's RC 4000, then listed Thoth, DEMOS, and Accent together as later developments. Other influences on the development of Thoth included Multics, Data General's RTOS, Honeywell GCLS, and Unix. Later references cite Thoth as the original implementation of its particular use of synchronous message passing and multiprocess program structure, which were subsequently applied by other projects.
Work on Thoth ended around 1982.
Features
Thoth was developed to meet four goals:
Easily portable to other hardware
Programs run as a set of inexpensive, cooperating concurrent processes with efficient inter-process communications (IPC)
Suitable for real-time uses as to system response to external events
Adaptable and scalable to a wide range of real-time uses
Thoth exposes the same abstract machine to application software, regardless of the underlying physical machine. This abstract machine was defined with certain minimal requirements, such that meeting these requirements allowed a given computer to be included in the Thoth Domain of potential Thoth port targets.
Processes running under Thoth can be grouped into "Teams". All processes within a team share a common address space and can share data. This is similar to other systems' concepts of "lightweight processes" or threads. Processes not members of the same |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20correlation%20technique | The reverse correlation technique is a data driven study method used primarily in psychological and neurophysiological research. This method earned its name from its origins in neurophysiology, where cross-correlations between white noise stimuli and sparsely occurring neuronal spikes could be computed quicker when only computing it for segments preceding the spikes. The term has since been adopted in psychological experiments that usually do not analyze the temporal dimension, but also present noise to human participants. In contrast to the original meaning, the term is here thought to reflect that the standard psychological practice of presenting stimuli of defined categories to the participants is "reversed": Instead, the participant's mental representations of categories are estimated from interactions of the presented noise and the behavioral responses. It is used to create composite pictures of individual and/or group mental representations of various items (e.g. faces, bodies, and the self) that depict characteristics of said items (e.g. trustworthiness and self-body image). This technique is helpful when evaluating the mental representations of those with and without mental illnesses.
Terms
This technique utilizes spike-triggered average to explain what areas of signal and noise in an image are valuable for the given research question. Signal is information used to produce objects of value that help explain and connect the world around us. Noise is commonly referred to as unwanted signal that obscures the information that the signal is trying to present. Most importantly for reverse correlation studies, noise is randomly varying information. To determine the areas of importance using reverse correlation, noise is applied to a base image and then evaluated by observers. A base image is any image void of noise that relates to the research question. A base image that has noise superimposed on top is the stimuli that is presented to and evaluated by participants. Each time a new set of stimuli is presented to a participant, this is known as a trial. After a participant has responded to hundreds to thousands of trials, a researcher is ready to create a classification image. A classification image (abbreviated as "CI" in some studies) is a single image that represents the average noise patterns in the images selected by participants. A classification image can also be computed for groups by averaging the individuals’ classification images. These classification images are what researchers use to interpret the data and draw conclusions. As a whole, the reverse correlation method is a process that results in a composite image (from an individual or group) that can be used to estimate and interpret mental representations.
The term revcor function is sometimes used to describe the impulse response approximations derived by spike-triggered averaging.
Basic study layout
The reverse correlation method is typically executed as an in-lab computer ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers-Oran%20line | The Algiers-Oran line is one of the major components of the Algerian railway network. It links Algiers station with Oran. The first segment of the line, connecting Algiers with Blida opened on September 8, 1862 and was extended to Oran on May 1, 1871.
The National Company for Rail Transport is converting the entirety of the line to a double-track line.
History
The Oran-Relizane section was opened to travelers on November 1, 1868 and was extended to Khemis Miliana (called Affreville whilst part of French Algeria) on September 1, 1870. The Algiers-Blida section was extended to Boumedfaa on July 8, 1869, while the last segment - 29 kilometers from Affreville to Boumedfaa was completed on May 1, 1871 and enabled through-service from Algiers to Oran.
More recently, the segment of the line from Algiers to El Affroun has been electrified to improve commuter rail connecting the two cities.
Line description
Algiers - El Affroun section
The 70-kilometer section from Algiers to El Affroun includes one of the five commuter rail services in the Algiers metropolitan area and is double-track and is electrified (25,000 volt).
This section is the busiest in the entirety of SNTF network, with 130 passenger trains a day using the 10-kilometer Algiers-El Harrach section until the El Harrach wye. Of the 130 passenger trains using the Algiers-El Harrach section, 58 continue west and use the remainder of the Algiers-El Affroun section.
El Affroun - Oran section
The El Affroun-Oran segment is not electrified and is being upgraded from single-track to double-track. In 2015, 77 kilometers between Khemis Miliana and Chlef and 107 kilometers between Yellel and Oran have been double-tracked. Bypasses are being constructed to avoid Khemis Miliana and Relizane traffic for through-trains.
Line description
The line is flat except for the 50 kilometers between El Affroun and Khemis Miliana where the elevation changes from 100 to 500-250 meters above sea level. A 7 kilometer tunnel is being built to more directly connect the Khemis Miliana and Oued Djer portion of this segment.
Speeds on the line
Average speeds for passenger services on the line are 80–90 km/h. Since 2008, SNTF acquired DMUs capable of reaching 160 km/h which are expected to reach their top speed on flat double-track segments of the Algiers-Oran line.
References
Railway lines in Algeria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers-Skikda%20line | The Algiers-Skikda line is one of the two trunk lines in the Algerian railway network, the other being the Algiers-Oran line. The line hosts passenger services connecting Algiers station with either Annaba or Constantine, the two largest cities in eastern Algeria. The first segment of the line connected Constantine to the port of Skikda and opened on September 1, 1870, remaining isolated from the remainder of the Algerian network until the opening of the Algiers-Constantine segment in 1879 and further extensions on November 3, 1886.
Line description
Algiers-Thénia section
The 53.5 kilometer section between Algiers and Thénia includes 10 kilometers shared with the Algiers-Oran line from Algiers station to the El Harrach wye. This segment has been electrified in 2009 (25,000 volt) and is double-track. Further upgrades are being applied to the line.
130 daily passenger trains use the portion shared with the Algiers-Oran line, while 63 trains a day continue east on further parts of the line. Commuter rail services using this portion of the Algiers-Skikda line connect Algiers to Houari Boumediene Airport and Thénia, among others.
Thénia-Constantine section
The Thénia-Constantine is not electrified and is single track from Thénia to Bordj Bou Arréridj and from Ramdane Djamel to Skikda. The portion between Sétif and the town of El Guerrah (in the municipality of Ouled Rahmoun) is being upgraded by SNTF.
Services
One day train connects Algiers and Constantine in 7 hours while a night train connects Algiers and Annaba. The namesake of this line, Skikda, is not served by passenger services anymore, requiring passengers to connect at the nearby Ramdane Djamel station.
Regional services connect Algiers to Sétif, Béjaïa (via the Béni Mansour-Bejaïa line), and M'Sila, Algeria.
Speeds
Passenger services on this line operate at speeds of 70–80 km/h. The Bordj Bou Arreridj-Sétif segment sees trains reaching 100 km/h.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramdane%20Djamel-Annaba%20line | The Ramdane Djamel-Annaba line is a railway connecting Annaba Province to the Algiers-Skikda line and the rest of the Algerian rail network. Currently 96 kilometers long, this is the oldest railroad in the country.
History
An 11 kilometer segment of the current line started construction in 1853 and opened on September 1, 1859 for cargo operations in the immediate vicinity of Annaba.
The line first opened for passenger service in 1885 and had all its segments joined in 1904. Since 2006, the line is being upgraded by the National Company for Rail Transport.
Double-tracking work commenced in 2006 in order to facilitate long-distance travel connecting with the Algiers-Skikda line and includes 27 kilometers of new alignment, two tunnels measuring a total of 2 kilometers, and station reconstruction in the towns of Azzaba and Berrahal. The work is being performed by Obrascón Huarte Lain for approximately €200 million.
Line description
The line is single-track and not electrified. There is a total of four stations on the line: Annaba, Berrahal, Azzaba, and Ramdane Djamel. Services on this line average 40-50 km/h.
Services
One night train connects Algiers station to Annaba, taking 10 hours over 630 kilometers using the Algiers-Skikda line and the Ramdane Djamel-Annaba line. Only freight service operates between Annaba and Skikda.
References
Railway lines in Algeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Total%20DramaRama%20episodes | Total DramaRama is an animated comedy children's television series created by Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch that premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on September 1, 2018, and on Teletoon in Canada on October 7, 2018.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2018–19)
Season 2 (2020–21)
Season 3 (2021–22)
Special
Notes
References
Total DramaRama
Total DramaRama
Total DramaRama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20in%20the%20Pacific%20%28video%20game%29 | War in the Pacific: The Struggle Against Japan 1941–1945 is a 2004 computer wargame developed by 2 by 3 Games and published by Matrix Games. Designed by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors, it is the successor to Gary Grigsby's Pacific War (1992) and Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific (2002).
Gameplay
War in the Pacific is a computer wargame that simulates the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Development
War in the Pacific was announced and began development around April 2000. It was the first title that designer Gary Grigsby planned to create for Matrix Games, a wargame studio he had joined that year. The game was intended as a follow-up to the 1992 title Gary Grigsby's Pacific War. In January 2001, Grigsby co-founded 2 by 3 Games with collaborators Joel Billings and Keith Brors, where War in the Pacific continued development under a new deal with Matrix. It was to be the second of three planned games, alongside Uncommon Valor and an unnamed project. 2 by 3's debut Uncommon Valor was intended as a stepping stone and teaser for War in the Pacific that covered the subject at a smaller scale. Made with the game engine from Uncommon Valor, War in the Pacific was initially planned for a late-2001 release.
War in the Pacific was co-designed by Grigsby and Brors. Development proved to be long and troubled; Grigsby said that he "hit the wall" of complexity and could not "keep it in [his] head anymore". Billings said that it was the largest wargame the creators had ever attempted. The initial plan to import the Uncommon Valor artificial intelligence (AI) code proved unsuccessful, as the system broke down when applied at the War in the Pacific scale. In March 2004, Billings reported that playtesting the game was time-consuming, as its "longest scenario can last around 1,700 turns". Grigsby concluded during development, "I am never ever, ever, ever doing a game like [War in the Pacific] again."
Reception
In retrospect, Wargamers James Cobb wrote that War in the Pacific was "acclaimed by devotees of the conflict". According to Joel Billings, the team had expected its sales to range between 5,000 and 15,000 copies. He said in November 2004 that the game was on track to meet those forecasts. The game was nominated for the 2004 Charles S. Roberts Award for "Best 20th Century Era Computer Wargame", but lost to Battles in Normandy.
Bruce Geryk of Computer Gaming World wrote that War in the Pacific "isn't really so much a game as it is a project", and considered its extreme complexity to make it suitable only for the most dedicated players. However, he felt that they would be "amply rewarded" for their time. Reviewing the game for Wargamer, Al Berke concurred with Geryk about the game's complexity, and dubbed it "a powerful simulation of theater warfare". He considered its learning curve high, but believed that dedicated wargame fans would appreciate the title. StrategyPages John Siminoff likewise wrote, "If you are in the market for a seriously de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy%20Grimm | Cindy Marie Grimm is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and mechanical engineer. She is a professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University.
Research
Topics in Grimm's current research include robot grasping and issues of ethics and privacy in robotics, including the ethical implications of autonomous drones and self-driving cars. Her past work has included research on the shape of ferret brains, using bat sonar techniques to develop robot sensors, and augmenting medical information with visual cues modeled after those in classical paintings, to guide non-expert viewers along the sight lines chosen by experts.
She has also published highly cited work in volume segmentation, computational topology, shape comparison, and the modeling and synthesis of human facial expressions.
Education and career
Grimm grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula, where her parents were educators and later educational software developers. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 with a double major in art and computer science, and completed a Ph.D. at Brown University in 1996, working in computer graphics there with John F. Hughes. Her dissertation was Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology using Manifolds.
After postdoctoral research at Brown and at Microsoft Research, she became an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. She moved to the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University as a research associate professor in 2012, became a regular-rank associate professor in 2015, and was promoted to full professor in 2020.
Personal life
Grimm is married to Bill Smart, also on the faculty of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State; they met as graduate students at Brown University while sparring in a hapkido course taught by Grimm. Grimm and Smart also continue to work together in the martial arts, as co-owners of a dojo in Corvallis, Oregon.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Brown University alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
Oregon State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables%20%28Google%29 | Tables is a collaborative database program developed out of Google's Area 120 incubator. Tables is available as a web application. The app allows users to collaborate in real-time to track work more efficiently using automation.
History
Tables originated as an experiment within Google's Area 120 product incubator, and launched to a public beta in the United States on September 22, 2020. It was first released as a test for a limited number of early testers on March 5, 2020, and then expanded to a larger early access program on May 5, 2020. Tables is not part of the Google Drive or Google Workspace service.
In June of 2021, it was announced that the Area 120 experiment was a success and that Google Cloud "has committed to investing in this product area long-term".
Platforms
Tables is available as a web application supported on the Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox web browsers.
Key Features
Core concepts
Tables anchors around several core concepts:
Tables: containers of rows and columns of structured data. Columns (aka "fields") define the table structure and enforce data type/format and relationships.
Workspaces: allow users to group tables together in a tabbed interface. Tables can be in more than one workspace.
Views: allow users to create customized views of the data with different layouts, groupings, and filters/sorts applied. Layouts allow you to switch between different ways to visualize the table records, such as a ticket queue, kanban board, or map.
Forms: allow users to collect input without giving access to the table. Tables forms are separate from Google Forms.
Bots: allow users to automate tasks, such as send emails, update data, or send weekly reports, and send data to 3rd party webhooks to trigger Google Chat or Slack notifications or Zapier workflows.
Data types
Tables allow users to set specific data types for columns:
Integrations
Tables allows users to import data directly from a Google Sheet or CSV file, and also performs a one-way recurring sync of data from a table into Google Sheets.
Person-type columns in Tables allow the user to search for and select Google users from your Gmail contacts.
Sharing in Tables allows the user to share with existing Google users, Google Groups, or with their entire work domain.
Tables also offers a public API and the ability to call the Tables API via Apps Script.
Collaboration and revision history
Tables allows users to collaborate in real-time on records in a table. Tables can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users simultaneously and users are able to see field-by-field changes as collaborators make edits. All changes to table records are automatically saved to Google's servers, and a change history for records are automatically kept so past edits may be viewed and reverted to. Deleted rows, columns, tables, and workspaces can also be restored within a given timeframe.
Sharing and access control
Users can share their tables and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafi%20Bistritzer | Rafi Bistritzer (; born 1974 in Israel) is an Israeli physicist, and manager of an algorithms group at Applied Materials. He is the winner of the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, together with Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Alan MacDonald, for “pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene.”
Biography
Bistritzer received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tel Aviv University in 2000. He received an MSc in physics in 2003, and a PhD in physics in 2007, both from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Prof. Alan MacDonald, where he studied the theoretical physics of bilayer graphene, and specifically twisted bilayer graphene. Their calculations predicted that two parallel graphene sheets twisted at an angle of 1.1 degrees relative to each other (an angle known as the "magic angle") would host flat moiré bands and thus possibly correlated states.
MacDonald's and Bistritzer's work served as the basis for later experimental research by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT, whose group validated the correctness of the calculations in 2018. The result was a breakthrough in the field of twistronics. For their work, Bistritzer, MacDonald, and Jarillo-Herrero were jointly awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in physics.
In March 2011 Bistritzer returned to Israel and joined Aspect Imaging, where he worked as a physicist and led a research and development rheology team. In 2013 he moved to Medtronic as the manager of the physics group. Since December 2015, he has been working at Applied Materials as the director of an algorithms group that focuses on computer vision and machine learning. In 2020 he was appointed as an associate professor in Tel Aviv University.
Bistritzer currently lives in Petah Tikva, Israel.
References
External links
The Wolf 2020 Prize in Physics - Rafi Bistritzer.
Google scholar - Rafi Bistritzer.
1974 births
Israeli physicists
Living people
Wolf Prize in Physics laureates
Tel Aviv University alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
University of Texas at Austin people
People from Petah Tikva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Hui | Pan Hui is a computer scientist at the University of Helsinki and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), and a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has been elected to the endowed professorship Nokia Chair in Data Science.
Research
Professor Hui, as a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts (CMA) Thrust, at HKUST-GZ Campus, is recognized as a foundational researcher in the field of networking and communications, especially in the area of mobile computing and networking. His work spans a wide spectrum from foundational work on mobility characterization and networking approaches, to the design and development of software systems, to conceptualization and deployment of innovative applications. With the envision of a perceived virtual universe that is rich in 'Surreality', he has been leading the cutting-edge research on Metaverse, making global impact on shaping the future of Metaverse development.
Opportunistic Networking
Professor Hui has extensively contributed to the foundation of opportunistic networking. His contributions include empirical measurements, mobility modeling, bridging mobile networks with social networks, and innovative applications. He has been considered as a pioneer in bridging the mobile and social networks research fields. His most influential work, related to opportunistic networking, exploited natural characteristics and variations arising in social interactions to provide opportunistic communication without the need for end-to-end connections. Through extensive publications on this topic, Prof. Hui has laid the foundation for opportunistic networking. His work is highly cited and had a significant impact, making him a clear leader in the area. In particular, on the conceptual front, he elucidated the connection between social networks and mobile networks. On the empirical side, by measuring human mobility and contact patterns, he laid the foundation for the use of mobility traces as a means for validating models that are widely used for performance evaluation. His seminal papers published at ACM SIGCOMM workshop 2005 (over 1,350 citations by Jan 2023) and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2007 (over 2,030 citations by Jan 2023) empirically demonstrated that the human mobility inter-contact time follows a power-law distribution. This finding is crucial for new mobility models as the legacy models usually assumed exponential distribution. The connection of social networks to mobile networks also significantly improve the routing and forwarding efficiency of mobile network, and is considered to be a revolution in routing research in mobile networks.
Mobile Offloading
Professor Hui's work in mobile offloading at Deutsche Telekom has resulted in thr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20L.%20Magee | Christopher L. Magee is an American mechanical engineer, academic and researcher. He is Professor of the practice Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Data, Systems and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-directs the International Design Center of SUTD/MIT.
Magee's research expertise lies in vehicle design, technological change, systems engineering, vehicle crashworthiness and computer-aided design. He has also worked on the application of materials, vehicle crashworthiness, manufacturing product interface and the aspects of the product development process. His later research is focused on complex systems and engineering education. Magee has published numerous research papers and is the co-author of two books, Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World and Exponential Change; What Drives it? What does it tell us about the Future?.
Magee has received several best paper awards. In 1997, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to advanced vehicle development. He is also a Henry Ford Technical Fellow.
Education
Magee received his Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1979, he completed his MBA in Advanced Management from Michigan State University.
Career
After completing his Ph.D. studies in 1966, Magee joined Ford Motor Company as a Research Scientist and development engineer till 1976. In the following eight years, he managed various research departments before being promoted to Director of Vehicle Concepts Research lab for a six-year term. From 1990 till 1998, Magee directed the Vehicle Systems Engineering at the company. He was promoted to Executive Director of Program and Advanced Engineering from 1998 till 1999 and served as an Executive Director of Ford/MIT Strategic Technical Partnership from 2000 till 2001.
In 2002, Magee left Ford Motor Company and was appointed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Professor of the practice in Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS). In 2011, Magee was appointed as the co-director of SUTD/MIT International Design Center.
Research
Magee has conducted research focusing on vehicle design, systems engineering and computer-aided engineering. He has worked on the application of materials, vehicle crashworthiness, manufacturing product interface and the product development process. He has also worked on quantification of technological performance trends, design and invention methodological research, theory of technological change, patent networks, patent metrics and quantitative understanding of technological performance.
Research on Ferrous materials
Magee worked on the transformation, structure and strength of ferrous materials in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His work on ferrous materials received international recognition and he was awarded the Howe Meda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassurus | Triassurus is an extinct genus of amphibian, and the oldest member of Caudata (salamanders and close relalatives). It is known from the Middle to Upper Triassic (Ladinian-Carnian) aged Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan. The type species is T. sixtelae.
Description
The holotype specimen is a partial and poorly preserved skeleton (PIN-2584/10), including the skull. Holotype specimen had tiny skull just long, but it was probably a larva: the neural arches of the vertebrae were still paired and no vertebral centers show any degree of ossification. The skull closely resembles that of current salamanders, especially as regards the long space in the joint of the maxillary bones and the lack of bone connection between the pterygoid and the maxilla. There were about 20 presacral vertebrae, while the legs were small. In 2020, a more complete adult specimen (FG 596/V/20) with long skull was described.
Classification
Triassurus was first described in 1978, based on a fossil found in the Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan. The bizarre planatory reptiles Sharovipteryx and Longisquama were also found in the same formation. Triassurus was initially described as the oldest salamander, based mainly on the characteristics of the skull. Some vertebral characteristics, in reality, would lead not only to primitive salamanders such as Hynobius but also to the larval forms of frogs and to the temnospondyls. Furthermore, the cheek area is similar to branchiosaurs. In any case, Triassurus remains the most salamander-like Triassic amphibian fossil. In 2020 Triassurus was definitely determined to a caudatan, based on four apomorphies shared with salamanders: "parasphenoid shape and dorsal surface, with a V-shaped anterior depression, an unpaired posteromedial crest, and a radial arrangement of furrows; parietal not plate-like and rectangular but L-shaped; squamosal forming a straight transverse strut with slightly expanded lateral end and well-expanded medial end, without squamosal embayment; and straight scapula with expanded ends". In 2022 another phylogenetic analysis, that included members of Dissorophoidea, caecilians, frogs, as well as both living and fossil salamanders, recovered Triassurus as a stem-group caudatan, outside the crown group of modern salamanders.
References
Fossils of Kyrgyzstan
Fossil taxa described in 1978
Prehistoric amphibian genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20%28Leonard%20novel%29 | Omega is a novel by Raymond Leonard published in 1986.
Plot summary
Omega is a novel in which the human race builds a super-computer of the same name to fix all of their problems.
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Omega for White Dwarf #83, and stated that "It takes endless pages of dreadful portentiousness and worse dialogue to reach the timeworn punchline of Fredric Brown's one-pager, which (as every fan knows) goes 'Yes, now there is a God!'"
Reviews
Review by Keith Freeman (1987) in Vector 136
References
1986 novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau%20Ceti%20f | Tau Ceti f is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune orbiting Tau Ceti that was discovered in 2012 by statistical analyses of the star's variations in radial velocity, based on data obtained using HIRES, AAPS, and HARPS. It is of interest because its orbit places it in Tau Ceti's extended habitable zone, but a 2015 study implies that there may not be a detectable biosignature because it has only been in the temperate zone for less than one billion years.
Characteristics
Few properties of the planet are known other than its orbit and mass. It orbits Tau Ceti at a distance of 1.35 AU (roughly Mars's perihelion in the Solar System) with an orbital period of 642 days, and has a minimum mass of 3.93 Earth masses. However, if it and its companion planets were similarly inclined to Tau Ceti's debris disk at °, f could and Earth masses, which means it's slightly more likely to be a mini-Neptune, although the exoplanet is included in the conservative sample of potentially habitable exoplanets. It is estimated to be 1.81 Earth radii.
Habitability
As of October 2020, Tau Ceti f is considered the most potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. Its neighbor, Tau Ceti e, was previously regarded as a potentially habitable exoplanet in the conservative sample, but it was determined to likely be too hot to hold life, more similar to Venus. It and its companion may suffer from a continuous bombardment of asteroids, up to 10 times higher than in the Solar System, but a conjectured (super-)Jovian planet as outlined in a 2019 Astronomy & Astrophysics paper may be shepherding the disk, as it may be as close as 3 AU and as far away as 20.
With a flux of 0.32 the flux on Earth, Tau Ceti f has an estimated equilibrium temperature of only 190 Kelvin. If the conditions were the same as on the Earth, Tau Ceti f's average temperature would be around -50 °C. However, with a thicker atmosphere and a larger ocean, the temperature could be similar to Earth's.
See also
Sub-Neptune
References
Exoplanets discovered in 2012
Tau Ceti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncommon%20Valor%3A%20Campaign%20for%20the%20South%20Pacific | Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific is a 2002 computer wargame developed by 2 by 3 Games and published by Matrix Games. Designed by Gary Grigsby, it is a successor to Gary Grigsby's Pacific War and a precursor to War in the Pacific.
Gameplay
Uncommon Valor is a turn-based computer wargame that simulates the war between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, with a focus on key conflicts in the South Pacific.
Development
Uncommon Valor was revealed in January 2001. It was announced as the first of three titles under a deal between publisher Matrix Games and developer 2 by 3 Games, which had recently been co-founded by ex-Strategic Simulations members Joel Billings, Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors.
Uncommon Valor was made as a successor to Gary Grigsby's Pacific War. It was intended as a stepping stone and teaser toward 2 by 3's upcoming War in the Pacific, a full Pacific War follow-up made with the same game engine and general gameplay system as Uncommon Valor. During development, Billings noted that Uncommon Valor was the smaller, more intimate counterpart to War in the Pacific, as it would portray the Pacific War at a smaller scale and with less detail than its planned successor. Grigsby said that Uncommon Valor was nevertheless challenging to make and "overwhelming". He remarked that development "would have been much easier if we hadn't tried to be so darn detailed and realistic." The game reached gold status in late April 2002, and released on May 15.
Reception
William R. Trotter of PC Gamer US was strongly positive toward Uncommon Valor. He concluded, "In my 12 years of reviewing wargames, I’ve never enjoyed a deeper, richer, more historically plausible simulation." Writing for GameSpot, Stephen Poole argued, "Uncommon Valor takes much time to fathom, but after that time is over, you'll end up enjoying it greatly."
Computer Gaming Worlds Bruce Geryk was less positive. While he called it "good", he noted serious flaws. He wrote, "[I]t's sort of a miniature version of Pacific War with a magnifying glass held over the Solomon Islands. On one level, this works. On another, it doesn't." In PC Zone, Steve O'Hagan was more negative still, dubbing the game "interesting" but flawed even for dedicated wargame players, as its "ill thought-out interface ... practically collapses under the weight of the information and detail".
References
External links
2002 video games
Computer wargames
Windows games
Windows-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Oceania
Video games set in Papua New Guinea
Video games set in the Solomon Islands
Video games set in the United States
Pacific War video games
Matrix Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Wheatland | Julian David Wheatland (born 1961) is a British businessman and Conservative Party (UK) politician known for his involvement with the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
He was chairman of SCL Group, a self-described "behavioral research and strategic communication company" and was the last CEO of Cambridge Analytica, having previously been its COO and CFO, Wheatland took over as CEO in April 2018, in order to wind it down and place the company into bankruptcy. He was also CEO of Hatton International, a technology and finance advisory business. He was featured in the Netflix documentary The Great Hack. Wheatland was mentioned in Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons as an example of ties between Cambridge Analytica and the Conservative Party (UK); he is a former chairman of the Oxford West and Abingdon Conservative Association. Wheatland was also a director of related firms following the downfall of Cambridge Analytica, including a director of Emerdata, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica prior to its collapse.
The Times reported in 2020 that Wheatland was returning to the city as chief executive of Cornerstone FS Plc which acquired FXPress Payment Services Ltd, a foreign exchange and payment services company, in September 2020. In July 2022, Wheatland stepped down from the role.
References
1961 births
Living people
English chief executives
Cambridge Analytica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting%20%28disambiguation%29 | Shouting or screaming is speaking in a very loud voice.
Shouting may also refer to:
Shouting (computing), in running text, use of ALL CAPITALS
Shouting, buying a round of drinks
Shout (paying), Australian usage
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Ackland | Graeme John Ackland FRSE is professor of computer simulation at the University of Edinburgh.
His research concerns metallic hydrogen and other materials under high pressure. He has also applied simulations to non-physical problems including Neolithic migration and the spread of COVID-19.
References
External links
ResearchGate page for Graeme J. Ackland
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish computer scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YALI%20RLC%20West%20Africa | YALI RCL West Africa is one of the four regional leadership centres across Africa. The Ghana campus is situated at GIMPA in Accra, provides leadership training, networking, and professional development activities for young people ages 18–35 in West Africa (Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo). RLC is the acronym for Regional Leadership Center (RLC). Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is an initiative of the United States Department of State. YALI started in 2010 by President Barack Obama. YALI is a programme aimed at educating and networking young African leaders regionally, which started in 2014. YALI RLC West Africa was one of the four regional "leadership centers" Ghana, West Africa. The centre at Ghana, is located at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). The West Africa centres carry out training which aims at millennials within west African region. Participants of the Regional Leadership Centres go through online and in-person training and are provided with professional development opportunities in these three track areas; business and entrepreneurship, civil society management and public policy and management.
According to USAID, a sum of $38,770,950.00 is Total Lifetime Investment support for the project; USG Investment $12,500,000.00; Non-USG Investment $26,270,950.00
Activities within West Africa
"YALI RLC West Africa, Accra was developed in order to provide a platform for the next potential generation of Africa’s leaders to come together and prepare for future endeavours that will effect change and ultimately transform the continent."
According to the former President of the United States, Barack Obama said :
“You will not only be making a difference in your own countries but also be the foundation of a new generation of global leadership’’.
The implementing organisation carry out training of African leaders. In 2017, YALI RLC West Africa held its first alumni conference at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra, Ghana. In 2018, YALI RLC in Lagos, Nigeria had 127 participants.
Organisation and Partnership
The organisation comprises the YALI Regional Leadership Center (RLC) Director Dr. Shola Safo-Duodu, also known as SHOW-la SAH-fo doe-DO, the Deputy Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management, Professor Philip Duku-Osei (Public administration), Mr. Anthony Sala (Dean of students at GIMPA), Mr. Daniel Moore (USAID West Africa Mission Director), and the RLC Governing Council.
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) serves as the implementing partner along with other resources partners which are namely:
Higher education Institutions
Non-governmental organizations
Private Organizations
Private Businesses
Private Philanthropies
McKinsey and Company
Microsoft
Cisco Systems
Intel
IBM
Atlas Mara
Other RLC locations
The Regional Leadership Center West Africa centers are also at :
Ghana In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PS/2%20portable%20computers | The IBM PS/2 portables are Micro Channel architecture-based, portable PS/2 computers released by IBM in 1989.
PS/2 P70
The P70 model was released in Japan as PS/55 5545-T with the same specs, but with different keyboard layout.
PS/2 P75
The P75 was a released in 1990 upgraded version of P70 model, and is noted as being the first portable computer using a 486 CPU to be available for sale in the United States. It had a briefcase-shaped design and ran off A/C power only, as was common with high performance portable computers at the time. It featured an Intel 80486 DX-33 CPU, and an internal 10-inch flat gas plasma display at 640x480 resolution with 16 shades of grey. The computer had relatively high performance specifications at the time it was released and could be used as a portable server. The cost reflected this performance; the IBM P75 retailed at US$15,990 for the base configuration, to over $18,500 or more depending on options.
Two versions of the P75 were sold, with the only difference between the two being hard drive capacity:
8573-161 - came with a 160 MB SCSI hard disk drive
8573-401 - came with a 400 MB SCSI hard disk drive
Design
The IBM P75 in its travelling configuration resembles a briefcase with a carrying handle - all components such as the screen, floppy disk drive and keyboard are stowed away behind the keyboard during transport. To use the computer, one places the computer on a desk and opens the latches at either side of the front of the computer to release the keyboard, which swings down. The keyboard can then be fully released from the main unit and height adjusted for comfort. The screen viewing angle can also be adjusted by pulling on tabs on either side of the screen. To access the floppy drive, one pushes on a raised square on the floppy drive disk cover to release it.
Hardware
The IBM P75 has similar specifications to an IBM model 90, but has been made into a portable. It features an Intel i486-DX 33 CPU that is housed on a processor complex card separate from the motherboard. The computer uses IBM's Micro Channel architecture (MCA) bus and has 4 internal bus slots: one 32-bit AVE, one 32-bit MME, and two 16-bit short slots.
The internal gas plasma display of the IBM P75 is XGA/VGA, EGA, MCGA, CGA compatible, and operates at a maximum 640×480 in 16 shades of grey in VGA mode. The IBM P75 can drive its internal monitor and an external monitor simultaneously. When driving the external monitor only, it can operate at 800x600 resolution in 16-bit (high-colour) in Windows 95 using third party drivers.
The keyboard is a 101 key, full size and full travel IBM keyboard and serves as both the keyboard of the unit and the cover of the unit when being transported. It is attached to the computer through a 14-inch rolled-coil cable.
Hard disk configurations were available in 2 varieties, a 160 MB SCSI hard disk drive (model 8573-161) or a 400 MB SCSI (model 8573-401), with the onboard SCSI controller being capable o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberon | Cyberon is a direct-to-video unofficial spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-DVD and produced by the independent production company BBV. It featured the Cyberons, a species created to resemble popular Doctor Who monsters, the Cybermen. The main character of the film, Lauren Anderson, later featured in Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough. Originally released on VHS, the film was not widely available on video. The story was released on DVD from online retailer Galaxy 4 in 2012.
Synopsis
Cyberon is the new experimental drug touted to heal Lauren Anderson's brain damaged patients. Dr. Tom Mordley tells her the drug will revolutionise medical science, but Cyberon has plans of its own.
Cast
Keith Bell - Cyberon
Jo Castleton - Lauren Anderson
Nancy Allen - Karen
P.J. Ochlan - Tom Mordley
Oliver Bradshaw - George Cooper
David Roeciffe - Ray
Camilla Ochlan - Denise
Novelisation
A novelisation of the film by James Hornby was published 21 September 2020 by Arcbeatle Press. The adapted novelisation also contained extra short stories featuring concepts and characters from Doctor Who related series such as P.R.O.B.E., the Virgin Missing Adventures, the Past Doctor Adventures and the Erimem series. An unabridged audiobook read by Nigel Peever was released for download in November 2021.
References
External links
2000 fantasy films
2000 science fiction films
Bill & Ben Video
British science fiction films
2000s English-language films
2000s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20live%20animal%20exports | The following is a list of countries by live animal exports. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
References
Live animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCJ%20%28algorithm%29 | In data compression, BCJ, short for Branch/Call/Jump, refers to a technique that improves the compression of machine code by replacing relative branch addresses with absolute ones. This allows a Lempel–Ziv compressor to identify duplicate targets and more efficiently encode them. On decompression, the inverse filter restores the original encoding. Different BCJ filters are used for different instruction sets, as each use different opcodes for branching.
A form of BCJ is seen in Microsoft's cabinet file format from 1996, which filters x86 CALL instructions for the LZX compressor. The 7z and xz file formats implement BCJ for multiple architectures. ZPAQ calls its x86 BCJ as "E8E9", after the opcode values.
bsdiff, a tool for delta updates, circumvents the need of writing architecture-specific BCJ tools by encoding bytewise differences. This allows it to be much better than the "match and copy" type tools such as VCDIFF, giving an output size of only 6% for Google Chrome. However, Google's courgette, which adds a layer of explicit disassembly, is able to produce 9× smaller diffs.
Effect
For a squashfs image of a Fedora Linux 31 live image, using x86 BCJ saves an extra 30 MB out of the ~1.7 GB compressed size, but doubles the installation time.
References
Data compression software
Algorithms on strings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Britain%20%281999%20video%20game%29 | Battle of Britain is a 1999 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It was designed by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors.
Gameplay
Set in World War II, Battle of Britain is a computer wargame that simulates the conflict between Germany and the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain.
Development
Battle of Britain was developed by TalonSoft and was designed by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors. The pair had previously co-created the Steel Panthers series at Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI), but had left the company in late 1997 to join TalonSoft, with the stated goal of making a wargame based on the Battle of Britain. It was planned as the pair's first of three games for TalonSoft, and was originally entitled Battle of Britain 1941 and set for a release date of August 1998. According to Alan Dunkin of GameSpot, the game was envisioned as a semi-remake of Grigsby's earlier game U.S.A.A.F. - United States Army Air Force. It was Grigsby's first attempt at an air-combat title since U.S.A.A.F.; the subject matter was relatively rare in computer wargames at the time. Grigsby and Brors developed the game while simultaneously working on a fourth Steel Panthers game at SSI.
The game was Grigsby's first game developed for Microsoft Windows.
Reception
According to David Chong of Computer Games Strategy Plus, critical reactions toward the game were "lukewarm", as it received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Reviewing the game for PC Gamer US, William R. Trotter concluded, "There's a lot to admire in the depth and accuracy of this simulation, but you'd better be a serious student of the World War Two air war. For everyone else, it may just be too much work."
Legacy
In late 1999, the game received a "follow-up" game from TalonSoft, entitled 12 O'Clock High: Bombing the Reich. It was again designed by Gary Grigsby and Keith Brors. It reused the game engine from Battle of Britain. In 2009, publisher Matrix Games reworked and re-released the game and 12 O'Clock High together as Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich.
References
External links
1999 video games
Battle of Britain video games
Grand strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
World War II video games
Computer wargames
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Multiplayer and single-player video games
TalonSoft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20croaticum | Allium croaticum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (onions) found only on the island of Vis in Croatia.
References
External links
Allium croaticum Flora Croatica Database
croaticum
Endemic flora of Croatia
Plants described in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%20Hormann | Kai Hormann (born 1974) is a German computer scientist. He is professor of the faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. Hormann is the co-author of Efficient clipping of arbitrary polygons which describes the Greiner–Hormann clipping algorithm co-developed by him. The algorithm is known for being more performant than the Vatti clipping algorithm, but it cannot handle degeneracies. His research interests are inherent to the field of computer graphics. One of his notable collaborators in his researches is Vladimir Anisimoff's son Dmitry. He was Dean of the faculty of Informatics at USI from 2015 to 2017.
References
External links
Hormann
Hormann
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
German computer scientists
German academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsons%20Bay%20ferry%20services | The Watsons Bay ferry service, officially known as F9 Watsons Bay, is a commuter ferry service in Sydney, New South Wales. Part of the Sydney Ferries network, it is operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries and services the Rose Bay and Watsons Bay areas. It began operation on 25 October 2020 and replaced the eastern half of the F4 Cross Harbour service. Emerald-class ferries and SuperCat ferries operate the service.
History
Following community consultation jointly held by the ferry operator Transdev Sydney Ferries and Transport for NSW in 2019–2020, the F4 route was divided into F4 Pyrmont Bay and F9 Watsons Bay services on 25 October 2020.
Service
Wharves
Patronage
The following table shows the patronage of Sydney Ferries network for the year ending 30 June 2022.
References
External links
Ferry transport in Sydney
Watsons Bay, New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Sully | George Sully is a Canadian fashion designer. He is the creator of the Black Designers of Canada database, co-founder of fashion brands Sully Wong, House of Hayla, and founder of Sully & Son Company.
Early life
Sully was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Notre Dame High School.
Career
Sully started his career as an artist and music producer, then as a DJ. He was inspired to become a fashion designer from Sean Combs's transition from musician to fashion. He created Limb Apparel which featured urban streetwear and moved to Toronto in his 20s to pursue a fashion career.
Sully launched Sully Wong, with Henry Wong. The two founders divided the labour with Sully focused on the graphics and marketing of the products. In 2013, Sully Wong premiered a line of desert boot runners with designer Karim Rashid at the Magic Trade Show in Las Vegas. Sully stated that this collaboration exposed their designs to a celebrities and an international audience. One of these designs was inducted into the Bata Shoe Museum's permanent collection. Sully Wong partnered with student mentees at Central Toronto Academy in 2016 to create The Wolf Sneaker as part of the "6ixess" clothing line. The Winter Kicks shoe, another piece in the collection that Sully co-designed with students, was inducted into the Bata Shoe Museum in 2019.
In 2018, Sully launched House of Hayla with Hayla Amini featuring monochromatic stiletto shoes inspired by Pantone Colour Institute hues. The heels are vegan and approved by PETA. Sully also founded Shoenado, a boutique design agency specializing in private label footwear marketing, design and production. Shoeonado created the costume boots for the Starfleet uniform in Star Trek: Discovery.
In 2020, Sully launched Sully & Son Company and collaborated with LG Electronics Canada to create the TECHPAC backpack.In 2020, Sully was awarded the Fashion International Group Visionary Award.
In 2021, TD Bank launched its annual TD Thanks campaign, recognizing and rewarding George Sully with personalized thank you gifts in support of his community initiative efforts in creating Black Designers of Canada. Later in the year, George Sully starred in CRAVE Network Documentary style feature called Creative Soles, where he and his colleagues were given the task to create a custom sneaker for television host Tyrone Edwards.
In 2022 George was awarded with honorary degree credentials by George Brown College, an Honorary Bachelor degree in Brand Design.
In 2022, George sully was added to the elevate festival, the country's largest Canadian -led and founded technology and arts festival as a speaker alongside, Venus Williams, Andre DeGrasse and Micheal Romannow. In the same year, George Sully was honoured by the Canadian Art & Fashion Awards (CAFA) with the inaugural Changemaker Award created to honor those who have spearheaded progressive change within the fashion industry.
Black Designers of Canada
In 2020, Sully launched the online platform Black Designe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Designers%20of%20Canada | Black Designers of Canada is an initiative in Canada to promote diversity in the fashion industry and highlight black Canadian artists. It is a non-profit organization. The online database currently has over 160 designers listed. The interactive index was created by fashion designer George Sully. The initiative has been featured in Essence, Black Enterprise, and Elle.
References
External links
Official website
Non-profit organizations based in Canada
Canadian designers
Canadian fashion designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dj%C3%A9rab%C3%A9%20Ndigngar | Djérabé Ndigngar (born 1992) is a Chadian rapper and film director.
Biography
Ndigngar was born in Moundou, Chad, and grew up aspiring to be a computer hacker. At the age of 16, he began his rap career under the moniker D 8 Alfariss. The first video he made and edited was "Mara ban wa", a song about orphans. Ndigngar began making music videos for artists from Moundou and then artists from N'Djamena, sparking his gola to become the greatest Chadian director. He obtained his baccalaureate in 2013 and moved to the Ivory Coast to study audiovisual communication.
In 2014, he created SaTchaProd, the first platform dedicated to the production and promotion of Chadian music. It aims to help Chadian musicians make a living from their art, and also promotes Chadian cinema. After receiving his BTS, Ndigngar found a job at the French distribution company Côte Ouest Audiovisuel and worked in this position for two years.
He launched Satchaprodmusic.com in September 2019, with a legal download service through Airtel money. In December 2019, he moved the production office of SaTchaProd from Abidjan, where it was originally located, to N'Djamena. He set up a database so that people could listen to music from previous years. Ndigngar requested help from the Ministry of Culture for its most difficult task, digitizing over 500 cassettes. He also created a promotion for Chadian artists to make professional-quality video clips for their songs.
References
External links
Djérabé Ndigngar at Musikbi.com
1992 births
Living people
Chadian film directors
Chadian musicians
People from Logone Occidental Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminalia | Eliminalia, rebranded as 'Idata Protection' in January 2023 is a Spanish company which has specialized in reputation management. It was founded in 2011 by Diego Sánchez, known as Dídac Sánchez. The technical offices are in Kyiv, Ukraine. Eliminalia is the property of Maidan Holdings, a Miami-based holding company.
In 2015, Eliminalia offered its services without charge to anyone affected by the Ashley Madison data breach.
In 2020, Eliminalia received several vanity awards: Technology Innovator Awards 2020 by AI Global Media and Cyber Security Company of the Year by Corporate LiveWire.
In 2021, , an NGO dedicated to the defense of digital rights, accused Eliminalia of creating a network of fake websites with back-dated articles and then spamming them with apparently legal DMCA takedown notices and GDPR complaints. These were intended to take down articles referring to corruption in Angola regarding Isabel dos Santos and Vincent Miclet.
Internal documents leak
In 2023, after a news leak of approximately 50,000 internal documents to French nonprofit Forbidden Stories, the company was accused of using 'blackhat tactics' to help clients in 50 countries, including torturers, convicted criminals, corrupt politicians, scammers and spyware companies to erase their past from the internet. Eliminalia allegedly uses an array of underhanded tactics to stifle criticism of its clients, from intimidating journalists to churning out fake news on websites such as Taiwan Times, Mayday Washington, CNN News Today, and London Uncensored - all of which are connected to Maidan Holdings (Eliminalia's parent company).
Using falsified copyright infringement notices, the company manipulates "right to be forgotten" laws, designed to protect people from malicious material online, by sending emails that appear to be from the European Commission to journalists and publishers of the unwanted articles. Two clients of Eliminalia are convicted drug traffickers; other clients included Venezuela officials, Malchas Tetruashvili (convicted of money laundering for Georgian mafia boss Tariel Oniani in 2019), José Mestré (convicted of cocaine trafficking in 2010), former bank officials at Banca Privada d'Andorra, as well as 'scammers, spyware companies, torturers, convicted criminals, corrupt politicians and others in the global underworld'. One has been charged with laundering money for a prostitution ring. Another sold U.S. equipment to the Syrian government. Three more are indicted for helping carry out a cryptocurrency scam that stole billions of dollars from investors.
As of January 2023, it appears that Eliminalia has rebranded as 'Idata Protection'.
References
Companies of Spain
2011 establishments in Spain
Reputation management companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20%28Mastermind%20song%29 | "War" is a song by Mastermind featuring Bandokay. It was released as a single in 2020 and peaked at number 39 on the UK Singles Chart.
Jack Lynch, writing for Complex Networks about the song, wrote:
Charts
References
2020 songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Baby%20Bears | We Baby Bears is an American animated television series developed by Manny Hernandez for Cartoon Network. It is a spin-off prequel of the animated series We Bare Bears, which was created by Daniel Chong. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, it premiered on January 1, 2022. On January 31, 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 17, 2023.
Premise
We Baby Bears follows Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as babies searching for a new home in a magical teleporting box.
Voice cast
Connor Andrade as Baby Grizz
Amari McCoy as Baby Panda
Max Mitchell as Baby Ice Bear
Damian O'Hare as Carrot / Castle Guard
Demetri Martin as the Narrator (Martin previously voiced Adult Ice Bear in the original show)
Celebrity guest stars include: Anjali Bhimani, Rhys Darby, Janeane Garofalo, Young M.A, Jason Mantzoukas, Stephen Oyoung, Willow Smith, Toby Fox, and Bernardo Velasco.
Production
The series was first announced on May 30, 2019, which was slated to premiere on Cartoon Network in spring 2021 but was delayed to January 2022. A trailer was released on November 25, 2021, and the series premiered its first 10 episodes in a marathon on New Year's Day 2022. The series is rendered in an anime-esque style and features the bears going on various adventures in their magical box. Manny Hernandez, who served as supervising director on the original series, serves as the showrunner while Daniel Chong is involved as an executive producer.
The series had a crossover Halloween special with Summer Camp Island, which premiered on October 8, 2022.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2022–23)
Season 2 (2023)
Home media
We Baby Bears had its first DVD release on October 25, 2022, consisting of the first 20 episodes from the first season.
Notes
References
External links
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's comedy television series
2022 American television series debuts
American animated television spin-offs
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American prequel television series
Animated television series about bears
Animated television series about brothers
Animated television series about children
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
Cartoon Network franchises
Cartoon Network original programming
Child versions of cartoon characters
English-language television shows
Fictional trios
Television series about pandas
Television series by Cartoon Network Studios
Television shows based on webcomics
We Bare Bears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Elliott%20Morris | George Elliott Morris (born 1996) is an American data journalist who is best known for his work on election polling and predictive analytics. From 2018 to 2023, Morris was a data journalist for The Economist. In 2023, he became the editorial director of data analytics at ABC News including FiveThirtyEight.
Early life
Morris graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, with undergraduate degrees in government and history. While still an undergrad, Morris became the "breakout star of the 2018 election" for his project models correctly predicting that the Democrats would regain the House.
Career
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Morris began working for The Economist. In February 2020, Morris referred to bad 2016 election predictions as "lying to people" and "editorial malpractice". He later said that polls in 2016 did not account for education, meaning college educated voters were over-represented, which overstated the lead that Hillary Clinton actually had.
In March 2020, Morris and The Economist published a forecast for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the first major model predicting the election's outcome. On August 1, his model gave Joe Biden an 87 percent chance of winning the election, drawing criticism from Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, who said, "I am not necessarily convinced. It's not just that polls could move. It's a question of, like, how well can pollsters predict turnout when the mechanics of voting have really changed?" Morris has had a public feud with Silver, leading to Silver blocking him on Twitter.
In May 2023, ABC News hired Morris to lead FiveThirtyEight as editorial director of data analytics following Silver's exit from the site.
Bibliography
Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them (2022)
See also
Nate Cohn
References
Living people
Online journalists
Data journalists
American bloggers
American male journalists
American political commentators
American political writers
American statisticians
University of Texas at Austin alumni
The Economist people
1996 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20Strike | Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44 is a 1992 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. It is a successor to Grigsby's earlier title Carrier Force.
Gameplay
Set in World War II, Carrier Strike is a computer wargame that simulates battles in the Pacific Theater between the Allies and Imperial Japan.
Development
Carrier Strike was designed by Gary Grigsby for Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It began development as "an offshoot" of Gary Grigsby's Pacific War, which was in production at the time; the initial version of Carrier Strike was made during a week of free time on that project. Grigsby explained that Carrier Strike was his way of revisiting his early game Carrier Force (1983). He told Electronic Games, "I liked the subject matter and, given the evolution in computer capability and my programming skills, I wanted to refine it."
Carrier Strike was developed with a modified version of the game engine from Grigsby's games Second Front: Germany Turns East and Western Front. He noted that the biggest challenge during production was adapting the games' interface to the new setting, and that the subsequent flight-deck interface originated from "a bull session at SSI". For the game's artificial intelligence (AI), he said that the subject matter made coding relatively simple, and that he had avoided letting the AI "cheat" in ways that many of his previous games had not. The score for Carrier Strike was composed by Donald Griffin of Computer Music Consulting.
Carrier Strike was launched in 1992, prior to Pacific War. Grigsby and SSI followed the game with the Carrier Strike Expansion Disk, which alters Carrier Strikes gameplay mechanics and adds new playable battles. Unlike the original game's retail release, it was launched via mail order.
Reception
According to M. Evan Brooks of Computer Gaming World, Carrier Strike had reached sales of 15,000 copies by September 1992. The game was released in competition with Carriers at War by Strategic Studies Group, a game whose highly-anticipated status drew more attention toward Carrier Strike, Computer Gaming Worlds Alan Emrich argued.
Emrich offered Carrier Strike a positive review, and Computer Gaming World nominated the game, alongside Grigsby's Western Front, for its "Wargame of the Year" prize. William R. Trotter of Game Player's PC Entertainment called it an "engrossing and handsome simulation" that he "recommend[ed] ... most enthusiastically".
References
External links
1992 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Naval video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Oceania
Video games set in Papua New Guinea
Video games set in the Solomon Islands
Video games set in the United States
Pacific War video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHN%20%28disambiguation%29 | BHN may refer to:
Bahrain, sovereign state in the Persian Gulf
Bright House Networks, former American telecom company
Brinell scale, a definition of hardness in materials science
the IATA airport code for Beihan Airport, Yemen
the ISO 639-3 language code for Bohtan Neo-Aramaic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%20Community%20Radio%20Network | The Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) is an association of Community Radio stations in Ghana broadcasting in local languages across rural communities nationally. GCRN was established in 1999 as a community radio service which offers a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Thereby association's aim is: "GCRN aims to enhance the use and build the capacity of community radio to enable marginalized communities and groups to generate and share their knowledge and experience, to participate in discourse and decision-making at every level, to develop the richness of their culture, and to strengthen their communities as part of the national and global family."
Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) provides a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media, as a nonprofit organiasation.
History
GCRN since its inception has its primary aim of localising mass communication within Ghana audience as it is believed broadcasting in local languages are being overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcaster. The association advocates that a reorientation of programming and organization would improve drastically Radio’s contribution to education and development.
According to DEVEX, "the association has 19 members on-air. They serve communities in 8 out of the 10 Regions of Ghana. Between them, they broadcast in 16 indigenous languages, including many that would otherwise leave their communities un-voiced." In addition, GCRN counts 12 Community Radio initiatives. These are initiatives that are awaiting their frequencies. Once they get on-air, the remaining two Regions would have at least one Community Radio station."
In 2005, Prof. Alex Quarmyne, the Executive Director of Radio Ada in Accra, said: "there are only six community radio stations in Ghana - Radio Ada; Radio Peace in Winneba; Radio Progress in Wa; Royals FM in Wenchi; Dormaa FM in Dormaa Ahenkro and Radio Afram Plains in Donkokrom, which has just began operations." Radio Gurune is also part of the community radio network in Ghana.
Ghana Community Radio Network is support by World Bank (WB) in Ghana and UNESCO for its education and Media training of young people.
See also
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
CRAOL (Community Radio Forum of Ireland - Irish Sector Body)
Community Media Association (UK Sector Body)
Prometheus Radio Project
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (Bangladesh Sector Body)
List of Community Radio Stations in the United States
National Federation of Community Broadcasters (US association)
References
External links
Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN)
Facebook Community
Community radio organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Front%3A%20The%20Liberation%20of%20Europe%201944%E2%80%931945 | Western Front: The Liberation of Europe 1944–1945 is a 1991 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. It was designed by Gary Grigsby.
Gameplay
Western Front is a computer wargame that simulates the Western Front of World War II. Its scope covers the conflict starting from the lead-up to the Normandy landings, and concludes with the fall of Germany to the Allies.
Development
Western Front was designed by Gary Grigsby as a follow-up to his 1990 wargame Second Front: Germany Turns East, which had covered the Eastern Front. He reused the earlier title's game engine, with upgrades such as mouse support. Published by Strategic Simulations, the game was released in 1991.
Reception
In a positive review, Computer Gaming Worlds Alan Emrich wrote, "Because Mr. Grigsby often sets the standards for computer wargames, one seldom sees his games in terms of revolutionary design breakthroughs, but rather as evolutionary advances in computer wargaming's 'state of the art.' Western Front is another such advance." William R. Trotter of Game Players PC Entertainment also enjoyed the game, calling it "a must-have program" for enthusiasts of the Western Front of World War II. However, he considered it slightly inferior to its predecessor Second Front. Writing for Computer Games Strategy Plus, Brian Walker called Western Front "a potentially great game" hampered by cost-cutting measures, particularly with regard to its documentation.
See also
West Front
References
External links
1991 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about Nazi Germany
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bagong%20Umaga%20episodes | Bagong Umaga (International title: New Beginnings / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. The series premiered on the network's Kapamilya Gold afternoon block and worldwide via The Filipino Channel from October 26, 2020 to April 30, 2021, replacing Love Thy Woman.
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/Patton%20Strikes%20Back | Patton Strikes Back: The Battle of the Bulge is a 1991 computer wargame designed by Chris Crawford and published by Broderbund for the Macintosh and MS-DOS.
Gameplay
Patton Strikes Back is a computer wargame that simulates the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
Development
Patton Strikes Back was developed by designer Chris Crawford and released in December 1991.
Reception
Alan Emrich reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "When a professional critic like this reviewer can't find some chink in a game's armor, the design and development work must have been thoroughly executed."
In Game Players PC Entertainment, William R. Trotter wrote that "Chris Crawford has given all computer games something wonderful to behold". He described Patton Strikes Back as "a potential classic".
Game Players PC Entertainment named Patton Strikes Back the year's best wargame, and praised it for "rethinking the concept of what a war game should be". The editors of PCGames nominated Patton Strikes Back for their award of the best strategy game of 1992, but gave the prize to Crisis in the Kremlin. They nevertheless called Patton "sure proof that war games without lots of numbers, hex grids, and situation-specific rules ... can be fun."
References
External links
1991 video games
Windows games
World War II video games
DOS games
Strategic Simulations games
Computer wargames
Video games about the Battle of the Bulge
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing%20Grace%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Amazing Grace is an Australian television drama series which premiered on the Nine Network on 3 March 2021.
The series was cancelled in September 2021.
Synopsis
The series centres on midwife Grace and her passionate colleagues at an unconventional birth centre attached to a major city hospital. A fierce advocate for her pregnant mothers-to- be, Grace's dubious work/life balance is about to get even more chaotic when Sophia, the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago, arrives unannounced and pregnant at the birth centre changes her life forever.
Production
The series was announced at Nine's annual upfronts in September 2020, Kate Jenkinson will play the titular role of Grace, along with supporting actors Sigrid Thornton, Catherine Van Davies, Alexandra Jensen and Kat Hoyos. Filming of the series began in Sydney in October 2020.
Cast
Kate Jenkinson as Grace Cresswell
Sigrid Thornton as Diane Cresswell
Alex Dimitriades as Kirk Gilbert
Alexandra Jensen as Sophia
Catherine Văn-Davies as Laney Tran
Ben O'Toole as Max Shaw
Kat Hoyos as Sasha Lorente
Luke Ford as Paul
Ben Mingay as Jim Delaney
Morgan Griffin as Tiffany Adams
Jake Ryan as Tyrone
Frederick Du Rietz as Jeremy
Episodes
References
External links
2020s Australian drama television series
Nine Network original programming
2021 Australian television series debuts
2021 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme%20Council%20of%20Cyberspace%20%28Iran%29 | Supreme Council of Cyberspace (Iran) () is a cyberspace-council which was formed on 26 February 2012 by the decree of Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei; and is obliged to establish "National Cyberspace Center of the country" to have an entire and up-to-date knowledge of internal/external cyberspace and in order to decide regarding "how to deal with the harms of the Internet".
The members of this council are appointed for a period of 3 years; and the president of the country is considered as the head of it. The High-Council of Informatics, the High-Council of Information and the High-Council of IT are considered as the bodies which were acted as policy makers and implementers in the mentioned field before this council's formation.
Natural-members
The "Supreme Council of Cyberspace" consists of the following "Natural-members":
Saied Reza Ameli
Hamid Shahriari
Reza Taghipour
Ezzatollah Zarghami
Mohammad Sarafraz
Mohammad Hassan Entezari
Mahdi Akhavan Bahabadi
Masoud Abu-Talebi
Kamyar Saqafi
Rasoul Jalili
Legal-members
Legal-members of the "Supreme Council of Cyberspace" are as follows:
Secretary of the Council and President of the National Cyberspace Center: Mohammad-Amin Aghamiri
President of Iran: Ebrahim Raisi
List of speakers of the Parliament of Iran: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Head of Judicial system of Iran: Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting: Peyman Jebelli
Minister of Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran: Issa Zarepour
Minister of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance: Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili
Minister of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran): Mohammad Ali Zolfigol
Minister of Ministry of Education (Iran): Rezamorad Sahraei
Minister of Ministry of Intelligence (Iran): Esmaeil Khatib
Minister of Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran): Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani
Vice President for Science and Technology: Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi
Chairman of the Cultural Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly :Morteza Aghatehrani
Head of Islamic Development Organization: Mohammad Qomi
Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Hossein Salami
Commander of Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Ahmad-Reza Radan
Prosecutor-General of Iran: Mohammad Movahedi-Azad
See also
Supreme Leader Representation in Universities
Hamid Shahriari
References
Organisations under control of the Supreme Leader of Iran
Organizations established in 2012
Islamic organisations based in Iran
Organisations based in Tehran
2012 establishments in Iran
Iranian entities subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider%20optimization%20algorithm | The rider optimization algorithm (ROA) is devised based on a novel computing method, namely fictional computing that undergoes series of process to solve the issues of optimizations using imaginary facts and notions. ROA relies on the groups of rider that struggle to reach the target. ROA employs rider groups that take a trip to reach common target in order to become winner. In ROA, the count of groups is four wherein equal riders are placed.
The four groups adapted in ROA are attacker, overtaker, follower, and bypass rider. Each group undergoes series of strategy to attain the target. The goal of bypass rider is to attain target by bypassing leader's path. The follower tries to follow the position of leader in axis. Furthermore, the follower employs multidirectional search space considering leading rider, which is useful for algorithm as it improves convergence rate. The overtaker undergoes its own position to attain target considering nearby locations of leader. The benefit of overtaker is that it facilitates faster convergence with huge global neighbourhood. As per ROA, the global optimal convergence is function of overtaker, whose position relies on the position of the leader, success rate, and directional indicator. The attacker adapts position of leader to accomplish destination by using its utmost speed. Moreover, it is responsible for initializing the multidirectional search using fast search for accelerating search speed.
Despite the riders undergoes a specific method, the major factors employed for reaching the target are correct riding of vehicles and proper management of accelerator, steering, brake and gear. At each time instance, the riders alter its position towards target by regulating these factors and follow the prescribed method using current success rate. The leader is defined using the success rate at current instance. The process is repeated till the riders go into off time that is maximal instant provided to riders to attain intended location. After reaching off time, the rider at leading position is termed winner.
Algorithm
The ROA is motivated from riders, who contend to reach anticipated location. The steps employed in ROA algorithm are defined below:
Initialization of Rider and other algorithmic parameters
The foremost step is the initialization of algorithm which is done using four groups of riders represented as , and initializations of its positions are performed in arbitrary manner. The initialization of group is given by,
where, signifies count of riders, and signifies position of rider in size at time instant.
The count of riders is evaluated with count of riders of each group and is expressed as,
where, signifies bypass rider, represent follower, signifies overtaker, represent attacker, and signifies rag bull rider. Hence, the relation amongst the aforementioned attributes is represented as,
Finding rate of success
After rider group parameters initialization, the rate of success considering ea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Tag%20Team%20Championship | The is a women's professional wrestling world tag team championship promoted by the CyberFight promotion, defended on their Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) brand. The title was introduced on August 12, 2017.
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. The current champions are Free WiFi (Hikari Noa and Nao Kakuta) who are in their first reign.
History
The inaugural champions were crowned on October 14, 2017, when MiraClians (Shoko Nakajima and Yuka Sakazaki) defeated Maho Kurone and Rika Tatsumi in a tournament final. On August 3, 2018, the championship was vacated after the co-champion Marika Kobashi sustained a shoulder injury. Magical Sugar Rabbits (Mizuki and Sakazaki) defeated Maki Itoh and Reika Saiki on August 25 of the same year to win the vacant championship. On July 16, 2019, the title was re-named from Tokyo Princess Tag Team Championship to Princess Tag Team Championship.
On June 9, 2023, the championship was vacated during Magical Sugar Rabbits' third reign, after Sakazaki was diagnosed with a neck injury. On October 9, at Wrestle Princess IV, Free WiFi (Hikari Noa and Nao Kakuta) defeated Toyo Mates (Yuki Kamifuku and Mahiro Kiryu) to win the vacant title.
Inaugural championship tournament
Reigns
As of , , there have been 14 reigns between 11 teams composed of 18 individual champions and two vacancies. MiraClians (Shoko Nakajima and Yuka Sakazaki) were the inaugural champions. Magical Sugar Rabbits (Mizuki and Yuka Sakazaki) holds the record for most reigns as a team at three, while individually, Sakazaki tied with Saki Akai (previously known as Sakisama) with most reigns at four. Hakuchuumu (Miu Watanabe and Rika Tatsumi)'s reign is the longest at 370 days, while 121000000 (Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita)'s reign is the shortest at 13 days.
The current champions are Free WiFi (Hikari Noa and Nao Kakuta). They defeated Toyo Mates (Yuki Kamifuku and Mahiro Kiryu) on October 9, 2023, at Wrestle Princess IV in Tokyo, Japan to win the vacant title.
Names
Combined reigns
As of , .
By team
By wrestler
References
External links
TJPW official site, in Japanese
Women's professional wrestling tag team championships
Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadataka%20Unno | Tadataka Unno (, Unno Tadataka; born 15 August 1980) is a Japanese jazz pianist.
Career
Tadataka Unno was born in Tokyo. He started playing jazz at age 9 and attended the Tokyo University of the Arts. Unno began his career by joining the trio of Japanese jazz musician Yoshio Suzuki and played professionally in Japan for the next 10 years. In 2008, Unno moved to New York City and lived in Harlem. In 2010, Unno was recommended to play at the Jazz Rising Stars Program of Ravinia Festival by Nathan Davis and Curtis Fuller. He also worked for two years with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove and is currently a member of the Jimmy Cobb Trio, Clifton Anderson quartet, and John Pizzarelli Trio.
Unno has performed at the Kennedy Center, Blue Note Jazz Club, and Village Vanguard. He has released six jazz albums including Journeyer, which was recorded with American musicians Hassan J.J. Shakur and Jerome Jennings.
Personal life
Unno is married and has a child.
When Hank Jones passed away in May 2010, Unno was at his deathbed.
2020 racist attack
In September 2020, Unno was attacked in a hate crime incident by a group of eight teenagers while exiting a subway station in Harlem, New York City. He required surgery for broken bones and had suffered permanent injuries. Against the backdrop of the sharp increase in anti-Asian sentiment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the attackers had made assumptions that Unno was Chinese and uttered anti-Asian profanities.
After the incident, he stated that he intended to return to Japan, adding that "My wife and I worry about raising kids here [In the United States], especially after this happened." Following surgery and physical therapy, he has since been able to perform before audiences once again.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
Pee Ka Boo! (What's New, 2004)
My Romance - The first sketch of Tadataka Unno (Sony Music, 2008)
As Time Goes By (Zzjaplus, 2010)
Plays Jazz Standards - Solo Piano (Zzjaplus, 2011)
Journeyer (self-released, 2014)
Danro with Yutaka Yoshida (Somethin' Cool, 2018)
Get My Mojo Back (Verve, 2022) – come-back work
As sideman
Gen Hoshio, I Wanna Be Your Ghost (SPEEDSTAR RECORDS（Victor Entertainment), 2022)
Clifton Anderson, Been Down This Road Before (BSMF, 2020)
George DeLancey, Paradise (self-released, 2020)
Ken Fowser, Morning Light (Posi-Tone, 2020)
Stephanie Sellars, Girl Who Loves (CD Baby, 2019)
Jimmy Cobb, Remembering U featuring Roy Hargrove (Jimmy Cobb World, 2019)
Dan Block, Block Party (Miles High, 2018)
Luca Stoll, MONO Live in Vevey (CD Baby, 2015)
Nick Hempton, Catch and Release (Triple-Distilled, 2015)
Eyal Vilner Big Band, Almost Sunrise (Gut String, 2015)
, Nine Stories (Sunnyside, 2014)
Winard Harper and Jeli Posse, Coexist (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2012)
Ben Powell, New Street (self-released, 2012)
Jimmy Cobb, Remembering Miles (Sony Music, 2011)
Jacob Melchior, It's about time (CD Baby, 2010)
Takao Iwaki, Introducing Takao Iwaki (White Sands, 2010)
Tiffan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co%E2%80%93Star | Co–Star is an American astrological social networking service founded in 2017, and headquartered in New York City. Users enter the date, time and place they were born to receive an astrological chart and daily horoscopes that they can compare to those of their friends.
History
Founder and CEO Banu Guler came up with the idea for the app after she gifted a friend's child an astrological chart that became a surprise hit at the baby shower. In 2019, Co–Star raised a $5.2 million seed round from Maveron, Aspect, and 14W, following a $750,000 pre-seed from Female Founders Fund in early 2018. In January 2020, Co–Star for Android was launched to a 120,000-person waitlist—two years after their iOS app was launched. In April 2021, Co–Star announced their $15 million Series A, led by Spark Capital. As of that date, Co–Star has more than 20 million downloads and has been downloaded by a quarter of all young women ages 18–25 in the U.S.
Features
Co–Star employs artificial intelligence to analyze publicly accessible NASA JPL data and find patterns in a user’s transits. Co–Star’s algorithm maps human-written snippets of text to planetary movements to display personalized content for each user. That content has been called “slightly robotic,” “wildly beautiful,” “truly insane," “brutally honest,” and compared to “a free therapy session.”
In July 2023, Co–Star released an in-app service called The Void that allows users to ask open-ended questions and receive answers informed by Co–Star's astrological database.
See also
Astrology
NASA
Timeline of social media
References
External links
Official website
2017 software
Internet properties established in 2017
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Freeware
Mobile applications
Social networking services
Youth culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickbot | Trickbot is a trojan for the Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Its major function was originally the theft of banking details and other credentials, but its operators have extended its capabilities to create a complete modular malware ecosystem.
Capabilities
Trickbot was first reported in October 2016. It is propagated by methods including executable programs, batch files, email phishing, Google Docs, and fake sexual harassment claims.
The Web site Bleeping Computer has tracked the evolution of TrickBot from its start as a banking Trojan. Articles cover its extension to attack PayPal and business customer relationship management (CRM; June 2017),the addition of a self-spreading worm component (July 2017), coinbase.com, DKIM support to bypass email filters, steal Windows problem history, steal cookies (July 2019), targets security software such as Microsoft Defender to prevent its detection and removal (July 2019), steal Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and Sprint PIN codes by injecting code when accessing a Web site (August 2019), steal OpenSSH and OpenVPN keys (November 2019), spread malware through a network (January 2020), bypass Windows 10 UAC and steal Active Directory credentials (January 2020), use fake COVID-19 emails and news (since March 2020), bypass Android mobile two-factor authentication, checks whether it is being run in a virtual machine (by anti-malware experts; July 2020), infecting Linux systems (July 2020). Upon execution, the malware immediately launches the command prompt with commands to stop and delete Windows Defender and turn off Windows Defender Real-time Protection using PowerShell. The virus then utilizes CMSTP.exe to bypass user account control.
TrickBot can provide other malware with access-as-a-service to infected systems, including Ryuk (January 2019) and Conti ransomware; the Emotet spam Trojan is known to install TrickBot (July 2020).
In 2021, IBM researchers reported that trickbot had been enhanced with features such as a creative mutex naming algorithm and an updated persistence mechanism.
Infections
On 27 September 2020, US hospitals and healthcare systems were shut down by a cyber attack using Ryuk ransomware. It is believed likely that the Emotet Trojan started the botnet infection by sending malicious email attachments during 2020. After some time, it would install TrickBot, which would then provide access to Ryuk.
Despite the efforts to extinguish TrickBot, the FBI and two other American federal agencies warned on 29 October 2020 that they had "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime [ransomware] threat to US hospitals and healthcare providers" as COVID-19 cases were spiking. After the previous month's attacks, five hospitals had been attacked that week, and hundreds more were potential targets. Ryuk, seeded through TrickBot, was the method of attack.
Arrests
In August 2020, the Department of Justice issued arrest warrants for threat actors running the Trickbot botnet. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget%20Otoo | Bridget Otoo (born 31 December 1983) is a Ghanaian freelance journalist, media personality and public relations officer. She previously served in various capacities with TV3 Network Limited as a broadcaster and news anchor.
Education
Otoo undertook primary education in Aggrey Memorial Basic School, Sekondi before heading to Bompeh Senior High Technical School, Takoradi, for her secondary school education, where she was the Girls Prefect. She was nicknamed "The Headmistress", because of her blunt, confident and upfront attributes.
She attained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Mass Communication Studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ). She also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Career
Otoo worked with Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) performing public relation duties during her National Service period. She has worked in the media circles on both radio and TV with Good News FM and Sky TV in 2008. Prior to that in 2003, she was a voice over artist recording advertisements for some institutions (Tigo, Barclays, Unilever and Ecobank). She hosted "New Day", "You and the Police" and prime time news on TV3 for a period.
Personal life
Bridget, daughter of Francis Otoo and Agnes Arthur, has six (6) siblings. In 2021, She declared her stand regarding LGBTQ brought in a lot of controversies She asserted in a Twitter post saying she was willing and selflessly going to support the LGBTQI agenda in Ghana notwithstanding what religious folks say about them. She also declared that if supporting LGBTQI is the fastest and easiest way to hell, she is ready for support because she wants to meet satan.
Activism
Bridget was one of the demonstrators who got arrested and assaulted by personnels from the Ghana Police Service at the Occupy Julorbi House protests which was held in Accra on September 21, 2023.
References
Living people
Ghanaian journalists
Ghanaian women journalists
University of Ghana alumni
Ghana Institute of Journalism alumni
1983 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Party%202020 | Ultimate Party 2020 was a professional wrestling event produced by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event took place on November 3, 2020, in Tokyo at the Ota City General Gymnasium. It was the second event under the Ultimate Party chronology. The event aired live on AbemaTV and on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Storylines
The show featured ten matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On August 23, 2020, Tetsuya Endo won the annual King of DDT tournament by defeating T-Hawk in the finals. Usually, the winner of the tournament would receive a shot at the KO-D Openweight Championship, but since Endo was already holding the title, he was allowed to choose his challenger. Endo initially named Kenny Omega, a former DDT full-time member, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions prevented the match from happening. At Get Alive 2020, Endo chose his Damnation stablemate Daisuke Sasaki to be his challenger instead. On September 27, at Who's Gonna Top? 2020, Sasaki hit Endo with a low blow and ordered the rest of Damnation and #StrongHearts to beat Endo up. They refused and attacked Sasaki instead before announcing he was being kicked out of the unit. In a following interview, Sasaki refused to acknowledge his eviction and promised that he would leave DDT if he failed to defeat Endo. On October 3, at "This Will Be Our Third Narimasu Event! 2020", a handicap match pitting Sasaki against the team of Endo and T-Hawk ended in a disqualification when Damnation interfered in order to attack Sasaki. Hiroshi Yamato came to Sasaki's rescue and the match was restarted as a regular tag team match that Yamato and Sasaki were unable to win.
In February, Chris Brookes became the inaugural DDT Universal Champion, a title created to attract an international viewership to DDT's programming. By June, he was already a two-time champion, and after defending his title against Naomi Yoshimura on October 10, at DDT TV Show! #9, he called his opponent weak. Unhappy about the insult, Yoshimura's tag team partner Yuki Ueno came out to challenge Brookes to a title match. Days later, at a press conference, Brookes presented Ueno with flowers as if he was already mourning Ueno's KO-D Tag Team Championship title reign and the end of his tag team as Yoshimura was scheduled to take a medical leave of absence following the Ultimate Party event.
Results
Four-way elimination match
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Ultimate Party
2020 in professional wrestling
November 2020 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
2020 in Tokyo
Events in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Yantra | E-Yantra (stylized as e-Yantra) is a robotics focused educational outreach initiative of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. It is funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). The goal of e-Yantra is to complement existing engineering and robotics Higher Education systems worldwide and develop engineers capable of solving local problems across a variety of domains such as: Agriculture, Disaster Response, Defense, Manufacturing, Home, Smart Cities and Service Industries through technology.
History
In 2002, Prof. Kavi Arya started the distance education program at IIT Bombay, and was a program coordinator teaching Embedded Systems. However, the tools and robots required for this were very expensive and remote students couldn't afford the equipment themselves. To compensate for this gap, the e-Yantra Project was initiated.
Mission
The mission of this project is to create the next generation of engineers with a practical outlook to help in providing pragmatic solutions to real-world problems. The initiative seeks to provide hands-on learning-infrastructure to engineering students who have limited access to labs and mentors.
e-Yantra Robotics Competition
The e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) is the flagship initiative of the e-Yantra project. The competition is open to students from an engineering or polytechnic background and comprises 2 stages spanning over 6–7 months. Stage 1 is open to all and is a Robotics MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). During the competition, the participating teams are assigned “themes" with varying levels of complexity that are abstractions of real-world problems.
A selected cohort from Stage 1 is admitted into Stage 2. The leading 5-6 teams from Stage 2 are hosted for the National Finals at IIT Bombay in March every year where they demonstrate their projects before a jury. In 2020, the competition wasexpanded to international students by reaching out to regional associations like The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, and two countries in Africa (Namibia and South Africa). Winners receive a cash prize.
e-Yantra Innovation Challenge
The e-Yantra Innovation Challenge (eYIC) encourages participants to come up with innovative solutions to real-world problems through a common technology stack in the competition.
References
External links
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/jamia-millia-islamia-students-win-competition-hosted-by-iit-bombay-1703859-2020-07-24
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/a-bot-from-next-door/article26681549.ece
https://starofmysore.com/two-sjce-teams-excel-at-e-yantra-robotics-contest/
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/nature-inspires-drones-bots-at-iit-b-contest/articleshow/68639419.cms
https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warship%20%28video%20game%29 | Warship is a 1986 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations. It covers naval conflict during the Pacific War.
In 1987, Grigsby followed Warship with Battle Cruiser, which reuses the gameplay system but expands the scope to cover both World War I and World War II.
Gameplay
Warship is a computer wargame that simulates Asiatic-Pacific Theater naval surface combat during World War II. It is set between 1941 and 1945, and focuses on the conflict between Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. The game contains a "construction kit" that allows the player to create custom scenarios.
Development
Warship was designed by Gary Grigsby and was released in 1986, the same year he launched Battle Group. It was published by Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Reception
Bob Proctor reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "there's not much wrong with this game. The subject may not be of interest to everyone but this game recreates the feel of nighttime surface combat better than any other game of any kind."
In a 1988 Page 6 survey of wargames for Atari computers, writer M. Evan Brooks found that Warships poor documentation limited its appeal to "to true naval aficionados and not to those with a marginal interest." In his similar 1989 computer wargame survey, J. L. Miller of Computer Play called the game "historically accurate and recommended for the naval buff."
Sequel
Gary Grigsby designed a sequel to Warship entitled Battle Cruiser (1987), which carries over large parts of Warships system but covers both World War II and World War I.
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - December 1991
Casus Belli #44 (April 1988)
Jeux & Stratégie #54
References
External links
Article in Tilt (French)
Article in Video Games & Computer Entertainment
1986 video games
Computer wargames
Naval video games
Pacific War video games
Ship simulation games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Papua New Guinea
Video games set in the Philippines
Video games set in the Solomon Islands
Video game level editors
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoonito | This is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast on Cartoon Network and Max's preschool block, Cartoonito in the United States.
Current programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Short-form programming
Max exclusive programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Upcoming programming
Acquired programming
Max exclusive programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Former programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Canadian co-productions
Short-form programming
Max exclusive programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
See also
List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim
List of programs broadcast by Toonami
List of programs broadcast by Boomerang
List of Sesame Workshop productions
Notes
References
Cartoonito
Lists of television series by network
Cartoonito original programming
Cartoon Network original programming
HBO Max original programming
Television programming blocks in the United States
Programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20One%20True%20Love%20episodes | One True Love is a 2012 Philippine television drama romantic series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up from June 11, 2012 to October 5, 2012, replacing My Beloved.
Mega Manila ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
June 2012
July 2012
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda%20Sveinsdottir | Edda Sveinsdottir was (died 3 April 2022) an Icelandic/Danish computer scientist, inventor, and professor. She is considered to be the first female Danish computer scientist and was the first (and currently only) female head of department at University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science.
Early life
Sveinsdottir was born in 1936 in Reykjavik to Icelandic father, Professor Sveinn Bergsveinsson, and Danish mother, architect Anne Marie Østergaard. Sveinsdottir's parents divorced when she was three years old, and Sveinsdottir lived with her mother, grandmother, and three aunts in Denmark, and continued to live much of her life in Denmark.
Sveinsdottir studied at Ordrup Gymnasium, where she met Niels Alexander Lassen. After graduating in 1955, they married the same year and began professional collaboration. After having four sons together, they later divorced, whilst still continuing their professional relationship.
Career
Sveinsdottir began studying mathematics and physics, with numerical analysis as her major, at Copenhagen University in 1958. In 1965 she obtained her master's degree in Mathematics. From 1965 to 1970 she was employed at the Department of Mathematics at Copenhagen University where she worked on the electronic calculator, GIER – Denmark's second ever computer. It was during this time Sveinsdottir was drawn to the newly forming computer environment in Denmark and learned programming at the Technical University of Denmark. When the Department of Computer Science at Copenhagen University was established in 1970, she was appointed as an associate professor and, later, head of department (during 1970-1971 and 1982-1984), making her one of the subject's early pioneers.
Sveinsdottir's field of research has focussed on computer-assisted tomography, a branch of medical technology which uses computers to develop equipment for the imaging of brain activity. She pioneered the use of computers for imaging, rather that for numbers as they has previously used.
In the mid-1970s, she co-founded the electronics company Medimatic A / S which launched a new type of computer software.
In 1987, Sveinsdottir was made a professor of computer science at Roskilde University Center (RUC). In 1976-78 she was appointed chairperson of the National Academic Committee for the Natural Sciences.
References
Danish computer scientists
Danish women computer scientists
University of Copenhagen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Edda Sveinsdottir
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Camacho | Ángela Stella Camacho Beltrán (born 5 February 1947), is a Colombian physicist and president of the Colombian Network of Women Scientists. Camacho's main work is in the fields of condensed matter physics, solid state physics, and low-dimensional physics. She was the first Colombian woman to obtain a PhD in physics.
Education
Camacho was born in Bogotá. In 1966, she started her studies at the National University of Colombia, where she received her degree in physics in 1970. Camacho then travelled to Germany and obtained a Diplom-physikerin at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, in 1973. In 1977 she was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, West Germany. She was the first Colombian woman to obtain a doctorate in physics.
Upon her return to Colombia in 1978, Camacho started teaching and researching at the physics department of the Industrial University of Santander, where she remained until 1982. There Beltrán became the research director of the physics department between 1980 and 1982. In 1982 she transferred to the physics department of the Andes University where she occupied various posts, including: Department Director (1984-1988), Postgraduate and Research Coordinator (1990-2005) and Member of the Committee of Teacher Organization of the Faculty of Sciences (2008-2012). Throughout her professional career she has actively participated in the formation of physicists, directing 2 doctoral, 11 masters and 16 undergraduate theses.
Camacho has been a member of six national and international scientific associations; she was an Associate Member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics between 1984 and 1990. She has been active in the Colombian Physics Society, starting in 1980 as a Coordinator of the Northeast Chapter (1980-1982). Later, Beltrán became the Society's Secretary of the Central Chapter (1993-1995), Principal Member of the Board of Directors (1995-1997), Secretary of the Board of Directors (1999-2001), Vice President (2001-2003) and then Coordinator of the Central Chapter (2002-2004).
Camacho was also a Leader representative for Colombia in the Red IX.e of the CYTED Microelectronics program (1999-2003), and Leader for Colombia in the CYTED NANODYF network (2011-2014).
She has been a guest professor and visiting professor in research centers in Europe (Italy, Germany, Spain, Denmark), United States and Mexico.
In 2003 the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Beltrán the National Award for Excellence in Research; in 2002 the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences elected her a Corresponding Member, and a Full Member in 2011.
Research
Camacho has expertise in condensed matter physics, solid state physics, low dimensional physics, Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures. She is also an expert in semiconductor nanostructures, optical and electronic properties and dynamics of nanostructures.
Currently her interests are focused on the interaction of lig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacommons.org | Datacommons.org is an open knowledge graph hosted by Google that provides a unified view across multiple public datasets, combining economic, scientific and other open datasets into an integrated data graph. The Datacommons.org site was launched in May 2018 with an initial dataset consisting of fact-checking data published in Schema.org "ClaimReview" format by several fact checkers from the International Fact-Checking Network. Google has worked with partners including the United States Census, the World Bank, and US Bureau of Labor Statistics to populate the repository, which also hosts data from Wikipedia, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The service expanded during 2019 to include an RDF-style Knowledge Graph populated from a number of largely statistical open datasets. The service was announced to a wider audience in 2019. In 2020 the service improved its coverage of non-US datasets, while also increasing its coverage of bioinformatics and coronavirus.
Features
Datacommons.org places more emphasis on statistical data than is common for Linked Data and knowledge graph initiatives. It includes geographical, demographic, weather and real estate data alongside other categories, describing states, Congressional districts, and cities in the United States as well as biological specimens, power plants, and elements of the human genome via the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project. It represents data as semantic triples each of which can have its own provenance. It centers on the entity-oriented integration of statistical observations from a variety of public datasets. Although it supports a subset of the W3C SPARQL query language, its APIs also include tools — such as a Pandas dataframe interface — oriented towards data science, statistics and data visualization.
Datacommons.org is integrative, meaning that, rather than providing a hosting platform for diverse datasets, it attempts to consolidate much of the information the datasets provide into a single data graph.
Technology
Datacommons.org is built on a graph data-model. The graph can be accessed through a browser interface and several APIs, and is expanded through loading data (typically CSV and MCF-based templates). The graph can be accessed by natural language queries in Google Search. The data vocabulary used to define the datacommons.org graph is based upon Schema.org. In particular the Schema.org terms StatisticalPopulation
and Observation were proposed to Schema.org to support datacommons-like usecases.
Software from the project is available on GitHub under Apache 2 license.
References
External links
GitHub repository
Google
Open_data
Knowledge_graphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWN%20World%20Championship | The UWN World Championship is a professional wrestling world championship owned by the United Wrestling Network promotion. The title was introduced on October 13, 2020, and the winner of an eight-man tournament being crowned the inaugural champion. On October 2, 2021, Chris Dickinson defeated Mike Bennett on UWN Primetime Live in the finals to become the first champion. The current champion is Danny Limelight, who is in his first reign.
History
On October 13, 2020, at UWN Primetime Live, David Marquez revealed the UWN World Championship for the first time. Marquez announced a tournament of eight-man to crown the inaugural champion, when the participants of the tournaments would be revealed on the October 20 edition of UWN Primetime Live. The original lineup featured former WWE wrestler Erick Redbeard (formrly Rowan) versus Watts, Chris Dickinson versus AEW wrestler & Championship Wrestling From Arizona founder Peter Avalon, New Japan Pro-Wrestling young lion Karl Fredericks versus former WWE star Fred Rosser (FKA Darren Young), and Mike Bennett versus Davey Boy Smith Jr. However, for unknown reasons, Watts, Fredericks, and Davey Boy pulled from the tournament. Redbeard ended up facing Rosser, Bennett wrestled Kevin Martenson, and a new match was made between Shawn Daivari and Rocky Romero. On November 17, 2020, the UWN announced that the finals of the tournament between Bennett & Dickenson were postponed after Dickenson suffered an injury. The tournament resumed on the October 2, 2021 Primetime Live special, where Dickinson defeated Bennett to become the inaugural champion.
Tournament Brackets
Reigns
As of , .
References
External links
United Wrestling Network championships
World professional wrestling championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Stiff | Carol J. Stiff is an American women's basketball executive. She is the vice president of programming and acquisitions at ESPN and president of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame's board of directors.
Early life
Stiff was born and raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey by parents John and Jeanne as the youngest of six siblings. She attended the School of Saint Elizabeth for her elementary education and graduated from Bernards High School in 1979. During her childhood, Stiff played basketball for Catholic Youth Organization and cites her coach, Sister Mary Cleary, as a major influence on her athletic career. Cleary had attended the University of Dayton where Stiff's uncle, Don Donoher, was head coach of the men's basketball team.
Career
Collegiate
Following graduation, Stiff was recruited to play collegiate basketball at Southern Connecticut State University by a coach who left before she began her freshman year. She spent two years on the Southern Connecticut Fighting Owls on the bench before switching to playing field hockey. In 1983, Stiff graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education with the goal of becoming a teacher of physical education, however she was unable to secure a job in that field.
Coaching and ESPN
With her Bachelor of Science degree, Stiff began her coaching career with the Western Connecticut State University's field hockey team from 1983 until 1985. From there, she transferred to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she served as head coach for the women's basketball team and a physical education instructor for three years. Stiff later became the first assistant women's basketball coach and recruiter at Brown University, also her first position at an Ivy League school.
In 1990, Stiff accepted an entry-level position at ESPN in communications and programming of college sports. While serving in this role, Stiff started the Tennessee–UConn women's basketball rivalry when she was looking for a women's game to be broadcast on Martin Luther King Day in 1995. After being rejected by North Carolina's head coach Sylvia Hatchell, she approached Tennessee's Pat Summitt who accepted after convincing from Stiff that it was "for the good of the game." Their first game was won by UConn 77–66 and started a 12-year long rivalry which was discontinued after the 2006–2007 season. This led to ESPN signing a contract with the NCAA in 2003 which allowed them to produce all of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship games. The rivalry consistently drew in top ratings and the 2004 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was the most viewed college basketball game in ESPN's history at the time.
Following the establishment of the Tennessee–UConn women's basketball rivalry, Stiff also programmed the televising of eight United States women's national basketball team games during the 1996 Summer Olympics. In part due to the success of the broadcasting, the WNBA was founded the next year. She was eventually promoted to S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20municipalities%20in%20Mato%20Grosso%20by%20HDI | This is a list of municipalities in Mato Grosso ordered by Human Development Index (HDI) according to data released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) of the United Nations for 2010 (although old, they are the most current data available). The Human Development Index was developed in 1990 by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and the Indian economist Amartya Sen.
According to the list. of the 141 municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso, none of them have very high HDI (equal to or greater than 0.800), 49 have high HDI (between 0.700 and 0.799), 89 have medium (between 0.600 and 0.699), 3 have low (between 0.500 and 0.599), and none of them have a very low (less than 0.500). The HDI of the state of Mato Grosso is 0.774 (considered high).
Criteria
Categories
The index varies from 0 to 1, considering:
Very high – 0.800 to 1.000
High – 0.700 to 0.799
Medium – 0.600 to 0.699
Low – 0.500 to 0.599
Very low – 0.000 to 0.499
Components
The HDI of the municipalities is an average between the income index, life expectancy index and educational index.
List
References
See also
Geography of Brazil
List of cities in Brazil
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20canals%20in%20Isfahan | There is an old network of hand dug water channels in the city of Isfahan guiding the river's water.
Iranian government has effectively cut off Zayande rood the lifeline of canals. In 2023 some water was for the first allocated by the government through pumping in order to preserve the madis. The government may deliver water by tank.
Total of 308683 meters is length of canals in the central city of Isfahan
References
Canals in Iran
Isfahan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Exoplanet%20Catalogue | The Open Exoplanet Catalogue is a catalogue of all discovered extra-solar planets. It is a new kind of astronomical database decentralized and completely open.
It is considered one of the four exoplanet catalogues most widely used, together with the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and the Exoplanet Data Explorer.
In 2012, Hanno Rein presented a new kind of astronomical database based on small text files and a distributed version control system.
In 2016, Ryan Varley presented ExoData, Python interface and exploratory analysis tool for the Open Exoplanet Catalogue.
Statistics
As of October 2020, the Open Exoplanet Catalogue has the following statistics:
References
Exoplanet catalogues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Lang | Julia Lang may refer to:
Julia Lang (fashion entrepreneur) (born 1989), German Tanzanian creative director and serial entrepreneur
Julia (programming language), a programming language
Julia Lang (actress) (1921–2010), British film and radio actress and radio presenter
Júlia Láng (born 2003), Hungarian figure skater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Blanket%20Volleyball | Beach Blanket Volleyball is a 1986 video game published by Artworx.
Gameplay
Beach Blanket Volleyball is a game in which a team of three volleyball players compete against a human or computer opponent.
Reception
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Graphics [...] aren't spectacular, at least on the Commodore versions I tested. But they do a good enough job to make playing the game smooth and simple."
References
External links
Review in Commodore Magazine
1986 video games
Artworx games
Volleyball video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Powder%20Grey%20Smoke | Blue Powder Grey Smoke is a 1986 computer wargame published by Gardé Games of Distinction.
Gameplay
Blue Powder Grey Smoke is a game in which the operational and tactical encounters of the American Civil War are covered.
Reception
Jay C. Selover reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "if the Civil War is a passion for you, you'll just have to swallow hard and accept a few things. If, on the other hand, you would like to see just how easy it is for a crack division of 6000 men to turn into a frightened mob running back to Washington, give this one a look."
References
External links
Article in Computer Game Forum
Article in Compute!'s Gazette
1986 video games
American Civil War video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ended%20Netflix%20original%20programming | These shows are worldwide or regional Netflix Originals and have either completed their runs or Netflix stopped producing episodes. A show is also assumed to have ended if there has been no confirmed news of renewal at least nine months after the show's last episode was released.
Drama
Comedy
Kids & family
Animation
Adult animation
Anime
Every show listed here is categorized as an anime by Netflix, however some are considered to be only anime-influenced animation by the general interpretation of the expression.
Kids & family
Non-English language scripted
Afrikaans
Arabic
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Hindi
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Zulu
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Continuations
Specials
One-time
Episodic
Regional original programming
These shows are originals, because Netflix commissioned or acquired them and had their premier on the service, but they are not available worldwide.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Non-English language scripted
Spanish
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Co-productions
These shows may not be available worldwide due to the distributing deal with the co-production partner networks.
Continuations
Notes
References
Lists of Netflix original programming
Netflix
Netflix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Landray | Sir Martin Jonathan Landray (born ) is a British physician, epidemiologist and data scientist who serves as a Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Landray designs, conducts and analyses large-scale randomised control trials; including practice-changing international trials that have recruited over 100,000 individuals. Landray previously led the health informatics team that enabled the collection and management of data for the UK Biobank on over half a million people.
Early life and education
Landray was born the son of a general practitioner, Bob Landray and an anaesthetist, Margaret Bray. He was educated at Abingdon School in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, from 1982 until 1987. He was a prefect and played rugby and cricket. After Abingdon he went on to study medicine at the University of Birmingham, returning later for specialist training in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and General Internal Medicine.
Career
Landray serves as co-chief investigator of the RECOVERY Trial into treatment drugs for COVID-19 (the largest such clinical trial in the world) alongside Peter Horby. In June 2020, the trial discovered the first known life-saving COVID-19 drug, Dexamethasone. The trial also showed that Tocilizumab further reduces the risk of death for the sickest patients with COVID-19. The trial found that a number of other treatments had no meaningful benefits for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, including Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir/ritonavir, Azithromycin, Convalescent plasma, and Colchicine. The trial continues to study REGN-COV2 and Baricitinib.
He leads the Good Clinical Trials Collaborative, established by Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and African Academy of Sciences which seeks to develop and promote the adoption of new international guidelines for randomised control trials. He was previously one of the leaders of the Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative's risk-based monitoring, quality-by-design, and mobile clinical trial projects. He is an advocate of streamlined approaches to clinical trial design, delivery and regulation as a means to improve healthcare. He is founding director and chair of NHS DigiTrials, the Health Data Research Hub for Clinical Trials hosted by NHS Digital, and leads the clinical trials theme for Health Data Research UK.
In 2021, Landray was appointed to the Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP), a group chaired by Patrick Vallance to advise the G7 presidency held by the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
He was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to public health and science.
Positions held
Landray holds the following positions:
Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Deputy Director, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
Lead, Big Data & Computing Innovation, MRC Population Health Research Unit
Lead, Clinical Informatics & Big Data, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Uzbekistan%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of the Republic of Uzbekistan by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Human Development Index
Regions By Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry%20Magic%21%20Thirty%20Years%20of%20Virginity%20Can%20Make%20You%20a%20Wizard%3F%21 | is a Japanese boys' love (BL) manga series by Yuu Toyota.
A live-action television drama adaptation began airing on October 9, 2020, as part of TV Tokyo's programming block, which enjoyed high ratings during its broadcast. A sequel to the television drama was later released as a live-action film on April 8, 2022. An anime television series adaptation produced by Satelight is set to premiere in January 2024.
Plot
Having never had sex in his life, after Kiyoshi Adachi reaches his 30th birthday he becomes a "": he develops an ability to hear the thoughts of other people by touching them. One day, he discovers that his popular co-worker, Yuichi Kurosawa, is in love with him. While dealing with the awkwardness of being able to hear Kurosawa's rather forthright feelings towards him, Adachi comes to terms with how much Kurosawa values him and starts to develop reciprocal feelings of his own.
Characters
Adachi is a salaryman who, after reaching his 30th birthday as a virgin, develops an ability to read the minds of people he touches. Toyota described Adachi as "serious and straightforward" while also having a rough life because he lacks self-confidence. Toyota also states that he is starting to change because of his relationship with Kurosawa.
Kurosawa is a salaryman working at the same company as Adachi. He is friendly and his good looks makes him popular in the office, but he is also secretly in love with Adachi and often fantasizes about him. Toyota described Kurosawa as being "handsome" but being a "mess" on the inside at the same time, while also having pure feelings of love for Adachi.
Tsuge is Adachi's friend from college who is a romance novelist. Like Adachi, he reaches his 30s as a virgin and is able to read the minds of people he touches. He owns a cat named Udon which he rescued from abandonment. He develops feelings for Minato.
Minato is a deliveryman assigned to Tsuge's neighborhood. Though wary of Tsuge, he is attached to his cat, Udon, which he had wanted to adopt but couldn't.
Rokkaku is Adachi's co-worker.
Fujisaki is Adachi's co-worker.
Urabe is Adachi's co-worker.
Development
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! originated as a 4-page comic that Yuu Toyota posted on her Twitter and Pixiv accounts in January 2018. Toyota conceptualized the story seven or eight years prior by imagining what kind of power would be best for someone who has little experience in love, as well as the legend where one will gain magical powers if they stay a virgin past 30 years old. Toyota stated that initially, the main couple was supposed to be similar to Tsuge and Minato, but she felt it was more interesting if the person with the magical powers was the one being pursued. Adachi was created from the idea of a person who has little experience in love and lacking self-confidence, while Kurosawa was created as his foil. Toyota also stated that she has not specified who has the role of the top or bottom in Adachi and Kur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20Cruiser%20%28video%20game%29 | Battle Cruiser is a 1987 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It is the follow-up to Grigsby's earlier Warship.
Gameplay
Battle Cruiser is a computer wargame that simulates conflict in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I and World War II.
Development
Battle Cruiser was designed by Gary Grigsby and released in 1987, the same year he debuted War in the South Pacific. It serves as a sequel to Grigsby's earlier game Warship, adapted to warfare in the Atlantic Ocean. The game reuses its predecessor's game engine and mechanics, and has been described as a "clone" of Warship with an expanded scope.
Reception
Reviewing Battle Cruiser for Computer Gaming World, Bob Proctor called it "the exact same game [as Warship] with new Ship and Weapon Tables." M. Evan Brooks of Current Notes offered a similar opinion, but felt that Battle Cruiser was "a better bargain". In Antic, Rich Moore opined that the game's "graphics aren't great, but this quickly becomes secondary".
In a 1988 Page 6 survey of wargames for Atari computers, Brooks wrote of Battle Cruiser, "No new ground is broken, although this is the better bargain given its more extensive coverage." In his similar 1989 survey, J. L. Miller wrote in Computer Play that Battle Cruiser was "historically accurate and recommended for the naval buff."
Reviews
Casus Belli #44 (April 1988)
Jeux & Stratégie #49
References
External links
Review in Page 6
1987 video games
Computer wargames
Naval games
Naval video games
Ship simulation games
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell%20Douglas%20Phantom%20in%20UK%20service%20-%20data | This is a list of data removed from McDonnell Douglas Phantom in UK service as a result of the editorial process.
Basic specifications
Comparison of Phantom FG.1 with Sea Vixen and Lightning
Aircraft Carrier comparison - HMS Ark Royal and USS Forrestal
List of aircraft
Complete list of UK F-4 Phantoms
List of Phantom bases
UK-based Phantom units
700P Naval Air Squadron
RNAS Yeovilton; April 1968 to February 1969
767 Naval Air Squadron
RNAS Yeovilton; January 1969 to August 1972
892 Naval Air Squadron
RNAS Yeovilton; March 1969 to September 1972
RAF Leuchars; October 1972 to April 1978
No. 6 Squadron
RAF Coningsby; May 1969 to October 1974
No. 23 Squadron
RAF Wattisham; November 1975 to March 1983
No. 29 Squadron
RAF Coningsby; December 1974 to March 1987
No. 41 Squadron
RAF Coningsby; April 1972 to April 1977
No. 43 Squadron
RAF Leuchars; September 1969 to July 1989
No. 54 Squadron
RAF Coningsby; August 1969 to April 1974
No. 56 Squadron
RAF Wattisham; March 1976 to June 1992
No. 228 OCU / No. 64 (R) Squadron
RAF Coningsby; August 1986 to April 1987
RAF Leuchars; April 1987 to January 1991
No. 74 Squadron
RAF Wattisham; July 1984 to September 1992
No. 111 Squadron
RAF Leuchars; July 1974 to January 1990
Phantom Training Flight
RAF Leuchars; August 1972 to May 1978
RAF Wattisham; January 1991 to January 1992
Germany-based Phantom units
No. 2 Squadron
RAF Laarbruch; December 1970 to February 1976
No. 14 Squadron
RAF Brüggen; June 1970 to January 1976
No. 17 Squadron
RAF Brüggen; July 1970 to July 1975
No. 19 Squadron
RAF Wildenrath; December 1976 to January 1992
No. 31 Squadron
RAF Brüggen; July 1971 to June 1976
No. 92 Squadron
RAF Wildenrath; March 1977 to July 1991
Falkland Islands-based Phantom units
No 23 Squadron
RAF Stanley; March 1983 to May 1985
RAF Mount Pleasant; May 1985 to November 1988
No 29 Squadron (Detachment)
RAF Stanley; October 1982 to March 1983
No. 1435 Flight
RAF Mount Pleasant; November 1988 to June 1992
Full list of Phantom units
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Clinical%20Trials%20Registry%20Platform | The International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) is a platform for the registration of clinical trials operated by the World Health Organization.
The ICTRP combines data from multiple cooperating clinical trials registries to generate a global view of clinical trials worldwide, with a search portal that allows access to the entire dataset. It requires a minimum standard set of database fields, the WHO Trial Registration Data Set, to be present for a trial to be registered. All entries are given a Universal Trial Number (UTN) that identifies them uniquely.
The organization has sought to assist various national governments in establishing their own clinical trials databases.
, it combines data from the following primary source registries:
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR)
Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry (ReBec)
Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR)
Clinical Research Information Service (CRiS), Republic of Korea
Clinical Trials Registry - India (CTRI)
Cuban Public Registry of Clinical Trials (RPCEC)
EU Clinical Trials Register (EU-CTR)
German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS)
Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials (IRCT)
ISRCTN Registry (UK; originally an abbreviation for "International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number")
Japan Primary Registries Network (JPRN)
Lebanese Clinical Trials Registry (LBCTR)
Netherlands National Trial Register (NTR)
Thai Clinical Trials Registry (TCTR)
Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR)
Peruvian Clinical Trial Registry (REPEC)
Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (SLCTR)
See also
ClinicalTrials.gov
Clinical trial registration
List of clinical trial registries
References
External links
Databases
Clinical trials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20My%20Dad%21 | Oh My Dad! is a Philippine situational comedy series broadcast by TV5. Directed by Jeffrey Jeturian, it stars Ian Veneracion in the title role. It premiered on October 24, 2020 on the network's Todo Max Weekend afternoon block. The series concluded on April 24, 2021 with a total of 26 episodes. In June 2021, the show became available on Brightlight Productions programming affiliate ABS-CBN's streaming platform iWantTFC and worldwide via The Filipino Channel. The show begin airing reruns since January 7, 2023 on ALLTV.
Premise
Matthew Balderama (Ian Veneracion), a former PBA player/matinee idol tainted by scandal returns home to the Philippines after a long stint in the United States. To his surprise, his three "children" as a result of his wild love life come knocking at his doorstep, begging for him to take them in. Matthew makes an attempt at juggling sudden fatherhood with romance and fame, taking it one day at a time.
Cast
Main
Ian Veneracion as Matthew "Matmat" Balderama, an athlete, celebrity, and novice father
Dimples Romana as Cassandra "Sandra" Bergado-Balderama, Matthew's childhood friend and eventual love interest
Sue Ramirez as Mhaddelyn Grace "Lenlen" Balderama, Matthew's middle child from Negros.
Louise Abuel as Matthew "Theo" Balderama, Jr., the youngest Balderama sibling who is geeky yet caring.
Adrian Lindayag as Mikhail "Kelly" Macapangyarihan-Balderama, the eldest of the siblings.
Gloria Diaz as Belinda "Tiyang Bella" Bergado, the gossiping neighbor, aunt to Sandra and Jepoy.
Ariel Ureta as Lolo Moises Balderama, Matthew's father and grandfather to his three newly-found children.
Supporting
Gerry Acao as Benjomin "Benjo" Manalastas, Matthew's best friend and former teammate.
Fino Herrera as Jefferson "Jepoy" Bergado, Tiyang Bella's nephew and helper, and the object of Kelly and Lenlen's affection
Viveika Ravanes as Cassie, one of the Matthew's neighbors.
See also
List of programs aired by TV5 (Philippine TV network)
List of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Channel
List of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Online Live
Kapatid Channel
The Filipino Channel
References
External links
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
2020s Philippine television series
Filipino-language television shows
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series by Brightlight Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20adjustment | Race adjustment, also known as race-correction, is the calculating of a result which takes into account race. It is commonly used in medical algorithms in several specialties, including cardiology, nephrology, urology, obstetrics, endocrinology, oncology and respiratory medicine. Examples include the eGFR to assess kidney function, the STONE score for the prediction of kidney stones, the FRAX tool, to evaluate the 10-year probability of bone fracture risk, and lung function tests, to identify the severity of lung disease.
Types and medical uses
Adjustments for race are commonly used in several medical specialties, including cardiology, nephrology, urology, obstetrics, endocrinology, oncology and respiratory medicine. Examples include the eGFR to assess kidney function, the STONE score for the prediction of kidney stones, the FRAX tool, to evaluate the 10-year probability of bone fracture risk, and lung function tests, to identify the severity of lung disease.
Nephrology
The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a measure of kidney function. Adding a race adjustment to kidney algorithms results in higher eGFR values in people identified as black. Reasons for this vary, but it is thought to partially stem from the notion that Black persons are more muscular. This idea has come under greater scrutiny, with certain institutions choosing to deviate from the race-adjusted model as a result.
Kidney transplants also have racial implications, both direct and indirect. The Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI), the United States' official kidney allocation index, was developed in 2014. Race is among the factors used to predict the success of a kidney graft, with Black donors' kidneys often thought to perform worse than kidneys from other donors. Being Black results in a demarcation as a less preferable donor by the KDRI. This creates a snowball effect, with less kidneys from Black donors in the system. In turn, Black people in need of kidney donations are affected. Black people already face longer wait times than people of other races in need of kidney transplants. Black people are more likely to receive a kidney transplant from a Black donor, according to recent studies. This lack of resources can exacerbate the already lengthy wait times. In recent years, some professionals have called attention to these disparities, advocating to replace "the vagaries associated with inclusion of a variable termed 'race'."
Obstetrics
In the United States, African American and Hispanic women continue to have higher rates of cesarean section than do white women in the US. Medical decision making formulas such as the Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) algorithm have been found to contribute to such disparities for women of color. The VBAC is used to estimate success rates for vaginal birth among expectant mothers with histories of previous cesarean delivery and is used by clinicians to counsel whether to offer trials of labor or repeat cesarean section. There are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainbo%3A%20Spirit%20of%20the%20Amazon | Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (Spanish: Ainbo: El espíritu del Amazonas; stylized as AINBO: Spirit of the Amazon), also known as simply Ainbo, is a 2021 computer-animated adventure film co-directed by José Zelada and Richard Claus, with story by Zelada. Produced by Tunche Films and Cool Beans, Cinema Management Group oversees worldwide distribution. The plot follows an adventurous girl named Ainbo, who, along with her animal spirit guides, sets out to save her jungle paradise in the Amazon from loggers and miners. The film is noted as an authentic description of the Amazon rainforest folklore.
An international co-production of Peru, the Netherlands and Germany, Ainbo was released in Ukraine on 13 February 2021, followed by the Czech Republic and Italy on Earth Day (22 April). The film was released in France on July 14, 2021, and will be distributed by Signature Entertainment for UK and Rialto Distribution for Australia and New Zealand later on September 16, 2021. Critics noted the film delivers messages and themes centered around ecology.
Plot
In the uncharted civilization of Candámo, hidden in the deepest jungles of Amazon, a 13-year-old girl named Ainbo dreams to be her tribe's best huntress. She is best friends with the chief Huarinka's daughter Zumi, whose family informally adopted Ainbo after her mother's death. However, the day Zumi is going to be crowned new queen of Candámo, Ainbo is shocked to find two animal spirits, armadillo Dillo and tapir Vaca, who claim to be Zumi's spirit guides against the Yacuruna, the mysterious curse that threatens the jungle. Ainbo runs to bring the tribe the news, but the bumbling spirits don't come to her call, making the tribe believe she is lying.
The girls' caretaker Chuni promises Ainbo to tell her about her mother, who was also in contact with spirits, but Chuni is found dead in her bed next day, and Ainbo runs away distraught. Believing Ainbo to be responsible, hunter Atok goes rogues and chases after her. Meanwhile, Ainbo is told by the spirits that she must go on a quest in order to stop the Yacuruna, which she accidentally encounters as a mysterious, western man with sorcerous powers, Cornell DeWitt, who leads a destructive logging and mining company through the rainforest. After another brief encounter with Atok, Ainbo and the spirits finally meet the most powerful mother spirit in the Amazon, turtle Motelo Mama, which reveals to her that her mother's spirit lives in Ainbo's favorite tree. Motelo Mama also redirects her to the next stage in her quest, the giant sloth spirit Pelejo, who will give her a moon rock dagger to wake up the tree.
After a difficult travel to Pelejo's volcano, Ainbo returns to the tribe with the dagger, but she finds there a new trouble. Atok and Zumi met DeWitt, who claimed to be a botanist, and brought him to Candámo after he promised to cure their illnesses and the curse in exchange for the gold found on their lands. Recognizing him as the Yacuruna, Ainbo tries to war |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardtronics | Cardtronics is a global financial services technology company that provides automated teller machines to retailers, and operates the Allpoint interbank network. Since 2017, Cardtronics’ network counted over 200,000 affiliated ATMs and is the largest ATM owner/operator in the world. In addition to the Allpoint network, Cardtronics provides and operates ATMs for large retailers such as Kroger and Circle K.
In January 2021, Cardtronics accepted an offer from NCR Corporation to acquire the company in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. On June 21, 2021 Cardtronics became the wholly owned subsidiary of NCR Corporation.
References
External links
Financial technology companies
Financial services companies of the United States
Information technology consulting firms of the United States
Companies based in Houston
Companies established in 1989
2021 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabiah%20Jamil%20Beg | Rabiah Jamil Beg is a correspondent and producer for the Pakistani television network Geo. She has been the pioneer member of the Voice of America's Urdu Magazine show "Khabron Sey Agey" aired from Washington DC to report on Pakistani diaspora and news related to South Asian region. She reports from a wide variety of areas throughout Pakistan such as Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh. Her topics include conflict, humanitarian crises, insurgencies, politics, and social issues. She is referred to as the only woman journalist reporting from dangerous areas in Pakistan. In 2014 Rabiah Jamil Beg was awarded the UNDP's N-Peace Award in the category of "Breaking Stereotypes– Women and Media". She has joined the ranks of late Asma Jehangir and many other prominent personalities who have been awarded this prestigious award since its inception.
References
External links
Breaking stereotypes: Rabiah Jamil Beg wins the N-Peace Award 2014 YouTube video
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Pakistani women
Pakistani journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20in%20the%20South%20Pacific | War in the South Pacific is a 1987 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations. It is classified as a monster wargame.
Gameplay
War in the South Pacific is a computer wargame that simulates Pacific Theatre conflicts during World War II. It is classified as a monster wargame, and allows sea, land and air combat. The title contains both historical and hypothetical battles.
Development
War in the South Pacific was designed by Gary Grigsby and was published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). According to Bob Proctor of Computer Gaming World, the title had a troubled development and "was delayed more than a year" because its scope chafed against RAM limitations. "[T]he various game modules are all within a handful of bytes of filling the memory", he wrote, and noted War in the South Pacific shipped with glitches because it was impossible to fix them without more RAM. These problems led SSI reconsider producing monster wargames for 64K machines; Proctor wrote that Grigsby and the rest of the team were "well aware of the game's faults" when it shipped. War in the South Pacific was released in 1987 for the Apple II and Commodore 64.
Reception
J. L. Miller of Computer Play called the game "complex and interesting, but recommended only to those with a special interest in the period." Bob Proctor of Computer Gaming World agreed: "I can only recommend WITSP to those who are very serious wargamers, have a particular interest in the Pacific theater, and have lots of time to delve into it", he wrote.
References
External links
1987 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Oceania
Pacific War video games
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabey%20Data%20Centers | Sabey Data Centers is a private company based in Tukwila, Washington. It owns or operates data centers in Virginia (Ashburn), Washington State (Quincy, East Wenatchee, Seattle) and in New York City, running a total of more than three million square feet of data center operations as of 2020. The company owns New York's largest special purpose data center, 375 Pearl Street.
Sabey was worth $600 million in 2012. The company negotiated a 30-year hydroelectric power contract from Bonneville Power Administration at the remarkably low price of 2.25 cents per kilowatt. In May 2020 the company issued $800 million in debt for expansion.
References
External links
Companies based in Tukwila, Washington
Privately held companies based in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Got%20You%20%28TV%20series%29 | I Got You is a Philippine romantic comedy series broadcast on TV5. Directed by Dan Villegas, it stars Beauty Gonzalez, RK Bagatsing, and Jane Oineza. It premiered on October 18, 2020, on the network's Sunday afternoon block and aired every Sunday until January 10, 2021. In June 2021, the show became available on Brightlight Productions programming affiliate ABS-CBN's streaming platform iWantTFC and worldwide via The Filipino Channel.
On January 17, 2021, the same day Sunday Noontime Live! and Sunday 'Kada aired their final episodes, I Got You aired a replay of its final episode. In June 2021, the show became available on Brightlight Productions programming affiliate ABS-CBN's streaming platform iWantTFC and worldwide via The Filipino Channel.
Premise
Del Ruiz (Beauty Gonzalez) is a successful therapist who has a vast experience in the field of psychology, having worked both at home and abroad. However, her own life is full of obstacles and heartaches that she must try to navigate, including motherhood. An old flame in the form of Louie (RK Bagatsing), a former soldier with PTSD resurfaces after a long time away, who just happens to be the secret lover in the life of social media influencer Rissa, Del's new client. Temptation and sorrow of the past come to battle with Del's heart and soul, as she tries to comprehend her true feelings and character.
Cast
Main cast
Beauty Gonzalez as Del - a therapist and Louie's ex
RK Bagatsing as Louie - Risa's boyfriend-turned-fiancé and Del's ex
Jane Oineza as Risa - a beauty vlogger and Louie's fiancée
Supporting cast
Chantal Videla as Iya - Del and Louie's daughter
Dionne Monsanto as Hailey - owner of the bar Louie applies to for work
Reception
A review of the series stated "Compelling performances of its lead actors and a beautifully-maneuvered direction set I Got You apart from the traditional sappy afternoon tv romance. It’s light, heartwarming, has wonderful humor, but most of all, it talks about second chances at love and destiny, and empowers those who still believe in it."
See also
List of programs broadcast by TV5 (Philippine TV network)
List of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Channel
List of programs broadcast by A2Z (Philippine TV channel)
List of programs broadcast by Kapamilya Online Live
List of programs broadcast by Jeepney TV
The Filipino Channel
Kapatid Channel
References
External links
TV5 (Philippine TV network) drama series
2020 Philippine television series debuts
2021 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
Television series by Brightlight Productions
Philippine drama television series
Television series by Cignal Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overrun%21 | Overrun! is a 1989 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations.
Gameplay
Overrun! is a computer wargame that simulates historical and hypothetical conflicts from 1973 onward.
Development
Overrun! was designed by Gary Grigsby and released in 1989. It is based on the game engine and mechanics of Grigsby's earlier Typhoon of Steel, itself adapted from his game Panzer Strike. Grigsby revised the system to support modern warfare scenarios; the previous games had been set during World War II.
Reception
In Computer Gaming World, Buddy Knight wrote, "All things taken together, Overrun! gives you your money's worth. I would heartily recommend buying a copy." Erik Olson of Compute!'s Gazette was similarly positive toward the game: he dubbed it "possibly the most complex war game available for the 64" and "an excellent simulation". Zzap!s Robin Hogg wrote that it "[s]lips up in the possibilities of modern combat but despite this [is] an extensive and very comprehensive wargame."
References
External links
1989 video games
Amiga games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan%20Police%20Department | Isfahan Police Department is a police agency in Isfahan. In 2020 Isfahan Cyber Police's new building was opened.
In 2014 Isfahan police is of Isfahan Province ranked first among the Iran's police departments.
In 2020 Chief of the provincial police is Second Brigadier General Mohammadreza Mir Heidari appointed by Hossein Ashtari.
Administration
List of police stations
See also
Judicial system of Iran
Further reading
(Persian) Selection of eloquent officers for Isfahan police stations
References
External links
http://news.police.ir/News/subService.do?Serv=36&SGr=70&Servic=%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86
Isfahan
Law enforcement agencies of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20regions%20of%20Kyrgyzstan%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of regions of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Human Development Index
Regions By Human Development Index |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Solarium%20Commission | The Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) was a United States bipartisan, congressionally mandated intergovernmental body created by the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019. Its purpose was "to develop a strategic approach to defense against cyber attacks of significant consequences" to the United States. The commission was sunsetted on December 21, 2021, but is continuing its work as a non-profit in 2022, led by Mark Montgomery, the commission's former executive director at the non-profit organization Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) with a limited staff and the support of a small number of senior advisors. Known as CSC 2.0, this project preserves the legacy and continues the work of the CSC.
Mandate and work
The CSC was created in 2019 with the objective to establish policy solutions required to prevent and prepare the United States against cyber attacks. The commission is considered to have had a major impact on cybersecurity policies by providing blueprints for further transformative processes on the future. In 2019, a small group of members from the DoD and DHS, including Mark Montgomery, future executive director, later joined by the future chief of staff to the commission worked to create the building blocks of the commission, working to establish strategy, office, functions, and hiring. The commission hired multiple directors and senior directors and was augmented by multiple detailees from federal agencies to create three task forces and a forth directorate to cover the whole of cyberspace strategy for the United States. During the course of the commission, the staff engaged with over 400 agencies, public sector representatives, and cyber experts.
Report
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued a report in March 2020, listing 83 recommendations, for Congressional and Executive action. Over the course of two years, the commission's work led Congress to legislate, appoint, and confirm the National Cyber Director, pushed the release of cybersecurity-focused executive orders, and broadened the authorities and expanded the budget of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The commission made recommendations organized into the categories below.
Commission members
During its tenure, the commission included the following members:
Co-Chair Senator Angus King (I- Maine)
Co-Chair Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin)
Representative Jim Langevin
Senator Ben Sasse
Chris Inglis
Suzanne Spaulding
Frank Cilluffo
Samantha Ravich
Tom Fanning
Patrick Murphy
Office of the Secretary of the Department of Defense
Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, represented by Christopher Wray
Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The four federal agency representatives rotated based on agency availability, but were most often attended by the highest policy senior executives in their particular agency.
External link |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt | Cloudwatt was a core initiative of Project Andromède, one of France's periodic attempts at building a local computer industry. Project Andromède was announced in 2009 as a governmental desire for French-controlled cloud computing, with the goal of spending €285 million (US $338 million) in "cloud souverain" ("sovereign cloud" in English).
Overview
The launch of Cloudwatt was a part of the Andromède project initiated in 2009 to promote France in the cloud computing market.
Cloudwatt was established on September 6, 2012 as a subsidiary of Orange S.A., with the government of France and French military contractor Thales as secondary shareholders. Patrick Starck became the CEO of the company.
In 2013, Cloudwatt chose US-based Juniper Networks as a supplier to ensure French data sovereignty. Commercial sales began in 2014, and were expected to reach €500 million per year. The company developed a Dropbox-like storage service targeting small businesses and organizations, which was advertised on TV in 2013.
On March 20, 2015, Orange bought the company out the other investors. On January 1, 2016, Cloudwatt merged with Orange Business Services through its subsidiary Orange Cloud for Business.
Despite government subsidies of €75 million, after two years, the project had revenues of just €6 million. At the end of July 2019, the platform announced to its customers the cessation of its activity, scheduled for January 31, 2020. The users were advised to switch to the Flexible Engine public cloud platform. On February 1, 2020, all services were terminated and clients were advised that their data was deleted.
Assets
Cloudwatt had a capital of 225 million euros with the distribution of funds as follows: 44.4% for Orange, 22.2% for Thales, 33.3% for Caisse des Dépôts.
On January 13, 2015, Orange and its subsidiary Orange cloud for business announced the intention to buy back all of Cloudwatt.
Since March 2015, Orange held 100% of the capital of Cloudwatt.
See also
Dirigisme
Plan Calcul
Minitel
Quaero
External links
Official website
Facebook
X
Instagram
References
French companies established in 2012
French companies disestablished in 2020
Defunct software companies of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfshark | Surfshark is a brand of VPN services offered by a Netherlands-based company of the same name.
The service includes data leak detection, private search, antivirus, and personal data removal tools.
In 2022 Surfshark merged with Nord Security. However, both companies still operate independently.
History
Surfshark was launched in 2018 by introducing its first VPN application for iOS devices. In 2018, a browser extension for the service was satisfactorily audited by Cure53.
In September 2019 Surfshark launched Trust DNS, a DNS resolver app for Android.
In July 2020, Surfshark announced its entire server network is running on RAM-only servers, introduced WireGuard, and became a founding member of the VPN Trust Initiative.
In mid-2021, Surfshark began the process to merge with their competitor Nord Security, parent company of the popular NordVPN. The merger was finalised in early 2022, with both brands continuing to operate independently.
In August 2022, Surfshark exclusively partnered with digital rights watchdog NetBlocks for greater reporting on internet shutdowns. Later 2022, Surfshark closed its physical servers in India in response to the CERT-In's order for VPN companies to store consumers’ personal data for a period of five years.
That same year, Surfshark released Surfshark Nexus, together with Nord Security gained the Unicorn status, released Linux GUI, reached 100 different server country locations.
Technology
In December 2019, Surfshark implemented GPS-Spoofing for Android, allowing users to hide their device’s physical geo-location by changing it to one of the server’s locations. In its applications, Surfshark uses IKEv2, OpenVPN and WireGuard tunneling protocols. All data transferred via Surfshark servers is encrypted using an AES-256-GCM encryption standard. That same year, Surfshark launched “Surfshark Alert” & “Surfshark Search.”
Surfshark also added a manual WireGuard connection feature in August.
Surfshark VPN service features include: Kill Switch, MultiHop, and Bypasser. It also offers an ad and malware prevention feature, CleanWeb that blocks ads on the DNS level.
In May 2022, Surfshark announced Linux GUI, added real-time protection to Surfshark Antivirus & added a pause feature to the VPN app.
In August 2022, Surfshark added a manual WireGuard connection feature.
References
Virtual private network services
Internet properties established in 2018
Dutch brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orit%20Peleg | Orit Peleg (born 1983) is an Israeli computer scientist, biophysicist and Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, CO. She is also an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute. She is known for her work on collective behavior of insects and the biophysics of soft living systems, including honeybees and fireflies. Applications of her work range from human communication, smart-material design, and swarm robotics. She has won national and international awards and prizes, including a Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics in 2023, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022, a Cottrell Scholars Award in 2022 and being named a National Geographic Explorer in 2021.
Education and academic career
Peleg completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics and Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel in 2007. She received her PhD in 2012 from ETH Zurich, where she studied competitive interactions in biological systems. Her doctoral research considered the physics of biological nanopores. Peleg then moved to Harvard University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and then the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. There she worked on the evolution of protein interactions and the morphology of honeybee swarms.
Research and career
In 2018, Peleg joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in the Computer Science Department and the BioFrontiers Institute. In 2019 she was appointed to the Santa Fe Institute. Her research considers how living organisms generate and interpret signals for the purpose of communication.
Fireflies
Peleg revealed that fireflies synchronize their flashing and that there is a critical density that must be reached before the fireflies can get in rhythm with one another. This work was covered by popular news outlets, including National Geographic, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times.
Honey bee communication
Peleg is interested in the communication of honey bees, which can aid the conservation of pollinating insects. She uncovered how swarms of honey bees communicate through scenting to create scent "maps" so that the swarm can locate the queen bee. Peleg demonstrated that honey bees collaborate in clusters to respond to mechanical forces when the swarm is shaken, and that honey bees collaborate to create air ventilation in congested nest cavities. This work was also covered in the popular media, including ABC News, Discover Magazine, and Forbes.
Awards and honors
2023 Sloan Fellowship in Physics from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
2022 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for "Principles of Firefly Rhythmic Synchronization".
2022 Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement for "The Physics of Firefly Communications: Principles and Predictions".
2021 Junior |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20D.%20Smith | Adam D. Smith is a computer scientist at Boston University, where he is a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. His areas of research include cryptography and information privacy. He is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
Boston University faculty
American cryptographers
Year of birth missing (living people)
McGill University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20McSherry | Frank McSherry is a computer scientist. McSherry's areas of research include distributed computing and information privacy.
McSherry is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Adam D. Smith, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize. Along with Kunal Talwar, he is the co-creator of the exponential mechanism for differential privacy, for which they won the 2009 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
McSherry has also made notable contributions to stream processing systems. In 2019, he founded a startup company for streaming databases called Materialize, where he is currently chief scientist.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libssl | libssl is the name of a shared library file built from the code base of one of several TLS implementation projects:
OpenSSL
LibreSSL
Network Security Services (NSS) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm%20%28hacker%20group%29 | Sandworm is an Advanced Persistent Threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include Telebots, Voodoo Bear, and Iron Viking.
History
The team is believed to be behind the December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack, the 2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine using the NotPetya malware, various interference efforts in the 2017 French presidential election, and the cyberattack on the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Then-United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott Brady described the group's cyber campaign as "representing the most destructive and costly cyber-attacks in history."
On 19 October 2020, a US-based grand jury released an indictment charging six alleged Unit 74455 officers with cybercrimes. The officers, Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko, and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin, were all individually charged with conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, damaging protected computers, and aggravated identity theft. Five of the six were accused of overtly developing hacking tools, while Ochichenko was accused of participating in spearphishing attacks against the 2018 Winter Olympics and conducting technical reconnaissance on and attempting to hack the official domain of the Parliament of Georgia.
In February 2022, Sandworm allegedly released the Cyclops Blink as malware. The malware is similar to VPNFilter. The malware allows a botnet to be constructed, and affects Asus routers and WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances. CISA issued a warning about this malware.
In late March 2022, human rights investigators and lawyers in the UC Berkeley School of Law sent a formal request to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. They urged the International Criminal Court to consider war crimes charges against Russian hackers for cyberattacks against Ukraine. Sandworm was specifically named in relation to December 2015 attacks on electrical utilities in western Ukraine and 2016 attacks on utilities in Kyiv in 2016.
In April 2022, Sandworm attempted a blackout in Ukraine. It is said to be the first attack in five years to use an Industroyer malware variant called Industroyer2.
On 25 January 2023, ESET attributed an Active Directory vulnerability wiper to Sandworm.
See also
Cyberwarfare by Russia
BlackEnergy
Fancy Bear
Vulkan files leak
References
External links
US Justice Department indictment
GRU
Hacking in the 2010s
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare
Russian advanced persistent threat groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamulus | Jamulus is open source (GPL) networked music performance software that enables live rehearsing, jamming and performing with musicians located anywhere on the internet. Jamulus is written by Volker Fischer and contributors using C++. The Software is based on the Qt framework and uses the OPUS audio codec. It was known as "llcon" until 2013.
One of the problems with music playing over the internet in real time is latency - the time lag that occurs while (compressed) audio streams travel to and from each musician. Although the precedence effect means that small delays (up to around 40 ms) can be perceived as synchronous, longer delays make it practically impossible to play live together. A further problem is jitter, a type of packet delay due to changes in latency over time, which results in choppy or distorted sound. Long delays can even lead to packet loss (perceived as a 'blackout'). These can be alleviated by delay buffers or jitter buffers (both of which are present in Jamulus) - but these then add to the overall round-trip delay, so need to be balanced.
Popular video conferencing software such as Zoom or Teams is unsuited to this task as the latency can be much higher (Zoom recommends "a latency of 150ms or less" and jitter of "40ms or less", and in some 2020 tests was shown to have an average latency of 135 ms; the "Audio poor quality metrics" for Teams include having "Round-trip time >500 ms" and "Jitter >30 ms"). In addition, most such software is optimized for speech rather than music, so sustained musical notes can be misidentified as background noise and filtered out (although this can be alleviated to an extent via settings such as "Enable Original Sound"). Conferencing software is also often designed for one person to be heard at a time (the speaker gets 'focus'), to stop people talking over each other, but this makes playing music together impossible. In addition, conferencing software does not normally allow detailed setting of individual audio streams' volume or panning on the user side, both of which are integral features of Jamulus.
To reduce latency as much as possible, Jamulus makes use of compressed audio and the UDP protocol to transmit audio data. Total latency is composed of:
network latency due to delays within the network - every 300km is responsible for at least 1 ms extra latency since the speed of light limits the data transport on internet.
conversion latency - if analog-to-digital conversion or digital-to-analog conversion is not handled by special hardware, these conversions will add additional latency;
audio latency from sound traveling through air, if the microphone and/or loudspeakers are not in immediate proximity. Every meter of distance adds around 3 ms delay due to the limitation of the speed of sound.
Jamulus is client-server based; each client transmits its own compressed audio to a server on the internet. The server mixes the (decompressed) audio stream for each user separately and re-transmits the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CID-201 | CID-201 was a digital computer produced in Cuba in 1970.
History
Cuba had already produced the analog computer SILNA 999. In 1969, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro asked during a visit to the University of Havana if Cuba could produce a digital computer.
The (CID, "Center for Digital Researches") was formed.
The project was directed by Luis Carrasco and mostly designed by Orlando Ramos.
The first version was designed using transistors.
After the introduction of integrated circuits, the design was changed.
It was inspired by the American 1959 PDP-1.
The components were mostly Japanese, due to the American embargo on Cuba.
On 18 April 1970, the first computer was produced.
It was named CID-201 following the earlier digital watch CID-101.
It could do 25 000 additions/second.
Its memory held 4 096 12-bit words.
It was considered a third-generation computer.
It could be programmed in LEAL (, "algorithmic language").
A later version is the CID-201 A.
The CID also produced the CID-201 B, CID-300, CID-1408 and CID-1417.
Among the peripherals produced, several thousands of displays were exported to the Soviet Union.
Application
The first computer was installed in the sugar refinery Camilo Cienfuegos to control the railroad traffic during the sugarcane harvest.
Another one was installed in the Ecuador refinery.
Several thousand computers were produced.
It was also used in the education of Cuban technicians.
Legacy
On 2010, the Cuban Administración Postal issued a stamp commemorating the CID-201.
See also
History of computer hardware in Eastern Bloc countries
References
1970 establishments in Cuba
Cuban inventions
12-bit computers
Minicomputers
Science and technology in Cuba
Computer-related introductions in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-Stat%20Baseball | Pure-Stat Baseball is a 1986 video game published by Sublogic.
Gameplay
Pure-Stat Baseball is a game in which baseball games are playable as solo games, player against player, or with the computer playing both teams.
Reception
Johnny Wilson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "For those who want to have a computer league on Apple or Commodore machines, Pure-Stat provides a nice array of options and plenty of managerial challenges."
David M. Wilson and Johnny L. Wilson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The graphics routines (with their annoying flip-flop of the stadium perspective) still tend to slow play down, but the game is still significant because of the number of offensive choices available (seven relate to the batter and seven to the baserunner) and defensive options provided (four for the pitcher and five for the fielders)."
References
External links
Review in Family Computing
Article in RUN Magazine
Article in Ahoy!
Review in The Guide To Computer Living
Article in The Guide to Computer Living
Review in RUN Magazine
Review in Aktueller Software Markt
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
1986 video games
Apple II games
Baseball video games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Major League Baseball video games
Sublogic games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term%20Agroecosystem%20Research%20Network | The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network is a project to understand and enhance the sustainability of agriculture through coordinated research and long-term study. The network contains 18 sites located throughout the continental United States. Each site was selected based on research productivity, capacity for infrastructure, potential data richness and availability, geographic coverage at various scales, agency partnerships, and long-term institutional commitment.
The project is managed by the USDA-ARS in partnership with local institutions. LTAR is the only US based long-term observatory network focused on studying agroecosystems.
See also
Long Term Ecological Research Network
National Ecological Observatory Network
References
Ecology organizations
Environmental monitoring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruck%20an%20der%20Mur%E2%80%93Leoben%20railway | The Bruck an der Mur–Leoben railway is a main line in Styria, Austria. It was opened on 1 September 1868 by the Austrian Southern Railway Company (Südbahngesellschaft). It is part of the core network of ÖBB Infra.
The line is one of the most important railways in Austria as it forms part of the Vienna–Klagenfurt–Villach (–Lienz/–Venice) long-distance route. The line is currently operated by Railjets (or an IC train on the Vienna–Lienz route) every two hours.
Line S8 (Unzmarkt—Leoben—Bruck an der Mur) of the S-Bahn Steiermark also runs on the Bruck an der Mur–Leoben railway.
The route is also used by InterCity and EuroCity services on the Graz–Salzburg (–Germany) and Innsbruck/Zürich routes.
Until 1998, services on the St. Michael–Leoben section of the Rudolf Railway ran through the Annaberg tunnel via Leoben-Hinterberg station and, after bypassing the Häuselberg, via Leoben Göss to Leoben Hauptbahnhof. Since then, the 5460 m-long Galgenberg tunnel has replaced most of this section up to the Annaberg tunnel. The Leoben 2 junction–Leoben Göss section was permanently closed on 9 December 2012 and is only used for the storage of freight wagons.
References
Footnotes
Sources
Railway lines in Austria
Railway lines opened in 1868
1868 establishments in Austria |
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