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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjago%3A%20Seabound | Seabound is the fourteenth season of the computer-animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season). The series was created by Michael Hegner and Tommy Andreasen. The season aired in April 2021, following The Island, which aired in March of the same year. It is followed by the fifteenth and final season, Crystalized.
The season focuses on the main ninja character Nya. It follows the storyline of her elemental powers being disrupted and how this is connected to an ancient mythical creature. The plot involves the ninja characters Jay, Zane, PIXAL, and Lloyd journeying deep beneath the sea to explore the mystery behind Nya's elemental powers . The season introduces two antagonists named Miss Demeanor and Prince Kalmaar, with the latter being the season's main antagonist. It is dedicated to Kirby Morrow, the voice actor for the character Cole, who died prior to the season's premiere.
Voice cast
Main
Sam Vincent as Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja
Vincent Tong as Kai, the red ninja and Elemental Master of Fire
Michael Adamthwaite as Jay, the blue ninja and Elemental Master of Lightning
Brent Miller as Zane, the white ninja and Elemental Master of Ice
Kirby Morrow as Cole, the black ninja and Elemental Master of Earth
Kelly Metzger as Nya, the Elemental Master of Water and Kai's sister
Paul Dobson as Sensei Wu, the wise teacher of the ninja
Jennifer Hayward as P.I.X.A.L. a female nindroid
Jillian Michaels as Maya, Kai and Nya's mother
Giles Panton as Kalmaar, the prince and later king of Merlopia
Cole Howard as Benthomaar
Supporting
Erin Mathews as Miss Demeanor
Ron Halder as King Trimaar, the former king of Merlopia who is murdered by Kalmaar.
Kathleen Barr as Misako
Vincent Tong as Ray
Paul Dobson as Chief Mammatus and Cecil Putnam
Michael Adamthwaite as Smythe
Brian Drummond as Shippleton and Hailmar
Kirby Morrow as Underhill
Brynna Drummond as Antonia
David Raynolds as Nelson
Tabitha St Germain as Sammy
Sabrina Pitre as Vania
Michael Donovan as Police Commissioner
Kelly Sheridan as Gayle Gossip
Alan Marriott as Dareth
Cathy Weseluck as Patty Keys
Brian Drummond as Gripe
Sam Vincent as Glutinous
Jillian Michaels as Sphinx
Casting
Seabound is the last season to feature Kirby Morrow as the voice actor for the main character Cole, which he had voiced for a decade since the beginning of the series. On 25 November 2020, The Lego Group confirmed in a statement on Twitter that the actor had completed his recordings for the season and that it would be dedicated to his memory. The statement also said, "We mourn the tragic loss of Ninjago actor Kirby Morrow who voiced Cole for more than ten years. His dedicated portrayal brought a unique sensibility to the character and gave hours of joy to the countless fans who have enjoyed Ninjago since 2011."
The voice actor for the main antagonist of the season, Kalmaar, was revealed to be Giles Panton by co-creator Tommy Andreasen o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Solomon%20Islands | Time in Solomon Islands is given by Solomon Islands Time (SBT; UTC+11:00). Solomon Islands does not have an associated daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
The IANA time zone database gives the Solomon Islands one time zone, Pacific/Guadalcanal.
References
Time in Solomon Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Women%3A%20Exposing%20Data%20Bias%20in%20a%20World%20Designed%20for%20Men | Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a 2019 book by British feminist author Caroline Criado Perez. The book describes the adverse effects on women caused by gender bias in big data collection.
Reception
The book received both the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2019. It has on the whole been welcomed and positively reviewed in major publications.
This book is described by Cordelia Fine and Victor Sojo in The Lancet as providing "several fascinating case studies—from domains as varied as medicine, occupational health and safety, transport, technology, politics, and disaster relief".
Carol Tavris reviewed it for Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, stating that the "theoretical underpinning of this book is not new; every generation of feminist scholars rediscovers Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 observations that women are the second sex", referring to the French philosopher's book.
Angela Saini reviewed it in The Guardian, calling it "a dossier on gender inequality that demands urgent action." The book makes clear, she writes that "women aren't a minority. They are the majority. They are absolutely everywhere and always have been. Yet as Criado Perez shows, women must live in a society built around men. From a lack of streetlights to allow us to feel safe, to an absence of workplace childcare facilities, almost everything seems to have been designed for the average white working man and the average stay-at-home white woman. Her answer is to think again, to collect more data, study that data, and ask women what they want." Still, writes Saini, for all the data that Criado Perez presents, it is unclear that governments (and, perhaps, men, though she does not say this) "What should worry us more than the data gap, then, is that huge and seemingly intractable don't-give-a-damn gap."
In an article for Literary Review magazine titled 'Female Unfriendly', feminist author Joan Smith, lauds the book as essential reading, at least for those to whom Criado Perez's findings will be news. "This book, which demonstrates the bias men enjoy in both familiar (to me at least) and less obvious scenarios, sets the record straight. I knew, for instance, that women fare worse after heart attacks because they present with different symptoms from men; Criado Perez cites research showing that women are 50 per cent more likely to be misdiagnosed because they tend not to have the classic 'Hollywood heart attack', which begins with chest and left-arm pains. But I didn't realise that women are also more likely to suffer serious injuries in a car crash because crash test dummies have traditionally been designed to reflect the 'average' male body." Smith concludes that "The cumulative effect of all this evidence is devastating, even if it confirms what most women already know."
Invisible Women also found a wide international audience, and has been translated into ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open%20government%20data%20sites | Many governments publish open data they produce or commission on official websites to be freely used, reused, or redistributed by anyone. These sites are often created as part of open government initiatives.
Some open data sites like CKAN and DKAN are open source data portal solutions where as others like Socrata are proprietary data portal solutions.
The data sites provide interfaces based on Data and Metadata standards like Dublin core.
List of Supranational Open Government Data Sites
List of national-level open government data sites
Unofficial National-level Data Sites
Some countries have unofficial open data portals created citizen initiatives or published by non-governmental organizations.
List of Subnational Open Government Data Sites
List of Municipal Open Government Data Sites
See also
CKAN
Data.gov
List of datasets for machine-learning research
Open data
Open government
Open Government Initiative
Open Knowledge Foundation
Smart city
Socrata
External links
Data.gov List of Open Data Portals
DataPortals.org
Global Open Data Index
Open Data Inception
Portals: GitHub Gist
RList: Major Smart Cities with Open Data Portals
References
Data sites
Lists of websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Network%20Research | The Citizen Network Research, formerly the Centre for Welfare Reform is a Sheffield-based think tank which works globally on advancing citizenship for all. It was launched in 2009, changed its name in 2022, and has published a range of materials offering progressive innovations in welfare reform. It is not linked to any particular political party but is aligned with progressive politics in the UK and also works internationally. The Director and founder is Dr Simon Duffy.
History
The Centre for Welfare Reform was founded by Dr Simon Duffy in 2009 and was registered as a private limited company on 18 May 2010. Much of the initial work of the centre was rooted in the reform of health and social care services and the implementation of self-directed support and innovations such as personal budgets. However the work of the Centre extended in to most areas of social policy along with the centre's growing number of Fellows, who are independent contributors with a background in innovation, independent research or campaigning.
In 2010 the incoming UK Coalition Government introduced an austerity programme which included the biggest cuts in funding to the public sector since the creation of the welfare state and a series of changes in policy to social security systems and disability benefits. The Centre became known as one of the most vocal critics of the Government's policies. In particular the Centre published a number of reports which argued that the austerity programme was targeting cuts on disabled people and was in breach of the UK's human rights obligations. In particular the Centre carried out a cumulative impact of the impact of the cuts and also proposed that the UK government should have carried out a similar impact assessment before beginning its austerity programme. It was involved in a number of campaigns including the Campaign for a Fair Society, the Learning Disability Alliance and was one of the founders of Learning Disability England.
in 2016 the centre launched the global cooperative Citizen Network and it began to work on establishing interconnected communities of people and organisations that are working on social innovations that advance citizenship for all. The centre is an advocate of Universal Basic Income and was one of the co-founders of the UBI Lab Network which connects people advocating for basic income. The centre has also been the host for the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project which works to advance the interests of people with energy-limiting impairments. In 2020 the centre launched the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement to advance grassroots democratic citizen action.
Research
The principal areas of research and action for the Centre for Welfare Reform have been reform of health and social care systems, peer support, the advance of inclusive education, basic income, austerity, local government and constitutional reform.
Publications
The centre's website includes over 1,000 publications in various forms. Some of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wildhack | John Wildhack (born October 23, 1958) is the 11th director of athletics at Syracuse University. Prior to this position, Wildhack was the executive vice president for programming and production at ESPN, where he had worked for 36 years.
Career
ESPN
Wildhack career at ESPN spanned 36 years, in which he held a number of leadership roles. He started at ESPN in 1980 as a production assistant and steadily rose through the ranks to become the executive vice president for programming and production in 2014. In his role as executive vice president, Wildhack was responsible for 50,000 hours of content annually and reported directly to ESPN President John Skipper.
Wildhack was in charge of all production efforts at ESPN, in addition to content acquisitions and scheduling. He managed all league and conference relationships and negotiated all broadcast rights, including the NBA, SEC, College Football Playoff, ACC, Big 12, US Open Tennis, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, WNBA, AAC, and MWC. He was responsible for several firsts at the network, including producing ESPN’s first live regular-season college football game in September 1984 (BYUPitt) and its first live NFL game in August 1987.
Wildhack was an honoree at the "Newhouse at 40" Gala in 2005.
Syracuse
In July 2016, Wildhack was announced the 11th director of athletics at his alma mater, Syracuse University. He replaced Mark Coyle, who had spent only 11 months with the Orange before leaving for the same job at University of Minnesota. He had no prior experience in athletic administration, but his experience in the sport business industry and his connections with Syracuse University made him a preferred candidate for the job.
At Syracuse, he is responsible for leading the daily operations of a 20-sport athletics department with more than 600 student-athletes. During Wildhack’s four-year tenure (), Syracuse athletes competed in 39 NCAA national championship events (42 total), won 23 conference championships (four team, 19 individual), and two national championships.
Wildhack secured a $118 million investment from the University for renovation of the Carrier Dome, which underwent a roof replacement, air conditioning, and facilities upgrade. It reopened in fall 2020.
Off the field, he helped launch an in-house production unit in 2017 that has broadcast 301 live events and generated nearly 1,000 hours of content on the ACC Network and the conference’s digital platform, ACC Network Extra. Multiple teams registered perfect Academic Progress Report scores and in 2018 the university’s four-year average of 987 was the highest since tracking began.
In August 2020, SU extended his contract through 2025. In September 2020, he donated $1 million to SU athletics.
He is a member on the Advisory Board for the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University.
Personal life
Wildhack was born in Kenmore, New York and graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School in 1976. He attended Syracuse from 19 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Friedman | Joyce Barbara Friedman (1928 – November 28, 2018) was an American mathematician, operations researcher, computer scientist, and computational linguist who worked as a professor at the University of Michigan and Boston University and served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Early life and education
Friedman was born in 1928. She was a Durant Scholar at Wellesley College, from which she graduated in 1949, and earned a master's degree at Radcliffe College in 1952. In the same year she moved from the Logistics Research Project at George Washington University to the US Department of Defense, later working at a succession of defense contractors: ACF Industries (where she worked with Sheldon Akers on production scheduling), Tech. Operations, Inc., and the Mitre Corporation.
Returning to graduate study at Harvard University, her interests shifted from operations research to automated reasoning. She completed her Ph.D. in 1965, supervised by Hao Wang, with the dissertation A New Decision Procedure in Logic with a Computer Realization, concerning computational methods in first-order logic.
Academic career and later life
Friedman worked as an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1965 until 1968, when she moved to the University of Michigan as an associate professor of computer and communications sciences. At Michigan, she was promoted to full professor in 1971. She moved to Boston University as chair of computer science in 1983.
Even before completing her doctorate, Friedman had worked at Mitre as a programmer for Donald E. Walker on a project for the US Air Force involving the development of programs that could answer English-language questions.
As an academic, her research largely concentrated on computational linguistics and formal grammars; she served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1971. Some of her work on transformational grammar was described in her 1971 book, A Computational Model of Transformational Grammar. She has over 180 academic descendants through three of her doctoral students: C. Raymond Perrault, Remko Scha, and David S. Warren.
She died on November 28, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Recognition
Friedman was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.
References
1928 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Operations researchers
Wellesley College alumni
Radcliffe College alumni
Harvard University alumni
Stanford University faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Boston University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Rescue%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of the American reality series Bar Rescue premiered on March 1, 2020 and ended on September 13, 2020 on Paramount Network.
Experts
Jon Taffer – Host/Star/Bar Consultant
Chefs
Jason Santos
Tiffany Derry
Kevin Bludso
Vic Vegas
Anthony Lamas
Ryan Scott
Mixologists
Mia Mastroianni
Emily DeLicce
Ashley Clark
Derrick Turner
Alex Goode
Amy Koffsky
Tommy Palmer
Rob Floyd
Other experts
Episodes
References
External links
Bar Rescue Updates — Unaffiliated site that keeps track of bars being open or closed and has updates for each bar
2020 American television seasons
Bar Rescue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Rescue%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of the American reality series Bar Rescue premiered on May 2, 2021 and ended on June 11, 2023 on Paramount Network.
The majority of the bars during the first half of the season were filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of the eighth season was to save an industry in a city affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic also meant that filming, recon, training, and stress tests were altered according to local guidelines. The show then later returned with episodes of bars throughout the United States in its traditional format on March 20, 2022.
Experts
Jon Taffer – Host/Star/Bar Consultant
Chefs
Anthony Lamas
Jason Santos
Jen Murphy
Tiffany Derry
Vic Vegas
Kevin Bludso
Michael Ferraro
Chris Oh
Ryan Scott
Mixologists
Nancy Santiago
Phil Wills
Rob Floyd
Mia Mastroianni
Emily Yett
Derrick Turner
Nick Ortega
Chantel Anderson
Adam Rains
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Bar Rescue Updates — Unaffiliated site that keeps track of bars being open or closed and has updates for each bar
2021 American television seasons
2022 American television seasons
2023 American television seasons
Bar Rescue
Television shows about the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N8%20highway | National Route 8 (N8) is a north-south major primary national route that forms part of the Philippine Highway Network in the province of Cebu. There are two highways that make up the road: the Cebu North Road and Natalio Bacalso Avenue (also known as the Cebu South Road). It runs from Danao to Santander. The highway also forms part of the Philippine Nautical Highway System, particularly the Central Nautical Highway from Danao to Cebu City and Western Nautical Highway from Cebu City to Santander.
History
The highways of N8 were possibly constructed during the American period. The route's direct predecessor is Cebu Island's Highway 1 that existed during the 20th century.
Around 2014-2017, national routes were added, two roads (Cebu North Road; Cebu City to Danao and Natalio Bacalso Avenue; Cebu City to Santander) assigned as National Route 8 (N8) by the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Route description
Danao to Cebu City
N8 begins at Cebu North Road at the route transitioning from N810 in Danao. It then passes the future terminus of the Metro Cebu Expressway. The route then traverses the towns of Compostela and Liloan, where it veers away from the eastern coast of Cebu towards Consolacion and Mandaue. In Mandaue, it is locally known as M.C. Briones Street and Lopez-Jaena Street. It then enters Cebu City, locally known as M.J. Cuenco Avenue.
Cebu City
In Cebu City, the route turns northwest at a junction from M.J. Cuenco Avenue to General Maxilom Avenue. At the latter's western terminus at the Fuente Osmeña Circle, the route then turns north and south, thus covering Osmeña Boulevard's section from the Cebu Provincial Capitol to Natalio Bacalso Avenue/P. Del Rosario Street, where the route turns west at a junction with the latter and continues towards southern Cebu.
Cebu City to Santander
The route continues as Natalio Bacalso Avenue, traversing the southeastern coastal communities of Talisay, Minglanilla, Naga, San Fernando, Carcar (where the road continues around the Carcar City Circle), Sibonga, Argao, Dalaguete, Alcoy, Boljoon, Oslob, Santander, and Samboan. In Samboan, it terminates at its transition with N830.
Intersections
See also
Philippine highway network
Cebu South Road
Natalio Bacalso Avenue
Osmeña Boulevard
References
External links
Department of Public Works and Highways
Roads in Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N81%20highway | National Route 81 (N81) is a , east-west primary route which forms part of the Philippine highway network in Cebu connecting the cities and municipalities of Naga, Toledo, Pinamungahan, Aloguinsan and Barili. Two roads form the route, namely the Naga−Toledo Road (from Naga to Toledo) and the Uling−Toledo Wharf Road (from Toledo to Uling).
History
When the highway routes were assigned in 2014, the segment of Cebu−Toledo Wharf Road from Barangay Lutopan to Poblacion except Toledo Port and Naga−Uling Road were assigned as N81. Around 2022, the Toledo–Pinamungahan–Aloguinsan–Mantalongon Road became part of N81 as it was signed as a secondary road (N820).
Route Description
Toledo to Uling
N81 begins as the Toledo–Pinamungahan–Aloguinsan–Mantalongon Road in Mantalongon from its junction with the Carcar–Barili Road (N83). It becomes the Uling–Toledo Wharf Road when it passes the intersection of Rafols Street/Toledo Wharf Road (N826). The route then turns east at its intersection with Toledo–Tabuelan–San Remigio Road (N820) towards the mountainous central portion of Cebu island.
Uling to Naga
At its intersection with Lutopan Road/Toledo–Tabunok Road (N825), N81 becomes the Naga–Toledo Road. The route then makes a junction with the southern terminus of the under-construction Metro Cebu Expressway. The route terminates at Natalio Bacalso Avenue (N8) in Naga.
Intersections
References
Roads in Cebu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberFight%20Festival%202021 | CyberFight Festival 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight for its four brands, DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). It took place on June 6, 2021, in Saitama, Japan, at the Saitama Super Arena and aired live on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe where it also featured English commentary.
The card comprised fifteen matches, with the first three being part of the Starting Battle pre-show. In the triple main event, Miyu Yamashita defeated Yuka Sakazaki to retain the Princess of Princess Championship, Jun Akiyama defeated Harashima to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship, and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Keiji Mutoh to win the GHC Heavyweight Championship, five years after his last reign. Other prominent matches saw The37Kamiina (Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Ueno) defeat Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura, a DDT team led by Sanshiro Takagi defeated the Noah stable Kongō led by Kenoh in a 12-man tag team match, and Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura and Kazushi Sakuraba) defeated Danshoku Dino and Super Sasadango Machine.
It was the first CyberFight promoted event to feature all four of its brands.
Production
Background
On September 1, 2017, the Japanese digital advertising company CyberAgent acquired 100% of DDT Pro-Wrestling's (DDT) shares, including its sub-brands Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). On January 28, 2020, following months of negotiation, LIDET Entertainment sold its shares of Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) to CyberAgent. On July 27, it was announced that Noah and DDT, along with TJPW and GanPro, would merge in a new promotion called CyberFight, which would oversee and promote the four individual promotions. The decision came after financial troubles faced by Noah and DDT due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 25, 2021, CyberFight president Sanshiro Takagi, CyberFight's executive vice-presidents Akito and Naomichi Marufuji, GanPro representative Ken Ohka, and TJPW representative Tetsuya Koda held a press conference, announcing that the four brands would be working together to promote an event on June 6 at the Saitama Super Arena, with the three main championships of CyberFight, DDT's KO-D Openweight Championship, Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship, and TJPW's Princess of Princess Championship being defended at the event.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
In April 2020, DDT announced that their flagship event Wrestle Peter Pan 2020, which was originally meant to be held at the Saitama Super Arena, would be postponed following Japan's declaration of a State of Emergency due to the pandemic. In May, the event was eventually rescheduled to take place over two days, on June 6 and 7, without an audience in Shinjuku Face. On February 12, 2021, Noah had to hold their Destination 2021: Back to Budokan event in a two-part system as a way to comply with the state of emergency restrictions announ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sameh | Sameh () is an Arabic surname and male given name. Notable people with this name include:
Surname
Abdelrahman Sameh (born 2000), Egyptian swimmer
Ahmed Sameh, Egyptian computer scientists
Given name
Sameh Abdel Rahman (born 1943), Egyptian fencer
Sameh Akram Habeeb, British-Palestinian journalist
Sameh Ashour, Egyptian lawyer
Sameh Derbali (born 1986), Tunisian football player
Sameh Fahmi (born 1949), Egyptian politician
Sameh Maraaba (born 1992), Palestinian football player
Sameh Mohamed (born 1980), Egyptian field hockey player
Sameh Naguib, Egyptian sociologist
Sameh El-Saharty, Egyptian doctor
Sameh Saeed (born 1992), Iraqi football player
Sameh Shoukry (born 1952), Egyptian diplomat
Sameh Soliman (born 1941), Egyptian water polo player
Sameh El Torgoman, Egyptian businessman
Sameh Abdel Waress (born 1971), Egyptian handball player
Sameh Youssef (born 1978), Egyptian football player
Sameh Zakout, Palestinian rapper
Sameh Zoabi, Palestinian director
Arabic-language masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic%20treatment | A taxonomic treatment is a section in a scientific publication documenting the features of a related group of organisms or taxa. Treatments have been the building blocks of how data about taxa are provided, ever since the beginning of modern taxonomy by Linnaeus 1753 for plants and 1758 for animals. Each scientifically described taxon has at least one taxonomic treatment. In today’s publishing, a taxonomic treatment tag
is used to delimit such a section. It allows to make this section findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable FAIR data. This is implemented in the Biodiversity Literature Repository, where upon deposition of the treatment a persistent DataCite digital object identifier (DOI) is minted. This includes metadata about the treatment, the source publication and other cited resources, such as figures cited in the treatment. This DOI allows a link from a taxonomic name usage to the respective scientific evidence provided by the author(s), both for human and machine consumption.
Treatments are considered data and thus copyright is not applicable and thus can be made available even from closed access publications.
Etymology
The term taxonomic treatment has been coined because the term description has two meanings in species or taxonomic descriptions. One is equivalent to treatment, the second as subsection in treatments describing the taxon, complementing diagnosis, materials examined, distribution, conservation and other subsections.
History
This term has been introduced during a national US NSF digital library project, and has been further developed into Taxpub, a taxonomy specific version of the Journal Article Tag Suite by Plazi, National Center for Biotechnology Information, and Pensoft Publishers. It was prototyped by the taxonomic journal ZooKeys, which adopted Taxpub from its volume 50 onwards, followed by PhytoKeys. Taxpub is now used by journals published by Pensoft Publishers, European Journal of Taxonomy by Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), and the National Museum of Natural History, France. The TreatmentBank service provided by Plazi to convert taxonomic publications into FAIR data provides access to over 500,000 taxonomic treatments, including over 7,700 treatments for new described species in 2020. They will eventually become accessible in BLR after passing quality control to avoid artifacts due to the complex conversion of unstructured, mainly PDF based publications.
References
Taxonomy (biology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lee%20%28economist%29 | David S. Lee is Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, founding director of Princeton's Initiative for Data Exploration and Analytics for Higher Education, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2013 to 2017, he was provost of Princeton, and from 2009 to 2013 he led Princeton's Industrial Relations Section. He co-edited The Review of Economics and Statistics from 2001 to 2013. He was a Sloan Research Fellow in 2006 and won the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in 2007.
Selected works
Lee, David S., and Thomas Lemieux. "Regression discontinuity designs in economics." Journal of economic literature 48, no. 2 (2010): 281–355.
Lee, David S. "Randomized experiments from non-random selection in US House elections." Journal of Econometrics 142, no. 2 (2008): 675–697.
Lee, David S. "Training, wages, and sample selection: Estimating sharp bounds on treatment effects." The Review of Economic Studies 76, no. 3 (2009): 1071–1102.
Lee, David S. "Wage inequality in the United States during the 1980s: Rising dispersion or falling minimum wage?." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 3 (1999): 977–1023.
Lee, David S., and Alexandre Mas. "Long-run impacts of unions on firms: New evidence from financial markets, 1961–1999." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 127, no. 1 (2012): 333–378.
References
21st-century American economists
Living people
Harvard College alumni
Labor economists
Econometricians
Economics journal editors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202021%20%28Bolivia%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2021 in Bolivia. The airplay charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Bolivia utilizing the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are compiled from Monday to Sunday.
Chart history (Monitor Latino)
General
References
2021 in Bolivia
Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VACUUM | VACUUM is a set of normative guidance principles for achieving training and test dataset quality for structured datasets in data science and machine learning. The garbage-in, garbage out principle motivates a solution to the problem of data quality but does not offer a specific solution. Unlike the majority of the ad-hoc data quality assessment metrics often used by practitioners VACUUM specifies qualitative principles for data quality management and serves as a basis for defining more detailed quantitative metrics of data quality.
VACUUM is an acronym that stands for:
valid
accurate
consistent
uniform
unified
model
References
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himabindu%20Lakkaraju | Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Indian-American computer scientist who works on machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithmic bias, and AI accountability. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School and is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University. Lakkaraju is known for her work on explainable machine learning. More broadly, her research focuses on developing machine learning models and algorithms that are interpretable, transparent, fair, and reliable. She also investigates the practical and ethical implications of deploying machine learning models in domains involving high-stakes decisions such as healthcare, criminal justice, business, and education. Lakkaraju was named as one of the world's top Innovators Under 35 by both Vanity Fair and the MIT Technology Review.
She is also known for her efforts to make the field of machine learning more accessible to the general public. Lakkaraju co-founded the Trustworthy ML Initiative (TrustML) to lower entry barriers and promote research on interpretability, fairness, privacy, and robustness of machine learning models. She has also developed several tutorials and a full-fledged course on the topic of explainable machine learning.
Early life and education
Lakkaraju obtained a masters degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. As part of her masters thesis, she worked on probabilistic graphical models and developed semi-supervised topic models which can be used to automatically extract sentiment and concepts from customer reviews. This work was published at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, and won the Best Research Paper Award at the conference.
She then spent two years as a research engineer at IBM Research, India in Bangalore before moving to Stanford University to pursue her PhD in computer science. Her doctoral thesis was advised by Jure Leskovec. She also collaborated with Jon Kleinberg, Cynthia Rudin, and Sendhil Mullainathan during her PhD. Her doctoral research focused on developing interpretable and fair machine learning models that can complement human decision making in domains such as healthcare, criminal justice, and education. This work was awarded the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant and the INFORMS Best Data Mining Paper prize.
During her PhD, Lakkaraju spent a summer working as a research fellow at the Data Science for Social Good program at University of Chicago. As part of this program, she collaborated with Rayid Ghani to develop machine learning models which can identify at-risk students and also prescribe appropriate interventions. This research was leveraged by schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. Lakkaraju also worked as a research intern and visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond during her PhD. She collaborated with Eric Horvitz at Microsoft Research to develop human-in-the-loop algorithms for identifying blind spots of machine lea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollypop%20%28video%20game%29 | Lollypop is a platform game published in 1994 by Softgold Computerspiele GmbH on a CD for the MS-DOS format, and was later released for the Amiga in 1995 by Rainbow Arts. It was developed by Brain Bug with the music provided by composers from the demogroup Vibrants. The game was rereleased by
Ziggurat Interactive through GOG.com and Steam in January 2023.
Reception
The game received mixed reviews. Amiga Joker magazine gave it 75% score, while PC Player gave it passable 61%.
References
External links
Lollypop at MobyGames
Lollypop at Internet Archive
Lollypop cheats at GameSpot
1994 video games
Amiga games
DOS games
Games commercially released with DOSBox
Fictional dolls and dummies
Platformers
Sentient toys in fiction
Video games about food and drink
Video games about toys
Video games developed in Germany
Video games featuring female protagonists
Rainbow Arts games
Single-player video games
Ziggurat Interactive games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine%20Gu%C3%A9rin | Germaine Guérin was a brothel owner and a French Resistance sympathizer during the Vichy regime. She was part of Virginia Hall's spy network that operated in Lyons, France. Along with the gynecologist Jean Rousset, she helped Hall save Jews, Allied pilots, spies, radio operators, and refugees during the Second World War.
Biography
Little is known about Guérin's life and background except for accounts chronicling her life as a "madam", an owner of a popular brothel in Lyons. She was described as a brunette who wrapped herself in jewels, silks, and furs. She lived in an apartment above her business, which was located in a backstreet of the city, an area now occupied by the offices of the National Treasury of France.
French Resistance
When Virginia Hall was assigned in France to establish resistance networks, she was given a list of names she could contact by an Allied pilot, Flight Lieutenant Simpson. Guérin was on the list, and the two women first met at the former's salon in the winter of 1942. Guérin's brothel was popular among German soldiers, placing her in a strategic position to extract information through the prostitutes she employed. Guérin also helped undermine the Nazis by spreading sexually transmitted diseases among her German patrons. She used forged white cards that authorities used in their drive to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. With the help of Rousset, a gynecologist, she was able to manipulate this identification document so that infected girls were presented as disease-free.
Guérin was 37 years old when she became Virginia Hall's agent. She was already part of the French resistance movement prior to her recruitment into Hall's spy network, however, and she was known for harboring Jews forced into hiding. After Hall fled France, Guérin continued helping resistance fighters, providing them food and shelter. She was later arrested after she was betrayed by Father Robert Alesch, a French Nazi collaborator who posed as Rousset's associate. It was also Guérin who introduced several of Hall's colleagues to Alesch, leading to their arrests. These included Monsieur Genet and two collaborators who Hall identified in her correspondence as the "Siamese twins".
References
French Resistance
French Resistance members
French Resistance networks and movements
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch%20%28software%29 | OpenSearch is a family of software consisting of a search engine (also named OpenSearch), and OpenSearch Dashboards, a data visualization dashboard for that search engine. The software started in 2021 as a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana, with development led by Amazon Web Services.
History
The project was created after Elastic NV changed the license of new versions of this software away from the open-source Apache License in favour of the Server Side Public License (SSPL). Amazon intends to build an open community with many stakeholders (currently only Amazon Web Services has maintainership status and write access to the source code repositories, though they invite pull requests from anyone). Other companies such as Logz.io, CrateDB, Red Hat and others have also announced an interest in building or joining a community to continue using and maintaining this open-source software.
OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a Lucene-based search engine that started as a fork of version 7.10.2 of the Elasticsearch service. It has Elastic NV trademarks and telemetry removed. It is licensed under the Apache License, version 2, without a Contributor License Agreement. The maintainers have made a commitment to remain completely compatible with Elasticsearch in its initial versions.
OpenSearch Dashboards
OpenSearch Dashboards started as a fork of version 7.10.2 of Elastic's Kibana software, and is also under the Apache License, version 2.
See also
References
External links
Official website
Search engine software
Software forks
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWRC-results.com | eWRC-results.com is a Czech online database website founded in 2006. The website features data and statistics in the motorsport of rallying that ranges from World Rally Championship to national rally events dating back to 1911.
Shutdown
In early 2022, the website was once forced to shut down due to financial issue.
Partnership
On 18 May 2022, DirtFish announced partnership with the website, which would ensure greater visibility and useability in terms of rallying result. Former Hyundai Motorsport team principal Andrea Adamo oversaw the deal.
References
External links
2006 establishments in the Czech Republic
Czech websites
Online databases
Rallying |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole%20Chabrier | Charlotte Barale (born 1947), known professionally as Carole Chabrier, is a Franco-Monegasque television presenter, who has broadcast on the networks Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, TF1, TMC, and RMC.
Chabrier was born in Paris but lives and works in Monaco. She is best known for her work as a broadcaster on Radio Monte Carlo, as well as on several French and Monegasque television networks. Her shows have included on ORTF and on TF1. She has also worked in print journalism, including as chief editor of the magazine Monte Carlo Méditerranée.
From 1975 to 1979, she served as Monaco's commentator at the annual Eurovision Song Contest. In 1988, she published a cookbook containing recipes from her listeners and from chefs in the south of France, titled La Cuisine de Carole Chabrier : 400 bonnes recettes pour tous les goüts. She has also worked as a commentator for the French theme park.
In 2019, she was honored as a Knight in the Order of Saint-Charles by Monaco's Prince Albert II.
References
1947 births
Monegasque women
Monegasque people of French descent
French broadcasters
French radio presenters
French women radio presenters
French television presenters
French women television presenters
French women journalists
Journalists from Paris
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine%20Bates | Madeleine Ashcraft Bates (born c. 1948) is a researcher in natural language processing who worked at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, Massachusetts from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. She was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1985, and co-editor of the book Challenges in Natural Language Processing (1993).
Education and career
Bates was a student at Allegheny College before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University, where she majored in mathematics, graduating in 1968. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1975, working there with Bill Woods on augmented transition networks.
While a student at Harvard, she began working part-time at BBN in 1971. After completing her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor at Boston University for three years before becoming a full-time researcher at BBN.
Personal life
Bates married chemist Alan Hunt Bates in summer 1968; he later became a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her mother, Madeleine DeMuth Ashcraft (died 1990), was a long-term sufferer of Huntington's disease, and Bates has been an activist for the treatment of Huntington's disease, serving as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the committee to Combat Huntington's Disease.
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Boston University faculty
Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-sorted%20sequence | In computer science, a nearly-sorted sequence, also known as roughly-sorted sequence and as -sorted sequence is a sequence which is almost ordered. By almost ordered, it is meant that no element of the sequence is very far away from where it would be if the sequence were perfectly ordered. It is still possible that no element of the sequence is at the place where it should be if the sequence were perfectly ordered.
The nearly-sorted sequences are particularly useful when the exact order of element has little importance. For example Twitter nearly sort the tweets, up to the second, as there is no need for more precision. Actually, given the impossibility to exactly synchronize all computers, an exact sorting of all tweets according to the time at which they are posted is impossible. This idea led to the creation of Snowflake IDs.
-sorting is the operation of reordering the elements of a sequence so that it becomes -sorted. -sorting is generally more efficient than sorting. Similarly, sorting a sequence is easier if it is known that the sequence is -sorted. So if a program needs only to consider -sorted sequences as input or output, considering -sorted sequences may save time.
The radius of a sequence is a measure of presortedness, that is, its value indicate how much the elements in the list has to be moved to get a totally sorted value. In the above example of tweets which are sorted up to the second, the radius is bounded by the number of tweets in a second.
Definition
Given a positive number , a sequence is said to be -sorted if for each and for each , . That is, the sequence has to be ordered only for pairs of elements whose distance is at least .
The radius of the sequence , denoted or is the smallest such that the sequence is -sorted. The radius is a measure of presortedness.
A sequence is said to be nearly-sorted or roughly-sorted if its radius is small compared to its length.
Equivalent definition
A sequence is -sorted if and only if each range of length , is -sorted.
Properties
All sequences of length are -sorted, that is, . A sequence is -sorted if and only if it is sorted. A -sorted sequence is automatically -sorted but not necessarily -sorted.
Relation with sorted sequences
Given a sequence a -sorted sequence and its sorted permutation , is at most .
Algorithms
Deciding whether a sequence is -sorted
Deciding whether a sequence is -sorted can be done in linear time and constant space by a streaming algorithm. It suffices, for each , to keep track of and to check that .
Computing the radius of a sequence
Computing the radius of a sequence can be computed in linear time and space. This follows from the fact that it can be defined as .
Halving the radius of a sequence
Given a -sorted sequence , it is possible to compute a -sorted permutation of in linear time and constant space.
First, given a sequence , lets say that this sequence is partitioned if the -smaller elements are in and the -greater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run%20of%20a%20sequence | In computer science, a run of a sequence is a non-decreasing range of the sequence that cannot be extended. The number of runs of a sequence is the number of increasing subsequences of the sequence. This is a measure of presortedness, and in particular measures how many subsequences must be merged to sort a sequence.
Definition
Let be a sequence of elements from a totally ordered set. A run of is a maximal increasing sequence . That is, and assuming that and exists. For example, if is a natural number, the sequence has the two runs and .
Let be defined as the number of positions such that and . It is equivalently defined as the number of runs of minus one. This definition ensure that , that is, the if, and only if, the sequence is sorted. As another example, and .
Sorting sequences with a low number of runs
The function is a measure of presortedness. The natural merge sort is -optimal. That is, if it is known that a sequence has a low number of runs, it can be efficiently sorted using the natural merge sort.
Long runs
A long run is defined similarly to a run, except that the sequence can be either non-decreasing or non-increasing. The number of long runs is not a measure of presortedness. A sequence with a small number of long runs can be sorted efficiently by first reversing the decreasing runs and then using a natural merge sort.
References
Sorting algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qalculate%21 | Qalculate! is an arbitrary precision cross-platform software calculator. It supports complex mathematical operations and concepts such as derivation, integration, data plotting, and unit conversion.
Features
Qalculate! supports common mathematical functions and operations, multiple bases, autocompletion, complex numbers, infinite numbers, arrays and matrices, variables, mathematical and physical constants, user-defined functions, symbolic derivation and integration, solving of equations involving unknowns, uncertainty propagation using interval arithmetic, plotting using Gnuplot, unit and currency conversion and dimensional analysis, and provides a periodic table of elements, as well as several functions for computer science, such as character encoding and bitwise operations.
It provides four interfaces: Two GUIs, one using GTK (qalculate-gtk) and another using Qt (qalculate-qt), a library for use in other programs (libqalculate), and a CLI program for use in a terminal (qalc).
Qalculate! (GTK+ GUI): qalculate-gtk
Qalculate! (Qt GUI): qalculate-qt
Qalculate! (CLI): qalc (usually provided by the libqalculate package)
Qalculate! (Library): libqalculate
Use in academic research
Bartel, Alexandre. "DOS Software Security: Is there Anyone Left to Patch a 25-year old Vulnerability?."
"In our example of Figure 7, we choose to execute /usr/bin/qalculate-gtk, a calculator. Since the stack of the DOSBox process is non-executable, we cannot directly inject our shellcode on it."
"The Gnome calculator was used to perform these calculations and the results were verified using the Qalculate! calculator and WolframAlpha (15) since spreadsheets are unable to perform these calculations."
See also
Mathematical software
List of arbitrary-precision arithmetic software
Comparison of software calculators
References
External links
Qalculate! - the ultimate desktop calculator at GitHub
Qalculate! - downloads at GitHub
Qalculate/qalculate-gtk GUI at GitHub
Qalculate! Manual at GitHub
QALC man page at GitHub
Ubuntu – Details of package qalculate in bionic
Ubuntu – Details of package qalculate in focal
Qalculate! code review by PVS-Studio
Free educational software
GNOME Applications
Software calculators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennes%20Locales | Antennes Locales (later Cap Télé Groupe) was a French television network established in 2002 and closed in 2011. It aimed to become the country's first private national network by aggregating local stations, either pre-existing or created for the country's then-new digital terrestrial television service (DTT). It eventually succumbed to a combination of low revenue and undercapitalization at parent company Groupe Hersant Média.
History
Origins
Antennes Locales was launched in July 2002 by Jacques Rosselin, co-founder of Courrier International and Emmanuel de Moutis, president of Wunderman-Cato-Johnson France. As with Courrier International, Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint-Laurent's investment fund Berlys Développement was an early backer. The company's aim was to position itself early on in the local TV market, which was primed for a massive overhaul in the following years. Historically, local TV had been a low value segment of the French television market, often merely subsidized by municipalities for the purpose of boosting the local public cable company's channel count. But the advent of DTT, which by law would guarantee slots to so-called "chaînes de proximité", seemingly held the potential of greater visibility – and viability – for those channels.
Groupe France Antilles was a major newspaper publisher although, as one of the entities resulting from the 1986 antitrust split of media mogul Robert Hersant's empire, its portfolio of titles was viewed as unbalanced. France Antilles had owned a stake in Canal 32, a local channel based in Troyes, since its inception in 2001. The market was a stronghold of the group as it owned both the city's liberal and conservative dailies. Philippe Hersant, son of Robert and principal of Groupe France Antilles, saw a strategic opportunity to re-expand his side of the empire through television.
Takeover and growth
In March 2004, Groupe France Antilles acquired 34 percent of Antennes Locales. By November 2007, the now renamed Groupe Hersant Média had brought its stake to 100 percent. In early 2008, the Antennes Locales moniker was discontinued as Hersant Média' TV division was reorganized as "Cap Télé Groupe" under newly appointed director general Eric Hersant, Philippe's nephew.
At its peak, the network had seven channels, often co-owned with local investors such as regional branches of the Crédit Agricole and Caisse d'Epargne banks:
Cap 24 (Greater Paris)
Canal 32 (Troyes, Aube)
CityZen TV (Caen-Hérouville, Calvados)
Orléans TV
TéléGrenoble
TéléAlsace
TéléMiroir (Nîmes, Gard)
In addition, Hersant Média held interests in channels that were not officially part of Antennes Locales/Cap Télé Groupe like TV8 Mont-Blanc, Antilles Télévision (through the France-Antilles newspaper) and La Chaîne Marseillaise (despite its failed bid for the Marseille DTT license, GHM still became involved with the eventual channel through its 2008 acquisition of La Provence, which had a stake in the winning project). Through his Edi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy%20Prep%20Public%20Schools | Democracy Prep Public Schools, also known as Democracy Prep, is a charter school management company which manages a network of 25 Charter Schools in New York City, New Jersey, Nevada and Texas. Over 7,000 students are enrolled in its schools.
History
Democracy Prep Public Schools was founded in 2005 and opened its first school in 2006 as Democracy Preparatory Charter School. Democracy Prep schools primarily serve students of color who live in poverty. In 2019, Natasha Trivers was appointed Democracy Prep's CEO. In 2021, Democracy Prep announced a major expansion in the Bronx. Teachers at Democracy Prep attend trainings throughout the school year.
The charter operator is one of five designated in Florida's Schools of Hope program. A school it operates in Nevada has been sued on First Amendment grounds over a civic class curriculum it requires.
Seth Andrew Theft Case
Democracy Prep was founded by Seth Andrew. Andrew stepped down as head of the school network in 2013 to work as an advisor to U.S. president Barack Obama's administration. In 2017, Andrew severed ties with the Democracy Prep organization. In 2022, pled guilty to wire fraud, admitting to diverting money from the charter school organization's accounts in 2019 to other non-profits.
References
External links
Democracy Prep website
Charter schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Song%20Contest%202021 | The AI Song Contest 2021 was the second edition of the AI Song Contest, an international music competition for songs that have been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). The contest was co-organised by the technology hubs Wallifornia MusicTech, DeepMusic.ai, and Amsterdam Music Lab. The results of the competition were announced on 6 July 2021 at a virtual conference that was part of the four-day Music & Innovation Summit organised by Wallifornia MusicTech. The contest was won by M.O.G.I.I.7.E.D. from the United States with the song "Listen to Your Body Choir".
Format
Each participating team had to submit a song of up to four minutes that has been composed using artificial intelligence. Human input was allowed, but the more AI was used, the more points the entry got from the jury. The entries were also evaluated by the public through online voting. The winner was announced in a live show on 6 July 2021.
Jury
The jury consisted of eight AI experts, who assessed each entry based on the use of artificial intelligence in the songwriting process:
Ryan Groves (Infinite Album)
Imogen Heap (singer-songwriter)
Anna Huang (Google Brain)
Rujing Stacy Huang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Ajay Kapur (California Institute of the Arts)
Hendrik Vincent Koops (RTL Nederland)
Mark Simos (Berklee College of Music)
Uncanny Valley (winners of the 2020 edition)
Competing entries
The live show took place on 6 July 2021 at 18:00 CEST and was broadcast by Wallifornia MusicTech as part of the virtual Music & Innovation Summit. The contest featured the following competing entries:
Notes
References
External links
Official website
2021 song contests
Artificial intelligence art
Computer music
Song contests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF%20Class%20Z%2027500 | The Z 27500 is a type of dual-voltage electric multiple unit trainset for the French National Railway Company (SNCF) intended to the TER network (French commuter rail).
The train is the electric variant of Bombardier AGC, often referred to as ZGC. It the most important fleet of all other AGC variants. It is capable of operating on a or electricity supply.
A total of 211 trainsets have been built by Canadian conglomerate Bombardier at its factory in Crespin (near Valenciennes, France) since 2005. The first set (Z 27503/27504) was placed into regular passenger service on 24 March 2005, for the Basse-Normandie region.
Design
Bombardier vehicle design is articulated using bogies between carriages. The Z 27500 are available in three or four-car unit. The train can be operated as a multiple-unit control with up to three units, with other Z 27500 or the dual-mode version Diesel/ (B 81500). The train is equipped with 2 pantographs on the intermediate car.
Their capacity offers 160 seats in a three-car unit, 220 in a four-car set. The inter-carriage passages have wide, open gangway connections, limiting bottlenecking.
The Z 27500 from Lorraine region can be operated as a multiple-unit control with the Diesel variant (), specifically equipped with a command to raise the pantograph.
Whereas the first trains were delivered in their three-car set version (with an intermediate car), several regions later added a second intermediate car, in order to increase their capacity from 160 to 220 seats.
Photo gallery
Operators and routes
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ambérieu-en-Bugey - Bourg-en-Bresse - Mâcon
Annecy - La-Roche-sur-Foron - Annemasse
Annecy - La-Roche-sur-Foron - Cluses - Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Annemasse - Thonon-les-Bains - Évian-les-Bains
Annemasse - La Roche-sur-Foron - Bonneville - Cluses - Sallanches-Combloux-Megève - Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet
Annecy - Grenoble - Valence
Valence - Grenoble - Annecy -Thonon-les-Bains - Évian-les-Bains
Lyon Perrache - Lyon Part-Dieu - Bourg-en-Bresse
Lyon Part-Dieu - Culoz - Aix-les-Bains-Le Revard - Annecy
Lyon Part-Dieu - Culoz - Bellegarde - Genève-Cornavin
Lyon Part-Dieu - Culoz - Bellegarde - Annemasse - Thonon-les-Bains - Évian-les-Bains
Lyon Part-Dieu - Culoz - Bellegarde - Annemasse - La Roche-sur-Foron - Bonneville - Cluses - Sallanches-Combloux-Megève - Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet
TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Moulins-sur-Allier - Nevers
Dijon - Laroche - Migennes
Dijon - Mâcon - Lyon
Dijon - Besançon - Belfort
Dijon - Dole - Pontarlier
Besançon - Mouchard - Lons-le-Saunier
Lyon - Lons-le-Saunier - Besançon - Belfort
Belfort - Meroux - Delle
TER Bretagne
Brest - Morlaix
Brest - Landerneau
Rennes - Nantes
Rennes - Saint-Malo
Rennes - Saint-Brieuc
Rennes - Redon
Redon - Vannes - Lorient
TER Centre-Val de Loire
Tours - Bourges
Tours - Blois - Orléans
Tours - Saumur
Tours - Poitiers
Orléans - Nevers
TER Grand Est
Strasbourg - Saverne - Sarrebourg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamadou%20Gouro%20Sidibe | Mamadou Gouro Sidibe was born in Mali. He is an IT Engineer, computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and developer of Lenali. Lenali is a social media application like Facebook, but uses voice-based technology in local African languages. He refers to himself as a Digital inclusive entrepreneur.
Career
Sidibe studied in Russia and France. He received a PhD in computer sciences from the University of Versailles in France. He worked ten years on research and development projects that was funded by the European Commission in computer networks and multimedia.
Sidibe started his own company in 2017 and developed the Lenali. The Lenali is a voice-based social network application that works with spoken language. It was initially developed into such languages as Bambara, Soninke, Songhay, Moore, Wolof, and French. The Lengai computer application is free.
Applications that Sidibe has developed are; Lenali, Gafe, and Kunko.
Lenali is a free vocal social media application (app) developed by Sidibe in 2017. It uses voice technology in local African languages and in French. It was developed for people who do not read or write. Features are voice tutorials, profiles, posts, picture posts, get voice instructions, create a profile, comments and GPS navigation calls. According to UNSCO Mali has a literacy rate of 40%. It allows smartphone users to communication using voice technology in their local languages.
Kunko is a computer application developed by Sidibe. It uses voice interaction in local languages to report COVID-19 suspected cases to contact institutions and authorized authorities. It uses sound, photos, voice mail, video posts, and a GPS navigator.
Gafe Digital is a standard and functional literacy application.
Sidibe is listed in the African Exponent 2018, Quartz Innovators list among the top 30 African Innovators.
References
External links
Interview with Mamadou Gouro Sidibe
Lenali - Gafe
Malian engineers
Living people
Computer scientists
Computer programmers
Malian businesspeople
Malian scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Malian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cyber%20and%20Crypto%20Agency | National Cyber and Crypto Agency (, abbreviated as BSSN), is Indonesia's primary signal intelligence agency, as well as cyber intelligence, cyber threat intelligence, cyber defense, and cyber security agency.
History
The foundation of the National Cyber and Crypto Agency is not separated from two preceding agencies, National Crypto Agency (Indonesian: Lembaga Sandi Negara, literally: "State Signal Agency", abbreviated as Lemsaneg) and Cyber Information Defense and Security Desk (Indonesian: Desk Ketahanan dan Keamanan Informasi Cyber Nasional, abbreviated as DK2ICN).
Lembaga Sandi Negara (Lemsaneg)
Lemsaneg was the primary signal intelligence agency of Indonesia. It was founded by Lieutenant Colonel (then finally attained rank of Major General) Dr. Roebiono Kertopati, a medical doctor assigned to Indonesia's intelligence department at that time, Section B of the Ministry of Defence. At that time, this section was mainly responsible to make strategic intelligence analyses for war purposes. He was assigned to the department by Amir Sjarifuddin, Ministry of Defence at that time, to build a unit for signal intelligence. On 4 April 1946, Code Service (Indonesian: Dinas Code) was founded. As a medical doctor, he did not have any background or formal training in intelligence and signal intelligence. However, during the wartime and his assignment, he completed various crash courses in intelligence and signal intelligence. In 1949, during the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference period, he completed a signal intelligence course from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although just gaining knowledge from the courses, with his intelligence, intuition, logic, book readings, and imagination, he was finally able to make his own cryptography methods. His cryptography methods proved useful to secure the transmission of secret messages and government communications, during wartime and peacetime.
On 2 September 1949, the Code Service renamed as Crypto Bureau (Indonesian: Djawatan Sandi (old spelling), Jawatan Sandi (new spelling)), thru Ministry of Defense Decree No. 11/MP/1949, and placed under the Ministry of Defense. On 16 January 1950, based from Presidential Decree No. 65/1950, Crypto Bureau separated on the Ministry of Defense to directly under the Office of The Prime Minister of Indonesia.
1965 was a hard year for intelligence in Indonesia. During that time, the Communist Party of Indonesia (Indonesian: Partai Komunis Indonesia, abbreviated as PKI) was at its peak. Dr. Soebandrio, Foreign Minister of Indonesia and Chief of the Indonesian Central Intelligence Agency (Indonesian: Badan Pusat Intelijen, abbreviated as BPI; predecessor of Indonesian State Intelligence Agency) was highly influenced by PKI and most BPI agents were recruited from PKI cadres. Due to this, the Indonesian intelligence community at that time was not neutral and intelligence become tools for politicians to commit "political intelligence" against groups considered Anti-Suk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic%20%28Cyprus%29 | Epic LTD (previously operating as MTN Cyprus), is a Cyprus based telecommunications services provider owned by Monaco Telecom. It is the second largest mobile network operator in Cyprus by number of subscribers, behind CYTA. In addition to its already established mobile network, the company is a provider of fixed telephony, broadband services and TV. Following its rebranding from MTN to Epic its slogan has been "Great network. Great value".
History
Operating as Areeba (2004–2007)
The company commenced its operations in Cyprus in July 2004 as Areeba (stylised as areeba) after being granted the second mobile telephony licence by the Cyprus Government. In December 2004, Areeba introduced the first 3G network in Cyprus.
Ownership by the MTN Group (2007–2018)
In September 2007 Areeba was rebranded to MTN after its parent company (Investcom LLC) was acquired by the multinational telecommunications company MTN Group. In March 2008, MTN upgraded its 3G network to support HSPA (marketed as 3.5G).
In October 2008, the MTN Group and Amaracos Holdings entered into a partnership with Amaracos acquiring 49% of MTN Cyprus' stock. In turn, MTN Cyprus acquired 100% of Infotel Ltd (Germanos chain of stores) as well as Otenet (Cyprus) Ltd, a fixed telephony and internet provider, thus entering both the fixed telephony and internet service markets respectively for the first time. In February 2013, the MTN Group reached an agreement with Amaracos Holdings to acquire the latter's share capital in MTN Cyprus, resulting in the MTN Group now possessing 100% of the shares in MTN Cyprus.
In March 2015, MTN launched its 4G/LTE network, being the first alongside PrimeTel to introduce the first 4G networks in Cyprus. In May 2017, MTN expanded its services to include subscription based TV by launching MTN TV.
Ownership by Monaco Telecom (2018–Present)
In September 2018, it was announced that Monaco Telecom (operating in the principality of Monaco and a member of NJJ Holding) had acquired the entire share capital of MTN Cyprus from the MTN Group for €260 million. As a part of the deal Monaco Telecom was allowed to continue using the MTN brand name for three years in exchange for a commercial fee.
In November 2018, MTN upgraded its 4G network to support LTE-A (marketed as 4.5G). In May 2019, MTN announced the deployment of wideband audio for voice calls between its subscribers (also known and marketed as HD voice).
In June 2019, Monaco Telecom retired the MTN brand name and renamed the company as Epic (stylised as epic).
In December 2020 Epic deployed VoLTE on its 4G network, becoming the first mobile network in Cyprus to do so. In the same month Epic participated in the Cyprus Government's 5G licence auction, winning a licence enabling it to build and operate a 5G network.
On 9 July 2021 Epic officially launched its 5G network.
Marketshare
According to statistics released by the Office of Electronic Communications & Postal Regulations (OCECPR), as of March 2021, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20Data%20Ladies%20Pro-Am | The Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am is a women's professional golf tournament held in Western Cape, South Africa. It is an event on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Ladies Tour since 2014, played concurrently with the men's Dimension Data Pro-Am on the Sunshine Tour.
The professional golfers are teamed with an amateur and together they compete for the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am trophy. They compete using the Better Ball Medal scoring system with the amateur handicaps taken into account.
Except for 2015 when the event was hosted at Oubaai Golf Resort & Spa, the tournament has been played over three days on two different golf courses, the first two rounds at George Golf Club, with the third and final round at Fancourt Hotel and Country Club.
In 2021 the tournament had a revised format, without the pro-am element, in observance of the coronavirus health protocols and restrictions. The ladies field did not play at the George Golf Club but joined the men playing the Outeniqua and Montagu courses at Fancourt on alternating days for the first and second rounds, before playing the final round at the Outeniqua as per previous years.
Winners
Individual
Team event
See also
Dimension Data Pro-Am
References
External links
Coverage on the Sunshine Ladies Tour's official site
Sunshine Ladies Tour events
Golf tournaments in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur%20Server%20Series | Inspur Server Series is a series of server computers introduced in 1993 by Inspur, an information technology company, and later expanded to the international markets. The servers were likely among the first originally manufactured by a Chinese company. It is currently developed by Inspur Information and its San Francisco-based subsidiary company - Inspur Systems, both Inspur's spinoff companies. The product line includes GPU Servers, Rack-mounted servers, Open Computing Servers and Multi-node Servers.
Timeline of server production
1993, Inspur developed SMP2000, one of the first China-manufactured server based on 10 processors.
2000. The first production line was completed with an annual capacity of 100,000 servers.
2003. The annual production capacity increased to 300,000 units.
2010. The company released SR 1.0 rack scale server. Its technical features, including power supply and management have later become the ODCC standards.
In May 2014, Inspur formally joined SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation).
2017. Inspur launched the ultra-high density GPU supercomputer AGX-2, one of the first 2U 8GPUs servers with an enabled NVLink2.0. In 2017, the company's production ranked the 3rd place among the world's server manufactures both in shipment and revenues, behind Dell EMC and HPE, according to Gartner and other sources.
2018. Inspur server i48 and NF5486M5 were listed in the CRN top ten enterprise servers. The same year, the company produced a server with the world's highest storage density at the time of release.
2019. Inspur delivered a shipment of rack scale servers of more than 10,000 nodes to the Baidu data center in 8 hours, which set the industry's new record. The delivery and deployment model reached L11 (Rack Level Integration). The same year, it also released NE5260M5, the first edge computing server in line with ODCC Open Telecom IT standards. It also released and open-sourced NF8260M5 code named “Crane Mountain”, the industry's first high-density 4-socket server, to the OCP community. In 2019, at SC-19 (International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis), Inspur demonstrated Intel Xeon Platinum 9200, a new HPC-based liquid cooling system combining high-density computing servers with natural circulation evaporative cooling technology. According to Hosting Journalist: "...the server system supports up to 112 cores and 9.3 TFLOPS of FP64 performance and 24 memory channels per node".
2020, the company is re-elected as the chair of SPEC Machine Learning and jointly established the development plan of ML test benchmark. By the third quarter of 2019, the Inspur was the 3rd Server Provider.
In 2021, Inspur's share of servers' supply in China reached 30% of the domestic markets. Inspur launches a new M6 server family that supports 3rd Gen IntelXeon Scalable processors with performance increase by 46 percent compared with previous generation.
Technical characteristics
Inspur follows tec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix%20and%20the%20Treasure%20of%20Morg%C3%A4a | Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa () is a Canadian computer-animated adventure family film, directed by Nicola Lemay and released in 2021. The film centres on Felix, a 12-year-old boy who has been living with his mother on the Magdalen Islands since his father's failure to return from a voyage to find treasure on the Island of Eternal Night; when his mother goes off on vacation and leaves him and his infant sister, Mia, in the care of their aunt, he enlists the help of lighthouse keeper Tom to travel to the island in search of his father.
The film's French voice cast includes Karine Vanasse, Gabriel Lessard, Guy Nadon, Marc Labrèche, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, Éveline Gélinas, Louis Lacombe-Petrowski, Antoine Durand, Tristan Harvey, Kim Jalabert, Geneviève Bédard, Frédéric Desager, Jean-François Beaupré and Jérôme Boiteau, while its English voice cast includes Vanasse, Boiteau, Daniel Brochu, Vlasta Vrána, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Angela Galuppo, Wyatt Bowen, Terrence Scammell, Richard M. Dumont, Arthur Holden, Marcel Jeannin, Mark Camacho, Elizabeth Neale and Eleanor Noble.
Lemay originally conceived the project as a graphic novel, before instead pitching it to 10th Ave Productions as an animated film. The film premiered on February 26, 2021 as the opening film of the Montreal International Children's Film Festival, before being released commercially in both English and French. In advance of the film's release, children's author Édith Bourget published a novelization of the film.
The film received a Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Best First Film.
References
External links
2021 films
2021 adventure films
2021 computer-animated films
2020s children's adventure films
2020s children's animated films
2020s English-language films
2020s French-language films
Canadian computer-animated films
Canadian children's animated films
Quebec films
Sea adventure films
Films about treasure hunting
Animated adventure films
Works adapted into novels
English-language Canadian films
Animated films about children
Animated films about siblings
Animated films about families
Pirate films
Animated films about cats
Fictional parrots
Films set in Montreal
Animated films set on islands
Magdalen Islands
Animated films set on ships
Films set in 2021
Films impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
2020s Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
Canadian children's adventure films
Animated films set in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favored%20Nations%20%28nonprofit%29 | Favored Nations is a 501(c)(3) charity that functions as a mediator between donors and other nonprofits. The organization is built on a network of individuals who donate monetarily or volunteer in the organization's charity campaigns and operations. The charity was established in 2019 by Josh Heller and Noah Centineo, and is based out of Los Angeles, California. The organization is mostly active in the United States. In the recent years, Favored Nations has taken part in a number of notable campaigns related to human rights movement, voting and COVID-19 pandemic.
Overview
Favored Nations was registered by Noah Centineo and Josh Heller in 2019 and launched in early 2020, with the main office operating from Los Angeles, California.
The organization gained significant media attention and attracted a number of celebrities and influencers to philanthropic cause.
Management model
Favored Nations uses social media networks and e-commerce to raise funds for its charity activity. The nonprofit also designs for sale a variety of merchandise in collaboration with celebrities and influencers and then acts as an intermediary between donors and charities, where each donor can contribute to a charity from the list of nonprofit organizations including Black Lives Matter, HeadCount, Policing Equity, Know Your Rights Camp, Color of Change, The Bail Project and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, among many others. As of 2021, the majority of funding is distributed among four main program areas: COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, Educational Development, Civil Rights Movements and Charity Partner Support.
It was founded by Noah Centineo (born 1996), an American actor who currently serves as CEO, and Josh Heller (born 1987), an American entrepreneur and actor. He is a co-founder of Favored Nations, where he serves as Chief Marketing Officer. Heller has been instrumental in a number of the nonprofit's campaigns, including COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, Voting Campaign and Black Lives Matter Support.
Operations and campaigns
The nonprofit's most notable campaigns and initiatives include COVID-19 Relief Fund, Black Lives Matter Support, in which Centineo and Lana Condor act out scenes from the popular Netflix movie series, March for Democracy in collaboration with the HeadCount, and an Art House gallery in Los Angeles, aimed to getting Generation Z to the 2020 US presidential elections.
References
Philanthropy in the United States
Organizations established in 2019
Volunteer organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Remote%20Access%20Computing | IBM Remote Access Computing (RAX) is a discontinued early time-sharing system for IBM System/360 introduced in 1966. RAX was based on an earlier system, RACS. developed jointly by IBM and Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia in 1965. The system influenced a number of other timesharing systems including MCGILL-RAX from McGill University, McGill's MUSIC, and Reactive Terminal Service (RTS) from ITT Data Services. In the 1970s Boston University used RAX as the basis of its VPS system, which ran as a guest operating system running on VM/370.
Hardware
RAX was available from IBM as program number 360A-CX-17X, and runs on System/360 Model 30 and above.As announced, it runs on systems with as little as 64 KB of main storage, and supports a mix of up to 63 IBM 1050 typewriter terminals and IBM 2260 display terminals. The languages supported are BASIC, FORTRAN IV, and IBM Basic assembly language. In a minimal system with 64 KB memory, user programs can be up to 32 KB, with larger programs allowed on larger systems.
Users
In 1968 RAX was used by the United States Department of Agriculture for their Washington Data Processing Center. It was used in a number of colleges, universities, and corporations, including McGill, Boston University, St. Andrew's in Scotland, The University of Rhode Island, and Bell Aerosystems.
Notes
References
Time-sharing operating systems
Operating system technology
Assembly language software
IBM mainframe operating systems
IBM mainframe software
1966 software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville%20Open%20Data%20Portal | The Charlottesville Open Data Portal is the open data portal for the city of Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States.
Establishment
The portal opened in 2017. Its establishment was the outcome of community planning. Organizers of the portal included the City of Charlottesville's Open Data Advisory Group, researchers from the University of Virginia, representatives of local business and nonprofit organizations, and Mayor Mike Signer. The Charlottesville City Council supported the portal by adopting an official city open data policy which they got from the advisory group. A priority in establishing the portal was the protection of privacy of Charlottesville residents.
The portal opened with 72 datasets. Of these, 65 were map related.
Uses
In 2017 a local real estate organization reported using the portal to access city information on building permits and the installation of solar panels.
In 2020 Smart Cville, a civic organization, reported that the portal now had the collection of Charlottesville Master Address Points. This is the authoritative collection for all building addresses in the City of Charlottesville. Smart Cville described this dataset as the most important collection to date in the open data portal.
Response
A 2019 university research project attempted to use datasets in the portal to analyze contemporary issues and also as an exercise in examining the usability of the portal itself. The researchers remarked that in the 2 years since the establishment of the portal, there was little evidence of public use, despite community outreach being an objective of the portal. The researchers reported reasons for lack of use, including the challenge of making sense of fragmented data, challenges exporting the data from the portal and into other applications, and the lack of web-based tools within the portal to perform functions such as data visualization on user demand.
References
External links
Open data portals
Charlottesville, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%20vs.%20Earth | 22 vs. Earth is a 2021 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Directed by Kevin Nolting and written by Josh Cooley, the short stars 22, a character who originated in the 2020 Pixar feature film Soul, as she forms a short-lived rebel alliance to stop souls from reaching Earth. It was released on Disney+ on April 30, 2021.
Plot
Prior to the events of Soul, 22 unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade a fellow soul from leaving the Great Before and going to Earth. Resenting Earth for taking away every friend she has ever had, 22 decides to abduct five souls and indoctrinate them into a secret resistance movement called the "APOCALYPSE" (Anonymous Provocateurs and Other Culprits that are Against Leaving Your friends to go to Pathetic Stupid Earth).
To stop others from finding their inspiration, 22 leads the other five souls (whom she nicknames Macaroni, Zimmy, Peanut, D-Pac, and Moonbeam), but her recruits quickly find theirs and leave for Earth. Soon the only remaining recruit is Macaroni, who gives 22 a hug as her only remaining friend, but their devotion completes their inspiration; 22 angrily throws Macaroni to Earth, vowing that Earth will never take her like it has taken her friends.
The two soul counselors observe 22 and wonder when she will go to Earth and discover the meaning of life. One of them asks what that meaning is, but the other's response is cut off by the closing credits.
Cast
Tina Fey as 22
Alice Braga and Richard Ayoade as two soul counselors in the Great Before who are each named Jerry
Juliana Alcorn as New Soul
Micah Chen as Moonbeam
Adela Drabek as Peanut
Aiyanna Miorin as Zimmy
Karee Ducharme as Macaroni
Samantha Ho as D-Pac
Azriel Dalman as Neptune
Angelica Pascoe (voice)
Production
According to 22 vs. Earth director Kevin Nolting, who also served as the editor for Soul, the short was created to provide an explanation for why 22 did not want to go to Earth. He defined the short film by saying, "if we were making a movie about her, [22 vs. Earth] would be the mid-point and Soul would be the third act". Soul director Pete Docter instructed Nolting to make the short "more kid-friendly" than what Nolting was used to making.
Reception
Gray Houser of Monorail News praised the short, calling it "laugh out loud" and "perfect", while seeing potential for a series of short films following 22 in the Great Before. Jinal Bhatt of Hauterrfly awarded the film four out of five stars, calling it "a nice little insight into why 22 is a loner and despises Earth so much". Tanzim Pardiwalla of Mashable rated the film 3.5/5, saying that while the short did not answer many questions, it was a welcome addition to Soul.
References
External links
2020s American animated films
2020s animated short films
2021 comedy films
2021 computer-animated films
2021 films
Disney+ original films
Existentialist films
Pixar short films
2021 short films
Films scored by Atticus Ross
Films scored by Trent Reznor
2020s English-lang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani%20Dhanda | Shani Dhanda () is a British disability activist. She was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2020 and has been named to the Shaw Trust Power 100. Dhanda founded the Asian Disability Network and helped organise the first-ever Asian Woman Festival in the UK.
Early life and education
Dhanda's mother was a second generation immigrant and her father was a first generation immigrant in the UK, both from Punjab, Northern India. She was born in Birmingham, UK. When she was two years-old Dhanda was diagnosed with Brittle Bone Disease (Osteogenesis Imperfecta), causing her bones to frequently break. Dhanda broke her legs 14 times by the age of sixteen.
As a child, Dhanda and her family attended a local Gurdwara.
Dhanda worked for three years while studying to achieve her degree in events management. Dhanda was named the Future Face of Greater Birmingham at the sixth Future Faces Chamber of Commerce annual awards in 2020, receiving a fully funded place at Aston University to achieve her Master of Business.
Career
As a 16-year-old, Dhanda applied to over 100 roles and was rejected from every one. She claims this was due to her disability.
Dhanda founded an events management company and worked on events for Tyson Fury, Floyd Mayweather and Anthony Joshua. She has also worked for Virgin Media as a disability program manager. She founded the Asian Disability Network and the first Asian Woman Festival in Birmingham.
Dhanda has also developed and launched Diversability Card, a discount card for people with disabilities.
For her work, Dhanda was recognised as one of the UK's most influential disabled people by the annual The Shaw Trust Power List, and as one of BBC's 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020.
In 2020, Dhanda was featured in an interview with British Vogue about activism and her part within that movement.
In 2021, she featured in LinkedIn's largest UK advertising campaign, Dhanda's first television advert gained her the title of LinkedIn Changemaker.
In December 2021 and March 2022, she appeared as a guest panellist on ITV's Loose Women.
In February 2022, Dhanda delivered a TED (conference) talk in London, sharing how to make inclusion everyone's responsibility and discussing Diversity and Equity as a personal responsibility.
Disability advocacy
Dhanda is a former trustee of Leonard Cheshire Disability.
On 7 March 2022, to mark International Women's Day, Scope announced Dhanda as an ambassador for the charity.
References
External links
Living people
British disability rights activists
British women activists
British people of Indian descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Activists from Birmingham, West Midlands
Television presenters with disabilities
British activists with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x%20%28decentralized%20exchange%20infrastructure%29 | 0x is an open-source, decentralized exchange infrastructure that enables the exchange of tokenized assets on multiple blockchains. Developers can use 0x to incorporate exchange functionality into their applications, and market makers can use 0x to create markets for cryptocurrencies and tokens. ZRX, an Ethereum ERC-20 token, is the native governance and staking token of 0x. Individuals who own ZRX can vote on protocol changes and stake their tokens to earn liquidity rewards in Ether (ETH). The project's creator and core developer is 0x Labs.
History
Will Warren and Amir Bandeali began the development of the project in 2016, and on February 22, 2017, they released a white paper with the following abstract:
The project conducted an initial coin offering (ICO) on August 15, 2017 where it sold half of the total supply (500M) of its ZRX token in just over 24 hours, raising a total of $24M.
In April 2018, David Sacks, former COO of PayPal, joined 0x's advisory board.
On October 11, 2018, ZRX was the first Ethereum ERC-20 token to begin trading on the US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.
On June 22, 2020, 0x announced the formation of 0x Labs stating, "As we continue to decentralize control of 0x protocol, the platform will take on an identity of its own and our organization will transition into one of the many productive stakeholders moving the ecosystem forward."
On February 17, 2021, Bitwise, creator and manager of the world's largest crypto index fund, included the ZRX token among its portfolio of cryptoassets for their DeFi Crypto Index Fund.
Partnerships
When Warren, 33, and Bandeali, 31, met six years ago, they shared a belief that all forms of value, be it traditional assets such as fiat currencies, stocks and bonds or digital collectibles like video game items, would eventually be tokenized. “We envisioned a future where there are billions of these different types of tokens,” says Warren. With this idea in mind, he and Bandeali started 0x Labs, which enables developers and businesses to create new markets for their tokens on major blockchains, including Ethereum and Avalanche. The San Francisco-based firm also operates decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Matcha, a search engine of sorts that helps traders optimize costs by showing the best prices across a number of exchanges. Last month, Matcha handled approximately $1 billion of the total $5.2 billion in DEX aggregator trading. In April, 0x partnered with Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., to power Coinbase’s new marketplace for NFTs.
0x Labs, the architect of Web3 exchange infrastructure 0x, has raised $70M in a Series B round led by Greylock. Other investors in the round include Pantera, Sound Ventures, A.Capital, Jump Crypto, OpenSea, Coinbase, Brevan Howard, Reid Hoffman, and Jared Leto.
The funding will fuel the continued growth of the 0x Labs team and its product and service offerings, including Matcha, the search engine for tokens; 0x API, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Dolva | Karen Dolva is a Norwegian interaction designer and founder of No Isolation. She was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2020. She previously studied computer science at the University of Oslo.
References
Living people
Norwegian business executives
University of Oslo alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belorusneft | Belorusneft (, ) is a company operating in Belarus, which together with its parent company Belneftehim, is responsible for the country's largest network of service stations. According to Belorusneft's own announcement, its distribution network includes more than 500 stations, or 65% of all service stations in Belarus. The company is headquartered in Gomel.
History
Belorusneft is a production company and was established in 1966. In 1980s, Belorusneft engineers and drillers were active in the exploration of the West Siberian petroleum basin in Russian SFSR. In 1986, 5729 workers of Belorusneft worked in Siberia (38.9% of overall number of workers of the organization). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the cooperation between Belarusian Belorusneft and Russian government continued.
Significance
Belorusneft activities included exploration and production of natural gas and oil (including abroad), natural gas processing, thermal energy production (Svietlahorsk thermal power plant: electricity generation capacity 21 MW, heat generation capacity 19 Gcal/h) and service station operations.
Belorusneft's fuel distribution stations, for example, are in competition with Russian Lukoil's highway and metropolitan service stations, although they are nowhere near as numerous in number.
In 2011, Belorusneft was sanctioned by the United States Department of State for doing business with Iran.
The company was excluded from the Belneftekhim concern on 16 July 2021. Western sanctions imposed on Belneftekhim, including its placement in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, were suggested to be the reason of the move.
On 2 December 2021, Belorusneft was added to the sanctions list of the European Union. Switzerland joined the EU sanctions on 20 December. In October 2022, Ukraine also blackisted the company.
References
External links
Official website
Oil and gas companies of Belarus
Retail companies established in 1966
Energy companies established in 1966
1966 establishments in Belarus
Automotive fuel retailers
Belarusian brands
Oil companies of the Soviet Union
Natural gas companies of the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYK%20Vega-class%20container%20ship | The Vega class is a series of 4 container ships originally built for Nippon Yusen Kaisha (also known as NYK Line) and later operated by Ocean Network Express (ONE). The ships were built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 9,012 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
List of ships
See also
NYK bird-class container ship
References
Container ship classes
Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20548001%E2%80%93549000 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena%20Spasi%C4%87 | Irena Spasić is a Serbian computer scientist specializing in text mining of biomedical information, with applications including exometabolomics. She is a professor of computer science and informatics at Cardiff University, director of the Cardiff University Data Innovation Research Institute, chief scientist for AI development at IPwe, and since 2020 a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Spasić is a graduate of the University of Belgrade and earned her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Salford. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester before taking her present position in Cardiff.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Serbian computer scientists
Serbian women computer scientists
University of Belgrade alumni
Alumni of the University of Salford
Academics of Cardiff University
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic%20Graves | Mic Graves is a British animation director, writer, producer, and voice actor known for his work on Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball and co-creating Elliott from Earth.
Animation career
Graves first worked at Studio AKA where he worked on commercials, title sequences, and idents from 1994 to 2009; the most famous of these is The Canterbury Tales: Knight's Tale. While working at Studio AKA, he was hired to be an assistant art director on The Big Knights from 1999 to 2000. He was then hired by The Amazing World of Gumball creator Ben Bocquelet to be the series director and a writer, executive producer, and voice actor from 2011 to 2019. After the show ended in 2019, he co-created Elliott from Earth and served as a supervising director, writer, and executive producer on the series.
Filmography
Short films
Television
References
External links
Animation directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cartoon Network Studios people
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume%20Cassuto | Guillaume Cassuto is a French director, writer, and visual effects artist based in London, England. He is best known for being the creator and former showrunner of the Cartoon Network animated series Elliott from Earth. He is also known for his work on The Amazing World of Gumball as a compositing supervisor and writer.
Career
After graduating from Supinfocom, Guillaume Cassuto began his career working on commercials, short films, television shows, and music videos. He was a lighting and rendering artist for Picasso Pictures, alighting, rendering, and compositing technical director for Superfad, The Mill, and Passion Pictures, and a VFX and rendering artist for Nexus Studios. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a background artist, compositing supervisor, and writer for the Cartoon Network series The Amazing World of Gumball. Cassuto then left the show on October 27, 2017, and created the Cartoon Network animated series Elliott from Earth. But as of the end of October 2019, Cassuto, due to a "mutual parting of ways" with Cartoon Network, left production and stepped down as showrunner. Cassuto is currently based in London, England. As of 2021, he is currently directing animation projects and music videos.
Filmography
Short films
Television
Music videos
Video games
References
External links
Living people
British animated film directors
British male screenwriters
British television directors
Cartoon Network Studios people
English animators
French animators
French animated film directors
French emigrants to England
French screenwriters
French television directors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20station%20%28Changsha%20Metro%29 | Datang station () is a subway station in Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan, China, operated by the Changsha subway operator Changsha Metro. It entered revenue service on 28 June 2020.
History
The station started the test operation on 30 December 2019. The station opened on 28 June 2020.
Surrounding area
Changsha Environmental Protection Technical College
Yanziling Community Park
Guitang River Ecological park
References
Railway stations in China opened in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%201995 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 1995.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
1995 films at the Internet Movie Database
1995
Lists of 1995 films by country or language
1995 in Nigeria
1990s in Nigerian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%201996 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 1996.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
1996 films at the Internet Movie Database
1996
Lists of 1996 films by country or language
1996 in Nigeria
1990s in Nigerian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%201997 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 1997.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
1997 films at the Internet Movie Database
1997
Lists of 1997 films by country or language
1997 in Nigeria
1990s in Nigerian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%201998 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 1998.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
1998 films at the Internet Movie Database
1998
Lists of 1998 films by country or language
1998 in Nigeria
1990s in Nigerian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202021%20%28Chile%29 | This is a list of the number-one songs of 2021 in Chile. The airplay charts are published by Monitor Latino, based on airplay across radio stations in Chile utilizing the Radio Tracking Data, LLC in real time. Charts are compiled from Monday to Sunday.
Chart history (Monitor Latino)
General
References
2021 in Chile
Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subor | Subor is the western brand name for a range of consoles and computer systems produced by Xiaobawang Company (also Xiǎo Bàwáng Company), based in Zhongshan, China. Xiaobawang Company is owned by Yihua Group. The consoles were very popular at the end of the 1980s and in the 90s. Later the company diversified to manufacturing other electronic devices.
History
Circa 1987, Nihwa Electronics Factory was a struggling arcade game manufacturer owned by Yihua Group. It was headquartered in Xiqu Subdistrict, Zhongshan, Guangdong.
In 1989, Yihua Group appointed graduate Duan Yongping as director of the Nihwa Electronics Factory. Duan over saw the development of the company's first console model, the D25. It was a famiclone (Famicom / NES clone) and was given the name Xiǎo Bàwáng (). The console sold at a much lower price than imported official Nintendo machines, and it became very popular.
In 1991, Nihwa Electronics Factory was renamed to Xiaobawang Company, known as Subor in the west.
As some parents were loathed to buy devices for purely recreational reasons, in 1993 the consoles were called educational and the company produced versions with keyboard and educational software. These models were based on combining the Taiwanese Laser-310 with a Famicom chip, and called Chinese English Learning Machine (). The first model model was the SB-218.
In 1993-4, improved models SB-286 and SB-486 were released. Jackie Chan became a spokesperson for the company.
In 1995, the SB-926 was released. However, Duan left the company in August. He was not satisfied with the financial setup of the company and the fact that the Yihua Group would not give him or other staff shares. He went on to found BBK Electronics later in the same year.
In 1998, the company's last famiclone, the SB-2000, was released. Although, still using 8-bit 6502 based system (CPU UM6561), it was greatly upgraded with 512KB of RAM, separate keyboard, mouse and disk drive. It had revised software and included a similar terminal prompt similar to MS-DOS, F-BASIC and a mouse drive GUI.
The Xiaobawang Company was impacted by the ban on game consoles in China. The ban lasted from 2000 to 2015. The company specialized in other electronic products such as dictionaries. In 2004, a number of subsidiaries were created; Xiaobawang Educational Electronics, Xiaobawang Digital Audio, Xiaobawang Electrical Appliances, and Xiaobawang Kitchen.
A new video game system, the Subor Z+ / Z+ New Gaming Computer, was released in 2018. Xiaobawang Company also invested money into virtual reality devices.
Impact
Karen Chiu stated in 2019 that Chinese people who played video games as children had nostalgia for the Xiǎo Bàwáng Video Game System comparable to such in Western countries for the actual consoles.
Subsidiaries
Subor Culture Development
According to Sixth Tone, Subor Culture Development was spun out of Yihua Group, in 2015, to development virtual reality products.
Subor Culture Development went bankrupt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20India%20%282021%29 | The following is the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India from January 2021 to the May 2021. The complexity of the COVID-19 data reporting in India has been scrutinized extensively because of the disagreement between the undocumented morbidity rate and the low rates of case fatality in comparison to other countries.
January
16 January
India began its vaccination programme, with the initial focus on healthcare workers.
19 January
Lakshadweep becomes the last region in India to report its first case.
26 January
India reported a record low case count of around 9,100 new cases.
February
The average daily new case count for India fell below 9,000 cases.
22 February
India surpassed 11 million total cases with more than 150,000 deaths.
March
29 March
India surpassed 12 million total cases as the daily case count reached 68,020, the highest in five months.
April
1 April
Vaccinations were made available to all Indians over the age of 45.
2 April
India reported 89,129 new cases, the most in more than six months. More the 7 million vaccines had been administered.
4 April
In the state of Maharashtra, new restrictions were imposed in response to the growing case count. Restrictions included the closure of malls, cinemas, and places of worship.
7 April
India's daily case count surpassed 100,000 for the first time with 103,558, surpassing the previous record of 97,894 set in September 2020. Maharashtra accounted for more than half of the total of the country with a record 57,074 new cases.
8 April
India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, rejected calls to expand vaccination eligibility as the country hit a new record for daily cases with more than 125,000.
9 April
India surpassed 13 million total cases as the country recorded another record daily case count, 131,968, and 780 new deaths. Many states, including Maharashtra, Odisha and Punjab reported vaccine shortages, and many districts in Maharashtra were forced to suspend vaccine drives.
10 April
For the fifth time in a week, India recorded a new record number of daily cases, with 145,384 new cases. Authorities in Maharashtra imposed a weekend lockdown to help prevent the spread in the state.
11 April
The government of India banned the export of the antiviral drug Remdesivir and its ingredients as demand skyrocketed in the country. The daily case count hit another record high of over 150,000 cases. The surge was driven farther by large religious gatherings at the Kumbh Mela and massive political rallies with little mask-wearing or social distancing.
12 April
India officially surpassed Brazil for the second most total cases in the world with more than 11.3 million cases, behind only the United States.
14 April
India recorded more than 200,000 new daily cases for the first time, more than double the peak of the first wave. Many hospitals around the country reported shortages of beds and supplemental oxygen.
15 April
India surpassed 14 million total confirmed COVID infecti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwisterOS | Twister OS (Twister for short) is a 32-bit Operating System created by Pi Labs for the Raspberry Pi single board computer originally, with a x86_64 PC version released a few months later. Twister is meant to be a general-purpose OS that is familiar or nostalgic to users. Twister is based on Raspberry Pi OS Lite and uses the XFCE desktop environment. Twister OS also has a version called "Twister OS Armbian" designed for ARM SBCs with the RK3399 CPU. There are four versions of the operating system, TwisterOS Full (for the Raspberry Pi 4), Twister OS Lite (a stripped-down version with only themes), Twister UI (For x86_64 PCs running Linux Mint or Xubuntu) and Twisters OS Armbian (for RK3399 CPUs) .
Features
TwisterOS has 7 main desktop themes, 5 out of those have dark modes. Twister OS has its own theme called "Twister OS theme". The Twister 95, XP, 7, 10, and 11 themes are similar to the themes on the Windows 95, XP, 7, 10 and 11 operating systems. iTwister and iTwister Sur desktop themes are similar to the themes on macOS.
Box86 is an emulator used to run x86 software and games on ARM systems.
Wine is a compatibility layer that lets the user to run Windows applications on non-Windows systems.
CommanderPi is a system monitoring and configuration tool designed to check system information and overclock the CPU.
Other Twister versions
Twister OS Lite
Twister OS Lite is for the Raspberry Pi as well. The Lite version only comes with the themes in Twister OS, as well as Box86 and Wine.
Twister UI
Twister UI is very similar to Twister OS, the only difference is that Twister UI is used for non-single board computers. Twister UI is designed to be installed by running a setup script on an already running installation of Linux Mint (XFCE) or Xubuntu.
Twister OS Armbian
Twister OS Armbian is a version of Twister OS that can run on SBCs with RK3399 CPUs, like the Rock Pi 4B. Twister OS Armbian also comes preinstalled on emmc chips inside the Rock Pi 4 Plus models. Twister OS Armbian is based on the Armbian Linux operating system.
References
Computers
Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%20station | Datang station may refer to:
Datang station (Changsha Metro) (大塘站), a metro station in Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Datang station (Guangzhou Metro) (大塘站), a metro station in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Juan%20de%20Dios%20Hospital%20%28Santiago%29 | The San Juan de Dios Hospital is a public hospital located in Santiago, Chile. It is part of the public healthcare network in the western portion of Santiago Metropolitan Region, providing health services to residents of Santiago, Quinta Normal, Lo Prado, Renca, Cerro Navia and Pudahuel within the borders of the city. It also provide healthcare to patients from the Melipilla Province, including Melipilla, Alhué, Curacaví, María Pinto and San Pedro; as well as the Talagante Province, which includes the municipalities of Isla de Maipo, El Monte, Padre Hurtado, Peñaflor and Talagante. Established in 1552, it is the oldest hospital institution in Chile.
The hospital complex consists of four buildings: the main tower, the Centro Diagnóstico y Terapéutico (CDT) Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Armas Cruz, the Ex Posta 3 and the Centro de Diabetes y Nutrición Helen Lee Lassen.
History
The San Juan de Dios Hospital was created shortly after the foundation of Santiago and is considered to be the first hospital in the city and the country. The exact date of its foundation is still debatable, but it is believed it was opened on October 3, 1552, at the end of the government of Pedro de Valdivia, under the name Hospital de Nuestra Señora del Socorro. Its original location was on the south side of the Alameda, just across the street from the Iglesia San Francisco.
In 1617 the hospital went on to be administered by the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God. From the colonial era to the present, the hospital has been an important part of the history of the city.
Since 1863 the hospital is considered as a teaching hospital.
Following the demolition of the old building in 1944, the San Juan de Dios Hospital was relocated, rebuilt and reopened on May 1, 1954. The hospital is currently located on Matucana Avenue, facing Quinta Normal Park.
References
Buildings and structures in Santiago
Hospitals in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20shadow | In quantum computing, classical shadow is a protocol for predicting functions of a quantum state using only a logarithmic number of measurements. Given an unknown state , a tomographically complete set of gates (e.g Clifford gates), a set of observables and a quantum channel (defined by randomly sampling from , applying it to and measuring the resulting state); predict the expectation values . A list of classical shadows is created using , and by running a Shadow generation algorithm. When predicting the properties of , a Median-of-means estimation algorithm is used to deal with the outliers in . Classical shadow is useful for direct fidelity estimation, entanglement verification, estimating correlation functions, and predicting entanglement entropy.
Recently, researchers have built on classical shadow to devise provably efficient classical machine learning algorithms for a wide range of quantum many-body problems. For example, machine learning models could learn to solve ground states of quantum many-body systems and classify quantum phases of matter.
Inputs copies of an unknown -qubit state
A list of unitaries that is tomographically complete
A classical description of a quantum channel
For ranging from to :
Choose a random unitary from
Apply to to get a state
Perform a computational basis measurement on for an outcome
Classically compute and add it to a list
Return
Inputs A list of observables
A classical shadow
A positive integer that specifies how many linear estimates of to calculate.
Return A list where
where and where .
References
Quantum information science
Quantum information theory
Quantum measurement
Quantum computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huili%20Grace%20Xing | Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors and layered crystals," as well as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021.
Early life and education
Xing received a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Peking University before moving to the United States for her Master's degree in Material Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. She then chose to pursue a career with devices that use material properties, and enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara for her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
Career
Xing joined the University of Notre Dame (UND) in 2004 as an assistant professor of engineering. She was selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research as part of the 2008 Young Investigator Program as someone who "shows exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research." The following year, she was the recipient of a 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project "Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbon Optoelectronic Properties and Devices." In 2010, Debdeep Jena and Xing received separate Department of Defense funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project to create new gallium nitride (GaN) ultraviolet light sources that can be used by soldiers to purify water in the field. She received more funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy in 2013 for "projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that could dramatically transform how power is controlled and converted through the grid."
Xing left UND in 2015 to join the Cornell University College of Engineering as the Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow with a joint appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Material Science and Engineering. In this role, she worked alongside her husband, Debdeep Jena, to create GaN power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches. The group built a GaN power-switching device that could support 2,000 volts of electricity. As a result of her research, Xing was selected to join the national consortium to develop future cellular infrastructure. She was also elected the first William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors, and layered crystals." During the COVID-19 pandemic, Xing was appointed to a two-year term as Associate Dean for Research, Entrepreneurship, and Graduate Stud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boystown%20%28website%29 | Boystown (stylized in logo as BOYS TOWN) was a child pornography website run through the Tor network as a hidden service.
A high-ranking employee of a German security agency who receives "requests from the German government, from any public authorities, from the Ministry of Defense, from the BKA and anything else to check the security of certain processes" acts under the alias "Captain Sparrow" as an administrator for Boystown and optimizes the programming scripts.
Hours after the shutdown, an unknown user posted a dump of Boystown online, as confirmed by the Frankfurt prosecutor's office. STRG_F then had files in the volume of 13.5 TB deleted from filehosters by December 2021. Admin The Antediluvian confirms this that investigators do not have files deleted. BKA said it had "7000 links deleted" last year. Investigators in Germany are only interested in hard drives of the perpetrators. Three successor platforms (with 410 and 846 thousand accounts) with, among others, a common admin in Germany (a 21-year-old from Saxony) were shut down Christmas 2022. Another three suspected administrators were arrested in November and December in Seelze near Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein and Brazil. The BKA has "secured" hundreds of thousands of images.
Background
As of May 2021, the website was considered one of the largest international darknet platform to host child pornography. The website had 400,000 registered users.
Website content
The website featured various forums and chats for communication. The illegal images and videos were posted on the forums and the chats where members were able to communicate with one another. There were two chat services provided, one called "Lolipub" and the other was known as "BOYSPUB". The child abuse materials exchanged between users were of young children and toddlers, most of which were boys, from around the world. The child pornographic content had various categories including "Art" (which included shotacon among other subcategories), "hardcore", "kindergarten", and "toddler". Lolipub also had rules that included banning the promotion of hurtcore.
Website investigation
The website was investigated by a German police task force with cooperation from Europol and international law enforcement agencies. The platforms administrators and users were under investigation for months.
The public prosecutor's office does not say how they got on the scent about the convicts. The public and the press were excluded from the trial.
Agencies involved in the investigation
The following agencies took part in the investigation:
: Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), Australian Federal Police (AFP), Queensland Police Service (QPS)
: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
: Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt)
: National Police (Politie)
: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Arrests
There were three primary suspects that were discovered and identified durin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENSCONET | The European Native Seeds Conservation Network (ENSCONET) is a conservation group for the preservation of wild species by maintaining a germplasm bank. It is made up of 24 institutions from 17 member states of the European Union, as well as five associate members. The network is coordinated by the "Millennium Seed Bank" of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom and is founded under the auspices of the 6th "Research Framework Program" of the EU, and covers 5 of the 6 European biogeographic regions.
History
Although the project had been in the making for several years, it was not until November 2004 that it was definitively consolidated. The first annual meeting of ENSCONET took place at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, in Crete in June 2005. At this time, the drafting of a protocol agreed by all the members for future collections began. The next annual meeting took place in Valencia and was organized by the Botanical Garden of Valencia.
Main activities
The work carried out by the associated institutions within the network can be summarized in four sections:
Collecting the seeds preferably from their natural environment, identifying the place and conditions of the specimens from which the sample is taken.
Conservation, with the latest methods that guarantee its viability for the longest period of time possible.
Database, containing all possible information about the specimen from which the seeds are collected, its location, date of collection, state in which it was found. All these data can be recorded both in writing and in computer support
Dissemination of all the work carried out within the community of the institutions involved, with a view to improving the collection and conservation methods with the latest techniques among the member institutions, as well as in a more general scope to other institutions outside the field of participating members.
Member institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden, Budapest
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete
IMGEMA- Botanical Garden of Córdoba, Córdoba
Botanical Garden, Trinity College Dublin
Botanical Garden of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Agricultural Research Institute Cyprus
Bank of Plant Germplasm-UPM, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid
Meise Botanic Garden, Meise
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
University of Pavia / Centro Flora Autóctona della Lombardia, Pavia
University of Pisa, Botanical Garden, Pisa
Botanical Garden of Soller islas Baleares
Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences Trento, Trento
Botanical Garden, University of Valencia, Valencia
University of Vienna, Vienna
Botanical Garden Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Warsaw
Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, FU Berlin
Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki
Jardim Botânico - Foundation of the University of Lisbon, Lisbo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanta%20Dihal | Kanta Dihal is a Dutch research scientist who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, science communication, literature, and ethics. She is currently a lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London. Dihal is co-editor of the books AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines.
Education
Dihal received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Language Culture in 2011, a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Literary Studies in 2012, and a Masters of Arts in Literary Studies in 2014 from Leiden University. She completed her Ph.D. in Science Communication from the University of Oxford in 2018. Her thesis, advised by Sally Shuttleworth and Michael Whitworth, explored the communication of conflicting interpretations of quantum physics to adults and children.
Career and research
Dihal's research intersects the fields of AI ethics, science communication, literature and science, and science fiction.
She is currently a lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London. Prior to this, she worked as a senior research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. She led two research projects there: Global AI Narratives and Decolonizing AI. The Global AI Narratives project explores the public understanding of AI as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives, spanning ancient classics like the Iliad all the way to modern films like Steven Spielberg's AI. With her colleagues, she is attempting to document the ways in which AI is understood and developed around the world and their consequences on diversity and equality. In her work for the Decolonizing AI project, Dihal examines how AI is portrayed in media, stock images, and dialect often with more "white" depictions and warns of the risk of creating a "homogeneous" workforce of technologists where people of colour are erased.
AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines
Dihal is co-editor of the book AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines, alongside Stephen Cave and Sarah Dillon. The book is a collection of essays examining how narrative representations of AI have shaped technological development, understanding of humans, and the social and political orders that emerge from their relationships. The Times Literary Supplement remarked that this book is a “compelling collection shows how AI narratives have prompted critical reflection on human-machine relations”.
Selected awards
2020 Most Influential Women in UK Technology Award Nominee
2021 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Leiden University alumni
Academics of the University of Cambridge
People from Eindhoven |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20Radio | Smooth Radio may refer to:
Smooth Radio (2010), the original national network in the UK
Smooth Radio (2014)
See also
Smoothfm, Australian radio stations named Smooth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinchuan%20Metro | Yinchuan Metro is a proposed urban rail network in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, in Northwest China.
Background
Yinchuan is the capital and largest city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It has a population of over 2 million. The city has experienced a significant growth in population and economic importance over the past decades, partly because of China's Western Development strategy.
Transport within and to Yinchuan has lagged behind the rest of China and nearby provincial capitals. Until completion of the Yinchuan–Xi'an high-speed railway in 2020, the city did not have any high-speed rail connections.
In 2018 a 9.7 km monorail long loop line in Yinchuan's Flower Expo Garden opened, using BYD Skyrail technology.
Planned network
The proposed network is to consist of 6 lines totaling . The plans were first announced in 2016.
Line 1 will form an east–west backbone of the urban area, starting from Xixia Passenger Station planned and ending at Yinchuan East railway station.
Line 2 will form a north–south backbone of the urban area, to run from Yuanbao Lake in Fengdeng to Wangyin Road in Wangyuan.
Line 3 will form a northeast to southwest backbone, starting from Helan County and ending in the Yinchuan Economic Development Zone.
Line 4 will be a parallel east–west line in the northern part of the city. Together with Line 3, it will form a loop around the city center. It will run from Yinchuan Economic Development Zone to Baliqiao station.
The Binning Line will be an suburban rail line, part of the China Railway network to connect the city center to Binhe New Area and Yinchuan Hedong International Airport.
The Yonghe Line will use light rail technology and be a north–south suburban line to run from Helan County to Yongning County, with possible extensions to Lingwu, Litong District, Pingluo County and Shahu.
See also
Xining Metro
Lanzhou Metro
References
Proposed public transport in China
Yinchuan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenopea | Adenopea is a genus of worms belonging to the family Convolutidae.
Species:
Adenopea cenata
Adenopea chuni
Adenopea illardata
Adenopea illardatus
References
Acoelomorphs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Builder%20Garage | is a programming game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It was announced on May 5, 2021, and released on June 11, 2021.
Gameplay
In Game Builder Garage, the player uses a visual programming language centralized on the concept of creatures called Nodon. The Nodon represent various facets of input, game output, logic, and on-screen objects, such as a Stick Nodon that reports input from the Joy-Con analog stick or a Person Nodon that represents an on-screen character. The player builds a program by adding Nodon and making connections between the various nodes on Nodon, such as connecting the Stick Nodon to the Person Nodon as to tie the analog stick to movement of the character on-screen. Nodon are available to interface nearly all features of the Switch and Joy-Con, including the infrared sensors and motion controls.
The game features a lesson mode to guide the player through using the Nodon language and to help them understand some of the principles of game development through a series of seven built-in games that the player can create.
Games built within Game Builder Garage can support up to eight different Joy-Con, effectively allowing up to eight-player local multiplayer games to be built.
Game Builder Garage has a share function, that allows creators to upload their games and share them with other people. However, it does not feature a game browser, but rather a code has to be shared by the creator for other people to access it. Fans of the game have been creating their own platforms for sharing their games; the most popular one being MyGarage Games.
The game also allows for the use of commercial USB computer mice.
Development
The game was announced on May 5, 2021, being released on June 11, 2021. Game Builder Garage was developed specifically by Nintendo EPD 4, the division behind games like Nintendo Labo, Ring Fit Adventure, 1-2-Switch, Miitopia and many more. The game was directed by Naoki Masuda, a programmer at Nintendo who had previously worked on Nintendo Labo and the Pikmin series.
In a developer interview, Masuda and programmer Kosuke Teshima described the Nintendo Labo series, particularly the VR Kit, as a key inspiration for Game Builder Garage. After seeing non-programmer Nintendo employees using the Toy-Con Garage to create their own games, Masuda described that he wanted to "find a way to make it easier for people to have the fun of creating games through trial and error." The developers tested the game on elementary school students interested in programming to ensure the lessons were accessible to beginners.
Reception
Game Builder Garage received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Nintendo Life Alex Olney praised the game's tutorials, but criticized the lack of visual options given to players. IGN Seth Macy enjoyed the amount of options and tools the game gives to players. Game Builder Garage was described by Polygon as a followup to Nintendo Labo. It |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Elbaum | Sebastian Elbaum is an Argentinian-American computer scientist. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elbaum was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in "recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems."
Early life and education
Elbaum received his Ph.D. from the University of Idaho and a Systems Engineering degree from Catholic University of Córdoba.
Career
Upon completing his education, Elbaum accepted a faculty position at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he co-founded two international recognized labs, the E2 Software Engineering Lab and the Nimbus Robotics Lab. He received a $36,500 Google Faculty Research Award and National Science Foundation Award for his project "Solving the Search for Code with Inputs and Outputs" for one year. The following year, he collaborated with Carrick Detweiler for their project "Co-Aerial Ecologist: Robotic Water Sampling and Sensing in the Wild" project as part of the National Robotics Initiative. In 2015, Elbaum was appointed to the rank of Willa Cather/Charles Bessey Professorship.
Elbaum eventually left the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2018 to accept a similar position at the University of Virginia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Elbaum was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in "recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems." He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the analysis and testing of evolving systems and robotic systems".
References
External links
American computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
University of Idaho alumni
University of Virginia faculty
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20data | In computer storage, cold data refers to data that is rarely accessed, therefore considered "cold".
Cold data is the opposite of hot data, which is data that is frequently accessed.
Uses
To optimize storage costs, cold data can be stored on lower performing and less expensive storage media. For example, solid state disks may be used for storing hot data, while cold data can be moved to hard drives, optical discs, tapes, or migrated to cloud storage.
See also
References
Data storage
Computer data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20by%20the%20number%20of%20millionaire%20households | This is a list of U.S. states and federal district by the number of households with more than $1 million in investable assets as of 2020 (data for the year 2019). The list is compiled annually by market research firm Phoenix Marketing International.
List
References
millionaire households
United States, millionaire households |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACC%20on%20Regional%20Sports%20Networks | The ACC on Regional Sports Networks (also known as simply ACC RSN) was a package of telecasts produced by Raycom Sports, in cooperation with Bally Sports, previously the Fox Sports Networks, featuring Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college sports. The package was syndicated primarily to regional sports networks.
History
The practice of distributing ACC sports telecasts to regional networks began with the original Jefferson-Pilot syndication package for football and Raycom/JP package for basketball in the 1980s. At that time Raycom and JP would distribute ACC telecasts through AT&T network lines to local over the air affiliates. Raycom Sports would continue to distribute ACC telecasts, mostly football and men's basketball under what became the ACC Network, to over the air affiliates until the 2019 ACC men's basketball tournament, when ESPN acquired Raycom Sports' previous package of games for its new ACC Network cable channel.
The practice of distributing ACC sports to regional sports networks started in 2011 after the signing of a new 12-year agreement between the ACC, ESPN and Raycom Sports. The agreement gave Raycom Sports the ability to syndicate a select number of football, basketball and Olympic sports on regional sports networks.
As the majority of the ACC's RSN affiliates were part of Fox Sports Networks, these events initially used Fox Sports' branding and on-air presentation (with football and basketball using the standard Fox College Football and Fox College Hoops branding respectively). With the acquisition of FSN by Sinclair Broadcast Group and their rebranding in late-March 2021, the telecasts transitioned to using Bally Sports' on-air presentation.
In August 2022, Bally and Raycom agreed to move 11 women’s basketball tournament early-round games and 12 baseball tournament early-round games, which previously aired as part of the package, to the ACC Network.
In June 2023, as part of the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group, Bally dropped the ACC RSN package. A month later, Raycom announced an agreement with The CW to carry a sub-license package of ACC telecasts produced by Raycom, which will include 13 football games, 28 men's basketball games, and 9 women's basketball games per-season.
Telecasts
The ACC on Regional Sports Networks consisted of football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and a limited number of soccer, field hockey, and volleyball matches. The package contains around 16 football games per year, around 40 men's basketball games, and 25 women's basketball games.
It previously aired early-round coverage of the ACC women's basketball tournament and ACC baseball tournament until 2022, when ESPN reached an agreement with Raycom Sports and Bally Sports to move coverage of these two events to ACC Network.
On air staff
Mike Gminski: color commentar
Tom Werme: play-by-play
Cory Alexander: color commentator
James Bates: color commentator
Evan Lepler: play-by-play
Charles Arbuckle: color commentator
Treav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D4Science | D4Science is an organisation operating a Data Infrastructure offering a rich array of services by community-driven virtual research environments.
In particular, it supports communities of practice willing to implement open science practices.
The infrastructure follows the system of systems approach, where the constituent systems (Service providers) offer “resources” (namely services and by them data, computing, storage) assembled together to implement the overall set of D4Science services. In particular, D4Science aggregates “domain agnostic” service providers as well as community-specific ones to build a unifying space where the aggregated resources can be exploited via Virtual research Environments and their services.
This organization is hosted by the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione of National Research Council (Italy).
At the earth of this infrastructure there is an Open Source Software named gCube system.
Services
D4Science offers a rich array of services:
Virtual Research Environment as a Service providing any community of practice with a dedicated working environment supporting any knowledge production process in a collaborative way, in fact every VRE enables computer-supported cooperative work by design. D4Science-based VREs are web-based, community-oriented, collaborative, user-friendly, open-science-enabler working environments for scientists and practitioners willing to work together to perform a set of (research) task. From the end-user perspective, each VRE manifests in a unifying web application (and a set of application programming interfaces (APIs)): (a) comprising several applications organised in specific menu items and (b) running in a plain web browser. Every application is providing VRE users with facilities implemented by relying on one or more services provisioned by diverse providers. Among the basic services every VRE is equipped with there are
a Social Networking area enabling collaborative and open discussions on any topic and disseminating information of interest for the community, for example, the availability of a research outcome;
a Workspace for storing, organizing and sharing any version of a research artifact, including dataset and model implementation;
a User Management dashboard for managing membership and roles;
a Catalogue Service recording the assets worth being published thus to make it possible for others to be informed and make use of these assets.
Science Gateway as a Service providing a community of practice with a dedicated science gateway hosting a selected set of virtual research environments.
Data Analytics at scale providing the members of a VRE with a rich array of solutions for data analytics including:
a proprietary data analytics platform (DataMiner) to execute analytics tasks either by relying on methods provided by the user or by others. It is endowed with importing and sharing facilities for analytics methods implemented in heterogeneous forms including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Proof | Absolute Proof is a 2021 political propaganda film directed by and starring Mike Lindell. It was distributed by One America News Network and promotes the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election instead of Joe Biden. The documentary was removed by video hosting sites YouTube and Vimeo for violating their community standards.
Absolute Proof won two awards: the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor (for Lindell). Lindell has since released three sequels: Scientific Proof, Absolute Interference, and Absolutely 9-0.
Premise
In the documentary, Lindell hosts numerous cybersecurity experts and anonymous persons whose testimonies allegedly support his claim that Chinese and Iranian hackers hacked into voting machines and switched votes from Trump to Biden on Election Day.
Participants
Mike Lindell
Brannon Howse
Mary Fanning
Phil Waldron
Matthew DePerno
Background
On November 7, 2020, Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election by most major news organizations. Alleging that voter fraud switched several million votes for Joe Biden, Trump's campaign and Republican allies challenged the election results. At least 63 lawsuits were filed, although none were successful. Trump and his allies unsuccessfully urged officials in states that Biden won to disqualify some ballots and to challenge vote certification processes. Even after Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021, Trump and others, including Lindell, continued to maintain that Trump had actually won the election.
Release
On February 5, 2021, One America News Network live streamed the film on its website. Introduced with a disclaimer, the film shortly afterward went viral. Several hours after the live stream, YouTube and Vimeo removed all recordings of the film from their sites, citing violations of their community standards, but not before it had tens of thousands of views.
Reception
The film was widely criticized by fact-checkers as being full of "debunked, unsubstantial claims." Mainstream news outlets such as The New York Times disputed its claims as well.
Lindell's staff confirmed in August 2021 that the data shown in the film was given to Lindell by Dennis L. Montgomery, a software designer with a documented history of fraud.
Awards
In April 2021, Absolute Proof received two Golden Raspberry Awards, which parody traditional awards by honoring a year's worst films.
Sequels
Over the next several months, Lindell released Scientific Proof, an hour-long interview with Douglas G. Frank; Absolute Interference, a two-hour-long documentary starring Michael Flynn, which The Dispatch fact check says "recycles many familiar voter fraud claims that lack evidence"; and Absolutely 9-0, a 26-minute-long interview with an anonymous "white hat hacker" who purported to show packet captures from voting machines used in the 2020 election. In reality, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openclinica | Openclinica is an open source clinical data management system that is used to collect clinical trial data.
See also
REDCap
External links
REDCap versus OpenClinica
References
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidrun%20Schumann | Heidrun Schumann is a German computer scientist specializing in data visualization. She is a professor emerita in the Institute for Computer Science of the University of Rostock.
Education
Schumann completed her doctorate at the University of Rostock in 1981. Her dissertation, Automatische Wegfindung von Rohrleitungen, was jointly supervised by Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Helmut Kiesewetter, , and K. Willnow.
In 1989, she received her post-doctoral degree (Habilitation).
Books
Schumann is a coauthor of the books Rastergraphik - Hardwareentwicklungen (in German, with Hansgeorg Meissner, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1991), Visualisierung - Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden (in German, with Wolfgang Mueller, Springer, 2000), Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (with Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, and Christian Tominski, Springer, 2011) and Interactive Visual Data Analysis (with Tominski, CRC Press, 2020).
Recognition
In 2014, Schumann was elected as a Fellow of the Eurographics Association.
In 2020, she was awarded with the Fraunhofer Medal. In the same year, she was also listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
University of Rostock alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Fogarty | Stephen G. Fogarty is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who last served as the Commanding General of the United States Army Cyber Command from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Cyber Command.
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Army generals
United States Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Matos | Joseph A. Matos III is a United States Marine Corps major general who served as the Director of Information, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers of the U.S. Marine Corps. He previously was the Director of Command, Control Communications, Computers, and Cyber of the United States Space Command.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
United States Marine Corps generals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorelCAD | CorelCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) application for 2D and 3D design. It works on macOS and Windows operating systems. There is also a mobile app of CorelCAD for Android and iOS devices, but it needs a license in order to be accessible.
History
CorelCAD was first released in May 2011 based on the ARES engine developed by Graebert, a German company. Upon release, it was priced at $699 only.
Unlike other Corel products, CorelCAD is not included in any packages including the CorelDRAW Graphic Suite and WordPerfect Office.
Features
CorelCAD contains all the necessary features of a computer-aided design (CAD) application, but lacks the advanced features which can be found in Autodesk AutoCAD. It can support graphics formats such as DWG, CDR, DXF, SHP, and more.
Compared to AutoCAD, CorelCAD has a cleaner and easier interface to use and learn. However, it lacks the robust features in AutoCAD.
References
2D Computer-aided design software
3D graphics software
MacOS computer-aided design software
Computer-aided design software for Windows
2011 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20streaming%20tracks%20of%202020%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Streaming Chart ranks the best-performing streaming tracks of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collects music data for the weekly ARIA Charts.
Chart history
See also
2020 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2020 (Australia)
References
Australia Streaming
Streaming 2020
Number-one Streaming Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2018 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 94th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 18, 2018, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN). Ridden by jockey Paco Lopez, Red Ruby won the race by four and three quarter lengths over runner-up Coach Rocks. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:51 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club supplied a purse of $250,000 for the 94th running. The race was run over a sloppy (sealed) track in a final time of 1:50.17. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day attendance of 48,265. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was the second best crowd ever for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day and the seventh largest for a thoroughbred race in North America in 2018.
Payout
The 94th Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (4–3) paid $ 30.60
$2 Trifecta: (4–3–8) paid $ 255.80
$1 Superfecta: (4–3–8-9) paid $ 475.30
The full chart
Winning Breeder: Hargus Sexton, Sandra Sexton & SilverFern Farm, LLC; (KY)
Final Time: 1:50.17
Track Condition: Sloppy (Sealed)
Total Attendance: Record of 48,265
See also
2018 Preakness Stakes
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Stakes "top three finishers" and # of starters
References
External links
Official Black-Eyed Susan Stakes website
Official Preakness website
2018 in horse racing
Horse races in Maryland
2018 in American sports
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
2018 in sports in Maryland
May 2018 sports events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCube%20system | gCube is an open source software system specifically designed and developed to enact the building and operation of a Data Infrastructure providing their users with a rich array of services suitable for supporting the co-creation of Virtual Research Environments and promoting the implementation of open science workflows and practices. It is at the heart of the D4Science Data Infrastructure.
It is primarily organised in a number of web service called to offer functionality supporting the phases of knowledge production and sharing. In addition, it consists of a set of software libraries supporting service development, service-to-service integration, and service capabilities extension, and a set of portlets dedicated to realise user interface constituents facilitating the exploitation of one or more services.
It is designed and conceived to enact system of systems. In fact, its gCube services rely on standards and mediators to interact with other services as well as are made available by standard and APIs to make it possible for clients to use them. For instance, the DataMiner service implements the Web Processing Service protocol to facilitate clients to execute processes.
The set of components dealing with Identity and Access Management rely on Keycloak and federates other IDMs thus making the overall Authentication and the Authorization management compliant with open standards such as OAuth2, User-Managed Access (UMA), and OpenID Connect (OIDC)protocols.
The Catalogue relies on DCAT, OAI-PMH, and Catalogue Service for the Web to collect contents from other catalogues and data sources and offers its content by DCAT, OAI-PMH, and a proprietary REST API (gCat REST API).
Its Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline implemented by Jenkins represents an innovative approach to software delivering conceived to be scalable and easy to maintain and upgrade at a minimal cost (see Jenkins Case Study).
History
gCube has been developed in the context of the D4Science initiative with the support of several EU projects
See also
gLite
Globus Toolkit
External links
gCube System Website
gCube Releases
gCube on Open Hub
gCube on Zenodo
References
E-Science
Cloud computing
Science software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Baggili | Ibrahim "Abe" Moussa Baggili is a cybersecurity and digital forensics scientist at Louisiana State University with a joint appointment between the college of engineering and the Center for Computation and Technology. Before that, he was the founder and director of the Connecticut Institute of Technology (CIT) at the University of New Haven. Baggili was also a full professor and Elder Family Endowed Chair at UNewHaven. He has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University's Purdue Polytechnic Institute. Baggili is a Jordanian/Arab American first generation college graduate and a well-known scientist in the domain of Cyber Forensics and Cybersecurity with seminal peer-reviewed work in the areas of Virtual Reality Forensics (VR) and security, mobile device forensics and security, application forensics, drone forensics and memory forensics.
Awards & Notable Grants
Baggili has won several awards.
Notable Awards
2023: The Military Cyber Professionals Association awarded Baggili the prestigious medal of the Order of Thor at HammerCon 2023.
2022: Baggili was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).
2021: Baggili received the Connecticut Civilian Medal of Merit for training the Connecticut National Guard in Cybersecurity was only awarded to five people at the time.
2021: Best Paper Award, ARES, WSDF.
2020: Baggili has also been named a European Alliance for Innovation Fellow comprising 0.1% of the members.
2019: Baggili was named the last lecturer at the University of New Haven by University President Steven Kaplan - a video of the lecture is available on Youtube.
2018: Best Paper Award, ICDF2C.
2015: Baggili was named the Elder Family Chair of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at the University of New Haven.
2014: Best Paper Award, ICDF2C.
2008: Baggili was awarded the prestigious Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship at Purdue University in 2008.
2005: Nominated for 'The Chancellor's List' 'The highest academic honor to which students can aspire.
2002: Bachelor of Science with distinction, Purdue University, Dec 14, 2002.
2002: Recognized by the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
2002: United States Achievement Academy, Computer Science Awards Winner, Spring 2002.
2001: Associate of Science with distinction, Purdue University, Dec 15 2001.
Notable Grants
National Science Foundation Award # 1921813 - University of New Haven CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS): Super Cyber Operatives (SCOs).
National Science Foundation Award # 1900210 - SaTC: EDU: Expanding Digital Forensics Education with Artifact Curation and Scalable, Accessible Artifact Exercises.
National Science Foundation Award # 1649101- National Workshop on Redefining Cyber Forensics.
National Science Foundation Award # 1748950 - Exploring cybersecurity and forensics of Virtual Reality systems and their impact on cybersecurity education.
Known For
Baggili, along with his students, are kn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam%20Gasko%20Donoho | Miriam (Miki) Gasko Donoho (also published as Miriam Gasko-Green) is an American statistician whose research topics have included data visualization, equivalences between binary regression and survival analysis, and robust regression.
Education and career
Gasko completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Harvard University in 1981. Her dissertation was Testing Sequentially Selected Outliers from Linear Models. She became a professor of marketing and quantitative studies in the College of Business at San Jose State University, director of the Silicon Valley Consumer Confidence Survey, and treasurer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Recognition
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
MacSpin, a program for three-dimensional data visualization that she developed with her husband David Donoho and brother-in-law Andrew Donoho, was named as the best scientific/engineering software of 1987 by MacUser magazine.
Selected publications
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women statisticians
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
San Jose State University faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libero-Tarifverbund | The Libero-Tarifverbund is a Swiss tariff network covering the canton of Bern and the southwestern part of the canton of Solothurn. It was established in December 2004 from the merger of the Bäre-Abi and Frosch-Abo tariff networks. The Zig-Zag network merged into Libero in 2014. With the merger of the ("BeoAbo"), covering the Bernese Oberland, in December 2019, the network covers the entire canton of Bern.
The network is divided into three types of zones:
Yellow: single-trip, multi-trip, day tickets, and subscriptions (monthly and annual) are valid
Blue: shared with neighboring tariff associations; Libero tickets are valid for travel in or out of these zones and into yellow zones, but not for travel within the zones
Green: only subscriptions are valid; most such zones are in the Bernese Oberland
Partners
Libero partners with 28 operators:
Aare Seeland mobil
Aufzug Matte-Plattform (operates the )
Automobilverkehr Frutigen-Adelboden
Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren
Bernese Oberland Railway
BERNMOBIL
BLS AG
Chemins de fer du Jura
Compagnie Chemin de fer Montreux-Oberland Bernois
Grindelwald Bus
Gurten Funicular
Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn
Marzili Funicular
Niederhornbahn
PostBus Switzerland
Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn
Swiss Federal Railways
STI Bus
Transports publics Fribourgeois
Verkehrsbetriebe Biel/Transports publics biennois
Wengernalpbahn
Zentralbahn
References
External links
Transport in the canton of Bern
Transport in the canton of Solothurn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of the Canadian reality television series Top Chef Canada and was first broadcast on Food Network. The new season was first announced by Food Network Canada on March 31, 2021. The season was filmed in Toronto, Ontario and the finale was shot at the Four Seasons hotel in the city's downtown core. Season nine features 11 chefs of various backgrounds considered to be the next generation of culinary stars in Canada.
The season reflected on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry. Chefs wore masks when shopping for produce, travelling between destinations and during several challenges, which were adapted to follow pandemic restrictions, most notably with "Takeout Wars," an adaptation of the classic challenge "Restaurant Wars," where chefs conducted a takeout service instead of a pop-up restaurant, and where the Judges ate at resident judge Janet Zuccarini's own home.
Season 9 featured Eden Grinshpan again as host, and kept all of its mainstay judges, including Head Judge Mark McEwan, along with resident judges Christ Nuttall-Smith, Mijune Pak and Janet Zuccarini, who rotated through judging elimination challenges, with at least one resident judge present per episode, but at times featured two or all resident judges on some given episodes.
Top Chef Canada: Season 9 premiered on April 19, 2021, and concluded on June 7, 2021. In the season finale, Erika Kerbelnik was declared the winner over runner-up Kym Nguyen. For winning the competition, Karbelnik was awarded the grand prize of $100,000 (CAD) and a new Lexus branded vehicle.
Contestants
Eleven chefs competed in season 9. Contestants are listed in the alphabetical order of their surnames.
Galasa Aden, 27, TBC, Calgary, AB
Andrea Alridge, 30, Chef de Cuisine, Vancouver, BC
Emily Butcher, 30, Chef de Cuisine, Winnipeg, MB
Aicia Colacci, 40, Private Chef, Montreal, QC
Siobhan Detkavich, 21, Chef de Partie, Kelowna, BC
Jae-Anthony Dougan, 34, TBC, Ottawa, ON
Alex Edmonson, 28, Private Chef, Calgary, AB
Erica Karbelnik, 30, Executive Chef, Toronto, ON
Josh Karbelnik, 30, Chef de Cuisine, Toronto, ON
Stéphane "Steph" Levac, 41, Executive Chef, Kentville, NS
Kym Nguyen, 34, Sous Chef, Vancouver, BC
Contestant progress
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(TEAM WIN) The team that won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(IMMUNE) The chef was immune from elimination, and exempted from cooking during this Elimination Challenge.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was eliminated from the competition.
(IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be el |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvinella | Alvinella is a genus of annelids belonging to the family Alvinellidae.
The species of this genus are found in Southeastern Asia and Northern America.
Species:
Alvinella caudata
Alvinella pompejana
References
Annelids |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/224%20Signal%20Squadron%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 224 Signal Squadron (Cyber) is a company sized military communications unit of the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals and forms part of the corps' new 13th (Cyber) Signal Regiment. The squadron was originally formed in 1959 as part of the army's wider expansion of the Royal Signals, but disbanded in 1980 afters its tasks were taken over by a joint communications training group. In 2020, the squadron was reformed as part of the June 2020 reorganisation of the corps.
First Formation (1959)
In 1959, the Royal Corps of Signals went through a massive reorganisation, the first of its type since 1944. As part of the 1959 reorganisations, led by the 1957 Defence White Paper, the Royal Signals former squadrons were all brought into a 'standard numbering and organisation' system. This system was brought in and was to be modelled on the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers recent reorganisations. As part of these reorganisations, 224 Signal Squadron (Wireless Training) was formed in Loughborough as the immediate successor to the former 10 Wireless Training Squadron.
In 1961 the squadron was renamed as 224 Signal Squadron (Radio Training), while initially remaining independent, however shortly after this change, the squadron moved into Garats Hay Barracks in Loughborough, which were specially built for the squadron's tasks. The squadron was tasked with providing the radio training in the East Midlands and support to Eastern District. Eventually in March 1976 following the 1975 Defence White Paper, the squadron absorbed 223 Signal Squadron (Radio) without a change of title.
On 1 November 1980 the squadron was disbanded and its tasks taken over by 4 Special Communications Unit. Part of the squadron then became the Communications and Systems Group located at the same barracks. The squadron's lineage though officially ended, was unofficially continued through the Special Projects Agency of the same group. The training section of the group then moved to Chicksands in 1990, and elements moved to RAF Digby. It was this later group that would reform the squadron in 2004.
Second Formation (2004)
On 21 June 2004, 224 Signal Squadron was formed as a joint service sub-unit of the 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare) and based at RAF Digby, as the successor to the Joint Service Signal Unit. The new squadron became a fully deployable field unit, with the specific role of providing specialist operators, equipment, and enhanced communications to elements of 14 Signal Regiment deployed on operations worldwide (notably Operation Herrick). The squadron on formation comprised around 90 specialist personnel drawn from the British Army (Royal Corps of Signals and Intelligence Corps) and RAF (RAF Signal Service). The squadron also comprised a handful of personnel from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (LAD), Royal Logistic Corps, and Adjutant General's Corps.
By 2009, the squadron was again officially disbanded, its size reduced to a troop (equivalent of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Bella%20Bingo%20%28film%29 | Ella Bella Bingo () is a 2020 Norwegian 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film based on the preschool TV series of the same name. A joint-production between Studio 100 Films and Kool Produktion AS, the film is directed by Frank Mosvold and Atle Solberg Blakseth. It was released in Norway on 24 January 2020, and was a commercial success.
Synopsis
Ella Bella and Henry are best friends, and plan on making a circus together, but when cool kid Johnny arrives in town he becomes Henry's new best friend, making Ella jealous and jeopardising the circus.
Voice cast
Summer Fontana as Ella Bella
Jack Fisher as Henry
Ben Plassala as Johnny
Richard Kind as Mr. Jackson
Tress MacNeille as Ms. Berg
Cherokee Rose Castro as Lisa and Lottie
Fred Tatasciore as Jurgen
Katie Leigh as ticket girl
Chris Sullivan as ice cream salesman
Christopher Salazar as Ella's father
Devin Hennessy as Henry's father
Mara Junot as Henry's mother
Lane Compton as Johnny's uncle
Chris Anthony as Johnny's mother
Stephen Weese as Johnny's father
Brennan Murray as hit the can man
Henrik Lunden Tybakken as rabbit
Release
The film was released in Norway on 24 January 2020, with an opening of $177,849. It grossed $626,491 in Norway, and $355,323 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $981,814 against a budget of NOK 1,350,000 ($164,213), making it a commercial success.
The film was released on VOD and DVD in the United States on 24 March 2020.
Critical reception
The film received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics.
References
Further reading
Bakkane, Chris (15 April 2021) Analysen: Elleville Elfrid (2020). [Analysis: Ella Bella Bingo] on Montages.no (in Norwegian)
External links
Interview with English Cast of Ella Bella Bingo on YouTube
Norwegian animated films
2020 films
Norwegian children's films
2010s children's films
Animated films based on animated series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20consist%20network | Ethernet Consist Network (ECN) is a train communication network based on Ethernet technology standardised with IEC-61375-3-. This is a vehicle (consist) communication like Multifunction Vehicle Bus (MVB) in train communication network (TCN).
ECN provides an Internet Protocol (IP) interface to TCMS (train control and management system) and other systems within a vehicle (consist).
The Ethernet technology's large bandwidth (typically 100 Mbit/s) is particularly suitable for data-intensive systems like video surveillance or passenger information systems.
See also
Ethernet Train Backbone (ETB)
References
External links
Industrial Ethernet
Network topology
Networking standards
Ethernet standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dubno | Michael Dubno (born August 23, 1962) is an American inventor, computer scientist, explorer, and video game developer.
Early life and education
Dubno was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the younger brother of television news producer Daniel Dubno. His family moved to the Bronx where he attended the Bronx High School of Science. In the 1970s, very few high schools and individuals had computers. Bronx Science had an IBM 1620 and an HP 2000E computer but no formal programming classes. Dubno taught himself how to program on the school computers, nearby Lehman College's IBM System/360 (until it was stolen in 1978), and his own North Star Horizon computer.
He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and left in his freshman year.
Dubno founded Megasoft in 1982 and released the video game Megalegs, for Atari computers.
Starting in 1984, he designed and built a robot that talked, moved, had a working arm, navigated using sonar, and had an infrared GPS-like location system.
He maintains a unique workshop in his Manhattan townhouse.
Wall Street
Goldman Sachs (1985–2005)
Dubno was hired by Fischer Black at Goldman Sachs in 1985 and was referred to as "one of Fischer's grad students". He was the first person hired in the front office specifically for his programming skills. In the firm's Equity division, he developed trading systems and utilities used throughout the firm.
SecDB
In 1991, he moved from Goldman's J. Aron currency and commodity division. He started SecDB (Securities DataBase) in 1992 to handle storing the rapid growth of new, non-standard, non-listed options in the currencies and metals businesses (interestingly, none of these are "securities", but Dubno, coming from equities, didn't know that at the time). Each new type of option required new and different fields to describe them contractually and mathematically, and unlike SQL, SecDB was object oriented, and designed for the task. SecServ, the underlying home-grown datastore was a cross between an immutable ledger (think blockchain) and an object store for rapid retrieval. SecServ was unique, at the time, because it supported replication around the globe (necessary for currency trading) and each local copy was a "master".
SecDB was then applied to calculating risk on the old and new types of contracts. Kevin Lundeen and Glenn Gribble joined Dubno in 1993/1994 and together they created Slang (Securities LANGuage), an interpreted language to accelerate reporting and adding new objects. Slang is similar to today's Python programming language. As of 2017, Goldman supports over 15 to 40 million lines of Slang.
Over time, SecDB and Slang were deployed in Goldman's other trading businesses (Equities and Fixed Income), becoming the primary risk system for the company. Goldman's operating culture around the application and use of the system helped "Goldman Sachs pioneer the tech-integrated trading business with the first roll-out of SecDB..."
SecDB played an importan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia premiered on the Nine Network on 23 May 2021, following a six-year absence. British business magnate and The Apprentice UK host, Lord Alan Sugar leads the series as CEO, while Lorna Jane Clarkson and Janine Allis became the new boardroom advisors.
On 15 June 2021, Shaynna Blaze was declared the winner of the season with the money going to her charity of choice, Voice of Change.
Production
In July 2020, Nine reportedly commissioned Warner Brothers Australia, current owners of the franchise, to make a new season of The Celebrity Apprentice for 2021, series CEO Mark Bouris will not be returning. In September 2020, Nine confirmed at their yearly upfronts that the series will officially return in 2021 with British business magnate and The Apprentice UK host and CEO, Lord Alan Sugar leading the series, along with the reveal of Michelle Bridges, Michael "Wippa" Wipfli and Olivia Vivian as some of the competing celebrities. On 12 October, Nine announced the full list of celebrities competing in the season. In the same month, Josh Gibson and Scherri-Lee Biggs were also announced as competing celebrities.
Candidates
Weekly results
The candidate won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
Tasks
Task 1
Airdate: 23 May 2021
Task 2
Airdate: 24 May 2021
Task 3
Airdate: 25 May 2021
Task 4
Airdate: 30 May 2021
Task 5
Airdate: 31 May 2021
Task 6
Airdate: 1 June 2021
Task 7
Airdate: 6 June 2021
Task 8
Airdate: 7 June 2021
Task 9
Airdate: 8 June 2021
Task 10
Airdate: 13 June 2021
Task 11
Airdate: 14 June 2021
Final Task
Airdate: 15 June 2021
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
2021 Australian television seasons
Australia 5
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkSide%20%28hacker%20group%29 | DarkSide is a cybercriminal hacking group, believed to be based in Russia, that targets victims using ransomware and extortion; it is believed to be behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack. It is thought that they have been able to hack and extort money from around 90 companies in the USA alone. The group provides ransomware as a service.
DarkSide itself claims to be apolitical.
Targets
DarkSide is believed to be based in Eastern Europe, likely Russia, but unlike other hacking groups responsible for high-profile cyberattacks it is not believed to be directly state-sponsored (i.e., operated by Russian intelligence services). DarkSide avoids targets in certain geographic locations by checking their system language settings. In addition to the languages of the 12 current, former, or founding CIS countries the exclusion list contains Syrian Arabic. Experts state that the group is "one of the many for-profit ransomware groups that have proliferated and thrived in Russia" with at least the implicit sanction of the Russian authorities, who allow the activity to occur so long as it attacks foreign targets. The language check feature can be disabled when an instance of ransomware is built. One such version was observed in May 2021. Additionally, DarkSide does not target healthcare centers, schools, and non-profit organizations.
Ransomware code used by DarkSide resembles ransomware software used by REvil, a different hacking group; REvil's code is not publicly available, suggesting that DarkSide is an offshoot of REvil or a partner of REvil. DarkSide and REvil use similarly structured ransom notes and the same code to check that the victim is not located in a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) country.
According to Trend Micro Research data, the United States is by far DarkSide's most targeted country, at more than 500 detections, followed by France, Belgium, and Canada. Of 25 countries observed by McAfee the most affected by DarkSide attacks in terms of number of devices impacted per million devices are Israel (1573.28), Malaysia (130.99), Belgium (106.93), Chile
(103.97), Italy (95.91), Turkey (66.82), Austria (61.19), Ukraine (56.09), Peru (26.94), the U.S. (24.67).
As of June 2021, DarkSide has only published data from one company; the amount of data published exceeds 200 GB.
Mechanism of attack
The DarkSide ransomware initially bypasses UAC using the CMSTPLUA COM interface. The software then checks the system's location and language to avoid machines in former Soviet countries; the list of languages that are excluded are Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Tajik, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tatar, Moldovan Romanian, and Syrian Arabic.
The software then creates a file named LOG.{userid}.TXT, which serves as a log file. The software deletes files in the recycle bin one by one, uninstalls certain security and backup software programs, and terminates processes to allow access to user data files. During the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongkui%20Zeng | Hongkui Zeng is the Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, where she leads the creation of open-access datasets and tools to accelerate neuroscience discovery. In 2011-2014 Zeng led the team that created the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, which indicates which regions of the mouse brain are connected to which other regions. Since then, she has led the creation of atlases of neuronal cell types in the brain of humans and mice.
Biography
Zeng received her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from Brandeis University, in the laboratory of Michael Rosbash, where she studied the molecular mechanisms of the circadian clock in fruit flies. Then as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa she studied the molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying hippocampus-dependent plasticity and learning. She joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science in 2006.
At the Allen Institute, Zeng led the team that created the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, which indicates which regions of the mouse brain are connected to which other regions. The atlas was published in 2014. It was obtained by injecting the brains of living mice with viruses carrying the gene for the glowing marker green fluorescence protein (GFP). The neurons at each injection site accumulate GFP along their axons, and so point to the other neurons to which they are connected.
Zeng leads the creation of atlases of cell types in the brain of humans and mice. This work aims to have a systematic understanding of the common and unique properties for each of the brain's neural components - the different types of neuron; to monitor their activities during brain function; and to manipulate these neurons to investigate their function. To gain systematic understanding of the properties, interconnections and functions of these cell types, her team combines genetic tools with large-scale imaging and single-cell analysis technologies.
In 2023, she earned the Pradel Research Award by the National Academy of Sciences and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
References
External links
NeuroTree
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese neuroscientists
Chinese women neuroscientists
American neuroscientists
American women neuroscientists
Brandeis University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%207th%20Portal | The 7th Portal is an American animated web series produced by Stan Lee in 1999. It was the first global team of cyber Super Heroes produced by Stan Lee. The main content of the series is an Internet-based adventure in which six characters from all over the world who got their super powers in cyberspace are drawn into the Web and must fight super villains.
The 7th Portal premiered on the new animation hub Shockwave, on February 29, 2000, when its global launch overwhelmed Macromedia's servers. It became the most successful web originated animated series, being picked up by Fox in mid run, for distribution on TV in South America and Europe. Twenty-two episodes were made, of which the first twenty were shown on-line before the website went bankrupt. The final two episodes were only visible on television.
Main plot
The 7th Portal told the story of Izayus (played by Stan Lee) when he approaches a young beta tester named Peter Littlecloud. He claims to have a game that will let him and his friends fight real monsters, which he projects holographically using the CD-ROM he claims contains the game. The game's premise is that there are six other dimensions, all of which have been conquered by the evil Lord Mongorr (who was Izayus's brother). The players need to take the form of a superhero in order to stop him from opening the portal to the seventh universe, their own.
After they have chosen their form, Peter, Roberto, and Greta are sucked into the computer screen, wherein time they learn that they've been transported for real into the parallel universe of Darkmoor. Also, they have been transformed into their superhero forms. Peter is the Thunderer, Roberto is Oxblood, and Greta is Gossamer. Despite their impressive powers, the heroes find that their forms are still subject to the rules of the game such as spending Life Points to use their superpowers. They are eventually captured and brought to The Bloodzone, a gladiator-like arena consisting of floating platforms over a spiked pit.
Meanwhile, Rikio, Ozubo, and Anna are confused by their friends' disappearance. Suddenly, they are transported into cyberspace to meet Izayus. He reveals to them that the CD was actually the half of The Artifact, a mysterious device that grants unlimited power to the one who gathers the two pieces. Izayus has the red half, which symbolizes life and allows transportation between Earth and Darkmoor; while Mongorr has the blue half which symbolizes death and kills anyone who touches it without the red half. Izayus uses the Artifact's red half to transform Rikio, Ozubo, and Anna into their respective superhero forms, The Streak, Conjure Man, and Imitatia.
Thunderer, Oxblood, and Gossamer discover that they must fight the Nullifiers (as Mongorr's select group of minion's call themselves) members Bearhug and Mongorr's daughter Vendetta to the death if they want to leave the Bloodzone. When Thunderer loses all his Life Points transforming back into Peter, Izayus appears and h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dramas%20broadcast%20by%20Hanoi%20Radio%20Television%20%28HanoiTV%29 | This is a list of dramas released by the Hanoi Radio Television network.
#B
#C
#Đ
#G
#H
#K
#L
#M
#N
#Q
#S
#T
#Ư
#V
#X
See also
List of dramas broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
List of dramas broadcast by Vietnam Digital Television (VTC)
List of programmes broadcast by Hanoi Radio Television
Notes
HAVISCO is short for Hanoi Audio Visual Company (Vietnamese: Công ty nghe nhìn Hà Nội), a subunit of Hanoi Radio Television
References
External links
hanoitv.vn – Official HanoiTV Website
Vietnam Television original programming
Hanoi Radio Television (HanoiTV)
HanoiTV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterocaudata | Laterocaudata is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Myxobolidae.
Species:
Laterocaudata mastacembela Chen & Hsieh, 1984
References
Myxobolidae
Cnidarian genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20suffix%20array | In computer science, a generalized suffix array (or GSA) is a suffix array containing all suffixes for a set of strings. Given the set of strings of total length , it is a lexicographically sorted array of all suffixes of each string in . It is primarily used in bioinformatics and string processing.
Functionality
The functionality of a generalized suffix array is as follows:
For a collection or set of strings, .
It is a lexicographically sorted array of all suffixes of each string in the set .
In the array, each suffix is represented by an integer pair which denotes the suffix starting from position in .
In the case where different strings in have identical suffixes, in the generalized suffix array, those suffixes will occupy consecutive positions. However, for convenience, the exception can be made where repeats will not be listed.
A generalized suffix array can be generated for a generalized suffix tree. When compared to a generalized suffix tree, while the generalized suffix array will require more time to construct, it will use less space than the tree.
Construction Algorithms and Implementations
Algorithms and tools for constructing a generalized suffix array include:
Fei Shi's (1996) algorithm which runs in worst case time and space, where is the sum of the lengths of all strings in and the length of the longest string in . This includes sorting, searching and finding the longest common prefixes.
The external generalized enhanced suffix array, or eGSA, construction algorithm which specializes in external memory construction, is particularly useful when the size of the input collection or data structure is larger than the amount of available internal memory
gsufsort is an open-source, fast, portable and lightweight tool for the construction of generalized suffix arrays and related data structures like Burrows–Wheeler transform or LCP Array)
Mnemonist, a collection of data structures implemented in JavaScript contains an implementation for a generalized suffix tree and can be found publicly on npm and GitHub.
Solving the Pattern Matching Problem
Generalized suffix arrays can be used to solve the pattern matching problem:
Given a pattern and a text , find all occurrences of in .
Using the generalized suffix array of , then first, the suffixes that have as a prefix need to be found.
Since is a lexicographically sorted array of the suffixes of , then all such suffixes will appear in consecutive positions within . Particularly important, since is sorted, it makes identification of suffixes possible and easy using binary search.
Using binary search, first find the smallest index in such that contains as a prefix, or determine that no such suffix is present. In the case where the suffix is not found, does not occur in . Otherwise, find the largest index which contains as a prefix. The elements in the range indicate the starting positions of the occurrences of in .
Binary search on takes comparisons. |
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