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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviv%20%28restaurant%29 | Aviv (sometimes Aviv PDX) was a Middle Eastern vegan restaurant with several locations in Portland, Oregon. Guy Fieri visited the restaurant for a 2020 episode of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Although Aviv had been popular, it closed in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Description
In 2018, Aviv was the "only vegan Israeli restaurant in Portland". Its plant-based menu included baba ghanoush, falafel, "Gonzo" shawarma fries, eight varieties of hummus, labneh, shakshuka, tahini, and spiced Moroccan-style carrots with harissa and tofu feta. The restaurant also served mushroom "calamari", mushroom couscous, and jackfruit brisket. Shakshuka was a 2020 weekend brunch option.
History
After its success as a pop-up restaurant, Aviv was established by owners Tal Caspi and Suzanne Prinsen in partnership with Sanjay Chandrasekaran. The original brick-and-mortar restaurant opened on Southeast Division in May 2017, in a space previously occupied by Chandrasekaran's Heart Bar in southeast Portland's Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood. In early 2020, Guy Fieri visited Aviv for an episode of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (season 31, episode 11: "Hometown Inspiration").
COVID-19 pandemic and closure
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Aviv offered take-out and delivery at times. The restaurant also carried Be Sweet ice cream from Tal Caspi's shop, which closed during the pandemic. For Hanukkah in 2020, Aviv's special menu included matzah ball soup, jackfruit brisket on matzo, grilled-cheese latkes, and challah.
The restaurant was one of several vandalized with "Free Palestine" graffiti in January 2021. By May 2021, Aviv had moved out of its Southeast Division space and was operating in northwest Portland's Pearl District and on Killingsworth Street in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. Another location, Tiny Aviv, opened in August on Madison Street in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood.
On September 23, 2021, Eater Portland confirmed plans for all Aviv's locations to close; the restaurants on Killingsworth and Madison closed immediately, and the Pearl District location operated through the end of the month. The restaurant's owners said on social media,
The Pearl District restaurant became the fourth location of The Sudra, a chain of "Indian and fusion vegan" restaurants.
Reception
Michael Russell included Aviv in The Oregonian's list of "Portland's 50 most notable restaurant openings of 2017" and its 2019 "ultimate guide" to the city's 40 best brunches. In 2017, it was nominated in the Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant of the Year category of Eater Portland annual Eater Awards. Waz Wu included Aviv on Eater Portland 2021 list of the city's 15 "essential" vegan and vegetarian restaurants.
Dan Schlegel and Alex Frane included it on Thrillist's 2019 list of Portland's "best vegetarian and vegan-friendly restaurants". Lauren Carlos and Michelle DeVona included Aviv in the website's 2020 overview of "where to find next-level |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Letouz%C3%A9 | Emmanuel Letouzé (born 1975) is a French development economist, economic demographer and political cartoonist who focuses on data and development and the author of the United Nations Global Pulse White Paper "Big Data for Development" in 2012.
Letouzé is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, a not-for-profit organization focusing on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and human development created in 2013 with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), MIT Media Lab and Overseas Development Institute (ODI), where he holds research affiliations as a visiting scientist at HHI, MIT Connection Science Founding Fellow, and research associate at ODI.
His work lies at the intersection of human development and data science, especially the applications and implications of digital data and technologies for sustainable development, official statistics, poverty and inequality, criminality, migration, gender equality, conflict and fragility, press freedom, privacy, data and algorithmic governance, public health, and "Human Artificial Intelligence".
Early life and career
Letouzé was born in Brittany, France and grew up in the banlieue of Paris, Sweden and Kuwait. After studying at Lycée Henri IV, he received a BA in Political Science and Economics and an MA in Applied Economics specialized in Economic Demography from Sciences Po Paris, the latter with field work at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Dakar, Senegal, an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs on a Fulbright fellowship, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on "Applications and Implications of Call-Detail Records for Demo-Economic Analysis" under the supervision of Ronald Lee, Edward Miguel and Jennifer Johnson-Hanks. He completed his post-doctoral research in 2016-17 at the MIT Media Lab in Alex 'Sandy' Pentland's Human Dynamics Group.
Between 2000 and 2004, Letouzé worked in Hanoi, Vietnam for the French Ministry of Finance and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leading a technical assistance project on Economic Governance with the Vietnamese General Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance, and National Assembly. He then worked as an Economist for the United Nations Development Programme in New York between 2005 and 2009, on fiscal policy and fiscal space for poverty reduction, post-conflict economic recovery, and migration as part of the 2009 Human Development Report research team. In 2011, he joined UN Global Pulse in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General where he wrote the White Paper "Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities". He was then the lead author of the 2013 OECD Fragile States report, which proposed to "move away from a “thin”, formal conceptualisation of fragility centred on the state, towards a “thick”, substantive understanding centred on the quality of state-socie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-200 | The CP 200 was a Brazilian home computer produced by Prológica in 1982.
It was compatible in software and hardware with the British Sinclair ZX81, although it was a less literal copy than the competing machines (TK82C and TK83), produced by Microdigital. There were two models of CP 200 with very similar cabinets, but "Modelo I" had the Prológica logo in high relief while "Modelo II" had a logo plate in the same position and was slightly larger.Prológica later redesigned the cabinet, added a video monitor output, external power supply, and relaunched the product as CP 200 S.
Technical details
The memory configuration consisted of 8 KiB of ROM and 16 KiB of RAM. The RAM was not expandable internally.
The keyboard was a simplified mechanical keyboard resembling a calculator. It featured 43 keys, including two red keys that, when simultaneously pressed, initiated a reset of the machine. There was auditory feedback in the form of a "beep" sound whenever a key was pressed.
In terms of display, the CP 200 offered two modes. The first mode was a 32 x 22 character display, with text appearing in "inverse video" - white text on a black background. The second mode was a 64 x 44 semigraphic display, allowing for a more visually versatile output.
As for expansion capabilities, the machine provided a single 50-pin slot, positioned on the side of the system on the CP 200 and at the back on the CP 200 S.
The CP200 also featured ports for external connections.There was an RF TV out (PAL-M, channel 3), a joystick port and cassette tape port supporting speeds of 500 and 1500 baud. A composite monitor out (3-pin DIN connector) was available on the CP200 S variant.
Bibliography
HURLEY, Linda. Programas para jovens programadores: TK82-83-85 CP200. São Paulo: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
References
Prológica computers
Computer-related introductions in 1982
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Personal computers
Products introduced in 1982
Sinclair ZX81 clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-300 | CP 300 was a personal microcomputer produced by Prológica, a computer company located in Brazil, and introduced in 1983.
General information
It was compatible in software and hardware with the American TRS-80 Model III, and could be considered a domestic and cheaper version of the CP 500, since it was supplied with only one cabinet containing the CPU and a "gum" keyboard. The power supply was external to the cabinet.
Data Storage
Audio cables were supplied with the computer for connection with a regular tape recorder.
Accessories
CP 300 Printer.
Bibliography
Micro Computador - Curso Básico. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Gráfica, 1984, v. 1, pp. 49–50.
ABREU, Carlos Alberto C. 77 programas para linha TRS-80. Rio de Janeiro: Microkit, 1985.
References
Prológica computers
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Personal computers
Products introduced in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking%20Friends | Talking Friends is an American computer-animated mini-series that premiered on June 8, 2012 on Disney.com and YouTube. Based on the popular app franchise of the same name by Outfit7 Limited, it is the first television installment in the Talking Tom & Friends franchise, and would be the only one to be produced in association with The Walt Disney Company. The series ended on August 31.
Characters
Talking Tom (voiced by Michael Tauzin) - A gray tabby cat, newscaster, Ginger's uncle and Angela's boyfriend.
Talking Ben (voiced by Michael D. Cohen) - A tan dog, genius, scientist and newscaster.
Talking Pierre - A green parrot who likes to play video games and gets easily annoyed by the others, particularly Tom.
Talking Ginger (voiced by Michael Tauzin) - A mischievous and curious orange tabby cat and Tom's nephew.
Talking Angela (voiced by Susannah Hillard) - A white cat, singer and Tom's girlfriend.
Additionally, Talking Gina appears as a plush toy.
Production
Development
According to The New York Times, various studios including DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox (later acquired by Disney in 2019) and Nickelodeon had the chance to adapt the franchise in film or television before passing on the opportunity, until Disney Interactive took the offer.
Music
The show's soundtrack was composed by Alfred Montejano, while two additional songs were released by Walt Disney Records. The first, titled You Get Me was released on the iTunes Store on June 12, 2012 to promote Tom Loves Angela, and the second, titled That's Falling in Love, was released to promote Talking Angela. The music video for You Get Me was produced by ARX Anima, Walt Disney Interactive Media Group and Outfit7 and released on June 12, 2012, by Walt Disney Records. The scenes featured were originally produced for the music video and were not taken from any existing clips in the series. The music video was, however, was animated in the same style as the series. A teaser video for That's Falling in Love was also later released by Disney Music on December 6, 2012.
Release
The series premiere and remaining episodes were released on Disney.com, as well as onto Disney's official YouTube channel, serving as their debut series on the platform. The series finale aired two months later on August 31, 2012.
Marketing
To help promote the series, Outfit7 created an app exclusive to iOS devices known as Talking Friends Cartoons that featured all ten episodes, as well as additional content including descriptions of the characters and downloable wallpapers. The app, however, garnered controversy with some of the advertisements. For instance, a banner displayed at the bottom of the screen while the app was launched directed users to take part in quizzes that included prizes such as a 64GB iPad, which were unable to be completed unless users would spend monthly fees for a membership service. This ultimately resulted in many people feeling upset over the product as well as leaving many parents frustrated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Gods%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Battle of the Gods is a closed-end, computer moderated, science fiction play-by-mail (PBM) game that was published by Integral Games.
Development
Integral Games of Arlington, Texas published Battle of the Gods in 1984. This was a closed-end, computer moderated, science fiction, play-by-mail game of easy to medium difficulty.
Gameplay
In the game, "Players seek to control the universe by using their god-like powers". It had an innovative method of moving and mapping. At the outset, players allocate "multipliers" among four methods of advancing: conversion, creation, destruction, and teaching. Gods of various temperment have various possible actions beyond the powers of mortals.
Reception
The editor of Gaming Universal, Bob McLain, reviewed the game in 1984, stating that it "may not become immortalized in the annals of PBM overnight, but it is good fun". He rated it at three stars of five, or "average". In the April 1985 edition of Dragon (Issue 96), Mike Gray liked the new concept, but questioned whether the game was worth its cost per turn, saying, "the game is relatively simple, and you can't do a whole lot for the $3.50 turn fee... It is not the most exciting PBM game. Half of the players in my game dropped out." However, he did think the game was good for new players: "For a beginning PBM player, the game is easy to understand and very clearly explained." Gray concluded with a hope that the game would be expanded and made more complex. "I like the fresh, new ideas in this game very much — I've never played anything else like it. Down the road, I can see these ideas expanded into a more complex and very interesting game."
References
Bibliography
A capsule-type review of the game.
Play-by-mail games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-500 | CP 500 was a Brazilian personal computer range, designed and manufactured in Brazil by Prológica.
General information
The CP 500 range is compatible in terms of software and hardware with the American TRS-80 Model III, using the BASIC Level II language. All models, as well as virtually all of Prologica's computers, have their enclosures made of polyurethane resin, designed by Luciano Deviá.
Models
CP 500Early model, released in April 1982. Sold in configuration without or with one or two full-height 5" 1/4, 178 KiB disc drives. There was also a graphite variation of this model released shortly before the release of the CP 500/M80.
CP 500/M80Released in 1985, the cabinet color was changed from beige to graphite. Besides this aesthetic change, the machine could operate under SO-08, a clone of Digital Research's CP/M, being able to access up to 64 KiB of RAM and use the vast software library of existing CP/M software. With an RS-232 port (via an adapter connected to the proprietary CP532C port), it was also able to access the incipient videotext systems of the time.
CP 500/M80CReleased in 1986 in white, it was 30% more compact than its predecessor (hence the "C" in the name), thanks to the use of 5" 1/4 slim height drives, now placed in a vertical position in the cabinet. This model no longer had the cassette recorder port, although there was the corresponding hole in the metal back panel and the appropriate spaces for the cassette circuit components on the main board. It remained in production until September 1988, even after the release of the CP 500/Turbo.
CP 500/TurboLast release of the range in 1987. Similar to the CP 500/M80C, but in graphite color and with a faster 4 MHz CPU clock.
Data Storage
Data storage was done in audio cassette tapes at 300 bits per second.
Audio cables were supplied with the computer for connection with a regular tape recorder.
Bibliography
ABREU, Carlos Alberto C. 77 programas para linha TRS-80. Rio de Janeiro: Microkit, 1985.
References
Prológica computers
Computer-related introductions in 1982
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Personal computers
Products introduced in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten%20Realms%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Forgotten Realms, subtitled "War of the Avatars", was a computer-moderated play-by-mail game (PBM) published by Reality Simulations that was set in the Savage Frontier of the Forgotten Realms.
Development
The game was designed by Paul Brown.
Gameplay
50 players per game adventured in a world comprising 5,000 hexagons of varied terrain, where they controlled various characters, military forces, and communities. Diplomacy and combat were important parts of gameplay. The company published a "top-10 chart" every turn to highlight significant realm accomplishments.
Each game lasted until one of the players met the victory conditions, usually 35–50 turns, at a cost of $1.50 per turn plus 50 cents for each move (to a maximum, of $15 per turn.) After twenty turns, players could summon a god's avatar to aid them.
Reception
Kuo W. Ping reviewed the game in the July–August 1996 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine and stated it was "one of the best PBM games I have yet played". Ping described the game as "very fun and enjoyable" and rated it with "high marks" while suggesting two areas to improve.
Awards
Forgotten Realms won the Origins Award for Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1994.
References
20th-century role-playing games
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Origins Award winners
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in 1993
Role-playing games introduced in the 1990s
Strategy games
Tabletop games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship%20Command%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Starship Command is a play-by-mail game that was published by Elite Simulations.
Development
The game was designed by Brian Hansen. It was a computer-moderated game published by Elite Simulations with turn-around times every two weeks.
Gameplay
The game's format is "tactical naval combat in space". Elements of gameplay include races and traits as well as starship design. Diplomacy and combat are part of gameplay. Games end when a player's fleet achieves a set number of points. Various medals were available for player accomplishments, which remained on a player's record for future games.
Reception
B.E. Wright reviewed the game in the November–December 1996 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine. He stated that, while it was not his favorite game, it was "the best tactical space game ever designed for PBM", predicting a bright future if it caught on with players.
Starship Command won the Origins Award for Best New Play-by-Mail Game of 1996.
References
Origins Award winners
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Tactical wargames
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheely%20%28film%29 | Wheely, also released as Wheely: Fast and Hilarious, is a 2018 Malaysian 3D computer-animated comedy film written and directed by Yusry Abd Halim as his first animated film. It was released in Malaysia on 16 August 2018. Critically, the film received negative reviews, with critics calling it a mockbuster of Pixar Animation Studios's film Cars.
Plot
After a really bad crash, Wheely is demoted from a 3-time rookie racer to a downtown cabbie with a mountain of debt and a bruised ego. The cause of the accident is no other than Putt Putt, his philosophical/Feng Shui practitioner fan turned to-best friend. Everything was fine until Wheely fell "head-over-wheels" for Bella, a supermodel from the upper echelons of society. To make things worse...she's got a boyfriend! Luckily for Wheely, Bella finds his street smart, ghetto-like, funny-guy character appealing.... but just before he gets the chance to get to know her better, her stuck-up boyfriend, Ben, gets in the way. And that's not all.... Wheely's faced with an even bigger problem when his dream girl gets "car-napped" by a global syndicate masterminded by an monstrous 18-wheeler truck, Kaiser.
Cast
Ogie Banks as Wheely, a shy and good-hearted yellow Mitsubishi Evo that suffers a racing accident, the main protagonist
Gavin Yap as Putt Putt, a green Piaggio Vespa, Wheely's best friend
Frances Lee as Bella, an attractive red Alfa Romeo GT
Thomas Pang as Ben, a dark green Buick XP2000, Bella's boyfriend
Jay Sheldon as Frank, a rusty Ford Econoline, that is known as a cardiologist. Sheldon also voices Ryan the Commenyator a blue helicopter who narrates Wheely's race
Brock Powell as Kaiser, an evil blue Volvo FH, who is the leader of a luxury "car-napping" syndicate
Raymond Orta as Parmo, a Mini Cooper, one of Kaiser's henchmen
Armando Valdes-Kennedy as Rumble, a Chevrolet Camaro, one of Kaiser's henchmen
Tamiyka White as Momma, a Jamaican-accented orange VW Beetle, Wheely's mother
Barbara Goodson as Sergeant Street, a Ford Crown Victoria, that takes care of Gasket City
Chris Jai Alex as Crank, a ship that transports Kaiser
Khairil Mokhzani Bahar as Joe Flo, a red 1991 Nissan Silvia
Gavin Yap as Brad, an orange and white 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Yap also voices Ryan the Commentator a red helicopter who narrates Wheely's race
Joe Murray as Royston, a wealthy blue 1960 Jaguar Mark 2, who is Ben's father
Ghafir Akbar as the Director, a unnamed purple Willys model Jeep, who directs a commercial that Bella is acting in
Diong Chae Lian as Amy, a yellow Daewoo Matiz, who is Wheely's biggest fan
Production
Yusry Abdul Halim came up with the idea for the film in 2014 under the name of KL Taxi. But when we it get marketed the internationally buyers didn’t get the "KL" name. So Yusry immediately changed the title to Wheely.
His brother Norman added that the car photos went through various inspirations for the character designs, with the concept being expanded on the storyline. “We got two British writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter%20%28hacker%20group%29 | Ghostwriter also known as UNC1151 is a hacker group allegedly originating from Belarus. According to the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the group has spread disinformation critical of NATO since at least 2016.
History
The name Ghostwriter comes from the group's first attacks, whereby they would steal credentials of journalists or publishers and publish fake articles using those credentials. Hence, the group effectively became unwanted ghostwriters for those with stolen credentials. UNC1151 is an internal company name by Mandiant given to uncategorized groups of "cyber intrusion activity."
The European Union has blamed this group for hacking German government officials.
EU's foreign policy chef Josep Borrell has threatened Russia for sanctions.
According to Serhiy Demedyuk, deputy secretary of the national security and defense council of Ukraine, the group was responsible for defacement of Ukrainian government websites in January 2022.
In February 2022 The Register reported that a Ukrainian CERT had announced that the group was targeting "private ‘i.ua’ and ‘meta.ua’ [email] accounts of Ukrainian military personnel and related individuals" as part of a phishing attack during the invasion of Ukraine. Mandiant said that two domains mentioned by the CERT, i[.]ua-passport[.]space and id[.]bigmir[.]space were known command and control domains of the group. Mandiant also said "We are able to tie the infrastructure reported by CERT.UA to UNC1151, but have not seen the phishing messages directly. However, UNC1151 has targeted Ukraine and especially its military extensively over the past two years, so this activity matches their historical pattern."
Characteristics and techniques
The group has executed spear-phishing campaigns against members of legitimate press to infiltrate the content management systems of those organizations. Then, the group uses the system to publish their own fake stories.
References
Hacker groups
Hacking in the 2020s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Reibman | Amy R. Reibman is an American electrical engineer known for her work on video quality, transport, and analysis. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Education and career
Reibman's parents were an engineer and a computer programmer, and she became interested in computing while still in elementary school. After starting her undergraduate education in mechanical engineering at a different university, she became an electrical engineering student at Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1983, master's degree in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1987.
After joining the Princeton University faculty as an assistant professor, she moved to AT&T Labs Research. She worked at AT&T for 23 years, and was named a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and Lead Inventive Scientist there, before returning to academia as a professor at Purdue.
Recognition
Reibman was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2005, "for contributions to the transport of video over networks".
Reibman was elected to fellow status of the National Academy of Inventors in December, 2022.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Duke University alumni
Princeton University faculty
Scientists at Bell Labs
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28afternoon%29 | The 2022–23 afternoon network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2022 to August 2023. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2021–22 season. The daytime schedules for the four major networks that offer afternoon programming are expected to remain consistent with the prior television season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local and/or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are MyNetworkTV and The CW (as the programming services also does not offer daytime programs of any kind except for LIV Golf), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Fox is not included on the weekday schedule. Fox only airs afternoon programming (in the form of sports content) on weekends.
Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or primetime programming by affiliates after game completion.
Weekdays
Notes:
Depending on their choice of feed, CBS stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 ;p.m. Eastern (airtime adjusted by time zone), and/or The Young and the Restless at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time (in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones).
(*) ABC stations have the option of airing General Hospital at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
(**) ABC stations have the option of GMA3 anytime between noon-2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
(***) NBC stations have the option of airing NBC News Daily anytime between noon-4 p.m. Eastern Time, as live feeds are provided each hour
Saturday
N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | The 2022–23 network late night television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the late night hours from September 2022 to August 2023. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2021–22 television season.
PBS is not included at all, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. (PBS does offer its member stations packages of Amanpour & Company and BBC World News to air in late night timeslots Monday–Friday, and optional overnight access to its satellite feed, which rebroadcasts prime time programs shown either the previous evening or earlier in the week.) Ion Television is not included since the network's late-night schedule consists of syndicated drama reruns and paid programming, nor are MyNetworkTV and The CW as neither programming service offer late night programs of any kind.
Fox is not included in the weekday schedule, as it only airs late night network programming on Saturdays, and ABC and CBS are not included in the weekend schedule as both networks only air late night network programming on weekdays (except overruns of primetime programming due to sports). NBC is not included on Sundays as it does not offer any network late night programming on Sundays year-round (outside of overruns of its prime time Sunday Night Football game telecasts into the late night time period during Fall).
Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.
Legend
Schedule
New series to broadcast television are highlighted in bold.
Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by .
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs, and fill timeslots not allocated to network programs with local, syndicated, or paid programming at their discretion. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or a digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any overrunning major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
All sporting events air live in all time zones in correspondence to U.S. Eastern Time with local and/or overnight programming after game completion.
Weekday late nights
Note:
ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates offer their rebroadcasts of the network evening newscasts to accommodate local |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema%20700 | Sistema 700 was a personal professional microcomputer, introduced by the Brazilian computer company Prológica in 1981.
General information
Based on the Zilog Z80A 8-bit, 4MHz microprocessor, it had 64 KiB RAM configuration and two 5-1/4" floppy disk drives with capacity for up to 320 KiB of storage.
Its operating system was DOS-700, a version adapted by Prologica's software engineering department from the CP/M-80.
It achieved relative commercial success in financial, database and engineering applications. Due to the compatibility with the popular CP/M system, various applications like Fortran ANS, BASIC compiler, COBOL ANSI 74 compiler, Algol, Pascal, PL/I, MUMPS/M, RPG, Faturol C could be used. Other applications like word processors (WordStar), spreadsheets (CalcStar) and databases (DataStar and dBase II) were also compatible. Your applications could be programmed in BASIC, Cobol-80 and Fortran.
Models
Sistema 700 (1981 - vapourware)
Initial model announced in 1981, but never went into production.
Super Sistema 700 (1981)
Final version with graphite-colored cabinet and rounded contours.
Data Storage
Data storage was done in audio cassette. Audio cables were supplied with the computer for connection with a regular tape recorder.
Accessories
P-720 Printer.
Bibliography
Micro Computador - Curso Básico. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Gráfica, 1984, v. 1, pp. 49–50.
References
Prológica computers
Computer-related introductions in 1981
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Personal computers
Products introduced in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NE-Z8000 | The NE-Z8000 is a Brazilian homebuilt computer clone of the Sinclair ZX81, introduced in late 1982 by Prológica's subsidiary, the monthly magazine Nova Eletrônica.
General Information
The NE-Z8000 computer is based around a Z80A CPU clocked at 3.6 MHz with 1KB of RAM (expandable to 16 KB). The 8KB ROM comes with a built-in Sinclair BASIC interpreter.
The machine has four plugs on the back (9V DC, EAR, MIC and TV), and an exposed part of the circuit board where you can connect extra equipment.
The video connector cable is about 120 cm long and connects the TV plug to a regular PAL-M television, outputting a monochrome image on VHF channel 2 or 3. The EAR and MIC plugs allow to connect a cassette tape recorder for data storage, supporting a rate of 300 Baud.
It has no switch; to turn it on, you simply plug it into the power supply. A power supply provides 9V DC power usable by the machine.
The NE-Z8000 is considered rare, and in 2013 it could be auctioned by as much as R$1000.
Bibliography
Nova Eletrônica. São Paulo: Editele, 1982, Edição Nº 70, pp. 122.
References
Prológica
Computer-related introductions in 1982
Early microcomputers
Goods manufactured in Brazil
Sinclair ZX81 clones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Who%3A%20Worlds%20Apart | Doctor Who: Worlds Apart is a free-to-play digital collectible card game using a blockchain on a fork of Ethereum developed and published by Reality Gaming Group, based upon the BBC television series Doctor Who. The game is set for release for Microsoft Windows, macOS and mobile devices.
Gameplay
Players control a Time Lord, one of the races from the series, and need to challenge opponents with card decks which they build.
Card sets
Cards for the game operate on Reality Gaming Group's Digital Asset Trading (DAT) Platform. Each card is minted as an NFT on a "sidechain" and can be traded and sold on marketplaces. Prior to the game's release, cards were available to collect starting from October 2020.
Development
The game was first announced in August 2020 as a partnership between BBC Studios and Reality Gaming Group to create a digital trading card game based on the Doctor Who IP using blockchain technology. This would allow each collectible to be to be secured and protected by tokenising as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Reality's co-founder Tony Pearce had said that understanding "what an NFT is" had proved difficult for Doctor Who fans at the start. Together with the BBC, they hoped to "educate the younger Doctor Who fans of why there is value and utility with these cards."
References
External links
Official website
Blockchain games
Digital collectible card games
Ethereum
MacOS games
Non-fungible tokens
Upcoming video games
Worlds Apart
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Orlicky | Joseph Orlicky (December 31, 1922 - December 1986) was a Czech-born American pioneer of computerized materials management, manufacturing specialist and author who created the Material requirements planning (MRP). He was the author of the first book on Material Requirements Planning in 1975.
Also known as Joe Orlicky, he was an engineer at IBM in 1964 when he constructed the first principles of MRP. As part of his research, he studied the Toyota Production System (TPS) which then became the basis of lean manufacturing.
His first book called The Successful Computer System: Its Planning, Development, and Management in a Business Enterprise, was published 1969. His second book, which sold more than 140,000 copies, called Material Requirements Planning: The New Way of Life in Production and Inventory Management, became the blueprint for the development of standardized MRP systems.
See also
Operations management
References
1922 births
1986 deaths
American engineers
American technology writers
American manufacturing businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi%20Bahrami | Mahdi Bahrami () is an Iranian computer programmer, video game designer and developer.
Early life
He was born in Isfahan. He was interested to the programming and mathematics from his childhood. He went to the Netherlands aged 19, where he made video games like Engare and Farsh.
Awards
IGF Student Showcase winner" San Francisco, 2014
Culture Award at Tehran Games Festival" Tehran, 2017
Best Game Design at Tehran Games Festival" Tehran, 2017
IndieCade Nominee" Los Angeles, 2015
Most innovative game at Tehran Game Convention" Tehran, 2017
Sense of Wonder Night official selection" Tokyo, 2010
References
Living people
Video game directors
Iranian people in the video game industry
People from Isfahan
1994 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20mining | Process mining is a technique used to turn event data into insights and actions. Techniques used in process mining such as Process discovery and Conformance checking depend only one the order of activities executed in the operations. The event log not only contains the activity details, but also timestamps, resources and data accompanied with process execution. Careful analysis of the external details from the event log can reveal useful information that can be used for making predictions on decisions that might be taken in the future (decision mining), efficiency and working dynamics of the team (organisational mining), and performance analysis.
Decision mining is a way of enhancing process models by analysing the decision points in the model and finding the rules in those decision points based on data attributes. The rules for decision mining is extracted using decision tree algorithms, that analyses decision points to find out which properties of a case might lead to taking certain paths in the process.
Example
If petri nets are considered as process models, a decision point corresponds to a place with multiple outgoing arcs. Such a place would be a point of decision from where only one of the transitions is executed.
The existing event log attributes can be used to create decision trees based on the choice taken in these decision points. For such a decision tree, the independent attributes would contain the attributes recorded in the event log, and the dependent attribute would be the choice of transition made. Using this data a decision tree can be created for the prediction of the transition that might be executed in the future given a set of base conditions.
Creating guards for transitions
Once a decision tree is explored, each decision point can be annotated with guards. These guards are the conditions created using various data variables that help in choosing one of the transitions for execution from the decision point. The petri net enhanced with the guards can be used for making future predictions of the type of decisions made at the decision points.
Decision mining using ProM
The Decision Miner plug-in is built into ProM that determines the decision points contained in a Petri net model, and specifies the possible decisions with respect to the log while being able to deal with invisible and duplicate activities. The plugin requires a process model and an event log, and it produces an enhanced process model in return.
Decision Miner formulates the learning problem, the actual analysis is carried out with the help of the J48 decision tree classifier, which is the implementation of the C4.5 algorithm provided by the Weka software library. The Algorithm view offers the full range of parameters that are available for the used decision tree algorithm from the Weka library.
Challenges
The first challenge relates to the quality of data, and the correct interpretation of their semantics. For example, there might be a loss of dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomFi | FreedomFi is a company for cellular networking.
Gateway
The FreedomFi Gateway is a x86 device which as functions as a Wireless LAN (stylized as LoRaLAN: Long Range Local Area Network) node in a 4G+5G network for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Helium
FreedomFi has partnered with the Helium network blockchain (ticker symbol "HNT") to expand its coverage; HNT is awarded as an incentive.
References
External links
https://freedomfi.com
https://www.helium.com
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20Cottle | Aubrey Cottle (born ), also known as Kirtaner, is a Canadian hacker, computer security researcher, software engineer and an early member of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Cottle was involved with Anonymous during the late 2000s and in its resurgence beginning in 2020, in which the group attempted to combat the far-right conspiracy movement QAnon.
Anonymous
Early years
Cottle was an active user of 4chan and Something Awful in the mid-2000s, where he and others began collectively referring to themselves as "Anonymous", due to the 4chan moniker of the same name. During this time Anonymous began trolling and "raiding" other websites, online games and chat rooms, as well as black-hat hacking: targeting Hal Turner, The Church of Scientology and others. 4chan ultimately curtailed raiding from their platform, resulting in Cottle and others migrating to Cottle's website 420chan, an imageboard with a focus drug culture, LGBT discussion, and raiding.
According to Cottle, upon being photographed by Scientologists during the 2008 Project Chanology rally, he began fearing for his family's safety. According to Cottle, he tried unsuccessfully to "shut down" Anonymous after this incident, and so attempted to generate bad press for the group so that they would lose public support. During a 2021 interview with Vice News, he claimed responsibility for the group's 2008 attack on the Epilepsy Foundation's website, where Anonymous members flooded the forum with flashing animations to trigger seizures in those with photosensitive or pattern-sensitive epilepsy. Cottle later expressed remorse for the attack.
Cottle said in a 2021 interview that he retired for "a number of years", and was not continuously involved with Anonymous since its creation. During this period Cottle turned to software engineering contract work.
2020 re-emergence
Beginning with a series of arrests in 2009–2011, Anonymous' notoriety began to fade, and by 2018 the group had largely left the public spotlight. However, in 2020 Anonymous re-emerged following the George Floyd protests, performing the June 2020 BlueLeaks breach in which they publicly released a large amount of hacked U.S. law enforcement data. Reuters named Cottle as one of those responsible for the group's presence on Twitter.
In August 2020, Cottle identified himself as a founder of Anonymous in an article by Dale Beran in The Atlantic. Cottle said in a November 2020 Reddit AMA that "right now my only end-goal is bringing the QAnon game to a conclusion". The previous month, he had been one of the anti-QAnon researchers who exposed connections between QAnon figure Jim Watkins and domain names suggesting connections to child pornography.
In November 2020, Cottle was responsible for exploiting security flaws in Parler, a social networking service popular with the right wing, to spoof posts to appear as though they were from a verified account belonging to Ron Watkins. In the posts, Watkins appeared to expose his father, Jim Watkin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20photometry | Fiber photometry is a calcium imaging technique that captures 'bulk' or population-level calcium (Ca2+) activity from specific cell-types within a brain region or functional network in order to study neural circuits Population-level calcium activity can be correlated with behavioral tasks, such as spatial learning, memory recall and goal-directed behaviors. The technique involves the surgical implantation of fiber optics into the brains of living animals. The benefits to researchers are that optical fibers are simpler to implant, less invasive and less expensive than other calcium methods, and there is less weight and stress on the animal, as compared to miniscopes. It also allows for imaging of multiple interacting brain regions and integration with other neuroscience techniques. The limitations of fiber photometry are low cellular and spatial resolution, and the fact that animals must be securely tethered to a rigid fiber bundle, which may impact the naturalistic behavior of smaller mammals such as mice.
Technical description
Fiber photometry relies on the expression of genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs), like GCaMP or RCaMP, which can be targeted to specific cells using cell-specific promoters like Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) and human synapsin (hSyn) that confer excitatory neuronal and pan-neuronal expression, respectively. These promoters can be used to target various neuronal subtypes as well as non-neuronal cells that exhibit calcium dynamics, such as astrocytes, using the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. In both neurons and astrocytes, cellular activity in the form of action potentials, exocytosis of neurotransmitters, changes in synaptic plasticity and gene transcription is coupled to an influx of Ca2+ ions.
These activity-dependent changes in intracellular calcium levels can be monitored by introducing GECIs to the cell. Following this influx of ions, GECIs fluoresce upon Ca2+ binding and the change in fluorescence corresponds proportionally to intracellular calcium changes. The most commonly used calcium indicator for fiber photometry (and other in vivo imaging method) is GCaMP6, although additional GECIs continue to be developed with unique fluorescence spectra, kinetics, signal-to-noise ratios and calcium-sensitivities. These indicators can be expressed in the brain in two main ways: viral expression and transgenic mouse lines. Recently, there has been a growing list of indicators that have become available to measure different chemical signals, like dLight to record dopamine signaling, or OxLight to record orexin, for example. GCaMP, RCaMP, dLight and other indicators are excited by a light source at an optimal wavelength and emit their own light in return, allowing for recording of calcium or neurotransmitter dynamics across time.
Fiber photometry systems are designed to deliver precise excitation wavelengths of light that are specific to a calcium (e.g. GCaMP) or neurotransmi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganbare%20Climax |
The is a single elimination professional wrestling tournament held by CyberFight in their Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) brand.
The first two editions in 2017 and 2018 had no stakes other than bragging rights. In 2021, the tournament made a comeback with LEC, Inc. as a sponsor. This edition crowned the inaugural Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Champion.
Tournaments
Results
2017
The 2017 Ganbare☆Climax was held from August 11 to August 13. The first two rounds were held on individual nights, with round one taking up the entire card on August 11.
2018
The 2018 Ganbare☆Climax was held from August 11 to August 12, and featured only eight participants. Two of the first round matches were held under No DQ & No Ropes rules.
† This was a No DQ & No Ropes match.
2021
On September 25, 2021, GanPro announced that the Ganbare☆Climax was returning for a third edition sponsored by LEC Cleanpa! that would run from October 24 to November 23. The tournament featured fourteen participants (two of which would receive a bye to the second round) and was won by Tatsuhito Takaiwa who was then crowned the inaugural Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Champion.
See also
CyberFight
DDT Pro-Wrestling
King of DDT Tournament
References
DDT Pro-Wrestling
Professional wrestling tournaments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-450 | CP 450 was a large cabinet containing a floppy disk drive interface, exactly like the TRS-80 Color Computer, manufactured by Prológica, a computer company located in Brazil.
General information
The standard operating system is DOS-400, an adapted and renamed copy of disk Extended Color BASIC (DECB or RSDOS). It was also possible to run other operating systems, such as Microware OS-09 and TSC Flex9. Using OS-9 allowed the user to access all 64 KB of RAM available on this particular version of the CP 400.
The CP 450 units stopped being manufactured at the end of 1986, along with other accessories suitable for the CP 400.
Bibliography
Micro Computador - Curso Básico. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Gráfica, 1984, v. 1, pp. 49–50.
ABREU, Carlos Alberto C. 77 programas para linha TRS-80. Rio de Janeiro: Microkit, 1985.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20of%20Ganbare%20World%20Openweight%20Championship | The is a professional wrestling championship in Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro), a sub-brand of the Japanese promotion CyberFight. The title is the first to be created specifically for GanPro.
, there have been five reigns shared among five different wrestlers. The current champion is Isami Kodaka who is in his first reign.
History
Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling was created in 2013 by Ken Ohka as a brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling. The brand was created to capture the spirit of small independent promotions in Japan and, to do so, regularly brought in wrestlers from outside the promotion. On March 18, 2017, Ohka beat Shiori Asahi at a Kaientai Dojo event to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship. The title stayed with the promotion where it served as its main singles title until January 2021 when it moved to Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (JTO). Now without a singles title to promote, in September 2021, GanPro revived the Ganbare☆Climax tournament and created the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship as a prize for the winner of the tournament. On November 23, Tatsuhito Takaiwa went on to defeat Yumehito Imanari in the final and won the inaugural title.
Inaugural tournament
Reigns
As of , .
See also
Professional wrestling in Japan
References
World professional wrestling championships
Openweight wrestling championships |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Elwes | Jake Elwes is a British media artist. Their practice is the exploration of artificial intelligence (AI), queer theory and technical biases. They are known for using AI to create art in mediums such as video, performance and installation. Their work on queering technology addresses issues caused by the normative biases of artificial intelligence.
Education and early life
Elwes (pronounced "El-wez") was born in London to Anneke and Luke Elwes a British contemporary artist and painter.
They studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 2013 to 2017, where they began using computer code as a medium.
In 2016 they attended the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe in Berlin with artist and educator Gene Kogan.
Elwes was introduced to drag performance by Dr Joe Parslow who holds a Phd in drag performance; drag performance has since become instrumental to Elwes' work.
Career
Elwes' work with artificial intelligence is cited as a hopeful strategy to make AI more playful and diverse. They were a 2021 finalist for the Lumen Prize, and received the Honorary Mention of the 2022 Prix Ars Electronica in the Interactive Art + category. They have exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and Asia including Gazelli Art House, Arebyte gallery, ZKM, the Onassis Foundation, Zabludowicz Foundation, AIIIII Art Center, Today Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Installations projecting conversations between two neural networks
Elwes has created works based on the conversations between two neural networks including Closed Loop from 2017 and Auto-Encoded Buddha from 2016. In Auto-Encoded Buddha, a computer struggles with the notion of Buddha's philosophy. This is Elwes' tribute to Nam June Paik's TV Buddha (1974).
The Zizi Project - a deepfake drag cabaret
The Zizi Project is a series of works that explore the interaction of drag and A.I. Currently, Zizi is made up of three projects.
Zizi - Queering the Dataset (2019)
Knowing that facial recognition technology statically struggle to recognize black women or transgender people, Elwes set out to "Queer the Dataset" through an open-sourced generative adversarial network (GAN). Elwes added a dataset of 1,000 photos of drag kings and queens into the GAN's 70,000 faces collected in a dataset called Flickr-Faces-HQ Dataset (FFHQ). They then created new simulacra faces, known as deep fakes.
Zizi & Me (2020)
Zizi & Me is a performance and video installation that shows a joint performance between drag queen 'Me The Drag Queen' and her deepfake A.I. clone.
The Zizi Show (2020)
The Zizi Show is a deep fake drag act based on artificial intelligence (AI). It has been presented live and as interactive online artwork. It is an exploration of queer culture and the algorithms philosophy and ethics of AI. The work questions if AI can be used to explore and celebrate queer identities. The avatars within Zizi are deepfakes that playfully exaggerates the human form. They are generated by a hacked artificia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Caribbean%20Trans%20Network | The United Caribbean Trans Network (UCTRANS) is the first regional transgender network in the Caribbean. It works with and on behalf of the transgender community across the region to advocate for their rights, protection, and healthcare. It also offers support and guidance to local movements.
UCTRANS and OutRight conducted a holistic study titled Over-Policed, Under Protected in 2020, published at the end of March 2021. It identified the issues faced by trans and gender diverse people in the Caribbean using feedback collected from surveys, focus groups and interviews in 11 countries.
Origins and leadership
The United Caribbean Trans Network was formed in February 2018. It officially launched in April 2019 with support from LGBT+ organisations both in the Caribbean and abroad such as GiveOut, COC Nederland, and OutRight Action International.
From their website, UCTRANS envision a "Caribbean where Trans people are free from stigma and discrimination, can enjoy supportive Human Rights-based policy frameworks, Gender Identity recognition laws as well as progressive and efficient Transgender-focused healthcare." The network has a board of directors and a secretariat team.
References
International LGBT political advocacy groups
International organizations based in the Caribbean
LGBT health organizations
LGBT organizations based in North America
LGBT rights in the Caribbean
Organizations established in 2018
Organizations established in 2019
Transgender organizations
Transgender history in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVOF-TV | KVOF-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 38 in San Francisco from 1968 to 1985. It was last owned by the Faith Broadcasting Network, controlled by pastor W. Eugene Scott, and was one of three television stations he owned; prior to its existence as a Christian station, it was built as independent station KUDO before going bankrupt in 1971 and being off the air for more than three years. It broadcast from San Bruno Mountain.
KVOF-TV's license renewal was dismissed in 1983 for failure to answer requests for documents in a comparative hearing that started when three other groups had already filed their own proposals for channel 38; this took place after other proceedings involving misuse of funds by Faith Center led to the dismissal of the license of Faith's other California station, KHOF-TV channel 30 in San Bernardino. The station finally closed in late 1985, and a new channel 38 station, KWBB (now KCNS), began in 1986.
KUDO
After filing in August 1965, the Bay Broadcasting Company received a construction permit for a new television station on San Francisco's channel 38 in April 1968, beating out an application by Reporter Broadcasting Company. Reporter Broadcasting, affiliated with The Sun-Reporter and owned by Carlton Benjamin Goodlett and other local stockholders, proposed a television station geared to San Francisco's minority communities; Bay, led by KGO-TV sports editor Bud Foster, had lengthy experience in local radio and television.
From studios at 760 Harrison Street, KUDO made its debut on Bay Area screens on December 28, 1968, which made it the last of four different UHF station debuts and relaunches in San Francisco in the same year. The inaugural telecast featured Carol Doda dressed as Father Time; she would have been Santa Claus if rain had not delayed channel 38's sign-on a week. Foster took a different approach to programming channel 38 than would have been typical of an independent station. Instead of relying on reruns or movies, the station aired a variety of local programs, including a Saturday show known as On the Town that would go live to local events. One sports talk program was hosted by Willie Mays. Oakland Seals hockey games also aired on the new station, as did daily stock market coverage.
However, audiences and revenue failed to accrue to KUDO. It lost $1 million in its first three months of operation; in an April 1969 article panning the results of San Francisco's UHF boom, San Francisco Examiner columnist Dwight Newton called it a "mistake" and a "ghastly failure". In January 1970, Mays sued channel 38, alleging he had been paid just $8,700 of what was to be a two-year, $85,000 contract and that he was not even paid residuals for reruns.
The end for KUDO came on April 15, 1971, when it was adjudicated bankrupt and went dark. By this time, it had cut back its broadcast activities to the stock market program and weekend output. A public auction was held on June 26 to sell over $100,000 of equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Sinaloa | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Notes
References
Sinaloa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Fe%20River%20watershed | The Santa Fe River in New Mexico is fed by an extensive network of tributary arroyos; these define much of the landscape of Santa Fe, New Mexico and surrounding areas. Together, the river, arroyos and aquifer they supply through infiltration comprise the Santa Fe River watershed.
Besides drainage, the arroyos provide a network of pathways for recreation and exercise when they are dry. Health of the hydrologic basin and associated habitats within the local ecosystem is promoted by the Santa Fe Watershed Association (SWFA).
Upper watershed
The upper watershed is protected from human-caused erosion by hiking restrictions.
Middle watershed
Significant arroyos include Arroyo de los Chamisos, Arroyo Hondo, Arroyo de la Piedra, Arroyo de los Pinos, Canada Ancha, Arroyo Barranca, Arroyo Rosario, Arroyo Mascaras, Arroyo en Medio, Arroyo del Cerro, and Arroyo Saiz.
Lower watershed
Arroyo Mascaras has tunnels.
References
External links
Santa Fe Watershed Association (SWFA) map of arroyos and projects
City of Santa Fe resources about watershed
rivers of New Mexico
Santa Fe County, New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagaruyung%2C%20Tanjung%20Emas%2C%20Tanah%20Datar | Pagaruyung is a village in Tanjung Emas District, Tanah Datar, West Sumatra. From tambo sources, this country was formerly the capital of the Pagaruyung Kingdom.
Since 2001, the local government of Tanah Datar Regency has begun to gradually move the center of government from Batusangkar to Pagaruyung. Where this program began by establishing the Regent's office in the area of the country at this time. In 1803-1804, a group of pilgrims from Minangkabau returned to their country. They were impressed by the Wahhabi conquest of Mecca in early 1803, and wanted to change Minangkabau society through violence. They are called Padri and criticize Minang customs such as gambling, cockfighting, opium, liquor, tobacco except betel, as well as Minangkabau customs which regulate the line of descent from the mother's side (matrilineal). This method of violence led to civil war in Minangkabau society. In 1815, the Pagaruyung royal family were all massacred by the Padri. In 1819, the Dutch returned to Padang after the British left it. The surviving royal families and the penghulu (customary heads) asked the Dutch for help in dealing with the Padri violence. In February 1821 they signed an agreement in which they handed over to the Dutch sovereignty over Minang lands. Not long after, the Dutch attacked Padri. Begin the Padri War, which lasted until 1838.
References
Villages in West Sumatra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Sag | Vasileios Nektarios Sagonas (; born 28 January 1983) known professionally as V-Sag is a Greek music producer, pianist, DJ and music teacher.
Early life
Sagonas learned how to use computers at an early age, and learned to compose music using Digital Audio Workstations. He came out as gay to his friends and family on his early teens and as a shy person he started expressing his feelings through music.
Career
In 2006, Sagonas released a single Fossil at Pure Substance record label and started touring around the world. The same year, Hernan Cattaneo picked Sagonas' single I Wasn't Impressed Enough as one of his favorites which was released on Dave Seaman's record label, Audio Therapy (record label). In 2008, he collaborated with the record labels Armada Music, EMI and Universal and gained significance success with his release Feather. In the same year he composed the titles music of the soundtrack of the movie Alter Ego starring the Greek singer Sakis Rouvas. Quinlan Road, the record label of the singer Loreena Mckennitt signed V-Sag and released his remix of the song Marrakesh Nigh Market. He then recreated a version of I Totally Miss You of the 80s band Bad Boys Blue and included it on his album Feather with the official license of their label Universal Music Group. He composed the albums Heartfeels, Out Of My Way and Emotions.
In 2013 he performed live at Athens Concert Hall with Alexandra McKay and in 2017 with his release Lonely, gained attention of the Greek music industry, which was included as soundtrack at MEGA Channel Cinema prime advertisement spot and trended #1 on Greek Shazam and YouTube.
As of 2021, V-Sag collaborated with Shaya (singer) and has released 8 albums by The Sound Of Everything UK in collaboration with The Orchard and Sony Music. His latest album Offline has been characterised as innovating by being the first Dolby Atmos production that has been composed by a Greek music producer.
Discography
References
1983 births
Living people
People from Larissa
Greek DJs
Greek electronic musicians
21st-century Greek male musicians
Greek gay musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay%20Yap%C4%B1m | Ay Yapım is a media production company founded by Kerem Çatay in 2005. The company was once a Turkish partner of "Sparks Network", which has partners in 20 countries around the world. It is one of the biggest production companies in Turkey. Its head office is located in Istanbul, Turkey. Its productions are also broadcast on television in different countries. The script rights of the TV series Aşk-ı Memnu were purchased by Telemundo Television Studios broadcasting in the United States and re-shot under the name Pasión Prohibida.
Ay Yapım series and actors were nominated in different categories for the Seoul International Drama Awards. At the Seoul International Drama Awards, one of the prestigious organizations of the television world, Ezel series "Special Prize" in 2012 In 2014, Medcezir received the "Silver Bird" award in the Best Serial Drama category.
Son series, produced by Ay Yapım in 2012, is being re-shot under the name "Runner" to be broadcast on primetime by ABC channel in 2015. The Runner stars Paula Patton and Brent Sexton.
Productions
TV and internet series and movies
Television programs
Sen Hakediyorsun
Süpermarket
Koş Dur Eğlen
Kadının Gücü
Kadınlar ve Erkekler
Hülya Avşar ile Sen Bilirsin
Ece ile Erkenden
Aşk Oyunu
Büyüle Beni
Cenk mi Erdem mi?
Awards
Tuba Büyüküstün (20 Dakika) 2014, International Emmy Awards, Best Foreign Actress 2014 (Best Actress) -She reached the finals-
Engin Akyürek (Kara Para Aşk) 2015 , International Emmy Awards, Best Foreign Actor 2015 (Best Actor) -He reached the finals-
Kara Sevda (TV series) 2017, International Emmy Awards, Best Foreign TV Series 2017 (Best Telenovela) -Won-
Cesur ve Güzel (TV series) 2018, International Emmy Awards. Best TV Series 2018 (Best Telenovela) -Reached the Finals-
Haluk Bilginer (Şahsiyet) 2019, International Emmy Awards, Best Actor 2019 (Best Model'') -Won-
External links
Ay Yapım Official Website
References
Film production companies of Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Windshield%20Wiper | The Windshield Wiper is a 2021 Spanish-American computer-cel adult animated short film directed and co-produced by Alberto Mielgo alongside Leo Sánchez. The film won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Release
The film had its premiere during the Cannes Film Festival 2021 at the Directors' Fortnight and release on The Animation Showcase a private industry streaming platform.
Plot
Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?". A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion.
Accolades
Since its launch, the film has been selected in various festivals around the world:
References
External links
The Windshield Wiper - Full Film on Youtube
Official Trailer on Vimeo
2021 films
American adult animated films
2021 animated films
American animated short films
Spanish animated short films
Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
2020s Romanian-language films
2020s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20on%20Nickelodeon%20%28Russia%20and%20CIS%29 | This is a list of programs broadcast on Nickelodeon (Russia) until closing. It does not include programs from sister channels nor other countries.
Final programming
Reruns of ended series
Former programming
Animated series
Rugrats (November 15, 1998 – February 16, 2018)
Hey, Arnold! (November 15, 1998 – February 16, 2018)
CatDog (May 1, 1999 – February 1, 1999)
The Ren & Stimpy Show (1998-2005, 2008-2010, 2013–14)
Rocko's Modern Life (1998-2009, 2014)
AAHHH!!! Real Monsters (1998-2005)
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (February 8, 2003 – November 1, 2020)
My Life as a Teenage Robot (May 3, 2004 – April 3, 2016)
Danny Phantom (January 15, 2006 – January 4, 2020)
Kappa Mikey (June 2008 — February 26, 2010)
Catscratch (2007-2010)
The Fairly Odd Parents (December 3, 2007 — 2008; March 1, 2010 — December 27, 2020)
Wayside (2008-2010)
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (November 8, 2008 — February 28, 2010)
The Mighty B! (February 16, 2009 — March 30, 2016)
Tak and the Power of Juju (June 6, 2009 – May 2010)
Fanboy and Chum Chum (2010-2020)
Planet Sheen (May 14, 2011 — October 15, 2015)
Winx Club (2011-2016)
T.U.F.F. Puppy (September 5, 2011 — February 23, 2020)
Robot and Monster (April 1, 2013 — March 2, 2018)
Sanjay and Craig (September 20, 2013 – October 30, 2022)
Breadwinners (October 18, 2014 – November 27, 2022)
Harvey Beaks (June 13, 2015 ― February 1, 2019)
Get Blake! (2015-2021)
Bunsen is a Beast (June 5, 2017 — December 30, 2018)
Welcome to the Wayne (December 11, 2017 — December 31, 2019)
Ollie's Pack (September 26, 2020 ― March 20, 2022)
The Barbarian and the Troll (October 16, 2021 – February 2022)
Live-action series
All That (1998-2005, 2020–21)
Unfabulous (2008-2015)
Drake & Josh (2008-2015)
Romeo! (2008-2010)
Mr. Meaty (2008)
True Jackson, VP (2010-2012)
Cousins for Life (2019–20)
Noobees (April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2021)
Overlord and the Underwoods (2022)
Preschool series
Dora the Explorer (2004-2018)
Peppa Pig (Autumn 2004 — February 27, 2009)
Go, Diego, Go! (2006-2016)
Wonder Pets (2007-2016)
Team Umizoomi (2010-2016)
Bubble Guppies (2011-2021)
KikoRiki (2012-2016)
The Fixies (2015-2017)
Tickety Toc (2012-2015)
Rusty Rivets (2016-2020)
Nella the Princess Knight (2017-2020)
Sunny Day (2018-2020)
Top Wing (2018-2021)
44 Cats (February 18, 2019 – 2021)
Butterbean's Café (2019-2021)
Abby Hatcher (June 8, 2019 — 2021)
Corn & Peg (2020–21)
Deer Squad (2021)
References
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGKC-LD | KGKC-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, United States, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, the station has studios on West 9th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and its transmitter is located in the city's Brown Estates section.
KGKC-LD's primary channel is simulcast on semi-satellite KGKM-LD (channel 36) in Columbia, Missouri, serving the Mid-Missouri market.
History
The station became a Telemundo affiliate in September 2018. Prior to that, it aired Spanish-language religious programming.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Telemundo network affiliates
Start TV affiliates
TeleXitos affiliates
GKC
Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Kansas
Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area
SagamoreHill Broadcasting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IBM%20PS/2%20models | The Personal System/2 or PS/2 was a line of personal computers developed by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Released in 1987, the PS/2 represented IBM's second generation of personal computer following the original IBM PC series, which was retired following IBM's announcement of the PS/2 in April 1987. Most PS/2s featured the Micro Channel architecture bus—a proprietary standard which was IBM's attempt at recapturing control of the PC market. However some PS/2 models at the low end featured ISA buses, which IBM included with their earlier PCs and which were widely cloned due to being a mostly-open standard. Many models of PS/2 were made, which came in the form of desktops, towers, portables, laptops and notebooks.
Notes
Legend
Explanatory notes
Built-in or optional monitors are CRTs unless mentioned otherwise.
The Space Saving Keyboard is a 87-key numpad-less version of the Model M.
The 25 Collegiate, intended for college students, had two 720 KB floppy drives, maxed out the RAM to 640 KB, and came packaged with the official PS/2 Mouse, Windows 2.0, and four blank floppy disks.
Financial workstations came packaged with a 50-key function keypad and were intended for use in banks.
LS models are "diskless workstations": essentially the same as their non-LS counterparts but without floppy drives or hard drives and that connect to networks using Ethernet or Token Ring adapters.
Ultimedia models shipped with a microphone and included SCSI CD-ROMs, M-Audio sound adapter cards and volume controls and headphone and microphone jacks at the front of the case.
Array models are PS/2 Servers with support for RAID.
Models
Main line
PS/2 Server
Portables
Related systems
See also
List of third-party Micro Channel computers
List of IBM Personal Computer models
References
IBM lists
IBM PS 2 models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubashir%20Husain%20Rehmani | Mubashir Husain Rehmani (Urdu: مبشر حسین رحمانی) (born on 23 February 1983 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani researcher and computer scientist. His areas of work are computer networking, telecommunications, wireless communications and blockchain. He was recognised in 2020 and 2021 as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in computer science by Clarivate.
Education and career
He received his B.Engg. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology. M.S. degree in Networks and Telecommunications from University of Paris XI, Paris, France. PhD in Computer Science, from Sorbonne University, France. He worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher in Waterford Institute of Technology.
Dr Rehmani is currently teaching in Department of Computer Science at the Munster Technological University (MTU). He is a senior member of IEEE, an Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports. Prior to that he is editor of various journals. He was associated with COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Cantt for 5 years as an Associate Professor. Mubashir serves as an Area Editor (Wireless Communications) in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial (top ranked # 1 journal in Telecommunications by Clarivate).
Awards
In 2021, Dr. Rehmani won the Exemplary Editor Award 2021 of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials given by IEEE Communication society.
In 2021, Rehmani won the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award, recognizing him as top 1% in the world in Crossfield.
In 2020, Rehmani won the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award, recognizing him as top 1% in the world in Computer Science.
The Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications awarded him Best Survey Paper award in 2018 and a cash prize.
In 2018 and 2017, Rehmani won Publons Peer Review Award, placing him in Top 1% of reviewers in Computer Science.
In 2017, Rehmani received Outstanding Associate Editor by IEEE Access.
In 2015/2016 - Best Research Paper award was giving to him along with Ayaz Ahmad, Sadiq Ahmad, and Naveed Ul Hassan by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan.
In 2017, Best Paper Award was given to him by Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee by IEEE.
In 2016 & 2017, Research Productivity Award was given to him by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Pakistan.
In 2015, Rehmani won the Exemplary Editor Award of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.
Editorial activities
Area editor
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial – 2018 to present
Editorial board member
NATURE Scientific Reports
Associate editor
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial – 2015 to 2018
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking - 2021–Present
Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications – 2015 to Present
Springer Wireless Networks Journal – 2015–present
Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems – 2017 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Stewart | Camille Stewart is an American technology and cybersecurity attorney, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She served as the Senior Policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017 under the Barack Obama administration. She also served as the Head of Product Security Strategy Google after serving as the Lead for Security Policy & Election Integrity, Google Play & Android at Google.
Early life and education
With her father being a computer scientist, she became interested and pulled towards the knowledge of technology. She also had a strong passion for law as a child and knew she would become a lawyer. In fact, Camille began her career early by having her parents sign contracts when they would make promises. She graduated from Miami University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business, and later attended American University Washington College of Law to earn her Juris Doctor degree. In 2020 she was selected to be a part of the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Cybersecurity Fellowship.
Career and professional life
While in law school, she studied intellectual property protection, theft, and abuse online. Upon graduating, she worked for Cyveillance, a cyber threat intelligence company. Camille also spent time on Capitol Hill as a Legal Fellow for Representative. Marcia Fudge and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II Congressional Black Caucus.
In 2015 she appointed by the Obama administration as the Senior Policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Her experience in that role empowered her to work towards advancing former president Barack Obama's cybersecurity vision, especially with respect to methods used by Chinese companies to acquire American assets without review by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
In 2021, Stewart was the lead for security policy for Google Play & Android. She co-founded #ShareTheMicInCyber which aims to focus on the role of Black people in cybersecurity. A 2020 op-ed piece on CNN by Stewart and Michèle Flournoy was cited by the New York Times in an article citing the need for a more diverse set of views in venues ranging from board rooms to national security. According to Politico, Stewart joined New America as a fellow in 2022. Stewart also works with the public to increase awareness about cybersecurity and the need for increased diversity in the field, and tools people can use to avoid computer scams.
Stewart is the founder of the legal consultancy and startup incubator, MarqueLaw, PLLC, and TheDigitalCounselor.com blog which develops and promotes forward-thinking solutions and leaders in cybersecurity. She currently serves on the board of directors for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
Honors and awards
In 2016, she received the Leadership Awards Rising Star award from Women in Technology. In 2019 she was named woman of the year in the 'barrier breaker' category of the C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Gr%C3%B6ller | Eduard Gröller' (January 28, 1962 in Güssing) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Technische Universität Wien.
Life
Dr. Gröller received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology in 1993. Since 1994 he has been working at the research area Computer Graphics (Institute for Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology), which he also heads since 2019. He has lectured on visualization at several other universities (Tübingen, Graz, Prague, Bahia Blanca, Magdeburg, Bergen). He was a scientific proponent and is currently a key researcher at the VRVis Research Center
Since 2005, Gröller has been an adjunct professor of Computer Science in the Visgroup of the University of Bergen, Norway. He has co-authored many publications and has served as a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals in the field. He has also served on various program committees like Computers&Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, EuroVis Conference, IEEE Visualization Conference, Eurographics Conference. He was co-chair of Volume Graphics 2005, IEEE Visualization 2005 and 2006, and Eurographics 2006. He was co-chair of VisSym Symposium 1999, Eurographics 2011 Conference, and EuroVis 2012 Conference. Dr. Gröller was editor-in-chief of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal during 2008-2011
In recent years, Dr. Gröller has worked in the areas of comparative medical visualization, multiscale visualization, biomolecular visual analysis, nanostructure visualization, visual analysis of parameter spaces, visual data science, and guided navigation. Dr. Gröller has published widely in the visualization field with, for example, more than 50 articles in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Journal and more than 30 articles in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.
Awards
Promotio Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae, for passing doctoral studies with highest distinction. Recipient of the Appreciation Award of the Federal Minister for Science and Research (1993).
Fellow of the Eurographics association (2009)
Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2015)
IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award and induction into the IEEE VGTC VIS Academy (2019)
References
External links
Eduard Gröller on the website of the Vienna University of Technology
Publications VC&HCT, Google Scholar, dplp
List of Scientific Activities
Austrian computer scientists
1962 births
Living people
People from Güssing
Computer graphics researchers
Academic staff of TU Wien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20Violence%20Monitoring%20Network | The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) is a coalition of over 14 organizations founded in 2016 whose stated goal is "documenting illegal pushbacks & police violence by EU [European Union] member state authorities in the Western Balkans and Greece ". The organization was founded in 2016 and is regarded as an authoritative source on pushbacks and refugee protection.
In 2018, BVMN recorded video footage of pushbacks along the Croatian–Bosnian border, which was widely circulated online. In 2019, it reported 3,251 pushbacks either from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina or from Greece to Turkey. To date, BVMN has documented over 1281 pushbacks from 16 countries.
Key Publications
Black Book of Pushbacks
In December 2020, it published the Black Book of Pushbacks, a two-volume work that documents the experiences of 12,654 migrants who suffered from human rights violations while traveling on the Balkan route in the previous four years, in collaboration with the United Left group in the European Parliament. At the book launch, German MEP Cornelia Ernst called the incidents described in the book "reminiscent of brutal dictatorships" and said that she hopes the book "will contribute to bringing an end to these crimes and holding the governments that are responsible accountable".
Torture Report
In 2020, BVMN released a 51-page report into the use of torture or other inhuman treatment during pushbacks. This report was based upon 286 statements from migrants and refugee. Among the BVMN's findings is that in 2020, 90% of pushed-back migrants interviewed experienced "some form of degrading treatment or torture" from border guards. According to the BVMN's report, the most common form of violence during pushbacks is beating or kicking migrants, including the use of dogs or attempted lynching. Use of electric weapons has been reported against 362 people. Thirty-seven percent of migrants reported being forced to undress, which almost doubled compared to 2019. In some cases, the migrants' clothes were burned so that they were forced back across the border while naked, or they were detained while naked. Twenty-three percent of cases involved threats with firearms.
Monthly Report
Every month the Border Violence Monitoring Network publishes a report summarizing recent trends in pushbacks and other important developments. The report focuses on the situation in Greece and countries on the Balkan Route - analysing events all the way from Evros to the Slovenian-Italian border.
Structure
Partner Organizations
BVMN works via a horizontal network of member groups. The members are NGOs, coo-ops, collectives and grassroots initiatives spread across the Western Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Members sit on an open assemby, and each contribute to various different working groups within BVMN. The following organization are named partners within the Border Violence Monitoring Network, but some partners choose to remain anonymous.
Are You Syrious?
Centre For Peace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirasa%20FM | Sirasa FM is a Sinhala language radio station in Sri Lanka. MBC Networks, a subsidiary of Sri Lankan conglomerate Capital Maharaja Group, operate the radio station. It is one of the three successful radio stations started by MBC Networks in the 1990s. The other two being Yes FM and Shakthi FM. The programming of the radio station includes talk shows, and Sinhala and Hindi top hits. Sirasa FM is the first private media organisation to be allowed to broadcast news in Sri Lanka. However, Sirasa FM was banned broadcasting news after the station broadcast a false report of a nonexistent countrywide curfew. The ban was not lifted for two months.
References
External links
Contemporary hit radio stations
Sinhala-language radio stations in Sri Lanka
MBC Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20586001%E2%80%93587000 |
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| 586001 || || — || November 20, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.55" | 550 m ||
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| 586002 || || — || November 3, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.60" | 600 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586003 || || — || September 28, 2016 || Piszkesteto || A. Sodor || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 586004 || || — || September 24, 2011 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right | 2.0 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586005 || || — || April 14, 2016 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.94" | 940 m ||
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| 586006 || || — || January 28, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || H || align=right data-sort-value="0.46" | 460 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586007 || || — || February 22, 2014 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586008 || || — || September 5, 2000 || Apache Point || SDSS Collaboration || || align=right | 2.4 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#FA8072
| 586009 || || — || September 24, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right data-sort-value="0.48" | 480 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586010 || || — || September 26, 2000 || Socorro || LINEAR || || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586011 || || — || September 24, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586012 || || — || September 1, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586013 || || — || April 4, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.5 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586014 || || — || August 23, 2004 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.1 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586015 || || — || April 25, 2015 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586016 || || — || August 26, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586017 || || — || February 26, 2014 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586018 || || — || November 9, 2013 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586019 || || — || September 13, 2016 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 586020 || || — || August 30, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.7 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586021 || || — || November 10, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586022 || || — || September 26, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 586023 || || — || September 25, 2017 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.66" | 660 m ||
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20ION | Microsoft ION is Microsoft's self-sovereign identity system. It builds on the Bitcoin blockchain and IPFS through a Sidetree-based DID network.
References
External links
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-blog/ion-we-have-liftoff/ba-p/1441555
Identity management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20588001%E2%80%93589000 |
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| 588001 || || — || March 11, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.55" | 550 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588002 || || — || March 11, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 3.3 km ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588003 || || — || March 11, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588004 || || — || March 11, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.2 km ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 588005 || || — || March 11, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.62" | 620 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588006 || || — || March 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 1.3 km ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588007 || || — || March 14, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588008 || || — || November 1, 2000 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.5 km ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588009 || || — || January 27, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.7 km ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588010 || || — || March 9, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.8 km ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 588011 || || — || February 7, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.48" | 480 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588012 || || — || March 12, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 1.7 km ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588013 || || — || March 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.9 km ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588014 || || — || September 17, 2003 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 3.7 km ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 588015 || || — || March 7, 2003 || Needville || J. Dellinger, W. G. Dillon || || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588016 || || — || February 23, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || THM || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588017 || || — || March 14, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.9 km ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588018 || || — || March 15, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588019 || || — || March 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588020 || || — || March 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.1 km ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588021 || || — || March 13, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right | 2.3 km ||
|-id=022 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 588022 || || — || March 14, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.49" | 490 m ||
|-id=023 bgcolor=#d6d6d6
| 588023 || || — || January 25, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right | 2. |
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|-bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594001 || || — || March 15, 2012 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
|-id=002 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 594002 || || — || December 29, 2014 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=003 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594003 || || — || October 15, 2004 || Kitt Peak || M. W. Buie, D. E. Trilling || || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
|-id=004 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594004 || || — || June 3, 2009 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.87" | 870 m ||
|-id=005 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594005 || || — || February 20, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.75" | 750 m ||
|-id=006 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594006 || || — || October 12, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.70" | 700 m ||
|-id=007 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594007 || || — || October 22, 2011 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.59" | 590 m ||
|-id=008 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594008 || || — || February 4, 2016 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
|-id=009 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594009 || || — || February 24, 2012 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.60" | 600 m ||
|-id=010 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594010 || || — || April 28, 2001 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.83" | 830 m ||
|-id=011 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594011 || || — || October 10, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.53" | 530 m ||
|-id=012 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594012 Bulavina || || || December 27, 2011 || Mayhill-ISON || L. Elenin || || align=right data-sort-value="0.86" | 860 m ||
|-id=013 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594013 || || — || December 18, 2011 || ESA OGS || ESA OGS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
|-id=014 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594014 || || — || April 30, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
|-id=015 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594015 || || — || April 11, 2002 || Anderson Mesa || LONEOS || || align=right | 1.0 km ||
|-id=016 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594016 || || — || May 2, 2006 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.69" | 690 m ||
|-id=017 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594017 || || — || November 16, 2003 || Apache Point || SDSS Collaboration || || align=right data-sort-value="0.89" | 890 m ||
|-id=018 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 594018 || || — || January 18, 2016 || Haleakala || Pan-STARRS || || align=right data-sort-value="0.99" | 990 m ||
|-id=019 bgcolor=#E9E9E9
| 594019 || || — || May 3, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0.64" | 640 m ||
|-id=020 bgcolor=#fefefe
| 594020 || || — || September 15, 2006 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.65" | 650 m ||
|-id=021 bgcolor=#fefefe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%20Joffe | Rodney Joffe is a South African/American entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert. He is a recipient of the FBI's Director's Award for Outstanding Cyber Investigation for his role in uncovering the Mariposa botnet.
Early life
Joffe was born in South Africa. He has been involved in information technology since 1973, when he trained as a systems analyst and programmer in the pensions actuarial group of the Old Mutual Life Insurance Company in Cape Town.
Career
Joffe is credited with creating web site hosting company Genuity (Internet company), as well as UltraDNS, a domain name service company which was sold to Neustar in 2006. He retired from Neustar in September, 2021.
From 2009-2010, Joffe was Director of the Conficker Working Group.
Durham inquiry
On September 15, 2021, Internet researchers successfully extrapolated information from civil litigation brought by Alfa Bank and other open source data to identify Joffe as "Max" from Dexter Filkins' New Yorker articles about Alfa-Bank and The Trump Organization, in addition to being a client of Michael Sussmann.
On September 30, 2021, Joffe was confirmed to be Tech Executive-1.
In a February 2022 court motion related to Michael Sussmann's prosecution, Special Counsel Durham alleged that Joffe and his associates had exploited access his company had through a pending cybersecurity contract with the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to acquire nonpublic government domain name system and other data traffic "for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump." Durham did not allege that any eavesdropping of Trump communications content occurred, and on March 4, 2022, he dropped these claims against Joffe.
A spokesman for Joffe released a statement asserting that his client had lawful access under a contract to analyze White House DNS data for potential security threats. The spokesman stated that Joffe's work was in response to hacks of the EOP in 2015 and of the DNC in 2016, as well as Russian YotaPhone queries in proximity to the EOP and the Trump campaign, that raised "serious and legitimate national security concerns about Russian attempts to infiltrate the 2016 election". According to Joffe's spokesman, "deeply concerned" cybersecurity researchers prepared a report "about the anomalies they found in the data" and shared it with the CIA.
Awards
In 2013, Joffe received the FBI's Director's Award for Outstanding Cyber Investigation for his role in uncovering the Mariposa botnet.
In 2015, Joffe received the Mary Litynski Lifetime Achievement Award from M3AAWG, for his lifetime work in fighting text spam, malware and DDoS attacks.
In 2018, Joffe received the Contribution to Cyber Security Award, presented at the 2018 Computing Security Awards.
Three years in a row from 2018-2020, Joffe was named Cybersecurity Professional of the Year, at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.
Patents
Distributed computing system and method for distributing user requests to replicated n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Paulus | Monica Paulus is a human rights activist from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She is a co-founder of the "Highlands Women Human Rights Defenders Network" and of "Stop Sorcery Violence" and concentrates her efforts on protecting women who have been accused of witchcraft or sorcery.
Biography
Monica Paulus comes from the village of Aregol, in Simbu Province in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. She is the mother of three children. As a young woman, she suffered considerable violence. In 2000 she joined a women's organization, Meri I Kirap Sapotim (Women Arise and Support). In the village, she began to put into practice what she learnt in order to defend women and children in village courts and mediations and to document cases. On occasion, she would report villagers, including her family, to the police. In March 2005, she and other women came together to form the Highlands Women Human Rights Defenders Network, with the help of Oxfam and the United Nations. They worked in small local groups to address, in particular, sorcery-related violence, but managed to make a change in the whole country with support from central government.
When her father died of a heart attack, her brother accused her of causing his death by witchcraft, in order to appropriate her share of the inheritance. Fearing for her life, she fled to the town of Goroka, after her family and the other people in the village had burnt her house down. The belief in black magic, sorcery, evil spirits and witches is widespread in Papua New Guinea and accusations of sorcery are common, particularly in the Highlands. Only in 2013 did the government repeal a law that criminalised sorcery and allowed accusations of witchcraft as a defence in murder cases. Sorcery is believed to account for sudden or unexplained death or illness, and women are six times more likely to be accused of sorcery than men. Sorcery accusations all too often become a form of family violence, with abusive husbands threatening or using such accusations to silence and control women. When the accused try to take shelter with relatives, their families often reject them as their "bride price" would have to be returned if the bride left the husband's home.
Every year, thousands of suspected "witches" and "sorcerers" are attacked in PNG. Few cases are prosecuted. Since her own experience, Paulus has provided assistance to people accused of witchcraft, giving them a place to hide, medical care, food, and contact with other people in a similar situation. Women are often accompanied by their babies, because according to the traditions of the country, if a woman is a witch, so are her children. Paulus assists women to go to the police and, if necessary, she helps them to relocate out of their communities. As one who had no one to help her when she was accused of sorcery, she feels strongly that someone must be available to support the accused women.
The work of Paulus has placed her and her children at risk from the police, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mobile%20network%20operators%20in%20Rwanda | This is a list of mobile network operators in Rwanda:
MTN Rwandacell Plc
Airtel Rwanda
Market share
As of 31 December 2020, the market share among Rwandan mobile telephone operators was as depicted in the table below.
Note:Totals are slightly off due to rounding.
See also
Economy of Rwanda
References
External links
Airtel’s Tigo Rwanda take-over As of 5 February 2018.
Kigali
Rwanda communications-related lists
Lists of companies of Rwanda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego%20%28video%20game%29 | Stratego is a 1990 video game published by Accolade.
Gameplay
Stratego is a computer version of the Stratego board game presented as a one-player strategy game. This adaptation does allow the player to choose different designs for the playing pieces and game board. Three alternate boards and one alternate set of pieces are available, and the game does not allow players to design their own.
The game includes an option to play a demo game to show players how to play on the computer. The game only allows a single human player to play against the computer, with no multiplayer option. The game includes five levels of skill, ranging from sergeant to field marshal. The game also includes multiple optional rules, such as using an aggressor advantage (attacking piece wins in a tie rather than mutual destruction), silent defense (defending piece does not get revealed on an unsuccessful attack), and rescue (allows a captured piece to be reintroduced when one player's unit lands on the opponent's end of the board).
Reception
Alan Emrich reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that the game "remains an extremely challenging solitaire game of remarkable diversity and subtlety" and credited the supplement to the rules and the artificial intelligence opponent.
Tom Malcom for .info rated the game 3 stars and recommended the game, but suggested that fans should be prepared to be somewhat disappointed.
Ian Wrigley for Amiga Format rated the game 81% and stated that while the game remains the same as the board game, "some of the strategic twists it throws are sweet, if costly to your side".
Zzap! rated the game 76% overall and stated that the game would demand the full attention of players and that intelligent players should give it a try.
Colin Campbell for Amiga Power rated the game 52% and felt that the board game was trapped by its own design but cautioned that Accolade should have realized this before deciding to adapt it into a computer game.
Arnie Katz for VideoGames & Computer Entertainment gave the game 9 out of 10 overall and stated that even without elements like multiple perspectives and animations found in adaptations of strategy board games like chess, "the computerized Stratego is an outstanding electronic board game."
Jonathan Turner for Strategy Plus recommended Stratego to inexperienced players, or players looking for a strategic challenge that was not too difficult, but that expert players may find it too easy.
Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1991
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1992
References
1990 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Napoleonic Wars video games
NEC PC-9801 games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Science%20and%20Engineering%20Statistics | The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) is one of the thirteen principal statistical agencies of the United States and is tasked with providing objective data on the status of the science and engineering enterprise in the U.S. and other countries. NCSES sponsors or co-sponsors data collection on 15 surveys and produces two key publications: Science and Engineering Indicators, and Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. Though policy-neutral, the data and reports produced by NCSES are used by policymakers when making policy decisions regarding STEM education and research funding in the U.S.
History, mission and organization
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) is a principal agency of the Federal Statistical System of the United States that serves as a clearinghouse for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, and disseminating objective statistical data on the United States and other nations’ science and engineering enterprises. This includes data on the science and engineering workforce, the condition and progression of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the U.S. and abroad, and U.S. competitiveness in science, engineering, technology, and research and development (R&D). Additionally, NCSES's U.S. Congressional mandate includes supporting research that uses the data NCSES have acquired, educating and training researchers in the use of these data, and conducting methodological research in areas related to data collection and analysis. NCSES is also required to provide information to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public using the processes established by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2019 (Evidence Act).
NCSES is unique as the only federal statistical agency to also be a division within the National Science Foundation (NSF). Originally named the Division of Science Resources Statistics and located within NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, Section 505 of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 authorized the division to be renamed the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and expanded the new center's role within NSF. Despite the name change, recognized by NSF on February 15, 2011, NCSES continues to serve as the primary statistical resource for NSF.
NCSES is the second smallest of the thirteen U.S. Federal statistical agencies in terms of staff (56 permanent full-time employees as of 2020), but ranks 9th in terms of budget ($58 million for fiscal year 2020). Despite its relatively small size, NCSES is composed of seven different programs. The Administrative and Program Operations Groups is responsible for managerial, budget, and business process support, as well as assistance to the Office of the Director. The Human Resources Statistics Program is responsible for collecting and disseminating data on STEM education and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malone%20M.%20Harmon | Malone M. Harmon is an American engineer. He is noted for his work as a former Electronic and Computer Systems Engineer in the US Air Force who served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
His wife, LaVerne Harmon, the President of Wilmington University, is well-known as the first African-American woman to lead a Delaware college or university.
Education
Harmon is a graduate of Virginia Union University with a BS in Mathematics. He also holds a Masters Degrees in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems and Information Assurance.
Career
Harmon served in the US Air Force as an Electronic and Computer Systems Engineer, where he supervised a team of 20 people and maintained computer operations during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. He has worked in more than 70 countries for such companies as Computer Sciences Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, ALICO Life Insurance, MetLife, DuPont, and others.
He is the Founder and CEO of StratiTech, an IT consulting company, and the non-profit organization ReEntry Delaware (or Re-Entry Delaware), a charitable non-profit organization.
Personal life
He is married to LaVerne Harmon, President of Wilmington University and the first female African-American University President in the history of Delaware.
References
African-American engineers
Engineers from Delaware
United States Air Force personnel of the Gulf War
Virginia Union University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchors%20Up | Anchors Up () also released as Anchors Up - Boats to the Rescue, is a 2017 Norwegian 3D computer-animated film directed by Simen Alsvik and William John Ashurst, from a screenplay by Karsten Fullu and Alsvik.
Voice cast
English voice cast
Cameron Simpson as Elias
Lucy Carolan as Stella
Danna Davis as Queen of the Sea
Dermot Magennis as Vinnie, Billy Bob and Cruiser
Marcus Lamb as Grabber, Henry, Gull and Flash
Paul Tylak as Trigger, Bobby and additional voices
Roger Gregg as Big Blinky, Gerald and Goliath
Doireann Ní Chorragáin as Gill and Swifty
Aileen Mythen as Dippy, Helinor and Brenda
Jim Elliot as Trawler, Racer and Speedster
Niamh McCann as Crane, Little Jane, Marcus and Martinus
Ian Coppinger as Terry and Trolley
Ulises Olvera-Arroyo as the Spanish Cargo Ships
References
External links
2017 films
2010s Norwegian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Jorjandi | Mohammad Jorjandi (born 21 November 1980 in Zahedan) is a cybercrime expert, one of the first Iranian hackers and the director of Shabgard security group. He was arrested by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in 2010 for hacking website of Azad University to insult Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and also accessing to emails that contained confidential information while doing a Penetration test on IRIB. He spent several months in Evin Prison.
After his release, he was hired by Central Bank of Iran as the director of Kashef (Bank Emergency Network Security Control Center). After some time, he was fired from Central Bank due to his case in Ministry of Intelligence. He immigrated to United States from Iran in 2015. After his immigration, he started studying cyber security, a branch of cybercrime, and created a social media called "Webamooz", to investigate cybercrimes in Iran. Jorjandi published large cases of cybercrimes committed in Iran in Webamooz. He was one the first people to investigate the illegal gambling network in Iran and ever since he has attracted people's attention to himself and his media. Jorjandi currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, and works for a cybersecurity company.
References
1980 births
Iranian hackers
Living people
People from Zahedan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s%20programming%20on%20UniM%C3%A1s | Children's programming has played a part in Telefutura/UniMás's programming since its initial roots in television. This article outlines the history of children's television programming on UniMás including the various blocks and notable programs that have aired throughout the television network's history.
History
For much of its history, the bulk of Telefutura/UniMás' children's programming has been derived of mainly live-action and animated programming from American and international producers, including Spanish-language dubs of programs produced in other languages, and Spanish-language programming acquired from other countries.
Mi Tele (2002-2007)
When the network launched in yesterday of January 14, 2002, Telefutura launched three children's program blocks as the first foray into the aimed at different audiences: "Mi Tele" ("My TV"), a two-hour animation block on weekday mornings debuted on January 15, 2002, and featuring a mix of imported Spanish-language cartoons (such as Fantaghiro and El Nuevo Mundo de los Gnomos ("The New World of the Gnomes")), as well as the originally produced in English as Mr. Bogus and Anatole. All other time periods are filled with Informercials.
All of the programs that aired as part of the three blocks (Mi Tele, Toonturama and Toonturama Junior) are met the FCC's educational programming requirements, despite some tenuousness to some of the claims of educational content in some programs. Additionally, some of the block will be delayed and aired within the block on Sunday mornings, or in the case on next weekends or weekdays due to the network will picking line-up with all of the holidays and family movies marathon with the attempt of animated movies by Warner Bros. (Telefutura Network acquired the rights to based on the animated series within movies by Warner Bros. Animation, DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera such as Animaniacs, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, The Jetsons and Batman: The Animated Series).
On August 7, 2007, Mi Tele ended its run, its last program being Mujeres Engañadas were discontinued. Telefutura kept some of the programming on the second children's cartoon block Toonturama until September 30th, 2012.
Toonturama (2002-2012)
On January 19, 2002, two weekend morning blocks were launched as "Toonturama", a four-hour lineup that mainly featured dubbed versions of American and European animated series and acquired programming from various providers, including the a Studio City, California-based Zodiac Entertainment (Mr. Bogus and Widget the World Watcher), the Canada-based Nelvana (Ned's Newt, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Tales from the Cryptkeeper), BRB Internacional ("Super Models" and "Yolanda: Daughter of the Black Corsair") and Film Roman (The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat) as well as the Japanese anime series (such as Lost Universe, Tenchi Universe and Red Baron). Toad Patrol was an exception to the dubbing as it needed to use an English dub to fix translation issues.
On February 19, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Men | Blind Men is a British television sitcom produced by LWT and transmitted on the ITV network between 21 November 1997 and 2 January 1998.
Written by the duo Chris England and Nick Hancock, the series starred Jesse Birdsall and Roger Blake as Phil Carver and Bob as the window blind salesmen and Graham Holdcroft (Jeremy Swift) is a hard-working but not too successful window blinds people. Rival salesmen Tony, Neil and Bob compete with him for sales, encouraged by their young and verbally abusive boss Ian Stapleton. Things go downhill for the team when wonder-salesman Phil Carver is transferred in and the rivalry really intensifies. The show's theme tune was a cover of the ABBA hit single from 1980 called The Winner Takes It All.
Cast
Jesse Birdsall – Phil Carver
Roger Blake – Bob
Tamsin Greig – Valerie Marsden
Raji James – Neil
Danny Swanson – Ian
Jeremy Swift – Graham Holdcroft
Andy Taylor – Tony
Sophie Thompson – Caroline Holdcroft
Episodes
References
External links
1990s British sitcoms
1997 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
ITV sitcoms
English-language television shows
Television shows set in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clash%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the Philippine television reality competition show, The Clash was broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Rayver Cruz, Julie Anne San Jose, Ken Chan and Rita Daniela, it premiered on October 2, 2021, on the network's Sabado Star Power and Sunday Grande line up.
The season ended with a total of 24 episodes on December 19, 2021, having Mariane Osabel as the winner. It was replaced by Happy ToGetHer in its timeslot.
Online hosts
Golden Cañedo
Garrett Bolden
Anthony Rosaldo
Lyra Micolob
Muriel Lomadilla
Dani Ozaraga
Jeremiah Tiangco
Thea Astley
Jennifer Maravilla
Jessica Villarubin
Jennie Gabriel
Sheemee Buenaobra
Online auditions
The show opens online auditions on May 3 for the season to singers aged 21 and above, following strict guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.
Top 30
The first ten clashers, from Metro Manila, of the Top 30 was announced on August 21, 2021 followed by the next group from Luzon on August 22 and the last ten singers (2 from Visayas and 8 from Mindanao) on August 23. Before the show's premiere, Iris Jule from Davao City and Mike Luna from Pangasinan withdrew from the competition due to prior commitments. They were replaced by Yvette Celoso from Lanao del Norte and Kaye Eliseo from Muntinlupa.
One of the 30 clashers will be electronically selected and will choose the opponent to battle it out in a singing duel with the winner advancing to the next round. For the fifteen temporarily eliminated clashers; five of them will be saved by the judges but in the following battles, one clasher would later be swapped out to another until the end of Round 1. Melanie Guevarra quit the show for unknown reasons during the second round until the last battle of the remaining three clashers from each group. Originally, a wild card round for the sixteenth spot was contended for the five losing clashers in each battle in Round 2 after Guevarra's departure until the judges choose two of them to complete the Top 16.
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
Finalists
Eliminated in the Fifth Round
Eliminated in the Fourth Round
Eliminated in the Third Round
Eliminated in the Second Round
Eliminated in the First Round
Withdrew
Italicized names are the clashers selected by the judges in The Clash Rebound.
Underlined names are the clashers selected by the judges in the Danger Zone.
aRaffy Roque and Sky Valentine participated in The Clash Back in place of Eliseo and Uy.bVilmark Viray was reinstated in the competition after beating out Renz Fernando in The Clash Back on December 12, 2021.
Round 1: One on One
For the fourth season; the first round changed to the format of the Laban kung Laban round from season 2 and Kakulay Kalaban from season 3, where the show divides the 30 clashers into three groups. Below is the groupings selection.
The randomizer will select the clasher to choose their opponent from their respective group to advance in the next round with the majority of the panel's vote |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Mathewson | Nick Mathewson is an American computer scientist and co-founder of The Tor Project. He, along with Roger Dingledine, began working on onion routing shortly after they graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 2000s. He is also known by his pseudonym nickm. Mathewson and Dingledine were the focus of increased media attention after the leak of NSA's highly classified documents by Edward Snowden, and the subsequent public disclosure of the operation of XKeyscore, which targeted one of The Tor Project's onion servers along with Mixminion remailer which are both run at MIT.
Education
Mathewson graduated from MIT in 2002, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He later earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Linguistics from MIT.
Works
The Tor Project
Tor was developed by Mathewson, along with his two colleagues, under a contract from the United States Naval Research Laboratory. Mathewson is also lead developer responsible for the security, design, maintenance of the Tor protocol, along with sending out security patches.
libevent
He is also the primary maintainer for libevent, an event notification library used by some prominent applications like Google Chrome, Transmission and also Tor.
Honors
Mathewson, along with the other two developers of the Tor Project (Roger Dingledine and Paul Syverson), were recognized in 2012, by Foreign Policy magazine as #78 in their list of the top 100 global thinkers of the year.
Selected publications
References
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Tor (anonymity network)
Free software programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Mariotto | Angela Bacelar Mariotto is a statistician who researches the development and improvement of cancer progress measures. She is chief of the data analytics branch at the National Cancer Institute. Mariotto was a researcher at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.
Education
Mariotto received her Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics from the Imperial College London. Her 1988 thesis was titled Empirical Bayes inference and the linear model. Mariotto's doctoral advisor was David Cox.
Career
Mariotto worked at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità for a decade. She joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in November 1999. Mariotto is the chief of the data analytics branch (DAB) of the surveillance research program (SRP) within the division of cancer control and population sciences (DCCPS) at NCI.
Works
Mariotto's research interests include development and improvement of cancer progress measures, in particular survival, prevalence, quality of life, utilization, and cost measures. Her other areas of expertise include the development and application of models to predict incidence and prevalence from cancer survival and mortality data, and models for survival projections.
She is the NCI scientific coordinator of the prostate cancer working groups in the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Network (CISNET) cooperative agreement, for which she coordinates research activities of three grantees who are investigating questions related to the impact of screening and treatment interventions on prostate cancer mortality trends.
Mariotto is also responsible for developing new prevalence measures and for reporting the new cancer prevalence statistics to the nation each year. At NCI, Mariotto's duties include management of grants, independent research, and service duties, including helping to disseminate cancer statistics to the general public.
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Imperial College London
National Institutes of Health people
Women statisticians
21st-century women mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%20Papers | The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies, in nations including Panama, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. The size of the leak surpassed their previous release of the Panama Papers in 2016, which had 11.5 million confidential documents and 2.6 terabytes of data. The ICIJ said it is not identifying its source for the documents.
The ICIJ estimates that the total global amount of money held offshore (outside the country where the money was made) is between US$5.6 trillion and US$32 trillion.
Disclosures
In total, 35 current and former national leaders appear in the leak, alongside 400 public officials from nearly 100 countries and more than 100 billionaires. Some of the activities were legal according to the country's tax laws. Some files were showing the date of 1970, but they were actually created between the years 1996 to 2020. The data included 130 billionaires listed by Forbes, over 330 politicians, celebrities, members of royal families and religious leaders. Among those names are former British prime minister Tony Blair, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Montenegrin president Milo Đukanović, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, United Arab Emirates prime minister and Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso, family members of former Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his spin-doctor, Ecuadorian Jaime Durán Barba, and Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades. More than 100 billionaires, 29,000 offshore accounts, 30 current and former leaders, and 336 politicians were named in the first leaks on 3 October 2021.
King Abdullah II of Jordan is one of the main figures named in the papers, with documents showing he had invested over US$100 million in property across the US and UK, including houses in Malibu, California, Washington, D.C., London and Ascot. A UK company controlled by Cherie Blair was shown to have acquired a £6.45 million property in London by purchasing Romanstone International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company; had the property been acquired directly, £312,000 would have been payable in stamp duty. Tony Blair's name appears in a statement of joint income for the associated mortgage.
The papers also reveal how an office block owned by Azerbaijan's rul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20R%C3%B6misch | Werner Römisch (born 28 December 1947) is a German mathematician, professor emeritus at the Humboldt University of Berlin, most known for his pioneer work in the field of stochastic programming.
Education and early life
Römisch was born in Zwickau, Germany in 1947. He earned his diploma degree in Mathematics (1971) and doctoral degree in mathematics (1976) at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB). In 1984 he earned his Habilitation degree and after that he was appointed as Privatdozent at the HUB. In 1993 he became full professor of applied mathematics at HUB. He is married to Ute Römisch, lives in Berlin and has two children.
Career and research
Römisch is known for being a pioneer in the field of stochastic programming, to which he made several significant contributions. His work on analysis of discrete approximations, stability, power systems, risk quantification and management, scenario reduction and efficient Monte-Carlo sampling are notable contributions to the field. He authored three books and more than 130 research papers. He was co-editor of the Journal of Stochastic Programming E-Print Series (1999–2018), Associate Editor of Optimization Letters (OPTL) (2006–2013), of Energy Systems (2009–2020), of Computational Management Science (2012–2020), and of SIAM Journal on Optimization (2013– ).
He is co-author of the algorithm for scenario reduction SCENRED, which is used in several optimization frameworks in the energy industry.
Awards and honours
2018 Khachiyan Prize Winner for lifetime achievements in the field of optimization awarded by the INFORMS Optimization Society.
References
1947 births
Living people
Mathematics journal editors
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
21st-century German mathematicians
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
20th-century German mathematicians
People from Zwickau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20Council | Conservation Council may refer to:
Conservation Council of Nations, international network created by the International Conservation Caucus Foundation
Conservation Council of South Australia, or Conservation SA, peak body for conservation groups in South Australia
Conservation Council of Western Australia, peak body for conservation groups in Western Australia
Environment Victoria, formerly Conservation Council of Victoria, peak body for conservation groups in Victoria, Australia
See also
Nature Conservation Council, a former New Zealand government agency
Nature Conservancy Council, a former British government agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade-Amicol%20network | The Jade-Amicol network (French: Réseau Jade-Amicol) was a French resistance network led by Claude Arnould and British officer Captain Philip Keun, created under the auspices of the British Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. It operated from 1940 to 1944.
History
After serving in World War I, in the inter-war period, Arnould had been a military attaché to Denmark and had been sent on various missions in Europe - he may have been a member of the Deuxième Bureau. From the occupation by Nazi Germany and the time of the armistice of 22 June 1940, he continued in his official service role and was part of the :fr:Bureau des menées antinationales. In October 1940, he met Father Antoine Dieuzayde at the Foyer Henri Bazire in Bordeaux. Dieuzayde was the Basque chaplain of the :fr:Association catholique de la jeunesse française who with Raymond Dupouy at the camp de Bernard Rollo in Barèges had a previous history of helping refugees from Francoist Spain. Dieuzayde's personal links with key staff in the employ of economic and railway transport concerns proved invaluable. Thus, Arnould had the support of Jesuits in the south-west of France, who thereafter provided safe lodging and connexions. With this foundation, he became the co-leader of what became MI6's 'Jade-Amicol' resistance network whose actions were centred in south-west France; the name came from the semi-precious stone jade, the codename 'Amiral' of the other co-leader, British-born Philip Keun - and the nom-de-guerre of Arnould, COL, who was known as Colonel Ollivier amongst other codenames. Keun had French ancestry and had volunteered for the French Army. He had been captured by the Nazis but escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp at Cambrai in 1941. The definitive structure of the network was finalised at the end of 1941. The communications with London and associated logistics went through Keun. The network was directly associated with MI6 because Arnould had not wanted to join with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces based in London. It was under the overall command of Major-General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, the head of MI6, assisted by Commander Wilfred Dunderdale, a friend of Keun's father. While Arnould was in contact with the special services in the armistice army from the end of 1940, Keun had managed to infiltrate the Vichy Marine Intelligence Service. Initially, Jade-Amicol was linked with the Jade-Fitzroy network created by Claude Lamirault, a young Catholic activist. The networks split after a series of arrests between 1942 and 1943.
Recruitment
Recruits were largely from amongst Catholic and ecclesiastical circles in the Bordeaux region. Mother Superior Jean of the convent hospital of Saint-Joseph, on :fr:Rue de la Santé in Paris, granted the usage of a chapel in the convent building that became the Paris headquarters for the network from 1942, which then set up different branches in French provinces. The convent dispensary was used for t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20largest%20family%20businesses | The following list contains the world's 50 largest family businesses by revenue. All data comes from the Family Business Index 500 report by the British auditing firm Ernst & Young and the University of St. Gallen, which lists the 500 largest family businesses in the world. All 500 companies on the list had a combined turnover of $7.3 trillion in 2020. Companies that have not published financial statements in the last 24 months are not included in the ranking. In 2020, U.S. retailer Walmart was the largest family business company in the world, with sales of more than $500 billion.
Top 50
The ranking only lists companies that are managed by the same family in at least the second generation. To qualify as a family business, family members must continue to be involved in the management of the company, either on the board of directors, in the executive management or on the supervisory board. In addition, the family must hold at least 50 percent of the shares or voting rights in private companies and at least 32 percent of the shares in public companies.
References
family businesses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Johnbull | Professor Johnbull is a Nigerian comedy TV series, which has 6 seasons. It is based on reviving morals in the Nigerian society. The series premiered on NTA Network, NTA on StarTimes, and NTA International in July 19, 2016. It was later aired on DSTV and GOTV in 2018. The TV series was sponsored by GlobaCom and produced by Tchidi Chikere. Professor Johnbull stars Kanayo O. Kanayo in the lead role from whom it derived the name Professor Johnbull Eriweagwuaagwu Macwigwe, Queen Nwokoye as Elizabeth, Angela Okorie as Nje, the house help, Osita Iheme as Jeroboam,
Chinedu Okolie known as Flavour and Korede Bello who are musical artists appeared in some of the TV series.
Plot
It is about the family of Professor Johnbull characterized as a widower, retired professor and a community leader.> Kanayo O. Kanayo acted as Professor Johnbull. The professor's neighbours troop to his house to resolve all sort of issues, his neighbours and community members prefer taking conflicts to his residence because of his expertise in resolving conflicts morally. His residence is full of constant activities of people coming to seek advice from Professor Johnbull on how to settle disputes among themselves. Each episode starts with a conflict, which the Professor resolves and ends with a closing quote encouraging the community to portray good conduct, moral rectitude and always upright in dealing with people.
Selected episodes of season 1
Cast
Kanayo O. Kanayo in the lead role as Professor Johnbull
Patience Ozokwor as Madam Christian
Chika Okpala
Queen Nwokoye as Elizabeth
Angela Okorie as Nje
Queen Nwokoye as Elizabeth
Osita Iheme as Jeroboam
Yomi Fash Lanso as Restaurateur
Funky Mallam as yam seller
Bidemi Kosoko as Jumoke
Stephen Odimgbe as Flash boy,
Imeh Bishop as Etuk
Mercy Johnson as Caro
Pope Odonwodo as Churchill>
Bimbo Akintola as Ufoma
Martins Nebo as Abenego
Ayo Makun
Richard Mofe-Damijo
Stan kamandi as Athan
U.C. Ukeje as Efosa
Sani Danja as Malik
Bovi Ugboma
Accolades
In 2018, Professor Johnbull was nominated for Best Television Series by Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
References
External links
https://www.thenetnaija.com/videos/nollywood/3756-professor-johnbull/season-1/episode-10
Nigerian television series
Nigerian drama television series
2010s Nigerian television series
Television shows set in Nigeria
Nigerian Television Authority original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique%20Bruy%C3%A8re | Véronique Bruyère is a Belgian computer scientist working in automata theory, temporal logic, and combinatorics on words, among other topics. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Mons in Belgium.
Education
Bruyère studied mathematics at the University of Mons-Hainaut, one of two universities that merged in 2009 to form the University of Mons, and earned a master's degree in mathematics there in 1985. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1989, at Paris Diderot University. Her dissertation, Codes prefixes, codes a delai de dechiffrage borne, was supervised by Dominique Perrin. She also obtained a second Ph.D. in sciences from the University of Mons-Hainaut in 1991.
Career
Bruyère has worked for the University of Mons-Hainaut and (after its merger) the University of Mons since 1985, when she became an assistant there. In 1993 she became chargé de cours (roughly equivalent to associate professor), in 2000 professor, and in 2012 full professor. She became head of the Theoretical Computer Science laboratory at Mons in 2001. Since 2009, she has been head of the department of computer science at the University of Mons.
Research
Bruyère's research topics have included formal verification, timed automata, combinatorics on words, game theory, and coding theory. As well as publishing under her own name, she has participated as a member of the M. Lothaire pseudonymous collective.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Belgian women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Haugen | Frances Haugen (born 1983 or 1984) is an American product manager, data engineer and scientist, and whistleblower. She disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Haugen has also testified before the United States Senate Commerce Committee's Sub-Committee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the European Parliament. In 2023, her memoir, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook, was published by Little, Brown & Company.
Early life and education
Haugen was raised in Iowa City, Iowa, where she attended Horn Elementary and Northwest Junior High School, and graduated from Iowa City West High School in 2002. Her father was a doctor, and her mother became an Episcopalian priest after an academic career.
Haugen studied electrical and computer engineering in the founding class at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and graduated in 2006. She later earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 2011.
Career
In 2006, after graduating from college, Haugen was hired by Google, and worked on Google Ads, Google Book Search, on a class action litigation settlement related to Google's publication of copyrighted book content, as well as on Google+. At Google, Haugen co-authored a patent for a method of adjusting the ranking of search results. During her career at Google, she completed her MBA; her tuition was paid by Google. While at Google, she was a technical co-founder of the desktop dating app Secret Agent Cupid, precursor to the mobile app Hinge.
In 2015, she began work as a data product manager at Yelp to improve search using image recognition, and after a year, moved to Pinterest.
In 2019, Haugen joined Facebook, after a person close to her became radicalized online; she "felt compelled to take an active role in creating a better, less toxic Facebook" and thought "Facebook has the potential to bring out the best of us". When Facebook recruited her, she expressed interest in a role related to misinformation; in 2019 she became a product manager on the Facebook civic integrity team.
Following the 2020 United States elections, Facebook dissolved its civic integrity team, and Haugen became disillusioned. While still at Facebook, she decided to become a whistleblower, due to what she has since described as a pattern of Facebook's prioritization of profit over public safety, and left Facebook in May 2021.
In the spring of 2021, she contacted John Tye, a founder of the pro bono law firm Whistleblower Aid, for help; Tye agreed to represent her and to help protect her anonymity. In the late summer of 2021, Haugen began meeting with members of the United States Congress, including Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator Marsha Blackburn.
The Facebook Files
Starting in September 2021, The Wall Street Jour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saket%20Saurabh | Saket Saurabh is an Indian Computer Scientist who is currently the Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (IMSc), India and an adjunct faculty at University of Bergen, Norway. He specializes in parameterized complexity, exact algorithms, graph algorithms and game theory. His fundamental contributions to the area of parameterized complexity include procedures for obtaining algorithmic lower bounds, and meta-theorems on preprocessing. Saket Saurabh was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Sciences in the year 2021.
Early life and education
Saurabh was born on 23 July 1980. He hails from Hajipur district in Bihar. After initial schooling in Bihar at Kendriya Vidyalaya Sonepur, till class 9. He moved out. He obtained BSc (Honours) in mathematics and MSc in computer science from Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. He also secured a PhD in theoretical computer science from IMSc in 2008. Before joining IMSc as a faculty member, Saket Saurabh had worked as a research assistant at University of Bergen during September 2006 to May 2007 and as a postdoctoral fellow at the same university during September 2007 to Sep 2009.
Awards and recognitions
ACM India Early Career Researcher (ECR) Award in 2020
Member, Academia Eurpoaea, 2020
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2020
References
External links
21st-century Indian mathematicians
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphalisnema | Triumphalisnema is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Traklosiidae.
Species:
Triumphalisnema acaudata
Triumphalisnema bialulaundatum
Triumphalisnema lenkoi
References
Nematodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraterschellingia | Paraterschellingia is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Cyartonematidae.
The species of this genus are found in Antarctica.
Species:
Paraterschellingia brevicaudata
Paraterschellingia fusiformis
Paraterschellingia fusuformis
References
Nematodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan%20Singh | Kunwar Rattan Singh (1805–1845) was the second son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire and his queen consort, Maharani Datar Kaur. His elder, Maharaja Kharak Singh was the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and nephew, Maharaja Nau Nihal Singh was the third Maharaja.
He was the grandson of Sardar Maha Singh, second chief of the Sukerchakia Misl and Rajmata Raj Kaur. Sardar Ran Singh, third chief of the Nakai Misl and Sardarni Karmo Kaur were his maternal grandparents. His cousin, Kahan Singh Nakai was the last Nakai chief.
Early life
It is widely known that Datar Kaur gave birth to a son, Kharak Singh who is known as the only son of Ranjit Singh and Datar Kaur. But, according to the documents such as Sajra Nasbe and Kursinama (pedigree table), as well as a painting of Ranjit Singh with Rattan Singh affirm that Datar Kaur and Ranjit Singh had another son named Rattan Singh born in 1805.
Rattan Singh was born to Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his second wife and queen consort, Maharani Datar Kaur, the daughter of Ran Singh Nakai the third ruler of the Nakai Misl. He was the younger brother of Kharak Singh who succeeded their father as the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. Until the birth of his nephew Nau Nihal Singh he was second in line of succession to the throne of Punjab.
He was married to Raj Devi and Bhagbhari Kanwar and had three sons, Gurdit Singh, Thakur Singh and Bhagwan Singh. He served under Hari Singh Nalwa and his elder brother, Kharak Singh during the Battle of Shopian in 1819. He was granted the Jagatpur Bajaj estate as his jagir.
During the reign of Maharaja Sher Singh a large part of his jagir was confiscated by Raja Hira Singh Dogra, who did the same with his half brothers, Kashmira Singh and Pashaura Singh.
He died during battle in 1845.
Descendants
In 2020 Sandeep Singh Sukerchakia, his descendant, wrote a detailed letter to Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India insisting the inclusion of Punjabi Language in the New Jammu and Kashmir official Language Bill of 2020. In 2021, he appealed to Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan to have a thorough probe into the incident of vandalism of the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
See also
Misl
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Maharani Datar Kaur
Sikh Empire
Maharaja Kharak Singh
References
1805 births
1845 deaths
Indian Sikhs
Punjabi people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20identity%20%28blockchain%20consensus%29 | Proof of identity (PoID) is a consensus protocol for permission-less blockchains, in which each uniquely identified individual receives one equal unit of voting power and associated rewards (minting token). The protocol is based on biometric identification, humanity identification parties and additional verification parties.
The proof of identity supersedes the approach of proof of work and proof of stake which distribute voting power and rewards to participants according to their investment in some activity or resource and introduces the opportunity to create a universal basic income (UBI) for individuals.
The proof of identity solves the problem with the proof of personhood in which individuals are requested to attend recurrent pseudonymous parties and creates a network that is permanently secured and censorship resilient.
Background
Currently used proofs of investment
In a permission-less network, some kind of proof is required to prevent Sybil attacks, i.e., the event in which an attacker gains control over the transactions of the network by creating multiple users generated with a malicious script.
The most common methods to prevent Sybil attacks are proofs of investment (proof of work, proof of stake) that require participants of the network to invest in some activity or resource as evidence of genuine involvement in the chain.
The growing criticism over this approach is that voting power and rewards are not distributed equally among individuals but instead, big holders/corporations benefit the most from the network.
Proof of investment blockchains are thus prone to the formation of oligarchies and marginally appeal to small investors/holders who receive minimal rewards. In the case of proof of work, there are additional sustainability concerns over the amount of electrical energy wasted as proof.
The idea of having a "unique identity system" as a consensus protocol for cryptocurrencies, which would give each human user one and only one anti-Sybil participation token, was initially proposed in 2014 by Vitalik Buterin.
The proof of personhood
In contrast with proofs of investment, proof of personhood aims to allocate to each individual one equal unit of voting power and its associated reward.
In the PoP protocol, each individual is required to demonstrate his humanity and uniqueness regardless of his identity by attending a pseudonymous party. To preserve privacy, attendances to parties are anonymous and individuals can wear masks or hide their appearance.
Whilst the PoP protocol achieves the goal of democratizing blockchain networks, some criticisms have been raised over the recurrent nature of PoP parties and more specifically:
To avoid multiple attendances to pseudonymous parties, each individual has to attend a new party every time the network expands; this suggests the process will be endless or will leave out those individuals unable to attend the last round of parties.
Because there is no control over the creation of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlysiella | Achlysiella is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Pratylenchidae.
The species of this genus are found in Australia and Central America.
Species:
Achlysiella brevicaudata
Achlysiella capitata
Achlysiella magniglans
Achlysiella trilineata
Achlysiella vacua
Achlysiella williamsi
References
Nematodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennella | Xennella is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Xennellidae.
The species of this genus are found in Europe.
Species:
Xennella cephalata
Xennella filicaudata
Xennella metallica
Xennella suecica
References
Nematodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Facebook%20outage | On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours. The outage also prevented anyone trying to use "Log in with Facebook" from accessing third-party sites. It lasted for .
During the outage, many users flocked to Twitter, Discord, Signal, and Telegram, resulting in disruptions on these sites' servers. The outage was caused by the loss of IP routes to the Facebook Domain Name System (DNS) servers, which were all self-hosted at the time. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing was restored for the affected prefixes at about 21:50, and DNS services began to be available again at 22:05 UTC, with application-layer services gradually restored to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp over the following hour, with service generally restored for users by 22:50.
Causes
Security experts identified the problem as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) withdrawal of the IP address prefixes in which Facebook's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were hosted, making it impossible for users to resolve Facebook and related domain names, and reach services. Effects were visible globally; for example, Swiss Internet service provider Init7 recorded a massive drop in internet traffic to the Facebook servers after the change in the Border Gateway Protocol.
Cloudflare reported that at 15:39 UTC, Facebook made a significant number of BGP updates, including the withdrawal of routes to the IP prefixes, which included all of their authoritative nameservers. This made Facebook's DNS servers unreachable from the Internet. By 15:50 UTC, Facebook's domains had expired from the caches in all major public resolvers. A little before 21:00 UTC, Facebook resumed announcing BGP updates, with Facebook's domain name becoming resolvable again at 21:05 UTC.
On October 5, Facebook's engineering team posted a blog post explaining the cause of the outage. During maintenance, a command was run to assess the global backbone capacity, and that command accidentally disconnected all of Facebook's data centers. While Facebook's DNS servers ran on a separate network, they were designed to withdraw their BGP routes if they could not connect to Facebook's data centers, making it impossible for the rest of the internet to connect to Facebook.
Facebook gradually returned after a team got access to server computers at the Santa Clara, California, data center and reset them. By about 22:45 UTC, Facebook and related services were generally available again.
Impact
The outage cut off Facebook's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails, accessing the corporate directory, and authenticating to some Google Docs and Zoom services. The New York Times reported that employees were unable to access buildings and conference rooms with their security badges. The site Downdetector, which monitors network outages, recorded over 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamtree | Beamtree (formerly Pacific Knowledge Systems) is a health data analytics company based in Sydney, Australia. Tim Kelsey was appointed chief executive in December 2020. Mark Britnell was appointed chair of the Beamtree Global Impact Committee in August 2021.
The company recorded a 20% year-on-year growth, and 15% increase in annual recurring revenue in August 2021.
An international division was launched in the UK in 2021. The company acquired Ainsoff Pty Ltd, a clinician-led healthcare analytics company and Potential (x), an Australian firm that provides comparative analytics in 2021. Ainsoff's founders Dr Levi Bassin and Dr David Bell will join the company. It has a partnership with the University of Sydney. The company funds an Associate Professor of Clinical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Sydney.
It formed a partnership with the Central Adelaide Local Health Network to implement the RISQ data quality product across the network of four hospitals. Likewise, it will also support clinical decision-making for pathology services and integrate the Ainsoff Index, which is used to detect deterioration in its early stage, into the electronic medical record.
In March 2022, it set up contracts with four NHS hospital trusts in England to use its RippleDown decision support technology. The combined annual revenue is about £300,000. It also has a five-year contract with Ampath for the RippleDown software which automates up to 90% of clinical interpretations.
In October 2022, it entered into a partnership to roll out its AI data and decision support products in 450 public and private hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
References
External links
Company website
Medical technology companies of Australia
Companies based in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich%20Theatre%20Circuit | The Norwich Theatre Circuit was a prominent network of theatrical venues in East Anglia established in the eighteenth century. It remained one of the foremost institutions of provincial theatre in England until the mid nineteenth century.
Aside from Norwich, the circuit also included King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Colchester.
The Norwich Company of Comedians was for many years the principal troupe to use the circuit. They carried their costumes, scenery and musical instruments from venue to venue. At each location they would spend six to eight weeks generally timed to coincide with a special event in the town.
From 1786 for and initial 7 year contract the circuit was leased by John Brunton until, in 1799, William Wilkins – who had been an investor since 1768 – took over running the business.
References
18th-century theatre
19th-century theatre
History of East Anglia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PCradio | The PCradio was a notebook computer released by International Business Machines (IBM) in late 1991. Designed primarily for mobile workers such as service technicians, salespersons and public safety workers, the PCradio featured a ruggedized build with no internal hard disk drive and was optioned with either a cellular or ARDIS RF modem, in addition to a standard landline modem.
Components
The internals of the PCradio were encased in a slate-gray, hardened plastic case, which IBM said was resistant to heat, moisture, impact and certain chemicals. Its port doors, connectors, and keyboard were designed to be water-resistant through the use of gaskets, seals, and O-rings. It featured a monochrome LCD capable of rendering graphics in CGA mode and text at 80 columns by 25 lines. The laptop was powered by either a nickel–cadmium battery or a wall or car power adapter.
To keep the PCradio ruggedized, IBM offered SRAM modules of various capacities up to 2 MB for file storage, in lieu of a mechanical hard disk drive. Special versions of Siega System's One-Button Mail, an e-mail client, Traveling Software's Battery Watch, a battery management application, and LapLink, a file transfer program, were developed with drivers to support the PCradio's special hardware. The latter, renamed to Notebook Manager, came bundled with the PCradio as a ROM module. Owing to its ruggedized nature, the PCradio could operate between 32 degrees and 132 degrees Fahrenheit. A thermal printer which accepted paper 3-1/8 inches in diameter was optional.
The cellular model was capable of sending and receiving faxes, at a rate of 9.6 KB per second—twice that of its cellular data speed of 4.8 KB per second. Meanwhile the landline model was capable of sending but not receiving faxes, and the ARDIS model could not receive faxes whatsoever. The cellular model could also be used for voice communications with the optional handset.
Development
The PCradio project was helmed by Robert A. Lundy, a director and general manager in charge of the wireless business unit of IBM's Industry Products Group facility Boca Raton, Florida. The project commenced in 1989 and comprised a team of 25 people in Boca Raton, including Lundy. They hired Vadem, an original design manufacturer from San Jose, California, as a consultant on the project. IBM reportedly spent $50 million in development costs. The PCradio was ultimately manufactured at IBM's North Carolina and Scotland facilities, with the cellular modem made by Novatel Communications at their Lethbridge, Alberta, factory and IBM's Don Mills, Toronto, facility. The ARDIS modem, meanwhile, was manufactured by Motorola and designed at their Richmond, British Columbia, facility. This ARDIS modem was designed to consume less power than conventional data radios, enabling the PCradio's battery to last longer on a charge.
A month before its FCC approval in December 1991, McCaw Cellular forged a relationship with IBM to become the first carrier of the cellul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers%20%28information%20leaks%29 | Papers is a term - coined in the press - for leaking of data. The data is commonly of a financial or governmental nature.
"Papers" may refer to the:
1948: Pumpkin Papers - microfilm hidden by Whittaker Chambers during hearings by US House Un-American Activities Committee
1965: Penkovsky Papers - partial title of book The Penkovsky Papers : The Russian Who Spied for the West, commissioned by the CIA on secrets revealed by Oleg Penkovsky
1971: Pentagon Papers - leak of the US Department of Defense's history of the US involvement in Vietnam (1945-1967)
2010: Pentagon Papers II - name coined for the 2010 Afghan War documents leak
2011: Palestine Papers - set of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them
2016: Panama Papers - 11.5 million leaked documents published from 2016
2017: Paradise Papers - 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments, leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, widely shared with the ICIJ et al., and made public from 2017
2019: Xinjiang Papers - collection of +400 pages of internal Chinese government documents on policy toward Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang
2021: Pandora Papers, 11.9 million leaked documents published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) beginning on 3 October 2021
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20Monday | Circular Monday is a grassroots movement, database and shopping day for circular consumption. It involves businesses with circular economy business models that sell, rent, share and repair products made out of recycled materials, including second hand services.
It was founded in 2017 in Malmö, Sweden, by Swedish start-up founder Henning Gillberg, and was initially called White Monday; it changed name in 2020. It was devised as an antidote to Black Friday, which promotes linear consumption, and takes place on the Monday before Black Friday. By 2019, over 200 businesses were taking part. Participating businesses - mainly based in Europe - discount their products to expose circular alternatives to the linear consumption offered by Black Friday and other shopping days.
See also
Buy Nothing Day
References
External links
CircularMonday.com
Consumerism
Anti-consumerism
Waste minimisation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimito%20Funatsu | is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
Biography
He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1974 and from Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kyushu University in 1978. He completed Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University and obtained a doctorate in science in 1983. After he served as an Associate Professor at Toyohashi University of Technology, he became a Professor at Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 2004. He concurrently holds the posts of a Professor and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology from 2017. He was also invited as visiting professor at University of Strasbourg in France in 2011.
The Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society gave him the Herman Skolnik Award in 2019 for his contributions to structure elucidation, de novo structure generation and applications of cheminformatics methods to materials design and chemical process control. He also received the for 2020. In 2021, he retired from University of Tokyo at mandatory age and was given the title of Professor Emeritus.
References
1955 births
Living people
Japanese chemists
20th-century Japanese chemists
21st-century Japanese chemists
Cheminformatics
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Academic staff of Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kyushu University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Metal%20Planet | Full Metal Planet is a 1989 video game published by Data East based on the board game Full Metal Planète.
Gameplay
Full Metal Planet is a game in which the player commands a mining freighter competing for the ore of a planet.
Reception
Mike Siggins reviewed Full Metal Planete for Games International magazine, and gave it 4 stars out of 5, and stated that "I can certainly think of no better company to tackle the conversion of Full Metal Planete and they have done a fine job. I am not sure of the merits of owning the boardgame as well as the computer game but they are both worthy products and, for once, the computer version is cheaper than the boardgame!."
Roger White reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Full Metal Planet offers a viable choice for gamers looking for a multi-player strategy game on the computer, a challenging game which can require from a short to medium amount of time to complete and a game that does not follow tried and true formulas of game design."
Keith Ferrell for Compute! said that "Within its own context, Full Metal Planet is a solid strategy game. It would be interesting to see what its designers could do with the game's engine by way of offering different planetary surfaces and types. It certainly has potential for creating the basis for a much larger games."
Reviews
Tilt - Mar, 1990
Atari ST User - Apr, 1990
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) - Mar, 1990
The Games Machine - Mar, 1990
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1990
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1992
Casus Belli #72 (Nov 1992)
Jeux & Stratégie nouvelle formule #3
References
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1989 video games
Video games based on board games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20ProSpeed | The ProSpeed was a line of laptop computers developed by NEC in 1988. It was introduced simultaneously with their slimmer and less heavy UltraLite line of notebook computers. The i386SX-equipped CSX model, released in September 1989, was the first laptop with a color LCD. It was also one of the first laptops with to be offered with a docking station. The CSX model was featured on the front cover of PC Magazine.
Models
References
Computer-related introductions in 1988
ProSpeed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaideep%20Srivastava | Jaideep Srivastava is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was awarded the Distinguished Research Contributions Award of the PAKDD, for his lifetime contributions to the field of data mining. Previously, he was the director of Social Computing group at QCRI. He has a Bachelor's of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in India. He has a Masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the principal investigators of the Virtual Worlds Observatory project along with Noshir Contractor, Marshall Scott Poole and Dmitri Williams. He received the IBM faculty award in 2002 and became an IEEE Fellow in 2004. In 2011 he co-founded Ninja Metrics with USC Professor Dmitri Williams and was assisted by Kyong Jin Shim, Nishith Pathak, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Senthil Krishnamoorthy.
In 2021, Guide2Research ranked him as one of the top 1,000 researchers in Computer Science.
References
External links
Database researchers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Minnesota faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
IIT Kanpur alumni
Indian emigrants to the United States
People from Lucknow
1959 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAN%20Foundation | The Patient Access Network Foundation (PAN Foundation) is a US-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that works to help Americans pay for medical procedures. The organization was ranked #34 in Forbes' 2019 list of "top 100 US Charities", with private donations in 2019 totaling $434 million. PAN Foundation reports it has given over $4 billion to almost one million people since its inception in 2004.
Programs
The PAN Foundation has contributed to the establishment of a fund for research on Parkinson's disease. PANF also has partnerships with the Heart Failure Society of America and Allscripts Health Solutions. The Foundation also names advocacy as one of its program focuses, including encouraging patients to contact their elected representatives and support programs for greater medical coverage. It is a member of the Medicare Access for Patients Rx, a collection of organizations advocating for patients with chronic disease and disability who are on Medicare.
In 2020 PANF launched a new program to support those diagnosed with or quarantining because of COVID-19.
Leadership
In 2021 the Foundation appointed a new president and CEO, Kevin Hagan.
Controversy
In 2019 PANF agreed to pay $4 million to settle a allegations with the US Attourney's Office that they violated the False Claims Act by "enabling pharmaceutical companies to pay kickbacks to Medicare patients taking the companies’ drugs."
References
Health charities in the United States
Organizations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractable%20%28company%29 | Tractable is a technology company that develops Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assess damage to property and vehicles. The AI allows users to appraise damage digitally.
Technology
Tractable's technology uses computer vision and deep learning to automate the appraisal of visual damage in accident and disaster recovery, for example to a vehicle. Drivers can be directed to use the application by their insurer after an accident, with the aim of settling their claim more quickly. The AI evaluates the damage from images, and therefore doesn't assess what isn't visible (such as, for example, interior damage to a vehicle or property).
History
Alexandre Dalyac and Razvan Ranca founded Tractable in 2014, and Adrien Cohen joined as co-founder in 2015. The company employs more than 300 staff members, largely in the United Kingdom.
Tractable was named one of the 100 leading AI companies in the world in 2020 and 2021 by CB Insights. It won the Best Technology Award in the 2020 British Insurance Awards.
In June 2021, Tractable announced a venture round that valued the company at $1 billion. Tractable was the UK's 100th billion-dollar tech company, or unicorn.
In July 2023, the company received a $65 million investment from SoftBank Group, through its Vision Fund 2.
References
Technology companies established in 2014
British companies established in 2014
Vehicle insurance
Applied machine learning
Computer vision software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam%20TV%20Uganda | Salam TV is a Ugandan Islamic television network based in Kampala, Uganda. Its under Next Media Services
Location
Its headquarters is located at Media Plaza, Plot 78, Mukwano Building Second Floor, Kampala, Uganda
Overview
The channel was launched in June 2015. It started broadcasting on 1 June 2015
The station has programs on Current Affairs, religion, political, Developmental also has a series of edu-entertainment, Lifestyle, sports, and entertainment shows.
Programs
Salam Juma
Amaka
Ekkubo Ly'obusiraamu
Buuza Oyige
Obuvo N'obuddo
Daawa Special
Omukeeze
Muslim Sisters
Obutonde Bwo Ssi Musango
Empisa
Obulamu
Salam Baraza
Muvubuka Dot Com
Kigudde Waani
Eddoboozi Ly'omusuubuzi
Salam Darasa Special
Salam Charity live Appeal
Obulamu Bwa Kadaama
Olutindo
References
External links
Salam TV Revives Islam in Uganda
Salam TV
MTN Ne Salaam TV Bagabudde Mu Kisiibo
Television stations in Uganda
English-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20M.%20Drucker | Steven Mark Drucker is an American computer scientist who studies how to help people understand data, and communicate their insights to others. He is a Partner at Microsoft Research, where he also serves as the Research Manager of the VIDA (Visualization and Data Analysis) group. Drucker is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Education
Drucker received his Ph.D. from the Computer Graphics and Animation Group at the MIT Media Lab in May 1994, where he studied improvements to controlling cameras in synthetic environments. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Neurosciences from Brown University, and earned his Master's degree in robot learning at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Scientific contributions
Drucker developed the SandDance system for information visualization. SandDance provides a web interface to explore, animate, and communicate insights into complex datasets. The system is designed to facilitate discovery of patterns and trends in data by displaying it in ways that complement the pattern-finding systems in the human visual system.
Drucker contributed to the growth of e-sports by designing a robust system that allows spectators to enjoy watching others play competitive video games. His related work on automatic camera control leveraged decades of art and experience in video and film to create engaging, real-time choices for camera placement and motion in any synthetic environment, such as video games.
Drucker has participated in the development of multiple systems designed to help understand the results of machine learning algorithms by using novel visualizations.
Drucker has helped to develop visualization tools for a wide variety of applications, such as interpreting data in virtual reality, filtering trajectories in virtual reality, and pen-and-touch interfaces.
Recognition
ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy
Papers Chair for ACM SIGCHI 2022
Papers Chair for ACM SIGCHI 2021
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Microsoft people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Brown University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20Walsh | Lois Diane Harper Walsh is a retired researcher for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Originally a materials scientist, she became branch chief for advanced computing at the AFRL Rome Laboratory.
Walsh earned a master's degree from Syracuse University in 1984, with the master's thesis Microstructural characterization of Copper films deposited in Titanium substrates. By the time she completed her Ph.D. in solid state science at Syracuse in 1989, she was already working at the Rome laboratory (then known as the Rome Air Development Center), and married with two children. Her dissertation, The interaction of polycrystalline copper films with dilute aqueous solutions of cupric chloride, was supervised by James A. Schwarz, a Syracuse professor of chemical engineering and materials science.
In 2005, Walsh was named an IEEE Fellow "for leadership in electronic device reliability". At this point she was branch chief for advanced computing at the Rome Laboratory, in charge of a team of 30 staff researchers, and had fostered collaborations between them and "numerous extramural researchers and university faculty". Her work involved not only device reliability, based on "innovative surface analysis and diagnostic techniques", but also high performance computing, quantum computing, and biologically inspired nanotechnology.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American materials scientists
American women engineers
Syracuse University alumni
Air Force Research Laboratory people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramways%20in%20Konstantyn%C3%B3w%20%C5%81%C3%B3dzki | Trams in Konstantynów Łódzki are operated by MPK Łódź Sp. z o.o. There is a single line connected to the Łódź tram network.
Line
(Łódź) – Łódzka – Jana Pawła II – Plac Wolności
History
The Łódź–Konstantynów Łódzki line was opened in 1911. It was built and operated by Łódzkie Wąskotorowe Elektryczne Koleje Dojazdowe (Łódź Narrow-gauge Electric Commuter Railways). The line was technically compatible with the Łódź trams network (same gauge and electrification system), allowing interrunning, but the two were not connected, passengers had to change at interchange stops located near the city limits. In 1929 the line was extended through the western part of the city to Lutomiersk.
In 1948, both the companies owning and operating the city and suburban tram networks were nationalised and Łódź became responsible for the public tram transport in the area.
In the early 1970s, the last dedicated suburban rolling stock was withdrawn from service, since when the line was worked by the tramcars also used on the city network.
Political and economic changes after 1989 meant that a new approach to financing and running the public communication was necessary. The city became responsible for the public transport within the city limits, whereas the surrounding cities were expected to finance, and reach an agreement with the operator about, running the tram communication in their territories. Two cities – Konstantynów Łódzki and Lutomiersk – together with Łódź founded Tramwaje Podmiejskie Spółka z o.o. (Suburban Trams Ltd.) that became the operator of the services on the line. On 1 April 2012 MPK Łódź took over running the services.
The condition of the line became progressively worse to the point that it was necessary to suspend the running of trams. On 3 March 2019, the trams stopped running.
The revitalisation of the section from Łódź to Plac Wolności (the Konstantynów terminus) was scheduled to start in 2022 and trams are due to return by the end of 2023. The future of the remaining section of the line is undecided. Lutomiersk declares its commitment to the revitalisation and reopening of its part of the line but it is still at the planning stage.
See also
Trams in Łódź
References
Konstantynów
Metre gauge railways in Poland
Konstantynów |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20Up%20Media | Audio Up Media is a podcast studio and network in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2020 by Jared Gutstadt. Its collaborators include Stephen King, James Ellroy, Machine Gun Kelly, Michael Cohen, Anthony Anderson, Miranda Lambert, JaVale McGee Maejor, Anna Delvey, and Jason Alexander.
The majority of podcasts are scripted musicals with original scores. "We start with the songs and then we build the stories around them," Gutstadt says.
In 2020, Gutstadt was awarded Adweek's "Podcast Innovator of the Year" and "Podcast Producer of the Year."
Investors include The Weeknd, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, Larry Rudolph, Entertainment One CEO Darren Throop, producer Will Ward, and Howard Draft, as well as media companies SiriusXM, MGM/Amazon, Primary Wave and Reservoir Media
History
In 2019, Gutstadt conceived the idea for podcast studio while recording Bear and a Banjo with Jason "Poo-Bear" Boyd.
References
Podcasting companies
Companies based in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20MNIST | The Fashion MNIST dataset is a large freely available database of fashion images that is commonly used for training and testing various machine learning systems. Fashion-MNIST was intended to serve as a replacement for the original MNIST database for benchmarking machine learning algorithms, as it shares the same image size, data format and the structure of training and testing splits.
The dataset contains 70,000 28x28 grayscale images of fashion products from 10 categories from a dataset of Zalando article images, with 7,000 images per category. The training set consists of 60,000 images and the test set consists of 10,000 images. The dataset is commonly included in standard machine learning libraries.
History
The set of images in the Fashion MNIST database was created in 2017 to pose a more challenging classification task than the simple MNIST digits data, which saw performance reaching upwards of 99.7%.
The GitHub repository has collected over 4000 stars and is referred to more than 400 repositories, 1000 commits and 7000 code snippets.
Numerous machine learning algorithms have used the dataset as a benchmark, with the top algorithm achieving 96.91% accuracy in 2020 according to the benchmark rankings website. The dataset was also used as a benchmark in the 2018 Science paper using all optical hardware to classify images at the speed of light. Google, University of Cambridge, IBM Research, Université de Montréal, and Peking University are the repositories most published institutions as of 2021.
See also
List of datasets for machine learning research
MNIST database
References
External links
Official Github Repository
Tutorial to classify Fashion MNIST in Tensorflow
Datasets in computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mobile%20network%20operators%20in%20South%20Sudan | This is a list of mobile network operators in South Sudan:
MTN South Sudan
Zain South Sudan
Digitel Telecommunications
Market share
As of 31 December 2020, the market share among South Sudan's mobile telephone operators was as depicted in the table below. At that time South Sudan's population was estimated at approximately 11 million people.
Note:Totals may be slightly off due to rounding.
See also
Telecommunications in South Sudan
References
External links
MTN announces leadership changes As of 16 January 2020.
Juba
South Sudan communications-related lists
Lists of companies of South Sudan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply%20Corporation | Reply Corporation, often shortened to Reply Corp., was an American computer company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1988 by Steve Petracca, the company licensed the Micro Channel architecture from IBM for their own computers released in 1989, competing against IBM's PS/2 line. The company later divested from offering complete systems in favor of marketing motherboard upgrades for older PS/2s. Reply enjoyed a close relationship with IBM, owing to many of its founding employees, including Petracca, having worked for IBM. The company was acquired by Radius in 1997.
History
Foundation
Reply Corp. was founded by Steve V. Petracca (born 1951 in Honolulu). Prior to founding Reply, Petracca worked at International Business Machines from 1976 to 1988, starting out at the company's Boulder, Colorado, office as an industrial engineer in various capacities. There he graduated from CU Boulder, with a bachelor's degree in history. In 1980, Petracca moved to Boca Raton, Florida, to work at IBM's facility there, managing the start-up of the first production line for the IBM PC. Petracca graduated from Nova Southeastern University with an MBA and was promoted to manager of new product operations in the mid-1980s, handling the release strategy and ramp-up of the Personal System/2—IBM's intended successor to the PC—before being promoted to manager of business analysis for their Entry Systems Division sometime around 1987. In 1987, Petracca moved again to White Plains, New York, where he worked as manager of systems technology, which encompassed IBM's RISC-based workstations, printers, displays and Personal Systems.
Petracca quit IBM in 1988, dissatisfied with an culture he perceived as promoting the creation of needless business units and obsession with data visualization: "We would get into meetings and spend more time arguing over whether to use pie charts or bar charts than over the content of the data". That year, he moved to San Jose, California, and started Reply Corporation. Petracca obtained the funding to start his company from friends and family, as well as with his severance package from IBM. He poached several IBM employees for his startup, many of whom were on the development team of the PS/2.
Petracca and his employees spent a year devising the company's first products, which were a line of desktop computers based on IBM's Micro Channel architecture: the Reply 286/16, the Reply 286/20, and the 386SX/16. According to InformationWeek, Reply was the first company to license Micro Channel—a bus architecture which IBM introduced with the PS/2 and which Petracca helped launch—for a PS/2 clone. However they were beaten to market with a PS/2 clone by Tandy Corporation, who released the 5000 MC in 1988. The Reply computers were introduced ahead of the 1989 COMDEX/Fall in November, with the company releasing the 286/16 and 286/20 the following month. These two machines competed with the Models 50 and 60, mid-ranged computers in the PS/2 line which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermoflata | Dermoflata rotundata is a species of planthopper in the family Flatidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Dermoflata. It was first described by Leopold Melichar in 1901. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
References
Insects of Indonesia
Flatidae
Monotypic Hemiptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumehito%20Imanari | is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for CyberFight. He appears on the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) brand under his real name, and on the DDT Pro-Wrestling brand as part of the Pheromones stable under the name .
Professional wrestling career
Ganbare Pro (2013–present)
Imanari made his professional wrestling debut in DDT Pro-Wrestling in the Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) branch of the company which hosted the No Cry, No Wrestle event from April 17, 2013, where he fell short to Osamu Namiguchi. At Can You Celebrate? on September 29, 2018, he unsuccessfully challenged Keisuke Ishii for the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Imanari often wrestled in unusual matches, such as a 13-on-1 handicap match which took place at Momoiro Kneel Kick on April 14, 2019, where he teamed up with Cherry, Gota Ihashi, Minoru Fujita, Moeka Haruhi and others to defeat Ken Ohka.
On May 3, 2022, Imanari defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa to win the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship.
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2013–present)
Imanari seldom works for the bigger branch of the company. At Beer Garden Fight on August 2, 2018, Imanari competed in a 20-man falls count anywhere battle royal also involving Antonio Honda, Super Sasadango Machine, Danshoku Dieno, Yasu Urano, Yuki Ueno and others. At the 2020 edition of the Ganbare Climax, he scored the win by defeating Shinichiro Tominaga in the finals.
He is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as DDT Peter Pan, making his first appearance at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2018 on October 21 where he participated in a Rumble rules match won by Nobuhiro Shimatani and also involving Gorgeous Matsuno, Shota, Tiger Mask and others. Another notable event where he competed is DDT Ultimate Party, making his only appearance at Ultimate Party 2019 on November 3 where he teamed up with Ken Ohka and Miss Mongol to face Takumi Tsukamoto, Yasu Urano and Takato Nakano and Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani) in a Three-way match for the UWA World Trios Championship. At CyberFight Festival 2021, a cross-over event promoted by CyberFight on June 6 in which all DDT, Pro Wrestling Noah and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling companies took part, Imanari teamed up with Shuichiro Katsumura and Kouki Iwasaki to defeat Ken Ohka, Keisuke Ishii and Shota in a six-man tag team match. In 2021, he formed the Pheremones stable with Danshoku "Dandy" Dieno & Yuki "Sexy" Iino.
Pro Wrestling Zero1 (2020–present)
Imanari is also known for competing in Pro Wrestling Zero1. He won the 2020 edition of the Furinkazan Tournament by teaming up with Shinjiro Otani defeating Revengers (Takuya Sugawara and Masato Tanaka) in the first round, Voodoo Murders (Yoshikazu Yokoyama and Chris Vice) in the semi-finals and The Kubota Brothers (Yasu Kubota and Hide Kubota) in the final from December 25 which was also for the vacant NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. At the 2021 edition of the event |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20discourse%20analysis | Cognitive discourse analysis (CODA) is a research method which examines natural language data in order to gain insights into patterns in (verbalisable) thought. The term was coined by Thora Tenbrink to describe a kind of discourse analysis that had been carried out by researchers in linguistics and other fields. As it is limited to examining verbalisable thought, CODA studies are often triangulated against other research methods. The method is theoretically neutral (i.e. it does not rely on any particular model of language or cognition), and can therefore be used alongside a range of different models of cognition and grammar.
It is distinct from socio-cognitive discourse analysis, which is an analysis of the link between the text and structures in society.
Methodology
Because of its use in different fields, the precise methodology can vary between papers. A broad outline is as follows:
Selection of research question. The research question must be centred on some aspect of verbalisable thought in order for CODA to be a suitable research method. This includes mental representations and complex cognitive processes.
Data collection. CODA is specifically for the analysis of natural language data. Because of that, it is important that questions be open-ended and not, for example, multiple-choice responses, though these are used alongside open-ended questions to get demographic information about participants.
Transcription and data cleaning. Data collected through means other than typed responses will need to be transcribed before analysis. Responses that did not address the question (e.g. one-word answers when a paragraph is called for) will need to be removed.
Analysis.
Dividing the data into units. This is also known as segmentation. Segments can be at various levels of granularity, including coherent statements and individual responses to questions.
Choosing the type of analysis. This can include a thematic analysis (a bottom-up extraction of themes from the text), or a content analysis. This analysis will lead to coding procedures for linguistic features in the text.
Reliability checking. The coding procedures should be laid out in such a way that a layman could follow them, which allows for reliability checking using an independent coder, as well as replication of the findings by other researchers.
Identification of relevant patterns. Patterns within the features identified during the analysis are identified here. For larger data sets, statistical procedures to identify patterns may be useful.
Triangulation with other research methods. CODA can be triangulated with other research methods from related fields, including psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. Surface-level linguistic representation is insufficient for the analysis of many cognitive processes, so triangulation allows both for a deeper analysis and a check on the validity of the conclusions.
Examples of use
Conceptual layers and strategies in tour planning
This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor%20University | Luxor University (Arabic: جامعة الأقصر) is an Egyptian public university in Luxor Governorate. In the past, it was branch of South Valley University.
Faculties
Faculty of Computing and Information
College of Fine Arts
College of Al-Alsun
Faculty of Archaeology
Faculty of Tourism and Hotels
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Medicine
College of Nursing
References
Universities in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondomania | Gondomania, also known in Japan as , is a 1987 scrolling shooter arcade video game initially released in Japan by Data East.
Plot
The Gondos, a race of alien beings, steals your significant other and takes them to the planet of thorns. The premise of game is to take down the Gondos though various levels and boss fights. It takes place in a futuristic medieval world and includes dragons and soldiers.
Gameplay
The game was designed for play on a classic arcade console. One button activates the guns, while the other button throws a type of sub-weapon and the joystick allows the player to move in various directions. A rotary joystick allows the player to aim and fire sub-weapons in eight different directions. Similar to other scrolling shooters, Gondomania allows players to progress through ten levels. Enemies in Gondomania drop coins when they are defeated, which allows a player to purchase power-ups. This differs from typical scrolling shooters in that it requires an additional layer of strategy to decide which item to purchase and when as opposed to the typical scrolling shooter where the player receives pre-programmed power-ups.
References
1987 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Data East arcade games
Shooter games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games set on fictional planets |
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