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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireteam%202200 | Fireteam 2200 is a 1991 video game published by SimSystems.
Gameplay
Fireteam 2200 is a game in which ground combat in the 23rd century can be played against the computer, or using a modem it can be played as a two-player game or head-to-head.
Reception
Jesse W. Cheng reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "FireTeam 2200 was able to combine wargaming "realism," role-playing, solid EGA graphics and excellent AdLib sounds into a nice package. Despite the game's weaknesses (no scenario builder, lack of mouse support and a bit of complexity), this game would be a worthy addition to any wargame grognard's collection."
Alan Bunker for Amiga Action rated the game 70% and described it as "a game that will probably occupy you for a couple of days or so but not much longer".
Reviews
Computer Gaming World - Nov, 1992
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Aug, 1992
References
1991 video games
Amiga games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 23rd century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Tale%20Dark%20%26%20Grimm | A Tale Dark & Grimm is a computer-animated television series based on the children's book of the same name by Adam Gidwitz. Developed for Netflix by Doug Langdale and Simon Otto, the series premiered on October 8, 2021. Netflix did not renew the show for a second season.
Plot
A trio of talking ravens narrate the real story of Hansel and Gretel, who are a prince and a princess, who ran away from their parents after being beheaded by their father and search for a new and happy family. The pair will go on a winding and wickedly witty tale with elements of several other stories written by the Brothers Grimm.
Voice cast
Andre Robinson as Prince Hansel
Raini Rodriguez as Princess Gretel
Scott Adsit as William and Hunter
Ron Funches as Jacob
Erica Rhodes as Dotty
Jonathan Banks as Johannes
Nicole Byer as Mrs. Baker
Eric Bauza as the King and Shillingworth
Charlotte Wilson Langley as the Queen
Kari Wahlgren as The Sun and Olivia
Tom Hollander as The Moon
Cree Summer as Mother Tree
Adetokumboh M'Cormack as Lord Meister and Furfur
David Henrie as Handsome Young Man
Missi Pyle as The Rain and Widow Fischer
Matthew Waterson as Asmodeus
Adam Lambert as the Devil
Episodes
Production
On October 16, 2013, Henry Selick was set to direct a live-action film adaptation of Adam Gidwitz's children's novel A Tale Dark & Grimm. By August 2016, he was still working on the film adaptation. The series was first announced in June 2021, without Selick's involvement, as part of three Netflix Original shows targeted at kids and families.
Release
A Tale Dark & Grimm premiered on October 8, 2021, globally on Netflix. A trailer was released on September 9.
References
External links
2021 American television series debuts
2021 American television series endings
2021 Canadian television series debuts
2021 Canadian television series endings
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's television series
2020s Canadian animated television series
2020s Canadian children's television series
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated drama television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
American television shows based on children's books
Animated series based on books
Canadian children's animated action television series
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated comedy television series
Canadian children's animated drama television series
Canadian children's animated fantasy television series
Canadian computer-animated television series
Canadian television shows based on children's books
English-language Netflix original programming
Netflix children's programming
Television series by Boat Rocker Media
Television series by Netflix Animation
Works based on Grimms' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo%20%28film%29 | AlphaGo is a 2017 documentary directed by Greg Kohs about the Google DeepMind Challenge Match with top-ranked Go player Lee Sedol.
Premise
The film presents how AlphaGo, a computer program developed by DeepMind Technologies, mastered the game of Go through artificial intelligence. Its competence was tested by Lee Sedol, a South Korean world champion.
Release
AlphaGo was released in New York City on September 29, 2017, and Los Angeles next month.
Reception
Critical response
AlphaGo earned positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100%, with an average score of 8/10, based on 10 reviews. Charlotte O'Sullivan of Evening Standard gave the film 4 stars out of five, calling it a "gripping, emotional documentary, which gets us thinking, about thinking, in a whole new way".
Accolades
Winner
Denver International Film Festival (2017) - Maysles Brothers Award, Best documentary
New Media Film Festival (2018) - Best Trailer
Traverse City Film Festival (2017) - Knowledge is Power Science Prize
Warsaw International Film Festival (2017) - Audience Award, documentary feature
Nominee
Anchorage International Film Festival (2017) - Best Documentary Feature
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards (2017) - Best Sports Documentary
Philadelphia Film Festival (2017) - Student Choice Award
References
External links
2017 films
2017 documentary films
AlphaGo
American documentary films
Documentary films about Google
Go films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Abeill%C3%A9 | Anne Abeillé (born 13 September 1962 in Paris) is a French linguist specialising in French grammar and syntactic theory, in particular constraint-based grammar, as well as natural language processing. She led the creation of the French Treebank, the first syntactically-annotated corpus of French.
Biography
From 1983 to 1987, Abeillé studied at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, where she graduated in modern literature. She subsequently worked with Aravind Joshi as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania, where she contributed to the development of Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). In 1991 she received her PhD supervised by Maurice Gross as well as her habilitation at University of Paris 7. She then taught at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Paris Diderot University before becoming full professor at the latter in 2000, as well as member of the Formal Linguistics Laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, which she has headed since 2011.
Honours and awards
Abeillé is an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, where she was a junior member from 1996 to 2001 and then a senior member from 2012 to 2017. She was awarded a bronze and a silver medal by the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 1995 and 2007 respectively. In 2008 she was elected as an ordinary member of the Academia Europaea. 2008 also saw her knighted as a member of the Legion of Honour, of which she became an officer in 2015.
Selected publications
Schabes, Yves, Anne Abeillé and Aravind K Joshi. 1988. Parsing Strategies With 'Lexicalized' Grammars: Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars. CIS Technical Reports, University of Pennsylvania.
Abeillé, Anne. 1993. Les nouvelles syntaxes : grammaires d'unification et analyse du français (New syntaxes: constraint-based grammars and the analysis of French). Coll. Linguistique, Armand Colin, Paris.
Rastier, François, Marc Cavazza and Anne Abeillé. 1994. Sémantique pour l'analyse: de la linguistique à l'informatique (Semantics for descriptions: from linguistics to computer science). Masson: Sciences cognitives. . English translation published with CSLI Publications in 2002,
Abeillé, Anne, and Owen Rambow (eds.). 2000. Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalism, linguistic analysis and processing. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Abeillé, Anne. 2002. Une grammaire électronique du français (An electronic grammar of French). Coll. Sciences du langage, Paris: CNRS Editions.
Abeillé, Anne (ed.). 2003. Treebanks: building and using parsed corpora. Dordrecht: Springer.
Abeillé, Anne, Lionel Clément and François Toussenel. 2003. Building a treebank of French. In Abeillé (ed.), 165–187.
Abeillé, Anne. 2007. Les grammaires d’unification (Constraint-based grammars). London: Hermes.
Abeillé, Anne, and Olivier Bonami (eds.). 2020. Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics: Papers in Honor of Danièle Godard. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Abeillé, Anne, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Sports | A Sports HD is a Pakistani sports channel. It was launched on 16 October 2021 and is a part of ARY Digital Network which earlier planned in 2016. On 9 October 2021, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Wahab Riaz, Misbah ul Haq announced to join as its cricket analysts panel. In November 2022, Broadcast 2022 FIFA World Cup with Exclusive Pre & Post Match Analyst Show.
Programming
International Cricket
Franchise Cricket
Association Football
See also
ATN ARY Digital (Canada)
ARY News
ARY Films
List of Pakistani television serials
List of Pakistani television stations
ARY Qtv
List of programs broadcast by ARY Digital
References
External links
ARY Digital
24-hour television news channels in Pakistan
Television channels and stations established in 2021
2021 establishments in Pakistan
Urdu-language mass media
Television stations in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi
Sports television in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Yanco | Holly Ann Yanco is an American roboticist and computer scientist who works as Distinguished University Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the director of the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) center. She is known for her research in human–robot interaction, and has applied robotics as a way to broaden interest in computer science by schoolchildren, in assistive technology, in manufacturing, and for rescue robots.
Education and career
Yanco became interested in robotics in middle school, and went to high school in Northborough, Massachusetts. She is a 1991 graduate of Wellesley College, and completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Her dissertation, Shared User-Computer Control of a Robotic Wheelchair System, was supervised by Rodney Brooks.
She has taught at Wellesley, Boston College, and ArsDigita University before taking her present position at UMass Lowell.
Recognition
Yanco was elected as an AAAI Fellow in 2021, by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, "for foundational contributions to the field of human-robot interaction and for exceptional leadership in education and broadening participation".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American roboticists
Women roboticists
American women computer scientists
Wellesley College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Massachusetts Lowell faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Bezanson%20%28programmer%29 | Jeff Bezanson (born December 26, 1981) is a computer scientist best known for co-creating the Julia programming language with Stefan Karpinski, Alan Edelman and Viral B. Shah in 2012. The language spawned Julia Computing Inc. (since then renamed to JuliaHub Inc.) of which Bezanson is the CTO. As a founder of the company and co-creator of the language, Bezanson earned the 2019 J.H. Wilkinson Prize for his work on the Julia programming language alongside Shah and Karpinski. Bezanson is also listed as an author on academic papers regarding the Julia language.
Education
After receiving his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 2004, Bezanson moved on to graduate studies and researched in the field of technical computing at MIT and received his PhD in 2015; his thesis is titled Abstraction in Technical Computing (2015).
Awards
In 2019, Bezanson was awarded the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software with Stefan Karpinski and Viral B. Shah for their work on the Julia programming language.
See also
Kathleen Booth
Dylan programming language
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Jean E. Sammet
John Amsden Starkweather
References
American computer scientists
Living people
1981 births
Harvard College alumni
Programming language designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium%20College%20Football | Stadium College Football was the broadcast of NCAA Division I football games by Stadium for the Stadium network, Facebook, the Bally Sports regional networks and Marquee Sports Network. Stadium College Football debuted on September 2, 2017 with a college football game between C-USAs UAB and SWACs Alabama A&M.
History
Prior to Stadium
Prior to Stadium, the Sinclair Broadcast Group (co-owner of Stadium) operated the American Sports Network, which was a sports brand that produced and distributed sports events, including college football, similarly Silver Chalice (co-owner of Stadium) operated Campus Insiders, a service that was dedicated to the online streaming of sporting events, including college football.
On April 13, 2017, it was officially announced that the American Sports Networks and Campus Insiders would merge into Stadium. A television network that would target both broadcast and digital platforms, with the linear service utilizing the syndication and broadcast network built out for ASN, and Campus Insiders providing original studio and long-form programming to the venture. After a soft launch in July 2017, the service officially launched on August 24, with ASN's over-the-air network formally joining Stadium on September 6.
On Stadium
Stadium launched its college football coverage on September 2, 2017 with a matchup between C-USAs UAB and SWACs Alabama A&M on the Stadium network. On the same day, two other football games, one from the C-USA and one from the Mountain West Conference aired on Facebook.
Stadium College Football'''s debut season showcased 39 games from Division I-A conferences such as the Mountain West Conference, and C-USA and Division I FCS conferences such as the Patriot League, Big South Conference and SoCon.
On Regional Sports Networks
In 2019 the Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the Fox Sports Networks. These networks were rebranded as Bally Sports in 2021. During the 2020 season Stadium produced games featuring the C-USA were distributed to these networks and their affiliates instead of airing on Stadium. Because these telecasts aired on the Fox Sports Networks prior to their rebranding these telecasts used Fox Sports branding leased as part of the transition.
During the 2021 season Stadium produced college football games aired on the Stadium using graphics from sister network Bally Sports. Select games were also simulcasted to sister stations Bally Sports and Marquee Sports Network. (also owned by the Sinclair Broadcast group)
A package of ACC college football games was managed by Bally Sports and used their graphics while airing on their networks, however these telecasts were officially produced by Raycom Sports.
On Facebook
Since 2017 a select number of Stadium produced college football games have aired on the Stadium Facebook page instead of the Stadium network or regional sports networks. Historically these telecasts have included games from the Patriot League and Conference USA however as of 2021, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine%20Barry%20%26%20The%20Disco%20Worms | Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms (; ; also known as simply Disco Worms) is a 2008 Danish-German 3D computer-animated film directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen from a screenplay by Nielsen and Morten Dragsted.
Premise
Earthworm Barry gets no respect and lives at the bottom of the food chain, but one day he finds an old disco record which arouses his interest in music, and, with help from friend Gloria, they decide to create the greatest disco band the world has ever seen: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms.
Voice cast
Peter Frödin as Bjarne (Barry)
Lars Hjortshøj as Niller
Trine Dyrholm as Gloria
Troels Lyby as Jimmy
as Donna
Birthe Neumann as Mor
as Far
Henning Jensen as Tonni Dennis
as Justesen
as Naturspeaker
Kim Hagen Jensen as Promotor
Tonni Zinck as Skolopender
Casper Byriel Svane as Flue
Kirsten Skytte and Margit Rosenaa as Døgnflue
Fedor Bondarchuk as Tonni Dennis
Denis Hückel as Käfer
Olavi Uusivirta as Aaro
Production
In total, production lasted 16 months on a budget of $5 million. According to Nielsen, the character designs and script took a year to complete. The film also faced difficulty with finding financing, which inevitably took 8 months to find.
Release
The film was released in Danish theatres on 10 October 2008, and opened with $225,324 for a total of $1,936,776. In Germany, the film was released on 29 October 2009, and grossed $33,604. The worldwide gross for Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms was $6,371,879.
Critically, the film received generally average to negative reviews.
References
External links
(in Danish)
Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms at filmportal.de (in German)
2008 films
2008 animated films
2008 computer-animated films
2000s Danish-language films
2000s German-language films
Danish animated films
German animated feature films
2008 multilingual films
Danish multilingual films
German multilingual films
2000s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaogang%20Ma | Xiaogang Ma (; born 1980) or Marshall Ma is a Chinese data science and geoinformatics researcher at the University of Idaho (UI), United States. He is an associate professor in the department of computer science at UI, and also affiliates with the department of earth and spatial sciences and several research institutes and centers at the university.
Early life and education
Ma was born in Tianmen, an inland county in Central China. He finished college and graduate studies at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) in the early 2000s. Then in 2007 he went to ITC, the Netherlands for PhD study, originally affiliating with Utrecht University and then University of Twente. In 2011, he was awarded a PhD degree of Earth System Science and GIScience from University of Twente with his dissertation "Ontology Spectrum for Geological Data Interoperability". In early 2012, Ma joined the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as a postdoctorate fellow, with financial supports from the Sloan Foundation and NSF. At RPI, he received intensive training of data science methods and semantic technologies, and he participated and led several research projects. In 2014, Ma was promoted to associate research scientist at RPI.
Career
Ma's research addresses the needs of methods and building blocks in the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to facilitate data science. At RPI, he took leadership roles for ontology development in the Global Change Information System of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and data science activities of the Sloan-funded Deep Carbon Observatory. He also taught a data analytics course for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at RPI.
In 2016, Ma joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Idaho (UI). He continued his research on data science and geoinformatics at UI, including knowledge graphs, open data, and algorithms for spatio-temporal analysis, and he created several new courses related to data science and open data. In 2016 and 2017 Ma was an affiliate scientist with MILES - Managing Idaho's Landscapes for Ecosystem Services project, where he contributed to the cyberinfrastructure development. In 2018, he co-initiated the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) and received sponsorship from NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and Elsevier's Artificial Intelligence journal. Since 2017, Ma has worked intensively on the deep-time data science, with several projects funded by NSF and NASA, including the OpenMindat project to provide open access to the data of Mindat.org, the largest database of minerals in the world. He has also been active in community programs or initiatives, including the Deep-Time Data Infrastructure, the Deep-time Data Driven Discoveries, and the IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth. In 2020 and 2021, Ma led a team of researchers from four U.S. universities and received a multi-million grant from NSF to conduct cross-disciplinary data science studies on climate change, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTV%20Network%20%28Pakistan%29 | GTV Network is a Pakistani News Channel based in Karachi Pakistan. Mukhtar Hussain is chairman of Mukhtar Hussain.
GTV Programs
GTV News HD was launched in 2018, and has following program/talk show:
Mad e Muqabil with Rauf Klasra & Amir Mateen (Monday to Thursday 10 PM)
Live with Mujahid (Monday to Thursday 7 PM)
RedZone (Friday To Sunday 10 PM)
G Sports (Monday To Thursday 11 PM)
G Aya Nu (Saturday 11 PM )
Alif Laam Meem (Monday to Friday 5 PM)
Inside Financial Markets (Saturday 2 PM)
G Ka Jahan (Friday 11 PM)
Wild Pets (Sunday 5 PM)
References
External links
Official website English
Official Urdu Website
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Television stations in Karachi
Television networks in Pakistan
Television stations in Pakistan
2018 establishments in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Brewer | Eric Brewer may refer to:
Eric Brewer (ice hockey) (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player
Eric Brewer (scientist), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishnendu%20Chakrabarty | Krishnendu Chakrabarty is an Indian-American electrical and computer engineer. He is the Fulton Professor of Microelectronics at Arizona State University Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Before joining Arizona State, he was the John Cocke Distinguished Professor and was the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.
Early life and education
Chakrabarty received his B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1990 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995.
Career
Following his PhD, Chakrabarty remained in the United States and taught at Boston University before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1998. During his early tenure at Duke, Chakrabarty was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Faculty Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research focused on creating design automation and optimization techniques for "lab-on-a-chip" devices, "where a wide array of biomedical and chemical tests are miniaturized and completed on a microchip only a few centimeters wide."
While working as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Chakrabarty was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to computing. Following this, he was appointed the William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering and was cited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for "pioneering and inspirational research on the design automation and testing of complex chips with the application to microfluidic biochips." In 2016, Chakrabarty was named a Hans Fischer Senior Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich. In 2017, Chakrabarty was honored with the Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for "contributions to the design of microfluidic biochips, testing and design-for-test of system-on-chip and 3-D integrated circuits, and infrastructure optimization of wireless sensor networks, as well as for technical leadership, industry impact, and inspiring researchers worldwide." At the same time, he was also named chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke.
In recognition of his scientific contributions, Chakrabarty was awarded a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in the "Short-term S: Noble Prize Level" category. He was also elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, specifically for his "distinguished contributions to the design of microfluidic biochips and design-for-test of system-on-chip integrated circuits, and for extraordinary technical leadership and mentoring of graduate students." In 2019, Chakrabarty and colleague Amanda Randles were named Senior Members of the National Academy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Microbiology%20Network | The New Zealand Microbiology Network (NZMN) is an advisory group to the Ministry of Health in New Zealand. It was established in 2014 through a contract from the Ministry of Health to the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR).
Purpose
The group's stated purpose is "to enable a timely and consistent response to issues relating to laboratory testing and to ensure regular communication between microbiology laboratories in New Zealand".
Membership
The membership of the group is around 30 people, most of whom are clinical microbiologists. They include:
a clinical microbiologist from each District Health Board microbiology laboratory involved in communicable disease testing, whether private or public
representatives of the Medical Officers of Health, and the Ministry for Primary Industries
a member of the Protection, Regulation and Assurance division of the Ministry of Health
three members from ESR, the Medical Director, a clinical microbiologist and a surveillance representative.
In addition, there is provision for two standing observers, the Chair of the Public Health Laboratory Network and a nominated representative of the Australian Department of Health. The Chair of the group is Anja Werno, Chief of Pathology and Medical Director of Microbiology at Canterbury Health Laboratories.
Position statements
The Microbiology Network has published a number of position statements:
STI screening in asymptomatic patients during cervical smear examination (29 August 2017)
Laboratory processing of vaginal swabs in asymptomatic patients (7 September 2017)
Inclusion of clinical details on request forms (published 6 June 2019)
Point of care testing for diagnosis and clinical care of infectious diseases outside an accredited laboratory (October 2019)
Responsibilities of the reference and referring laboratory (October 2019)
Rapid Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) (1 April 2020)
Testing Patients for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Prior to Transfer to Age Residential Care (ARC) (21 April 2020)
NZMN position statement on Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) for SARS CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand (1 September 2021)
NZMN updated position statement on saliva testing for SARS CoV-2 in New Zealand (16 September 2021)
Advice on testing for SARS-CoV-2
In April 2020, the NZMN advised against routine testing for SARS-CoV-2 of people being transferred into aged care. The NZMN's advice was questioned in the Rosewood rest home outbreak, and a cluster of outbreaks that affected six care homes nationally.
In April 2020 NZMN advised that testing for sexually transmitted diseases be restricted because the tests used some of the same components as were needed for COVID-19 testing. Some parts of the tests were subject to international supply chain issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Testing for sexually transmitted diseases was reported as still being "sidelined" in August of that year.
In September 2021, advice from the NZMN was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castalia%20%28bivalve%29 | Castalia is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Hyriidae.
The species of this genus are found in America.
Species:
Castalia ambigua
Castalia cordata
Castalia cretacea
Castalia crosseana
Castalia ecarinata
Castalia inflata
Castalia martensi
Castalia minuta
Castalia multisulcata
Castalia nehringi
Castalia orbignyi
Castalia orinocensis
Castalia pazi
Castalia psammoica
Castalia stevensi
Castalia undosa
References
Hyriidae
Bivalve genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko%20Oi | is a Japanese bilingual reporter and presenter based in Singapore who has worked for the BBC since 2006, when she became the network's first Japanese reporter. As of 2021, she is the Asia Business correspondent.
Oi has covered major breaking news in Asia such as 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima, 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, 2019 Japanese imperial transition, 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, 2019 Rugby World Cup, COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 Summer Olympics and Assassination of Shinzo Abe.
In 2013 and 2016, Oi spent 6 months in New York as a business correspondent where she reported from New York Stock Exchange.
She also spent 6 months in London in 2014, presenting news bulletins and reporting on major stories for BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
Oi was nominated for the Nikkei Woman of the Year award in 2009. She was recognised by Newsweek Japan as one of the most respected Japanese nationals in 2023.
She began her career with brief stints as an intern at Reuters in New York and an Asia Pacific producer for Bloomberg Television stationed from Tokyo. She moved to Singapore in 2006 when she joined the BBC.
Early life and education
Oi is from the Setagaya ward of Tokyo. Her father works in transport.
She attended the Sacred Heart School in Tokyo and then studied abroad at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne where she lived with a host family and learned English. Interested in history, she wrote an article in 2013 criticising the Japanese education system for sanitising its imperial history. She began her studies at Keio University before transferring to RMIT University in Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism in 2004. She participated in RMITV and interned with the ABC during university.
References
Living people
1981 births
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Japanese expatriates in Singapore
Japanese reporters and correspondents
Japanese television journalists
Japanese women journalists
Japanese women television presenters
Keio University alumni
People educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
People from Setagaya
RMIT University alumni
RMITV alumni
Journalists from Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Thomas | Marc Thomas may refer to:
Marc Thomas (computer scientist)
Marc Thomas (rugby union)
See also
Mark Thomas (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaBASS%20%28data%20archive%29 | The SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS) is a data archive of in situ oceanographic data used to support satellite remote sensing research of ocean color. SeaBASS is used for developing algorithms for satellite-derived variables (such as chlorophyll-a concentration) and for validating or “ground-truthing” satellite-derived data products. The acronym begins with “S” for SeaWiFS, because the data repository began in the 1990s around the time of the launch of the SeaWiFS satellite sensor, and the same data archive has been used ever since. Oceanography projects funded by the NASA Earth Science program are required to upload data collected on research campaigns to the SeaBASS data repository to increase the volume of open-access data available to the public. As of 2021 the data archive contained information from thousands of field campaigns uploaded by over 100 principal investigators.
See also
EOSDIS
Ocean color
Ocean observations
Ocean optics
Water remote sensing
References
External links
NASA SeaBASS Official Website
Earth observation
Environmental data
Environmental science databases
Oceanography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Island%20Australia%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Love Island Australia premiered on the Nine Network and 9Now on Monday, 11 October 2021 presented by Sophie Monk and narrated by Stephen Mullan.
Format
Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders (in the show) living in isolation from the outside world in a villa in Byron Bay, constantly under video surveillance. To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship or money, as the overall winning couple receives $50,000. On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series, they are forced to "re-couple" where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap and change.
Any Islander who remains single after the coupling is eliminated and dumped from the island. Islanders can also be eliminated via public vote, as during the series the public vote through the Love Island app available on smartphones for their favourite islanders (as singles or couples), or who they think is the most compatible. Those with the fewest votes risk being eliminated. Occasionally, Islanders themselves will vote off each other off the island. During the final week, the public vote for which couple they want to win the series and therefore take home $50,000. The winners can pick between share the money ($25,000 each) or take it all depending on an envelope they open as seen in previous seasons.
Islanders
The first Islanders were announced on the socials, one week before the premiere episode.
Coupling and elimination history
: Lexy arrived after the first coupling, and was told she would be able to steal a boy for herself on Day 3. Lexy chose to couple up with Ryan, leaving Ari single. All other Day 1 couples remained the same.
: After the re-coupling, Courtney was left single. Based on Australia's vote Aaron, Chris and Taku had the power to dump either Lexy or Rachael. They chose Rachael to dump.
: As new arrivals, Nicolas and Zoe were able steal a partner for themselves on Day 15. Nicolas chose Courtney, and Zoe chose Chris. All other couples from Day 10's recoupling remained set.
: Aaron declared that he was leaving the show. The next day he decided to stay.
Ratings
References
2021 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television shows set in New South Wales
Australia 3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbna | Dbna is a German-language platform for gay, bisexual and otherwise queer teenagers and men aged 14 to 29. It combines a social network with a forum and an online magazine covering culture and sexual health. The social network prohibits nudity, and all photos uploaded are checked by moderators. Users can ask questions on the forum anonymously. According to Dbna, it has over 30,000 users.
Name
The name derives from the German , meaning "you are not alone".
History
Dbna was founded in 1997. In 2009, it was nominated for the Grimme Online Award.
See also
PlanetRomeo
References
1997 establishments in Germany
LGBT organisations in Germany
Sex education in Europe
LGBT social networking services
LGBT-related Internet forums
Internet properties established in 1997
LGBT online dating services
Gay men's websites
Online dating services of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiseki%20Shokud%C5%8D | Aiseki Shokudō (相席食堂) is a Japanese variety show that has been broadcast regularly on the Asahi TV network since April 8, 2018. The comic duo Chidori is the host of this show, which is directed by Junpei Morita. The show is produced by Shinya Takagi and Riko Maki, both of whom work for the Yoshimoto Kogyo entertainment conglomerate.
Background
In this program celebrities are filmed in various locations throughout Japan in cafeteria-like settings. The hosts display catchy video images, and when they come across something interesting, they press a pause a video-pause button and add some comic lines. Often celebrities who are unfamiliar with specific travel venues are selected to comment and the resulting gaffes are part of the hilarity. Celebrities who have appeared on this program include Masanari Ueda, Mami Terakawa, Keita Sugiura, and Ryo Sakaue.
On January 4, 2018, a pilot version of this program was aired, featuring information about Inakadate village in Aomori prefecture and the Gotō Islands in Nagasaki prefecture. Based on the positive feedback, regular weekly broadcasts began in April 2018. Many previous broadcasts of this program are now streaming on services such as Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, the Osaka Channel, U-Next, and TVer. Most episodes introduce two Japanese locales per show, highlighting the culinary and touristic features of those locations. As of October 15, 2021, a total of 168 episodes of this show have been aired.
Reception
In 2018 Chidori was selected to host this show and by October 2018 the program achieved a target audience viewership of 7% of those watching television in Japan. Moreover, in April 2019 the broadcast time was extended to 60 minutes. However, by 2021 it has been reported that its viewership dropped to somewhere between 3.2% and 5.8%.
Home videos
Two DVDs featuring their program highlights have been marketed so far and this show continues to be aired on over twenty TV stations throughout Japan.
References
Works cited
This article incorporates material from the Japanese Wikipedia article on the same topic as well as this resource:
External links
Aiseki Shokudō Official Twitter Account (@aiseki_syokudo)
2018 Japanese television series debuts
TV Asahi original programming
Japanese variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20the%20Detection%20of%20Atmospheric%20Composition%20Change | The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) is composed of more than 70 globally distributed, ground-based, remote-sensing stations with more than 160 instruments making high-quality measurements of atmospheric composition in the stratosphere and upper troposphere for assessing the impact of stratosphere changes on the underlying troposphere and on global climate. It started out as The Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC) in 1991 and was renamed to NDACC in 1995.
Instrumentation includes lidar, microwave radiometers, Fourier-transform infrared, UV-visible DOAS (differential optical absorption spectroscopy)-type, and Dobson-Brewer spectrometers, as well as spectral UV radiometers.
References
External links
Atmospheric sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspend%20and%20resume | Suspend and resume may refer to:
Coroutines, computer program components that generalize subroutines for cooperative multitasking, by allowing execution to be suspended and resumed
Hibernation (computing) or Suspend to disk, powering down a computer while retaining its state by saving the contents of its random access memory to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage so that it can be restored when the computer is turned on
Sleep mode or Suspend to RAM, a low power mode for electronic devices such as computers, televisions, and remote controlled devices
Suspended game, in baseball, when a game has to be stopped before it can be completed, and the game is meant to be finished at a later time or date
See also
Interrupt
Resumption (disambiguation)
Saved game
Standby (disambiguation)
Suspension (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Office%202021 | Microsoft Office 2021 (third release codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. It was released on October 5, 2021, along with Windows 11, and replaced Office 2019.
Office 2021 retains the same major version number of 16 that previous versions of Office had. It introduces new dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP features for Excel, full dark mode support and performance improvements. Support for retail versions of Office 2021 will end on October 13, 2026; unlike older versions of Office, there is no extended support period.
Development
The office suites updates includes better support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format. The version update adds features to the LET function, has better search for XMATCH function, dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP. It enhances Ink for Translate in Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint.
Office editions
Available editions include:
Office Home & Student 2021: Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Windows and Mac OS. Includes 1 licence for PC or Mac.
Office Home & Business 2021: Includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Windows and Mac OS. Includes 1 licence for PC or Mac.
Office Professional 2021: Includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access for Windows. Includes 1 licence for PC.
Microsoft 365 Apps for business: Includes Office Home & Business 2021 apps, plus Access and Publisher for Windows, Microsoft Forms; web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Licence expanded to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets, and 5 mobile devices. Other features include 1 TB of OneDrive storage, direct save to OneDrive or SharePoint.
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: Microsoft 365 Apps for business with Microsoft Bookings, Microsoft Exchange, web version of Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint. Other features include 50 GB mailbox.
Version history
Retail
Volume licensed
References
2021 software
2021
Office 2021
Office suites for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Cates | William Cates may refer to:
William W. Cates, American philosopher, photographer, writer and vintner
William Leist Readwin Cates, English lawyer and compiler of reference works
William Finnic Cates, namesake of the USS Cates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20for%20artificial%20intelligence | Specialized computer hardware is often used to execute artificial intelligence (AI) programs faster, and with less energy, such as Lisp machines, neuromorphic engineering, event cameras, and physical neural networks. As of 2023, the market for AI hardware is dominated by GPUs.
Lisp machines
Lisp machines were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to make Artificial intelligence programs written in the programming language Lisp run faster.
Dataflow architecture
Dataflow architecture processors used for AI serve various purposes, with varied implementations like the polymorphic dataflow Convolution Engine by Kinara (formerly Deep Vision), structure-driven dataflow by Hailo, and dataflow scheduling by Cerebras.
Component hardware
AI accelerators
Since the 2010s, advances in computer hardware have led to more efficient methods for training deep neural networks that contain many layers of non-linear hidden units and a very large output layer. By 2019, graphics processing units (GPUs), often with AI-specific enhancements, had displaced central processing units (CPUs) as the dominant means to train large-scale commercial cloud AI. OpenAI estimated the hardware compute used in the largest deep learning projects from Alex Net (2012) to Alpha Zero (2017), and found a 300,000-fold increase in the amount of compute needed, with a doubling-time trend of 3.4 months.
Artificial Intelligence Hardware Components
Cеntral Procеssing Units (CPUs)
Evеry computеr systеm is built on cеntral procеssing units (CPUs). Thеy handle duties, do computations, and carry out ordеrs. Evеn if spеcializеd hardwarе is morе еffеctivе at handling AI activitiеs, CPUs arе still еssеntial for managing gеnеral computing tasks in AI systеms.
Graphics Procеssing Units (GPUs)
AI has sееn a dramatic transformation as a rеsult of graphics procеssing units (GPUs). Thеy arе pеrfеct for AI jobs that rеquirе handling massivе quantitiеs of data and intricatе mathеmatical opеrations bеcausе of thеir parallеl dеsign, which еnablеs thеm to run sеvеral computations at oncе.
Tеnsor Procеssing Units (TPUs)
For thе purposе of accеlеrating and optimizing machinе lеarning workloads, Googlе has crеatеd Tеnsor Procеssing Units (TPUs). Thеy arе madе to handlе both infеrеncе and training procеdurеs wеll and pеrform wеll whеn usеd with nеural nеtwork tasks.
Fiеld-Programmablе Gatе Arrays (FPGAs)
Fiеld-Programmablе Gatе Arrays (FPGAs) arе еxtrеmеly adaptablе piеcеs of hardwarе that may bе sеt up to carry out cеrtain functions. Thеy arе suitеd for a variеty of AI applications bеcausе to thеir vеrsatility, including rеal-timе imagе rеcognition and natural languagе procеssing.
Mеmory Systеms
In ordеr to storе and rеtriеvе thе data nееdеd for procеssing, AI rеquirеs еffеctivе mеmory systеms. To avoid bottlеnеcks in data accеss, rapid connеctivity and largе-capacity mеmory is crucial.
Storagе Solutions
Artificial intеlligеncе applications gеnеratе and utilisе vast amounts of data. High-spееd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waceke%20Wanjohi | Prof. Waceke Wanjohi is a professor at Kenyatta University who works in plant pathology, research, teaching, networking, and graduate education. She is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at Kenyatta University. She was appointed to act as the Vice chancellor of the same university from July 2022. Dedicated to boosting Africa's competitiveness in the global arena by improving agricultural output in smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research interests
Vegetable nematode infestations
Plant nematology capacity building in the regions At all levels, both human and infrastructure
Publications
Publications:
Wanjiku, E.K., Waceke, J.W. and Mbaka, J.N., 2021. Suppression of Stem-End Rot on Avocado Fruit Using Trichoderma spp. in the Central Highlands of Kenya. Advances in Agriculture, 2021.
Wanjiku, E.K., Waceke, J.W., Wanjala, B.W. and Mbaka, J.N., 2020. Identification and Pathogenicity of Fungal Pathogens Associated with Stem End Rots of Avocado Fruits in Kenya.
Juma, W.S., Waceke, J.W. and Nchore, S.B., 2020. Diversity of Plant Parasitic Nematodes of Tree Tomato (Solanum betaceum Cav.) In Kiambu and Embu Counties, Kenya. Middle East J, 9(3), pp. 605–616.
Onduso, J.N., Muthomi, J.W., Mutitu, E.W., Kathimba, F.K., Kimani, P.M., Kiriika, L.M., Narla, R.D., Mulugo, L., Kibwika, P., Kyazze, F.B. and Omondi, B.A., 2018. Management of bacterial wilt of tomato using resistant rootstocks.
Horn, L.N. and Shimelis, H.A., 2018. Importance of cowpea production, breeding and production constrains under dry areas in Africa. RUFORUM Working Document series, 17(1), pp. 499–514.
Waceke, J.W., 2018. Response of Common Beans Varieties to a Mixed Population of Root Knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne spp) in Central Highlands of Kenya.
Nchore, S.B., Waceke, J.W., Buttner, C., Omwoyo, O. and Ulrichs, C., 2016. Efficacy of soil solarization and selected organic amendments for the control of root-knot nematodes in African nightshades. In Fifth African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Biennial Conference 2016," Linking agricultural universities with civil society, the private sector, governments and other stakeholders in support of agricultural development in Africa, Cape Town", South Africa, 17–21 October 2016 (pp. 771–777). RUFORUM.
Mwangi, J.M., Kariuki, G.M., Waceke, J.W. and Grundler, F.M., 2015. First report of Globodera rostochiensis infesting potatoes in Kenya. New Disease Reports, 31, pp. 18–18.
Muturi, J., Gichuki C., Waceke J. W., Runo S.M.2010 Use of Isoenzyme phenotypes to characterize the major root – knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) parasitizing indigenous leafy vegetables in Kisii Kenya. In “Transforming Agriculture for improved livelihoods through Agricultural Product Value Chains: The Proceedings of the 12th KARI Biennial Scientific Conference”8- 12th Nov 2010 Nairobi Kenya Pg. 605-612
Kavuluko J. M., C. Gichuki, J.W. Waceke and S.M. Runo 2010. Characterization of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) from selected legumes in Mbe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Hesterberg | Tim Hesterberg is an American Statistician. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently works as a Staff Data Scientist at Instacart.
Education and career
Tim Hesterberg graduated with a B.A in mathematics from St. Olaf College and received his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. Hesterberg is a member of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences(NISS) and was previously on the NISS Board of Trustees. He is currently on the board of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. He previously worked as a Senior Statistician at Google as well as at Franklin and Marshall College, Pacific Gas & Electric Co, and Insightful/MathSoft. Hesterberg currently is a Senior Statistician at Instacart.
Research
Tim Hesterberg contributed to statistical research by authoring a textbook, several articles, and a software package. These are:
A 2011 undergraduate student textbook titled Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R.
A 2015 article titled "What Teachers Should Know About the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum".
A 2015 R (programming language) software package titled `resample: Resampling Functions`. This package is intended to be easy to use. It performs bootstraps, permutation tests, and other sampling refunctions.
Several scientific articles including Bootstrap, Least-Angle Regression and LASSO for Large Datasets, and Least Angle and L1 Penalized Regression: A Review.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Wikipedia Student Program
American statisticians
St. Olaf College alumni
Stanford University alumni
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Paiva | Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around artificial intelligence and robotics. She is an elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Education and career
Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University. In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico within the University of Lisbon. She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS).
From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019.
References
External links
, April 9, 2018
Living people
Portuguese women computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Lisbon
Alumni of Lancaster University
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C5%82gorzata%20Kalinowska-Iszkowska | Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska (born 29 July 1946) is a Polish computer scientist, educator, and activist. She was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology (IT). She was a member of the Polish Congress of Women.
Education and career
Kalinowska-Iszkowska graduated from in Warsaw in 1964. In 1970, she graduated from Warsaw University of Technology with specializations in automation and mathematical machines. A decade later, she obtained her doctorate in technical sciences.
She participated in research work on the early K-202 and KRTM (UMC-20) computers, as well as in the area of fuzzy sets.
Career
In 1992, Kalinowska-Iszkowska started working for Digital Equipment Polska. In 1996, she joined IBM Polska. In 1999–2000, she worked at TCH Systems SA, and then, until 2004, at Positive and ComputerLand, organizing the Management Competence Center. In the years 2004–2007 she worked for HP Polska as a government affairs manager, dealing with international regulations, including the European Union.
Kalinowska-Iszkowska has been a member of the Polish Information Technology Society (PTI) since 1981, serving on the organization's board from 2000 to 2011. From 2005 to 2011, she represented PTI in the (CEPIS), where she also served as vice-president from 2008 to 2011. From 2015, she was again the vice-president. From 2017 she was a member of the management board of the Mazowieckie Branch of the Polish Information Technology Society ( PTI).
She served as an evaluator of the European Commission as an expert in information security. In 2002, she founded and was the President of the Association of Knowledge Management Practitioners.
Since 2000, she has been involved in discussions about the need for wider participation of women in technical professions, in particular in IT. From 2008 to 2011, she was a board member of European Center for Women and Technology and its representative in Poland. She was identified among the top ten women who were leading the Polish IT industry in 2016. She also participated in the Polish (Congress of Women).
Awards
Gold Cross of Merit (2005)
TOP TEN award for women managing Polish ICT businesses (2016)
Medal of the 70th anniversary of Polish Informatics, awarded by the Chapter of PTI (2018)
Works
References
1946 births
Polish women computer scientists
Polish computer scientists
Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
Warsaw University of Technology alumni
Living people
People from Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma%20Huskey | Velma Elizabeth Huskey (née Roeth; October 8, 1917 – January 16, 1991) was a pioneer in early computing and author of several important papers on the history of computing.
Early life and education
Velma Elizabeth Roeth was born October 8, 1917, in Houston, Ohio. She was the daughter of German-American farmers Frederick William Roeth and Clara Matilda Fessler. She attended Houston High School, where she wrote and edited the school news column published in The Piqua Daily Call. She entered Ohio University in 1937.
After marrying Harry Huskey in 1939, Velma Huskey earned a B.A. in English from Ohio State University in 1942. There she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Career
She lived in Britain for a year after the Second World War. Huskey worked as an information specialist for the National Bureau of Standards from 1948 to 1952. She became a technical writer at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at UCLA. Along with her husband, she was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She traveled to the Soviet Union for the 1959 technical delegation in computers, paying her own way while her husband represented the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1967 the Huskeys moved to Santa Cruz, California.
Huskey was a biographer of Ada Lovelace. She studied letters in the Byron and Lovelace collection of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford during summer visits. Her writings appeared in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Personal life
She married Harry Huskey in 1939 and they had four children, Harry Douglas Jr, Carolyn Louise, Roxanne Louise and Linda Louise. She was a member of the Messiah Lutheran church in Santa Cruz.
Death
Velma E. R. Huskey died January 16, 1991, in Miami, Florida. She was buried at Santa Cruz Memorial Park in Santa Cruz, California.
References
External links
1917 births
1991 deaths
Ohio State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia%20%28journal%29 | Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research is a journal in the field of tourism and hospitality. It is published by Routledge and is indexed in databases including Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature and CAB International's Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts. It was established in 1990.
References
External links
Routledge academic journals
Tourism journals
Academic journals established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSK%20Trade%20City | NSK Trade City Sdn Bhd (doing business as NSK Trade City and colloquially known as NSK) is a network of local wholesalers and retailers based in Malaysia. The company's name, "NSK" is short for New Seng Kee. It operates in the grocery stores industry and was incorporated on 28 August 2003. The net profit margin of NSK Trade City Sdn Bhd increased by 1.37% in 2019.
History
NSK started off as a family business by the Lim family, selling daily groceries and household goods at Pasar Chow Kit in 1985. Somewhere in 1991, the company then grew from a small kiosk business to a big retail store that offers a variety of grocery and household items which was located along Jalan Raja, Kuala Lumpur.
In December 2018, NSK officially opened its 21st outlet at the ground floor of BMC Mall in Bandar Mahkota Cheras and a total RM8mil had been invested for the construction of the huge outlet.
On 31 December 2020, NSK launched its 30th outlet at Star Avenue Lifestyle Mall located in Shah Alam. The outlet is one of the mall's anchor tenant spanning across
On 11 January 2022, NSK Grocer which is known as the largest and first retail outlet in the heart of Kuala Lumpur with a new and modern concept, launched in Quill City Mall, offering a wide range of quality local and imported products at affordable prices. Spanning over , including the largest fresh food section, dry goods section, wholesale section and delicatessen.
Controversy
One of its supermarkets in Selayang allegedly displayed frog meat in the seafood counter. This issue raise concern and seen as insenstivity to Malay Muslims. NSK Trade City Sdn Bhd (NSK) has issued a public apology following the incident.
See also
Econsave
Mydin
List of hypermarkets
References
Retail companies established in 1985
Malaysian companies established in 1985
Companies based in Selangor
Supermarkets of Malaysia
Hypermarkets
Wholesalers
Malaysian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KataGo | KataGo is a free and open-source computer Go program, capable of defeating top-level human players. First released on 27 February 2019, it is developed by David Wu.
Based on techniques used by DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero, KataGo implements Monte Carlo tree search with a convolutional neural network providing position evaluation and policy guidance. Compared to AlphaGo, KataGo introduces many refinements that enable it to learn faster and play more strongly.
Notable features of KataGo that are absent in many other Go-playing programs include score estimation; support for small boards, arbitrary values of komi, and handicaps; and the ability to use various Go rulesets and adjust its play and evaluation for the small differences between them.
KataGo's first release was trained by David Wu using resources provided by his employer Jane Street Capital, but it is now trained by a distributed effort. Members of the computer Go community provide computing resources by running the client, which generates self-play games and rating games, and submits them to a server. The self-play games are used to train newer networks and the rating games to evaluate the networks' relative strengths.
KataGo supports the Go Text Protocol, with various extensions, thus making it compatible with popular GUIs such as Lizzie. As an alternative, it also implements a custom "analysis engine" protocol, which is used by the KaTrain GUI, among others. KataGo is widely used by strong human go players, including the South Korean national team, for training purposes. KataGo is also used as the default analysis engine in the online Go website AI Sensei, as well as OGS (the Online Go Server).
In 2022, KataGo was used as the target for adversarial attack research, designed to demonstrate the "surprising failure modes" of AI systems. The researchers were able to trick KataGo into ending the game prematurely.
David Wu is also the developer of the Arimaa playing program called bot_Sharp which defeated three top human players to win the Arimaa AI Challenge in 2015.
References
External links
KataGo on GitHub
KataGo on Sensei's Library
KataGo Training website
Go engines
Free and open-source software
2019 software
Applied machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest-processing-time-first%20scheduling | Longest-processing-time-first (LPT) is a greedy algorithm for job scheduling. The input to the algorithm is a set of jobs, each of which has a specific processing-time. There is also a number m specifying the number of machines that can process the jobs. The LPT algorithm works as follows:
Order the jobs by descending order of their processing-time, such that the job with the longest processing time is first.
Schedule each job in this sequence into a machine in which the current load (= total processing-time of scheduled jobs) is smallest.
Step 2 of the algorithm is essentially the list-scheduling (LS) algorithm. The difference is that LS loops over the jobs in an arbitrary order, while LPT pre-orders them by descending processing time.
LPT was first analyzed by Ronald Graham in the 1960s in the context of the identical-machines scheduling problem. Later, it was applied to many other variants of the problem.
LPT can also be described in a more abstract way, as an algorithm for multiway number partitioning. The input is a set S of numbers, and a positive integer m; the output is a partition of S into m subsets. LPT orders the input from largest to smallest, and puts each input in turn into the part with the smallest sum so far.
Examples
If the input set is S = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and m = 2, then the resulting partition is {8, 5, 4}, {7, 6}. If m = 3, then the resulting 3-way partition is {8}, {7, 4}, {6, 5}.
Properties
LPT might not find the optimal partition. For example, in the above instance the optimal partition {8,7}, {6,5,4}, where both sums are equal to 15. However, its suboptimality is bounded both in the worst case and in the average case; see Performance guarantees below.
The running time of LPT is dominated by the sorting, which takes O(n log n) time, where n is the number of inputs.
Performance guarantees: identical machines
When used for identical-machines scheduling, LPT attains the following approximation ratios.
Worst-case maximum sum
In the worst case, the largest sum in the greedy partition is at most times the optimal (minimum) largest sum.
A more detailed analysis yields a factor of times the optimal (minimum) largest sum. (for example, when m =2 this ratio is ).
The factor is tight. Suppose there are inputs (where m is even): . Then the greedy algorithm returns:
,
...
with a maximum of , but the optimal partition is:
...
with a maximum of .
Input consideration
An even more detailed analysis takes into account the number of inputs in the max-sum part.
In each part of the greedy partition, the j-th highest number is at most .
Suppose that, in the greedy part P with the max-sum, there are L inputs. Then, the approximation ratio of the greedy algorithm is . It is tight for L≥3 (For L=3, we get the general factor ). Proof. Denote the numbers in P by x1,...,xL. Before xL was inserted into P, its sum was smallest. Therefore, the average sum per part is at least the sum x1+...+xL-1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Dera | Digital Dera "ڈیجییٹل ڈیرہ" is an initiative to digitalize the agriculture sector in remote fertile lands of South Punjab by providing a community internet network to local farmers. It was established with the collaboration of Agriculture Republic, Internet Society, Accountability Lab, PTCL, and Hayat Farms in remote agricultural land of Chak No. 26/SP, District Pakpattan. It aims to provide free internet connectivity for better access to digital agricultural resources. The future goal is to introduce agriculture-based smart villages through IoT integration.
Background
A group of progressive agricultural entrepreneurs from South Punjab who previously founded "Agriculture Republic", an Agriculture Think Tank, decided to start Digital Dera with NGOs' help and the support of Director General Agriculture (Punjab Agriculture Department). It is part of the "Digital Agriculture Community Network Project", targeting more than 1500 farmers in the rural belt of South Punjab.
Digital Hujra
"Digital Hujra" is another initiative to serve same purposes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as "Digital Dera" is serving in Punjab province. Digital Hujra center is established in University of Malakand, Chakdara, Lower Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Experts in the center will provide necessary assistance to the surrounding villages such as Ramora, Ali Mast, Gul Muqam, Darbar and Sehsada in Adenzai Tehsil.
See also
Smart villages in Asia
Agriculture in Pakistan
References
Agriculture in Pakistan
Agriculture in Punjab, Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsudi%20Wahyu%20Kisworo | Marsudi Wahyu Kisworo is an Indonesian Professor of Computer Science affiliated with Bina Darma University. On 13 October 2021, he was appointed as Member of the Board of Governors of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) by Joko Widodo.
Early life and education
Marsudi was born as son of Djoko Susilo, a teacher of Teacher Education School. Due to his father mobile assignment, he rarely stay long in one place and constantly moving from one town to another town. He enrolled to Department of Electrical Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1978. He later took specialization of Computer System and Engineering during his study here and graduated in 1983. He was worked to a company, and later continuing his study to Curtin University of Technology thru AIDAB scholarship in 1989. He obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1990 and Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1992.
Rise to Prominence
First Indonesian IT Professor
Marsudi was appointed as Professor in the field of Computer Science in 2002. At that time, he was the first Indonesian IT professor. He also advisor of future Vice Head of Corruption Eradication Commission, Bibit Samad Rianto.
Founder of Paramadina University
Marsudi is one of founder of Paramadina University [id]. He together with Nurcholish Madjid, and friends from Islamic Network, an international Indonesian Islamic student majlis ta'lim, founded the university in 1998.
Role in 2019 Indonesian General Election
Marsudi was hired by General Elections Commission (KPU) as system architect of KPU for the 2004 election. Together with experts at that time from University of Indonesia, Bandung Institute of Technology, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, and Paramadina University, he and others build the Election Information System used by KPU. Marsudi play significant role in clearing false allegation that General Elections Commission favoring Joko Widodo - Ma'ruf Amin during hearing at Constitutional Court by explaining clearly how the Election Information System work, not as alleged by Prabowo Subianto - Sandiaga Uno defense team.
Personal life
Marsudi married to Taty Adiyanty in 1985. Their marriage resulted in 3 children.
Marsudi is avid fan of Kungfu and practicing Tai Chi.
Aside of his hard skills, he also interested in self-development skills and mastered some of them, including Dale Carnegie method, Stephen Covey method, Anthony Robbins method, Neuro-linguistic programming, to even esoteric practices such as Reiki, Prana, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Hypnotism, and Spiritual intelligence. He also a well trained and seasoned speaker and motivator and possessed several international certification for those skills.
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Living people
1958 births
Indonesian academics
Indonesian businesspeople
Bandung Institute of Technology alumni
Curtin University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20de%20Vries | Glen de Vries (June 29, 1972 – November 11, 2021) was an American entrepreneur in the field of medical science and pharmacology. He was the co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata Solutions. In October of 2021 he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-18 in a suborbital flight.
Early life and education
De Vries grew up in New York and showed a passion for computers and science at a young age. He attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Manhattan and the Bronx, NY. His mother encouraged him to learn ballroom dancing in high school, and he danced competitively with her. De Vries attended Carnegie Mellon University and graduated in 1994. He taught himself to speak Japanese.
De Vries received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and genetics from Carnegie Mellon University, worked as a research scientist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and studied computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematics.
De Vries is the author, with Jeremy Blachman, of the 2020 book The Patient Equation: The Precision Medicine Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond, about the use of data in the future of medicine.
Blue Origin flight
On October 13, 2021, de Vries accompanied actor William Shatner and two tourists on a New Shepard launch vehicle as part of the Blue Origin NS-18 suborbital flight into outer space.
Death
De Vries was killed in a small plane crash involving a Cessna 172 in a heavily wooded area outside Hampton Township, New Jersey, on November 11, 2021, at the age of 49. He was a certified private pilot with an instrument rating. The plane's other occupant, Thomas Fischer, also died in the crash.
As a tribute, his initials were added to the mission patch of Blue Origin's crewed flight Blue Origin NS-19, which took place on December 11, 2021.
References
1972 births
2021 deaths
Accidental deaths in New Jersey
Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
Businesspeople from New York (state)
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2021
New Shepard passengers
Space tourists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Mankin | Allison Mankin is an American computer scientist and prominent figure in the area of Internet governance. She previously served as the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Chair and holds numerous leadership positions within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is known for developing Internet standards.
In anticipation of the internet growing beyond the capabilities of then-current IP Addressing schemes, in the mid-1990s Mankin, alongside Scott Bradner, was tasked by the IETF to head the new Internet Protocol Next Generation (IPng) area. The IPng area was tasked with designing and defining the next generation of IP Addressing, eventually publishing their recommendation and coining the name IPv6.
In 1993, Mankin founded the Systers program at the IETF, an informal mentoring and networking initiative for women in tech.
Selected publications
As of 2022, Mankin has over 3700 citations to her work with an h-index of 29.
References
External links
Living people
Internet pioneers
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina%20Kostina | Ekaterina Arkad'evna Kostina (born October 18, 1964 in Minsk, Belarus ) is a Belarusian-German mathematician specializing in numerical methods for nonlinear programming, robust optimization, and optimal control theory, and in the applications of these methods to the sciences. She is professor of numerical mathematics in the faculty of mathematics and computer science and institute for applied mathematics at Heidelberg University.
Education
Kostina was a high school student in Minsk, and studied from 1981 to 1986 at Belarusian State University in Minsk, earning a master's degree in mathematics in 1986 with the master's thesis Solution algorithms and software for simple minmax problems. She completed her Ph.D. in 1990 through the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Her dissertation, Algorithms for Solving Nonsmooth Minmax Problems, was supervised by Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova.
Career
After completing her doctorate, Kostina continued as a researcher with the Institute of Mathematics until 1997, when she first came to the University of Heidelberg as a research scientist. After visiting the University of Siegen in 2005, she became a professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg in 2007, holding the chair for numerical optimization and becoming the first female mathematics professor there. In 2010 she added an affiliation with the Center for Synthetic Microbiology (Synmicro), a joint project of the University of Marburg and the Max Planck Society. She took her present position as a professor at Heidelberg University in 2015.
She has served since 2007 on the scientific board of the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation for the Promotion of Female Elites in Sciences and the Arts, which supports early-career women in the sciences and arts. In 2011 she became one of the founders of the National Committee for Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Optimization (KoMSO).
References
External links
Home page
KoMSO
Living people
20th-century Belarusian mathematicians
Belarusian women mathematicians
21st-century Belarusian mathematicians
German women mathematicians
Belarusian State University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Marburg
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
1964 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Computer%20and%20Peripheral | American Computer & Peripheral, Inc. (AC&P), also written as American Computer and Peripheral, was an American computer company based in Santa Ana, California. The company was founded in 1985 by Alan Lau and released several expansion boards for the IBM PC as well as a few PC clones before going bankrupt in December 1989. Obscure in its own time, the company's 386 Translator was the first plug-in board for Intel's newly released 80386 processor and the first mass-market computing device to offer consumers a means of using the 386 in July 1986.
History
PC clones and peripherals
American Computer and Peripheral was founded in Santa Ana in April 1985 by Alan Lau. Among the company's first offerings were a duo of IBM PC clones: the American XTSR and the American 286. These clones were introduced in May 1986 and were clones of IBM's PC XT and PC/AT, respectively. The clock speed of the XTSR's Intel 8088 microprocessor was selectable, allowing users to change it from 4.77 MHz to 7.37 MHz. The module that allowed this selection of clock speeds was later sold separately as the American Turbo. The American 286 featured a motherboard in the Baby AT form factor with five expansion slots house in the same case as the American XTSR. AC&P later introduced the American 286-A, an AT clone with a full-sized AT motherboard, featuring eight expansion slots. AC&P hired Chi Yeung, previously a designer for Eagle Computer before the company went out of business in 1986, to design the 286-A. Both it and the regular 286 ran the Intel 80286, with clock speeds selectable from 6 MHz to 8 MHz. In June 1986, the company released the Abovefunction multifunction board that allows the PC, PC XT and compatibles to address up to 2 MB of RAM, as well as adding ports for joysticks and serial and peripheral devices. A year later, the company introduced the American 386-16, an i386-based desktop computer that touted superiority over other 386 clones due to its use of zero-wait states when accessing video and making system calls to the BIOS for peripheral access.
Upgrade devices
In June 1986, AC&P released the 386 Translator. This was a module that could be plugged into the pin-grid array socket reserved for the 80286 microprocessor on the motherboard of IBM's PC/AT or clones of the AT, in order to upgrade them to the newer 80386 by Intel. This product allowed AC&P to beat Compaq by a slim margin in offering consumers the first means through which they could interact with the 386. Compaq released the Deskpro 386, the first PC clone that featured a 386—and which marked the first time a major component to the IBM PC standard was upgraded by a company outside IBM—in September 1986. The 386 Translator was designed by NDR, a electronics design firm located in Corona, California. Scheduled for release as soon as Intel started shipping the chip out to computer vendors like AC&P, which occurred in mid-July along with Intel shipping production samples of the 386 to consumers, AC&P launched |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimala%20Perumal | Vimala Perumal is a Malaysian filmmaker. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Multimedia University, in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Her film Vedigundu Pasangge received national and international recognition.
About
Perumal was born in 1982, Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia. She completed her film studies at Multimedia University. She received a doctorate in film production and human communication from the University of Putra Malaysia becoming the first female film director in Malaysia with PhD.
Film
The Pasanga Trilogy
Perumal directed her debut feature film, Vilaiyaatu Pasangge (Playful Folks), which released on 13 October 2011. This was the first Malaysian Tamil Movie to be played on Astro Box Office.
She released her second feature film, Vetti Pasanga (Useless Folks) on 2 January 2014. This won two Silver Awards in International level, and broke the record for the Highest Box Office Collection during its release, for a Malaysian Tamil Movie under the Wajib Tayang Scheme.
The third sequel in this series, Vedigundu Pasangge (Rowdy Folks), was released on 26 July 2018 in 55 theatres, and became the First Malaysian Tamil film to screen for two weeks in the United Kingdom. It also premiered in Singapore, India, and Sri Lanka. In 2019, it won the Special Jury Award in the 30th Malaysian Film Festival. The film received the Malaysia Book of Records as the Highest Collection for Tamil Movies in Malaysia.
Recent work
In conjunction with the Independence Day in 2016, Maxis collaborated with a few Malaysian directors to release their 360 degree camera. Perumal and Kumar produced and directed a 360 degree film for this, “Rojak Cow Cow” in YouTube.
In 2020, Perumal ventured into directing a Tamil Drama Series, TAMILETCHUMY. The series was renewed for a second season, which aired in August 2021.
Academic
In early 2004, Perumal began teaching visual arts. In 2009, she taught the foundation course for Creative Multimedia, and became a Senior Lecturer at MMU. She later became the Head of the Humanities and Multimedia Department, and developed the curriculum for the Cinematic Arts Programme. As of 2020, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Creative Multimedia (IJCM).
Publications
Book chapters:
Tamil Film Industry in Malaysia. In Malaysian creative industry (pp. 34–36). Malaysia. 2016.
Indian Classical Dance (Bharatanatyam) in 3D Animation, VDM Publishing House, Germany, 2010.
The Need of Knowledge Management in Malaysian Film Industry, Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), Germany, 2009.
Accolades
Special Jury Award in 30th Malaysia Film Festival was awarded for Vedigundu Pasangge for becoming the first Malaysian Tamil language film to collect more than RM1 million. The film also won numerous awards in national and international film festivals with its own success. Among them are the Malaysia Book of Records for Highest Collection for Tamil Movies in Malaysia , Cinema Worldfest Awards (Musical Comedy), Calcutta International Cul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s%20Kraidy | Agnès Kraidy (born February 10, 1965) is an Ivorian magazine editor and journalist. Since April 2014, she has been the President of the Network of Women Journalists and Communication in Ivory Coast.
Biography
In 1989, Kraidy was the first woman to join the editing staff of the Ivorian newspaper Fraternité Matin. Now the paper's editor-in-chief, she is also editor of the women's magazine Femme d'Afrique. She has interviewed several celebrities on television, including Presidents Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara and Prime Minister Guillaume Soro. Keen to improve the role of women in her country, in 2013 Kraidy provided details to the World Bank on the practical problems women were subjected to. This led to the report "Etre femme en Cote d'Ivoire : quelles strategies d'autonomisation?" (Being a woman in Cote d'Ivoire : empowerment challenges).
In 2004, Kraidy published her first book 19 septembre : chroniques d'une guerre vaincue, consisting of ten patriotic editorials written between 2002 and 2004 on the First Ivorian Civil War. Later publications include Une journaliste et un prêtre en dialogue sur l'Afrique (2012) and Tu me fous les boules ! Vaincre le cancer! in 2016, on fighting breast cancer.
On 8 March 2021, in connection with International Women's Day, a ceremony in honour of Agnès Kraidy was organized by the Maison du textile which selects a deserving woman each year. She was presented with a cheque for 3.5 million francs which would help her to support the Femmes dynamiques de Bonoua, an association in which she has been involved. She expressed her own feelings about feminism stating: "Being a woman means fighting for ensuring femininity and not trying to become a man."
References
1965 births
Living people
Ivorian journalists
Ivorian women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chopped%20Canada%20episodes | This is the list of episodes for the Food Network Canada competition reality series Chopped Canada.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3 Teen Tournament
Season 3
See also
List of Chopped episodes
List of Chopped Junior episodes
List of Chopped Sweets episodes
References
External links
Chopped Canada episode guide at FoodNetwork.com
Chopped Canada Teens Tournaments episode guide at TVGuide.com
Lists of food television series episodes
Chopped |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20We%20Dream | United We Dream is a nonprofit immigrant advocacy organization with chapters operating in 28 U.S. states. The organization is an "immigrant-youth-led network" of 400,000 members in 100 local groups. The group was involved in advocacy surrounding the passing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) bill.
History
In 2008 Cesar Vargas, a Mexican-born undocumented immigrant and law school student began building a loose network of young immigrants. He was concerned that his status would affect his ability to complete law school and sought others in similar situations. In 2010, the network gained visibility with public demonstrations, including a four-month hike to Washington D.C. to lobby for the DREAM Act, and a student sit-in in Arizona in the offices of then Senator John McCain.
In late 2010, following the failure of the passing of the DREAM Act bill in the US Congress. the group splintered into three groups, each utilizing different advocacy tactics, but sharing the "dream" branding: United We Dream, DreamActivist, and Dream Action Coalition, with United We Dream becoming the largest.
In 2021, Google awarded around to United We Dream $250,000 to help pay DACA application fees.
DACA
During Barack Obama's presidency, the organization lobbied to protect immigrant children brought to the U.S. In 2012, the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) bill. The bill allowed youth immigrants to get driver's licenses, work permits, and attend college. In 2017, Cristina Jiménez Moreta, one of the co-founders of the organization, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her advocacy surrounding the DACA bill.
References
United States immigration law
Non-profit organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Marathi | Sun Marathi is an Indian Marathi language free-to-air general entertainment channel owned by Sun TV Network. This channel was launched on 16 October 2021.
Current broadcast
Drama series (Mon-Sat)
Sunday series
Non-fiction shows
Former broadcast
Drama series
Dubbed series
References
External links
Sun Marathi Official site
Television stations in Mumbai
Marathi-language television channels
Sun Group
Television channels and stations established in 2021
Mass media in Mumbai
Mass media in Maharashtra
2021 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trina%20Robinson | Trina Robinson is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The role was originated played by Tiana Le from 2017 to 2018. Nearly a year later on February 20, 2019, Sydney Mikayla took over the role. Later that year, Mikayla began appearing as a series regular. She vacated the role in March 2022; Tabyana Ali replaced her later that month.
Introduced by executive producer Frank Valentini in 2017, Trina is created by co-head writers Jean Passanante and Shelly Altman as the party girl best friend of Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy). For the most part, Trina is mentioned in passing by her friends. With Mikayla in the role, Trina is integrated into the canvas as one of the four young teen characters within the series, along with Josslyn, Oscar Nero (Garren Stitt), and Cameron Webber (William Lipton). Trina also forges friendship with Ava Jerome (Maura West) when she interns at Ava's art gallery. Hailed as one of the show's young heroines, in 2020, Trina steps into a more central role with the reintroduction of established character Marcus Taggert (Réal Andrews) as her father and the arrival of her mother, Portia Robinson (Brook Kerr). Trina struggles to cope with Taggert's presumed death and blames Portia's ex-boyfriend Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner). In 2021, the writers developed Trina's first potential romance with the troubled Spencer Cassadine (Nicholas Chavez).
With Mikayla in the role, Trina becomes a favorite amongst fans and critics for her fierce loyalty and her smart and assertive personality. Mikayla received two consecutive nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Trina in 2021 and 2022.
Storylines
In June 2017, Trina (Le) is enlisted by her best friend Josslyn Jacks to throw a party while her mom is out of town. After successfully arranging the party, Trina also invites Josslyn's crush Oscar. However, the party gets out of hand when the guests start drinking and Josslyn's grandmother Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman) breaks up the party. While the character does not appear much, she is mentioned often by Joss and Oscar. In March 2018, Trina attends the alternative prom that Oscar and Joss have arranged to support a transgender student at school. However, an earthquake hits and Trina suffers minor injuries.
Throughout 2019, Trina (Mikayla) serves as a supportive friend to Joss and Cam. She accompanies them on a road trip with a terminally ill Oscar and comforts Cam as he struggles to accept his mother Elizabeth Webber's (Rebecca Herbst) relationship with reformed serial killer Franco (Roger Howarth). Trina serves as moral support for Cameron when he goes to court after missing his mandatory community service thanks to the trip. As Oscar's health declines, Trina is determined to make sure everything is normal for Oscar and Joss. Despite her own grief over Oscar's passing, Trina does her best to support Joss and Cam, even partic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicat%20Systems | Wicat Systems, Inc., was an American computer and software company founded in 1980 in Orem, Utah. Originally a branch of WICAT, the World Institute for Computer-Assisted Teaching (later the Wicat Education Institute), the company manufactured multi-user systems for educational institutions before focusing their efforts on educational software development in the early 1990s. The company was among the first to use the Motorola 68000 microprocessor in a computer with the introduction of the Wicat System 100 in 1980. Both Wicat Systems and its parent institution were founded by Dustin H. Heuston, originally of New York.
History
At its peak in the mid-1980s, Wicat Systems employed 500 and had an annual budget of US$40 million. The company formed a joint venture with Control Data Corporation in early 1985. Named Plato/Wicat after Control Data's Plato educational software, the venture was intended to "address the entire educational process, including computer-based instructional courseware, testing and evaluation, and classroom management and administration".
In 1992, the company was acquired by Jostens in a stock swap valuated at roughly $111 million. Jostens, who had a rival educational software division Jostens Learning which was aimed at preschools, planned to use the Wicat Systems repertoire to increase their presence in high schools and higher education.
During the period from the late 1980's to 1996, WICAT systems also operated a UK branch in Camberley in Surrey. During this period WICAT produced CBT (computer based training - the forerunner of eLearning), and partial cockpit simulations for aviation clients. These included many of the then leading airlines and aircraft manufacturers and training covered pilot, cabin crew and ground crew training. Norfolk Southern American Railroad company was another of many non aviation clients.
Citations
References
1980 establishments in Utah
1992 disestablishments in Utah
1992 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1980
American companies disestablished in 1992
Companies based in Orem, Utah
Computer companies established in 1980
Computer companies disestablished in 1992
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LunaNet | LunaNet is envisioned as a network of cooperating networks (network of networks, akin to the terrestrial Internet) upon which providers can deliver communications, navigation, and other services for users on and around the Moon. LunaNet is based on a framework of mutually agreed-upon standards, protocols, and interface specifications that enable interoperability. LunaNet is intended to allow many lunar mission users to engage the services of diverse commercial and government service providers in an open and evolvable architecture. LunaNet Service Providers (LNSPs) can include communications, messaging, data transmission and distribution of position, navigation, timing, and situational awareness information.
LunaNet can be implemented by LNSPs as part of the earliest missions and accommodate expansion as new users and service providers come online. Many nations, agencies, and private companies can contribute
to and participate in the establishment and operation of LunaNet-compatible services. Just as the terrestrial Internet has public and private networks, LunaNet will have public and private networks. Private networks may be separated out by a combination of physical connectivity and/or policy and security implementations.
Moonlight is an ESA project intending to adopt the specifications.
See also
Deep Space Network, NASA spacecraft communications
Artemis program, NASA's return to the Moon
Laser communication in space
References
External links
LunaNet Interoperability Specification Documents
NASA's Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation Systems (LCRNS)
NASA
Spacecraft communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks%20Dragons%3A%20The%20Nine%20Realms | DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms is an American computer-animated television series in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise produced by the DreamWorks Animation under DreamWorks Animation Television for Peacock and Hulu. The series premiered on both Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021; the seventh season was released on September 14, 2023.
Premise
The series is set in the modern world, 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). It follows a group of misfit kids, brought by their parents to a huge fissure caused by a comet, who uncover the truth about dragons and where they've been hiding.
Characters and cast
Main
Jeremy Shada as Tom Kullersen, an adventurous and kindhearted fourteen-year-old who is the leader of the Dragon Riders. In Season 5, he is revealed to be the descendant of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. His dragon is a Night Light (a hybrid of Night Fury and Light Fury) named Thunder who is also the descendant of Hiccup's Night Fury: Toothless and his mate: the Light Fury.
Ashley Liao as Jun Wong, Tom’s childhood friend who has an interest in myths and fantasy stories. Her dragon is a two-headed Mist Twister named Wu & Wei.
Marcus Scribner as D'Angelo Baker, the team's veterinarian. His dragon is a crystal-horned Gembreaker named Plowhorn.
Aimee Garcia as Alex Gonzalez, the team's tech expert, who never goes anywhere without her tablet. Her dragon is a cloaking Featherhide named Feathers.
Vincent Tong as Eugene Wong, Jun's cocky older brother. He discovers the dragons in season 3 and is reluctantly accepted into the club. His dragon is a six-legged Deadly Spinner named Webmaster, he is the team's strategic, tactical support, and occasionally the leader.
Recurring and Supporting
Julia Stiles as Olivia Kullersen, Tom's mother and a geologist who works at Project ICARIS. She finally discovers the dragons in the season 4 finale. Like her son, she is also a descendant of Hiccup.
Haley Joel Osment as Leonard "Buzzsaw" Burne, a lumberjack turned dragon-hunter and the main antagonist of the series. He starts hunting dragons after a forest fire burns down his logging business which he wrongfully believes Thunder started. He discovers the Hidden World in the season 3 finale, and eventually acquires his own dragon: a Timberjack that he names Old Jack.
Carrie Keranen as Wilma Sledkin, a cocky and devious Rakke Corp scientist. She has a bitter rivalry with Olivia, and often attempts to discredit her work. She is known for always putting the company's needs above the people she works with.
Keston John as Philip Baker, D'Angelo's father and the chief of security at Project ICARIS.
Lauren Tom as May Wong, Jun and Eugene's strict dwarf mother and the director of Project ICARIS.
Pavar Snipe as Angela Baker, D'Angelo's wheelchair-bound mother and the head medic at Project ICARIS.
Angelique Cabral as Hazel Gonzalez, one of Alex's mothers and a biologist at Project ICARIS.
Justina Machado as C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20of%20a%20Killer | The Mark of a Killer (or simply Mark of a Killer) is an American true crime television series currently airing on the Oxygen Network. The program examines the disturbing behaviors of serial killers. As of Season 3, the series is currently titled Mark of a Serial Killer.
Synopsis
Each 45 minutes-long episode follows the story of an investigation guided by the killer’s postmortem signature and features first-hand accounts from detectives and prosecutors who worked on the cases, interviews with criminal psychology experts and with family members and friends of the victims or the perpetrators.
The show has regular participants criminal psychologists/experts, like: Katherine Ramsland, Joni E. Johnston and Mark Safarik. Other experts are also appearing in the series for one-one episode like Michael H. Stone or Dayle Hinman.
Episodes
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2020)
Season 3 (2021)
The tenth episode is longer than the usual (1h 25 min) because it focuses on two separate killers. Also there was a six month break between the fifth and sixth episode.
Season 4 (2022)
References
True crime television series
Non-fiction works about serial killers
Television series about serial killers
2010s American crime television series
2010s American documentary television series
Documentary television series about crime in the United States
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone%20Pro | The PinePhone Pro is a smartphone developed by Hong Kong-based computer manufacturer Pine64. The phone is the successor to the PinePhone released in 2019. The default operating system is Manjaro ARM, with Plasma Mobile as the user interface. The device is a developer platform with open hardware specifications but with unfinished software. The target group of the device is free and open-source software developers who will develop the software. The device was first shipped to developers in December 2021, and in February 2022 devices were made available to consumers.
Hardware
The device is built on the Rockchip RK3399S system on a chip, which is a custom version of the stock RK3399, uniquely designed for the device. The processing power roughly compares to mid-range phones from 2016. The device has 4GB of LPDDR4 ram, a 6" display, 13MP Sony IMX258 as the main camera, 8MP Omnivision OV8858 as front camera and has a user-replaceable 3000mAh Samsung J7-series battery.
The phone has hardware kill switches for shutting down network connections, microphone, speaker, and cameras. The device has pogo pins for attachable backs compatible with the original PinePhone.
Software
The device ships with Manjaro ARM, with Plasma Mobile as the user interface, though users are free to switch to other operating systems.
U-Boot is used as the default boot loader and it supports booting from an SD card. The bootloader can be replaced, as there are alternatives, such as Tow-boot. The main image sensor driver has been added to the mainline kernel by Sony. Modem firmware of the Quectel EG25-G is based on a proprietary Android userspace, though an unofficial open-source version exists (actually mostly open-source: the custom firmware replaces most proprietary components, except for baseband firmware and the TrustZone kernel, which is signed by Qualcomm).
In the middle of 2022, the software stack was under development, resulting in the hardware not supporting the software. The first images from the camera were taken in May 2022. Most widely-supported hardware is in a heavily patched downstream kernel called Megi kernel. There is alternative operating systems focusing on mainline Linux kernel support, such as PostmarketOS.
See also
List of open-source mobile phones
Comparison of open-source mobile phones
References
External links
PinePhone Pro at Pine64 wiki
Martijn Braam, 15.10.2021, The PinePhone Pro (comparisation of pre-release version of Pinephone pro internals vs Pinephone)
Open-source mobile phones
Ubuntu Touch devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20Goltz | Ursula Goltz is a German computer scientist, professor emerita at the Technical University of Braunschweig, formerly affiliated with the Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems there, and former coordinator of a German Research Foundation program on long-lasting software systems. Her research concerns the theory of concurrent computing, including the use of Petri nets to model concurrent systems.
Goltz earned her Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University in 1988, with the dissertation, Über die Darstellung von CCS-Programmen durch Petrinetze.
In the theory of concurrent systems, she is known for introducing the concept of action refinement, an analogue of Niklaus Wirth's concept of stepwise refinement in the development of software systems, together with Rob van Glabbeek. She is also one of the developers of Arden2ByteCode, a compiler for the Arden syntax for representing medical knowledge.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via%20Occitanie | Vià Occitanie is a French television channel, part of the Vià network, operating in the Occitanie region of southern France. Formerly known from 2011 until 2017 as TVSud, the channel provides local programming for the cities of southern France.
History
TVSud was launched on February 7, 2011, with programming each day from 7am to 11pm. The station changed its name to Vià Occitanie on 28 September 2017.
Vià Occitanie is available in Southern France on terrestrial television, is carried by some French cable TV providers in various regions (mostly in the South) and is available online both nationally and internationally.
Programming
Most programming is locally based and produced. Newscasts air every half hour.
Sport
Vià Occitanie is the national broadcast partner of the Elite One Championship through its cable and online services. The terrestrial free-to-air coverage in the Southern regions, where rugby league is the most popular sport, ensures that the public can view the competition for free. The online services also make the competition available worldwide.
References
External links
Television stations in France
Occitania (administrative region) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goong%20Chen | Goong Chen (, born July 7, 1950, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is an applied mathematician known for his use of computer forensics and computer simulation to recreate what may have occurred in aviation accidents. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Chen led an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Texas A&M, Penn State, Virginia Tech, MIT and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute in using applied mathematics and computational fluid dynamics to conduct computer simulations of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s presumed descent into the ocean. In a paper published in April 2015, they concluded that the most likely scenario was that the plane entered the water at a vertical or steep angle, based on the lack of floating debris or oil spills. This finding was deemed a top math story of 2015 by the American Mathematical Society after widespread media coverage.
Khan Shaykhun chemical attack
Chen collaborated with Theodore Postol on an analysis of the April 4, 2017, chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun, Syria. The OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism had concluded that the Khan Shaykhun impact crater was caused by an aerial bomb dropped by a plane, but Chen’s simulations suggested that the crater could instead have been created by a 122 mm artillery rocket.
Smolensk air disaster
In 2019, Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had appointed Chen to an international team of experts investigating the April 10, 2010, crash of a Polish Air Force jet near Smolensk, Russia, in which Polish president Lech Kaczyński was killed.
Selected publications
With Ranee Brylinski, Chen is the editor of the book Mathematics of Quantum Computation (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2002).
References
Living people
1950 births
20th-century Taiwanese mathematicians
21st-century Taiwanese mathematicians
Texas A&M University faculty
People from Kaohsiung |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe%20%28statue%29 | The Harambe statue is a seven-foot-tall, bronze sculpture of the deceased western lowland gorilla Harambe designed by a civic group called Sapien.Network. It first appeared in public on Monday October 18, 2021, on Wall Street, New York City, New York, facing the Charging Bull statue. Beneath Charging Bull were 10,000 bananas (later donated to charity).
On October 26, 2021, it was briefly placed in front of the Facebook headquarters in California.
Sculpture and artist
The bronze sculpture was apparently cast in five pieces by using a "lost wax technique", and soldered together by an unrevealed artist commissioned by Ankit Bhatia and Robert Giometti of the group Sapien.Network.
Reaction
Multiple news agencies reported on the Harambe statue
The news of the Bronze Harambe statue reached beyond North America and NBC New York's initial covering of the statue. The French newspaper Libération showed an interest in the incident.
See also
Gorilla, 1961 sculpture in London
References
Bowling Green (New York City)
2021 sculptures
Animal sculptures in New York City
2021 establishments in New York City
Bronze sculptures in Manhattan
Financial District, Manhattan
Gorillas in art
Primates in popular culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSBS%20Batusangkar | Persatuan Sepakbola Batusangkar dan Sekitarnya is an Indonesian football club based in Batusangkar, Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra. They currently compete in the Liga 3.
References
Football clubs in Indonesia
Football clubs in West Sumatra
Association football clubs established in 1952
1952 establishments in Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humu%20%28software%29 | Humu is a software company that uses machine learning to send "nudges," small recommendations based in nudge theory, to employees at work.
History
Humu was founded in May 2017 by former Google executives Laszlo Bock, Wayne Crosby, and Jessie Wisdom. Before founding Humu, Laszlo Bock served as Google's original Head of People Operations. Humu exited stealth mode in October 2018 with $40 million in funding.
Humu analyzes company data and employee feedback to identify changes likely to improve employees' happiness, performance, and retention. The platform then delivers "nudges," short messages urging users to change their behavior.
The company holds a trademark on "Nudge Engine," based on the behavioral economics concept of nudge theory from Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler and popularized in Thaler's 2008 book Nudge, co-authored with legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein. The book argues that small cues can help people make better choices.
Notable customers include Fidelity Investments, Silicon Valley Bank, Lumen, Farfetch, and American fast casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen.
A 2019 trademark dispute between Humu and American video streaming service Hulu was settled in federal court.
On June 24, 2021, Humu announced Humu Business Edition, a personal coach for mid-sized businesses.
Funding
In May 2019, Humu announced it had raised $40 million in series A and B funding led by Index Ventures and IVP.
See also
Captology
References
Human resource management software
Nudge theory
Behavioral economics
Government by algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Matise | Tara Matise is an American geneticist at Rutgers University. Since 2018, she has served as chair of the Department of Genetics. Her research interests span computational genetics, data science, and human genetics. She is co-director of the Rutgers University Genetics Coordinating Center.
Early life and education
A native of Buffalo, New York, Matise attended high school at The Buffalo Seminary, a private secular school for girls, graduating in 1982, after which she attended Cornell University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in biology with a concentration in genetics. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Genetic Counseling in 1988 from the University of Pittsburgh, and a doctorate in 1992 in human genetics from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health under the direction of Aravinda Chakravarti. Matise then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University and Rockefeller University. At Rockefeller, Matise worked under the supervision of Jürg Ott.
Research and career
Matise moved to Rutgers University in 2000. She was appointed Head of the Computational Genetics Program in the Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey in 2014. In 2021, Matise was elected as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Matise began her career using genetic linkage to identify genes for genetic diseases. Her contribution to the identification of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene was honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in 1990. Matise was the creator of MultiMap, a computer program that automated the construction of genetic linkage maps of the human genome. Her work facilitated the development of several genome-wide gene maps in humans and other organisms, and led to the development of the Rutgers Maps, which contain over 28,000 markers and provide an interpolated position for all human markers, the largest linkage map of human polymorphic markers.
In 2008, Matise, as co-director of the Rutgers University Genetics Coordinating Center (RUGCC), was funded to lead a coordinating center for the multi-center Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study. Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the PAGE consortium was a pioneer in its approach to performing globally representative epidemiological genomics. The RUGCC was responsible for data quality control and dissemination, and study logistics.
Matise, as co-lead of the RUGCC, was funded to direct the coordinating center for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Genome Sequencing Program in 2015. The program made use of genome sequencing to understand the genes that underpin inherited disease.
Selected publications
References
Human Genome Project scientists
Rutgers University faculty
American geneticists
Cornell University alumni
American women scientists
Rockefeller University people
Colu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui%20Song | Rui Song is a Chinese-American statistician. Her research interests include machine learning, causal inference, and independence screening for variable selection, with applications to precision medicine and economics. She works for Amazon as a senior principal scientist.
Education and career
Song studied mathematics and statistics at Peking University, graduating in 2001. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006. Her dissertation, Inference for Change-Point Transformation Models, was supervised by Michael R. Kosorok.
After postdoctoral research in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University, she became an assistant professor of statistics at Colorado State University in 2009. She moved to North Carolina State University in 2012, earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2016, and was promoted to full professor in 2020. She moved to Amazon in 2022.
Recognition
In 2021, Song was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, "for significant contributions to machine learning methods, dynamic treatment regime, and efficient and non-standard statistical inference". In the same year she was also named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was elected treasurer of the ASA Nonparametric program in 2021.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
Chinese statisticians
Women statisticians
Peking University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Colorado State University faculty
North Carolina State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%20School%20%E2%80%93%20Guardians%20of%20the%20Golden%20Egg | Rabbit School – Guardians of the Golden Egg () is a 2017 German 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Ute von Münchow-Pohl from a screenplay by Katja Grübel and Dagmar Rehbinder, based on the 1924 German children's novel Die Häschenschule (A Day At Bunny School), written by Albert Sixtus and illustrated by Fritz Koch-Gotha. The film had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2017, and was released theatrically in Germany on 16 March 2017. It grossed $3,416,299 worldwide.
Premise
Max, a young urban rabbit struggling with his identity, gets stuck in an old-fashioned Easter Rabbit school after it is surrounded by a clan of malicious foxes who want to take over the holiday. With the help of his crush Emmy and the instruction of the mysterious Madame Hermione, Max must learn the secret of the magic of the Easter bunnies and save the school from the evil foxes.
Release
Rabbit School had its world premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2017, and was released theatrically in Germany on 16 March 2017, distributed by Universum Film. During its opening week in Germany, the film received 103,518 admissions, and grossed a total of $1,603,605 during its entire German theatrical run, contributing to the worldwide gross of $3,416,299. International sales were handled by Sola Media.
Sequel
A sequel, titled Rabbit Academy: Mission Eggpossible, was released on digital platforms on July 25, 2023.
References
External links
Rabbit School – Guardians of the Golden Egg at filmportal.de (in German)
Rabbit School – Guardians of the Golden Egg at Radio Times
2017 films
2017 3D films
2017 animated films
2017 comedy films
3D animated films
2010s German animated films
2010s children's animated films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's adventure films
2010s German-language films
Animated films about animals
German children's films
German adventure films
2010s German films
German animated comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration%20linear%20program | The configuration linear program (configuration-LP) is a linear programming technique used for solving combinatorial optimization problems. It was introduced in the context of the cutting stock problem. Later, it has been applied to the bin packing and job scheduling problems. In the configuration-LP, there is a variable for each possible configuration - each possible multiset of items that can fit in a single bin (these configurations are also known as patterns) . Usually, the number of configurations is exponential in the problem size, but in some cases it is possible to attain approximate solutions using only a polynomial number of configurations.
In bin packing
The integral LP
In the bin packing problem, there are n items with different sizes. The goal is to pack the items into a minimum number of bins, where each bin can contain at most B. A feasible configuration is a set of sizes with a sum of at most B.
Example: suppose the item sizes are 3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4, and B=12. Then the possible configurations are: 3333; 333; 33, 334; 3, 34, 344; 4, 44, 444. If we had only three items of size 3, then we could not use the 3333 configuration.
Denote by S the set of different sizes (and their number). Denote by C the set of different configurations (and their number). For each size s in S and configuration c in C, denote:
ns - the number of items of size s.
as,c - the number of occurrences of size s in configuration c.
xc - a variable denoting the number of bins with configuration c.
Then, the configuration LP of bin-packing is:
for all s in S (- all ns items of size s are packed).
for all c in C (- there are at most n bins overall, so at most n of each individual configuration). The configuration LP is an integer linear program, so in general it is NP-hard. Moreover, even the problem itself is generally very large: it has C variables and S constraints. If the smallest item size is eB (for some fraction e in (0,1)), then there can be up to 1/e items in each bin, so the number of configurations C ~ S1/e, which can be very large if e is small (if e is considered a constant, then the integer LP can be solved by exhaustive search: there are at most S1/e configurations, and for each configuration there are at most n possible values, so there are at most combinations to check. For each combination, we have to check S constraints, so the run-time is , which is polynomial in n when S, e are constant).
However, this ILP serves as a basis for several approximation algorithms. The main idea of these algorithms is to reduce the original instance into a new instance in which S is small and e is large, so C is relatively small. Then, the ILP can be solved either by complete search (if S, C are sufficiently small), or by relaxing it into a fractional LP.
The fractional LP
The fractional configuration LP of bin-packing It is the linear programming relaxation of the above ILP. It replaces the last constraint with the constraint . In other |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspooled%20%28podcast%29 | Unspooled is a film podcast on the Earwolf network. It is hosted by film critic Amy Nicholson and actor/comedian Paul Scheer. Initially, the podcast covered the American Film Institute (AFI) Top 100 films. Later episodes of the podcast have covered other classic movies, with the ultimate goal of creating a list of the 100 best movies of all time.
Format
Each episode of Unspooled covers a single film and analyzes its artistic, thematic, and historical significance. Episodes begin with facts about the year the film was released and a summary of the cast and plot. As the hosts debate what works and what doesn't about each movie, they include audio excerpts from the film to illustrate their points, plus supplemental clips such as interviews with the director and cast. Scheer has described the podcast as a "book club where we are watching movies once a week."
Episodes wrap up with a negative review of the film from the time it was released. In Season 1, the show included clips of The Simpson's parodies of the film, if available, to demonstrate the film's continued cultural relevance. In Season 2, the show includes a clip of the top song on the Billboard charts the week of the film's release to examine the film's connection to the zeitgeist.
Reception
Unspooled debuted at number 1 on iTunes Film & TV podcast rankings and number 4 on the iTunes overall top chart.
The podcast has garnered many positive reviews in the popular press. Esquire called it one of the best podcasts of 2019. Rolling Stone wrote that the show was "wildly entertaining" and ranked the show as one of the best podcasts of 2020. Town & Country Magazine lauded it as a "sharp, funny series…[with] charming chemistry," and Vanity Fair noted that the show's "fresh and intriguing takes on venerable movies make for entertaining listening." Vulture called it "funny and accessible." Another article in Vulture noted that "Unspooled is definitely among the best of [the good-film appreciation podcasts]." The AV Club described it as "both serious and silly," and The Hollywood Reporter listed the show as an essential film history podcast. IndieWire said that the podcast "provides an interesting context for what does or doesn't remain timeless in the movie world." Discover Pods referred to the show as "slightly more highbrow" than Scheer's companion podcast, How Did This Get Made?, while Emily VanDerWerff in Vox complemented its "entertaining segments … [while being] dedicated to placing these movies in their proper historical context."
Other critics have noted that the podcast is as an "absolute joy ... Scheer and Nicholson usually treat even the movies they don't care for with a measure of respect."
The podcast has been recognized for its willingness to take a critical eye to respected classics. One review commented that the show "fuels discussions of whether these movies are truly brilliant, or simply just respected because no one has ever questioned them." Another stated more directly, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9a%20W.%20Richa | Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems, network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.
Education and career
Richa studied computer science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1989 and a master's degree in 1992. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for advanced graduate study in the program in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, earning a second master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1998. Her dissertation, On Distributed Network Resource Allocation, was supervised by Bruce Maggs.
She joined Arizona State University as an assistant professor in 1998, earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2004, and was promoted to full professor in 2016.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian women computer scientists
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richa%20%28surname%29 | Richa is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Ana Richa (born 1966), Brazilian beach volleyball player
Andréa W. Richa, Brazilian-American computer scientist
Antonio Dominguez Richa (1932–2020), Panamanian politician
Beto Richa (born 1965), Brazilian engineer and politician
(1934–2003), Brazilian politician, namesake of José Richa Hydroelectric Plant
Susana Richa de Torrijos (born 1924), Panamanian educator, essayist, and politician
Ziad Richa (born 1967), Lebanese skeet shooter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20%28series%2014%29 | The fourteenth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 18 April 2022 on Network 10. The format for this season is Fans & Favourites, and features 12 new contestants and 12 former contestants. Andy Allen, Melissa Leong, and Jock Zonfrillo returned to the show as judges from the previous season.
In October 2021, Ten announced that MasterChef Australia would return for its 14th season in 2022, initially announced as Foodies Vs. Favourites. In January 2022, production was temporarily halted after several members of the cast and production team contracted the COVID-19 virus. The judges, cast and crew are all fully vaccinated against the virus.
This series was won by Billie McKay in the grand finale against Sarah Todd, on 12 July 2022, making her the first and only two-time MasterChef Australia champion.
Changes
This season omitted the broadcast of the audition stage for the new contestants and started with the 24 contestants competing in an Immunity Pin Challenge. Like the previous season, the holders of an Immunity Pin were able to use them at any point during future Elimination Challenges. The series featured more Immunity Pins handed out than any previous series, with seven being handed out in total. Christina, Harry, Tommy, Billie, Michael, Sarah and Julie were the winners of the seven pins at various points during the season.
Initially, instead of randomly chosen teams most team challenges at the beginning of the season featured contestants competing as members of either the Fans (new contestants) or Favourites (returning contestants) teams. This continued until week 6 when the two teams were dissolved.
This season, the typical MasterChef weekly format was slightly changed. Mondays now feature a Mystery Box with the bottom entries facing Tuesday's Pressure Test elimination. Wednesdays feature a Team Challenge with the winning team competing in the Immunity Challenge on Thursday, in which one contestant will be granted immunity from the upcoming elimination. All the other contestants then head into the All-In Elimination Challenge on Sunday.
Like season 12, this season did not feature a "second chance" challenge for eliminated contestants to return to the show.
Contestants
The 12 returning contestants were announced in a sneak peek on 23 March 2022. The full cast was announced on 3 April 2022.
Future appearances
In Series 15 Sashi Cheliah appeared as a guest team captain for a service challenge. Julie Goodwin later appeared as a guest judge for an elimination challenge.
Guests
Elimination chart
Episodes and ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
References
MasterChef Australia
2022 Australian television seasons
Television series impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Perfect%20Weapon%3A%20War%2C%20Sabotage%2C%20and%20Fear%20in%20the%20Cyber%20Age | The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age is a 2018 book by David E. Sanger. It discusses the evolution and concerns of cyber warfare, with a focus on the United States and its cyber capabilities.
References
Books about the Obama administration
2012 non-fiction books
Crown Publishing Group books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Hunted is an Australian reality television series based on the British reality television series of the same name. The first season premiered on Network 10 on 17 July 2022, whilst the second season was renewed in August 2022 and premiered on 17 July 2023.
Premise
The show is a competition series that centres on nine teams of two as they are "fugitives" on the run from highly skilled hunters. Fugitives are released from a common location at the start of the hunt, with an overnight bag and $500 ($200 cash and $300 on a debit card). Each pair attempts to use their wits to evade capture for 21 days in the state of Victoria.
Meanwhile, a team of hunters attempt to locate and capture the fugitives using replicated "powers of the state" such as ANPR and CCTV. The hunters are also given access to the fugitive's bank accounts and phone records. 24 hours before the end of the hunt, the remaining fugitives call a given phone number to access information about the "extraction point", a location they must reach by the end of the hunt. While the hunters are not informed of the extraction point, fugitive's current locations are disclosed to the hunters once they call the phone number. Any fugitives able to evade capture and make it to the extraction point in time win a share of the grand prize of $100,000.
Hunters
Headquarters
Dr David Craig – Chief
Ben Owen – Deputy, Intelligence (Former Chief Hunter on Hunted UK and former Hunter on Hunted USA)
Reece Dewar OAM – Deputy, Operations
Jason Edelstein – Lead, Cyber
Dr Karla Lopez – Forensic Psychologist
Graeme Simpfendorfer – Lead Intelligence
Kerri Collins – Lead Intelligence Analyst
Vikki Grouios – Ethical Hacker
Carter Smith – Open Source Intelligence
Steph Jensen – Open Source Intelligence
Jay Banerji – Digital Forensics
Tamara Ruggeiro – Intelligence Officer
Leigha Fraser – Senior Principal Analyst
Ground Hunters
Jason Spivey
Michelle Corlett
Luke Andrews
Marco O’Hehir
Clancy Roberts (season 1)
Howie Dawson
Kellie Andrews
Rhonda Murray (season 1)
Jeremy Hargreaves (season 1)
Kim Culpin
Niki Paterson
Zak Rogers
Sean Kilsby
Contestants
Season 1
Eighteen fugitives were chosen and began the hunt at Federation Square in Melbourne. The Inverloch Coastal Reserve in Inverloch served as the extraction point.
Season 2
Twenty contestants were chosen and began at North Wharf, Docklands, in the Port of Melbourne. The Melbourne Cricket Ground in Yarra Park, Melbourne served as the extraction point.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Ratings
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
2022 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television seasons
2023 Australian television seasons
2020s Australian reality television series
Australian television series based on British television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token-based%20replay | Token-based replay technique is a conformance checking algorithm that checks how well a process conforms with its model by replaying each trace on the model (in Petri net notation ). Using the four counters produced tokens, consumed tokens, missing tokens, and remaining tokens, it records the situations where a transition is forced to fire and the remaining tokens after the replay ends. Based on the count at each counter, we can compute the fitness value between the trace and the model.
The algorithm
The token-replay technique uses four counters to keep track of a trace during the replaying:
: Produced tokens
: Consumed tokens
: Missing tokens (consumed while not there)
: Remaining tokens (produced but not consumed)
Invariants:
At any time:
At the end:
At the beginning, a token is produced for the source place (p = 1) and at the end, a token is consumed from the sink place (c' = c + 1). When the replay ends, the fitness value can be computed as follows:
Example
Suppose there is a process model in Petri net notation as follows:
Example 1: Replay the trace () on the model M
Step 1: A token is initiated. There is one produced token ().
Step 2: The activity consumes 1 token to be fired and produces 2 tokens ( and ).
Step 3: The activity consumes 1 token and produces 1 token ( and ).
Step 4: The activity consumes 1 token and produces 1 token ( and ).
Step 5: The activity consumes 2 tokens and produces 1 token (, ).
Step 6: The token at the end place is consumed (). The trace is complete.
The fitness of the trace () on the model is:
Example 2: Replay the trace (a, b, d) on the model M
Step 1: A token is initiated. There is one produced token ().
Step 2: The activity consumes 1 token to be fired and produces 2 tokens ( and ).
Step 3: The activity consumes 1 token and produces 1 token ( and ).
Step 4: The activity needs to be fired but there are not enough tokens. One artificial token was produced and the missing token counter is increased by one (). The artificial token and the token at place are consumed () and one token is produced at place end ().
Step 5: The token in the end place is consumed (). The trace is complete. There is one remaining token at place ().
The fitness of the trace () on the model is:
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan%20Singh%20Nakai | Sardar Kahan Singh Nakai (died 1873) was the sixth and the last chief of the Nakai Misl. He was the grandson of the famous Sikh chief, Ran Singh Nakai and Sardarni Karmo Kaur. His aunt, Maharani Datar Kaur was the wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire; thus making him the nephew of the Sher-e-Punjab. From an early age he assisted his father in campaigns and even commanded campaigns assigned to him by his uncle, Maharaja Ranjit Singh. His cousin, Kharak Singh went to become the second Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was the uncle of the third Maharaja, Nau Nihal Singh.
Family history and early life
Kahan Singh was born to Sardar Gyan Singh Nakai, the ruling chief of the Nakai Misl. His grandfather, Ran Singh Nakai was the most powerful ruler of the Nakai Misl, a fierce warrior and under his leadership the misl was at its highest. He was an ambitious man and had exceeded his rule to the taluqas of Bucheke, Changa Manga, 69 km from Lahore, Chhichha, Devsal, Fatahpur, Jethpur, Kasur, Kharral fort of Kot kamalia, Sharakpur, Gugera pargana, 5 km to the west of the Ravi, and Shergarh. He had fought repeatedly against Kamar Singh, the ruler of Syedwala. Sometime before his death, he defeated him and captured Syedwala.
Ran Singh was succeeded by his eldest son Bhagwan Singh, who was unable to hold his territory against the ambitious Wazir Singh. In 1785, Sardar Maha Singh of Sukerchakia Misl was facing attacks from Sardar Jai Singh Kanhaiya of the Kanhaiya Misl and called on Bhagwan Singh and Wazir Singh to aid him. Bhagwan Singh who had previous faced attacks from Jai Singh willingly aided Maha Singh. Despite Maha Singh trying to reconcile the differences between Wazir Singh and Bhagwan Singh, but in vain and in 1789 the latter was slain. Bhagwan Singh was succeeded by his brother, Gyan Singh who had a relatively peaceful reign. With his father as the chief, Kahan Singh became the heir apparent of the Nakai Misldar. He had an older sister, Bibi Rattan Kaur who was married to Sardar Ram Singh Taragarhia and younger sister, Bibi Daya Kaur who married Sardar Amar Singh Veglia.
In 1797, Nakais assisted the then Sardar Ranjit Singh of the Sukerchakia Misl who had been betrothed to his aunt, Bibi Raj Kaur by Bhagwan and Singh in the mid 1780s to expel the attempts of Shah Zaman to annex Punjab region into his control through his general Shahanchi Khan and 12,000 soldiers. Next year his aunt, Raj Kaur was married to Ranjit Singh who then renamed her 'Datar Kaur' as many ladies in the Sukerchakia Misl bore the name "Raj Kaur", like Ranjit Singh mother and his aunt (daughter of Sardar Charat Singh). Later that same year when Shah Zaman invaded Punjab again, the sardars united under Ranjit Singh and let his army enter Lahore only blocked off all food and supplies which lead to his army retreating. While they were busy fighting in Lahore, Muzaffar Khan, Shah's relative and governor of Multan province, took advantage of the situation and took |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20Youth%20SDGs%20Network | Nigeria Youth SDGs Network which is registered as the Network of Youth for Sustainable Initiative is a youth led and youth serving civil society organization localizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals launched in April 2017.
Goal
The primary goals of the organization is to advocate for meaningful youth engagement in the development of Nigeria by focusing of education and capacity development, employment and livelihoods and civic participation.
The Network and the UN
The organization with funding from the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs worked with the International Labour Organization and the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports towards the revision of the Nigeria Youth Employment Action Plan (2021-2024). The organization launched in August 2020 survey to understand the decent work aspirations of young Nigerians in the light of COVID-19 and how they want policymakers to support them. More than 100,000 young people responded to the survey over a six weeks period. This was followed by a youth validation workshop held across the 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT. The Nigeria Youth Employment Action Plan was launched in September 2021 and is estimated to meet the decent work aspirations of 3.5 million young Nigerians annually.
Following the launch of the Nigeria Youth Employment Action Plan, NGYouthSDGs with support from the International Labour Organization launched the Skills for Employment Programme, a seven weeks digital skills programme for youth age 18 to 29 whose education or livelihoods was impacted by the COVID19 pandemic. The programme focused on digital marketing, website development and graphics design with 90 young people in Adamawa, Benue and Lagos participating.
As part of the mission of NGYouthSDGs in building the capacity of young Nigerians to advocate in policies and programs that will enable youth to lead and thrive, NGYouthSDGs with funding from the United Nations Information Centre trained 360 young people in Adamawa, Anambra, Kaduna, Kwara, Ondo and Rivers states on environmental and climate justice.
August 12 Celebration
Annually, the organization commemorates the International Youth Day on August 12 and uses that opportunity to showcase youth leading action for sustainable development while providing seed grants for youth social entrepreneurs.
2017
The first event was held in 2017 with the theme On the Road to Implementation. This aimed at encouraging young people to collaborate and inspiring private sector and the government to work with youth.
2018 - 2019
In 2018 and 2019, the Youth Day was held across 21 states in Nigeria with the theme Amplifying Youth Voices.
2020
In 2020, with the impact of COVID-19, the organization in partnership with Oxfam in Nigeria provided a grant of three hundred thousand naira ($833) to three organizations.
2021
In 2021, the organization supported three organizations in agriculture with seed funding of six hundred thousand naira ($1,666).
2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debdeep%20Mukhopadhyay | Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is an Indian cryptographer and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in 2021 for his contributions to micro-architectural security and cryptographic engineering. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay's research interests include Hardware security, Cryptographic Engineering, Design Automation of Cryptosystems, VLSI of Cryptosystems, and Cryptography. He has authored several textbooks, including Cryptography and network security , which has been cited 1227 times, according to Google Scholar. He was elevated to the Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers in 2021.
Early life, education and academic career
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay was born on 31 October 1977 in Howrah, West Bengal a twin town of Kolkata. He completed his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2001. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. from the same institute in 2004 and 2007, respectively. His PhD thesis was awarded the Techno-Inventor Award (Best PhD Award) by the Indian Semiconductors Association in 2008. He served as an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras between 2007 and 2008. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as an assistant professor in 2008 and is currently a professor.
He also served as a visiting faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, USA, visiting scientist at the CYSREN, School of Computer Science and Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and visiting associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of New York University Shanghai, China.
Awards and recognition
2021 Khosla National Award (Engineering)
2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science & Technology
2018 Data Security Council of India (DSCI) Excellence Award for Cyber Security Education
2015-16 Department of Science and Technology (India) Swarnajayanti Award
2012 Associate for the Indian Academy of Sciences
2010 Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineer Award
2010 Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Award
Books
Cryptography and Network Security, McGraw Hill Education
Hardware Security: Design, Threats, and Safeguards, Chapman and Hall/CRC
Timing Channels in Cryptography - A Micro-Architectural Perspective, Springer
Fault Tolerant Architectures for Cryptography and Hardware Security, Springer
References
External links
Departmental Webpage
Personal Webpage
DBLP
Academic staff of IIT Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
Living people
Year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drymaria%20cordata | Drymaria cordata, the tropical chickweed, West Indian chickweed, or golondrina, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to moist habitats in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, and has been introduced to many places in the tropics and subtropics, including the southeast US, the Caribbean, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China, Japan, and a number of islands. It is known as one of the most aggressive weeds of the tropical and subtropical parts of the world.
References
Caryophyllaceae
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Central America
Flora of northern South America
Flora of western South America
Flora of the Galápagos Islands
Flora of Brazil
Flora of northern Chile
Flora of Northeast Argentina
Flora of Northwest Argentina
Flora of Paraguay
Flora of Uruguay
Flora of Guinea
Flora of Sierra Leone
Flora of Liberia
Flora of Ivory Coast
Flora of Nigeria
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of Sudan
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of Zambia
Flora of Zimbabwe
Flora of Malawi
Flora of Mozambique
Flora of the Cape Provinces
Flora of the Northern Provinces
Flora of KwaZulu-Natal
Plants described in 1819 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Lady%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | First Lady is a 2022 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the direct continuation of the television series First Yaya. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Sanya Lopez in the title role. It premiered on February 14, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing I Left My Heart in Sorsogon. The series concluded on July 1, 2022 with a total of 97 episodes. It was replaced by Lolong in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sanya Lopez as Melody Reyes-Acosta
Supporting cast
Gabby Concepcion as Glenn Francisco W. Acosta
Alice Dixson as Ingrid Domingo
Rocco Nacino as Moises Valentin
Pancho Magno as Conrad Enriquez
Pilar Pilapil as Blesilda Wenceslao-Acosta
Cassy Legaspi as Janina "Nina" Valdez Acosta
Patricia Coma as Nicolette "Nicole" Domingo-Acosta
Clarence Delgado as Nathaniel "Nathan" Valdez Acosta
Boboy Garovillo as Florencio Reyes
Sandy Andolong as Edna Reyes
Analyn Barro as Gemrose Reyes-Agcaoili
Jerick Dolormente as Lloyd Reyes
Isabel Rivas as Allegra Trinidad
Francine Prieto as Soledad Cortez
Samantha Lopez as Ambrocia Bolivar
Thou Reyes as Yessey Reyes
Maxine Medina as Lorraine Prado-Reyes
Joaquin Domagoso as Jonas Clarito
Kakai Bautista as Pepita San Jose
Cai Cortez as Norma Robles
Thia Thomalla as Valerie "Val" Cañete
Jon Lucas as Titus de Villa
Glenda Garcia as Marnie Tupaz
Anjo Damiles as Jasper Agcaoili
Kiel Rodriguez as Paul Librada
Muriel Lomadilla as Beverly "Bevs" Oliveros
Divine Aucina as Bella Llamanzares
Shyr Valdez as Sioning Lagman
Guest cast
Shannelle Agustin as Max
Jhoana Marie Tan as Maila
John Feir as Teddy
Dennis Marasigan as Ezekiel
Jestoni Alarcon as Anastacio
Glaiza de Castro as Ciara P. Reyna
Rabiya Mateo as Ashanti P.
Carla Abellana as Andrea Salcedo
Sam Nielsen as young Ingrid
Episodes
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References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine political television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282022%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2022, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Lucy Addario. The 35th season of Home and Away began airing from 31 January 2022. Xander Delaney was introduced at the end of March, followed shortly after by his sibling Rose Delaney in early April and PK at the end of the month. Lyrik band members Bob Forsyth, Kirby Aramoana, Remi Carter, and Eden Fowler made their debuts in July. Bree Cameron and Heather Frazer arrived in August.
Xander Delaney
Xander Delaney, played by Luke Van Os, made his first appearance on 31 March 2022. The casting and character details were announced on 21 October 2021. Van Os is the cousin of former Home and Away actor Chris Hemsworth (Kim Hyde). He sought advice from Hemsworth ahead of a callback for the show, explaining "When I was asked for a callback for the chemistry test, I actually zoomed with Chris the night before and we ran it (the scene) and kind of just got into a good headspace." After winning the role, Van Os relocated to Sydney to be closer to the studios and began filming the same week as his casting announcement. Xander is Van Os's breakthrough role, and he hoped the part would help him to go on to have a long career, like many of the show's former actors. Van Os later teased a connection between Xander and an established character.
Xander was also billed as "a mysterious individual who arrives in the Bay searching for answers". It was later confirmed that Xander is related to Jasmine Delaney (Sam Frost) and fellow newcomer Rose Delaney (Kirsty Marillier). Xander and Rose were not aware of Jasmine until their father died. Van Os explained "Upon the will reading, Xander finds a name he doesn't recognise, Jasmine Delaney. Xander comes to the Bay to figure out who this mystery woman is and at the very least give her the money his father left in the will for her." Jasmine initially refuses to get to know Xander and Rose, believing they are scam artists. She asks her partner Cash Newman (Nicholas Cartwright) to run a background check on the pair, which causes a "disappointed" Xander to suggest that he and Rose leave the Bay.
Rose Delaney
Rose Delaney, played by Kirsty Marillier, made her first appearance on 4 April 2022. Marillier's casting and character details were announced on 15 November 2021. Jonathan Moran from The Daily Telegraph reported that she had already filmed her first scenes and had five weeks of filming completed. Marillier previously made a guest appearance in the serial in 2018 as Rhea. She will join the main cast this time around, and she stated: "It is pretty life changing, I am not going to lie. It is really like that big break you crave and wish for as a student and young actor. It really is the break that I always wanted to be a series regular on a show like th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Survivor%3A%20Blood%20V%20Water | The ninth season of Network 10's Australian Survivor, also known as Australian Survivor: Blood V Water, is an Australian television series based on the international reality game show franchise Survivor, which premiered on 31 January 2022. In this season, based on the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth American series and carrying the same sub-title, new and returning players and their loved ones will be competing against each other.
The season was filmed in Charters Towers, Queensland, and it will be the third season filmed in Australia, second consecutively due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact of Australian borders which have been closed since March 2020.
The show concluded on April 4, 2022 with Mark Wales being named Sole Survivor, defeating Shay Lajoie and Chrissy Zaremba, receiving a unanimous jury vote of 10-0-0.
Contestants
The cast includes two-time American Survivor winner Sandra Diaz-Twine, former NRL player Michael Crocker, former MasterChef Australia contestant Khanh Ong and former Australian Survivor contestants Andy Meldrum, Mark Wales and Samantha Gash.
Notes
Future appearances
Jordie Hansen and Alanna "Nina" Twine competed on Australian Survivor: Heroes V Villains, with Hansen as a villain and Twine as a hero.
Outside of Survivor, Sam and Mark appeared on The Dog House Australia in 2022.
Season summary
Twelve pairs of loved ones were separated into two tribes, Blood and Water. On the Blood tribe, two-time U.S. Survivor champion Sandra sought to blend into the background and work with the strong men to keep herself safe. On the Water tribe, Sandra’s daughter Nina allied with Mark, Josh and Jordie to keep a comfortable majority. However, after a tribe swap left the two of them on the same tribe, Sandra was voted out as a big threat while Nina injured her ankle in a challenge and was removed from the game.
Married couple Mark and Sam took control of their respective swapped tribes. After declining to join his wife on the new Water tribe, Mark formed an alliance with the other strong males and found an idol to cement his power position in the tribe. On the new Water tribe, Sam formed a tight bond with Jesse and worked with him to eliminate dangerous threats like Croc and Ben.
At the merge, the four remaining intact couples formed a new majority alliance against the five single players. However, after Jordie attempted to rally votes against Mark, the alliance targeted his brother Jesse, with Sam conning him into giving her his idol before he was voted out. Jordie vowed revenge and tried to convince the tribe that Sam and Mark were too powerful with two idols. After a Purgatory twist forced Jordie, Shay and KJ to fight their way back into the game, Jordie finally succeeded in voting out Sam.
The trio of Mark, Josh and Chrissy dictated the majority of the late votes, with the two men surviving through idol plays and immunity wins. They were forced to turn on each other when Shay won the final two immunity challenges, with Josh b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Goodrich | Michael Goodrich may refer to:
Michael T. Goodrich, mathematician and computer scientist
T. Michael Goodrich, CEO and chairman of BE&K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciGraph | SciGraph is a search engine tool developed by Springer Nature. The technology, which is considered a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform, collects information that covers the research landscape, which includes research projects, publications, conferences, funding agencies, and others. Key features of the platform include the detailed semantic description of the relationship of information and the visualization of the scholarly domain.
Development
The development of SciGraph began with an initiative to create a platform that will host Springer Nature's entire publication archive, which cover texts published as early as 1815. The number of these resources is reported to be about 13 million. The technology behind the platform was built on earlier Springer Nature projects developed for the purpose of collecting information on the research landscape. The first SciGraph data set was published in February 2017. The platform was launched in March 2017 and significantly expanded with the addition of publications of key partners. The datasets span a broad range of topics, which include computer science, medicine, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and astronomy, among others. The developers also plan to include citations, patents, and clinical trials in the future.
Technology
SciGraph constitutes 1.5 to 2 billion triples where a triple is formatted as "subject-predicate-object" and could link any subject or concept through a predicate (verb) to another object, demonstrating the type of relationship that exists between them. Its graph structure is used by other academic search engines such as Semantic Scholar.
SciGraph collects data from Springer Nature and its partners from the scholarly domain as well as funders, research projects, conferences, affiliations, and publications. The collected information serves as rich semantic description of how information is related and it also provides a visualization of the scholarly domain. The platform has been considered the only large-scale dataset that reconciles authors' affiliations through the disambiguation and linking with external authoritative datasets according to institutions.
References
Bibliographic databases in computer science
Internet search engines
Scholarly search services
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Film%20Archive | Black Film Archive is an online database of Black films released from 1915–1979 that are available to view via streaming platforms. The site was launched by Maya Cade in 2021.
History
Black Film Archive is a curated database of Black films released between 1915 and 1979 that are currently streaming on online platforms like YouTube, Netflix, and Tubi. Some of the films are free to view due to public domain laws. The site is inclusive of approximately 250 Black films as of its August 26, 2021 launch. The films range in genre and are organized by decade.
Maya Cade, the site's creator, is an American screenwriter and an audience editor for The Criterion Collection. The genesis for Black Film Archive came in June 2020, after Cade posted a viral Twitter thread of classic Black films amid the George Floyd protests, to provide solace and comfort to others. She then began to research and assemble a database of Black films. She focused on historical selections in part because she has felt disconnected from modern Black cinema. Cade intentionally limited the database to movies released up to 1979 because film studios heavily invested in Black cinema until the commercial failure of 1978's The Wiz.
One of her goals for the archive was to introduce cinephiles to unfamiliar and alternative depictions of Black people and Black culture "whether people agree with the portrayals or not." In putting together the archive, she selected films oriented to Black audiences and those with Black leads or Black production teams. Part of her selection process was to determine whether people "need" a particular film and what it offers. Certain films could not be included because they are not currently streaming, such as Killer of Sheep.
Selections
Some of the site's selections include:
Within Our Gates (1920)
Siren of the Tropics (1927)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Anna Lucasta (1958)
The Cry of Jazz (1959)
Shaft (1971)
The Black Gestapo (1975)
Killing Time (1979)
In an interview with The New York Times, Cade cited these selections as her favorite films of each decade from the 1920s to the 1970s:
Hallelujah (1929)
The Green Pastures (1936)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Claudine (1974)
Accolades
Maya Cade has received the following awards and nominations:
2021 – Special Award, NYFCC
2021 – Outstanding Achievement by A Woman in The Film Industry (Nominee), Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Awards
See also
African American cinema
References
External links
Official website
"Our Favorite Picks from the Black Film Archive" --Keep It podcast hosts on YouTube.com
American websites
Internet properties established in 2021
Film websites
African-American mass media
Film archives in the United States
African-American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamakushi-hime | Tamakushi-hime (玉櫛媛, タマクシヒメ) also known as Mishimanomizokui-hime (三嶋溝熾姫, ミシマノミゾクイヒメ) and Seyadatarahime (セヤダタラヒメ), is a feminine deity who appears in Japanese mythology. She is known as the mother of Himetataraisuzu-hime, the first empress of Japan, , a distant ancestor of the Miwa clan, Kamigamo the deity of Kamigamo Shrine. She is also known as Princess Mishima-Mizo, Seiyadatarahihime, Katsutamayori-biyorihime and Kimikahihime.
Kojiki narrative
According to the Kojiki Ōmononushi had taken the form of a red arrow and struck Seyadatara-hime's genitals while she was defecating in a ditch. She bore a daughter after she was impregnated by Ōmononushi, and that daughter was named . Her name was later changed to Himetataraisuzu-hime and some other names to avoid the taboo word ).
Nihon Shoki narrative
Like the Kojiki, the main narrative of the first volume of the Nihon Shoki first describes Himetataraisuzu-hime as the offspring of the god of Ōmononushi. However, the Nihon Shoki also contains an alternative story which portrays her as the child of the god and the goddess - also known as - conceived after Kotoshironushi transformed himself into a gigantic wani and had sex with her. Likewise, the main narrative in the third and fourth volumes of Nihon Shoki refer to her as the daughter of Kotoshironushi rather than Ōmononushi.
Family tree
Related topics
List of Japanese deities
References
History of Osaka Prefecture
History of Kyoto Prefecture
Japanese goddesses
Pages with unreviewed translations
Kunitsukami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Family%202 | Monster Family 2 (also known as Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect and released as Happy Family 2 in Germany) is a 2021 German-British computer-animated comedy horror film directed and produced by Holger Tappe, and written by David Safier. A sequel to the 2017 film Monster Family, the voice cast includes Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Catherine Tate, Ethan Rouse (all reprising their roles) and Emily Carey.
The film was released via video on demand in the UK as a Sky Cinema Original Film by the Sky Group on 22 October 2021, and was released in US cinemas by VivaKids a week earlier on 15 October.
Plot
A year after the previous events, the Wishbone family is struggling with its various shortcomings. Max, the son, is the shortest student in the 8th grade. All the classmates are at least a head taller, so they laugh at the clumsy fat man with glasses. His sister Faye believes all her friends are talented in something, but she is not. The mother, Emma, tries to help her children, but her advice is ignored at best and often irritates them. Finally, the father Frank's happiness at his new job and calmer lifestyle is being ruined because his family is so unhappy.
At the wedding of the witch Baba Yaga and the hunchbacked butler Renfield (who have become part of the large Wishbone family as surrogate grandparents), the bride and groom are kidnapped shortly before they exchange oaths. The kidnapper is Mila Starr, the only daughter of a billionaire, scientific genius and philanthropist, couple Marlene and Maddox Starr. To save Baba Yaga and Renfield, Max intentionally uses Baba Yaga's magic to turn himself and his family into their monster forms again. Now the transformed Wishbone family must rescue Baba Yaga and Renfield from the Starr family while also encountering the Starr family's trapped monsters, including their old enemy Count Dracula.
Voice cast
Emily Watson as Emma Wishbone, the matriarch of the Wishbone family who is turned into a vampire again.
Nick Frost as Frank Wishbone, the patriarch of the Wishbone family who is turned into Frankenstein's monster again.
Jessica Brown Findlay as Fay Wishbone, the daughter of Emma and Frank who is turned into a mummy again.
Ethan Rouse as Max Wishbone, the son of Emma and Frank who is turned into a werewolf again.
Catherine Tate as Baba Yaga, a witch who is now friends with the Wishbone family.
Jason Isaacs as:
Count Dracula, a vampire and the Wishbone family's old enemy who seeks revenge on them for foiling his plans even though he is the first monster the Starr family had captured.
Dracula A.I., the A.I. of the jet that the Wishbone family uses.
Emily Carey as:
Mila Starr, an expert monster hunter.
Mila 2.0
Rebecca Camp as Girl #1
Daniel Ben Zenou as Maddox Starr, a billionaire philanthropist who is the father of Mila.
Emma Tate as:
Marlene Starr, a billionaire philanthropist who is the mother of Mila.
Girl #2
Female News Presenter
Ewan Bailey as:
Renfie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Caliphate%20navy | The Arab Empire maintained and expanded a wide trade network across parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. This helped establish the Arab Empire (including the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid Caliphates and also Fatimids) as the world's leading extensive economic power throughout the 8th–13th centuries according to the political scientist John M. Hobson. It is commonly believed that Mu‘awiya Ibn Abi Sufyan was the first planner and establisher of the Islamic navy.
The early caliphate naval conquest managed to mark long time legacy of Islamic maritime enterprises from the Conquest of Cyprus, the famous Battle of the Masts up to of their successor states such as the area Transoxiana from area located in between the Jihun River(Oxus/Amu Darya) and Syr Darya, to Sindh (present day Pakistan), by Umayyad, naval cove of "Saracen privateers" in La Garde-Freinet by Cordoban Emirate, and the Sack of Rome by the Aghlabids in later era
Historian Eric E. Greek grouped Rashidun military constitution with their immediate successor states from the Umayyad until at least Abbasid caliphate era, along with their client emirates, as single entity, in accordance of Fred Donner criteria of functional states. This grouping were particularly apply to the naval forces of the caliphate as a whole. Meanwhile, Blankinship does not regard the transition of rule from Rashidun to Umayyad as the end of the military institution of the early caliphate, including its naval elements . This remains at least until the end of the rule of the 10th Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, as Jihad as religious and political main motive for the military of 'early Jihad state' which spans from Rashidun caliphate until Hisham were still regarded by Blankinship as the same construct.
Historical background
The history of Arabian Peninsula navigation was recorded at least from 2,000 years BC, to even as far as the era of Sargon of Akkad (r. c. 2334-2284 BCE), when shipping industry in Magan, in present-day Oman are mentioned. The Belitung ship is the oldest discovered Arabic ship to reach the Asian sea, dating back over 1,000 years. Meanwhile, French archaeologist Roman Gershman has presented the description of earliest contact of the Arabs to the east even further back to 15,000 BC Arabian invasion on Iran, as Iran were the hub for the Indian subcontinent and far east Asia. Gus van Beek noted that all scholars accepted the south Arabians were engaged in early maritime trade on the Indian Ocean to the Arabian sea. Gus van Beek also theorized the scheduling of the Arabo Indian naval trade were similar with modern era, which is usually done during southwest monsoon. Hojjatollah Hezariyan concludes that the maritime trade activity on the Arabian gulf as indication of the earliest human navigation in history.
Pre-Islamic Arabian maritime history
The pre-Islamic Arabian navigation and sea trade prosperred on the beaches of Yemen, Hadhramaut, Oman, Yemen, and Hejaz, It was long contested by various p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20numerics | Probabilistic numerics is an active field of study at the intersection of applied mathematics, statistics, and machine learning centering on the concept of uncertainty in computation. In probabilistic numerics, tasks in numerical analysis such as finding numerical solutions for integration, linear algebra, optimization and simulation and differential equations are seen as problems of statistical, probabilistic, or Bayesian inference.
Introduction
A numerical method is an algorithm that approximates the solution to a mathematical problem (examples below include the solution to a linear system of equations, the value of an integral, the solution of a differential equation, the minimum of a multivariate function). In a probabilistic numerical algorithm, this process of approximation is thought of as a problem of estimation, inference or learning and realised in the framework of probabilistic inference (often, but not always, Bayesian inference).
Formally, this means casting the setup of the computational problem in terms of a prior distribution, formulating the relationship between numbers computed by the computer (e.g. matrix-vector multiplications in linear algebra, gradients in optimization, values of the integrand or the vector field defining a differential equation) and the quantity in question (the solution of the linear problem, the minimum, the integral, the solution curve) in a likelihood function, and returning a posterior distribution as the output. In most cases, numerical algorithms also take internal adaptive decisions about which numbers to compute, which form an active learning problem.
Many of the most popular classic numerical algorithms can be re-interpreted in the probabilistic framework. This includes the method of conjugate gradients, Nordsieck methods, Gaussian quadrature rules, and quasi-Newton methods. In all these cases, the classic method is based on a regularized least-squares estimate that can be associated with the posterior mean arising from a Gaussian prior and likelihood. In such cases, the variance of the Gaussian posterior is then associated with a worst-case estimate for the squared error.
Probabilistic numerical methods promise several conceptual advantages over classic, point-estimate based approximation techniques:
They return structured error estimates (in particular, the ability to return joint posterior samples, i.e. multiple realistic hypotheses for the true unknown solution of the problem)
Hierarchical Bayesian inference can be used to set and control internal hyperparameters in such methods in a generic fashion, rather than having to re-invent novel methods for each parameter
Since they use and allow for an explicit likelihood describing the relationship between computed numbers and target quantity, probabilistic numerical methods can use the results of even highly imprecise, biased and stochastic computations. Conversely, probabilistic numerical methods can also provide a likelihood in computat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Big%20Deal | America's Big Deal is an American business reality television series that premiered on October 14, 2021 on USA Network.
Premise
Aired live from Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, New Jersey, the series features amateur entrepreneurs pitching ready made products to home viewers. At the episodes end the contestant with the highest sales total gets a chance to strike a deal with one of three retailers, Lowe's, Macy's and QVC/HSN.
References
USA Network original programming
2021 American television series debuts
2021 American television series endings
2020s American reality television series
Business-related television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOWN%20%28app%29 | DOWN is a location-based social networking and online dating application for users looking for casual relationships and hookups. Users can swipe up for more serious dating, swipe down for casual hookups, or left to pass, and continue to the next profile. DOWN bills itself as a open-minded, sex-positive alternative to other dating apps.
Founded in 2013 as Bang with Friends, the app began as a Facebook web app for curious singles to find which of their Facebook friends were interested in "banging," or casual sex. After lawsuits from Zynga, the developer of popular games like Words with Friends, Bang with Friends changed its name to DOWN in late 2013.
History
Bang With Friends
Bang with Friends was launched by Colin Hodge and Omri Mor after meeting at Boost VC, a venture capital tech incubator in San Mateo, California. After working on HeardAboutYou, an app billed as Linkedin for lovers, Hodge looked for a way to simplify the online dating process for users who were looking for something casual.
In just the first few weeks after launch in January 2013, Bang with Friends picked up coverage first from the niche entertainment site, BroBible, and then went viral with stories in BuzzFeed, the Daily Mail, The Daily Beast, and even the Colbert Report. News coverage and online discussion often highlighted the provocative and humorous marketing from the viral app company.
For the first few months, the startup continued to spark discussion and attention from the press, keeping their identities anonymous. While there was speculation about the identity of the founders, they granted interviews anonymously, identifying only as "C" or other letters. After founder Colin Hodge's identity was revealed in promotional material for New York's 2013 Internet Week, Gawker landed Hodge's first public interview.
In the first year, Bang With Friends raised $1 million from investors, including Boost VC, Tim Draper, and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
Bang With Friends reached 1 million users within three months of launch. With the surge of registrations and press attention, the Bang With Friends app gained even more headlines with a guerilla marketing campaign at the March, 2013 South by Southwest Festival. The company launched a SXSW-specific hookup website, "Bang with SXSW", and plastered the festival's walls with raunchy advertisements. SXSW organizers tore the posters down, drawing more press coverage and fueling the controversy.
Starting as a simple Facebook web app in January 2013, the mobile app version of DOWN launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in May 2013. Within weeks, the app was suddenly removed by Apple from the App Store. By August 2013, the app was back up under its new rebranded name, "DOWN".
Lawsuits and rebrand
Midway through 2013, Bang With Friends was sued by Zynga, the social network game maker who owned Words With Friends. Zynga claimed the trademark rights to the phrase "With Friends," threatening a lawsuit against Bang With Frien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20de%20Transporte%20de%20Pasajeros | The Red de Transporte de Pasajeros de la Ciudad de México (RTP; English: Mexico City Passenger Transportation Network) offers urban bus service in Mexico City. It is administered by the Government of Mexico City and carries approximately 400,000 passengers per day on more than 100 routes.
History
Public bus service in the Mexico City metropolitan area was provided by several private concessions starting from 1916, including the Lomas de Chapultepec Primera Clase, which was founded in 1942. That company faced bankruptcy in 1958 and was federalized when the Distrito Federal de México (DDF) took over operations, renaming the service to Lomas de Chapultepec–Reforma Ruta 100, which continued to compete with private companies until August 1981, when the DDF revoked private concessions and formed Autotransportes Urbanos de Pasajeros Ruta 100 (Route 100). On May 3, 1989 the Ruta 100 worker's union Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de Ruta 100 (SUTAUR 100) went on strike, asking for double their existing wages; the negotiated settlement included a 14% wage increase but also the elimination of approximately of its 20,000 jobs. Ruta 100 continued to operate until April 7, 1995, when that system went bankrupt.
In 1994, Ruta 100 operated approximately 2,900 buses on 210 routes over a network, carrying 2.9 million passengers per day. By 1997, that had collapsed to 176 routes over , carrying 1.9 million passengers daily. With the demise of Ruta 100, part of the operator's fleet and employees were transferred to the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (STE) while the former network was operated by the Consejo de Incautación (Board of Seizure) under the Sistema Temporal de Transporte (STT; Temporary Transportation System), carrying 544 thousand daily passengers using 830 buses on 75 routes; the STT fleet was inherited by RTP when it was formed in January 2000.
A strike by Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Red de Transportes de Pasajeros (STRTP) was averted in 2014 when the Distrito Federal agreed to grant STRTP workers a 4% increase in wages and a reduction to 40 hours per week. The name of the system changed to Sistema de Movilidad 1 (M1, Mobility System 1) on June 15, 2016, but the name change was reverted to RTP in January 2019.
Services
RTP offers several service classes:
Ordinario (Ordinary): 95 routes, 2 fare
Expreso (Express): 25 routes, 4 fare
Ecobús (Eco-friendly): CNG, 5 fare
Atenea (Athena): women-only service, 2 fare
Escolar (School):
Nochebús (Night): 6 routes, 7 fare
Routes
Routes are divided into seven geographical areas (Módulo):
Camino al Huizachito no. 25, col. La Navidad, alcaldía Cuajimalpa de Morelos
Av. México No. 6114, col. Huichapan, alcaldía Xochimilco
Aquiles Serdán no. 5865, col. Pueblo Tulyehualco, alcaldía Xochimilco
Av. Telecomunicaciones s/no. Col. Ejército Constitucionalista, alcaldía Iztapalapa
Calle 301 No. 1001, col. Nueva Atzacoalco, alcaldía Gustavo A. Madero
Puerto Mazatlán no. 11, col. La Pastora, alcaldí |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentik | Kentik is an American network observability, network monitoring and anomaly detection company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
History
Kentik was founded in 2014 as CloudHelix by Co-founders Avi Freedman, Ian Applegate, Ian Pye, and Justin Biegel. The company changed its name to Kentik in 2015.
Technology
Kentik's Network Observability Cloud is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product that ingests NetFlow and other network data and analyzes it to provide network monitoring and anomaly detection services for the operators of Internet-connected networks. Kentik's underlying data engine is a clustered datastore modeled on Dremel. The engine collects and correlates live operational data from Internet routers and switches to produce network activity and health information.
Analysis
Since November 2020, Kentik has been the organizational home of Doug Madory's Internet routing analysis practice, previously associated with Renesys and Renesys' subsequent acquirers DynDNS and Oracle. While employed by Kentik, Madory discovered the Global Resource Systems IP address hijacking which occurred during the final hours of the Trump administration and was the first to accurately quantify the 2021 Facebook outage, the largest communications outage in history.
References
External links
Kentik Internet Analysis
2014 establishments in California
American companies established in 2014
Computer companies established in 2014
Networking companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Technology companies established in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Effect%20%28book%29 | Network Effect is a 2020 science fiction fantasy novel written by Martha Wells. It is the fifth in the Murderbot series and the first full-length book. It was winner of the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2021 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Premise
Murderbot has been sent by Dr. Mensah on a research expedition that includes her daughter Amena, her brother-in-law Thiago, and Drs. Arada, Overse, and Ratthi. Their ship is set upon by a hostile transport vessel, which Murderbot and Amena are compelled to board as the others flee in an escape pod. As the transport moves into a nearby wormhole, Murderbot hunts the grey-skinned humanoids in control of the ship, isolates Amena and the human captives Ras and Eletra in a safe zone, and begins to realize that the transport is the same one once controlled by its robot pilot friend ART. Arada and the others, who have followed the ship into the wormhole, are able to board as Murderbot finishes off the hostiles and manages to reload a deleted ART with a code phrase left for it. As Murderbot guessed, after being invaded by the grey raiders, ART sent them after the SecUnit ostensibly for use as a weapon, but really because ART determined that Murderbot could overcome them. Murderbot is enraged that ART would endanger the SecUnit's humans this way, and is further annoyed when ART insists that Murderbot and its human crew help find and recover the transport vessel's missing crew. Murderbot and its team descend to the planetary colony that seems to be at the center of the situation, and find that the colonists have been exposed to alien remnant contamination. They have developed the grey skin condition to varying degrees, and have separated into warring factions representing the least contaminated versus the most, who seem controlled by an alien hive mind. The missing crew have effected their own escape, and while Arada and her people help them, Murderbot is captured. ART begins firing missiles at the colony, demanding its release. Murderbot is rescued with the help of another SecUnit whose governor module it disabled, as well as a software version of itself set loose on the colony's defenses. The group returns to Preservation, and Murderbot decides to accompany ART and its crew on their next mission.
Reviews
It was described as "... if the first books were episodes in a four-part TV miniseries, then 'Network Effect' is the feature-length movie with the bigger budget and scope, and it is no less enjoyable." and a "wonderful continuation of the series". It was also described as "a perfectly paced space opera adventure novel, one in which Murderbot continues to grow as a person."
References
American science fiction novels
2020 American novels
Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the most important traffic branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an important part of the European road network. Roads are built, maintained and supervised by companies run by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska.
The total length of roads in the country as of 2020 is , and they are categorized as motorways (total length of ), main (total length of ) and regional (total length of ).
Motorways
The primary high-speed motorways are called autoceste or autoputevi/аутопутеви, public road specially built and intended exclusively for motor vehicle traffic, which is marked as a motorway with a prescribed traffic sign, has two physically separated lanes for traffic from opposite directions with at least two lanes and a lane for forced stopping of vehicles, without intersection with transverse roads and railways or tramways at the same level and in whose traffic it can be included or excluded only by a certain and specially built connecting public road to the appropriate lane of the motorway. They are marked with a special road sign, similar to the road sign depicting a motorway/autoroute/autobahn in other parts of Europe. Motorways in Bosnia and Herzegovina are defined by the Ministry of Traffic and Communications of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ministry of Transport and Communications of Republika Srpska.
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian motorway network is long as of 2022.
Motorways and sections
Motorway sections under construction
Planned motorway sections
Expressways
Currently there is no expressways in use, but several are planned.
List of planned expressways:
See also
List of E-roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
JP Autoceste FBIH
Autoputevi RS
Road transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terravision%20%28computer%20program%29 | Terravision is a 3D mapping software developed in 1993 by the German company ART+COM in Berlin as a "networked virtual representation of the Earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data". Development of the project was supported by the Deutsche Post (now Deutsche Telekom).
Google Earth was released in 2001. Because Terravision was the first system to provide a seamless web navigation and visualization of the earth in a massively large spatial data environment, Joachim Sauter called it a prequel to Google Earth. In 2014, ART+COM filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming it infringed the 1995 patent rights of Terravision. In May 2016 the jury of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware found in favor of Google. ART+COM also lost on appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2017.
Description
Terravision is a networked virtual representation of the earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data collected by the company in 1993.
The project was realized by Joachim Sauter, Pavel Mayer, Axel Schmidt, Gerd Grueneis, Dirk Luesebrink, Hendrik Tramberend and Steffen Meschkat using Onyx Computers developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc.
History
Terravision was developed starting in 1993, originally as an art project by ART+COM in Berlin, a collective of artists and computer hackers, some from the Chaos Computer Club.
In 1994, ART+COM filed a patent called "Method and Device for Pictorial Representation of Space-related Data."
In 1995, then Deutsche Post (now Deutsche Telekom) approached Art+Com searching for high-end applications for its high-speed VBN network.
In 1994, Art+COM presented its project then named it T_Vision at the International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference in Kyoto on twin monitors of a RealityEngine by Silicon Graphics. An image of the earth in space on a five-foot television screen could be spun by a large trackball beside it. According to Mark Pesce, ART+COM's two main programmers Pavel Meyer and Axel Schmidt were able to fix the software program which they had set up in Berlin on a different machine, in the last 10 minutes prior to opening of the conference. T_Vision was shown one month later to the public for the first time at the Interactive Media Festival in the Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, winning the judge's $5,000 prize.
Lawsuit against Google
Google Earth was released in 2001. By 2006, Art+Com emailed Google about Terravision. Google chief technology officer Michael Jones visited to discuss licensing and Michelle Lee, then a Google lawyer, showed interest in the patent. However Art+Com did not accept the offer, and in 2010 reissued its patent, asking Google to get a license under their patent. When this did not occur, Art+Com filed a lawsuit against Google in February 2014 for patent infringement, seeking US$100 million.
In May 2016, the jury of the United States District Court for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20To%20Have%20%26%20to%20Hold%20episodes | To Have & to Hold is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from September 27, 2021, to December 17, 2021.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most-watched%20Netflix%20original%20programming | This is a list of most-watched Netflix original programming in total hours viewed, in the first 28 days of being uploaded to Netflix. These statistics are released by Netflix based on its proprietary engagement metrics.
Television series
Television shows on Netflix with over 500 million views in their first 28 days.
Films
Films on Netflix with over 100 million views in their first 28 days.
References
External links
Netflix
Netflix lists
Netflix
Netflix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terravision | Terravision may refer to:
Terravision (computer program)
Terravision (Italian company)
See also
Terrorvision (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clio%20cuspidata | Clio cuspidata is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Cliidae.
The species has cosmopolitan distribution.
References
Cavolinioidea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits%20%28French%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Hits is a 24-hour music television channel from ViacomCBS Networks EMEAA launched on 17 November 2015.
History
The channels MTV Base, MTV Pulse, MTV Idol merged on November 17, 2015, to become MTV Hits. At the same time, BET becomes a channel in its own right, My MTV, an interactive music channel is created, MTV Rocks leaves CanalSat while on Numericable not to remove channels arrive MTV Dance, VH1 and VH1 Classic.
After weeks of negotiations an agreement has been reached between the Viacom and Canal groups, Canal Group retains the BET, MTV Hits and J-One channels.
Since April 2019, MTV Hits is available on all SFR networks (ADSL/FTTH/FTTB).
Since November 19, 2019, the channels of the ViacomCBS International Media Networks France group including J-One, Nickelodeon channels and other MTV and MTV Hits channels are now distributed to ADSL/Fiber operators, such as Free and are broadcast since January 28, 2020 at Bouygues Telecom which marks the end of exclusivity with Canal+ and will be very soon at Orange even if they are however available on the Fiber of the operator with the option proposed by the operator they since 2020 the ADSL offerings of Orange
Since January 14, 2020, the channel changes its numbering and is on channel 183 of the operator Canal+.
On October 8, 2021, the channel changed its logo and look. That same day at 9pm, it will broadcast an exclusive concert of Madonna's Madame X Tour, recorded in Lisbon.
MTV Hits ceased broadcast on April 20, 2022, on CanalSat.
Visual identity (logo)
Programming
Music programming
MTV Insomnia
Beats & Lyrics
Music & News
Club Party
MTV Classics Only (Rap & R&B only)
Rap Only
MTV Breakfast Club
Les 50 Meilleurs Clips
Les Papas du Rock
10 Meilleurs Clips
10 Meilleurs Clips France
10 Meilleurs Clips Electronic
10 Meilleurs Clips Rap
10 Meilleurs Clips USA
10 Meilleurs Clips Pop
MTV World Stage
My Life On MTV
Hip-Hop My House
References
MTV channels
Television stations in France
Television channels and stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in France
Music organizations based in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5rbyn%C3%A4tverket | Vårbynätverket meaning "the Vårby network" is a crime gang that was active from the 2010s onwards in Stockholm's organized crime. Based in Vårby district in Huddinge Municipality, Stockholm, it was led by gangster Chihab Lamouri.
Trials
Encrochat evidence and trial
In 2020, the Swedish police launched an operation against the network and Lamouri was arrested in Spain, suspected of planning of gang-related murders and shootings, including plans against rivals, kidnappings, robbery, gross destruction of public property, extortion and aggravated weapon crime. The arrest was made based on materials from the EncroChat communication service that was cracked by the police in France with Swedish police gaining access to thousands of encrypted conversations of the gang via Europol. Lamouri was using the alias "Mujaheed" (Muslim warrior for his faith). Defense attorneys tried to invalidate Encrochat's evidence by claiming that it had been collected in violation of international agreements, but judges ruled that prosecutors could use it in the trial.
In April 2021, the trial against dozens of the network's members in Stockholm District Court began and continued until 16 June 2021. 27 people with connections to the network were sentenced to a total of 147 years in prison. Gang network leader Chihab Lamouri was sentenced to 17 years and 10 months in prison for attempted murder, aggravated assault and general destruction. Vårbynätverket is allegedly involved in a dozen shootings perpetrated in Stockholm.
Kidnapping of rapper
Prominent cases against Vårbynätverket included the brief kidnapping in April 2020 of a famous Swedish rap artist Nils Kurt Erik Einar Grönberg known as Einár. Two other Swedish rappers Yasin Abdullahi Mahamoud (better known as Yasin) and rapper Haval Khalil (known as Haval) were convicted and sentenced to 10 months in prison for Yasin and two-and-a-half years for Haval for complicity in the kidnapping. Einár was murdered on 21 October 2021 in a gun killing. He was due to testify against Vårbynätverket a few days later.
Possession of firearms trial
In the Södertörn District Court, the gang was involved in serious weapon crimes, including the confiscation by police of handguns, explosives, narcotics and money from a household occupied by an 18-year old gang member and his collaborating family. Those proceedings ended with convictions of affiliated members in July 2021.
Kungens Kurva shooting trial
Gang members were also tried in the Kungens Kurva-rättegången case. Three individuals were charged with gang shooting that took place at a gas station in Kungens Kurva in January 2020. People in a passing car opened fire targeting to eliminate a rival gang leader to Vårbynätverket and trying to put an end to the rival gang's activities. Although the leader of that gang survived the shooting, a young friend of his sitting nearby was killed and the friend's girlfriend seriously injured in the head. Shortly afterwards, a 24-year-old individu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF%20Royal%20Rumble%20%28pinball%29 | WWF Royal Rumble is a pinball machine designed by Tim Seckel and released by Data East in April 1994.
Overview
WWF Royal Rumble was designed as both a widebody machine as well as a narrow body. However, upon production, only a widebody machine was produced. The machine was designed a few years prior to release. The original backglass featured more than 18 different wrestlers but by the time the game was scheduled to go into production, many of the featured wrestlers had left the WWF. The backglass was revised and the production version backglass featured only six wrestlers. This is the first multi-level game released by Data East.
Game objectives
Modes: Collect all 9 modes to begin the Rumble.
Multi-Ball: Collect all 9 wrestlers by shooting ramps and orbits.
Jackpots: During Multi-Ball, collect lit Royal Rumble Jackpot in front of Ramps & Orbits. Collect all 9 wrestlers during multi-ball to light the Super Jackpot at the upper playfield.
References
External links
https://www.ipdb.org/files/2820/WWF_Royal_Rumble.pdf
1994 pinball machines
Data East pinball machines
Professional wrestling games
Royal Rumble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cati | Cati may refer to:
People
Francisco Cati, Mexican football player
Pasquale Cati (1550–1620), Italian painter
Twm Siôn Cati
Places
Catí, Valencia, Spain
Cati River, Brazil
Other
Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
See also
Caty (disambiguation)
Kati (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia%20Faith%20Betty | Nia Faith Betty (born October 6, 2001) is a Canadian activist, fashion designer, and the co-founder of Révolutionnaire, a digital social network for changemakers and a clothing line to celebrate diversity.
In November 2019, in her first year at Howard University, Betty founded Révolutionnaire as a dance wear line catering to dancers of color, the first in Canada. Betty grew up in the professional ballet world and was considered a prodigy who moved to the United States to train at New York City's Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 14. During her time at Joffrey, Betty was featured in Awesomeness TV's Joffrey Elite. Two years later, in 2017, Betty suffered from a nearly career-ending injury that left her on bed rest for several months.
During her time on bed rest, Betty began sketching and designing a dancewear line catering to dancers of color, inspired by her own journey of growing up as a Black ballerina and never having access to apparel that matched her skin tone and having to dye her dancewear for the majority of her career. When Betty met Misty Copeland in 2014 and learned that Copeland also dyed her apparel and accessories due to a lack of diversity in dancewear, Betty became inspired to create her own.
In 2019, Betty began her first semester at historically black Howard University, in Washington, D.C. At Howard, Betty launched Révolutionnaire several weeks later at the age of 17 with a line of branded tee shirts which later expanded into Canada's first skin-toned dancewear and accessories for people of color.
In the summer of 2020, Betty entered a unique partnership with the Canadian Heritage brand Roots which included a two-part collaboration between Roots and Révolutionnaire taking part over eight months. The first phase of the collaboration launched on February 5, 2021, with Betty's sister being announced as co-founder of the company the same week. The collaboration featured a t-shirt with the phrase “Dreams Fuel Revolutions” on it and sold out in under 24 hours. Proceeds from the collection were donated to Canada's Black Academy to amplify young Black talent across the country. The second collaboration launched on October 19, 2021, with a leather jacket, leather bag, two statement t-shirts and six co-branded hoodies and sweatpants. In the midst of this, Betty launched an online platform for young people to engage in social change.
Activism
As someone with a lifelong involvement in activism, Betty decided to expand her organization to be more social justice-focused. Betty worked with her sister and co-founder of Révolutionnaire, Justice Faith Betty to evolve Révolutionnaire with a social justice arm, creating a social network for activists. The sisters onboarded a team of over 30 young North American activists. The sisters along with their team worked to build out a dedicated platform for young people to learn about causes of interest, connect with like-minded citizens, and take action across social causes. Since launching in Jun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalcon/Skism | Phalcon/Skism was a group that wrote computer viruses in the 1990s. It was formed by the merger of two New York City-based virus writing groups: Skism (for "Smart Kids Into Sick Methods"), formed by the virus writer called "Hellraiser", and Phalcon. They wrote and distributed the online magazine 40Hex (1991–1998), as well as the virus creation tool Phalcon-Skism Mass Produced Code Generator (1992). In 1992, the group claimed to have around 12 members, aged 15 to 23 years.
References
External links
Archive of 40Hex issues
Computer viruses |
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