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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viiv%20%28disambiguation%29 | ViiV Healthcare is a UK pharmaceutical company
Viiv may also refer to:
Intel Viiv (stylized as: V//V) computing platform
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (June 4th), expressed as VIIV (6-4 in Roman numerals) as an alternate name
See also
VIV (disambiguation)
Vivi (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon%20Music%20Award%20for%20Song%20of%20the%20Year | The Melon Music Award for Song of the Year is one of the awards from the annual Melon Music Awards, an event that uses data from Melon's streaming service to celebrate artists who have had exceptional performance during the year.
From 2005 to 2008, awards for best song of the year were based entirely on online voting and were announced on Melon's website. Live ceremonies began in Seoul starting in 2009, with Song of the Year becoming one of the ceremonies' daesang (grand prize) awards. The award is given based on several criteria; as of 2021, 60% of the evaluation is based on figures for digital downloads and streaming, 20% from the evaluation of a panel of judges, and 20% from online voting.
The artist with the most Song of the Year awards is BTS, having won four times in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 with "Spring Day", "Boy with Luv", "Dynamite" and "Butter", respectively. Wonder Girls received the prize twice during its online period in 2007 and 2008, winning for "Tell Me" and "So Hot". IU has the most nominations in the category with seven nominations, winning once for "Good Day" in 2011. BTS and 2NE1 have the second most nominations with five each.
Winners and nominees
Artists with multiple wins
4 wins
BTS
2 wins
Wonder Girls
Artists with multiple nominations
7 nominations
IU
5 nominations
2NE1
BTS
3 nominations
Big Bang
Exo
G-Dragon
Girls' Generation
2 nominations
Baek Ji-young
Beast
Blackpink
Busker Busker
Davichi
Psy
Sistar
T-ara
Twice
Zico
See also
Mnet Asian Music Award for Song of the Year
Melon Music Award for Album of the Year
Notes
References
External links
Melon Music Awards official site
Song
Song awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba%20and%20the%20Three%20Golden%20Hair | Alibaba and the Three Golden Hair () is a 2018 Chinese computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Jiang Yefeng from a screenplay by Liu Fei. A sequel to Alibaba 2: Seal of Solomon (2016), it is the second film in the Alibaba film series. It was released in China on 30 December 2018, and grossed 10.311 million Chinese renminbi ($1,615,511) at the box office.
Release and box office
Alibaba and the Three Golden Hair was released in China on 30 December 2018. In its opening week, it grossed 2.998 million Chinese renminbi ($469,714) at the box office, reaching 10.311 million ($1,615,511) by the end of its theatrical run from 270,800 tickets sold.
References
External links
Alibaba and the Three Golden Hair at Douban (in Mandarin)
2018 films
2018 computer-animated films
2018 comedy films
2010s adventure comedy films
2010s children's animated films
Chinese children's films
Chinese comedy films
Chinese computer-animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleTrusT | TeleTrusT, officially the IT Security Association (), is a German association for IT security, based in Berlin. Founded in 1989, it is a German and international competence network for IT security, with the purpose of increasing trust in information technology and communication. Members come from related industries and research as well as from administration and consultancy. The association works as a partner of national and international organisations in the field. TeleTrusT is the largest competence network for IT security in Germany and Europe, organising meetings and conferences, and advising in actual IT security politics.
The association assigns two signs of confidence, IT Security made in Germany (ITSMIG) and IT Security made in EU (ITSMIE).
History
The initiative for an organisation for IT security dates back to the mid-1980s, when Eckart Raubold, then director of the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) in Darmstadt, proposed an association for the standardisation of chip cards, and trust centres for IT communications, especially payment systema. The first draft for a statute dates to 26 January 1989, and an association was created at a meeting on 4 April 1989 at the GMD. The association was formally registered in Bonn on 16 June 1989 as TeleTrust Deutschland. The members of the board then were Raubold as chairman, Wolfgang Schröder, Dieter Weber and Franz Arnold. Members included the GMD, , DATEV, SCS, KryptoKom (Norbert Pohlmann), TELES, Siemens and ORGA.
A press release describes the purpose as "Promotion of reliable telecommucation technology in the economy, society and government at national and international level" ("Förderung verläßlicher Tele-Informationstechnik in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Staat auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene", with a focus on avoiding abuse of electronics data, developing an electronic signature, and participating in norms.
The managing director (Geschäftsführer) was Helmut Reimer from 1992 until 2007, when he was succeeded by Günther Welsch. Holger Mühlbauer has been managing director from 2009. Norbert Pohlmann, a founding member and teaching at the Institut für Internet-Sicherheit of the , has been chairman of the board since 1989.
Membership
TeleTrusT is a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the IT Security Coordination Office of the DIN, and the CEN/CENELEC cyber security co-ordination group. It was a founding member of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).
References
External links
Geschäftsbericht 2019 (in German) teletrust.de 2019
TeleTrusT European Bridge CA
International organisations based in Germany
Information technology organisations based in Germany
Organizations established in 1989
1989 establishments in West Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petal%20Maps | Petal Maps is a map service based on TomTom provided by Huawei to devices with the operating system HarmonyOS, Android and iOS. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, 3D view surroundings, turn-by-turn navigation, head-up display and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, and public transportation.
Honors
In 2021, Petal Maps was awarded the Red Dot Design Award.
Characteristics
Basic
Petal Maps offers the ability to zoom in and out to display the map. The user can control the map with the mouse to move to the desired location. Users can enter an address, intersection, or general area to search on the map.
If someone wants to search for "cakes in London" to find restaurants that serve that dish near the city. Searches can find a wide range of restaurants, hotels, theaters, and general businesses.
Maps are sourced from Huawei.
3D view of the maps
Satellite view.
Images provided by satellite
Currently the satellite view of Petal Maps is only available in the Petal Maps mobile app and not on the website.
Mobile app
Petal Maps is available as a mobile app for the HarmonyOS, Android and iOS mobile operating systems. It was released in October 2020 for all Huawei devices through AppGallery, and in June 2021 for all Android devices through Google Play. As of March 2022, Petal Maps was released on AppStore for iOS users. It was released as a replacement for Google Maps.
References
External links
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Web Map Services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20%28algebraic%20data%20type%29 | This article compares the syntax for defining and instantiating an algebraic data type (ADT), sometimes also referred to as a tagged union, in various programming languages.
Examples of algebraic data types
Ceylon
In Ceylon, an ADT may be defined with:
abstract class Tree()
of empty | Node {}
object empty
extends Tree() {}
final class Node(shared Integer val, shared Tree left, shared Tree right)
extends Tree() {}
And instantiated as:
value myTree = Node(42, Node(0, empty, empty), empty);
Clean
In Clean, an ADT may be defined with:
:: Tree
= Empty
| Node Int Tree Tree
And instantiated as:
myTree = Node 42 (Node 0 Empty Empty) Empty
Coq
In Coq, an ADT may be defined with:
Inductive tree : Type :=
| empty : tree
| node : nat -> tree -> tree -> tree.
And instantiated as:
Definition my_tree := node 42 (node 0 empty empty) empty.
C++
In C++, an ADT may be defined with:
struct Empty final {};
struct Node final {
int value;
std::unique_ptr<std::variant<Empty, Node>> left;
std::unique_ptr<std::variant<Empty, Node>> right;
};
using Tree = std::variant<Empty, Node>;
And instantiated as:
Tree myTree { Node{
42,
std::make_unique<Tree>(Node{
0,
std::make_unique<Tree>(),
std::make_unique<Tree>()
}),
std::make_unique<Tree>()
} };
Dart
In Dart, an ADT may be defined with:
sealed class Tree {}
final class Empty extends Tree {}
final class Node extends Tree {
final int value;
final Tree left, right;
Node(this.value, this.left, this.right);
}
And instantiated as:
final myTree = Node(42, Node(0, Empty(), Empty()), Empty());
Elm
In Elm, an ADT may be defined with:
type Tree
= Empty
| Node Int Tree Tree
And instantiated as:
myTree = Node 42 (Node 0 Empty Empty) Empty
F#
In F#, an ADT may be defined with:
type Tree =
| Empty
| Node of int * Tree * Tree
And instantiated as:
let myTree = Node(42, Node(0, Empty, Empty), Empty)
F*
In F*, an ADT may be defined with:
type tree =
| Empty : tree
| Node : value:nat -> left:tree -> right:tree -> tree
And instantiated as:
let my_tree = Node 42 (Node 0 Empty Empty) Empty
Free Pascal
In Free Pascal, an ADT may be defined with:
type
TTreeKind = (tkEmpty, tkNode);
PTree = ^TTree;
TTree = record
case FKind: TTreeKind of
tkEmpty: ();
tkNode: (
FValue: Integer;
FLeft, FRight: PTree;
);
end;
And instantiated as:
var
MyTree: PTree;
begin
new(MyTree);
MyTree^.FKind := tkNode;
MyTree^.FValue := 42;
new(MyTree^.FLeft);
MyTree^.FLeft^.FKind := tkNode;
MyTree^.FLeft^.FValue := 0;
new(MyTree^.FLeft^.FLeft);
MyTree^.FLeft^.FLeft^.FKind := tkEmpty;
new(MyTree^.FLeft^.FRight);
MyTree^.FLeft^.FRight^.FKind := tkEmpty;
new(MyTree^.FRight);
MyTree^.FRight^.FKind := tkEmpty;
end.
Haskell
In Haskell, an ADT may be defined with:
data Tree
= Empty
| Node Int Tree Tree
And instantiated as:
myTree = Node 42 (Node 0 Empty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities%20Power%20Partnership | The Cities Power Partnership (CPP) is a network of local councils in Australia established by the Climate Council in mid 2017 to co-ordinate reducing emissions and to provide councils and communities with the technical expertise and advice to transition to a clean, renewable energy future.
The CPP is Australia's largest local government climate network, now comprising 165 organisational members as of November 2021.
Background
Initially the Partnership had 35 Councils participating at its launch at the Mt Majura Solar Farm in the ACT.
Climate Councillor Dr Tim Flannery highlighted that NSW South Coast Councils, including Bega Council, were the first to sign up. "Bega was one of the very first councils to sign up. We put a bit of a call out to Australia, and you guys were really in there."
The City of Newcastle was also a founding member of the CPP, and in April 2020 Deputy Mayor Cr Declan Clausen highlighted in a CPP video the transition of the industrial steel and coal based city being the first Council in NSW to source 100% of its energy needs from renewable energy. "The city of Newcastle is really proud to be the first council in NSW to have 100 per cent of its energy needs delivered by renewable energy. Newcastle has always been an industrial town. First it was coal, then it was steel and now, it's renewables."
The Partnership has since grown to encompass 165 municipal and shire councils around Australia at the end of 2021.
Council Pledges
Participating local councils pledge five actions to tackle climate change when they join in either renewable energy, efficiency, transport or working in partnership to tackle climate change. As of 2020, over 650 pledges have been made by local councils to take decisive climate and energy action.
Annual Climate Awards
The Cities Power Partnership runs yearly climate awards now in 10 categories which member councils participate in.
Awards are for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Transport, Community Engagement, Innovation, Ambition, Collaboration, Climate Ambassador, Climate Champion, Community Choice.
References
External links
Climate change organisations based in Australia
Non-profit organisations based in New South Wales
Environmental organizations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai%20Chana | Thai Chana (, ; ) is an online registration system and closed database for public establishments to record their visitors as a government's plan to combat COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand. The database is available only to the Ministry of Public Health's Department of Disease Control in order to track, trace and restrict the visitors who may later be infected.
Development
Thai Chana was developed by Krungthai Bank and Digital Government Development Agency and was launched for public on 17 May 2020, following an order to reopen department stores after 2-month lockdown. Every enterprises are obliged to have their visitors "check-in" to the Thai Chana system upon arrival and "check-out" upon departure. As of February 2020, the system is available on its website and its Android mobile application. On its first day of operation, the system was deployed by more than 44,000 stores and was checked-in by more than 2 million users.
According to the official statement, goal of the system is to "determine the crowdedness of the given business location, so that the business owner can manage the visitors' admission" and to "trace the visitors [in case got infected] and track down those with close contact to them based on their check-ins". However, many found that these goals have never been implemented throughout the pandemic.
Criticisms
The system has been criticised for collecting certain aspects of users' private information that are deemed irreverent to the track-and-trace scheme and unnecessarily violating citizens' online privacy.
Privacy
Poramet Minsiri, founder of told BBC Thai that Thai Chana has made him realise that "[Thai] citizens' rights are so light". He further criticised the unnecessary collection of users' real-time location, amongst others, as a violation of online privacy. Human rights academics Sarueni Achawananthakun criticised its lack of transparency on data collection. She further questioned the extent of involvement of Krungthai Bank given its for-profit status.
Spam messages
Not long after Thai Chana launched, many iPhone and iOS users in Thailand received spam messages via iMessage advertising online casino scams. Many netizens accused the government's Thai Chana for possible leakage of many telephone numbers to third parties. However, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society declined all claims.
References
COVID-19 contact tracing apps
Thai websites
2020 in Thailand
COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor%20kulkarnii | Tor kulkarnii (common name: dwarf mahseer) is a species of cyprinid of the genus Tor. It inhabits mountain streams in India and has a maximum length among unsexed males of . It is classified as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List and is considered harmless to humans.
References
Cyprinidae
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of India
Fish described in 1992
IUCN Red List data deficient species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise%20Football%20League%3A%20Fantasy%20Football | Franchise Football League: Fantasy Football is a 1991 software published by Space Tech Enterprises.
Gameplay
Franchise Football League: Fantasy Football is a database program intended for running a fantasy football league.
Reception
Wyatt Lee and J.D. Lambright reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that
Reviews
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment
References
1991 video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor%20laterivittatus | Tor laterivittatus is a species of cyprinid of the genus Tor. Described by Zhou and Cui in 1996, it inhabits the Mekong river basin in Laos and Yunnan, China. It is classified as "data deficient" on the IUCN Red List and has a maximum length among unsexed males of .
References
Zhou, W. and G.H. Cui, 1996. A review of Tor species from the Lancangjiang River (Upper Mekong River), China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 7(2):131-142.
Cyprinidae
Cyprinid fish of Asia
IUCN Red List data deficient species
Fish described in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gulf%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Gulf is a New Zealand-set crime drama series, first broadcast on the Three network on 26 August 2019. The series, described as New Zealand's answer to "scandi-noir", follows troubled investigator DSS Jess Savage, played by Kate Elliott, who solves cases on her home of Waiheke Island, all whilst trying to piece together the events surrounding the death of her husband in a seemingly routine car crash. The title refers to the Hauraki Gulf which separates the island from the mainland.
Following a successful debut run in 2019, the series was commissioned for a second run in early 2020, premiering on March 1, 2021. Outside of New Zealand, the series has been sold to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video in the United States and Sundance Now. The series also broadcast on Alibi in the UK, with the first series airing from February 26, 2020, with each two-part story combined into one single broadcast. The second series premiered on December 15, 2021.
Cast
Kate Elliott as Detective Senior Sergeant Jess Savage
Ido Drent as Detective Sergeant Justin Harding
Timmie Cameron as Ruby Savage
Dahnu Graham as AJ Jackson
Bede Skinner as Alex Parsons
Jeffrey Thomas as Retired Detective Inspector Doug Bennington (series 1)
Alison Bruce as Senior Sergeant Denise Abernethy
Mark Mitchinson as Detective Inspector Ivan Petrie
Pana Hema Taylor as Constable Rory Kerr (series 1)
Ross Brannigan as Constable Paul "Pup" Phillips
Vinnie Bennett as Sgt. Taiaroa Gray (series 2)
Episodes
Series 1 (2019)
Series 2 (2021)
References
External links
2010s German television series
2020s German television series
2010s New Zealand television series
2020s New Zealand television series
2019 German television series debuts
2019 New Zealand television series debuts
German drama television series
English-language television shows
New Zealand drama television series
Television series by Screentime
Television shows filmed in New Zealand
Television shows set in New Zealand
Three (TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Potter%3A%20Hogwarts%20Tournament%20of%20Houses | Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses was a 4-episode quiz show aired on TBS and Cartoon Network from November 28 to December 19, 2021. It was hosted by Helen Mirren, and was intended as a tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter series.
Format
The show was a trivia competition based on Harry Potter-related content. It featured four teams of Harry Potter fans, one representing each Harry Potter house, competing against each other to earn the title of House Cup Champion.
Episodes
Reception
Tara Bennett of IGN gave the series four stars, calling it "an entertaining, and sometimes challenging, celebration of all things Potter".
Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph gave it one star, stating it was the "worst role" of Helen Mirren's career, and that "this cringe-inducing, horribly Americanised Harry Potter quiz is abysmal in every way".
References
External
Harry Potter
TBS (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome%20tree | In computer science a palindrome tree, also called an EerTree, is a type of search tree, that allows for fast access to all palindromes contained in a string. They can be used to solve the longest palindromic substring, the k-factorization problem (can a given string be divided into exactly k palindromes), palindromic length of a string (what is the minimum number of palindromes needed to construct the string), and finding and counting all distinct sub-palindromes. Palindrome trees do this in an online manner, that is it does not require the entire string at the start and can be added to character by character.
Description
Like most trees, a palindrome tree consists of vertices and directed edges. Each vertex in the tree represents a palindrome (e.g. 'tacocat') but only stores the length of the palindrome, and each edge represents either a character or a suffix. The character edges represent that when the character is appended to both ends of the palindrome represented by the source vertex, the palindrome in the destination vertex is created (e.g. an edge labeled 't' would connect the source vertex 'acoca' to the destination vertex 'tacocat'). The suffix edge connects each palindrome to the largest palindrome suffix it possesses (in the previous example 'tacocat' would have a suffix edge to 't', and 'atacocata' would have a suffix link to 'ata'). Where palindrome trees differ from regular trees, is that they have two roots (as they are in fact two separate trees). The two roots represent palindromes of length −1, and 0. That is, if the character 'a' is appended to both roots the tree will produce 'a' and 'aa' respectively. Since each edge adds (or removes) an even number of characters, the two trees are only ever connected by suffix edges.
Operations
Add
Since a palindrome tree follows an online construction, it maintains a pointer to the last palindrome added to the tree. To add the next character to the palindrome tree, add(x) first checks if the first character before the palindrome matches the character being added, if it does not, the suffix links are followed until a palindrome can be added to the tree. Once a palindrome has been found, if it already existed in the tree, there is no work to do. Otherwise, a new vertex is added with a link from the suffix to the new vertex, and a suffix link for the new vertex is added. If the length of the new palindrome is 1, the suffix link points to the root of the palindrome tree that represents a length of −1.
# S -> Input String
# x -> position in the string of the character being added
def add(x: int) -> bool:
"""Add character to the palindrome tree."""
while True:
if x - 1 - current.length >= 0 and S[x - 1 - current.length] == S[x]:
break
current = current.suffix
if current.add[S[x]] is not None:
return False
suffix = current
current = Palindrome_Vertex()
current.length = suffix.length + 2
suffix.add[S[x]] = current
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Pi%C3%B1ata%20Loca | La Piñata Loca (English: "The Crazy Pinata") is an American children's programming block on Spanish language television network Univision, which debuted on March 30, 1996, and aired until February 26, 2000. The three-hour block aired Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time and features animated series aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 11.
Programs featured on the block consist almost entirely of Spanish-dubbed versions of series that were originally produced and broadcast in English. All shows featured on La Piñata Loca are designed to meet federally mandated educational programming guidelines defined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via the Children's Television Act.
History
In April 1995, Univision test-marketed Plaza Sésamo ("Sesame Street"), Televisa and Children's Television Workshop's (now Sesame Workshop) Spanish-language adaptation of Sesame Street featuring a mix of original segments featuring characters based on its U.S.-based parent series and dubbed interstitials from the aforementioned originating program, on its owned-and-operated stations in Los Angeles, Dallas and Miami. The success of the test run led the network to begin airing the program nationally beginning on December 11 of that year; the program aired on Univision until 2002, when it moved to its newly created sister network TeleFutura as part of its "Mi Tele" ("My TV") block (the Univision network resumed its relationship with the now-Sesame Workshop when it debuted the U.S.-based Spanish language spin-off Sesame Amigos ("Sesame Friends") in August 2015). The network aired its children's programs on weekday and Saturday mornings until April 1997, when Univision relegated its children's programming exclusively to Saturday mornings to make room for its new morning news/talk/lifestyle program ¡Despierta América!.
La Piñata Loca
On March 30, 1996, Univision announced that it would launch a new Saturday and Sunday morning block, La Piñata Loca. The block was hosted by George Ortuzar (Lente Loco; after he left the show in 1995). The block and network opted to fully program the block with shows acquired from various programming distributors and entered in partnership with Hanna-Barbera and World Events Productions (based on the product anime show, Voltron: Defender of the Universe).
The block's initial lineup consisted mainly of Spanish-language and dubbed version of American, European and Japanese children's programs such as with The Flintstone Kids and Cantinflas y Sus Amigos (among with the cartoon series was premiered in 1993).
Giorgiomania
On August 16, 1997, Univision launched a sub-block within the lineup, called Giorgiomania, featuring dubbed version of the original series production by Film Roman during the first one-hour of the block on every Saturday morning such as Cro (based on Sesame Street) were the show to air as part of the sub-block.
In February 2000, after George "O" left from Univisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker%20Markl | Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.
Career
In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. From 1997 to 2000, he was research group leader at FORWISS, the Bavarian research center for knowledge-based systems. From 2001 to 2008, he was project leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley. Since 2008, he has been full professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2014, he is head of the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data Research Department at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin. From 2014 to 2020, he was director of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC). From 2018 to 2020, he was co-director of the Berlin Machine Learning Center (BZML). Together with Klaus-Robert Müller he became director of the new Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), after both BBDC and the BZML merged into BIFOLD in 2020.
From 2010 through 2019, he led the DFG funded Stratosphere project, which led to the establishment of Apache Flink. In 2018, he was elected president of the VLDB Endowment.
Research
Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems, scalable data processing, and machine learning.
Awards and honors
Markl was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2021.
His work was honoured with several awards, including:
2021 ICDE Best Paper Award
2021 BTW Best Paper Award
2020 ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
2020 ACM Fellow
2019 EDBT Best Paper Award
2017 BTW Best Paper Award
2017 EDBT Best Demonstration Award
2016 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
2014 VLDB Best Paper Award
2012 IBM Faculty Award
2012 IBM Shared University Research Grant
2010 Hewlett Packard Open Innovation Award
2005 IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award
2005 IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award
References
External links
Machine learning researchers
Database researchers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
German computer scientists
Living people
Technical University of Munich alumni
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prova%20%28disambiguation%29 | Prova may refer to:
Prova, a programming language
Prova (album), an album by Katy Garbi
Sadia Jahan Prova, a Bangladeshi model and television actress
See also
Prove (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LigoLab | LigoLab Information System is an American software company that provides software and laboratory operating systems for clinical laboratories. LigoLab develops and distributes the software tool TestDirectly, which is used for COVID-19 testing. It is based in Glendale, California.
History
LigoLab was co-founded in 2006 by Suren Avunjian and Edward Kharatian. Prior to founding LigoLab, Avunjian was Director of IT for Health Line Clinical Laboratories, which was eventually acquired by Labcorp.
In late 2019, LigoLab partnered with Washington-based lab Northwest Pathology to develop TestDirectly, a software tool for facilitating DTC COVID-19 testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. TestDirectly was officially released in April 2020. Since its release, TestDirectly has been used for mass testing by organizations such as the Washington State Department of Corrections and Illinois Department of Public Health.
In March 2020, LigoLab also provided LIS (laboratory information system) support for laboratories in several states including California, New York, and Washington that were conducting high-volume COVID-19 tests. In this capacity, LigoLab integrated its LIS & RCM Operating Platform with multiple instruments for COVID-19 testing.
LigoLab formed a partnership with Northwest Pathology and the Florida Department of Health through TestDirectly in June 2020. The partnership was formed to carry out COVID-19 testing on long-term care residents and staff in the state of Florida.
LigoLab's LIS & RCM Operating Platform was used by clinical laboratory Atlas Genomics to detect the first case of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in King County, Washington in February 2021. In March 2021, LigoLab added LIS functionality to its TestDirectly platform.
As of November 2021, the company had 130 clinical laboratories in the United States in its network.
Software
LigoLab provides an LIS & RCM Operating Platform that integrates administrative, technical, and financial operations in a laboratory environment. The platform also enables automation of laboratory processes and combining LIS and RCM workflows. In 2020, the platform was integrated with multiple COVID-19 testing instruments from companies such as Roche, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and QIAGEN. LigoLab's LIS has been used by laboratories such as Reditus Laboratories.
LigoLab's TestDirectly software provides a web-based platform that links patients and governmental organizations with laboratories, doctors, and collection centers for direct-to-consumer COVID-19 testing, including at-home specimen collection.
LigoLab's laboratory operating system also includes modules for molecular diagnostics.
Scientific references
References
External links
Companies based in California
Glendale, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duminda%20Wijesekera | Duminda Wijesekera is an American Computer Scientist of Sri Lankan descent. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University and acting chair of Cyber Security Engineering Department. He is also a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1997) and another PhD in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University (1990). He has a Bachelors in Mathematics from University of Colombo. He also holds a courtesy appointments at the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, NIST. He has published more than 100 research papers in the area of cybersecurity. He was also part of the team that investigated Metro Blue Line derailment in Washington DC.
Wijesekera also leads the Laboratory of Radio and RADAR Engineering (RARE) which is a collaboration between academia, industry and government. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is also considered to be an expert in identifying money laundering using mathematical models and has done research on linking organ trafficking to terrorist networks.
Publications
Michael, James Bret, Doron Drusinsky, and Duminda Wijesekera. "Formal Methods in Cyberphysical Systems." Computer 54, no. 09 (2021): 25–29.
Wang, Lingyu, Duminda Wijesekera, and Sushil Jajodia. "A logic-based framework for attribute based access control." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Formal methods in security engineering, pp. 45–55. 2004.
Ammann, Paul, Duminda Wijesekera, and Saket Kaushik. "Scalable, graph-based network vulnerability analysis." In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 217–224. 2002.
Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia and Duminda Wijesekera, Preserving Privacy for OnLine Analytical processing, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince%20Smith%20%28cybertaxonomist%29 | Vince Smith (Vincent Stuart Smith) is a British entomologist and biodiversity informatician at the Natural History Museum, London.
Education and career
Smith completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Bristol, before completing a PhD at the University of Glasgow specialising on parasitic lice (Phthiraptera). He went on to research host-parasite evolution at the University of Glasgow and then the Illinois Natural History Survey, where he helped develop the Biocorder laboratory management software. In 2006, he joined the Natural History Museum, London, as a cybertaxonomist, before becoming a Research Leader in Informatics in 2012 (a position he still holds).
Smith was one of the founding editors of the Biodiversity Data Journal and has led several large EU science projects including SYNTHESYS+ and ViBRANT.
Research
Smith's current research interest is in the field of biodiversity informatics including work relating to implementing Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), development of the museum's Data Portal to make collections available online, as well as methods for digitising museum specimens. Informatics projects for the broader community include development of the Scratchpads virtual research environment and the eMonocot project.
Honours and awards
Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 2015
Ebbe Nielsen Prize in 2008
References
External links
Natural History Museum London profile
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British entomologists
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Employees of the Natural History Museum, London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.Y.C.Y.BH | "H.Y.C.Y.BH" (an acronym for "Have You Checked Your Butthole") is a song by Australian musical comedian Tom Cardy. It was taken from his debut EP, Artificial Intelligence, which was released on 6 August 2021. Written, recorded, and produced solely by Cardy, the song was debuted on TikTok. "H.Y.C.Y.BH" received praise from music critics and ranked at No. 11 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2021.
Background and release
"H.Y.C.Y.BH" was recorded in July 2021 in Cardy's home studio during the creation of his debut EP Artificial Intelligence. It was debuted on TikTok, with an accompanying music video being uploaded to YouTube on 3 July which showed Cardy performing the song in his home studio. A metal keyring promoting the song was made available following the EP's release.
Composition
"H.Y.C.Y.BH" is written in the key of C minor with a tempo of 120 BPM.
Critical reception
Writing for The Music, Joe Dolan labelled "H.Y.C.Y.BH" one of the best songs of the month and said that "it's hard not to admire the sheer tenacity that comes with one man's journey into enlightenment". He additionally likened the song's titular question to that of "What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye and "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by Baha Men. Another writer for The Music dubbed it "incredible handiwork" and added that "you're gonna have this song in your head for a while". Dustin Rowles of Pajiba praised the song as "art" and called it "the best reason I have ever seen for the existence of TikTok".
Triple J's Al Newstead opined that with the phrase "have you checked your butthole", Cardy "elegantly encapsulates transcendent, universal wisdom". Triple J presenter Dave Woodhead included the song in his 10 votes for the station's 2021 Hottest 100 countdown, marking Cardy's second appearance on the list after "Mixed Messages" placed at No. 17. In an op-ed for ABC News, journalist Abbey Wiltshire attributed the song's success in the countdown to its "unfiltered humour and pure shareability".
Chart performance
Personnel
As shown in the liner notes of Artificial Intelligence, the song was created and performed solely by Cardy.
References
External links
2021 songs
Tom Cardy songs
Songs written by Tom Cardy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantang%20LNG%20Terminal | The Guantang LNG Terminal () is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal under construction in Datan Borough, Guanyin District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
History
The terminal design was originally drafted in 2015. In 2018, the government considered relocating the terminal but rejected this idea because the new proposed site was reserved for a planned offshore wind farm. On 8 October 2018, the terminal project passed its environmental impact assessment. The construction of the terminal is expected to be completed by 2025.
Architecture
The terminal will span an area of 9 km2. The original location of the terminal was proposed to be 455 meters from the coastline. However, due to pressure from environmental activists over to the existence of a sensitive coral reef in the nearby area, the terminal was redesigned to be 750 meters further away, with a total distance of around 1.2 km out to the sea from the shoreline. The relocation design was expected to add NT$15 billion to the cost of the project, for an estimated total cost of NT$75 billion.
See also
List of LNG terminals
References
Buildings and structures in Taoyuan City
Buildings and structures under construction in Taiwan
Liquefied natural gas terminals in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said%20Adrus | Said Adrus is an Ugandan-British artist born in 1958 in Uganda.
During the 1980s, his imagery has been described as computer paintings on canvas. He later turned to mixed media and multi-media ways of working, experimenting with the moving image and screen projection. Since 2015, he's been combining his digital media work with various materials that allude to his voyage from African and Asian coastlines to the Western hemisphere, describing migration and emigration in the modern setting.
He references Andy Warhol as an influence to his collage work, comparing Warhol's parodying of Western art conventions to his pushing of the boundaries of painting while keeping its elements.
Adrus lives and practices in the UK, Switzerland, and other countries in Europe.
Biography
Adrus was born to Gujarati Muslim parents in 1958 in Kampala, Uganda, in what was at the time known as ‘British East Africa’. His family moved there being part of the British colonial project of moving South Asian people to East Africa to build railways. They then moved to Switzerland, where they still live. Adrus then moved to Britain, due to Idi Amin expelling the descendents of Gujarati indentured labourers, many of whom moved to the UK.
Adrus has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art awarded by the Nottingham Trent Polytechnic.
He is a polyglot, speaking German, French, Hindi, Gujarati and English.
Works
Group exhibitions
1985: Eastern Views: Works by Young Asian Artists from the Midlands
1985: Three Asian Artists
1988: Black Art: Plotting the Course
1988: Paintings by Said Adrus - Ceramics by Louise Block, Horizon Gallery, London.
1990: In Focus
1990: In Sight, in View
1990: "Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces”
1991: History and Identity: Seven Painters
1992: Black People and the British Flag
1992: Crossing Black Waters
1993: Transition of Riches
2008: Next We Change Earth
2011: Recreating the Archive
Reviews, articles, and texts
1990: ‘It Ain’t Ethnic’, Black Arts in London, no. 128, (1 - 30 September), 5.
Talks and events
2016: Straight Outta Gyri
References
1958 births
Living people
People from Kampala
Ugandan artists
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Laufer | Michael Laufer (sometimes styled as Mixæl Laufer) is the de facto leader of the open-source anarchist biohacking network, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective. Laufer is notable for creating the EpiPencil, an open source alternative to the Epipen.
Education
Laufer has a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the CUNY Graduate Centre.
Career
Laufer is the director of mathematics at Silicon Valley's Menlo College, and a part time teacher of mathematics at San Quentin State Prison, California. Laufer is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UNESCO Crossings Institute.
In 2008 Laufer went to El Salvador where he saw hospitals that had run out of birth control medicine, he founded the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective shortly afterwards.
Laufer publicly shared videos in 2016 that illustrated how to manufacture generic version of the Epi-Pen epinephrine auto-injector from components readily available to the public.
Laufer is working on a DIY pharmaceutical chemical reactor that he calls the Apothecary MicroLab that will allow people to manufacture their own pharmaceuticals at home. The first version is able to manufacture pyrimethamine, the same drug that in 2016 increased in price in USA from $13 to $750 in 2019. Laufer's work is both about access to medicine and about the right to personal autonomy and information, seeking to undo a trend that has put healthcare decision-making in the control of financially motivated private actors. Laufer believes that providing lifesaving medication to those in need justifies violation of intellectual property rights. He wants to find simple ways to produce emergency contraceptives and common medications for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
In 2019 Laufer co-created a mesh-network sub-dermal implant that costs less than US$50, allowing humans to internally carry wireless routers. Soon after, he had one implanted in himself.
See also
Josiah Zayner
Open Source Medical Supplies
References
Living people
Hackers
Open source advocates
Open source people
Menlo College
San Quentin State Prison
Intellectual property activism
Citizen science
Do it yourself
Anarchists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American anarchists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars%20on%20the%20Road | Cars on the Road is an American computer-animated television series of shorts produced by Pixar Animation Studios for the Disney+ streaming service and based on the Cars franchise. The main cast includes Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen and Larry the Cable Guy as Mater. The series is written by Steve Purcell and produced by Marc Sondheimer. Set after the events of Cars 3 (2017), Cars on the Road follows Lightning (Wilson) and Mater (Cable Guy) as they embark on a road trip to attend the wedding of Mater's sister, while visiting various locations and characters along the way.
The short series was announced in December 2020, during Disney's Investor Day. Sondheimer says the directors worked together to maintain continuity within the series. The title was revealed in November 2021, during Pixar's special for 2021's Disney+ Day. Concepts for the episodes include stories which pay homage to films such as Mad Max (1979) and The Shining (1980). The production designer altered the lighting to further evoke Ray Harryhausen's films. Production for the series took place over 15 months. Jake Monaco provided the score for all nine episodes, who also co-wrote the series' title theme song with Bobby Podesta, with Bobby Hamrick performing the song.
Cars on the Road premiered on September 8, 2022, as part of Disney+ Day. The series received positive reviews for its vocal performance, messages, humor, role models and homage to pop culture.
Premise
Some years after the events of Cars 3 (2017), Lightning McQueen and Mater embark on a cross-country road trip around the United States to attend the wedding of Mater's sister, Mato. Along the way, they come across various locations and characters old and new.
Voice cast
Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen
Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
Quinta Brunson as Ivy
Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera
Jenifer Lewis as Flo
Cheech Marin as Ramone
Lloyd Sherr as Fillmore
Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
Guido Quaroni as Guido
Tania Gunadi as Lisa
Ruth Livier as Louise
Steve Purcell as Randy / Wraith Rod
Matthew Yang King as Clutch Humboldt / Wraith Rod / Crew Pitty
Kathy Holly as Speed Demon
Masa Kansome as Noriyuki
Toks Olagundoye as Margaret Motorray / Chiefess
Gabby Sanalitro as Griswold
Megan Cavanagh as Mae Pillar-Durev / Bella Cadavre
Hayden Bishop as Kay Pillar-Durev / 1st AD
Secunda Wood as Brakelight Pictures' producer
Matt Lowe as Brakelight Pictures' crew members
Zeno Robinson as Lance the Writer / Jeremy
Dave Fennoy as Town Marshall / Justice Stern
Tom Bromhead as Cap'n Long Leggy
Debra Cardona as Squat
Cristela Alonzo as Cruz Ramirez
Dana Powell as Mato
Oscar Camacho as Mateo
Red, Mack, Sheriff, Sarge and Lizzie make silent cameos in "Dino Park". Taco makes a silent cameo in "The Legend".
Episodes
Production
Development
On December 10, 2020, Pixar announced on Disney Investors Day that an animated series starring Lightning McQueen and Mater traveling the country while meeting friends, new and old, was in development and that it wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngozi%20Alaegbu | Ngozi Alaegbu is a broadcast journalist and TV presenter. She has worked at Degue Broadcasting Network (DBN), Television Continental (TVC) and currently works with Arise TV.
Biography
Alaegbu studied German at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She started her career by working with DBN. She thereafter moved to TVC where she spent some years before resigning in August 2019. Alaegbu's transition to Arise TV happened in February 2020.
Awards/recognition
Alaegbu won the Television Newscaster of the Year Award at the 2021 Nigeria Media Merit Awards. She was listed as number 15 on the 2021 25 Most Powerful Women in Journalism list curated by the Women in Journalism Africa.
Personal life
Alaegbu is a mother and grandmother.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nigerian journalists
Nigerian women journalists
University of Hamburg alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20%28Argentina%29 | Fox Sports is a group of channels available in Argentina and operated by Mediapro. The network is focused on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throughout Argentina. The network is based in Argentina. The channel's name and various programs are licensed from Fox Sports Media Group, a subsidiary of Fox Corporation.
History
The network was launched in 1996 as Prime Deportiva, under the ownership of Liberty Media. Prior to its launch, on October 31, 1995, News Corporation acquired a 50% ownership interest in Liberty's Prime Network group and its international networks (including sister channels Premier Sports and Prime Sports Asia) as part of an expansion of its Fox Sports properties in the Americas. In 1996, the channel was rebranded as Fox Sports Américas, later shortened to Fox Sports in 1999. In 2002, Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, a Dallas private equity firm, Liberty Media Corp and News Corp created a holding company (Fox Pan American Sports) to jointly operate FOX Sports Latin America. News Corp owned approximately 38% interest. Liberty later exited leaving HMTF and News Corp as co-owners of the cable network. News Corp purchased the ownership rights from HMTF of FOX Sports en Espanol and rebranded as FOX Deportes in 2010. News Corp purchased the remaining ownership rights for the holding company from HMTF and fully owned the FOX Sports Latin America cable network in 2011.
In 2009, a second feed called Fox Sports+ (FOX Sports mas) was launched, to allow simultaneous broadcasting of football. In 2010, FOX Sports signed a deal with UFC to be the first cable network to show it in Latin America. FOX Sports also opened a studio in 2010 in Mexico City where it broadcasts original programming and licensed programming. In 2012, the channel was renamed to Fox Sports 2, whereas Speed Channel was rebranded to Fox Sports 3.
On August 21, 2017, Fox launched a new channel called Fox Sports Premium that broadcast the replays of the matches of the Argentine Primera División until August 25, 2017, when the Superliga Argentina began an agreement with TNT Sports to share the directives of Argentine football.
On October 16, 2020, the Argentine Football Association would breach their television contract to broadcast Argentinian football on Fox Sports due to the Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox, with TNT Sports being the only broadcasters leaving open the possibility that the Televisión Pública of reacquiring the rights. However, on October 30 the Argentinian court would rule in favor of Fox, with Fox being able to broadcast the matches.
On January 29, 2021, Disney would reach in agreement with Argentine Football Association to broadcast Argentine Primeira Division matches until 2030 with its sister channel ESPN to also broadcast outside of Argentina with Televisión Pública broadcasting matches in Argentina.
In November 2021, Disney announced that Fox Sports' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Animation%20Studio | The Animation Studio is a 1991 software published by Walt Disney Software.
Gameplay
The Animation Studio is a computer animation software package, featuring a drawing program.
Reception
Roy Wagner reviewed the program for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "For serious cel animation, requiring lots of work and time, (and most likely worth all the effort put into it), The Animation Studio is recommended. It gives its users much greater control over all the details necessary to create original animations."
Reviews
Info
Amiga World
References
2D animation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20Server%20Gateway%20Interface | The Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) is a calling convention for web servers to forward requests to asynchronous-capable Python programming language frameworks, and applications. It is built as a successor to the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI).
Where WSGI provided a standard for synchronous Python application, ASGI provides one for both asynchronous and synchronous applications, with a WSGI backwards-compatibility implementation and multiple servers and application frameworks.
Example
An ASGI-compatible "Hello, World!" application written in Python:async def application(scope, receive, send):
event = await receive()
...
await send({"type": "websocket.send", ...})Where:
Line 1 defines an asynchronous function named , which takes three parameters (unlike in WSGI which takes only two), , and .
is a containing details about current connection, like the protocol, headers, etc.
and are asynchronous callables which let the application receive and send messages from/to the client.
Line 2 receives an incoming event, for example, HTTP request or WebSocket message. The keyword is used because the operation is asynchronous.
Line 4 asynchronously sends a response back to the client. In this case, it is a WebSocket communication.
Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) compatibility
ASGI is also designed to be a superset of WSGI, and there's a defined way of translating between the two, allowing WSGI applications to be run inside ASGI servers through a translation wrapper (provided in the asgiref library). A threadpool can be used to run the synchronous WSGI applications away from the async event loop.
See also
Comparison of web frameworks
FastCGI
Python (programming language)
Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)
References
External links
Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface Documentation
Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface Specification
Free software programmed in Python
Python (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Thompson%20%28professor%29 | Simon Thompson is a researcher, author and an emeritus professor of the University of Kent, where he specialized in logic and computation. His research into functional programming covers verification, tool-building and testing for Erlang, Haskell and OCaml. He is the author of books on type theory, Haskell and Erlang, and runs a Mooc about Erlang for FutureLearn.
Thompson gained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1984 with a dissertation entitled "Recursion theories on the continuous functionals". His adviser was Robin Oliver Gandy.
He has worked for IOG (IOHK) since 2019 on domain-specific languages for the Cardano blockchain platform. There, he developed a specialised smart contract language, Marlowe, designed for non-programmers working in the financial sector.
His books include: Type Theory and Functional Programming (Addison Wesley,1991); Miranda: The Craft of Functional Programming (Addison Wesley, 1995); Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (Addison Wesley, 2nd ed. 1999); and Erlang Programming (with Francesco Cesarini, O'Reilly, 2009).
References
British computer scientists
Academics of the University of Kent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People associated with Cardano |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealCall | RealCall is a US-based AI caller identification and call blocking smartphone application, used to detect, engage and block call and SMS scamming and spamming. It has AI algorithms with built-in free reverse phone lookup service and customized answer bots for detection, engagement and blocking of unwanted calls and messages. The app is available for Android and iOS devices.
Overview
RealCall is a US based AI smartphone application, to detect, engage and block spam calls, with a database of known numbers and an AI algorithm to identify phone numbers and block calls from robocallers, spammers, telemarketers and scammers. It analyze caller's voice and call's content to determine the nature of a call. The app auto block unwanted calls, and use answer bots to answer calls from telemarketers. It has reverse lookup service, used to find owner name, address, network carrier, location, risk level of unknown numbers, and system integrated with FTC Do Not Call Registry.
History
RealCall is developed by Second Phone Number Inc., a privately held company with a head office in San Jose, California, US. It released first iOS version of the app on 6 April 2022, and Android version in December 2022. As of September 2022, it has blocked 30.63 million spam calls and 11.6 billion spam text messages, originating mainly from 530, 502, 626, 915, and 315 US area codes. In November 2022, Dingtone announced partnership with RealCall and integrated its API. As of 2022, It has collected 1.5 billion phone numbers in its global database.
Availability
The app is only available in US and Canada, for iOS and Android users.
See also
Truecaller
CallApp
References
External links
www.realcall.ai
Caller ID
Spam filtering
Mobile software
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202021 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2021, the list was published on December 2, calculated with data from November 21, 2020 to November 13, 2021.
Billboard named Olivia Rodrigo the top Hot 100 artist of 2021, the youngest female artist to achieve this honor, and the first female artist since Katy Perry in 2014. Rodrigo placed four songs on the list, all in the top 40; the highest ranked of them, "Good 4 U", placed at number five.
Year-end list
See also
2021 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2021
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2021
References
United States Hot 100 Year end
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles
2021 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20Your%20Own%20Railroad | Design Your Own Railroad is a 1990 video game published by Abracadata.
Gameplay
Design Your Own Railroad is a game in which a railroad hobbyist can build a model railroad and run simulations.
Reception
Russell Sipe reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "In summary, if you are a model railroader/rail fan you will find this product a very enjoyable extension of your chosen hobby (but be sure to get version 1.2 or later). Non-railroaders (even if they enjoyed Railroad Tycoon) will either find themselves drawn into the world of model railroading by DYORR, or find themselves bored stiff. As for me, I love it."
Reviews
InCider
PCGames
References
1990 video games
Amiga games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Railroad business simulation video games
Train simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyk | Snyk is a Boston-based cybersecurity company specializing in cloud computing. It was founded in 2015 out of London and Tel Aviv with headquarters in Boston.
History
Snyk was founded in 2015 by Guy Podjarny (גיא פודחרני), Assaf Hefetz (אסף חפץ), and Danny Grander, (דני גרנדר) coming from Unit 8200, a SIGINT unit of the Israel Defense Forces. Podjarny was initially the CEO, but in July 2019, he was succeeded by Peter McKay, one of the first investors. Meanwhile, Podjarny became president and chairman of the Board of Directors. As of 2022, the company has approximately 1,400 employees. Headquartered in Boston, it also has offices in Tel Aviv, Ottawa, Zurich and London.
In 2020, it was listed as 39th in the Forbes Cloud 100.
Acquisitions
Snyk has acquired a number of companies including DeepCode, Manifold, FossID and CloudSkiff.
DeepCode provided what became Snyk Code, a product for static application security testing. Snyk Code is a cloud-based, AI-powered code review platform that checks, tests, and debugs code. It uses machine learning to check for mistakes in code. The platform currently supports Java, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript.
FossID brought in its expertise in scanning and looking for vulnerabilities in C/C++ applications, as well as the capability to identify pieces of code copied from the internet, e.g., from Stackoverflow, which could contain vulnerabilities.
CloudSkiff was known for its open-source tool for drift detection (detection of changes in the outside environment which may invalidate software infrastructure configuration, database setup, etc.).
Financing history
In 2016, the company initially raised $3 million. In March 2018, its Series A funding was $7 million. In late 2019, it raised $70 million and a further $150 million in January 2020. In September 2021, a Series F funding round valued the company at $8.5 billion. This came six months after a valuation of $4.7 billion. Qatar Investment Authority led the next funding round in December 2022, with Snyk raising close to $200 million.
In December 2021, Bloomberg reported that Snyk was preparing for an IPO in 2022.
Products
The company's security products are designed to help software developers find weaknesses, violations, and vulnerabilities in their code. The company's vulnerability database records security issues found in open-source software libraries, and corrects the code. Security vulnerabilities are identified and addressed during the development process, before the software product is in use.
References
External links
Computer security companies
Companies based in Boston
American companies established in 2015
Israeli companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrelfish%20%28operating%20system%29 | Barrelfish is an experimental computer operating system built by ETH Zurich with the assistance of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. It is an experimental operating system designed from the ground up for scalability for computers built with multi-core processors with the goal of reducing the compounding decrease in benefit as more CPUs are used in a computer via putting low level hardware information in a database, removing the necessity for driver software.
The partners released the first snapshot of the OS on September 15, 2009 with a second being released in March, 2011. Excluding some third-party libraries, which are covered by various BSD-like open source licenses, Barrelfish is released under the MIT license. Snapshots are regularly released, the last one dating to March 23, 2020.
While originally being developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, it is now partly supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs, Huawei, Cisco, Oracle, and VMware.
See also
Singularity
Midori
References
Further reading
External links
Barrelfish.org
Project Paper - "The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems" (PDF file)
Free software
Distributed operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Microkernels
Microsoft free software
Microsoft operating systems
Microsoft Research
Software using the MIT license
2009 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congresstrading.com | Congresstrading.com is a commercial website that provides access to a database of financial disclosures of members of the United States Congress. It also provides a forum to discuss Congress' stock trades, according to WXII 12, an NBC affiliate news station. Congress is required to publicly disclose their financial transactions by the STOCK Act.
History
Since its founding in October 2020, congresstrading.com has been credited by various news organizations for providing and disclosing information related to financial transactions by members of Congress. In January 2021, the New York Times reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi purchased Tesla stock options based on information sourced from congresstrading.com. In October 2021 CNBC, CNN, and the Washington Post reported that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene bought shares of Trump SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp based on information provided by congresstrading.com.
References
External links
2020 establishments in the United States
Legislative branch of the United States government
Insider trading
American websites
Internet properties established in 2020
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%20III%20%282006%20video%20game%29 | is a Nintendo DS role-playing video game and a remake of the 1990 Family Computer game, Final Fantasy III.
The game was developed by Matrix Software and marks the first time the game was released outside of Japan since its original launch.
A port was released for iOS on March 24, 2011. It was followed by an Android port on March 12, 2012, a PlayStation Portable port in late September 2012 (downloadable-only format outside Japan via PlayStation Network) and a Windows port via Steam in 2014 in the west and in 2020 in Japan with further updates.
Plot
The original storyline of Final Fantasy III is retained with some of the changes being that the main characters are more developed, well rounded, and are given unique appearances (designed by Akihiko Yoshida), backstories, personalities and names:
who symbolizes courage, an adventurous orphan boy raised in the village of Ur;
who symbolizes kindness, Luneth's childhood best friend and a timid yet intelligent young man;
who symbolizes affection, a girl raised in the village of Kazus who tires of her father's blacksmith training and often runs away from home, and
who symbolizes determination, a loyal soldier serving the King of Sasune, with a (mutual) soft spot for the princess Sara.
Development
Following the failure to remake the game for the WonderSwan Color, and Square's merger with former competitor Enix to form Square Enix in 2003, the company posted assurance that the game's promised remake would not be completely forgotten, and there was speculation that it might find its way to Sony's PlayStation or Nintendo's Game Boy Advance as its predecessors had. Square Enix considered porting the game to the PlayStation 2, but was eventually convinced by Nintendo to develop the title for their new handheld system, the Nintendo DS, a decision that would later be positively reinforced by the commercial success of the Nintendo DS. The Final Fantasy III remake was first announced in October 2004, but detailed information did not emerge for a year. Hiromichi Tanaka headed the project as both the executive producer and director. His guidance and supervision were needed because the remake was not a mere graphical update as Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy IIs remakes were, but a total overhaul using the Nintendo DS's 3D capabilities. Along with 3D graphics, a full motion video opening scene was produced for the game, similar to those found in the ports of the 2D Final Fantasy games for the PlayStation. Programming was handled by developer Matrix Software.
The remake was produced by Tomoya Asano and co-developed by Square Enix and Matrix Software. Ryosuke Aiba (Final Fantasy XI) served as art director, and Akihiko Yoshida (Final Fantasy XII) redesigned the original characters for use in 3D, and designed the look of the new playable characters. The formerly generic and nameless party characters were replaced with more concrete characters with new personalities and background stories, and additional scenes we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemibagrus%20chrysops | Hemibagrus chrysops is a species of bagrid catfish found in Malaysia.
References
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003.
Bagridae
Fish of Asia
Fish of Malaysia
Taxa named by Heok Hee Ng
Fish described in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Wikipedia%20edit | The first edit in Wikipedia's database, to HomePage was made on January 15, 2001, and states in its entirety "This is the new WikiPedia!". In December 2021, co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that he would sell a website containing a re-creation of an earlier edit that he said he made and then later deleted, which contained the text "Hello, World!", to the highest bidder as a non-fungible token (NFT).
Background
The concept of a collaboratively written, freely licensed hypertext encyclopedia was first posited in the 1990s; Richard Stallman proposed a "Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource" in 1998. In 2001, Larry Sanger conceived of Wikipedia as a source of volunteer entries from the general public that could then be "fed into" Nupedia, a collaborative encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales and written by "qualified volunteer contributors" with a multi-step peer review process. A message sent by Sanger to the Nupedia mailing list said "Humor me [...] go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes". On January 13, 2001, Wikipedia's domain name was registered, and on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
First edit
Historically, the earliest surviving edit on Wikipedia's database was a January 16, 2001, revision of the page UuU, created as a list of countries starting with the letter U and oddly titled due to software considerations of the time. However, page histories during that time were unreliably stored by the UseModWiki software; in 2010, previously inaccessible records of early UseModWiki revisions were found in archives by Wikimedia developer Tim Starling. When these edits were imported into Wikipedia's database at 02:28, July 30, 2019 (UTC), its earliest recorded edit became the January 15, 2001, creation of HomePage with the text "This is the new WikiPedia!" by an anonymous person using the office.bomis.com server. On being informed of the importation of these edits, Wales said:
For the record, these are the earliest edits that have been found, but not the earliest edits. In the early days of Usemod wiki, I did a lot of deleting things *on the hard drive* (as this was the only way to really do that). Those will never be found of course. The first words, soon deleted, were "Hello, World!"
Non-fungible token sale
On December 3, 2021, Wales announced that he would be selling, through auction house Christie's, a non-fungible token (NFT) of a re-creation of what he claimed to be the first Wikipedia edit, made earlier than the "This is the new WikiPedia!" edit. Wales' edit, whose timestamp was listed as 18:29 UTC on January 15, 2001, was on the page HomePage. It consisted of the text "Hello, World!"; it was made as a test and subsequently erased. Previously, other tokens referencing "[pieces] of internet history" had been turned into "wildly expensive NFTs" – in June 2021, Sotheby's auctioned off a token referencing an animated GIF made from a text file of Tim Berners-Lee's original source code f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20Filmfare%20OTT%20Awards | 2021 Filmfare OTT Awards, the second edition of awards show was held on 9 December 2021 in Mumbai. These awards honour artistic and technical excellence in original programming on over-the-top streaming media in Hindi-language. Web original shows or films released across OTT platforms between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021 were eligible for Awards. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 2 December 2021.
Winners and nominees
Popular awards
Critics' Choice Awards
Technical awards
See also
Filmfare Awards
67th Filmfare Awards
References
External links
Nominees for the My Glamm Filmfare OTT Awards 2021
Winners Of My Glamm Filmfare OTT Awards 2021
Award ceremonies in India
OTT, 2021
Filmfare OTT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then%20Barbara%20Met%20Alan | Then Barbara Met Alan is a 2022 British television drama film about Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, the founders of DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network), a disability activism group. It is written by Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr and stars Ruth Madeley and Arthur Hughes. It broadcast on BBC Two on 21 March 2022.
Plot
After meeting in 1989 at a gig, two cabaret performers, comedian Barbara and activist-performer Alan, fall in love. Fueled by their passion and life experiences of mistreatment by an ableist society, they help found DAN, the Disabled People's Direct Action Network and lead protests for disabled people's rights which eventually lead to the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995. As the movement grows and the pair have a child of their own, the pressure begins to wear on their relationship
Cast
Ruth Madeley as Barbara Lisicki
Arthur Hughes as Alan Holdsworth
Phillipa Cole as Sue
Mat Fraser as Mat
Liz Carr as Liz
Production
The project had the working titles of Piss on Pity and later Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won. During his MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Thorne said this was the first time he had a budget comparable to regular television drama for a disability-centered project. Concerning production difficulties in general, this lecture referenced a forthcoming report by Screen Skills written by four writers including Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr, and it debated the ideas behind a forthcoming campaign of the same name, Underlying Health Conditions, concerning TV and disabled people.
The production prioritized disabled talent and visibility, including 17 disabled actors, 55 disabled supporting actors and 50% senior editorial team representation, in addition to extra help from disability groups as consultants and co-ordinators. Lisicki was also involved in the production, providing archival materials and historical consultancy.
Historical alterations
Some historical events and people depicted were altered for dramatic purposes. These include:
The Block Telethon protests in 1990 and 1992 were organised under the name of Campaign to Stop Patronage,
DAN was formally created in the spring of 1993 by around 16 disabled people at a weekend meeting in Norwich,
Some of the later protest events in the film around the compromised Disability Discrimination Act 1995 were organised by a disability campaign called Rights Now! although most DAN members took part in these protests too.
Reception
The film received positive reviews, commending the performances, storytelling and attitude towards disability. Several reviews also noted the presentation of a disabled sex scene on mainstream television. Jack Seale of The Guardian awarded the film five out of five stars, declaring it a 'rollicking fact-based drama'. Sean O'Grady of The Independent also gave it five out of five stars and remarked the film, '(is) as much a moving love story and wryly amusing sitcom as it is an emotionally charged chro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina%20Yuguda | Amina Yuguda is a Nigerian journalist from Yola, Adamawa state and news presenter with local network Gotel Television. She focuses on profiling high stories on Northern Nigeria especially around the Boko Haram insurgency. She has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.
She currently works at the American University of Nigeria as an Assistant Director in the office of the Vice President for University Relations.
Yuguda produced a mini-documentary series called The Real Africa.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nigerian journalists
People from Adamawa State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20learning%20speech%20synthesis | Deep learning speech synthesis uses Deep Neural Networks (DNN) to produce
artificial speech from text (text-to-speech) or spectrum (vocoder).
The deep neural networks are trained using a large amount of recorded speech and, in the case of
a text-to-speech system, the associated labels and/or input text.
Some DNN-based speech synthesizers are approaching the naturalness of the human voice.
Formulation
Given an input text or some sequence of linguistic unit , the target speech can be derived by
where is the model parameter.
Typically, the input text will first be passed to an acoustic feature generator, then the acoustic features are passed to the neural vocoder. For the acoustic feature generator, the Loss function is typically L1 or L2 loss. These loss functions impose a constraint that the output acoustic feature distributions must be Gaussian or Laplacian. In practice, since the human voice band ranges from approximately 300 to 4000 Hz, the loss function will be designed to have more penalty on this range:
where is the loss from human voice band and is a scalar typically around 0.5. The acoustic feature is typically Spectrogram or spectrogram in Mel scale. These features capture the time-frequency relation of speech signal and thus, it is sufficient to generate intelligent outputs with these acoustic features. The Mel-frequency cepstrum feature used in the speech recognition task is not suitable for speech synthesis because it reduces too much information.
Brief history
In September 2016, DeepMind proposed WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms, demonstrating that deep learning-based models are capable of modeling raw waveforms and generating speech from acoustic features like spectrograms or mel-spectrograms. Although WaveNet was initially considered to be computationally expensive and slow to be used in consumer products at the time, a year after its release, DeepMind unveiled a modified version of WaveNet known as "Parallel WaveNet," a production model 1,000 faster than the original.
In early 2017, Mila proposed char2wav, a model to produce raw waveform in an end-to-end method. In the same year, Google and Facebook proposed Tacotron and VoiceLoop, respectively, to generate acoustic features directly from the input text; months later, Google proposed Tacotron2, which combined the WaveNet vocoder with the revised Tacotron architecture to perform end-to-end speech synthesis. Tacotron2 can generate high-quality speech approaching the human voice. Since then, end-to-end methods have become the hottest research topic because many researchers around the world have started to notice the power of end-to-end speech synthesizers.
Semi-supervised learning
Currently, self-supervised learning has gained much attention through better use of unlabelled data. Research has shown that, with the aid of self-supervised loss, the need for paired data decreases.
Zero-shot speaker adaptation
Zero-shot speaker adaptation is promi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deso | Deso, DeSo, or DESO may refer to:
DeSo, a social media-oriented blockchain created in 2021
$DESO, the native cryptocurrency of the DeSo blockchain
Designated driver, in Australian slang
UK Defence and Security Exports, a British arms export organization formerly known as "Defence Export Services Organisation"
Deso Kalvin (), a cricket player from Seychelles
RKVV DESO, a Dutch football club
An acronym for "direct effect of social origins", in Social mobility
Departmental Entry Subordinate Officers, a kind of assistant commandant in India
Deso (), a player in the Serbian football club FK Vojvodina; see List of FK Vojvodina players
Any drug whose name begins with "deso"; see List of drugs: De#deso-desy
See also
Deso Dogg (1975–2018), a German rapper and jihadist
Desso Sports, a company that created the GrassMaster brand of sports playing fields
Diso, a town in Italy
Daeso (60 BC–20 AD), the last king of the Korean kingdom of Dongbuyeo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free | Scale-free may refer to:
Scale-free ideal gas
Scale-free network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit%20as%20a%20service | Exploit as a service or EaaS is a scheme of cybercriminals whereby zero-day vulnerabilities are leased to hackers. EaaS is typically offered as a cloud service. By the end of 2021, EaaS became more of a trend among ransomware groups.
In the past, zero-day vulnerabilities were often sold on the dark web, but this was usually at very high prices, millions of US dollars per zero-day. A leasing model makes such vulnerabilities more affordable for many hackers. Even if such zero-day vulnerabilities will later be sold at high prices, they can be leased for some time.
The scheme can be compared with similar schemes like Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), Phishing as a Service and Hacking as a Service (HaaS). The latter includes such services as DoS and DDoS and botnets that are maintained for hackers who use these services.
Parties who offer exploit-as-a-service need to address various challenges. Payment is usually done in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Anonymity is not always guaranteed when cryptocurrencies are used, and the police have been able to seize criminals on various occasions. Zero day vulnerabilities that are leased could be discovered and the software that is used to exploit them could be reverse engineered.
It is as yet uncertain how profitable the exploit-as-a-service business model will be. If it turns out to be profitable, probably the amount of threat actors that will offer this service will increase. Sources of information on exploit-as-a-Service include discussions on the Dark Web, which reveal an increased interest in this kind of service.
See also
As a service
Computer security
Computer virus
Crimeware
Exploit kit
IT risk
Metasploit
Shellcode
w3af
Notes
External links
Exploit-as-a-service: Cybercriminals exploring potential of leasing out zero-day vulnerabilities as saved in the Internet Archive
Exploit-as-a-Service, high rollers and zero-day criminal tactics as saved in the Internet Archive
Hacking as a Service as saved in the Internet Archive
As a service
Dark web |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe%20FM | Globe FM (98.5 MHz) is a radio station located in Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is part of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria national state-owned network. It launched on 29 July 2003 as part of a 36-station expansion of the FRCN network.
In 2021, new 10 kW transmitters were installed at Globe FM and 11 other FRCN stations.
References
Radio stations in Nigeria
2003 establishments in Nigeria
Radio stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alignment%20Problem | The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values is a 2020 non-fiction book by the American writer Brian Christian. It is based on numerous interviews with experts trying to build artificial intelligence systems, particularly machine learning systems, that are aligned with human values.
Summary
The book is divided into three sections: Prophecy, Agency, and Normativity. Each section covers researchers and engineers working on different challenges in the alignment of artificial intelligence with human values.
Prophecy
In the first section, Christian interweaves discussions of the history of artificial intelligence research, particularly the machine learning approach of artificial neural networks such as the Perceptron and AlexNet, with examples of how AI systems can have unintended behavior. He tells the story of Julia Angwin, a journalist whose ProPublica investigation of the COMPAS algorithm, a tool for predicting recidivism among criminal defendants, led to widespread criticism of its accuracy and bias towards certain demographics. One of AI's main alignment challenges is its black box nature (inputs and outputs are identifiable but the transformation process in between is undetermined). The lack of transparency makes it difficult to know where the system is going right and where it is going wrong.
Agency
In the second section, Christian similarly interweaves the history of the psychological study of reward, such as behaviorism and dopamine, with the computer science of reinforcement learning, in which AI systems need to develop policy ("what to do") in the face of a value function ("what rewards or punishment to expect"). He calls the DeepMind AlphaGo and AlphaZero systems "perhaps the single most impressive achievement in automated curriculum design." He also highlights the importance of curiosity, in which reinforcement learners are intrinsically motivated to explore their environment, rather than exclusively seeking the external reward.
Normativity
The third section covers training AI through the imitation of human or machine behavior, as well as philosophical debates such as between possibilism and actualism that imply different ideal behavior for AI systems. Of particular importance is inverse reinforcement learning, a broad approach for machines to learn the objective function of a human or another agent. Christian discusses the normative challenges associated with effective altruism and existential risk, including the work of philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill who are trying to devise human and machine strategies for navigating the alignment problem as effectively as possible.
Reception
The book received positive reviews from critics. The Wall Street Journal's David A. Shaywitz emphasized the frequent problems when applying algorithms to real-world problems, describing the book as "a nuanced and captivating exploration of this white-hot topic." Publishers Weekly praised the book for its writing and extensive resear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio%20Cards | Curio Cards are collectible digital artworks located on the Ethereum blockchain. Created in 2017, Curio Cards are commonly viewed as the first digital art collectibles on the Ethereum blockchain. In October 2021, a complete collection of Curio Cards, including the card "17b" misprint, was sold for ETH393 ($1,267,320) at the Christie's Post-War to Present auction.
Background
The Curio Cards concept, developed by Travis Uhrig, Thomas Hunt, and Rhett Creighton, launched on May 9, 2017. Curio Cards feature multiple sets of 30 unique cards that profile artwork by seven different artists. Curio Cards is colloquially considered to be the first collection of NFT artworks on the Ethereum blockchain. On October 1, 2021, a complete collection of Curio Cards, including the digital misprint "17b", was sold by an anonymous seller for $1.2 million at Christie's Post-War to Present auction held in New York. This was the first Christie's auction where bidding was conducted solely using Ethereum cryptocurrency.
See also
List of most expensive non-fungible tokens
CryptoPunks
References
Ethereum
Non-fungible tokens
Blockchain art
Digital art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixelpixel | Nika Wodwood (; born October 20, 1993, Protvino, Moscow Oblast), better known as nixelpixel, is a Russian intersectional feminist and cyber activist who maintains her video blog on the YouTube. The most famous feminist in Russia, according to the publication Meduza.
Biography
Wodwood was born on October 20, 1993, in Protvino. Parents are design engineers, employees of the Mars, Incorporated. In 1999, her parents went on a business trip to the UK, and Veranika moved with them to a suburb of London, where she lived for two years. Returning to Russia, Wodwood entered school in Stupino.
In 2011-2015, she studied at the Faculty of Sociology of the Higher School of Economics. In 2013, Wodwood became interested in feminism after she met Zhenya Belykh's the blog, the creator of the feminist community The Power of the Pussy on VKontakte, although she was initially ironic about the topic of feminism.
She worked as an assistant to the creative director in an advertising agency, but left there, according to her statement, because of the intolerant environment in the team. Since 2011, she was engaged in illustration, after leaving the advertising agency she was engaged in it remotely as her main activity. In the middle of summer 2017, she quit an advertising agency where she was engaged in copywriting and started making money on her video blog through Patreon and advertising on YouTube. She got married in May 2021. In August of the same year, she announced that she was moving to Vienna, following her husband, who entered the master's program at the Central European University.
Wodwood's public activities have been criticized, including in a feminist environment.
References
External links
1993 births
Living people
People from Moscow Oblast
Russian YouTubers
Russian feminists
Russian women's rights activists
Russian emigrants to Austria
Higher School of Economics alumni
Russian women illustrators
Russian female comics artists
Russian video bloggers
People listed in Russia as foreign agents |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribe%20healing-stick | The Ribe healing stick (with Rundata signum DR EM85;493, also known as DK SJy41) is a pinewood stick found at Ribe, Denmark, with a heavily pagan-inspired Christian spell. It dates to circa 1300 CE.
Description
Although ostensibly Christian, the charm written on the stick contains several native Germanic elements, such as alliteration and phrases also known from pagan poetry.
The phrase 'nine needs' (ni : no=uþær) appears in several explicitly pagan charms, such as the Swedish Sigtuna plate 1 and the Icelandic spell-book Galdrabók. The term læknæshand ("healing hand") is found in a pagan prayer in the Icelandic poem Sigrdrífumál, while the phrase "heavens above" or "high heaven" (uphimæn, literally "up-heaven") is used in Vǫluspá and in Old Saxon and Old English religious poetry as well as in the inscription on the Skarpåker Stone.
Inscription
The stick has five sides. The final part of line C (after ¶r) has been scraped off with a knife, but faint traces of the runes are still visible. The following readings are from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database. Note that because the fifth side only contains the words þæt : se, it has been included in line D.
Runic transliteration
§A ᛭ io=rþ : biþ a=k : ua=rþæ : o=k : uphimæn : so=l : o=k : sa=nt=æ maria : o=k : salfæn : gud| |drotæn : þæt han : læ mik : læknæs:ha=nd : o=k lif:tuggæ : at= =liuæ
§B uiuindnæ : þær : botæ : þa=rf : or : ba=k : o=k or brʀst : or lækæ : o=k or lim : or øuæn : o=k or øræn : or : a=llæ þe : þær : ilt : kan i at
§C kumæ : suart : hetær : sten : ha=n : stær : i : hafæ : utæ : þær : ligær : a : þe : ni : no=uþær : þæ¶r : l---r(a) : (þ)en-nþþæþeskulhuærki
§D skulæ : huærki : søtæn : sofæ : æþ : uarmnæn : uakæ : førr æn : þu : þæssa : bot : biþær : þær : a=k o=rþ : at kæþæ : ro=nti : amæn : o=k : þæt : se ᛭
Old Danish normalisation
§A Iorþ biþ ak uarþæ ok uphimæn, sol ok santæ Maria ok sialfæn Guþ drottin, þæt han læ mik læknæshand ok lif-tungæ at liuæ
§B biuianda ær bota þarf or bak ok or bryst, or likæ ok or lim, or øwæn ok or øræn, or allæ þe þær ilt kan i at
§C kumæ. Svart hetær sten, han stær i hafæ utæ þær ligær a þe ni nouþær, þær … …
§D skulæ huærki søtæn sofæ æþ uarmæn uakæ førr æn þu þæssæ bot biþær, þær ak orþ at kæþæ ronti. Amen ok þæt se.
English translation
§A I pray Earth to guard and High Heaven, the sun and Saint Mary and Lord God himself, that he grant me medicinal hands and healing tongue to heal
§B the Trembler when a cure is needed. From back and from breast, from body and from limb, from eyes and from ears, from wherever evil can
§C enter. A stone is called Svartr (black), it stands out in the sea, there lie upon it nine needs, who …
§D shall neither sleep sweetly nor wake warmly until you pray this cure which I have proclaimed in runic words. Amen and so be it.
Gallery
See also
Against a dwarf
The 500-years older Ribe skull fragment.
References
Germanic paganism
Sources on Germanic paganism
Runic inscriptions
Historical runic magic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commnet%20Wireless | Commnet Wireless is an American telecommunications company which offers wholesale roaming, enterprise, and retail solutions to other mobile network operators. It is a subsidiary of ATN International. Commnet serves the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Commnet Wireless also operates the Choice Wireless and Choice Broadband brands, which provide wireless and wireline service to customers in the western United States.
Wireless networks
Radio frequency spectrum chart
The following chart lists the known frequency owned and/or deployed by Commnet Wireless.
References
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Castle Rock, Colorado
Companies based in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cute%20Girl%20Network | The Cute Girl Network is a 2013 graphic novel written by Greg Means and M. K. Reed, with art by Joe Flood. It was published by First Second Books.
Synopsis
When skateboard shop employee Jane becomes romantically interested in food cart operator Jack, she learns of the existence of the Network — an assembly of local single women who share information about the negative qualities of local single men, and who all recommend that she not pursue him.
Reception
Publishers Weekly described The Cute Girl Network as "a fun, fresh take on romance with a fascinating subtext about gender relations", and extolled the "snappy dialogue" and the "refreshing and reassuring" message.
School Library Journal noted its "cartoon-like artwork" and "standard romantic comedy plot", and emphasized that it has "strong characters and emotional power", and is "minor" but "easy to love".
Comic Book Resources found the story to be "adorable", and commended Means and Reed for "mak[ing] the tired will-they-won't-they storyline feel surprisingly fresh and relevant" and "get[ting] so many of the little things right", but nonetheless faulted Jack as "almost unbelievably stupid", Jane as filling too many "super-cool skater chick cliches", and Jack's roommates as "carelessly rendered".
Paste considered it to be "warm, delightful, and occasionally surprising", and lauded Flood's portrayal of people for its "expressiveness", its "appealing simplicity", and its "nicely-varied cast, in terms of ethnicity [and] body type", but observed that when Flood illustrates backgrounds and environments, the level of detail "can be almost tiring": "a strange kind of excess, one that isn’t aiming to be showy, just kind of compulsively complete."
At BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow called it "hilarious and sweet (....) without being saccharine", and compared it to the work of Kyle Baker.
Setting
Cute Girl Network is set in the fictional city of "Brookport", a deliberate hybrid of Brooklyn (M. K. Reed's home) and Portland (Greg Means' home).
References
External links
Official site (via archive.org)
2013 graphic novels
First Second Books books
Romantic comedy comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20and%20Electro%20Magnetic%20Activities%20Effects%20Group | The Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities Effects Group (CEMA Effects Group) is a combat support formation of the British Army due to form by late 2022. The group will bring together three specialist regiments of the Royal Corps of Signals under Commander Field Army.
History
As part of the Army 2020 and subsequently Army 2020 Refine programmes, the 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare) under control of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade (6th (UK) Division), while the 13th Signal Regiment was formed in June 2020 under 1st (UK) Signal Brigade (6th (UK) Division) as the first dedicated cyber unit. The last regiment, 21st Signal Regiment was under 7th Signal Group, part of 11th Signal Brigade and Headquarters West Midlands (1st (UK) Division, later 3rd (UK) Division). However, under the Future Soldier programme, these three units will be grouped together into a new Colonel's command (Group) and become the "Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities Effects Group".
The group will, alongside 16th Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group, 2nd Medical Group, and the Land Warfare Centre be part of Field Army Troops, a sub-command of the Field Army which is under direct control of Field Army HQ.
The group's role was described as follows "The Cyber and Electro Magnetic Activities (CEMA) Effects Group will command the Army's two Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence (EWSI) regiments; 14th and 21st Signals Regiments, and the cyber regiment, 13th Signals Regiment; delivering cutting edge technical capability to the point of need".
Structure
The structure of the group by 2030 will be as follows:
Group Headquarters, at Marlborough Lines, Andover
13th Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, at Basil Hill Barracks, Corsham – cyber operations
14th Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, at Imjin Barracks, Innsworth – electronic warfare operations
21st Signal Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals, at Imjin Barracks, Innsworth – electronic warfare operations
Footnotes
Group sized units of the British Army
Communications units and formations of the British Army
Military units and formations established in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Sachkov | Ilya Sachkov (Илья Сачков) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and founder and CEO of Group-IB, a cybersecurity company specialising in the detection and prevention of cyberattacks. He received an award from Russian President Vladimir Putin for his work in 2019. In September 2021, he was detained by the Russian government's Federal Security Service on treason charges.
According to Bloomberg News, he is alleged to have provided the U.S. government with information about the Russian government's "Fancy Bear" operation that sought to influence the 2016 United States presidential election.
Career
Sachkov started Group-IB at age 17 while studying at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and according to the Financial Times, "attempted to build a global business while remaining on the good side of the Russian government."
In June, 2017, Sachkov was appointed a Commissioner in the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, an international multistakeholder commission to develop diplomatic norms against national cyber-attacks. He served until the commission's successful conclusion in November, 2019.
Views on Russian government handling of cybercrime
In a panel with Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin in attendance, Sachkov criticised the Russian government's response to ransomware attacks emanating from Russia, pointing to Maksim Yakubets as an example. Sachkov's criticism of the Russian government's apparent tolerance of some online criminals continued until late until his arrest by the FSB in September 2021.
Detention and conviction on treason charges
In a statement released by his lawyer to Forbes Russia in November 2021, Sachkov rejected the treason charges saying he is "neither a traitor nor a spy" and appealed to Putin to move him to house arrest while he awaits trial, after his detention was extended by three months. Russian businessman Boris Titov called for answers in a Facebook post, saying "It is necessary for investigators to explain themselves", otherwise it would deal a "critical blow" to the sector. Russian state news agency TASS said the case materials are "classified" and "no further details are available." In June 2023, the case was transferred to the Moscow City Court for consideration on the merits.
Group-IB co-founder Dmitry Volkov who took over as chief executive said the company did not know what Sachkov had been charged with and was convinced of his innocence. Volkov said that since all case materials are classified, it "provides fertile ground for rumours and speculations", saying that without access to those materials "making any assumptions or promoting any versions would be wrong."
According to Russian news outlet RBC, a lawyer for Sergei Mikhailov, a former FSB cyber official convicted of treason, Sachkov gave false testimony which led to the conviction.
According to Bloomberg News, Sachkov was alleged to have provided information to western intelligence agencies about Vladislav Klyushin, a fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGDN | IGDN may refer to:
Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN)
the International Game Developers Network, which ran from 1996 to 1999, then merged into the International Game Developers Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20stratigraphy | Seismic stratigraphy is a method for studying sedimentary rock in the deep subsurface based on seismic data acquisition.
History
The term Seismic stratigraphy was introduced in 1977 by Vail as an integrated stratigraphic and sedimentologic technique to interpret seismic reflection data for stratigraphic correlation and to predict depositional environments and lithology. This technique was initially employed for petroleum exploration and subsequently evolved into sequence stratigraphy by academic institutes.
Basic Concept
Seismic reflection is generated at interfaces that separate media with different acoustic properties, and traditionally these interfaces have been interpreted as the lithological boundaries. Vail in 1977, however, recognized that these reflections were, in fact, parallel to the bedding surfaces, and therefore time equivalent surfaces. Interruption of reflections indicates the disappearance of bedding surfaces. Hence, onlap, down lap and top lap and other depositional features observed on surface outcrops have been demonstrated on seismic profiles. This revolutionary interpretation has been substantiated by Vail’s associated industrial drilling results and extensive multichannel seismic data. Furthermore, the most indisputable evidence comes from the progradational dipping reflection pattern associated with the advancing delta deposition in shallow marine environments. Lithological boundaries associated with delta front and slope are nearly horizontal, but are not represented by reflections. Instead, the dipping reflections are a clear indication of depositional surfaces, hence time plane equivalents.
Methodology
Establishing Sequence Boundary
Sequence boundaries are defined as an erosional unconformity recognized on the seismic profile as a reflection surface with reflection termination features such as truncation below and onlap above the surface, The sequence boundary, therefore, represents a marine regression event, during which continental shelf is partially exposed to subaerial erosion processes.
A seismic sequence is defined as the stratigraphic interval between two consecutive sequence boundaries, representing two marine regression events with a marine transgression event at the middle. Thus a seismic sequence is further subdivided with a basal unit of regressive systems tract, a transgressive systems tract at the middle, and a regressive systems tract at the top. The transgressive systems tract is marked at the top by a maximum flooding surface.
Describing Seismic Facies
Within a systems tract, each seismic facies is mapped based on reflection geometry, continuity, amplitude, frequency, and interval velocity. The lithology of each facies is then predicted according to known depositional model and nearby drilling results.
Estimating Relative Sea level Changes
Since onlaps on an erosional surface approximate the positions of sea level on a coastal plain, the sea level variation of a marine transgression/regres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datastream%20Digital | Datastream Digital Sdn Bhd. (DST), formerly DataStream Technology Sdn Bhd, is a Brunei-based government-linked conglomerate headquartered in the DST Group Building in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was established in 1995 and as of December 2021 has at least 420,000 subscribers.
History
Integrated Communication Sdn Bhd (DSTINCOMM), a local distributor of telecommunication products, was incorporated in July 1994, DataStream Technology Sdn Bhd (DST) the main holding company was incorporated in April 1994 alongside DST Communication Sdn Bhd (DSTCom), it was created in an attempt to end the monopoly held by BruNet where it was the first operator to introduce 2G (GSM 900) services to Brunei.
Kristal-Astro was incorporated in September 1999 as a joint venture between the Malaysian company MEASAT. It launched its satellite television services on 24 January 2000 and held a monopoly on pay tv in the country. The services were terminated on March 31, 2022.
In May 2008 DST introduced 3G services in Brunei. They launch of 3G was however beaten by b-mobile. Prior to this they held a monopoly on 2G and was in an ogliopoly with JTB for PSTN services.
In November 2013 DST partnered with Ericsson to launch 4G services in the sultanate. The main concern was not speed but network congestion with frequent complaints in populous areas of the country. Until 2020 DST held a monopoly on 4G services in the country.
In 2016 it was reported by the CEO, Suhaimi Hussain, that he believed that the launch of the 4G LTE network, in collaboration with Huawei was a success. He also stated that the company had also decided to invest in the Singaporean telecommunications company MyRepublic and was looking at further opportunities at expansion outside of Brunei.
On 10 July 2019, DST signed an agreement with SACOFA to help with improving the infrastructure in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
Throughout January 2020, DST underwent a major rebranding. They received a new company name, a new logo, and spun off several subsidiaries like Kristal-Astro, KRISTALfm, DSTFascom and DSTINCOMM.
On 22 January, DST, along with the other 2 telcos: Progresif and imagine, announced that they would be rolling out new service offerings on the 24th. This came after a restructuring in the handling of the national infrastructure in which it all got consolidated into a separate company called Unified National Networks, where the goals of the asset takeover was to increase competition and increase choice. The new plans were announced by DST's CEO and DST's chairman, second Ministry of Finance Dato Seri Setia Dr Awang Haji Mohd Amin Liew bin Abdullah, at The Empire. This led to a renaming of their postpaid services from "Prima" to "Mobi" and "GO!broadband" to "Freedom", while also simplifying their existing plans, another change that was unveiled was the release of some new bundle packs for their "Eas!" prepaid mobile phone services. DST also announced their first forray into the Fibre to the Home s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene%20Kulsrud | Helene E. () Kulsrud is a computer scientist known for her work developing graphical languages and compilers for the Cray-1 and other Cray super computers and debugging programs that allowed a user to interactively troubleshoot computer issues.
Education and career
Kulsrud earned a B.A. in mathematics from Smith College in 1953 and has an M.A. in astrophysics from the University of Chicago (1955). She was a member of the honor society Phi Beta Kappa and member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Kulsrud worked at the Educational Testing Service from 1956 until 1957, serving as the head programmer. She then joined RCA in 1957 where she remained until 1965. From 1965 until 1966 she was a research associate at Yale University. In 1968 when she joined the Communications Research Division (CRD) of the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey, and as of 1984 she was the deputy head of the institute.
Kulsrud was a member of the Cray User Group, which shared software, developments, improvements, and suggestions for future hardware for Cray supercomputers; she served as president from 1985 at least to 1986.
Kulsrud also worked on the U.S Department of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2004.
Work
Kulsrud is known for her work in establishing the groundwork for graphical computer languages. While working at the Educational Testing Service she developed the use of computers to present SAT scores and statistically analyzed the results of the tests. During her time at Yale, she developed a general-purpose graphics language that could be used on multiple graphics devices. While at RCA Laboratories she combined her interest in mathematics and astronomy, writing programs designed to find solutions of differential equations. She also developed compilers, a debugging system for RCA computers that allowed the user to interactively debug code, and new computer language, IDAL and the compiler needed to run the language on the Cray-1 super computer. She also contributed to research on sonic booms.
Selected publications
Awards and honors
Her work earned her and her team awards including a 1961 RCA Laboratories achievement award for her work on electron guns and a 1966 RCA team achievement for her work on Spectra computers. In 1984 Kulsrud received a YWCA Tribute to Women Award.
References
1933 births
Smith College alumni
University of Chicago alumni
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman%20%26%20Oltman%20Guitar%20Duo | The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo (The Duo) is an American classical guitar ensemble formed in 1978. Known for adventurous programming and collaborations as well as their contributions to the repertoire of the guitar duo ensemble, the Duo was founded by Michael Newman and Laura Oltman, who have performed together since it was formed.
Performances
The Duo performs and records in many styles including Classical, Tango, Baroque, Spanish and Latin American. The Duo has performed throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, Canada, South America and the Caribbean in venues that include Carnegie Hall, the Queen Mary II and the Grand Canyon Music Festival. The Duo has commissioned and performed many world premieres. Classical Guitar Magazine founder and author Maurice J. Summerfield, in his book, "The Classical Guitar: its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800", credits Newman and Oltman with expanding the classical guitar repertoire. Notable collaborations include performances with:
composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops
the late author Frank McCourt
mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade
folk singer Sally Rogers
violinist Tim Fain
violinist Arnold Steinhardt
violinist Jay Ungar
violinist Seamus Egan
Irish American fiddler Eileen Ivers
Brazilian American pianist-composer Clarice Assad
the Daedalus Quartet
the Lark Quartet
Turtle Island String Quartet
the Alexander String Quartet
ETHEL
Festivals
The Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo founded Raritan River Music in 1989. Raritan River Music presents classical, world and new music throughout western New Jersey. Raritan River Music is a National Winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. The organization also received awards from Warren County, NJ for Diversity Achievement.
Newman and Oltman are also the founders and artistic directors of the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes. In 2012, the couple founded the Lanciano International Guitar Seminar in Italy. They continue to serve as the artistic directors of all three festivals.
Music Commissions for Guitar Ensemble
The Newman and Oltman Guitar duo founded the Raritan River New Music Commissioning Program in 1999. The mission of the Program is to support the creation and presentation of new works by American composers. Composers commissioned by the Program have included Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec, Lowell Liebermann, Arnold Black, Dušan Bogdanovic, Augusta Read Thomas, Guggenheim Fellow Arthur Kampela, and Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. Works commissioned and premiered by the Duo through the New Music Commissioning Program include:
Through the Looking Glass, (after Lewis Carroll), in memory of guitarist Julian Bream (2020) by Leo Brouwer
El Libro de los Seres Imagniarios (in English, The Book of Imaginary Beings) (2018) by Leo Brouwer
Concierto Buenos Aires (2011) by Nuevo Tango Master Daniel Binelli
Motets (2011) by Arthur Kampela
Raritan Triptych (2008) by Pu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%201200 | The Xerox 1200 Computer Printing System is significant as being the first commercial non-impact Xerographic printer used to create computer output. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a laser printer, but it did not in fact have a laser.
Development
The printing system was developed by Xerox and announced in May 1973. It was first shipped in mid to late 1974. It was based on the Xerox 3600 Copier, which was initially released in 1968 as a 60-page per minute copier with a 2000 sheet paper tray. It used a selenium photoconductor drum with characters positioned in a manner similar to a line printer. It used an optical character generator designed by optical engineer Phil Chen.
Characteristics
The 1200 Computer Printing System was available in both an offline and an online model:
The Model 1 is an offline version and took output from 800 or 1600 BPI 9 track magnetic tapes made on IBM systems or Univac Series 70 Systems. In May 1975 a software update added support for tapes from Burroughs and Honeywell mainframes. The attraction of offline printing from tape was that it reduced CPU utilization.
The Model 2 is both online and offline.
The Model 3 is an online version and can be attached to Xerox Sigma 6, Sigma 7 and Sigma 9 computer systems.
The printer itself has the following characteristics:
Able to print on ordinary plain paper at up to 4,000 lines per minute, or around 60 sheets per minute. Because of its speed and the fact that it uses cut sheet, this avoided the need to use carbon paper and/or decollation. It is twice as fast as the IBM 3211 which was IBMs fastest line printer at that time.
Has one 2000 page input hopper.
Has two 1200 page output stacker bins.
Exposes one line at a time onto the selenium drum using an optical character generator drum, that has 132 print columns, where each column has a full character set. A set of 22 flash lamps inside the drum flash, exposing the characters onto the selenium drum as the generator drum rotates, one line being printed for each rotation of the character generator drum.
Offers a 95 character ASCII font as a standard feature. Given that many line printers at that time can only print in upper case (depending on the character set that is installed), the ability to have a line printer that can print in both lower and upper case was considered an attractive feature.
It offers a 'forms projection' system that eliminates the need to use pre-printed stationery. An operator installs the desired overlay and it uses the copier platen and optics to project the image onto the selenium drum. Transamerica Insurance Company as an example reported that in February 1975 they were using 600 different pre-printed forms. They used the Xerox 1200 forms overlay feature to remove the need for at least 25 of these.
It is a discharged area development printer, meaning that the areas of the photoconductor that are initially given a static charge are attractive to toner and the areas of the photocondu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Seismic%20Monitoring%20Centre | National Seismic Monitoring Centre is a earthquake monitoring center in Islamabad, Pakistan. The center is managed by Pakistan Meteorological Department.
Background
The center operates a network of 20 broadband seismic stations and 15 short-period seismic stations to monitor the seismic activities in Pakistan and further detect any tsunami earthquake along Makran Subduction Zone. The center works in close coordination with National Tsunami Warning Centre, Karachi and Pakistan Navy. The pan-country network is equipped with British and Chinese seismic devices.
References
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek%20%28surname%29 | Popek is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gerald J. Popek (1946-2008), American computer scientist
Jacek Popek (born 1978), Polish football player
Mark Popek (born 1990), American football player
Tadeusz Popek (1915-1942), World War II Polish resistance member
See also
Popek (born 1978), Polish rapper and mixed martial arts fighter
Popeck (born 1936), French comedian
Polish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D100%20Radio%20New%20York | D100 Radio New York is an Internet radio station headquartered in One World Trade Center in New York City. The station primarily focuses on Top 40/CHR music programming that features content from various continents. The station broadcasts through iHeartRadio, Apple Music, and Live365, also having its own mobile application and website for listening.
History
D100 Radio was founded in 2014 by Dylan Carollo in Winter Park, Florida. The station was originally produced on a podcast platform with pre-recorded episodes. D100 Radio then moved to a livestream format, creating programs with content that focuses on various cultures.
Philanthropy
D100 Radio's On the Frontlines COVID-19 First Responder Fundraiser
In April 2020, D100 Radio announced a fundraiser that benefitted eight healthcare organizations across six U.S. cities in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The fundraiser was interactive for listeners, where they could donate to their desired organization, and the fundraiser was supported by UPS for logistical support. At its conclusion in May 2020, the fundraiser allocated approximately $30,000 throughout a two-week period.
D100 Radio's "Talk College to Me" Podcast
In September 2020, D100 Radio announced "Talk College to Me", a podcast that focused on the college application process in the wake of COVID-19. The podcast was available through Apple Podcasts, with its hosts being Carollo, a fellow student, and two high school college counselors in Florida and Tennessee. "Talk College to Me" featured admission counselors from various higher education institutions around the United States.
References
Internet radio stations in the United States
Radio stations in New York City
Companies based in New York City
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex%20tree | In topological data analysis, a simplex tree is a type of trie used to represent efficiently any general simplicial complex. Through its nodes, this data structure notably explicitly represents all the simplices. Its flexible structure allows implementation of many basic operations useful to computing persistent homology. This data structure was invented by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat and Clément Maria in 2014, in the article The Simplex Tree: An Efficient Data Structure for General Simplicial Complexes. This data structure offers efficient operations on sparse simplicial complexes. For dense or maximal simplices, Skeleton-Blocker representations or Toplex Map representations are used.
Definitions
Many researchers in topological data analysis consider the simplex tree to be the most compact simplex-based data structure for simplicial complexes, and a data structure allowing an intuitive understanding of simplicial complexes due to integrated usage of their mathematical properties.
Heuristic definition
Consider any simplicial complex is a set composed of points (0 dimensions), line segments (1 dimension), triangles (2 dimensions), and their n-dimensional counterparts, called n-simplexes within a topological space. By the mathematical properties of simplexes, any n-simplex is composed of multiple -simplexes. Thus, lines are composed of points, triangles of lines, tetrahedrons of triangle. Notice each higher level adds 1 vertex to the vertices of the n-simplex. The data structure is simplex-based, therefore, it should represent all simplexes uniquely by the points defining the simplex. A simple way to achieve this is to define each simplex by its points in sorted order.
Let be a simplicial complex of dimension k, its vertex set, where vertices are labeled from 1 to and ordered accordingly. Now, construct a dictionary size containing all vertex labels in order. This represents the 0-dimensional simplexes. Then, for the path to the initial dictionary of each entry in the initial dictionary, add as a child dictionary all vertices fully-connected to the current set of vertices, all of which having a label greater than . Represent this step on k levels. Clearly, considering the first dictionary as depth 0, any entry at depth of any dictionary in this data structure uniquely represents a -simplex within . For completeness, the point to the initial dictionary is considered the representation of the empty simplex. For practicality of the operations, labels that are repeated on the same level are linked together, forming a looped linked list. Finally, child dictionaries also have pointers to their parent dictionary, for fast ancestor access.
Constructive definition
Let be a simplicial complex of dimension k. We begin by decomposing the simplicial complex into mutually exclusive simplexes. This can be achieved in a greedy way by iteratively removing from the simplicial complex the highest order simplexes until the simplicial complex is empty. We the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh%20FM%20%28Nigeria%29 | Fresh FM is a network of radio stations in Nigeria, owned by Olayinka Joel Ayefele. Fresh FM stations are located in Abeokuta, Ado-Ekiti, Akure, Ibadan, Lagos, and Osogbo.
History
Programming began to Ibadan in 2015 and Abeokuta in 2018; the Ado-Ekiti station began broadcasting in 2020. The network expanded to Osogbo in October 2021 and to Lagos in 2022; a frequency for Ilorin has also been announced. Fresh FM is stationed in all the 6 SouthWest States of Nigeria with a vision for expansion to other regions in the nearest future.
References
Radio stations in Nigeria
2015 establishments in Nigeria
Radio stations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf%20%28video%20game%29 | Elf is a 1991 video game published by Ocean Software.
Gameplay
Elf is a game in which Cornelius goes on a quest to rescue Elisa.
Reception
Leah Wesolowski reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "While the musical score is nice, it does not make up for Elf'''s lack of finesse. Perhaps a trip to the guillotine is fitting for this Elf."
Tom Malcom for Info remarked on the detail and fast pace of the game, and concluded that "If you appreciate fine graphics and frantic gameplay, you'll love Elf."
Ciaran Brennan for The One for Amiga Games praised the game, calling it "A beautiful puzzle game with astonishing hidden depths".
Ed Ricketts for ST Format enjoyed the graphics and gameplay, and felt that the game kept him occupied.
Damian Slee for Amiga Action liked the graphics and sound, and felt that "If you're after a good action game that requires a little bit of thinking power as well, this is definitely the one for you."
Adrian Price for Amiga Format noted the difficulty and concluded that "It's not too hard for those who fancy the occasional arcade blast, but really challenge the die hard platform freaks."
Fiona Keating for CU Amiga found it "an extremely enjoyable game" thanks to its riddles and conundrums.
Gary Whitta for ACE commented that while not everyone will enjoy it, "it's a quality romp, and one that will keep variety-starved platform fans busy into the small hours".
ReviewsAmiga Power'' - Sep, 1991
References
1991 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
DOS games
Fantasy video games
Fictional elves
Piko Interactive games
Platformers
Side-scrolling video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AofA%E2%80%94International%20Meeting%20on%20Combinatorial%2C%20Probabilistic%2C%20and%20Asymptotic%20Methods%20in%20the%20Analysis%20of%20Algorithms | AofA, the International Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms is an academic meeting that has been held regularly since 1993 in the field of computer science, focusing on mathematical methods from analytic combinatorics and probability for the study of properties of algorithms and large combinatorial structures. In early years, different formal names were used, but the meeting and associated community of researchers has always been known as AofA.
Structure
The tradition is a weeklong meeting, alternating between invited workshops and open refereed conferences with contributed papers chosen by a program committee. The meetings feature invited presentations from senior researchers, about half from within the community and half from related research areas. Since 2014, the inaugural lecture at each conference has been delivered by the winner of the Flajolet Lecture Prize.
Publishing
The proceedings of the conferences are now published by the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics in the open access series Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. The proceedings are freely available from the conference website and also from DROPS, the Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server. The proceedings of prior editions have been published in several venues, and special issues of several journals have been devoted to papers from AofA conferences.
Related meetings
From 2002 to 2008, the community organized a second meeting each even-numbered year, the Colloquium on Mathematics and Computer Science (MathInfo). Due to overlap among participants and content, the community decided to merge the two meetings to the present format. From 2003 to 2019, the AofA community also organized the one-day ANALCO meetings at the SODA conference.
The community has also organized symposia and special journal issues to celebrate Donald Knuth’s 1,000,0002 birthday, to celebrate Philippe Flajolet’s 60th birthday, to honor the memory of Phillipe Flajolet, and to celebrate Don Knuth’s 80th birthday.
AofA conferences are indexed by several bibliographic databases, including the DBLP, Google Scholar and The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
History
AofA meetings have been held regularly since 1993 in Europe and North America, usually in the summer. Refereed conferences are in bold.
1993 Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Proceedings.
1995 Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Proceedings.
1997 Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Proceedings.
1998 Princeton, NJ, USA. Proceedings.
1999 Barcelona, Spain.
2000 Krynica Morska, Poland. Proceedings
2000 Versailles, France. MathInfo Proceedings.
2001 Tatihou, France.
2002 Strobl, Austria. Proceedings.
2002 Versailles, France. MathInfo Proceedings.
2003 San Miniato, Italy (Speakers: Ralph Neininger; Luc Devroye; Brigitte Vallée; Philippe Flajolet; Brendan McKay)
2004 MSRI, Berkeley, USA (Speakers: Persi Diaconis; Philippe Flajolet; Donald Knuth; Richard M. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Cohen-Boulakia | Sarah Cohen-Boulakia (born 1980) is a French computer scientist and data scientist known for her research on data provenance in science, and especially in bioinformatics. She is a professor of bioinformatics in the Laboratory for Computer Science () of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Paris-Saclay University.
Cohen-Boulakia has a doctorate and habilitation from Paris-Saclay University, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Computational Biology of Montpellier before returning to Paris-Saclay as a professor.
References
External links
Home page
1980 births
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Paris-Saclay University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaya%20Jia | Jiaya Jia () is a tenured professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is an IEEE Fellow, the associate editor-in-chief of one of IEEE’s flagship and premier journals- Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), as well as on the editorial board of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
Early life and education
Jiaya Jia joined CUHK in 2004 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate and full professor in 2010 and 2015 respectively. He obtained his PhD degree in computer science jointly from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Microsoft Research in 2004. From March 2003 to August 2004, he was a visiting scholar at Microsoft. He conducted collaborative research at Adobe Research in 2007.
Career
Jiaya Jia is a distinguished scientist in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. His research team at CUHK, DV Lab, is one of the largest vision AI research teams in the world and has been making significant contribution to advanced development of computer vision algorithms and technologies with focuses on image/video understanding, detection and segmentation, multi-modal AI, computational imaging, practical optimization, and advanced learning for visual content since 2000. Jiaya Jia has published 200+ top papers and was cited 30,000+ times on Google Scholar. 40+ PhDs and fellows from this group are now active in academia and industry, and have become prominent AI tech leaders as professors, directors in major research labs, and founders of several successful startups.
Jiaya Jia assumes the position of associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) since 2021 and is the first associate editor-in-chief in 42 years since the journal was published. He is also on the editorial board of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). Furthermore, Jiaya Jia has served as the area chair of ICCV, CVPR, AAAI, ECCV, and several other premium international AI conferences for years. He was on program committees of major conferences in graphics and computational imaging, including ICCP, SIGGRAPH, and SIGGRAPH Asia, as well as review committee for international authoritative journals.
Research
The research areas of Jiaya Jia are computer vision, machine learning, and computational imaging, which includes Semantic segmentation and instance segmentation, image recognition and classification, 3D detection, segmentation and reconstruction, filtering, deblurring and super-resolution, motion estimation, depth estimation, and general image matching.
Jiaya Jia has made outstanding contributions to computer vision technology, algorithms and engineering, and is among the world's leading experts in the field. His research partners include numerous renowned multinational technology companies, such as Microsoft, Qualcomm, Adobe, Intel, NVIDIA, Amazon, Lenovo and Huawei. Jia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20compression | Space compression may refer to:
data compression
space folding (disambiguation)
time-space compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 36th Golden Disc Awards (), was an award ceremony held on January 8, 2022, and broadcast through various television networks and streaming platforms in various countries. The ceremony was hosted by Lee Seung-gi, Lee Da-hee, and Sung Si-kyung.
Criteria
All songs and albums that were eligible to be nominated were released between the end of November 2020 and the end of November 2021. Songs and albums that were excluded from the nominations in the 35th edition due to overlapping in the counting deadline were included in this edition.
Winners and nominees
Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Main Awards
The list of nominees for:
Seezn Most Popular Artist Award were announced on December 20, 2021, through Seezn website.
remaining categories except Digital Daesang (Song of the Year) and Disc Daesang (Album of the Year) were announced on December 8, 2021, through the official website.
Digital Daesang (Song of the Year) and Disc Daesang (Album of the Year) were chosen from the winners of Digital Song Daesang and Album Bonsang.
The voting for Seezn Most Popular Artist Award opened on Seezn website on December 20, 2021, and closed on December 31, 2021.
Other awards
Multiple awards
The following artist(s) received three or more awards:
Presenters
The list of presenters was announced on January 3, 2022.
Performers
The first lineup was announced on December 28, 2021. The second lineup was announced on December 30, 2021.
Broadcast
Notes
References
External links
2022 in South Korean music
2022 music awards
Golden Disc Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen%20Mom%3A%20Family%20Reunion | Teen Mom: Family Reunion is a reality television series that is spun off from three of the network's reality shows, Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2, and Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant. The series premiered on January 11, 2022 on MTV.
On February 16, 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, with the entire cast, minus Messer, returning. Baltierra, who appeared as a guest in the first season, returned as a main cast member, and Sessler and Elliott from Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant joined the cast.
Cast
Amber Portwood
Ashley Jones
Briana DeJesus
Cheyenne Floyd
Jade Cline
Leah Messer (season 1)
Maci McKinney
Catelynn Baltierra (season 2; guest season 1)
Kayla Sessler (season 2)
Kiaya Elliott (season 2)
Guest
Farrah Abraham (season 1)
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2022)
Season 2 (2023)
References
External links
Official Show Website
2020s American reality television series
2022 American television series debuts
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Teenage pregnancy in television
Television series about teenagers
MTV reality television series
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20Maps | Organic Maps is a privacy-focused, community-developed, open-source navigation app. The app features no location tracking, no data collection, and no ads. Since the map data is downloaded on the device, search, routing, and navigation can operate without a cell phone signal, ideal for travel on distant hiking trails or in locations with poor connections. Organic Maps uses crowd-sourced map data from OpenStreetMap. The app is free and open-source software, with priority for community development and collaboration.
Features
Privacy
No Ads
No Location Tracking
No Data Collection
Offline Navigation
Offline Maps and No Cell Signal Required
Saves Battery Power
Efficient Use of Battery
Navigation
Hiking, Biking, Driving, Public Transport
Integration with OpenStreetMap
Organic Maps relies on the collaborative efforts with OpenStreetMap contributors, offering up-to-date map data contributed by the community. By integrating with OpenStreetMap, Organic Maps ensures users have access to navigation information which is used by hundreds of applications, and have the opportunity to update maps with changes in roads, addresses, businesses, landmarks, etc.
History
Organic Maps was created by the founders of Maps.Me. In 2011 MapsWithMe (later renamed to Maps.Me) was founded and in September 2015 a decision was made to open-source the app. In 2021, Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako forked Maps.Me to create a privacy focused, faster and simplified navigation app, and Organic Maps was born. The first public release of Organic Maps became available in the app stores in August 2021.
See also
List of free and open-source software packages
Comparison of satellite navigation software
OpenStreetMap
References
External links
Free and open-source Android software
OpenStreetMap
Mobile route-planning software
Satellite navigation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR-BASIC | JR-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language running on the Matsushita JR series of microcomputers.
Although it's its own dialect, it was designed to be mostly compatible with Microsoft BASIC. Since it was developed for low-cost entry-level machines, it featured as few functions as possible, in order to save computer resources. Nevertheless, the interpreter was intended to be compact and efficient, with a feature-rich screen editor supporting direct execution of BASIC instructions.
Commands were input by keywords - by pressing a combination of control and alphabet keys, a full command word would be entered. This was faster and more comfortable than typing words letter by letter, as the computer keyboard was poor (chiclet keyboard).
JR-BASIC 1.0
JR-BASIC 1.0 is the original version present on the JR-100 computer, released in 1981,.
Specifications
Keyboard commands
Key combinations allowed the user to enter commands and control the onscreen basic interpreter.
JR-BASIC 5.0
The JR-200 model, released in 1983, came with JR-BASIC 5.0 that added extended functionally like graphical commands such as COLOR, (which selected character color, background color and display mode) and PLOT which permitted direct addressing of the low resolution graphics mode (64×48, using text semigraphics characters, which represented pixel blocks that used one-quarter of each character). Eight colors were available for the background and foreground use: blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white and black. By re-programming a part of the character-set a limited high resolution graphics mode was achievable with a resolution of 256×192.
See also
Matsushita JR series
List of BASIC dialects
List of BASIC dialects by platform
References
BASIC programming language
Programming languages created in 1981
Discontinued BASICs
BASIC programming language family
BASIC interpreters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%2016 | ABC 16 may refer to one of two television stations in the United States affiliated with the ABC television network:
WAPT, licensed to Jackson, Mississippi
WNEP-TV, licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifying%20Systems%20in%20Catalysis | The Cluster of Excellence Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is an interdisciplinary research network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as a part of the federal and state excellence strategy of Germany, Exzellenzstrategie. The funding period runs from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2025. Around 300 researchers from the Berlin and Potsdam area work in UniSysCat, focusing on current issues in catalysis research.
UniSysCat is the follow-up project of the Cluster of Excellence Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat), which was funded from 2007 to 2018 as part of the federal and state excellence initiative of Germany Exzellenzinitiative.
Aims
The aim of UniSysCat is to understand coupled catalytic reactions and thus advance catalysis research, particularly with a focus into sustainability. Biocatalysts, mostly enzymes, enable biochemical and physiological processes in living beings. Researchers at UniSysCat study the complex, coupled processes that are driven by biocatalysts to recreate similar catalytic reaction networks in the laboratory. These catalytic reaction networks should be controllable and used in a targeted manner in order to pave the way to sustainable chemistry based on the example of nature according to the principles of "green chemistry".
Consortium
Technische Universität Berlin
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Universität Potsdam
Charité - Universitätsmedizin
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Max-Planck-Institut for Colloids and Interfaces
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie
Spokespersons: Holger Dobbek (HU Berlin), Matthias Driess (TU Berlin), Arne Thomas (TU Berlin)
Research
UniSysCat consists of around 60 research groups with expertise in experimental methods and theoretical approaches in the fields of molecular and structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics, chemical synthesis, physical and theoretical chemistry and physics. UniSysCat's research strategy is based on the previous work of the UniCat Cluster of Excellence (Unifying Concepts in Catalysis).
UniSysCat aims at deciphering reaction networks in chemical and biological catalysis so that they can be controlled and simulated. Research is performed with a focus on parameters that enable and control chemocatalytic and biocatalytic networks and how chemical and biological processes can be coupled to create catalytic systems with new functions.
Clara Immerwahr Award
The Clara Immerwahr Award, launched in 2011 by the UniCat Cluster of Excellence, is an award to promote outstanding young women in catalysis research. The award is given annually to a young scientist from Germany or abroad in an early phase of her career (postdoc, young scientist) for excellent performance in catalysis research. It is associated with a financial grant of 15,000 euros for a research stay in a UniSysCat research group and is intended to establish close cooperation with UniSysCa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano%20Po%20Legacy%3A%20The%20Family%20Fortune | Mano Po Legacy: The Family Fortune () is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the first installment of Mano Po Legacy. Directed by Ian Loreños, it stars Barbie Forteza, Sunshine Cruz and Maricel Laxa. It premiered on January 3, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on February 25, 2022 with a total of 40 episodes. It was replaced by Widows' Web in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Steffanie "Steffy" Dy
Sunshine Cruz as Cristine Yang Chan
Maricel Laxa as Valerie Lim / Rosemarie Lim
Supporting cast
Boots Anson-Roa as Consuelo Yang-Chan
David Licauco as Anton Sy Chan
Rob Gomez as Joseph Garces Chan
Nikki Co as Jameson Lim Chan
Dustin Yu as Kenneth Sy Chan
Darwin Yu as Leo Uy-Evangelista
Casie Banks as Jade Lee
Recurring cast
Almira Muhlach as Elizabeth Sy-Chan
David Chua as Philip Lo
Victor Basa as Allan Rivera
Lovely Rivero as Mila Rose de Guia
Marnie Lapuz as Fides Mercado
Earl Ignacio as Johnny Dy
Marissa Sanchez as Merlita Dy
Kate Yalung as Myla Capistrano
Ann Colis as Margarita "Maggie" Cruz-Rivera
Arkin del Rosario as Carl Yap
Jay Glorioso as Lirio Lim
Mel Caluag as Romina "Mina" Lim
Sue Prado as Elena "Ellen" Garces
Arnold Reyes as Martin Valderrama
Robert Seña as Edison Y. Chan
Derick Lauchengco as Peter Ang
VJ Mendoza as Kerwin Torres
Anikka Camaya as Pamela dela Cruz
Francis Mata as Ronaldo Sy
Ken Chan as Richard Lim
Bianca Umali as Irene Pacheco
Ray An Dulay as Police Officer Salcedo
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Mano Po Legacy: The Family Fortune earned a 6.9% rating.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by Regal Entertainment
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20in%20Ontario%20%282021%29 | The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario throughout 2021.
Data
Timeline
January
Ontario recorded another record-breaking day of new cases on January 2, 2021, with 3,363 new infections reported.
The Ontario government, having faced criticism for a slow rollout of vaccinations, announced on January 5 their plan to vaccinate all residents, health workers and essential caregivers in long-term care (LTC) homes by January 21.
Ontario recorded two records on January 7 – a record high in new infections at 3,519 new cases and the deadliest day of the pandemic so far with 89 deaths. In response to the continued surge, the province announced that the Provincewide Shutdown would be extended in northern Ontario for an additional 14 days (aligned with the length of Provincewide Shutdown in the south), and that elementary schools in the south will not return to in-person class until January 25.
On January 8, Ontario again recorded a new record high of new infections with 4,249 new cases. Premier Doug Ford hinted at furthering restrictions on top of the already in place Provincewide shutdown.
Due to the surge of new infections, Premier Ford issued a second declaration of emergency on January 12. Additional stay-at-home orders were announced, including the reduction of outdoor gatherings to five people, and a reduction of hours for non-essential businesses allowed to only operate between 7:00 a.m. and 8 p.m. These new restrictions begin on January 14. Also, students in Toronto, Peel, York, Hamilton, and Windsor-Essex will not return to in-person classes until February 10, 2021.
Results of an inspection "blitz" over the weekend of January 15 on big-box stores revealed a compliance rate of 70 percent with 36 of 110 stores visited at random in violation of COVID-19 protocols.
On January 15, all LTC home residents and staff in Toronto had received at least first doses of the vaccine and on January 19, all LTC home residents and staff in COVID-19 hot spots had received at least first doses of the vaccine, ahead of the January 21 goal date set by the provincial vaccine taskforce.
Due to manufacturing delays, it was also announced on January 19 that no new shipments of the Pfizer vaccine would be arriving in Ontario the following week, delaying first and second dose administration in the government's overall vaccination program.
On January 28, Peel Region's Medical Officer Lawrence Loh suggested that all online retail operating in the province be restricted from selling non-essential goods, in order to protect supply chains due to workplace outbreaks.
On January 29, 2021, the federal government announced new travel restrictions, including that individuals travelling on foreign flights would be required to take COVID-19 PCR test on arrival and quarantine in an approved hotel at their expense.
February
On February 8, Premier Ford announced that the declaration of emergency would expire, but that the stay-at-home order would be exten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20B.%20Faulkner | Michael B. Faulkner, known as by his pseudonym CygonX is an American business executive, author, and convicted cybercriminal. He is the founder of Crydon Capital.
Faulkner is best known for his high-profile 2010 arrest and 360 months prison sentence for various electronic and finance-related crimes in USA v Faulkner case. He is currently incarcerated at a Federal Correctional Institution, Forrest City Medium in Forrest City, Arkansas the United States.
Biography
Born in 1973, Faulkner grew up in Dallas, Texas, United States. He is a college graduate and has a background in database engineering, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications.
Faulkner was the founder of a private equity firm, Crydon Capital Corporation, where he served as a chief executive officer. He was also a founder and owner of the VoIP company Premier Voice.
In 2009, Faulkner was at the center of so-called Texas Data Center raids, when FBI entry teams stormed data centers, shut them down, and seized thousands of servers as evidence.
After a well-publicized pursuit, the FBI arrested Faulkner on January 15, 2010, at a private compound in Mexico on federal offenses related to charges of wire fraud. The FBI briefly believed Faulkner to have been killed during a border dispute in Honduras, and later discovered that Faulkner may have attempted to fake his own death. In his book, Faulkner asserts that he and his family were kidnapped from Mexico by an FBI rendition team.
He was first indicted in 2010. The indictment alleged persons involvement in cybercrime conspiracy using web hosting equipment and fraud of $15 million. Additionally, Faulkner was indicted with obstruction of justice.
In 2013, Faulkner pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of obstruction of justice – hiding assets, as part of a plea agreement before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas. He was sentenced to 360 months in prison plus 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution.
At the beginning of the federal case made against Faulkner, the FBI asserted that over 105 million dollars were stolen during the commission of the crimes for which they were later charged. The legal defense countered these claims, after which the government was only able to document 25 million in losses within United States jurisdictions. The government moved forward with federal seizures, and seized over one million in combined financial assets from the co-defendants, and over one million dollars in equipment owned and operated by the co-defendant's companies. However, the government was only able to seize $22,000 from Faulkner's US bank accounts, and nothing from Faulkner's company or accounts outside the United States. In addition to the 18 million assessed loss attributed to Faulkner himself, in pre-trial detention hearing the FBI asserted that Faulkner had stolen another 2 million dollars during his time as a fugitive in Mexico. To date, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement%202022%3A%20DDT%2025th%20Anniversary | was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on March 20, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan . It was the twenty-sixth event under the Judgement name and the fourth to take place at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and globally on CyberFight's video-on-demand service Wrestle Universe. It was the culmination of a two-day event, which began with the Grand Princess '22 event held by Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (TJPW) on March 19 at the same venue.
Eleven matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show, presented as "dark matches" even though they were broadcast on Wrestle Universe like the rest of the card. In the main event, Tetsuya Endo defeated Konosuke Takeshita to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. In other prominent matches, Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) defeated Disaster Box (Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura) to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship; Mao defeated Daisuke Sasaki and Jun Kasai in a hardcore three-way match to win the DDT Universal Championship; Sanshiro Takagi defeated Michael Nakazawa in a No Disqualification "I'm sorry" match; and the team of Poison Sawada Julie, Gentaro, Mikami, Takashi Sasaki and Thanomsak Toba defeated the DDT Variety Team (Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda, Kazuki Hirata and Yoshihiko) in a 5-on-4 handicap match to win the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship in the opening bout. The event also saw the retirement match and retirement ceremony of LiLiCo, as well as the announcement of an official partnership between DDT and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Production
Background
Judgement is an event held annually around March by DDT Pro-Wrestling since 1997. It has been marking the anniversary of the promotion since the very first official event produced by DDT on March 25, 1997. Over the years, Judgement would become the biggest show of the year until 2009 when Peter Pan became the flagship event series.
Storylines
Judgement 2022 featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On the January 3 special event, after defeating Shinya Aoki, Konosuke Takeshita was confronted by his longtime rival Tetsuya Endo, who asked to be the challenger for Takeshita's scheduled defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship in the main event of Judgement. The match was immediately made official by General Manager Hisaya Imabayashi.
The same day, as used to be tradition in the days of the KO-D Tag League, Disaster Box (Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura) vacated the KO-D Tag Team Championship ahead of the 2022 Ultimate Tag League so that the title would be put up for grab in the tournament. Harashima and Yoshimura went on to win the tournament on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korkine%E2%80%93Zolotarev%20lattice%20basis%20reduction%20algorithm | The Korkine–Zolotarev (KZ) lattice basis reduction algorithm or Hermite–Korkine–Zolotarev (HKZ) algorithm is a lattice reduction algorithm.
For lattices in it yields a lattice basis with orthogonality defect at most , unlike the bound of the LLL reduction. KZ has exponential complexity versus the polynomial complexity of the LLL reduction algorithm, however it may still be preferred for solving multiple closest vector problems (CVPs) in the same lattice, where it can be more efficient.
History
The definition of a KZ-reduced basis was given by Aleksandr Korkin and Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev in 1877, a strengthened version of Hermite reduction. The first algorithm for constructing a KZ-reduced basis was given in 1983 by Kannan.
The block Korkine-Zolotarev (BKZ) algorithm was introduced in 1987.
Definition
A KZ-reduced basis for a lattice is defined as follows:
Given a basis
define its Gram–Schmidt process orthogonal basis
and the Gram-Schmidt coefficients
, for any .
Also define projection functions
which project orthogonally onto the span of .
Then the basis is KZ-reduced if the following holds:
is the shortest nonzero vector in
For all ,
Note that the first condition can be reformulated recursively as stating that is a shortest vector in the lattice, and is a KZ-reduced basis for the lattice .
Also note that the second condition guarantees that the reduced basis is length-reduced (adding an integer multiple of one basis vector to another will not decrease its length); the same condition is used in the LLL reduction.
Notes
References
Theory of cryptography
Computational number theory
Lattice points |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost%20Mobile%20%28Australia%29 | Boost Mobile is an Australian mobile virtual network operator which offers wireless services on the Telstra network.
History
Boost Mobile was founded by Peter Adderton in Sydney, Australia in 2000. Optus began licensing the Boost Mobile brand that same year.
In 2012, Optus ended its business relationship with Boost; they subsequently switched resell access to the Telstra network, with Telstra reportedly "looking to chase the youth market". In January 2013, all existing Boost customers were converted to Optus customers and continued to receive services on the Optus network. That March, Boost Tel began to offer products and services under the Boost Pre-paid Mobile brand as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) hosted on the Telstra Next G network. It is the only Telstra MVNO with access to the full Telstra mobile network across regional/rural Australia.
Marketing
Boost has consistently marketed itself through sponsorship and promotion of sporting events, and lifestyle-oriented marketing primarily through social media. The company has continued to target its brand and products at younger demographics; "Since Boost Mobile began in August 2000, we’ve been focussed on keeping Aussie youth connected."
In 2018, Boost Mobile formed a partnership with the American-based Stadium Super Trucks to grow the series' presence in Australia. The following year, after the series and the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport reached a three-year commercial rights agreement, the series was branded the Boost Mobile Super Trucks for Australian races.
In 2019, Boost Mobile was the naming-rights sponsor of Garry Rogers Motorsport in the Australian Supercars Championship. In 2020 and 2021, Boost Mobile sponsored James Courtney in a Tickford Racing Ford Mustang. In 2021 it also sponsored Brodie Kostecki in an Erebus Motorsport Holden Commodore ZB.
In 2022, Boost Mobile will become the naming-rights sponsor of both Erebus Motorsport Commodores.
Marketing criticism
In June 2010, Boost Mobile launched a viral marketing campaign that purported to identify text messaging disorders in order to bring attention to Boost Mobile's offer of 100 texts for one dollar. Australian television programme Media Watch criticized both the campaign itself and certain Australian media outlets that had failed to uncover the underlying marketing campaign, reporting the disorders as straight news. The Age was one of the few publications to recognise that the campaign was a "ruse ... to get the company's name mentioned in the media." As part of the campaign Boost Mobile cited an academic paper co-authored by Dr. Shari Walsh of the Queensland University of Technology. However, Dr. Walsh stated that her paper did not identify any texting disorders and that Boost Mobile was not accurately representing her research.
References
External links
Telecommunications companies established in 2000
Retail companies established in 2000
Australian companies established in 2000
Mobile phone compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost%20Mobile%20%28United%20States%29 | Boost Mobile is an American wireless service provider owned by Dish Wireless. It uses the Dish, AT&T and T-Mobile networks to deliver wireless services. As of Q2 2023, Boost Mobile, along with its sister brands Boost Infinite, Ting Mobile, Republic Wireless, and Gen Mobile, had 7.73 million customers.
It was founded as a joint venture between Peter Adderton, Craig Cooper, Kirt McMaster, and Nextel Communications. It was purchased by Nextel in 2003 and, as a result of the merger between Sprint Corporation and Nextel, then became owned by Sprint in 2004. It would then be purchased by Dish Wireless on July 1, 2020, as a result of the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.
History
After Peter Adderton founded Boost Mobile Australia and New Zealand in 2000, Peter Adderton, Craig Cooper, and Kirt McMaster brought the Boost Mobile brand to the United States in 2001 as a joint venture with Nextel Communications. Using Nextel's iDEN network, Boost Mobile offered an unlimited push-to-talk service, marketed as only costing a dollar a day, at a time when cellphone plans offering unlimited talk were still rare. The service was initially exclusive to markets in areas of California and Nevada and was marketed towards urban minorities, often using urban slang in advertisements. Eventually, Nextel became the sole owner of Boost's United States operations in 2003. Nextel began to expand the brand elsewhere in the United States in late 2004 after its acquisition by Sprint Corporation which was announced on December 15, 2004.
After the approval of the merger in July, 2005, Sprint Corporation acquired Nextel Communications, leaving Boost Mobile as a subsidiary of the merged company, Sprint Nextel Corporation. Boost Mobile still continued to use the previous Nextel iDEN infrastructure for its service, but in 2006, began to offer a new Unlimited by Boost Mobile service in select markets using Sprint's CDMA network, offering unlimited talk, text, and internet. While the plans resulted in significant growth for Boost Mobile, Boost did not begin shifting to CDMA entirely.
To compete with unlimited offerings from competitors in the wireless industry, Boost Mobile announced on January 15, 2009, that it would launch a Monthly Unlimited Plan. The plan was accompanied by re-focusing the brand towards a broader demographic than before. The new unlimited plan resulted in a net gain of more than 674,000 customers in about three months. Despite this lift, Nextel overall suffered a gross subscriber loss of 1.25 million contract subscriptions. The unexpected surge in popularity for the service caused significant strain on the Nextel iDEN networkas many customers reported long and sometimes week-long delays in receiving text messages. A Boost Mobile spokesman said that they did not anticipate the level of popularity for the new service and that efforts to improve the network had been implemented to help mitigate the problem.
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, Boost Mobile an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Wall | Melanie Marie Wall (born October 21, 1971) is an American psychiatric biostatistician, psychometrician, and mental health data scientist who works at Columbia University as a professor in the departments of biostatistics and psychiatry, and as director of Mental Health Data Science, a joint project of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, and New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Her research has included topics such as grief and depression, eating disorders, marijuana use and abuse, and correlations between school performance and athletic activity, studied using latent variable models, spatial analysis, and longitudinal data. She is co-editor of the book Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences of the War for US Veterans (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Education and career
Wall was born on October 21, 1971, in St. Louis, Missouri, in a working-class family; she attended desegregated public schools, and supported herself in college at Truman State University through multiple part-time jobs. She majored in mathematics there, graduating in 1993. She went to Iowa State University, intending to do graduate study in mathematics, but switched to statistics after a semester. She earned a master's degree there in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation, On nonlinear structural equation analysis, was supervised by Yasuo Amemiya.
After completing her doctorate, she joined the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor of biostatistics in 1998, earned tenure there in 2004, and became a full professor in 2010, the same year in which she moved to Columbia University. At Columbia, she headed the Division of Biostatistics and Data Coordination in the Department of Psychiatry from 2012 to 2017, and after leading the effort to rename the division to Mental Health Data Science in 2018, has continued to direct it since then.
Recognition
Wall was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2014.
References
External links
Personal home page
Home page at Columbia University
1971 births
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
American psychiatrists
American women psychiatrists
Biostatisticians
Psychometricians
Truman State University alumni
Iowa State University alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Columbia University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Quantitative psychologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20E.%20Volder | Jack Edward Volder (1924–2013) was an American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing the CORDIC algorithm.
Jack Volder was born in Fort Worth, Texas. During World War II, he served as a B-24 flight engineer. After the war, he studied electrical engineering, graduating from Texas Technological College in 1949. He first joined Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before returning to Fort Worth to work at Convair in 1951, where he worked in the aeroelectronics department. Here he initiated research into the CORDIC algorithm in 1956. It was used in specialized flight control and radar computer systems. In 1959, he published a highly cited description of the algorithm. Volder left Convair before completion of the first such computer in 1961, but did occasional consulting for them. In 1971, he joined Litton Data Systems in California, working on the AN/UYK-7 computer. In 1975 he joined Hughes Aircraft Company. He married in 1949 and had children and grandchildren.
See also
CORDIC
Avionics
References
1924 births
2013 deaths
American electrical engineers
People from Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Tech University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esprit%20Systems | Esprit Systems Inc. was a vendor of computer terminal products created as a spin-off from Hazeltine Corporation's terminal division in January 1983. The name refers to the Hazeltine Esprit terminal, which division management felt the parent company was not properly marketing. The company sold a variety of terminals, adding other computer peripherals with their purchase of Percom in 1984. The new company quickly ran into financial difficulty and sold 49% of the company to its primary Taiwanese manufacturer, ADI, in March 1986, followed by a majority purchase by ADI in 1988. By the early 2000s their primary products were Windows CE-based thin client terminals. The last updates to the company web page were in 2003.
References
1983 establishments in New York (state)
2003 disestablishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 1983
American companies disestablished in 2003
Computer companies established in 1983
Computer companies disestablished in 2003
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state)
Defunct computer hardware companies
Thin clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS%20%288-bit%20operating%20system%29 | EOS is the built-in operating system of the Coleco Adam. There are bindings in high-level programming languages like BASIC.
Overview
The functions are grouped into categories as follows.
Executive calls
eos_init
eos_hard_init
eos_hard_reset_net
eos_delay_after_hard_reset
eos_synchronize_clocks
eos_scan_for_devices
eos_relocate_pcb
eos_soft_init
eos_exit_to_smartwriter
eos_switch_memory_banks
Console Output
eos_console_init
eos_console_display_regular
eos_console_display_special
Printer Interface
eos_print_character
eos_print_buffer
eos_printer_status
eos_start_print_character
eos_end_print_character
Keyboard Interface
eos_keyboard_status
eos_read_keyboard
eos_start_read_keyboard
eos_end_read_keyboard
File Operations
eos_file_manager_init
eos_check_directory_for_file
eos_find_file_1
eos_find_file_2
eos_find_file_in_fcb
eos_check_file_mode
eos_make_file
eos_update_file_in_directory
eos_open_file
eos_close_file
eos_read_file
eos_write_file
eos_trim_file
eos_initialize_directory
eos_reset_file
eos_get_date
eos_put_date
eos_delete_file
eos_rename_file
Device Operations
eos_find_pcb
eos_find_dcb
eos_request_device_status
eos_get_device_status
eos_soft_reset_device
eos_soft_reset_keyboard
eos_soft_reset_printer
eos_read_block
eos_read_one_block
eos_start_read_one_block
eos_end_read_one_block
eos_write_block
eos_write_one_block
eos_start_write_one_block
eos_end_write_one_block
eos_start_read_character_device
eos_end_read_character_device
eos_read_character_device
eos_start_write_character_device
eos_end_write_character_device
eos_write_character_device
Video RAM Management
eos_set_vdp_ports
eos_set_vram_table_address
eos_load_ascii_in_vdp
eos_put_ascii_in_vdp
eos_write_vram
eos_read_vram
eos_put_vram
eos_get_vram
eos_write_vdp_register
eos_read_vdp_register
eos_fill_vram
eos_calculate_pattern_position
eos_point_to_pattern_position
eos_write_sprite_table
Game Controllers
eos_read_game_controller
eos_update_spinner
Sound Routines
eos_sound_init
eos_sound_off
eos_start_sound
eos_play_sound
eos_end_sound
Subroutines
eos_decrement_low_nibble
eos_decrement_high_nibble
eos_move_high_nibble_to_low_nibble
eos_add_a_to_hl
References
External links
Technical Reference Manual chapter 3
EOS-5 source code
Boot code, Forum
Disk operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
1983 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%3A%20Vanishing%20Act | Underbelly: Vanishing Act is a television miniseries based on the story of Melissa Caddick's disappearance. It first aired on the Nine Network in April 2022. The two-part miniseries is the seventh season of the true crime anthology series Underbelly.
Premise
Underbelly: Vanishing Act is based on the story of high-roller Melissa Caddick who was alleged to have embezzled $40 million before vanishing from in November 2020 the day after the Australian Securities & Investments Commission executed a search warrant on her Dover Heights, Sydney home.
Production
The series was first announced by the Nine Network in September 2021. It was produced by Screentime.
Cast
Kate Atkinson as Melissa Caddick
Colin Friels as George K
Jerome Velinsky as Anthony Koletti
Tai Hara as Vincent Lee
Maya Stange as Angie Beyersdorf
Dylan Hare as Nash Malouf
Ursula Mills as Phoebe Quinn
Frankie J Holden as Ted Grimley
Anne Tenney as Barbara Grimley
Sophie Bloom as Wendy
Viewership
References
Nine Network original programming
Television shows set in Sydney
2020s Australian crime television series
2020s Australian drama television series
2020s Australian television miniseries
2022 Australian television series debuts
2022 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20mile | Last mile may refer to:
Last mile (telecommunications), the final leg of a telecoms network
Last mile (transportation), the final leg
"Last Mile", a song by Badmarsh & Shri from the album Signs
See also
The Last Mile (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows%27%20Web | Widows' Web is a 2022 Philippine television drama crime series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jerry Lopez Sineneng, it stars Carmina Villarroel, Vaness del Moral, Ashley Ortega and Pauline Mendoza. It premiered on February 28, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Mano Po Legacy: The Family Fortune. The series concluded on April 29, 2022 with a total of 43 episodes. It was replaced by False Positive in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carmina Villarroel as Barbara Sagrado-Dee
Vaness del Moral as Hillary Pelaez-Suarez
Ashley Ortega as Jacqueline "Jackie" Antonio-Mabantog / Tisay
Pauline Mendoza as Elaine Innocencio-Querubin
Supporting cast
Neil Coleta as Julius Collado
Adrian Alandy as Vladimir "Vlad" Mabantog Sagrado
Edgar Allan Guzman as Frank Querubin
Christian Vasquez as Boris Tayuman
Bernard Palanca as William Suarez
Dave Bornea as Dwight de Guzman
Mosang as Delia Gonzales
Allan Paule as Ramon Innocencio
Arthur Solinap as Emiliano "Emil" Bañez
Tanya Gomez as Gloria Querubin
Karenina Haniel as Rose Punzalan
Anjay Anson as Jed Sagrado Dee
Vanessa Peña as Nikki Suarez
Mike Agassi as George Aguirre
Josh Ivan Morales as Simon Barcial
Guest cast
Ryan Eigenmann as Alexander "Xander" Sagrado III
Episodes
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Production
Principal photography commenced in December 2021. Filming resumed in January 2022.
Legacy
Actor Arthur Solinap joined the 2023 Philippine TV series Royal Blood as a regular cast member, portraying the same character he played in Widows' Web. Actresses Vaness del Moral and Ashley Ortega also reprised their respective role as friends of the Royales clan in Royal Blood.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Fiction about murder
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Murder in television
Philippine crime television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idols%20South%20Africa%20%28season%2018%29 | The eighteenth season of South African Idols premiered on 17 July 2022 on the Mzansi Magic television network under the theme "Singing a Different Tune". Over 9,000 contestants auditioned for the season. The season was won by Thapelo Molomo and the runner-up was Nozi Sibiya.
Shortly after online auditions for the season were opened, it was announced that Randall Abrahams and Unathi Nkayi would not return to the show as judges. In February 2022, M-Net announced that Thembi Seete and JR were going to replace them, joining Somizi Mhlongo on the judges panel.
Finalists
This season, instead of the usual Top 16, a Top 12 was announced on 21 August 2022.
Weekly Song Choice and Results
Top 12: Duets with Mzansi Stars & Greatest Hits of Today
Group 1 (28 August)
Group 2 (4 September)
Top 10: Spotify's Soulful Sundays (11 September)
Top 9: History of Music in Mzansi (18 September)
Top 8: Parents' High School Crush (25 September)
Top 7: Showstopper (2 October)
Top 6: Lifesong & Joyous Celebration (9 October)
Top 5: The Babyface Songbook & Local Chart Toppers (16 October)
Top 4: New School Mzansi Hits & How It Should Have Been Done (23 October)
Top 3: My Audition Song, Divas and Divos & Judges' Choice (30 October)
Top 2 (6 November)
Before her elimination, Mpilwenhle Mokopu performed her single "Ngiyazifela".
Elimination Chart
Colour key
References
Season 18
2022 South African television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podvig%20naroda | Database "Movement of the people in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" () is an electronic database of documents related to the period of the Great Patriotic War. The content of the bank is formed by the documents of the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence (TsAMO), specifically award files and documents on operational control of hostilities.
As of August 30, 2020, the bank contains information about 40 391 096 awards.
The initiator of the project is the Department for Development of Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and telecommunications support is provided by OAO Rostelecom. The creation and technical implementation of the project is carried out by the ELAR corporation.
To digitize TsAMO documents, about 19 million sheets in total, special planetary scanners were developed. Due to the fact that the documents are 70 years old, machine recognition of the text did not cope with the task, making about 50% of errors. To solve this problem, 5,000 home operators were involved, and in order to minimize their errors, each document was recognized by two operators, and if their result matched after a machine check, the data was entered into the database.
References
External links
podvignaroda.ru
Online databases
Russian-language websites
Eastern Front (World War II) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Papazoglou | Michael (Mike) Papazoglou (born December 2, 1953) is a Greek/Australian emeritus professor, computer science researcher and author known for his contributions to 'Service-Oriented Computing'. His main research interests include Distributed computing, Database#Database management system, Big data, Service (systems architecture), Domain-specific language and Cloud computing. In more recent years he shifted his focus to pursuing Emerging technologies, Industrial engineering, Smart Applications and Smart Technology Solutions for Healthcare and Manufacturing.
Education and Academic Career
Papazoglou obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering, with honors in Electronic Engineering in 1978, from the University of Dundee, and his MSc and Ph.D in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and University of Dundee, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. He is an Alexander S. Onassis Foundation scholarship recipient for his Ph.D studies.
During his early career, Papazoglou served as Principal Researcher and Project Leader at the National German Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, GMD, which is now part of Fraunhofer Society) and as an adjunct professor at the University of Koblenz and Landau. He then joined the Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia as a Senior Lecturer and subsequently as a Reader in Computer Science. Following this, he became a Full Professor & Head of the Information Systems School at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane. From 1996 until March 2020 he held the Chair of Computer Science at Tilburg University, where he was the founder and the Executive Director of the European Research Institute in Services Science (ERISS). He is an Emeritus Professor at Tilburg University.
Research
Papazoglou early work was in Parallel computing, Federated database system, Database design Methodologies, Semantic data model and Cooperative Systems where he published extensively. He subsequently, expanded his work in the area of e-Business Integration where he published a widely used textbook, and, Business Process Compliance From the late 90s he focused his research work in the areas of Service Oriented Computing, Cloud Computing,Smart manufacturing and Digital health.
Papazoglou developed theories, principles, and methods applied to software services research and published the very first textbook on Web Services In more recent years, he focused his work in pursuing Emerging Technologies, Smart Applications and Smart Technology Solutions for Manufacturing, and Smart Healthcare. In Smart Manufacturing he made contributions to product engineering, product lifecycle management, smart manufacturing networks, while in Smart Healthcare he made contributions to Big Data and AI technologies for Digital Healthcare and Medical Digital Twins.
Finally, he set up mechanisms for achieving a common vision of 'strategic software service research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Love | Family Love is a private radio network with four stations in Nigeria. It is owned by Multimesh Broadcasting Company Limited. Stations are located in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu, and Umuahia.
Multimesh received a license from the National Broadcasting Commission to own a radio station in 2004. The Port Harcourt station was the first to launch in 2005. The Abuja station started in 2008 when the company acquired the former Crowther Radio and was followed by Umuahia in 2012 (originally on 103.9 MHz), while the Enugu station was formally launched in August 2017.
References
Radio stations in Nigeria
2005 establishments in Nigeria
Radio stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldorado%20Electrodata | Eldorado Electrodata Corporation (formerly Eldorado Electronics and originally the Sargent-Rayment Company) was an American electronics company based in Concord, California. The company was founded in 1927 and initially sold radio equipment before moving into digital measuring instruments following a rename in 1956. It later developed computer terminals and minicomputers.
History
Sargent-Rayment Company (1927–1956)
Eldorado Electrodata was founded in Oakland, California, as the Sargent-Rayment Company in 1927 by Ed Sargent and Lyndon C. Rayment. Among the company's first offerings was a TRF receiver called the Sargent-Rayment 7, which gained national renown after being advertised in Radio World. Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Lyndon Rayment sold all his interest into the company to Sargent, who renamed the company to the EM Sargent Company and started manufacturing superheterodyne receivers. During World War II the EM Sargent Company produced a long list of radio equipment, including marine radios and direction finders. After the war, Sargent found himself in dire financial straits and sold the company back to Rayment before committing suicide in 1948.
After assuming control of the company again, Lyndon Rayment hired his 21-year-old son Will to be president of the company. Lyndon died of a heart attack in 1951, leaving Will Rayment as the owner of the company. Will, who had experience as a teenage Navy Radioman from 1943 to 1945, managed the company while also developing its products. In 1953, Will contracted aseptic meningitis. His recovery took long, during which the company stagnated. He sold the company to Donner Scientific, owned by W. K. Rosenberry, while still retaining his role as president until 1955, when he quit after Donner cut his yearly bonus. Will bought the Sargent-Rayment name from Donner for his own radio equipment business, which he managed until 1960. Donner renamed the original Sargent-Rayment company as Eldorado Electronics in 1956.
Eldorado (1956–1973)
Eldorado primarily marketed radiation detectors and electronic devices for industrial and military use around the turn of the 1960s. In 1957, Rosenberry moved Eldorado's headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, California, and again to Concord, California, in 1963. By this point the company's most renowned products were its digital measuring instruments, the most profitable of which were voltmeters, but also frequency counters and timekeeping devices such as stopwatches and clocks.
Leigh A. Brite, formerly of Packard Bell Electronics, joined the company in 1967 as director of engineering; by this point the company was renamed Eldorado Electrodata. In 1968, Eldorado released the ee 200, a 16-bit minicomputer which Brite helped engineer. In his free time during the first couple years of his tenure at Eldorado, Brite developed a prototype for a smart video computer terminal. He turned to his friend Wally Wrathall to market it, who encouraged Brite to buy Eldorado a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunilla%20Borgefors | Gunilla Borgefors (born 1952) is a Swedish computer scientist specializing in image processing, including distance transforms, topological skeletonization, and edge detection. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University, associated with the Centre for Image Analysis.
Early life and education
Borgefors was born in 1952 in Norrköping. She earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Linköping University in 1975, and completed a Ph.D. in numerical analysis at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1986. Her dissertation, On Hierarchical Edge Matching in Digital Images Using Distance Transformations, was jointly supervised by Germund Dahlquist and Jan-Olof Eklundh.
She also has a master's degree in journalism, earned in 2007 at Uppsala University.
Career
After working for the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Linköping from 1982 to 1993, and becoming director of research for computer vision and head of the Division of Information Systems there, she moved in 1993 to a professorship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where she headed the Centre for Image Analysis. In 2005 she began a guest professorship at Uppsala University and in 2012 she moved to a full-time professorship at Uppsala.
She served as editor-in-chief of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters, beginning in 2011, and was president of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis from 1988 to 1992.
Recognition
Borgefors was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 1998, "for contributions to digital geometry and for outstanding service to IAPR". She became an IEEE Fellow in 2008, "for contributions to discrete
geometry and image analysis".
She became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala in 2000, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2011. She was the 2007 winner of the Edlund Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
References
External links
Archived home page (2013)
Living people
Swedish computer scientists
Swedish women computer scientists
Computer vision researchers
Linköping University alumni
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
1952 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPC5 | HPC5 is a supercomputer built by Dell and installed by Eni, capable of 51.721 petaflops, and is ranked 9th in the Top500 as of November 2021. It is located in the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, in Northern Italy. In June 2020, HPC5 ranked 6th in the Green500. HPC5 is an upgrade to the HPC4 system, which was built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and used by Eni. It is also called as HPC4+.
HPC5 spans over 1,820 Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers, each with two Intel Gold 6252 24-core processors and four Nvidia V100 GPU accelerators. In total, the system comprises 7,280 NVIDIA V100 GPUs.
See also
Supercomputing in Europe
Top500
Green500
References
External links
Official Eni website
Supercomputing in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurnTable%20End%20of%20the%20Year%20Top%2050%20of%202020 | The TurnTable End of the Year Top 50 of 2020 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles in Nigeria. Its data, published by TurnTable magazine, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, TurnTable publishes an annual list of the 50 most successful songs throughout that year on its top 50 charts based on the information. The 2020 edition was published on 30 December 2020, calculated with data from 1 January to 14 December 2020.
History
On 9 November 2021, TurnTable Co-Editor-in-Chief Ayomide Oriowo released the highlight of TurnTables Top 50 in 2020. Davido made a number of achievements on the chart from 16 November to 14 December. He became the first artist to occupy the first four spots on the chart. He also became the first artist to replace themselves at number 1, with "Fem", "Holy Ground", "The Best", and "Jowo".
DJ Neptune's "No Body", became 2020's top song, top radio song, top airplay song (radio and television), top song by a duo/collaboration, and top Afro-pop song. Davido became 2020's top artist, top television artist, top streaming artist, top YouTube artist, top Audiomack artist, top male artist, top Afro-pop artist, and his song "Fem" became the top song by a male artist. Burna Boy became 2020's top radio artist, top Shazam artist, and top songwriter of 2020. Simi's "Duduke" became top television song, top YouTube song, top song by female artist, top R&B song, and she became the top female artist of 2020. Omah Lay's "Bad Influence" became top streaming song, top Boomplay song, top Audiomack song, top Apple Music song, top digital song, and top Shazam song. Mayorkun became top Triller artist, and his song "Geng" became top Triller song. Fireboy DML became top Boomplay artist, and top R&B artist. Ladipoe's "Know You" became top hip-hop/rap song of 2020.
Cheque's "Zoom" became the top melodic rap/trap song of 2020. Olamide became top hip-hop/rap artist of 2020. Tems became top alternative artist, and her song "Damages" became top alternative song of 2020. Mercy Chinwo became the top gospel artist, and her song "Obinasom" became the top gospel song of 2020. Master KG "Jerusalema (remix)" became top international song, and top African radio song of 2020. The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" became top international radio song. Drake became top international artist, and his song "Toosie Slide" became the top international television song of 2020. BTS became the top international group/duo of 2020. Nasty C's "There They Go" became top African television song of 2020. Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" and Styl-Plus's "Olufunmi" became the top catalog radio songs of the last five years. Grammy Afrobeat producer Telz became top producer of 2020.
Year-end list
References
Nigerian record charts
2020 in Nigerian music
2020 record charts
TurnTable charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20rey%2C%20Vicente%20Fern%C3%A1ndez | El Rey, Vicente Fernández is a Mexican biographical drama produced by Colombian network Caracol TV. The series aired first in Colombia on Caracol TV from 3 August 2022 to 16 September 2022. The series became available for streaming outside Colombia on Netflix on 14 September 2022. On Netflix, the series has a total of 36 episodes.
Cast
Jaime Camil as Vicente Fernández
Sebastian Dante as Young Vicente
Sebastian García as Teen Vicente
Kaled Acab as Child Vicente
Marcela Guirado as María del Refugio "Cuquita"
Regina Pavón as Young Cuquita
Ishkra Zaval as Child Cuquita
Enoc Leaño as Ramón
Marissa Saavedra as Paula Gómez
Raúl Sandoval as Felipe Arriaga
Erick Chapa as Tico Mendoza
Florencia Ríos as Refugios Fernández
Seidy Bercht as Teen Refugios
Casandra Iturralde as Child Refugios
Ana Paula Capetillo as Teresa Fernández
Valentina Buzurro as Teen Teresa
Camila Núñez as Child Teresa
Camila Rojas as Janeth
Rubén Zamora as Enrique Landes
Gaby Espino as Verónica Landín
Sara Montalvo as Matilde
Nini Pavón as Doña Zuy
Alexa Martín as Rosa
Mauricio Pimentel as La Muerte
Esteban Soberanes as Alberto Ríos
Guest stars
Odiseo Bichir as Pastor Miguel
Carlos Corona as Palermo El Gordo
Roberto Tello as Don Pascual
Yigael Yadin as El Chato
Aroa Gimeno as Maritza
Emilio Hernández as Chuy
Valeria Santaella as Dolores
Pilar Santacruz as Gloria
Karla Gaytán as Child Gloria
Juan Pablo Hermidia as Gustavo
Juan Morales as Porfirio
Checo Perezcuadra as Raúl Abarca
Waldo Facco as Duran
Jerónimo Victoria as Palafox El Malandrín
Angelo Enciso as Marcelo
Elissa Garibay as Socorro
Rodrigo Magaña as David
Fabián Pazzo as Acosta
Alejandro Morales as Ismael
Fernando Sansores as Dr. Camacho
Salvador Álvarez as Humberto
Javier de la Vega as Israel Camacho
Carlos Fonseca as Mario Cervera
Victor Civeira as Pastor Benavides
Lucia Tinajero as Emilia
David Muri as Genaro Rey
Alejandro Cuétara as Hinestroza
Beto Ruelas as Antonio Vargas
Pablo García as Oscar
Jaime Vega as Reutilio
Argenis Aldrete as Dr. Ramírez
Acoyani Chacón as Juan La Bestia
Andrea Paz as Pachita
Benjamín Martínez as Plinio
Sofía Garza as Lorena Cruz
Ernesto Alvares as Antua Lazo
Giovanni Carlo as Ángel Encargado
Alieth Vargas as Mari
Juanita Londoño as Alejandra
Christian de Dios as Guillermo
Gabo Anguiano as Simón
Rodrigo Olguin as Tulio
Santiago Rojas as Martín
Alfredo Herrera as Joan El Felino
Gregorio Urkijo as young Junior
Ruy Gaytán as child Junior
Walter Kapellas as Nemesio
Sergio Gutiérrez as Tiberio
Adriana Llabrés as Graciela
Antonio Zúñiga as Tomás
Alejandro Bracho as Eustaquio
Armando Tapia as Hilario
Sofía Blanchet as Abigail
Geraldine Galván as Elsa
Enrique Chi as Emeterio
Ezequiel Cardenas as Javier
Luis Curiel as Jimeno
Karla Esquivel as Patricia Sáenz
Luisa Galindo as Raquel
Fernando Becerril as Honorio Dalton
Javier Gómez as Roberto
Marcial Casale as Don Yuyo
América Valdéz as Tania Tejeda
Luisa Galindo as Raq |
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