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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Ireland | Cyber Ireland is a business cluster organisation that connects businesses, educational institutions and the state to support the growing cyber security industry in Ireland, which consisted of over 60 domestic and 40 multinational cyber-security companies in 2018. Launched in 2019 by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland's Regional Technology Cluster Fund, Cyber Ireland had over 180 members as of the start of 2022 including Johnson Controls International, Dell EMC, IBM, McAfee, McKesson and Trend Micro. Cyber Ireland was the first business cluster to be formed in the country.
Purpose and structure
Cyber security is a key sector in Ireland with five of the world's leading software security companies located there, however there is an acknowledged skills gap in the industry with around 48% of Irish companies having open or unfilled cyber security positions. Facilitated by the Cork Institute of Technology, Cyber Ireland works with academia to ensure there is a consistent supply of trained cyber security talent to feed the industry. Three regional working groups exist for South, North West and Western areas, as well as two Special Interest Groups, Threat Intelligence and Operational Security. As well as addressing the skills shortage, Cyber Ireland provides a collective voice for the sector companies
The 2021 HSE Conti Ransomware Attack
A malware attack on the IT systems of the Irish Health Service Executive shut down all IT systems across all hospitals in Ireland causing major and long-lasting disruption to the health service. This was the largest cyber attack in Ireland and the largest against any healthcare system worldwide. As a result, IT security became a focus for businesses outside the cyber security industry, placing additional pressure on the supply of skills. In response, Cyber Ireland together with third-level education providers including IT Sligo increased the cyber security content of existing courses.
References
2019 establishments in Ireland
Computer security
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav%20Klyushin | Vladislav Klyushin (Владислав Клюшин) is a Russian businessman and founder and CEO of M-13, a Russian company that offers media monitoring and cybersecurity services. In March 2021, he was arrested upon his arrival in Switzerland on a warrant from the United States Department of Justice charging him with insider trading using confidential data stolen from US companies. Facing extradition to the US, Klyushin's lawyer maintained that the insider trading charge was fabricated as a “pretext” to get him to the US, where he will be pressed for information on the Russian government's "Fancy Bear" operation that sought to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. He was extradited to the US on December 19, 2021.
Klyushin was convicted by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and securities fraud on February 14, 2023.
See also
Ilya Sachkov
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
References
Russian media executives
Living people
People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Prisoners and detainees of the United States
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Poulovassilis | Alexandra (Alex) Poulovassilis is a Greek and British computer scientist who is a professor emerita of computer science and College Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests have included information management, database schemas and their transformation, information visualization, and immersive learning.
Education and career
Poulovassilis earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cambridge, worked for IBM in Greece, and returned to the UK for graduate study at Birkbeck. She was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London, and joined the staff of King's College London in 1991.
She became a reader at Birkbeck in 1999, and full professor in 2001. There, she headed the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems from 2003 to 2006 and 2009 to 2010. She was the founding head of the Graduate Research School, serving from 2003 to 2005. She co-directed the London Knowledge Lab from 2003 to 2015, and directed the Birkbeck Knowledge Lab from 2016 to 2021. She became an assistant dean in 2009 and a deputy dean in 2015. She retired as professor emerita in 2021.
Books
Poulovassilis is the editor of books including:
Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use (Mark Levene, Springer, 2004)
The Functional Approach to Data Management: Modeling, Analyzing and Integrating Heterogeneous Data (Peter M. D. Gray, Larry Kerschberg, and Peter J. H. King, Springer, 2004)
Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems (with Sven Helmer and Fatos Xhafa, Springer, 2011)
Gender, Science and Innovation: New Perspectives (with Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry, and Henry Etzkowitz, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Greek computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Academics of King's College London
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreographic%20programming | In computer science, choreographic programming is a programming paradigm where programs are compositions of interactions among multiple concurrent participants.
Overview
Choreographies
In choreographic programming, developers use a choreographic programming language to define the intended communication behaviour of concurrent participants. Programs in this paradigm are called choreographies.
Choreographic languages are inspired by security protocol notation (also known as "Alice and Bob" notation). The key to these languages is the communication primitive, for example
Alice.expr -> Bob.x
reads "Alice communicates the result of evaluating the expression expr to Bob, which stores it in its local variable x".
Alice, Bob, etc. are typically called roles or processes.
The example below shows a choreography for a simplified single sign-on (SSO) protocol based on a Central Authentication Service (CAS) that involves three roles:
Client, which wishes to obtain an access token from CAS to interact with Service.
Service, which needs to know from CAS if the Client should be given access.
CAS, which is the Central Authentication Service responsible for checking the Client's credentials.
The choreography is:
Client.(credentials, serviceID) -> CAS.authRequest
if CAS.check(authRequest) then
CAS.token = genToken(authRequest)
CAS.Success(token) -> Client.result
CAS.Success(token) -> Service.result
else
CAS.Failure -> Client.result
CAS.Failure -> Service.result
The choreography starts in Line 1, where Client communicates a pair consisting of some credentials and the identifier of the service it wishes to access to CAS. CAS stores this pair in its local variable authRequest (for authentication request).
In Line 2, the CAS checks if the request is valid for obtaining an authentication token.
If so, it generates a token and communicates a Success message containing the token to both Client and Service (Lines 3–5).
Otherwise, the CAS informs Client and Service that authentication failed, by sending a Failure message (Lines 7–8). We refer to this choreography as the "SSO choreography" in the remainder.
Endpoint Projection
A key feature of choreographic programming is the capability of compiling choreographies to distributed implementations. These implementations can be libraries for software that needs to participate in a computer network by following a protocol, or standalone distributed programs.
The translation of a choreography into distributed programs is called endpoint projection (EPP for short).
Endpoint projection returns a program for each role described in the source choreography. For example, given the choreography above, endpoint projection would return three programs: one for Client, one for Service, and one for CAS. They are shown below in pseudocode form, where send and recv are primitives for sending and receiving messages to/from other roles.
For each role, its code contains the actions that the role should execute to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Bruijn%20Factor | The de Bruijn Factor is a measure of how much harder it is to write a formal mathematical proof instead of an informal one. It was created by the Dutch computer-proof pioneer Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn.
De Bruijn computed it as the size of the formal proof over the size of the informal proof.
Freek Wiedijk refined the definition to use the compressed size of the formal proof over the compressed size of the informal proof. He called this the "intrinsic de Bruijin Factor". The compression removes the effect that the length of identifiers in the proofs might have.
References
Mathematical logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihem | Sihem is a feminine given name of Arabic origin.
List of people with the given name
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Algerian computer scientist
Sihem Aouini (born 1982),Tunisian team handball player
Sihem Badi (born 1967), Tunisian politician
Sihem Bensedrine (born 1950), Tunisian journalist and human rights activist
Sihem Boughdiri (born 1965), Tunisian banker and politician
Sihem Habchi (born 1975), French feminist of Algerian descent
Sihem Hemissi, (born 1985) is an Algerian team handball player
See also
Siemens
Feminine given names
Arabic-language feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%20Vakali | Athena I. Vakali (born 1963) is a Greek computer scientist whose topics of research include social networks, cloud computing, smart cities, and content delivery networks. She is a professor of informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Vakali earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1985, and a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1988. Returning to Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she completed a Ph.D. in informatics in 1997, and has been a member of the informatics faculty of the university since 1998.
She is the editor of books including Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies (with George Pallis, Idea Group, 2007), Content Delivery Networks (with Rajkumar Buyya and Mukaddim Pathan, Springer, 2008), and New Directions in Web Data Management (with Lakhmi C. Jain, Springer, 2011).
Vakali is an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Speaker.
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
Greek computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni
Purdue University alumni
Academic staff of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20%26%20Tammy | George & Tammy is an American biographical drama television miniseries created by Abe Sylvia and directed by John Hillcoat, which premiered on Paramount Network, Showtime and CMT on December 4, 2022, with Showtime as its primary network. It stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon as country musicians Tammy Wynette and George Jones, chronicling their tumultuous relationship and intertwined careers.
The series received a positive critical reception, particularly for the performances of Chastain and Shannon. For her role, Chastain received a nomination for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film at the 80th Golden Globe Awards and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Cast and characters
Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette
Michael Shannon as George Jones
Steve Zahn as George Richey
Walton Goggins as Earl "Peanutt" Montgomery
David Wilson Barnes as Billy Sherrill
Kelly McCormack as Sheila Richey
Katy Mixon as Jan Smith
Robert Morgan as Pappy Daily
Hendrix Yancey as Gwen, ages 8–10
John Teer as Harold Bradley
Tim Blake Nelson as Roy Acuff
Joshua C. Allen as Lou Bradley
Kate Arrington as Charlene Montgomery
Pat Healy as Don Chapel
Bobbie Eakes as Nan Smith
Abby Glover as Georgette Jones
Ian Lyons as Paul Richey
GiGi Erneta as Nancy Sepulvado
Vivie Myrick as Donna Chapel
Zachariah Malachi as Charlie Justice
Jamie Dick as Freddie Haws
Production
Development
In February 2016, Josh Brolin announced that he and Chastain would play George Jones and Tammy Wynette in a biographical film. In September 2020, it was announced the film would instead be a limited series, based on the book The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George by Georgette Jones, with Brolin no longer attached, instead serving as an executive producer. John Hillcoat will direct all six episodes of the series. Chastain's production company, Freckle Films is set to executive produce.
Casting
Upon the limited series announcement, Chastain was set to star as Tammy Wynette with Josh Brolin as George Jones. In December 2021, it was announced that Michael Shannon would replace Brolin due to scheduling conflicts and Steve Zahn was to play George Richey. In January 2022, Kelly McCormack and Katy Mixon joined the cast of the series, in guest starring roles.
Filming
Principal photography began on December 8, 2021, at the EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina
Music
Chastain and Shannon recorded their own vocals for the show and performed them live on set. When comparing the experience to her work as Tammy Faye in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Chastain explained that she found recording Wynette's songs more intimidating than any of Bakker's catalogue. Both actors worked with vocal coach Ron Browning for months prior to filming, with Shannon stating “These songs, they’re pretty deep and they’ve got some dark corners in them, and we spent a lot o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Boys%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bad Boys is a reality television series that premiered on March 20, 2022, on the Zeus Network. It is a spin-off to the Zeus series Baddies, which itself is inspired by the former Oxygen series Bad Girls Club. Bad Boys is executive produced by Natalie Nunn and has aired 2 seasons.
The show documents the interactions between several young men living together while hosting a series of promotional events, which often involve verbal and physical altercations. Bad Boys has aired 2 seasons, which are uniquely named after where they were filmed. The first season Bad Boys Los Angeles was filmed entirely in Los Angeles, California, while the second season Bad Boys Texas was filmed during a road trip through Texas.
Overview and casting
Zeus Network announced casting calls for a new series with the working title Bad Boys Club in November 2021. Natalie Nunn, who was featured on the fourth season of the former Oxygen series Bad Girls Club and the current Zeus series Baddies, was confirmed as an executive producer.
Series overview
Timeline of cast members
Bad Boys Los Angeles (2022)
The cast of the first season was confirmed in March 2022. The trailer was released on March 13, with a premiere date announced for March 20. This seasons reunion was cancelled due to cast members backing out last minute.
Cast
Duration of cast
Bad Boys Texas (2023)
The cast of the second season was confirmed on March 9, 2023. The trailer was released on April 16, with a premiere date announced for April 23. Bad Boys features Former B2k Member Raz B, Disney Star Orlando Brown & Celebrity Hairstylist Jonathan Wright. New comers to Tv & also Break out Stars of the season Ahrah Banga , & (Replacement) King Of Miami Adonis.
Cast
Duration of cast
Notes
References
External links
African-American reality television series
2020s American reality television series
2022 American television series debuts
Bad Girls Club
English-language television shows
2020s LGBT-related reality television series
American LGBT-related reality television series
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Logic%20Research | Advanced Logic Research, Inc. (ALR), was an American computer company founded in 1984 in Irvine, California by Gene Lu. The company marketed IBM PC compatibles across that standard's evolution until 1997 when it was acquired by Gateway 2000. ALR had a reputation for beating its larger competitors to market with compatibles featuring cutting-edge technologies. However, it struggled with brand recognition in the fiercely competitive market of low-end PCs in the mid-1990s. According to computer journalist and collector Michael Nadeau, "ALR's business strategy was to be the first to market with the latest and fastest possible PC-compatible designs", a strategy that "often succeeded".
History
Foundation and early products (1984–1989)
Gene Lu (born 1954) founded Advanced Logic Research in 1984. Lu had emigrated with his family from Taiwan to El Monte, California in 1963 and had worked for Computer Automation as a systems designer in the late 1970s. Among the company's first products was an 8088-equipped motherboard for Tava Corporation's Megaplus computer. In 1986, ALR announced the first i386-based personal computer, the Access 386, in July. It would have marked the first time a major component to the IBM PC standard was upgraded by a company outside IBM; however, ALR was beaten to market by Compaq with the release of the Deskpro 386 in September. Lu considered ALR's chief rival in the 1980s to be AST Research, another Irvine-based computer company also founded by ex–Computer Automation employees. In 1985, the Singapore-based holding company Wearnes Brothers Ltd. invested $500,000 in ALR and agreed to market the company's computers in Singapore and provide overseas manufacturing services in exchange for 40 percent of ownership. This stake grew to 60 percent over the following years.
ALR was one of the first companies to license the Micro Channel architecture from IBM in 1988. The MicroFlex 7000, released in January 1989 and configured with a 25-MHz i386 and 16 MB of SIMM random-access memory, was billed as outpacing IBM's MCA-based PS/2 Model 70 due to the inclusion of a proprietary cache prefetching system in its chipset. The company's i386-based FlexCache 25386 earned the company a PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence for desktop computers in 1988. Year-to-year sales from September 1988 totaled $40 million—one-tenth of AST's but up from $5 million in 1986—prompting Lu to negotiate to buy out the Wearnes Brothers' stake in the company. The buyout was completed in December 1988 for an undisclosed sum. ALR later ditched Micro Channel for the directly competing Extended Industry Standard Architecture in October 1989, releasing the PowerCache/4e later that year.
1989 armed robbery attempt
The company was the victim of an attempted armed robbery of its Irvine headquarters in April 1989. Four masked intruders brandished an assault rifle and a .45 caliber handgun at a security guard's head and demanded entry into the building. Two sanitation wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Downtown%20Historic%20District | The Norton Downtown Historic District, in Norton, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a area which included 43 contributing buildings, a network of brick-paved streets which is counted as contributing structure, and 18 non-contributing properties.
It is a commercial, industrial, and civic area between the original Burlington & Missouri River railroad alignment on the north of downtown and the original Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad alignment on the south of downtown. In terms of streets it is roughly bounded by East Lincoln Street on the north, on the south by East Penn Street on the south, South First Street on the west, and South Norton Avenue on the east.
The process of preserving the downtown area began in 2008. A specialist from the Kansas State Historical Society introduced local officials to the funding opportunities for historical restoration of downtown buildings. This was followed in 2009 by a grant that covered about 60% of the funding for building restoration. The downtown area was listed as a Kansas State Historic Site on November 20, 2010.
Individual buildings are mostly one- or two-story buildings, which are architecturally one-part or two-part commercial blocks.
It includes:
Norton County Courthouse (1929), a monumental building with six Corinthian fluted engaged columns on its east and west sides, and six Corinthian fluted pilasters on its north and south sides. Other features include full entablatures above each set of columns or pilasters, and, on all four sides, dentillation on the cornice of its raised parapet wall. It was designed by architects Cuthbert & Suehrk.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Building (1956–1958), 206 E. Lincoln St., a two-story two-part commercial block which is "an excellent example of Modern Movement architecture in downtown Norton."
and more.
Since the designation of the area as a historic district, the local Chamber of Commerce estimates over $6,595,000 has been invested in restoration and rehabilitation of buildings and has led to more businesses relocating to the district.
References
External links
Norton Downtown Historic District inventory record, with 24 photos and a district map, at Kansas Historical Society
DiscoverNorton.com: Community profile
National Register of Historic Places in Norton County, Kansas
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Buildings and structures in Norton County, Kansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmit%20Security | Transmit Security is a private cybersecurity and identity and access management company based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Boston, Massachusetts. Founded by Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar in 2014, Transmit Security provides companies with customer authentication, identity orchestration, and workforce identity management services. In June 2021, the company completed a Series A funding round by raising $543 million, which was reported to be the largest Series A in cybersecurity history. Transmit Security is a FIDO Alliance Board member.
History
Transmit Security was co-founded in 2014 by Mickey Boodaei and Rakesh Loonkar. Boodaei and Loonkar previously founded Trusteer in 2006, which was acquired by IBM in 2013 for $1 billion.
In November 2020, Transmit Security ranked 5th on Deloitte's "North America Technology Fast 500", a list of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America.
In February 2021, Transmit Security joined the FIDO Alliance Board.
In June 2021, Transmit Security completed its Series A funding round by raising $543 million from investors. It was reported to be the largest Series A in cybersecurity history. Primary investors included Insight Partners, and General Atlantic, with additional investment from Cyberstarts, Geodesic, SYN Ventures, Vintage and Artisanal Ventures. In September 2021, Citi Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management joined as investors.
Operations
Transmit Security’s main headquarters is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Its North American headquarters is in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional offices are located in London, Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Madrid, Sao Paulo, and Mexico City.
See also
Secret Double Octopus
List of unicorn startup companies
References
Security companies of Israel
Security companies of the United States
Software companies of Israel
Software companies established in 2014
Identity management systems
Federated identity
Cloud applications
Password authentication
Computer security software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberFight%20Festival%202022 | CyberFight Festival 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight for its four brands, DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). It took place on June 12, 2022, in Saitama, Japan, at the Saitama Super Arena and aired live on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe where it featured English commentary.
The card will feature fourteen matches, with the first three being part of the Starting Battle pre-show.
It will be the second CyberFight promoted event under this name.
Production
Background
On September 1, 2017, the Japanese digital advertising company CyberAgent acquired 100% of DDT Pro-Wrestling's (DDT) shares, including its sub-brands Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). On January 28, 2020, following months of negotiation, LIDET Entertainment sold its shares of Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) to CyberAgent. On July 27, it was announced that Noah and DDT, along with TJPW and GanPro, would merge in a new promotion called CyberFight, which would oversee and promote the four individual promotions. The decision came after financial troubles faced by Noah and DDT due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 25, 2021, CyberFight president Sanshiro Takagi, CyberFight's executive vice-presidents Akito and Naomichi Marufuji, GanPro representative Ken Ohka, and TJPW representative Tetsuya Koda held a press conference, announcing that the four brands would be working together to promote an event on June 6 at the Saitama Super Arena. The following year, on January 11, it was announced a new CyberFight Festival would be held at the Saitama Super Arena on June 12, 2022.
Storylines
CyberFight Festival 2022 will feature professional wrestling matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On April 27, 2022, Kazuyuki Fujita had to vacate the GHC Heavyweight Championship after having tested positive for COVID-19. On April 30, at Majestic 2022, Go Shiozaki defeated Kaito Kiyomiya for the vacant title, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Satoshi Kojima was revealed as Naomichi Marufuji's mystery partner in their tag team match against Yoshiki Inamura and Kinya Okada. Hours after the event had concluded, it was announced that Kojima would challenge Shiozaki for the GHC Heavyweight title at CyberFight Festival.
Results
Notes
References
External links
Official CyberFight website (in Japanese)
2022 in professional wrestling
Professional wrestling in Japan
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
Pro Wrestling Noah shows
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberFight%20Festival | CyberFight Festival is an annual Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight. The event has been held since 2021 and aired worldwide on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. The event is usually held in June and features all four brands under the CyberFight umbrella: DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro).
Events
References
External links
The official CyberFight website
Professional wrestling joint shows
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
Pro Wrestling Noah shows
Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Amazon%20Prime%20Video%20exclusive%20international%20distribution%20programming | These series are programs that have aired on other networks where Amazon Prime Video has bought exclusive distribution rights to stream them in alternate regions on its own platform, although Amazon lists them as Prime Video Originals.
TV shows
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Anime
Kids & family
Non-English language
Scripted
Unscripted
Upcoming
Films
Upcoming
Notes
References
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20in%20Canberra | Cycling in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is a popular means of transportation, sporting and recreational pass time. Commuting in the city is supported by an extensive network of urban cycleways and on-street bicycle lanes. As a city established in the 20th century, Canberra's development was heavily influenced by the automobile for much of its history. The popularity of cycling in the city has increased dramatically in the 21st century with growing awareness of environmental issues, government policy supporting active transport and investment in cycling infrastructure. This has led to the development of a strong cycling culture.
A relatively small city, Canberra has some of the highest rates of active transport in the country. Australian Bicycle Council research released in 2014 showed that more people in Canberra cycled than in any other Australian city or state, against a slight decline in the national participation rate, with 47% of residents reporting they had cycled at least once during the year. In 2019, Austroads data suggested as many as 93,700 residents cycled in a typical week, with 183,300 riding at least once per year. 57% of Canberra households owned at least one bicycle. Amongst regular cyclists, the main reasons for cycling were commuting to work or travelling for study, while those who rode less frequently were more likely to do so for recreation. The number of male cyclists in the city is significantly higher than females, although the participation rates for both are still higher than the national average.
As the location of the headquarters of the Australian Institute of Sport, many professional and elite-level cyclists live in Canberra, or travel to the city for training. The Australian Capital Territory and surrounding region is a popular destination for both on and off-road cycling, with the city hosting a number of national and international competitions across a variety of cycling disciplines. The Trek Bicycle Corporation's Australian headquarters is located in the Canberra suburb of Fyshwick, taking advantage of the cycle-friendly infrastructure and varied terrain offered by the many mountain biking trails throughout the Territory.
History
20th century
Cycling has been a popular recreational pass time in the Canberra region since before the city's foundation in 1913. The Queanbeyan Cycling Club was established in 1899 (located just across the present-day border with New South Wales). Additional cycling clubs were formed in Canberra and Kingston during the 1920s. By March 1927, the Canberra Cycling Club alone had over 90 members - at that time the population was just 6000.
During the 1960s, transport network planning in Canberra was based around private vehicles as the primary mode. A network of dedicated cycle paths was first proposed by the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) in the early 1970s. A 1973 NCDC news feature discussed the benefits of building such a network to supplement the pedest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyber | Kyber is a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) designed to be resistant to cryptanalytic attacks with future powerful quantum computers. It is used to establish a shared secret between two communicating parties without an (IND-CCA2) attacker in the transmission system being able to decrypt it. This asymmetric cryptosystem uses a variant of the learning with errors lattice problem as its basic trapdoor function. It won the NIST competition for the first post-quantum cryptography (PQ) standard.
Properties
The system is based on module learning with errors (M-LWE) from the field of machine learning, in conjunction with cyclotomic rings. Recently, there has also been a tight formal mathematical security reduction of the ring-LWE problem to MLWE. Compared to competing PQ methods, it has typical advantages of lattice-based methods, e.g. in regard to runtime as well as the size of the ciphertexts and the key material. Variants with different security levels have been defined: Kyber512 (NIST security level 1, ≈AES 128), Kyber768 (NIST security level 3, ≈AES 192), and Kyber1024 (NIST security level 5, ≈AES 256). At a complexity of 161 bits, the secret keys are 2400, the public keys 1184, and the ciphertexts 1088 bytes in size. With an accordingly optimized implementation, 4 kilobytes of memory can be sufficient for the cryptographic operations. For a chat encryption scenario using liboqs, replacing the extremely efficient, non-quantum-safe ECDH key exchange using Curve25519 was found to increase runtime by a factor of about 2.3 (1.5–7), an estimated 2.3-fold (1.4–3.1) increase in energy consumption, and have about 70 times (48–92) more data overhead. Internal hashing operations account for the majority of the runtime, which would thus potentially benefit greatly from corresponding hardware acceleration.
Development
Kyber is derived from a method published in 2005 by Oded Regev, developed by developers from Europe and North America, who are employed by various government universities or research institutions, or by private companies, with funding from the European Commission, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany. They also developed the related and complementary signature scheme Dilithium, as another component of their "Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices" (CRYSTALS). Like other PQC-KEM methods, Kyber makes extensive use of hashing internally. In Kyber's case, variants of Keccak (SHA-3/SHAKE) are used here, to generate pseudorandom numbers, among other things. In 2017 the method was submitted to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its public selection process for a first standard for quantum-safe cryptographic primitives (NISTPQC). It is the only key encapsulation mechanism that has been selected for standardization at the end of the third round of the NIST standardization process. According to a footnote the report announcing the decision, it is conditional on the execution of various patent-related agreements, w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Refugee-Led%20Network | The Global Refugee-Led Network (GRN), previously known as the Network for Refugee Voices, is an international not for profit organization that organizes advocacy between local and national refugee organizations.
Mandate and structure
The Global Refugee-Led Network work to make sure that United Nations and other global decision makers are well informed by the voices of refugees.
GPN is organized around six global regions: Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South America, North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. A representative for each of the six regions form a steering committee. According to a report from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles on the status of refugee-led community organisations (RCOs) published in December 2020 the majority in the European Union are voluntary grassroots organisations (VGOs).
History
The Global Refugee-Led Network was previously known as the Network for Refugee Voices.
The Global Refugee-Led Network participated in the first ever United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Global Refugee Forum in 2019.
Activities
The GPN hosts refugee summits to contribute to the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum and collaborates with the UNHCR's Global Youth Advisory Council. GPN was described as "one of the most influential actors" pushing for participation in the Global Refugee Forum by Refugees International in 2019.
In 8 April 2020, the GPN hosted a global conference with over 100 refugee leaders and called for greater inclusion of refugees in policy making.
References
External links
Global Refugee-Led Network official website
Global Refugee Forum official website
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Organizations established in 2019
Refugee aid organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Refugee%20Voices | The Network for Refugee Voices was an international refugee network that advocated for refugee voices to be included in global refugee policy decisions.
The Network for Refugee Voices has since been superseded by the Global Refugee-Led Network.
Founding
The Network for Refugee Voices was founded officially in 2017, after informally organizing in 2016.
Membership
The founders were twelve young, mostly Syrian refugees advocates and activists, members were both refugees and refugee-led organizations. The organization did not emphasize any strict membership criteria or structure.
Objectives and activities
The strategic objective of the network was to reform global refugee protection efforts to make refugees active participants in policy decisions, and to position refugees as experts who can influence global policy making.
The specific activities undertaken to meet that objective were to influence the United Nations Global Compact for Migration, and the Global Compact on Refugees, and to attend the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' upcoming framework for equitable responsibility sharing. Out of the three activities, the Global Compact On Refugees was the highest priority.
Other activities included wider advocacy for improved refugee representation in local and global refugee protection regimes. These advocacy efforts led to increased awareness of the network and greater influence, including attendance at the June 2018 Global Summit of Refugees in Geneva.
The ambitions of the network are most clearly expressed in a quote used by Haqqi Bahram in his 2020 paper "Between Tokenism and Self-Representation": "We have been very vocative about saying nothing about us without us, and that is because we are the people affected by refugee policy, and that is why we have to be part of it."
The Network for Refugee Voices was superseded by the Global Refugee-Led Network.
References
External links
Official website
Organizations established in 2017
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Refugee aid organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMOCA%2060%20Linkedout | The IMOCA 60 Class yacht LinkedOut, FRA 79 was designed by Guillaume Verdier and launched on 9 July 2019 after being built Persico Marine based in Italy
Names and Ownership
aDvens For Cybersecurity (2019)
Skipper: Thomas Ruyant
Sail No.: FRA 59
LinkedOut (2020-2023)
Skipper: Thomas Ruyant
Sail No.: FRA 59
For the Planet (since 2023)
Skipper: Sam Goodchild
Sail No.: FRA 100
Racing Results
References
2010s sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Guillaume Verdier
Sailboat types built in Italy
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait-Robot | Portrait-Robot or The Sketch Artist is a French Canadian ten-part television crime drama series, which premiered on Club Illico on April 15, 2021. It was broadcast on Australian network, SBS-TV's streaming service, On Demand, from December 16, 2021. The series was co-created by Sophie Lorain (who also acts) with her spouse, Alexis Durand-Brault (who also directs). The action is set in Montreal, where the titular identikit or forensic sketch artist, Éve Garance (Rachel Graton), profiles both suspects and victims for a police investigation unit. The unit's leader, Maryse Ferron (Lorain) is assisted by veteran detective, Bernard Dupin (Rémy Girard) and rookie crime scene technician, Anthony Kamal (Adrien Bélugou). Major story arcs are generally resolved in two episodes, while background stories continue across more episodes. According to Club Illico's press release, in October 2021, Portrait-Robot, has been renewed for a second season.
Premise
Éve, a forensic identikit artist, who profiles suspects and victims for a Montreal police unit led by Maryse. Lead detective Bernard also mentors rookie, Anthony as they analyze crime scenes and question witnesses. Éve submerges herself in people's recollections to create her images. A subtext is the disappearance of Éve's infant son, William five years ago, coupled with her bipolar condition and the recent return of her ex-husband James. Meanwhile, Canadian Intelligence hired Bernard to infiltrate the local mafia, which are planning to expand operations. Maryse's brittle bone disease is worsening and her pregnant daughter, Delphine is worried by its inheritability.
Cast
Rachel Graton as Éve Garance: Montreal forensic sketch artist, diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, which is regulated by medication, her son William disappeared five years ago
Sophie Lorain as Maryse Ferron: Investigation Unit's leader, wheel-chair bound with brittle bone disease-like condition
Rémy Girard as Bernard Dupin: career police officer, unit's lead investigator
Adrien Bélugou as Anthony "Anto" Kamal ( Ramadés Kamal): recent unit member, crime scene technician, back-up detective
Brett Donahue as James Healy: Éve's ex-husband, father of William, billionaire businessman who now lives in England, engaged to Laura
Kathleen Fortin as Elektra Stavros-Poulain: Cyber Crimes investigator, Bernard's casual sex friend.
Gio Lione as Santo Luciani: Mafia 2nd-in-charge, Bernard's waterfront contact
Antoine Rivard-Nolin as Xavier Desjardins: uniformed police officer, first-on-scene at William's disappearance, also arrested "Jon-E-Zee"
Teddy Pluviose as Evans Toussaint: Internal Affairs investigator
Jean-François Pichette as Patrick Lacenaire: former cyber-security expert and computer programmer, convicted serial killer, born-again Christian
Martine Francke as Rita Young: Franco-Ontarian widow, Adèle's mother
Romane Denis as Audrey Sandôme: now 20-year-old pregnant woman, former 12-year-old kidnap, rape victim
Hubert Proulx as Karl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prashant%20Pillai%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Prashant Pillai (born July 1979) is an Indian-born British computer scientist. He is Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Wolverhampton. He is also the Director of Cyber Quarter - Midlands Centre for Cyber Security. He specialises in security and privacy for communication networks. Pillai has led several national/international research projects in the areas of networking protocols and cyber security. He has been invited for talks at various international conferences and has published over 100 papers within peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
He is a Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE) and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
Early life and education
Pillai was born in New Delhi, India and attended St. Columba's School in Delhi. He earned a BSc (Hons) in Electronics from the University of Delhi and an MSc in Informatics also from the University of Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from University of Bradford, UK for his thesis titled Authentication, Authorization and Accounting framework for multicast communication in highly mobile wireless networks.
Career
Pillai started his academic career at University of Bradford, UK where he moved from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and held administrative positions like Director of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Head of Electrical Engineering. He led the two-year project named SITARA: Smart Grid to harness Satellite based Virtual Power Plants for energy sustainability, which was funded by the British Council under the Global Innovation Initiative scheme.
He then moved to Oxford Brookes University in 2017, as a Reader in Cyber Security and Head of the Cyber Security Research Group at the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.
Pillai joined the University of Wolverhampton, UK as Professor of Cyber Security and Director of the Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute in 2018. He was interim Head of School for the School of Mathematics and Computer Science before taking on his current role as Associate Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the same University. He is also the Centre Director for £9m Cyber Quarter - the Midlands Centre for Cyber Security. It is a joint venture between the University of Wolverhampton and Herefordshire Council and part-funded by the Government’s Local Growth Fund, via the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The Cyber Quarter was opened in December 2021.
He has been a Co-founder and Director of several start-ups like Cydon, OnlynShield and CyberMind.
He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals and conferences and has a granted US patent around Distributed Ledger Technology.
Honours, recognition and awards
Pillai is the current Chair of the Cybersecurity W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Ukraine%20cyberattacks | During the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple cyberattacks against Ukraine were recorded, as well as some attacks on Russia. The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. According to Ukrainian officials, around 70 government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the National and Defense Council (NSDC), were attacked. Most of the sites were restored within hours of the attack. On 15 February, another cyberattack took down multiple government and bank services.
On 24 February, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Western intelligence officials believed that this would be accompanied by a major cyberattack against Ukrainian infrastructure, but this threat did not materialize. Cyberattacks on Ukraine have continued during the invasion, but with limited success. Independent hacker groups, such as Anonymous, have launched cyberattacks on Russia in retaliation for the invasion.
The Canadian government in an undated white paper published after 22 June 2022 believed "that the scope and severity of cyber operations related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has almost certainly been more sophisticated and widespread than has been reported in open sources."
Background
At the time of the attack, tensions between Russia and Ukraine were high, with over 100,000 Russian troops stationed near the border with Ukraine and talks between Russia and NATO ongoing. The US government alleged that Russia was preparing for an invasion of Ukraine, including "sabotage activities and information operations". The US also allegedly found evidence of "a false-flag operation" in Eastern Ukraine, which could be used as a pretext for invasion. Russia denies the accusations of an impending invasion, but has threatened "military-technical action" if its demands are not met, especially a request that NATO never admit Ukraine to the alliance. Russia has spoken strongly against the expansion of NATO to its borders.
January attacks
The attacks on 14 January 2022 consisted of the hackers replacing the websites with text in Ukrainian, erroneous Polish, and Russian, which state "be afraid and wait for the worst" and allege that personal information has been leaked to the internet. About 70 government websites were affected, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Security and Defense Council. The SBU has stated that no data was leaked. Soon after the message appeared, the sites were taken offline. The sites were mostly restored within a few hours. Deputy secretary of the NSDC Serhiy Demedyuk, stated that the Ukrainian investigation of the attack suspects that a third-party company's administration rights were used to carry out the attack. The unnamed company's software had been used since 2016 to develop government sites, most of which were affecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Phillips | Cynthia Phillips may refer to:
Cynthia A. Phillips, American computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories
Cynthia B. Phillips (born 1973), American planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and author of science popularization books
Cynthia Kieras Phillips (1954–2015), American plasma physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Cynthia Phillips, British Labour politician, candidate in 2022 City and County of Swansea Council election
Cynthia Phillips, actress in 1988 American comedy film Casual Sex?
Cynthia Phillips, American convicted murderer profiled in a 2020 episode of true crime television series Snapped
Cynthia Phillips, fictional character in American television drama Being Mary Jane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar%20Sternad | Dagmar Sternad is a German-American scientist and engineer. Sternad is University Distinguished Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics at Northeastern University. She is also a core member of the Institute of Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University.
Education
Sternad completed her undergraduate and master's degree in movement science and English language and linguistics from the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and received her PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Connecticut. She was supported by the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). During her studies, she also published 5 books on exercise and fitness.
Career
Following her PhD, Sternad joined the faculty of Kinesiology and Integrative Biosciences at the Pennsylvania State University from 1995 to 2008. She was subsequently appointed to the faculty of both Biology and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. As director of the Action Lab, she has been conducting computational and experimental research on the control and coordination of human movement. Sternad's interdisciplinary research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Sternad's fundamental research on human motor control and learning has also impacted studies on individuals with neurological impairments, such as stroke, autism, and dystonia. She was recognized with the Best Paper award for her paper "From theoretical analysis to clinical assessment and intervention. Through several collaborative grants, Sternad aims to translate insights in human motor control to the control of robots. She also examined motor development and its link to respiratory physiology in preterm infants.
As a result of her accomplishments in research and teaching, Sternad was named the 2014 Robert D. Klein University Lecturer. She was also two-times elected a member of the executive board of the Society for Neural Control of Movement. In 2019, Sternad was promoted to University Distinguished Professor, the highest rank the university can bestow upon a faculty member. In December 2021, Sternad was ranked amongst the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University. In 2022, she received a NIH MERIT Award bestowed to outstanding investigators for her research on basic and translational science. She also received a Fulbright US Scholar award to pursue research in Rome and Messina, Italy.
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Living people
German engineers
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Northeastern University faculty
University of Connecticut alumni
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Technical University of Munich alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographic%20Institute%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Croatia | The Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia is a government agency responsible for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data for the Republic of Croatia. The institute is located in Split, and covers scientific research and development, services related to the safety of navigation, the hydrographic-geodetic survey of the Adriatic sea, marine geodesy, design and publication of nautical charts and books, oceanographic research, and submarine geology research.
The Croatian Hydrographic Institute is responsible for the development of navigational safety service in the Adriatic, within the worldwide navigational safety system, and in cooperation with the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, port authorities, the Croatian Navy, lighthouse authorities, and hydrographic offices of all maritime countries, following internationally agreed standards.
The institute is crucial to Croatia's presence on the Adriatic, providing a basis for the development of a strong, sustainable maritime economy as part of the national economy. Part of the institute's mission states that "we pave the way for safe traffic of people and goods in the Croatian part of the Adriatic, for management of the sea and seabed resources, for safeguard and protection of the environment"
History
Sea-trading around the Adriatic and the wider Mediterranean basin has been a feature of coastal life since ancient times. Over time, navigational knowledge has been built up of favourable routes, channels, shelters, and harbours. Many early aids to navigation have been preserved, such as nautical charts, portolans, and coastal descriptions with warnings to mariners, but they were not accurate until the advent of scientifically based hydrographic surveys.
The first of these in the Adriatic was by the French hydrographer Beautemps-Beaupré, as he conducted surveys of the East Adriatic ports, bays and channels, between 1806 and 1809. To mark the 200th anniversary of that survey, the Croatian Hydrological Institute published a special edition entitled "Eastern Adriatic in the Work of Beautemps-Beaupré".
The survey and research of the Eastern Adriatic continued under the Hydrographic Office of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, which was founded in Trieste in 1860. They produced navigational charts at different scales (general, coastal, and harbour charts), nautical publications (pilot books, lists of lights, descriptions of coasts), and scientific papers dealing with astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, gravimetry, and geomagnetism.
Following the break-up of Austria-Hungary, the activities restarted at the Hydrographic Institute of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia which set up several centres along the coast:: Tivat (1922), Dubrovnik (1923), Split (1929), during the Second World War in Hvar (1943), Vis (1944) and Monopoli (1944), then finally back to Split (1944) at the end of the war. At that time, the Hydrological service was restructured to include nautical, hydrographic, geodetic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagleton%20Mine%20Camp%20Trail | The Eagelton Mine Camp Trail is an approximately hiking trail network in north-central Pennsylvania, in Sproul State Forest. The total trail distance includes several different linear trails that can be used to form one-way and loop hikes of various lengths. The trail system is also often used for mountain biking.
History and description
The Eagleton Mine Camp Trail was developed in 2006 and utilizes several old road and railroad grades associated with a coal mining community that was active from approximately 1845 to 1870. The former Eagleton Coal and Iron Company built several villages for workers, and some parts of the community were funded by the royal family of Spain. The remote community was also known for alcohol bootlegging. Some ruins can be seen along the route, though most of the former structures and transportation routes have been reclaimed by the forest. The trail network is reached from Pennsylvania Route 120, about 15 miles west of Lock Haven, via the unpaved Eagleton Road.
References
Hiking trails in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerful%20Greek%20Army | Powerful Greek Army or by the abbreviation "PGA" is a hacker group founded in 2016. The team has carried out numerous cyberattacks both in Greece and worldwide.
Notable attacks
In November 2016, a member of PGA named Kapustkiy breached some of the high commission websites in India, accessing login information of hundreds of users.
In September 2016, the group started the campaign #OpClosedMedia, targeting news media organizations around the world, mainly with denial-of-service attacks.
In December 2016, the group took down the website of the Prime Minister of Greece.
After two years of inactivity on Twitter, PGA did an attack in April 2020, getting access to the School Network of Greece, which is the largest public network that connects all schools, teachers and a number of administrative services and supervised bodies of the Ministry, leaking some of the data they had under their control. The data included usernames, passwords, country of residence, street addresses, phone numbers, and other sensitive data that were stored into the system. On why they did it, the group's main message was that "they wanted to warn the Greek government". The breach was also used by the opposition (and the second most popular political party in Greece) Syriza as a form of confrontation.
Again, in April 2020, PGA hacked the Twitter account of Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, a famous Greek politician, former spokesman of PASOK, and vice president of the Greek Parliament tweeting things like: THIS IS THE LAST WARNING GREEK GOVERNMENT.
In May 2020, they defaced the Institute of Sociological and Political Legal Research of North Macedonia, and also claimed to have hacked North Macedonia's Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Finance, exposing and posting some of the employees' personal information to the public. According to an official statement by the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, most of the data that the hackers published was old. They also added they had no evidence at the moment that the e-mail systems were hacked, while the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi explained that "no damage has been done" and informed that the ministry's IT department told him that no serious and confidential data was stolen. Some days after the attack, the group's Twitter account was taken down.
In August 2020, PGA took offline some of the biggest banks of Turkey, including, Halkbank, Ziraat Bank, İşbank, DenizBank, Yapı Kredi, and Akbank. They also downed the websites of Turkish Airlines and President of Turkey.
In January 2022, the group hacked into the Twitter account of NASA Director Parimal Kopardekar. The exact reason is unknown, but they claimed that they were looking for someone who works at NASA.
In February 2022, the group started the operation OpEndMacedonia, which attacked some of the most important computer systems of North Macedonia such as the websites of the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the country's central bank, Makedonski T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202022%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish PROMUSICAE sales and airplay charts in 2022. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors.
Chart history
References
2022
2022 in Spanish music
Spain songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemax | Telemax may refer to:
Telemax (tower), telecommunication tower in Hanover, Germany
Telemax (TV network), Mexican broadcast television network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON%20%28blockchain%20platform%29 | ICON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. ICX is the native cryptocurrency of the platform.
History
Founding
ICON was founded in 2017 by Min Kim of the Switzerland-based ICON Foundation. According to the ICON white paper, the vision for ICON was to introduce a new era of decentralization and hyper connect Korea, Asia.
Launch
ICON's initial coin offering (ICO) in September 2017 raised 150,000 ETH (approximately US$43 million at the time).
At the time of launch, ICON was supported by various public and private organizations, including the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea, and the Line Corporation in Japan.
ICON 2.0
In November 2021, ICON 2.0 was launched. Changes included Java smart contract support, and preparation for future interoperability via the Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP).
Design
ICON is a permission less, non-hierarchical network of computers (nodes) that build on a growing series of "blocks" of transactions, known as a blockchain. Each block contains an identifier of the chain that must precede it if the block is to be considered valid. ICON's consensus mechanism is called Loop Fault Tolerance (LFT), a modified version of the Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus.
The nodes are run by public representatives (P-Reps), with a block being generated approximately every two seconds. ICON was designed to be scalable for both public and private blockchain use cases.
Applications
Decentralized finance
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a use case of ICON. It offers traditional financial instruments in a decentralized architecture, outside of companies' and governments' control, such as money market funds which let users earn interest. Decentralized finance applications can be accessed through a Web3-enabled browser extension or application, which allows users to directly interact with the ICON blockchain through a website. Many of these decentralized applications (also known as dapps) can connect and work together to create complex financial services.
Smart contracts
Smart contracts are a use case of ICON. A smart contract is a computer program or a transaction protocol which is intended to automatically execute, control, or document legally relevant events and actions, according to the terms of a contract or an agreement. The objectives of smart contracts are the reduction of need in trusted intermediators, arbitrations, and enforcement costs, fraud losses, as well as the reduction of malicious and accidental exceptions.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
ICON allows for the creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Since tokens of this type are unique, they have been used to represent such things as collectibles, digital art, sports memorabilia, virtual real estate, and items within games. Land, buildings, and avatars in blockchain-based virtual worlds can also be bought and sold as NFTs.
See also
List of cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin
Decentralized finance
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxylabs | Oxylabs is a company specializing in web data gathering. It offers proxy solutions which its clients use for various activities related to market research.
The company was founded in 2015 and is currently operating from its headquarters in Lithuania.
Partnerships
In the past, Oxylabs, being a data gathering company, has partnered with various university researchers on projects aiming to tackle COVID-19 tracking. Partners included representatives of Stanford University, University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech, as well as Lugano university in Switzerland.
References
Companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in Lithuania
Technology companies established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20Fox%20Sports%20Networks | Major League Baseball on Fox Sports Networks refers to Major League Baseball television coverage on the former chain of Fox Sports regional networks.
Background
Beginning in 1997, as part of the contract with Major League Baseball it had signed the year before. Fox entered a four-year joint venture with Liberty Media Cable worth $172 million. Its recently launched the cable sports network, Fox Sports Net and was given rights to two Thursday night games per week, one for the Eastern and Central time zones and one for the Mountain and Pacific time zones with no exclusivity.
For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox network's then-sister cable channel, Fox Family (later ABC Family, now Freeform) carried a weekly Major League Baseball game on Thursday nights (a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 to 1999), as well as select postseason games from the Division Series.
After The Walt Disney Company's $2.9 billion acquisition of Fox Family in October 2001, the Thursday night cable television rights went to ESPN. Fox Sports Net's affiliates would however, continue to broadcast Major League Baseball games on a local basis until 2020. Come the start of the 2021 season, Fox Sports Networks were rebranded to Bally Sports following the Sinclair Broadcast Group's purchase of the Fox Corporation's regional sports channels.
From 2006 to 2006, Fox Sports Net also aired The FSN Baseball Report, which was a daily baseball analysis program aired during the Major League Baseball season.
League Championship Series coverage
For the first year of its exclusive six-year contract (2001), Fox did a split telecast (which had not been attempted since the ill-fated "Baseball Network" arrangement existed) for the League Championship Series. This meant that two games were played simultaneously on the same night, with one game airing on the Fox network and the other on the regional Fox Sports Net cable channel (depending on market, as some markets did not have a regional sports network with a relationship to FSN). The rationale behind the split-telecast was that because of the September 11 attacks, the entire post-season schedule was delayed by a week. Because of this, two Sunday LCS games came in conflict with a Fox NFL doubleheader. Fans and sports journalists were unimpressed with the situation and MLB commissioner Bud Selig vowed that it was a one-time deal necessitated by circumstance. However, in later years, Fox used split telecasts on a few occasions to keep the playoffs "on schedule" and maximize its prime time advertising revenue, and aired the second game on FX, which has virtually nationwide distribution on cable and satellite. This ensured that Fox did not have to air an LCS game on a weekday afternoon, when many viewers are unable to watch.
In , Game 5 of the NLCS and Game 4 of the ALCS were split between Fox and Fox Sports Net. This came off the heels of Fox airing an NFL doubleheader that particular day (October 21). In , Gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Bowl%20programming%20on%20Nickelodeon | The children's cable television network Nickelodeon has on occasion, produced special programming in-line with its corporate cousin CBS and that network's then forthcoming Super Bowl coverage.
History
Nickelodeon Takes Over the Super Bowl (2004)
Nickelodeon's first involvement with the National Football League was in 2004. In conjunction with CBS' then upcoming coverage of Super Bowl XXXVIII from Houston on February 1, 2004, CBS aired the hour long special Nickelodeon Takes Over the Super Bowl. Hosted by Brent Popolizio and Candace Bailey from U-Pick Live at the CBS Sports desk, Nickelodeon Takes Over the Super Bowl also featured appearances by CBS Sports reporter Bonnie Bernstein, Drake Bell and Josh Peck from Drake & Josh, Giovonnie Samuels and Jamie Lynn Spears from All That, Romeo Miller from Romeo!, Pick Boy, Cow (Tom Lamberth), and Garbagio from U-Pick Live, Harry Potter stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, CBS Sports analysts Marcus Allen, Boomer Esiason, Dan Marino, and Phil Simms, NFL superstars Michael Strahan and Warren Sapp alongside former Guts and Get the Picture host Mike O'Malley (then starring on the sitcom Yes, Dear, which aired on corporate sibling CBS) and finally, an on-stage performance of "My Mic" by Nick Cannon.
Nickelodeon's All Access Pass to Super Bowl XLVIII (2014)
For Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, Nickelodeon produced a string of programming across its networks. This included a special edition of TeenNick Top 10, hosted by Nick Cannon and featuring an interview with then New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz, an episode of the animated series NFL Rush Zone that featured J. J. Watt of the Houston Texans and Vernon Davis of the San Francisco 49ers, and the Season 2 premiere of the NickMom series Take Me to Your Mother. On February 1, the day before the Super Bowl, Jeff Sutphen, in character as his superhero alter ego Pick Boy, hosted a half-hour special called Nickelodeon's All Access Pass to Super Bowl XLVIII. The special not only covered the activities surrounding Super Bowl week in Times Square but also featured exclusive player interviews as well an interview with the winner of the NFL Play 60 Super Bowl contest, Thomas Brown.
Nickelodeon Superstar Slime Showdown at Super Bowl (2017–18)
For Super Bowl LI in 2017, Nickelodeon produced another set of programming for its networks. These included a series of interstitials featuring Kel Mitchell from Game Shakers and Breanna Yde from School of Rock highlighting activities at the NFL Experience, and a marathon of sports-themed programming on Nicktoons such as All in with Cam Newton, Crashletes and Jagger Eaton's Mega Life. On February 5, the same day the Super Bowl was held, Nickelodeon aired a one-hour special called The Nickelodeon Superstar Slime Showdown at Super Bowl. Hosted by Nick Cannon, The Nickelodeon Superstar Slime Showdown at Super Bowl also featured appearances by Yde, Jade Pettyjohn and Ricardo Hurtado from School of Rock, and NFL athletes including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne%20Laqueur | Marianne Laqueur (11 June 1918 - 5 April 2006) was a German Jewish refugee to Turkey, a computer scientist and local politician.
Early life
Marianne Laqueur was born on 11 June 1918 in Berlin, the daughter of August (b. 1885) and Ilse Laqueur (née Netto).
Her father was a director level doctor and physiotherapist at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin. In 1935, August Laqueur was forcibly retired under the terms of the 1933 Berufsbeamtengesetz (BBG) act, part of the Nazis persecution of those with Jewish ancestry, the first anti-Semitic law passed in Germany since 1871. Laqueur's parents emigrated to Turkey with Marianne and lived and worked in Ankara. Her father became the head of the physiotherapy department there at the Numune Hospital, and was initially granted a 5 year contract in 1935. The family were part of the Haymatloz, a phrase used in Turkish alien passports of c. 1000 German-speaking refugees, many with Jewish ancestry, who emigrated to Attaturk's Turkey between 1933 and 1945 during the Third Reich. It is a Turkish transliteration of “heimatlos”, which means homeless or uprooted in German.
German academics were part of Attaturk's Westernisation of the Turkish university systems. The Lacquer family were included in the 1939 Scurla Report by the Nazi academic Herbert Scurla who was sent to Turkey to report on the status of these academics, many of whom had moved there due to Nazi persecution. Her older brother Kurt Laqueur followed the family to escape persecution after he was denied the right to study or follow an apprenticeship in his home country. Kurt Laqueur was later interned in the Kırşehir internment camp as Turkey became less welcoming to refugees from Germany after 1938 and there married Aenne Baade, daughter of Fritz Baade, German economist and Social Democratic Party of Germany (centre left) politician whose family were also part of the Haymatloz as his second wife Edith had Jewish ancestry. Kurt Laqueur later became a German diplomat.
Career
Laqueur sought work as what she called a "Sprachtippse" (language typist) in a Turkish bank, translating Turkish into English and German. During the Second World War, she worked for the Turkish section of the Jewish Agency in Ankara, among others. She remained in Turkey until 1960. She undertook worldwide assignments for various companies, including IBM and NCR over the next forty years, becoming one of the first female computer scientists. She worked in Beirut, Tel Aviv, North Africa and the USA. It was not until the 1980s that she returned to Germany.
Political career
From 1993 to 1997 Laqueur was a member of the city council for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Green parliamentary group in the Wiesbadener Stadtparlament (the Wiesbaden city parliament). From 1994 to 1997, she served as deputy chair of the parliamentary group.
In the last decade of her life, she was a sought-after contemporary witness who was able to describe her own experience of flight from Nazi Germany and he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianlian | Tianlian (Simplified Chinese: 天链, Traditional Chinese: 天鏈, English: Sky Link) also known as CTDRS, is a Chinese data relay communication satellite constellation. The constellation serves to relay data from ground stations to spacecraft and rockets, most significantly China's crewed spaceflight program. The system currently consists of seven satellites in two generations, with the first satellite being launched in 2008.
Mission
Tianlian is used to provide real-time communications between orbiting satellites and ground control stations. The Chinese tracking and data relay satellites were developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and it is similar to the American Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) in concept. The system is designed to support near-real-time communications between orbiting spacecraft and ground control, as well as complement the ground-based space tracking and telemetry stations and ships in tracking spacecraft. This is necessary because ground stations can only maintain contact with a satellite while it is overhead. Positioning multiple satellites in geostationary orbit ensures that the ground station and satellite are both always in view of at least one relay satellite, allowing for constant communication between the ground station and target satellite. The system provides data relay services for crewed Shenzhou missions, from Shenzhou 7 onwards, the Tiangong space station, and interplanetary missions. All satellites were launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center and operate in geostationary orbit.
Tianlian I
Tianlian I consists of five satellites, all based on the DFH-3 satellite bus. The first satellite of the series, Tianlian I-01, was launched on the maiden flight of the Long March 3C launch vehicle on 25 April 2008. With the launch of Tianlian I-03, a spacecraft could be tracked for 70% of its orbit, compared to only 15% without the constellation.
Tianlian II
Tianlian II is the second generation of the constellation and currently consists of 3 satellites based on the DFH-4 satellite bus. The second generation system greatly improves data transmission rates and its multi-targeting ability. This in turn improves spacecraft operational safety and flexibility.
Satellites
See also
Queqiao - Chinese Data Relay satellite for lunar communication
Chinese Deep Space Network - Mission control for deep space missions
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System - US equivalent
Luch - Russian equivalent
Indian Data Relay Satellite System - Indian equivalent
European Data Relay System - ESA equivalent
Inter-satellite service
Shenzhou spacecraft
References
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Shenzhou program
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%20van%20der%20Mey | Gerrit van der Mey (5 January 1914November 2002) was a deafblind Dutch mathematician. He helped create software for PTERA and ZEBRA, some of the first computers designed in the Netherlands, as well as creating compilers for later computers. In 1982 he was made a member of the Order of Orange-Nassau at the grade of knight.
Early life and education
Gerrit van der Mey was born 5 January 1914 in Lisse. He was the son of a well-known bulb grower. When he was four, he contracted meningitis and became completely blind due to an opening between his outer and middle ear. He attended elementary school at a school for the blind in Bussum. He attended high school at Blinden Studien Anstalt in Marburg, Germany, where his mathematics teacher recognized his impressive aptitude for the subject.
After returning to the Netherlands Mey began studying mathematics at Leiden University, but was forced to discontinue his studies when the Nazis shut down the university in 1941. He continued studying at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma and Johannes Haantjes, where he graduated cum laude in 1943.
In 1945 Mey contracted meningitis again, leading to a total loss of hearing and loss of balance. He had to relearn to walk with the help of a guide dog. He continued his studies in mathematics at Leiden University working under Willem van der Woude; Mey received his Ph.D. in 1947. His dissertation was titled De resultant in de theorie der algebraische krommen, focusing on the theory of algebraic curves.
Work at PTT
In 1951 Mey began working as a calculator (computer programmer) at the Mathematical Department of the PTT (Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie; the Dutch mail and telephone company), working closely with Willem van der Poel. Computer programming was in its infancy at the time; the advantage for a blind worker was that there was no literature to consult as everything needed to be built from scratch. Large parts of the code and operating systems for some of the first electronic computers designed in the Netherlands, including PTERA (Postal Telecommunications Electronic Automatic Calculator) and ZEBRA (Very Simple Binary Automatic Calculator), were written by Mey. The first programs had to be written to use floating-point arithmetic, with conversions from decimal to binary. The Mathematical Department used his programming for applications such as cable calculations, filters for multiple carrier connections, and celestial mechanics. Mey also created the design of an ALGOL compiler and a LISP system for ZEBRA. For later systems he made IPL V, LISP, SNOBOL3 and ALGOL 68 compilers.
Communication
A typewriter-style keyboard allowed people to type messages to him which would be converted to a specially-constructed braille reading-box. Even after thirty years of total deafness, he retained near perfect speech, allowing him to answer questions with his voice; he collaborated with researchers to investigate his ability to retain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20audiology | Computational audiology is a branch of audiology that employs techniques from mathematics and computer science to improve clinical treatments and scientific understanding of the auditory system. Computational audiology is closely related to computational medicine, which uses quantitative models to develop improved methods for general disease diagnosis and treatment.
Overview
In contrast to traditional methods in audiology and hearing science research, computational audiology emphasizes predictive modeling and large-scale analytics ("big data") rather than inferential statistics and small-cohort hypothesis testing. The aim of computational audiology is to translate advances in hearing science, data science, information technology, and machine learning to clinical audiological care. Research to understand hearing function and auditory processing in humans as well as relevant animal species represents translatable work that supports this aim. Research and development to implement more effective diagnostics and treatments represent translational work that supports this aim.
For people with hearing difficulties, tinnitus, hyperacusis, or balance problems, these advances might lead to more precise diagnoses, novel therapies, and advanced rehabilitation options including smart prostheses and e-Health/mHealth apps. For care providers, it can provide actionable knowledge and tools for automating part of the clinical pathway.
The field is interdisciplinary and includes foundations in audiology, auditory neuroscience, computer science, data science, machine learning, psychology, signal processing, natural language processing, and vestibulology.
Applications
In computational audiology, models and algorithms are used to understand the principles that govern the auditory system, to screen for hearing loss, to diagnose hearing disorders, to provide rehabilitation, and to generate simulations for patient education, among others.
Computational models of hearing, speech and auditory perception
For decades, phenomenological & biophysical (computational) models have been developed to simulate characteristics of the human auditory system. Examples include models of the mechanical properties of the basilar membrane, the electrically stimulated cochlea, middle ear mechanics, bone conduction, and the central auditory pathway. Saremi et al. (2016) compared 7 contemporary models including parallel filterbanks, cascaded filterbanks, transmission lines and biophysical models. More recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been constructed and trained that can replicate human auditory function or to reproduce complex cochlear mechanics with high accuracy. Although inspired by the interconnectivity of biological neural networks, the architecture of CNNs is distinct from the organization of the natural auditory system.
e-Health / mHealth (connected hearing healthcare, wireless- and internet-based services)
Online pure-tone threshold audiometry (or screenin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyim%20Defense%20League | The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is an antisemitic hate group and conspiracy theory network of individuals who are active on social media websites and operate an online video platform called GoyimTV. The GDL also performs banner drops, papering neighborhoods with flyers, and other stunts to harass Jews. The GDL emerged in 2018 and is led by the antisemitic provocateur Jon Minadeo II. GDL is currently tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
Name
"Goyim" is a sometimes disparaging Yiddish and Hebrew word for non-Jews. The name "Goyim Defense League" is a play on two Jewish organizations — the violent extremist Jewish Defense League, and the anti-hate organization Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Similarly, GDL's logo is a parody of ADL's.
Description
BuzzFeed News described the GDL as white supremacist. The Goyim Defense League was listed by Middle East Media Research Institute in a March 2019 Special Report of groups engaged in "Online Incitement against Jews."
GoyimTV
GDL operates an online video channel called GoyimTV. Minadeo had launched the platform with the help of Dominic Di Giorgio of Port St. Lucie, Florida. It is used to share videos, live stream, and attract supporters to GDL.
In 2020, GoyimTV was removed by its online provider after a flood of complaints. In late October 2022, the site was again taken down after a hold was placed on it by its domain provider. Minadeo claimed that this was due to pressure from Jews. As of late January 2023, the site was back online.
Activities
The GDL is most active in California, Colorado, Florida and New York. GDL activities have also taken place in Texas (see below).
Patrick Little's Twitter HQ stunt
In December 2017, after getting suspended from Twitter, Patrick Little stood outside of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, holding a sign that read "It's not okay to be white @Twitter".
Little's "Name the Jew" Tour
Patrick Little, a member of the GDL, ran on a Republican Party ticket in the 2018 United States Senate election in California for Dianne Feinstein's seat. A native of Albany, California, Little is an IT engineer who had previously served in the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan. Little's campaign gained attention in May 2018 when he polled second only to Feinstein in a SurveyUSA poll with 18% of the general electorate and 46% with Republicans. However, the California Republican Party denounced Little and he was removed from their convention in San Diego, while stomping on an Israeli flag, claiming "They just had me expelled from the building because I won't serve Israel", calling the Californian Republican Party "Zionist stooges."
Just after the election, Little toured the United States in July and August 2018, with placards bearing antisemitic phrases such as "Jews Rape Kids", "Jews Killed 30 Million", "The Holocaust is a Lie" and pronouncing openly in public a number of antisemitic conspiracy theories, such as claiming that the Holocaust is a hoax, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksys | Banksys N.V. (or Banksys SA) was a Belgian payment processor owned by Belgian banks.
It was formed in 1989 through the merge of ATM/POS networks of Bancontact and Mister cash. It also developed the Proton system, which was later spun-off into Proton World International.
The Belgian antitrust authority noted that Banksys was too dominant in the market for payment services. The Union of Self-Employed Entrepreneurs noted in 2003 that this issue has not been fixed Banksys was merged with Atos Worldline at the end of 2006, together with the Bank Card Company.
See also
Interpay
EquensWorldline
References
External links
on the Internet Archive
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecbbluebookea200708en.pdf
Defunct companies of Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Opstad | David G. Opstad (born ) is a retired American computer scientist specializing during his career in computer typography and information processing (focusing on character encodings), leading to several breakthroughs. Opstad was a contributor to Unicode 1.0, together with Joe Becker, Lee Collins, Huan-mei Liao, and Nelson Ng.
Opstad spent much of his career in private industry at Apple, where he contributed to its TrueType font specifications. His work on TrueType GX, although not much used or supported in its own time, formed the basis for OpenType Font Variations as they can be applied to TrueType outline fonts—all OpenType fonts with quadratic Bézier curves.
Opstad is named on several US software patents.
Education
Opstad has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and a Master of Library Science from University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
Among tech companies Opstad has worked for are Xerox, and Apple; he retired from the industry in 2021, leaving Monotype after more than 16 years.
During his time at Apple, he was responsible for AAT, where he designed (for example) the OpenType table, named after the type designer Hermann Zapf. In the 1990s, Dave Opstad worked with Tom Rickner and others to develop TrueType GX. At that time software producers like Microsoft or Adobe did not implement the necessary support for this new technology, however, TrueType GX would later become the basis of modern variable fonts, (also known as OpenType Font Variations).
Besides his work on font standards, Opstad's work on the earliest versions of Unicode—proposing the use of discrete 16-bit character codes (which was later increased, but retained via backwards compatible surrogate pairs), rather than the way that was then common and which he'd grown frustrated with, Xerox's Character Code Standard (XCCS)—led to easy exchange of messages between different computer hardware and operating systems without either mojibake or "tofu" .
References
Further reading
Living people
People involved with Unicode
American computer scientists
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Apple Inc. employees
Xerox people
1950s births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Kids | BBC Kids is the international children's brand of BBC Studios, and has been applied to a number of TV services. It draws from the long history of children's programming on the BBC, and is strongly related to the CBBC channel in the United Kingdom.
History
Canada
The BBC Kids brand was first introduced in Canada with the launch of the BBC Kids channel on 5 November 2001. It was described as a specialty television service devoted to educational and entertaining programming for children and youth (ages 2–17). Most of the channel's programming was from the UK. The channel was a joint venture between Alliance Atlantis and BBC Worldwide, the BBC's overseas operating arm.
Control was eventually transferred to Knowledge Network Corporation, a Crown corporation of the Government of British Columbia with BBC Worldwide retaining its existing interest. On 2 October 2018, a joint statement from Knowledge Network and BBC announced the channel would cease operations at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2019. The channel's license was revoked by the CRTC on 10 January 2019, at the request of Knowledge.
Australia
BBC Kids launched on 24 April 2021 on Fetch TV in response to Cartoon Network and Boomerang entering an exclusivity agreement with Foxtel and departing the Fetch lineup. This complemented an existing CBeebies channel available in Australia, catering to children aged 0 to 6. The show was launched with popular children's shows from the UK.
Online services
On 11 January 2022, BBC Studios added BBC Kids as an additional channel to the Pluto TV platform in the United States, both in English (as "BBC Kids") and in Spanish (as "Niños por BBC").
Taiwan Mobile myVideo has become the first streaming platform in Asia to launch BBC Kids as a Video on Demand channel, which was launched on 1 July 2022. The channel has included titles that had been previously aired on CBeebies Asia to bring along other titles that was tailored for kids audiences, such as Spy in the Wild and Deadly 60.
A BBC Kids subscription app service with 100 hours of content became available in South Africa in September 2022, through a partnership of Switch Media and MTN Group.
Distribution
Current distribution
Former distribution
References
External links
Australian website
International BBC television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2001
BBC Worldwide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar%20Ben%20N%C3%A9ji | Nizar Ben Néji is a Tunisian computer engineer and doctor in information and communication technologies, specializing in cybersecurity and cyber criminality with a special focus in his career on cryptography and PKI-related solutions. Recognized for his expertise in innovation and qualified by his rich international experience in the field of information and communication technologies, cybersecurity and cyber criminality, Dr. Ben Néji has been appointed in charge of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies in Tunisia since August 2, 2021.
Biography
Nizar Ben Neji holds a Doctorate degree in Information and Communication Technologies from the Higher School of Communications of Tunis (Sup'com) of the University of Carthage and an engineering degree from the National School of Computer Sciences of Tunis (ENSI, part of Manouba University) in 2005. He also performed postdoctoral scientific research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in USA as Fulbright scholar, in 2015.
Career
Dr. Ben Néji started his career as a PKI engineer and later project manager at the Tunisian Government Certification Authority (ANCE) of the Ministry of ICT and Digital Economy in Tunisia from 2005 to 2013 and was a member of several National Steering committees and working groups in charge of supervising and conducting National IT and e-Government projects.
In 2013, he joined the University of Carthage in Tunisia, as lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte (FSB), then at the Higher School of Communications of Tunis (Sup'com).
Dr. Ben Néji was actively involved as an expert at an international level with CTO (Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization), ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and AICTO (Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization) in delivering seminars in a wide variety of subjects related to cybersecurity and cyber criminality.
References
Living people
Tunisian politicians
1981 births
Government ministers of Tunisia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tess%20Posner | Tess Posner is an American social entrepreneur and musician best known for her work in artificial intelligence advocacy and ethics, focusing on increasing equity and inclusion in technology.
Posner headed several initiatives to promote diversity in technology before being hired as the CEO of non-profit organization AI4ALL, a position from which she stepped down in 2021 to concentrate on her music career. Her work has earned recognition including her selection as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2020.
Early years and education
Posner grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. In high school, she traveled to El Salvador to build houses with Habitat for Humanity following an earthquake. Posner holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Mathematics from Saint John's College and a Master's degree from Columbia University in Social Enterprise Administration.
Career
Social entrepreneurship
Early in her career, Posner built and ran Samsa School, a non-profit organization providing low-income people worldwide with tools and education to find work in the digital economy. Then, she became the managing director of TechHire at Opportunity@Work, a White House initiative that sought to increase diversity in the technology industry. In 2016, Posner was selected as a fellow at the Institute for the Future.
Posner then joined non-profit organization AI4ALL as their CEO and executive director. AI4ALL provides AI education and mentorship particularly towards historically underrepresented talent. In the years she served as CEO, AI4ALL saw over 15,000 young people participate in the organization's AI education and mentorship programs. Posner has spoken at SXSW, Grace Hopper Celebration, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, and further conferences about artificial intelligence and technology diversity and outreach.
She is listed as a coauthor in Vint Cerf and David Nordfors's 2018 book The People Centered Economy: The New Ecosystem for Work.
In an online statement published in October 2021, Posner announced that she would step out of the role as CEO of AI4ALL into an advisory role to pursue her music career full-time. Emily Reid took over her role at the start of 2022 as interim CEO.
Music
Posner is also an alt-pop music artist. She released her first EP in 2018 and released new singles in 2020.
Selected awards and recognition
2019 – VentureBeat Women in AI Award: Responsibility and Ethics Winner
2019 – Alconics Awards AI Innovator of the Year Finalist
2020 – 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree
References
Living people
Columbia University alumni
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
Artificial intelligence ethicists
Social entrepreneurs
Nonprofit chief executives
American pop musicians
Musicians from Boston
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola%20Inverardi | Paola Inverardi (born 1957) is an Italian computer scientist specializing in software engineering. She is a professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, and the former rector of the university.
Education and career
Inverardi was born in L'Aquila on 3 November 1957. She studied computer science at the University of Pisa, earning a laurea in 1981. After three years with Olivetti, she became a researcher for the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in 1984. She moved to her present position as a professor at the University of L'Aquila in 1994. She was founding director of the computer science department at the University of L'Aquila, and headed the department from 2001 to 2007, and from 2008 to 2012 served as dean of science at the university. From 2013 to 2019 she was rector of the University of L'Aquila.
Recognition
In 2011, Mälardalen University College in Sweden gave Inverardi an honorary doctorate, and in 2017 the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo gave her another honorary doctorate. The IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) gave her their 2013 IEEE TCSE Distinguished Service Award.
Inverardi was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2012. She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to software architecture".
References
External links
Home page
1957 births
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of Academia Europaea
Academic staff of the University of L'Aquila
Heads of universities in Italy
Software testing people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Pack%20%28TV%20series%29 | Action Pack is a preschool computer-animated children's streaming television series developed by Shea Fontana for Netflix. Created by William Harper, the series premiered on January 4, 2022. A second season was released on June 6, 2022. A special, titled The Action Pack Saves Christmas, was released on November 28, 2022.
Premise
The series follows the Action Pack, a quartet of superheroes-in-training taught by their teacher Mr. Ernesto and his robotic dog Plunky.
Voice cast
Main
Sydney Thomas as Treena, a girl who uses powers controlling plant life, fitting in with her love of nature. Her color is green, and her badge has a flower shape. She serves as the Action Pack's de facto leader. She uses the "Petal Power Shield" and the "Awesomer Blossomer" baton gadget, which lets her sprout vines for swinging or grabbing and uses a dandelion-like balloon to float. Her powers are upgraded in the final episode of season 2, where she obtains the power to create vine cages, do a "Petal Copter", and speak to plants. Even as a civilian, she is an excellent gardener and can instantly make plants grow.
Oscar Reyez as Watts, a boy who uses powers controlling electricity. His color is blue, and his badge has a pair of lightning bolts. Watts is the most energetic and impatient of the team, and can morph his legs into lightning bolts for super speed and flight and throw lightning bolts or ball lightning.
Julieta Cortes as Wren Reyes, a girl who can use animal abilities. Her color is yellow, and her badge has a cat's paw print. Wren is the most empathetic team member, and she often uses the powers of a butterfly's flight, a polar bear's strength, a fox's smell, an alligator's protection, a mouse's small size, and a cheetah's speed. She loves animals and claims she can communicate with them.
Nevin Kar as Clay Patel, a boy who uses powers controlling plasma and forcefields. His color is red, and his badge has a sun shape. A pacifist, Clay is the most reserved member of the team, and his body is composed of a form of plasma that allows him to shapeshift and stretch or deform his body. He can also see through things with his "plasma vision" and create "invinci-balls" that protect against anything.
Giancarlo Sabogal as Mr. Ernesto Action, the adult mentor of the Action Pack and great nephew of Great Uncle Action, who is the founder of the Action Academy. He is the patient and kind instructor at the Action Academy and the Action Pack's mentor. Although he doesn't have any super special powers of his own, Mr. Ernesto is empathetic toward the evil villains and provides the Action Pack with all the support and wisdom they need in order to save the day. He is accompanied by a robotic dog named Plunky, who acts as his trusty companion and teaching assistant who keeps the Action Pack company and alerts them with any important information that they need to know.
Recurring
Hartley Wexler as Dinah Rex, a young girl obsessed with dinosaurs. This obsession has led her to p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20State%20of%20the%20World%27s%20Cash%202020 | The State of the World's Cash 2020 is a publication by CALP Network that reports on the use of cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian aid.
It was written by Jose Jodar, Anna Kondakhchyan, Ruth McCormack, Karen Peachey, Laura Phelps and Gaby Smith.
Background
The report follows on from "The State of the World's Cash Report", a seminal piece published by CALP in 2018.
The report reflects on progress made against global policy commitments made by the Grand Bargain, ECHO's 10 Principles, the High Level Panel on Cash and the World Bank's Strategic Note on Cash Transfers in Humanitarian Contexts among others. These and other policy commitments are summarised in the Global Framework for Action: A Consolidated Summary of Commitments for Cash Transfer Programming which provides the overall structure to the State of the World's Cash Report with additional chapters to reflect new trends and issues.
This document is widely cited and used both by policy makers and practitioners. It is a source referenced in the annual review of progress against Grand Bargain commitments and in multiple other authoritative research, policy and guidance reports.
Synopsis
It documents how the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in humanitarian aid has doubled from US$2.8 billion in 2016, to $5.6 billion in 2019, representing 17.9% of spending on humanitarian assistance. Chapter by chapter it examines progress made on priority issues and includes recommendations for humanitarian policy makers and practitioners.
Chapter 1 focuses on Funding, Policies, Volume, and Collaboration.
Chapter 2 looks at Mainstreaming CVA – Progress Risks and Challenges.
Chapter 3 explores the question of Quality Programming.
Chapter 4 digs into Building Sufficient Capacity for Cash and Voucher Assistance.
Chapter 5 examines questions issues related to Coordination. It documents ambiguity around coordination of CVA activities and the impact that has on delivery of humanitarian aid and effectiveness of the program.
Chapter 6 has two sections – the first part focuses on Evidence and the second on Investing in Innovation.
Chapter 7 examines questions related to Support to CVA Integration with Local Systems.
Chapter 8 focuses on linkages between social protection and CVA, looking at how humanitarian agencies can work closer with national governments.
Chapter 9 was a late addition to the report, written in the early days of the COVID-19 it looked ahead at what the pandemic might mean for the use of CVA.
References
External links
Official site
Humanitarian aid
2020 non-fiction books
Current affairs books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20F.%20L%C3%B3pez | Carlos Federico López Restrepo (born 1975) is a Colombian-American scientist who researches network-driven biological processes using computational tools. Until March 2022, López was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology & Biomedical Informatics & Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is currently a Principal Scientist and the Multiscale Modeling Lead at Altos Labs.
Early life and education
López was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from Colegio San Carlos, a primary and secondary private Catholic school in Bogotá.
López graduated from University of Miami with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, and a B.L.A. in Liberal Arts in 1998. In 2004 he obtained a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Michael L. Klein in the University of Pennsylvania. He was also postdoctoral fellow in chemistry at the Center for Computational Molecular Sciences of the University of Texas at Austin and research fellow in systems biology at the Harvard Medical School.
Career
López lead a namesake laboratory in Vanderbilt University in the department of biochemistry with the goal of “developing and applying numerical, modeling, and statistical methods to understand cellular processes and their dysregulation.”
Under his 2019 National Science Foundation CAREER award López investigated the underpinnings for essential biochemical processes. In 2017 he was named Vanderbilt’s liaison to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
López has published more than forty papers and has done numerous presentations in academic and scientific conferences. His work has been cited in thousands of publications.
In 2021 López was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. In 2022, López moved to Altos Laboratories to study cellular processes associated with aging.
Software development
The López lab has contributed to various software tools used in systems biology including:
PySB a modeling framework to encode cellular biochemical processes in Python.
PyDREAM a Python implementation of the DREAM algorithm for Bayesian parameter inference.
MAGINE a modeling framework for multi-omics data integration.
PyViPR a visualization tool for dynamic biochemical processes with automated network resolution representation.
All tools from the Lopez lab can be found at the Lopez lab website on GitHub.
References
External links
Colombian scientists
People from Bogotá
Vanderbilt University faculty
University of Miami alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Harvard Medical School faculty
Colegio San Carlos alumni
1975 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawthereum | Pawthereum (ticker: PAWTH) is a decentralized, animal welfare–focused cryptocurrency created in October 2021, running on the Ethereum network. A percentage of every transaction goes to a charity wallet, and an additional percentage goes back to token holders in the form of reflections.
History
The Pawthereum Foundation (also known as Stichting Pawthereum) was formed in the Netherlands. Pawthereum is a fork of another meme coin, GRUMPY, based on Grumpy Cat. In March 2021, the Grumpy Cat Coin project donated $70,000 in crypto funds to Sterling Animal Shelter. GRUMPY was converted into Pawthereum after a lawsuit by the owners of Grumpy Cat.
Notable donations
Notable donations include 26 ETH, valued at around $120,000 at the time, to Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home. Another was $50,000 to Four Paws USA, done as a matching donation on Giving Tuesday (November 30, 2021). The project made a donation valued at $50,000 to Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary.
As of July 2022, Pawthereum and its partners have raised $576,200 for animal welfare–focused charities, with $478,700 being donated directly by the Pawthereum team.
Endorsement by Kevin O'Leary
Canadian businessman and entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary has repeatedly endorsed the project, praising Pawtherem's utility for charitable giving that goes beyond simply being a meme coin.
References
Cryptocurrency projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorail%20Inc. | Monorail Inc., later the Monorail Computer Corporation, was an American computer company founded in 1995 in Marietta, Georgia, by former Compaq executive Doug Johns. The company's Monorail PC, which was an all-in-one computer with a flat-panel LCD, prefigured Apple's similarly designed iMac G4 by over five years. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company "helped spawn a revolution in personal computers ... [selling] machines for as little as $999 in an effort to woo new price-sensitive users", to which larger manufacturers like Compaq and Packard Bell NEC followed suit. Monorail ceased operations in July 2005.
History
Foundation (1995–1996)
Principal founder H. Douglas "Doug" Johns (born 1948) was previously the president of Compaq's personal computer division. He left in 1993, citing long hours, and took a sabbatical while holding his stock options in Compaq. Johns observed the computer industry from a distance and observed that the companies earning the most in sales were intelligent with their packaging and had their logistics in order. Johns felt that Compaq were opposites in the latter regard: "It seemed like we always had monitors in Singapore when we needed them in Europe or too many computers in Germany when we needed them in Italy". Johns felt that he could compete with Dell and Gateway 2000 in the build-to-order market and sold $2 million worth of Compaq's shares to put into the formation of Monorail in 1995.
Johns scouted two of his colleagues from Compaq, David Hocker and Nicholas Forlenza, to co-found the company with him. The core marketing strategy the three laid out before production of any computers began was to combine the slim inventory of Gateway and Dell (due to their build-to-order nature) with the trust afforded by tangible goods on the retail floor, as Compaq had managed. This marriage of approaches was dubbed "Dellpaq" by Andrew Watson, Monorail's VP of marketing in 1997, and was to be further augmented with a sub-$1000 price, to entice first-time computer buyers. The co-founders soon hired other technology companies to manage the company and design its products. Most of Monorail's initial executive roster included employees from Texas Instruments, Global Village, and Oracle. The California-based NameLab was hired to conjure the Monorail trademark.
As Johns felt that packaging optimization was crucial, he and his colleagues built the prototype for an all-in-one computer that fit within a volume of , per FedEx's specification for the optimal box size for a package weighing between . As a box of that size and weight capacity could not remotely fit a cathode-ray tube monitor—a display technology common for the time—Johns fit the computer with a flat panel liquid-crystal display borrowed from a laptop. The result was the Monorail PC, a system roughly 80 percent the size of a desktop computer but twice as heavy as a laptop. Phelps Technologies and FedEx were hired for manufacturing and distribution respectively. M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai%20Li | Hai (Helen) Li is a Chinese-American electrical and computer engineer known for her research on neuromorphic engineering, the development of computation systems based on physical artificial neurons, and on deep learning, techniques for using deep neural networks in machine learning. She is Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.
Education and career
Li earned both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Tsinghua University, in 1998 and 2000 respectively. She completed her Ph.D. at Purdue University in 2004.
She worked in industry at Qualcomm, Intel, and Seagate Technology on computer memory technology including static random-access memory, memristors, and spintronicss, before returning to academia in 2009 with a position at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, then known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. She moved from there to the University of Pittsburgh in 2012, and then to Duke University in 2017, becoming Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor before her promotion to full professor.
Recognition
Li was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, "for contributions to neuromorphic computing systems". She was elected as a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration".
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electronics engineers
American women engineers
Chinese electronics engineers
Chinese women engineers
Tsinghua University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Duke University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Yellowstone%20%28American%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Yellowstone is an American neo-Western drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson that premiered on June 20, 2018, on Paramount Network.
The series was renewed for a fifth season that was originally to be split into two installments of seven episodes each; the first part of the fifth season aired as 8 episodes, to be followed with the second half of the fifth season expected in mid-2023. The fifth season premiered on November 13, 2022, with two episodes, and the first part installment ended on January 1, 2023.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
Season 2 (2019)
Season 3 (2020)
Season 4 (2021–22)
Season 5 (2022–23)
Ratings
The two-hour series premiere of Yellowstone averaged 2.8 million viewers in live + same day and became the most-watched original scripted series telecast ever on Paramount Network (or its predecessor Spike). The premiere audience grows to nearly 4 million when the two encore airings of the premiere are factored in. The premiere audience more than doubled that of Paramount Network's first scripted drama series, Waco and more than tripled the debut viewership of Paramount Network's new comedy series, American Woman. It was later reported that the premiere's Live+3 Nielsen ratings revealed that 4.8 million viewers ultimately watched the premiere after delayed viewing was factored in. By the series' third episode, it was reported that the show had become the second-most-watched television series on ad-supported cable to air in 2018, only behind AMC's The Walking Dead.
Yellowstones fourth season premiere broke records. The two-hour premiere was watched by 8.38 million viewers in live + same day, which made it cable's most watched episode since 2018. The premiere also hit a new series high in the key adults 18-49 demo, drawing a 3.26 rating in adults 18-49 (L+SD), which was up 82% from the Season 3 premiere. Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of MTV Entertainment Studios, commented "Taylor has created a riveting world that our remarkable cast led by Kevin Costner brings to life in a way audiences can't get enough of. The Yellowstone season four premiere numbers are just another reason why we are thrilled to deepen our relationship with Taylor and capitalize on this tremendous momentum by building out the Yellowstone franchise together."
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Notes
References
External links
Official screenplay for "Horses in Heaven"
Yellowstone
Yellowstone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20K.%20Gregurick | Susan Kathryn Gregurick is an American computational chemist. She is the associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Gregurick is the director of the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy.
Education
Gregurick received her undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her 1994 dissertation was titled A theoretical investigations [sic] into the dynamics of open-shell systems: (1) vibrational inelastic scattering of NO(²[Pi]) from Ag(111) and (2) prediction of the bend-stretch levels of ArBH(A¹[Pi]), a van [der] Waals complex. Her doctoral advisor was Millard H. Alexander.
She was a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a conducted a Sloan Research Fellowship at the University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research in Shady Grove, Maryland.
Career
Gregurick was a professor of computational biology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where her research interests included dynamics of large macromolecules. Her areas of expertise are computational biology, high performance computing, neutron scattering and bioinformatics.
Gregurick was a program manager for the United States Department of Energy (DOE) where she developed the information and data sharing policy for the agency’s Genomics Science Program and oversaw the development and implementation of the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase, a framework to integrate data, models, and simulations together for a better understanding of energy and environmental processes.
Gregurick joined the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) in 2013. She was the division director for NIGMS biomedical technology, bioinformatics and computational biology (BBCB). Her mission in BBCB was to advance research in computational biology, behavioral and data sciences, mathematical and biostatistical methods, and biomedical technologies in support of the NIGMS mission to increase understanding of life processes.
Gregurick assisted in the development of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) which was established in 2018. Starting in November 2018, she served as a senior advisor to ODSS until she was appointed by Francis Collins on September 16, 2019, as NIH associate director for data science and director of the ODSS. Gregurick succeeded Philip Bourne. She received the 2020 Leadership in Biological Sciences Award from the .
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American chemists
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University of Maryland, College Park alumni
University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty
Women data scientists
Data scientists
National Institutes of Health people
United Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Rally%20GB | The 2002 Rally GB (formally the 58th Network Q Rally of Great Britain) was the fourteenth and final round of the 2002 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 14 November and 17 November 2002, and was won by Subaru's Petter Solberg, his 1st win in the World Rally Championship.
Background
Entry list
Itinerary
All dates and times are GMT (UTC±0).
Results
Overall
World Rally Cars
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
Bold text indicates 2002 World Champions.
Junior World Rally Championship
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
Bold text indicates 2002 World Champions.
References
External links
Official website of the World Rally Championship
Rally GB
2002 Rally GB
Rally GB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Cross%20data%20breach | On 20 January 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross made an appeal to hackers who had stolen private data, saying they would speak "directly and confidentially" to those responsible for the attack. The hackers had stolen private data on more than 515,000 vulnerable people from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. So far there is no proof that the data has been leaked, but the ICRC said that their gravest concern was the risk posed by exposing the data.
The attack was aimed at a Swiss contractor that stores the data.
The perpetrators have not been identified.
Impact
The ICRC has suspended access to compromised computer systems which are part of the Restoring Family Links programme, which was targeted in the attack. A spokesman said "We will do our utmost to ensure some business continuity and a resumption of services as soon as possible".
References
External links
Sophisticated cyber-attack targets Red Cross Red Crescent data on 500,000 people - www.icrc.org
Cyberattack on International Committee of the Red Cross - www.redcross.org
2022 in computing
Cyberattacks
Data breaches
Cyberattack
January 2022 crimes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilverTerrier | SilverTerrier is a code name for a syndicate of BEC cyber criminals. Identified by the Interpol's Global Financial Crime Taskforce to be from Nigeria, they are a syndicate of over 400 unique actors or groups accused of targeting thousands of organizations worldwide through business email compromise (BEC) scams.
Starting as far back as 2014 as novices, the cyber crime gang has used tens of thousands of financial scams dating back using several malware tools.
Background
In 2014, security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit42 threat-intelligence coined the name SilverTerrier to describe novice Nigerian malware groups using business email compromise attacks to exploit organizations across several sectors and countries. By 2019, 81,300 malware samples by Nigeria's BEC groups were attributed to over 2,100,00 attacks. In 2019, the group was linked to over 400 threat actors, compared to 300 in 2018. They were observed to have gone from launching 28,000 BEC attacks per month in 2018 to 245,637 in 2019 towards organizations across many sectors.
They've been responsible for attacks on 50,000 different individuals and companies since inception.
They have been linked to several COVID-19 themed attacks consisting of fake orders for personal protective equipment, shipping delay notices for COVID-19-related items, fake vaccine-related news which come attached with malware.
Law Enforcement Activity
Due to the high profile of SilverTerrier, they garnered the attention of a wide range of Law Enforcement agencies. This eventually led to arrests of 11 individuals being made between December 13, 2021, and December 22, 2021, during an operation by the Nigerian Police Force and INTERPOL.
The arrests were a combined effort by Interpol's Cybercrime Directorate in Singapore, Nigerian law enforcement agencies, Group-IB and Palo Alto Networks.
The suspects were based in Lagos and Asaba, and were regarded as being part of the technical backbone of the operations, rather than low-level money mules.
According to a statement by the Assistant General of Police, Garba Baba Umar who doubles as the INTERPOL's vice president for Africa, "One of the arrested suspects was in possession of more than 800,000 user names and passwords. Another suspect had been monitoring conversations between 16 companies and their clients and diverting funds to ‘SilverTerrier’ whenever company transactions were about to be made".
In May 2022, Interpol announced the arrest 37-year-old Nigerian man in an international operation spanning four continents. The individual was regarded as the leader of the cybercrime syndicate. The police operation, codenamed Delilah, was initiated by an intelligence referral from several INTERPOL partners from the private sector: Group-IB, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and Trend Micro.
References
Crime in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotobank | is a Japanese-language online encyclopedia which allows users to search across dictionaries, encyclopedias, and databases provided by publishers and others. It is operated by Voyage Marketing Co. When the service was first launched in 2009, it was stylized "kotobank" in rōmaji, but has since been stylized in katakana.
History
In June 2008, The Asahi Shimbun and EC Navi Inc. launched the "Minna no Chiezo" service, an online version of "Chiezo," a dictionary of modern terms that was once published. The service was rebuilt as a dictionary platform in which various companies could participate. The "kotobank" service was launched on April 23, 2009, under the management of The Asahi Shimbun and EC Navi Inc. At the time of its launch, it claimed to cover a total of 430,000 entries in 44 dictionaries and encyclopedias, the core of which were provided by Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Asahi Shimbun Publishing. In its early days, the site had strong ties with The Asahi Shimbun, with related news from The Asahi Shimbun's website, asahi.com, appearing on its pages.
The Asahi Shimbun and Genesix began distributing the "kotobank for iPhone" electronic dictionary platform application for the iPhone in March 2011. In October 2011, EC Navi, which had been operating the site, changed its name to Voyage Group Inc.
On October 1, 2019, following a corporate reorganization of Voyage Group Inc, Voyage Marketing Inc, a subsidiary of Carta Holdings, will operate the company. In April 2021, The Asahi Shimbun logo will disappear from the site and become the sole display of Voyage Marketing, and the registered trademark was also transferred from The Asahi Shimbun to Voyage Marketing. At the same time, the link to Kotobank from The Asahi Shimbun homepage was also lost.
Reliability
When the service was launched in 2009, The Asahi Shimbun and other operators pointed out the unreliability of information on the Internet and stated, "We aim to be the largest free glossary site in Japan with high reliability, quality and searchability of information. We will build a highly reliable website," said Hiromi Onishi, head of the Digital Media Division at The Asahi Shimbun.
The National Diet Library's Collections and Bibliography Department states that items listed in the Kotobank may be used as a reference when establishing new ordinary subjects in the National Diet Library's Subject Headings List if they "exist in book form, such as the Encyclopedia MyPedia, or are successors to it," and "the explanations of words and phrases are general rather than intended for specific users.
See also
Weblio - Similar services that allow batch searching from many dictionaries
References
External links
収録辞書一覧
Trademarks
Internet properties established in 2009
Japanese websites
Shogakukan
Kodansha
Asahi Shimbun Company
Online dictionaries
Online encyclopedias |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita%20Sarawagi | Sunita Sarawagi is an Indian computer scientist known for her research in databases, data mining, and machine learning, including the use of natural language processing to extract structured data from text. She is Institute Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.
Education and career
Sarawagi earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Kharagpur in 1991. She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in computer science with database expert Michael Stonebraker, earning a master's degree in 1993 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996, with the master's thesis Efficient Organization of Large Multidimensional Arrays and doctoral dissertation Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases.
After working as a researcher for IBM Research at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, she became an assistant professor at IIT Bombay in 1999. She was promoted to associate professor in 2003 and full professor in 2014. Since 2020 she has headed the Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science.
Recognition
Sarawagi was the winner of the 2019 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science "for her research in databases, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing, and for important applications of these research techniques". In the same year, IIT Kharagpur gave her their Distinguished Alumni Award, and IIT Bombay gave her their Prof. H. H. Mathur Excellence Award in Applied Sciences.
She was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2013, and was elected as a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to statistical machine learning for information analysis, extraction, and integration".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian computer scientists
Indian women computer scientists
IIT Kharagpur alumni
Academic staff of IIT Bombay
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20FM | Star FM may refer to:
Star FM (Australia), a former radio network in Australia
Star FM (Kenya), a Somali-language radio station
Star FM (Philippines), a radio network in the Philippines
Star FM (South Africa), a radio station in Klerksdorp, South Africa
Star FM Zimbabwe, a national radio station in Zimbabwe
See also
List of radio stations named Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCAMP-DX | JCAMP-DX are text-based file formats created by JCAMP for storing spectroscopic data. It started as a file format for Infrared spectroscopy. It was later expanded to cover Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, electron magnetic resonance and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Later extensions for good laboratory practice were added to cover contract laboratories needs. Despite all efforts to create an easy to comprehend standards, most vendor implementations differ slightly. An open source implementation exists in Java.
References
External links
official website
Chemical file formats
Spectroscopy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locustopsis | Locustopsis is an extinct genus of grasshopper in the family Locustopsidae.
The Paleobiology Database lists the following species as accepted within Locustopsis:
Locustopsis africanus
Locustopsis anatolica
Locustopsis apicalis
Locustopsis bernstorffi
Locustopsis bucklandi
Locustopsis cockerelli
Locustopsis constricta
Locustopsis cubitalis
Locustopsis dubia
Locustopsis elegans
Locustopsis elongata
Locustopsis ferghanensis
Locustopsis germari
Locustopsis gracilis
Locustopsis gyra
Locustopsis karatavica
Locustopsis lacera
Locustopsis lacoei
Locustopsis latipennis
Locustopsis maculosa
Locustopsis mecklenburgica
Locustopsis nana
Locustopsis picta
Locustopsis posterior
Locustopsis procera
Locustopsis pulchella
Locustopsis reducta
Locustopsis rhytofemoralis
Locustopsis shurabica
Locustopsis sippeli
Locustopsis spectabilis
Locustopsis uvarovi
References
Caelifera
Insects described in 1906
Fossil Orthoptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpsychology%2C%20Behavior%2C%20and%20Social%20Networking | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering cyberpsychology and the psychological effects of social networking services like Facebook and Twitter. It was established in 1998 as CyberPsychology & Behavior, obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and the editor-in-chief is Brenda K. Wiederhold (Scripps Memorial Hospital). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.157.
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External links
Academic journals established in 1998
Mary Ann Liebert academic journals
Monthly journals
Cyberpsychology
Social psychology journals
Human–computer interaction journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdev%20TRA | The TRA bus network covers the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region. It is operated by Transports Rapides Automobiles, which is owned by Transdev and is a member of Optile (Organisation Professionnelle des Transports d'Île-de-France).
A 6-month trial of on-demand bus services was carried out from March to August 2018 by Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) in the outer suburbs. The service, which operated from 2200 at night, enabled passengers to alight between 2 bus stops, reducing the need to walk to their intended destination as well as to combat gender-based harassment in public transportation. A total of 11 routes were involved, consisting of the Mélibus network in Seine-et-Marne (7 routes) and the TRA network (4 routes: 602, 607, 618 and 620) in Seine-Saint-Denis. Due to its positive feedback, IDFM had authorised Transdev to extend the trial to 50 other routes in Île-de-France in 2019.
Network
TRA operates 22 numbered routes from 602 to 644 mainly in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, and to a smaller extent, Seine-et-Marne. 4 routes are designated as Mobilien routes, 602, 609, 613, and 615. These routes have a higher frequency as well as longer operating hours to serve the dense urban areas of Île-de-France to provide an alternative to cars in the suburbs.
Gallery
References
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Bus companies of France
Transdev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaobo%20Sharon%20Hu | Xiaobo Sharon Hu is a Chinese-American computer scientist and engineer known for her work on hardware-software integration, power usage, and reliability of embedded systems design, including work on power- and temperature-aware scheduling algorithms. She has also published highly cited work on deep neural networks, the CORDIC algorithm for trigonometric calculations, and clocking of unconventional computer architectures. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
Education and career
Hu grew up in China as the daughter of two engineers. She studied engineering at Tianjin University, graduating in 1982. After a master's degree in 1984 in electrophysics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1989 at Purdue University.
While continuing her graduate education, Hu worked as an engineer for Delco Electronics, and after completing her Ph.D. she was a researcher for four years at General Motors Research Laboratories. In 1993 she returned to academia as an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Western Michigan University. She moved to the University of Notre Dame in 1996, at that time and for several years later the only woman faculty member of her department. She earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2008.
She has chaired the Special Interest Group on Design Automation of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2018 and has been editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems since 2020.
Recognition
Hu was named an IEEE Fellow in 2016, "for contributions to resource management for embedded systems". She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to the design of power-constrained and real-time embedded systems".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Computer engineers
Tianjin University alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Western Michigan University faculty
University of Notre Dame faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Sky%20Pride | Big Sky Pride is the current gay pride celebration held annually in Montana. Known as the Montana Pride Celebration from 2004–2013, Big Sky Pride took over from the Montana Pride Network in 2014.
The event often includes participation from local businesses, drag queens, non-profits, churches, and politicians. Though the event is often a venue for political organization, the event's organizers have noted that the celebratory aspect is equally important. The earliest Pride events in Montana were small local events drawing a few dozen people. The most recent event in 2021 drew over 8,000 participants.
History
Origins
Beginning in 1993, various groups organized Pride celebrations and protests across the state. According to a speech by state senator Diane Sands, the original 1993 pride movement faced harassment such as having eggs thrown at them, and then-city councilwoman and former Helena mayor Colleen McCarthy recounted the backlash from constituents that year, including a physical attack from two men who were stopped by police. Only early pride event in Kalispell had only 30 attendees, compared to several hundred in 2009. Before 2004, yearly Pride events with political protests calling for equal rights for LGBTQ Montanans were organized primarily by the Montana Human Rights Network and happened yearly in the state capital and often in other cities. The last large counter-protest occurred in 2010.
From 2004 to 2013, the Montana Pride Celebration held by the Montana Pride Network was a three-day event, usually over a weekend in June. Events typically included a parade, festival, dances and musical events. Because of Montana's relatively small and dispersed population, Montana Pride served as a single event for the state as a whole, rotating among the state's larger towns from year to year. The celebration was held in Missoula in 2004, Helena in 2005 and 2006, Billings in 2007 and 2008, Kalispell in 2009 and 2010, Bozeman in 2011 and 2012, and Butte in 2013. In March 2014, the Montana Pride Network collapsed and canceled the pride celebration in Butte for 2014.
Big Sky Pride
In 2014, Big Sky Pride took over and held a festival in Butte that June, with 2015's festival in Missoula and 2016's in Great Falls.
Though the event had always been political, the 2017 event in Billings noted its partnerships with local businesses, with over 30 sponsors (including national corporations), and support from the local Democratic Socialists of America and Libertarian Party of the United States on top of the usual appearances from local Democrats. The 2018 event in Helena had notable historical themes. Many state politicians made speeches about the history of the Montanan pride movement, while counter-protestors from the Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney attempted to disrupt the speeches. After 2017, a spin-off parade in Billings has been held by the non-profit organization 406 Pride.
Big Sky Pride had its largest parade thus far in 2019, with over 4,000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet%20inequality | In the theory of online algorithms and optimal stopping, a prophet inequality is a bound on the expected value of a decision-making process that handles a sequence of random inputs from known probability distributions, relative to the expected value that could be achieved by a "prophet" who knows all the inputs (and not just their distributions) ahead of time. These inequalities have applications in the theory of algorithmic mechanism design and mathematical finance.
Single item
The classical single-item prophet inequality was published by , crediting its tight form to D. J. H. (Ben) Garling. It concerns a process in which a sequence of random variables arrive from known distributions . When each arrives, the decision-making process must decide whether to accept it and stop the process, or whether to reject it and go on to the next variable in the sequence. The value of the process is the single accepted variable, if there is one, or zero otherwise. It may be assumed that all variables are non-negative; otherwise, replacing negative values by zero does not change the outcome. This can model, for instance, financial situations in which the variables are offers to buy some indivisible good at a certain price, and the seller must decide which (if any) offer to accept. A prophet, knowing the whole sequence of variables, can obviously select the largest of them, achieving value for any specific instance of this process, and expected value The prophet inequality states the existence of an online algorithm for this process whose expected value is at least half that of the prophet: No algorithm can achieve a greater expected value for all distributions of
One method for proving the single-item prophet inequality is to use a "threshold algorithm" that sets a parameter and then accepts the first random variable that is at least as large If the probability that this process accepts an item is , then its expected value is plus the expected excess over that the selected variable (if there is one) has. Each variable will be considered by the threshold algorithm with probability at least and if it is considered will contribute to the excess, so by linearity of expectation the expected excess is at least Setting to the median of the distribution of so that and adding to this bound on expected excess, causes the and terms to cancel each other, showing that for this setting of the threshold algorithm achieves an expected value of at least A different threshold, also achieves at least this same expected value.
Generalizations
Various generalizations of the single-item prophet inequality to other online scenarios are known, and are also called prophet inequalities.
Comparison to competitive analysis
Prophet inequalities are related to the competitive analysis of online algorithms, but differ in two ways. First, much of competitive analysis assumes worst case inputs, chosen to maximize the ratio between the computed value and the optimal va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka%20%282023%20film%29 | Cheburashka, also known as Chebi: My Fluffy Friend () is a 2023 Russian live-action/computer-animated children's comedy film directed by Dmitry Dyachenko. The film is an adaptation of the 1960s Eduard Uspensky's children's book Gena the Crocodile and His Friends, and its Soviet cartoon adaptation about adventures of Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka. The film stars Olga Kuzmina as the titular character along with Sergei Garmash, Fyodor Dobronravov, and Elena Yakovleva. The idea for the film was put into motion as early as 2020, but filming began in early 2021 at the Sochi Arboretum.
Cheburashka was theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2023, by Central Partnership.
Cheburashka set a box office record among Russian films released on January 1: it grossed more than 225 million rubles on the first day of release, and 837 million rubles in the first three days. After fifteen days of release, the film had already collected over 4 billion rubles, making it the highest-grossing Russian film. It also became the first film to gross more than ₽5 billion.
Cheburashka received generally mixed to positive reviews from critics and audiences. Critics highly praised its visual effects, though the story was considered to be predictable. Following the film's success, Soyuzmultfilm signed a deal to produce a sequel and the whole franchise.
Plot
It starts with showing an orange grove in Spain, where several farmers are picking oranges, until a furry animal with big ears appears there, who loves to eat oranges and steals them. One day people get tired of enduring it and decide to catch him. With the help of a trap with bait in the form of oranges, they manage to catch the animal. However, a huge hurricane suddenly appears and drags away all the oranges along with the animal itself, and people manage to escape.
At this time, on the Black Sea Coast of Russia, the withdrawn old man Gena, who works as a gardener in an arboretum, is trying to restore his relationship with his daughter Tanya.
Tanya, together with her husband Tolya and son Grisha, live in a mini-shop where they sell the most delicious chocolate and prepare for the annual festival. In addition, Gena's life gets even worse when he is rude and insults Rimma, the headmistress of the chocolate factory, for which he is almost fired. When oranges begin to fall everywhere over the city after a hurricane, the animal itself enters this area with them. Entering Gena's house, he, mistaking the orange helmet for a large orange, tries to take it off and smashes everything in the house, after which he falls into the hands of Gena. At first, Gena resists the animal and tries in every possible way to get rid of it, but over time he begins to get used to him and decides to keep him, calling him “Belarusian Shepherd Dog” in front of many people.
One day, when Gena came to visit Tanya on the birthday of her silent son Grisha to congratulate his grandson and ask his daughter for forgiveness for the past, the an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian%20Networks%20and%20Partnerships%20Weeks | Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is an annual event organized the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The event is a forum for people who work in humanitarian aid to collaborate on challenges and solutions in their work. It takes place in Geneva and has been running since 2015.
Nomenclature
The event was originally a one week long and was called the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event switched to online modality, and the event titles changed "week" to "weeks".
Purpose
The HNPW is a forum where humanitarian aid practitioners and researchers can meet and discuss challenges to their work and collaborate on solutions. Topics include safety, coordination, logistics, information management.
Attendees
Attendees include staff from United Nations agencies, government, military, academia, humanitarian organizations, the Red Cross Movement, and civil society groups.
Organisers
The event is organised by the Leading Edge Programme, who took over from the Consultative Group for Emergency Preparedness and Response in 2017. The Leading Edge Programme's secretariat is the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
History
The first event took place in 2015 and in 2021 switched from a week long in-person event to a three-week online mode in 2021.
During the 2021 online event there were almost 250 topics, including localisastion, the climate crisis, and better encouraging anticipatory action in areas prone to humanitarian emergencies.
External links
Official website
References
Humanitarian aid
Annual events in Switzerland
United Nations conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20University%20Computing%20Laboratory | The Brown University Computing Laboratory is an academic building of Brown University located at 180 George Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1961 and designed by noted architect Philip Johnson. The building was funded through a donation by the family of Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and dedicated to his memory. It was designed to house the IBM 7070 which was obtained through grants from the National Science Foundation and the IBM Corporation. On a wall in the main lobby hung a tapestry given by Philip Johnson after a design by Arshile Gorky.
According to the Encyclopedia Brunoniana, Philip Johnson wrote, “I conceived the Brown Computing Laboratory as a porticus – a porch – to emphasize its importance as a technical center, its unique setting in the cityscape and its dignity as a memorial building. Though neo-Classical, therefore in conception, the materials and the design of the columns are quite contemporary. Only precast stone could have been used to form the X’s of the entablature; only plate glass could render the porch usable in New England. By use of the red granite chips, I thought to harmonize the Laboratory with the 19th century which surrounds it.”
The machine room, a classroom, and meeting rooms were on the first floor and staff offices and storage rooms were in the basement. Also on the first floor was a dedicated space for a virtual reality environment known as the YURT.
In 1988, the Applied Mathematics Division became the primary occupant after a new Center for Information Technology building was opened. Subsequently, the Center for Computation and Visualization became the primary occupant.
References
Philip Johnson buildings
Brown University
Brown University buildings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireheart | Fireheart is a 2022 computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Theodore Ty and Lauren Zeitoun and written by Zeitoun, Jennica Harper, and Daphne Ballon from a story by Zeitoun, Harper, and Lisa Hunter. It is the second film and final Independent film produced by L'Atelier Animation after Ballerina before Cinesite acquires L'Atelier. It features the voices of Olivia Cooke, Kenneth Branagh, Laurie Holden, and William Shatner. The plot follows a 16-year-old who dreams to become the world's first female firefighter.
Plot
Set in New York in 1930, the film centers on Georgia Nolan, a 16-year-old girl who hopes to become the world's first female firefighter despite being told as a child by her ex-firefighter father Shawn that women are not allowed to.
Shawn is requested by the mayor of New York to come out of retirement to head up a young team of firefighters to combat a serial arsonist, who uses purple gas to hypnotize others and has resulted in the disappearances of other firefighters. Wishing to help, Georgia disguises herself as a man named Joe and joins the team.
While in disguise "joe" meets the other firemen there's jin a Chinese American who loves to drive faster than a cheetah but suffers from Narcolepsy that's triggered if he gets too excited or too worried he'll fall right asleep.
there's Ricardo a Spanish American who got muscle from helping his father work at the steel mill but his true passion is science more specially chemistry he calculates the best and safest way for the team to put the fires out.
the last concert hall standing has a wall of policemen surrounding it but an African American opera diva named Laura Devine keeps breaking in to rehearse her upcoming musical and when asked to leave she backtalks captain Shawn by saying she grew up hearing no all the time in the Jim crow south "no don't eat off the good plates" "no don't kiss the baby" "no you must use the outhouse like the other staff" so she saved every penny to come to new York and when the lead singer "fell" off the stage she hijacked the show and got discovered so she promptly refuses to leave so she can practice where her Pauline promptly fails tangling her from a rope and drops her right into a full body cast.
"joe" talks with Pauline and seeing her down about loosing another job unmasks herself and tells Pauline to go after her dreams which was the worst thing to do since its revealed that she was an aspiring chemist who wanted to make special effects but kept getting rejection letters so she planned her revenge.
in what might be their final hours "joe" tells her father everything and so does he by saying he couldn't save a couple from a fire 16 years ago he couldn't break thru a wall to get both of them out so instead they handed their newborn daughter threw and he promised to always look after her and keep her safe but if she became a firefighter he couldn't keep his promise.
she tells her dad that promise or not she wants to fight fires and together |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20of%20AI | Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is a book by Australian academic Kate Crawford. It is based on Crawford's research into the development and labor behind artificial intelligence, as well as AI's impact on the world.
Overview
The book is mainly concerned with the ethics of artificial intelligence.
Chapters 1 and 2 criticise Big Tech in general for exploitation of Earth's resources, such as in the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, and human labor, such as in Amazon warehouses and the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Crawford also compares "TrueTime" in Google's Spanner with historical efforts to control time associated with colonialism.
In Chapters 3 and 4, attention is drawn to the practice of building datasets without consent, and of training on incorrect or biased data, with particular focus on ImageNet and on a failed Amazon project to classify job applicants.
Chapter 5 criticises affective computing for employing training sets which, although natural, were labelled by people who had been grounded in controversial emotional expression research by Paul Ekman, in particular his Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which had been based on posed images; it is implied that Affectiva's approach would not sufficiently attenuate the problems of FACS, and attention is drawn to potential inaccurate use of this technology in job interviews without addressing claims that human bias is worse.
In Chapter 6, Crawford gives an overview of the secret services' surveillance software as revealed in the leaks of Edward Snowden, with a brief comparison to Cambridge Analytica and the military use of metadata, and recounts Google employees' objections to their unwitting involvement in Project Maven (giving their image recognition a military use) before this was moved to Palantir.
Chapter 7 criticises the common perception of AlphaGo as an otherworldly intelligence instead of a natural product of massive brute-force calculation at environmental cost, and Chapter 8 discusses tech billionaires' fantasies of developing private spaceflight to escape resource depletion on Earth.
Reception
The book received positive reviews from critics, who singled out its exploration of issues like exploitation of labour and the environment, algorithmic bias, and false claims about AI's ability to recognize human emotion.
The book was considered a seminal work by Anais Resseguier of Ethics and AI. It was included on the year end booklists of Financial Times, and New Scientist, and the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles booklist.
Data scientist and MIT Technology Review editor Karen Hao praised the book's description of the ethical concerns regarding the labor and history behind artificial intelligence.
Sue Halpern of The New York Review commented that she felt the book shined a light on "dehumanizing extractive practices", a sentiment which was echoed by Michael Spezio of Science. Virginia Dignum of Nature positively compared the book's explora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagit%20Shatkay | Hagit Shatkay (28 January 1965 - 2 January 2022) was an Israeli-American computer scientist, known for her contributions to computational biology, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and machine learning. She was a professor in the department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware. Shatkay was a senior member and served on the board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology.
Career
Shatkay received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She earned her doctoral degree in computer science from Brown University in 1999, under Leslie Kaelbling. From 1999 to 2000, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. From 2001 to 2003, she spent two years as a private-sector informatics research scientist at Celera Genomics. She returned to academia and worked as an assistant professor at Queen's University at Kingston in 2004. She joined the department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware as an associate professor in fall 2010. She was promoted to full professor at the University of Delaware in 2018.
Together with Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin), she co-authored the textbook Mining the Biomedical Literature.
Shatkay was a senior member of the International Society for Computational Biology, ISCB. She was also an appointed member of the Computer Science Evaluation Panel of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
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University of Delaware faculty
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekans%20-%20Snakes%20Awake | Ekans - Snakes Awake also known as Ekans - Ek Se Badhkar Snake or simply Ekans is an Indian sci-fi superhero computer-animated series produced by Hi-Tech Animation for Cartoon Network (India). The series centers around 13-year-old Ekans, whose name spelled backward would be "S, N, A, K, E". He has the ability to control snakes in form of robots and can also tackle real ones as well.
It is the first Cartoon Network Indian original computer-animated series.
Premise
The series revolves around a 13-year-old street-smart wunderkind, Ekans, who is chosen as the one and is gifted a nagamani by the world's most powerful snakes, thanks to his heart of gold and fearless attitude. With extraordinary snake-like powers, the otherwise conventional tech-savvy youngster obtains heightened sensory perceptions, ability to camouflage, flexibility, and strength to keep humanity safe from the evils of the world. That's not all; his trendy hi-tech superpower suit with mechanical snakes gives him additional abilities to cleverly outsmart villains.
The concept of snake-based powers in the series is derived from an old Indian legend revolving around snakes. In the legend, a community of snakes were granted sentience and powers such as metanmorphosis by a magical stone called the Nagamani (lit. Serpent Gem).
Characters
Main
Ekans
Chiku
Kiara
Diya
Dr. Sanjay
Chocho the Robot
Naagrakshak
Agent P
Bunty
Supporting
Wire Z
Time Warp
Dr. I
Darkstone
Elastiko
Worm King
Froggie
Kazero
Sapera
Chemical King
Crazy Collector
Mongoose & Kanjoose
Chen & Liu
Octagon
Gatoroid
Danger Driller
Cemento & Mixer
Hathoda
Maharoach
Lathi & Kathi (Sapera's Assistant)
Broadcast
The series debuted on Cartoon Network on 27 June 2021 with first season titled Ekans - Ek Se Badhkar Snake. The second season of the series was premiered on 22 November 2021 under the title Ekans - Snakes Awake! on Cartoon Network. The series also premiered on Cartoon Network Asia in April 25, 2022. Cartoon Network shifted the series to its sister channel Pogo TV on August 22, 2022. The show shifted to their new sister channel Discovery Kids on October 14, 2023.
Specials
Ekans – Origin Story
On 25 December 2021 Cartoon Network aired a special episode of the series titled Ekans Special: Ekans: Origin Story in the celebration of Christmas. In this special episode, it was revealed how Ekans got his super powers and nagamani. It was also premiered on Pogo with the title Ekans: Origin Story on September 4, 2022.
Movies
Ekans – Hero Ek Villain Anek
A theatrical film titled Ekans – Hero Ek Villain Anek was released in PVR Cinemas on 19 August 2022 in three languages i.e. Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The film later premiered on Pogo TV in October 16, 2022.
Ekans – The Mystery Of Three Gems
Pogo TV launched another feature film of the series titled Ekans – The Mystery Of Three Gems on October 9, 2022. It is also an original film of Pogo TV of Ekans series.
Ekans Takshak Ka Ashirwad
Ekans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajana%20Rosing | Tajana Šimunić Rosing is an American computer scientist and computer engineer specializing in embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and smart city infrastructure, including the reliability of these systems and the control of their temperature and energy usage. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she directs the System Energy Efficiency Lab and holds the Fratamico Endowed Chair.
Education and career
Rosing graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1992, earned a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona in 1993, and became an engineer at Altera and then HP Labs.
While working at HP Labs, she became a graduate student at Stanford University, earning a master's degree there in 2000 and a Ph.D. in 2001. Her doctoral dissertation Energy Efficient System Design and Utilization was supervised by Giovanni De Micheli. In 2005, she moved from HP Labs to the University of California, San Diego.
Recognition
The University of California, San Diego gave Rosing the John J. and Susan M. Fratamico Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering in 2016.
Rosing was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, "for contributions to power and reliability management of Systems-on-Chip". She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to power, thermal, and reliability management".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer engineers
Northern Arizona University alumni
University of Arizona alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTES | JTES, the Japanese Teletext Specification, is a protocol used for encoding teletext pages, as well as other types of digital data, within the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of an analog video signal in Japan. It was adopted into the international standard CCIR 653 (now ITU-R BT.653) of 1986 as CCIR Teletext System D.
It supports the display of Chinese, Katakana and Hiragana characters. The service can be used to display subtitles, cyclic text pages or pseudo interactive programs. There's support for presentation of photographs, geometry or sound.
History
The development of teletext in Japan started in 1972, followed by the announcement of the world's first teletext system (Ceefax) by the BBC in the United Kingdom.
Because Japanese characters are different from the western alphabets, Japan proceeded with research and development of a specific transmissions method. Called "pattern method", it sends scanning signals similar to a fax, at a rate 20 times faster than existing methods, but required a character generator with a large (at the time) 1-megabit ROM. This method was adopted in 1982.
The first receiver prototype was capable of displaying 1258 characters, and a 48-kilobyte character generation ROM, integrated into a single chip. During the 1970s the problem of error correction (causing wrong characters to be displayed) was studied. These problems were solved in the early 1980s, allowing the service to start.
An alternative method of transmission, called "hybrid method" was developed by NHK in 1979. It allowed faster transmissions rated, and was adopted as a standard in October 1985.
Experimental broadcasts started on October 3, 1983, by NHK in Tokyo and Osaka using the "pattern method". This included subtitles and other so called "supplementary" or "independent programs", where information unrelated to the TV program being show is displayed. For example, at the time of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, information about vital services and victim names was broadcast for days. To accompany the introduction of the system, Sony released the "TXT-10" decoder with a cost of 119,000 yen, and Sharp released "21C-L1", a TV with a built in decoder.
In 1984 Nippon TV (NTV) experimented teletext between March and July.
Regular transmissions started on November 29, 1985 (covering the entire country by 1986) by NHK ("Telemo Japan" service) and NTV ("AXES4" service), using the "hybrid method"
In 1986, TV Asahi started broadcasts with a service named "TV Asahi Data Vision", that remained active up to 24 July 2011.
Other channels, such as Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) with "Tokyo Data Vision" or TV Tokyo with "Nikkei Telepress", along with Fuji TV and Tokyo Metropolitan Television also had teletext services.
NHK broadcast 759 hours of teletext per week during 1985, with eight different programs such as news, weather, public announcements and subtitles.
As of 1995, 20 television models with built-in teletext receivers were available in the Japanese m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20A.%20T.%20Figueiredo | Mário A. T. Figueiredo (born January 5, 1962) is a Portuguese engineer, academic, and researcher. He is an IST Distinguished Professor and holds the Feedzai chair of machine learning at IST, University of Lisbon.
Figueiredo's research interests include signal and image processing, focusing on image inverse problems, along with machine learning, with a focus on statistical approaches. Additionally, he has worked on applications to medical imaging and remote sensing, and mathematical optimization applied to imaging inverse problems and machine learning.
Figueiredo is a Fellow of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and of IAPR (International Association of Pattern Recognition). He is a Senior Editor at the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and at IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and he was also an Associate Editor at SIAM Journal on Imaging Science, and many other journals. He is an ELLIS Fellow, and the head of LUMLIS, the Lisbon ELLIS unit.
Education
In 1990, Figueiredo received his master's degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also earned his Ph.D. and his habilitation (Agregação) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same institute in 1994 and 2004 respectively.
Career
Figueiredo began his academic career in 1994 as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST, University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2010, he became an associate professor there. Since then, he has been promoted to full professor and in 2019, an IST Distinguished Professor for the same department. He is also the Feedzai Professor of machine learning at the same university since 2019.
Figueiredo has been a visiting scholar of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Michigan State University in 1998 and also of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in 2005 and 2014.
Research
Figueiredo has authored over 360 publications. He has focused his research on machine learning, signal processing and image processing, with particular attention on imaging inverse problems, probabilistic/statistical approaches, and applications to medical imaging and remote sensing.
Signal processing and image processing
Figueiredo proposed gradient projection (GP) algorithms, and discussed their application in terms of the bound-constrained quadratic programming (BCQP) formulation of compressed sensing and other inverse problems. He also provided sparse approximate solutions to large underdetermined linear systems of equations and regarded them a common problem in signal/image processing and statistics. In 2010, he co-authored pioneering work on the usage of ADMM (alternating direction method of multipliers) for imaging inverse problems, namely image deblurring. Furthermore, he described first application of the ADMM re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Oseledets | Ivan Oseledets (; born July 6, 1983) is a Russian computer scientist and mathematician and professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. He is best known for the tensor train decomposition, which is more commonly called a matrix product state in the area of tensor networks.
Oseledets joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in 2013 and currently serves as the director of the centre for artificial intelligence technology.
Education
Oseledets was educated in Russia, receiving an M.Sc from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2006, and a Ph.D. from the G.I. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007. He received the Russian Doctor of Sciences in 2012 also from the G.I. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics of
the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Honors and awards
On February 7, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Oseledets with an award for, proposing breakthrough computational technology for solving multidimensional problems in physics, chemistry, biology, and data analysis based on tensor expansions.
In April 2022, Oseledets was elected to receive the honorary title, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Oseledets received a Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The starting date of the award was February 2022.
Early life and family
Ivan Oseledets comes from a family of mathematicians. His grandfather, Ivan Bezhaev, was associate professor at the Moscow State University and reached the rank of lieutenant general in the Soviet Union's Red Army where he was responsible for various mathematical projects involving cryptography. His father, Valery Oseledets, proved Oseledets theorem in ergodic systems theory.
References
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Russian mathematicians
1983 births
Living people
Humboldt Research Award recipients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Network%20is%20the%20Computer | "The Network is the Computer" is a slogan that was originally coined by John Gage for Sun Microsystems in 1984. Contrary to popular belief, the slogan was not coined by Scott McNealy. Wired dubbed the phrase a "truism of Silicon Valley".
Sun employee Larry Wake said of the slogan, "When Sun originated that tag line in the early 1980s, it was actually quite audacious. It was a stake in the ground [stating] ‘Computers should be networked, or they're… not computers. Well, at least, you're missing their potential by a country mile."
History
The first slogan used by Sun was "Open Systems for Open Minds" The Network is the Computer has been the tagline of Sun for decades. According to Sun's former director of CAD/CAM marketing, the meaning of the slogan is that you had one window into the network through your desktop computer and that with the appropriate software, other people's computing power could be utilized with offloading. In 2010, Oracle bought Sun but without the slogan being discussed, used or defended. In July 2019, content delivery network provider Cloudflare bought the rights to the expired trademark. John Gage stated in an interview with John Graham-Cumming that he was fine with Cloudflare having bought the rights because it meant Sun's efforts were successful.
Further reading
References
External links
"The Network is the Computer" at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) database
Slogans
Sun Microsystems
Cloudflare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime%20Frontier | Anime Frontier is an annual three-day anime convention held during December at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Programming
The convention typically offers an art show, concert, and cosplay competition.
History
Anime Frontier was announced in June 2019 by LeftField Media. Anime Frontier 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The May 2021 event was postponed to December due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Crunchyroll was the primary sponsor of the 2021 event. Anime Frontier's December event had COVID-19 protocols including proof of vaccination and mask requirements. The convention continued to have COVID-19 protocols in 2022.
Event history
See also
Anime NYC, also organized by LeftField Media
References
External links
Anime Frontier Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2021
2021 establishments in Texas
Annual events in Texas
Conventions in Texas
Festivals in Fort Worth, Texas
Japanese-American culture in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edy%20Mulyadi | Edy Mulyadi (born 8 January 1966) is an Indonesian senior journalist currently active at Forum News Network (FNN), notable for criticizing Indonesia's planned new capital city, Nusantara by using inappropriate words in late January 2022. He is also currently a cadre of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), and he was originally elected to the 2019 Indonesian legislative election as a DPR candidate but failed for insufficient votes.
Career
Journalism
Edy first started his journalist career at the newspaper Balance Daily (), and currently listed at Indonesian Journalists Union (PWI) since 22 May 1995, but since then Edy is no longer listed at the website of the Press Council, according to the head of PWI branch in Depok, Rusdy Nurdiansyah. He is also a writer at Kompasiana since 2014.
At unknown time, he joined FNN which was founded by former Republika reporters and journalists led by Hersubeno Arif. FNN itself is an alt-media news site for pro-opposition Indonesians and opposing Joko Widodo administration policies in their reports while praising Islamic fundamentalism and their acts, including the currently banned Islamic Defenders Front and their figures in another side. FNN was notorious for its questionable reportings. Some of FNN bogus reporting are including spreading a series of fake news on finance situation in Indonesia in apparent attempt to smear national economy policies and inciting distrust and spreading false report on, later identified as hoax, on medical status of Megawati Soekarnoputri. The FNN status itself was unverified as in 2020 and 2021 by Indonesian Press Council. During his time in FNN, he made questionable stories and claims about Islamic Defenders Front followers that were shot dead by the police.
Others
He is also currently owning a YouTube channel named Bang Edy Channel. The account confiscated following his arrest by police, but yet to taken down. The content of his channel mostly contains critics to Joko Widodo government. It also contain demagogic contents such as divisive materials, strong words, and materials inciting hostilities against particular tribes and races.
Criticism of the new capital city
On 23 January 2022, Edy in a Twitter video criticizes the move to the new capital city of Nusantara while using inappropriate words:
Additionally, the advocate Azam Khan sitting next to Edy responded him by saying "only monkeys (want to live there)" while hearing Edy's speech that no one buying a new house in Gunung Sari, Penajam North Paser Regency.
As a response, numerous mass organizations in South and East Kalimantan reported Edy to the police for offending Kalimantan inhabitants. Tifatul Sembiring, a PKS politician, originally supported Edy, but later apologized it and withdrew the support. In 31 January, Edy stated again an apology of his case at the Bareskrim Polri building in Jakarta, after the previous one in 24 January; and later he was arrested by the police that day. Edy stated in a YouTube video t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Kattali%20Ward | South Kattali () is the No.11 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Pahartali Thana.
Size
South Kattlai ward has an area of .
Population data
The total population of South Kattali ward is 93,562 as per 2011 Census. Of these 47,660 are males and 45,902 are females. Total families are 20,613.
Location and boundaries
Chittagong City Corporation Location of South Kattali Ward in the North-West. It is bounded on the South by 26 No. North Halishahar Ward, on the east by 12 No. Saraipara Ward and 25 No. Rampur Ward, on the north by 10 No. North Kattali Ward and on the West by Bay of Bengal.
Geography
Election highlights
References
Chittagong District
Chittagong
Villages in Chittagong District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20in%20AMC%20Fight%20Nights | The year 2022 was the 12th year in the history of the Fight Nights, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia. The company continues broadcasts through Match TV and Fight Network.
List of events
AMC Fight Nights 108
'AMC Fight Nights 108' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights January 28, 2022 at the Crocus Expo, Aquarium Arena in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
Background
The event was headlined by a middleweight bout between kickboxer Alexander Stetsurenko and fistfighter Timur Nikulin, while the co-main event was a heavyweight contest between Grigory Ponomarev and the former KSW Heavyweight Champion Fernando Rodrigues Jr.
Results
AMC Fight Nights 109
'AMC Fight Nights 109' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights February 23, 2022 at the Red Arena in Sochi, Russia.
Background
An AMC Fight Nights Featherweight Championship bout between the reigning champion Mukhamed Eminov and Taigro Costa was scheduled for the event.
An AMC Fight Nights Flyweight Championship bout for the vacant title between Vartan Asatryan and Vladimir Alekseev was scheduled for the event.
Results
AMC Fight Nights 110
'AMC Fight Nights 110' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights March 25, 2022 at the SZK Zvozdnyy in Astrakhan, Russia.
Background
An AMC Fight Nights Heavyweight Championship bout for the vacant title between Grigoriy Ponomarev and Yusup Shuaev was scheduled as the event headliner.
Results
AMC Fight Nights 111
'AMC Fight Nights 111: Kovalev vs. Santos' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on May 6, 2022 at the Fetisov Arena in Vladivostok, Russia.
Background
Results
AMC Fight Nights 112
'AMC Fight Nights 112: Abbasov vs Piraev' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on June 10, 2022 at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in Moscow, Russia.
Background
Results
AMC Fight Nights 113
'AMC Fight Nights 113: Vagabov vs Barkhudaryan' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on July 15, 2022 at the Basket-Hall Krasnodar in Krasnodar, Russia.
Background
Results
AMC Fight Nights 114
'AMC Fight Nights 114: Romankevich vs. Zuluzinho' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on September 3, 2022 at the Stadium Dinamo in Minsk, Belarus.
Background
Results
AMC Fight Nights 115
'AMC Fight Nights 115' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on October 14, 2022 at the Red Arena in Sochi, Russia.
Background
Results
AMC Fight Nights 116
'AMC Fight Nights 116' was a mixed martial arts event held by AMC Fight Nights on November 11, 2022 in Astrakhan, Russia.
Background
Results
See also
2022 in UFC
2022 in Bellator MMA
2022 in ONE Championship
2022 in Absolute Championship Akhmat
2022 in Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki
2022 in Rizin Fighting Federation
2022 in Brave Combat Federation
2022 in Road FC
2022 Professional Fighters League season
2022 in Eagle Fighting Championship
2022 in Legacy Fighting Alliance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNXT-LD | KNXT-LD (channel 53) is a low-power television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by My Central Valley, LLC. KNXT-LD's transmitter is located on Mount Adelaide.
History
The station was started as K57HZ, transmitting on channel 57, on April 28, 2000, by Cocola Broadcasting. Cocola sold the station to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, which owned regional Catholic station KNXT (channel 49), in 2007 for $1.4 million. It then moved to channel 38 and became a translator of KNXT, which also appeared on Bakersfield cable systems.
In 2020, the diocese shut down KNXT owing to high costs. In the case of the Bakersfield translator, a digital television conversion also needed to be conducted. KIFR, a non-commercial educational station, was sold to Vita Broadcasting, while a commercial firm, My Central Valley, LLC, acquired the Bakersfield translator.
Newscasts
KNXT simulcasts sister station KMSG-LD's newscast, and offers 2½ hours of news per week (30 minutes each weekday) with the San Joaquin Valley's only 8 p.m. newscast, My 53 News at 8:00, hosted by news director Austin Reed, which debuted April 1, 2022. The half-hour newscast immediately repeats.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
NXT
NXT-LD
MyNetworkTV affiliates
This TV affiliates
TheGrio affiliates
Local Now affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20at%20First%20Sight%20%28Australian%20season%209%29 | The ninth season of Married at First Sight premiered on 31 January 2022 on the Nine Network. Relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling, along with sexologist Alessandra Rampolla all returned from the previous season to match 8 brides and 8 grooms together. Halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 3 brides and 3 grooms together.
Couple profiles
Commitment ceremony history
This couple left the experiment outside of commitment ceremony.
This couple elected to leave the experiment during the commitment ceremony.
Controversy
During filming, contestant Simon Blackburn was removed from the show after homophobic and misogynistic videos of him surfaced on social media. A petition, signed by over 120,000 fans, called for the E-Safety Commission to look into the behaviour of Olivia Frazer after she shared around a nude photo of fellow bride Domenica Calarco without Domenica's knowledge or consent. In March 2022, the New South Wales Police Force confirmed reports they were investigating an incident involving glass smashing at the couples retreat, as well as the distribution of an image without consent.
Ratings
References
9
2022 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20at%20First%20Sight%20%28Australian%20season%208%29 | The eighth season of Married at First Sight premiered on 22 February 2021 on the Nine Network. Relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling returned from the previous season, and were joined by sexologist Alessandra Rampolla to match 9 brides and 9 grooms together. Halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 3 brides and 3 grooms together.
Couple profiles
Commitment ceremony history
This couple left the experiment outside of commitment ceremony.
This couple elected to leave the experiment during the commitment ceremony.
Controversy
The season was heavily criticised by media outlets and fans of the show due to the lack of diversity in casting. The series also saw accusations of misogyny against a number of the male participants. In June the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealed they were looking into the season after receiving 54 complaints from viewers about the show. Several of the complaints alleged the series had aired abusive interactions between participants through "gaslighting, social, verbal and mental abuse". The Network was later cleared of any breaches.
Ratings
References
8
2021 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20F.%20Sheats%20Jr. | Lyman F. Sheats Jr. (March 24, 1966 – January 19, 2022) was an American pinball champion, game designer and coin-operated game operating system software engineer who had worked for Bally, Williams, and Stern Pinball, among other companies.
Biography
Lyman Sheats first came to prominence in the world of pinball as a player in 1993, when he claimed the overall championship at PAPA 3, the tournament presented by the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association. He would also win the championship in 2004 (PAPA 7) and 2006 (PAPA 9). Lyman also won the European Pinball Championship in 2007. He was an active player in several Chicago area pinball leagues and won numerous local championships. Lyman was considered to be one of the greatest pinball players of all time.
Lyman began his career in the early 1990s at Data East where he worked on the game and dot matrix display programming for The Last Action Hero (1993), Guns N' Roses (1994), and The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard (1994). After Data East Pinball became Sega Pinball, he was recruited by Williams/Bally (Now WMS Industries) to program its pinball machines.
His first game for Bally/Midway was Attack From Mars which he programmed with designer Brian Eddy. Lyman and Brian again teamed up on the very popular Medieval Madness produced by Williams in 1997.
Lyman worked with designer George Gomez to program Monster Bash, which was produced by Williams in 1998. Monster Bash has a "Lyman's Lament" Easter Egg, accessed through a series of right and left flipper sequences. If done correctly, a recording of Lyman saying "Totally" is announced by the game. The game has different music in this mode, and Lyman's voice comments on various things as you play. Lyman had certain special modes hidden in a few of the games that he programmed documented in "Cheat Sheet" pages on Reddit.
He was involved in Williams's Pinball 2000 project through October 1999 when Williams closed its pinball division to concentrate on other gaming machines such as slot machines and video games. After a few years of programming video games at Midway Games, Lyman rejoined the pinball arena when Gary Stern hired him in 2003 at the newly renamed Stern Pinball. Shortly after being hired by Stern, Lyman teamed up with fellow ex-Williams employee Steve Ritchie to work on a series of blockbuster games such as Spider-Man (2007) and AC/DC (2012, 2018). Lyman also reunited with George Gomez to create the Batman: The Dark Knight (pinball) game produced by Stern Pinball in 2008.
In later years, Lyman worked with the team that updated the rule sets for The Walking Dead (2014) and Batman '66 (2016) games that were produced by Stern Pinball.
Personal life
Lyman was a coffee enthusiast and roasted his custom blend of coffee beans in a cast iron pan on his stovetop.
Death
Lyman F. Sheats Jr. died in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the evening of January 19, 2022, at 55. The official cause of death is listed as suicide.
References
1966 births
2022 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20reset | Digital reset or digitally reset may refer to:
Digital reset (computing), the reset of a digital computer
Digital reset (electronics), a cleared latch-state in electronics
Digital reset (typesetting), a digitally prepared typeset for publication either from a previous digital typeset or a complete rework of a work previously published with traditional typeset
See also
Digital set (disambiguation)
Reset (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%20FBI%20email%20hack | On November 13, 2021, a hacker compromised the FBI's external email system, sending thousands of messages warning of a cyberattack by cybersecurity CEO Vinny Troia who was falsely suggested to have been identified as part of The Dark Overlord hacking group by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
The emails were sent to addresses taken from the American Registry for Internet Numbers database and it was reported that the hacker used the FBI's public-facing email system which made the emails appear legitimate. The campaign was likely done in an attempt to defame Troia. The hacker "Pompompurin" (revealed in 2023 to be an individual named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick) later claimed responsibility for the hack.
Responses
FBI
The FBI stated that they remediated the software vulnerability that caused the attack. They told people to ignore the email and "confirmed the integrity" of the FBI's computer systems following the attack.
Pompompurin
The hacker Pompompurin claimed responsibility for attack claiming in an interview with Krebs on Security. In a later interview with ProPublica Pompompurin later claimed the hack was done for "fun."
Vinny Troia blogged about his belief it was the work of Canadian hacker Chris Meunier. In an interview with ProPublica, Pompompurin denied being Meunier.
Aftermath
In March 2023 Pompompurin was arrested on unrelated computer crime charges in Peekskill, New York and was identified as a 20 to 21-year-old man named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was said to have told the arresting officer that he was the creator of BreachForums, which had been created to "fill the void" caused by the seizure of RaidForums a few weeks earlier. He was identified as connected to the 2021 Robinhood Markets data breach and a data breach of Twitter in 2022.
Troia's published report attempted to link hacker Pompompurin to Christopher Meunier (Calgary, Canada), one of the core members of the Dark Overlord hacking group. However, Troia's reporting on The Dark Overlord, Gnostic Players, and Pompompurin state a similar MO in which the group's core members would find less sophisticated hackers and publicly use them as patsies.
In a court document released by The United States Court for the Easter District of Virginia, Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to a number of crimes including running the cybercrime forum BreachForums. In the court documents, Fitzpatrick stated, "that after RaidForums was seized by law enforcement, he was approached by individuals who thought he would be competent enough to run a similar site. Fitzpatrick stated that he agreed to do so.
References
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hacking in the 2020s
Email hacking
2021 in computing
November 2021 events in the United States
Spamming
Disinformation operations
Internet trolling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh.ai | Josh.ai is an American artificial intelligence company known for developing the voice-controlled home automation system known as Josh. The company was founded in 2015 by Tim Gill and Alex Capecelatro. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
History
Prior to founding Josh.ai, Tim Gill was the founder of Quark, Inc. and the Gill Foundation. Co-founder Alex Capecelatro was previously a biomedical and rocket science researcher and co-founder of the social networking site At The Pool.
Gill and Capecelatro founded Josh.ai in March 2015 and shipped its first product in 2016. The company was originally known as JStar. During its first year, the company focused on developing AI voice assistant software available through the Apple Mac Mini. Its products were initially sold through CEDIA Integrators. In 2016, Josh.ai became the first CEDIA-channel brand to integrate its services with Google Home. Josh.ai also tested software for new voices and Sonos control for the Amazon Echo in 2016.
In 2017, Josh.ai released its first hardware product, the Josh Micro.
Josh.ai partnered with Atlona to integrate its voice control technology with Atlona's whole-home AV systems in 2018. At the 2018 CEDIA Expo, Josh.ai introduced the Josh 3.0 app's new learning and automation features for security, energy management, and control of entertainment devices.
In 2019 Josh.ai collaborated with Sonance to integrate Josh’s voice control with Sonance’s DSP amplifiers. Josh.ai also partnered with Trufig to release an in-wall mount for the Josh Micro product. In the same year, Josh.ai also provided voice control for Barco Residential, Sony, and AudioControl’s entertainment devices and systems.
In 2020, Josh.ai released the Josh Nano and Josh Core, which were home automation systems that used hard-wired connections and were composed of rack-based hardware components.
Josh.ai collaborated with Crestron Electronics in 2021 to release the first voice control solution for the Crestron Home smart home system. Josh.ai also partnered with IHG Hotels & Resorts to provide voice-controlled smart room features at the Kimpton Rowan hotel in Palm Springs, California.
In August 2021, Lutron Electronics unveiled the Josh.ai ready wallplate integrated voice control keypad, which integrates the Josh.ai Nano voice control module into a control keypad.
See also
Tim Gill
References
External links
Software companies based in Colorado
Companies based in Denver
Privately held companies based in Colorado
Tim Gill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20at%20First%20Sight%20%28Australian%20season%207%29 | The seventh season of Married at First Sight premiered on 3 February 2020 on the Nine Network. Relationship experts John Aiken, Mel Schilling and Trisha Stratford all returned from the previous season to match 11 brides and 9 grooms together. The show cast their first same-sex couple since marriage equality laws were passed in Australia. Halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 2 brides and 2 grooms together, including Elizabeth Sobinoff who previously appeared in season 6.
Couple profiles
Commitment ceremony history
This couple left the experiment outside of commitment ceremony.
This couple elected to leave the experiment during the commitment ceremony.
This couple was removed from the experiment by the experts.
Controversy
Having discovered that his partner had cheated on him with another groom, David Cannon used wife Hayley Vernon's toothbrush to clean their toilet. The incident caused production to be shut down for a short time while producers dealt with both scandals. At the following commitment ceremony, the experts decided to remove Hayley and David from the experiment due to their toxic behaviour towards each other.
Ratings
References
7
2020 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20at%20First%20Sight%20%28Australian%20season%206%29 | The sixth season of Married at First Sight premiered on 28 January 2019 on the Nine Network. Relationship experts John Aiken, Mel Schilling and Trisha Stratford all returned from the previous season to match 10 brides and 10 grooms together. Halfway through the experiment, the experts matched another 2 brides and 2 grooms together.
Couple profiles
Commitment ceremony history
This couple elected to leave the experiment during the commitment ceremony.
Controversy
The experts had to decide on a controversial request by Dan and Jess who wanted to leave their respective "spouses" but remain in the experiment as a couple. The experts allowed the couple to leave their previous matches and stay in the experiment as a new couple. As a result of the decision, an online petition garnered thousands of votes to have the show cancelled.
Ratings
References
6
2019 Australian television seasons
Television shows filmed in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche%20Synchronkartei | The Deutsche Synchronkartei is an online database of voice actors in film and television productions. It is listed as a scientific and freely accessible source of information in the Datenbank-Infosystem.
In April 2021, according to the voice actor podcast stimmt!, the Deutsche Synchronkartei included "(...) over 172,000 actors, over 11,000 speakers, over 40,000 films, almost 7,000 series, almost 400,000 film roles, with 75 new film roles and 100 new series roles per day added".
Content
The Deutsche Synchronkartei is an ad-supported online database in which (international) actors and their German-speaking voice actors are listed, and – if known – the responsible dubbing company, the responsible dialogue director and the dialogue book author are named. The database allows users to search for series, movies, actors and voice actors. Each user can enter new data or correct incorrect entries without prior registration. These entries are largely checked by the team before activation. However, there is no indication of the sources and thus the correctness of the data. At the beginning of 2022, the database had over 800,000 entries and was visited by an average of about 45,000 users per day (as of 26 January 2022).
Voice actor agencies are linked on the site. According to developer Martin Schowanek, "This happened mainly because we have repeatedly received booking requests for voice actors, which we could not fulfill in the past, since we are not an agency ourselves. With the proceeds we finance our running costs such as server rental. Otherwise, we are still a nonprofit project."
History
Originally, the database was a collection of static HTML files. According to developer Christopher Beppler, this version existed until 31 December 2005. On this day, the new version of Deutsche Synchronkartei was launched.
On 30 April 2006, Beppler completed the input wizard. This allows visitors to add entries independently to Deutsche Synchronkartei.
Previously, the information in the database came from various sources: "The sources are primarily my [Schowanek's] ears, but of course also the numerous e-mails, as well as the few films in which the speakers are mentioned in the credits. In addition, there are newspaper articles, radio play cassettes and TV appearances of speakers (yes, that really happened once...)" as well as information provided by members of the Synchron-forum, in which Schowanek is also a very active member and regularly gives information about his database.
Many of the entries now come from the voice actors themselves, who send their daily call sheets to the operators. According to Schowanek, this is "very valuable for us, as this is how we often get information about smaller roles that might otherwise have been lost. There are also many people interested in dubbing who visit our site frequently and, for example, point out errors. It can be said that collective intelligence works."
According to Beppler, "Many voice actors maintain their o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal%20Gupta | Gopal Gupta may refer to:
Gopal Gupta (computer scientist), Indian computer scientist
Gopal Gupta (philosopher), Indian philosopher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanyuka%20TV%20Uganda | Sanyuka TV is a Ugandan television network based in Kampala, Uganda. It's the official broadcaster of the StarTimes Uganda Premier League for three seasons from 2018/19 to 2020/21. It was previously broadcast by GTV, DSTV and Azam.
Location
Its headquarterd is located at Next Media Park, Plot 13, summit view Road, Kampala, Uganda.
Overview
The channel was launched in September 2018. It started broadcasting on 10 September 2018.
The station is known for its focus on Ugandan sports, also has a series of edu-entertainment movies, sports, youth and entertainment shows. Each week it shows one English Premier League game.
References
External links
MTN Uganda, Sanyuka TV Partner to Broadcast Startimes Uganda Premier league
StarTimes moves Uganda Premier League channel to cheapest package
StarTimes UPL: Why Sanyuka TV Was Reinstated Onto Nova Bouquet
Television stations in Uganda
English-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seny%20Kamara | Seny Kamara is a Senegalese-French-American computer scientist best known for his work on cryptography. He has delivered multiple congressional testimonies about the potential harms and opportunities with technology. He leads or co-leads numerous centers and activities focused on cryptography and social good. His work has been covered extensively in high-profile media, including Wired and Forbes.
Education
Kamara received his Bachelors in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2001. He received his Master's degree and PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2008. His dissertation, Computing Securely with Untrusted Resources, explored cryptographic problems in the setting of cloud computing including searchable symmetric encryption and proofs of storage.
Career
He is an associate professor of computer science at Brown University. He has worked as a chief scientist at Aroki Systems, as a principal scientist at MongoDB, and as a researcher at Microsoft Research. At Brown University, he co-directs the Encrypted Systems Lab and is affiliated with the CAPS group, the Data Science Initiative, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and the Policy Lab. He teaches a popular Algorithms for the People course that surveys, critiques, and aspires to address the ways in which computer science & technology affect marginalized communities.
Research
Kamara is one of the principal contributors to the field of encrypted search and to searchable symmetric encryption (SSE). With Reza Curtmola, Juan Garay and Rafail Ostrovsky, he proposed the first SSE constructions to achieve optimal search time. Along with Melissa Chase, he later introduced structured encryption which underlies most practical SSE and encrypted database schemes.
Public work
Kamara has given congressional testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology in 2021 where he argued for considering the harms technology can cause and advocated for computer science and technology communities to work hard to mitigate those harms. Also in 2021, he collaborated with Senator Ron Wyden to advocate for an encrypted gun registry. In 2019, he delivered congressional testimony to the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives about how data uses in the financial industry have the potential to erode consumer privacy and increase discrimination. He joined a National Academy of Sciences committee focused on "Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Plaintext Information in an Era of Widespread Strong Encryption: Options and Tradeoffs" which has produced a report on encryption and cybersecurity.
Publications
His most cited publications are:
Reza Curtmola, Juan Garay, Seny Kamara, Rafail Ostrovsky, Searchable symmetric encryption: improved definitions and efficient constructions (2011) Journal of Computer Security 19:895-934 (Cited 2830 times, according to Google Scholar )
Seny Kamara, Kristin Lauter, Cryptographic cloud storage. (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLEAM-X%20J162759.5%E2%88%92523504.3 | GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3 is a transient astronomical radio source, found in 2020, in archival data recorded in 2018 by the Murchison Widefield Array.
The source was active in radio for about 1 minute every 18 minutes, from January to March 2018, but has not been recorded since.
Nature of source
It seems somewhat like a Galactic Center radio transient (GCRT) except it is thought to be only about distant.
The radio emissions were polarised (as if affected by a magnetic field) so it may be a predicted astrophysical object called an "ultra-long period magnetar".
See also
GPM J1839−10
GCRT J1745−3009
PSR J0901–4046
Rotating radio transients (RRATs)
Further reading
Not open access.
References
External links
Radio astronomy
Sagittarius (constellation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal%20Aharon | Michal Aharon is an Israeli computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning, image denoising, and the K-SVD algorithm in machine learning. She is a researcher on advertisement ranking for Yahoo! in Haifa.
Education and career
Aharon was a student at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there in 2001 and 2004, and completing her Ph.D. in 2006. Her dissertation, Learning Dictionaries for Sparse Representations, was supervised by Michael Elad.
After working for HP Labs in Haifa, Aharon moved to Yahoo! Labs in 2011. In 2014, she became head of the Yahoo! ad ranking science team, which develops algorithms for advertisement selection for Yahoo! Native.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoPrice | InfoPrice is a technology and data company, a Brazilian business intelligence startup focused on pricing and dynamic pricing for retail, created to enable its customers, retailers (supermarkets, hypermarkets, pharmacies) and industries, to improve their margins, increase their sales and better define their pricing strategies, collecting data through proprietary patented hardware, facilitating the monitoring of competitors' prices.
One curious fact is that one of its founders, Leonardo Sierra Monteiro, was a child actor in the Disney CRUJ series when he was ten years old, his character was called Guelé, who was transformed into the ultra-young revolutionary Chiclé.
SmartPrice
A patented barcode reproduction device that facilitates collection in physical retail, created by Leonardo when co-founding InfoPrice.
See also
Revionics
Ipsos
References
External links
InfoPrice no LinkedIn
InfoPrice no Google Maps
B2W Services
Sieve Group
Technology companies of Brazil
Companies based in São Paulo
Companies established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey%20Hightower | Kelsey Hightower (born February 27, 1981) is an American software engineer, developer advocate, and speaker known for his work with Kubernetes, open-source software, and cloud computing.
Early life and education
Hightower grew up in Long Beach, California, then moved to Atlanta, Georgia with his mother as he was beginning high school. After high school he enrolled at Clayton State University, but found the technology courses to be lacking and didn't continue. He then began courses to earn his CompTIA A+ information technology (IT) certification.
Career
When Hightower was 19 years old, after earning his CompTIA A+ certification, he got a job with BellSouth installing DSL service. He continued to work with BellSouth for several years, then began his own IT consultancy. He hired several others, and ultimately opened a store in Jonesboro, Georgia. Also in his early career, Hightower briefly worked as a technician for Google, then at Total Systems (now called TSYS).
Hightower began to give talks at Python meetups in Atlanta, where he was noticed by James Turnbull for how he and his colleagues were using Puppet, Python, and their own code to manage and automate deploys. In 2013, Puppet, Inc. invited Hightower to speak at their headquarters for a developer event, and then offered Hightower a job as a software engineer. Hightower began working for Puppet remotely from Atlanta, then moved to Portland, Oregon to work from their headquarters. Meanwhile, Hightower learned about technologies including Go and Docker containers, which he believed would be transformative to software infrastructure.
Hightower then briefly worked at a small Portland startup called Monsoon Commerce, at which he wrote , his first open-source project. He joined CoreOS as an early team member towards the beginning of 2014, and began to contribute significantly to the Kubernetes project.
Since November 2015, Hightower has worked for Google as an engineer and developer advocate in their cloud computing division. , Hightower is a distinguished engineer, level 9 (L9) as an individual contributor, with Google Cloud.
On June 26, 2023, Hightower announced his retirement from Google on Twitter, stating, among other things that "if everything goes to plan, then this is the last job [he'll] ever have."
Open source and developer advocacy
In 2014, while working for CoreOS, Hightower became an active evangelist of Kubernetes, and began to speak widely on the topic at developer conferences. He has since become one of the most well-known speakers on Kubernetes, and has also spoken on other topics, including serverless computing. In 2015, he co-founded the Kubernetes-focused conference KubeCon, which he then turned over to be managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in subsequent years.
In 2017, he co-wrote a book with Kubernetes co-founders Joe Beda and Brendan Burns, titled Kubernetes Up and Running.
In 2019, Hightower was co-chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina%20Stancu | Alina Stancu (born 22 November 1977) is a Romanian journalist and television presenter. She works at TVR, the Romanian national television broadcasting network.
Alina began her career in 1995 at Tele 7 ABC television station, working as a reporter and editor for the news program Telejurnal. Between 1998 and 2003 she activated at Pro TV și Acasă TV, and then, in 2003 she produced and presented programs about social and political issues at B1 TV, another well known Romanian TV station. She joined the news team at TVR in August 2011, becoming one of the moderators of Info+ live debates.
References
External links
"Sobră la TVR, frumoasa prezentatoare Alina Stancu apare gol-goluță într-un pictorial sexy" (in Romanian), Opinia Timișoarei, 11 March 2013
"O prezentatoare TVR a apărut goală într-o serie de fotografii incendiare!" (in Romanian), Cătălina Matei, Apropo TV, 11 December 2014
1977 births
Living people
Romanian television presenters
Romanian journalists
Romanian women journalists
Romanian women television presenters
People from Bucharest |
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