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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20vegetable%20production | This is a list of countries by vegetable production in 2020 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world vegetableproduction for 2020 was 1,148,446,252 metric tonnes.
In 1961 production was 198 mln. tonnes.
Production by country
The table shows the countries with the largest production of vegetables (lettuce, lentil, beans, onion, chickpea, pulses, eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, potato, cassava, soybean, carrot, cucumber, ginger, represented, yams, sweet potato, sesame, okra).
World production
References
Lists of countries by production
vegetable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karie%20Ross | Karie Dombrowski ( Ross) is an American former sports broadcaster. She worked as both a sports anchor and reporter for ABC, NBC and CBS network affiliates and as a cable television broadcast reporter. Ross was ESPN's third female on-air personality, and she was the first female reporter on ESPN’s College Football GameDay.
Early life
Ross was born in Norman, Oklahoma, raised in Clinton, Oklahoma by her parents Lanny and Janet Ross. Ross attended Clinton High School where she served as the school newspaper's sports editor. She was a supporter of Oklahoma Sooners sports in many ways: a baseball batgirl, a wrestling mat maid, and a football and basketball pompon squad member.
Ross went on to study at the University of Oklahoma. She interned at KOKH-TV during her senior year at Oklahoma. She began her broadcasting journalism career at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City.
Broadcast career
In 1981, Ross earned the title Maid of Cotton. The role had her serving as America's global ambassador to the cotton industry and promoting cotton use while traveling abroad. Ross spent 18 months at KOCO-TV; four years at Columbus, Ohio's WBNS-TV; two years in Bristol, Connecticut for ESPN; and nine months at Sports News Network in Washington, D.C. After a 9-month hiatus, she landed at KLAS-TV, becoming Las Vegas's first female weekday sports anchor, where she lasted less than a year. She went to WTVJ in Miami. On December 16, 1992, she met Dombrowski when the expansion Florida Marlins signed Benito Santiago. Santiago hit the 1993 Marlins first home run in April and another month later Dombrowski asked her out. On December 31, 1995, Ross married Dombrowski in Oklahoma City. The couple settled in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They had two children by 2004.
Ross was regarded as one of the first female sportscasters with a solid knowledge of sports, following in the footsteps of Gayle Gardner. Ross was one of the first women to speak up about workplace conditions for women in her industry. Her service at GameDay was all voice work.
Personal life
Ross married baseball executive Dave Dombrowski.
References
1950s births
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
American television sports announcers
American women television personalities
College football announcers
ESPN people
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Football League announcers
People from Clinton, Oklahoma
People from Norman, Oklahoma
Television personalities from Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma alumni
Women sports announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield%20AI | Shield AI is an American aerospace and defense technology company based in San Diego, California. It develops artificial intelligence-powered fighter pilots, drones, and technology for defense operations. Its clients include the US Air Force, US Army and Brazil Armed Forces.
Shield AI's valuation was $2.3 billion, as at June 2022.
The company’s small-unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) Nova became the first AI-powered drone to be deployed for defense purposes in US military history.
History
Shield AI was founded as a defense and artificial intelligence technology startup by former-Navy Seal Officer Brandon Tseng, his brother Ryan Tseng, and Andrew Reiter in San Diego, California in 2015. According to David Ignatius, writing for The Washington Post, ex-Navy SEAL Brandon got the startup idea while fighting in Afghanistan. In one of the missions, his unit suffered casualties in the Uruzgan province due to poor reconnaissance of a hostile building. The founding team began operations with a seed fund of $100,000 gathered from friends and family. They began building a prototype of their flagship Nova drone in 2015.
In 2016, Shield AI received its first contract, one from the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) autonomy program. As part of this contract, Nova was first deployed for reconnaissance and combat assistance in the Middle East in 2018.
In 2021, the company received a $7.2 million contract from the US Air Force for its small-unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). It later acquired defense contractor Heron Systems and aerospace company Martin UAV for undisclosed amounts. The same year in November, based on company press releases The Dallas Morning News reported that the company was valued at over $1 billion following a funding round. Over the years, it has received funding from venture capitalist firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Breyer Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank.
In June 2022, TechCrunch announced the company’s press release valuation at $2.3 billion.
In 2022, the company received another contract from the US Air Force, through the Pentagon’s AfVentures Strategic Funding Increase (AFWERX-STRATFI) Program. FedScoop reported the contract to be worth $60 million. In July 2022, it was chosen as one of several companies to aid the US Air Force for its Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) program.
In 2022, the company opened an office in the United Arab Emirates under retired Navy SEAL vice-admiral Bob Harward. The United States Sixth Fleet included the subject in its "Digital Horizon" sea exercise in Bahrain in November 2022 to demonstrate unmanned and artificial intelligence capabilities.
Technology
Shield AI employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop defense software and tools. It developed Nova, an autonomous quadcopter drone, and Hivemind, its autonomy and artificial intelligence stack in 2015. This software helps drones and aircraft maneuver autonomously in GPS- and communication-degr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2053%20%28Poland%29 | National road 53 () is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway is a GP-class and G-class road, long and is located in the Masovian and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. This route connects Olsztyn with Ostrołęka. The winding section between Olsztyn and Szczytno is the most difficult for drivers.
Route description
National road 53 has GP-class parameters on the Olsztyn - Szczytno - Rozogi section, and G-class parameters on the Rozogi - Myszyniec - Ostrołęka section.
History
National road 53 received its current number on 14 February 1986. The earlier designation is unknown; on the then maps and road atlases, the artery was marked as the so-called a secondary road, without giving its number.
Major cities and towns along the route
Olsztyn (national road 16, national road 51)
Klewki
Pasym
Szczytno (national road 57, national road 58)
Rozogi (national road 59)
Dąbrowy
Myszyniec
Wydmusy
Kadzidło
Dylewo
Ostrołęka (national road 61)
Axle load limit
National road 53 has an axle limit restrictions.
The allowed axle limit is up to 11.5 tons, which is a standard limit on Polish national roads.
References
53 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Creature%20Cases | The Creature Cases is an American-British preschool computer animated children's streaming television series created by Gabe Pulliam for Netflix. Produced by Silvergate Media, the series premiered on April 12, 2022. A holiday special, labeled as Chapter 2, was released on November 30, 2022. A third chapter was released on May 22, 2023.
Plot
The series takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals and follows the adventures of Sam Snow and Kit Casey, two agents employed by the Covert League of Animal Detective Experts (or C.L.A.D.E. for short), as they travel around the world solving many mysteries while using their expertise in problem-solving and animal facts.
Characters
Sam Snow (voiced by Shash Hira) - a Snow Leopard with an English accent and Kit's partner. A neat freak by nature and always out for clues and gizmos, Sam is a master detective and tends to be the one to analyze the situation at hand. True to his species, Sam hates getting wet and thrives in cold, snowy weather, though unlike Kit he is less than agile and often stumbles during most chases, despite being the most cautious of the two. Sam's main gadget is a glove that performs similarly to Kit's visor, but he is also responsible for carrying the Clu-Bots: small spherical robots that can transform for many different purposes. His catchphrases are "Whiskers, that's it!" and "Whiskers!".
Kit Casey (voiced by Nneka Okoye) - a yellow Kit Fox with an American accent and Sam's partner. Unlike her partner, Kit is naturally a total slob and never misses a chance to snack when possible, though despite being a worse detective than Sam she more than makes up for it with her vast knowledge of the various animal species they encounter. Unlike Sam, Kit doesn't mind getting wet and is far more reckless, reveling in hot tropical weather. Kit's main gadget is a visor that performs similarly to Sam's glove, but she also carries around a pen and notebook to draw out details on the latest suspect. Her catchphrases are "What in the woolly world?", "Twist my tail", "Don't get your tail twisted", and "Ain't that something."
Peggy Scratch (voiced by Teresa Gallagher) - a brown chicken and the director of C.L.A.D.E. While she puts up a serious and professional front, Director Scratch is just as eccentric as her employees, and not above their levels of fun and frivolities. Although she rarely leaves HQ on missions, Scratch is very accomplished and very competent in the field, being an accomplished egg bowler on top of managing case files in her office. Her catchphrase before sending the two agents down is "C.L.A.D.E. is counting on you!".
Bill and Jill - a pair of mice who make up a duo known as the Mice Squad. Typically based in a miniature news van, the Mice Squad is responsible for alerting C.L.A.D.E. agents of missions requiring intervention. The pair are also professional musicians, with many followers due to the quality of their soundtracks. Both of them also feature in the end-of-episode "Fact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Defense%20Forces | The Cyberspace Defense Forces (Polish: Wojska Obrony Cyberprzestrzeni) are a specialized component of the Polish Armed Forces established on February 8, 2022 by the Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak in Warsaw. Creation Day, February 8, is symbolic as it is Safer Internet Day.
The unit is to deal with cyber-security of the Republic of Poland in the military dimension. The unit cooperates with the National Cyberspace Security Center. The Act of March 11, 2022 on the defense of the Fatherland mentions in art. 15 sec. 4 point 2 of the Cyberspace Defense Forces, defining them as a specialized component of the Armed Forces.
At the launch ceremony at the Military University of Technology, the Ministry of National Defence, Mariusz Błaszczak, said, ”In 2016 NATO announced cyberspace as another domain in which Article 5 [the collective defence clause of the North Atlantic Treaty] could be activated. The WOC is part of the regular army, with reconnaissance, defence, and offensive capabilities.”
See also
Cyber and Information Domain Service (Germany)
Norwegian Cyber Defence Force
References
Information operations units and formations of NATO
Cyberwarfare
Computer security organizations
Military of Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCN | JCN may refer to:
Job Creators Network, a conservative U.S. advocacy group
Journal of Clinical Nursing, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of nursing
Judicial Crisis Network, an American conservative advocacy organization based in the United States
JCN, the station code for Clarkson railway station, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaco%20de%20Bakker | Jacobus Willem (Jaco) de Bakker (7 March 1939 – 13 December 2012) was a Dutch theoretical computer scientist and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Biography
De Bakker studied mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. At the last he obtained his doctorate in 1967 under Aad van Wijngaarden for the thesis: Formal Description of Programming Languages: with an application to the definition of ALGOL 60. Since 1964 he was already working as a scientist at the time named Mathematisch Centrum (MC) in Amsterdam (from 1984 the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica). He was later head of the computer science department, lead the Cluster Software Engineering and was since 2002 a CWI Fellow. In 1973 he also became professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, where he became emeritus in 2002.
Work
As computer scientist De Bakker was interested in the mathematical semantics of programming languages (as subject in which he was a pioneer) and their proof theory (program verification). He was in 1972 one of the founders of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), where he was from 1972 to 1982 vice-chair and from 1988 member of the steering committee.
In 1989 he was awarded membership of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) as well as member of Academia Europaea. In 2002 he was named a knight of the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. De Bakker died at the age of 73.
References
Dutch computer scientists
Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Members of Academia Europaea
1939 births
2012 deaths
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20fruit%20production | This is a list of countries by fruit production in 2020 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world fruit production for 2020 was 887,027,376 metric tonnes.
In 1961 production was 200 million tonnes.
Production by country
The table shows the countries with the largest production of fruit (apricot, olive, pear, banana, mango, guava, coconut, fig, grapes, orange, papaya, peach, apple, pineapple, gooseberry, lemon, lime, raspberry, plum, strawberry, blueberry, kiwifruit, date, cherry, avocado, tomato, quince, watermelon).
World production
References
Lists of countries by production
Fruit
Fruit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchy%20Queens | Sketchy Queens is an American sketch comedy television series premiered on WOW Presents Plus on September 15, 2022. It marks the streaming service's first sketch comedy original programming. The series stars Jinkx Monsoon and Liam Krug in various sketches. The series also included guest appearances, such as Trixie Mattel, Brandon Rogers, and Brittany Broski.
In November 2022, the production company, World of Wonder, announced that the show has been renewed for a second season.
Background
The series was announced by World of Wonder's streaming platform, WOW Presents Plus, its fall lineup filled with many original programming series to debut. A trailer for WOW Presents Plus' fall lineup revealed the comedy show was set to be released on September 15, 2022. In November 2022, the comedy show was renewed for a second season.
Format
Sunrise Boulevard
Liam Krug bumps into Jinkx Monsoon on Sunrise Boulevard (Portland, Oregon), where they are trying to revitalize Monsoon's career into the modern world.
Sonoma Public Access
Winderly Landchime and Bethany Christmas bought a bankrupted public-access television station.
I See You and I Hear You: Winderly Landchime and Bethany Christmas interview many special guests.
Episodes
Season 1 (2022)
References
2020s American television series
WOW Presents Plus original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanjie%3A%2024%20Hours%20of%20Love | Vanjie: 24 Hours of Love is an American reality competition television series premiered on WOW Presents Plus. It is the streaming service's first unscripted reality original programming. The series sees Vanessa Vanjie Mateo selecting a suitor from 18 bachelors within 24 hours, at the Vansion. Guest appearances have been made by Derrick Barry, Gottmik, and Violet Chachki.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at the time of filming.
Notes:
Episodes
References
2020s American reality television series
2020s LGBT-related reality television series
American LGBT-related reality television series
WOW Presents Plus original programming
2020s American LGBT-related television series
Drag (entertainment) television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2052%20%28Poland%29 | National road 52 (, abbrievated as DK52) is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway is a GP-class and S-class road, long and is located in the Lesser Poland and Silesian Voivodeship. This route consists of two fragments that are not connected with each other. The first one connects Cieszyn through Bielsko-Biała with Głogoczów. The second is the north-west bypass of Kraków.
On 4 August 2016, the stretch of the Cieszyn-Bielsko-Biała expressway, previously designated as Expressway S1, became a portion of DK52 (this section has expressway status as Expressway S52).
Major cities and towns along the route
Cieszyn
Skoczów
Bielsko-Biała
Kobiernice
Kęty
Andrychów
Wadowice
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Biertowice
Głogoczów
Mogilany
Kraków
Axle load limit
National road 52 has an axle limit restrictions.
The allowed axle limit is up to 11.5 tons, which is a standard limit on Polish national roads.
References
52 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Rally%20GB | The 2001 Rally GB (formally the 57th Network Q Rally of Great Britain) was the fourteenth and final round of the 2001 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 22 November and 25 November 2001, and was won by Peugeot's Marcus Grönholm, his 7th 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 2001 World Champions.
FIA Cup for Production Rally Drivers
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
Bold text indicates 2001 World Champions.
FIA Cup for Super 1600 Drivers
Classification
Special stages
Championship standings
Bold text indicates 2001 World Champions.
References
External links
Official website of the World Rally Championship
Rally GB
2001 Rally GB
Rally GB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20service%20regulation%20system | Cyberspace service regulation system act طرح نظام تنظیم مقررات خدمات فضای مجازی or just طرح صیانت از فضای مجازی Cyberspace protection bill lit. security plan is a cyberlaw put in place in 2022 in Islamic Republic of Iran. Between Iranians the act has become infamous and notorious. It puts the responsibility of controlling internet exchange points on Iranian Armed Forces.
Bill
Data
Corporations are required by law to safeguard Iranian users' private data; though it also requires National Information Network's "sanitation", prevention, countering and detection of cyber crime and obeying courts and Iranian judicial system orders'.
Effect of the bill
Radio Farda reported that Instagram (at the time unblocked in Iran) may be affected by the act.
References
Censorship in Iran
Internet censorship in Iran
Internet in Iran
All articles with unsourced statements
Law of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Gilden | Mel Gilden (born July 3, 1947) is a US writer of speculative fiction, predominately known for his Fifth Grade Monsters, Zoot Marlowe, Cronyn & Justice, and Cybersurfers fiction series. Gilden has written numerous episodes for animated television programs, including The Mask: Animated Series, Phantom 2040, James Bond Jr., Little Shop, Fraggle Rock, Defenders of the Earth, Centurions, The Flintstone Kids, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and The Smurfs.
Gilden received an AAS in Physics from Los Angeles City College in 1970, and a BA in physics from California State University, Los Angeles in 1974. He was co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour 25, on KPFK radio in Southern California 1981–1986. Gilden attended the Clarion Workshop in 1970, with his short story "What About Us Grils?" appearing in the first Clarion anthology.
Select Bibliography
Cronyn & Justice
Dangerous Hardboiled Magicians (2011)
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be (2012)
Cybersurfers
Pirates on the Internet (1995) with Ted Pedersen
Cyberspace Cowboy (1995) with Ted Pedersen
Ghost on the Net (1996) with Ted Pedersen
Cybercops & Flame Wars (1996) with Ted Pedersen
Fifth Grade Monsters
M Is for Monster (1987)
Born to Howl (1987)
The Pet of Frankenstein (1988)
Z Is for Zombie (1988)
Monster Mashers (1989)
Things That Go Bark in the Park (1989)
Yuckers! (1989)
The Monster in Creeps Head Bay (1990)
How to Be a Vampire in One Easy Lesson (1990)
Island of the Weird (1990)
Werewolf, Come Home (1990)
Monster Boy (1990)
Troll Patrol (1991)
The Secret of Dinosaur Bog (1991)
Star Trek Universe
The Starship Trap (1993)
Boogeymen (1991)
The Pet (1994) with Ted Pedersen
Cardassian Imps (1997)
Zoot Marlowe
Surfing Samurai Robots (1988)
Hawaiian U.F.O. Aliens (1990)
Tubular Android Superheroes (1991)
Standalone Novels
The Return of Captain Conquer (1986)
Outer Space and All That Junk (1989)
The Planetoid of Amazement (1991)
The Pumpkins of Time (1994)
Britney Spears Is a Three-Headed Alien (2001)
The Jabberwock Came Whiffling (2013)
The Accidental Time Cadet (2015)
The Coincidence Couch (2017)
Beverly Hills, 90210
Novelizations of scripts from the television show.
Beverly Hills 90210 (1991)
No Secrets (1992)
Which Way to the Beach? (1992)
Fantasies (1992)
Tis the Season (1993)
Two Hearts (1993)
Where the Boys Are (1993)
More Than Words (1993)
Summer Love (1993)
Senior Year (1993)
Graduation Day (1994)
College Bound (1994)
References
External links
Speculative fiction writers
Living people
1947 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run%20to%20Me%20%28miniseries%29 | Run to Me is a Philippine romantic comedy drama television streaming miniseries produced under the collaboration between Dreamscape Entertainment, iWantTFC, and social networking service Kumu, starring KD Estrada and Alexa Ilacad in their first main role as a loveteam. It was directed by Dwein Ruedas Baltazar.
The series premiered from May 20 to June 24, 2022 on Kumu and May 21 to June 25, 2022 on iWantTFC.
Premise
Jewel is introduced as "Ms. Perfect" and Wilson as "Mr. Perfect Son." Jewel is enjoying a successful career online, but craves for the love and affection from her mother; Wilson is struggling to make it in the digital scene for his ailing mother, yet receives all the love from her. The two cross paths in a "not-so-perfect situation" after he tries to rescue her from kidnappers. However, what he doesn't know is that it was a staged kidnap, which she planned herself. As two hearts run into each other, will they be able to find the love that they're longing for?
Cast and characters
Main cast
KD Estrada as Wilson
Alexa Ilacad as Jewel
Supporting cast
Nikki Valdez as Mami Bebot†
Mickey Ferriols as Emerald
CJ Navato as Dranreb
Malou Crisologo as Manang Bertha
Peewee O'Hara as Lola Carol
Karl Gabriel as Aion
Ivan Carapiet as Guillermo
Margaux Montaña as Vanessa
Henz Villaraiz as Pogi
Matty Juniosa as Kimba
Sean Tristan as Diamond
Haira Palaguitto as Lyn
Alexa Macanan as Claudine
Ross Pesigan as Boy Batak
Jess Mendoza as Kuya Barry
Madam Inutz as Nanet
Episodes
Kumu shows one episode first in advance before its streaming availability on iWantTFC.
Special
Official soundtrack
The official soundtrack for the series was released on May 27, 2022, and consists of tracks mostly composed by Ilacad with contributions from Estrada and Gracenote lead vocalist Eunice Jorge including two earlier released singles "Misteryo" and "When I See You Again". All tracks except for one were composed during the pair's time in Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10.
Just after its release, the official soundtrack ranked Number 1 in the iTunes Philippines chart, with all of its tracks placed in the Top 10 songs chart at one point.
Production
Background
Along with the announcement of Closer: the KDLex Fan Con, a new series was being teased by Dreamscape Entertainment first known as More Than Words in January 2022.
Casting
This is the first series for Ilacad and Estrada as lead actors and as a loveteam dubbed as "KDLex", where the two were part of the Celebrity Edition of Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10 in 2021.
Marketing
A teaser was released on April 29, 2022 in the official iWantTFC YouTube channel. Its release date have to be announced. While, the full trailer was released on May 6, 2022 in the official iWantTFC YouTube channel. On May 13, 2022 a second trailer was released.
Release
Broadcast
Episodes are released for viewing through a watch party every Friday at 8:00 PM, with replays every Saturday at 10:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and 4:00 PM on the D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20hashing | Fuzzy hashing, also known as similarity hashing, is a technique for detecting data that is similar, but not exactly the same, as other data. This is in contrast to cryptographic hash functions, which are designed to have significantly different hashes for even minor differences. Fuzzy hashing has been used to identify malware and has potential for other applications, like data loss prevention and detecting multiple versions of code.
Background
A hash function is a mathematical algorithm which maps arbitrary-sized data to a fixed size output. Many solutions use cryptographic hash functions like SHA-256 to detect duplicates or check for known files within large collection of files. However, cryptographic hash functions cannot be used for determining if a file is similar to a known file, because one of the requirements of a cryptographic hash function is that a small change to the input should change the hash value so extensively that the new hash value appears uncorrelated with the old hash value (avalanche effect)
Fuzzy hashing exists to solve this problem of detecting data that is similar, but not exactly the same, as other data. Fuzzy hashing algorithms specifically use algorithms in which two similar inputs will generate two similar hash values. This property is the exact opposite of the avalanche effect desired in cryptographic hash functions.
Fuzzy hashing can also be used to detect when one object is contained within another.
Approaches for fuzzy hashing
There are a few approaches used for building fuzzy hash algorithms:
Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing (CTPH), which constructs a hash by splitting the input into multiple pieces, calculating traditional hashes for each piece, and then combining those traditional hashes into a single string.
Locality Sensitive Hashing places similar input items into the same "buckets", which can be used for data clustering and nearest neighbor searches
Notable fuzzy hashing tools and algorithms
spamsum is a tool written by Andrew Tridgell that uses fuzzy hashing to determine whether an email is similar to known spam. It operates by generating a fuzzy hash for an email that it compares against the fuzzy hashes from known spam emails to generate a match result between 0 (complete mismatch) to 100 (perfect match). If the match result is high enough, the email is classified as spam.
Nilsimsa Hash is an anti-spam focused locality-sensitive hashing algorithm.
ssdeep is a fuzzy hashing tool based on context-piecewise triggered hashing to compare files.
sdhash is a fuzzy hashing tool based on using bloom filters to determine whether one file is contained within another or how similar two files are to each other.
TLSH is a locality sensitive hashing scheme for comparing whether files are similar to each other and has been used for malware clustering.
See also
Nilsimsa Hash
Locality-sensitive hashing
Checksum#Fuzzy_checksum
References
Hashing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal%20Lords%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Feudal Lords is a closed-end, computer moderated, play-by-mail game set in medieval England. Starting as a game run through a magazine in 1977, it was first published by Graaf Simulations, later run by Flying Buffalo, Inc, and is today published by Rick Loomis PBM Games.
History and development
John Van De Graaf created Feudal Lords in 1977 with basic gameplay, set in King Arthur times. Van de Graaf published the game in his Diplomacy magazine, updating the rules and integrating a computer in 1980. In 1982, following a playtest, he published the game through a new company, Graaf Simulations. The design comprised economic, military and diplomatic aspects.
Bill Paxton won Game #1, which ended in 1982. Flying Buffalo also ran the game. The copyright date on Flying Buffalo's rules written by John Van De Graaf is 1982. In 1984, Graaf Simulations had over 35 games running. As of October 2021, Rick Loomis PBM Games publishes the game. The game is computer-moderated.
Gameplay
The game is set in medieval England after the death of King Arthur. Each player controls one of the 46 fiefs on the map of England, with non-played feifs acting independently. Players have 32 possible orders available, but can only submit 12 per one-year turn. Other limits apply, such as one military campaign annually. According to reviewer Chris Frink, these constraints "make for a better-balanced, more interesting game". Players must manage various aspects of medieval life, including maintaining knights, peasants, and townspeople, and accounting for economic factors such as mining and agriculture. Diplomacy is critical to success; winning is not possible without alliances.
The object of the game is to gain control of 23 of the 46 feifs.
Reviews
Dragon, No. 72
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Flying Buffalo games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinh%20Thuy%20Phan%20Huy | Dinh Thuy Phan Huy (born 20 March 1977), is a research engineer specializing in wireless networks. Her specific research interests include wireless communications and beamforming, spatial modulation, predictor antenna, backscattering and intelligent reflecting surfaces.
Biography
Dinh Thuy Phan Huy (whose name has been published as Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, D. -T. Phan-Huy, D. T. Phan Huy, Dinh Thuy Phan-Huy) received her degree in engineering from the École supérieure d'électricité, commonly called Supelec, in 2001, and her Ph.D. in electronics and telecommunications from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes, France, in 2015. Her thesis was titled Retournement temporel: application aux réseaux mobiles (Time reversal: application to mobile networks), directed by Maryline Hélard.
In 2018, she received the General Ferrié electronics grand prize for her work on focusing radio waves to improve the energy efficiency of the Internet of Things, "which contributed to the discovery and development of 15 inventions."
In 2001, she joined France Telecom R&D (now Orange Labs Networks), in Châtillon, France where she was a senior researcher with the Technology & Global Innovation. She led the national French collaborative research project TRIMARAN (2011-2014).
Phan Huy has participated in several European Union research projects created to address the architecture and functionality to accommodate 5G and beyond-4G networks. These projects include: Mobile and Wireless Communications Enablers (METIS) (2012–2015); Fantastic 5G, which supports a new mobile radio standard; mmMAGIC – Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for 5G communications; and the 5GCAR European Union initiative that investigates future wireless vehicular communication. She has also led the ANR SpatialModulation project (2016–2019) concerned with the spatial focusing of radio waves as a promising solution for connecting smartphones at high speed while improving the energy efficiency of mobile networks.
Phan Huy has applied for more than 40 patents, and she has published more than 20 papers.
Distinctions
Dinh Thuy Phan Huy has been the recipient of several awards in France.
2016: Prix Impact Economique des Rencontres du Numérique, from the French National Research Agency,
2018: Grand Prix de l’Electronique du General Ferrié, from the French Society of Electricity, Electronics and Information and Communication Technologies
2018: Irène Joliot Curie Prize – category Woman in Research and Business, from the French Ministry of Education and Research
Selected patents and applications
Dinh Thuy Phan Huy is listed as an inventor on dozens of patent applications to protect inventions, including these applications (some still pending) to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method of high-bitrate wireless communication with a multi-antenna receiver, Patent number: 9553651, Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
Method of TDD precoding, Patent number: 9614603, Date |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINE%40Etersoft | WINE@Etersoft is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for Linux and FreeBSD. This compatibility layer enables many Windows-based applications to run on Linux operating systems, or FreeBSD.
WINE@Etersoft is developed by Etersoft and based on Wine, an open-source Windows compatibility layer. WINE@Etersoft is focused on popular Russian software applications as 1C:Enterprise, Consultant Plus, and Garant. Unlike regular Wine, it supports security keys and cryptography.
In 2008, the WINE@Etersoft software product won Russian prestigious award on technology category CNews AWARDS.
Platforms
WINE@Etersoft supports many operating systems: Astra Linux, ALT Linux, Fedora Linux, Debian, Mandriva Linux,Slackware, openSUSE, FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Applications
Lots of applications have been supported by the software at one time over the span of 16 years. Some still are supported by either the Etersoft company or Applications' developers.
Some of the popular software:
1C:Enterprise,
Consultant Plus,
Garant,
T-FLEX CAD,
Kompas-3D,
AVARDA, MetaTrader 4, QUIK.
Education
There is a private use version of WINE@Etersoft named WINE@Etersoft Local that was once used in educational institutes between 2007 and 2010.
In 2010, the WINE@Etersoft School product was released, distributed free of charge among Russian schools and focused on running educational applications on Linux. It was later replaced with the WINE@Etersoft Network Special Education License.
See also
Wine
PlayOnMac
PlayOnLinux
Wine-Doors
Darwine
References
External links
Compatibility layers
Linux emulation software
Software derived from or incorporating Wine
Unix emulation software
Wine (software) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleverdon | Cleverdon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cyril Cleverdon (1914–1997), British librarian and computer scientist
Douglas Cleverdon (1903–1987), English radio producer and bookseller
Harold Cleverdon (1904–1994), Canadian Anglican priest
Julia Cleverdon (born 1950), British charity worker
Scott Cleverdon (born 1969), Scottish actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20V.%20Roach | John V. Roach (November 22, 1938 – March 20, 2022) was an American executive. He was one of the early proponents of the personal computer, launching the Tandy TRS-80.
Early life and education
John Vinson Roach II was born on November 22, 1938, in Stamford, Texas, and moved to Fort Worth at the age of four. His mother, Agnes Margaret Roach nee Handon, was a nurse and his father owned a grocery store in Fort Worth.
Roach studied physics and mathematics at Texas Christian University and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1961. After working for two years at the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, he returned to the university and earned a master’s in business administration in 1965. He also started experimenting with mainframes in college.
Career
In 1967, he joined the Tandy Corporation, a conglomerate that owned Radioshack, as a data processing manager. In the following years, he played a key role in the company’s decision to venture into the budding personal computer market.
In January 1977, he presented the original TRS-80 prototype to Tandy’s CEO Charles Tandy and Radioshack’s president Lewis Kornfeld. At just under $600, the TRS-80 quickly became the best-selling personal computer on the market. To write the software code for the TRS-80, Tandy hired eventual Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Roach became RadioShack’s executive vice president in 1978. He was appointed chief operating officer in 1980.
In 1983, he was named chief executive and chairman of Tandy, two positions he held until he retired in 1999.
In the 1990s, Roach also served as chairman of Texas Christian University’s board of trustees. In this role, he helped to double the university’s endowment to more than $1 billion and built a technology center. In 2007, the John V. Roach Honors College was endowed in his honor at Texas Christian University.
References
1938 births
2022 deaths
People from Stamford, Texas
Texas Christian University alumni
American technology executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai%20City%20Roads%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Chennai City Roads Highways Division (Construction & Maintenance) is responsible to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development.
In Chennai City Roads Highways (C&M) Division, the total length of 254.4 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 186.25
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 18.71
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 49.395
State Highways
Major District Roads
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagen | Datagen is a multinational software company founded in 2018 by Ofir Chakon and Gil Elbaz. The company provides a platform for generating synthetic data for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), computer vision (CV), and artificial intelligence (AI), namely, self-driving cars, robotics and IoT security.
History
Datagen was founded in 2018 by Israeli Technion graduates Ofir Chakon and Gil Elbaz. The initial inspiration for creating what later was to become Datagen was a video of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, demonstrating Oculus.
The Datagen platform is used to generate synthetic data used in computer vision AI while rendering the production of 2D and 3D imagery, by other means, for the purpose of training AI models, obsolete. The company claims it can reduce the time needed to create AI training data from days to a few hours. Datagen states that this will result in better-trained and more useful AI systems.
In 2021, the company recruited new executives from several other tech corporations: Tal Darom (a past senior executive at Amazon in Israel), Jonathan Lazerson, Karin Regev, and Hadas Scheinfeld (a former executive at Google).
In 2022, the company announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B funding round.
References
External links
Companies established in 2018
Companies based in Tel Aviv
Data companies
Technology companies of Israel
Computer vision software
Virtual reality companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengalpattu%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Chengalpattu Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Chengalpattu Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 2203.35 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 574.69
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 341.98
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1286.68
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Vellore Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Vellore Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1539.24 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 387.710
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 194.900
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 956.630
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaniyambadi%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Vaniyambadi Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Vaniyambadi Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1061.6 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 267.300
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 74.563
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 719.705
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvannamalai%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Thiruvannamalai Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Thiruvannamalai Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1410 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 332.980
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 179.000
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 897.980
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyyar%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Cheyyar Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Cheyyar Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1219.36 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 221.014
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 210.750
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 787.600
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20NBC | The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network which is owned by Comcast through NBCUniversal. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower). Along with ABC and CBS, NBC is one of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks.
NBC was founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a then-subsidiary of General Electric (GE), making it the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. In 1932, GE was forced to sell RCA and NBC as a result of antitrust charges; in 1986, control of NBC passed back to GE through its $6.4 billion purchase of RCA, which sold off the entirety of NBC's radio assets. In 2003, French media Vivendi merged its assets with GE to form NBC Universal. Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electric's remaining stake in 2013.
Radio
Earliest stations: WEAF and WJZ
During a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA) acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T). Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had a competing outlet in Newark pioneer station WJZ (no relation to the radio and television station in Baltimore currently using those call letters), which also served as the flagship for a loosely structured network. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, and moved to New York City.
WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&T's manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&T's telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, using both wireless and wired methods. The creation of WEAF in 1922 offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a regular schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs, and was an immediate success. In an early example of "chain" or "networking" broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island; and with AT&T's station in Washington, D.C., WCAP.
New parent RCA saw an advantage in sharing programming, and after getting a license for radio station WRC in Washington, D.C., in 1923, attempted to transmit audio between cities via low-quality telegraph lines. AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the uninsulated telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric and other electrical interference.
In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its embryonic network were incompatible with the company's primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryline%20H%C3%A9lard | Maryline Hélard (born 1958) is a French research engineer specializing in wireless networks. Her research interests include wired and wireless communications and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques.
Life and work
Maryline Hélard (also known as Maryline Le Guyader) received her engineering degree (1981) and her Ph.D. degree (1984) from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) (now called Supélec) in Rennes, France, as well as her post-doc habilitation degree in 2004.
Hélard worked for France Telecom (1985–2007), now known as Orange Labs Networks, in Châtillon, France, as a research engineer. In 2007 she returned to INSA Rennes as a full professor and led the IETR (Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes) Department, located on the Rennes campus of CentraleSupélec. Presently, she is a full professor at INSA Rennes in the Communication Systems and Networks department.
Her PhD students have included the engineer Dinh Thuy Phan Huy (2015).
She has been involved in several collaborative research projects.
Selected memberships
IEEE, an international society of electrical engineers
Selected publications
Hélard has published more than 260 professional papers and has been granted numerous patents.
Helard, Maryline, Jacques Citerne, Odile Picon, and V. Fouad Hanna. "Theoretical of and Experimental Investigation Finline Discontinuities." IEEE transactions on microwave theory and techniques 33, no. 10 (1985): 994-1003.
Helard, Maryline, Rodolphe Le Gouable, Jean-Francois Helard, and Jean-Yves Baudais. "Multicarrier CDMA techniques for future wideband wireless networks." In Annales des télécommunications, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 260-274. Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Boher, Laurent, Rodrigue Rabineau, and Maryline Helard. "FPGA implementation of an iterative receiver for MIMO-OFDM systems." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 26, no. 6 (2008): 857-866.
Phan-Huy, Dinh-Thuy, and Maryline Hélard. "Receive antenna shift keying for time reversal wireless communications." In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 4852-4856. IEEE, 2012.
Peng, Linning, Maryline Hélard, and Sylvain Haese. "On bit-loading for discrete multi-tone transmission over short range POF systems." Journal of lightwave technology 31, no. 24 (2013): 4155-4165.
Maaz, Mohamad, Maryline Hélard, Philippe Mary, and Ming Liu. "Performance analysis of time-reversal based precoding schemes in MISO-OFDM systems." In 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2015.
Mohamed Shehata, Matthieu Crussière, and Maryline Hélard. On the Theoretical Limits of Beam Steering in mmWave Massive MIMO Channels. In 2019 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). IEEE Press, 1–6. 2019. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904228
References
Living people
1958 births
21st-century French scientists
20th-century French engineers
21st-century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventurer%20Kings | Adventurer Kings is a closed-end, computer-moderated, play-by-mail game. It was originally published by Ark Royal Games. Today it is published by Roland Danard.
The game is set in a medieval fantasy context with a map comprising 162 provinces. Players begin roleplaying as a king with a few resources to begin expansion by conquest. Characters are central to the game with various races, attributes, and alignments available. Magic and diplomacy are also part of the gameplay. Games last about 10–15 turns of one year each. Players with the greatest number of victory points win the game.
History and development
Adventurer Kings was initially published by Ark Royal Games. The game is computer moderated. It is close-ended. As of 2022, Roland Danard publishes the game.
Gameplay
Adventurer Kings is set in a medieval context. The game map comprises 162 provinces. Games have 8–12 players with "Super" games having 25–40 players.
Players play the role of a minor king of a province with a few armies and some gold with the goal of expansion. Each annual turn allows players to conduct about a dozen and a half orders for characters and armies from spying, exploring, and recruiting or disbanding armies. Characters are central to the game and have various attributes and alignments. Player characters must be an Elf, Dwarf, Orc or Human while non-player character races of dragons and others are encountered in the game.
Magic plays a part in the game, with various magic items available and specific characters able to cast spells. Diplomacy is also part of gameplay, with all relationships beginning as neutral and players deciding how to progress as the game develops.
Games last 10–15 turns. The player with the greatest number of victory points at the game's conclusion is the winner. Games end if (1) a player—who becomes World Emperor—"controls 55% of the world tax base" or (2) more than two players control the same percentage and call for an election.
Reception
James Morgan reviewed the game in the July–August 1990 issue of Paper Mayhem, stating, "I recommend the game Adventurer Kings to all Fantasy game players." Adam Spatz provided a positive review in the March–April 1991 issue of Paper Mayhem, stating, "This is an excellent game with a great moderator and fast turnaround," while noting that others felt similarly, pointing to high ratings in Paper Mayhem.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1990s
Role-playing games introduced in 1990
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games
21st-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villupuram%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Villupuram Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Villupuram Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1721.9 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 274.135
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 239.067
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1208.65
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallakurichi%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Kallakurichi Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Kallakurichi Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1546.53 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 312.946
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 289.150
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 944.434
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuddalore%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Cuddalore Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Cuddalore Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1862.957 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Sub-Division
Cuddalore Highways Division has 7 Sub–Division.
Cuddalore sub-division the total length of kilometer 220.645 are maintained.
Panruti sub-division the total length of kilometer 281.101 are maintained.
Kurinjipadi sub-division the total length of kilometer 353.359 are maintained.
Vridhachalam sub-division the total length of kilometer 272.225 are maintained.
Thittagudi sub-division the total length of kilometer 309.675 are maintained.
Chidamabram sub-division the total length of kilometer 177.548 are maintained.
Kattumannarkoil sub-division the total length of kilometer 404 are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 249.00
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 449.00
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1165.00
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariyalur%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Ariyalur Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Ariyalur Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 771.72 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 157.440
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 131.190
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 483.089
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Mwebaza | Rose Mwebaza is a Ugandan lawyer who serves as the United Nations Environment Program's regional office for Africa since 2023. She is the Director of the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the implementation arm of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism, which is hosted and managed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Environment Programme. Mwebaza also serves as the Advisory Board Secretary UNFCCC.
Background and education
Mwebaza holds a Bachelor of Law Degree (LL.B, Hons.) from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She also attained a Master’s Degree in International Comparative Law with a Certificate of Academic Excellence from the University of Florida, U.S.A. She attained her Doctorate in Philosophy, PhD in Environment and Natural Resource Governance from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is a former Carl Duisberg Research fellow at the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Career
Mwebaza was a lecturer at Makerere University, where she also served as the Head of Department for Commercial Law, and Deputy Dean of the Law School, Makerere University between 1997 and 2008. Mwebaza also served as a Senior Legal Advisor on Environmental Security for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) based in Nairobi, Kenya. She then served as the Regional Policy Adviser for Eastern and Southern Africa on Climate Change in the Environment and Energy Group, at the United Nations Development Programme Bureau for Development Policy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She served as Programme Manager for UNDP’s regional office for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia covering 47 countries. She was also designated as Advisor to the Chairperson of the African Union, where she provided policy advice on development issues related to the African Union Development Agenda and UNDP’s Development Support to Africa. Dr. Mwebaza joined the banking sector and served as Chief Natural Resources Officer at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She is the Director of the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN), the implementation arm of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism, which is hosted and managed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the UN Environment Programme replacing Jukka Uosukainen of Finland who served as CTCN Director from 2014-2019. In 2021, she was named amongst the 100 most influential women in Africa.
Selected publications
The Nature and Extent of Environmental Crimes in Seychelles
Enforcement of Environmental Crime Laws A Framework Training Manual for Law Enforcement Agencies
Environmental Governance and Climate Change in Africa Legal Perspectives
Sustaining Good Governance in Water and Sanitation in Uganda
Partnerships for Enhancing Regional Enforcement of Laws Against Environmental Crimes
Annual Regional Conference of Judges on Environmental Security in Eastern Africa: Summary of p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perambalur%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Perambalur Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Perambalur Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 692.13 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 62.075
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 152.600
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 477.455
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichy%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | The Trichy Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the highway network in Tiruchirappalli district, India, and also ensures road safety and coping with the future economic development of the state.
In Trichy Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 1981.88 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 279.413
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 411.040
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1291.425
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudukottai%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Pudukottai Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) aims to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district and also ensures road safety and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Pudukottai Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 2113.75 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 366.643
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 507.740
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1239.365
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanjavur%20Division%20%28Highways%29 | Thanjavur Division Highways Department (Construction & Maintenance) was established to develop and maintain the Highway network in the district, ensure road safety, and to cope with the future economic development of the state.
In Thanjavur Highways (C & M) Division, the total length of 2231.79 Kilometre of Government roads are maintained.
Classification
The Classification of road are as follows
State Highways (SH) the total length of Kilometre is 487.569
Major District Roads (MDR) the total length of Kilometre is 451.404
Other District Roads (ODR) the total length of Kilometre is 1292.814
State Highways
Major District Road
Other District Roads
See also
Highways of Tamil Nadu
Road Network in Tamil Nadu
National Highways
List of National Highways in India
List of National Highways in India (by Highway Number)
National Highways Authority of India
References
Roads in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu highways
Tamil Nadu-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20ABC%20Weekend%20TV | This is a timeline of the history of the British television company ABC Weekend TV, one of the first four contractors of the Independent Television network.
1950s
1954
26 October – The Independent Television Authority (ITA) awards franchises for weekend services in the Midlands and North of England regions to Kemsley-Winnick Television.
1955
21 September – After the collapse of Kemsley-Winnick, the ITA approaches Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) to provide the services instead and the contract was signed that day.
8 October – After legal action from ABPC, the weekend service for London is renamed from ABC (Associated Broadcasting Company) to ATV (Associated TeleVision), thus allowing ABPC to later use the ABC name for its own TV service.
1956
17 February – Alpha Television, a joint venture between ABC and the Midlands weekday contractor ATV, reopens the former Astoria Cinema in Aston, Birmingham, as a studio shared between the companies.
18 February – ABPC's new company, Associated British Cinemas (Television) Ltd, begins its Midlands weekend service, under the brand name "ABC", broadcasting from Lichfield transmitting station. Its logo is based on the logo of ABC Cinemas (owned by ABPC).
5 May – ABC begins its North of England weekend service. Initially the service covers the North West from Winter Hill transmitting station. The former Capitol Cinema in Didsbury, Manchester, reopens as ABC's studios in the North of England.
3 November – ABC's North of England service is extended to Yorkshire via Emley Moor transmitting station.
1957
No events.
1958
November – ABC buys the former Warner film studios at Teddington Lock in London, to be converted into television studios.
1959
Teddington Studios open as ABC's main production centre in London.
September – ABC introduces a new logo based on inverted triangles, accompanied by a jingle based on the musical notes A, B and C.
1960s
1960
No events.
1961
7 January – The first episode of ABC's cult series The Avengers is broadcast. It would run until 1969.
18 July – A new mast at Lichfield replaces the existing mast to extend ABC's Midlands service.
August – Alpha Television in Birmingham upgrades its site to provide a second studio, office block, canteen and other facilities.
1962
No events.
1963
No events.
1964
11 July – ABC airs the first episode of its version of the talent show Opportunity Knocks. A previous version had been made for one series in 1956 by Associated-Rediffusion. ABC and its successor Thames Television continue to produce the show until 1978. It would later be revived by the BBC in 1987 and its version would run until 1990.
1965
2 January – World of Sport is first broadcast. ABC compiles and hosts the show from contributions from the whole ITV network. After ABC's demise, the show would be hosted by London Weekend Television (branded as ITV Sport) until 1985.
30 April – Membury transmitting station extends ABC's Midlands service to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%20TV | Angel broadcasting network LTD is a media group based in Accra, Ghana. Established in 2007, it has 16 radio stations, two news websites, and three satellite television network.
The network has won several local and international awards for its tenacious work of giving credible information to its listeners and readers in Ghana and the world.
Angel Broadcasting Network LTD was established in 2007 by Ghanaian entrepreneur Dr. Kwaku Oteng with the first radio station which went on air in 2007 starting with 15 employees. The media group was started in Kumasi, Ghana.
In August 2021, a fire gutted the studios of Angel TV, damaging all of the channel's equipment. In spite of the building being a near-total loss, the channel returned to air within 24 hours.
Services
General administration, sales, programming, production, news, advertising etc.
Radio and TV stations
Angel Broadcasting Network LTD owns sixteen radio stations in all the 16 regions in Ghana
Its radio stations are:
Angel Fm Kumasi
Pure Fm Kumasi
ABN Radio 1 Kumasi
Angel FM Accra
Angel FM Sunyani
Cheers FM Sunyani
Angel FM Koforidua
OFM Obuasi
Cheers FM Takoradi
Darling FM Cape coast
KFM Techiman
Angel FM Bolga
Angel FM Tamale
Taste FM Koforidua
Angel Fm HO
Cheers FM Drobo
Television stations:
Angel TV
Adonko TV
ONE HD TV
Staff
The group employs over 1,500 casual and permanent workers. In November 2022, eight staff were sent to the British Broadcasting Company for training and capacity building. The Network has top media Personalities like Saddick Adams Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Journalist of the Year 2018 and Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) journalist of the year 2022, multiple award-winning newscaster Kwadwo Dickson, Ohemaa Woye, Don Summer multiple award-winning Political Host Kwame Adinkra, Kofi Adoma Nwanwani, DJ Slim, Captain Smart, Bright Kamkam Boadu, Esther Abankwah, Kofi Owusu Jerry, OB Trice, Oliver khan, Listowel Mensah Daniel, Nana Yaa Brefo, Kwamena Sam Biney, Ohenemaa Woyeje, Francisca Oteng-Mensah, Ghana football legends Charles Asampong Taylor, Prince Tagoe, and Awudu Issaka.
International Broadcast success
The network acquired the media rights of the following:
Euro 2016
Spanish Copa Del Rey 2016
International champions cup 2017
English Premier League 2018
Afcon 2021
Awards
The network has won through its media houses has several awards including:
RTP Digital Television station of the year 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021
References
External links
Team Van wins the maiden edition of Woso
Television stations in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20BlueField | Nvidia BlueField is a line of data processing units (DPUs) designed and produced by Nvidia. Initially developed by Mellanox Technologies, the BlueField IP was acquired by Nvidia in March 2019, when Nvidia acquired Mellanox Technologies for US$6.9 billion. The first Nvidia produced BlueField cards, named BlueField-2, were shipped for review shortly after their announcement at VMworld 2019, and were officially launched at GTC 2020. Also launched at GTC 2020 was the Nvidia BlueField-2X, an Nvidia BlueField card with an Ampere generation Graphic Processing Unit integrated onto the same card. BlueField-3 and BlueField-4 DPUs were first announced at GTC 2021, with the tentative launch dates for these cards being 2022 and 2024 respectively.
Nvidia BlueField cards are targeted for use in datacenters and high performance computing, where latency and bandwidth are important for efficient computation.
BlueField cards differ from network interface controllers in their offloading of functions that would normally be reserved for the CPU, and the presence of CPU cores (typically ARM or MIPS based) and memory support (typically DDR4, though Bluefield-3's release brought support for more exotic memory types such as HBM and DDR5). BlueField cards also run an operating system completely independent from the host system: this is designed to reduce software overhead, as each DPU can function independently of one another and the head unit. This also means that Bluefield cards are capable of allowing remote management of systems that may not typically support it. Bluefield cards can also configure their PCIe bus to function as a host, rather than a device, which lets Bluefield cards connect over a PCIe bridge to another card, such as a compute accelerator, to provide completely network-based, high bandwidth control of a GPU.
The Bluefield X cards are DPU-GPU hybrid cards with a 100 class Nvidia datacenter GPU integrated on the same PCB as the Bluefield DPU. These cards are intended for high power GPU clusters to allow high bandwidth communication without needing to cross the PCIe bus and create an unnecessary load on the CPU where performance may be better allocated to other types of processing. The increase in total external connectivity available to a system in this configuration allows for datasets to be utilized across multiple nodes when they may be too large for any single system to hold in memory.
Models
H100 CNX & A100 EGX
The H100 CNX and the A100 EGX are NIC/GPU hybrid cards and, while visually similar to a Bluefield-X card, are completely distinct, and do not have the Bluefield system on a chip integration. The cards are instead equipped with a generic ConnectX network interface controller.
References
Nvidia hardware
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Calabacita | La Calabacita is an animated short that aired at the end of children's programming on Cuban television. The animation was a design prize created for the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television's "Es la hora de dormir" (It's time to sleep) contest by Marta Porro, who was then pregnant in the hospital with her first daughter, and premiered on television in February 1977. La Calabacita featured the titular character, who lived in a pumpkin and would sprinkle magic powder on animals, kids, toys et al using a pillow.
Over the years, Calabacita segments have been directed by Felix Ricardo Rodriguez and sung by the likes of Miriam Ramos, Mayra de la Vega, Monica Sierra, Maggie Carles, and Liuba María Hevia.
Plot and overview
Two versions of La Calabacita would air at different times. A version aimed at preschool children aired at 8PM, while the second was aimed at older children who would be at school an hour later. Many people have considered 8PM to be "the hour of the Calabacita." Back then, many people hated La Calabacita because it signaled bedtime. Today, everyone remembers it with affection. In the Summer season, a version of the Calabacita song about summer activities aired.
The most recent version of La Calabacita was "Travesia Magica" by Liuba María Hevia. The song has been included in some of her albums since then.
In 1984, the Calabacita starred in his own film titled Suenos y Pesadillas.
La Calabacita is regarded part of Cuban broadcasting culture.
References
External links
Cuban television shows
Interstitial television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach%20Out%20Response%20Network | Reach Out Response Network is a Toronto based organization that advocates for the City of Toronto to increase community-led responses to mental health emergencies.
Organization
Reach Out Response Network is a community-led Toronto-based organization that was founded by Rachel Bromberg and Asante Haughton in 2020. It was based on the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets program run by the Eugene Police Department with a strong focus on advocacy work.
Activities
In July 2020 co-founders Haughton and Bromberg published an op-ed in the Toronto Star promoting the organization. This created an influx of volunteers and a connection to Mohamed Shuriye, the City of Toronto's new manager of policing reform.
In 2020, they submitted a 92-page report of recommendations to the City of Toronto.
Their 2021 publication Report on International Crisis Response Team Training documented alternatives to police response to mental-health-related emergencies. Later in 2021, the group welcomed the City of Toronto's decision to pilot community-led responses to 911 calls about mental health crises.
See also
Doctors for Defunding the Police
References
External links
Official website
2021 report: Report on International Crisis Response Team Training
2020 Toronto Star Op-Ed
Political advocacy groups in Canada
Political movements in Canada
2020 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabiota | Metabiota is a San Francisco startup that compiles data from around the world to predict disease outbreaks. The company is a partner with USAID's PREDICT and PREVENT programs. In the early months of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, Metabiota and BlueDot independently demonstrated the capabilities of computer analytics to map the future spread of the virus between countries.
In an effort to expand its business offerings, Metabiota teamed up with insurance groups Marsh, African Risk Capacity and Munich Re to provide data for outbreak coverage. Coverage would pay out to governments or companies based on stages of severity of an outbreak to help pay the cost to respond.
Google invested $1 million into the company while also planning to act as a partner to provide expertise in data analysis. Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners was reported to have a 13.4% stake in the company in 2014. This investment and Metabiota's work with Black & Veatch at labs in Ukraine led to the company being flagged in Russia's bioweapons claims during its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The company had staff stationed in Kenema supporting the Sierra Leone government when the Western African Ebola virus epidemic began. Médecins Sans Frontières criticized the company for failing to discover early cases, and for not sharing data or contact tracing information. Metabiota responded, saying they were restricted to reporting only to the local government.
References
Public health and biosurveillance software
Disaster management tools
Companies based in San Francisco
American companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Bromberg | Rachel Bromberg is a Canadian activist for community-led response to 911 calls and the co-founder of both Reach Out Response Network and the International Mobile Services Association.
Education
Bromberg was a fellow at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health and is completing a dual degree in law and social work at the University of Toronto.
Career and advocacy
Bromberg worked at youth mental health organization Stella's Place, before co-writing an op-ed with colleague Asante Haughton advocating for community-led responses to 911 calls about mental health crisis. She later co-founded Reach Out Response Network with Haughton and has worked with groups in the US who have run community responses.
She also co-founded the International Mobile Services Association where she works on community-led crises response.
She is a member of the Toronto Regional Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee and a member of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Constituency Council.
Bromberg serves on the board of directors of the Ontario Peer Development Initiative.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Yale University alumni
Activists from Ontario
Women founders
Canadian founders
Organization founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WabiSabiLabi | WabiSabiLabi or WSLabi was an online marketplace selling computer exploits in an auction format. The company claimed that security researchers who disclosed vulnerabilities to software vendors would be more fairly compensated for their work by selling on the trusted platform. However, only a year after opening the marketplace, the company was considering shutting it down due to lack of paying customers. The company was considering moving to a subscription service to more adequately compensate security researchers. Customers who purchased exploits included the companies Verisign and 3Com. Founded in July 2007, a cofounder was arrested on spying charges in November of that same year.
See also
Zone-H, website defacement database also created by Roberto Preatoni
TheRealDeal
References
External links
Archived page of wares for sale
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asante%20Haughton | Asante Haughton is a Jamaican-born Toronto-based human rights and mental health advocate and the co-founder of Reach Out Response Network.
Family life
Haughton was born Jamaica before moving to Toronto with mother where he was a gifted student. He has two brothers.
Haughton speaks openly about his depression and anxiety which developed from his experiences as a 10th-grade student when his mother tried to take her own life, but ended up instead hospitalized for months.
He used poetry and rap as an outlet for his emotions and excelled at basketball before getting help from his family doctor.
Career and activism
Haughton is the manager of peer support training at Stella's Place youth mental health organization in Toronto and a mental health consultant for Vice.
He co-founded Reach Out Response Network with Rachel Bromberg in 2020 and contracted COVID-19 the same year.
He does research with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Music career
Haughton raps and has collaborated with Toronto rapper Derek Christoff.
Publications
Haughton wrote the foreword for Brainstorm Revolution: True mental health stories of love, personal evolution, and cultural revolution, 2018
Haughton, A, Ashcroft, R, Menear, M, Greenblatt, A, et al. Patient perspectives on quality of care for depression and anxiety in primary health care teams: A qualitative study. Health Expectations. 2021; 24: 1168– 1177.
Ferrari, M., Flora, N., Anderson, K.K., Haughton, A., Tuck, A., Archie, S., Kidd, S., McKenzie, K. and (2018), Gender differences in pathways to care for early psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 12: 355-361.
The alternative to calling the police during a mental health crisis, Toronto Star, 2020
References
External links
Official website
His Ted Talk
Living people
Jamaican emigrants to Canada
Mental health activists
Mental health in Canada
21st-century Canadian rappers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian male rappers
Black Canadian musicians
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20National%20Roads%20in%20Bolivia | The Bolivian National Road network (Spanish: Rutas Nacionales) comprises 16,029 km (as of 2006) of roadway across all of Bolivia.
The National Road network was established with the Decreto Supremo 25.134 of 21 August 1998, with a length of 10,401 kilometres, consisting of 17 national roads. Today, there are 45 national roads in total. Route 16 still does not exist continuously, as such measurements of its length are estimated.
Bolivia's National Road network is 28% (4,514 km) paved, 40% (6,455 km) gravel, and 32% (5,060 km) compacted and beaten earth.
Since the climate, especially in the Bolivian lowlands, is characterized by extended rainy seasons, this situation repeatedly leads to poor traffic conditions, making mudslides, road traffic collisions, and fatalities commonplace.
List of routes
|}
References
Roads in Bolivia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%208-bit | IT 8-bit was a computer museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. It was founded by Dmitry Cherepanov. Before its destruction it used to be one of the largest privately owned computer museums in Ukraine. It was opened in August 2016.
The museum contained many computers from the Soviet Union.
The building housing the museum, which contained more than 500 exhibits, was destroyed during the Siege of Mariupol in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
References
External links
Official website
2003 establishments in Ukraine
2022 disestablishments in Ukraine
Attacks on museums
Buildings and structures destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Computer museums
Computing in the Soviet Union
Defunct museums in Ukraine
Historiography of the Soviet Union
Museums established in 2003
Museums disestablished in 2022
Museums in Mariupol
Technology museums in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Against%20Child%20Trafficking%2C%20Abuse%20and%20Labour | Network Against Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) is an umbrella organisation of Nigerian non-governmental organizations engaged in advocacy and campaign for children's rights, anti-human trafficking, human rights abuse and child labour with some 220 member organizations in the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory.
History
NACTAL was founded in 2003 by the United Nations Children's Fund (formerly, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund):, and registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2005. NACTAL also partners with Embassies, Government agencies e.g. National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Expertise France, European Union, International Organization for Migration (IOM), A-TIPSOM|FIIAPP Nigeria Police.
Mission and activities
The organization engaged in different activities including rescue of victims of human trafficking, anti-human trafficking campaigns, training, and implementation of programmes using the 5 P's to stop human trafficking which are as follows: prevention, protection, partnership, prosecution and policy.
Governance
NACTAL is led by the Board of Trustees, National Executive Council (NEC) and six zonal coordinators. The board of trustee is chaired by Bolaji Owasanoye, national executive council is headed by Ustaz Amin O. Igwegbe and the national president is Abdulganiyu Abubakar.
Membership
NACTAL has over 220 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Faith Based Organizations(FBOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) as members who are working in the area of anti-human trafficking, child protection, abuse/labour, irregular migration and smuggling of migrants in the six Geo-political zones of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
References
Human trafficking in Nigeria
Human rights in Nigeria
Child abuse in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%20Siren%20Alerts | Ukraine Siren Alerts (UASA) is a siren alert electronic system created by Israeli student Bernard 'Boaz' Moerdler. The system automatically alerts users of sirens in Ukraine using data from municipal and cities who post alerts on their website and is based on Israel's Red Color system, which alerts users when a siren is sounded anywhere in Israel. Initially launched on Twitter, the system has since expanded to Telegram and Facebook channels alongside releasing their new website which includes SMS and email alerts.
UASA officially launched on March 1, 2022, using live streams to interpret when a siren was sounding. Moerdler later improved upon this in version 2, which used information from the municipalities and cities to generate alerts. The program launched in select areas but quickly expanded to cover the entire country by the end of March. The program has also launched an application and website that helps alert users of sirens as well as show why a siren sounded in a specific area.
History
The program's development began with the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moerdler was inspired to create the program following conversations with his Ukrainian girlfriend, who has relatives in the country. "Initially, I started researching the idea after conversations with my girlfriend, who is from Ukraine, about the systems that they have available there in the country. After that, I did some research more into the system and found that it is quite antiquated in comparison to the ones we have here in Israel." - remarked Moerdler in an interview with the Israeli news network i24 News.
The first version of the program listened to live streams in select areas throughout Ukraine and detected sirens using the sound data. When it detected a siren, the program would post to the platforms it operated on. In the second iteration of the system, UASA harvests data published by municipalities and cities which post their alerts via their own website and social media accounts. It then takes the data and automatically posts it to its social media pages.
The program has since launched a new website with features including a map of Russian troop locations, a shelter map with over 24,000 bomb shelters and a news feed detailing why the alert was triggered
Supported regions
As of March 1st, UASA supports all regions, cities and villages in Ukraine.
Website
On June 22, 2022, a new website was launched. This new website contains features such as a new air raid map showing where sirens have sounded, a map of ongoing battles and damaged infrastructure (the Conflict Map), and a map of shelters in the country. Additionally, the website offers tools for finding open Wi-Fi networks nearby through Wifimap.io. Users can also sign up for SMS and e-mail notifications for specific regions through the website.
This site was developed in collaboration with a number of organizations, including CLEAR Global's Translators without Borders who assisted in translating i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agia%20Paraskevi%2C%20Rethymno | Agia Paraskevi is a settlement in the Rethymno municipality in Crete.
Geographical data
Agia Paraskevi is a lowland settlement located very close to Adele and at an average altitude of 120 meters. It is about 9.5 km east of Rethymno.
Sights
The church of Agios Kosmas and Damianos, in the northern part of the settlement.
The church of Agia Paraskevi, in a wooded ravine, on the site of an older Byzantine church that pre-existed there and was destroyed. The remains of the older building still exist and have been incorporated into the new one, such as small parts of the Byzantine hagiographies with which the original church was decorated. The existence of these hagiographies helps in the dating of the first temple, probably before the 17th century.
The small gorge of the settlement.
Population
Permanent
Real (De Facto)
Administrative changes up to "Kallikratis"
The settlement was annexed to the community of Adele from 1925 with the Government Gazette 27A - 31/01/1925
With Government Gazette 244A - 04/12/1997 the settlement was detached from the community of Adele and annexed to the municipality of Arkadi
With Government Gazette 87A - 07/06/2010 the settlement was detached from the municipality of Arkadi and annexed to the municipality of Rethymno
References
Sources
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1978, 2006
Encyclopedia Britannica, εκδ. 1963 (ΠΛ)
Encyclopedia "Domi", 2002-4
Organization of publications «Ellada», maps (Varelas)
Magazine "Diakopes", εκδ. Δ.Ο.Λ., 2010
eetaa.gr
Villages in Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20data%20request | An emergency data request is a procedure used by U.S. law enforcement agencies for obtaining information from service providers in emergency situations where there is not time to get a subpoena. In 2022, Brian Krebs reported that emergency data requests were being spoofed by hackers to obtain confidential information.
There have been proposals to secure emergency data requests using digital signatures, but this would require substantial technical and legal effort to implement.
References
Security engineering
Social engineering (computer security)
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA%20Law%20COVID%20Behind%20Bars%20Data%20Project | The UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project is an initiative of the UCLA School of Law that tracks the spread and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in American prisons, immigration detention centers, jails, and youth detention facilities. Using custom web-scraping programs that automatically collect time-series, facility-level data reported by government agencies, the Project collects and reports data including the numbers of cases, deaths, tests, and vaccination rates among both incarcerated people and staff in more than 1,700 carceral facilities from more than 100 online sources.
The Project also collects and maintains unique datasets of facility populations, releases, data transparency, court decisions and legal filings, prison policies, and organizing efforts. Some or all of these data are available on the Project's website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tracker for COVID-19 in US Correctional and Detention Facilities, GitHub, Google Sheets, and via data visualizations posted on social media. Project staff also regularly produce commentary related to decarceration, vaccination, and carceral data transparency.
History
The Project was founded in March 2020 by UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich, who is also faculty director of the school's Prison Law and Policy Program. UCLA School of Law Professor Aaron Littman, at the time a Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law, joined the Project as Deputy Director in May 2020.
The initiative was inspired by a prisoners' rights listserv in which both faculty members participate; when attorneys began sharing information about canceled client visits in local prisons due to the coronavirus pandemic, Professor Dolovich and her research assistant Keegan Hawkins began tracking, via a spreadsheet, the information related to visitation. Very soon after, Corene Kendrick, then a staff attorney with the Prison Law Office in Berkeley, put out a request on the listserv for someone to create an open-source spreadsheet to which advocates could post their COVID-related filings, thus enabling the sharing of work as advocates for incarcerated people mobilized on behalf of their clients. In response, Dolovich and Hawkins posted their spreadsheet with an additional tab for "population-reduction requests." As listserv users began expressing needs for additional information tracking, the Project and its growing team of volunteers began to add categories related to releases, youth facilities, grassroots organizing and mutual aid efforts, immigration detention, testing, deaths, and court filings and court orders. COVID-19 cases reported on carcel agency websites were also tracked manually in a separate tab.
The initiative was entirely volunteer-run until the first staff were hired in summer 2020 to more systematically track COVID-19 data in carceral settings. The Project now consists of eleven staff members and more than 100 volunteer researchers.
Funding
The Project received its initial fund |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20Pharmacogenetics%20Implementation%20Consortium | The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) is an international consortium including members of NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), PharmGKB staff, and experts in PGx and medicine, who are committed to facilitating the use of pharmacogenetic tests to improve patient care.
See also
pharmacogenetics
pharmacogenomics
pharmacokinetics
pharmacodynamics
PharmGKB
Pharmacogene Variation Consortium
References
National Institutes of Health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyra%20Wolfsberg | Tyra Gwendolen Wolfsberg is an American bioinformatician. She is the associate director of the bioinformatics and scientific programming core at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Life
Wolfsberg received a A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. Her 1995 dissertation was titled Identification and characterization of ADAM, a novel gene family. Wolfsberg transitioned to computationally based research by performing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NIH. She worked as a staff scientist at NCBI before joining the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) faculty in 2000.
Wolfsberg is the associate director of NHGRI's bioinformatics and scientific programming core. Her research program focuses on developing methodologies to integrate sequence, annotation, and experimentally generated data so that bench biologists can quickly and easily obtain results for their large-scale experiments. She has collaborated with NHGRI investigators on a variety of projects, from genomic characterizations of DNAse I hypersensitive sites and retroviral integration sites to the annotation of the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. Her analysis of the Mnemiopsis genome helped to demonstrate that ctenophores are the oldest animal relatives of humans.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Princeton University alumni
University of California, San Francisco alumni
National Institutes of Health people
21st-century American women scientists
American bioinformaticians
Women bioinformaticians
21st-century American biologists
American medical researchers
Women medical researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20diagnostics | Precision diagnostics is a branch of precision medicine that involves precisely managing a patient's healthcare model and diagnosing specific diseases based on customized omics data analytics.
The U.S. announced federal funding for precision medicine research efforts in 2015 with the Precision Medicine Initiative. A year later, the Human Personal Omics Profiling study was established to develop integrative multi-omics approaches for use in precision diagnostics.
Diseases are diagnosed early in individuals based on their variability in DNA, environment, and lifestyle. This is made possible by recent technological advancements in the acquisition of data from genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome studies. By accurately monitoring collateral molecular layers, a comprehensive understanding of an individual's personal molecular profile can be attained in an impartial manner.
Furthermore, contemporary computational algorithms improve the analysis of the omics data generated, and digital technologies enhance data management. In addition, advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly convolutional neural networks, and advanced data analysis, are utilized to predict the relationship between genotype and phenotype, potentially improving the sensitivity and specificity of precision diagnoses.
The advancement of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has improved cancer diagnostics. NGS provides a more comprehensive view of the genome than other single-gene assays. NGS-based molecular diagnostics offer genomic information about tumor-related variants and cancer-causing structural changes, enabling highly accurate diagnoses and the use of complementary targeted therapies. NGS samples can be collected using a buccal swab, peripheral blood, or tissue-specific biopsy, and DNA is used to screen for single nucleotide variants, gene insertions/deletions, and copy number variants, while RNA is used to measure gene expression.
Precision diagnostics techniques
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is an essential component of modern scientific translational research, and the use of DNA sequencing in the clinical environment was introduced first in clinical oncology. Whole genome sequencing is used extensively for cancer patients. It is used to help give further genetic information about the patient's background as well as their eligibility for clinical trials that may be beneficial to them. The advantage of using WGS is that it reduces overall cost and time for the clinic to pass the diagnostics stage and apply treatments for the patient. Genetic sequencing can also be performed later on when a patient's disease progresses. Furthermore, using germline data, clinical may evaluate cancer predisposition and pharmacogenomics information for earlier cancer identification and treatment. Despite some challenges, such as accessibility to lower-income patients, healthcare systems around the world have started to invest into holistic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Wilhelms | Jane Patricia Wilhelms (died March 26, 2005) was an American biologist and computer scientist known for her contributions to computer graphics, including work on anatomical simulation of humans and animals and collision detection in computer animation, and isosurfaces and volume rendering in scientific visualization. She was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Education and career
Wilhelms was originally a biologist, with a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a master's degree from Stanford University. She worked for many years as a junior college instructor of anatomy and physiology before returning to graduate study in computer science, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s. There, she also had the opportunity to consult at Lucasfilm as a graphics programmer. She earned a second master's degree there, and completed her Ph.D. in 1985, under the supervision of Brian A. Barsky. Her dissertation was Graphical Simulation of the Motion of Articulated Bodies Such as Humans and Robots, with Particular Emphasis on the Use of Dynamic Analysis.
She joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985, and became project director of the UC Santa Cruz Scientific Visualization Laboratory. She died of cancer on March 26, 2005, at age 56.
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University of California, Berkeley alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20Sexual%20Offenders%20and%20Service%20Provider%20Database | The Nigeria Sexual Offender and Service Provider Database (NSOD) is a database that consists of the sexual offender register and the service provider register. It is a document of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons by the Federal Government of Nigeria, published in September 2019 to document cases of sexual violence and run background checks on sexual offenders in the 36 states of Nigeria.
The Database is under the supervision of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Origin
The database was established under the Violence Against Persons Probihibition Act (VAPP) 2015 signed by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act (2003). Before the establishment of the database in 2019, there were only 2 (two) known registers in respect to sexual offenses in Nigeria; the Sexual Offenders Registry in Lagos state and the Black book in Ekiti State.
Objectives
The register is made up of two databases; the sexual offenders register and the service provider register. The sexual offender register contains information on cases of sexual violation or abuse that have been reported, arraigned or convicted under the Violence Against person Prohibition Act (VAPP) 2015. The sexual offender and service provider database has information on the 36 states of Nigeria and can be accessed directly on the institution website while other peculiar cases can be accessed on request by the individual or agencies that needs the information.
The service provider register houses the contact details of individuals, agencies, associations, institutions, shelter homes, refugee camps, counseling houses and non-governmental bodies responsible for providing assistance to victims of sexual abuses and violence.
The penalty for sexual offense as stated in the VAPP Act, 2015 consists of life imprisonment, heavy fines and also inclusion of an offender's name in a list of shame which can be accessed by anyone who needs to run background integrity test.
Achievements
Since its inception, the agency has recorded significant progress in the documentation of the sexual offenders in the National Sexual Offender and Service Provider Database.
In March 2022, the Executive Director, Womens Rights Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi confirmed that about 602 cases of sexual offenses have been reported and verified with some of the offenders convicted already and new service providers have been documented.
In another development, Wale Fapohunda, the Ekiti State Attornery General and Commissioner of Justice confirmed that since the National Offender and Service Provider Database was activated, over 573 cases of sexual offenses have been documented by the databases.
In December 2021, the Director of NAPTIP, Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi confirmed in a report that over 573 cases have been updated on the database inclusive of convictions, pen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Olympia | Inside Olympia is a weekly Washington State public affairs TV show on the TVW network that began airing in 1998. The show features in-depth, one-on-one interviews and panel discussions with major figures in Washington State government and public affairs, including state governors, executive cabinet-level agency leaders, state legislators, and labor union leaders. The show is considered a major component of the services that have earned TVW the nickname "Washington state’s own C-SPAN."
Inside Olympia has been hosted by Northwest News Network reporter Austin Jenkins since 2008. From 2003 to 2008, the show was hosted by capitol reporter and later Washington State Public Disclosure Commission chair David Ammons, who took the place of TVW co-founder and later Lieutenant Governor of Washington Denny Heck. The first host was Barry Mitzman, formerly of KCTS-TV.
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1998 television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%20Cr%C3%A9hange | Marion Créhange (born Marion Caen; 14 November 1937 – 28 March 2022) was a French computer scientist. She was one of the first persons in France to get a PhD in Computer Science in 1961.
A pioneer of computer science at the University of Nancy, she was one of the first to write a PhD in computer science in France in 1961, under the direction of Jean Legras. The title of her thesis is Structure du code de programmation, which deals with the definition and realization of a macro-assembler and a programming tool.
Appointed professor in 1976, she participated in the foundation of the teaching and research unit (UER) of mathematics and computer science at the University Nancy-I. She then turned to the design of database query languages and founded the Exprim (EXPert pour la Recherche d'IMages) research team. She became a member of the Académie de Stanislas in 2017.
Throughout her career, Marion Créhange has been committed to showing the reciprocal contributions between computer science and humanities. She advocates a computer science that promotes imagination and creation.
Her archives were deposited at the end of 2019 at the Henri-Poincaré archives of the University of Lorraine.
Career
Créhange took her doctorate at the University of Lorraine under Jean Legras. It was one of the first Computer Science PhD in France. Her thesis was titled "Structure du code de programmation" ("Structure of programming code") and it improved IBM's Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program by creating a macro-assembler.
Créhange joined the CRIN (Center of Computer Science Research in Nancy) where she specialized in information systems. In 1983, she created the EXPRIM (Experts in Image Research) research group and she became a professor emeritus in the University, in the LORIA research lab.
Créhange was a member of the Académie de Stanislas.
See also
Mary Shaw (computer scientist)
References
1937 births
2022 deaths
French women computer scientists
Scientists from Nancy, France
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Butland | Judy Butland (née Whiteley) (6 October 1940 - 2019) was a British engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities. She was recognised in 2019 as an Engineer of the Week by the Women's Engineering Society.
Early life and education
Judy Whiteley was born on 6 October 1940 in Leeds, the daughter of George Whiteley, a draughtsman, and Margaret Whiteley, a seamstress. She suffered from arthritis all her life and from the age of 12 to 14, was confined to bed at Wharfedale children's hospital in Menston, with little communication with her family and no information from her doctors. She never talked about her illness.
She studied for a degree in mathematics at the Manchester College of Science and Technology, but although she completed three years of study she found the lectures boring and did not complete her degree.
Career
Butland's first position was at the Associated Electrical Industries, Manchester, Information and Exchange section, where she worked as a technical abstractor, producing summaries of technical articles and papers from engineering and science publications.
In 1967 she went to work at the Manchester Business School as Mathematical Assistant to Winifred Hackett, an aeronatutical engineer. She worked, amongst other things, on scheduling workflows for aeroplane production. The project entailed statistical analysis, which required complex calculations, so Hackett sent Butland to lectures on the principles of computing, which led to Butland's career in software engineering. She advised other groups in the Business School on computing, including working with the librarian to automate the classification of publications.
Butland left this post to work at the University of Bradford, Postgraduate School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, improving the quality of programming in research projects. She was awarded an M.Phil. for her thesis describing tools she developed to produce technical charts from research data.
Butland set up her own company, Bradford University Software Services (BUSS), to sell a software package, SimplePlot, which she developed. The proceeds from sales of the software were used to help support the department's work.
Publications
Butland published a number of academic papers, including one on drawing a smooth curve through a set of data points, which became known as Butland's algorithm.
Personal life
In 1964 Judy Butland was married to David Butland who she met at the University of Manchester. They had one son, Philip.
Butland's funeral was held on Wednesday 2 January 2019, at the Salvation Army, Bridlington, Yorkshire.
Recognition
Butland was appointed posthumously, in October 2019, as Engineer of the Week No 89 by the Women's Engineering Society.
References
British women engineers
Women's Engineering Society
British computer programmers
British computer scientists
1940 births
2019 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya%20Soffer | Aya Chasia Soffer () is an Israeli computer scientist, vice president for AI Technology in IBM Research, and the director of IBM's Haifa research laboratory.
Education and career
Soffer is the daughter of two scientists. She received her bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986 and worked in the medical imaging industry for four years before continuing to the department of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park where she received a master's degree in 1992 and her PhD in 1995. Her dissertation, Retrieval by Content in Symbolic-Image Databases, concerned information retrieval, and was supervised by Hanan Samet.
After receiving her PhD she worked for the Goddard Space Flight Center as a research scientist working on NASA digital libraries for Earth science data. She began working at IBM in 1999. She was part of the IBM Watson project, and beginning in 2012, IBM's Project Debater, before taking on her current responsibilities as vice president for AI Technology and head of the Haifa laboratory for IBM Research.
Recognition
Soffer was named one of most influential women ("Power Women") by Forbes Israel in 2019, in 2020 she was named of the 100 most influential people influencing life in Israel by TheMarker, and in 2021 one of the 50 most influential women in Israel by Globes
References
External links
Aya Soffer, IBM Research
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
IBM Research computer scientists
IBM Women
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20PC-4500 | The Sharp PC-4500 is a line of laptop computers released by Sharp Corporation in 1987. The line comprises the PC-4501, the PC-4502, and the PC-4521. The PC-4501 is a bare-bones unit with only 256 KB of RAM stock, only one floppy drive, no backlighting, and no built-in numeric keypad; the PC-4502 and PC-4521 bumps the stock RAM to 640 KB and includes the latter two features while providing either two floppy drive (PC-4502) or one floppy drive and a 20 MB hard drive (PC-4521). Prices on the line initially ranged from $1,295 to just under $3,000; the PC-4501 was later sold for $995, becoming one of the first sub-$1,000 laptops available on the market. The PC-4500 line received mixed, mostly positive, reviews on its release in September 1987.
Development and specifications
The PC-4500 series was developed by Sharp Electronics of Japan and co-developed by Vadem Inc., an original design manufacturer and computer design consultant of San Jose, California. The computer features the 80188-compatible NEC V40 central processing unit with a clock speed selectable between the IBM PC standard 4.77 MHz and 7.16 MHz. The NEC V40, with its 16-bit internal data bus and 8-bit external data bus, was chosen to evade a contemporary tariff on imported laptops with pure 16-bit CPUs. Personal computers based on the 80188 processor and its derivatives were relatively uncommon.
The most inexpensive entry in the PC-4500 line, the PC-4501, features 256 KB of RAM, a non-backlit supertwisted nematic monochrome LCD with a resolution of 640 by 200 pixels—CGA compatible—a 78-key keyboard (missing a numeric keypad), and one 3.5-inch double-density floppy disk drive and came shipped with MS-DOS 2.11. The middle-of-the-line entry, the PC-4502, features 640 KB of RAM, a backlit display of the same specification, an 88-key keyboard ( numeric keypad), two 3.5-inch double-density floppy drives and came shipped with MS-DOS 3.21 and GW-BASIC 3.2. The most expensive entry, the PC-4521, trades one of the floppy drives for a 20 MB hard disk drive. All entries support 1.6 MB of RAM maximum. The display measures , for an aspect ratio of 2.28:1. The computers as a whole measure and weigh approximately .
All entries in the PC-4500 line come with one parallel port and one external floppy port for use with an optional external 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. Two proprietary expansion slots may hold a video card for output to external CGA monitors, a RAM card for addition memory (accordant to the Expanded Memory Specification), an EPROM card, a serial port card, and a 1,200-baud modem card. The EPROM card holds multiple EPROM chips, up to 768 KB in total, onto which software can be burned for instantaneous loading without slowdown from floppy or hard disk drive access. The memory card, the EPROM card, and the video card all occupy the same slot and cannot be used in tandem. The serial and modem cards also occupy the same slot, but the modem card comes with a serial port its own. A car charger and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids%20on%20Site | Kids on Site is a first-person simulation video game, featuring full-motion video for its primary gameplay. It was produced for the Sega CD and later ported to the DOS operating system for PC systems and Macintosh. A 32X version was planned but never released. Versions for PlayStation 4 and Windows via Steam were re-released by Limited Run Games, Screaming Villains and Flash Film Works on June 14, 2022.
Gameplay
This was a construction game for kids, where they watched videos and then got to "operate" heavy machinery on a construction site. This includes a steamroller, a wrecking ball, an excavator and a bulldozer.
Production
The project was produced by Digital Pictures, directed by Heidi Holman and starred Larry Grennan, Scott McClain and Robin Joss. It was programmed by Richard Levine from a concept by Kevin Welsh.
Reception
Kids on Site was awarded the "1995 Parents Choice Approval Award" and CD-ROM Magazine said it "captured all of the fun of playing with heavy machinery with the added advantage that your kids... won't come home full of dirt."
References
External links
Kids on Site at MobyGames
1994 video games
Cancelled Sega 32X games
Children's educational video games
Classic Mac OS games
DOS games
Full motion video based games
Sega CD games
Digital Pictures
Vehicle simulation games
Video games developed in the United States
PlayStation 4 games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Drones | Murder Drones is a computer-animated web series created by Liam Vickers and produced by Glitch Productions.
Described as a "dystopian comedy-horror", Murder Drones delves into themes such as identity, morality, free will, and the bonds of friendship while simultaneously infusing humor into its dystopian setting. The series incorporates references to pop culture, drawing inspiration from video games, movies, anime, and memes.
The pilot episode premiered on the YouTube channel GLITCH on October 29, 2021. It was picked up for a full 8-episode season, beginning on November 18, 2022. As of October 2023, the pilot episode had received 26 million views. The series has been praised by viewers for its animation, voice acting, and world-building, and its blend of horror and comedy elements. Additionally, the series was nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Animated Video.
Synopsis
The story takes place on Copper 9, an exoplanet owned by the megacorporation JCJenson. Worker drones, designed to serve humans, inhabit the planet and mine it for natural resources. Eventually, the planet suffers a catastrophic core collapse brought on by the corporation's employees, wiping out all biological life on the planet, including humans. As a result, the planet becomes a frozen wasteland, and only the worker drones remain. One day, a legion of violent killing machines, known as disassembly drones, invades Copper 9 to exterminate the remaining worker drones. The worker drones live in constant fear of disassembly drones and hide within a series of underground shelters in an attempt to defend themselves.
At the center of the series is Uzi Doorman, a female worker drone who dreams of escaping Copper 9 and driving humans extinct. Her path crosses with Serial Designation N ("N"), a male murder drone with a surprisingly friendly and curious disposition toward worker drones. Together, they form an unlikely partnership to uncover the truth about their origins and their purpose in the planet's harsh environment. Along their journey, they encounter several important individuals, including V, a female murder drone fixated on hunting Uzi; Doll, a mysterious worker drone with connections to the Absolute Solver, an enigmatic computer program capable of altering reality; as well as Tessa and J, a human and a disassembly drone who crash-land on Copper 9.
Cast and characters
Main Characters
Uzi Doorman (voiced by Elsie Lovelock) is the main protagonist of the series. She is a rebellious teenage worker drone who befriends N. She is on a mission to destroy the humans that created her and discover more about her connection to the Absolute Solver program.
Serial Designation N (voiced by Michael Kovach) is an optimistic disassembly drone who tries his best not to be seen as useless and befriends Uzi after being sent to destroy her.
Serial Designation V (voiced by Nola Klop) is originally an antagonist, but later becomes an anti-hero. She is a sociopathic and impulsive disa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele%20Guel | Michele Guel is an American cybersecurity engineer. She is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. In early days of cybersecurity, she was an intern at NASA Ames, and was involved in Incident Response to the Morris Worm. She spent eleven years at NASA Ames Research Center in multiple roles, and joined Cisco as a founding member of its internal security team. While at Cisco, she co-authored Security Principles for the Enterprise Architecture Practice. She is a frequent speaker on gender diversity, and is a co-founder of Cisco's Women in Cybersecurity. She is listed as a co-inventor on the patent for "Techniques for voice-based user authentication for mobile access to network services".
In 2016 she received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Technology Leadership. She is a National Cyber Security Award Winner. She has been recognized by SANS Institute as a "Person who made a difference" in the field of cybersecurity.
Guel has B.A. in mathematics with a minor in Cybernetic Systems, and has also completed a two-year program in Biblical Studies. She has a M.S. in Software Engineering with a concentration in cybersecurity. She is passionate about enabling more people to enter the cybersecurity field, and is President of National Cyber Scholarship Foundation.
References
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21st-century American engineers
Ames Research Center
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
NASA people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Computer%20Society%20Charles%20Babbage%20Award | In 1989, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. In almost all cases, the award is given to one of the invited keynote speakers at the conference. The selection was made by the steering committee chairs, upon recommendation from the Program Chair and General Chair who have been responsible for the technical program of the conference, including inviting the speakers. It is presented immediately following the selected speaker's presentation at the conference, and he or she is given a plaque that specifies the nature of their special contribution to the field that is being recognized by IPDPS.
In 2019, The management of the IEEE CS Babbage Award was transferred to the IEEE Computer Society's Awards Committee.
Past recipients:
2023 - Keshav K Pingali. "For contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms."
2022 - Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda. "For contributions to high performance and scalable communication in parallel and high-end computing systems."
2021 - Guy Blelloch. "For contributions to parallel programming, parallel algorithms, and the interface between them."
2020 - Yves Robert. "For contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques."
2019 - Ian Foster. "For his outstanding contributions in the areas of parallel computing languages, algorithms, and technologies for scalable distributed applications."
2017 - Mateo Valero. "For contributions to parallel computation through brilliant technical work, mentoring PhD students, and building an incredibly productive European research environment."
2015 - Alan Edelman
2014 - Peter Kogge
2013 - James Demmel
2012 - Chris Johnson
2011 - Jack Dongarra
2010 - Burton Smith
2009 - Wen-Mei Hwu
2008 - Joel Saltz
2007 - Mike Flynn
2006 - Bill Dally
2005 - Yale N. Patt
2004 - Christos Papadimitriou
2003 - Michel Cosnard
2002 - Steve Wallach
2001 - Thomson Leighton
2000 - Michael O. Rabin
1999 - K. Mani Chandy
1998 - Jim Gray
1997 - Frances E. Allen
1995 - Richard Karp
1994 - Arvind
1993 - K. Mani Chandy
1992 - David Kuck
1991 - Harold S. Stone
1990 - H.T. Kung
1989 - Irving S. Reed
See also
List of computer science awards
List of awards named after people
References
External links
IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award
Awards established in 1989
Computer science awards
IEEE society and council awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotouhi | Fotouhi () is a Persian surname. Notable people with the name include:
Farshad Fotouhi (1957), American computer scientist
Mohammad Fotouhi (1990), Iranian fencer
References
surnames
Persian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Yuen | Thomas C. K. Yuen (September 10, 1951 – February 13, 2022) was an American executive. A co-founder of AST Research, Yuen was one of the early proponents of the personal computer.
Early life
Yuen was born on September 10, 1951, in Yangzhou, China.
His father was a housekeeper and chauffeur who took his family to Hong Kong to follow his employer.
In 1970, Yuen immigrated to the United States and attended community college before transferring to U.C. Irvine to study electrical engineering. In 1974, he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UC Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
Career
In 1973, he was diagnosed with a kidney disease that would require costly treatment. At the time, Yuen was working as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft, earning a modest salary of $12,000 a year. He started to consider launching his own business.
In 1980, Yuen experienced kidney failure and learned that he would need dialysis treatment for the rest of his life.
The same year, he co-founded AST Research, a hardware technology maker, with two other immigrant engineers, Albert Wong and Safi Qureshey. The company, which initially produced expansion cards for IBM’s personal computers, became a leading maker of IBM-compatible personal computers and grew into a Fortune 500 company, with revenues of $1.14 billion in 1992.
In 1992, Yuen left AST and invested $2.7 million into SRS Lab, an audio technology licenser. As Chief executive of the company, Yuen pushed the company to specialize into three-dimensional audio technology. In 2012, the company was purchased by DTS Inc., another sound licenser, for $148 million.
Yuen spent the final decades of his life funding and promoting stem-cell therapy research, hoping that it would help address chronic diseases like the one from which he was suffering. He created his own company, R&D firm, PrimeGen Biotech, and donated to the University of California at Irvine’s stem research department.
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2022 deaths
American computer businesspeople
American technology company founders
University of California, Irvine alumni
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Businesspeople from Jiangsu
American technology chief executives
People from Yangzhou
21st-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople from California
20th-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov%20Choueka | Yaacov Choueka (Hebrew:יעקב שויקה, שוויכה 1936 - 2020) was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University, where he served as head of the institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics. Until 2017, he headed Genazim - the computer unit of the Friedberg project for the study of the Genizah. His areas of expertise included systems for retrieving textual information, large textual databases, computerized processing of natural languages, especially in Hebrew, computer analysis of text, computerized dictionaries, mechanized morphology and syntax, and in electronic publishing.
He played leadership roles in:
The Bar Ilan Responsa Project
Friedberg Geniza Project
"Hachi Garsinan" Talmud Bavli Variants
Rav-Milim Dictionary
In 2019 he won the Katz Prize for his contribution to the study of halakha in its application in modern life.
References
Israeli Mizrahi Jews
Israeli computer scientists
Burials at Har HaMenuchot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Gerig | Guido Gerig is a computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
Research
Gerig's research supports various clinical imaging studies with image analysis methodologies related to segmentation, registration, shape analysis, and image statistics.
Awards and honors
IEEE Fellow 2019, for contributions to medical image processing
AIMBE Fellow 2012, for outstanding research contributions to the field of three-dimensional image analysis
MICCAI Fellow 2009, for scientific contributions to neuro-imaging and image analysis, and service to the field through conference organization and committee membership
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
New York University faculty
ETH Zurich alumni
Swiss computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Fear | "Blue Fear" is an instrumenal composition by Dutch disc jockey and producer Armin. It was initially released on 13 October 1997 as 12" vinyl in the Netherlands by Cyber Records. It is the first track from Armin van Buuren which reached a significant success. The single was rereleased on 16 August 2004 by Nebula as the fifth and final single from Armin's first studio album, 76.
Background and release
At the moment of the release of the track, van Buuren was 19 years old and he was still living with his parents in Leiden. He created "Blue Fear" in his bedroom with a sampler bought with his own pocket money. In 2020, during an episode of A State of Trance, van Buuren explained to Ruben de Ronde the context of production of the track : “I was bullied by a couple of guys and i was afraid to go outside, so i was afraid of the ‘blue’, afraid of the light of the blue skies. I got over that, thank god, but yeah... That's the true story.”
Music video
A music video was realised by Ciro Ayala with the actress Calina Chan for the track 12 years after its official release. It was published on 23 November 2009 by Armada Music's Youtube channel.
Track listing
Netherlands - 12" - Cyber
"Blue Fear" – 7:58
"X Marks the Spot" – 7:37
"Archeae From Space" - 8:21
UK - CD - Xtravaganza
"Blue Fear" (Radio Edit) – 3:42
"Blue Fear" (Extended Version) – 8:06
"X Marks the Spot" – 7:37
"Archeae From Space" – 8:27
UK - 12" - Xtravaganza
"Blue Fear" (Extended Version) – 7:58
"X Marks the Spot" – 7:37
"Archeae From Space" – 8:21
Trouser Enthusiasts Mixes - UK - CD - Xtravaganza
"Blue Fear" (Trouser Enthusiasts Edit) – 3:59
"Blue Fear" (Trouser Enthusiasts E.B.E. Mix) – 9:01
"Blue Fear" (Trouser Enthusiasts E.B.E. Instrumental) – 9:02
"Blue Fear" (Original Extended Version) – 8:06
Trouser Enthusiasts Mix - UK - 12" - Xtravaganza
"Blue Fear" (Trouser Enthusiasts E.B.E. Mix) – 8:59
"Blue Fear" (Original Extended Version) – 7:57
Germany - 12" - Bionic Beat
"Blue Fear" – 7:58
"Blue Fear" (Chuck Mellow Remix) – 7:05
"X Marks the Spot" – 7:37
"Blue Fear 2004" - UK - CD & Digital download - Nebula
"Blue Fear" (Original 2003 Edit) – 2:39
"Blue Fear" (Original 2003 Mix) – 9:30
"Blue Fear" (Solid Globe 2004 Remix) – 7:33
"Blue Fear" (Agnelli & Nelson 2004 Remix) – 9:52
"Blue Fear" (Scott Mac New Fear 2004 Remix) – 8:56
"Blue Fear 2004" - UK - 12" - Nebula
"Blue Fear" (Original 2003 Mix) – 9:30
"Blue Fear" (Solid Globe 2004 Remix) – 7:33
"Blue Fear 2004" (Remixes) - UK - 12" - Nebula
"Blue Fear" (Agnelli & Nelson 2004 Remix) – 9:52
"Blue Fear" (Scott Mac New Fear 2004 Remix) – 8:56
2006 Re-issue - Netherlands - Digital download - Armada digital
"Blue Fear 2003" – 7:33
"Blue Fear" (Agnelli & Nelson Remix) – 9:56
"Blue Fear" (Solid Globe Remix) – 7:37
"Blue Fear" (Scott Mac Remix) – 8:56
Eelke Kleijn Mixes - Netherlands - Digital download - Armind
"Blue Fear" (Eelke Kleijn Extended Day Mix) – 7:33
"Blue Fear" (Eelke Kleijn Extend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Korir | Maurice Kimutai Korir (born 1974) is a C-Suite executive in the ranks of Dentsu Aegis Network, a subsidiary of Dentsu Inc. of Japan, as the Chief Finance Officer (CFO). His working experience cuts across multinational and local companies including Mobil Oil Kenya, Kencell Communication Ltd, Uchumi Supermarkets, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Ogilvy Kenya Group, Fountain Enterprises Programme (FEP) Holdings.
Early life and education
Korir was born on 28 May 1974 in Mukumu, Kakamega County. He attended Alliance High School and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Finance Option) and MBA in Finance, both from the University of Nairobi.
He is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya CPA (K), and holds a Certificate in Investor Relations from the Investor Relations Society.
Career
Korir was a Finance & Strategic Planning graduate trainee at Mobil Oil Kenya Ltd for 10 months from September 1998 before moving to Kencell Communication Ltd (Airtel Networks Ltd) in Mobile Telecommuncations as Treasury Leader from September 2000 to May 2004. From mid-2004 he moved to the Retail sector after joining Uchumi Supermarkets as the Group Chief Accountant for 20 months before taking up a role as a Finance Manager at Kenya Civil Aviation Authority for 14 months from March 2006.
From the Aviation sector he ventured into the Advertising and Media Industry to serve as Group Finance Director then Chief Operating Officer at Ogilvy Kenya Group for a collective six and a half years from May 2007. He then moved to the Investment sector after joining Fountain Enterprises Programme (FEP) Holdings as the Group Chief Executive Officer where he served for three-and-a-half years from November 2014. From FEP he returned to the Advertising and Media Industry after joining Dentsu Aegis Network as Chief Finance Officer from August 2018.
Recognition
In 2012, Korir was named to the Top 40 under 40 men in Kenya as organised by the Business Daily Africa
References
External links
Journal of The Investor Relations Society at IR Society
A case study of Mobil Oil Kenya Ltd at UoN
1974 births
Living people
Kenyan chief executives
University of Nairobi alumni
Alumni of Alliance High School (Kenya) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir%20Tessler | Nir Tessler (Hebrew: ניר טסלר; born: 1962) is the Barbara and Norman Seiden professor in the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and head of the Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics centers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
Nir Tessler was born in Haifa, Israel. He studied at Hebrew Reali School, and served in the Israeli Air Force from 1980 to 1985.
Tessler received his B.Sc in electrical engineering in 1989 (Summa Cum Laude) and M.Sc in electrical engineering (1992), both from the Technion. His Ph.D. degree was received in 1995 from the Technion. Tessler authored the thesis Dynamic Properties of Inverted QW Laser Structure, under the supervision of Gadi Eisenstein.
Career
Tessler was a research associate and later an EPSRC advanced fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK from 1995 to 1999. He then joined the faculty of electrical engineering at the Technion as a senior lecturer. Tessler became an associate professor in 2003, and a full professor in 2008. From 2010, Tessler is head of the Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics centers at the Technion.
As of April 2022, Tessler has supervised 27 graduate students, and authored over 200 scientific publications.
Research
Tessler's research work focuses on new materials and the relation of their chemical and physics properties with device performance; Device chemical-physics and device structural designs. This includes light-matter interaction (including laser action and micro-cavities), transport of electrons, holes, and ions, electron-hole pairs (excitons), processing of devices (transistors, photo-images, detectors and solar cells).
In 1996 Tessler was the first to introduce a “plastic laser” based on semiconducting organic molecule (polymer). Two years later he initiated the construction of the first smart-pixel, which proved that thin flexible screens are feasible. In 2002 he showed that organic LEDs (OLEDs) can be made to emit light at a wavelength (“color”) that is relevant to fiber-based communication (i.e., at 1.3 micron). In 2006, he submitted a patent for a new transistor structure which had a vertical orientation where the transistor functions of gate, source, channel, and drain are stacked one on top of the other.
Honors and awards
1995 The Rothschild Post Doctoral Fellowship
1999 Alon Fellowship
2009 Top 1% in the field of Chemistry. - Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters
2020 Honorary fellow of the Chinese chemical society for “pioneering contributions in the field of conjugated polymer lasers, near infrared polymer LEDs, organic semiconductor charge transport, and vertical structure organic field effect transistor devices”
2020 Fellow of the Royal society of chemistry
Selected articles
N. Tessler and G. Eisenstein, On carrier injection and gain dynamics in quantum well lasers, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1993, 29, 1586–1595.
N. Tessler, G. J. Denton and R. H. Friend, L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20modulation%20encoding | Frequency modulation encoding, or simply FM, is a method of storing data that saw widespread use in early floppy disk drives and hard disk drives. The data is modified using differential Manchester encoding when written to allow clock recovery to address timing effects known as "jitter" seen on disk media. It was introduced on IBM mainframe drives and was almost universal among early minicomputer and microcomputer floppies. In the case of floppies, FM encoding allowed about 80 kB of data to be stored on a -inch disk.
IBM began introducing the more efficient modified frequency modulation, or MFM, starting in 1970. They referred to this format as "double density", with the original FM retroactively becoming "single density". MFM was more difficult to implement and it was not until the early 1980s that low-cost all-in-one MFM floppy drive controllers like the WD1770 emerged. This led to the rapid demise of FM encoding in favor of MFM by the mid-1980s.
Underlying storage mechanism
Main memory systems in modern computers store binary information using two different electrical signals, typically voltages. In DRAM for instance, the presence of a voltage over a certain threshold represents a binary one, while any voltage below that value represents a zero. The letter "A" in ASCII is represented as 01000001 in binary, which might be stored in a typical late-1970s DRAM like the Mostek MK4116 as a series of 0 and 5 V voltages in the individual capacitors making up the memory.
In contrast, magnetic recording systems like floppy disks record this data as a change in magnetic polarity. This is due to the way the data is read and written, using magnetic induction. During reading, the disk is rotating so its surface moves rapidly past the read/write head, a small electromagnet. When the polarity of the magnetic charge on the disk changes, a brief pulse of electricity is induced in the head which is read as a one, any section where the polarity does not change produces a zero. To encode the same letter A, assuming the previous data ended with a zero, a disk would use 01111110. The first zero-to-one transition causes a 1 to be output, the stream of ones following causes no output, and finally the last one-to-zero creates the final 1.
In addition to the data being stored in patterns that require on-the-fly conversion to and from their internal format, the disk faces additional problems associated with being an analog system – noise, mechanical effects and other issues. In particular, disks suffer from an effect known as jitter due to small changes in timing as the media speeds up and slows down during rotation. One form of unavoidable jitter is due to the hysteresis of the magnetic media, which can lead to an effect known as bit shift that causes the strings of magnetic transition to be stretched out in time. These effects make it difficult to know which bit a particular transition belongs to.
To address this problem, disks use some form of clock recovery usin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Empire | Shadow Empire is a strategy video game developed by French studio VR Designs and published by Slitherine Software. It combines gameplay from computer wargames and 4X games in a setting of post-apocalyptic conquest.
Gameplay
After a galactic republic collapses, its many worlds plunge into a dark age. Players take the role of a warlord from a post-apocalyptic society that has risen from the ruins of one of these worlds. Players first generate their world, which can range from small moons to large planets. Worlds are procedurally generated, either randomly or by tweaking parameters, such as whether the player wants a breathable atmosphere. These options can have a strong effect on the world and may preclude certain strategies. If the conditions for abiogenesis are not met, fossil fuels may not exist, and a thin atmosphere could preclude the use of aircraft. Once satisfied with the world, players design their society and its ideals. Management of this society uses elements of role-playing video games. Players appoint staff, who have their own skillsets and personalities, to run various parts of their society's bureaucracy. The player's actions can have strong effects on the player's staff and various factions in their society, such as angering generals enough to ignite a civil war or causing lasting resentment among civilians from violently suppressing a labor strike. More complex actions are represented by cards, which can be played to gain diplomatic or governmental bonuses. The most beneficial cards can be gained by voluntarily subjecting one's empire to catastrophes. Some aspects of research are randomized. Technology levels start low, with improvised weapons, though highly advanced technology can be found in the ruins of civilizations from before the dark age. Once technologies are rediscovered, custom units can be designed using these advances. During war, logistics are important, and supply chains must be maintained. Like traditional board wargames, it uses counters and a hex map.
Development
Developer Victor Reijkersz had made several historical wargames previous to Shadow Empire. He decided on a post-apocalyptic science fiction setting because it opened up what he said was "a great canvas to have more immersive procedural games". To increase immersion, Reijkersz wanted to give each planet a distant history and back story when procedurally generating it. Shadow Empire took Reijkersz four or five years to complete solo. The game was first released on June 4, 2020.
Reception
Shadow Empire received positive reviews on Metacritic. Joe Fonseca of Wargamer called it "the Alpha Centauri of today, only better" and recommended it fans of 4X games and complex computer wargames. In his review for PC Gamer, Jonathan Bolding wrote, "Ambitious in the extreme, Shadow Empire is a unique sci-fi wargame that's a little lost in its own details." Bolding criticized the game's opaque complexity, which he said made parts of the game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finny%20the%20Fish%20%26%20the%20Seven%20Waters | Finny the Fish & the Seven Waters, known in Japan as , is an action game developed and published for PlayStation 2 by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan in Japan in 2004, and by Natsume Inc. in North America in 2005.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, however, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
References
External links
2004 video games
Action games
Natsume Inc. games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games about animals
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set underwater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 49th Daytime Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honored the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2021. The award ceremony was held live on June 24, 2022, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. The ceremony was broadcast in the U.S. on CBS and streamed on Paramount+. Nominations were announced on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner, co-anchors of the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight, hosted the ceremony for the first time.
In response to the growth of streaming television, this was the first year under a major realignment of the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards, where the two ceremonies' scopes now revolve more around factors such as the themes, format, and style characteristics, instead of strictly dayparts.
Ceremony information
Emmys realignment
In December 2021, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced a major realignment of the Emmy Award ceremonies. This was in response to the growth of streaming television, which blurred the lines in determining which shows should fall under the Daytime or Primetime Emmys. The two ceremonies' scopes will now revolve around factors such as the themes and frequency of such programming, rather than strictly dayparts.
Among the major changes that will take effect at the 49th Daytime Emmy Awards in June 2022 and at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2022:
Daytime dramas, as defined as "any multi-camera, weekday daily serial, spin-off or reboot", remain at the Daytime Emmys but most other scripted dramas and comedies will have to enter into the Primetime Emmys. For example, the streaming limited series Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem may still enter into the Daytime Emmys because it is a spin-off of the daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, but a previous Daytime Emmy winner like The Bay would have to move to the Primetime Emmys.
Talk shows will now be divided between the Daytime and Primetime Emmys based on "format and style characteristics reflective of current programming in the daytime or late night space". Such programs may petition to switch ceremonies, such as the previous Daytime Emmy winner The Ellen DeGeneres Show, whose format is more similar to the late night talk shows awarded at the Primetime Emmys.
All children's programming categories have been moved to the new Children's & Family Emmy Awards.
Categories for morning shows have been moved from the Daytime Emmys to the News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Such programs may instead enter into the Daytime Emmys' talk show categories depending on their format.
Categories for game shows and instructional programming will remain split this year between the Daytime and Primetime Emmys, with their realignment to be determined in 2023.
Other rule changes
The maximum age limit for those eligible for Outstanding Younger Performer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2021, until May 31, 2022, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards ceremony was held live on September 12, 2022, and was preceded by the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 3 and 4, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast in the United States on NBC and Peacock. During the ceremony, Emmy Awards were handed out in 25 categories. The event was produced through Done and Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment and was directed by Hamish Hamilton. Kenan Thompson was the ceremony's host.
At the main ceremony, The White Lotus received the most awards with five, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. Ted Lasso won four awards, including its second consecutive award for Outstanding Comedy Series, while Abbott Elementary won two awards and Hacks won one. Succession led all dramas with three wins, including its second Outstanding Drama Series win; Squid Game received two awards, and Euphoria and Ozark received one each. Other winning programs include Dopesick, The Dropout, Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, and Saturday Night Live. Including Creative Arts Emmys, The White Lotus led all programs with 10 wins; HBO and HBO Max led all networks and platforms with 38 total wins.
Winners and nominees
The nominations for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 12, 2022, by J. B. Smoove and Melissa Fumero alongside Television Academy CEO Frank Scherma. Including nominations at the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Succession led all programs with 25 nominations, followed by Ted Lasso and The White Lotus with 20 nominations each. HBO and HBO Max combined for 140 nominations, more than any other network or platform; HBO's 108 nominations surpassed Netflix's second-place tally of 105. Succession earned 14 nominations for acting, surpassing the previous drama series record of 12 set by The West Wing and the overall record of 13 set by Roots and Rich Man, Poor Man. Squid Game became the first non-English-language program to be nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. Quinta Brunson became the first black woman to earn three comedy nominations in a single year for Abbott Elementary. BET, through its streaming service, earned its first major scripted series nomination with The Ms. Pat Show.
The winners were announced on September 12, following the Creative Arts Emmys on September 3 and 4. HBO and HBO Max led all networks and platforms with 38 total wins, reclaiming the top spot after falling behind Netflix the previous year; the latter only won 26 after winning 44 at the previous ceremony. The White Lotus led all programs with five major wins, while Succession and Ted Lasso each won their second overall series awards. The former also led all programs when including Creative Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Emmy%20Awards | 2022 Emmy Awards may refer to:
43rd Sports Emmy Awards, held on May 24, 2022, honoring sports programming.
49th Daytime Emmy Awards, held June 24, 2022, honoring daytime programming.
49th Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards, the separate Daytime Emmys ceremony held on June 18, 2022, to honor artistic and technical achievements in daytime programming.
74th Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 12, 2022, honoring primetime programming.
74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the separate Primetime Emmys ceremony held on September 3–4, 2022, to honor artistic and technical achievements in primetime programming.
43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards, held on September 28–29, 2022, honoring news and documentary programming.
50th International Emmy Awards, held on November 21, 2022, honoring international programming.
1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards, held on December 10–11, 2022, honoring children's and family-oriented programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B%2B | ++ may refer to:
checkmate, in chess notation
the increment operator, in some programming languages
much higher than normal, in some medical tests
+ + (EP), by South Korean girl group Loona
See also
PLUSPLUS, a Ukrainian TV channel
Plus+, a gaming platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Niedermeier | Rolf Niedermeier (21 July 1966 – 19 March 2022) was a professor of computer science, known for his research in computational complexity theory, especially in parameterized complexity, graph theory, computational social choice, and social network analysis.
Biography
Niedermeier studied Computer Science with Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (1991 – 1994). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tübingen in 1996. Subsequently, he did his post-doc at the Charles University in Prague in 1998 with Jaroslav Nešetřil. In 1999 he joined the University of Tübingen, where he became the head of Emmy Noether research group (2002 – 2004). From 2004 to 2010 he was a professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Jena. Between 2010 and 2022 he led the Algorithmics and Computational Complexity group at the Technical University of Berlin. He supervised thirty Doctoral students, and headed eighteen DFG-funded research projects.
Book
References
External links
1966 births
2022 deaths
German computer scientists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Technical University of Munich alumni
University of Tübingen alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Hero%206%20%28soundtrack%29 | Big Hero 6 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to Disney's 2014 computer-animated superhero film of the same name. The album was released by Walt Disney Records digitally on November 4, 2014, and through physical formats on November 25. It featured 19 tracks, from the background score composed by Henry Jackman, and an original song titled "Immortals" written and recorded by American rock band Fall Out Boy. The track was released as a single on October 14, 2014. The score consisted of electronic and orchestral music, to balance with the film's emotional depth and heroic themes.
Development
Henry Jackman was roped in to compose the score for the film, with an exclusive first look footage revealed on April 3, 2014. He saw a preview from the film, six months before the release and started to write music which ranged from a "wide palette of sounds". However, he had to write "a big, old-fashioned theme" for Big Hero 6 on piano, which took him a week to complete. Jackman recalled, "The funny thing with live-action films, these days, is that people want a reduced and minimalist score. They shy away from big themes, but the fact that this is a huge super hero film set in an animated film tradition means that you can really go for those colorful tunes [...] the important thing about having those themes is that when you let go of the electronic sections, especially towards the end of the film, you’ve got some real music hiding underneath for when it gets really dramatic."
The themes ranged from "bouncy and fun" to "emotional". He further used a 77-piece orchestra for scoring the main themes due to the emotional content, heroism, jeopardy and the musical cues being a fine-balance in the film. Jackman stated "There was something about the visual style that was so grandiose and operatic that I got to use quite a virtuoso orchestration which was nice. Disney and the directors were on board for that especially considering today’s current vogue of more post-modern and minimalist use of orchestra, it was very nice to indulge and do so in a more historical style as well."
An original song "Immortals" was composed for the film and was included in the soundtrack album. It was performed by the Fall Out Boy band and was written by the band members Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley. It was played when the Big Hero 6 team is transformed from a group of super smart individuals to a band of high-tech heroes. In addition to the digital and physical versions, a 2-disc vinyl edition was available for pre-order through Disney Music Emporium on October 23, and was marketed and released on December 16.
Track listing
Additional music
An instrumental section of "Eye of the Tiger" was played brief in the film, although was not included in the soundtrack. For the Japanese release of the album, a previously unreleased English version of Japanese-American singer Ai's single "Story" was released as a single by EMI Records and Walt Di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepStack | DeepStack is an artificial intelligence computer program designed to play two-player poker, specifically heads up no-limit Texas hold 'em. It is the first computer program to outplay human professionals in this game.
Background
Poker is a key benchmark game in academic community and substantial amount of research was done to find optimal strategies against worst case adversaries
While human professionals have been outplayed in large perfect information games, such as Chess, decades before, imperfect information games require much more complex recursive reasoning.
Prior popular approaches relied mainly on simplification of the game by using abstractions. However, abstractions in imperfect-information games often result in highly-exploitable strategies.
Instead, DeepStack uses several algorithmic innovations, such as the use of neural networks and continual resolving.
The program was developed by an international team from Charles University, Czech Technical University and University of Alberta.
Algorithm
At the core of the program is the use of neural networks for determining the value of specific card combinations.
The networks are trained only on a small number of games states and are used to generalize to situations not seen during training.
The program uses search with the neural networks and continual resolving to ensure strategy found at each step is consistent with the strategy used in previous steps.
The search procedure uses counterfactual regret minimization to iteratively update strategy in its lookahead tree, and the neural networks are used for leaf evaluation. The leaf evaluation avoids reasoning about the entire remainder of the game by substituting the computation beyond a certain depth with a fast approximate estimate.
2016 tournament with professional players
In a study completed December 2016, DeepStack defeated 11 professional poker players by playing 44,000 hands of poker. Over all games played, DeepStack won 49 big blinds/100 (always folding would only lose 75 bb/100), over four standard deviations from zero, making it the first computer program to beat professional poker players in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
Competing approaches
Concurrently with DeepStack, a competing approach from Carnegie Mellon University research group was published, called Libratus. On January 11 to 31, 2017, Libratus was pitted in a tournament against four top-class human poker players. The algorithm was also published in Science. Libratus does not use neural networks for leaf evaluation. Experts argue that using learning with neural networks (as done by DeepStack) is more general and it has been indeed used in subsequent works that generalize to other games with imperfect information
Reception by the poker community
Dara O'Kearney, an Irish poker professional who completed 456 hands, claimed that DeepStack played in a style similar to one used by some human players, based on game theory.
See also
Computer poker players
Cepheu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lego%20Movie%20%28soundtrack%29 | The Lego Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2014 computer-animated film The Lego Movie. It was released by WaterTower Music on February 4, 2014. The album features original score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, containing of about 23 tracks in the album. He recorded two scores for the film: an electronic and a 40-piece orchestral music, with more than 100 players working on the score. He arranged few synthesisers and circuit bent to make use of the electronic music created for the film, which consisted of "bright, popping, almost frenetic music with an underpinning of emotional swells".
The album features an original song titled "Everything Is Awesome" written by Shawn Patterson, Joshua Bartholomew, and Lisa Harriton, who also performed the song in the film under the name, Jo Li. The track which was released as a single from the album on January 23, is performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) who wrote the rap lyrics, and is the first song played in the opening credits of the film, while the alternative version sung by Jo Li was featured in the end credits. It also featured an unplugged version by Patterson and Sammy Allen and an instrumental version.
The score and the song received positive reception, praising Mothersbaugh's composition. The track "Everything Is Awesome" received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Song (losing to "Glory" from Selma) and Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (losing to "Let It Go" from Frozen).
Overview
The film marks Mothersbaugh's second collaboration with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller after Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and 21 Jump Street (2012). He worked on the score of the film, simultaneously with the music production of their forthcoming film 22 Jump Street, also directed by Lord and Miller and is a sequel to 22 Jump Street. The score was recorded at Trackdown Studios, Sydney during late-2013 and 2014.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Mothersbaugh stated "We were looking for sounds that created a universe for the LEGOs that was unique [...] I started assembling a sonic palette off of old analog synths that I used with DEVO and newer circuit bent things that I got in the past three or four years and then just kind of borrowing from electronic music through the years. You think of LEGOs as these rigid horizontal and vertical pieces. But to see them as clouds and explosions, or water running [...] it made me want to come up with sounds that were as interesting as the way they were making the film look." Hence, Mothersbaugh created an electronic and orchestral score, the later consisted of a 40-piece choir and about 100-players to emphasize the story and allow the directors Lord and Miller which sound will suit for the film.
The duo wrote the original song "Everything is Awesome" before the shooting of the film. In an interview with Fox News, Mothersbaugh s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20Microcomputers | 3D Microcomputers Wholesale and Distribution, Inc., often referred to as 3D Microcomputers or 3D Micro, was a computer company based in Markham, Ontario. The company was among the top five personal computer vendors in Canada in the mid-1990s. The company was partially owned by Hong Kong–based computer manufacturer PC Chips for several years; many of the parts for 3D Micro's computers were of overseas origin.
History
3D Microcomputers Wholesale and Distribution was founded in Markham, Ontario in 1985. By 1990, the company had offices across six cities in Canada, including Markham, with plans to open a seventh office that year, although the plans had stalled by 1992. By 1994, the company employed 120 people, 100 residing in Canada. David Wong served as the company's chief executive officer. He was simultaneously the vice chairman of PC Chips, a Hong Kong–based motherboard and peripheral manufacturer; PC Chips had partial ownership of 3D Microcomputers. The company's Evertek Manufacturing subsidiary performed the manufacturing of the company's products, which 3D Microcomputers marketed under the IPC trademark.
In December 1993, the company won a contract to manufacture and sell IBM PC clone computers for Commodore International's Canadian subsidiary. Commodore left the PC clone market earlier in 1993; Commodore Canada previously contracted 3D Microcomputers in 1991 for the manufacturing of Commodore's line of enterprise computers. Commodore Canada was set to refocus on marketing its Amiga computers and the heretofore recently released Amiga CD32 home game console for 1994, while 3D Microcomputers would handle development of MS-DOS computers with Commodore badging. 3D Microcomputers turned to Xylog of Richmond Hill, Ontario, to market these PC-based Commodore computers in the public sector, while 3D Micro themselves would handle marketing in the retail and educational sectors, which were formerly handled by Commodore. The initial lineup of 3D Micro–built Commodore PCs comprised three systems each aimed at multimedia PC, SOHO, and workstation buyers.
In April 1994, Commodore International went bankrupt and announced that liquidation proceedings were imminent. Despite the company's financial woes in the United States, the Canadian subsidiary had been relatively profitable, and 3D Microcomputers declared that they would continue selling computers under the Commodore brand for the foreseeable future. In June 1994, 3D Microcomputers formed a subsidiary, CBM Computers Inc., to handle the marketing and distribution of its Commodore-branded PCs. On its formation, the subsidiary announced a Commodore-branded sound card and fax modem. Citing continuing good sales, 3D Microcomputers and its CBM subsidiary kept manufacturing and marketing Commodore-branded computers and peripherals into 1995, making these machines the last Commodore-branded computers authorized while Commodore was still a going concern. Germany-based Escom purchased the majority of Commodore' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natarajan%20dimension | In the theory of Probably Approximately Correct Machine Learning, the Natarajan dimension characterizes the complexity of learning a set of functions, generalizing from the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension for boolean functions to multi-class functions. Originally introduced as the Generalized Dimension by Natarajan, it was subsequently renamed the Natarajan Dimension by Haussler and Long.
Definition
Let be a set of functions from a set to a set . shatters a set
if there exist two functions such that
For every .
For every , there exists a function such that
for all and for all .
The Natarajan dimension of H is the maximal cardinality of a set shattered by .
It is easy to see that if , the Natarajan dimension collapses to the Vapnik Chervonenkis dimension.
Shalev-Shwartz and Ben-David present comprehensive material on multi-class learning and the Natarajan dimension, including uniform convergence and learnability.
References
Statistical classification
Computational learning theory
Measures of complexity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle%20Kaljurand | Kalle Kaljurand (born 12 May 1960) is an Estonian badminton player.
He was born in Tartu. In 1983 he graduated from University of Tartu with a degree in economic cybernetics, and 2002 from the university of Tartu with a degree in business management.
His badminton coach was Mart Siliksaar. He is multiple-times Estonian champion. 1982–1991 he was a member of Estonian national badminton team.
Since 2005 he has been a leader of publishing house Koolibri.
His wife is diplomat Marina Kaljurand.
References
Living people
1960 births
Estonian male badminton players
University of Tartu alumni
Sportspeople from Tartu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirmse | Kirmse is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrew Kirmse, American computer programmer
Fritz Kirmse (1912 - ?), German violinist
Marguerite Kirmse (1885 - 1954), British-American artist
Mike Kirmse (born 1972), American soccer player
Persis Kirmse (1884 - 1955), British artist and illustrator
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-HIT | Z-HIT, also denoted as ZHIT, Z-HIT-Algorithmn or Z-HIT-Approximation, is a bidirectional mathematical relation, connecting the two parts of any complex function, - i.e. real and imaginary part. Concerning practical impedance measurements and in contrast to the Kramers–Kronig relations, where the real part can be computed from the imaginary part (or vice versa), in the Z-HIT the impedance modulus is computed by the course of the phase angle. In addition, the angular frequency (ω) boundaries for computing one component of the complex function from the other one using the Kramers-Kronig relations, are ω=0 and ω=∞; these boundaries require extrapolation procedures of the measured impedance spectra. Concerning the ZHIT however, the computing of the course of the impedance modulus from the course of the phase shift can be performed within the measured frequency range, without the need of extrapolation. This avoids complications which may arise from the fact that impedance spectra can only be measured in a limited frequency range. Therefore, the Z-HIT-algorithm allows for verification of the stationarity of the measured test object as well as calculating the impedance values using the phase data. The latter property becomes important when drift effects are present in the impedance spectra which had to be detected or even removed when analysing and/or interpreting the spectra.
Motivation
An important application of Z-HIT is the examination of experimental impedance spectra for artifacts. The examination of EIS series measurements is often difficult due to the tendency of examined objects to undergo changes during the measurement. This may occur in many standard EIS applications such as the evaluation of fuel cells or batteries during discharge. Further examples include the investigation of light-sensitive systems under illumination (e.g. Photoelectrochemistry) or the analysis of water uptake of lacquers on metal surfaces (e.g. corrosion-protection).
A descriptive example for an unsteady system is a Lithium-ion battery. Under cyclization or discharging, the amount of charge in the battery changes over time. The change in charge is coupled with a chemical redox reaction, transferring to a change in concentrations of the involved substances. This violates the principles of stationarity and causality which are prerequisites for proper EIS measurements. In theory, this would exclude drift-affected samples from valid evaluation. Using the ZHIT-algorithm, these and similar artifacts can be recognized and spectra following causality can even be reconstructed, which are consistent with the Kramers–Kronig relations and thereby valid for analysis.
Mathematical Formulation
Z-HIT is a special case of the Hilbert transform and through restriction by the Kramers–Kronig relations it can be derived for one-Port-systems. The frequency-dependent relationship between impedance and phase angle can be observed in the Bode plot of an impedance spectrum. Equation (1) is |
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| 613009 || || — || July 3, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 2.3 km ||
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| 613010 || || — || July 27, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || ATEcritical || align=right data-sort-value="0.32" | 320 m ||
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| 613015 || || — || August 25, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right | 1.5 km ||
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| 613016 || || — || August 29, 2005 || Saint-Sulpice || B. Christophe || || align=right | 2.2 km ||
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| 613017 || || — || August 29, 2005 || Vicques || Jura Obs. || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
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| 613019 || || — || August 27, 2005 || Palomar || NEAT || || align=right data-sort-value="0.68" | 680 m ||
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| 613020 || || — || August 28, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
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| 614002 || || — || August 7, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.93" | 930 m ||
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| 614003 || || — || August 20, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || GEF || align=right data-sort-value="0.79" | 790 m ||
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| 614004 || || — || August 21, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.52" | 520 m ||
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| 614005 || || — || August 26, 2008 || Pises || Pises Obs. || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0.53" | 530 m ||
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| 614006 || || — || August 25, 2008 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || || align=right | 1.8 km ||
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| 614007 || || — || August 25, 2008 || La Sagra || OAM Obs. || || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
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| 614009 || || — || August 27, 2008 || Pises || Pises Obs. || || align=right data-sort-value="0.67" | 670 m ||
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| 614017 || || — || August 21, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.76" | 760 m ||
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| 614018 || || — || August 24, 2008 || Socorro || LINEAR || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.66" | 660 m ||
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| 614021 || || — || September 3, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.74" | 740 m ||
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| 614022 || || — || September 4, 2008 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || || align=right data-sort-value="0.43" | 430 m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoy%20sa%20Langit | (International title: Broken Promise / ) is a 2022 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Laurice Guillen, it stars Maricel Laxa. It premiered on May 2, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime and Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Prima Donnas. The series concluded on September 3, 2022 with a total of 105 episodes. It was replaced by Abot-Kamay na Pangarap in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Maricel Laxa as Gemma Monastrial / Gemma Hidalgo
Supporting cast
Zoren Legaspi as Cesar Monastrial
Mikee Quintos as Ning Hidalgo
Lianne Valentin as Stella Fernandez
Mariz Ricketts as Blessie Atienza
Carlos Siguion-Reyna as Edong Tayag
Dave Bornea as Anthony "Tony" Zulueta
Coleen Paz as Patring Benipayo
Celine Fajardo as Iyah Legarda
Patricia Ismael as Lucy Fuerte
Mio Maranan as Toto Pancho
Guest cast
Ramon Christopher as Rey Hidalgo
Jen Rosendahl as Rona de Leon
Episodes
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References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolera | (International title: Break Shot / ) is a 2022 Philippine television drama sports series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Jorron Lee Monroy, it stars Kylie Padilla in the title role. It premiered on May 30, 2022, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing False Positive. The series concluded on August 26, 2022, with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by What We Could Be in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Jose Maria "Joni/Bolera" Fajardo Jr.
Supporting cast
Rayver Cruz as Miguel Salvador / El Salvador
Jak Roberto as Pepito "Toypits" Canlas
Jaclyn Jose as Tessa Carillo-Fajardo
Gardo Versoza as Marco "Cobrador" Alcantara
Joey Marquez as Freddie "Scorpion" Roldan
David Remo as Jose Maria "Tres" Fajardo III
Via Veloso as Marla Toledo-Roldan
Ge Villamil as Marika "Kikay" Carillo
Luri Vincent Nalus as Pogi
Guest cast
Al Tantay as Jose Maria "Joma/JoMaster" Fajardo Sr.
Klea Pineda as Sheena "Golden Eye" Kim
Ina Raymundo as Floriza "White Lotus" Andal
Julia Lee as Laura Cruz-Salvador
Sue Prado as P/CMS Romana "Roma" Canlas
Mico Aytona as Felix "Magicman of Cebu" delos Reyes
Elle Ramirez as Macy "Amazing Macy" delos Reyes
Andrew Gan as Datu "Bulls Eye" Gidapawan
Mhyca Bautista as Cynthia "Strong Heart" Mapag
Mel Caluag as Tina
Josh Bulot as Benjo
Jeremy Sabido as Caloy
Efren "Bata" Reyes as himself
Production
Principal photography ended on April 27, 2022.
Episodes
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2022 Philippine television series debuts
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Cue sports on television
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine sports television series
Television shows set in the Philippines
Women in cue sports
Works about women's sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20%26%20Maria%27s%20Bonggang%20Villa | Jose & Maria's Villa () is a 2022 Philippine television romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by John Lapus, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera in the title roles. It premiered on May 14, 2022 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Agimat ng Agila. The series concluded on August 27, 2022 with a total of 16 episodes. It was replaced by Running Man Philippines in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Jose Villa
Marian Rivera as Maria Cabangbang-Villa
Supporting cast
Zonia Mejia as Mae Cabangbang
Jamir Zabarte as Jae-Z Lopez
Johnny Revilla as King Villa
Benjie Paras as Mr. Nero
Pekto as Sol Banayad
Shamaine Buencamino as Aurora "Mama Au" Cabangbang
Pinky Amador as Janice Villa
Hershey Neri as Margarita "Marielou" Cabangbang
Loujude Gonzalez as Robert "Buboy" Banayad
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of Jose and Maria's Villa earned a 13.5% rating.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangaswamy | Rangaswamy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar (1885–1972), Indian film director
Rangaswamy Narasimhan (1926–2007), Indian computer and cognitive scientist
Adithiya Rangaswamy (born 1994), Botswana cricketer
Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy (1933–2007), political leader from the Indian state of Karnataka
Jeevarathinam Rangaswamy (born 1921), a leader of Indian National Congress from Tamil Nadu
M. Rangaswamy, Indian politician and was elected member for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
N. Rangaswamy (born 1950), Indian politician, Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry
Ponnuswamy Rangaswamy (born 1964), Indian weightlifter
Shantha Rangaswamy, (born 1954), Indian cricketer
Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao (born 1948), Indian scientist from Mysore, India
Rangaswamy Srinivasan (born 1929), physical chemist and inventor with a 30-year career at IBM Research
See also
Bilikal Rangaswamy Betta, hill near Kanakapura town in the Indian state of Karnataka
Rangaswamy Peak and Pillar, rocky column in Kotagiri, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu
K.S. Rangaswamy College of Technology, engineering college affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, south India |
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