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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerliebe%20%28Die%20Module%20spielen%20verr%C3%BCckt%29 | Computerliebe (Die Module spielen verrückt) is a song by the German band Paso Doble released in 1984, in the Neue Deutsche Welle genre. The music was composed by Frank Hieber; the text was written by Ulf Krüger. It was produced by Udo Arndt and Paso Doble. A cover version by the band in 1995 also saw commercial success.
Release and reception
The song was released as a single in 1984 by WEA Records, taken from Paso Doble's second album Fantasie. It reached 15th on the German single charts, where it spent 17 weeks, from 25 February through 17 June 1985.
Paso Doble performed the several times on ZDF-Hitparade: after their first performance on 27 March 1985, they placed first in the audience vote (cast electronically through ) which earned them a second appearance on 24 April 1985. They reprised their appearance on a 30 January 1986 special episode, Die Superhitparade – Hits des Jahres '85.
A remake of the song was issued in 2008 as "Computerliebe (Remake)" on the sampler Hautnah; five additional remixes were released in July 2017 on the album Computerliebe 2K17.
Cover versions
The cover version by Das Modul, issued in 1995 by PolyGram, was more commercially successful than the original, charting third place in German, eighth in Austria, and eleventh in Switzerland. That year, Das Modul's single was certified gold. The song has been covered a number of times since, including:
Blümchen (Computerliebe)
(Computerliebe)
Das Modul vs. E-Love (Computerliebe 7.1)
(Computerliebe)
Lorenz Büffel feat. Sven Florijan (Computerliebe (in St. Pauli sind die Lichter rot bei Nacht))
feat. (Computerliebe)
(Computerliebe)
(Computerliebe)
References
1984 songs
1984 singles
German new wave songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV8 | VTV8 is TV Channel country region Central, Central highland region Vietnam. Channel VTV8 is broadcast with a duration of 24 hours a day, including news, sports and entertainment programming targeting the audience in the Central and Central highland regions of Vietnam. The official channel is broadcast from 00:00 on 1 January 2016 according to the approved National Press Planning Scheme, is the result of merging 3 TV channels regions of VTV before, including VTV Hue, VTV Da Nang and VTV Phu Yen.
History
VTV Da Nang
Before 2016, in addition to producing the program TV, VTV Da Nang also took on the task of regional broadcasting and relaying the broadcast channels of VTV. Every year, VTV Da Nang produces more than 100 programs including news bulletins, many categories, products of art, science, entertainment of the same class. variety of programs are selected, exploited from many sources to meet viewers requirements. In addition, VTVDa Nang also participates in production direct production of many major programs in the region such as: Coffee Festival Buon Me Thuot, Gong Festival Central Highlands, Quang Nam - Festival of Heritage Journeys, The Ceremony Danang International Fireworks Festival, the soccer awards, the sports tournaments in the area... VTVDa Nang is also the successful organizer of the events. VTV's programs and contests such as Sao Mai, Round K National Robocon festival and ABU Robocon 2013, 31st National Television Festival...
With VTV equipped with HD standard color car in 2015, the channel began to be broadcast in the picture format 16:9. From 1 January 1, 2016, implementing the scheme of system structure television, VTV Da Nang stopped broadcasting regionally and together with VTVHue, VTVPhu Yen produce programs for TV channel country VTV8 and Da Nang was also selected as the place to the total control of VTV8 channel.
VTV Phu Yen
From broadcasting 3 times a week when it was first established, in 1991, the station broadcasts television daily on PTV channel. Due to the increase in broadcast time, in addition to self-produced programs, exchanging programs with other stations, PTV also pays great attention to the exploitation of programs by foreign stations via satellite. fine to compile and edit. In 1990, when VTVhad not yet covered the whole country, PTV exploited and compiled daily current news international news. June 6 of the same year, Radio held live commentary 1990 World Cup. In Central at that time, PTV was the only station broadcasting this event live. At the beginning of 1992, PTV aired the Mexican TV series Rich people also cry, then shared it with many other stations in the country to broadcast, creating a phenomenon television in Vietnam.
On August 22, 2001, Prime Minister Government signed the decision to become Establishment of Radio Television Area Phu Yen, later the Center of Vietnamese Literature in Phu Yen on the basis of transferring THPY Station managed by the province Phu Yen to Phu Yen Vietnam Televisi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20Bleu%20Provence | France Bleu Provence is one of the 44 regional radio stations of the France Bleu network. It serves the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône and Var. It is accessible to as far as Val du Durance and Gapençais via FM radio.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1983 under the name . It used this name until September 4, 2000, when it became France Bleu Provence.
Headquarters
In addition to its headquarters in Aix-en-Provence, France Bleu Provence has offices for its reporters in Toulon and Marseille, on rue de l'Évêché. In the past, the station also had locations in Arles and Martigues during the 2000s.
References
French-language radio stations
Radio stations in France
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermageddon | Spermageddon is an upcoming Norwegian adult computer-animated musical comedy film directed by Tommy Wirkola and Rasmus A. Sivertsen. The film consists of two plot lines, one focusing on a teenage couple having sex for the first time, and the other on Simon the Semen and his friends in quest for the Egg.
The film has been reported to be "in the veins of Sausage Party" and described by Wirkola as "both a road movie and an epic adventure ... much like Lord of the Rings". Producer Kjetil Omberg likened it to South Park and Checkered Ninja, saying it targets "elder kids and adults".
Production
In June 2021, the production was reported to begin "in the fall". It was in production as of May 2022.
Release
Spermageddon is set for release in 2024 by Nordisk Film. It was being sold for local distributors at the Marché du Film of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival by the international sales agent Charades.
References
External links
Upcoming films
2020s English-language films
2024 computer-animated films
Norwegian animated films
2020s sex comedy films
2020s musical comedy films
Adult animated comedy films
Films about puberty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Attack%20Pattern%20Enumeration%20and%20Classification | The Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification or CAPEC is a catalog of known cyber security attack patterns to be used by cyber security professionals to prevent attacks.
Originally released in 2007 by the United States Department of Homeland Security, the project began as an initiative of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communication, and it is now supported by Mitre Corporation and governed under a board of corporate representatives.
References
External links
MITRE CAPEC
Classification systems
Computer standards
Mitre Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HammerDB | HammerDB is an open source database benchmarking application developed by Steve Shaw. HammerDB supports databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, MySQL and MariaDB. HammerDB is written in TCL and C, and is licensed under the GPL v3.
Features
HammerDB is a database load testing and benchmarking tool. HammerDB is used to create a test schema, load it with data and simulate the workload of multiple virtual users against the database for both transactional and analytic scenarios. HammerDB makes it possible to run derived workloads of the industry standard TPROC-C & TPROC-H (known by trademarks TPC-C and TPC-H respectively) so they can compare and contrast systems, databases and database cloud services.
HammerDB supports Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, TimesTen, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, Postgres Plus Advanced Server, Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift. HammerDB also includes deprecated workloads for Redis and Apache Trafodion.
HammerDB is developed in the languages TCL and C - this is to avoid a common 'feature' of Python called the Global Interpreter Lock or GIL.
HammerDB is hosted on GitHub by TPC-Council. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is described as "a worldwide consortium that establishes standards intended to promote the fast, efficient and reliable execution of e-commerce and database transactions".
See also
Load testing
Database testing
Software performance testing
Web server benchmarking
References
External links
hammerdb.com
Free software testing tools
Load testing tools
Software using the GPL license
Free software programmed in Tcl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMT%20Goupil | SMT Goupil (SMT - "Society of Microcomputing and Telecommunications") was a French IT company created in 1979 by Claude Perdrillat, previously a senior executive in the General Directorate of Telecommunications.
The company produced many microcomputers during the 1980s, mainly for French government agencies. This market collapsed at the end of the 1980s with the appearance of drastic budgetary restrictions in the French public sector and competition from more aggressive technological rivals like IBM, Apple and Olivetti.
Despite a significant debt of 40 million francs, the company went public in 1985, claiming to hold 15% of the French microcomputer market.
In January 1990, Goupil claimed to hold 18% of the market for professional microcomputers in France.
The company filed for bankruptcy in June 1991 with the accounting books revealing a debt of 700 million francs and a real turnover of 830 million francs in 1990.
Models
The first Goupil G1 and G2 computers offered a promising architecture, with the integration of the Motorola 6808 processor coupled with the FLEX operating system. The machines had a sober and integrated design with particular colors - slate blue and red.
The G3 extended compatibility in order to conquer foreign markets, by offering two processors at a time (selected at start-up by a switch) among three choices: the very common Motorola 6809, Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088. This allowed the Flex 9 and UniFLEX operating systems that came with the machine to run under MS-DOS, CP/M and UCSD Pascal. The dark gray case, designed by designer Roger Tallon, came with an integrated 12-inch monochrome monitor, two floppy disk drives, and a bay for 7 extension cards in Goupil format.
Further machines would seek IBM PC compatibility, as it became a standard regarding government equipment.
1979: Goupil G1, basic desktop computer
1981: Goupil G2, desktop computer with multiple configurations similar to those of Micral
1983: Goupil G3, Nanoréseau network machine, similar to Micral
1985: Goupil G4, PC-compatible desktop computer
1986: Goupil G40, desktop server version of the G4
1986: Goupil Club, PC Kaypro 2000 compatible laptop sold under license
1988: Goupil G5, PC-compatible desktop computer, several versions
1988: Goupil Golf, PC-compatible portable computer
1990: Goupil G50, tower server version of the G5
1990: Goupil G100, UNIX server initially designed by SFENA, characterized by input-output co-processors
1991: Goupil G6, PC-compatible desktop computer
1991: Goupil TOP, laptop with 10" backlit LCD screen under MS-DOS 5.0 (and Windows 3.1 installed later), offered in 2 versions: TOP (80286 @ 12.5 Mhz) & TOP SX (80386 SX @ 20 Mhz), both with 20 MB hard drive
See also
Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils
References
Computer companies of France
Computer science education in France
Computing for All
French companies established in 1979
French companies disestablished in 1991
History |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Byrne%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Gabriel Byrne (15 July 1933 – 16 April 2016) was an Irish computer scientist and engineer. He founded the department of computer science in Trinity College Dublin, serving as its first head and professor, and has been referred to as "The Father of Computing in Ireland".
Early life and education
John Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin on 25 July 1933. He was the only son of Doreen (née Lawlor) and Thomas Brendan Byrne. The family lived in Rathfarnham. His paternal grandfather was the architect, Thomas Joseph Byrne, as was his great-grandfather, Anthony Scott. He attended Belvedere College and in 1951 he entered Trinity College Dublin (TCD) to study engineering, graduating in 1956. He went on to work in Birmingham with Septimus Willis, and then study for a Diploma in Concrete Technology at Imperial College London. He completed his PhD at TCD under the supervision of Prof William Wright, the head of the School of Engineering. His 1961 doctoral thesis was a study in mathematically complex solutions for torsional stresses in hollow reinforced concrete beams. He studied with Bernard Carré on the English Electric DEUCE computer at Stafford over the course of 2 summers. In 1960, Byrne was awarded an Imperial Chemical Industries Research Fellowship.
Career
Byrne was appointed a junior lecturer at the engineering school at TCD in 1963. Supported by Wright, who campaigned for TCD to buy its first computer in 1962, an IBM 1620. Byrne proposed TCD's first evening course in computer programming and systems analysis which ran for two nights a week. The course was industry aligned, and was aimed at young graduates interested in learning these skills. The success of the evening course led to the creation of a BA Mod degree programme. Byrne has been credited with a key role in the development of the computer industry in Ireland from the 1960s onwards through his pioneering courses in computer science and the quality of the graduates produced. He has also been credited with encouraging more women into the field when it had become predominantly a male discipline.
Byrne became the first head of computer science in TCD when the department was founded in 1969 and was made a Fellow in the same year, becoming Professor of Computer Science in 1973. He subsequently became a Senior Fellow. When the internet was deployed in Ireland for the first time on 17 June 1991 by the Trinity campus company, IEunet, Byrne was a director. The first Irish Ethernet connection in Ireland was installed in the computer science department in Pearse Street. A large number of Byrne's students went on to found indigenous Irish software companies including Iona Technologies, Generics, and Cape Clear Technologies. He was also a founding member of the Irish Computer Society.
In 2005, Byrne supervised the masters students who created the first digitised copy of the Library of Trinity College's 1872 Printed Catalogue. He advised on the Library's Stella Project in the 1990s which digitised the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydriomena%20deltoidata | Hydriomena deltoidata is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1862. This species is endemic to New Zealand. The classification of New Zealand endemic moths within the genus Hydriomena is regarded as unsatisfactory and in need of revision. As such this species is currently also known as Hydriomena (s.l.) deltoidata. The adults of this moth are known to pollinate Dracophyllum acerosum and Leptospermum scoparium.
References
Sterrhinae
Moths described in 1862
Moths of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20Bleu%20P%C3%A9rigord | France Bleu Périgord is one of the public service radio stations of the France Bleu network. It broadcasts in Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne, though it is accessible to parts of Haute-Vienne on FM. It has its headquarters in Périgueux's regional Departmental Center for Communication, where it has been located since 2004.
History
The Périgord branch of Radio France opened on 26 October 1982 at 5:45 a.m., under the name . It became "Radio France Périgord" in 1985. At the time, it was only the sixth regional radio station in the network (compared to 44 as of 2022); it only had a single transmitter in Bergerac before being assigned a proper frequency on the Limoges - Les Cars transmitter at some point in 1984. It was folded into the new France Bleu network in 2000.
References
Radio stations in France
French-language radio stations
1982 establishments in France
Radio stations established in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio%201 | The Piaggio 1 is an electric motorcycle produced by the Italian manufacturer Piaggio.
History
Announced on social network TikTok in the spring of
2021 with the name Piaggio One the vehicle is presented in world premiere at the Beijing Auto Show on May 28 and sales are launched on the European market and on the Asian one in September of the same year renamed Piaggio 1. Production takes place in China at the joint venture Zongshen Piaggio plant in Foshan.
It is the first scooter of Piaggio to be produced exclusively in the electric version and is positioned lower in terms of prices and dimensions than the Vespa Elettrica. Aesthetically, it has a design inspired by the latest generation of Piaggio Zip, also produced in China and which enjoys good success on this market. The front shield has two LED lights, the central platform is flat and the starting is keyless.
The frame of the Piaggio 1 is of the high-strength single-sided steel type with elements in pressed sheet metal and hydraulic single shock absorber at the front and fork telescopic while at the rear there is a double shock absorber with swingarm; the braking system consists of disc front and rear both 175 mm. The wheels are 10”. Only the Active version has CBS combined braking.
The wheelbase measures 1,220 mm, the overall length is 1,680 mm while the height of the saddle is 770 mm. The compartment under the saddle houses the battery and a full jet helmet.
Versions
The Piaggio 1 is available in two versions: the "base" and the "Active".
The "base" is homologated as a moped (drivable at age 14 like a fifty) has a speed limited to 45 km/h, the electric motor delivers a power of 1.2 kW and the lithium-ion battery has a capacity of 1.4 kWh which weighs 10 kg (85 kg is the total weight of the vehicle). The approved range is 55 km in Eco mode and 43 km in Sport (WMTC cycle).
The more powerful "Active" version delivers 2 kW of power and is self-controlled for a maximum speed of 60 km/h, features a 2.3 kWh lithium-ion battery weighing 15 kg (94 kg the total weight of the vehicle). The autonomy is 85 km in Eco mode and 66 km in Sport mode in the WMTC homologation cycle.
All models have an extractable battery that can be recharged in six hours (with a voltage of 220V) with an efficiency of up to 800 complete charging cycles; over 800 cycles it retains 70% of its capacity. The kinetic energy recovery system (KERS, Kinetic Energy Recovery System) is standard, which recharges the battery during deceleration phases.
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Motor scooters
Electric motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent%20adaptable%20network | Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are a type of polymer material that closely resemble thermosetting polymers (thermosets). However, they are distinguished from thermosets by the incorporation of dynamic covalent chemistry into the polymer network. When a stimulus (for example heat, light, pH, ...) is applied to the material, these dynamic bonds become active and can be broken or exchanged with other pending functional groups, allowing the polymer network to change its topology. This introduces reshaping, (re)processing and recycling into thermoset-like materials.
Background
Historically, polymer materials have always been subdivided in two categories based on their thermomechanical behaviour. Thermoplastic polymer materials melt upon heating and become viscous liquids, whereas thermosetting polymer materials remain solid as a result of cross-linking.
Thermoplastics consist of long polymer chains that are stiff at service temperatures but become softer with increasing temperature. At low temperatures, the molecular motion of the polymer chains is limited due to chain-entanglements, resulting in a hard and glassy material. Increasing the temperature will lead to a transition from a hard to a soft material at the glass transition temperature (Tg) yielding a visco-elastic liquid. In the case of (semi-)crystalline polymer materials, viscous flow is achieved when the melting point (Tm) is reached and the intermolecular forces in the ordered crystalline domain are overcome. Thermoplastics regain their solid properties upon cooling and can thus be reshaped by polymer processing methods such as extrusion and injection moulding and they can also be recycled. Examples of thermoplastic polymers are polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyethylene, nylon, Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), etc.
Thermosets, on the other hand, are three-dimensional networks that are formed through permanent chemical cross-linking of multifunctional compounds. This is an irreversible process that results in infusible and insoluble polymer networks with superior properties compared to most thermoplastics. When a thermoset is exposed to heat, it maintains its dimensional stability and thus cannot be reshaped. These polymer materials are generally used for demanding applications (e.g. wind turbines, aerospace, etc.) that require chemical resistance, dimensional stability and good mechanical properties. Typical thermosetting materials include epoxy resins, polyester resins, polyurethanes, etc.
In the framework of sustainability, the combination of the mechanical properties of thermosets with the reprocessability of thermoplastics through the introduction of dynamic bonds has been the topic of numerous research studies. The use of non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, pi-stacking or crystallization that lead to physical cross-links between polymer chains is one way of introducing dynamic cross-linking. The thermoreversible nature of the physical cross-links results i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoHarlem | CryptoHarlem is a nonprofit, anti-surveillance, cybersecurity education and advocacy organization. Founded by Matt Mitchell in 2013, CryptoHarlem provides the predominantly African American community in upper Manhattan with free workshops on digital security, encryption, privacy, cryptography, digital policing and surveillance.
History
CryptoHarlem was founded following the Trayvon Martin murder trial. Initially a series of security workshops, Mitchell said he founded the organization “due to the feeling of profound loss, the loss of all black folks, after Trayvon Martin’s death.” Monthly digital privacy clinics called "crypto parties" hosted by Mitchell and CryptoHarlem started in 2012.
In 2017 the organization's name appeared as an Easter egg in an episode of Mr. Robot.
In 2017, CryptoHarlem developed an open source tool to help organizations prepare for data breaches. The now-defunct site hosting the tool, ProtectYour.Org, was supported by the Mozilla Fellowship and the Ford Foundation. Calyx Institute has sponsored CryptoHarlem and its Crypto Parties since 2019.
The ACLU and CryptoHarlem have worked together on issues related to surveillance and privacy legislation, including the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act of 2020.
In 2021, Newsweek profiled Mitchell and CryptoHarlem as one of "America's greatest disruptors" for their work against "digital stop and frisk". The Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded Mitchell and CryptoHarlem with a Pioneer Award and hosted a discussion of their work.
In 2022, Mitchell, representing CryptoHarlem, was an invited speaker on "Easy Fixes for Algorithmic Bias" at The Barnard College Diversity in Computing Speaker Series.
References
External links
Computer security organizations
Internet privacy organizations
Non-profit organizations based in New York City
Organizations established in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea%20States%20Sub-regional%20Co-operation | Baltic Sea States Sub-regional Co-operation, BSSSC is an international network associating local governments and local government organizations of the countries around the Baltic Sea. It was established in 1993 under the Stavanger Declaration as a result of the establishing Council of the Baltic Sea States a year earlier.
It has an observer status in HELCOM.
History
The BSSSC was founded in October 1993 in Stavanger, Norway, pursuant to the Stavanger Declaration, the result of the establishment of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in 1992.
In 2009, the BSSSC initiated, together with the European Commission, the Idea Café Project aimed at promoting joint funds for the Baltic Sea region. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual conference was held for the first time in the remote formula. In 2021, the BSSSC adopted a joint resolution on the future of the Baltic Sea in the context of climate change, cross-border cooperation and weapons lingering at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. In March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the BSSSC excluded Russian regions from the organization.
Structure and mission
The goal of the BSSSC is to strengthen regional cooperation as well as to support the interests of its members among decision-makers from the European Union. Political priorities of BSSSC are:
EU cohesion policy
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea
Innovations / Smart Specialization
Culture, creative industries and regional identity
Transport and communication connections
The organization consists of:
chairman who represents organizations outside and conducts board meetings;
board, which is the decision-making body of the BSSSC;
annual BSSSC conference, which is the organisation's main forum;
secretariat that changes with the president and is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the organization.
References
Regionalism (politics)
International political organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement 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 were presented on September 3 and 4, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. A total of 99 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 93 categories. The ceremonies were broadcast in the United States by FXX on September 10.
Adele One Night Only, The Beatles: Get Back, Euphoria, Stranger Things, and The White Lotus each received five awards, leading all programs. Euphoria also tied with Succession for the most nominations, with each receiving 13. Overall program awards went to Adele One Night Only, Arcane, The Beatles: Get Back, Carpool Karaoke: The Series, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents: Once Upon a Time in Late Night, George Carlin's American Dream, Love, Death & Robots, Love on the Spectrum U.S., The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show, Queer Eye, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, and When Claude Got Shot. HBO and HBO Max led all networks with a combined 26 wins from 93 nominations.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡). Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2021–2022 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Programs
Performing
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Choreography
Cinematography
Commercial
Costumes
Directing
Hairstyling
Lighting Design / Lighting Direction
Main Title and Motion Design
Makeup
Music
Picture Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Special Visual Effects
Stunts
Technical Direction
Writing
Nominations and wins by program
For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
Nominations and wins by network
Ceremony order and presenters
The following categories were presented at each ceremony:
Ceremony information
In April 2022, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards would be held on September 3 and 4, leading into the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 12. Nominations for the awards were announced on July 12. The first night of awards focused on unscripted, variety, and animated programming, while the second night focused on scripted programs. For the first time since 2019, the ceremonies were held at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles; the ceremonies had been held elsewhere the previous two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the ceremonies were followed by the Governors Galas for the first time since before the pandemic. The two nights were edited into a single broadcast shown on FXX on September 10 an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goggo%20Network | Goggo Network is a company with headquarters in Madrid, Berlin and Paris, dedicated to the creation of autonomous mobility networks in different cities in Europe. It was founded in 2018 as "105. "Media" Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH" by Springer SE and changed to 'goggo network' 14.11.2019. Change to Martin Varsavsky as CEO in February 2020. Yasmine Fage serves as COO.
Goggo Network's goal is to operate fleets of autonomous vehicles in Europe and help country governments create a licensing system for the operation of self-driving vehicles. In September 2021, the company launched the initial tests of the first self-driving food truck to circulate on the streets of Spain, and later that year it presented an autonomous delivery robot in collaboration with the company Glovo, which began operations in Madrid in February 2022.
History
Beginnings and first round of investment
The company was created in July 2018 in Madrid by entrepreneur Martín Varsavsky, recognized for having founded companies such as Jazztel, Eolia, Overture Life, Barter Energy and VAS Ventures, and by Yasmine Fage, a former associate at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In light of the modification of the mobility law concerning the regulation of self-driving vehicles in France (2019), the company decided to start operations in that country. In January 2020, Goggo Network managed to raise €24 million from investors Axel Springer and SoftBank in a Series A funding round. These funds were used to start work in Germany and strengthen its presence in Spain and France.
Launching of SPAC and start-up of the first autonomous Food Truck
In March 2021, it was announced that SPAC Levere Holdings, formed by Goggo Network and led by Varsavsky and Fage, would be listed on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol LVRAU. In the deal, which raised $250 million, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup acted as lead guarantors. A month later, French media announced the company's participation in the 5G Open Road project, a government initiative aiming to "deploy a 5G network on the Plateau de Saclay to define a complete model for connected mobility services in different configurations".
In June 2021, the company presented a prototype of an autonomous food truck at the Viva Technology 2021 trade show, held in Paris. In September of the same year, the company announced at the Mobility, Home and Sustainable Cities Fair in Madrid the launch of "Goggo Cart", the first self-driving food truck to circulate in Spain, and the Calle Real in the municipality of Las Rozas de Madrid was chosen to launch the pilot of the project.
In February 2022, the Spanish newspaper La Razón announced that the project had traveled more than 50 kilometers, at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour, and that in that month there had been more than 1,000 vehicle interactions with pedestrians, with the aim of purchasing food products transported in the car. According to Yasmine Fage, these vehicles "can detect and avoid obstacles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20Data | Decision Data Computer Corporation, later Decision Industries Corporation and Decision Data Inc., was an American computer hardware company founded in 1969 and based in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
History
1970s
Decision Data Computer Corporation was founded in Horsham, Pennsylvania in 1969 by Loren A. Schultz (1927–2018), who had worked as a sales representative and as a manager for the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand. The company's first offerings between 1969 and the mid-1970s were keypunch machines, including the 9650 Multifunction Card Unit, compatible with IBM's identically titled MFCUs for their midrange System/3 and mainframe System/360 computers and said to be comparable in performance. By 1975, the company had manufacturing operations overseas in Europe, although the company responsible for these items was placed in receivership in September 1975. Also by 1975, Decision Data went public in the stock market.
Decision Data greatly expanded its breadth of products between 1974 and 1976, including a clone of IBM's 5496 Data Recorder for the System/3; a standalone device that converts paper tape to 80-column punched card (this task previously required a mini- or mainframe to accomplish); add-on MOSFET RAM boards for the System/3 Model 10; standalone keypunch keyboards available in various programming language dialects; and line printers for IBM's System/3 Models 8, 10, 12, and 15. Decision Data's line printers were originally designed by Dataproducts of Woodland Hills, California. In 1977, the company announced a clone of IBM's 2780 remote job entry workstation, named the CS 780, as well as the Model 3240 teleprinter.
Following a decline in sales of aftermarket products for IBM computers in the first half of 1975, Decision Data began test marketing its own line of midrange computer systems in Philadelphia following the summer of 1975. Named the Decision Data System 4, the computer was commissioned and co-designed by UNIVAC Sperry Rand in 1974, initially for it to rebadged as the UNIVAC BC-7. 20 installations of this system were put up in small businesses in Philadelphia by September 1975. It utilized the same MOSFET RAM chips used in their IBM System/3 RAM expansion cards (available in configurations with between 32 KB and 65 KB of RAM) and ran off the Intel 8080 microprocessor. Most of Decision Data's wares were either rented or sold; some, like their line printers, had sale prices into the low five digits.
In 1976, the company established a division that was a combined service bureau and supplier of hardware and spare parts. Named Decision Data Supplies and Service Organization, decades later this division was spun off and renamed DecisionOne. It had established 70 offices in the U.S. and Canada by the decade's end. By 1996, DecisionOne employed 6,000 people.
The parent company's 1975 sales slump continued into the first half of 1976, and it was revealed that the company ran at a loss of US$8.4 million the previous year, for which the conte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Network%20Development%20Conference | The Future Network Development Conference () is about future network development of the international exchange conference. It is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China.
History
First Conference
The first Conference was surrounding the topic about creation, cooperation, reciprocity, future development and held the Internet Financial Security Forum by Chinese Academy of Engineering and Nanjing Municipal Government on 17–18 April 2017.
Second Conference
The second Conference topic was about creation, lead, and future, led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Jiangsu Provincial Government, held by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Nanjing Municipal Government. The participants were experts, business, and a total of 400 from all over the world. The project of the CENI was started up at the Second Conference.
Third Conference
The third Conference topic was about internet global, win for the future, total of 400 experts, business surrounding discussion of the network challenge and follow-up development opportunity on 22–23 May 2019.
Fourth Conference
The fourth Conference discussed the future of network development, emphasized the global influence of the future network, and focused on innovative applications and cross-border integration of global high-end industries such as artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, and blockchain. The conference participants were the experts and business about the future network, security network, blockchain and artificial intelligence related fields on 14–15 August 2020.
Fifth Conference
The fifth Conference discussed the Network Operation System, 6G communication, security network, Industrial Internet, held by physical and online meetings on 17–18 June 2021. The closing ceremony contracted a total investment of 15.46 billion of the 28 projects.
References
Conferences in China
2017 conferences
2018 conferences
2019 conferences
2020 conferences
2021 conferences
21st-century conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaku%20Atre | Shakuntala (Shaku) Atre (born 1940) is an Indian data scientist and an American business woman. After a fourteen-year career with IBM, she began her own firm and became widely regarded as an expert on business technology and database use. Atre is best known for her books Database: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management: With Case Studies (1980), one of the first books written on managing databases, and her co-authored book Business Intelligence Roadmap, written with Larissa Moss. She has served as an adjunct professor of data science at University of Pune and at several institutions in the United States. Her works have been used as university textbooks.
Early life and education
Atre was born in 1940 in India and grew up in Panvel, a village near Mumbai. She earned a Master of Science from the University of Poona, studying mathematics and statistics. During her education, she also studied languages, gaining proficiency in speaking five different languages. Atre went on to begin her graduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Heidelberg, writing her thesis on astronomy. Because she needed to make large scale calculations to develop her thesis, she began studying computer programming, which led to an interest in the field of computer technology. During her studies, she was hired by IBM in 1967. When her student visa expired three and a half years later, Atre and her husband immigrated to the United States.
Career
When they arrived in New York City in 1971, IBM had implemented a hiring freeze, but Atre was able to convince them she was not a new hire because she had worked for the company in Germany. They put her on staff as a systems programmer and she worked for the company for the next ten years, moving up the ladder from installation and technical support, to trainer in IBM's Systems Institute, to branch office systems engineer and finally, as a program manager for international product releases. During her tenure at IBM, from 1977 to 1981, she served as one of the referees for the company’s Systems Journal, selecting which articles would be peer-reviewed for the publication. In 1980, she published Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance, and Management with Case Studies, which would be used as a university textbook. It was translated into several different languages and had sold more than 150,000 copies within its first two decades of publication. During this period, she also began teaching as an adjunct professor at various universities, including the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
In the last quarter of 1981, Atre left IBM and began operating her own business consulting firm and working part-time managing long-distance telephone databases for AT&T. The following year, she began writing articles for Computerworld, which in 2003 would become a regular column for the magazine. Her book Data Base Management Systems for the Eighties was published in 1983, and provided a discussion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Forest%20for%20Wales | The National Forest for Wales () is a long-term forestation programme by the Welsh Government, aiming to form a network of woodland throughout Wales.
Background
Currently only around 15% of Wales is woodlands covering , with forestation (new woodland plantings) efforts in Wales reaching their lowest level since the 1970s, with annual woodland creation not exceeding since 1975. In 2020, only of woodland was planted.
Advantages of a wide-spread forestation programme allows for the increase in tree coverage, which acts as a carbon sink helping to address climate change. The new or expanded forests can also support biodiversity, and as a habitat for endangered flora and fauna, such as red squirrels and the spreading bellflower.
Woodlands may have a tourism potential, however to accommodate tourism, woodlands would require infrastructure to accommodate visitors, which may impact the conservation efforts of the woodlands.
More woodlands may support an increasing domestic forestry industry, in particular increasing the production and use of timber in the construction industry as a low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete. In 2017, 80% of Wales' timber was imported, with the UK being the second-biggest net importer of forest products in the world.
History
The programme was announced on 12 March 2020. By 4 November 2020, the first fourteen sites of the programme were announced. The sites are part of the Welsh Government estate, and are maintained and managed by Natural Resources Wales.
On 14 July 2021, the Welsh Government opened the application process for "The Woodland Investment Grant" (TWIG), providing financial help to those creating new woodlands in Wales or making improvements to existing woodlands up to the standards set for the programme. These include landowners and those otherwise holding full management control of public or private land. The first round of applications closed on 27 August 2021. The first application window had a budget of £2.5 million and an additional budget for revenue of £250,000, with each grant being awarded between £10,000 and £250,000, and costs claimed by 31 March 2022. The grant received more than 350 expressions of interest from people who want to plant new woodlands in Wales. Another period open to applications was launched in November 2020.
The grant has desirable outcomes for the new woodlands. The grant wants applicants to produce connected, dynamic, multi-purpose woodlands and trees, that demonstrate learning research and innovation. Claimants fulfilling these outcomes are more likely to be recommended by the government.
The programme is in collaboration with the National Museum, National Library and Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales to create a "National Forest People's Collection for Wales".
Aims
There are various aims of the programme:
Creating a network of woodlands across the entire length and breadth of Wales, being accessible to everyone
Be a community v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand%20Eyes%20%28disambiguation%29 | Thousand Eyes may refer to:
ThousandEyes, an American network intelligence company
"Thousand Eyes", a song by FKA Twigs from Magdalene
"Thousand Eyes", a song by Lia Ices from Ices
"Thousand Eyes", a song by Of Monsters and Men from Beneath the Skin
Thousand Eyes, a Japanese melodic death metal band
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20companies%20affected%20by%20the%20dot-com%20bubble | This is a list of companies that were affected by the dot-com bubble.
Companies
3Com: Shares soared after announcing the corporate spin-off of Palm, Inc.
360networks: A fiber optic company that had a market capitalization of over $13 billion but filed for bankruptcy a few months later.
AboveNet: Its stock rose 32% on the day it announced a stock split.
Actua Corporation (formerly Internet Capital Group): A company that invested in B2B e-commerce companies, it reached a market capitalization of almost $60 billion at the height of the bubble, making Ken Fox, Walter Buckley, and Pete Musser billionaires on paper.
Airspan Networks: A wireless firm; in July 2000, its stock price doubled on its first day of trading as investors focused on telecommunications companies instead of dot-com companies.
Akamai Technologies: Its stock price rose over 400% on its first day of trading in October 1999.
AltaVista: A Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003.
Alteon WebSystems: Its shares soared 294% on its first day of trading.
Beenz.com: A website where digital currency called Beenz was earned by shopping online, visiting websites etc.
Blucora (then InfoSpace): Founded by Naveen Jain, at its peak its market cap was $31 billion and was the largest Internet business in the American Northwest. In March 2000, its stock reached a price $1,305 per share, but by 2002 the price had declined to $2 a share.
Blue Coat Systems (formerly CacheFlow): Its stock price rose over 400% on its first day of trading in November 1999.
Boo.com: An online clothing retailer, it spent $188 million in just six months. It filed for bankruptcy in May 2000.
Books-A-Million: A book retailer whose stock price soared from around $3 per share on November 25, 1998, to $38.94 on November 27, 1998, and an intra-day high of $47.00 on November 30, 1998, after it announced an updated website. Two weeks later, the share price was back down to $10. By 2000, the share price had returned to $3.
Broadband Sports: A network of sports-content websites that raised over $60 million before going bust in February 2001.
Broadcast.com: A streaming media website that was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in stock, making Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner multi-billionaires. The site is now defunct.
CDNow: Founded by Jason Olim and his brother, it was an online retailer of compact discs and music-related products that reached a valuation of over $1 billion in April 1998. In 2000, it was acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group for $117 million and was later shut down.
Chemdex.com: A company founded by David Perry that operated an online marketplace for businesses, it reached a market capitalization of over $7 billion despite minimal revenues.
Cobalt Networks: Its stock price rose over 400% on its first day of trading; acquired by Sun Microsystems for $2 billion in December 2000.
Commerce One: A bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Platts | John Platts may refer to:
John Platts (cricketer), English cricketer
John Platts (Unitarian), English Unitarian minister and compiler of reference works
John Thompson Platts, British language scholar
See also
John Platt (disambiguation)
John Platts-Mills (1906–2001), British politician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd%20Iris%20Uruguay%20Awards | The 22nd Iris Awards ceremony, presented by the newspaper El País, honored the best of radio, television and social networks in Uruguay of 2016 and took place at the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel, Montevideo. It was held on April 2, 2017, and was broadcast by Teledoce, Canal 4, Canal 10 and VTV. The ceremony did not have a single host, but different presenters hosted it for a certain time, thus fulfilling a time for the channel that transmitted the event.
During the ceremony, El País presented Iris Awards to television in 17 categories, and to radio in 7. It also presented the Golden Iris Award, the Iris for Career and the Platinum Iris.
Winners and nominees
Television
Radio
Other awards
Source:
References
2017 in Uruguayan television
2017 television awards
2017 television specials
April 2017 events in South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsonichthys%20cholopteryx | Simpsonichthys cholopteryx is a species of killifish from the family Rivulidae.
It is found in Brazil in South America.
References
Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2004. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of January 2004. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in January 2004.
cholopteryx
Taxa named by Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa
Taxa named by Flávio César Thadeo de Lima
Fish described in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20Wants%20a%20Baby%3F | Who Wants a Baby? (; lit. Baby Is Coming) is a Hong Kong television series created and produced by television network TVB. It premiered on 9 July 2018 and continued until 3 August 2018 for 20 episodes. With parenting as the main topic starring Ali Lee and Lai Lok-yi, it follows the story of a young couple who is having their first child and the family conflicts they encounter during the process. The show was well-received for its realistic storyline, with Ali Lee winning "Best Actress" at the 51st TVB Anniversary Awards for her starring role.
Cast
Ali Lee as Ellen Tong Tim-yee: Elvis's wife who works as a fashion buyer
Lai Lok-yi as Elvis Yip Chi-ting: Ellen's husband, the manager of a high-end restaurant and bar
8 young actors as Yip Wan: Ellen and Elvis's daughter, from newborn to one-year-old
Chan Ying-man
Wong Sing-nga
Chan Fei-yi
Tse Wo-yau
Lee Ka-lam
Leung Sum-yu
Ng Man-yuet
Tang Hau-yuen
Stefan Wong as Frankie Lee Koon-chung: Elvis's boss and friend, owner of a high-end restaurant and bar
Samantha Ko as Katrina Hui Ching: Ellen's high school friend, who works as a bartender at Frankie's restaurant
Tsui Wing as Ben Yip Chi-yoon: Elvis's older brother
Griselda Yeung as Wong Kai-miu: a doula who works at the postpartum confinement business, Po On Sum
Claire Yiu as Belle Hui Long: Katrina's older sister; she works as a doula at Po On Sum
Angelina Lo as Joyce Hong Lai-jing: Elvis's mother and Yip Wan's paternal grandmother
Rebecca Chan as Leung Yuet-sin: Ellen's mother and Yip Wan's maternal grandmother
Law Lok-lam as Tong Chow: Ellen's father and Yip Wan's maternal grandfather
Carlo Ng as Choi Cheung-ching: Chinese medicine physician
Plot
Ellen Tong and Elvis Yip have been married for a year. An unexpected pregnancy leaves them unprepared, as they are used to a spending and traveling lifestyle. Ellen, a strong-minded woman, does not want to get help from either her husband's or her own family. However, for the sake of her unborn daughter, she takes maternity leave and then, with Elvis, moves into a flat in the same high-rise building as her mother-in-law. After giving birth, she often clashes with her mother-in-law due to differences in baby care, leaving Elvis sandwiched between the two. Ellen eventually quits her job and takes over the postpartum confinement business, Po On Sum. In taking care of this business operations, conflicts between Ellen and Elvis arise where Ellen stands firm on getting justice when an issue comes up—she emphasizes being a role model to her daughter when it comes to moral subjects. In contrast, Elvis worries more about financial matters to keep the business running regardless of the situation.
One of the employees at Po On Sum is Wong Kai-miu, who lives with her son, Lung, and struggles to make ends meet after her husband ran away to avoid his gambling debt. Elvis purposely reveals Wong's family story to the media to give Po On Sum more exposure. After Wong's ran-away husband catches the ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter%20Ov%C3%A1di | Péter Ovádi (born in Veszprém, Hungary on October 22 , 1981) is a Hungarian computer scientist and politician. He is a member of parliament in the National Assembly of Hungary (Országgyűlés) since May 2018. He has been a member of the legislative committee of the National Assembly and the Committee on Enterprise Development since 8 May.
References
Living people
1981 births
People from Veszprém
Hungarian politicians
21st-century Hungarian politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2022–2026) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Natick | Project Natick is an experimental data center undergoing research and development by Microsoft. Microsoft deployed its first undersea data center prototype in August 2015. It has subsequently deployed and retrieved a "shipping-container" sized data center off the coast of the Northern Isles. Microsoft subcontracted Naval Group to spearhead the design and manufacture of the vessel.
History
In 2013, a Microsoft employee with previous experience in the US Navy suggested that an underwater farm server could cut on cooling costs and increase environmental sustainability. A white paper written by employees began to circulate to promote the idea.
Phase I
In late 2014, the project was launched with a meeting in Redmond, Washington. The first prototype was named Leona Philpot (named after a character from the Xbox Halo video game series) and was deployed off the coast of California on August 10, 2015. The prototype was placed 30 feet underwater. The trial lasted 105 days and the prototype was successfully lifted out of the water for further testing. Following the initial experiment, Microsoft wanted the next prototype to be larger in size, deployed in harsher conditions, and powered with renewable energy.
Phase II
Microsoft invited a group of marine organization to submit proposals to realize the second phase of the project. Naval Group, a French defense contractor, was selected to lead in the design and deployment of the project. The Natick Phase 2 vessel was deployed in June 1, 2018 off the coast of Orkney. The vessel stayed underwater for over two years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the undersea data center was employed to process workloads for vaccine research via Folding@home. In July 2020, the vessel was successfully lifted out of the water and retrieved for analysis.
Impact
Scottish Renewables awarded Microsoft the Carbon Reduction Award in 2018. Additionally, the project showed that 864 servers could run reliably for two years with cooling provided by the natural sea temperature. A United States Department of Energy report used Project Natick as an example that "marine energy combined with storage and potentially other renewable energy sources could provide the power or partial power for [data centers]."
References
Data centers
Microsoft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars%203%20%28soundtrack%29 | Cars 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album for the 2017 American computer-animated sports comedy-adventure film Cars 3 that features compilation of incorporated and original songs. The album was released by Walt Disney Records on June 16, 2017, coinciding with the film's theatrical release. A separate film score album, Cars 3 (Original Score), composed by Randy Newman, was also released by Walt Disney Records on the same date, also coinciding with the film's theatrical release. The film, directed by Brian Fee and produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, is the third installment of the Cars film series and the sequel to Cars 2 (2011). In May 2017, Walt Disney Records officially announced the release of two soundtracks: separately for the songs and score, unlike for the previous films, where both the songs and original scores by Newman and Michael Giacchino, had compiled into a single album. Fee said that both the score and the soundtrack "really help support the story we are telling".
Cars 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Background
Fee and Reher wanted a separate soundtrack, that contained the original and incorporated songs. The team worked with Tom MacDougall (who worked on soundtracks for Disney Animation films), for compiling the original songs along with Chris Montan. Lea DeLaria, who voiced for Mrs. Fritter in the film had also sang the jazz song "Freeway of Love". Various artists such as Andra Day, James Bay, Brad Paisley and Jorge Blanco had performed the tracks. Two original songs — "Run That Race", performed and written by Dan Auerbach and "Ride", performed by ZZ Ward featuring Gary Clark Jr. — were released as singles on April 14 and June 15, 2017. Auerbach who stated the song is "about never giving up and always trying your best", and further said that the filmmakers showed him the story and some dialogue, from which he pieced together a story for the song. Bustle's Johny Brayson reviewed that "With the Cars 3 soundtrack, the fast-paced franchise is once again proving that it's the most rockin' animated series around, and that's to be expected when your main character has a name as awesome as Lightning McQueen." Three of the songs, were featured in the "best musical moments of the Cars franchise" according to CinemaBlend.
Track listing
Chart performance
Cars 3 (Original Score)
Development
The film's score was composed by Pixar's frequent collaborator, Randy Newman, who previously composed the first film's score. Tom MacDougall, Disney's executive vice-president of music, said that Newman has "a real connection to the Cars world" and that "His ability to capture the feelings on this film, its characters, locations, and the Americana theme throughout is extraordinary-the music is so naturally fluid and inspired. It really feels like Randy is coming home with this score." Newman quoted tracks from the first film in moments where Fee "wanted to evoke an earlier time".
For the sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrepiece%20%28disambiguation%29 | A centrepiece (or centerpiece) is a decorative object on a table.
Centrepiece or Centerpiece may also refer to:
Centrepiece, a TV series about centrepieces — see List of Quibi original programming
"Centerpiece" (song), a 1958 jazz standard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance%20hat | Capacitance hat may refer to:
Capacitance hat, horizontal wires at the top of a T-antenna
Capacitance hat, a network of rounded wires at the top of a mast radiator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20and%20the%20Russian%20invasion%20of%20Ukraine | Anonymous, a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective, has conducted numerous cyber-operations against Russia since February 2022 when the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
Prelude
Starting from late 2021, Anonymous took notice of the military build-up near the Russia-Ukraine border and thus acted to propagate peace plans to end the war in Donbas by defacing various websites, such as United Nations' Networks on Migration, Polar Research Institute of China, Convention on Biological Diversity, and various government websites in China.
In the hacking campaign named "Operation Samantha Smith", which is a reference to the 1980s child peace activist, they called for a referendum in Ukraine on whether to presumably follow the now-defunct Minsk Protocol or hand over the separatist-controlled territories to a UN peacekeeping administration. Later, a second referendum in the separatist regions would then ask voters to choose to reunite with Ukraine, gain independence, or join Russia. Besides that, they also called for the creation of a "neutral grouping" of countries "wedged between NATO and Russia" that would include Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. Anonymous argued that the so-called "neutral security belt" could serve as an alliance similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that acts as a cordon sanitaire between NATO and CSTO countries in order to "assuage Russia's fears without NATO losing its face."
As the situation escalated, they threatened to take hostage of industrial control systems and implicitly warned Russia that the "sole party to be blamed if we escalate on that, will be the same one who started it in the very first place with troop buildups, childish threats, and waves of unreasonable ultimatums." Furthermore, they urged the United Nations to immediately deploy peacekeepers on "at least the Ukrainian side of the frontline in Donbass" under the basis of UN Resolution 337 (V) to "prevent any further provocations" by any side.
In the aftermath of Russia's recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic and in accordance to the hacking collective's threats to take hostage of industrial control systems, they conducted a small hack on a Russian Modbus device which they've announced on a hacked Chinese cultural website, although early on Anonymous kept the location of the hack ambiguous.
According to Anonymous, the Modbus device was said to be a Schneider Electric's Modicon M251 logic controller, and that they were previously "playing nice" so not to give Russia a casus belli but because of the subsequent 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Operation Samantha Smith was presumably deemed as a failure and Anonymous would start attacking Russian websites and systems as retaliation.
Operation Russia
On February 25, 2022, Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous declared that the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit%20TV | Inuit TV is a Canadian licence-exempted Category B specialty television channel owned by Inuit TV Network.
The channel broadcasts programming primarily in Inuktitut, with supplementary programming in English and Inuinnaqtun, with the stated purpose to inform, educate, entertain, and promote and preserve the Inuit languages, identity, and culture. The channel is recognized as a regional educational broadcaster by the government of Nunavut.
The channel launched on May 2, 2022, on Shaw Direct.
References
External links
Official website
2022 establishments in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2022
Indigenous television in Canada
Inuktitut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Days%20%282021%20film%29 | Around the World in 80 Days () is a 2021 French-language computer-animated adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name. Directed by Samuel Tourneux (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Gerry Swallow and David Michel (who also acted as an executive producer), the film was produced by Cottonwood Media and distributed by StudioCanal. Around the World in 80 Days was released in France on 4 August 2021, and had a worldwide gross of $3.987 million. Grossing €3.7 million ($) from 762,917 admissions, it was the highest-grossing French-language film in foreign markets of 2021.
Premise
Passepartout, a naive but well-spirited marmoset, dreams of circumnavigating the world in eighty days, however his over-protective mother does not allow him to go on the journey. One day, Passepartout gets the opportunity to travel the world with Phileas Frog, an explorer and con artist, after Frog makes a wager with the locals that he can circumnavigate the globe in under eighty days.
Voice cast
The original French voice cast is as follows:
Damien Frette as Phileas Frog
Julien Crampon as Jean Passepartout
Kaycie Chase as Aouda
Céline Ronte as Fix
Véronique Augereau as Passepartout's mother
Emmanuel Garijo as Herman
Gabriel Le Doze as Juan Frog de Leon
Serge Biavan as scorpion leader
Mickaël Aragones as a scorpion
Grégory Quidel as scorpion beta
English dub
Rob Tinkler as Phileas Frog
Cory Doran as Jean Passepartout. Raphael Alejandro voices him in the American dub.
Katie Griffin as Aouda. Madi Monroe voices her in the American dub.
Heather Bambrick as Fix. Aida Rodriguez voices her in the American dub.
Shoshana Sperling as Passepartout's mother. Gwen La Roka voices her in the American dub.
Brandon McGibbon as Herman
Juan Chioran as Juan Frog de Leon
Jamie Watson as scorpion leader
Deven Mack as a scorpion
Production
Director Samuel Tourneux and producers David Michel and Zoé Carrera Allaix first began discussing the project in 2016. The film was screened to distributors at Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 under the working title Around the World. Tourneux explained at Cannes that, while a 3D computer-animated film, he wanted to combine it with 2D visual effects, such as water and smoke, to give it a distinctive style from other animated films. Tourneux also noted that he wanted to combine steampunk elements with an animal world built by animals, and as such the animals in the film have managed to build machines out of materials such as wood, leaves, shells, rocks and sand.
Over 17,000 drawings were made for the storyboard, of which 9,300 were used in the final version.
Release
Around the World in 80 Days was released in France on 4 August 2021, and in the United Kingdom on 20 August.
Box office
During its entire theatrical run, Around the World in 80 Days had a worldwide gross of $3,987,613 (excluding Africa), including $164,477 in the United Kingdom. It grossed €3.7 million ($) from 762,917 admissions in 2021 fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Shark%205 | The Black Shark 5, Black Shark 5 Pro and Black Shark 5 RS are Android-based gaming smartphones designed and manufactured by Xiaomi, announced on 30 March 2022.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2022
Xiaomi smartphones
Mobile phones with multiple rear cameras
Mobile phones with 4K video recording |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siera%20Santos | Siera Santos (born June 10, 1988) is an American sportscaster. She is a MLB Network personality who was hired to be one of the hosts of Quick Pitch after Heidi Watney left. Santos has also been a fill-in host for Off Base, and is also an NHL Network personality who occasionally hosts On the Fly. In March 2023 Santos along with Ryan Dempster was named co-host of Intentional Talk with Kevin Millar.
Early life and education
She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona with honors majoring in broadcast journalism.
Career
Santos got her start in Colorado Springs, Colorado at KOAA-TV then went KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and then KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California. Santos worked in Chicago, Illinois for four and a half years from 2015-2020 first at NBC Sports Chicago and then for WFLD before going back home to Phoenix working at KSAZ-TV. While at NBC Sports Chicago, she served as the beat reporter for the Chicago White Sox, appearing on pregame, in-game and postgame during White Sox broadcasts. After the departures of Watney and Alexa Datt in 2022, Santos was one of the hires by the MLB Network.
Personal life
Santos is a fan of the Arizona teams.
References
External links
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
Arizona State University alumni
People from Phoenix, Arizona
American sports journalists
Women sports journalists
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
1988 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai%20Kikayon | Mordehai Kikayon (, also transliterated as Mordechai Kikion) (1915-1993) was one of the founders of the computer industry of Israel, the organizer and first head of Mamram. Before and after Mamram he was with the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
Mordechai Kikayon was born in Russian Empire and immigrated to the land of Israel in 1924. He was appointed to be the first commander of Mamram by head of Operations Directorate aluf Yitzhak Rabin on June 26, 1959. He was the first Israeli civilian to head a military unit.
He received the (a prize for increasing labor productivity) for the establishment of the computer center at Rafael after he left Mamram.
See also
Kikoin, for a possible origin of the surname
References
Further reading
"The WEIZAC Challenge: Building an Electronic Brain in Rehovot", published in: WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963) (behind the paywall)
1915 births
1993 deaths
Israeli computer scientists
Immigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli military personnel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayinga%20Muddu%20Yisito | Kayinga Muddu Yisito is a Ugandan social entrepreneur, community rights activist and human rights advocate. He is the current executive director of COTFONE (Community Transformation Foundation Network), Country Coordinator NAYD (Network of African Youth for Development) and Coordinator for Africa ABC4All (A Better Community For All, Founder & Coordinator YR (Youngsters Revolution). Kayinga was nominated and shortlisted under the 2022 EU Human Rights Defenders Award for being instrumental in raising the voices of households in greater Masaka regions that will be affected by the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline-EACOP.
Career
Kayinga is the representative for Civil Society Organization (CSOs ) in Lwengo District , Uganda and Country Ambassador Millennium Candle Campaign (MCC ) for raising awareness about “United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals,2015”. Kayinga also works as a development consultant specializing in sustainable rural development with Community Welfare Services (COWESER-Uganda) and Children's Sure House (CSH).
Kayinji is the coordinator for Community Transformation Network (COTFONE), an Organization helping the people who were and are affected by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to get compensated.
Nominations and awards
Nominated for 2022 EU Human Rights Defenders Award.
See also
Primah Kwagala
Kiiza Eron
References
Ugandan activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ugandan human rights activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection%20of%20Personal%20Information%20Act%2C%202013 | The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA or the PoPI Act) is a piece of legislation which governs the law of data protection and privacy in South Africa. The act was passed to regulate the right to privacy, as enshrined by section 14 of the Constitution of South Africa, and would work in conjunction with the Promotion of Access to Information Act. The President of South Africa assented to the Act on 19 November 2013. As part of the regulation a new government agency was created, the Information Regulator, an independent body which is empowered to monitor and enforce compliance of the PoPI Act within the public and private sector. The act came into force 1 July 2020, which commenced a one-year grace period during which all South African entities were expected to become compliant. The grace period ended 30 June 2021, with the commencement of the act on the 1 July 2021.
Core Obligations
The PoPI Act sets out several core obligations. Some of the key requirements include:
Personal information can only be processed:
with the consent of the data subject; or
if it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract that a data subject is a party to; or
it is required by law; or
it protects a legitimate interest of a data subject; or
if processing is necessary for pursuing the legitimate interests of the responsible party or of a third party to whom the information is supplied.
Private and public entities must report data leaks to the affected people and the Information Regulator.
Organisations must appoint a responsible person who must ensure compliance to the PoPI Act.
Cross-border transfers of personal data are restricted.
Organisations that process personal information must ensure they satisfy minimum security obligations.
Direct marketing, the sale and use of electronic directories and automated decision making are also severely curtailed.
The act elevates the obligations placed on entities that process information regarding children, religious beliefs, race, ethnic origin, trade union membership, health, sex life, criminal behaviour and biometric information.
Jurisdiction
The PoPI Act applies to all persons and organisations within the borders of South Africa, and extends to visitors and illegal immigrants.
Penalties
Penalties under the Act include fines of up to R10 million and a jail sentence of up to 10 years. In July 2023, The Information Regulator fined the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development R5 million rand.
Information Regulator
The Information Regulator is an independent body created in response to the PoPI and PAIA acts. It is empowered to monitor and enforce compliance of the acts within the public and private sector. It functions in terms of the two acts and is accountable to the National Assembly of South Africa.
Cybercrimes Act
South Africa does not yet have a formal cohesive piece of legislation in force which governs cybercrimes in South Africa. The Cybercrimes Act has been signed by the Pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S101 | S101 may refer to:
Asus Eee PC S101, a netbook computer from Asus
Dome S101, a sports car prototype for endurance racing
Highway S101, proposed northern extension of New Jersey Route 101, never built
HMS Dreadnought (S101), the United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine
New Jersey State Highway S101, a controlled-access toll road running north–south in eastern New Jersey
SAS Manthatisi (S101), a Heroine-class submarine in service with the South African Navy
Soviet submarine S-101, Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Dieu | Marcel Dieu (30 May 1902 – 14 August 1969) was a Belgian book dealer, essayist, editor-publisher-compiler, militant antimilitarist and libertarian socialist. Friends and admirers such as the lawyer Paul-Henri Spaak saw a connection between his decision to become a vegetarian and his father's profession as a butcher.
In 1933, together with Léo Campion, and in response to government moves to clamp down on pacifist activism and antimilitarism, Marcel Dieu became one of the first to return his "livret militaire", an identity document which in Belgium at this time included a summary record of an individual's military service.
His "editorial" output was very considerable, and included a range of pamphlets and leaflets, biographies of libertarian activists, numerous comment pieces and other articles published in the international libertarian press, along with involvement in conferences, participation in meetings dealing with anti-war themes and such topics as asylum rights.
Marcel Dieu is frequently identified in sources as Hem Day, the pseudonym under which he wrote, and by which he chose to identify himself while still a teenager during the First World War. For readers with the French of northern France and southern Belgium as their mother tongue, "Hem Day" corresponds approximately to the phonetic spelling of his initials, "M.D.", while avoiding distracting (for an atheist such as Marcel Dieu) associations with God. "Dieu", in addition to being the family name of Marcel Dieu, is the French word for "God".
Biography
Marcel Camille Dieu was born at Houdeng-Goegnies, a small town in francophone Wallonia, located within the industrial mining region known, at the time as the "pays noir" ("black country"), a short distance to the south of Brussels. His father was a successful butcher in the town. Marcel's parents adored him and he reciprocated their affection. Nevertheless, his contrarian streak was evident at an early stage. He was still a young teenager when he declared himself a vegetarian. A couple of months after his twelfth birthday war broke out. Less than a week later German armies from the east invaded Belgium. The German occupation of Belgium was characterised by a succession of atrocities against the civilian population which were often well publicised. It lasted slightly more than four years, and when it ended Marcel Dieu had become a convinced atheist with a life-long commitment to fighting against the bestiality and atrocity of war.
Dieu's passionate hatred for war quickly expanded into involvement in a more broadly-based political anarchism and activism. During the early 1920s he played an active role in the post-war reconstruction of the Libertarian Movement, participating on 7 January 1923 at the first congress of the Belgian Anarchist Union, at which the Flemish and Wallon anarchist federations came together. By this time he had already embarked on a career as a political journalist with contributions during 1922 to "L'Émancipate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM%20Neoverse | The ARM Neoverse is a group of 64-bit ARM processor cores licensed by Arm Holdings. The cores are intended for datacenter, edge computing, and high-performance computing use. The group consists of ARM Neoverse V-Series, ARM Neoverse N-Series, and ARM Neoverse E-Series.
Neoverse V-Series
The Neoverse V-Series processors are intended for high-performance computing.
Neoverse V1
Neoverse V1 (code named Zeus) is derived from the Cortex-X1 and implements the ARMv8.4-A instruction set and some part of ARMv8.6-A. It was officially announced by Arm on September 22, 2020. It is said to be initially realized with a 7 nm process from TSMC. One of the changes from the X1 is that it supports SVE 2x256-bit.
According to The Next Platform, the AWS Graviton3 is based on the Neoverse V1.
Neoverse V2
Neoverse V2 (code named Demeter) is derived from the ARM Cortex-X3 and implements the ARMv9.0-A instruction set. It was officially announced by Arm on September 14, 2022. NVIDIA Grace CPU uses Neoverse V2.
Notable changes from the Neoverse V1:
BTB capacity: 12K entries
TAGE predictor: 8-table
micro-op cache: 1536 entries (reduced for efficiency)
Decode width: 6
Rename / Dispatch width: 8
ROB: 320 entry
Execution ports: 15
L2 cache: 1024-2048 kB per core
CMN-700 mesh interconnect
Up to 256 cores per die
Up to 512MB SLC
Up to 4TB/s bandwidth
Neoverse V-Next
Neoverse V-Next, presumably V3, (code named Poseidon) was teased by Arm alongside the V2 and E2 announcements. It is targeted for systems including DDR5, PCIe gen6, and CXL 3.0.
Neoverse N-Series
The Neoverse N-Series processors are intended for core datacenter usage.
Neoverse N1
On February 20, 2019, Arm announced the Neoverse N1 microarchitecture (code named Ares) derived from the Cortex-A76 redesigned for infrastructure/server applications. The reference design supports up to 64 or 128 Neoverse N1 cores.
Notable changes from the Cortex-A76:
Coherent I-cache and D-cache with 4-cycle LD-use
L2 cache: 512–1024 kB per core
Mesh interconnect instead of 1–4 cores per cluster
Neoverse N1 implements the ARMv8.2-A instruction set.
The Ampere Altra (2-socket 80-core) and AWS Graviton2 (64-core) CPU platforms are based on Neoverse N1 cores and were released in 2020.
Neoverse N2
The Neoverse N2 (code named Perseus) is derived from the Cortex-A710 and implements the ARMv9.0-A instruction set. It was officially announced by Arm on September 22, 2020. On August 28, 2023, Arm announced the Neoverse CSS N2 (Genesis), a customizable CPU subsystem implementation by Arm to reduce the time to market for customers.
Notable changes from the Neoverse N1:
BTB capacity: 8K entries
micro-op cache: 1536 entries
Rename / Dispatch width: 5
ROB: 160+ entry
Pipeline depth: 10 cycles
Execution ports: 13
SVE2 support
CMN-700 mesh interconnect
Neoverse N-Next
Neoverse N-Next, presumably N3, was teased by Arm alongside the V2 and E2 announcements. It is targeted for systems including DDR5, PCIe gen6, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Walden | David Corydon Walden (June 7, 1942April 27, 2022) was an American computer scientist who contributed to the engineering development of the ARPANET, a precursor of the modern internet. He specifically contributed to the Interface Message Processor, which was the packet switching node for the ARPANET. Walden was a contributor to IEEE Computer Society's Annals of the History of Computing and was a member of the TeX Users Group.
Early life and education
Walden was born on June 7, 1942, to Velva (née Diede) and Clarence Walden in Longview, Washington. His mother was an elementary school teacher while his father was a high school teacher. His family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was aged four. He started out at University of California, Berkeley, before dropping out with poor grades and subsequently moving to San Francisco State University, where he obtained a degree in Mathematics. While at San Francisco State University, he took a course in numerical analysis, a field of mathematics, that triggered his interest in computers, and he worked on an IBM 1620 computer, the university's only computer.
Career
Walden started his career working as a programmer at the space communications division of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory. He moved to join Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN) in 1967. It was here that he was part of the seven-member engineering team that developed the packet switching technology that powered the ARPANET, one of the first general purpose computer networks that was a precursor of the modern internet. During his time at BBN, the group of engineers developed the Interface Message Processor, that formed the packet switching basis for the network, developed the hardware, wrote the software, and even acted as the Network Operations Center for the network. Specifically, Walden's efforts focused on developing the packet switching and routing software for the IMP. Walden briefly moved to Norway to work at Norsk Data Elektronikk in Oslo, developing the LFK network, a Norwegian packet switching network, between 1970 and 1971, before returning to the United States to continue working with BBN. Walden was the system architect and Norsk Data's project manager in building out this network.
Toward the latter part of his career, Walden focused on management research and wrote extensively on the topic. He was also a member of the TeX Users Group and contributed to content related to digital typesetting and publishing. He had also served as the group's director and treasurer. Walden received a honorary doctorate from the San Francisco State University in 2014, for his contributions to the ARPANET. Walden was the co-founder of Center for Quality of Management and a contributor to IEEE Computer Society's Annals of the History of Computing and a member of its History Committee.
Personal life
Walden married Sara Elizabeth Cowles, an educational administrator, in 1966. The couple had a son. Walden died of mantle cell ly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania%20Gnesi | Stefania Gnesi (born 1954) is an Italian software engineer whose work focuses on formal methods, and the use of natural language and natural language processing in requirements analysis. She is a director of research at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where she heads the Formal Methods and Tools group.
Education and career
Gnesi was born in 1954 in Livorno, and graduated summa cum laude in 1978 from the University of Pisa, with a degree in computer science.
She began her work at the CNR working with Norma Lijtmaer at the Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione, a predecessor institution to the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione. As well as working as a researcher for the CNR, Gnesi has taught software engineering at the University of Siena and the University of Florence.
Recognition
A festschrift was published in 2019, in honor of Gnesi's 65th birthday.
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
People from Livorno
Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
National Research Council (Italy) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Grant%20%28All%20My%20Children%29 | Nancy Grant is a fictional character from All My Children, an American soap opera on the ABC network, played by Lisa Wilkinson from 1973 until 1984, with a brief return in early 1995.
Nancy was the first Black female leading character on All My Children, and for many years she was one of the most recognizable Black female characters on daytime television. Wilkinson was married in real life to John Danelle, who played Nancy's husband Dr. Frank Grant, and many media outlets chose to interview the couple together.
Storylines
Before arrival
Nancy Grant, the wife of Dr. Franklin "Frank" Grant (John Danelle), is a successful social worker whose work often takes her to Chicago. She is first mentioned in 1972, a year before Lisa Wilkinson's first appearance, when Frank's friend Dr. Jeff Martin (Charles Frank) wonders aloud if his marriage to model Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) will work out due to Erica's constant work travels. Frank reassures Jeff and tells him that his own marriage is doing well despite Nancy being away in Chicago, so Jeff has nothing to worry about in his own relationship. However, things were not as solid in Frank's marriage as he thought.
1973–1979
Nancy first appears in Pine Valley in 1973. Frank hopes that she will stay in Pine Valley for good, but she informs him that she has signed a contract that would take her back to Chicago for work for 18 months. Nancy returns for good to Pine Valley in 1975, or so Frank thought. After a few months, Nancy (briefly played by Avis McCarther during this time) announces her intention to live and work full-time in Chicago. At first Frank did not mind as there was little change to their current arrangement, but ultimately the long-distance marriage ended when Frank filed for divorce in 1977; it was finalized later that year.
In the time while Nancy was out of town, Frank began training Dr. Chuck Tyler (Richard Van Vleet) at Pine Valley Hospital and forged a connection with Nurse Caroline Murray (Patricia Dixon). Caroline was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from nightmares and flashbacks to her time on the front lines, and Frank helped her put a lot of those distressing thoughts and emotions behind her. After Nancy and Frank's divorce was finalized, Frank and Caroline immediately started dating. Nancy returns to Pine Valley; after seeing Frank, they make love once despite Frank being intimately involved with Caroline. Frank pledges to himself to keep the one-time event a secret from Caroline, and they eventually marry.
In the months after Nancy and Frank slept together, the audience learned four facts: that when Nancy and Frank reunited for one night, she was already involved with another man, a businessman in Chicago named Carl Blair (James K. Carroll); that Carl Blair is white; that Nancy is pregnant; and that the baby is Frank's and not Carl's. All the while, Caroline Murray, the new Mrs. Grant, is unaware any infidelity on her husband's part took place.
What eventually dooms Frank's marriage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFN%20Frankfurt | AFN Frankfurt was a radio station in Frankfurt, Germany, that was operational from 1945 to 2004. It was a part of the American Forces Network (AFN) broadcasting to US soldiers serving overseas, and long served as headquarters of AFN Europe. It was popular not just with soldiers, but also with a German "shadow audience", and was instrumental in introducing several American musical styles to German listeners.
History
During World War II, the US military began establishing American Forces Network radio stations in Europe, starting in London on 4 July 1943. The AFN Frankfurt station first broadcast from a confiscated house in Frankfurt, on 15 July 1945. To soundproof the walls, staff used old Wehrmacht uniforms. When it was decided soon after to move the AFN headquarters for Europe to Frankfurt, a larger site became necessary, and the US military then requisitioned , a schloss dating back to the 14th century close in Höchst. The castle's owners, the von Brüning family, were given only a few hours to collect their belongings, but were promised to be able to return within 24 hours. AFN moved there in October 1946. The medieval tower was used to house the unmarried staff, with the newest member given the small top floor room. The headquarters stayed in Höchst until 1966, when they moved to the Dornbusch quarter of Frankfurt, next to the Broadcasting House Dornbusch, where the headquarters of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcaster of the state of Hesse, are located. The Frankfurt site was shut down in 2004, when the headquarters of AFN Europe moved to Mannheim.
Content and scheduling
In 1954, AFN Frankfurt sent thirteen hours of programming per day to the other stations in Europe, which would produce another six hours daily locally for a 06:00-01:00 program. A large part of the program originated in American commercial stations, but was stripped of commercials before broadcast on AFN. Because of the time difference, many sports events were recorded on tape to be re-broadcast at a more suitable local time. A fifteen-minute Report from Europe with European news was broadcast five days a week.
In 1986, the schedule had five minutes of news every hour on the hour.
Reception and influence
AFN was popular in Germany for decades, not just with American military personnel. It had lasting importance, more than in other countries. Together with AFN Berlin and AFN Munich, AFN Frankfurt had many young German listeners and influenced also the programming of German radio stations. AFN was influential in returning jazz music to Germany, and AFN Frankfurt cooperated with Radio Frankfurt (which would become the Hessischer Rundfunk). AFN Frankfurt organized their first jazz concert on 17 May 1945. Cooperation with the HR was instrumental in starting the Deutsches Jazzfestival in 1953. The program director Johnny Vrotsos also collaborated regularly with the German jazz band. AFN was also instrumental in introducing blues, country, Western and rock and roll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Oz | Oz is an American drama television series which was produced and broadcast by premium cable network HBO from 1997 to 2003. The series has been successful with many award associations, in particular, the American Latino Media Arts Awards (known as the ALMA Awards), the Casting Society of America's Artios Awards, the CableACE Awards, the Online Film & Television Association Awards and the International Press Academy's Satellite Awards. It has never been the recipient of any major awards, however, it has been nominated two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Casting for a Series, as well as garnering several nominations at the NAACP Image Awards.
Rita Moreno is the most nominated actress of the series, with a total of four wins out of twelve nominations. Other successful recipients include Lauren Vélez, Ernie Hudson, Eamonn Walker and Christopher Meloni.
Primetime Emmy Awards
ALMA Awards
Artios Awards
The Artios Awards are presented by the Casting Society of America.
CableACE Awards
Il Festival Nazionale del Doppiaggio Voci nell'Ombra
Edgar Awards
The Edgar Awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
GLAAD Media Awards
NAACP Image Awards
OFTA Awards
The OFTA Awards are presented by the Online Film & Television Association.
PGA Television Awards
The PGA Television Awards are presented by the Producers Guild of America.
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards are presented by the International Press Academy.
Writers Guild of America Awards
The Writers Guild of America Awards are presented by Writers Guild of America, East.
Notes
References
Lists of awards by television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Story%20Network | Secret Story Network (commonly abbreviated as SSN) is an online interactive storytelling experience which operates live role-playing games (RPGs or LARPs). Hosted over WhatsApp, SSN was created in 2017 by film, multimedia, and transmedia artist Krishna Stott, creative developer at Bellyfeel, and known for the earlier award-winning interactive film projects Crimeface (2008) and Bolton Storyworld: Codename Winterhill (2016).
The stories at SSN led events are specially commissioned and have included transmedia tie-ins, such as with Freemantle for the Australian soap opera Neighbours and with the tabletop role-playing game Titan Effect; some of these stories are available or will be available in the future for participant led SSN story events.
Upon the launch of SSN, Nataly Ríos Goicoechea - from Conducttr (an online service for interactive, multi-platform learning, entertainment and marketing) - called the project 'very interesting' saying she couldn't think of anything like it; her review in Transmedia Storytelling went on to maintain that the use of WhatsApp, the 'most common messenger platform', makes the experience 'very accessible for people'. In 2018, and with Arts Council England National Lottery funding seeing the release of the first full season of stories, Richard Adams from TECHnique wrote that SSN was a space to 'create compelling stories and unforgettable user experiences'. With further seasons the following years, web app development begun in 2019 is due to complete in 2022 allowing users to run their own stories.
SSN Led Story Events
Overview
The Secret Story Network runs live interactive story-games that are experienced over the WhatsApp chat app on smartphones and tablets. The stories are role-playing games which are led by a story conductor and are played by active participants who act through their characters. Participants are recruited via SSN social media accounts on platforms such as Facebook with animated teasers videos.
Stories and Storyworlds
The stories used by SSN are specially commissioned from writers from the disparate worlds of film, TV, novel and short stories, gaming, and stand-up comedy. Many of the stories take place in story-worlds created for SSN events; however there have also been transmedia tie-ins, such as with the Australian soap opera Neighbours and the tabletop role-playing game Titan Effect. According to SSN they 'work with both established writers who want to try something new, and exciting new writers who are just starting out in their respective industries', as well as 'champion[ing] all sorts of voices from women writers and writers of colour in order to find more and more diverse stories for participants to experience'.
Story conductors
Each session is run by an SSN conductor, sometimes, though not always, the author of the story. Since launch, SSN have convened many different stories with some running for just a single session, others returning for repeat sessions – although due to the unique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20%26%20Lifestyle%20Emmy%20Awards | The 49th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in U.S. daytime television programming in 2021. The winners were revealed on June 18, 2022, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, while the nominations were announced alongside the main ceremony categories on May 5, 2022.
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, among them was the creation of the Children's & Family Emmy Awards, rewarding children's programming and animation, hence, these categories will no longer be a part of the Daytime Creative Arts Award.
American home improvement media brand This Old House received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners and nominees
The nominations for both the 49th Daytime Emmy Awards and the 49th Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards were announced on May 5, 2022. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Programming
Crafts
References
External links
Daytime Emmys website
049 Creative Arts
2022 television awards
2022 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31st%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 31st Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held on January 13–14, 2017. The JTBC network broadcast the show from the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Ilsan. Hwang Chi-yeul, Seohyun and Jung Yong-hwa served as hosts on the first day, with Kang So-ra and Sung Si-kyung on the second.
Criteria
Albums and songs released between November 1, 2015, and November 30, 2016, were eligible to be nominated for the 31st Golden Disc Awards. The winners of the digital music, album and rookie categories were determined by music sales (70%), a panel of music experts (20%) and online votes (10%). Music sales were based on data from Gaon Music Chart and were counted until December 31, 2016. The Popularity Award was based entirely on online votes.
Winners and nominees
Main awards
Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Special awards
Gallery
References
2017 in South Korean music
2017 music awards
Golden Disc Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours%3A%20The%20Finale | "Neighbours: The Finale" comprises the 8901st, 8902nd and 8903rd episodes of the Australian television soap opera Neighbours. It premiered on 28 July 2022 on both Network 10 and 10 Peach in Australia, and on 29 July on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. It was conceived as the end of the serial, after it was cancelled due to the loss of its UK broadcaster and failure to find an alternative buyer, and production ceased after it was filmed. The episodes were written by Shane Isheev (episode 8901) and executive producer Jason Herbison (episodes 8902 and 8903), and directed by Scott Major. Production on Neighbours ended on 10 June. Production and cast had known the show was facing cancellation since 2021 and ideas for a suitable finale were already being planned at that point. In response to the news of the show's potential cancellation becoming public in early 2022, an online petition amassed more than 67,000 signatures to save the show. The petition did not change Channel 5's decision, who maintained that Neighbours remained popular and ending the show was solely a "business decision". Production were then tasked with bringing the show to an end within a few months. Herbison had already envisioned an ideal way to end the series, and Isheev and other writers supported his plans. Herbison did not wish to end the show with excessive finality, such as in the destruction of the primary location of Ramsay Street, and opted for a celebratory theme that acknowledged the show's history.
Alan Fletcher, who played Karl Kennedy, regularly provided the media with updates about the finale's development. Neighbours writers finished storylining the episodes in March and in May cast members received their final scripts. The finale contains numerous cast returns, some of which were publicised, while others remained secret. Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue's returns as Scott and Charlene Robinson attracted much media attention. Other high-profile returning cast included Margot Robbie, Natalie Imbruglia, Holly Valance and Delta Goodrem. Many returns were facilitated by one of the episodes' main stories, the wedding of Melanie Pearson (Lucinda Cowden) and Toadie Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney). The episodes also featured the return of Guy Pearce as Mike Young. His story provided the finale with further nostalgia, as writers reunited Mike with his 1980s love interest Jane Harris (Annie Jones), who had returned to the regular cast in 2020. Other stories included all but one of the houses on Ramsay Street being put up for sale, and Amy Greenwood's (Jacinta Stapleton) plan to have more children. Herbison used the latter story to fulfil his wish to leave viewers with a remaining mystery.
There were post-production challenges, following Network 10's decision to broadcast the finale in a ninety-minute format. Episode 8901 was edited into the original sixty minute version, with the extended run-time allowing for extended dialogue and an extra cameo from Stephanie McIntosh as Sky Mangel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagli | Pagli may refer to:
Linda Pagli, Italian computer scientist
Pagli (film), a 1943 Bollywood film
Pagli (TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solex%20%28software%29 | SOLEX is a free computer application that calculates and displays the positions and dynamics of bodies that are part of the Solar System. It was developed by Aldo Vitagliano, a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Federico II University of Naples.
SOLEX can generate ephemeris of Solar System objects, including planets and asteroids. It is capable of predicting their positions several millennia into the past and future, maintaining an accuracy equal to the JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System and the US Navy's Astronomical Almanac. The software is bundled with the EXORB program that can determine the orbits of asteroids, comets and satellites, based on observation data as provided by the Minor Planet Center or NEODyS. The program can be used for asteroid impact prediction.
Programming
The program is written in BASIC for the PowerBASIC Console Compiler 3.0.
See also
Orbit determination
Planetarium software
References
2003 software
Free astronomy software
Free educational software
Free software programmed in BASIC
Science software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja%20Master | Ninja Master is an action game depicting ninja training which was published in 1986 for various 8-bit home computers by the Firebird Software silver label. The game was developed by Tron Software and was poorly received by reviewers. A sequel, Oriental Hero, was developed by the same company and released in 1987.
Gameplay
The player controls a ninja who must pass 4 different skill tests that repeat periodically. A minimum score must be achieved to pass the test and move on to the next, otherwise the game ends; the player has three attempts at each test.
In the first test, the ninja is standing in the center of the screen and arrows are shot at him from four possible directions and at various speeds. The arrows must be shot on the fly with an arm or a leg. The second test takes place in an arena with an audience and advertising banners. The player has to smash a board with a karate chop; the test is to accumulate enough force by quickly waving the controls. The third test is similar to the first one, and the player must intercept incoming shuriken with their sword at three possible heights. In the last test, the player has to use a blowgun to hit canisters that are thrown horizontally at the top of the screen.
After passing all the tests, the player receives a belt and starts over at a higher difficulty level.
Reception
Ninja Master received mostly negative reviews. Despite appearing in the top ten best-selling ZX Spectrum games charts for four straight months in Sinclair User, peaking at number five, the magazine's editors gave it one star out of five and concluded that it was a "[p]oor quality" and "[not] the Exploding Fist type game it may seem. Avoid". Ken McMahon, reviewer for the Commodore User magazine, disliked the game so much that he gave it the unusual 0/10 rating. The game was rated not much better by Zzap!64, where reviewers summed it up as "cheap and nasty" and gave it an overall 28% rating. Your Commodore reviewer found that "the game has no lasting appeal, and even at the budget price, cannot be recommended".
References
External links
Ninja Master at Atari Mania
1986 video games
Action games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
Single-player video games
Telecomsoft games
Video games about ninja
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataRails | Datarails is a New York-based multinational software development company. It offers financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platforms for Microsoft Excel users.
History
Datarails was founded in 2015 by Didi Gurfinkel (CEO), Eyal Cohen (COO) and Oded Har-Tal (CTO). Gurfinkel worked as a GM at Cisco before co-founding Datarails, while Cohen co-founded WalkMe. It is based in New York, USA, and has offices in Israel.
By June 2021, the company had raised US$55 million in Series A funding from sources like Zeev Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, Innovation Endeavors, and Vintage Investment Partners. It completed its Series B in March 2022 and raised another $50 million from sources like Qumra Capital, La Maison Partners, and Claltech.
Earth Day
For "Earth Day," Datarails, along with the @State Wide Wildfire Restoration project, planted a new forest - the "Excel Evergreens" in the Washington state area after the 2020 catastrophe. They also added 1,000 more trees for every new customer that joined.
Excel NFTs
In August, 2022, Datarails created the first ever Excel NFTs, as it was the first time that an XLS file (the typical Microsoft Excel file format) was tokenized and placed on a blockchain.
The 5 NFTs each depicted different scenes from the war in Ukraine including pictures of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and refugees crossing the border. After they were created, the NFTs were put on sale for 1 Ethereum each with the proceeds going to Heart to Heart International, a non-profit dedicated to improving access to healthcare worldwide.
Product and services
The software is geared towards corporate finance teams of small and medium-sized enterprises seeking to improve their financial planning and analysis (FP&A) with Microsoft Excel.
It automates data consolidation and financial reporting and provides workflows, templates, and data visualization that facilitate budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling and financial analysis. It can be accessed through a Microsoft Excel add-in and a web application, and stores data on the cloud through Microsoft Azure.
Awards and recognition
In December 2021, the company's revenue grew 5x, and the "Globes" magazine ranked Datarails as the number one "Most Promising Israeli Startup." The ranking was done by 63 venture capital firms in Israel.
In February 2022, "Built In" announced that Datarails was named in its "2022 Best Places To Work Awards." The company earned a place on New York City's Best Midsize Companies to Work For and Best Paying Companies.
In April 2022, a group of celebrities who have played accountants and CFOs on renowned TV series participated in a mock competition to become brand ambassadors for Datarails. They include Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone in the U.S. version of "The Office"; Ewen MacIntosh, who played accountant Keith Bishop in the original U.K. version of "The Office"; George Wendt, who played accountant turned bar patron Norm Peterson in "Cheers"; and Andy Buck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Biamonte | Jacob Daniel Biamonte is an American physicist and theoretical computer scientist active in the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. He left a tenured professorship at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Biamonte contributed several universality proofs which established the first experimentally relevant universal models of adiabatic quantum computation. He also proved universality of the NISQ era variational model of quantum computation and published several results in the development of quantum machine learning and the mathematics of tensor networks.
Education
Biamonte completed a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 2010. In 2022 he defended a thesis for Russia's Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Honors and awards
In 2023 Biamonte was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2021 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. In 2018 Biamonte was awarded the USERN Medal in Formal Sciences for his work on quantum algorithms. In 2014 Biamonte became an invited member of the Foundational Questions Institute.
References
External links
Laboratory for Quantum Information Processing at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
1979 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century American physicists
Mathematical physicists
Quantum physicists
Quantum information scientists
Alumni of the University of Oxford |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20AI | Meta AI is an artificial intelligence laboratory that belongs to Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) Meta AI intends to develop various forms of artificial intelligence, improving augmented and artificial reality technologies. Meta AI is an academic research laboratory focused on generating knowledge for the AI community. This is in contrast to Facebook's Applied Machine Learning (AML) team, which focuses on practical applications of its products.
History
Meta AI started as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) with locations in the Menlo Park, California, headquarters, London, United Kingdom, and a new laboratory in Manhattan. FAIR was officially announced in September, 2013. FAIR was directed by New York University's Yann LeCun, a deep learning Professor and Turing Award winner. Working with NYU's Center for Data Science, FAIR's initial goal was to research data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and to "understand intelligence, to discover its fundamental principles, and to make machines significantly more intelligent". Research at FAIR pioneered the technology that led to face recognition, tagging in photographs, and personalized feed recommendation. Vladimir Vapnik, a pioneer in statistical learning, joined FAIR in 2014, he is the co-inventor of the support-vector machine, and one of the developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory.
FAIR opened a research center in Paris, France in 2015, and subsequently launched smaller satellite research labs in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Tel Aviv, Montreal and London. In 2016, FAIR partnered with Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft in creating the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society, an organization with a focus on open licensed research, supporting ethical and efficient research practices, and discussing fairness, inclusivity, and transparency.
In 2018, Jérôme Pesenti, former CTO of IBM's big data group, assumed the role of president of FAIR, while LeCun stepped down to serve as chief AI scientist. In 2018, FAIR was placed 25th in the AI Research Rankings 2019, which ranked the top global organizations leading AI research. FAIR quickly rose to eighth position in 2019, and maintained eighth position in the 2020 rank. FAIR had approximately 200 staff in 2018, and had the goal to double that number by 2020.
FAIR's initial work included research in learning-model enabled memory networks, self-supervised learning and generative adversarial networks, text classification and translation, as well as computer vision. FAIR released Torch deep-learning modules as well as PyTorch in 2017, an open-source machine learning framework, which was subsequently used in several deep learning technologies, such as Tesla's autopilot and Uber's Pyro. Also in 2017, FAIR discontinued a research project once AI bots developed a language that was unintelligible to humans, inciting conversations about dystopian fear of artificial intelligence going out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%20Xiaowei | Huang Xiaowei may refer to:
Huang Xiaowei (politician)
Huang Xiaowei (engineer)
Huang Xiaowei (computer scientist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Applications%20and%20Quantitative%20Methods%20in%20Archaeology | Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) is a global organization bringing together archaeologists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Its aims are to encourage communication between these disciplines, to provide a survey of present work in the field, and to stimulate discussion and future progress. CAA International has been organizing the annual meetings of its members since the 1970s. It has grown into a large community of more than 1000 scholars from around the world. Its members created a dozen of National CAA chapters and special interest groups. CAA International publishes annual proceedings and the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA).
History of CAA International
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) has been created in the 1970s. Initially, it was a small group of archaeologists and mathematicians interested in computer applications and working in the United Kingdom (UK). The first conference was organized in 1973 in Birmingham, England. In 1992 the first, CAA conference was held outside the UK. Gradually, the CAA has grown into a large international community.
Over the years national chapters have been established. Some having their own workshops series. One of the oldest chapters is in Germany
founded in 1981. CAA Germany has annual meetings since 2010 including joint chapter meetings with Netherlands and Flanders. Germany also hosted the international conference in 2018.
Current CAA International conference
The current 50th CAA International conference is CAA 2023 Amsterdam 50 years of synergy
Previous conferences
The 49th - CAA 2022: ‘iNside Formation’, Oxford, United Kingdom
The 48th - CAA 2021: ‘Digital Crossroads’, Virtual Conference from Limassol, Cyprus
The 48th - CAA 2020: Oxford, UK (Postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic)
The 47th - CAA 2019: ‘Check Object Integrity’, Kraków, Poland
The 46th - CAA 2018: ‘Human History and Digital Future’, Tübingen, Germany
The 45th - CAA 2017: ‘Digital Archaeologies, Material Worlds (Past and Present)’, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The 44th - CAA 2016: ‘Exploring Oceans of Data’, Oslo, Norway
The 43rd - CAA 2015: ‘Keep the Revolution Going’, Siena, Italy
Next conference
The 51st - CAA 2024: Auckland, New Zealand
References
Computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20laboratory | A cloud laboratory is a heavily automated, centralized research laboratory where scientists can run an experiment from a computer in a remote location. Cloud laboratories offer the execution of life science research experiments as a service, allowing researchers to retain full control over experimental design. Users create experimental protocols through a high-level API and the experiment is executed in the cloud laboratory, with no need for the user to be involved.
Cloud labs reduce variability in experimental execution, as the code can be interrogated, analyzed, and executed repeatedly. They democratize access to expensive laboratory equipment while standardizing experimental execution, which could potentially help address the replication crisis—what might before have been described in a paper as "mix the samples" is replaced by instructions for a specified machine to mix at a specified rpm rate for a specified time, with relevant factors such as the ambient temperature logged. They also reduce costs by sharing capital costs across many users, by running experiments in parallel, and reducing instrument downtime. Finally, they facilitate collaboration by making it easier to share protocols, data, and data processing methods through the cloud.
Infrastructure
Cloud labs utilize common scientific techniques including DNA sequencing and genotyping, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), protein extraction, plate reading, upstream bioprocessing, and western blotting. Users begin by signing up and logging in to the web-based software interface. Researchers submit their protocols via a dedicated web application or through an API, and when the order arrives at the laboratory, human operators set up the experiment and transfer plates from machine to machine. Data is automatically uploaded to the cloud lab via an API where users can access and analyze it. Users can review controls, machine settings, and reagents used. Multiple experiments can be run in parallel, 24 hours a day.
A true cloud lab is defined by five criteria:
Users must be able to conduct experiments on-demand at any time from any location, all through a computer interface.
The cloud laboratory must enable a user to digitally replicate the experience of standing in a traditional laboratory and manually operating instruments. It must allow users to specify all aspects of their experiments remotely without lead time, additional software, or outside experts
Users must have on-demand access to all the instruments needed to perform their experiment, rendering a physical laboratory unnecessary.
Users must be able to perform sample preparation, as well as storage and handling, from a remote setting.
Users must be able to script and connect multiple experiments, and conduct data analysis, using a single standardized computer interface.
Using a cloud laboratory vs. high-throughput experimentation
High-throughput experimentation involves increasing throughput by scaling up the numb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arskan | Arskan was a computer software company that is based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 2016 and developers technologies that allow the visualisation of massive, and comprehensive 3D data.
Description
Arskan was a French company that developed technology for the compression and progressive transfer of massive 3D data. The technology come from the research work of the LIRIS. They allow data visualization of massive 3D data on the web and are patented.
In 2017, Arskan and SATT Pulsalys signed an operating license for technologies from the Laboratory of Computer Science in Image and Information Systems (LIRIS).
In February 2023, Arskan went into liquidation.
Services
Arskan marketed technologies for viewing and exploiting complex 3D files on the Internet. The size of the files are then reduced thanks to compression algorithms, a technology from LIRIS, allowing the exploitation of data from massive 3D files.
Digital twins
Arskan had been part of the CAJuN consortium: Automated creation and management of a collaborative, interactive and real-time digital twin. The other stakeholders in this consortium are Lyon Parc Auto, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes (INSA) and Pulsalys.
Projects
CAJuN project
For its first customer and beta-tester, Lyon Parc Auto, a parking operator company located in Lyon, ARSKAN generated the digital twin of the Cordeliers car park.
This is the CAJuN project, a consortium created at the instigation of ARSKAN, 40% financed by private funds and by public funds
A beta test is underway with a start-up from Roanne, to integrate data from its predictive maintenance algorithm into the digital twin generated by ARSKAN.
JUMOA project
The JUMOA project was launched in partnership with EDF Hydro to solve problems related to the maintenance of engineering structures and sensitive sites.
Fine arts and heritage
Arskan intervened for the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, generating the digital double of the statue of Korè, as well as the gallery of the doors of the Médamoud Temple
References
Companies based in Lyon
French companies established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaredon | Gamaredon, also known as Primitive Bear and Actinium (by Microsoft) is a Russian advanced persistent threat that has been active since at least 2013.
Motivation
Cyber espionage appears to be the main goal of the group,; unlike most APTs, Gamaredon broadly targets all users all over the globe (in addition to also focusing on certain victims, especially Ukrainian organizations) and appears to provide services for other APTs. For example, the InvisiMole threat group has attacked select systems that Gamaredon had earlier compromised and fingerprinted.
Tactics
The group frequently uses spear phishing techniques with malicious code attachments that download remote templates containing malware.
Malware used by the group includes Pterodo, PowerPunch, ObfuMerry, ObfuBerry, DilongTrash, DinoTrain, and DesertDown.
Ukraine
On 19 January 2022, they attempted to compromise a Western government entity in Ukraine.
See also
Cyberwarfare by Russia
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare
References
Hacking in the 2010s
Hacking in the 2020s
Russian advanced persistent threat groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiara%20Sabatti | Chiara Sabatti is an Italian and American statistician and statistical geneticist, and a professor of biomedical data science and of statistics at Stanford University. Her research involves the analysis of high-throughput genomics data.
Education and career
Sabatti was born in Brescia, Italy. She studied in Brescia and Milan and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics and economics from Bocconi University in 1993, summa cum laude, working there with Eugenio Regazzini. She came to Stanford University for doctoral study in statistics, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation, Group Transformations and Dimensionality Reduction in Transition Rules for MCMC, was supervised by Jun S. Liu.
After postdoctoral research at Stanford in the group of Neil Risch, Sabatti became an assistant professor of human genetics and statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. She returned to Stanford as an associate professor of health research and policy in 2009, changing to biomedical data science and statistics in 2015. She was promoted to full professor at Stanford in 2016.
Recognition
Sabatti was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, for "excellent research in statistical genetics; and leadership in defining a role for statistics in data science and developing educational pathways supporting data intensive science. For outreach efforts and commitment to increase research involvement of underrepresented minorities".
Personal life
Sabatti is married to Stanford statistician and data scientist Emmanuel Candès.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American geneticists
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Italian geneticists
Italian statisticians
Italian women scientists
Statistical geneticists
Bocconi University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Stanford University faculty
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
People from Brescia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%20Forestry%20Working%20Group | Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG) is a Uganda-based organization and an informal network of forestry stakeholders, civil society organizations, academic and research institutions engaged in the development and sustainability of the forestry sector in Uganda that are multidisciplinary cutting across several sectors of national development. It was founded in 2001 to influence the development of the forestry sector and to independently monitor the implementation of the National Forestry Policy and the National Forest Plan(NFP).
Partnerships
UFWG partners with National NGOs, Community Based Organizations, Forest Resource User associations Academia and research institutions and individual members that are engaged in the development and sustainability of the forestry sector in Uganda. From 2014 to 2016, Uganda Forestry Working Group, Food and Agricultural Of the United Nations (FAO) and the Forest Sector Support Department (FSSD) under the Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) with financial support from the Department for International Development, UK, implemented the project “Enhancing forest tenure and governance in Uganda” to pilot the process of registration of private forests and the declaration of community forests in Uganda, as provided for, but never implemented, in the 2003 National Forest and Tree Planting Act.
See also
Food and Agriculture Organization
Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda)
National Forestry Authority
References
External links
UFWG
Climate change and agriculture
Climate change and the environment
Organizations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Media | Disney Media may refer to:
Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, a business segment of the Walt Disney Company
Disney Media Networks (original division), a former business segment of the Walt Disney Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Management%20Association | The Data Management Association (DAMA), formerly known as the Data Administration Management Association, is a global not-for-profit organization which aims to advance concepts and practices about information management and data management. It describes itself as vendor-independent, all-volunteer organization,
and has a membership consisting of technical and business professionals. Its international branch is called DAMA International (or DAMA-I), and DAMA also has various continental and national branches around the world.
History
The Data Management Association International was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles. Other early chapters were:San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, NewYork, and Washington D.C.
Data Management Body of Knowledge
DAMA has published the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK), which contains suggestions on best practices and suggestions of a common vernacular for enterprise data management. The first edition (DAMA-DMBOK) was published on 2009 November 1, and the second edition (DAMA-DMBOK2) was published on 2017 July 1.
DMBOK has been described by the authors as being an "equivalent" to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). It encompasses topics such as data architecture, security, quality, modelling, governance, big data, data science, and more.
DAMA also provides a professional data management certification for individuals known as a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), which is based on the DMBOK as a study reference. It is an example of one of many competing certifications for data management professionals.
See also
Data management
References
External links
DAMA INTERNATIONAL
Data management
Bodies of knowledge
Standards organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fake%20Life | The Fake Life is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Adolf Alix Jr., it stars Beauty Gonzalez, Ariel Rivera and Sid Lucero. It premiered on June 6, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Artikulo 247. The series concluded on September 23, 2022 with a total of 79 episodes. It was replaced by Nakarehas na Puso in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Beauty Gonzalez as Cindy Villamor
Ariel Rivera as Onats Villamor
Sid Lucero as Mark Santiaguel
Supporting cast
Will Ashley as Peter Luna
Shanelle Agustin as Jaycie Villamor
Carlos Dala as Jonjon Villamor
Tetchie Agbayani as Sonya De Guzman
Faye Lorenzo as Jai
Jenny Miller as Dra. Margaux Nova
Rina Reyes as Jean Luna
Saviour Ramos as Caloy Luna
Bryan Benedict as Benson
Guest cast
Bea Binene as young Cindy
Jake Vargas as young Mark
Kristofer Martin as young Onats
Candy Pangilinan as young Sonya
Michael Rivero as Ernesto Luna
Production
Principal photography commenced in March 2022.
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/The%20Face%20of%20Anonymous | The Face of Anonymous is a Canadian documentary television film, directed by Gary Lang and released in 2021. The film is a portrait of Christopher "Commander X" Doyon, a senior figure in the computer hacktivist collective Anonymous who spent several years living on the streets of Toronto as a homeless person after fleeing the United States due to criminal prosecution.
The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on April 29, 2021, in advance of its television broadcast on May 25 on TVOntario. A few weeks after the film's broadcast, Doyon was extradited from Mexico, where he was residing at the time, back to the United States to face prosecution.
The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Documentary Program at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
References
External links
2021 films
2021 documentary films
Canadian documentary television films
Documentary films about cyberwarfare
TVO original programming
2020s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shujie%20Ma | Shujie Ma is a Chinese-American statistician specializing in nonparametric regression and semiparametric regression and their applications in machine learning. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Riverside.
Education and career
Ma earned a bachelor's degree in management from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004. She went to Michigan State University for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree there in 2006 and completing her Ph.D. in 2011. Her dissertation, Theory of Spline Regression with Applications to Time Series, Longitudinal, and Categorical Data, and Data with Jumps, was supervised by Lijian Yang.
She joined the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Riverside as an assistant professor in 2011, earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2017, and was promoted to full professor in 2021.
Recognition
Ma is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, elected in 2012. She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, for "outstanding contributions to statistical methodology and theory; especially in non-parametric and semi-parametric machine learning methods for massive datasets, and for excellent services to the statistical editorial boards and to the profession". She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2023.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Chinese statisticians
Chinese women scientists
Xi'an Jiaotong University alumni
University of California, Riverside faculty
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%20FM | Hi FM is a radio station in Oman programming an English-language Top 40 radio format. It is privately owned by Entertainment Network SAOC alongside Arabic-language music station Hala FM. The studios are located in the Muscat Grand Mall.
In 2015, coverage of Hi FM and Hala FM was extended throughout Oman, making them the first private stations with national coverage. Seven transmitters are located in the north, with the only transmitter in southern Oman located at Salalah in the Dhofar Governorate.
Presenters include Robin Banks, who left 107 Jack FM in Berkshire, England, to become Hi FM's program director in 2016.
References
Radio stations in Oman
2007 establishments in Oman
Radio stations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Asunci%C3%B3n | The Asunción tramway network () formed part of the public transport system in Asunción, Paraguay for almost 125 years, from 1871 to 1995. Electric trams were introduced in 1913, eventually replacing the horse-drawn trams used originally. Various private companies built and operated the system until 1948, when the national government took it over. At different times during the period of electric operation, the fleet of trams included cars built by English, American, Italian and Argentinian manufacturers, and during the system's final two decades trams acquired secondhand from the Brussels tram system, in Belgium, provided most of the service. From a maximum extent of 10 routes in the 1930s, the system shrunk to just one route by the end of the 1970s. Service ended around 1995, and the system was formally closed in 1997.
History
The city's first tram line opened in 1871, using horse-drawn trams. Later extensions took the system as far as Villa Morra in the 1880s. In 1894, steam locomotive-hauled trains that ran along city streets in Asunción and used the same tracks as the horsecars extended service beyond Villa Morra to San Lorenzo, 20 km to the southeast. Electric trams were introduced in 1913. In 1914, electric trams replaced steam trains between central Asunción and Villa Morra. (Steam trains continued to operate on the suburban line to San Lorenzo until 1932.)
The first electric tramcars were operated by the Asunción Tramway, Light & Power Company (ATL&P) and were built by the United Electric Car Company, of England. In 1914, the Compañía Americana de Luz y Tracción (CALT) acquired the system after ATL&P's bankruptcy. Six trams were purchased from Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, in Italy, in the 1920s, and later from the American manufacturer J. G. Brill Company and in the 1930s and 1940s from Argentinian builders.
The system reached its maximum extent in the 1930s, with 37 km of track served by 10 routes, worked by a fleet of 33 motor trams and 26 trailers. In 1945, when the direction of traffic flow on several streets in the city centre was reversed, tram lines 1–4 were closed, but CALT built a new line 5, between the city centre and the neighbourhood of Las Mercedes. The system was nationalized in 1948.
The tram system was closed in 1973, but was reopened in 1975, and then-operator Administración del Transporte Eléctrico (ATE) began to import used trams from the Brussels, Belgium, tram system, ultimately acquiring a total of 17 from Brussels by 1980. The 1975 reopening encompassed only route 5, but route 9 to Villa Morra reopened in 1978; however, the latter closed again the following year, leaving only route 5 in operation for the remainder of the system's history. By at least 1977, tram service no longer operated on Sundays, Saturdays after midday, or during siesta (approximately noon to 2p.m.) on any day. Fares were collected by conductors.
In the early 1980s, the system was reported to be carrying approximately 1.6 million |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-gauge%20railways%20in%20Sicily | Sicily had at one time an extensive narrow gauge railway network. The design work was begun under at the time of the provisional management of the Southern Railways, continued by the Rete Sicula (Sicilian Railways) and built by Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railways), which spread over the territory of five provinces: Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento , Caltanissetta, Enna; today the FS narrow-gauge network is completely abandoned and only the Circumetnea railway survives.
History
The design origins of some sections of the network date back to the 1870s; The construction of these railways was however started later and in some cases implemented so slowly
to that construction was only completed in the 1960s only to be abandoned soon after.
The first narrow gauge railway, the Palermo-Corleone-San Carlo Railway was built by private investors; the first project of 1873, was for an 850mm gauge steam tramway but on 15 September 1879 (perhaps also as a consequence of the new "Baccarini law", a framework for the construction of new lines to complete the Sicilian railway network) which recommended the use of metre gauge and established the contribution to construction costs by local authorities, the Provincial Council of Palermo decided to build it as heavy rail. This decision was probably the basis for the subsequent, unfortunate, choice of the narrow gauge for all the other related lines, built subsequently. The primary aim was to be able to convey wines, agricultural products and fish from the ports of the Mediterranean to the regional capital, Palermo.
The construction of the section from Palermo to Corleone was sub-contracted in June 1883 to the English entrepreneur Robert Trewhella. Work began on 20 April 1884.
The extension towards Castelvetrano and the south coast was entrusted in concession to the Società Siciliana per le Ferrovie Economiche (Sicilian Economical Railway Company) on 11 December 1898; however the Corleone-San Carlo was inaugurated only on 21 May 1903. Traffic remained at good levels for the first section up to Corleone but was always limited on the second and this led to a period of provisional management by the State in 1906 and then the incorporation into the FS network as of 1922.
While the construction of the main standard gauge network continued steadily, the construction of the other secondary lines suffered long setbacks with the exception of the private Circumetnea Railway, built by the Società Siciliana per lavori pubblici, (the Sicilian Civil Engineering Company, of which Trewhella himself was a shareholder), opened between 1895 and 1898. The remaining lines to be built suffered continuous setbacks due to multiple factors, including disputes among the municipalities in exchange for their investment capital required the alignment to pass as close as possible to the town centre, the interests of foreign or national sulphur companies who wanted the lines to serve their mines and not least the Rete Sicula's priority |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20BASIC | Full BASIC, sometimes known as Standard BASIC or ANSI BASIC, is an international standard defining a dialect of the BASIC programming language. It was developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X3.60 group in partnership with the European ECMA. It describes an advanced version of BASIC with many features including structured programming, matrix math, input/output for file handling, and many other options.
ANSI's BASIC standardization was a two-stage process. The first, carried out as Minimal BASIC starting in 1974, was an effort to clearly define and standardize the original Dartmouth BASIC language so it could be correctly implemented on different platforms. After its release in late 1977, attention turned to Full BASIC which would be based on the more powerful Structured BASIC being developed at Dartmouth College. The complexity of the system and the many additions promoted by members of the standards committee led to the effort bogging down and the first draft standard was not ready until 1986, four years late.
The standard was ratified on 26 June 1986 as ECMA-116 and January 1987 as ANSI X3.113-1987. It was completely ignored; the microcomputer revolution had occurred while the specification was being argued over, and by the early-1980s Microsoft BASIC running on tens of millions of home computers had already come and gone. Watching the process drag on, the Dartmouth participants left to produce True BASIC based on parts of the standard, but this saw little use. De facto standards like Microsoft's dominated the market and formed the basis for newer languages like Microsoft Visual Basic which incorporated similar concepts.
History
Minimal BASIC
The introduction of Dartmouth BASIC in 1964 combined a number of emerging concepts in the computer field, including timesharing and direct interaction with the user, known at the time as a "conversational interface". General Electric, who supplied the GE 235 mainframe computer it ran on, used a modified version of Dartmouth's system to start a service bureau which would eventually evolve into the GEnie online service. Many other companies, Tymshare and CompuServe notable among them, quickly introduced hosted BASIC services of their own, following the Dartmouth model.
In 1968, Hewlett-Packard (HP) introduced the HP 2000 series minicomputers, which offered the same features of the earlier mainframe systems in a rack-mount system that could be configured in a complete form for around $100,000 (). Their HP Time-Shared BASIC had a number of differences from Dartmouth, and these were soon copied by other mini vendors like Data General. One holdout was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), who did not introduce a BASIC of their own design until 1972. This version, BASIC-PLUS was different from either the HP or Dartmouth dialects. By the early 1970s where were three major dialects and dozens of minor variations being used in the market.
In January 1974 a new group formed under the ANSI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20Open%20Data%20Service | The Bus Open Data Service (BODS) is a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 as part of the Bus Services Act 2017. It was created in a partnership between ITO World, the Department for Transport and KPMG.
The service is described by ITO World as "an international first" as it provides Open Data of bus timetables, fares and Automatic Vehicle Location of buses across England.
Data Implementation
As part of the requirements set by the Department for Transport in The Public Service Vehicles (Open Data) (England) Regulations 2020, the Bus Open Data Service set deadlines for operators to provide data.
The implementation requirements only applied in England
31 December 2020 - Obligation to provide bus timetable data to the Bus Open Data Service.
7 January 2021 - Obligation to provide vehicle location and basic fares and tickets data to the Bus Open Data Service.
7 January 2023 - Obligation to provide complex fares and ticket data to the Bus Open Data Service.
Uses
Following the introduction of the Bus Open Data, there have been a number of uses for the system.
The website Bustimes.org utilises data from BODS to supply information such as timetable, fares, and vehicle location information via an API link, with the vehicle location information displaying on a map.
The Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain, in their 2020/21 annual report, stated that use of the Bus Open Data Service would "make available more data than ever before on an operator’s performance."
An article in TransportXtra explained how data from BODS can be used to plan an electrified bus fleet
Criticism
Despite providing fare, time and vehicle location, the Department for Transport has ruled out including key accessibility information on bus stops, stations and vehicles despite the Bus Services Act making specific provision for open data, 'for the purpose of facilitating travel by disabled persons'.
A number of operators have struggled to provide the data required by the deadlines provided by the Bus Open Data Service, requiring providers to implement alternative solutions.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport, and operators of home-to-school transport, criticised the requirement for operators to provide data about registered home-to-school bus services, and the exemption of Section 22 community bus services.
Writing in Buses magazine, Centrebus Group owner Julian Peddle called the service "a horrendously bureaucratic and over-engineered system designed by well-meaning but clueless officials in London. It’s running late, does not work properly, and has involved the industry and local authorities in vast amounts of needless work. It’s supposedly been running since January 2021, but has not improved things in the wilds of Shropshire, and never will, because government bureaucrats don’t understand the problem, so have no chance of solving it."
References
External links
Bus Open Data Service (dft.gov.uk)
Open data
2020 establishments in England
Depart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%20Chen | Xi Chen () is a computer scientist. He is an associate professor of computer science at Columbia University. Chen won the 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize for his co-authored paper "Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights" with Jin-Yi Cai.
Biography
Chen received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, University of Southern California, and joined the Columbia faculty in 2011.
Chen's research focuses on computational complexity theory. He also received a Presburger Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 2015 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012.
References
Living people
Tsinghua University alumni
Chinese computer scientists
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleopterida | Coleopterida is a superorder of insects consisting of the orders Coleoptera and Strepsiptera. It is established as the sister group of Neuropterida based on phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data. The grouping is also supported by morphological data.
References
Endopterygota
Insect superorders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan%20Zhang | Lan Zhang is a Chinese-American scholar of financial econometrics specializing in market microstructure and high frequency data. She is a professor of finance at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Education and career
Zhang studied psychology at Peking University, graduating in 1992.
After earning a master's degree in psychology at the University of Chicago in 1995, she switched to statistics, completing her Ph.D. in Chicago in 2001. While a doctoral student, she also spent a year as an exchange scholar at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. Her doctoral dissertation, From Martingales to ANOVA: Implied and Realized Volatility, was supervised by Per Aslak Mykland.
She joined Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as an assistant professor of statistics, affiliated with the Center for Computational Finance, in 2001. She was tenured there as an associate professor, effective 2006, but by 2005 had already left CMU to take an assistant professorship at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was tenured again at the University of Illinois in 2008, and from 2009 to 2010 took a leave to become a reader at the University of Oxford in the Saïd Business School and Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Returning to the University of Illinois at Chicago, she was promoted to full professor in 2010.
Recognition
Zhang was elected as a fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics in 2016.
She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, for "leadership in developing statistical concepts and methods for high-frequency data, and for conscientious mentoring and professional service".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Econometricians
American economists
American women economists
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Chinese economists
Chinese women economists
Chinese statisticians
Chinese women scientists
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Academics of Saïd Business School
Fellows of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximal%20Policy%20Optimization | Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a family of model-free reinforcement learning algorithms developed at OpenAI in 2017. PPO algorithms are policy gradient methods, which means that they search the space of policies rather than assigning values to state-action pairs.
PPO algorithms have some of the benefits of trust region policy optimization (TRPO) algorithms, but they are simpler to implement, more general, and have better sample complexity. It is done by using a different objective function.
See also
Reinforcement learning
Temporal difference learning
Game theory
References
External links
Announcement of Proximal Policy Optimization by OpenAI
GitHub repo
Machine learning algorithms
Reinforcement learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin%20Zelkowitz | Marvin Victor Zelkowitz (born 7 August 1945) is an American computer scientist and engineer.
Zelkowitz earned a degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a master's degree and doctorate in computer science at Cornell University in 1969 and 1971, respectively.
He then taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. While holding a professorship within the Department of Computer Science and
the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), he
was also affiliated with the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, since renamed The Fraunhofer USA Center Mid-Atlantic (CMA). He is now Professor Emeritus, having retired in 2007.
His early research (1968-early 1980s) was in programming languages. He worked on implementation of programming language features to aid in program development and debugging as well as ways to implement tests for runtime correctness of executable code.
His later research dealt with software engineering practices by looking at developing methods for improving the process of software development.
The years 2003-2009 were devoted to applying these experimental testing results to the field of High-performance computing.
Zelkowitz served as editor of the series Advances in Computers for Academic Press (vols 41-56; 1995-2002) and later
Elsevier (vols. 57-74; 2003-2008)
Since 1994, Zelkowitz has been active in scientific skepticism as Board member and
at times Secretary, Treasurer, and President of the National Capital Area Skeptics.
NCAS was founded in 1987 in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area and is
an advocate for science and reason, actively promoting the scientific method,
rational inquiry, and education.
Awards
Charter Member, IEEE Computer Society Golden Core (1996)
Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions towards the development of practical programming environment for effective software development (1997)
Distinguished Service Award, ACM SigSoft (2000)
Books
PL/I Programming with PLUM (1976)
Software Specifications: A comparison of formal methods (1979)
Programming Languages: Design and Implementation (Third Edition) (1996)
Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering: The Legacy of Victor R .Basili (2005)
The Golden Age of Computer Technology: Through the Eyes of an Aging Geek (2020)
Selected publications
Interrupt Driven Programming (1971)
Reversible Execution (1973)
Optimization of Structured Programs (1974)
Perspectives on software engineering (1978)
A case study in rapid prototyping (1980)
Implementation of language enhancements (1981)
Software engineering practices in the United States and Japan (1984)
A functional correctness model of program verification (1990)
The role for executable specifications in system maintenance (1991)
SEL's software process-improvement program (1995)
Software Engineering technology infusion within NASA (1996)
Experimental models for validating computer techn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20Bait | Shark Bait may refer to:
Shark baiting, a procedure to attract sharks
Shark Bait (film), a 2006 South Korean-American computer-animated film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christia%20obcordata | Christia obcordata is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. The plant is notable for its butterfly-shaped leaves. C. obcordata is used medicinally in Japan and Indonesia to treat urinary blockages. It was also evaluated as a means to treat malaria in 2007, but was found to be ineffective.
Alternative names
Butterfly plant
Butterfly leaf
Iron butterfly
Butterfly stripe
Swallowtail
References
Desmodieae
Flora of tropical Asia
Flora of China
Flora of Taiwan
Flora of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfroDroids | AfroDroids is a blockchain-based collection of digital artwork composed of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It was inspired by the Afrofuturist movement in art. On September 1, 2021, Owo Anietie established AfroDroids.
Afrofuturism is a collection of media and artists who have a common interest in imagining black futures based on Afro-diasporic experiences, to address themes and challenges of the African diaspora through technoculture and science fiction.
AfroDroids is a 12k PFP NFT project that depicts human life through the eyes of Africans. Each Afrodroid is a piece of art with increasing value and a number of hidden benefits that become apparent as the project advances.
There have been a total of 12,117 AfroDroids By Owo NFTs. At least one AfroDroids By Owo NTF is now in the wallets of 3,642 owners.
History
AfroDroids By Owo is well-positioned to provide easy access to both artists and buyers. It is one of the few African art initiatives that uses NFTs to reshape the art world. The work began as the Profile Picture Project, a 12k Ethereum blockchain project. The development of AfroDroids was spurred by NFT's ability to watermark a variety of works without the requirement for a signature. A total of 12,117 unique afrodroid nfts were minted on opensea.io.
When AfroDroids by Owo originally started, it allowed anybody to purchase photographs or artwork to use as digital avatars on their social media pages. Every AfroDroid pays tribute to its African roots with earrings, beads, and other native components. AfroDriods contribute to charity in addition to rewriting the narrative of artists using NFTs.
Founder
Owo Anietie is one of the most influential Nigerians in the NFT industry. In 2009, he started his work as a professional artist, then moved on to motion design, animation, and digital illustration in 2012.
Through NFTs, Anietie is already creating an African ecosystem for global-minded artists. To do this, he launched AfroDroids By Owo on September 1, 2021, which is regarded as Africa's largest PFP.
Owo Anietie is a Nigerian 3D afrofuturism artist who uses a cultural philosophy of science and history to examine the coming intersection of African Diaspora Culture and technology. Anietie is known for not watermarking his art, allowing people to freely use it as long as they don't sell or misuse it.
He worked as a motion graphic designer, senior motion designer, and creative director at Anakle Limited, Patricia, and Creators Capital, respectively. Pop and R&B singer Justin Bieber, record producer and industry mogul Don Jazzy, to mention a few, have also acquired his works.
Anietie's ambition for the next 50 years is to make and release one piece of art every day. He uses his formal talents in advertising, building technology, and multidisciplinary art to develop his 3D and motion design-led approach. In a featured interview with GQ South Africa, the Afrodroids program was regarded as one of Africa's most important NFT initiatives, with a va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20R.%20Smith | Joshua R. Smith (born 1968) is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Washington. He is known for research on wireless power (including WREL), backscatter communication (including WISP and Ambient Backscatter), and robotic manipulation.
Education and academic career
He received a PhD degree from MIT in 1999, SM from MIT in 1995, MA from Cambridge University in Physics in 1997, and a dual BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Williams College in 1991. He was at Intel Labs Seattle from 2004 to 2010, and joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 2011. He is the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Washington and leads the UW Sensor Systems Lab and directs the UW-Amazon Science Hub.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, recognized for "contributions to far‐ and near‐field wireless power, backscatter communication, and electric field sensing"; a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; and a 2013 Allen Distinguished Investigator.
Entrepreneurship and commercial applications
Several startup companies are commercializing technology from his lab, under license from the University of Washington: Wibotic, eLoupes (as Proprio) Jeeva, and Corisma. His PhD research at MIT was commercialized to make a smart airbag system.
References
External links
Faculty website
American computer scientists
American electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
University of Washington faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Williams College alumni
1968 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20113 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 113 (; commonly abbreviated to Sö 113) is the Rundata catalogue index for a high, wide granite runestone in Kolunda, , Eskilstuna Municipality, Sweden, within the historic province of Södermanland (hence its name). It was found in 1856 on a hill believed to have once had many other graves and monuments, and is believed to have originally stood atop a burial mound before falling over and being buried. It has since been moved, and now stands next to the runestone known as and a partial runestone () discovered in 1997. Its inscription in the Younger Futhark alphabet when translated into English reads "They placed the stone here, the sons of Þorketill and Folka, in memory of father and mother. [They] made [it] valiantly."
Description
Södermanland Runic Inscription 113 (Sö 113) is a granite runestone, which measures high, wide, and thick. It was found in 1856 when a burial mound dating from around the end of the 10th century was dug up during new cultivation of the land. The runestone probably stood on top of the mound before it tipped over and was hidden by soil. Its absence of ornament and the inscription's straight, vertical rune band (line of runes) suggest that it may be the area's oldest runestone. The burial mound connected to Sö 113 was located on a hill which is believed to have originally had many other graves in the form of burial mounds, stone circles, monumental stones and a stone ship, as well as being the original location of Sö 112, which was on the western slope near the road.
Artistically, it is an example of the RAK style, which dates from 980–1015, in the Viking Age. It was one of several runestones owned by runologist Otto von Friesen in the early 20th century. It has since been moved to its current location in Kolunda, , Eskilstuna Municipality, Sweden, in the historic province of Södermanland, where it has been placed alongside and the fragment that was discovered in 1997.
Inscription
Located on the stone's west-facing side, each rune measures in height. The inscription is written in the Younger Futhark alphabet; transliterated into Latin script it reads:
: þaiʀ : situ : stin : suniʀ : þurkitils : auk : fulku hiar : faþur : auk : muþur : iftiʀ ' kiarþu ' trikila :
Revised into standard Old Norse, this reads:
Þeir settu stein, synir Þorketils ok Folku, hér, fǫður ok móður eptir. Gerðu drengila.
And in English:
"They placed the stone here, the sons of Þorketill and Folka, in memory of father and mother. [They] made [it] valiantly."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%20Missfortune | Hello Missfortune (; lit. Falling In Love With My Bad Luck) is a Hong Kong television series created and produced by television network TVB. With Dave Fong as the executive producer, it premiered on 27 December 2021 and continued until 7 January 2022 for 10 Episodes. Starring Hubert Wu and Erica Chan, the show incorporates fantasy and afterlife aspects depicting beings who belong to different world dimensions and their learning experience of letting go of unresolved conflicts of the past.
Cast
Hubert Wu as Chan Pei-ho: a timid food delivery man who lives and takes care of his grandmother Dave Fong indicated that the character is not meant to be a hero; instead, he is a representation of cowardice and fearful people living in society.
Fung Ho-yeung as teenage Pei-ho
Erica Chan as Poon Siu-yu: a novice destiny administrator at the Life Administration Agency who is tasked with managing luck or misfortune in the human world
Stephanie "Miumiu" Au as the teenage Siu-yu
Lee Tsz-yan as the childhood Siu-yu
Mark Ma as Santino Pong Yiu-tin: a colleague of Siu-yu at the Life Administration Agency
Mayanne Mak as Pau Sau-yuk: a colleague of Siu-yu at the Life Administration Agency
Timothy Cheng as Szema Kwan-leun: the supervisor at the Life Administration Agency
Law Lan as Lam Sze-mei: Chan Pei-ho's grandmother
Lincoln Hui as Alvin Tau Jit-yan: an artist and Siu-yu's ex-boyfriend
Vivian Koo as Kam-yan: a visual arts university student and Alvin's current girlfriend
Eddie Li as Chan Chuen: Pei-ho's father who is alienated from home due to his gambling debt
June Ng as Chan Lai-chi: Pei-ho's older sister who is married and works in the financial industry
Susan Tse as Bong Yeung Ka-sin: Santino's living mother
Chiu Lok-yin as Poon Hou-yin: Siu-yu's deceased father
Doris Chow as Ng Wai-yi: Siu-yu's deceased mother
Synopsis
When a person dies, they are either taken to many layers of Heaven or reincarnated. The deceased Poon Siu-yu died seven years ago at the age of 17 in the first dimension, "Human World". She entered the second dimension and joined the Life Administration Agency, becoming a novice destiny administrator. She is tasked to give out a certain amount of misfortune to Chan Pei-ho, a food delivery worker in the human world. Despite the rain and sunshine, Pei-ho works daily, earning just a little income, with his family paying little attention to him. The stumbling blocks in life make Pei-ho difficult to breathe. Moreover, he has to endure the obstacles Siu-yu causes him at work. Finding empathy for her client, Siu Yu is reluctant to fulfill her task and finds herself helping him. Pei-ho gradually discovers that this mysterious girl is not an ordinary being. As the story unfolds, Siu-yu recalls the reason for her death and how she was mercilessly killed, in which Pei-ho was indirectly involved, realizing there is a deliberate link that dragged them back together. The two, despite everything, develop a love story that most likely woul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th%20Golden%20Disc%20Awards | The 28th Golden Disc Awards ceremony was held on January 16, 2014. The JTBC network broadcast the show from Kyung Hee University's Grand Peace Palace in Seoul. Minho, Jung Yong-hwa and Yoon Doo-joon served as hosts on the first day, with Taeyeon, Tiffany and Oh Sang-jin on the second.
Criteria
Albums and songs released between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013, were eligible to be nominated for the 28th Golden Disc Awards. The winners of the digital music, album and rookie categories were determined by music sales (60%), a panel of music experts (20%) and online votes (20%). Music sales were based on data from Gaon Music Chart, Bugs!, Cyworld, Daum, Naver Music and Genie Music. The Popularity Award was based on online votes (80%) and a panel of music experts (20%).
Winners and nominees
Main awards
Winners and nominees are listed in alphabetical order. Winners are listed first and emphasized in bold.
Special awards
References
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2014 music awards
Golden Disc Awards ceremonies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing%20Services | In computing, Multiprocessing Services is a component of the Classic Mac OS and the retired Carbon API allowing programs to perform work across multiple preemptively scheduled threads of execution.
Release history
Multiprocessing Services was introduced in 1996 with the release of System 7.5.3.
Multiprocessing Services 2.0, introduced in Mac OS 8.6, is a backwards-compatible major release that increases the level of integration preemptive tasks have with the rest of the system.
Multiprocessing Services 2.1, introduced in Mac OS 9, adds support for devices with more than 1 GB of RAM.
In the Classic Mac OS
In the Classic Mac OS, Multiprocessing Services is not the only threading mechanism; cooperatively scheduled threads can be created with the Thread Manager. While applications using Multiprocessing Services have their threads preemptively scheduled, the application as a whole is still cooperatively scheduled with other running applications. Non-Multiprocessing Services tasks remain scheduled on a single processor, and tasks using the Macintosh Toolbox cannot be preemptively scheduled.
When a process uses Multiprocessing Services, in addition to the preemptive tasks it creates, an additional task exists, deth, which waits for other tasks created by the process to terminate and cleans up their resources when they do.
In macOS
In macOS, Multiprocessing Services is implemented using POSIX threads. Applications using Multiprocessing Services are preemptively scheduled with other tasks running on the system. Multiprocessing tasks are distinct from Mach tasks.
In OS X 10.8, Multiprocessing Services was deprecated with the rest of Carbon, with Grand Central Dispatch suggested as a replacement. In macOS 10.15, support for Multiprocessing Services ended with the removal of 32-bit application support, which included all Carbon applications.
References
Classic Mac OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian-Jian%20Ren | Joan Jian-Jian Ren () is an American statistician whose research concerns survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis for biomedical applications. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Education and career
Ren grew up in Beijing, and majored in mathematics at Peking University, graduating in 1982. After studying for a master's degree at the University of Montana, she completed a Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, On Hadamard Differentiability and M-Estimation in Linear Models, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.
After earning her Ph.D., Ren was on the faculty of the mathematics department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1990 to 1997. She held positions at Tulane University and the University of Central Florida before moving to the University of Maryland in 2011.
Recognition
Ren was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, for "innovative and significant contributions to statistical methodology, especially in nonparametric likelihood inference, survival analysis and resampling methods, and for long-lasting and dedicated professional service".
Legal issues and controversies
UCF Lawsuit
The Jian-Jian Ren vs. University of Central Florida Lawsuit is a legal case involving a dispute between Dr. Jian-Jian Ren, a former faculty member, and the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Ren initiated legal proceedings against UCF, asserting violations of Title VII, the Florida Civil Rights Act, and the Florida Educational Equity Act, specifically alleging gender discrimination and retaliation as grounds for her failure to receive a promotion.
The case was reviewed by the United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Orlando Division. The court ruled in favor of the defendant, University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, granting their motion for summary judgment. The court cited Ren's failure to establish a Prima Facie Case as the reason for denying all other pending motions.
Subsequently, Ren appealed the district court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals. However, the Circuit Court upheld the district court's conclusion, finding no error in the application of summary judgment. This legal saga highlights the complexities and legal intricacies surrounding discrimination and retaliation claims within academic institutions.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Peking University alumni
Chinese emigrants to the United States
University of Montana alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
Tulane University faculty
University of Central Florida faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Nickelodeon%20Sonic | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by Nickelodeon Sonic.The channel was launched on 20 December 2011.
Current programming
Animated series
Gattu Battu
Zig and Sharko
Golmaal Jr.
Kanha - Morpankh Samrat
Munki And Trunk
Pakdam Pakdai
Pinaki And Happy The Bhoot Bandhus
Shiva
Ninja Hattori
Live-action
Power Rangers
Power Rangers Beast Morphers
Power Rangers Samurai
Former programming
Animated series
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Daltons
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Ejen Ali
Extreme Football
Galactik Football
Gattu Battu
Golmaal Jr.
Hubert and Takako
Jackie Chan's Fantasia
Keymon Ache
Kong: The Animated Series
Kung Fu Cats
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Oggy and the Cockroaches
Rimba Racer
Rocket Monkeys
Shaktimaan: The Animated Series
Shaun the Sheep
SpongeBob SquarePants
Supa Strikas
Suraj: The Rising Star
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Smurfs
Blackie The Funny Dog
Dinobob
Dinosaur King
Ghosts At School
Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation
Idaten Jump
Johnny Test
Kickers
Mighty Cat Masked Niyander
Monsuno
Ninja Hattori
Perman
Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals
Zatchbell
Live-action
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
The Adrenaline Project
House of Anubis
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Power Rangers
Supah Ninjas
Ultraman Mebius
References
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Sony%20YAY%21 | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by Sony YAY!.The channel was launched on 18 April 2017.
Current programming
Bernard
Chorr Police
Honey Bunny
Ding Dong Bell - Masti Ka Khel
Harry & Bunnie
Horrid Henry
Kikoumba
Mr. Magoo
Oggy and the Cockroaches
Obbochama-kun
Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation
Paap-O-Meter
PaJaMa
Robotan
Oscar's Oasis
Taarak Mehta Kka Chhota Chashmah
Hagola
Oggy Oggy
The Owl & Co
Sergeant Keroro
Numb Chucks
KochiKame
Drake and Josh
iCarly
Former programming
Bobby & Bill Casper's Scare School Fab5 Mission Tango Kikoriki Krishna Balram Kong: The Animated Series Little Spirou Magical Hat Marude Dameo Me and My Robot Mother Goose Club Mirette Investigates Naruto Paper Port Prince Jai Aur Dumdaar Viru Ratz Space Goofs Tensai Bakabon Trust Me I am a Genie Guru Aur Bhole Kicko & Super Speedo Chimpoo Simpoo Pyaar Mohabbat Happy Lucky Films
Guru Aur Bhole In Kung Fu Adventure Guru Aur Bhole In Magic Kingdom Guru Aur Bhole In Bermuda Triangle Guru Aur Bhole In Alien Busters Guru Aur Bhole: The Gladiators Honey Bunny Gangs of Film City Honey Bunny in Police Patrol Honey Bunny in The World Tour Challenge Honey Bunny Save The Panda Paap-O-Meter Defenders of Earth Paap-O-Meter Under Attack Sab Jholmaal Hai – Bank Robbery (21 October 2017)
Sab Jholmaal Hai – Honey Bunny Ka Space Adventure (24 December 2017)
Tapu and the Big Fat Alien Wedding Oggy and the Cockroaches The Movie''
References
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Lists of Indian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20artificial%20intelligence%20artists | Many notable artificial intelligence artists have created a wide variety of artificial intelligence art from the 1960s to today. These include:
20th century
Harold Cohen, active from 1960s to 2010s. Cohen's work is primarily with AARON, a series of computer programs that autonomously create original images.
Eric Millikin, active from 1980s to present. Millikin's work includes AI-generated virtual reality, video art, poetry, music, and performance art, on topics such as animal rights, climate change, anti-racism, witchcraft, and the occult.
Karl Sims, active from 1980s to present. Sims is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation.
21st century
Sougwen Chung, active from 2010s to present. Chung's work includes performances with a robotic arm that uses AI to attempt to draw in a manner similar to Chung.
Stephanie Dinkins, active from 2010s to present. Dinkins' work includes recordings of conversations with an artificially intelligent robot that resembles a black woman, discussing topics such as race and the nature of being.
Jake Elwes, active from 2010s to present. Their practice is the exploration of artificial intelligence, queer theory and technical biases.
Libby Heaney, active from 2010s to present. Heaney's practice includes work with chatbots.
Mario Klingemann, active from 2010s to present. Klingemann's works examine creativity, culture, and perception through machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Mauro Martino, active from 2010s to present. Martino's work work includes design, data visualization and infographics.
Trevor Paglen, active from 2000s to present. Paglen's practice includes work in photography and geography, on topics like mass surveillance and data collection.
Anna Ridler, active from 2010s to present. Ridler works with collections of information, including self-generated data sets, often working with floral photography.
References
Artificial intelligence artists, List of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDCA | SDCA can refer to:
Stochastic dual coordinate ascent, a mathematical optimisation algorithm.
St. Dominic College of Asia, a college in the Philippines.
the Small Drum Corps Association. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%20Aspire | Friendship Public Charter School, Inc. is a network of charter schools in Arkansas. Friendship Education Foundation has an office in Little Rock, Arkansas and another office in Washington, DC.
History
In 1998 the network was first established.
It formerly had three charter school districts recognized under Arkansas law: Friendship Aspire Little Rock, Friendship Aspire Pine Bluff, and Friendship Aspire Southeast Pine Bluff. They were merged into a single school district effective 2022 in an effort to reduce bureaucratic issues. The names of the campuses changed after the merger occurred.
Schools
Little Rock:
6-8: Friendship Aspire Academy Little Rock Middle School
K-4: Friendship Aspire Academy Little Rock Elementary a.k.a. Friendship Aspire Academy Garland
Pine Bluff:
5-8, 12: Friendship Aspire Academy Southeast Pine Bluff
K-4: Friendship Aspire Academy Pine Bluff
K-3: Friendship Aspire Academy Downtown Pine Bluff
The network wishes to establish a school in San Antonio, Texas.
Friendship Aspire Academy Southeast Pine Bluff
Friendship Aspire Academy Southeast Pine Bluff, formerly Friendship Aspire Academy Southeast Prep, Friendship Aspire Southeast Pine Bluff, and Southeast Arkansas Preparatory High School (SAPHS), is a charter secondary school in Pine Bluff. It opened in 2018, in the former Ridgway Christian School secondary school building. The Christian School director announced that the plans were to discontinue the high school program and to have a single K-8 campus. According to the president of the newly-established charter school, Pat Hart, the Ridgway Christian high school program encountered difficulty recruiting students. The anticipated enrollment was 220.
In the 2019-2020 school year, it initially had 107 students. In December 2019 the Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel formally decided to ask the Arkansas Department of Education to close the school, arguing that the charter should be dissolved as the school had problems with too low academic performance and inability to manage money. By January 2020 it had 116 students. In March 2020 the Arkansas Board of Education decided that the school would remain in place.
The charter school group Friendship Aspire acquired control of the school, with its new name effective July 1, 2020. The charter school network decided to convert the school into middle school only, with existing students to graduate but with further high school enrollment blocked. In 2021 the school stopped serving the 10th grade, and in 2022 the school stopped serving the 11th grade.
References
External links
Friendship Aspire
Southeast Arkansas Preparatory High School
1998 establishments in Arkansas
Charter schools in Arkansas
Charter schools in Texas
Educational institutions established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202022 | The 62nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony was held on 19 June 2022 at Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Queensland and broadcast live on the Nine Network. It is the first ceremony to be held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public voting for the Most Popular Award categories ran from 15 May through to the day of the ceremony. The ceremony was criticised for their tribute to Neighbours, which was described as an "insult to the cast and crew" online.
Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced on 15 May 2022.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Changes to the ceremony
The 2022 ceremony saw the introduction of the inaugural Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter. Newton's wife Patti Newton stated: "We are so thrilled Bert is being recognised this way and will be part of the Logies every year moving forward. It was such a big part of his career and he just loved it, so I know he would be pretty pleased with this honour." The new TV Week Silver Logie for Most Popular Australian Actor or Actress in an International Program was be introduced. The award recognises the work by Australian actors in international television shows. Television personality Sophie Monk was chosen at the official TV Week Logies Event Ambassador.
Controversy
The ceremony featured a tribute to the television soap opera Neighbours, a week after it filmed its last scenes. The tribute and recognition of its achievements aired during the presentation for the Most Popular New Talent award, and was presented by former cast members, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Daniel MacPherson. The tribute was not liked by fans online, who thought the serial should have had a larger send-off, with it being described as "embarrassing", "disappointing" and an "insult to the cast and crew for its send-off of the iconic soap" on social media. Neighbours actor Matt Wilson said on Instagram of the tribute, "37 years and this is all we get", while David Knox of TV Tonight reported that the cast "were forced to watch from tables with an obstructed view." Two days later, actor Ryan Moloney (who plays Toadie Rebecchi) said, "We turned up and we did our mandatory three-hour talking to people on the red carpet. When we got in the room, we ended up being split up and stuck on two different tables. It was horrible! Our table was actually even stuck behind the cameras. We couldn't even see the stage. It was incredibly disappointing the package they put together. Daniel and Nat are just absolutely gorgeous people and absolutely nothing against them, but we've got people who have been on TV for nearly 30 years each, and I think probably the least they could do is get us to say something. I mean... we're in the bloody Hall of Fame. That's not how you treat people and a show that's in the Hall of Fame. I mean, good luck to the Logies, really."
References
External links
2022 awards in Australia
June 2022 events in Australia
2022
2022 televi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Shuirong | Li Shuirong (born 1956) is a Chinese billionaire and businessman, the chairman of the , which produces petrochemicals.
In 1989, Li Shuirong founded the Yinong Network Chemical Fiber Factory that produced polyester fiber cloth. After the polyester industry shifted upstream, he founded the Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group. In 2020, Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group became the first private oil refiner that obtained permission from the Chinese government to export refined oil products.
Li Shuirong made the 2022 Forbes Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $10.3 billion and occupied the 192nd position.
References
1956 births
Living people
Chinese billionaires
20th-century Chinese businesspeople
21st-century Chinese businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS%20class%20R.301 | The R.301 locomotive was a steam locomotive with narrow gauge for passenger and freight service that served on the Sicilian narrow gauge railway network and of the former colonies, Eritrea and Libya.
History
The R.301 (R signifies narrow gauge) locomotives were designed and built in the 1910s by the Material and Traction Service of the FS in Florence for the FS' narrow gauge lines then under construction. The first batch of eleven R.301s, built by Costruzioni Meccaniche di Saronno (CEMSA), was delivered to the FS in 1912.
In the following years, the fleet was enlarged by an additional twenty units whose construction was split between O.M. of Saronno, the Officine Meccaniche of Milan, Ansaldo and Breda. The locos were distributed between the depots of Palermo S.Erasmo, Castelvetrano, and Porto Empedocle.
After 1918 thirteen R.301s were diverted to colonial railways:
nos. 15 and 32 went to Eritrea,
nos. 05 and 07 to Somalia,
nos. 12, 13, 14, 25 and 26 to Tripolitania and
nos. 11, 21, 22 and 33 to Cyrenaica.
In 1922 a superheater version of the R.301 loco, the R.302, was launched. This locomotive was also produced by CEMSA. The performance of the R.302s exceeded expectations, so the decision was taken to convert a batch of twenty R.301 locomotives into R.302s. The work was completed in the mechanical and naval workshops of Pietrarsa by 1927. The FS renumbered them from 023 to 042.
The R.301s acquitted themselves well in terms of reliability and performance both in Sicily and the colonies.
An R.301 was sold to the Ferrovia Alifana in 1944.
Features
The R.301s were designed to solve the operational problems of the preceding locomotive designs, above all the poor performance of four axle,rigid wheelbase R.401s which damaged the track in the numerous curves typical for narrow gauge alignments. The choice of the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement made it possible to limit the axle load to below 11 tons for the coupled wheels, and the Bissel truck improved the xxx.
The locomotives were also equipped with large water tanks (4.5 m³) to ensure a sufficient range.
Upon testing, the R.301s exceeded expectations; on a constant slope of 25‰ and curves with a radius of 100m, they were able to haul 90t at 25 km/h.
The boiler of the R.301 had a 74.5m² heating surface and the diameter of the cylinders of 380 mm, and a tractive effort at rim of 6750kgf.
The locomotives were equipped with Hardy vacuum brake. This highly reliable system creates vacuum in the pipe by the use of a steam ejector and has no moving parts.
The only defect of the R.301, is the asymmetry of the running gear, which made the locos unidirectional.
Home sheds
Deposito Locomotive di Castelvetrano
Deposito Locomotive di Palermo Sant'Erasmo
Deposito Locomotive di Licata
Deposito Locomotive di Piazza Armerina
Deposito Locomotive di Porto Empedocle
Preserved locomotives
R.301.2 : Milan Museum of Science and Technology
R.301.27 : Exposed until 2009 on the seafront of Marsala, m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying%20Hung | Ying Hung is a Taiwanese-American statistician whose research centers on computer experiments, the use of the design of experiments to plan scientific and engineering simulations, and includes work on kriging, metamodeling, and the use of computer optimization techniques in the design of experiments. She is a professor of statistics at Rutgers University.
Education and career
Hung graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2001. She earned a master's degree in statistics from National Tsing Hua University in 2003, and completed a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech in 2008. Her dissertation, Contributions to Computer Experiments and Binary Time Series, was supervised by C. F. Jeff Wu.
She joined the Rutgers University Department of Statistics as an assistant professor in 2008, earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2014, and was promoted to full professor in 2020.
Recognition
Hung won the 2014 Tweedie New Researcher Award of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, for "fundamental contributions to design, statistical analysis, and uncertainty quantification of computer experiments with applications in cell biology".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Taiwanese statisticians
Taiwanese women scientists
National Taiwan University alumni
National Tsing Hua University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Rutgers University faculty
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Street%20Health | Oak Street Health, Inc. is a health care network of primary care centers for older adults with Medicare.
In May 2023, CVS Health acquired the company for $10.6billion.
History
Oak Street Health was founded in 2012 by Mike Pykosz, Griffin Myers and Geoff Price and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Oak Street Health is the only primary care provider endorsed by the AARP. Oak Street Health operates in helping older adults stay healthy by providing preventive care, education and social activities to support overall health well-being.
In October 2021, Oak Street Health acquired RubiconMD, a healthtech company for $130 million, the deal enables Oak Street to integrate its care model with virtual specialty care of RubiconMD.
On February 8, 2023 CVS Health announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6 billion.
IPO
Oak Street Health has raised a total of $105.3M in funding over 4 rounds. In August 2020 Oak Street Health, went public and raised $328 million in its Initial Public offering. The company offered 15.6 million shares at $21 per share on the New York Stock Exchange, where it is traded under the ticker “OSH.”
Operations
Oak Street Health head office is based in Chicago, Illinois. It began operating in 2012. By January 2020, it had expanded to 50 centers in eight states. By October 2021, there were more than 100 centers in 18 states.
References
External links
Seniors' organizations
2012 establishments in Illinois
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
2023 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Lechner | Wolfgang Lechner (born 14 May 1981 in Kufstein) is a theoretical physicist from Austria. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of the company ParityQC (Parity Quantum Computing GmbH) and professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Innsbruck.
Academic career
Wolfgang Lechner earned his Masters and PhD in Physics from the University of Vienna with Christoph Dellago as supervisor. He completed postdoctoral study under the direction of Peter Bolhuis at the University of Amsterdam from 2009 to 2011, followed by postdoctoral stints with Peter Zoller at IQOQI Innsbruck from 2011 to 2013 and at IQOQI Innsbruck from 2013 to 2016. Since December 2020 he is an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck.
Research
Together with his colleagues Philipp Hauke and Peter Zoller, Wolfgang Lechner developed a quantum computing scheme which mitigates the fundamental connectivity limitations of quantum computers and solves general optimization problems through a software architecture. In 2017, Lechner set up a research team in the field of quantum optimization at the University of Innsbruck. The research group is dedicated to theoretical quantum physics, with the aim to solve computationally challenging problems efficiently in near term quantum devices. The research group published several papers including “Quantum Approximate Optimization With Parallelizable Gates” and “Quantum Optimization via Four-Body Rydberg Gates”.
ParityQC
In January 2020 Wolfgang Lechner co-founded the company ParityQC together with Magdalena Hauser, as a spin-off from the University of Innsbruck, and with Hermann Hauser as mentor. ParityQC is a quantum architecture company that develops blueprints for quantum computers to solve optimization problems as well as the appertaining operating system called ParityOS. The ParityQC architecture is a generalisation of the LHZ architecture for both digital and analog quantum devices.
Awards
Wolfgang Lechner has received a number of awards for his contributions to the field of quantum optimization. He was awarded the 2011 Loschmidt Prize of Austria's Chemisch Physikalische Gesellschaft, the 2015 Wallnöfer Prize of the Austrian Industrialists Association (IV), the 2017 Thirring Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the 2017 START Prize of the Austrian Science Fund. Lechner also received the Houska Prize 2019 which was awarded jointly to him and his research group, the Google Faculty Research Award for Quantum Computing, the 2020 “Spinoff Prize” Nature Research Award for ParityQC. In 2020, he was nominated among the “22 Innovators Building a Better Future” by Wired UK.
References
1981 births
Living people
21st-century Austrian physicists
People from Kufstein
University of Vienna alumni
Theoretical physicists
Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Red%20Lists | This list is of Red Lists, Red Data Books, and related initiatives that assess and document the extinction risk of species, whether on an international or more local level (regional Red Lists). The IUCN has published a set of Guidelines for Application of the IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels and at least 113 countries have produced their own Red Lists. Below, where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided.
International
International Union for Conservation of Nature
IUCN Red List
European Red List
Angola
: Lista Vermelha de Espécies de Angola, published by the Ministério do Ambiente
Armenia
: ԿԱՐՄԻՐ ԳԻՐՔ, published by the Ministry of Environment;
Australia
: Species Profile and Threats Database, published by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Azerbaijan
:
Belarus
:
Brazil
: Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção, published by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation
Bulgaria
: Червена книга на Република България (Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria), published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Environment and Water;
Canada
: Species at risk public registry, published by the Government of Canada
China
: 中国生物多样性红色名录, published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: 脊椎动物卷 (vertebrates) 高等植物卷 (higher plants); 中国生物多样性红色名录 脊椎动物 第一卷 哺乳动物 (Mammals); cf.
Colombia
: Libros Rojos, published by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Czech Republic
: Červené seznamy, published by the ;
Denmark
: Den danske Rødliste, published by Aarhus University;
Finland
: Suomen lajien uhanalaisuus – Punainen kirja, jointly published by the Ministry of the Environment; Web Service of the Red List of Finnish Species, published on the
France
: La Liste rouge des espèces menacées en France; , published by the National Museum of Natural History
Germany
:
Greece
: Το Κόκκινο Βιβλίο των Απειλούμενων Ζώων της Ελλάδας, published by the Hellenic Zoological Society;
Iceland
: Válistar published by the ;
Italy
: Liste Rosse Nazionali, published by the Ministry of the Ecological Transition
Japan
: Ministry of the Environment Red List
Kazakhstan
:
Kyrgyzstan
: Кыргыз Республикасынын Кызыл китеби;
Latvia
:
Lithuania
:
Moldova
: Cartea roșie a Republicii Moldova, published by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and Ministry of Environment;
Netherlands
:
New Zealand
: New Zealand Threat Classification System, published by the Department of Conservation
Nicaragua
: Lista Roja, Especies en Alto Riesgo
Norway
: Norsk rødliste for arter, published by Artsdatabanken;
Philippines
: National List of Threatened Fauna, maintained by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Poland
: Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt; Polska Czerwona Księga Roślin;
Russia
: Red Data Book of the Russian Federation; also by Federal subject — Sakhalin Oblast: Красная Книга Сахалин |
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