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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Family%20Hour | CBC Family Hour is an anthology series of Canadian programming intended for family viewing, which aired on CBC Television with a regular weekly timeslot of Sundays at 7:00 p.m. (7:30 p.m. Newfoundland Time). The title was in use from fall 1989 until no later than 2001, though CBC resumed airing family dramas in the same timeslot in 2007, and continues to do so .
Early promotion for the series suggested a variety of programs would air in the hour, including figure skating exhibitions and a Raffi concert film. However, from January 7, 1990, to March 31, 1996, the hour's primary, if not sole, occupant was Road to Avonlea, a period drama series produced by Sullivan Entertainment based on the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Shortly after that series concluded in 1996, it was succeeded by a different Sullivan Entertainment series, Wind at My Back, later sharing the timeslot seasonally with Emily of New Moon, based on another book series by Montgomery.
The Family Hour branding was dropped by the time Wind at My Back concluded in 2001, though possibly well before. In any event, following its initial season, the Family Hour title was rarely promoted outside of brief announcements at the beginning and end of the hour.
Other programming, including The Wonderful World of Disney, aired in the timeslot from fall 2001 through the end of the 2006–07 season. In fall 2007, CBC premiered a new Canadian family drama titled Heartland, which has been the main occupant of the timeslot ever since, with second-run episodes of When Calls the Heart airing as summer replacement programming since 2015.
References
CBC Television original programming
Period family drama television series
1990s Canadian anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Forensic%20Science%20Institutes | The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) was founded in 1995 in order to facilitate dialogue among the forensic science practitioners of Europe, as well as improving the quality of forensic science delivery. It has close cooperation with European police forces. In addition to quality, research, and education, different forensic disciplines address domain-relevant issues within expert working groups (EWGs) to the highest degree such that ENFSI is recognized as the monopoly organization for forensics science by the European Commission. ENFSI functions as a non-profit organization.
The number of member laboratories has increased since ENFSI's inception from 11 member laboratories in 1993 to 71 in 2019. , membership comes from 39 countries spread across Europe. Non-European laboratories are also permitted to be involved in ENFSI as 'Associate' member laboratories under a specific Expert Working Group.
History
Representatives from 11 governmental forensic laboratories in Western Europe attended a preliminary meeting in 1993 in Rijswijk, Netherlands. The official founding meeting occurred on October 20, 1995 in Rijswijk and was open to all European countries. A memorandum of understanding was signed which governed its operation. The first constitution for ENFSI was accepted by the membership in 1999, and the ENFSI website was created. A new constitution was approved in 2004 when personal membership was discontinued in favour of an institutional membership, and membership fees were enacted. The European Commission recognised ENFSI in 2009 and in 2015 at the decision was made to move the secretariat from the Netherlands to Germany.
Structure
ENFSI is governed by an executive branch consisting of a five-member Board and a Secretariat. There are also two standing committees or advisory groups; one for Quality & Competency, and another for Research & Development. Individual forensic disciplines are represented by various Expert Working Groups.
Board and Secretariat
The ENFSI Board governs the activities of the organization and consists of five members elected from, and accountable to, the general membership. The Board consists of a chairperson, a treasurer, and various members. The ENFSI Secretariat is accountable to and operates under the supervision of the Board to provide support for ENFSI activities. It is hosted by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden, Germany, with two persons serving in that capacity.
Standing committees
ENFSI has two Standing Committees. These are the Quality & Competence Committee (QCC), and the Research & Development Committee (R&D).
The QCC is responsible for policy development relating to Quality Assurance and Competence Assurance, the provision of advise to Expert Working Groups as well as ENFSI members, and assisting member laboratories.
The RDSC is responsible for ENFSI’s Research and Development Strategy, the provision of advice to Expert Working Groups and ENFSI members, fa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%2012%29 | The twelfth season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules, with the motto Share the love, premiered on the Seven Network on 7 August 2022.
Applications for contestants opened during the airing of the end of 2021, after a one-year break in 2021. In December 2021, Feildel was announced to be returning as a judge. In April 2022, it was announced Nigella Lawson and Matt Preston will be joining the series as judges alongside Feildel with Colin Fassnidge and Curtis Stone appearing as guest judges. Although not previously announced, Gary Mehigan will also be a guest judge.
The start date for the season was confirmed as 7 August 2022, after the Commonwealth Games.
Format changes
Judges - This season, Manu Feildel is the series judge alongside Nigella Lawson or Matt Preston in the Instant Restaurant Rounds, with Colin Fassnidge, Gary Mehigan and Curtis Stone appearing as guest judges in the Final Week.
Rules - This season, the rules returned to the MKR's original format, without houses divided as seen in MKR: The Rivals version and it will be States vs States.
Instant Restaurant Round - The format is like the original Instant Restaurant Round. However, there is a twist this season: The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final, while the lowest scoring team will be eliminated.
Last Chance Cook Off - The rest 4 teams from each Instant Restaurant group have to plate a main and a dessert for Colin, Curtis, Gary as well as the other group in this round. The winning team will be decided by the judge and will be advanced to the Semi-Final, while the other 3 will be eliminated.
Semi-Final - Instead of the previous format where there will be two Semi-finals to choose the Grand Finalist, this season only had one with two rounds to eliminate two out of four teams to decide the finalists.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group. The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final, while the lowest scoring team will be eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 7 August to 15 August
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1, with the entrance of new judge: Nigella Lawson. The highest scoring team at the end of the round will advance directly to the Semi Final, while the lowest scoring team will be eliminated.
Note
Due to medical problems, Mat cannot attend the Instant Restaurants in these episodes so Ashlee is the only one to represent the team and judge other teams' meal.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate — 16 August to 24 August
Description — The second of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 2, with the entrance of new judge: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiGHS%20optimization%20solver | HiGHS is open-source software to solve linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and convex quadratic programming (QP) models.
Written in C++ and published under an MIT license, HiGHS provides programming interfaces to C, Python, Julia, Rust, JavaScript, Fortran, and C#. It has no external dependencies. Aconvenient thin wrapper to Python is available via the PyPI package.
Although generally single-threaded, some solver components can utilize multi-core architectures. HiGHS is designed to solve large-scale models and exploits problem sparsity. Its performance relative to commercial and other open-source software is reviewed periodically using industry-standard benchmarks.
The term HiGHS may also refer to both the underlying project and the small team leading the software development.
History
HiGHS is based on solvers written by PhD students from the Optimization and Operational Research Group in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Its origins can be traced back to late 2016, when Ivet Galabova combined her LP presolve with Julian Hall's simplex crash procedure and Huangfu Qi's dual simplex solver to solve a class of industrial LP problems faster than the best open-source solvers at that time. Since then, a C++API and other language interfaces have been developed, and modelling utilities and other categories of solver have been added.
In early2022, the GenX and PyPSA open energy system modelling projects endorsed a funding application for the HiGHS solver in an effort to reduce their community reliance on proprietary libraries. That appeal resulted in in funding from Invenia Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom in July2022.
Solvers
Simplex
HiGHS has implementations of the primal and dual revised simplex method for solving LP problems, based on techniques described by Hall and McKinnon (2005), and Huangfu and Hall (2015, 2018). These include the exploitation of hyper-sparsity when solving linear systems in the simplex implementations and, for the dual simplex solver, exploitation of multi-threading. The simplex solver's performance relative to commercial and other open-source software is regularly reported using industry-standard benchmarks.
Interior point
HiGHS has an interior point method implementation for solving LP problems, based on techniques described by Schork and Gondzio (2020). It is notable for solving the Newton system iteratively by a preconditioned conjugate gradient method, rather than directly, via an LDL* decomposition. The interior point solver's performance relative to commercial and other open-source software is regularly reported using industry-standard benchmarks.
Mixed integer programming
HiGHS has a branch-and-cut solver for MIP problems. Its performance relative to commercial and other open-source software is regularly reported using industry-standard benchmarks.
Quadratic programming
HiGHS has an active set solver for convex quadratic programming (QP) problems.
Appl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20magic | Blood magic may refer to:
Blood ritual
Blood Magic, an episode of the supernatural drama TV series Grimm
Blood Magic, the name of the original release of the computer game Dawn of Magic
Blood Magic, a novel of the World of the Lupi series by Eileen Wilks
Blood Magic, a 2001 horror story collection by Lucy A. Snyder
Blood Magic, a mod for the video game Minecraft that allows players to perform rituals using blood and the souls of demons.
See also
Blood & Magic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 46th Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in US daytime television programming in 2018. The winners were announced in a ceremony at Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on May 3, 2019, two days prior the main awards ceremony.
The nominations for both the main ceremony categories and the creative arts categories were announced on March 20, 2019. French-American chef and television personality Jacques Pépin received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners and nominees
The winners are listed first, in boldface.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jacques Pépin
Programming
Performance and Hosting
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Editing
Hairstyling
Lighting Direction
Main Title Design
Makeup
Music
Technical Direction
Sound
Writing
References
External links
Daytime Emmys website
046 Creative Arts
2019 television awards
2019 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20%28programming%20language%29 | Carbon is an experimental programming language designed for interoperability with C++. The project is open-source and was started at Google. Google engineer Chandler Carruth first introduced Carbon at the CppNorth conference in Toronto in July 2022. He stated that Carbon was created to be a C++ successor. The language is expected to have a 1.0 release in 2024 or 2025.
The language intends to fix several perceived shortcomings of C++ but otherwise provides a similar feature set.
The main goals of the language are readability and "bi-directional interoperability" (which allows the user to include C++ code in the Carbon file), as opposed to using a new language like Rust, that, while being influenced by C++, is not two-way compatible with C++ programs. Changes to the language will be decided by the Carbon leads.
Carbon's documents, design, implementation, and related tools are hosted on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license with LLVM Exceptions.
Example
The following shows how a "Hello, World!" program is written in Carbon:
package Sample api;
fn Main() -> i32 {
var s: auto = "Hello, World!";
Print(s);
return 0;
}
The following is the equivalent "Hello, World!" program written in C++:
#include <iostream>
int main() {
auto s = "Hello, World!";
std::cout << s;
return 0;
}
See also
Comparison of programming languages
Timeline of programming languages
C++
D
Rust
References
External links
Carbon at the Compiler Explorer (godbolt)
Google
Programming languages
Statically typed programming languages
Cross-platform software
Object-oriented programming languages
Programming languages created in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSOL%20REDE%20Federation | The PSOL REDE Federation () is an electoral and parliamentary group formed by the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) and Sustainability Network (REDE). Its program and statute were published on 17 May 2022 and registered by the Superior Electoral Court on 26 May.
Composition
Electoral history
Legislative elections
References
2022 establishments in Brazil
Eco-socialism
Environmentalism in Brazil
Left-wing political party alliances
Political parties established in 2022
Political party alliances in Brazil
Progressivism
Socialism and Liberty Party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satin%20%28codec%29 | Satin is a lossy speech codec developed by Microsoft. Satin was designed to supersede the earlier Silk codec in their applications, and implements a neural network and novel signal processing to improve performance over its predecessor.
Features
Satin is designed to deliver good sound quality despite limited bandwidth or high packet loss, such as over unreliable WiFi or cellular networks. Satin can produce output bitrates of 6 to 36 kbps, and operates on super-wideband audio (a 32 kHz sampling rate). Sound is encoded by processing a sparse representation of the input, then decoded with the help of a neural network that infers the high frequencies from the low ones. Because neural networks are computationally complex, optimization and vectorization of the network were required to achieve acceptable performance. To improve resilience to packet loss, each packet is encoded independently and the codec has its own packet loss concealment system.
History
Silk was developed by Skype and can compress wideband speech in 14 kbps. Satin is considered to be Silk's successor, and was initially announced and implemented for Microsoft Teams in 2020. As of February 2021, it was used for all two-way calls in both Teams and Skype. According to Microsoft, a future release will add support for music in full-band stereo at bitrates of at least 17 kbps.
Quality
Microsoft claims that Satin's quality is significantly better than Silk, achieving mean opinion scores up to 1.7 points higher in low-bitrate A/B testing. Microsoft also notes that Satin's bitrate savings allows for sending more redundant data to increase resistance to packet loss.
Support
As of February 2021, Skype and Microsoft Teams implemented Satin for all two-person calls, and an expansion to larger Teams meetings was planned.
References
External links
Satin: Microsoft's latest AI-powered audio codec for real-time communications with a demonstration
See also
Lyra (codec), an AI-based codec by Google
Videotelephony
Lossy compression algorithms
Proprietary software
Microsoft software
2020 software
Speech codecs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNews%20%28Russian%20magazine%29 | CNews (pronounced "C-News") is a Russian publication, Internet portal and a monthly magazine of the same name dedicated to telecommunications, information technology, software, and computer games.
History
The CNews Internet portal has been operating since August 2000.
The former owner of C-News is RBK Group.
CNews magazine has been published since December 2004 and is aimed at heads of IT departments and high-tech specialists. Distributed in Moscow (45% of the circulation), St. Novgorod, Samara, Perm, Kazan and Rostov-on-Don. Distribution is carried out through the base of subscribers, as well as at specialized conferences and seminars. An archive of all issues of the journal is available for free download on the official website.
Since 2018, it has been developing as an independent company. In September 2018, Kommersant, citing its sources, reported that CNews had been sold to its editor-in-chief Maxim Kazak and CEO Eduard Erkole. Director is Eduard Erkola, editor-in-chief since 2018. In September 2018, Kommersant, citing its sources, reported that CNews had been sold to its editor-in-chief Maxim Kazak and CEO Eduard Erkole.
Other work
The following agencies work within C-News: CNews Analytics, which is part of the RBK Group and develops ratings, reviews, research CNews Conferences organizing conferences, round tables and other events.
Reception
Repeatedly recognized Medialogy as the most cited media in the field of telecommunications and information technology. It has twice won the Runet Prize.
References
Magazines published in Russia
Companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QLattice | The QLattice is a software library which provides a framework for symbolic regression in Python. It works on Linux, Windows, and macOS. The QLattice algorithm is developed by the Danish/Spanish AI research company Abzu. Since its creation, the QLattice has attracted significant attention, mainly for the inherent explainability of the models it produces.
At the GECCO conference in Boston, MA in July 2022, the QLattice was announced as the winner of the synthetic track of the SRBench competition.
Features
The QLattice works with data in categorical and numeric format. It allows the user to quickly generate, plot and inspect mathematical formulae that can potentially explain the generating process of the data. It is designed for easy interaction with the researcher, allowing the user to guide the search based on their preexisting knowledge.
Scientific results
The QLattice mainly targets scientists, and integrates well with the scientific workflow. It has been used in research into many different areas, such as energy consumption in buildings, water potability, heart failure, pre-eclampsia, Alzheimer’s disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, and breast cancer.
See also
Symbolic regression
Explainable artificial intelligence
References
Data mining and machine learning software
Free data analysis software
Big data products
2020 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Brasil | Canal Brasil is a Brazilian subscription TV channel with programming focused on the country's audiovisual productions.
It's the result of an association of Grupo Globo's cable TV division Canais Globo with the company Grupo Consórcio Brasil (GCB), formed by Luiz Carlos Barreto, Zelito Vianna, Marco Altberg, Roberto Farias, Anibal Massaini Neto, Patrick Siaretta, André Saddy and Paulo Mendonça.
History
The channel premiered on September 18, 1998, with the exhibition of the film Sonho sem fim (Dream Without End), by Lauro Escorel, and was developed based on Decree 2206, of 1997, which required all Brazilian cable TV service providers to include in their programming at least one channel with 12 daily hours dedicated to "Brazilian cinematographic and audiovisual works of independent production.
Hosts and programs
Some of Canal Brasil's hosts and shows are, or were Paulo Tiefenthaler (Larica Total), Lázaro Ramos (Espelho), Michel Melamed (Bipolar Show), Charles Gavin (O Som do Vinil), Roberta Sá (Faixa Musical), João Gordo (Eletrogordo), Nasi (Nasi Noite Adentro), Nicole Puzzi (Pornolândia), André Abujamra (Abuzando), Zé Nogueira (Estúdio 66), Tárik de Souza (MPBambas), José Mojica Marins (O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão), Simone Zuccolotto (CineJornal e Sessão Interativa), among others.
Awards
Canal Brasil promotes the Canal Brasil Acquisition Award, which gives R$15,000 to the short films that won in the most representative film festivals in the country, in addition to showing the film during programming. Since 2006, it has also held the Canal Brasil Short Film Grand Prix, which awards R$50,000 to the best short film among the 10 winners of the previous year's Canal Brasil Acquisition Prize. A jury made up of presenters from the channel chooses the grand prize winner by secret ballot.
Original Productions
Canal Brasil has participated co-producing films and series with independent filmmakers, including films.
Neon Bull
Gabriel and the Mountain
Loveling
Bacurau
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão.
The Traitor
References
External links
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Canais Globo
Movie channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuga%3A%20Melodies%20of%20Steel%202 | Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 is a tactical role-playing video game developed and published by CyberConnect2. It is the fifth title in the company's Little Tail Bronx series and is a direct sequel to the original Fuga: Melodies of Steel released in 2021. The game was released worldwide on May 11, 2023 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Premise
Fuga 2 is set one year after the events of Fuga: Melodies of Steel, taking place in the same world modeled after World War II-era France and populated by anthropomorphic dogs ("Caninu") and cats ("Felineko"). With the recent armistice between the nations of Berman and Gasco, the bloody conflict which served as the backdrop of the previous game has ended. The main characters have separated to live peaceful lives until their gigantic tank, the Taranis mysteriously activates and goes on a rampage, capturing some of them in the process. Led by the young Caninu boy Malt Marzipan, the remaining children, along with their new ally Vanilla, board a new tank, the dread weapon Tarascus, to rescue them.
Development
Fuga 2 was first announced by representatives of CyberConnect2 on July 14, 2022. More information was revealed two weeks later in an issue of Famitsu magazine, which confirmed the game's multiplatform release for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in 2023. Development began as a result of the team's original decision to make the series a trilogy, with the story picking up after the "true" ending of the original game where every member of the player's party survives, and having a main scenario twice as long as the previous entry. A teaser trailer was released at the same time, along with details of the game's revamped battle system and quality-of-life improvements over the original game. In January 2023, the title received its release date of May 11, 2023, as well as confirmation that it would be included as part of Xbox Game Pass for Microsoft consoles and Windows.
The game represented a passion project of the studio, with development of the sequel proceeding despite not making their profit margin on the first game. It was produced by many of the same staff who produced the original title, including character design by artist Tokitsu Yusuke and music by Chikayo Fukuda. Yoann Gueritot, director of the previous game, would leave the company partway through development of the sequel, stating "I am sad I couldn’t guide my beloved and brave children through the end of their journey, but Fuga already has a strong and solid basis, and I am sure the team will do a fantastic job."
Fuga 2 was released as both standard and digital deluxe editions, the latter containing a downloadable art book and 15-track mini soundtrack as well as in-game bonus items. A number of in-game bonus items can also be earned if the player has save files with specific ending earned in the previous title.
Reception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill-A-Burger | Grill-A-Burger is a hamburger restaurant in Palm Desert, California, United States. The business was featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in 2017. The interior decor has a jungle theme and features gorillas. In addition to burgers, the menu has included hot dogs and avocado fries.
References
External links
Hamburger restaurants in the United States
Palm Desert, California
Restaurants in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%E2%80%93Alpine%20Corridor | The Rhine-Alpine Corridor is one of the ten priority corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network. It is a rail and roadway network.
It connects a total of five countries over 1,300 kilometers and connects Genoa in Italy with Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Route
The corridor is divided into six sections:
Genoa – Milan – Zurich – Basel
Milan - Novara - Berne - Basel
Basel - Strasbourg - Mannheim - Frankfurt - Cologne
Cologne – Dusseldorf – Utrecht – Amsterdam
Cologne - Liège - Brussels - Ghent - Bruges
Liège - Antwerp - Rotterdam
References
External links
Official Website
TEN-T Core Network Corridors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLV%20%28disambiguation%29 | KLV is key-length-value, a data encoding standard
KLV or variant, may also refer to:
Maskelynes language (ISO 639 language code klv)
Karlovy Vary Airport (IATA airport code KLV), Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czechia
Kelve Road railway station (station code KLV), Kelve Road, Palghar, Konkan, Maharashtra, India; see List of railway stations in India
Key leader vehicle; see List of the United States military vehicles by model number
Kinderlandverschickung (KLV, ), the evacuations of children in Germany during World War II to the countryside
Kolovratite (mineral code Klv), see List of mineral symbols
KLV-TV (Karl-Lorimar Video), a home video brand
KLV polynomial (Kazhdan–Lusztig–Vogan)
See also
K. L. V. Vasantha (1923–2008), Indian actress
KLVS (107.3 FM), Livermore, California, USA
Las Vegas Municipal Airport (ICAO airport code: KLVS), Las Vegas, San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA
KL5
K55 (disambiguation)
KIV (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Masked%20Singer%20%28Australian%20season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Masked Singer Australia was announced in October 2021 and premiered on Network 10 on 7 August 2022. In the Grand Finale on 28 August 2022, The winner was revealed to be Melody Thornton as “Mirrorball”, the runner-up was Sheldon Riley as “Snapdragon”, and third place was Hugh Sheridan as “Rooster”.
The fourth series was filmed with a live audience between 30 June and 20 July 2022.
Production
The costumes were designed and created by Australian Academy Award and BAFTA Award-Winning costume designer Tim Chappel.
Panellists and host
Only comedian Dave Hughes remained on the panel after the show's previous panelists left. British singer-songwriter Mel B, TV personality Abbie Chatfield and radio personality Chrissie Swan joined Hughes as panelists. Osher Günsberg returned as host.
Contestants
Before the season began, Network Ten revealed that the cast included a Grammy Award winner, a gold medalist, a singer with more than 50 million records sold and a multiple Logie Award winner.
This is the first season to feature "Wild Card" contestants. Further explained in the premiere episode, it was revealed that two of the twelve contestants would perform later in the competition, similar to the format of the fifth American season.
Like the previous season, a special guest mask, "Poodle", appeared for one night. Poodle was revealed to be Tori Spelling, who also appeared as Unicorn on the first American season.
(WC) This masked singer is a wildcard contestant.
Episodes
Episode 1 (7 August)
Episode 2 (8 August)
Episode 3 (9 August)
Episode 4 (14 August)
Episode 5 (15 August)
Group number: "Absolutely Everybody" by Vanessa Amorosi
Episode 6 (16 August)
Group Number: "Love Is In The Air" by John Paul Young
Episode 7 (21 August)
Episode 8 (22 August)
Episode 9 (23 August)
Group Number: "Best Day of My Life" by American Authors
Episode 10 (24 August)
Episode 11 (28 August) - Finale
Group number: "Firework" by Katy Perry
Reception
Ratings
References
External links
The Masked Singer (Australian TV series)
2022 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntok%20sa%20Buwan | Suntok sa Buwan is a 2022 Philippine television sports drama series broadcast by TV5. Directed by Geo Lomuntad, it stars Aga Muhlach and Elijah Canlas. It premiered on July 18, 2022, on the network's Todo Max Primetime Singko line up, replacing Dear God. The series concluded on December 8, 2022, with a total of 65 episodes.
Plot
Jimmy Boy (Muhlach), a retired boxer who currently works as a taxi driver, has Stage 3 cancer. This diagnosis deeply affects his son, Dos (Canlas), who dreams of becoming a professional boxer like his father. The two will face conflicts and life-challenging experiences that would lead one of them to make sacrifices and strengthen their bond as father and son.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Aga Muhlach as Jimmy Boy
Elijah Canlas as Dos
Supporting cast
Maris Racal as Trina
Matet de Leon as Nesthy
Albie Casiño as Pistol
Rez Cortez as Magnum / Migs
Awra Briguela as Orange
Paulo Angeles as Barok
Bianca Manalo as Andrea
Ronnie Lazaro as Mr. Seng
Bobby Andrews as Benj
Teejay Marquez as Carlton Saavedra
Production
The series marks Aga Muhlach's first series in a decade since M3: Malay Mo Ma-develop in 2010. He stated that he would accept an offer as long as it takes place in Baguio.
This series had a 5-night special on September 12 to 16.
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2022 Philippine television series endings
2020s Philippine television series
TV5 (Philippine TV network) drama series
Filipino-language television shows
Philippine sports television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shash%20Appan | Shash Appan is a Welsh LGBT+ and anti-racist activist. A co-founder of Trans Aid Cymru, she also serves as a director of the Trans Safety Network. She has also advocated for tenant rights, co-founding a website for tenants in Cardiff to anonymously rate their landlords.
Biography
She is of Indian descent. In 2020, she organised several protests in Cardiff calling for reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
In March 2021, she raised concerns about a hustings held online by the Youth Cymru charity in which Plaid Cymru MS Helen Mary Jones was invited to speak, despites Jones having repeatedly made controversial comments about transgender people. After attempting to raise concerns, she was subsequently kicked out of the hustings after displaying the trans pride flag in her profile picture. The controversy led to the resignations of two of the charity's trustees. In August 2021, she was named to Wales Online's Pinc List of the most influential LGBT+ people in Wales.
In April 2022, she gave a speech at a protest held by Trans Aid Cymru in front of the Tŷ William Morgan - William Morgan House calling for a ban on conversion therapy and talking about her experience as a survivor of conversion therapy. In June 2022, she gave a speech at a PinkNews reception held at the National Museum Cardiff in which she condemned British politicians, some of whom where in attendance, for stoking transphobia within British society, saying in particular that "transphobia is essentially Tory policy".
References
External links
Living people
Transgender rights activists
1996 births
Welsh people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberknife%20%28horse%29 | Cyberknife (foaled 14 March 2019) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who has won multiple Grade I events as a three-year-old in 2022 including the Arkansas Derby and Haskell Stakes.
Background
Cyberknife is a chestnut colt that was bred in Kentucky by Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey. His sire is Gun Runner, the 2017 American Horse of the Year and stands at Three Chimneys Farm and his dam is Awesome Flower who was sired by the 2005 Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley.
He was bought by Joe Hardoon on behalf of Al Gold's Gold Square, for US$400,000 from the Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey's Ramsey Farm consignment at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase. He is the fourth foal and first stakes winner for Awesome Flower.
Racing career
2021: Two-year-old season
Cyberknife began his racing career on 25 September in a Maiden Special Weight event over 6 furlongs at Churchill Downs. Starting as the 6/5 favorite in a field of nine began awkwardly recovering to stalk the leader then forging ahead three wide while shifting inwards and bumping Hoist the Gold in upper stretch, then dueled while managing a narrow margin from that rival through the lane, and prevailing. However, after a stewards inquiry into the incident in the stretch Cyberknife was disqualified and placed second.
On 5 November Cyberknife returned to the track at Churchill Downs in a Maiden Special Weight event over furlongs. Starting as the short 2/5 odds-on favorite Cyberknife tracked the pace early, was in the four path into the lane, made a bid down the lane, drifted out a bit then lugged in and did not have enough in the final stages to defeat Classic Moment.
A change of venue and a change of jockey for his third attempt to break his maiden Cyberknife was moved to the Fair Grounds in New Orleans where he on 26 December he broke his maiden over the miles distance holding off Jeeper by length.
2022: Three-year-old season
On 22 January Cyberknife faced eight other rivals in his first run in a graded event, the Grade III Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds. Cyberknife settled off of the pace four wide, inched closer in the five path and outside of rivals around the far turn to attempt a bid approaching the lane, but flattened out in upper stretch finishing sixth beaten by over 10 lengths.
On 19 February Cyberknife dropped in class to an Allowance Optional Claiming event over miles and easily dispatched his 9 foes as the 9/5 favorite winning by three lengths.
In his next start on 2 April Cyberknife starting at odds of nearly 6/1 won the prestigious Grade I Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park by lengths over Barber Road and the game filly Secret Oath securing 100 points for the Kentucky Derby thus qualifying for the event. Trainer Brad Cox commented after the event, "This is a good colt. We've liked him for a long, long, time. I was a little taken back by his Lecomte but he ran very well in the allowance race. He's not polished mentally but he's getting there all the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberknife | Cyberknife may refer to:
Cyberknife (horse), a Thoroughbred race horse, winner of the 2022 Arkansas Derby
Cyberknife (device), is a radiation therapy device manufactured by Accuray Incorporated
Oklahoma CyberKnife, is a cancer treatment center based in Oklahoma
Reno CyberKnife, is a cancer treatment center based in Reno, Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-width | The twin-width of an undirected graph is a natural number associated with the graph, used to study the parameterized complexity of graph algorithms. Intuitively, it measures how similar the graph is to a cograph, a type of graph that can be reduced to a single vertex by repeatedly merging together twins, vertices that have the same neighbors. The twin-width is defined from a sequence of repeated mergers where the vertices are not required to be twins, but have nearly equal sets of neighbors.
Definition
Twin-width is defined for finite simple undirected graphs. These have a finite set of vertices, and a set of edges that are unordered pairs of vertices. The open neighborhood of any vertex is the set of other vertices that it is paired with in edges of the graph; the closed neighborhood is formed from the open neighborhood by including the vertex itself. Two vertices are true twins when they have the same closed neighborhood, and false twins when they have the same open neighborhood; more generally, both true twins and false twins can be called twins, without qualification.
The cographs have many equivalent definitions, but one of them is that these are the graphs that can be reduced to a single vertex by a process of repeatedly finding any two twin vertices and merging them into a single vertex. For a cograph, this reduction process will always succeed, no matter which choice of twins to merge is made at each step. For a graph that is not a cograph, it will always get stuck in a subgraph with more than two vertices that has no twins.
The definition of twin-width mimics this reduction process. A contraction sequence, in this context, is a sequence of steps, beginning with the given graph, in which each step replaces a pair of vertices by a single vertex. This produces a sequence of graphs, with edges colored red and black; in the given graph, all edges are assumed to be black. When two vertices are replaced by a single vertex, the neighborhood of the new vertex is the union of the neighborhoods of the replaced vertices. In this new neighborhood, an edge that comes from black edges in the neighborhoods of both vertices remains black; all other edges are colored red.
A contraction sequence is called a -sequence if, throughout the sequence, every vertex touches at most red edges. The twin-width of a graph is the smallest value of for which it has a -sequence.
A dense graph may still have bounded twin-width; for instance, the cographs include all complete graphs. A variation of twin-width, sparse twin-width, applies to families of graphs rather than to individual graphs. For a family of graphs that is closed under taking induced subgraphs and has bounded twin-width, the following properties are equivalent:
The graphs in the family are sparse, meaning that they have a number of edges bounded by a linear function of their number of vertices.
The family does not include all complete bipartite graphs.
The family of all subgraphs of graphs in the giv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust%20for%20Linux | Rust for Linux is a series of patches to the Linux kernel that adds Rust as a second programming language to C for writing kernel components.
History
The Linux kernel has been primarily written in C and assembly language since its first release in 1991. Around 1997, the addition of C++ was considered and experimented upon for two weeks before being scrapped. Rust was created in 2006 and combines the performance of low-level programming languages (such as C) with a focus on memory safety and a user-friendly tool set and syntax.
The Rust for Linux project was announced in 2020 in the Linux kernel mailing list with goals of leveraging Rust's memory safety to reduce bugs when writing kernel drivers. At the Open Source Summit 2022, Linus Torvalds stated that the incorporation of the project's work could begin as soon as the Linux 5.20 release, later named as Linux 6.0. The first release candidate for Linux 6.0 was created on 14 August 2022, without Rust support. In the release notes for Linux 6.0-rc1, Torvalds expressed his intention for adding Rust support, "I actually was hoping that we'd get some of the first rust infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but neither of them happened this time around." On 19 September 2022, an article from ZDNet revealed an email from Linus Torvalds stating that "Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1".
In October 2022, a pull request for accepting the implementation for Rust for Linux was approved by Torvalds. As of Linux 6.1, support was intentionally left minimal in order to allow developers to test the feature.
References
Free software programmed in Rust
Linux software projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMAT%20Music%20Company | BMAT (Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies) is a music company that index all music usage and ownership data. The company monitors and reports music usage globally across TVs, radios, venues and digital. The company provides 80 million identifications and 27 billion matches to CMOs, publishers, record labels, broadcasters and DSPs daily. BMAT monitors radio Airplay, RIM Charts and other charts.
JACAP (Jamaica Association of Composers Authors and Publishers Limited) uses the BMAT digital monitoring system, which was introduced in 2013. The BMAT system monitors music usage of all media houses in Jamaica and keeps records of all musical works composed by JACAP members and affiliated societies. BMAT is partner of Audible Magic, The Official South African Music Charts, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), RightsHub, The Indian Music Industry (IMI) and TagMix.
BMAT won Key Innovator award by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar, Best Music Detection algorithm 2018 & 2019 awards by MIREX, Midsize Enterprise of the year Barcelona 2019 award by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneur XXI (EmprendedorXXI) award of the year 2009.
References
Companies based in Barcelona
Music companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20We%20Could%20Be | What We Could Be is a 2022 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jeffrey Jeturian, it stars Miguel Tanfelix, Ysabel Ortega and Yasser Marta. It premiered on August 29, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Bolera. The series concluded on October 27, 2022 with a total of 40 episodes. It was replaced by Mano Po Legacy: The Flower Sisters in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Miguel Tanfelix as Franco R. Luciano
Ysabel Ortega as Cynthia Macaraeg-Luciano
Yasser Marta as Lucas Relosa
Supporting cast
Joyce Anne Burton as Helena "Helen" Relosa-Luciano
Soliman Cruz as Tirso Macaraeg
Aleck Bovick as Melba Macaraeg
Bimbo Bautista as Gabriel "Gabby" Relosa
Art Acuña as Bruno Panlilo
Joel Saracho as Antonio "Tonyo" Cruz
Vince Crisostomo as Justin Macaraeg
Pamela Prinster as Criselda Garcia
Hailey Mendes as Vera Panlilo
Lia Salvador as Eloisa
EJ Jallorina as Ate Vi
Guest cast
Celeste Legaspi as Leonora "Onor" Maravilla
Episodes
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External links
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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/Candi%20Carter | Candi Carter (born February 19, 1969) is an American broadcast executive and television talk show producer. She has won two Daytime Emmy Awards, one in 1994 for Outstanding Children's Programming Special on WISN-TV, and another in 2020 for Outstanding Informative Talk Show for The View.
Career
Carter began her career as a programming producer at WISN-TV in 1993. Since then, she has worked as a producer on shows ranging from The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Tyler Perry Talk Show, Just Keke, Ice & Coco, The View, and Tamron Hall.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
From 1996 to 2011, Carter worked on The Oprah Winfrey Show, starting as an associate producer and becoming senior producer of the show.
The View
From 2015 to 2020, Carter served as the executive producer on The View television talk show. Carter was nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for her role as the executive producer on The View in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2020, the show won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informative Talk Show". It was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame that same year. According to Essence magazine, Carter was the first black woman to executive produce the show.
Tamron Hall talk show
In March 2020, Carter became the executive producer on the Tamron Hall talk show, which she left in the fall of 2021.
Knocking
In 2022, Carter joined Knocking.com, an e-commerce production company, as its chief content officer.
Awards and nominations
1994: Daytime Emmy Awards “Outstanding Children’s Programming Special” for WISN-TV
2020: Daytime Emmy Awards “Outstanding Informative Talk Show” winner for The View (talk show)
References
External links
Living people
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni
African-American television producers
American women television journalists
African-American women journalists
21st-century American women
1969 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiktoClock | TiktoClock is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Louie Ignacio, it is originally hosted by Kim Atienza, Pokwang and Rabiya Mateo. It premiered on July 25, 2022 on the network's daytime line up. Atienza, Pokwang, Mateo, Jayson Gainza and Faith da Silva currently serve as the hosts.
The show is streaming online on Facebook and YouTube.
Hosts
Kim Atienza
Pokwang
Rabiya Mateo
Jayson Gainza
Faith da Silva
Guest hosts
Rhian Ramos
Boobay
Tuesday Vargas
Betong Sumaya
Eugene Domingo
Billy Crawford
Donita Nose
Niño Muhlach
Segments
Hale-Hale Hoy!
'Sang Tanong, 'Sang Sabog
Beat My Birit!
SINGspector
Heto na Nga!
Defunct
Taympers
Oras Mo Na!
Dance Raffle
Quiz and Shout
Category Game/TiktoKulitan
Mamang-huhula
Abs 'O Absent
Boy Romantiko
Karoling Galing
Zumvivor: Last Mom Standing
Puno ng Swerte
Sing-Patible
Sure-Prize!
Bibong Tiktropa
Sagot Kita, Pilipinas!
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the pilot episode of TiktoClock earned a 4.2% rating.
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
Television shows set in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade%20Alglave | Jade Alglave (born 1984) is a French computer scientist whose research involves concurrency control, consistency models, weak hardware memory models, the relation between computer hardware and programming languages, and the "cat" domain-specific language for consistency models. She is a professor of computer science at University College London and a distinguished engineer at British semiconductor firm Arm.
Education and career
Alglave was a student of Luc Maranget at INRIA. She completed a doctorate in 2010 at Paris Diderot University.
After postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, she became a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, working there with Peter O'Hearn and Byron Cook before following O'Hearn and Cook to University College London. Keeping her affiliation at University College London, Alglave also worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge from 2014 to 2018, and at Arm beginning in 2018. In 2019, she was named as a professor at University College London.
Recognition
Alglave won the 2014 Brian Mercer Award for Innovation of the Royal Society. She won the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018. In 2020 the British Computer Society gave her the Roger Needham Award. In 2021 she was named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
References
External links
Home page
1984 births
Living people
French computer scientists
French women computer scientists
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20Services%20Network | The Emergency Services Network is an LTE radio communications network under development in the United Kingdom to provide unified communication for British emergency services. It is intended to replace the existing TETRA-based Airwave network in 2026, seven years after the original planned date of 2019.
The ESN is intended to offer the following services:
ESN Air, to support emergency services aircraft
ESN Connect, a SIM-only offer for vehicle modems and data-only devices
ESN Direct, a push-to-talk and messaging product for smartphones
As part of the construction of the ESN, almost 300 extra 4G sites will be added to extend the reach of the EE network to more remote parts of the country. The ESN will also serve the London Underground network.
History
In April 2014, the government announced the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) to migrate emergency services to a 4G-based network, to be called the Emergency Services Network. One of the intentions of this program was to switch from the private Airwave network to an existing commercial network. The switch was intended to begin in 2017 and be completed in 2019 before the existing Airwave contract was set to expire.
Implementation of the network was split into three lots. In June 2015, O2 announced they would be pulling out the bidding process for providing mobile services which left only EE in negotiations. At this point Airwave was not listed as bidding for operating any part of the ESMCP. In August 2015 the delivery partner was named as Kellogg Brown & Root. Finally, in December 2015 EE was officially announced as the provider of mobile services and Motorola Solutions was named as the provider of user services.
Delays
In January 2017, the Public Accounts Committee announced that the ESN might not be ready for its December 2019 deadline. In September 2018, it was announced that Airwave's existing contract would be renewed until December 2022.
In June 2022, a procurement request was issued for up to three suppliers of TETRA Encryption Algorithm 2 radio devices, and other maintenance services. As of 2022, the ESN is now expected to start operations from 2026.
ESN Beta
ESN Beta is a beta test network intended as a forerunner to the ESN. It is not intended to be used for mission critical operations. This is to be followed by ESN Version 1.0, the first fielded version of the ESN service.
References
Public safety networks
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe%20Behrendt | Uwe Behrendt (April 1952 – September 1981) was a German far-right extremist. In 1976 he became de facto deputy leader of the ”Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann” (WSG-Hoffmann), a network of between 400 and 600 politically like-minded activists and terrorists (according to the perspective of the commentator) which concealed its underlying mission, rather unconvincingly, by presenting itself as a paramilitary sports club. Behrendt was widely considered as the group member closest in terms of (informal) seniority and personal support to the leader, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. He came to wider attention because of a notorious double murder and questions posed by the subsequent handling of it: on 19 December 1980, believed to have been motivated by antisemitic race-based hatred, Behrendt murdered a rabbi-publisher (and known anti-fascist) called Shlomo Lewin and Lewin's life-partner, Frida Poeschke. From the perspective of the German legal system, no one was ever convicted in connection with the murder. Behrendt was able to escape to Lebanon where, following further controversy involving allegations of torture and more killing, he is believed to have committed suicide.
Because evidence was never proven in a court of law that Hoffmann had either mandated the killing or had any prior knowledge of it, Behrendt is classified in public records as a lone killer. Following research undertaken during the intervening four decades by investigative journalists and specialist scholars it has nevertheless become accepted in some quarters that Uwe Behrendt was part of a network of far-right terrorists who were involved in violent attacks and killings in a number of European countries at the time.
Life
Provenance and early years
Uwe Behrendt was born in Pößneck, a small town in the hill country south of Jena. It was here, in the recently launched Soviet-sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany) that he spent his childhood and in 1970 passed his school final exams, after which he embarked on an apprenticeship in the agriculture sector. However, following the usual break for a period of military service, he returned not to an agricultural education but to study for a degree in Electro-technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology. He remained dissatisfied with his life, however, and by 1973 was ready to escape from the country. Escaping to the west had become a feature of life in East Germany and was known as Republikflucht: it had become progressively more firmly stigmatized by the authorities through the 1950s. By 1961 “Republikflucht” had become extremely difficult, and was treated, under most circumstances as a criminal offence. Behrendt's flight attempt failed and the Czechoslovak authorities returned him to East Germany after a few weeks: he was then sentenced to a 20-month jail term. It was during 1974 that Behrendt was “sold” by the East German government to the West German government for 50,000 (western) marks under the still highly secret ”Häftlingsfrei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Goldwater | Sharon J. Goldwater is an American and British computer scientist, cognitive scientist, developmental linguist, and natural language processing researcher who holds the Personal Chair of Computational Language Learning in the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Her research involves the unsupervised learning of language by computers, and computer modeling of language development in children.
Education and career
Goldwater is a 1998 graduate of Brown University, and worked as a researcher at SRI International from 1998 to 2000. She then returned to Brown for graduate study in cognitive and linguistic sciences, completing her Ph.D. in 2006. Her dissertation, Nonparametric Bayesian Models of Lexical Acquisition, was supervised by Mark Johnson.
After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, she took her present position at the University of Edinburgh. She was given a personal chair in 2018.
Recognition
Goldwater was the 2016 winner of the Roger Needham Award of the British Computer Society.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Linguists from the United States
Linguists from the United Kingdom
Women linguists
Natural language processing researchers
Brown University alumni
Academics of the University of Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grinch%20%28soundtrack%29 | Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: Original Motion Picture Score are the albums released for the 2018 computer-animated Christmas fantasy comedy film The Grinch, released alongside the film, on November 9, 2018, by Columbia Records and Back Lot Music. The film score is composed by Danny Elfman, which consisted of 25 tracks. The soundtrack album consisted of 13 tracks, performed by several artists, including a re-created version of the Christmas song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" by Elfman and rapper Tyler, the Creator, released on October 24. Tyler also produced his debut extended play based on songs from the film, titled Music Inspired by Illumination & Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, and released by Columbia Records on November 16.
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The lead single from the film "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" was performed by Tyler, the Creator, and composed by Tyler and Elfman, which featured in the first trailer of the film. The animated lyric video for the film was also released on the same date. The song featured rap portions as well as children's choir, which was suggested by Tyler.
Elfman revealed that recreating "You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" is a "slightly more complex task" on his collaboration with Tyler, and called it as "a definite bold move". Tyler gave his ideas to Elfman and they tried to find the "perfect balance between preserving recognizable elements of the song and leaning into a more contemporary take". He recalls that "some of the suggestions for tweaks were chord adjustments to bring more of the original sound of the track back into the piece". Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Elfman said "I just didn’t want to destroy the essence of his take because artistically I never want to be the one to whitewash an artist's work that I respect. It was a bit of a tightrope act between what I know what the studio would like, and I didn't want to push him into an area he was uncomfortable".
The second track, an original song, "I Am the Grinch", was released on November 9, 2018 along with the film's soundtrack by Columbia Records. Tyler also produced and performed the song. The soundtrack was additionally released in vinyl on December 21, with two additional pressings were released on December 25, 2020 and November 5, 2021.
Track listing
Chart performance
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch: Original Motion Picture Score
Danny Elfman composed the film's score. Elfman revealed that the animated project was a "full-circle moment for him in many ways" due to his own childhood connection to Seuss stories. As the film's release, eventually coincided with the 25th anniversary of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which Elfman had scored several songs, he revealed to Entertainment Weekly, saying that all songs from the film are inspired by Dr. Seuss metering and rhythm in the lyrics, adding that "the musicality, the metric quality, it all goes back to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lorax%20%28soundtrack%29 | Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Motion Picture Score are the albums released for the 2012 computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film The Lorax (2012), based on Dr. Seuss's children's book of the same name, following the 1972 animated television special. The first album consisted of several original songs written for the film, released on February 21, 2012 by Interscope Records. The second album consisted of original score composed by John Powell and released on February 28 by Back Lot Music.
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Original Songs from the Motion Picture
Background
Besides composing the film score, John Powell composed and wrote the original tracks with Cinco Paul, one of the film's screenwriters. Tricky Stewart served as the executive producer for the soundtrack. The producer Chris Meledandri, revealed that the inspiration of using songs, came directly from Dr. Seuss, as the animated version of The Grinch – embraced the use of songs in an unconventional way. He further revealed this in an interview to Collider:"The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love. When you listen to the music in this film, it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do. Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time".
The lead single from the film, titled "Let It Grow" was sung by Ester Dean. Stewart wanted Dean to rope her for the song, as "from a subject matter standpoint, the song would be something that she would want to be involved with. Because of the message in The Lorax and the type of person that Ester is, those are the type of things that really mean something to her". He further stated about the song: "The song was a light-hearted version of what the film is about. But at the same time there is a seriousness to the message of the record. We take all those things into consideration: getting that message out there of what is going on in the environment, and not only what's going on in the environment, but what's going on with us as people. And I think that she was able to lyrically nail that soft spot in people, to tug on their heart strings a little bit, to make people walk out and maybe think about doing something nice, or think about doing something different than what they do on a daily basis. Just to do something good for the environment and good for your fellow person".
Reception
Critical reception to the soundtrack was mixed. Kyle Smith of New York Post, panned the film's music, referring to the songs as "musical rants". Film critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times said that the film's silliness is "loud and slightly hysterical, as if young viewers could be entertained only by a ceaseless barrage of sensory stimulus and pop-culture at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Mulligan%20Jr. | James H. Mulligan Jr. (October 29, 1920 – January 12, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and professor. He was dean and professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering of University of California, Irvine and former secretary and executive officer of the National Academy of Engineering.
Biography
Mulligan was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on October 29, 1920. He received his BEE and EE from Cooper Union and his M.S. in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1948. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Columbia and New York University.
Mulligan began his career as a technician in the transmission development department at Bell Labs and later joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where he contributed to the development of the IFF Mark V system. At the end of World War II, he joined the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories where he was involved in the development of television camera and video equipment. He later served as a professor of electrical engineering at New York University and chairman of its department of electrical engineering from 1952 to 1968.
Mulligan's research concerned the design of electrical circuits and analytical methods that underlie those designs. His work established the foundations of the design of Analogue electronics. For his technical contributions, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1974.
In 1968, Mulligan joined the staff of the NAE, becoming its second secretary. He also became the NAE's first executive officer that year. He was the first and only NAE staff member, who at the time of appointment was not a member of the NAE, to be elected a member of the academy. In 1971, he served as president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was also an elected fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 1974, Mulligan left the NAE to become dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Engineering and completed his term in 1978. He then continued as a professor at UC Irvine until his retirement in 1991.
Mulligan received the 1974 IEEE Haraden Pratt Award. He is the namesake of the IEEE's James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal that recognizes educators for their contributions to engineering education.
Mulligan died on January 12, 1996.
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1920 births
1996 deaths
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Presidents of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of California, Irvine faculty
American electrical engineers
New York University faculty
Cooper Union alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellows of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
American university and college faculty deans
Engineers from N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Data%20Privacy%20and%20Protection%20Act | The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) was a United States proposed federal online privacy bill that, if enacted into law, would have regulated how organizations keep and use consumer data. The bipartisan, bicameral bill was the first American consumer privacy bill to pass committee markup, which it did with near unanimity.
Contents
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) aimed to regulate how organizations keep and use consumer data. The Act had several main principles: data minimization, individual ownership, and private right of action. The burden of evaluating each organization's programs would fall to the organization.
Data collectors would have had to minimize the data they collected down to that which was "necessary, proportionate, and limited to" their purpose, whether administering a product or communicating. The bill would have given the Federal Trade Commission a year to define those terms. Data minimization is a common principle among other privacy laws, but the ADPPA would have affected business functions beyond compliance operations. ADPPA would also have specifically limited transfer and some processing of Social Security numbers, precise geolocation, biometric and genetic data, passwords, browsing history, and physical activity tracking.
Individuals would have had the right under ADPPA to know how their personal data was to be used and which third parties would have received it. They would have had the right to correct and download their user data. Organizations would have
had up to 90 days to process these requests, depending on the organization's size. Individuals would also have had the right to take legal action against organizations in violation of the Act for four years after its execution after first giving their state Attorney General and Federal Trade Commission 60 days' notice to respond.
Designated "large data holders"—with adjusted gross revenue over $250 million in the last calendar year and processing either five million personal records or 100,000 sensitive individual records—would have been subject to additional controls. These organizations would have been required to designate a corporate officer for administering data policy, training employees, keeping records, and communicating with the government. Large data holders' highest ranking corporate officers and data security officers would have had to certify reasonable compliance with the Federal Trade Commission. Large data holders would have needed to provide a privacy impact assessment of their controls and risk to users every two years.
"Small data holders", on the other hand, would have been exempt from some requirements. Defined as organizations with adjusted gross revenue below $41 million over the past three calendar years, that process data for fewer than 100,000 individuals annually, and whose business does not primarily rely on transferring data, small data holders could delete records rather than processing corrective |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redkey%20USB | Redkey USB is a computer utility developed to securely erase data. It is sold as a bootable live USB drive from which the Redkey software can be used on a perpetual license basis.
History
The application was first released in August 2018 following a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. Its features and design were partly based on the feedback of the project's supporters who contributed to its development.
During 2019, a second Redkey crowdfunding campaign went viral on Indiegogo following a video review by Linus Tech Tips.
In 2020, a third Redkey Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign introduced ATA-based internal erase technology and split the software into three different editions – Home, Professional and Ultimate.
During 2021, Redkey's software was certified to level 1 by ADISA Certification Limited for SSDs and MHDs. Following a re-certification process in 2022, this was upgraded to level 2 and has since been upgraded to level 4.
In 2022, a fourth campaign was completed introducing a dual USB-C product design, the ability to wipe mobile devices and remote wiping capabilities.
Technology and features
The utility is designed to run on Intel-based x86-64 PCs and Macs. Redkey’s software is written in C++ and uses Linux Debian as a platform. The software utility on the USB erases data on entire drives by overwriting existing data. It uses ATA standards to erase hidden areas, such as the DCO and HPA. Other features include unlimited use, reporting, scripting and remote wipe.
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External links
Official website
Data erasure
Live USB
2018 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%20Oldfield | Homer Ray Oldfield Jr. (August 28, 1916 – June 22, 2000), also known as Barney Oldfield, was an American computer professional best known for his work for General Electric in the 1940s and 50s.
Oldfield was born in Mount Vernon, New York on August 28, 1916. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BS in Aeronautical Engineering in 1938, and an MS in Instrumentation in 1939.
From 1939 to 1941 he worked as a research associate at the MIT Instrument Laboratory. In 1941 he joined the US Army where he worked on microwave antiaircraft radar. He was a soldier in WWII in the Pacific Theater and won In 1945 he joined General Electric as a sales manager. From 1950 to 1952 to he was operations manager of the GE Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University, where he also served as visiting professor. From 1952 to 1955 he directed the GE Microwave Laboratory at Stanford University. At Stanford he participated in development of an early computer system, Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting (ERMA), developed by SRI International for Bank of America in the 1950s. This system was manufactured by General Electric, and sold as the GE-100.
In 1956, Oldfield was promoted to General Manager of GE's Computer Department in Phoenix, Arizona. In Phoenix he attempted to push GE further into the computer business, in the face of opposition from higher management. He became the general manager and founder of GE's computer department, in which he facilitated the invention and the construction of the Bank of America ERMA system, the first computerized system designed to read magnetized numbers on checks. He was fired from GE in 1958 by Ralph J. Cordiner for overstepping his bounds and successfully gaining the ERMA contract. Cordiner was strongly against GE entering the computer business because he did not see the potential in it. As fellow computer pioneer Arnold Spielberg, who was hired by Oldfield to set up the GE Industrial Computer Department, described to historian Anne Frantilla, "By the time Cordiner found out what the team was doing, it was too late. They already had Bank of America as a customer. 'He came out to attend the dedication ceremonies and promptly fired Barney Oldfield right after the ceremony for violating his rules... He gave the company 18 months to get out of the business.”
Under Oldfield's management, GE established ties with Arizona State College (now Arizona State University) in the Phoenix area to open a new Technology Center for computer development and research. Oldfield had worked on similar centers at Cornell and Stanford Universities, the first centers in the country to partner developing high tech with cutting edge university research. Oldfield established GE's partnership with the help of ASC Chairman of the Board of Trustees John Jacobs, rancher and pioneer in Arizona development. Influencing the opening of the ASC Computer Department in a new College of Engineering, Oldfield had a role in bringin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevera%20Allen | Genevera Irene Allen is an American statistician whose research has involved interpretable machine learning,
the reproducibility of machine learning results, and the neuroscience of synesthesia. She is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, statistics, and computer science at Rice University, and also holds affiliations with Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine.
Education and career
Allen is originally from rural North Carolina, and as a high school student focused on playing the viola, but switched to statistics after a shoulder injury as a college freshman. She is a 2006 graduate of Rice University. She went to Stanford University for graduate study in statistics, and completed her PhD in 2010. Her dissertation, Transposable Regularized Covariance Models with Applications To High-dimensional Data, was supervised by Robert Tibshirani.
She returned to Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine in 2010 as an assistant professor. Rice gave her the Dobelman Family Junior Chair from 2013 to 2017. She was named an associate professor in 2017, and became founding director of the Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge (Data to Knowledge Lab) in 2018.
Recognition
Allen became an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2021. She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.
References
External links
Home page
Data to Knowledge Lab
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American statisticians
American women statisticians
Rice University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Rice University faculty
Baylor College of Medicine faculty
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd%20News%20and%20Documentary%20Emmy%20Awards | The 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards was presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), to honor the best in American news and documentary programming in 2021. The winners were announced on two ceremonies held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and live-streamed at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other associated apps. The winners for the news categories were announced on September 28, 2022, while the ones for the documentary categories were revealed on September 29, 2022.
The nominees were announced on July 28, 2022, with Vice's news program VICE News Tonight and HBO's film unit HBO Documentary Films leading with 19 nominations each, while ABC was the most nominated network with 39. PBS NewsHours anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff and filmmaker and biologist Sir David Attenborough received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the news and documentary ceremonies, respectively.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on July 28, 2022. The winners are listed first and in bold.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Judy Woodruff (news)
Sir David Attenborough' (documentary)
News Programming
Spanish Language Programming
Documentary Programming
Craft
Regional News
Multiple nominations
Multiple wins
References
External links
News & Documentary Emmys website
News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20modes | Elementary modes may be considered minimal realizable flow patterns through a biochemical network that can sustain a steady state. This means that elementary modes cannot be decomposed further into simpler pathways. All possible flows through a network can be constructed from linear combinations of the elementary modes.
The set of elementary modes for a given network is unique (up to an arbitrary scaling factor). Given the fundamental nature of elementary modes in relation to uniqueness and non-decomposability, the term `pathway' can be defined as an elementary mode. Note that the set of elementary modes will change as the set of expressed enzymes change during transitions from one cell state to another. Mathematically, the set of elementary modes is defined as the set of flux vectors, , that satisfy the steady state condition,
where is the stoichiometry matrix, is the vector of rates, the vector of steady state floating (or internal) species and , the vector of system parameters.
An important condition is that the rate of each irreversible reaction must be non-negative, .
A more formal definition is given by:
An elementary mode, , is defined as a vector of fluxes, , such that the three conditions listed in the following criteria are satisfied.
The vector must satisfy: , that is: the steady state condition.
For all irreversible reactions: . This means that all flow patterns must use reactions that proceed in their most natural direction. This makes the pathway described by the elementary mode a thermodynamically feasible pathway.
The vector must be elementary. That is, it should not be possible to generate by combining two other vectors that satisfy the first and second requirements using the same set of enzymes that appear as non-zero entries in . In other words, it should not be possible to decompose into two other pathways that can themselves sustain a steady state. This is called elementarity. A more formal test is that the null space of the submatrix of that only involves the reactions of is of dimension one and has no zero entries.
Example
Consider a simple branched pathway with all three steps irreversible. Such a pathway will admit two elementary modes which are indicated in thicked (or red) reaction lines.
Because both and are irreversible, and elementary mode lying on both these reactions is not possible since it would mean one reactions going against its thermodynamic direction. Each mode in this system satisfies the three conditions described above. The first condition is steady state, that is for each mode , it has to be true that .
Algebraically the two modes are given by:
By substituting each of these vectors into , it is easy to show that condition one is satisfied. For condition two we must ensure that all reactions that are irreversible have positive entries in the corresponding elements of the elementary modes. Since all three reactions in the branch are irreversible and all entries in the elementary mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol%20Vinyals | Oriol Vinyals (born 1983) is a Spanish machine learning researcher at DeepMind, where he is the principal research scientist. His research in DeepMind is regularly featured in the mainstream media especially after being acquired by Google.
Education and career
Vinyals was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He studied mathematics and telecommunication engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He then moved to the US and studied for a Master's degree in computer science at University of California, San Diego, and at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 2013 under Nelson Morgan in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Vinyals co-invented the seq2seq model for machine translation along with Ilya Sutskever and Quoc Viet Le. He led AlphaStar research group at DeepMind, which applies artificial intelligence to computer games such as StarCraft II.
In 2016, he was chosen by the magazine MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 most innovative young people under 35.
See also
Ilya Sutskever
References
Living people
Google employees
Machine learning researchers
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, San Diego alumni
Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni
1983 births
People from Barcelona
Spanish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 60th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards honored the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2007, until May 31, 2008, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The awards were presented on September 13, 2008, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and Sarah Chalke and was broadcast by E! on September 20, preceding the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21. In total, 79 Creative Arts Emmys were presented across 75 categories.
John Adams won eight Emmys to lead all programs at the ceremony. It was followed by Mad Men with four wins and 30 Rock, the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, and The War with three wins each. John Adams also received the most nominations, with 15 in total. In the overall program fields, winners included The 61st Annual Tony Awards, American Masters, Autism: The Musical, Classical Baby, Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, New York City Opera: Madama Butterfly, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, The Simpsons, South Park, This American Life, and White Light/Black Rain, among others. While ABC led all networks with 50 nominations, HBO took home the most awards with 16 Emmys.
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 2007–2008 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 Direction
Main Title Design
Makeup
Music
Picture Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Special Visual Effects
Stunt Coordination
Technical Direction
Writing
Governors Award
The Governors Award was presented to the National Geographic Channel's "Preserve Our Planet" campaign, a "long-term, multi-platform effort to help Americans understand the issues of environmental conservation and global survival".
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
Presenters
The following individuals presented awards at the ceremony:
Jennifer Beals
Valerie Bertinelli
Bryan Cranston
Jon Cryer
Alan Cumming
Cat Deeley
Lisa Edelstein
Jenna Fischer
Seth Green
Anna Gunn
Tom Hanks
Joe Mantegna
Jack McBrayer
Cesar Millan
Masi Oka
Lee Pace
James Pickens, Jr.
Oliver Platt
Chloë Sevigny
Sarah Silverman
Evan Spiridellis
Gregg Spiridellis
Notes
References
External links
60th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Emmys.com
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences website
060 Creative Arts
2008 in Ameri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avisa%20Partners | Avisa Partners is a French firm involved in lobbying, cybersecurity and copyright, competitive intelligence, and online influence.
It was created in 2010 and evolved from predecessors including iStrat and a 2018 merger between Demeter, Lexfo and Avisa.
2022 investigations by Mediapart, Marianne, , Libération, and Le Monde revealed Avisa Partners' activities in publishing ghostwritten articles and intervening in Wikipedia to promote the interests of its clients and to criticise clients' adversaries, giving rise to accusations of information manipulation.
Creation and growth
Avisa Partners was created in 2010 by Matthieu Creux and Arnaud Dassier under the name iStrat. It was subsequently rebranded to Demeter Partners, and was reorganised as Avisa Partners in 2018 by a merger between Demeter Partners, cybersecurity firm Lexfo and the Belgian public affairs company Avisa Partners.
Around 2019, Avisa Partners bought the German firm International Dialogue Advisors (IDA) Group, the London firm Gabara Strategies Ltd, and opened an office in Washington, D.C. That same year, Raise Investissement and Rive Croissance acquired a stake of 25% in Avisa Partners, at a valuation of million.
In 2020, Avisa purchased Compagnie européenne d'intelligence stratégique. In 2021, Avisa bought Observatoire des pays arabes. In November 2021, Avisa purchased 35°Nord, a group involved in providing advice and information for businesses and politicians in relation to Africa. In 2022, Avisa Partners bought Databack, involved in recovering data lost in cyberattacks, and LeakID, involved in tracing illegal streaming of digital media.
Leadership and structure
Avisa Partners was created in its early format as iStrat by Matthieu Creux and Arnaud Dassier. Olivia Grégoire, a minister of the French government in 2022, was co-leader of iStrat during 2013–2014. Grégoire stated that she had had no responsibility for the content published by iStrat. Libération stated that former iStrat writers disagreed, describing Grégoire as having supervised the creation of articles under fake profiles.
Activities
Lobbying
For the 2021 calendar year, Avisa Partners declared in lobbying costs to European Union (EU) institutions, with 21 half-time lobbyists employed. Its most costly EU actions in 2021 were for Monaco, Airbus and LVMH on issues including the European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 plan for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Avisa spent lobbying in the United States in 2021.
Avisa Partners describes its specialties in which it "claim[s] real expertise: competition, trade, regulatory affairs (e.g. digital and media, energy, environment, telecommunications, financial services and corporate social responsibility), online advocacy and cyber-security".
Cybersecurity and copyright
Avisa Partners is involved, through its components Databack and LeakID, in cybersecurity and copyright. As of 2022, it had been involved in recovering patient data for a hospital in the town of Dax and in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponna%20Wignaraja | Deshamanya Ponna Wignaraja (1926) is a Sri Lankan academic, economist and social scientist. He was the Coordinator of South Asian Perspectives Network Association (the "SAPNA"), entity with ties of the United Nations University, and prior to that the Secretary-general of the Society for International Development at Rome (Italy).
Early life and academic career
Born in Sri Lanka during British colonization, when it was still known as British Ceylon, Ponna Wignaraja was educated in economics from the University of Ceylon in 1948. After Wignaraja received graduate degree in United States at Yale University.
Between 1951 and 1953, Wignaraja was development advisor at International Monetary Fund (IMF). Thereafter, he was advisor at World Bank (1962–1967).
Ponna Wignaraja was Secretary-general of the Society for International Development (1981–1986). In 1991, he was vice chairman of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation and he was chairman of the South Asian Perspectives Network Association (SAPNA).
In 1993, Ponna Wignaraja was awarded the highest civilian honour for national service in Sri Lanka: the honorifical title named Deshamanya.
He is father of the Sri Lankan researcher and economist Ganeshan Wignaraja.
Publications
Among Wignaraja's publications are:
A New strategy for development, s./d., 1976.
A framework for rethinking the concept of appropriate technology for development, Vienna: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1978.
Reversing anti-rural development, Roma: SID, 1984.
The Challenge in South Asia: Development, Democracy and Regional Cooperation, United Nations University Press, 1989. (with Akmal Hussein)
Women, poverty and resources, New Delhi; Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1990.
Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia, United Nations University Press, 1991.
New Social Movements in the South: Empowering the People, Zed Books, 1993.
Towards a Theory of Rural Development, Colombo: South Asian Perspectives Network Associations, 1998.
Pro-Poor Growth and Governance in South Asia: Decentralization and Participatory Development, SAGE Publications, 2004. (with Susil Sirivardana)
Economic democracy through pro-poor growth, Sage, 2009. (with Susil Sirivardana and Akmal Hussain)
References
Living people
Alumni of the University of Ceylon
Sinhalese academics
1926 births
Yale University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging%20Face | Hugging Face, Inc. is a French-American company and open-source community that develops tools and resources to build, deploy, and train machine learning models. Based in New York City, the company is most notable for its Transformers library built for natural language processing and emphasis on community collaboration and accessibility. Its platform allows users to share machine learning models and datasets and showcase their work.
History
The company was founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf in New York City, originally as a company that developed a chatbot app targeted at teenagers. After open-sourcing the model behind the chatbot, the company pivoted to focus on being a platform for machine learning.
In March 2021, Hugging Face raised US$40 million in a Series B funding round.
On April 28, 2021, the company launched the BigScience Research Workshop in collaboration with several other research groups to release an open large language model. In 2022, the workshop concluded with the announcement of BLOOM, a multilingual large language model with 176 billion parameters.
On December 21, 2021, the company announced its acquisition of Gradio, a software library used to make interactive browser demos of machine learning models.
On May 5, 2022, the company announced its Series C funding round led by Coatue and Sequoia. The company received a $2 billion valuation.
On May 13, 2022, the company introduced its Student Ambassador Program to help fulfill its mission to teach machine learning to 5 million people by 2023.
On May 26, 2022, the company announced a partnership with Graphcore to optimize its Transformers library for the Graphcore IPU.
On August 3, 2022, the company announced the Private Hub, an enterprise version of its public Hugging Face Hub that supports SaaS or on-premises deployment.
In February 2023, the company announced partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which would allow Hugging Face's products available to AWS customers to use them as the building blocks for their custom applications. The company also said the next generation of BLOOM will be run on Trainium, a proprietary machine learning chip created by AWS.
In August 2023, the company announced that it raised $235 million in a Series D funding, at a $4.5 billion valuation. The funding was led by Salesforce, and notable participation came from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm.
Services and technologies
Transformers Library
The Transformers library is a Python package that contains open-source implementations of transformer models for text, image, and audio tasks. It is compatible with the PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX deep learning libraries and includes implementations of notable models like BERT and GPT-2. The library was originally called "pytorch-pretrained-bert" which was then renamed to "pytorch-transformers" and finally "transformers."
Hugging Face Hub
The Hugging Face Hub is a pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMPD | Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities (RAMPD) is a global network of established creators and professionals in the music industry who identify as having a disability, founded in 2021. RAMPD is best known for its efforts working to make the Grammy Awards more accessible and inclusive of people with disabilities.
History
RAMPD was founded in May 2021, by recording artist Lachi after a public talk between The Recording Academy and several disabled artists revealed there was a serious lack of visibility, access, and representation for professional disabled artists. Lachi was joined by violinist and songwriter Gaelynn Lea, and other established disabled music professionals, to officially launch RAMPD in January 2022.
RAMPD has since partnered or collaborated with prominent music and entertainment organizations, including Folk Alliance International, American Association of Independent Music, The Recording Academy, NIVA and others to help bring awareness and accessibility through panel discussions, programming and publications.
Mission
RAMPD's mission is to amplify disability culture, promote disability inclusion and advocate for accessibility in the music industry. RAMPD defines disability culture as a celebration of the vast diversity of the disability experience and includes the worldviews, perspectives, contributions, art, words, and music of the disability community.
Notable work
RAMPD partnered with the Recording Academy to bring accessibility to the 64th Grammy Awards ceremony on April 3, 2022, and the 65th Annual Grammy Awards on February 6, 2023. The global awards show possessed a visibly ramped dais, American Sign Language on the red carpet, and live caption and Audio description for home viewers.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Music industry associations
Music organizations based in the United States
Organizations based in New York City
Organizations established in 2021
Disability organizations based in the United States
Disability organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTNX-LD | WTNX-LD (channel 29) is a low-power television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned by Gray Television, it also functions as a repeater for its full-power sister station, NBC affiliate WSMV-TV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Knob Road in West Nashville; WTNX-LD's transmitter is located on Oldham Street near downtown.
History
First incarnation of Telemundo Nashville (2006–2010)
From 2006 to 2010, Telemundo was broadcast as a second digital subchannel of WSMV-TV, making it the first full-power Spanish-language TV service in the city. However, after five years on the air, the subchannel went defunct on December 31, 2010, leaving Nashville at the time with only one Spanish-language television station, WLLC-LP (channel 42), the area's Telefutura (now UniMás) outlet; WLLC had been the first Spanish-language TV station in the city upon affiliating in 2004.
Origins and as a translator station
Landover 2, LLC, applied for and was granted a construction permit to build a new low-power TV station on channel 41, W41EI-D, at Algood (a suburb of Cookeville). As a result of the repack, the permit sat for several years. The station would be purchased by Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC (owned by Jeffrey Winemiller) on July 30, 2021; Winemiller relocated the facility to channel 15 at Nashville, with the new call sign W15ER-D, and completed construction of the station, airing two subchannels of religious programs.
Winemiller initially filed to sell W15ER-D to Marquee Broadcasting in August 2021, but he instead opted to sell another low-power station, W09DM-D (now WNSH-LD), to the group. Winemiller then filed to sell the channel 15 station to Gray Television, which was in the process of merging with the Meredith Corporation, owner of WSMV-TV. The $3.75 million transaction between Lowcountry 34 and Gray included 24 different low-power facilities, including two in Tennessee. On December 30, 2021, W15ER-D converted from airing religious programming to a rebroadcast translator of the WSMV-TV multiplex. As WSMV-TV is broadcast on the VHF band, the additional UHF facility improves reception with smaller indoor antennas—which more easily receive UHF—in the Nashville metro area.
Telemundo conversion
Gray announced on May 3, 2022, that it had reached an agreement with Telemundo to start Telemundo channels, primarily as adjuncts to Gray stations, in 22 additional Southern markets and renew existing affiliations in 12 others. The new service launched August 29, 2022, with the renamed WTNX-LD also carrying the main WSMV 4.1 subchannel as 4.10.
Newscasts
In the 5 p.m. CT timeslot on weekdays, the station airs a locally-oriented newscast, Telemundo Noticias Tennessee, produced at Gray Television headquarters in Atlanta. The station's statewide-oriented newscast aired its debut edition on November 28, 2022.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Telemundo network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs%20Bunny%20Builders | Bugs Bunny Builders is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the characters from Looney Tunes. The series premiered on July 25, 2022 on Cartoon Network on their Cartoonito preschool block and was released on July 26 on HBO Max. It is the second pre-school program in the Looney Tunes cartoon franchise, following Baby Looney Tunes in 2002.
Plot
The Looney Builders, managed by Bugs Bunny, help their friends and neighbors around the town of Looneyburg. By working together as a team, Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, and others use their tools and wild vehicles to pull off some of the looniest construction jobs ever.
Voice cast
Eric Bauza as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Marvin the Martian
Chandni Parekh as Lola Bunny
Bob Bergen as Porky Pig, Cecil Turtle
Jeff Bergman as Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn
Alex Cazares as Petunia Pig
Fred Tatasciore as Taz, Gossamer, K-9, Papa Bear
Keith Ferguson as Wile E. Coyote and Winston Whale
Debi Derryberry, later Sky Alexis as Hippety Hopper and Riley King as Pouncy (credited as Looney Kangaroo Kid and Looney Cat Kid)
Luke Lowe as Egghead Jr. (Credited as Eggbert)
Dawson Griffin as Sniffles
Andrew Morgado as George P. Mandrake
Candi Milo as Pauleen Penguin, Gertie Mouse
Max Mittelman and Noshir Dalal as the Goofy Gophers
Charlie Townstead as Bizzy Buzzard
Zehra Fazal as Brenda Buzzard
David Shaughnessy as Hoots Talon
Kari Wahlgren as Ruthie Mouse
Ben Diskin as Tibs Squirrel, Junior
Frank Todaro as Hector the Bulldog
Nika Futterman as Billy Featherbottom
Mallory Jansen as Moxie Manatee
Paul Julian as the Road Runner (archive audio, uncredited)
Vincent Tong & Roger Craig Smith as Ron and Jon Beavers
Jiavani Linayao as Kathy Bat
Stephanie Southerland as Mama Bear, Queen Beatrice
Episodes
Season 1 (2022-)
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Shorts
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International broadcast
The series premiered on Cartoonito in Latin America on December 1, 2022, as part of its launch.
The series premiered on Boomerang in Portugal on November 20, 2022, as part of its Cartoonito block (then airing as part of the entire 24-hour Cartoonito channel that replaced the former).
The series premiered on Cartoonito in the UK and Ireland on November 4, 2022.
Reception
The show gained positive reception from critics. Tierra Carpenter of WISH-TV says "Tapping into parents’ nostalgia, “Bugs Bunny Builders” is THE show parents have been waiting for to introduce their favorite Looney Tunes characters to their kids. The show is designed to be funny on two levels, allowing kids to laugh along with these characters while also enticing parents to stay in the room and watch together."
References
Notes
External links
2020s American animated television series
2020s American children's comedy television series
2020s American workplace comedy television series
2020s preschool education television series
2022 American television series debuts
American children's animated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Ngu | Anne Hee Hiong Ngu is an Australian-American computer scientist known for her research on middleware and quality of service for web services and the Internet of things. She is a professor of computer science at Texas State University.
Education and career
Ngu was educated at the University of Western Australia, where she earned bachelor's degrees in science and in computer science (with honours) in 1981 and 1982, and completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 1990. She became a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, beginning in 1992 and retaining a position there as an adjunct associate professor until 2006. In the meantime, in 2002, she moved to Texas State University in 2002, as an associate professor of computer science, and was promoted to full professor in 2010.
Recognition
Ngu was one of the 2013 winners of the Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Texas State University gave her their Presidential Distinction Award in Services in 2014 and again in 2017.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Western Australia alumni
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Texas State University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Me%20and%20You%20Show | The Me and You Show is an American sketch comedy series, which premiered on Snapchat on October 1, 2021. It is Snapchat's first effort exploring augmented reality programming.
The Me and You Show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on November 25, 2022. The first season was streamed by over 50 million viewers.
Episodes
Season 1 (2021)
Season 2 (2022–23)
References
External links
Snap Inc.
2021 American television series debuts
2020s American sketch comedy television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate%20%28broadcasting%29 | In broadcasting, a slate is a title card listing important metadata of a television program, included before the first frame of the program. The broadcasting equivalent of a film leader, the slate is usually accompanied with color bars and tone, a countdown, and a 2-pop. In videotape workflows, slates help ensure that the tape received is the right one to broadcast (or to project, in the case of digital cinema) or to ingest into a digital playout system. It also provides helpful context for consideration in the re-editing of the material into a larger package. A convention from the videotape era of television broadcasting, the need for slates in a tapeless workflow has largely been usurped by the Material Exchange Format. However, the slate is still a regular and often-required fixture of television stations and other media companies .
Common information
Common information to include in a slate includes, but is not limited to:
Title of the program
Name of the production company and contact info
Production code number
Date of edited master
Type of master (e.g. broadcast master, duplication master, projection master)
Timecode of start of first frame (typically 01:00:00.00, with the slate and associated leader material occurring before this)
Frame rate
Audio channel configuration
Presence of textless elements (typically labelled as textless at/@ tail)
References
Television terminology
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20American%20Media | GAC Media, LLC, doing business as Great American Media, is a Fort Worth, Texas-based media company. It is the owner of the U.S. cable networks Great American Family and Great American Living, and streaming service Pure Flix with Sony Pictures.
History
The company was announced on June 7, 2021, through its acquisition of the cable networks Great American Country and Ride TV from Discovery, Inc. and Ride Television Network, Inc. respectively. The company is led by private equity investor Tom Hicks, and Bill Abbott—who formerly served as CEO of Crown Media Holdings. After taking over the channels, they were rebranded as the "Great American Channels", with GAC itself being relaunched as GAC Family and taking on a family-friendly entertainment format not unlike Abbott's former employer Hallmark Channel, and Ride TV becoming GAC Living.
GAC Family would emulate many of Abbott's programming decisions at Hallmark Channel, including a focus on original television films and holiday-themed content. It also signed deals with various actors associated with Hallmark Channel productions. In April 2022, GAC Media hired Candace Cameron Bure–who had worked with Hallmark Channel since 2008–in an executive role, which would see her develop and star in original productions for its networks. During its upfronts, Abbott stated that the company planned to expand into over-the-top content ventures, with plans for a lifestyle-based ad-supported streaming channel known as "Great American Adventures", and a "fan portal".
In May 2022, GAC Media announced Great American Community, a planned service launching in September that would carry short-form programming featuring GAC talent and personalities, and feature online forums allowing users to interact with them. The service would be free and ad-supported, but GAC Media did not rule out a premium tier in the future.
In July 2022, GAC Media launched Great American Adventures on Xumo, which carries lifestyle and entertainment programming oriented towards "Americana". Later that month, GAC Media announced that it would change its trade name to Great American Media, as part of a corporate rebranding that also saw GAC Family and Living renamed Great American Family and Great American Living respectively on August 20, 2022. GAC Media will remain the company's legal name.
In May 2023 streaming service Pure Flix, owned by Sony Pictures, merged with GAC Media. Terms of the proposed merger were not disclosed, but GAC Media will retain a controlling stake in the new entity. Abbot, who will serve as CEO of the entity, said of the merger "this agreement provides a rare opportunity to maximize our potential with the expertise, market knowledge and content creation capabilities of a world class partner like Sony Pictures."
Assets
Linear networks
Great American Family
Great American Living
Over-the-top services
Great American Adventures
Great American Community
Pure Flix (joint venture with Sony Pictures' Affirm Films)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Channel%20Developers%20Association | The Micro Channel Developers Association (MCDA) was a consortium of computer manufacturers that sought to consider and prioritize steps in the maturation of the Micro Channel architecture, as well as to explore better approaches to disseminating technical information about Micro Channel to third parties.
Micro Channel was a computer bus architecture introduced by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) with their Personal System/2 family of computers in 1987. Intended as the replacement to the de facto Industry Standard Architecture IBM pioneered with the IBM PC, Micro Channel was met with backlash over IBM's exuberant licensing costs, and several computer companies, most influentially Compaq, formed a committee that developed the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) in 1988. EISA saw popularity in workstations and desktop servers in the following years. While PS/2s also enjoyed modest success in those markets, Micro Channel was seldom licensed for official clones during its first years, leading to a perception of IBM among peripheral manufacturers as a domineering patent holder. The Micro Channel Developers Association was formed in October 1990 as a response to this perception and EISA's emergence.
Membership in the MCDA carried an annual fee of $2,500. EISA manufacturers were not barred from entrance or invitation; spokespersons for MCDA contacted Compaq, lead architect of EISA, to join their consortium, as they did to EISA co-founders Olivetti and NEC. Out of the over 800 companies developing Micro Channel products (at least those assigned numerical vendor IDs by IBM, to be read by the IBM's BIOS for MCA machines), only 14 comprised the Micro Channel Developers Association on its formation. This included IBM, Intel, Chips and Technologies, NCR Corporation, Olivetti, Apricot Computers, Western Digital, Siemens Nixdorf, AOX Inc., Reply Corporation, Core International, Cumulus Corporation, and National Software Testing Laboratories. Olivetti and NEC later joined, in November that year. MCDA grew to 92 member companies by the first quarter of 1992.
Even after IBM discontinued Micro Channel and the PS/2 in July 1995, the Micro Channel Developers Association still oversaw the development of hundreds of MCA cards and peripherals as late as May 1996, owing to its widespread use in IBM's line of RS/6000 servers and workstations. The consortium fizzled in 1997, however.
Member list
March 1992
References
External links
Technology consortia
Organizations established in 1990
Organizations disestablished in 1997
IBM PS/2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi%20Pad%205 | Xiaomi Pad 5 is a line of Android-based tablet computers manufactured by Xiaomi. It was announced on August 10, 2021 with Xiaomi MIX 4.
References
External links
Xiaomi
Tablet computers introduced in 2021
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant%20tram | A restaurant tram is a tram vehicle where meals can be served in a way of a full-service, sit-down restaurant. Customers consume the meals while the tram is following a route over an existing network of a tramsystem. Old trams are used with a rebuild interior with upholstered seats and tables. Most restaurant trams are equipped with a small kitchen used just before serving the meals, while a kitchen in a restaurant is used to do most preparations.
Examples
In 1976 the first restaurant of this type started running in Bern using a historic tramcar and trailer. In 1983 a business started running in Melbourne using three historic W-class trams, but the service had to close in 2018 because the trams were seen as too unsafe to operate between other traffic.
Milan followed; since 2005 two historic tramcars -Class 1500- from 1928 are in use as a restaurant. Other cities with a restaurant tram are Brussels, The Hague, Rotterdam, Bern, Zurich, Timisoara, Kolkota and Christchurch. Helsinki has a variant since 1995, being a pub tram.
The U76/U70 tram line between the German cities of Düsseldorf and Krefeld used to offer a Bistrowagen ("dining car" in German), where passengers could order drinks and snacks. That practice dates back to the early 20th century, when interurban trams conveyed a dining car. Despite the introduction of modern tram units in 1981, four trams still had a Bistrowagen that operated every weekday early 21st century.
Gallery
See also
Dining car
References
Tram vehicles
Rail catering
Restaurants by type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palembang%E2%80%93Indralaya%20Toll%20Road | Palembang–Indralaya Toll Road (shortened to Palindra Toll Road) is a toll road in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. This toll road is part of Trans-Sumatra Toll Road network.
History
Section I of this toll road (Palembang-Pemulutan) was inaugurated by President Joko Widodo on 12 October 2017.
The Minister of Public Works and Housing, Basuki Hadimuljono, said that the construction of the toll road will be integrated with the development of the Merak-Bakauheni port. The road from the port will be connected with Palembang to the Tanjung Api-Api (TAA) port as part of President Joko Widodo's Sea Toll Program.
The construction of Palindra Toll Road is dominated by swampy lands with heavy terrain which requires a special construction technique using Vacuum Consolidation Method (VCM). The planned lane on this toll road is with 2x2 lanes in the early stages and 2x3 in the final stages.
The toll road was free since its inauguration until the end of 2017.
Sections
Exits
See also
Trans-Sumatra Toll Road
References
External links
Palembang-Indralaya Toll Road Profile
Toll roads in South Sumatra
Transport in Palembang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebras%20Competition | The International Bebras Challenge on Informatics is an annual computer science competition for primary and secondary school students around the world. With 54 member countries and more than 2.5 million participating students in 2021, the competition is the largest computer science competition in the world.
Format
The Bebras is a 45-minute multiple-choice test with 15 problems. The problems are divided into three pairs of 5, and classified as "easy", "medium" and "hard". In most countries, the competition is administered through a web system that automatically scores each participant's work. The pool of Bebras problems is agreed upon during the annual international "Bebras Task Workshop" by the representatives of all member countries.
History
Originally founded by the University of Vilnius and first administered in Lithuania in 2004, the Bebras competition is named after Lithuanian word "Bebras" which translates to "beaver". The competition has been subject of research and several dozen publications.
In 2015 the Bebras organization was awarded the Microsoft-sponsored "Best Practices in Education Award" by Informatics Europe. In 2019 Google awarded Bebras Indonesia a $1 million grant to support the program and further train teachers in the field of computer science.
By 2022, there were two and a half million global participants.
Bebras in the United Kingdom
The "Bebras Computing Challenge" is organized by the University of Oxford and backed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the United Kingdom and has more than 300,000 annual participants. Students with a score in the top 10% of their relative age group are invited to sit the Oxford University Computing Challenge.
References
External links
Bebras International Challenge on Informatics and Computational Thinking
2004 establishments in Lithuania
Recurring events established in 2004
Computer science competitions
Computer science education
Awards and prizes of the University of Oxford
Vilnius University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20network%20TV%20Sunday%20morning%20talk%20shows | This is a listing of American television network programs currently airing or have aired during Sunday morning or various.
Sunday morning talk programming begins at 8:00am Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone, after network affiliates' late local news, plus cable television.
Current
All times Eastern Time Zone/Pacific Time Zone—see effects of time on North American broadcasting for explanation.
Former
Broadcast networks
PBS
Inside Washington (1988 – 2013; distributed by American Public Television)
Syndication
The Chris Matthews Show (September 22, 2002 – July 21, 2013)
Cable/satellite
CNN
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer (October 3, 1993 – January 11, 2009)
Reliable Sources (1993 – August 21, 2022)
Fox News
Fox News Watch (1997 – August 31, 2013)
References
Lists of American television series
American television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior%20Cole | Lior Cole is an American fashion model and Cornell University student. Outside of fashion, she studies artificial intelligence and has developed an app that combines the tenets of Judaism with technology.
Early life and education
Cole was born in 2001, and grew up in Great Neck, New York on Long Island. She is of Jewish heritage, with an Israeli mother and an American Jewish father; she also has an older sister, Orli. Her name means "my light" in Hebrew. Cole attends Cornell University, studying Information Science and is slated to graduate in 2023, having taken a year off to balance her career endeavors.
Career
Cole was discovered in Washington Square Park by fashion designer Batsheva Hay. She was then referred to IMG Models who signed her immediately. Her debut fashion show was for Proenza Schouler which she opened. She also walked for also walked for Hugo Boss, Loewe, and Marni in her first season.
References
Living people
2001 births
American female models
Female models from New York (state)
People from Long Island
People from Great Neck, New York
Jewish female models
Cornell University alumni
IMG Models models
American people of Israeli descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Hemaspaandra | Edith Hemaspaandra (née Spaan, born February 20, 1964) is a Dutch-American theoretical computer scientist whose research concerns computational social choice, the computational complexity theory of problems in social choice theory, and particularly on computational problems involving election manipulation. She is a professor of computer science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
Edith Spaan was born on February 20, 1964, in Schagen, and educated in computer science at the University of Amsterdam. She earned a bachelor's degree there in 1986, and a master's degree in 1988. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993, with the dissertation Complexity of Modal Logics combining complexity theory and modal logic, supervised by Johan van Benthem.
When she and her husband (formerly named Lane Hemachandra) married, they both changed their surname to Hemaspaandra.
Career
After postdoctoral research at the University at Buffalo, supervised by Alan Selman, Hemaspaandra taught at Le Moyne College from 1993 until 1998. She took her present position at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1998. She is a full professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
References
External links
Home page
1964 births
Living people
People from Schagen
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Amsterdam alumni
Le Moyne College faculty
Rochester Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaan | Spaan or van Spaan is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Edith Hemaspaandra (née Spaan), Dutch-American theoretical computer scientist
Gerrit van Spaan (1654–1711), Dutch writer
Hans Spaan (born 1958), Dutch motorcycle racer
Henk Spaan (born 1948), Dutch sports journalist
Johannie Maria Spaan, South African wildlife biologist
Machiel Spaan (born 1966), Dutch architect
See also
Jeroen Spaans (born 1973), Dutch rower
Dutch-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20America%27s%20Voice | Real America's Voice is a right-wing to far-right streaming, cable and satellite television channel founded in 2020 and owned by Robert J. Sigg. The network and online presences have promoted right-wing and far-right conspiracy theories, including COVID-19 misinformation, 2020 election conspiracies, and QAnon. The network is a sister channel to WeatherNation TV. It is of no relation to the former National Empowerment Television of the late 1990s, which rebranded to America's Voice in its final years.
Personalities
Some of the network's top personalities include Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, Ted Nugent, Gina Loudon, John Solomon, and Ed Henry.
Previous network personalities included former Missouri governor Eric Greitens and 2022 Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon.
References
External links
2020 establishments in Colorado
Conservative media in the United States
Conspiracist media
English-language television stations in the United States
Far-right organizations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeaNet | BeaNet (abbreviation of Betaalautomaten Netwerk, Dutch for payment terminal network) was a Dutch system and organization for electronic payments, which was founded in 1988.
Adoption
In March 1990, Esso included the possibility to pay with BeaNet. In January 1992, Albert Heijn was the first large supermarket in the Netherlands that adopted the usage of BeaNet.
Criticism
Yvonne van Rooy, the staatssecretaris of economic affairs in the Third Lubbers cabinet, wanted to get rid of the monopolistic position of BeaNet in 1992.
Merger
In 1993, a merger was announced between BeaNet, Bankgirocentrale and Eurocard Nederland. In 1994, they formed Interpay.
See also
Chipknip
References
External links
Payment systems organizations
Financial services in the Netherlands
Banking organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Sfougaras | George Sfougaras (born 1959) is a contemporary British Greek artist, based in Leicester, England; he works and exhibits internationally, in collaboration with a network of partners. He claims that his work is concerned with memory, identity, and the impact of history on the present, and that his printed works explore issues of human migration, change and cultural inheritance through representational art which draws on cultural symbols and archival research. He is a member of the Leicester Society of Artists and the Leicester Print Workshop. In 2017, he established the Focus on Identity International collective, a group of artists from various European and Middle Eastern countries.
Early life and artistic themes
Sfougaras was born in Heraklion, Crete, to Christian parents who were refugees from Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and who subsequently came to the UK during the 1970s military Junta period; he says that these narratives form the cornerstone of his work. His mother’s accounts of the transportation and loss of the island’s Jewish population inspired the book Tales from an Old Fort Town: a personal response to the Jewish History of Crete, and a permanent exhibition at Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Crete, in 2018. George was invited on a residency to Chania in March 2019, to create a map of the former Jewish area of the city, incorporating the long-destroyed Neve Shalom, Chania’s second synagogue. His two subsequent installations for the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery deal with the horrors of war and forced migration. In 2021, in The Light in the Darkness exhibition in Leicester, Sfougaras presented two United Nations-style rescue tents, within which large transparencies of Jewish, Turkish, Greek, and Armenian refugees were illuminated by a rotating black box, simultaneously illuminating, and "retelling" the past. He later created a multi-site installation entitled In Remembrance in the form of a film which depicts the turning pages of a large book containing extracts from two of his publications, Tales from an Old Fort Town and One Winter’s Night in Prague.
Career and works
Sfougaras worked in the education sector. In 2014, while he was headteacher of the Children's Hospital School in Leicester, he led the school in the collaborative Learning at Home and the Hospital (LeHo) project, in partnership with hospital schools in six other countries. Here he also contributed to a project led by the University of Leicester on Mind, Body, Spirit: How museums impact health and wellbeing.
In Sfougaras' 2019 Arts Council-funded exhibition under the title of Recovered Histories, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, the Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester Museums, and ArtReach, he presented mixed media works, including banners, drawings, animated panels and prints based on his family’s experience of displacement and resettlement, making a connection with the on-going turmoil of global migration. The works were exhibited in the Leicester Cathedra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTPC%206800 | The SWTPC 6800 Computer System, simply referred to as SWTPC 6800, is an early microcomputer developed by the Southwest Technical Products Corporation and introduced in 1975. Built around the Motorola 6800 microprocessor from which it gets its name, the SWTPC 6800 was one of the first microcomputers based around that microprocessor. It is the progenitor of the widely used and broadly supported SS-50 bus. The SWTPC 6800 became one of the most popular 6800-based systems of its time, owing to its ease of use and ample documentation. Though rudimentary, the MIKBUG resident monitor built into ROM allows the immediate entry of program data after power-up, as opposed to other microcomputers of its day which required bootstrapping such software. Southwest Technical Products introduced the SWTPC 6800 in November 1975 for US$450 () in kit form only. Any contemporary ASCII terminal can be used to interface with the SWTPC 6800. SWTPC sold their own television-set-based terminal, for $275; a crude dot-matrix printer was another optional accessory, for $250.
Southwest Technical Products followed up the 6800 with the S/09 in 1979 and the 69/K, 69/A, and 69/56 in 1980. All four replaced the Motorola 6800 processor of the original with its successor the 6809. The SWTPC 6800 can be converted to a S/09 with a system board kit sold by Southwest Technical Products, which is also compatible with existing 6800 peripherals and cards; while the 69/K, 69/A, and 69/56 features a redesigned system board and chassis that is incompatible with the 6800. The 69/K was sold as a kit, while the 69/A and 69/56 came pre-assembled (the latter featuring 56 KB of RAM as opposed to the 69/A's 8 KB).
Specifications
See also
Chieftain, a clone by Smoke Signal Broadcasting
FLEX (operating system)
References
External links
Information and documentation on the SWTPC 6800 at DeRamp
68xx-based computers
Computer-related introductions in 1975
Early microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorien%20Pratt | Lorien Pratt is an American computer scientist known for inventing two disciplines: machine learning transfer and decision intelligence. She is chief scientist and founder of Quantellia. Since 1988, she has conducted research on the use of machine learning as an academic, professor, industry analyst, and practicing data scientist. Pratt received her AB degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and her Masters and doctorate degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Learning to Learn
She is best known for her book "Learning to Learn," co-edited with Sebastian Thrun, which provided an overview on how to use machine learning to better understand bias and generalization of discrete subjects. This approach, still largely theoretical when the book was published in 1998, is also called metalearning and is now a foundational underpinning of machine learning algorithms such as GPT-3 and DALL-E.
Research
Transfer learning
Pratt's research includes early work in transfer learning where she developed the discriminability-based transfer (DBT) algorithm in 1993 during her tenure as a professor of computer science at Colorado School of Mines. This paper is considered one of the earliest academic works referring to the use of transfer in machine learning and has been cited over 400 times as foundational research for deep neural networks.
Decision intelligence
Since then, Pratt's research has continued to explore the relationships between machine learning and human cognition with the concept of decision intelligence, an emerging field of machine learning guided analytics designed to support human decision. Pratt introduced this concept in 2008, and this term has since been used by a number of vendors providing machine learning-guided analytics including Diwo, Peak AI, Sisu, and Tellius as the technologies used to support machine learning at scale have become easier to deploy, manage, and embed into software platforms. Pratt's work is cited as a core starting point for defining modern aspects of decision intelligence.
Pratt's work at Quantellia since 2020 has focused on the use of decision intelligence to improve COVID-19-based outcomes.
References
External links
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dartmouth College
Rutgers University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Control%20Program | Network Control Program might refer to:
Network Control Program (ARPANET) - the software in the hosts which implemented the original protocol suite of the ARPANET, the Network Control Protocol
IBM Network Control Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAI/ACM%20Conference%20on%20AI%2C%20Ethics%2C%20and%20Society | The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series focused on societal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence. The conference is jointly organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, namely the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The conference community includes lawyers, practitioners, and academics in computer science, philosophy, public policy, economics, human-computer interaction, and more.
As of 2022, the conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation as well as various large technology companies including Google, DeepMind, Meta, and IBM Research.
List of conferences
Past and future AIES conferences include:
See also
Ethics of artificial intelligence
Philosophy of artificial intelligence
Regulation of artificial intelligence
References
External links
Proceedings
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy events
Recurring events established in 2018
Ethics organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna%20Post | Annapurna Post () is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Nepal. It started printing in 2002 and launched its online news portal in 2013 by Annapurna Media Network, which also owns The Annapurna Express, AP1 TV and Radio Annapurna Nepal. By the 4 April 2014, its online news portal was listed among 10 most visited news portal in Nepal. It also launched its own mobile news app by 2018.
In the annual newspaper classification report 2073/2074 BS by Press Council Nepal, this newspaper was categorized in the A category, the second highest possible rank below A+.
Readership
Annapurna Post is among the second most-widely read Nepali language newspapers, whose shares of readership were around 4–7% of Nepalis who read a newspaper according to an audience survey in 2016, considerably behind the leader Kantipur which was read by over half of those who read newspapers.
Critiques
It is reported that 7% of its posts were based on unrevealed source of information which apparently falls under misleading news media.
References
External links
Daily newspapers published in Nepal
Nepali-language newspapers
Mass media in Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20OS%20%28Russian%20Open%20mobile%20platform%29 | Aurora OS or Russian Open mobile platform (OMP) is a Russian Linux-based smartphone operating system derived from Sailfish OS. Aurora OS is owned by Rostelecom and is developed for business and governmental use. The operating system was branched from Sailfish OS into its own version in 2019. As a difference from the Sailfish platform, the operating system has its own application store and it is integrated with the Russian government's official radio network ERA.
History
In 2016, Jolla started a development project whose goal was to localize the Sailfish platform in Russia. For this, its own company was founded and the Russian-language version was called Sailfish Mobile OS RUS. The first users of the platform were the Russian Post. In 2018, the Russian state applied for a secure mobile phone operating system for official use. Sailfish Mobile OS RUS was chosen and Rostelecom was the company that developed it. In 2019, the platform was renamed Aurora OS. In 2021, Jolla announced that they had left the project and was no longer developing it. In November 2021, according to Nokiamob.net, there would be around 400,000 devices using it.
However, in 2022 Vedomosti reported that sales of the latest model Scale Trustphone T1 to consumers were minimal. Also, because of sanctions set by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ability to produce the hardware needed for the newer models is limited. Development of Trustphone T2 with domestic ARM processor Scythian by SPC Elvis was halted because sanctions and overheating problems.
Devices
Known devices using Aurora OS are
Tablets
Aquarius Cmp NS208
Aquarius CMP NS220
Aquarius CMP NS220 v5.2
BytErg МВК-2020
F+ Life Tab Plus
INOI T8 Tablet (discontinued)
Phones
Qtech QMP-M1-N
Qtech QMP-M1-N IP68
MIG С55 (discontinued)
INOI 5i pro
INOI R7 (discontinued)
Blackview bs6000s (discontinued)
F+ R570
Scale Trustphone T1 / AYYA T1
Aquarius NS M11
References
External links
Tadadviser, Rostelecom has integrated devices based on the Aurora OS into the O2O - Infrastructure Operator for Operators project
ARM operating systems
Mobile operating systems
Embedded Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk%20Networks | Trunk Networks was a British internet service provider (ISP) and cloud service provider based in Uckfield, offering business and residential broadband and VoIP services, amongst others. The company was founded in 2008 as the result of a merger between a virtual ISP and an IT support company.
They provided Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband services and VoIP telephone services over the Openreach and CityFibre networks. Trunk Networks went into liquidation in September 2022.
References
External links
Internet service providers of the United Kingdom
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom
VoIP services
Companies based in Sussex
Telecommunications companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon%20%28blockchain%29 | Polygon (formerly Matic Network) is a blockchain platform which aims to create a multi-chain blockchain system compatible with Ethereum. As with Ethereum, it uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism for processing transactions on-chain. Polygon's native token is named MATIC. Matic is an ERC-20 token, allowing for compatibility with other Ethereum cryptocurrencies.
Polygon is used in decentralized applications (dApps) such as Defi, DAOs, and NFTs.
History
The Matic Network was launched in 2017 by four Mumbai-based software engineers: Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, Anurag Arjun, and Mihailo Bjelic.
In February 2021, the project rebranded into Polygon Technology. In December 2021, Polygon acquired the Mir blockchain network for 250 Million MATIC tokens (about $400M at the time of the deal). ZK-rollups were intended to offload data from Ethereum to reduce fees and speed-up the transaction process while maintaining security.
In December 2021, Polygon disclosed a security vulnerability that resulted in the theft of 801,601 MATIC tokens.
In February 2022, Polygon raised $450 million by selling MATIC tokens in a round led by Sequoia Capital India including Tiger Global and Softbank Vision Fund.
On December 15, 2022, Donald Trump launched a series of digital art NFTs minted on the Polygon network for sale to the public for $99 USD each.
Technology
Polygon uses a modified proof of stake consensus mechanism that enables a consensus to be achieved with every block. Achieving consensus using traditional proof of stake requires processing many blocks to achieve consensus. The proof of stake method requires network participants to stake—agree to not trade or sell—their MATIC tokens, in exchange for the right to validate Polygon network transactions. Successful validators in the Polygon network are rewarded with MATIC tokens.
The Polygon network aims to address problems within the Ethereum platform, namely high transaction fees and slow processing speeds.
Partnerships
In July 2022, Polygon participated in Disney's 2022 acceleration program to expand into augmented reality, NFTs, and AI.
In October 2022, the Indian Police in Firozabad started using Polygon for reporting crimes.
References
2017 software
Blockchains
Currencies introduced in 2017
Cryptocurrency projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolepis%20longicaudata | Apostolepis longicaudata, the Piauí blackhead or longhead burrowing snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is endemic to Brazil.
References
longicaudata
Reptiles described in 1921
Reptiles of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20for%20Voluntary%20Agencies | International Council for Voluntary Agencies is a Switzerland-based global network of humanitarian organisations working on migration and refugee issues. It won the Nansen Refugee Award in 1963.
Organisation
The International Council for Voluntary Agencies is based in Geneva and often known by its French name Conseil international des Agences bénévoles.
History
The International Council for Voluntary Agencies a global network of not for profit organisations that work on refugee and forcible displacement issues. It was founded in 1962 to succeed the Conference on Non-Governmental Organizations interested in Migration, the International Committee for World Refugee Year, and the Standing Conference for Voluntary Agencies Working for Refugees. The work of the organisation, as of 1966, was directed by The Commission on Refugees and The Commission on Migration and The Commission on Social and Economic Development.
The organisation was awarded the Nansen Refugee Award in 1963; the award was accepted by Mr. C. Ritchie. Thomas Getman was the Executive Director in 2006, Nan Buzard was the Executive Director in 2016, Ignacio Packer was the Executive Director in 2022.
See also
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
References
External links
1962 establishments in Switzerland
Humanitarian aid organizations in Europe
Refugee aid organizations in Europe
Organisations based in Geneva
Nansen Refugee Award laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirbelia%20subcordata | Mirbelia subcordata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellow or orange and red flowers.
Description
Mirbelia subcordata is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many branches. Its leaves are arranged in whorls of three, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, sharply pointed and usually less than long. The flowers are arranged in clusters at the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils, the sepals long. The petals are yellow or orange and red, the standard petal longer than the sepals, the wings and the keel almost as long as the standard. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a shaggy-hairy, oblong pod.
Taxonomy
Mirbelia subcordata was first formally described in 1853 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. The specific epithet (subcordata) means "somewhat heart-shaped", referring to the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This mirbelia grows on a range of soils on slopes, rises and flats in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Mirbelia subcordata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
References
subcordata
Fabales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1853
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20ATN%20Bangla | This is the list of all programming currently or has aired on the Bangladeshi satellite and cable television channel ATN Bangla.
Original programming
Drama
Amader Nishchintopur
Bhalobashar Rong
Bhara Bari Bara Bari
Crime Patrol
DB
Doll's House (2007–2008)
Family Crisis Reloaded
Hazar Botrish
Ghar Jamai
Jiboner Oligoli
Jole Bheja Rong
Jyotsna Kaal
Karo Kono Neeti Nai
Maago Tomar Jonno
Nana Ronger Manush
Nupur
Ochena Manush
Path Jana Nai (2010–2011)
Prohelika
Sadek Dafadar
Satti Tarar Timir
Shopnomongol
Shunnotaye
Smritir Alpona Anki (2020–present)
Soya Panch Arai Lane
Syed Barir Bou
Taratari Barabari
The Challenger
Uposhonghar
Volume ta Koman
Children's shows
Openti Bioscope
Cooking
Farm Fresh Weekly New Recipe
Starline Rannaghor
Investigative
Prapok
Magazine
Golpey Anondey ATN Bangla
Musical
ATN Unplugged
Matir Gaan
News
ATN Bangla Shongbad
Off the Record
Reality
Agamir Taroka
Amra Tomaderi
South Asian Dance Competition
Talk shows
Alaap
Priyojon
Sense of Humour
Acquired programming
Cennet'in Gözyaşları
Feather Flies to the Sky
The Lost World
References
Programmes
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse-search%20algorithm | Reverse-search algorithms are a class of algorithms for generating all objects of a given size, from certain classes of combinatorial objects. In many cases, these methods allow the objects to be generated in polynomial time per object, using only enough memory to store a constant number of objects (polynomial space). (Generally, however, they are not classed as polynomial-time algorithms, because the number of objects they generate is exponential.) They work by organizing the objects to be generated into a spanning tree of their state space, and then performing a depth-first search of this tree.
Reverse-search algorithms were introduced by David Avis and Komei Fukuda in 1991, for problems of generating the vertices of convex polytopes and the cells of arrangements of hyperplanes. They were formalized more broadly by Avis and Fukuda in 1996.
Principles
A reverse-search algorithm generates the combinatorial objects in a state space, an implicit graph whose vertices are the objects to be listed and whose edges represent certain "local moves" connecting pairs of objects, typically by making small changes to their structure. It finds each objects using a depth-first search in a rooted spanning tree of this state space, described by the following information:
The root of the spanning tree, one of the objects
A subroutine for generating the parent of each object in the tree, with the property that if repeated enough times it will eventually reach the root
A subroutine for listing all of the neighbors in the state space (not all of which may be neighbors in the tree)
From this information it is possible to find the children of any given node in the tree, reversing the links given by the parent subroutine: they are simply the neighbors whose parent is the given node. It is these reversed links to child nodes that the algorithm searches.
A classical depth-first search of this spanning tree would traverse the tree recursively, starting from the root, at each node listing all of the children and making a recursive call for each one. Unlike a depth-first search of a graph with cycles, it is not necessary to maintain the set of already-visited nodes to avoid repeated visits; such repetition is not possible in a tree. However, this recursive algorithm may still require a large amount of memory for its call stack, in cases when the tree is very deep. Instead, reverse search traverses the spanning tree in the same order while only storing two objects: the current object of the traversal, and the previously traversed object. Initially, the current object is set to the root of the tree, and there is no previous object. From this information, it is possible to determine the next step of the traversal by the following case analysis:
If there is no previous object, or the previous object is the parent of the current object, then this is the first time the traversal has reached the current object, so it is output from the search. The next object is its first child |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Win%20Development | In Win Development, Inc. (), formerly rendered as In-Win Development and commonly shortened to In Win or InWin, is a Taiwanese computer case and computer power supply manufacturer. In Win was founded in 1985 and has since opened multiple factories and headquarters internationally.
Corporate history
In Win Development was founded by Vincent Lai in 1985 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, with an initial investment capital of $200,000. Originally only a manufacturer of computer cases, In Win added power supplies production lines to its Taoyuan facility in the late 1980s and dabbled with manufacturing disk storage equipment and joysticks in the early 1990s.
In Win has four international branch offices between the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and China. Europe and North America represented In Win's biggest importers of computer cases, purchasing respectively 40 percent and 30 percent of their output in 2004; the rest of their output was purchased evenly between outside territories—chiefly Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Roughly 70 percent of the company's overall products were delivered to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers, including Ingram Micro, Time Computer, Toshiba, NEC, and Intel.
In Win grew from having 60 employees in its Taoyuan facility in 1990 to 2,000 total employees globally on its payroll by 2004. Its engineering department staffed 80 employees in 2003; all engineers by that point had 15 to 20 years of hands-on and computer-aided experience designing cases. The software the engineers used to design cases at that point included AutoCAD, TurboCAD, Espirit, and Pro/E. The company planned to hire up to 500 more employees by 2005 and to open up a R&D laboratory in Mainland China in 2004. Having established its American headquarters in the City of Industry, California, by the late 1990s, In Win leased another 50,000 office in a different part of the city in the fourth quarter of 2002.
By 2012 the company began primarily targeting the video-gaming demographic, as well as PC case modders, although OEMs and systems integrators both remained critical customers for the company into the 2020s. The company reached a peak revenue of NT$4 billion (US$124 million) in 2008. Sales dropped 47 percent through 2016 to $2.1 billion however.
Manufacturing facilities
The company relies on steel imported from Japan and Taiwan for use in its mid- and mini-tower cases. Formerly outsourcing the injection molding of its plastic parts, In Win purchased plastic injection machinery for its own 4,600 Taoyuan factory between 1996 and 1997. In 2000, it opened up a 17,480 plant nearby this factory in Taoyuan. Four final assembly lines 120 meters in total produced 16,000 cases per daily shift in 2004. In 2002, the company opened up a 202,400 factory in Mainland China. Initially meant for the production of In Win's computer cases, this factory branched out to providing mechanical and electrical manufacturing for systems i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityFibre | CityFibre is an independent British network provider, providing gigabit-capable FTTP broadband across the UK. It is the third-largest network provider in the UK, after Openreach and Virgin Media. It is sometimes referred to as an "altnet" (alternative network provider), in reference to being an alternative option to Openreach.
The company has rapidly expanded across the UK, with a focus of expanding high-speed internet access in "second-cities", locations that were otherwise neglected by competitors. Prior to CityFibre's investment, for example, the average internet speed in Milton Keynes was 26.6Mbps, 17.4Mbps lower than the national average.
CityFibre is based in London, and is co-owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Mubadala Investment Company and Interogo Holding. The company is listed on London's Alternative Investment Market.
Over 35 internet service providers use CityFibre for their network, including Air Broadband, Andrews & Arnold, BrawBand, BrillBand, Facto, FibreHop, Gigabit Networks, Giganet, IDNet, Link Broadband, No One, Octaplus, RunFibre, TalkTalk, Toob, Vodafone, Yayzi, YouFibre, Zen Internet, and Zybre.
History
CityFibre was founded in 2011. becoming a publicly traded company in 2014.
In 2014, CityFibre entered into a partnership with EE and Three to provide backhaul connections to mobile data masts.
In March 2023, it was reported that City Fibre and Virgin Media were discussing a potential acquisition.
Fibre rollout
In 2015, CityFibre purchased regional telecoms group Kcom, tripling the size of its high speed fibre network. The following year, CityFibre generated profit for the first time. At the time, its network covered "20% of the UK".
From the early 2020s, CityFibre has been rapidly expanding its access across the UK, with plans to cover one-third of the country with gigabit internet by 2025. In 2022, the company completed successful trials of 2Gbps residential services in York, with further plans to increase speeds up-to 10Gbps using XGS-PON technology.
In November 2022, CityFibre entered into partnership with the internet service provider Toob. In December, CityFibre filed a Competition Act complaint to the Competition and Markets Authority and Ofcom alleging that its competitor, Openreach, had attempted to suppress opposition.
In 2023, CityFibre was awarded £69m in funding from the British governments Project Gigabit initiative, to help in expanding gigabit internet access in rural properties across Cambridgeshire. They also secured funding for expansions into Hampshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk. In January, CityFibre reported that they were building at the rate of 22,000 premises per week, across 75 metropolitan areas, with a 83% increase in their network footprint in 2022.
In May, it was announced that TalkTalk would be using CityFibre networks for its business customers. In June, ISP Yayzi became the first ISP on the CityFibre network to offer up-to 2.5Gpbs to consumers, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Pascuzzi | Gabriel Pascuzzi is an American chef. He competed on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay and Bravo's Top Chef: Portland, and his restaurants in Portland, Oregon include Stacked Sandwich Shop and Mama Bird. Pascuzzi was Eater Portland's Chef of the Year in 2017.
Early life and education
Gabriel Pascuzzi was born and raised in an Italian American family in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Wilson High School (now Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School). He earned his Bachelor's degree in culinary arts from Johnson & Wales University.
Career
Pascuzzi has worked at Copenhagen's Noma, as well as DB Bistro Moderne, Colicchio & Sons, and Paulée. He was the head chef at Multnomah Whiskey Library, as of 2014–2015.
Pascuzzi's restaurants in Portland have included Stacked Sandwich Shop, Mama Bird, and Feel Good. He has competed on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay and Bravo's Top Chef: Portland. Eater Portland named Pascuzzi the Chef of the Year in 2017, as part of its annual Eater Awards. His background is in fine dining and Thrillist has described Pascuzzi as a "fine-dining vet".
See also
List of people from Portland, Oregon
List of Top Chef contestants
References
Living people
American chefs
American people of Italian descent
American restaurateurs
Johnson & Wales University alumni
People from Portland, Oregon
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20HGTV | The following is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by HGTV.
Current programming
House Hunters (1999–present)
House Hunters International (2006–present)
Love It or List It (2011–present)
House Hunters Renovation (2012–20; 2023–present)
Brother vs. Brother (2013–present)
My Lottery Dream Home (2015–present)
Home Town (2016–present)
Fixer to Fabulous (2017–present)
Windy City Rehab (2019–present)
Unsellable Houses (2019–present)
Christina on the Coast (2019–present)
Property Brothers: Forever Home (2019–present)
Rock the Block (2019–present)
100 Day Dream Home (2020–present)
Flipping 101 w/ Tarek El Moussa (2020–present)
Celebrity IOU (2020–present)
Renovation Island (2020–present)
Vacation House Rules (2020–present)
Help! I Wrecked My House (2020–present)
Everything But the House (2021–present)
Farmhouse Fixer (2021–present)
No Demo Reno (2021–present)
Bargain Block (2021–present)
Home Town Takeover (2021–present)
Battle on the Beach (2021–present)
The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project (2021–present)
Holmes Family Rescue (2021–present)
Tough Love with Hilary Farr (2021–present)
Fix My Flip (2022–present)
Why the Heck Did I Buy This House? (2022–present)
Married to Real Estate (2022–present)
Ugliest House in America (2022–present)
Build It Forward (2022–present)
Building Roots (2022–present)
Lil Jon Wants to Do What? (2022–present)
First Home Fix (2022–present)
The Renovator (2022–present)
Rehab Addict Lake House Rescue (2022–present)
Renovation Face-Off (2022–present)
Luxe for Less (2022–present)
Battle of the Bling (2022–present)
Rico to the Rescue (2023–present)
Christina in the Country (2023–present)
Down Home Fab (2023–present)
The Flipping El Moussas (2023–present)
Renovation 911 (2023–present)
Fix My Frankenhouse (2023–present)
Revealed (2023–present)
Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge (2023-present)
Renovation Resort Showdown (2023–present)
Windy City Rehab: Alison's Dream Home (2023–present)
What's Wrong With That House? (2023–present)
Specials
HGTV Dream Home (1997–present)
HGTV Urban Oasis (2010–present)
HGTV Smart Home (2013–present)
Upcoming programming
Small Town Potential (TBA)
Former programming
The Carol Duvall Show (1994–05)
Gardening by the Yard (1996–09)
Surprise Gardener (1998–03)
Designing for the Sexes (1998–11)
Curb Appeal (1999–13)
Dream House (2000–08)
Designers' Challenge (2001–09)
Ultimate Collectors (2002–03)
The Collector Inspector (2002-04)
Landscapers' Challenge (2002–08)
Design on a Dime (2003–13)
Holmes on Homes (2004–10)
Designed to Sell (2004–11)
FreeStyle (2005–13)
My First Place (2005–13)
Creative Juice (2006–08)
Hidden Potential (2006–09; 2017–20)
Over Your Head (2006–11)
Don't Sweat It (2006–11)
HGTV Star (2006–13)
Property Virgins (2006–16)
Deserving Design (2007)
Bought & Sold (2007–09)
Living with Ed (2007–09, moved to Planet Green)
Color Splash (2007–12)
The Stagers (2008–09)
Myles of Style (2008–09)
HGTV Showdown (2008–09)
House Detective (2008–12)
HGTV Green Home (2008–2010)
Desper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Wars | Family Wars is a closed-end, play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Andon Games.
Gameplay
Family Wars was a closed-end, computer moderated play-by-mail game. It was an organized crime game with players acting as the family leader. 18 players led crime families in a 14 × 20-block city comprising multiple precincts. The setting was the 1930s. Players used "effort points" to conduct various actions. Diplomacy was also a key part of gameplay. According to reviewer David Webber, "winning the game depend[ed] upon your skill at recruiting family members, influencing public officials, increasing your income, and eliminating your enemy facilities".
According to reviewer Patrick O. Dick, the three most important elements of gameplay were diplomacy, political influence, and warfare.
Reception
In a 1988 issue of White Wolf, reviewer Stewart Wieck said that Family Wars was a "very enjoyable game", and recommended it to readers. Paper Mayhem editor in chief David Webber also reviewed the game in a 1988 issue, stating "I liked Family Wars." Webber noted that diplomacy was the best part of the game and emphasized its importance. Patrick O. Dick echoed this, stating that it was first "a game of diplomacy".
See also
It's a Crime (play-by-mail game)
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
American games
American role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Tait%20%28executive%29 | Richard John Tait (January 17, 1964 – July 25, 2022) was a Scottish-born American board game creator.
Biography
Born in Scotland, Tait attended Heriot-Watt University, where he studied computer science. Later, he moved to the United States and joined Tuck School of Business for his master's degree.
After his graduation from Tuck School, he joined Microsoft as a software developer. During his tenure, he hired Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft. He left Microsoft in 1997.
In 1998, Tait co-created a board game, Cranium.
Tait died from complications of COVID-19 on July 25, 2022, at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He was 58.
References
1964 births
2022 deaths
Scottish emigrants to the United States
Board game designers
Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%2018%29 | The eighteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block: Tree Change, premiered on 7 August 2022 on the Nine Network. Hosts Scott Cam and Shelley Craft, site foremen Keith Schleiger and Dan Reilly, and judges Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer, all returned from the previous season.
Production
Applications for the eighteenth season of the series opened in September 2021 until 18 October 2021, looking for couples aged between 18 and 65 years old being sought by casting agents. Filming is expected to be a 10–12 week shoot period from late February 2022. In September 2021, the eighteenth season of The Block was officially confirmed at Nine’s 2022 upfronts, and for the first time the series will be heading to a regional location, the Macedon Ranges, where the contestants will be transforming country houses.
The Block in 2022 was located on McGeorge Road, in Gisborne, Victoria.
In early April 2022, the day filming was scheduled to commence it was confirmed by sources that a contestant had tested positive to COVID-19. Filming was delayed by a week with filming commencing mid-April.
The Block auctions (or Block-tions) for the houses were held on Saturday, 5 November 2022, with the final episode of 2022 airing the next day on Channel Nine and 9Now at 7:00pm (AEDT) on Sunday, 6 November 2022.
Contestants
This is the ninth season of The Block to have five couples.
Team controversy
Originally in the first 48 hours of the series, there was another team, Joel Patfull & Elle Ferguson, however they left the series abruptly in the first night without notice as they found the series was not “on brand” for them, therefore the team were replaced by Rachel & Ryan. Elle posted on Instagram that reason they left was because of Joel's mother having a bad fall, but the real reason was exposed on the show. Joel and Elle were portrayed as runaways and troublemakers who put in no effort on the show, and they were generally disliked by the public.
Score history
Weekly Room Budget
Weekly Room Prize
Results
Judges' Scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Challenge scores
Auction
The Auctions were held on Saturday November 5th, 2022, with the episode being aired the following night. Omar & Oz broke the record for the highest amount of profit ever made in a Block auction, taking home a total profit of $1,686,666.66, which equates to $843,333 each. Meanwhile, the other auctions did not fare so well. High interest rates and inflation lead to the lowest result since 2011, with favourites Tom & Sarah-Jane taking home just $20,000.99. Rachel & Ryan passed in their home and it sold immediately after for $4,249,000.50, netting them a profit of $169,000.50. Ankur & Sharon and Dylan & Jenny followed Rachel & Ryan’s strategy by passing in their homes in hope for a better result down the track. On 11 November, Ankur & Sharon‘s house sold for $4.25 million giving them a profit of $170,000. On 13 February, Dylan and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20platform | A data platform usually refers to a software platform used for collecting and managing data, and acting as a data delivery point for application and reporting software.
Data platform can also refer to
Technology
Concepts and specifications
Customer data platform, a collection of software which creates a persistent, unified customer database that is accessible to other systems
Data management platform, a software platform used for collecting and managing data
Data science competition platform
Computing platform
Cross-platform software
Linked Data Platform, a linked data specification defining a set of integration patterns
Platform as a service
Specific implementations
Open data portal, an online platform which supports users in accessing collections of open data
PatientBank, a medical data platform
SimpleReach, a content data platform and performance measurement company which tracks behavior on published content
See also
Common data model
Common Data Set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wai-Kai%20Chen | Wai-Kai Chen ( (Chen Wai-Kai), born December 23, 1936 in Nanjing) is a Chinese-American professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science.
Biography
Wai-Kai Chen's youth was troubled by the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 followed by the civil war between the Nationalist and Communist forces. Born into an intellectual family, he had a twin brother Wai-Fah, an older brother Hollis, an older sister Eileen, a younger sister Helena, and a younger brother Wai-Sun. The family was on the Nationalist side. In 1949 Wai-Kai Chen's maiden aunt went with Wai-Sun and Helena went to Taiwan. Some time later, Wai-Kai, Wai-Fah, and Hollis made a harrowing and adventurous escape to Tawain. In Taipei, Wai-Kai and Wai-Fah entered formal education as sophomores in the Junior High School of Taiwan Normal University. In the 1950s Wai-Kai Chen went to the United States to study electrical engineering. In August 1962 in White Plains, New York, he married Shirley Chen (the sister of his friend Stanley S. Chen).
Wei-Kai Chen graduated in electrical engineering from Ohio University with a B.S. in 1960 and an M.S. in 1961 and from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. in 1964. From 1964 to 1981 he was a faculty member in the department of electrical engineering of Ohio University. From 1981 to 2001 he was a full professor and head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago. For the academic year 1970–1971 he was a visiting associate profess at Purdue University. For the 1st semester of the academic year 1979–1980 he was visiting professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. For the academic year 1986–1987 he held a visiting position at Chuo University, where he worked with Maskazu Sengoku and Shoji Shinoda. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, the president of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers.
Chen is the author or editor of more than 30 books and the author or co-author of more than 280 technical articles. He was the co-author with John Choma (1941–2014) of Feedback Networks, published in 2007 by World Scientific. Chen has given more than 70 presentations at national or international conferences. He has done research on "VLSI circuits, broadband matching, active networks, filters, and applied graph theory especially its applications to parallel computations."
He received in 1967 the Lester R. Ford Award for his article Boolean Matrices and Switching Nets. He was elected in 1977 a fellow of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and in 1978 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Among his books that are widely known among electrical engineers are: Applied Graph Theory, Theory and Design of Broadband Matching Networks, Act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly%20Sanathanan | Lalitha (Lilly) Padman Sanathanan is an Indian statistician.
Sanathanan's early research concerned estimation of population size from sampled data, in the context of particle physics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1969, at the University of Chicago; her dissertation, Estimating Population Size in the Particle Scanning Context, was supervised by David Lee Wallace. After several years as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, she moved to Argonne National Laboratory in the late 1970s.
By 1991 she had shifted career direction, to drug development. After working as a senior statistician at Abbott Laboratories, associate director of statistics for Ciba-Geigy, and director of research statistics for Smith, Kline & French, she became a director in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research of the Food and Drug Administration. She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1990. In 1991 she returned to private industry, as vice president of biostatistics and clinical data systems at the Institute for Biological Research and Development in Irvine, California. She later founded ClinWorld, a binational (US and Indian) clinical research organisation, which was purchased by Indian health corporation Sami Labs (now the Sami-Sabinsa Group) in 2003.
In 2008 she published a self-help book, Life Vest, in Bangalore. She continues to operate a Florida-based statistics firm, STATLINK, and is a contributor to a cross-cultural podcast, the Global India Podcast.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian statisticians
Indian women scientists
Women statisticians
University of Chicago alumni
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
Argonne National Laboratory people
Fellows of the American Statistical Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado%20Cash | Tornado Cash (also stylized as TornadoCash) is an open source, non-custodial, fully decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler that runs on Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. It offers a service that mixes potentially identifiable or "tainted" cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the trail back to the fund's original source. This is a privacy tool used in EVM networks where all transactions are public by default.
In August 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the service, making it illegal for US citizens, residents and companies to use. The project's web domain and GitHub accounts were also shut down, and one of the developers arrested.
The project is governed through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and uses the $TORN token as a voting system for protocol updates.
Functionality
Tornado Cash uses multiple smart contracts that accept different quantities of ETH and ERC-20 deposits. These deposits can later be withdrawn to a different address by providing a cryptographic proof, hence breaking the link in the chain between the sender and the recipient. Zero-knowledge proofs (in particular zk-SNARKs) are used to increase privacy, as there is no way to link a withdrawal to its deposit.
History
On 8 August 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted Tornado Cash, making it illegal for United States citizens, residents, and companies to receive or send money through the service. The Treasury Department accused it of laundering more than $7 billion in virtual currencies, including $455 million believed to have been stolen in 2022 by the Lazarus Group, a hacking group associated with the government of North Korea. The same day, the domain used by the project was taken down, and GitHub removed the Tornado Cash repository and suspended the developers' accounts.
Circle, the company behind USD Coin, froze about $75,000 in USDC from Ethereum addresses belonging to the mixer.
On 10 August 2022, Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev was arrested in Amsterdam on the suspicion of "involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralised Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation on April 11, 2023, announced that it was opposed to the legal actions stating: "governmental actions targeting the publication of code based upon its topic necessarily target speech" as well as raising concerns about financial privacy.
On May 21, 2023, a hacker used a malicious proposal to gain full control of Tornado Cash's DAO. The hacker put forth a proposal for the DAO to vote on with hidden code that would issue the fraudulent voting tokens to them. The vote was passed, giving the hacker enough voting tokens to control any future proposals.
On August 23, 2023, two more Tornado developers, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, were charged with assisting in mone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olsen%20Gang%20Gets%20Polished | Olsen Gang Gets Polished () is a 2010 Danish 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Jørgen Lerdam from a screenplay by . Produced by A. Film Production and Nordisk Film, it was the first animated film in the Olsen Gang film series. Olsen Gang Gets Polished was released on 14 October 2010. It was followed in 2013 by The Olsen Gang in Deep Trouble.
Voice cast
Martin Buch as Egon Olsen
Nicolaj Kopernikus as Benny Frandsen
Esben Pretzmann as Kjeld Jensen
Annette Heick as Yvonne Jensen
Simon Jul Jørgensen as Allan
Mick Øgendahl as Johnny
Søren Sätter-Lassen as Hallandsen
Anders Matthesen as Detective Assistant Jensen
Jonas Schmidt as Detective Holm
Henrik Lykkegaard as Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Michael Carøe as the estate agent
Henrik Koefoed as member of parliament and prince consort
Vicki Berlin as DF speaker
Andreas Bo Pedersen as the opposition's speaker and Minister of Education
Jørgen Lerdam as the Queen
Kaja Kamuk as Ms. Jeppesen
Rune Tolsgaard as Mr. Jeppesen
Lin Kun Wu as the President of China
Zhao Li as the Chinese interpreter
Jens Jacob Tychsen as the chef
Silas Addington as Wonder Burger employee
Peter Oliver Hansen as TV presenter
See also
Olsenbanden Jr.
References
External links
Olsen Gang Gets Polished at danskefilm.dk (in Danish)
Olsen Gang Gets Polished at Scope (in Danish)
2010 films
2010 animated films
2010s children's animated films
Danish animated films
Danish comedy films
Danish children's films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthurium%20corrugatum | Anthurium corrugatum is a species of plant in the genus Anthurium native to Central and South America from Panama to Ecuador. This species is noted for its cordate leaves with a network of fine veins that gives it a bullate appearance. A terrestrial grower, it is adapted to cool, humid climates. It is a member of the section Polyneurium along with Anthurium argyrostachyum and others.
References
corrugatum
Flora of Panama
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Ecuador
Plants described in 1902 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual%20Visibility%20and%20Education%20Network | The Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) was founded in 2001 by David Jay. Self-described as the "world's largest asexual community", it had grown to over 50,000 members by 2012.
Purpose
When first starting the website, AVEN's main goals were to give the community space to grow and raise awareness for asexuality in public. AVEN serves as an informational platform.
Activities
One of the central parts of AVEN is the community forum. In this forum, users post about their experiences surrounding asexuality and the space is open to queer-friendly interactions without any sort of judgement. In an interview with Femestella, Jay highlighted the importance of such open spaces for people who are unsure of their sexuality and having support to understand themselves better. The forums exist in many languages such as French and Russian.
Publication
AVEN publishes a newsletter called AVENues every four months. It collects content from the community and includes fiction, poetry, articles and also publishes discussion pieces from the forum.
References
Asexuality
Aromanticism
International LGBT organizations
Internet properties established in 2001
LGBT-related Internet forums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Friedland | Bernard Friedland is an American professor of engineering. He is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Biography
Friedland was born in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received his B.A., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia University, New York University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and joined the faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1990. His research has focused on system and control theory and its applications. For 28 years, he was a manager at Kearfott Guidance & Navigation.
Friedland is the recipient of the 1982 Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), citing his "creative extensions to the theory of optimal control and recursive filtering and its practical application to the design of guidance and navigation systems." He is also a fellow of the ASME and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
References
Living people
American engineers
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Columbia University faculty
New York University faculty
Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-native%20processor | A cloud-native processor (CNP) is a general purpose central processing unit (CPU) specifically designed to support the growing number of cloud-native computing applications which do not require any on-site computing infrastructure, or software designed specifically to create, build and store information over the cloud. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cloud-native technologies, such as containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs, enable scalable applications in public, private, and hybrid clouds.
Technology
Cloud-native processors offer more cores than everyday x86 processors, between 80 and 256 cores, which allows for simultaneous connections in a cloud environment resulting in scalability. The processors are also smaller with more efficient power usage and can run both enterprise and cloud-native applications, making them more cost effective than other alternatives. Cloud-native processors are an ESG-friendly option for data centers, which are predicted to use 11 percent of the world's electricity by 2030.
Additional benefit in some cloud-native processors comes from their not using simultaneous multithreading, as in contrast everyday x86 processors typically have two threads per core. In a cloud environment, where multiple users use different applications sharing the same core, simultaneous multithreading processors have compromised consistency and predictability in performance, as there will be a slowdown under heavy load.
Products
Ampere Computing, founded in 2018, released a cloud-native processor in 2020. That processor, the Ampere Altra, and its successor, the Ampere Altra Max, are used by Oracle, Microsoft Azure, Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance. In 2021, Alibaba released its Yitian 710 processor as a cloud-native processor. Since 2017, AMD has offered its Epyc processors with extraordinarily high thread counts (when compared to Intel x86 processors) afforded by their chiplet assembly, but in 2022 started adopting the "cloud native" nomenclature in its press releases. In 2022, Ampere announced a new custom-designed core, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a cloud-native server based on Ampere's cloud-native processors. Since 2023, Intel has touted its 4th generation Xeon processors as handling "cloud-native workloads", especially using Kubernetes, due to the fine-grained control of memory and cache afforded by Intel's Resource Director Technology (RDT).
References
Computer-related introductions in the 21st century
Cloud infrastructure
Instruction set architectures
Network performance
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Fischer | Baruch Fischer (Hebrew: ברוך פישר) is an Israeli optical physicist and Professor Emeritus in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Technion, where he was the Max Knoll Chair in Electro-Optics and Electronics.
He is a fellow of Optica (formerly known as the Optical Society of America) from 1996 "For contributions to photorefractive nonlinear optics, including development of the double phase conjugate mirror".
Early life and education
Baruch Fischer received his B.Sc. in 1973 in Physics from Bar-Ilan University. He continued his studies in Bar-Ilan, earning M.Sc. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1980 (with “highest distinction”).
Career
Fischer was a Weizmann Postdoc Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1981, and joined the Technion in 1983 as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1987 and to full professor in 1991.
Fischer served as the Dean of the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering during 1999–2004. In his Deanship period he conceived and founded the Moshe and Sara Zisapel Nano-Electronics Center and built the Viterbi Computech Center. He was the Head of the Micro-Electronics Research Center during 1993–2001, and the Opto-Electronics Research Center during 2008–2017. He retired in 2017 as an Emeritus Professor.
During the years, Fischer was a Topical Editor for Optics Letters, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials. He was a Director of the Board of MRV Communications, Inc. (Chatsworth, CA), and was a member of the Technion Board of Governors. He founded in 2000 the start-up company "All-Optical".
Fischer was a visiting scholar and professor in Caltech, USC, Bell Labs, the University of Illinois, Tufts university, MIT and Bar-Ilan University.
He has supervised graduate students and postdocs. Among them (in academia): Shmuel Sternklar (now in Ariel University), Shimon Weiss (now in UCLA), Mordechai Segev (now in Technion), Moshe Horowitz (now in Technion), Omri Gat (now in the Hebrew University), and Gilead Oren (now in Soreq SNRC).
Research
His research included: Dipole and strain glasses (à la spin glass) and magnetic and electric impurities in 2D metals, nonlinear-optics, where in the past he worked on photorefractive and phase conjugate optics (imitates “time reversal”), formulated and solved the full basic photorefractive four-wave mixing nonlinear equations, invented the first passive (self-pumped) phase-conjugate mirrors, the double phase conjugation, photorefractive self-trapping and photorefractive spatial solitons.
He demonstrated fixing information (images and gratings) in photorefractive crystals, the first transverse modes locking phenomenon and synthetic dimensions that can be lower or higher than 3 (hyper-combs) in mode-locked lasers.
He also worked on wave mixing in Bacterio-Rhodopsin, fiber-optics and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20algebra | In algebra and network theory, a Wang algebra is a commutative algebra , over a field or (more generally) a commutative unital ring, in which has two additional properties:(Rule i) For all elements x of , x + x = 0 (universal additive nilpotency of degree 1).(Rule ii) For all elements x of , xx = 0 (universal multiplicative nilpotency of degree 1).
History and applications
Rules (i) and (ii) were originally published by K. T. Wang (Wang Ki-Tung, 王 季同) in 1934 as part of a method for analyzing electrical networks. From 1935 to 1940, several Chinese electrical engineering researchers published papers on the method. The original Wang algebra is the Grassman algebra over the finite field mod 2. At the 57th annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held on December 27–29, 1950, Raoul Bott and Richard Duffin introduced the concept of a Wang algebra in their abstract (number 144t) The Wang algebra of networks. They gave an interpretation of the Wang algebra as a particular type of Grassman algebra mod 2. In 1969 Wai-Kai Chen used the Wang algebra formulation to give a unification of several different techniques for generating the trees of a graph. The Wang algebra formulation has been used to systematically generate King-Altman directed graph patterns. Such patterns are useful in deriving rate equations in the theory of enzyme kinetics.
According to Guo Jinhai, professor in the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Ki Tung's pioneering method of analyzing electrical networks significantly promoted electrical engineering not only in China but in the rest of the world; the Wang algebra formulation is useful in electrical networks for solving problems involving topological methods, graph theory, and Hamiltonian cycles.
Wang Algebra and the Spanning Trees of a Graph
The Wang Rules for Finding all Spanning Trees of a Graph G
For each node write the sum of all the edge-labels that meet that node.
Leave out one node and take the product of the sums of labels for all the remaining nodes.
Expand the product in 2. using the Wang algebra.
The terms in the sum of the expansion obtained in 3. are in 1-1 correspondence with the spanning trees in the graph.
References
Algebra
Electrical engineering
Network theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braham%20Stevens | Braham Stevens (born 1969) is an Australian sculptor whose work is influenced by networks of human activity, environmental processes and the intricate patterns found in nature and science.
He is best known for his site-specific large-scale National works of public art that are conceived to engage with their environments and surroundings, such as Embrace Cairns performing arts precinct, Reflection at James Cook University, Drift Wellington Point Brisbane, Into the Blue City of Rockingham Foreshore, Western Australia, Guulbughul Reconciliation Rocks Cape York and Eye on the Horizon at Port Kembla, Headland Wollongong.
Early life and education
Following the early death of his father, Stevens started creating art with found recycled materials as an escape from the hardship, poverty and social stigma. Spending his youth working as a labourer on vast outback station properties in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia - likened by the artist to the sustained hands-on physicality and meditative processes of stone and metal sculpture.
In his early years he regularly attended life drawing and portraiture classes at Albury College, later studying Industrial Arts, Applied Arts and Metal Smithing at Melbourne Technical College.
Relocating to Europe and London in the late 1980s, Stevens was an active participant in the vibrant Carnaby Street art and music collective subculture.
Initially creating ephemeral art with found natural materials - including mudlarking on the River Thames,
Stevens' later experimentation with stone, recycled metal and alloy, helped develop evolving techniques and processes to make more permanent durable structures that could withstand time and the elements.
Career - major public artwork commissions
Stevens' most prominent public works include:
EMBRACE & REFLECTION - In 2016 Stevens was commissioned by the City of Cairns to create a 9m and 5m high linking public art installation that celebrated the ongoing interrelationship between James Cook University and the City
DRIFT - Sand, Sea & Sky - In 2018 Stevens’ Abstract Triptych Concept based on Stingrays won the national competition for the gateway commission to Stradbroke Island Brisbane.
INTO THE BLUE - In 2019 Stevens was commissioned to create an iconic foreshore precinct sculpture for the City of Rockingham Western Australia. It was modelled on an eagle ray, prominently positioned and 6m high
GUULBUGHUL (all together) - In late 2020 Stevens was commissioned by the Bama-ngay Traditional Custodians and Elders to create a Landmark Installation for the Heritage Listed Reconciliation Rocks Cultural Precinct in Cape York Far North Queensland. His collaboration with LA3 landscape architects being awarded the Landscape Institute of Architects Australia best cultural project in 2022
EYE ON THE HORIZON - In mid 2021 Stevens was awarded a national commission from the Federal Government to design a landmark World War II commemorative artwork for the City of Wollongong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Memory%20Librarian%3A%20And%20Other%20Stories%20of%20Dirty%20Computer | The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer is a collection of short fiction by Janelle Monáe, written in collaboration with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas. The collection, which has been described as Afrofuturist and cyberpunk, is Monáe's debut literary work. It is based on the world of her 2018 album Dirty Computer, as well as the accompanying short film of the same name. The book has received critical acclaim.
Plot
The Memory Librarian
with Alaya Dawn Johnson
Seshet is a queer Black woman working for New Dawn as the titular memory librarian. She works to enforce New Dawn’s rules by deleting and manipulating the population’s memories, though she turns a blind eye to some rebel groups that she considers harmless. New Dawn’s memory collection system becomes clogged up, and Seshet investigates. She learns that her lover Alethia is a rebel who mixed chemicals to combat New Dawn’s weapons. Seshet begins to question her place in the system of the New Dawn.
Nevermind
with Danny Lore
After escaping from New Dawn, Jane 57821 lives at the Pynk Hotel with several other people, including her friend Neer. Pynk is a haven for women and women-aligned people looking to escape from New Dawn’s totalitarianism. The hotel is betrayed by Rhapsody, a resident who does not want non-binary residents such as Neer to live at the hotel. New Dawn attacks, but the residents fight them off.
Timebox
with Eve L. Ewing
Raven and Akilah are two women from very different backgrounds who get their first apartment together. Raven is a nursing student who never has enough time; Akilah is an artist and activist. They discover that the closet in their apartment is outside of time and debate how best to use this power. Akilah wants to make time a community resource to end capitalism, while Raven initially wants to use it herself. The apartment manager locks Akilah in the closet and leaves Raven alone.
Save Changes
with Yohanca Delgado
Sisters Amber and Larry care for their disabled mother Diana. Diana is under house arrest by New Dawn and exhibits erratic behavior after a failed memory wipe. Amber has a piece of larimar stone, which she can use to rewind time in case of an emergency. However, the stone can only be used once. Larry dates a woman named Natalie in defiance of New Dawn’s rules. Amber and Larry attend an illegal party. Larry is arrested. Diana reveals that she has been faking her behavioral issues for years. Amber activates the stone. Returning to the beginning of the story, Amber, Larry, and Diana escape to join the resistance against New Dawn.
Timebox Altar(ed)
with Sheree Renée Thomas
Bug is a 7-year old child living near Freewheel, a ghost town where New Dawn’s control is weak. Bug’s parents are dirty computers who have been taken by New Dawn. While playing in the abandoned town, Bug and their friends make art from the trash, creating a sculpture that Bug calls an ark. They me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon%20Metro | The Devon Metro is a proposed rapid transit–style service on the regional rail network in Exeter and its environs, which Devon County Council has been working to establish since 2011. The intention is to move towards a Devon Metro service through a series of improvements to the current network, including opening new stations at , , and .
Routes
The planned Devon Metro incorporates services on the Riviera Line from Exeter to and , the Avocet Line to , the Tarka Line to , and the West of England Main Line as far as , with some sources also including the rest of the county's rail network.
Completed enhancements
Cranbrook station
Cranbrook railway station opened in 2015.
Newcourt station
Newcourt railway station opened in 2015.
Riviera Line timetable changes
As part of the Devon Metro project, frequency on the Riviera Line between Exeter and Paignton was increased to four trains per hour, which has also had the effect of increasing the frequency of the Avocet Line to Exmouth.
Also as part of the project, in the 2020 timetable change, the Tarka Line service between Barnstaple and Exeter was segregated from the service on the Avocet and Riviera Lines from Exmouth to Paignton via Exeter. It has been proposed that the Tarka Line could now be extended east from Exeter to Honiton along the West of England Main Line.
Marsh Barton station
Construction work started at Marsh Barton in April 2021. The station was added to the National Rail timetable in May 2022, eventually opening for passenger services in July 2023.
Proposals
Plans to create a Devon Metro also include new stations at , , and . Furthermore, the council wishes for the Dartmoor Railway to be extended to serve the town of Tavistock, which would revive a connection provided until 1968 by the Exeter to Plymouth railway of the LSWR.
References
Rail transport in Devon
Transport in Exeter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARIAT | The Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT) is a physical computing platform developed by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a testbed for network security applications. Use of the platform is restricted to the United States military, though some academic organizations can also use the platform under certain conditions.
LARIAT was designed to help with the development and testing of intrusion detection (ID) and information assurance (IA) technologies. Initially created in 2002, LARIAT was the first simulated platform for ID testing and was created to improve upon a preexisting non-simulated testbed that was created for DARPA's 1998 and 1999 ID analyses. LARIAT is used by the United States military for training purposes and automated systems testing.
Function
The platform simulates users and reflects vulnerabilities caused by design flaws and user interactions and allows for interaction with real-world programs such as web browsers and office suites while simulating realistic user activity on these applications. These virtual users are managed by Markov models which allow them to act differently from each other in a realistic way.
This results in a realistic simulation of an active network of users that can then be targeted for malicious attacks to test the effectiveness of the attacks against network defenses, while also testing the effectiveness of intrusion detection methods and software in a simulated real-world environment with actual users in amongst the malicious traffic on the network. This is done because network intrusion detection software cannot as easily find instances of malicious network traffic when it is mixed in with non-malicious network traffic generated by legitimate users of the network.
The traffic generators used by the testbed run on a modified version of Linux, and a Java-based graphical user interface called Director is provided to allow users of the platform to configure and control testing parameters and to monitor the resulting network traffic.
Influence
Cyberwarfare training programs such as those at the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology's research center use the principles and methodologies of the LARIAT platform in the development of simulated threat generators for cyberwarfare training. In non-security contexts, systems such as Artificial Intelligence programs build on the principles of the LARIAT platform to study and then simulate real-time user input and activity for automated testing systems.
LLSIM
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory designed the Lincoln Laboratory Simulator (LLSIM) as a fully virtualized Java-based successor to LARIAT that can be run on a single computer without the need for dedicated physical network hardware or expensive testbeds. It is not a full replacement for LARIAT, however, as it does not generate low-level data such as network packets. While this makes it more scalable than LARIAT since it simplifies certain processes, it cannot be used for certain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%2053 | My 53 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States:
KNXT-LD, MyNetworkTV affiliate in Bakersfield, California
KMSG-LD, MyNetworkTV affiliate in Fresno, California |
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