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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZMV-TV | DZMV-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of the ALLTV network. It is owned and operated by Advanced Media Broadcasting System, which itself is owned by Prime Asset Ventures, Inc. through Planet Cable. The stations studios is located at the Starmall EDSA-Shaw, EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, while its transmitter is located at the Millennium Transmitter (land or site and facility owned by ABS-CBN Corporation), Sgt. Esguerra cor. Mo. Ignacia Ave, Brgy. South Triangle, Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila.
History
On January 5, 2022, the National Telecommunications Commission awarded the frequencies Channel 2 and Channel 16 to Advanced Media Broadcasting System under a provisional authority. The channels were previously owned by ABS-CBN Corporation under DWWX-TV.
In June 2022, AMBS Manila started its test broadcast.
In September 2022, Willie Revillame announced that the TV station will be named as ALLTV. The station made its soft launch on September 13, 2022.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 16 (485.143 MHz)
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Metro Manila
Cavite
Bulacan
Laguna
Rizal
Secondary areas
Portion of Pampanga
Portion of Nueva Ecija
See also
DWWX-TV
ABS-CBN
ALLTV
Advanced Media Broadcasting System
References
Television channels and stations established in 2022
Television stations in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%E2%80%93DTAC%20merger | A corporate merger between True Corporation and DTAC, Thailand's second- and third–largest mobile network operators, has been in progress since its first public announcement on 22 November 2021. The deal, which would make the combined entity the largest mobile network ahead of current market leader AIS and reduce the mobile provider market to a duopoly, has been strongly opposed by academics and civil society groups as detrimental to consumers and the public interest. The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) acknowledged the merger with certain conditions on 20 October 2022, though there had been some legal uncertainty over whether the NBTC had authority to approve such a merger and whether the Trade Competition Commission should be involved. Petitions challenging the decision were made to the Administrative Court in November, by the Thailand Consumers Council and AIS.
The company Citrine Global was formed as a joint venture between True parent Charoen Pokphand Group and DTAC parent Telenor. The company was registered with the Department of Business Development on 9 July 2021 with a registered capital of 100,000 baht. Its office is located at 313 CP Tower Building, Silom Road, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok
The company began to appear in its name and role as a Tender Offeror of True and DTAC. After True and DTAC will be merged together, The company will buy shares from True at a price of 5.09 baht per share and buy shares from DTAC at a price of 47.76 baht per share. The merger was expected to be completed in late September 2022. Later on 4 April 2022, At the 2022 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of True Corporation, the meeting resolved to approve the merger with DTAC, Same for DTAC, The meeting on the same day that the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders resolved to approve the merger with True Corporation. The merger was "acknowledged" by the regulator NBTC at a meeting on 20 October 2022. The newly merged company still retain the True Corporation name, which was founded on 1 March 2023 and it was listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand under the stock ticker symbol TRUE on 3 March 2023.
References
Further reading
Charoen Pokphand
True Corporation
China Mobile
Telenor
2023 mergers and acquisitions
Telecommunications in Thailand
2022 in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20ABC | The following article details the history of Major League Baseball on ABC, the broadcast of Major League Baseball games on the ABC television network.
1950s
In 1953, ABC-TV executive Edgar J. Scherick (who later created Wide World of Sports) broached a Saturday Game of the Week, TV sport's first network series. At the time, ABC was labeled a "nothing network" that had fewer outlets than CBS or NBC. ABC also needed paid programming or "anything for bills" as Scherick put it. At first, ABC hesitated at the idea of a nationally televised regular season baseball program. ABC wondered how exactly the Game of the Week would reach television in the first place and who would notice if it did? Also, Major League Baseball barred the Game of the Week from airing within 50 miles of any ballpark. Major League Baseball according to Scherick, insisted on protecting local coverage and didn't care about national appeal. ABC, though, did care about the national appeal and claimed that "most of America was still up for grabs."
In April 1953, Edgar Scherick set out to acquire teams rights but instead, only got the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox to sign on. These were not "national" broadcast contracts since they were assembled through negotiations with individual teams to telecast games from their home parks. It was until the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, that antitrust laws barred "pooled rights" TV contracts negotiated with a central league broadcasting authority.
In 1953, ABC earned an 11.4 rating for its Game of the Week telecasts. Blacked-out cities had 32% of households. In the rest of the United States, 3 in 4 TV sets in use watched Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner (or backup announcers Bill McColgan and Bob Finnegan) call the games for ABC. CBS took over the Saturday Game in 1955 (the rights were actually set up through the Falstaff Brewing Corporation) retaining Dean/Blattner and McColgan/Finnegan as the announcing crews (as well as Gene Kirby, who produced the Dean/Blattner games and alternated with them on play-by-play) and adding Sunday coverage in 1957. As Edgar Scherick said, "In '53, no one wanted us. Now teams begged for "Game"'s cash."
In 1959, ABC broadcast the best-of-three playoff series (to decide the National League pennant) between the Milwaukee Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. The cigarette company L&M sponsored the telecasts. George Kell and Bob DeLaney were the announcers. ABC Radio also broadcast the playoff series with Bob Finnegan and Tony Flynn announcing.
1960s
1960–1961
In 1960, ABC returned to baseball broadcasting with a series of late-afternoon Saturday games. Jack Buck and Carl Erskine were the lead announcing crew for this series, which lasted one season. ABC typically did three games a week. Two of the games were always from the Eastern or Central Time Zone. The late games (no doubleheaders) were usually San Francisco Giants or Los Angeles Dodgers' home games. However, the Milwaukee Braves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20A.%20Chien | Andrew A. Chien is an American computer scientist working as the William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.
Education
Chien earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, Master of Science in computer science, and PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
From 1990 to 1998, Chien was a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. From 1998 to 2005, he was the SAIC Endowed Chair Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. During his time at UCSD, he founded the Center for Networked Systems. From 2005 to 2010, Chien worked as the vice president of research at Intel. He joined the University of Chicago in 2011 and has since worked jointly as the William Eckhardt Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Computer Science and senior computer scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory. Chien is also the editor-in-chief of Communications of the ACM.
References
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Chicago faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Intel people
Argonne National Laboratory people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Rage%20%281995%20video%20game%29 | Road Rage (known as Speed King NEO KOBE 2045/Speed King in Japan) is a 3D cyberpunk themed racing game by Konami released for arcades in 1995 and on the PlayStation in 1996/1997 (depending on the distribution region). While the arcade version was released worldwide, the PlayStation port was only released in Japan and Europe. The European PlayStation version of the game is considered obscure and very rare the same can be said for the arcade cabinets due to their elusive status.
The game contains references to a large number of other Konami games (Gradius, Parodius, Metal Gear, Snatcher, Frogger, etc.). The races themselves take place in the city of Neo Kobe (known from Konami's Snatcher), inspired by the movie Blade Runner. The gameplay is similar to the better-known futuristic racing series Wipeout. In order to approximate the authentic gameplay of the original arcade version, the PlayStation port features support for the NeGcon analog controller.
See also
Road Fighter
:ja:スピードキング NEO KOBE 2045
References
1995 video games
Konami games
PlayStation (console) games
Racing video games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness%20in%20Haiti | There is limited information on the extent of Deafness in Haiti, due mainly to the lack of census data. Haiti's poor infrastructure makes it almost impossible to obtain accurate information on many health related issues, not just the hearing impaired. In 2003, the number of deaf people in Haiti was estimated at 72,000, based on a survey provided by the World Health Organization.
Deaf people in Haiti face multiple barriers, not only from the lack of standard care and treatment, but also from the lack of specialist services like interpreters and sign language expertise. They may also be stigmatized, face discrimination, and even suffer violence due to cultural beliefs about the deaf. The justice system is either unwilling or unable to cope with deaf people.
The lack of employment available for people with disabilities has resulted in high levels of poverty, with most living under the poverty level. The Haitian government has established disability policies, however it is largely unable to enforce them.
Language emergence
LSH (Langue des Signes Haïtienne), also known as Haitian Sign Language (HSL), is the language of the Deaf Community in Haiti. Although American Sign Language (ASL) is also widely used in Haiti, HSL is deemed to be the signed language of the Haitian deaf community. American Sign Language was used by the foreign aid programs based in Haiti to help the deaf community. There is not much information on the emergence of HSL, however, it is believed that Haitian Sign Language is influenced or derived from American Sign Language, because of the similarity between them and the prevalence of ASL among foreign aid programs. Haitian Sign Language is characterized as a deaf-community sign language, as it is mostly used among the Deaf Community in Haiti. In Haitian culture, being deaf or disabled is seen as a punishment for committing a sin or a curse from a higher power. Therefore, many deaf Haitians are in constant fear of using sign language (ASL or HSL) around the typical hearing community. The use of HSL is transmitted through education in Deaf schools and peer interaction.
Significant organizations
There are many organizations that focus on helping the Deaf community of Haiti.
The Association des Sourds de Leveque
The Association des Sourds de Leveque focuses on strengthening the deaf community and advocating for the inclusion of the Deaf community in local and national decision-making, specifically in the case of risk and emergency situations. This organization was established in response to Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which addresses emergency situations and humanitarian emergencies.
Off the Grid Missions
Off the Grid Mission is a non-profit organization founded by Angela Maria Nardolillo, who is a hard-of-hearing woman. She traveled around the world (in hopes to help provide isolated Deaf communities with resources and supplies), where she observed the effects of language deprivatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanza%2B%20%C3%81frica | Romanza+ África is an English-language African digital television network, owned by TV Azteca and Cisneros Group and distributed by AfricaXP.
The channel's programming is mainly telenovelas dubbed into English, including the extensive catalog of telenovelas from TV Azteca and Venevisión. was launched by the telenovelas boom in Africa.
History
It was announced in April at the 2014 MIPTV conference in Cannes, France, where Marcel Vinay from TV Azteca and César Díaz from Grupo Cisneros confirmed the launch of this channel for the English-speaking world of Africa, in collaboration with Craig Kelly from AfricaXP, was launched to air on May 1, 2014, through the service of digital TV provider Bamba TV in Kenya, The channel broadcast his first telenovelas Catalina y Sebastián from TV Azteca and Secreto de amor from Venevisión.
After almost its first year of broadcast, it was recorded to have reached 4.5 million homes according to Bamba TV throughout Kenya.
Coverage
The channel broadcasts on South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya,Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Nigeria, with plans to expand in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Mauritius and Seychelles markets.
References
2014 establishments in Kenya
Television stations in Kenya
Television stations in South Africa
Television stations in Uganda
Television stations in Nigeria
Television in Zimbabwe
Television stations in Ghana
Television stations in Zambia
TV Azteca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmi%20Pad | Redmi Pad is an Android tablet computer designed, marketed and manufactured by Xiaomi. This tablet computer was announced on October 4, 2022, it was released on October 5, 2022.
Design
The tablet has glass front and aluminum unibody.
The design of the camera bump is similar to Redmi K50 and K50 Pro.
On the bottom side, there are USB-C and two speakers. On the top side, there are two speakers and a power button. On the right side there are a volume rocker, two microphones, and microSD tray.
Redmi Pad solds in 3 colours: Graphite Gray, Moonlight Silver, Mint Green.
References
External links
Xiaomi
Tablet computers introduced in 2022
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusConnects | BusConnects is a transport infrastructure programme, managed by the National Transport Authority (NTA), focused on the bus networks in several cities in Ireland. Described by the NTA as intended to "improve bus services across the country", as of mid-2022 the program was in "implementation" phase in Dublin, "consultation" phase in Cork, with the Minister for Transport projecting similar initiatives in Galway, Limerick and Waterford. Aspects of the plans proved controversial with local politicians, residents and unions in both Dublin and Cork.
Background
A 2017 report, commissioned by the NTA and produced by US-based consulting firm Jarrett Walker + Associates (previously involved in similar projects in New Zealand), set out a number of options for the redesign of Dublin's bus transport network. The proposed purpose of the redesign was to improve network functionality and increase bus ridership in the Dublin area. The report noted that the existing network focused on radial routes (from the suburbs into the city centre) and had very few orbital or crossing routes (from suburb to suburb). Arising from this report, an initial network proposal was released for public consultation in mid-2018.
According to a press release issued by the Department of Transport in March 2022, it was noted that that, while a "final budget and delivery schedule for BusConnects Dublin" had not been established, the proposed budget was then projected to be €4 billion and work speculated to "be substantially complete by 2030".
Initiatives
Dublin
The BusConnects program in Dublin was split into phases, for which the main consultation initiatives concluded in 2020. The NTA began implementing the new network in stages, starting in 2021. These included:
Phase 1 (H-Spine) - initially rolled out in June 2021, when routes 29a, 31/a/b and 32 were replaced by routes H1, H2 and H3.
Phase 2 (C-Spine) - launched in November 2021 in West Dublin and East Kildare, this involved the introduction of several routes operated by Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Ireland, including the C-Spine (C1, C2, C3, C4), route 52, a number of peak-only and local routes and two night-time routes.
Phase 3 (N-Orbital) - launched in May 2022 with the N4 and N6 north Dublin orbitals.
Phase 4 (G-Spine) - launched in October 2022 with routes G1, G2 and 60.
Phase 5a (W-Orbital) - launched in June 2023 with routes W4, W61 and W62.
During both the implementation and consultation phases, the BusConnects projects in Dublin attracted significant controversy and criticism, including from service users, residents, politicians, and transport unions. Concerns included route coverage, total journey times, allowing for route access and changes, actual performance and "no shows", property "taking" required to implement routes, and reduction in road space for existing commuter traffic. Regarding the suburb of Finglas, independent Dublin City Councillor Noeleen Reilly has noted that overall, BusConnects has had an adverse ef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Barbados | Barbados observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Barbados is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Barbados. "BB" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Barbados directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Barbados at Time.is
Time in Barbados at TimeAndDate
Time in Barbados |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Olson%20Reichhardt | Cynthia J. Olson Reichhardt (also published as C. J. Olson) is an American condensed matter physicist whose research involves the use of computer simulations to study disordered media and non-equilibrium systems, with applications to the understanding of how aging affects stockpiled nuclear weapons. She is a member of the technical staff at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she is affiliated with the Physics and Chemistry of Materials Group, and with the Center for Nonlinear Studies.
Education
Reichhardt majored in physics at Luther College (Iowa), graduating summa cum laude in 1994 with minors in Spanish and mathematics. She went to the University of Michigan for graduate study in physics, earned a master's degree there in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998.
She became chair of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in 2022.
Recognition
Reichhardt was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2011, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for characterization of collective phenomena in driven systems with long-range interactions, including non-equilibrium phase diagrams, avalanches, noise and fractal flow". In 2018, she was named a Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Condensed matter physicists
Luther College (Iowa) alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly%20Manners | Deadly Manners is a 2017 fiction podcast produced by AMC Networks and The Paragon Collective starring RuPaul, LeVar Burton, Anna Chlumsky, and Kristen Bell.
Background
The podcast debuted on October 13, 2017. The podcast was produced by AMC Networks in partnership with The Paragon Collective and available on SundanceNow as well as Shudder. The podcast was directed by Alex Aldea and created by Ali Garfinkel. The podcast stars Anna Chlumsky and Kristen Bell. The podcast introduction is performed by RuPaul. LeVar Burton is the narrator of the podcast. The podcast is a ten episode series. The podcast uses stereophonic sound so that sound effects can change from one earbud or headphone to the other. The podcast drew inspiration from the movies Clue and Death Becomes Her. The podcast is set in 1954 during a dinner party that gets snowed in and each of the guests start getting murdered one at a time.
Reception
Sean Keeley wrote in The Comeback that the podcast was "well-produced and a lot of fun." Chelsea Tatham wrote in the Tampa Bay Times that the podcast's "audio quality [is] scary great." The podcast received two out of five microphones from Podcast Magazine because the show leaned so heavily on narration rather than acting.
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External links
Audio podcasts
2017 podcast debuts
2017 podcast endings
Scripted podcasts
Horror podcasts
Mystery podcasts
American podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeadline | is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and originally published by T&E Soft for the MSX2 and MSX2+ home computers. It was later ported to the X68000 computer and Sega Mega Drive, published by Palsoft, followed by digital re-releases for Microsoft Windows. Both the MSX2 and X68000 versions also received physical re-releases by Japanese retailer BEEP. It follows a group of characters in rescue of queen Althea from Zidane, a kingdom surrounded by barriers connected with the demon world, whose monsters have overflowed it. Controlling either a fighter, wizard, or ninja, the player can choose from six stages and play them in any order, fighting against waves of enemies and bosses, while defending or avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles.
Undeadline was directed and designed by Tokihiro Naito, who previously worked on Hydlide and Hydlide 3, with Tetsuya "Futaro" Yamamoto serving as main programmer. The soundtrack was composed by Kazunori Hasegawa. Due to T&E Soft liking to push its playtesters to the limits and as their skills improved naturally, it led to the designers increasing the difficulty to keep up with them, particularly paying attention to both enemy movement and spawn patterns. Because of its rarity, original copies of the MSX2 version commands high prices on the secondary game collecting market. The game received generally favorable reception from critics, most of which reviewed it as an import title, although its difficulty has been criticized.
Gameplay
Undeadline is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up game with role-playing elements that plays from a top-down perspective. The plot revolves around Zidane, a country surrounded by barriers connected with the demon world whose monsters have overflowed it after being broken in a previous regime. Queen Althea manages the kingdom, as his father became exhausted from battle and fell ill, but she is kidnapped by a creature from the demon world. Joined by the wizard Dino and the ninja Ruika, the fighter Leon stands up to rescue his sister. Prior to starting, the player can configure the game's difficulty or activate rapid fire.
Controlling either the fighter, wizard, or ninja, the player can choose from the first six stages and play them in any order, fighting against an assortment of enemy waves, while defending or avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles. There are seven stages in total, which include forests, ruins, and dungeons. The scenery is constantly scrolling and never stops moving until a miniboss or boss is reached, which must be fought to progress further. Each character also possess their own defense methods, such as Leon being able to block projectiles with his shield.
Scattered across every stage are tresure chests containing power-ups that open when shot, ranging from beneficial or harmful items such as a speed boost or poison, to multiple types of weapons. Picking up a new weapon grants its initial state and c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaneo | Ayaneo (variously stylized as AYANEO, AyaNeo or Aya Neo) is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and AMD Ryzen processors.
Devices
Ayaneo Air / Ayaneo Air Pro (2022)
The Air device uses the Windows 11 operating system, a Ryzen 5 5560U processor, 8 or 16 GB RAM, a 5.5'' 1080p OLED screen and 128GB or 512GB SSD storage, expandable via an SD card. The Pro variant has some improved specifications.
Eurogamer wrote that the Ayaneo Air provides lower graphics performance than its main competitor, the Steam Deck, due to the Air's older GPU architecture. According to IGN, the Air provides acceptable performance with modern games at a lower 720p resolution, but not at the screen's native resolution. But the reviewers praised the Air for its better screen, portability and compatibility with Windows games compared to the Steam Deck, the latter owing to the Air being a native Windows device, as opposed to the Linux Proton compatibility layer used by the Steam Deck.
Ayaneo Next / Ayaneo Next Pro (2022)
The Next is a larger and more powerful device compared to the Air, using a Ryzen 7 5800U processor, 16 GB RAM, a 7'' 1280×800 pixel touchscreen and 2TB SSD storage.
IGN described it as an "impressive" handheld gaming PC, capable of playing modern games at high frame rates, but noted a number of "quirks and challenges" such as controller glitches.
Aya Neo (2021)
The Aya Neo was the first model of handheld gaming computer sold under the Ayaneo brand, and originally financed through crowdfunding. It used a Ryzen 5 4500U processor, 16 GB RAM, 512GB or 1TB SSD storage, and a 7'' 1280×800 pixel touchscreen.
Reviewers described its performance as acceptable for less demanding games, and the device as a whole as a relatively expensive and novel type of device for a "niche crowd" of handheld PC gamers.
Ayaneo 2 (2022)
The Ayaneo 2 uses a Zen 3 processor.
Ayaneo Geek (2022)
Ayaneo Geek was launched together with Ayaneo 2. Differently than Ayaneo 2, Ayaneo Geek will not have motion sensors in both the body and handles, a higher-quality vibration motor, touch-to-wake support for the fingerprint sensor, and a PCIe 4.0 SSD by default.
References
Handheld gaming computers
X86-based computers
2021 in video gaming
2021 introductions
Indiegogo projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus%20Corporation | Cumulus Corporation (often shortened to Cumulus Corp.) was an American computer peripheral and system manufacturer active from 1987 to 1993. Based in Beachwood, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland) and started by Tecmar founder Martin Alpert, the company set out to exclusively manufacture expansion products for IBM's Personal System/2 (PS/2) family of computers—mainly RAM expansion cards. It later released cross-platform CPU upgrade cards and memory expansion cards for other platforms besides the PS/2. Beginning in 1990, the company began trading as Cumulus Computer Corporation and began releasing complete systems of their own. Initially a success story for the tech industry in Cleveland, a botched stock launch in 1992 proved disastrous for the company's ailing cash flow situation, and in 1993 the company was liquidated amid massive debt to suppliers and lenders.
Foundation (1987–1988)
Cumulus Corporation was founded in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, in 1987 by Martin Alpert. Alpert, an M.D. and pulmonologist, was previously the head of Tecmar, a personal computer expansion card manufacturer that he founded in 1974 to manufacture and market his designs for medical diagnostic equipment. Shortly after IBM announced their Personal Computer in August 1981, Tecmar became one of the first third-party manufacturers to release expansion cards for the system. Alpert operated Tecmar as a private business until summer 1986, when he sold it to Rexon, Inc., of Culver City, California, for less than US$2.3 million. Alpert stayed on the board of directors, before leaving in October 1986. He admitted that Tecmar in the years leading up to its purchase lacked adequate "executive-level talent" in its management. Alpert set out Cumulus to first and foremost to design and manufacture peripherals for the Personal System/2 (PS/2), a family of computers introduced by IBM in April 1987, intended as the successor to their earlier IBM PC line. He funded the startup of Cumulus with his own money, purchasing an office in San Diego, California, to house Cumulus' full-time engineering staff.
Cumulus released its first products in August 1987: a multifunction board for the PS/2 Models 50 and 60 called CuRAM and an external 5.25-inch floppy disk drive called Stepping Stone. The Stepping Stone was released to address the PS/2's lack of a 5.25-inch floppy drive (IBM had adopted the newer 3.5-inch standard, developed by Sony Corporation, for the PS/2). Cumulus paired the drive with software and a controller card—the latter containing a specially burned PROM with microcode allowing the Stepping Stone to act as the primary (A:) drive. This opened the PS/2 to a larger back-catalog of IBM PC software; the installers of some contemporary applications on 5.25-inch disks, like Lotus 1-2-3, required being run from the A: floppy drive, as a form of copy protection.
The CuRAM multifunction board was in its bare state a RAM expansion card, available in two variants, 2 MB and 4 MB. Three |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability%20%28software%29 | In distributed systems, observability is the ability to collect data about programs' execution, modules' internal states, and the communication among components. To improve observability, software engineers use a wide range of logging and tracing techniques to gather telemetry information, and tools to analyze and use it. Observability is foundational to site reliability engineering, as it is the first step in triaging a service outage.
One of the goals of observability is to minimize the amount of prior knowledge needed to debug an issue.
Etymology, terminology and definition
The term is borrowed from control theory, where the "observability" of a system measures how well its state can be determined from its outputs. Similarly, software observability measures how well a system's state can be understood from the obtained telemetry (metrics, logs, traces, profiling).
The definition of observability varies by vendor:
The term is frequently referred to as its numeronym O11y (where 11 stands for the number of letters between the first letter and the last letter of the word). This is similar to other computer science abbreviations such as i18n and L10n and k8s.
Observability vs. monitoring
Observability and monitoring are sometimes used interchangeably. As tooling, commercial offerings and practices evolved in complexity, "monitoring" was re-branded as observability in order to differentiate new tools from the old.
The terms are commonly contrasted in that systems are monitored using predefined sets of telemetry, and monitored systems may be observable.
Majors et al. suggest that engineering teams that only have monitoring tools end up relying on expert foreknowledge (seniority), whereas teams that have observability tools rely on exploratory analysis (curiosity).
Telemetry types
Observability relies on three main types of telemetry data: metrics, logs and traces. Those are often referred to as "pillars of observability".
Metrics
A metric is a point in time measurement (scalar) that represents some system state. Examples of common metrics include:
number of HTTP requests per second;
total number of query failures;
database size in bytes;
time in seconds since last garbage collection.
Monitoring tools are typically configured to emit alerts when certain metric values exceed set thresholds. Thresholds are set based on knowledge about normal operating conditions and experience.
Metrics are typically tagged to facilitate grouping and searchability.
Application developers choose what kind of metrics to instrument their software with, before it is released. As a result, when a previously unknown issue is encountered, it is impossible to add new metrics without shipping new code. Furthermore, their cardinality can quickly make the storage size of telemetry data prohibitively expensive. Since metrics are cardinality-limited, they are often used to represent aggregate values (for example: average page load time, or 5-second average of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Belize | Belize observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Belize is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Belize. "BZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Belize directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Belize at Time.is
Time in Belize at TimeAndDate
Time in Belize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebenstretia%20cordata | Hebenstretia cordata, also known by its common name beach slugwort, is a species of flowering plant from the family Scrophulariaceae.
References
Scrophulariaceae
Flora of Africa
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Plants described in 1771 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%20Andhra%20Pradesh | ETV Andhra Pradesh (formerly ETV2) is an Indian Telugu-language 24-hour news channel focusing on the state of Andhra Pradesh. The channel was launched by the media conglomerate ETV Network owned by Ramoji Group on 28 December 2003 as ETV2. Along with its rival TV9 Telugu, it is the oldest 24-hour news channel in Telugu. In May 2014, after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the channel was renamed as ETV Andhra Pradesh, while the then recently launched ETV3 channel was renamed as ETV Telangana.
History
ETV Andhra Pradesh was launched on 28 December 2003 as ETV2 by the media conglomerate Ramoji Group as a 24-hour news channel focusing on the state of Andhra Pradesh which then also included present-day Telangana. It already had a test launch 10 days prior to that. At its launch it had an exclusive team of 150 staff reporters and 100 news contributors.
Along with TV9 (now TV9 Telugu) which was also launched around the same time period, ETV2 is the oldest 24-hour news channel in Telugu. The 2004 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections and the Indian general elections helped ETV2 and its rival TV9 to become established in the market.
In February 2006, ETV Network had taken its two Telugu channels ETV and ETV2 to pay mode at a combined price of 10. However, its non-Telugu channels remained free-to-air (FTA).
As per TAM Media Research data, for the time period from April to June 2006, ETV2 was among the top 10 news channels in India in viewership share across languages.
It was reported in January 2014 that Network18 Group had bought 24.5 percent stake in the Telugu channels ETV and ETV2 along with acquiring 100 percent stake in the regional Hindi news channels of the ETV Network.
In May 2014, after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the channel was renamed as ETV Andhra Pradesh, while the then recently launched ETV3 channel was renamed as ETV Telangana.
Programming
The programming at its launch included four half-hour news bulletins covering national, international, business and sports news. Also, there were four regional bulletins called Andhravani, and 13 hourly news bulletins of five minutes each.
The channel also has regular infotainment shows like Sukhi Bhava dedicated to health, Maya Bazar, a political satire; Telugu Velugu a perspective on the Telugu language; Pratidhwani an interactive show on consumer rights and law and order.
See also
ETV Network
Ramoji Group
Eenadu
References
Ramoji Group
ETV Network
Telugu-language television channels
24-hour television news channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Wall%20Philippines%20episodes | The Wall Philippines is a Philippine television game show broadcast by TV5 and GMA Network. The show is based on the American game show The Wall. It is hosted by Billy Crawford.
Series overview
Episodes
Color key
The contestants won at least ₱1,000,000.
The contestants left with the larger possible amount.
The contestants left with the smaller possible amount.
The contestants left with nothing at all.
Season 1 (TV5)
Season 2 (GMA Network)
References
Lists of Philippine television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA%20Tour%20Bowling%202 | PBA Tour Bowling 2 (also known as PBA Bowling 2) is a bowling video game from Bethesda Softworks. The game is a sequel to PBA Bowling.
Gameplay
Players can compete against other computer players as well as change the weight, color, and texture of the ball.
Development
The game was in development as early as December 1997 and was scheduled to release in 1998.
Reception
Scott Steinberg from IGN gave the game a score of 4.5 out of 10 stating "For the "sequel to the best-selling bowling game of all time," PBA Bowling 2 certainly leaves a lot to be desired. It covers all of the bases required for classification as a bowling simulation, but fails to go above and beyond the call of duty in any regard"
References
2000 video games
Bethesda Softworks games
Bowling video games
Professional Bowlers Association
Video games developed in the United States
Video game sequels
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20ETV%20%28Telugu%29 | This is a list consisting of current, upcoming, and former broadcasts by the Indian Telugu TV channel ETV.
Current programming
Serials
Sources:
{| class="wikitable"
!Serial name
!No. of episodes
|-
|Saduru Sai
|850+
|-
|Guvva Gorinka
|120+
|-
|Crime Patrol
|90+
|-
|Pelli Pusthakam
|15+
|-
|Srivalli
|10+
|-
|Padmavathi Kalyanam
|180+
|-
|Maa Atha Bangaram
|50+
|-
|Anupallavi|112+
|-
|Suryaputra Karna|45
|-
|Satamanam Bhavati|600+
|-
|Ravoyi Chandamama|600+
|-
|Rangula Ratnam|450+
|-
|Mouna Poratam|280+
|-
|Manasantha Nuvve|400+
|}
Reality shows
Sources:
Former programming
Original serials
Dubbed fiction
Ananda Bhavan (2002)
Ananda Kutumbam (1996)
Bharyamani Udyogam (1997)
Run (2021)
Devimahathmyam (2011-2012)
Jai Hanuman (2017)
Sathi Leelavathi FIR (1997)
Lakshyam Puttadi Bomma (1997-1998)
Subhalagnam (2021-2022)
Manoharam (2022)
Jhansi Rani (2021-2022)
Tipu Sulthan (1996)
Rahasyam (1996-1997)
Mayavruksham (2002)
Harathi (2005-2007)
Panchani Samsaram (2022)
Premedaivam (1996-1998)
Jeevana Sandhya (1999-2000)
Nanna Kosam (2002)
Guppedu Manasu (1995-1996)
Vasundhara (1995)
Premalu Pellelu Bharathi (2007)
Malgudi Kathalu (1995-1996)
Rathri (1995-1996)
Jeevana Sandhya (1999-2000)
Needa (1995-1996)
Na Bharya Katha (1996)
Dr. Dharani (1996)
Kshana Kshanam (1999-2000)
Bommarillu (2021)
Kutra (2000-2001)
Theerpu (1995-1996)
Stone Boy (1996)
Prema Mandiram (2007-2012)
Sri Krishna Leelalu (2014)
O Chinnadana (2021)
Vasantham (2015-2020)
Jagadheeswari (2010-2012)
Vichithra Bandham (2022)
Mahabharatham (2010-2011)
Merupu Kalalu (2007-2008)
Non-fiction
Alitho Saradaga (2016–2022)
Dial Your Star (1995-1996)
Cinema Quiz (1995-1996)
Cinemasala (1995)
Countdown (1995-1996)
Andhravani Sarigamalu Manasuna Manasai (1996-1997)
Sunday Sandhadi Superior Home Minister (2007)
Koyela (2007)
Jeevana Jyothi (2011-2014)
Star To Sardhaga (2007)
Sumanoharalu (2006-2008)
ATM (2011)
Pelli Sandadi (2011)
Indradhanassu (1995-1998)
Jeevana Jyothi (2011)
Love Love Love (1995-1996)
Priyaragalu Andhame Aanandham (1995-1999)
Narthanasala (2012-2013)
Get Ready (2012-2014)
Nuvvu Ready Nenu Ready (2020-2021)
Panduga Chesko (2019-2020)
Manam (2018-2020)
Smile Rani Smile (2007)
Funtastic (2007)
Raga (2007)
Cine Maruti (2007)
Star Mahila (2008-2020)
Abhiruchi Pushpakavimanam (2017-2018)
Kudirite Cup-pu Coffee (2011-2012)
Hats Off (1995)
Horlicks Hrudayanjali (1995-1997)
Manoranjini (1995-1996)
Madhurimalu (1995)
Chithramalika (1995-1996)
Mahilalu Maharanulu (2007)
Soundaryalahari (2014-2015)
Sithara (1995)
Studio Roundup (1995)
Comic Tonic (1995-1999)
Guinness Book (1995-1997)
Sadhana (1995-1996)
Prathibha (1995)
Pragathi (1996)
Gunshot (1998-1999)
Movie Mirchi (2007)
Bharathi (1996-1997)
Animuthyalu (1995)
Masterminds (1995)
Janthuprapancham (1995-1996)
Medha (1995)
Coca-Cola Hungama (1997)
Super Duper (2007)
Bid 2 Win (2007)
Prathidhwani (1995)
Sirimuvvalu (1996)
Nihari (1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie%20Ye | Winnie N. Ye is a Canadian electronics engineer specializing in silicon-based photonics. She is a professor of electronics at Carleton University.
Education and career
Ye's parents are both computer scientist professors. She studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Carleton University. After earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, she returned to Carleton for her Ph.D.
She was supported by NSERC as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. She joined the Carleton faculty in 2009 as Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors, which she held until 2021.
Recognition
Ye was the 2018 winner of the IEEE Women in Engineering Inspiring Member of the Year Award. In 2020, Ye was named as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and as chair of Women in Engineering for IEEE Canada. She has also chaired the Optoelectronics Technical Group of Optica.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian electronics engineers
Canadian women engineers
Carleton University alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of Carleton University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Willis | Sheila Willis (born 11 June 1952) is a pioneer of the introduction of DNA profiling to the Irish legal system. She contributed to the establishment of the national DNA Database System in 2015.
Education
Willis attended University College Dublin graduating with PhD in Chemistry in 1977 and with DSc in Forensic Science in 2019.
Career
Sheila Willis is the president of the Chartered Society of Forensic Scientists.
She was a Director General of Forensic Science Ireland from 2002 to 2016. She received the UCD Alumni Award in Science in 2017. She is an honorary professor at the University of Dundee and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forensic Research, published by Hilaris, a subsidiary of the notorious predatory publisher, OMICS Publishing Group.
References
1952 births
Living people
Forensic scientists
Irish women scientists
Alumni of University College Dublin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20Pro%20%286th%20generation%29 | The sixth-generation iPad Pro, colloquially known as the M2 iPad Pro, is a line of iPad tablet computers developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on October 18, 2022 and was released on October 26, 2022. It is available with the same screen size options as its predecessor: 11-inch (28 cm) and 12.9-inch (33 cm).
Upgrades over the previous generation include the Apple M2 processor, the Apple Pencil hover which shows where the Apple Pencil will touch down on the display, support for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and Smart HDR 4.
Features
Hardware
The sixth-generation iPad Pro uses an Apple M2 SoC. It features an eight-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. Internal storage options include 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB. The 128, 256, and 512 GB versions include 8 GB of RAM, while the 1 and 2 TB versions include 16 GB of RAM.
The 11-inch model has a Liquid Retina display with a peak brightness at 600 nits, which is the same as the 11-inch model of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th generations. The 12.9-inch model, in contrast, boasts mini LED HDR display called the Liquid Retina XDR display built in with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, full screen brightness of 1000 nits and a peak brightness of 1600 nits (HDR), which is the same as the 12.9-inch model of the 5th generation. Both models support True Tone, ProMotion, 120 Hz variable refresh rate, and P3 wide color gamut.
The iPad Pro uses 100% recycled aluminum and sources at least 99% recycled rare earth element supplies. It is free of any harmful substances, as defined by Apple's proprietary "Apple Regulated Substances Specification".
Accessories
The sixth-generation iPad Pro supports the second-generation Apple Pencil, the Magic Keyboard, the Magic Trackpad, the Magic Mouse, Smart Keyboard Folio, and USB-C accessories.
The position and angle of Pencil can now be detected up to above the screen ("Pencil hover"), which can be used by apps for features such as previewing brush and pen strokes, and with existing hover interactions intended for mouse/touchpad input.
Reception
The sixth-generation iPad Pro received mixed responses from critics. Some reviewers said that the front-facing camera is not in a landscape position, compared to the 10th-generation iPad, while others criticized the outdated Magic Keyboard, lacking the function keys used on the 10th-generation iPad. Some reviewers praised the Apple Pencil hover, fast performance, battery life, and the display.
References
External links
Official Tech specs website
Pro
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Tablet computers introduced in 2022
Foxconn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1969.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Television films and specials
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Networks and services
Network launches
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
See also
1969 in television
1969 in film
1969 in the United States
List of American films of 1969
References
External links
List of 1969 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20New%20Export%20Controls%20on%20Advanced%20Computing%20and%20Semiconductors%20to%20China | Effective October 7, 2022, the United States of America implemented new export controls targeting the People's Republic of China's (PRC) ability to access and develop advanced computing and semiconductor manufacturing items. The new export controls reflect the United States' ambition to counter the accelerating advancement of China's high-tech capabilities in these spaces to address foreign policy and national security concerns.
Background of New Export Controls
Huawei and ZTE Equipment Ban
In August 2018, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA 2019). The act prohibited the use and procurement of Huawei and ZTE equipment from being used by all U.S. federal government executive agencies, citing security concerns. In June 2020 the U.S. federal government officially designated Huawei and ZTE as threats to national security due to their close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China's military. As for the reasoning for this classification, spokesman for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai quoted the fact that both companies are broadly subjected to Chinese law, therefore, obligating them to comply with Chinese intelligence services.
The Chinese technology company ban spurred Chinese home-grown chip demand to skyrocket. According to Bloomberg in 2021, nineteen of the world's twenty fastest-growing chip industry firms originate in China. That is up from just eight Chinese companies in 2020. Additionally, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) estimates, China accounted for 35 percent of the global semiconductor market in 2021, taking the spot for the largest single-country market.
Covid-19 Induced Global Chip Shortage
Since early 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began globally, the demand for semiconductors has skyrocketed. As of April 2021, over 169 different industries were impacted by the lack of supply of semiconductors according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs. The lack of supply of semiconductors in these industries could impact U.S. GDP by up to 1%. Withholding exports of modern semiconductors could enable local prices to drop in the United States and put the U.S. consumer first.
Export Control Rulings
The official document, "Commerce Implements New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)", issued for immediate release on October 7, 2022, by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security details the new export control rulings. Specifically, the rules can be seen below.
Adds certain advanced and high-performance computing chips and computer commodities that contain such chips to the Commerce Control List (CCL);
Adds new license requirements for items destined for a supercomputer or semiconductor development or production end use in the PRC;
Expands the scope of the Export Administration Regulati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20Carried%20Forward | Error Carried Forward (ECF) is an informal principle for grading employed within computational fields of study such as mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science. In questions with multiple parts, it is common that the answer to the current part builds on an answer to the previous part. As such, if the answer to any part is incorrect, all subsequent parts will be incorrect, even if the approach for said subsequent parts was correct. The purpose of Error Carried Forward is to protect students who run into this issue from being penalized not only for the initial error, but for all subsequent errors that are only incorrect in answer, not approach.
Usage
ECF has been a long standing topic within schools and standardized testing. Newcastle University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics (NUMBAS) did not initially offer Error Carried Forwards points, but in 2015, NUMBAS developer Christian Lawson-Perfect proposed a system of adaptive marking enabled by the replacement of question variables with the student’s answers to question parts. Lawson-Perfect's approach is to represent each part of a question as a function of the answer to the previous part. That is, if a student answer's "x" for part a, the correct answer to part b is "f(x)." No matter what the student puts for part a, the corresponding answer for part b can be calculated quickly. Lawson-Perfect discloses that this system cannot identify "why" a student made an error, but maintains that it is generally successful in providing fair ECF credit.
The college board has been known to employ ECF in both the AP Calculus AB and AP Physics B exams. However, the college board does not award ECF marks if an incorrect answer changes the latter parts of question too drastically. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has also been known to employ ECF on the financial accounting exam. However, this only applied to written, or fill-in-the-blank questions, not the multiple choice ones.
In 2022, Forrest et al conducted a study of a prototype computer application to incorporate ECF into automated grading of online assessments. This application employs the model-view-controller (MVC) design, which includes a data structure to represent the exam questions, a graphical user interface (GUI) for inputting student answers, and a set of algorithms written in JavaScript to process input and output. However, this application is a work in progress, as it cannot handle rounding errors. The study was published in the 2022 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET), highlighting the prevalence of ECF today.
References
School examinations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax%20Graphics | Parallax Graphics, Inc., was an American developer and manufacturer of high-specification computer graphics cards for various platforms, and of supporting software. The company was founded in 1982 as Parallax Systems by two Cornell University graduates.
History
Parallax Graphics was founded as Parallax Systems in November 1982 by two Cornell University graduates, including Martin "Marty" Picco. The company's first products were built on the duo's electrical engineering thesis paper and were developed and testbenched from within one of their garages. They soon hired five other engineers, all former employees of graphics controller manufacturers. Parallax soon moved into a proper office building in Sunnyvale, California, by mid-1983. The founding duo lacked business and marketing acumen, and hired a chief executive officer to manage the company that year.
The company's first product family is the Rampage Graphics Terminal. The initial entry, the 600 Series, and was unveiled at the National Computer Graphics Association Conference in mid-1983 at the McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Rampage is a color graphics controller designed around a proprietary bit-slicing drawing processor capable of drawing 12 million pixels per second. Its instruction set comprises 85 primitives, including single operations for polygon, box, circle, and vector drawing commands, and modes for opaqueness–transparency, solid flood fill, stippling, outlining, and cut-and-pasting. It was released initially for Digital Equipment Corporation's Q-Bus–based computers and was lauded for its high speed. The company later developed in 1984 a variant of Rampage, the 1000 Series, for Multibus systems and for Q-Bus. This rendition of Rampage increased the drawing operations per second speed to 88 million.
Starting with the 1200 Series in 1986, Parallax dropped the Rampage name and began developing entries in the yet unnamed family around VLSI CMOS gate arrays, with the possessing three. The 1280 Series is compatible with Q-Bus machines and IBM PC compatibles. It can display graphics at , and has a mode emulating NTSC video at . In windowed mode, the card can generate real-time NTSC video at 30 frames per second; in fullscreen mode at NTSC resolution, the card can generate 60 FPS video.
In February 1984, the company renamed from Parallax Systems to Parallax Graphics and raised in venture capital from Hambrecht & Quist and Bay Partners. In May 1989, Dynatech Corporation of Burlington, Massachusetts, announced its acquisition of Parallax Graphics for an undisclosed sum. Dynatech had purchased Cromemco the year before. Parallax remained an independent subsidiary of Dynatech, and in July 1989, it contracted with Sony Microsystems of Palo Alto, California, to license the Viper VMEbus display adapter for Sony's NEWS Unix workstation.
By 1993, Parallax targeted its products at the burgeoning video on demand (VOD) segment of the media industry, and business and engineering teleconferenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Streambox%2C%20Inc. | RealNetworks, Inc. v. Streambox, Inc., 2000 WL 127311 (W.D. Wash., 2000), was a copyright law case of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, over the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and whether those provisions are violated by a service that enables Internet users to circumvent the copyright protection controls used by a streaming platform.
Background
RealNetworks was an early innovator in streaming media, and in the late 1990s developed a paid service that allowed users to stream copyrighted audio and video files with the authorization of the copyright owners; the users would not be able to make copies of the audio and video data. RealNetworks used proprietary formats, including .rm ("RealMedia") for audio files, that were intended to be difficult to copy as the audio streamed by.
Streambox was an audio/video company that responded to consumer demand for the ability to capture streaming media, like that available from the RealNetworks service, and to save the resulting files on one's own computer to be played on other devices. Streambox developed a product called the Streambox VCR that allowed users to copy .rm and other proprietary file types that were stored on RealNetworks servers. Streambox offered another product called the Ripper that converted the captured files from the RealNetworks proprietary formats into more easily used file types including .wav and .mp3. Streambox also offered a product called the Ferret that added a user interface to the RealNetworks platform, enabling users to manipulate the RealNetworks streams in various ways.
RealNetworks claimed that its own service was intended to serve as a copyright protection control for the owners of music and video copyrights, and that the Streambox products circumvented that protection mechanism in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. RealNetworks also claimed that its own copyrights had been infringed because Streambox's services illegally altered its software. RealNetworks filed suit in the District Court for the Western District of Washington and sought a preliminary injunction to prohibit the distribution and use of Streambox's VCR, Ripper, and Ferret products.
Opinion
During the proceedings at the district court, Streambox attempted a fair use defense by claiming that its products simply enabled RealNetworks users to play files at their leisure, comparing this practice to the time-shifting of broadcast TV media that is permitted per the 1984 Supreme Court precedent Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. The court rejected this argument because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act had been enacted in the meantime, while the technology at issue in the Sony case (video cassette recorders) did not circumvent someone else's copyright protection mechanisms.
The court found that the Streambox VCR product was a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer%20for%20Fear | Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror is a 2022 television documentary series from the AMC-owned streaming network Shudder and Steakhaus Productions, executive produced by Bryan Fuller and Steak House.
The series uses interviews with various LGBTQ+ creators to explore LGBTQ+ representation and queer coding in the horror genre throughout history, as well as influences from the Pansy Craze and the Lavender Scare to how 1980s vampire films were influenced by the AIDS epidemic.
The first episode looks at Gothic fiction such as Frankenstein and Dracula and its underlying queer and personal conflict themes; the second considers Pre-Code Hollywood and films made in the early years of the Production Code Administration, especially work by F. W. Murnau, James Whale and Alfred Hitchcock; the third highlights different sub-genres of horror, specifically transformation horror and body replacement; the fourth and final episode discusses the portrayal of lesbians and the predatory female trope.
References
External links
Queer for Fear at Shudder
2020s American documentary television series
2020s American LGBT-related television series
Shudder (streaming service) original programming
Documentary television series about films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa%20Folke | Moa Folke (born 25 March 1995) is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. In 2023, she won the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am and was runner-up at the Joburg Ladies Open and the Open de France Dames.
Early life and amateur career
Folke was born in Tranås in 1995 and won several tournaments on the Skandia Tour junior circuit in Sweden.
She attended Murray State University 2014–2018 and played golf with the Murray State Racers women's golf team in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). She was a four-time All-OVC First Team selection and five-time medalist including the 2016 and 2017 OVC Championship. She was named the Ohio Valley Conference Golfer of the Year as a junior in 2017 and guided the Racers to back-to-back NCAA Championship appearances in 2017 and 2018
Professional career
Folke turned professional after she graduated in 2018. Before entering qualification for the LPGA Tour, she played in a few tournaments on the Swedish Golf Tour. She lost a playoff to Isabella Ramsay in the Carpe Diem Beds Open at Flommen Golf Club. In 2019, she won the Tegelberga Open, six strokes ahead of runner-up Linn Grant
In 2019, Folke joined the Symetra Tour. In her rookie season, she made two cuts in seven starts, her best finish a tie for 13th at the PHC Classic. With 2020 lost to the pandemic, in 2021 she made six cuts in 19 starts.
Playing in three Sunshine Ladies Tour events in early 2022, she held the lead after the first round of the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am, but eventually had to settle for a tie for 8th place.
Folke earned conditional status for the 2022 Ladies European Tour at Q-School. In her rookie season, she finished tied 14th at the Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville in April, and tied for 5th at the Mithra Belgian Ladies Open in May. In September, she led by two strokes at the halfway stage of the Women's Irish Open after firing a second round 62, ten under par. A final round 73 saw her finish tied 14th, five shots behind winner Klára Spilková.
In 2023, Folke shot a bogey-free eight-under-par 64 final round to win the Dimension Data Ladies Pro-Am in South Africa three strokes ahead of Anne-Lise Caudal. A few weeks later, she finished runner-up at the Joburg Ladies Open, after she held the lead by two strokes ahead of the final round. Folke finished solo runner-up behind compatriot Johanna Gustavsson at the Open de France Dames. She was only a shot back until Gustavsson holed-out for an eagle at the par-4 13th from 112 meters, and finished three shots behind.
Amateur wins
2012 Skandia Tour Riks #3 Örebro, McDonald's Junior Trophy
2013 Skandia Tour Riks #3 Halland
2016 Jan Weaver Invitational, Ohio Valley Conference Championship, Skandia Tour Riks #2 Stockholm, Chris Banister Classic
2017 Jan Weaver Invitational, Ohio Valley Conference Championship
Sources:
Professional wins (2)
Sunshine Ladies Tour wins (1)
Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)
References
External links
Swedish female golfers
Ladies European Tour go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-class%20Melbourne%20tram | The G-class Melbourne tram is a three-section articulated tram, to be introduced onto the Melbourne tram network in 2025. The trams will be low-floor, replacing the Z-class and A-class trams, which will help improve passenger accessibility across the network. The design is based on the Flexity 2.
The trams will be designed, built and maintained by Alstom at its Dandenong factory. Manufacturing of the fleet is scheduled to begin in late 2023. The project also includes a new maintenance and stabling facility in Maidstone, where the trams will be stored following construction.
The initial contract is for 100 new trams, which is the largest domestic order in Australian history, and includes the requirement for Alstom to maintain the vehicles for 15 years. The trams will be designed to carry 150 passengers and will be 25 metres long.
The fleet will first roll out in the proximity of the Maidstone facility on routes 57, 59 and 82. , these routes operate out of Essendon tram depot.
History
In 2015, the Andrews Government published a Rolling Stock Strategy. That included ordering new E-class trams, the refurbishment of B-class trams, and commencing the planning of the "next generation of trams". The strategy noted that 240 new trams would be needed during the 2020s, to replace Z and A-class trams. Those older trams have restricted accessibility, whereas all new trams ordered since 2000 have been low-floor models.
Bidding process
In 2019, the Andrews Government announced that 100 Next Generation trams would be produced in Victoria. The government invited a number of manufacturers to create and submit proposals, before inviting them to a collaborative design process.
In the 2020–2021 Victorian Budget, the Andrews Government committed $1.48 billion to the project, including a new maintenance and stabling facility, later announced to be built in Maidstone, near Highpoint Shopping Centre. The budget also foreshadowed the creation of approximately 280 jobs in construction and at the maintenance facility. Alstom and a joint venture comprising UGL Rail and CAF were shortlisted to design and build the new trams.
Contract award
In April 2022, the government awarded the contact to Alstom, and announced further details about the Next Generation trams. It was named the G-Class, in keeping with the Melbourne tram classification system. Construction was scheduled to commence in late 2023 with the first tram to be delivered in 2025. The construction process will create 1,900 local jobs, both in the construction of the trams and at the new Maidstone facility.
Design
The G-class tram will be based on the Alstom Flexity 2, which is used on several tram networks around the world, including the Gold Coast G:Link in Queensland. The tram will be customised to Melbourne's network and will include 65% locally made content. The fleet is designed to use less electric power than the E-Class so as not to require new power or traction infrastructure, and will utilise onbo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%20Re%20Ga%20Ma%20Pa%20Li%27l%20Champs%202022 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2022 is the ninth season of the child singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs which is based on India's longest-running reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.
Programming
The show went for Ground auditions in the month of July and ended up in August. The show premiered on 15 October 2022 on Zee TV and Zee5 simultaneously at 21:00 IST.
Contestant status
Judges and host
The show is judged by music composer Anu Malik, Indian playback singer Neeti Mohan and singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan. The show is hosted by Indian comedian Bharti Singh.
Guests
References
Indian reality television series
Singing talent shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawley%20Hospital | The Hawley Hospital was a specialist hospital in Barnstaple, Devon, founded in 1920 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, instigated by the Public Health (Tuberculosis Regulations) 1912.
History
The hospital was set up to take tuberculosis (TB) patients in the North Devon area, and was administratively linked to the Hawkmoor County Sanatorium near Bovey Tracey, with the building complete in 1920.
Staff shortages in 1946 led to a restriction on the admission of patients, and led the Devon Public Health Committee to consider its closure.
It joined the NHS in 1948, and was placed in to the Exeter Special Hospital Management Committee, which looked after the specialist TB, smallpox, and isolation hospitals.
In 1949, 23 patients were admitted and 17 discharged, with two patients dying and 2 being transferred to other hospitals.
The hospital was closed on 31 March 1963, with all patients and future treatment transferred to Hawkmoor Hospital.
Location
The hospital was located on Sowden Lane, to the East of the centre of Barnstaple.
The site is now a housing estate, still bearing road names such as Hawley Manor and Hawley Close.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Line%20%28Atlantic%20Coast%20Line%20Railroad%29 | The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad’s Main Line was the backbone of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's network in the southeastern United States. The main line ran from Richmond, Virginia to Port Tampa just southwest of Tampa, Florida, a distance of nearly 900 miles. Along its route it passed through Petersburg, Rocky Mount, Florence, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, and Orlando. With the exception of a short 61-mile segment in Greater Orlando (which is now state-owned), the entire line is still owned by the Atlantic Coast Line's successor, CSX Transportation, and is still in service as their A Line.
History
By the time the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) was officially created, track that would make up its main line had already been built by the company's predecessors. The main line was built in the late 1800s by the following companies:
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, Manchester, Virginia to Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg Railroad, Petersburg to Weldon, North Carolina
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, Weldon to Wilson, North Carolina
Fayetteville Cutoff, Wilson to Pee Dee, South Carolina
Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, Pee Dee to Florence, South Carolina
Northeastern Railroad, Florence to Charleston, South Carolina
Predecessors of the Plant System:
Ashley River Railroad, around Charleston
Charleston and Savannah Railway, Charleston to Savannah, Georgia
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Savannah to Jesup, Georgia
Folkston Cutoff, Jesup to Folkston, Georgia
Waycross and Florida Railroad, Folkston to Georgia/Florida state line
East Florida Railway, state line to Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, Jacksonville to Sanford, Florida
South Florida Railroad, Sanford to Port Tampa, Florida
The process to combine these individual railroads into a unified system began around 1898. By 1900, the system north of Charleston was officially merged into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. In 1902, the Atlantic Coast Line acquired the Plant System, which expanded the network into Georgia and Florida and nearly doubled the size of the network.
Due to increasing traffic and the Florida land boom of the 1920s, the ACL began work to double track 661 miles of the main line from Richmond to Jacksonville in 1922. The double track was complete in 1925, two years ahead of schedule. Automatic block signals were installed at the same time. In later years, much of the main line would be restored to single track with centralized traffic control and passing sidings.
The line carried many of the Atlantic Coast Line's passenger and freight trains though the years. Many of the company's passenger trains on the main line were from the northeast to Florida, which included:
Champion (New York - Tampa/St. Petersburg, and New York - Miami)
Everglades (New York – Jacksonville)
Florida Special (New York – Miami/St. Petersburg)
Gulf Coast Special (New York – Tampa/Ft. Myers/St. Petersburg)
Havana Special (New York – Key West, via the Flo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Grear | Anna Maria Grear (born 4 September 1959) is an English academic, author, and political activist. Grear is the founder of several academic and activist organisations, including the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, where she is editor-in-chief. Grear is adjunct professor of law at The University of Waikato, New Zealand and was Professor of Law and Theory at Cardiff University until August 31, 2023. She has written for such international newspapers as The Wire and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Biography
Education
Grear graduated from the University of Bristol (LLB (Hons)), Oxford Brookes University (DLL) and First Class from St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she has a Bachelor of Civil Law degree.
Professorships and jurisprudence
From May 2000 to January 2006, Grear was Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University; from February 2006 to January 2012, she was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England. From February 2012 to June 2013, she was associate professor of law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2013, she took up a post as Reader in Law at Cardiff University, where she held a Personal Chair as Professor of Law and Theory until end of August 2023.
Grear holds professional memberships at several international institutions. She is an Invited Professor at the Westminster Centre for Law and Theory in London, a member of the Dahrendorf Network in Berlin, and a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Additionally, Grear is adjunct professor of law at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, an Associate Fellow of the New Economy Law Centre at Vermont Law School, and a Global Affiliate to the Vulnerability and Human Condition Collaboration at Emory University.
Grear's work focuses on a range of issues around law's dominant imaginary, the way it constructs the world, imagines the human and the more-than-human. Her work therefore embraces questions around legal subjectivity, the meaning of the human, rights theory, human rights theory and human rights and the environment.
Political and environmental activism
In March 2010, Grear founded the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal. She has served as editor-in-chief ever since.
With Professor Tom Kerns, Grear co-initiated the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Climate Change, Fracking and Human Rights. The online tribunal hearings were streamed globally from 14 to 18 May 2018 in a first for the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. The Advisory Opinion recommended a world-wide ban on fracking. Commenting on the tribunal, Grear said "the PPT will play a unique and vitally important role in presenting and rehearsing testimony, arguments and law to lay down an informal but highly expert precedent, with potential for future use in national and international courts of law. The PPT will also educate a wide range |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Reimer | Helmut Reimer is a German computer scientist. He was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971. From 1980 to 1990, he also led the department for microchip production of the VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt. From 1992 to 2007, he was managing director of TeleTrusT, an association for trustworthy information and communication technologies.
Career
Reimer studied electronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau, graduating with a doctorate in 1964. He was professor of microelectronics in Ilmenau from 1971 to 1990. From 1980 to 1990, he also led the department for microchip production of the VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt. He had intense contacts to production in China.
After German reunification, he had to look for other work areas. He became managing director of TeleTrusT, an organisation which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies in Germany and beyond. TeleTrusT was then still in its beginning, with 15 members. Reimer directed the association towards an internationally respected competence centre for applied cryptography and biometrics. He initiated project groups to work on specifications for card terminals, encryption and client/server authentication. He worked towards publications, such as the 1995 book "Digitale Signatur & Sicherheitssensitive Anwendungen (Digital signature & security sensitive applications), reports such Kryptographische Verfahren im Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen (Cryptographic methods in the health and social care sector) and Kriterienkatalog zur Bewertung der Vergleichbarkeit biometrischer Verfahren (Criteria catalogue for assessing the comparability of biometric methods). Reimer organized fair participations and the international conference Information Security Solutions Europe ISSE), held from 1999, and representation at the U.S. RSA Conferences. He contributed to international dialogue on the topic of IT security.
Reimer left the director position of TeleTrust in July 2007, becoming an honorary member. He has been on the jury of the association's innovation prize. He is among the publishers of the trade magazine Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (DuD) of the Vieweg Verlag
Reimer was awarded the Fraunhofer SmartCard-Preis.
References
External links
Publications by Helmut Reimer dblp.org
Helmut Reimer's scientific contributions researchgate.net
Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights Of The Information Security Solutions Europe 2003 Conference books.google.lu
TeleTrusT: Anwendung einer vertrauenswürdigen Trusted-Computing-Technologie (in German) Springer 1 October 2006
Living people
German computer scientists
Ilmenau University of Technology alumni
Chief executives of computer security organizations
21st-century German scientists
20th-century German scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenjie%20Zhang | Wenjie Zhang is a Professor and Head of the Data and Knowledge Research Group within the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). Her most notable breakthrough is in the area of optimization strategies to process computationally complex large graphs. Her work is among the first to identify that graph complexity relies only on the small size of the query input and output rather than the size of the whole data graph, which could be a web scale, such as in social media networks. Her recent research focuses on algorithms, indexes, and systems in large scale graphs and their applications especially in social network analysis.
Career, awards and achievements
Zhang received her PhD degree in computer science and engineering in 2009 from UNSW, titled "Efficiently and effectively processing probabilistic queries on uncertain data". In 2011 she won an Australian Research Council (ARC) Early Career Researcher Award.
In 2019, she received the Chris Wallace Award in recognition of her contributions to large-scale graph data processing. The result was a breakthrough, and published in major journals and recognized by both academia and the industry database community. Zhang has been awarded three ARC Discovery grants for this work between 2015-2018 and was recently listed in The Australian as Australia’s Research Field Leader in Databases and Information Systems.
Zhang is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Chief Investigator of RIIS, an industry and ARC funded research and innovation hub for smart infrastructure and was awarded a prestigious ARC Discovery Future Fellowship in 2021.
Between 2012 and 2022, Zhang has won six rounds of Australian National Competitive Grants, totalling over AUD 2.2M.
She is member of the Data Sharing Committee for ACS, the professional association for Australia's technology sector.
Zhang has participated as Organizing Committee or Program Committee Chair for numerous conferences, including area chair for International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2022, International Conference on Data Engineering 2019 and International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2015, and a Program Chair member for more than 60 international conferences and workshops.
In her career to 2022, she has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed publications in top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Special Interest Group on Management of Data and the International Conference on Data Engineering.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
University of New South Wales alumni
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Australian computer scientists
Australian women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Kilborn | Virginia Kilborn is a professor and radio astronomer with the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University and is Swinburne's first Chief Scientist. She researches galaxy evolution by studying their gas content and is working on the surveys of the next generation of radio telescopes, including the Australian SKA Pathfinder.
Career
Kilborn peered through her first telescope in 1986 to watch Halley’s Comet, a once in 75 year event.
She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne before undertaking post-doctoral research at Jodrell Bank observatory in England.
Kilborn then undertook a ARC-CSIRO linkage fellowship at Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) in Melbourne in 2003. She began teaching the Swinburne Astronomy online program in 2006, lecturing in undergraduate Astronomy. She became Deputy Director from 2011–2013 and Acting Director for CAS in 2013. In 2015 Kilborn became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy before becoming Dean of Science in 2019, remaining in that role until her appointment as Swinburne's first Chief Scientist in May 2021.
Kilborn served as president of the Astronomical Society of Australia from 2015–2017 and, , is chair of the National Committee for Astronomy for the Australian Academy of Science.
Kilborn also leads many gender equity initiatives. She is chair of the CAS equity committee and a leader of university-wide programs to promote academic women and their careers.
Awards and recognition
Honorary Fellow, Astronomical Society of Australia, 2022
Vice-Chancellors Award for Culture and Values, Swinburne, 2015
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award (team SAO), Swinburne, 2012
National, OLT Citation for Outstanding contributions to student learning, SAO core team, Swinburne, 2012
Vice-Chancellors Early Career Research Award, Swinburne 2006
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living people
Australian astronomers
Academic staff of Swinburne University of Technology
University of Melbourne alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYE%20Systems | KYE Systems Group, or KYE, an abbreviation of Kung Ying Enterprises (), is a Taiwanese computer peripheral manufacturer that designs and manufactures and markets human interface devices such as mice under their own brand, Genius. The company also manufactures on an OEM basis for companies such as HP and Microsoft. The company was founded in 1983 and has opened offices internationally.
History
KYE Systems was founded in 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan, by James Jwo (born 1959) and Albert Chen. The company originally did not manufacture peripherals but was instead a systems integrator, assembling IBM PC clones for international export, as part of the company's start-up stage. KYE was founded with US$40,000 in capital; Jwo described himself at first having "little money and few connections". In 1984, the company began developing computer peripherals, namely computer mice, for export. In 1985, they introduced their Genius brand of mice, which had become a popular brand in the United States by the late 1980s, according to PC Week. In 1986, they established KYE International Corporation in the United States in Walnut, California, filing its formal articles of incorporation in 1988. In 1990, the KYE International acquired Mouse Systems, a pioneering peripheral manufacturer of Fremont, California. This acquisition expanded KYE's dealer network and allowed them to absorb Mouse Systems' patents on optical mice technology.
KYE continued to expand their international presence in the 1990s, establishing marketing subsidiaries in the United Kingdom in 1991, in Germany in 1993, and in Hong Kong in 1995. Also in 1995, the company opened a large factory in Shenzhen, China, to complement the company's manufacturing of mice in their home factory of Sanchong, Taiwan, which they purchased in 1987. In 1997, the assembly lines in Shenzhen were expanded to produce image scanners, and in 1998, KYE opened up another factory in nearby Dongguan, China.
KYE had their hands in the manufacturing of multimedia products in the early 1990s, producing graphics cards, and sound cards. A subsidiary devoted to publishing multimedia CD-ROMs was opened in 1993, but KYE folded it in 1996.
In 1997, the company introduced the Genius EasyScroll (also sold as the Mouse Systems ProAgio), the first commercially produced mouse with a scroll wheel. The company held the American patents on scroll-wheel technology through to at least 2009.
KYE by 2010 had an OEM roster of Hewlett-Packard (later HP Inc.), Samsung, Acer, Asus, Best Buy, Foxconn, Microsoft, and Logitech. Microsoft was KYE's largest client in 2010, accounting for 30 percent of KYE's output; KYE built some of Microsoft's Xbox controllers and webcams from their factory in Dongguan.
An April 2010 report by the National Labor Committee wrote of sweatshop-like conditions at the Dongguan factory, which had been recruiting 16- to 18-year-old women for summer jobs. According to the NCL's report, the students worked 15-hour shifts, six or sev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20Basevi | Travis Basevi (17 March 1975 – 20 October 2022) was an Australian web developer, cricket data analyst, cricket statistician and historian. He created Cricinfo's StatsGuru tool, which became one of the most popular cricket data-analysis tools. He also played a major role in compilation of the site's database of scorecards, created its content management system and contributed many articles.
Personal life
Basevi was born in March 1975 in Geelong, Australia. He moved to London in 2000 and initially lived in Kilburn. He continued to live in North London with his wife and son.
Career
Bavesi first became involved with Cricinfo through Internet Relay Chat as a teenager in the 1990s, while still pursuing his studies in Sydney. He worked as a volunteer to publish scorecards for the site Cricinfo, and collaborated with Vishal Misra to build the Test and ODI scorecard database in 1995, and together they designed the site's first scorecard format.
He created StatsGuru in 2000, which was built largely from scripts that went through the scorecards to create live stats.
Having left Cricinfo for the first time in 2001, he returned to cricket when hired by Wisden in spring 2002 as part of their wisden.com venture. During this time he developed and launched a rival to Statsguru - The Wisden Wizard. On the eve of the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Wisden acquired Cricinfo and he was back working on his old site and code base.
He built the Cricinfo content management system, which went live in April 2005 and is still in use. Once Cricinfo was acquired by ESPN in 2007, Travis built StatsGuru for rugby union as part of the ESPNscrum.com website relaunch in September 2008 (it proved a vital statistical resource for journalists and broadcasters until it was taken down in 2020) and was a key member of the team that built and launched ESPNF1.com in December 2009 and ESPN.co.uk in January 2010.
Having parted ways with ESPN and Cricinfo for the second time in 2016, he began a stint as a Chief Technology Officer at CricViz, building the database and tools which underpin the statistical analysis of the company.
Death
He died at the age of 47, two years after being diagnosed with cancer.
References
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2022 deaths
Cricket historians and writers
Cricket statisticians
Australian sports journalists
People from Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Nicaragua | Nicaragua observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Nicaragua is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Managua. "NI" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Nicaragua directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Nicaragua at Time.is
Time in Nicaragua at TimeAndDate
Time in Nicaragua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Alt | Helmut Alt (born 1950) is a German computer scientist whose research concerns graph algorithms and computational geometry. He is known for his work on matching geometric shapes, including methods for efficiently computing the Fréchet distance between shapes. He was also the first to use the German phrase "Algorithmische Geometrie" [algorithmic geometry] to refer to computational geometry. He is a professor of computer science at the Free University of Berlin.
Education and career
Alt was born in 1950 in Wolfersweiler, a town in Saarland that later became incorporated into Nohfelden. He became a student of Kurt Mehlhorn at Saarland University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1976 on algorithms for parsing context-free languages.
At the Free University of Berlin, he became the doctoral advisor of many successful students, including Otfried Cheong (1992), Johannes Blömer (1993), Christian Knauer (2002), Carola Wenk (2002), and Maike Buchin (2007).
Recognition
The Free University of Berlin held a symposium on 2015 in honor of Alt's 65th birthday. Another symposium in honor of Alt and Günter Rote was held in 2022 at the Free University of Berlin, in conjunction with the annual International Symposium on Computational Geometry. At the same International Symposium on Computational Geometry, Alt's work with Michael Godau on using Fréchet distance to measure the similarity of shapes (announced at the 1992 symposium and published in a 1995 journal paper) was given the SoCG Test of Time Award.
Selected publications
Edited volumes
Computational Discrete Mathematics: Advanced Lectures (Springer, LNCS 2122, 2001)
Efficient Algorithms: Essays Dedicated to Kurt Mehlhorn on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (with Susanne Albers and Stefan Näher, Springer, LNCS 5760, 2009)
Algorithms Unplugged (with B. Vöcking, M. Dietzfelbinger, R. Reischuk, C. Scheideler, H. Vollmer, and D. Wagner, Springer, 2011)
Research articles
References
External links
1950 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Saarland University alumni
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20El%20Salvador | El Salvador observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, El Salvador is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/El_Salvador. "SV" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for El Salvador directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in El Salvador at Time.is
Time in El Salvador at TimeAndDate
Time in El Salvador |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Budoy%20episodes | Budoy is a Philippine drama television series broadcast by ABS-CBN. The show is topbilled by Gerald Anderson, Jessy Mendiola and Enrique Gil. The show aired on the network's Primetime Bida evening block from October 10, 2011, to March 9, 2012, replacing Guns and Roses and was replaced by Dahil Sa Pag-ibig.
Series overview
Episodes
2011
2012
References
Budoy
2010s television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum%20of%20Incident%20Response%20and%20Security%20Teams | The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global forum of incident response and security teams. They aim to improve cooperation between security teams on handling major cybersecurity incidents. FIRST is an association of incident response teams with global coverage.
The 2018 Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation noted FIRST as a neutral third party which can help build trust and exchange best practices and tools during cybersecurity incidents.
History
FIRST was founded as an informal group by a number of incident response teams after the WANK (computer worm) highlighted the need for better coordination of incident response activities between organizations, during major incidents. It was formally incorporated in California on August 7, 1995, and moved to North Carolina on May 14, 2014.
Activities
In 2020, FIRST launched EthicsFIRST, a code of Ethics for Incident Response teams.
Annually, FIRST offers a Suguru Yamaguchi Fellowship, which helps incident response teams with national responsibility gain further integration with the international incident response community. It also maintains an Incident Response Hall of Fame, highlighting individuals who contributed significantly to the Incident Response community.
FIRST maintains several international standards, including the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, a standard for expressing impact of security vulnerabilities; the Traffic light protocol for classifying sensitive information; and the Exploit Prediction Scoring System, an effort for predicting when software vulnerabilities will be exploited.
FIRST is a partner of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia on Cybersecurity. The ITU co-organizes with FIRST the Women in Cyber Mentorship Programme, which engages cybersecurity leaders in the field, and connects them with women worldwide.
Together with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, FIRST also publishes guidelines for multi-party vulnerability disclosure, in scenarios such as the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL.
In 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported Huawei Technologies Co. had been suspended from the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams due to changes to US technology export restrictions. In 2017, a NATO-style coalition of 41 states, including all Gulf Cooperation Council states, intended to work closely with FIRST to heighten levels of cybersecurity cooperation.
Internet governance implications
In his study of Internet Governance, Joseph Nye identified FIRST as an "incident response regime", supporting global cyber activities.
Political scientists focused on international security have considered organizations such as FIRST to be transparency and confidence-building measures in cyberspace, "elements of international policy that reduce threats, build trust, and make relationships between states mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher%20Broke | Gopher Broke may refer to:
Gopher Broke (1958 film), a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short
Gopher Broke (2004 film), a computer-animated short film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20New%20Jersey | The history of Jews in New Jersey started with the arrival of
Dutch and English traders and settlers in the late 1600s. According to the Berman Jewish DataBank's 2019 survey, New Jersey is the state with the fourth highest total population of Jews at 545,450, and is also the state with the third highest percent of Jews at 6.1%. This means that New Jersey is home to 7.8% of the American Jewish population.
Colonial Era
Several references to Jews are present in early colonial New Jersey records: for example, Moses Levy, referred to as a "Jew here", was one of the inhabitants of New Jersey who petitioned King George I to veto an act of the colonial assembly permitting Quakers to affirm. Asher Levy, the grandson of Asser Levy, was the only Jew in New Jersey's troops during the American Revolutionary War: Levy was commissioned ensign in the first regiment on September 12, 1778, and resigned on June 4, 1779. Many of the Jews present in the state during the colonial period were merchants from nearby Philadelphia and New York.
Documentation notes several Sephardic Jewish families of Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian descent (“traders”) arriving in early New Jersey 1679-1792 after being forced to flee less hospitable and tolerant areas such as early Boston, often anglicizing their surnames, and some later converting. These early settlers held clandestine meetings, holidays, worship, and burial arrangements near, and on, what is now Newark’s Prince Street named for one of those original families.
19th Century
The first organized Jewish community in the state was in Newark, which was established in 1844 by Louis Trier. The Congregation B'nai Jeshurun of Newark, the oldest synagogue in Newark, was created on August 20, 1848, by Jewish immigrants from Germany. Other cities in New Jersey with early Jewish congregations were Paterson (1847), New Brunswick (1861), Jersey City (1864), Bayonne (1878), Elizabeth (1881), Vineland (1882), Passaic (1899), Perth Amboy (1890), Atlantic City (1890), Woodbine (1891), Camden (1894) and Englewood (1896).
Many Jewish immigrants were also recruited for farming in the late 1890s, and small agricultural communities were founded by Jewish charitable organizations. For example, the city of Woodbine was founded in 1903 as the first "the first self-governing Jewish community since the fall of Jerusalem" by the New Jersey state legislature. Baron Maurice de Hirsch helped create the community in 1891 by contributing $37,500 towards buying 5,300 acres of land for 12 aspiring Jewish farmers, and later started the Baron De Hirsch Agricultural School in 1894.
Other agricultural communities founded during this time period include Alliance, Brotmanville, Carmel, Rosenhayn, Six Points, Norma and Garton Road. The Paris-based Alliance Israélite Universelle worked in tandem with the de Hirsch Fund to introduce professional administration and crop techniques to the newly resettled immigrants.
20th Century
The 20th century brought new wave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20Group | Nickelodeon Group (also known as Nickelodeon Networks Inc.) is an American entertainment company that oversees Paramount's kids' cable television channels, including its flagship service Nickelodeon. It is a division of Paramount's domestic networks unit.
History
2002–2009
Nickelodeon Networks was founded in 2002 after MTV Networks (now Paramount Media Networks) merged the business operations of Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite and Nicktoons into one division.
On January 4, 2006, Herb Scannell resigned from Nickelodeon. Cyma Zarghami was appointed in his place as president of the newly formed Kids & Family Group, which included Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, TV Land, CMT, and CMT Pure Country.
In 2007, Nickelodeon entered into a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed TV shows for the network, to help fund and launch tie-in albums, and to produce original soundtrack songs that could be released as singles. The Naked Brothers Band, a rock-mockumentary series that tells of a pre-teenage rock band led by two real-life brothers who write and perform the songs, broadcast from 2007 to 2009; it was successful for children in the 6–11 age group. By February 2007, the band's song "Crazy Car" was on the Billboard Hot 100, and the soundtrack albums from the first two seasons, each of which signed to Columbia Records, were on Billboard 200. The only greenlit series produced under the Sony Music partnership, Victorious, ran from 2010 to 2013. A similar hit music-themed sitcom Big Time Rush ran from 2009 to 2013, and featured a similar partnership with Columbia Records; however, Columbia was only involved with the show's music, and Sony Music became involved with the series' production midway through its first season. It became Nickelodeon's second-most successful live-action show of all time after iCarly; Big Time Rush garnered 6.8 million viewers for its official debut on January 18, 2010, setting a new record as the highest-rated live action series premiere in the channel's history.
2009–present
In early 2009, Nickelodeon unveiled a new logo that would be implemented toward the end of the year, designed by New York City–based creative director/designer Eric Zim. It was part of a year dedicated to strengthening the brand's identity. The logo was intended to create a unified look that can better be conveyed across all of MTV Networks' children's channels. On February 2, Nickelodeon discontinued the TEENick block, as the name would soon be used for its own channel. The new logo debuted on September 28, 2009, across Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, and Nicktoons, along with the newly launched TeenNick (named after the TEENick block) and Nick Jr. (named after the concurrently-running Nick Jr. block).
The wordmark logo bug was given a blimp background in the days prior to the 2010 and 2011 Kids' Choice Awards to match the award given out at the ceremony; beginning the week of September 7, 2010, the logo bug was surro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secunet%20Security%20Networks | secunet Security Networks AG commonly known as Secunet, is a German information security corporation headquartered in Essen. Secunet develops, manufactures and sells information security hardware and secure telecommunications equipment. It is the producer and vendor of Germany's SINA infrastructure that forms the basis for Germany's secure IT networks. Secunet is Germany's biggest information security company and provides services for the public administration and private entreprises the country. The company is public stock index listed in the SDAX.
Secunet was founded in 1997 as a spin-off of the IT division of the former TÜV Mitte AG. Since 2009, Giesecke+Devrient is majority shareholder. In 2022, Secunet generated a revenue of 347 million Euro and had more than 1,000 employees, thus making it the leading IT security partner of the Federal Republic of Germany. Within Germany Secunet has seats in Berlin, Bonn, Borchen, Dresden, Eschborn, Hamburg, Munich and Siegen.
Products and services
With its products and services, Secunet primarily focusses clients in the public administration and ministries, the healthcare sector, the defence and space sector as well as specifically security and police agencies.
Secure Networking
One of Secunet's premier products is the SINA (Secure Inter-Network Architecture) product line that was co-developed with Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The SINA architecture forms the basis for Germany's classified information networks and is used in a broad range of public institutions in Germany and abroad. The architecture is accredited up the NATO and EU SECRET classifications and includes network encryptors and work stations as well as communication devices, such as encrypted phones.
Border Control
Secunet is the producer of EasyPASS, an automated border control system used at airports and border check points in Germany and a number of EU countries.
Consulting
Secunet's services include information security consulting, assessments and penetration testing.
Healthcare
Germany's electronic healthcare infrastructure is partially based on Secunet products.
External links
secunet Security Solutions
References
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Companies based in Essen
Information technology consulting firms of Germany
ICT service providers
Software companies of Germany
Networking hardware companies
Networking software companies
Computer security companies
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Panama | Panama observes Eastern Standard Zone (UTC−5) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Panama is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Panama. "PA" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Panama directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
References
External links
Current time in Panama at Time.is
Time in Panama at TimeAndDate
Time in Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato%20Si%27%20Movement | Laudato Si' Movement (LSM) is a global network of over 900 Catholic organizations and over 10,000 trained grassroots leaders known as Laudato Si' Animators. Inspired by the Laudato Si' encyclical of Pope Francis, LSM's stated mission is to "inspire and mobilize the Catholic community to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice".
History
Sponsored by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the movement was founded in the Philippines in January 2015, when Pope Francis arrived in Manila. Its original name, Global Catholic Climate Movement, was changed to Laudato Si' Movement in 2021 to better reflect its mission.
LSM has played a key role in supporting the church to receive and implement the Laudato si' encyclical. In partnership with the Vatican Dicastery for Integral Human Development, Laudato Si' Movement convenes various global initiatives to raise awareness and spark Catholic environmental action, such as:
the annual Laudato Si' Week celebration, held most recently in May 2022.
the Season of Creation ecumenical celebration, held during the period from 1 September to 4 October each year, and
the film "The Letter: A Message for our Earth".
LSM has also spearheaded other initiatives such as the Laudato Si' Animators training, and record-breaking participation of Catholic institutions in the Fossil fuel divestment campaign.
Assisi
LSM has a center in Assisi, coordinating the project "Assisi: Terra Laudato Si'", which connects various Franciscan sites to tell the story of the Canticle of the Creatures and Laudato Si'. The project was announced by Bishop Domenico Sorrentino and blessed by the Vatican's Cardinal Czerny in a Pentecost ceremony in May 2023.
Notes
References
External links
Laudato Si' Movement official website
The Letter film
Assisi: Terra Laudato Si
Laudato Si' Week
Season of Creation
Organizations established in 2015
International associations of the faithful
Catholic charities
Charities based in Italy
Environmental organizations established in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan%27an%20Road%20Medium%20Capacity%20Bus%20Transit%20System | The Yan'an Road Medium Capacity Bus Transit System () is a bus rapid transit system operating within Shanghai, China. The network consists of a main route, a partial route and four branch lines, with the main route running between East Yan'an Road & The Bund in Huangpu District and Shenkun Road Bus Terminal in Minhang District via Yan'an Road. The system is operated by Shanghai Bus No.3 Public Transport Co., Ltd., and began trial operations on 1 February 2017.
Routes
The system consists of the following routes, all of which charge a flat fare of either 1RMB or 2RMB:
Route 71 (71路), running between East Yan'an Road & The Bund and Shenkun Road Bus Terminal.
Partial route 71 (71路区间), running between North Huangpi Road and Shenkun Road Bus Terminal.
Route 1250 (1250路), also known as Branch Line 1 (71路支线1), running between Dingxi Road and Shuangliu Road & Tianshan Road, and connects to the main route at Dingxi Road and Kaixuan Road stations.
Route 1251 (1251路), also known as Branch Line 2 (71路支线2), running between Kaixuan Road and Shuicheng Road & Xianxia Road, and connects to the main route at Kaixuan Road station.
Route 748 (748路), also known as Branch Line 3 (71路支线3), running between Jiuting and Shanghai Zoo (Hongjing Road), and connects to the main route at Hangdong Road, Hangxin Road and Wubao Road stations.
Route 71T2 (71路T2线), formerly route 835, running from Shenkun Road Bus Terminal and looping at Hongqiao transportation hub.
History
The construction of the system began in 2016. The line was designed to use trolleybuses, with overhead lines covering 80% of the main line. The system will use a dedicated bus lane under the Yan'an Elevated Road, as well as separate traffic lights from other traffic along Yan'an Road. Most stops are placed in the middle of the road, with an average of 730 metres between stops.
The system officially began trial operations on February 1, 2017. It reused the route number 71, which followed a similar path from Huangpu to Changning districts along Yan'an Road. The original route 71 was shortened on the same day and renumbered route 1250.
In May 2017, the operator noted that it was considering the possibility of using buses with doors on both sides in order to allow commuters to seamlessly transfer to route 71. These plans were put in place in December the same year, with routes 1250 and 1251 joining the medium capacity network as branch lines and becoming the first lines in Shanghai to use these buses.
In addition to the branch lines, in August 2017, route 835 opened as a connecting line to the rest of the network, in order to connect commuters between the medium capacity transit system and Hongqiao International Airport. This line would later be renamed route 71T2 in 2019.
On December 28, 2019, route 748 was rerouted and joined the network as Branch Line 3, connecting the network to Jiuting and Shanghai Zoo.
In February 2022, it was announced the partial route 71 will receive a further extension west |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Samuel | Arthur Samuel may refer to:
Arthur Samuel (computer scientist) (1901–1990), American computer scientist
Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft (1872–1942), British politician
Arthur Samuel "Tubby" Allen (1894–1959), Australian Army general and accountant
Arthur Samuel Atkinson (1833–1902), New Zealand politician and lawyer
Arthur Samuel Brown (1885–1944), English footballer
Arthur Samuel Garretson (1851–1917), American banker, businessman, and politician
Arthur Samuel Goodeve (1860–1920), Canadian pharmacist and conservative politician
Arthur Samuel Keene (1875–1966), American architect and co-founder of Keene & Simpson
Arthur Samuel Kendall (1861–1944), Canadian physician and politician
Arthur Samuel Mole (1889–1983), British-born American photographer
Arthur Samuel Peake (1865–1929), English biblical scholar
Arthur Warren Samuels (1852–1925), Irish politician and judge
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1967.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Television specials and/or miniseries
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1967 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7Bravo | 7Bravo is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network under license from NBCUniversal International Networks on 15 January 2023. The channel contains programming from NBCUniversal's American networks, including Bravo, E! and Oxygen, along with entertainment and talk show programming from NBC and its American broadcast syndication division.
History
On 25 October 2022, it was announced that Seven would be launching a new channel, 7Bravo, on 15 January 2023, featuring content from NBCUniversal, timing with the announcement of the wind-down of Foxtel's domestic version of E! on 31 January 2023 at the end of their NBCU output deal. On 30 November 2022, a blank channel appeared on the Seven multiplex. It remained a dark screen until 14 December, when it carried a still with the channel's logo for a month. A lead-up video loop aired on 14 January, promoting the channel's launch the next day, which began with a marathon of the latest season of Million Dollar Listing New York.
Programming
Programs aired on 7Bravo are mix of programs from NBCUniversal's channels including E!, Oxygen, NBC, and Bravo, many making their domestic Australian terrestrial premieres; many have been already available through streaming services or on pay-TV services like Foxtel.
Some of the shows aired on the channel include Million Dollar Listing New York, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Judge Jerry, Below Deck, and Botched. No library content from Seven or its sister services is currently a part of the network's schedule.
Programs making their free-to-air debut include Dinner Date, Top Chef and Killer Couples, with Saturday Night Live returning to free-to-air for the first time in many years after decades on Foxtel.
Current programming
Million Dollar Listing New York
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Judge Jerry
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry
Songland Dinner Date Top Chef Below Deck 911 Crisis Center Buried in the Backyard Exhumed Botched
The Real Housewives of Dubai
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip
Killer Couples
Below Deck Down Under
The Real Housewives of Orange County
Get a Room with Carson & Thom
Relative Success with Tabatha
Real Girlfriends in Paris
Made in Chelsea
Saturday Night Live
The Real Housewives of New York City
Availability
Nearly all Seven-owned stations carry the network as part of their multiplex, though GWN7, Seven Southern Cross and WIN Television do not, rendering it a pay-TV-only offering in those areas.
See also
List of digital television channels in Australia
References
External links
Seven Network
NBCUniversal networks
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
2023 establishments in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20J.%20Clark | Samuel J. "Sam" Clark is a demographer with expertise in epidemiology and data science. He has worked as a professor in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University and the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is an expert on ascertaining cause of death using verbal autopsy.
Education
Clark earned B.S. degrees in engineering and biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1993 and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and 2001, respectively. His Ph.D. titled "An Investigation into the Impact of HIV on Population Dynamics in Africa" was supervised by Samuel H. Preston.
Career
In 2000, Clark started a five-year postdoc at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder. During that time he worked with the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance Site in South Africa and the INDEPTH Network of health and demographic surveillance sites in Africa and Asia. He worked to maintain and grow both the site and the network and to investigate population and health issues affecting Africans. In 2005, Clark joined the faculty of the University of Washington as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and was promoted to associate professor in 2011. In 2016, he was promoted to full professor and moved to the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Clark has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and comments, and his combined work has been cited more than 5,000 times.
Research
Clark's research explores the epi-demographic history of populations living in Africa and develops new mathematical and statistical methods for demography and epidemiology. He has contributed to UNICEF's subnational estimates of child mortality and the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects global demographic estimates and projections.
openVA
Clark leads the openVA Team that develops new computational and statistical methods (e.g. InSilicoVA) to automate cause of death ascertainment using data from verbal autopsy and develops tools to integrate automated verbal autopsy methods into large-scale routine vital statistics systems.
The openVA suite is freely-available, open-source software that implements all commonly-used tools to automate cause ascertainment using data from verbal autopsy interviews. The openVA Pipeline integrates the cause-ascertainment algorithms into an automated workflow that moves deaths with verbal autopsy from an Open Data Kit (ODK) server through cause assignment and on to the District Health Information System version 2 (DHIS-2). The data are collected using ODK and provided to a variety of users and policymakers through dashboards by DHIS-2. It is feasible for countries without traditional vital statistics systems to implement verbal autopsy and use these tools to fully automate cause ascertainment and descriptive analysis of the burden of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20identification%20of%20non-linear%20dynamics | Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a data-driven algorithm for obtaining dynamical systems from data. Given a series of snapshots of a dynamical system and its corresponding time derivatives, SINDy performs a sparsity-promoting regression (such as LASSO) on a library of nonlinear candidate functions of the snapshots against the derivatives to find the governing equations. This procedure relies on the assumption that most physical systems only have a few dominant terms which dictate the dynamics, given an appropriately selected coordinate system and quality training data. It has been applied to identify the dynamics of fluids, based on proper orthogonal decomposition, as well as other complex dynamical systems, such as biological networks.
Mathematical Overview
First, consider a dynamical system of the form
where is a state vector (snapshot) of the system at time and the function defines the equations of motion and constraints of the system. The time derivative may be either prescribed or numerically approximated from the snapshots.
With and sampled at equidistant points in time (), these can be arranged into matrices of the form
and similarly for .
Next, a library of nonlinear candidate functions of the columns of is constructed, which may be constant, polynomial, or more exotic functions (like trigonometric and rational terms, and so on):
The number of possible model structures from this library is combinatorically high. is then substituted by and a vector of coefficients determining the active terms in :
Because only a few terms are expected to be active at each point in time, an assumption is made that admits a sparse representation in . This then becomes an optimization problem in finding a sparse which optimally embeds . In other words, a parsimonious model is obtained by performing least squares regression on the system with sparsity-promoting () regularization
where is a regularization parameter. Finally, the sparse set of can be used to reconstruct the dynamical system:
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20Our%20Children%20Go%21 | Let Our Children Go! is a nonfiction book by Ted Patrick with Tom Dulack about Patrick's experience with cult deprogramming. It was first published in 1976 by E. P. Dutton, but was republished by Ballantine Books in 1977. The book alternates between sections written by Patrick and Dulack in describing encounters with cults including the Children of God, the Love Family, the Hare Krishna, and the Unification Church.
Plot Summary
Let Our Children Go! is primarily a first-person narrative from Ted Patrick himself, with some commentary from Tom Dulack at the beginning of each chapter. Patrick describes his initial encounters with cults like the Children of God through his son and nephew, and his personal investigation into the Children of God in Santee, California. Eventually, he developed the process of deprogramming through what he called brainwashing at Santee.
Patrick illustrates his notable deprogramming cases like Dan Voll, Kathy Crampton, and so on. Sometimes, he replaces the names of deprogramming subjects to protect their identities. He also details his legal issues that he dealt with up to 1976, and his various successful or otherwise attempts at defending against allegations of kidnapping and false imprisonment through the "choice of evils" defense.
Reception
Joni Bodart for School Library Journal notes that although "disjointed and hard to follow at times", the book "should make absorbing reading for young adults who might themselves be solicited by the cults". In the Library Journal, Mark R. Yerburgh commended Patrick for having the courage to tackle such a contentious subject matter.
Anson D. Shupe for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion calls the book a "collection of apologetic vignettes about Ted Patrick, the archetypical deprogrammer". Shupe believes the book "is replete with instances of Patrick's alleged indefatigability, his altruism, and his monopoly on deprogramming skill", which has the result of dehumanizing groups about which Shupe argues Patrick knows nothing.
Peter Rowley for The Christian Century believes that one of the central messages of the book – that without deprogramming, members of new religious movements generally never leave – is incorrect based on his own experience with members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
References
1976 non-fiction books
Books about cults
Deprogrammers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait%20of%20the%20Doge%20Giovanni%20Mocenigo | The Portrait of the Doge Giovanni Mocenigo is a tempera-on-wood painting attributed to Italian artist Gentile Bellini, datable between 1478 and 1485. It is held at the Museo Correr, in Venice.
Description and analysis
The portrait depicts the doge Giovanni Mocenigo, wearing the official clothes of his office: the doge's Corno ducale and the gold cloth embroidered in relief. The doge is represented in profile and stands out against a gold background, which has a strong symbolic value that underlines the customs and iconographic tangencies between Venice and the Byzantine artistic world of Constantinople. The portrait, which still appears linked to more "traditional" models of representation, seems distant from the solutions adopted by Gentile's brother and fellow painter, Giovanni Bellini for the famous Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, stands out for his great quality and realism. The portrait appears to have been made directly "from life", and depicts Giovanni Mocenigo as a private man, while also celebrating his public role as the doge of Venice.
Provenance
Little is known about the origin of the work. It was most likely painted during the years when Giovanni Mocenigo was doge (1478–1485). The painting arrived to the public collections of the city of Venice in 1830, with the legate Correr. The exact circumstances of when or where Teodoro Correr bought the painting are not known.
References
1470s paintings
1480s paintings
Paintings by Gentile Bellini
Portraits of men
Paintings of Venice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet%20Pals%20in%20Windland | Pet Pals in Windland () is a 2014 Italian-language 3D computer-animated children's film directed by Sergio Manfio from a screenplay by Sergio, Francesco Manfio, Anna Manfio and Davide Stefanato. Based on the Pet Pals animated television series, it is the second feature-length film based on the series after Pet Pals: Marco Polo's Code (2010). Pet Pals in Windland was produced by Gruppo Alcuni, and co-produced by the Luxembourgish LuxAnimation. It was released in Italian cinemas on 27 March 2014.
Voice cast
English dubbing
The following is the voice cast of the English dubbed version:
Eileen McNamara as Crow Witch
Angela Mulligan as Holly
Anthony Salerno as Moby
Christopher R. Burns as Pio
Melissa Hope as Diva
Bill Timoney as King Cyclone and Tail
Michael Colasurdo as Top Hat
Joe Rodriguez as Wind Keeper
Bill Rogers as Cuncun
Richard M. Davidson as Ambrosio
Ken Spassione Jr. as Canbaluc
Gary Martin as Kite
Release
Pet Pals in Windland was released in Italian cinemas on 27 March 2014 by 01 Distribution. It had an opening weekend gross of $198,543, finishing with a worldwide box office gross of $356,152. It received positive reception for its ecological messages, such as the importance of renewable energy sources.
References
External links
2014 films
2014 animated films
2014 3D films
Italian children's films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Synthetic%20Party%20%28Denmark%29 | Det Syntetiske Parti (English: The Synthetic Party) is the world's first political party driven by artificial intelligence with the goal of making generative text-to-text models not merely populist, what they are by default, but democratic. The party was founded in 2022 in Denmark.
AI is already populist by default in a certain sense (...) But even if it's populist, it's not democratic just yet.
Founder
A philosopher from Aarhus University and a conceptual artist Asker Bryld Staunæs is the party founder and continuous party secretary.
Main goal
The political goals have been machine learned from texts by Danish fringe parties since 1970 and represent the 20 percent of Danes who do not vote in the election. It's a synthetic party, so many of the policies, such as universal basic income, can be contradictory to one another.
References
See also
Political parties in Denmark
Political AI (Artificial Intelligence) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Network%20in%20Europe | The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) is a small Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition with churches in Europe (primarily in England). Formed as part of the worldwide Anglican realignment, it is a member jurisdiction of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and is under the primatial oversight of the chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council. ANiE runs in parallel with the Free Church of England (RECUK). GAFCON recognizes ANiE as a "proto-province" operating separately from the Church of England, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church in Wales and other Anglican Communion jurisdictions in Great Britain and the European continent. ANiE is the body hierarchically above the preexisting Anglican Mission in England; the former is the equivalent of a province whilst the latter is a convocation, the equivalent of a diocese.
History
ANiE's origins date to 2013, when Anglican bishops at the second Global Anglican Future Conference in Nairobi endorsed the provision of episcopal oversight for Anglicans who could not in good conscience remain in their local dioceses or provinces. "We commit ourselves to the support and defence of those who in standing for apostolic truth are marginalized or excluded from formal communion with other Anglicans in their dioceses. We have therefore recognized the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) as an expression of authentic Anglicanism both for those within and outside the Church of England," the 2013 GAFCON communique said.
AMiE was initially "authorised by the GAFCON Primates to work within and, where necessary, outside the structures of the Church of England as a missionary society." Anglican priest Andy Lines was designated general secretary for AMiE, for which episcopal oversight was provided by a panel of bishops led by John Ellison, a retired Bishop of Paraguay. In 2015, Ellison was investigated by the Diocese of Salisbury due to his service as an overseer for AMiE's Christ Church Salisbury. In 2016, AMiE unveiled a plan to plant 25 churches by 2025 and 250 churches by 2050.
In 2017, in anticipation of the Scottish Episcopal Church becoming the first Anglican church in the British isles to approve same-sex marriage, the GAFCON Primates Council meeting in Lagos authorized the consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe to support Anglican clergy and churches in Great Britain that could no longer in good conscience remain within the Canterbury-aligned church structures:
During our meeting, we considered how best to respond to the voice of faithful Anglicans in some parts of the Global North who are in need of biblically faithful episcopal leadership. Of immediate concern is the reality that on 8th June 2017 the Scottish Episcopal Church is likely to formalize their rejection of Jesus' teaching on marriage. If this were to happen, faithful Anglicans in Scotland will need appropriate pastoral care. In addition, within England there are churches that have, for reasons of conscience, bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea%20Knecht | Bea Knecht (born 1967, Brugg, Switzerland) is a Swiss computer scientist, entrepreneur and founder of Zattoo.
Life
Knecht grew up in Windisch and studied computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. She completed a master's degree in Business Administrations at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. After graduation, she worked in consulting and management, from 1996 to 2001 as an associate partner at McKinsey. As a software developer, Knecht was instrumental in the development of UBS OpenLAN, SAP xRPM and Levanta.
In 2005, Knecht co-founded Zattoo, a Swiss TV streaming service based in Zurich, with Sugih Jamin. In 2012, she stepped down as CEO and is now Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Knecht is also the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the startups Genistat, a data science company, and Levuro, an interactive advertising company. As a developer and entrepreneur, she has received various awards and accolades.
Knecht has been a member of the Federal Media Commission (EMEK) since 2014.
Until 2012, Knecht lived as a man. Since her transition, she has publicly expressed her views on gender issues.
Awards
2014: Best of Swiss Web, Honorary Award
2014: Digital Lifetime Award from IAB Switzerland Association
2020: Emmy Award in Technology and Engineering
References
External links
Website of Zattoo
Website of Genistat
Website of Levuro
Swiss businesspeople
Swiss computer scientists
Swiss transgender people
University of California alumni
1967 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa%20Giustina | Marissa Giustina is an American physicist who is a senior research scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research considers the development of quantum computing and experimental tests of quantum theory.
Early life and education
Giustina became interested in computing as a child. She was an undergraduate student in mathematics at the Mary Baldwin University, where she had one woman physics teacher, who inspired her to pursue a career in engineering. She moved to the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College for undergraduate and graduate studies, where she was mentored by Lorenza Viola. Her research considered the photoresponse of black silicon below the silicon bandgap. She moved to the University of Vienna in 2010, where she started doctoral research in the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information. As part of her research, she developed an experiment to demonstrate quantum entanglement. The equipment was based at the Hofburg Palance, and generated entangled pairs of photons which were coupled into glass fibres that were carried to measurement stations. The measurement stations included a random number generator to choose which orientation to measure the photon polarization in, and superconducting detectors to determine whether the photons had arrived. Her research provided validation for quantum entanglement. The extraordinary detection sensitivity and spatial separation between the pair of detectors were enough to make the result a definitive proof of entanglement. Her research on loophole-free texting of Bell experiments was recognized with the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award.
Research and career
Giustina joined the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2016. She develops quantum computers, which store information in a compressed form using quantum states. Her quantum computers are based on nonlinear superconducting elements, which comprise a Josephson junction integrated as a non-linear element. This type of circuit operates at frequencies close to 5 GHz and produces two discrete states (0 and 1) as well as superpositions of states. She is working to improve the functionality of quantum processors and attempting overcome decoherence.
Giustina serves on the advisory board of the United States Department of Energy National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. In 2020, she was selected as one of Fortune's 40 Under 40, and in 2021 she was listed in the Future Tech Awards Future 50.
In 2021, Giustina took part in Homeward Bound, an Australian leadership program.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Dartmouth College alumni
University of Vienna alumni
Quantum physicists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P112%20%28disambiguation%29 | The P112 is a single-board computer.
P112 may also refer to:
, a patrol boat of the Mexican Navy
Papyrus 112, a biblical manuscript
, a patrol boat of the Turkish Navy
P112, a state regional road in Latvia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1966.
Events
Other events in 1966
The early 1950s CBS sitcom Amos 'n' Andy is pulled from off-network syndication in response to complaints from civil rights organizations, including the NAACP.
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Television movies, specials and miniseries
Networks and services
Network launches
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1966 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ness%20B.%20Shroff | Ness B. Shroff is an American engineer, educator and researcher known for contributions to wireless networking, network control, and network analysis. He is professor in ECE and CSE departments at Ohio State University, where he holds the Ohio Eminent Scholar Chaired Professorship of Networking and Communications.
Education
Shroff received his B.S. from the University of Southern California in 1988, his M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, his MPhil from Columbia University, in 1993, and his PhD from Columbia University, NY in 1994.
Career and research
Shroff and his PhD student Xin Liu and colleague Edwin Chong were among the first researchers to recognize the importance of opportunistic scheduling in wireless networks with short-term fairness Opportunistic scheduling is the idea that variability in wireless channel quality can be exploited to maximize network throughput while taking into account some measure of quality of service. Using connections to convex optimization theory and stochastic approximations, he developed online opportunistic scheduling mechanisms that could guarantee a variety of explicit fairness guarantees. Opportunistic scheduling is now a part of the communication paradigm in every modern mobile phone.
Shroff with his PhD student Xiaojun Lin were among the first researchers to show that a network utility maximization framework of wireless resource allocation provides a mathematical interpretation of the functionalities of the various layers of the network protocol stack. Specifically, by making a connection to Lagrange multiplier theory in convex optimization, they showed that queue length information shared across multiple layers provided the right feedback to design resource allocation algorithms for the transport, network and medium access control protocols. These tools and techniques have now become standards in cross-layer network design and his survey paper on opportunistic scheduling and cross-layer design was also influential in making the topic widely accessible to a large audience.
Shroff and his PhD student Sellke developed a novel technique to protect computer networks for Internet worms and viruses. combat the most dangerous form of computer virus. The technique automatically detects when an Internet worm has infected a network and signals network administrators to isolate the infected machine and quarantine them for repairs.
Shroff is currently leading a large multi-organization team, composed of universities, private companies, and research labs, which has been selected by the National Science Foundation for developing new Artificial Intelligence techniques to design future wireless networks.
Awards and honors
Best Paper Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2006, 2008 and 2016.
Appears on the List of Most highly cited researchers Thomson Reuters 2014 and 2015.
IEEE INFOCOM 2014 achievement award
Appears on the List of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014.
Best student paper awa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo%20Fujiwara | is a Japanese computer scientist who made significant contributions to ATPG (automatic test pattern generation) algorithms. As one of his works, he invented the FAN algorithm in 1983, which was the fastest ATPG algorithm at that time, and was adopted by industry.
He was born in Nara, Japan, and studied electronic engineering at Osaka University, where he received his B.E. degree in 1969, M.E. in 1971, and Ph.D. in 1974. He was with Osaka University from 1974 to 1985, Meiji University from 1985 to 1993, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) from 1993 to 2011, and Osaka Gakuin University from 2011 to 2021. Presently, he is Professor Emeritus of NAIST.
References
Living people
1946 births
Japanese computer scientists
Osaka University alumni
Academic staff of Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Fellow Members of the IEEE
People from Nara Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certain%20answer | In database theory and knowledge representation, the one of the certain answers is the set of answers to a given query consisting of the intersection of all the complete databases that are consistent with a given knowledge base. The notion of certain answer, investigated in database theory since the 1970s, is indeed defined in the context of open world assumption, where the given knowledge base is assumed to be incomplete.
Intuitively, certain answers are the answers that are always returned when querying a given knowledge base, considering both the extensional knowledge that the possible implications inferred by automatic reasoning, regardless of the specific interpretation.
Definition
In literature, the set of certain answers is usually defined as follows:
where:
is a query
is an incomplete database
is any complete database consistent with
is the semantics of
In description logics, such set may be defined in a similar way as follows:
Given an ontology and a query on , is the set of tuples such that, for each model of , we have that .
Where:
and are respectively a Tbox and an Abox;
is the alphabet of constants (individuals or values) of the ontology;
is obtained by replacing all the free variables in with constants of .
See also
Open world assumption
Closed world assumption
Completeness (knowledge bases)
References
Further reading
Knowledge representation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20Ryska | Norbert Ryska (born August 9, 1948, in Hau) is a German mathematician and museum director. Ryska worked from 1976 to 1992 as an employee of Nixdorf Computer AG in the R&D department. Until 1996 as managing director and project manager on behalf of the Nixdorf Foundations mainly responsible for the construction of the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF). From 1996 to 2013, Ryska was the managing director for the museum and technology departments of the HNF.
Early life
Ryska was born in Hau on the Lower Rhine in 1948, the son of the technician and operating engineer Ferdinand Ryska. He attended high school in Kleve. After graduating from high school in 1967, he completed his military service, e.g. in the communications center of the 1st Corps of the German Armed Forces in Münster where he learned how to use encryption technology. In the winter semester of 1968/69, Ryska studied English and Romance languages in Münster and from the summer of 1969 he continued his studies in philology for three further terms at Bonn University. From the winter semester of 1970/71 he studied mathematics and computer science. The mathematician Friedrich Hirzebruch was one of his professors. In the summer of 1976, Ryska received a diploma in mathematics. During his studies he had part-time jobs for Inter Nationes, the German Bundestag and the Reuters news agency.
On November 1, 1976, Ryska joined Nixdorf Computer AG (NCAG) in Paderborn. His most important work in the years that followed was a security system for ATMs. He was then responsible for the coordination of national and European funding projects in the NCAG Research and Development department and was responsible for public relations.
After the merger of NCAG with the data and information technology division of Siemens AG to form Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI) on October 1, 1990, Ryska continued to oversee funding projects at the SNI. From April 1, 1992, he worked on the project of a computer museum. The Westphalia Foundation, founded by Heinz Nixdorf, appointed Norbert Ryska to the project team for a computer museum in 1992. On April 1, 1993, he became managing director of the non-profit Forum für Informationstechnik GmbH.
With the exhibition designer Ludwig Thürmer and the architect Gerhard Diel, Ryska completed the transformation of the NCAG headquarters into the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum. He led the team that selected exhibits and created texts, images and films. When it opened on October 24, 1996, he was one of the two managing directors alongside Theodor Rode and was responsible for the permanent exhibition, the media department and technical staff. From 1997 to 2017, his co-managing director Kurt Beiersdörfer was responsible for marketing, events and museum education as well as for several special exhibitions.
Together with Wolfgang Back (WDR), Ryska realized three WDR computer nights at the HNF in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 2001, Ryska created a section on the history of cryptology; in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20CETI | Project CETI is an international initiative to understand the communication of sperm whales using advances in Artificial Intelligence. Its name is a reference to the SETI Institute. The project has an interdisciplinary scientific board including marine biologists, artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists, theoretical computer scientists, and linguists. The project has a base on the island of Dominica where recordings are being collected. A roadmap has been published. The organization has been selected as a TED Audacious Project.
See also
Human–animal communication
Animal cognition
Animal communication
Animal consciousness
Interspecies communication
References
Human–animal communication
Organizations established in 2020
Science in society
Interspecies communication
Animal communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1965.
Events
Other notable events in 1965
The New York City market's WOR-TV launches a cable television feed of the station's programming to be distributed nationwide, known as the WOR-TV EMI Service.
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television films, specials and miniseries
Networks and services
Network launches
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1965 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee%20Network | The Bee Network is an integrated transport network for Greater Manchester, composed of bus, tram, cycling and walking routes. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is expected to have the network operational by 2024, with commuter rail services expected to be joining the network in 2030. Initially revealed in 2018, the project is aiming to create a London-style transport system, to encourage more people to take public transport instead of cars.
The design of the network is inspired around the Greater Manchester symbol, the worker bee, with bus and tram liveries coloured yellow and black to represent this.
History
Chris Boardman, the Greater Manchester Cycling and Walking Commissioner published documents in 2017 settings out plans. The project would include of segregated cycling lanes, brand new electric buses, around of new dedicated walking and cycling routes, 2,400 new road crossings and a new cycle hire scheme throughout the region.
Following on from the GMCA's decision to bring in a bus franchising scheme under the Bus Services Act 2017 in March 2021, the Bee Network concept was expanded to cover all forms of public transport - tram, bus and commuter rail - as well as active travel. The active travel component of the network was rebranded as the Bee Active Network.
A cycle hire scheme launched in late 2021 using Beryl bikes.
In June 2022, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham announced capped fares for buses from 2023 in order to help with cost-of-living rises. The new fares would see full day fares capped at , and single trips capped at .
The first fleet of 50 Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV battery electric buses were rolled out across Bolton, Wigan and parts of Bury and Salford on 24 September 2023. Go North West and Diamond North West have been awarded two large franchises and seven small franchises, respectively, displacing the current operations of Arriva North West, First Greater Manchester, Stagecoach Manchester and Vision Bus in this area. The fleet will be expanded by an additional 50 Enviro400EV buses in Oldham, Rochdale and the remainder of Bury in March 2024, as well as with 67 Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMCs on services operated by Diamond North West in early 2024,
Cycling
One of the major policies of the Bee Network is making it easy, safe and attractive for people to travel on foot or by bike for everyday trips. A large focus is being put on to cycling in this project, therefore TfGM are investing money in many things that encourage cycling in combination with Local Authorities such as cycling infrastructure, Cycle hire scheme, Cycle hubs and many courses to help people learn to ride a bike.
The Bee Network will include the UK's largest cycling and walking network, with 1,800 miles of routes and 2,400 new crossings.
Furthermore, the City of Manchester has made a bid to become the first ACES European Capital of Cycling in 2024.
Active Neighbourhoods form part of the Bee Network.
Bus franchising
The bus network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20at%20Cattle%20Hill | Christmas at Cattle Hill () is a 2020 Norwegian 3D computer-animated Christmas film directed by Will Ashurst from a screenplay by Ole Christian Solbakken. A sequel to Cattle Hill (2018), it was produced by Qvisten Animation. Heidi Palm Sandberg and Ove Heiborg acted as producers. Christmas at Cattle Hill was released theatrically in Norway on 6 November 2020, grossing $1,088,688.
Premise
Klara is excited to spend her first Christmas on Cattle Hill with her father. But when her father is unexpectedly called away for work, Klara sees it as an opportunity to transform Cattle Hill into a Christmas paradise with the aid of a cheeky Christmas elf.
Voice cast
Henriette Faye-Schjøll as Klara
Sigrid Bonde Tusvik as Kari, Klara's mother
Fridtjov Såheim as Mosk, Klara's father
Marit A. Andreassen as Chickolina
Mats Eldøen as Guttegeiten Gaute
Charlotte Frogner as Pauline
Production
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Gaute Storaas.
Release
Christmas at Cattle Hill was released in Norwegian cinemas on 6 November 2020 by SF Studios Norge and Paycom Multimedia. It opened with $159,779, for a total box office gross of $1,088,688. It received over 100,000 admissions during late 2020.
References
External links
2020 computer-animated films
2020s Norwegian-language films
Norwegian animated films
Norwegian children's films
Norwegian Christmas films
Santa Claus in film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulikulinga%20Town%20Council | Kulikulinga is a newly created town council in Yumbe District
It's located on along the Yumbe Obongi Arua road south of Yumbe Municipality which is larger town in the District.
Road Network
Kulikulinga is located along Yumbe arua road where the Obongi road joins it to continue to Arua.
References
Populated places in Northern Region, Uganda
West Nile sub-region
Yumbe District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Rosen%20%28professor%29 | Joseph Rosen (Hebrew: יוסף (יוסי) רוזן; born: 1958) is the Benjamin H. Swig Professor in Optoelectronics at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
His work focuses on Optics, Holography, Digital Optics and Computational Optics. He is a fellow of Optica and a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
Early life and education
Joseph Rosen was born in Haifa, Israel. Rosen began his academic studies in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and received his B.Sc. in 1984 (with honors), and M.Sc. in 1987. He continued his studies at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Technion. His D.Sc. thesis on Interferometric Electro-Optical Signal Processing was received in 1992 and supervised by Prof. Joseph Shamir.
Academic career
Rosen was a research associate at the Rome Laboratory of Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts during 1992–1993. He then joined the Department of Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology as a Research Fellow. In 1996 Rosen joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He became an associate professor in 2000 and a professor in 2007.
During the years, Rosen held visiting academic positions at Johns Hopkins University and at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, Germany; the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan; the University of Connecticut and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.
Rosen has supervised more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Research
Rosen's work focuses on Digital and Computational Optics, Holography and Optical Imaging.
He became known for his contributions to the technology of incoherent digital holography. In 2007 he co-invented the Fresnel Incoherent Correlation Holography (FINCH), a new method of recording digital holograms of targets illuminated by white light. In 2017 he co-invented the interferenceless Coded Aperture Correlation Holography (I-COACH), a new way of recording digital holograms without wave interference. FINCH and I-COACH are used for three-dimensional imaging of general three-dimensional objects observed from a single viewpoint using a single camera shot.
In 2018, Rosen co-invented an image reconstruction method called non-linear reconstruction which has now become one of the widely used methods in coded aperture imaging and incoherent holography
In 2019, Rosen and his PhD candidate Angika Bulbul have introduced a method of using partial aperture area of a lens to obtain a similar image resolution to the full aperture area. This can save cost, time and material needed for space telescopes.
In 2022, the non-linear reconstruction method co-invented by Rosen was combined with the well-known deconvolution method Lucy-Richardson algorithm to create Lucy-Richardson-Rosen algorithm. The Lucy-Richardson- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20culture | In the digital humanities, "algorithmic culture" is part of an emerging synthesis of rigorous software algorithm driven design that couples software, highly structured data driven design with human oriented sociocultural attributes. An early occurrence of the term is found in Alexander R. Galloway classic Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture
Other definitions include Ted Striphas' where AC refers to the ways in which the logic of big data and large scale computation (including algorithms) alters they culture is practiced, experienced and understood.".
A starting point for modern discussion of culture is attributed to Edward Burnett Tylor in his 1871 works on primitive culture.
The emergence and continuing development and convergence of computers, software, algorithms, human psychology, digital marketing and other computational technologies resulted in numerous AC variants including recommendation algorithms, AI generated stories and characters, digital assets (including creative NFTs, all of which can and should be considered as algorithmic culture artifacts. A similar process is occurring in strictly sociological interactions.
Algorithmic Culture and ChatGPT
With the flourishing of LLMs, and particularly ChatGPT, algorithmic culture is increasingly visible within the academic mainstream. Jill Walker Rettberg at the University of Bergenis exploration applications of in her works. Some of the examples she uses are: How to use ChatGPT to get past writer's block, and examining society's biases and cliches
Generative AI, is a now prominent and fast evolving component of modern algorithmic culture. It is currently entering a period of accelerating growth, acceptance and use, with specific algorithms and tools including Midjourney DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.
ChatGPT Plus, GPT-4 are increasing their sophistication in composing music, writing teleplays, fairy tales, stories, and poems. With user prompting also facilitating character specific speaking and writing styles. NovelAI, for example, is an online AI-assisted story writer.
References
Bibliography
Jonathan Cohn, The burden of choice: Recommendations, subversion, and algorithmic culture, Rutgers University Press, 2019
Fernández Rovira Cristina and Santiago Giraldo Luque. Predictive Technology in Social Media. First edition First ed. CRC Press
Eran Fisher, Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge. First edition First ed. Routledge 2021
Gary Hall . Culture in Bits : The Monstrous Future of Theory. Continuum 2002
Hallinan B and Striphas T (2014) Recommend for you:The Netflix Prize and the production of algorithmic culture. New Media & Society. Epub ahead of print 23 June 2014.
Levy S (2010) How Google's algorithm rules the web
Culture
Philosophy of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beregama%20cordata | Beregama cordata, sometimes called the fire-back huntsman, is a species of spider endemic to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is a member of the genus Beregama of huntsman spiders.
Description
This spider was identified thanks largely to the work of D. B. Hirst. It closely resembles Beregama aurea. It also resembles several other Australian huntsman spiders, especially species from the genus Neosparassus, although it lacks the black patch on the underpart of the abdomen which is found on Neosparassus members.
References
External links
"Fire-back Huntsman, Beregama cordata - Care guide". Minibeast Wildlife. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
Sparassidae
Spiders of Australia
Spiders described in 1875
Arthropods of Queensland
Arthropods of New South Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion%20%28company%29 | Scorpion Design is an American technology company that provides marketing and technology services to small businesses. The company is known for using artificial intelligence to gain insights on how to expand a business. It is based in Lehi, Utah, U.S.
History
Scorpion was founded in 2001 by Rustin Kretz. It started out as a website builder for legal companies and has expanded to include a full stack of technology and marketing services for the legal, healthcare, home services, and franchise spaces.
In August 2018, Scorpion started a show named "Get to Work".
Over the years, Scorpion has played its part in market research and surveys, with the latest survey held in 2022 about the support of local businesses by people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In April 2021, Scorpion received $100 million in investment from Bregal Sagemount.
Scorpion was part of the Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Companies between 2011 and 2020.
Acquisitions
In July 2017, Scorpion acquired a New York-based marketing firm named Driven Local.
In September 2021, Scorpion acquired a franchise marketing agency, Wheat Creative, and it was added into its franchise division. In November 2021, Scorpion made another acquisition and acquired a digital marketing company, MediaSmack, which is active in the legal industry. In the same year, the company acquired a software company, CanIRank.
Technology
Scorpion employs artificial intelligence to assist businesses in improving their ad purchases, getting to know their clients better, and expanding.
Scorpion technology assists businesses in ranking in search engines, managing lead flow, and knowing in detail about cash flows, allowing them to make better decisions. They also provide an all-in-one dashboard where a company can view the results. Live chat, texting, and marketing automation is also available.
Operations and offices
Scorpion offices are located in Dallas, Texas; Valencia, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; Islandia, New York; and Denver, Colorado.
In March 2021, Scorpion moved its head office to Utah from California.
In July 2021, Scorpion relocated its Addison, Texas office to Dallas, Texas.
References
American companies established in 2001
Companies based in Salt Lake City
2001 establishments in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mass%20shootings%20in%20Switzerland | This article is a list of mass shootings in Switzerland. Mass shootings are incidents of firearm-related violence that result in at least four people being killed or injured. The data in this article includes the death of perpetrators, including suicides or the killing of the perpetrator by police. Inclusion of perpetrator casualties and injured victims is at variance to some but not all definitions of mass shooting. The vast majority of mass shootings in Switzerland that are noted in this article are familicides, not public mass shootings.
20th century
21st century
See also
List of mass shootings in Germany
List of mass shootings in the United Kingdom
List of mass shootings in Australia
Notes
References
Crime-related lists
Mass shootings in Switzerland
Lists of mass shootings by country
Mass shootings
Mass shootings
Mass murder in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20of%20Casino | is a 1990 gambling simulation video game developed by Algorithm Institute, published in Japan by Victor Musical Industries and in North America by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. The game sees the players go to different casinos with $10000, using the money to participate in poker, blackjack, roulette, slot machines and keno, in order to win $10 million. After selecting one of the three playing modes (normal, fast or party), there are 15 casinos with slight differences to choose on a town map. Inside the casino the games itself are started by clicking on one of the gambling tables. It received generally favourable reception from critics, most of which reviewed it as an import title.
Gameplay
King of Casino is a gambling simulation game, where one or five players go to different casinos and participate in poker, blackjack, roulette, slot machines and keno. There are fifteen casinos to choose on a town map, each with slight differences, and the player can choose to start any of the games once inside the casino by clicking on one of the gambling tables. The player is given $10,000 and the main goal is to win $10 million, but the game ends if a player loses all the money.
Development and release
King of Casino was developed by Algorithm Institute, with graphical design by Animation 20. It was directed by Toshiyuki Nagai and produced by Harunobu Komori. Nobuo Shimizu acted as designer, with Masato Nagai serving as programmer, while the music was composed by Hirotoshi "Hiroshi" Suzuki. The game was first slated for a March 23, 1990 launch window, but was released by Victor Musical Industries on March 27 instead. The title was eventually published by NEC in North America.
Reception
King of Casino received generally favourable reception from critics, most of which reviewed it as an import title. Génération 4s Philippe Querleux wrote "As someone who loves jackpots and poker, I love this game, and even I'm going to treat myself to it." Joysticks Jean-Marc Demoly labelled it as a "well-made" game, highlighting its original production and audiovisual presentation. Tilts Alain Huyghues-Lacour concurred with Demoly regarding the game's presentation but also noted its attention to detail, visuals and sound effects.
Aktueller Software Markts Sandra Alter agreed with both Demoly and Huyghues-Lacour, but commented that "there is one thing this game cannot offer: the high society that usually hangs out in the casino, trembling player hands, and the unbelievable crackling that is so often in the air in such houses." Power Plays Henrik Fisch commended the graphics but panned the music. VideoGames & Computer Entertainments Clayton Walnum gave positive remarks to the visuals on each game, but felt mixed in regards to the visuals and playability, stating that "If you've got a TurboGrafx-16 and want a gambling simulation, King of Casino is okay. It's not, however, the kind of quality program that TurboGrafx-16 owners have come to expect."
Notes
References
Externa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHD%20%28disambiguation%29 | SSHD (solid-state hybrid drive or solid-state hard drive) is a data storage device.
It may also refer to:
Solid-state drive (SSD), another type of data storage device
Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD), a US-based research society
Secure Shell daemon (sshd), a computer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roz%20Kelly%20%28sports%20presenter%29 | Roz Kelly is an Australian television sports presenter.
She is the sports presenter for the Friday and Saturday editions of Nine News Sydney as well as host of the Nine Network’s flagship sports program Sports Sunday.
Kelly is also involved in Nine's Wide World of Sports coverage of Tennis, Cricket and Stan Sport’s Rugby Union coverage.
Personal life
She is married to South African cricketer Morné Morkel and they have 2 sons.
In 2012, Kelly dated TV vet Chris Brown.
In November 2013, Kelly announced she would be moving to Cape Town in South Africa to be with her then fiancé Morné Morkel. In 2018, Kelly announced she intended to return to Australia following her husband's retirement from international cricket.
See also
List of Nine Network presenters
References
External links
Australian sports broadcasters
Living people
Australian television presenters
Nine News presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMJS%20Gabi%20ng%20Lagim | KMJS Gabi ng Lagim () is an annual Halloween television special of GMA Network's news magazine show Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, featuring urban legends, horror, and supernatural stories from around the Philippines. It first aired on October 27, 2013, and has since been present annually, usually on the Sunday closest to Halloween and All Saints' Day, also known in the Philippines as Undás.
Overview
Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho previously aired Halloween specials under different titles before GMA Public Affairs Assistant Vice President Lee Joseph Castel suggested in 2012 to create an annual special under one name. It later became the Gabi ng Lagim.
On each edition, the special features three to four real-life accounts with interviews with the actual people, actual photos, videos, and audios of the supernatural encounters, which made it one of the talked about shows in the Philippines during Halloween season online. In 2018, it was reported that the show generated 80,000 tweets in 3 hours.
Some stories featured on Gabi ng Lagim were made into full-feature films, including Sanib by Derick Cabrido from Gabi ng Lagim IV which was made into the film Clarita in 2019, and Junjun also by Cabrido from Gabi ng Lagim V, which was made into the film Sunod by Carlo Ledesma in 2019.
Editions
References
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series
GMA Network television specials
Halloween television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSynth | NSynth (a portmanteau of "Neural Synthesis") is a WaveNet-based autoencoder for synthesizing audio, outlined in a paper in April 2017.
Overview
The model generates sounds through a neural network based synthesis, employing a WaveNet-style autoencoder to learn its own temporal embeddings from four different sounds. Google then released an open source hardware interface for the algorithm called NSynth Super, used by notable musicians such as Grimes and YACHT to generate experimental music using artificial intelligence. The research and development of the algorithm was part of a collaboration between Google Brain, Magenta and DeepMind.
Technology
Dataset
The NSynth dataset is composed of 305,979 one-shot instrumental notes featuring a unique pitch, timbre, and envelope, sampled from 1,006 instruments from commercial sample libraries. For each instrument the dataset contains four-second 16 kHz audio snippets by ranging over every pitch of a standard MIDI piano, as well as five different velocities. The dataset is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Machine learning model
A spectral autoencoder model and a WaveNet autoencoder model are publicly available on GitHub. The baseline model uses a spectrogram with fft_size 1024 and hop_size 256, MSE loss on the magnitudes, and the Griffin-Lim algorithm for reconstruction. The WaveNet model trains on mu-law encoded waveform chunks of size 6144. It learns embeddings with 16 dimensions that are downsampled by 512 in time.
NSynth Super
In 2018 Google released a hardware interface for the NSynth algorithm, called NSynth Super, designed to provide an accessible physical interface to the algorithm for musicians to use in their artistic production.
Design files, source code and internal components are released under an open source Apache License 2.0, enabling hobbyists and musicians to freely build and use the instrument. At the core of the NSynth Super there is a Raspberry Pi, extended with a custom printed circuit board to accommodate the interface elements.
Influence
Despite not being publicly available as a commercial product, NSynth Super has been used by notable artists, including Grimes and YACHT.
Grimes reported using the instrument in her 2020 studio album Miss Anthropocene.
YACHT announced an extensive use of NSynth Super in their album Chain Tripping.
Claire L. Evans compared the potential influence of the instrument to the Roland TR-808.
The NSynth Super design was honored with a D&AD Yellow Pencil award in 2018.
References
Further reading
External links
Official Nsynth Super site
Official Magenta site
In-browser emulation of the Nsynth algorithm
Synthesizers
Machine learning
Electronic music
Datasets in machine learning
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonada%20Media | Lemonada Media is an American podcast network. The company was founded in 2019 by Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs. In 2019, Lemonada Media debuted their first podcast, Last Day. As of 2022, Lemonada has launched more than 20 podcasts.
History
In 2018, Cordova Kramer and Wittels Wachs met after discovering they had each lost a brother to accidental overdoses. Cordova Kramer reached out to Wittels Wachs after hearing her in an interview. Wittels Wachs initially said no to a podcast partnership with Cordova Cramer but later changed her mind. In 2019, they launched Lemonada Media and their first podcast, Last Day which explores the final days of people who have died to opioids, suicide, and gun violence. The company set out to make the hard things in life a little easier for listeners to cope with. The company's name refers to the adage "turning lemons into lemonade" as well as the famous Jerry Seinfeld standup routine where he says "(the car) better not be a lemona, or I'll call my lawya"
Last Day is Lemonada Media's flagship podcast. The first season focused on the opioid epidemic. The first episode covered the last days of Cordova Kramer's brother prior to his fatal overdose. The second season of Last Day focused on suicide and was sponsored by The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention.
In 2019, Lemonada Media debuted two additional podcasts, Good Kids and As Me with Sinéad. In April 2020, In the Bubble hosted by Andy Slavitt debuted. In March 2022, Lemonada Media had more than 20 original shows. These include The Cost of Care, The Untold Story: Policing and Good Sex.
In 2020, Lemonada show In the Bubble won the "Favorite Shows" award of Apple Podcasts "Shows of the Year". Last day also won iHeartRadio's Podcast Award for Best Wellness and Fitness Podcast. Lemonada shows received an average of two million listens in each month of 2020.
Lemonada partnered with Neighborhood Villages in late 2020, an organization that advocates for policy reform for early childhood education and care, to create No One Is Coming to Save Us hosted by former ABC news correspondent Gloria Riviera. The podcast discusses the U.S. childcare system. Kristin Bell has made guest appearances.
In 2021, Lemonada added 10 podcasts to its network including, Written Off and Believe Her. Believe Her debuted at the top of the podcast ratings charts. They launched, BEING Studios, a new division to develop a new audio genre called Audio Reality, a cross of reality programming and podcasting. Their debut show, BEING Trans was executive produced by Kasey Barrett who has previously worked on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Real World, and Born This Way. Wittels Wachs stated that creating Being Trans was intended to build the empathy. The second season of BEING studios features senior citizens and is called BEING Golden.
In 2022, Add to Cart won the iHeartRadio Podcast Award for Best Beauty and Fashion Podcast.
Lemonada has a global pres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Rochko | Eugen Rochko (; born 1993) is a Russian-born German software developer, best known as the creator of Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social networking platform consisting of a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and moderation policies.
Early life
Rochko was born in Russia in 1993, and moved to Germany at the age of 11. He attended grammar school in Jena and studied computer science at the University of Jena. In his youth, he was active on networks such as MySpace, , Facebook, Twitter, and ICQ. During his high school years, he created several websites including the virtual marketplace Artists&Clients which he sold for $2,000.
Career
In early 2016, while studying, Rochko started working on the Mastodon software. He launched Mastodon in Beta Version that year. He published the software in October 2016 upon the completion of his degree. By April 2017, there were 1,000 independently run "instances" on Mastodon's federated social network platform with "hundreds of thousands of users" using personal and public servers, according to a June 2017 Free Software Foundation (FSF) interview. Because of its source code, not just the content is open, anyone can use it to create their own server with customized and enforced rules and regulations. These individual servers are part of the distributed or federated social network.
Rochko developed Mastodon with crowdfunding through Patreon and OpenCollective, an open-source development grant from Samsung, as well as a small grant from the European Commission. He published it in early October 2016 after completing his computer science studies at the University of Jena. He later implemented the ActivityPub protocol for Mastodon. By May 2017, there were already 323 different volunteer GitHub contributors; only a dozen were regular contributors. Rochko and one other person merged pull requests made by volunteers into Mastodon's master branch. By July 2017, there were 727 individuals supporting Mastodon on Patreon. At that time Rochko self-described as Mastodon's main developer and project manager working alongside @maloki@mastodon.social, Mastodon's project manager. The rest of the work was undertaken by volunteers.
In a 6 November 2022 Time interview, Rochko said he started it as a side project while working on his degree. In a Reuters interview Rochko said he was motivated by rumours that Peter Thiel, a "right-wing billionaire", was considering acquiring Twitter. Rochko said that it was crucial that this "de facto public utility that isn't public" should not be controlled by a US corporation. He was dissatisfied with some of the social media platform's functions. Rochko said that a platform like Twitter plays an important role in democracy and should not be controlled by a US corporation. According to his 2018 Esquire interview, he was motivated to create Mastodon to provide a space that was not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dope.security | dope.security is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2021. Based in Mountain View and Cork, the company focuses on secure web gateways.
History
dope.security was founded by former Forcepoint and Symantec software engineer Kunal Agarwal on May 4, 2021. Following the shift of many companies to remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic, Agarwal founded dope.security to adapt secure web gateways to a growing market of workers accessing company servers through cloud computing or home Internet rather than centralized office networks. Speaking with TechCrunch, Agarwal recalled that during his engineering career, he encountered customers who complained about outages and other performance issues from existing secure web gateways that relied on data centers.
In September 2022, Boldstart Ventures provided the initial $4 million seed investment for dope.security, which began operations with 30 employees. With its headquarters in Mountain View, California, dope.security also has operations in Cork, Ireland.
Google Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, and Preface helped raise an additional $16 million to fund internal, endpoint-based secure web gateway technology development for dope.security in March 2023.
Products
The main dope.security product is the Fly Direct Secure Web Gateway (dope.swg), which is based at a communication endpoint rather than stopover data centers. The zero trust security model of dope.swg is compatible with Office 365 and Google Workspace.
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Companies based in San Francisco
2021 establishments in California
Software companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinmarketcap | Coinmarketcap is a website that provides information and data such as prices, trade volumes, market capitalization on cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 in New York City by Brandon Chez.
Overview
Coinmarketcap was founded in 2013 by IT programmer Brandon Chez in New York City. By 2018, the website had become one of the most popular in the world, according to The Wall Street Journal.
According to Bloomberg, in November 2019, Coinmarketcap introduced a Liquidity metric designed to combat fake trading volume.
In April 2020, Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, acquired Coinmarketcap for an undisclosed amount. Forbes suggested that the deal could be worth $400 million.
In November 2021, Coinmarketcap was cited by Vice, The New York Times and some other media for warning users of the "Squid" coin fraud scheme, which falsely claimed to be affiliated with the Squid Game TV show. The website is also a source for crypto exchanges rankings.
In January 2018, Coinmarketcap took out South Korean exchanges from its calculation for prices because the prices there were consistently higher than in other regions. That caused a significant decline in XRP's market capitalization and created chaos on the markets.
In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Chez explained that the Coinmarketcap delisted Korean exchanges because many users complained about the inaccurate prices; however, he didn’t expect the effect of the Korean exchange exclusion to be so big.
References
American websites
Data and information organizations
Cryptocurrencies
Web3
Technology companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinara%20%28company%29 | Kinara is an American semiconductor company that develops AI processors for machine learning applications.
History
Kinara was founded in 2013 by Rehan Hameed and Wajahat Qadeer as CoreViz. The company was rebranded as Deep Vision, and received $35M in a series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. In 2022 rebranded as Kinara.
Kinara has partnerships with NXP Semiconductors and Arcturus Networks.
Products
In 2020, the company announced its first product, the Ara-1 Edge AI Processor. The product uses a polymorphic dataflow architecture.
References
External links
Kinara
Semiconductor companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1964.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Ending this year
Television films, specials and miniseries
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Station closures
Births
Deaths
See also
1964 in television
1964 in film
1964 in the United States
List of American films of 1964
References
External links
List of 1964 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko%20Krajcar | Slavko Krajcar (14 January 1951 - 18 June 2021) was a Croatian electrical engineer, former dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and member of Governance of the Croatian Academy of Engineering.
Early life, education and career
He was born in Krajcar Breg, municipality Žminj, Croatia. He attended high school in Pula and went on to graduate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and became an electrical engineer in 1973. He received his PhD in 1988, and became full professor in 2002. He had been working on University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Energy and Power Systems for his entire career, more than 46 years.
After serving as an assistant dean in the period 1991-1991 and as a vice dean between 1996.-98, he served, as well, as the dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in two terms, in the period 1998-2002, and as a head of the Department of energy and Power Systems from 2002 to 2006 year.
Memberships
He was active member of many professional and other organisation, a full member and member of the Management Board of the Croatian Academy of Engineering, the president of the Croatian Lighting Society, active member of CIGRE, CIRED, IEEE, and others.
In addition to his profession, he was also very active in culture, for two terms he was the president of the society "Čakavian Parliament", and among other things, he published two collections of his poems.
Prof. Krajcar was one of the leading figures in making Croatian Energetic Strategy (which the Parliament accepted in 2010) and the Energetic Efficiency Strategy (2008), his expertise made a significant contribution to Croatian politics in the energy sector, and he was one of the pioneers of the energy transition in Croatia. He did not refuse invitations to many interviews, radio and TV shows and round tables .
Awards
Slavko Krajcar received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions for his exceptional scientific work, including golden plaque "Josip Lončar" from the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing for many years of dedicated teaching and research, special award for the reconstruction and development of the University Computing Center (SRCE), the HO CIRED award for great professional contribution to the development of electricity distribution (lifetime achievement award), the HRO CIGRE award for overall contribution to the power industry in the Republic of Croatia (lifetime achievement award) and also the ‘’Nikola Tesla’’ Croatian IEEE Section award for outstanding contribution to science, education and the profession in the field of electrical engineering and computing and significant achievements in electrical engineering and information technology.
He died in Fuškulin, Croatia at the age of 71.
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1951 births
Engineers from Zagreb
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Gifford | Daniel Christian Gifford (born 1962) is an American-born Canadian bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. In February 2022, he was consecrated as coadjutor bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada and succeeded Charlie Masters as diocesan bishop of ANiC in November 2022. He was previously archdeacon for the Vancouver area in ANiC and vicar of St. John's Vancouver.
Early life, education, and early ministry
Gifford grew up in the Minneapolis area and was raised in a Christian home. He studied theology at St. John's College in Nottingham, England earned his M.Div. from Wycliffe College in Toronto in 1990, and was ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada in 1991. He served a two-year curacy on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast and was then appointed rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Pender Harbour, where he served for six years.
In 1998, Gifford joined the staff of St. John's Shaughnessy in Vancouver, then the largest Anglican church in Canada, under long-serving rector David Short. At St. John's, Gifford met his future wife, Cathryn; they married in 2001 and have two teenage sons.
Leadership roles
Gifford's role as vicar at St. John's included responsibility for discipleship, catechesis, evangelism, cross-cultural mission, and preaching. He served at St. John's throughout the congregation's departure from the Diocese of New Westminster during the Anglican realignment and its subsequent loss in its legal bid to retain its property and the rebranding as St. John's Vancouver. In 2002, Gifford was one of St. John's delegates at the New Westminster diocesan synod. After the synod controversially approved the blessing of same-sex unions, Gifford joined the St. John's delegates, along with delegates from eight other churches, in walking out of synod and asking for alternative episcopal oversight.
Following the establishment of ANiC, Gifford also served as archdeacon for metro Vancouver, as a member of the ANiC finance committee, and on the ANiC Council.
In November 2021, Gifford was elected coadjutor bishop of ANiC on the third ballot. ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach consecrated him as a bishop on 6 February 2022 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Vancouver. He succeeded Masters as diocesan bishop at ANiC's synod on 2 November 2022. In addition to serving as coadjutor bishop, he also served as area bishop for congregations in western Canada. In the summer of 2022, Gifford announced that ANiC will elect a suffragan bishop to care for congregations in eastern Canada, succeeding Masters, in fall 2023.
References
External links
Biography on ANiC website
Living people
Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
1962 births
Canadian Anglican Church in North America priests
American emigrants to Canada
Clergy from Minneapolis
Canadian bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
Alumni of St John's College, Nottingham
Anglican realignment people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20of%20Science%20Centres%20and%20Museums | The European Network of Science Centres and Museums (ECSITE), is a not-for-profit organisation initiated in 1989.
In 1991, it was formed under Belgian jurisdiction to facilitate communication and cooperation among Science Centres and Museums in Europe.
ECSITE is linking science engagement professionals of over 400 institutions in 50 countries for projects, activities and to facilitates the exchange of ideas and best practice on current science issues.
While many countries have national networks consistent of science centres, international networks like Ecsite, provide through their annual network conference science centre personnel to gather, share expertise, and discuss key issues.
Sister networks focusing similarly on science engagement in different regional context and gather science engagement professionals are:
Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)
Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centres (ASPAC)
Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology in Latin America and The Caribbean (RedPOP)
North Africa and Middle East science centres (NAMES)
Southern African Association of Science and Technology Centres (SAASTEC)
Projects
Ecsite coordinates and participates in collaborative projects with its member organisations with the goal of influencing the development of science engagement. These projects can be funded by the European Commission or run as initiatives organised in partnership with other organisations. As of 2023, Ecsite is involved in 8 projects involving 23 of its member institutions.
See also
List of science centers
References
International scientific organizations
Museum associations and consortia
Organizations established in 1991
Science museums
Technology museums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Tiangco | Jeremiah Christian Castor Tiangco (born August 5, 1997) is a Filipino singer, dancer, host, vlogger, entrepreneur and director. He is the second grand champion of GMA Network's singing competition The Clash. Tiangco is currently a mainstay performer of the musical-comedy variety show All-Out Sundays.
Career
Tiangco started out as a contender in It's Showtime's Tawag ng Tanghalan, where he was a two-time defending champion in the second season. He also auditioned for the first season of The Clash.
On April 15, 2023, Tiangco held his first major concert entitled Dare to Be Different, where he also served as a co-director, in collaboration with Lee Junio Gasid.
Performances
Discography
Filmography
Concert
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Sparkle GMA Artist Center profile
1997 births
Living people
21st-century Filipino singers
Participants in Philippine reality television series
Reality show winners
GMA Network personalities
GMA Music artists
People from Imus
Singers from Cavite
21st-century Filipino male singers
Filipino television presenters
Filipino television variety show hosts
21st-century Filipino businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US%20Data%20Privacy%20Framework | The EU–US Data Privacy Framework is a forthcoming European Union–United States data transfer framework that was agreed to in 2022. Previous such regimes—the EU–US Privacy Shield (2016–2020) and the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles (2000–2015)—were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice due to concerns that personal data leaving EU borders is subject to sweeping US government surveillance. The Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework is intended to address these concerns.
Since the invalidation of the EU–US Privacy Shield in July 2020, companies wishing to transfer data between the EU and the US "have faced confusion, higher compliance costs, and challenges for EU–US business relationships".
In October 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement the framework. A ratification process by the European Commission is expected to take up to six months. The European Data Protection Board has approved the draft. Although not binding on the European Commission, on 11 May 2023 the European Parliament voted in favour of a resolution calling on the Commission to renegotiate the Framework and not to adopt an adequacy finding on the basis that "the EU–US Data Privacy Framework fails to create essential equivalence in the level of protection".
Data Protection Review Court
The Data Protection Review Court (DPRC) is a three-judge panel, established in Executive Order 14086, which will deal with appeals made to the decisions of the Civil Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as described by the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. The decisions made by the DPRC have binding authority.
See also
Data Protection Directive
Digital privacy
General Data Protection Regulation
Safe harbor (law)
References
External links
Questions & Answers: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework by the European Commission
Final Implementing Decision of EU-US Data Privacy Framework by the European Commission
Information privacy
International law
Privacy law
United States–European Union relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepset | deepset is an enterprise software vendor that provides developers with the tools to build production-ready natural language processing (NLP) systems. It was founded in 2018 in Berlin by Milos Rusic, Malte Pietsch, and Timo Möller.
deepset authored and maintains the open source software Haystack and its commercial SaaS offering deepset Cloud.
History
In June 2018, Milos Rusic, Malte Pietsch, and Timo Möller co-founded deepset in Berlin, Germany. In the same year, the company served first customers who wanted to implement NLP services by tailoring BERT language models to their domain.
In July 2019, the company released the initial version of the open source software FARM.
In November 2019, the company released the initial version of the open source software Haystack.
Throughout 2020 and 2021 deepset published several applied research papers at EMNLP, COLING and ACL, the leading conferences in the area of NLP. In 2020, the research contributions comprised German language models named GBERT and GELECTRA, and a question answering dataset addressing the COVID-19 pandemic called COVID-QA, which was created in collaboration with Intel and has been annotated by biomedical experts.
In 2021, the research contributions comprised German models and datasets for question answering and passage retrieval named GermanQuAD and GermanDPR, a semantic answer similarity metric, and an approach for multimodal retrieval of texts and tables to enable question answering on tabular data. Haystack contains implementations of all three contributions, enabling the use of the research through the open source framework.
In November 2021, the development of the FARM framework was discontinued and its main features were integrated into the Haystack framework.
In April 2022, the company announced its commercial SaaS offering deepset Cloud.
As of August 2023, the most popular finetuned language model created by deepset was downloaded more than 52 million times.
Products and Applications
Haystack is an open source Python framework for building custom applications with large language models. With its modular building blocks, software developers can implement pipelines to address various search tasks over large document collections, such as document retrieval, semantic search, text generation, question answering, or summarization. It integrates with Hugging Face Transformers, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic and others. The framework has an active community on Discord with more than 1.8k members and GitHub, where so far more than 200 people contributed to its continuous development and it also enjoys a vibrant community on Meetup.
Thousands of organizations use the framework, including Global 500 enterprises like Airbus, Intel, Netflix, Apple, or Infineon, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, BetterUp, Etalab, Sooth.ai, and Lego.
The deepset Cloud platform supports customers at building scalable NLP applications by covering the entire process of prototyping, exper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedran%20Mornar | Vedran Mornar (born 29 May 1959) is a Croatian engineer, university professor, former dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He formerly served as the Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the twelfth Government of the Republic of Croatia cabinet of Zoran Milanović from June 2014 to January 2016.
Early life, education and career
Vedran Mornar was born in Zagreb in 1959, where he finished elementary and high school. In 1981, he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and gained his PhD in 1990. Since the beginning of 1982, he has been working at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Computing. Since 2003 he is the full-time professor.
In the period from 2006 to 2010, he was the dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. He was also vice dean for teaching and students between 2002 and 2006 and as a head of the Department of Applied Computing from 2018 to 2022 year. He was member of the Council of the Technical Area of the Senate of the University of Zagreb and the Rector's College in a wider composition, and a member of the Committee for Informatization of the University of Zagreb.
Minister and memberships
Vedran Mornar was the Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the second part of twelfth Croatian Government, cabinet of Zoran Milanović from June 2014 to January 2016.
During his mandate, he initiated a complete curricular reform that significantly contributed to the implementation of the largest project of informatization and digitalization of education in the Republic of Croatia called "e-Schools: Complete informatization of school business processes and teaching processes in order to create digitally mature schools for 21st century".
He became a member of the National Council for Higher Education in 2007 year and between 2009 and 2013, he was its president. He is the president of the Croatian Academy of Engineering in current mandate 2022-26. He is the president of Croatian Society for Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO) He was the member of the Investment Committee of BICRO and Commission for the Implementation of the State Matura.
Awards, projects and publishing
He received several awards, among them the Golden Plaque "Josip Lončar" for significant improvement of teaching and scientific research in the field of computing, and for particularly successful management of the Faculty during his dean's mandate when Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing was one of the first faculties in Croatia to introduce Bologna Process; then the Memorial of the Homeland War in Croatia; and the 'Fran Bošnjaković Award of the University of Zagreb, which is awarded for outstanding results in scientific, teaching and professional work and the promotion of the scientific discipline and profession.
He has conceived, designed an |
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