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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Universe%3A%20The%20Movie%20%28soundtrack%29 | Steven Universe The Movie (Original Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2019 television film Steven Universe: The Movie, based on the Cartoon Network animated television series Steven Universe. The soundtrack was released on September 1, 2019 by WaterTower Music ahead of the film's television premiere, and features 17 songs performed by the film's cast, with songwriters including Chance the Rapper, James Fauntleroy, Gallant, Ted Leo, Mike Krol, and Grant Henry amongst several others, collaborating with director Rebecca Sugar. It also includes the original film score composed by Aivi & Surasshu, who worked on the series. The deluxe edition of the album (featuring demo versions of a few songs) was released on November 15, and both editions were also released on vinyl.
Singles
The first single from the film's soundtrack, "True Kinda Love", performed by Estelle and Zach Callison, was released on July 19, 2019. "Other Friends", another track from the film was released on October 18, 2019, including Spanish and Portuguese versions of the song, performed by Dorisvell Costa and Vic Brow, respectively.
Track listing
Track listing and credits adapted from Apple Music and Tidal.
Charts
Release history
References
2019 soundtrack albums
Steven Universe
Children's albums
Rock soundtracks
Pop soundtracks
Soul soundtracks
Funk soundtracks
Contemporary R&B soundtracks
Cartoon Network albums
WaterTower Music soundtracks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20grid%20security%20in%20the%20United%20States | Electrical grid security in the United States involves the physical and cybersecurity of the United States electrical grid.
From the 2000s through to the 2020s, the security of the U.S. electrical grid has come into question. Government officials have expressed concern with the possibility of violent extremists and agents of foreign states attacking the nation's electrical grid. Cybersecurity is also an issue for electric grid security in the United States with financially motivated crimes being more common than terrorist ones.
Overview
In the 2010s and 2020s, attacks to the United States electrical grid have become more frequent, with 2022 being the year with the most attacks. Since 2014, vandalism and confirmed or suspected physical attacks on electrical grid infrastructure have also been the second-largest cause of electrical disturbance events.
In 2012, the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a declassified report prepared in 2007 for the Department of Homeland Security that highlighted the vulnerability of the national electric grid from damage to high voltage transformers.
In October 2022, the FBI published a report that described an increase in reported threats to critical infrastructure from people who espouse "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideology", with an aim of creating civil disorder and inspiring further violence.
In a report concerning extremist threats, the Department of Homeland Security made note of a Telegram document that gave instructions for low-tech sabotage, including attacks on electrical power stations with rifles. The document circulated among online white nationalist communities, which advocate the toppling of the U.S. government.
The threat of potential electrical grid cyberattacks by foreign states such as Russia has also been area of concern for electrical grid security.
Incidents
1975
California
In March and April of 1975, a "closely guarded" Pacific Gas and Electric substation was bombed twice in two separate incidents, knocking out power to more than 22,000 customers. The New World Liberation Front (NWLF) took credit for these attacks.
Washington
On 31 December 1975, an electrical substation in Seattle, Washington was bombed by the George Jackson Brigade.
2013
Arkansas
Multiple attacks on electrical infrastructure were carried out by Jason Woodring in Central Arkansas between August and October 2013. Woodring attacked power lines and an electrical tower near Cabot, a switching station in Scott, and power lines and poles in Jacksonville.
Metcalf, California
2016
Utah
In 2016 a Utah man attacked a substation with a rifle. He was convicted and sentenced to federal prison. Court documents indicated that he had planned to attack other stations as well.
2022
Jones County, NC
On November 11, 2022, an electrical distribution substation belonging to Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative in North Carolina was damage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Walters%20%28bishop%29 | Trevor Walters is a British-born Canadian bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. From 2009 to 2021, he was suffragan bishop with responsibility for western Canada in the Anglican Network in Canada. As a priest in the Diocese of New Westminster in the early 2000s, Walters played a major role in the Anglican realignment in Canada.
Early life, education and family
Walters was born in London and raised in a Baptist church. He studied at the University of London and taught high school in Bermondsey before pursuing a call to ordained ministry. Walters joined the Barnabas Fellowship, a charismatic community, and studied for his divinity degree at Salisbury and Wells Theological College. Walters married Julie and they had three children.
He was ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Salisbury in 1978 and sent to St. Stephen's Anglican Church in Calgary to serve his curacy there. He later served as chaplain at the University of Calgary and as executive director of the Entheos Retreat and Conference Centre in Calgary, before receiving a call as rector of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Walters also received a D.Min. during his time in Alberta.
Anglican realignment
As a priest in Abbotsford, Walters became involved in theological and ecclesiastical controversies in the Diocese of New Westminster. In 1999, to celebrate St. Matthew's upcoming 2000 centennial, Walters invited South East Asia Archbishop Moses Tay to preach and celebrate at the church. However, New Westminster Bishop Michael Ingham refused to grant him permission to officiate in the diocese. Ingham cited said he did not “want to see any episcopal ministry exercised here which might disturb my efforts to create a climate of dialogue and mutual listening among members of the diocese" and cited concerns about what he called Tay's “aggressively anti-homosexual stance” and comments Tay had made a decade prior during a visit to British Columbia about totem poles in Stanley Park representing "evil spirits" that needed to be exorcised. Walters said at the time that the decision had brought "great sadness and frustration."
In 2002, after the New Westminster synod controversially approved the blessing of same-sex unions, Walters joined the St. Matthew's delegates, along with delegates from seven other churches, in walking out of synod in objection. Walters and the other dissenting leaders formed a group called the Anglican Communion in New Westminster (ACiNW) and declared impaired communion with Ingham.
The synod decision became a major flashpoint in the Anglican realignment. Coming four years after the 1998 Lambeth Conference passed Resolution 1.10 (stating that it "cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same-sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions") and Resolution 3.6 (asking the Primates Meeting to "include among its responsibilities . . . intervention in cases of exceptional emergency which are incapable of internal reso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsey%20Davis | Linsey Davis is an American broadcast journalist at ABC News, who currently anchors the Sunday edition of World News Tonight the network’s weekday prime-time streaming program, ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, and she is also a substitute anchor for Good Morning America, the weekday and Saturday edition of ABC World News Tonight.
Early life
Davis graduated from the Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, New Jersey in 1995; she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. She has a master’s degree in communication from New York University.
Career
Davis has been a longtime correspondent for the network, censoring for Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight, She launched the flagship streaming broadcast on February 10, 2020. The following year, it was announced that Davis would take over anchor responsibilities for the Sunday edition of World News Tonight, with Whit Johnson handling Saturday duties, following the departure of network anchor Tom Llamas to NBC News. In 2022, Adweek reported that Davis was adding radio to her responsibilities, saying she would "deliver the top stories in ABC News Radio’s national 5 p.m. ET newscast Monday to Thursday each week.” Adweek noted, Davis took on a role once held by Peter Jennings and Charles Gibson.
In addition to her anchoring roles on broadcast television, streaming, and radio, Variety states that “Since 2019... Davis has appeared alongside George Stephanopoulos and David Muir to help anchor presidential debates, election coverage and other critical news events.”
Davis is also the author of four children’s books, including How High Is Heaven? (2022).
References
Living people
African-American journalists
American journalists
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%20Reels | Facebook Reels or Reels on Facebook is a short-form video-sharing platform complete with music, audio and artificial effects, offered by Facebook, an online social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Similar to Facebook's main service, the platform hosts user-generated content, but it only allows for pieces to be 60 seconds long and have a 9:16 aspect ratio.
History
In March 2021, Facebook started experimenting with showing vertical videos up to 30 seconds for US and India users. Facebook Reels was originally released in United States in September 2021, following India's TikTok ban. Later on Facebook Reels was globally released in February 2022, after releases in 150 countries.
Bonus
Facebook launched the Reels Play Bonus program as "Challenges" program on Facebook in October 2021 as a way to reward outstanding Reels creators. Facebook stated that there will be "a $1B bonus dispersed over the course of 2021–2022" and described it as a method to "monetize and compensate creators for their content." The Reels Play Bonus program initially was the creators of United States, Canada and Mexico. Later Facebook expanded their Reels Play Bonus program to more countries for select group of people and the program is invite-only.
Requirements
According to Meta, Facebook has introduced a new way to let creators participating in the Reels Play Bonus program, earn up to $4,000 per month. Meta clarifies:
Each month, creators can take part in a number of consecutive, cumulative challenges. Earn $20 once each of your five reels has received 100 plays.
A creator can unlock a new challenge once they complete the current one. As a result, after finishing the previous example, they would receive a new one that read: Receive $100 when 20 of your Reels accumulate 500 plays each.
At the beginning of each 30-day bonus period, Challenge progress will be reset to #1.
Monetization
Facebook began testing an ad monetization platform for Reels content in February 2022, giving users another way to make money off of their work. Facebook said that Reels monetization would be implemented gradually. By the middle of March, practically all the countries that currently have an in-stream ads monetization program will be able to access overlay advertisements on Facebook Reels. The overlay ads will be available in two formats that are Banner ads and Sticker ads.
See also
Facebook Watch
References
External links
Facebook Reels creator page
Facebook
Internet properties established in 2021
2021 in Internet culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Okocha | Popularly known as Igwe 2Pac, Charles Okocha is a Nigerian actor known for playing bad boy roles. Charles Okocha was one of the mentors for 'Idea Challenge, initiated by Nigeria Billionaires Network'. He won the Vskit Voice Competition in 2019.
Personal life
In 2019, He was allegedly shot in Asaba by a policeman and underwent emergency surgery in the United States as a result.
Controversy
A video clip circulating online got his fans angry, The actor was alleged accused of destroying his friend's car while dragging his daughter to a car. Charles Okocha cleared the air and confirmed the clip was a scene in a movie.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimiko%20Hirata | Kimiko Hirata (平田 仁子, Hirata Kimiko, born 1970) is a Japanese climate activist. As a founder of the Kiko Network, a non-governmental organization, she has campaigned for emissions reductions for more than 20 years. As of December 2022, her grassroots work has led to the cancellation of 17 planned coal-power plants. Hirata also led landmark coal divestment campaigns against Mizuho Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ. She currently serves as executive director for the Tokyo-based think tank, Climate Integrate, which focuses on accelerating decarbonization.
In 2021, Hirata became the first Japanese woman to be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, nicknamed the "Green Nobel". In 2022, she was named to the BBC 100 list of influential women. She holds a PhD in social sciences from Waseda University, and is the author of Climate Change and Politics (2019) in Japanese, and co-author of many books and articles.
Education and early career
Hirata was born in southern Kumamoto prefecture, and studied education at university. She first became aware of the magnitude of climate change during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, which was covered widely in the Japanese media, and started reading books including Earth in the Balance by Al Gore. She became interested in international activism while taking a course taught by Masako Hoshino, an activist who had helped to launch one of Japan's first NGOs.
After graduation, she went to work at a publisher of academic texts. She continued reading about environmental issues and studied English. In 1996, she left her job and moved to the United States for a one-year internship with the Climate Institute. During her year in the US, she also volunteered at the National Water Foundation and for a Smithsonian program focusing on biodiversity, and took a course on NGO management.
She earned a PhD at the Waseda University Graduate School of Social Sciences in 1999. In 2021, she was a visiting associate professor at the Chiba University of Commerce.
Career as activist
In 1997, she returned to Japan to campaign at COP 3, where the Kyoto Protocol was adopted. She founded Kiko Network, an NGO focused on halting climate change, in 1998. Kiko Network emerged as one of the few organizations actively monitoring Japan's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.
Fight against coal power
Following the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the Japanese government shifted policy to allow new coal power plants to be built. Until then, nuclear reactors had generated roughly 30 percent of Japan's electricity, but were shut down by the government in the wake of the disaster. The Japanese public also grew deeply distrustful of nuclear energy. To address the ensuing energy crisis, the government solicited bids for additional coal-fired plants to be built, and by 2015, plans were in place for 50 new plants. Japan thus became the only G7 country planning new coal-fired power stations at the time.
Hirata realiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%20Together | Be Together may refer to:
"Be Together" (TM Network song), 1987; popularized by Ami Suzuki, 1999
"Be Together" (Major Lazer song), 2015
Be Together (film), 2015
Be Together, a 2022 album by BtoB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Sheffield%20gas%20supply%20outage | The city of Sheffield, England was impacted by a major failure of the local natural gas supply network in December 2022, resulting in a loss of central heating and gas stove availability to more than 3,000 properties in the northwestern suburbs of the city. The outage, which has predominantly affected the Hillsborough, Malin Bridge and Stannington districts, was declared a major incident by Sheffield City Council; some properties were without a gas supply for almost two weeks.
The gas supply outage affected the Cadent Gas network, and was caused by a burst water main on the Yorkshire Water network which resulted in more than 2 million litres of water flooding into the gas supply network. Yorkshire Water confirmed that the breach to the water main had been resolved by 6 December. In addition to the widespread gas supply outage, numerous properties in the affected areas have also suffered from outages to their water and electricity supplies as knock-on effects.
Heavy rainfall initially hampered recovery work, followed by cold temperatures and snowfall. In response to the widespread lack of heating availability and increasingly cold temperatures, dropping as low as on 9 December, a major incident was declared by local authorities. The Red Cross distributed aid, including food, drinks and blankets, to residents in the affected area.
Timeline
During the evening of 2 December, a water main on Bankfield Lane at the western end of Stannington burst, resulting in flooding in the local area. The affected water main was an asbestos-cement mainline pipe installed in 1970. More than 2 million litres of water, roughly equivalent to three Olympic-sized swimming pools, entered the gas mains in this area and subsequently flowed through pipes down hillsides throughout the Stannington and Hillsborough areas.
Property damage was reported in dozens of homes across the affected area, including on High Matlock Road, as water overflowed out of gas meters and gas stoves inside homes; water also overflowed out of manhole covers and the bases of street lights in outdoor areas. Emergency services attended the incident from around midnight, going from door to door to wake residents. Cadent Gas, who operate the natural gas network in the area, described the incident as "unpredecented" and something which they had never had to deal with before.
By 3 December more than 1,000 properties were without a gas supply; in addition, many properties in the immediate area of the burst water main also suffered from reduced water supplies, or no water at all, for several days. Engineers from Cadent Gas initially had to go from door to door and turn off the gas supply at each individual affected property, before engineers could commence work to drain and repair the gas network; more than 100 engineers were drafted in to work 24 hours a day to resolve the outage, later rising to more than 200 as the incident progressed.
The number of properties affected by the gas supply outage rose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PoC%20radio | A PoC radio (short for push to talk over cellular radio), also known as PTToC radio, is an instant communication device that is based on the cellular network. It is a radio device that incorporates push-to-talk technology into a cellular radio handset. It allows users to communicate with one or more receivers instantly, in a half-duplex mode.
Although a PoC radio is a walkie-talkie-like device, there are substantial differences between them. Compared to the latter, the former has a wider range of channels, covers a wider area, and does not require a license to transmit. In addition, a PoC radio supports advanced functions, such as, video calls, multimedia messages, GPS location tracking, and emergency notifications.
PoC radios are widely used in the industries of private security, logistics, hospitality, and rescue. The representative manufacturers of such equipments include Hytera and ToooAir.
History
The concept of PoC was introduced by U.S. telecommunications company Nextel in 1987. The first commercial use of PoC radios was also started by the company in 2002.
In June 2005, the Open Mobile Alliance rolled out an approved standard called "PoC 1.0". In April 2020, Hytera presented a PoC radio named PNC550, equipped with a 5-inch touchscreen that supports full operation using gloves.
References
American inventions
Radio communications
Mobile telecommunications user equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Systems%20%28American%20company%29 | Intelligent Systems Corporation (ISC) was an American technology company that sold portable computers, video terminals, expansion cards, and other peripherals through a variety of manufacturing subsidiaries. Founded in 1973, the company restructured as a master limited partnership in 1987, becoming Intelligent Systems Master Limited Partnership.
Notable subsidiaries included Datavue Corporation, which manufactured portable computers; Quadram Corporation, which manufactured expansion cards, mostly for the IBM PC, including memory and video cards (Quadram Quadcolor I & II); Princeton Graphics Systems, a maker of computer monitors; Intecolor Corporation, which took over Intelligent Systems's terminal manufacturing operations; and more.
In the 1990s, Intelligent Systems pivoted into providing venture capital for start-up technology firms, changing its name back to Intelligent Systems Corporation. In 2021, the company changed its name to CoreCard Corporation, following another pivot to fintech.
History
Intecolor and Compucolor (1973–1980)
Intelligent Systems Corporation was founded in 1973 by Terry Hughey and Charles Muench of Norcross, Georgia. Muench was an engineer who founded Integrated Systems, a company that manufactured remote alarm systems and control equipment for the electric power industry; Muench hired Hughey to be director of research and development at the company. After several profitable years, in 1972 Muench sold the company to the Esterline Corporation and took a brief sabbatical. In 1973, the two decided to found Intelligent Systems as their break into the video terminal industry, which had seen soaring profits in the early 1970s as time-shared mainframe computers became more accessible to businesses who needed number-crunching power. After three years of development, in February 1976 the company introduced the Intecolor 8001, a kit for a smart terminal powered by an Intel 8080 microprocessor and featuring 4 MB of RAM, driving the display capable of rendering 80 columns by 25 rows of text. In December 1976, the company sold the Compucolor 8001, an expanded kit of the Intecolor 8001 that turned it into a full-fledged microcomputer, adding 8 KB of RAM, a ROM with Microsoft BASIC, and a data tape reader that repurposed 8-track tapes commonly reserved for music. It was the first microcomputer kit with an integrated keyboard and monitor capable of color graphics output.
In October 1976, Muench laid off Hughey with severance so that the latter could pursue the high-end graphics market under his start-up, Chromatics Inc. Meanwhile Muench was busy leading a team behind a low-cost successor to the Compucolor 8001. Released as the CompuColor II in 1978, this incarnation of the computer replaced the wear-prone 8-track tapes with floppy diskettes, shrunk the monitor down to a 13-inch-diagonal unit, and completely eliminated the terminal-centric features. While he was able to drive to cost down to a certain point, for a unit with an adequa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201995%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1995, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Éxitos internacionales en México" ("International Hits in Mexico"), which listed the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
In September, the magazine began publishing three new mini-charts: "Éxitos gruperos", "Éxitos rancheros" and "Tropicales", which respectively listed the top three most popular Grupera, Ranchera and Tropical songs in Mexico.
Chart history
Note: Blank spaces indicate that the number-one songs for those dates have not been determined yet, as the Notitas Musicales print issues for those dates have not been posted online thus far.
See also
1995 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1995 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectoid%20robot | An insectoid robot is a, usually small, robot featuring some insect-like features. These can include the methods of locomotion (including flying), methods of navigation, and artificial intelligence based on insect models. Many of the problems faced by miniature robot designers have been solved by insect evolution. Researchers naturally look to insects for inspiration and solutions.
Locomotion
Walking
Robot locomotion has frequently been inspired by insect physiology. These robots typically take the form of a hexapod. Research has become multidisciplinary, involving not only robotics engineers, but also biologists, especially neurobiologists. Engineers gain from thisrelationship by acquiring a better understanding of the functioning of the insects they have used to model their robots. Biologists in turn, gain a platform on which they can test their theories of insect motor control.
Building a robot that can walk on a flat surface in the laboratory is a fairly straightforward task. A hexapod robot with mechanically linked simple pegs for legs will achieve this task. Then again, a wheeled robot might be even simpler, but may be entirely unable to solve the much more difficult problem of crossing rough terrain with unpredictable obstacles. For this, articulated joints in legs like a real insect, with sensor-motor control like the neurology of a real insect are needed. A simple rhythmic cycle of the legs will not do. The legs and joints must be controlled individually and in combination according to information received from limb position and load sensors.
The gait of insects changes with desired speed. Research has shown that these gait patterns can still be generated locally in many insects even when completely disconnected from the central nervous system. In some insects, for instance the cockroach, the gait changes in a running insect partly because the nervous system of the insect cannot respond rapidly enough. A running cockcroach changes its gait to pushing with all three legs on one side together. The characteristic side-to-side motion of the animal is at the biomechanical resonant frequency set by the insect's weight and spring stiffness of the combined legs. This mode needs no input from an external controller and it is both efficient and stable. Researchers recognise the advantages of features of real insects, but as of 2004, "they have only rarely come together in a robot..."
Flying
For a very small aircraft, fixed-wing flight becomes impractical due to rapidly decreasing lift-to-drag ratio with size. Insect flight, on the other hand, is always ornithopteric which suggests an approach for insectoid robots. Ma et al. for instance, developed a tethered robot fly with flapping wings constructed of piezoelectric material. Ma chose to model the robot on the fly because, according to their paper, it is the most agile creature alive, and therefore the most difficult to emulate as a robot.
Artificial intelligence
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RXNT | RXNT (originally Networking Technology, Inc.) is an American privately held healthcare software technology company. The company provides ambulatory practices, hospitals, medical billers, and other healthcare professionals with digital health tools. The company was created in 1999, as a standalone e-prescribing system.
History
Founded in 1999 in Maryland by Randy Boldyga (as Networking Technology Inc.), RXNT initially operated out of a basement to "keep our overhead expenses low" before moving to its first headquarters in 2006. The company has been headquartered in Annapolis, MD since its incorporation on May 27, 1999 and in October 2000, RXNT began beta testing its flagship electronic prescription system with pharmacies and prescribers in the surrounding area.
In December 2003, RXNT received $150,000 in funding from the Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation's "Arundel Business Loan Fund" to expand the business.
In 2004, RXNT acquired the user base and technology of Script-Fast Inc, a prescription processing system located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
In November 2007, RXNT was nominated for and received the Anne Arundel Tech Council's "Innovator Award" at the annual TechAwards.
In 2009, RXNT was the first product certified in the "CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive" program for stand-alone electronic prescribing (ePrescribing), and in 2014, RXNT launched the first EPCS-Certified E-Prescribing mobile application for Android devices. In 2017, RXNT EHR 7.2 achieved the 2015 Edition certification from the Drummond Group, a testing and compliance organization for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Authorized Certification Body.
Software
RXNT develops, supports, and sells proprietary healthcare software applications with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for healthcare professionals and organizations, including Electronic Health Records, Practice management, Patient Scheduling, Medical Billing, Electronic Prescribing, medical Revenue cycle management, and Patient portal.
The e-prescribing system provides information about allergies and potential drug interactions, and medication history.
Partnerships
RXNT partnered with RxHub LLC in 2002, one of the first electronic Health information exchanges (HIE) in the United States. When Surescripts, operator of the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, formed the Prescriber Vendor Advisory Council in 2007, COO Mark Wiggins was one of ten executives on the advisory council. After RxHub merged with Surescripts in 2008, RXNT was granted Surescripts Platinum Solution Provider status alongside NextGen EHR.
In February 2003, RXNT partnered with Medysis to provide pharmacies with application service provider (ASP) access to electronic prescriptions.
OhioHealth chose RXNT to provide electronic prescription services for its 2,300 member physicians in 2007.
In 2008, RXNT partnered with Medco to offer free e-prescribing training and software during |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogivar | Ogivar Technologies Inc. was a Canadian computer company founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1982 and 1992. Active for roughly a decade, the company primarily manufactured IBM PC compatibles before having the majority of its assets bought out by Tandem International, a electrochemical company, following bankruptcy proceedings. It was once one of Canada's top manufacturers of personal computers.
History
Ogivar Technologies was founded in late 1982 by five business partners with $25,000 in equity and a credit line provided by a Montreal branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. One of the founders, Jaime Benchimol, was 23 when the company started; by 1985 he was the company's president. Patrick Gauthier, 29 when the company started, had the role of financial officer by 1985, and Erick Antoine, at 39, was by that year the head of engineering for the company's printed-circuit board manufacturing operations. By January 1985, the company had fourteen employees. The company filed its initial public offering in 1986, reaching a share price of $3.25 on opening day, eventually reaching $7 per share later in the year.
The company's first product was a clone of the IBM PC XT, called the Panama XT. It was manufactured in Ogivar's 2,500-square-foot facility in Saint-Laurent, located along the Trans-Canada Highway. Between December 1983 and January 1985, the company sold 500 units, generating $1.2 million in sales. It received accolades in a report prepared by the Government of Quebec, who rated it above the IBM XT on which the computer was based. By the end of fiscal year 1985, the company posted $7.7 million in sales, and by fiscal year 1986's end, that figure had grown to $22 million. Ogivar by that point employed 78 people and had introduced a clone of the IBM PC/AT, called the Panama 286 X, a revised version of the Panama XT called the Panama Professional, and the i386-based Panama 386. With the latter, Ogivar was one of the first two computer manufacturers in Canada to release a 32-bit PC clone.
In April 1988, Ogivar opened up a subsidiary in the United States to market its products there. Following an embargo on Toshiba-produced laptops for purchase within the federal government of the United States effective between 1988 and 1991, Ogivar announced their intent to "fill the void" created by the ban by selling its own laptops to American federal institutions. Ogivar also hoped to capture 10 percent of Toshiba's annual unit sales of 150,000 laptops that they achieved in 1987. In 1988 they released the Ogivar 286, a clone of the Toshiba T3100.
In March 1990, the company moved its headquarters from Montreal to Vancouver, British Columbia, in an attempt to spread brand recognition among western Canadians. The company retained its old Quebec headquarters as a regional office.
Ogivar was hit hard in 1991, losing $4.4 million in the first nine months and having its stock price plummet to $0.40 by July 1991. Plans to open a manufacturing plant in Moscow—started in Feb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBridge | mBridge ( Multiple CBDC Bridge) is a multi-CBDC platform developed to support real-time, peer-to-peer, cross-border payments and foreign exchange transactions using CBDCs. Based on a blockchain called the mBridge Ledger, the platform is designed to ensure compliance with jurisdiction-specific policy and legal requirements, regulations, and governance needs.
Currently five entities are jointly developing mBridge. They include the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the Bank of Thailand (BoT), the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE), the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China (PBC DCI), and the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre (BISIH Hong Kong Centre).
Development
A pilot involving real corporate transactions was conducted on the platform among participating central banks, selected commercial banks, and their customers in four jurisdictions. The project focused on developing hypothetical use cases in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) as a way to demonstrate the technology and operational improvements that mBridge can offer.
In September 2021, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), in collaboration with Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and the UAE, published a report regarding the second phase of the mBridge project, aiming to establish a system involving multiple CBDCs to enable faster, more cost-effective, and efficient methods for conducting cross-border transfers and foreign exchange operations.
The HKMA expressed the intent to collaboratively launch a minimum viable product in 2024, with the effort built on the G20's focus on exploring new technologies to provide more cost-effective and secure real-time cross-border payments and settlements.
Related projects
Alongside mBridge, there are also other ongoing projects aiming to improve cross-border transactions with CBDCs.
Dunbar
On 22 March 2022, the BIS Innovation Hub, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank Negara Malaysia, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the South African Reserve Bank announced the completion of prototypes for a shared Dunbar platform, enabling international settlements using multiple CBDCs.
Cedar x Ubin+
The Cedar x Ubin+ project, the flagship venture of the New York Innovation Center (NYIC) in collaboration with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, is a multi-phase technical research initiative that evaluates the potential applications of wholesale CBDCs, built with distributed ledger technology to enhance the efficiency and transparency of cross-border payments.
Mariana
In October 2023, the Bank for International Settlements, in partnership with the central banks of France, Singapore, and Switzerland, confirmed the successful completion of the Mariana project, which explored cross-border trading and settlement of wholesale CBDCs among financial institutions while integrating decentralized finance technology on a public blockchain.
Icebreaker
In March 2023, the Bank for International Settlements, in collaboration with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic%20Engineering | Parasitic Engineering, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Howard Fullmer and Gene Nardi in 1974. Named as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a comment by MITS co-founder Ed Roberts, Parasitic's first products were hardware upgrade kits to MITS' Altair 8800 microcomputer kit, improving the latter's power supply rating and susceptibility to noise. The company later released their own microcomputer based on the same bus as the Altair, the S-100, but it was less popular than the company's hardware-improvement kits. By 1979, the company had pivoted to providing upgrades to Tandy's TRS-80. Parasitic went defunct in 1983.
Foundation (1976–1977)
Howard Fullmer (born 1947) and Gene Nardi (born 1948) founded Parasitic Engineering in 1974. The two business partners had met at the University of California, Berkeley, where they both worked in the university's department of psychology as computer consultants. The company was originally based out of the basement of Fullmer's Oakland, California, house. The company acted as a side job for the founders for the first two years of existence. When the company's profits increased significantly in 1976, the two quit their day jobs and focused on Parasitic as a full-time job. In 1977, Parasitic employed nine people and took in $250,000 in gross profit.
Parasitic's name, conceived later in 1976, was a swipe at MITS co-founder Ed Roberts, who, in a 1975 article of his corporate newsletter Computer Notes, derided third-party hardware vendors of his microcomputer products as "parasite companies". Roberts was most likely primarily alluding to Processor Technology, a company whose first product was a 4-KB static RAM board plug-compatible with MITS' influential Altair 8800 kit microcomputer. MITS' response to Processor Technology's board was a dynamic RAM board, outfit with an identical amount of memory as well as including on ROM Microsoft's BASIC, a popular high-level programming environment which MITS had the rights to sell. The latter was a co-marketing stunt attempting to make the board more lucrative, as MITS had been selling standalone copies of BASIC for over three times the cost. However, MITS' dynamic RAM board was fraught with technical issues, and many hobbyists had been making use of pirated copies of Microsoft BASIC anyway. The dynamic RAM board was a flop for MITS and barely made a dent in Processor Technology's profits. Fulmer originally envisioned the friendlier-sounding name Symbiotic Engineering but chose against it, wanting to avoid ties to the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical left-wing terrorist group active at the time of the company's conception.
Parasitic Engineering's first product was a clock controller board for the Altair 8800, released in 1976. Fulmer designed it as a "permanent fix-kit" for the computer, alleviating issues on the Altair's clock oscillator caused by noise, temperature variations, and various other fluctuations. In 1977, Parasitic introduced its second product, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest%20Scientific | Midwest Scientific Instruments, Inc. (MSI), often shortened to Midwest Scientific, was an American computer company founded in Olathe, Kansas, in the early 1970s. Charles C. Childress, a doctorate of biochemistry, founded the company as a way to market his data acquisition and processing interfaces based on programmable calculators for medical, scientific, and industrial uses. After an after-market floppy drive system for the SWTPC 6800 proved a hot-seller for Midwest in 1976, the company began products for general-purpose computers like the SWTPC. In 1977, they released their own microcomputer, the MSI 6800—a clone of the SWTPC 6800. Their sales tripled that year and prompted expansion in the Kansas City area. It survived into the mid-1980s before going defunct and having its remaining assets auctioned off.
Foundation (1968–1976)
Charles C. Childress (born 1940 in Webb City, Missouri) founded Midwest Scientific in 1970 or 1971 and formally incorporated it in downtown Olathe, Kansas, in 1972. Before founding Midwest Scientific, Childress worked as a technical director at Upsher Laboratories, a medical laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri. While working for Upsher he studied for his doctorate in biochemistry at Johns Hopkins University, after earning his Master of Science at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg, and before that earning his Bachelor of Science at the University of Great Falls while also serving in the U.S. Air Force. He earned his PhD in 1969.
Midwest Scientific's first product was the Model 750 Laboratory Interface, a data acquisition and processing interface for Wang Laboratories' 700 series of programmable calculators, introduced in 1972. The Model 750 processed input from blood analyzers, hematology analyzers, scintillation counters, and spectrophotometers. A prototype of the Model 750 was built between 1968 and 1969 and demoed to Wang Laboratories. Wang asked Childress to write a white paper describing the interface's functionality; following publication of this paper, Childress received a flurry of interest by way of Wang. Childress decided to leave Upsher to start up Midwest Scientific to fill the apparent gap in data processing within medical laboratories, which he himself had witnessed as director at Upsher, tabulation taking many hours and prone to errors even with calculators. Within a year, Midwest Scientific had sold nearly twenty-five Model 750s. (Depending on configuration, the systems cost between $8,000 to $50,000.) In the beginning of 1973, the company began moving into process control, designing another programmable calculator–based control system for a local cement plant that printed instructions to the plant operators after being fed material data.
Microcomputers and growth (1976–1981)
The company grew to having ten employees, including Childress, on its payroll in 1976. By this point he still had crucial roles at all phases of production—from designing the products to servicing equipment. By the mid-1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20railway%20stations%20in%20Great%20Britain%20%282020%E2%80%9321%29 | This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 financial year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom with significantly reduced levels of mobility compared with the previous year. Extended periods of significantly reduced commuting and long distance travel caused many major stations to drop in the ranking. During 2020–21 there were 388 million passenger journeys on the network, compared to 1,739 million in 2019–20. Stratford Regional in London was the busiest station during the year, replacing London Waterloo which had been top of the ranking for 16 years.
Methodology
The figures are collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2020–21. The data count entries and exits at any station. Note that the data covers mainland Great Britain and surrounding small islands (such as the Isle of Wight), not the United Kingdom, and so exclude tickets within Northern Ireland and Eurostar. There are various further limits to the data due to the variety of ticketing options available on rail services within the UK; these are outlined in full in the report on the data. Only tickets sold for National Rail services are included; some stations may also be served by underground metro or urban light rail networks. Stations serving solely the London Underground, light rail, special tours or heritage railways are therefore excluded. Data for 2020–21 was published on 25 November 2021.
All stations
Only stations with annual entries and exits above 2 million passengers are shown. There were 5 stations with more than 10 million entries and exits, compared to 43 stations the previous year.
Below this, station usage was as follows, per 2020-21 ridership data:
90 had reported between 1–2 million passengers
171 had reported between 500,001–1 million passengers
333 had reported between 200,001–500,000 passengers
298 had reported between 100,001–200,000 passengers
360 had reported between 50,001–100,000 passengers
713 had reported between 10,001–50,000 passengers
371 had reported between 1,001–10,000 passengers
120 had reported between 101–1,000 passengers
59 stations reported fewer than 100 passengers.
London terminal
This is a list of the busiest stations in the "London terminals" station group.
Other London stations
This is a list of the 20 busiest stations in Greater London, excluding those listed above under the London termini.
Stations outside London
This is a list of the 20 busiest stations in Great Britain outside London.
See also
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain for 2021–22 data
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2019–20)
List of busiest London Underground stations (2020)
List of busiest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20railway%20stations%20in%20Great%20Britain%20%282019%E2%80%9320%29 | This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 financial year. The dataset for the year was the last to show typical patterns of mobility prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with many major stations falling down the ranking the following year. During 2019–20 there were 1,739 million passenger journeys on the network. London Waterloo was the busiest station during the year, marking 16 years at the top of the ranking.
Methodology
The figures are collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail flows between stations throughout Great Britain in the financial year of 2019–20. The data count entries and exits at any station. Only tickets sold for National Rail services are included. As such, London Underground, special tours, local light rail and heritage railway tickets are excluded. Note that the data covers mainland Great Britain and surrounding small islands (such as the Isle of Wight), not the United Kingdom, and so exclude tickets within Northern Ireland and Eurostar. There are various further limits to the data due to the variety of ticketing options available on rail services within the UK; these are outlined in full in the report on the data. Data for 2019–20 was published on 1 December 2020.
All stations
Only stations with annual entries and exits above 10 million passengers are shown.
See also
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain (2020–21)
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain for 2021–22 data
List of busiest London Underground stations
List of busiest railway stations in Europe
List of busiest railway stations in North America
List of busiest railway stations in West Yorkshire
Notes
References
External links
Station usage - Main page
Busiest railway stations in Great Britain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Solo | The Solo was a line of laptop computers sold by Gateway, Inc. (originally Gateway 2000), from 1995 to 2003. All models in the range were equipped with Intel x86 processors and came preinstalled with the Windows operating system.
History
Gateway unveiled the Solo line of laptops on August 15, 1995, shortly before Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system became generally available for sale on August 24, 1995. Initial entries in the Solo lineup were manufactured on an OEM basis by the Japanese company Sanyo. The Solo was the first laptop to have a Windows key and a Menu key, which respectively activate the Start menu and context menus in Windows (the Start menu first appeared in Windows 95). Gateway worked closely with Microsoft on development of the Solo to make it fully optimized with Windows 95, which was a nearly top-down redesign of Microsoft's previous Windows 3.1x operating systems. The Solo replaced Gateway's earlier ColorBook and Liberty line of laptops and were the first of the company's laptops to feature Intel's x86-based Pentium processor, for which Windows 95 was optimized during its development.
The Solo was released to retailers and corporate resellers in September 1995. The first two models—the V75 and the S90—came with Pentium processors clocked at 75 MHz and 90 MHz respectively. Both Solos were multimedia-oriented and came with a Sound Blaster–compatible sound chip and removable CD-ROM drives bays as standard; Gateway later made the CD-ROM drives an optional add-on to reduce cost at the entry level. The company marketed the Solo at the cost-conscious businessperson and positioned it as a budget version of the more upscale IBM ThinkPad and Toshiba Satellite lines of laptops.
Later entries in the Solo line featured the Pentium II, Pentium IIIs, and various P6-based Celerons. The Solo line was retired in late 2002, Gateway still selling refurbished units on their website until 2003.
References
Computer-related introductions in 1995
Solo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar%20Data%20Products | Quasar Data Products Inc. (QDP), later QDP Computer Systems Inc., was an American computer company based in 1979 in North Olmsted, Ohio, United States. The company was founded by Brian A. Catalucci and Dave L. Kelley, the former a trained engineer who had previously worked as an airline pilot.
From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Quasar sold various after-market expansions for S-100-based computers. They also sold their own line of computers, called the QDP series, beginning in 1980. These QDP computers were popular among the U.S. Navy for their reliability, and Quasar tapped into this military demand by making further entries in the series field-hardened. The company pivoted to manufacturing high-spec graphics cards for the IBM PC before going defunct in 1989.
Foundation (1978–1982)
Quasar Data Products was founded in 1978 or 1979 by Brian A. Catalucci and Dave L. Kelley in North Olmsted, Ohio. Prior to founding the company, Catalucci was a pilot for United Airlines and had graduated from Kent State University with a degree in aeronautical engineering.
The company's first product was the QDP-100, a Z80-based CP/M desktop computer with a 4-MHz-clocked microprocessor and 64 KB of RAM stock. The computer was based on the S-100 bus introduced with the Altair 8800 and comes shipped with a floppy card that controls two 8-inch floppy disk drives. A monochrome dumb terminal was included in order to interface with the computer; it connected via one of the two serial ports (the computer also has two parallel peripheral ports). The QDP-100 also shipped with a PROM programmer. It retailed in 1980 for $4,795. The QDP-100 proved quite popular with the U.S. Navy for its reliability, with four system units aboard the USS Lexington in 1983 and one unit aboard the USS Stump, among others. While Quasar intended the computer as a general-purpose personal computer, the computer's popularity among the Navy gave the company the incentive to ruggedize further units. For example, the computer's power supplies were built from premium components, including heavy-duty line-filter capacitors, and were built to be shock- and temperature-resistant.
Later in 1980, Quasar introduced the QDP-8100, another CP/M desktop computer, this time based on the 16-bit Zilog Z8000 microprocessor. It featured similar specifications to the QDP-100, including an equivalent clock speed, amount of RAM, and floppy drives, but came shipped with an intelligent terminal. The QDP-8100 was backwards-compatible with Z80-based applications via software emulator. Quasar sold the QDP-8100 for $6,395.
Name change (1982–1984)
Between 1980 and 1982, the company changed its name to QDP Computer Systems. In November 1982, the company released the QDP-200, described as a streamlined version of the QDP-100 that featured slimline 8-inch floppy drives, in either dual or single configurations, and an improved version of the Z80 processor known as the Z80A. Like its predecessor, it featured 64 KB of RAM stock. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20redirect | An open redirect is a type of computer security vulnerability found in web applications.
Attack
An application can be exploited if it parses user input for making an URL redirection decision, which is then not properly validated.
An example or this attack on a example.com would be https://example.com/login&redirect=https://badwebsite.com
References
External links
Open redirection (reflected) by PortSwigger
Web security exploits
Injection exploits
Hacking (computer security) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Saint%20Vincent%20and%20the%20Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Port_of_Spain, which is synonymous with the zone for time in Trinidad and Tobago. Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia also share America/Port_of_Spain. Data for America/Port_of_Spain 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 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at Time.is
Time in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at TimeAndDate
Time in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Saint%20Kitts%20and%20Nevis | Saint Kitts and Nevis observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Saint Kitts and Nevis is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Port_of_Spain, which is synonymous with the zone for time in Trinidad and Tobago. Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines also share America/Port_of_Spain. Data for America/Port_of_Spain 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis at Time.is
Time in Saint Kitts and Nevis at TimeAndDate
Time in Saint Kitts and Nevis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Saint%20Lucia | Saint Lucia observes Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Saint Lucia is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Port_of_Spain, which is synonymous with the zone for time in Trinidad and Tobago. Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines also share America/Port_of_Spain. Data for America/Port_of_Spain 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 Saint Lucia at Time.is
Time in Saint Lucia at TimeAndDate
Time in Saint Lucia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratos%20%28computer%29 | The Stratos was a Z80-based microcomputer introduced by Symbiotic Systems, Inc., in 1981.
Background and development
The Stratos was designed by Stewart Earnest and Ray McKaig of Symbiotic Systems, Inc., a company originally based out of Woodland, California, and later relocated to Santa Cruz, California. Symbiotic Systems previously released the Syncron 8, a S-100 bus–based computer running the Intel 8080 microprocessor and featuring a backplane motherboard with twenty card slots. The 8080 is housed on a card that features PROMs, one of which has a bootstrap loader allowing the user to load software via floppy disk or data cassette, while the other has a 512-KB PROM flashable by the user. The Syncron 8 can take up to 12 KB of RAM and has a keyboard interface allowing users to directly interact with the computer without the need for a terminal. A television could be used as a display for the computer with the use of a composite cable. The Syncron 8 was regarded as a hobbyist or industrial computer.
Specifications
The Stratos by contrast is a general-purpose, turnkey, single-board computer, built from a six-layer printed circuit board and powered by a Zilog Z80 microprocessor clocked at 4 MHz. The computer comes with 64 KB of conventional RAM and 16 KB of additional RAM, the latter programmable as either disk-cache memory, as conventional memory (as the zero page in CP/M), as video memory, or as a RAM disk. The computer also comes with a 2-KB EPROM. The computer's BIOS chip was custom written by Symbiotic Systems.
The included software package comprises CP/M version 2.2, the Spellbinder word processor, either CBASIC or a Pascal compiler, Reminder, Autophone, a personal financing application, and a medley of bespoke programs. Reminder is a task-scheduling utility that took advantage of the computer's built-in real-time clock to executive certain programs and directives based on a 99-year calendar. Autophone is an auto-dialer/answering utility that can issue DTMF signals or pulses through a telephone line to automatically (and repeatedly, if desired) place phone calls; it can also automatically answer incoming calls if it detects one on the line. One of the Stratos' bespoke programs is Font, a bitmapped font editor that can redefine any of the 256 memory-mapped 8-by-9-matrix characters of the on-screen font to any shape, either with a keyboard or with an optional light pen.
The Stratos was optioned with either one or more 5.25-inch or 8-inch floppy disk drives. It can address up to 5 MB of floppy storage. The computer's power supply unit is switched-mode and was reported to run at 80 percent efficiency in 1981, negating the need for internal fans. The system unit and included keyboard are housed in a teak enclosure. The computer's lack of electromagnetic shielding reportedly made the computer prone to radio-frequency interference.
Release and reception
The Stratos was released in September 1981 for at least $6350; the price was higher depending |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars%20in%20San%20Pedro | San Pedro featured a network of streetcars between 1903 and 1958. The establishment of the Port of Los Angeles in the early 1900s spurred the development of the nearby city, and electric streetcars provided local transit services for workers and later military personnel. Pacific Electric was the primary operator in the city.
Interurbans
California Pacific, a subsidiary of the Los Angeles Traction Company, began interurban service to San Pedro over a narrow-gauge line in 1903. Pacific Electric opened their competing San Pedro via Dominguez Line on May 21, 1905. Pacific Electric had additionally opened a line east to Long Beach, providing a connection between the two cities and allowing for trains to be run though on the Long Beach Line. All streetcar operations in San Pedro were consolidated under Pacific Electric in 1911. Several services offered a one-seat ride from San Pedro to downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Balboa. The company ran special services to serve Catalina Island steamships. The last interurban service to San Pedro ran under the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority on December 7, 1958.
Streetcars
Point Firmin Local
This line ran from the Pacific Electric depot at Sixth and Palos Verdes to Point Firmin via Sixth and Pacific. It was constructed between 1905 and 1906 as far south at Fourteenth Street and completed to Point Firmin in 1907. While it was the most popular route in San Pedro, competition from parallel bus operators tempered its ridership potential. Service ended in October 1934 and tracks were removed in the following years.
Outer Harbor Local
Cars were probably routed through to the La Rambla Line at its inner terminus. The line was entirely rerouted in October 1916, taking it off of city streets and to the Outer Harbor via a private right of way. Company records indicate service ended on the line after April 21, 1924, and the final years of service were very informal. The line continued to see infrequent passenger service whenever the U.S. fleet was stationed at San Pedro, as interurban cars from Los Angeles would end their runs at the Harbor. This finally ended after September 1940.
La Rambla Local
Opening in 1906, this was one of the three major streetcar routes in San Pedro. Cars ran from Fourth and Palos Verdes via Fourth, Front, Sixth, Pacific, Fifth, a private right-of-way, and Alameda to First. Tracks on Fourth, Front, and Fifth were abandoned around 1915 and was likely routed through to the Outer Harbor Line. In 1928, this line accounted for 38% of San Pedro's local passenger traffic with just over 20% of the system's route miles. The last car operated over the line on January 23, 1938. This was the final streetcar line to operate in San Pedro.
West Basin Line
A minor line for local service, this line ran from San Pedro's Pacific Electric station via Front Street, a private right-of-way, another private right-of-way adjacent to Wilmington & San Pedro Road, B Street, and a private right-of-way to W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20PowerOFF | Operation PowerOFF is an ongoing joint operation by the FBI, EUROPOL, the Dutch National Police Corps, German Federal Criminal Police Office , Poland Cybercrime Police and the UK National Crime Agency to close "booter/stresser" services offering DDoS attack services for hire. Beginning in 2022, the operation shut down 48 websites offering DDoS services, and six people were arrested in the United States. Multiple companies, including Cloudflare, PayPal, and DigitalOcean provided information to the FBI to assist in the seizure.
History
In 2018, the FBI closed down 15 DDoS websites with the Dutch National Police Corps. On December 14, resuming this collaboration, the FBI and Department of Justice announced that they had closed multiple websites offering DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI claimed that these websites offered services designed to slow down websites relating to gaming. The FBI also noted that these services had heavy use, claiming that "Quantum", one of the seized services, was used to launch 50,000 attacks. After the shutdown, multiple law enforcement agencies collaborating with the FBI declared they would place advertisements on search engines, such as Google, that would educate the public on the legality of DDoS services.
Aftermath
Six US citizens were indicted by FBI offices in California and Alaska. Three of the people arrested were from Florida, one from Texas, one from Hawaii, and one from New York. The FBI asks that users with information related to the attacks contact their offices for tips and information related to the seized sites.
Ongoing activity
, Operation PowerOFF activities were still ongoing, with further websites being seized and prosecutions continuing.
References
Law enforcement operations
Federal Bureau of Investigation operations
2022 in computing
Denial-of-service attacks
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet | ElonJet is a service that uses social media accounts to track the real-time private airplane usage of Elon Musk. The service, created and provided by Jack Sweeney using public data, has accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Truth Social, Mastodon, Threads, and formerly on Twitter, where the Twitter account once had about 530,000 followers, before being suspended. Several of the social media accounts use the handle @elonjet.
The Twitter account, created in June 2020, had been targeted by Musk beginning in 2021. He offered to pay Sweeney $5,000; Sweeney countered requesting $50,000 or an internship in one of Musk's companies, and offered advice on restricting flight tracking data. Musk blocked Sweeney in January 2021. In late 2022, after Musk purchased Twitter, he announced he would not ban the ElonJet account. In December, a stalker doxxed Elon's 2-year-old son while he was traveling in a car; the stalker thought Musk was in the car. After the incident, the account was restricted and then blocked along with Sweeney's personal and other flight tracking accounts, as part of the December 2022 Twitter account suspensions. Later, shortly after the incident, accounts of several journalists were reinstated.
On December 22, 2022, Sweeney started the new @ElonJetNextDay Twitter account, which continues to track the flights of Elon Musk's private jets, but publishes flight location information on a 24-hour delay in compliance with Twitter's new rules that "sharing publicly available location information after a reasonable time has elapsed, so that the individual is no longer at risk for physical harm" is not a violation.
Function
The ElonJet service uses publicly available flight data as well as an automated computer program, a Twitter bot, to report Elon Musk's flights. The service utilizes ADS-B data, publicly available records, to give general details about where and when Musk's private jet was taking off and landing, though it cannot indicate who is on board or where the passengers travel before or after the flight. The Twitter account in particular became a reliable way for Musk's investors, fans, and critics to determine his whereabouts, often between the Austin area where he lives, the San Francisco Bay area where Tesla's factory is, and Southern California, where SpaceX is headquartered.
, the ElonJet service is hosted on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. The Mastodon account was created on December 14, 2022, a day after the original Twitter account was suspended. Sweeney has earned a few thousand dollars with the accounts, via ad revenue, allowing him to upgrade his computer. A subreddit dedicated to the service, r/ElonJetTracker, gained over 40,000 members in the two days since it was created on December 14, becoming one of the fastest-growing subreddits on the website.
History
The ElonJet Twitter account was started in June 2020 by Florida student Jack Sweeney. At the time, he was a high sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NebulaGraph | NebulaGraph is an open-source distributed graph database built for super large-scale graphs with milliseconds of latency. NebulaGraph adopts the Apache 2.0 license and also comes with a wide range of data visualization tools.
History
NebulaGraph was developed in 2018 by Vesoft Inc. with the aim of providing stable and reliable infrastructure software to enterprises across the globe. In May 2019, NebulaGraph was open-sourced on GitHub and its alpha version was released same year.
In June 2020, NebulaGraph raised $8M in a series pre-A funding round led by Redpoint China Ventures and Matrix Partners China.
In June 2019, NebulaGraph 1.0 GA version was released while version 2.0 GA was released in March 2021. The latest version 3.0.2 of Nebula was released in March 2022.
See also
Graph database
References
External links
Free database management systems
Document-oriented databases
Distributed computing architecture
Key-value databases
Structured storage
Graph databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transam%20Triton | The Transam Triton was an early British 8-bit microcomputer announced in 1978 as a partnership between Transam Components and Electronics Today International (ETI) magazine. The Triton appeared in the context of accelerating interest in home computing through the 1970s. The emerging wide availability of single chip microprocessors had enabled computing to become affordable to individuals, whereas previously the devices had been the preserve of businesses and universities. Several similar home computers arrived around this time such as the Nascom and Newbear 77-68 just prior to the launch of the more well known low cost machines such as the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 that helped establish the mainstream market.
As was common at the time, the Triton was originally supplied as a kit of parts for self assembly by electronics hobbyists but was later offered assembled. The machine first appeared in the October 1978 edition of ETI magazine with a full description, schematics and assembly instructions following up in the November edition. The kit included a case, keyboard, PCB, power supply and ROM chips. An "expansion motherboard" peripheral was available, which was a board with an additional PSU that plugged into the expansion slot on the computer and allowed up to eight cards to be connected. An 8K static RAM card and an 8K EPROM card were available.
The Triton preceded the convention of 8-bit micros booting to a BASIC prompt and initially presents a machine code monitor on start. This allows memory locations to be inspected, programs to be started by entering the first memory address, debugging and interaction with the tape I/O. It is possible to develop machine code programs from within the monitor but it is not an assembler, code must be entered as hex digits. An assembler called the Triton Resident Assembly Language Package (TRAP) was available separately. The Triton was supplied with the 2K Tiny BASIC programming language which could be extended with more sophisticated versions. BASIC could be invoked from the monitor.
The machine was sold in multiple configurations, each denoted with an "L" prefix. The cheapest configuration, described in the original magazine articles, supplied a 1K monitor ROM and a 2K BASIC ROM and was originally offered at £286 + VAT in kit form (January 1979 price). Other configurations added extended BASIC and monitor functionality and a Pascal compiler. A bundle was available that supported the then popular CP/M operating system and a disk interface for Shugart 5.25" and 8" floppy drives.
Technical specifications
- CPU: Intel 8080A (clocked at 0.8Mhz)
- RAM: Up to 4K on-board of which 1K was used for video display
- ROM: Originally supplied with a 1K monitor and 2K "Tiny BASIC" (expandable to 4K on-board)
- Expansion port allowing connection of up to 64KB of additional memory
- 64 graphics characters
- On-board cassette tape interface
- UHF television interface
Configurations
The Triton kit was sold in several b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil%20Bukhalid | Nabil Bukhalid was a Lebanese computer scientist and founder of the Lebanese Academic and Research Network. He is a Internet Hall of Fame Inductee and he was one of the key figures responsible for introducing the Internet to Lebanon and establishing the Lebanese Domain Registry. He is commonly referred to as the "Father of the Internet" in Lebanon.
Early life
Nabil Bukhalid was born in 1957 in the town of Bhamdoun, Lebanon. Bukhalid graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1981 and a Master's in Business Administration in 2005. After the end of the Lebanese Civil War he emigrated to Montreal, Canada with his wife and daughters.
Career
Bukhalid's experience with computers started during the Lebanese Civil War, where as a biomedical engineer he used to hide in the hospital he used to work at to avoid the destruction of the civil war. This is where he began to tinker with computers and local area networks. This led him to attempt to connect the AUB to the internet to connect the university to the academic scene in the United States.
Bukhalid headed the computing and networking services department at AUB as the Chief Enterprise Architect from 2000 until 2011.
He founded the Lebanese Domain Registry and served as its administrator since 1993. The original purpose for the .lb DNS was for the AUB's website, and it was created in August 1993. Bukhalid claimed that the top level domain was assigned to him by Jon Postel, the former administrator of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
In 1997 the .lb domain which used to be given to site owners for free, now had the condition that they must obtain a trademark certificate from the Ministry of Economy and Trade at the request of Bukhalid's team. This effectively made the entire DNS system run (but not owned) by Bukhalid and his team at AUB, despite their continuous attempts to get a Lebanese governmental agency to run the administration of the .lb domain. In 2011 he met with the former president of Lebanon, Michel Suleiman to discuss how the internet system and the .lb domain would be administered in Lebanon. He most recently worked as a consultant for organizations specializing in Internet infrastructure. In 2017 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for his efforts to bring the internet to Lebanon.
He died on January 4, 2023 from a heart attack while vacationing in London.
References
External links
Nabil Bukhalid in the Internet Hall of Fame
1957 births
2023 deaths
Computer scientists
People from Aley District
American University of Beirut alumni
Lebanese computer scientists
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Teletext | NBC Teletext was a teletext service provided by the American TV network NBC from 1981 to 1985, based on the NABTS standard.
Initial trials started in Los Angeles in 1981. Transmissions started as a regular service on May 16, 1983 after FCC approval, in parallel with CBS similar ExtraVision service.
Initially, the NBC Teletext was composed of a 50-page magazine, with the index page listing the following topics: Newsfront, Weather, Sports, Money, People, Your Body, Living, Your Stars, On the Soaps, Fun & Games, Kid's Korner, Partners, Credits. Graphics were reasonably detailed, allowing a detailed rendition of weather maps or movie posters.
Since teletext provides real-time updates, it was expected that the service would attract advertisers like airlines, stores or businesses interested in constantly updating their rates and schedules. As there were no available standalone consumer decoders on the market, it was hoped that by launching the system manufacturers would soon built teletext capability into all television sets.
Demonstrations of the system were performed at the 1983 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, the Organization of Iberian-American Broadcasters (OTI) in Mexico City, and the International Television Symposium and Technical Exhibition in Montreux. Special content was developed for these demonstrations.
In 1984 projections, NBC expected the teletext service to be profitable by 1987 and reach 10 percent of US homes by 1990.
These expectations were not met, and the system was shut down in January 1985.
References
Teletext
National Broadcasting Company
1981 establishments in California
1983 establishments in the United States
1985 disestablishments in the United States
Products introduced in 1983
Products and services discontinued in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20F.%20Wallace | Brendan F. Wallace is an American businessman and investor. He is cofounder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Fifth Wall. He also cofounded career networking platform Identified, Inc. and the ridesharing service Cabify, and currently sits on Cabify's board of advisors.
Early life and education
Brendan Fitzgerald Wallace grew up in New York City. He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics in 2004, and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2010. While at Stanford, Wallace became interested in technology and entrepreneurship, and he went on to found several companies with his former classmates.
Career
Early career
Wallace began his career as a real estate analyst at Goldman Sachs and worked for The Blackstone Group's real estate division, where he was a part of Blackstone's acquisition of Hilton Hotels.
Identified, Inc.
In 2010, Wallace cofounded career networking platform Identified, Inc., with Adayemi Ajao. The platform's model is based on gamification, and had 10 million users within eight months of its launch. Early versions of Identified's database were used by employers such as Google, Disney, and McKinsey & Company. It received $33 million in venture capital between 2010 and 2014. Wallace was co-CEO of the company until it was acquired by Workday, Inc. in 2014.
Cabify
In 2012, Wallace cofounded the Latin American ridesharing service Cabify, with Ajao and Spanish entrepreneur Juan de Antonio. Wallace currently sits on the company's advisory board. Cabify reached a valuation of $1.4 billion in 2018, making it a unicorn.
Fifth Wall
In 2016, Wallace and Brad Greiwe cofounded Fifth Wall, a venture capital firm which invests in PropTech ventures, including technologies which decarbonize the real estate industry. As of 2021, it was one of the largest property technology venture investors in the United States. In July 2022, the firm raised $500 million for its inaugural Climate Fund. In 2023, the company closed an $866 million investment fund, which The Wall Street Journal reported was the largest real estate investment fund in history.
According to LA Business Journal, he was one of the most influential business executives between 2019 and 2022. Commercial Observer included him on its Power 100 list in 2021 and 2022.
Personal life
Wallace adopted a three-legged pit bull-mix named Lady Macbeth in 2021. They appeared on the Netflix series Canine Intervention.
He dated British actress Emma Watson in 2018. He later dated American actress Alexandra Daddario in 2019.
References
21st-century American businesspeople
American technology company founders
American chief executives
Businesspeople from New York City
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Princeton University alumni
Businesspeople in software
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riffusion | Riffusion is a neural network, designed by Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros, that generates music using images of sound rather than audio. It was created as a fine-tuning of Stable Diffusion, an existing open-source model for generating images from text prompts, on spectrograms. This results in a model which uses text prompts to generate image files, which can be put through an inverse Fourier transform and converted into audio files. While these files are only several seconds long, the model can also use latent space between outputs to interpolate different files together. This is accomplished using a functionality of the Stable Diffusion model known as img2img.
The resulting music has been described as "de otro mundo" (otherworldly), although unlikely to replace man-made music. The model was made available on December 15, 2022, with the code also freely available on GitHub. It is one of many models derived from Stable Diffusion.
Riffusion is classified within a subset of AI text-to-music generators. In December 2022, Mubert similarly used Stable Diffusion to turn descriptive text into music loops. In January 2023, Google published a paper on their own text-to-music generator called MusicLM.
References
Deep learning software applications
Computer music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinomyia | Actinomyia is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.
Species
Actinomyia eupodata (Bigot, 1879)
Actinomyia longicornis (Schiner, 1868)
Actinomyia novaeteutoniae Lindner, 1949
References
Stratiomyidae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Erwin Lindner
Diptera of South America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina%20Bova | Dina Bova (; ; born June 16, 1977) is an Israeli photographer, digital artist and artificial intelligence researcher, notable for her surrealist photography.
She has won the grand prize at the Nikon Photo Contest for 2012–2013 with the photograph Elegy of Autumn.
Art career
Dina Bova specializes in conceptual surrealist photography. She began her photographic career with documentary photography, but quickly moved to surrealism. She began participating in international contests in July 2008, and won second place in Nikon's 2008–2009 photo context with Fishing in Hitchcock's Style, in the My Planet category. Her altered photo of Manarola, Italy, was a finalist in The Smithsonian's 11th annual photo contest (2013), in the altered images category. The photo, named Babylon, was inspired by Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel
In the same year, her photo Elegy of Autumn won the grand prize at the Nikon Photo Contest, selected from over 100,000 entries – the first Israeli entry to have won. She describes her style as Truthful Fiction, as, according to her, "fiction may not reflect the reality as we know it, yet conveys a deep, accurate and true message". Bova lists Jan Saudek as a major inspiration.
Bova has designed album covers for a number of Israeli and Jewish musicians, including Orphaned Land and its former member Yossi Sassi, RebbeSoul and others. The Orphaned Land album cover, for the album The Road to Or Shalem, was also inspired by another Bruegel painting, The Blind Leading the Blind, and combined a photograph of the musicians with the skyline of Melbourne, Australia. She has also had artistic collaborations with Maria Kong, Yisrael Aharoni and German Kabirski.
Bova has exhibited her works in the Salon d'Automne, and has had numerous solo exhibitions, including The Truth in the Lie, Distillation of a Fantastic Reality (in Rishon Lezion), and others. She was a major contributor to the Beauty Saves the World (BSW) photography project started by her husband, which focused on fine-art photography and exhibited in multiple countries. She has taught at Galitz School of Photography in Ramat Gan, Israel, and writes guides and tutorials for various photography magazines, such as 1x and Practical Photoshop. She has given numerous talks, including in the Annual Israeli Photography Convention in 2014. She has published a book with her photographs in 2013, called Truthful Fiction, with a second edition released in 2014.
Personal life
Bova was born in Moscow in 1977 and has resided in Israel since 1991. She holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Tel Aviv University. Bova works as a researcher and algorithm engineer in the field of artificial intelligence. She is married to Gadi Boleslavsky, who serves as her manager.
Awards
Bova has received the following photography awards and prizes. In all, over 100 of her photographs received over 400 awards.
2009 – Trierenberg Super Circuit – Vöav gold medal
2010 – Trierenberg Super Circuit – gold medal o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20museum%20Aachen | The Computer museum Aachen (officially called ) existed from 1987 to 2009. It was created in cooperation with the Rogowski Institute for Electrical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University. It was housed in the RWTH's "Campus Melaten" until the demolition of the building at Sommerfeldstrasse No. 32, Aachen.
Overview
The museum was created in cooperation with the Rogowski Institute for Electrical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen and collected obsolete computer hardware from them as pieces for the museum. The main advocate and supporter was (1926–2010).
The extensive collection, which was created in 1965 with the support of the state North Rhine-Westphalia, the German Research Foundation and the Friends of Aachen University, was one of the earliest of its kind in Germany.
The computer museum saw itself as an active museum in which visitors could work on numerous computing devices and PCs themselves and gain experience with the electronic data processing technology of the past. The computer museum was established in 1987 at the RWTH extension site in Melaten and closed at the end of 2009. From 1987 to 1993 the museum was directed by the historian .
Exhibits
The showpiece of the exhibition was a 1958 Zuse Z22 computer system collected from the RWTH.
Some of the exhibits:
Burroughs 1700
DEC PDP-11/45
DEC PDP-12
EAI 8800 Scientific Computing System
EAI PACE 231R
EAI TR-48
IBM 421
IBM System/3 Model 10 (5410)
IBM System/360-20
LGP-30
Telefunken RA 463/2
Zuse Z22
Closure
The building that housed the computer museum had to be demolished in 2010 as part of the repurposing of the . For this reason, the museum had to close at the end of 2009, and all the exhibits had to be moved to new locations.
As early as 2006, the museum's backhaul holdings were dissolved and initially deposited in Castrop-Rauxel. From there, financed by SAP, a large part of the collection went to the Computer History Museum (CHM) at Mountain View, California (the so called SAP collection). This included Mulby computers from Aachen production (). The remaining devices were taken to a warehouse on the premises of Dortmund train station (Tillmann collection). There, the parts were badly damaged due to poor storage and were threatened of being scrapped in 2012. Private collectors managed to save and restore many artefacts. Some exhibits can now be found in the .
Another part from the Aachen inventory was stored by a forwarding agency in Cologne. The costs for this were covered by the CHM until 2007/2008. After that, individual artefacts were saved by collectors, the rest were scrapped.
After the closure at the end of 2009, the remaining exhibits were temporarily stored at RWTH premises and distributed to other museums in 2012, in particular to the in Hoyerswerda and to the museum in Bautzen. The latter also received the Z22. Some of the earlier exhibits were shredded.
References
Further reading
Entry at Universitätssammlungen in Deutschland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths%20in%20September%202023 |
September 2023
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Dennis Austin, 76, American computer programmer, co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint, lung cancer.
Ken Bennett, 83, Australian footballer (Collingwood).
Jimmy Buffett, 76, American singer-songwriter ("Margaritaville", "Cheeseburger in Paradise"), founder of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Merkel-cell carcinoma.
Gerald P. Carmen, 93, American diplomat, representative to the European Office of the UN (1984–1986) and administrator of the GSA (1981–1984).
Alwyn Davies, 97, British chemist.
Olav Eikeland, 67, Norwegian philosopher and employment researcher.
Elton Gissendanner, 95, American veterinarian and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1967–1968).
Hadino Hishongwa, 80, Namibian politician, MP (1989–2005).
Karim Al Iraqi, 68, Iraqi poet, cancer.
Charles Joseph Knight, 91, Canadian doctor, surgeon general (1988–1990).
Bill Malley, 88, American production designer (The Exorcist, The Fury, The Ninth Configuration).
J. Landis Martin, 77, American lawyer and businessman.
Jelaing Mersat, 74, Malaysian politician, MP (2004–2013).
Raymond Moriyama, 93, Canadian architect (Canadian War Museum, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo).
Shozaburo Nakamura, 89, Japanese politician, minister of justice (1998–1999) and MP (1979–2005).
Olivier Picard, 83, French Hellenist.
Bill Richardson, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1997), UN ambassador (1997–1998), governor of New Mexico (2003–2011).
Sitt Nyein Aye, 67, Burmese artist and political activist.
Nels J. Smith, 84, American politician, member (1963–1979) and speaker of (1977–1979) the Wyoming House of Representatives, traffic collision.
Milka Stojanović, 86, Serbian operatic soprano (National Theatre in Belgrade).
Amin Syam, 77, Indonesian politician, governor of South Sulawesi (2003–2008), kidney failure.
Tempt One, 54, American graffiti artist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Ludovic Vaty, 34, French basketball player (JSA Bordeaux Basket, national team), complications from a heart attack.
Karl Wöllert, 81, Austrian politician, member of the Federal Council (1990–1997).
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Walter Arlen, 103, Austrian-born American composer and music critic.
Naldo Dasso, 92, Argentine Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960).
Bill R. Fuller, 85, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1979–1984).
Jack Golson, 96, British-born Australian archaeologist.
Max Gomez, 72, Cuban-born American medical journalist (WNBC, WCBS-TV).
Salif Keïta, 76, Malian footballer (Saint-Étienne, Valencia, national team).
Michael Klar, 80, German graphic artist.
Robert A. Lamb, 72, British-American virologist.
Arnfinn Larsen, 93, Norwegian Olympic rower (1952).
Paul Kazuhiro Mori, 84, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Tokyo (1985–2000).
Michele Miraglia, 88, Italian politician, senator (1976–1983).
Ilija Mitić, 83, Serbian-American footballer (San Jose Earthquakes, Oakland Clippers, United States national team).
Surjya Narayan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Sun%20and%20the%20Curse%20of%20the%20Black%20Widow | Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow () is a 2022 Spanish computer-animated mystery thriller film directed by Julio Soto Gúrpide and based on a original screenplay by Rocco Pucillo.
Premise
A noirish fiction set in a seaplane from Shanghai to San Francisco in 1934, the plot follows anthropomorphic spider Inspector Sun in a mission against his foe, the Red Locust, with the mystery vis-à-vis the death of Dr. Spindelthorp as a backdrop.
Voice cast
Ronny Chieng as Inspector Sun, a shy and intelligent huntsman spider
Emily Kleimo as Janey, an energetic jumping spider that accompanies Sun
Jennifer Childs Greer as Arabella Killtop, a black widow spider who is Sun's love interest and Bugsy's former wife.
Rich Orlow as the Red Locust, a villainous locust. Orlow also voices Mr. Scarab, a rhinoceros beetle and Lieutenant Mac
Iain Batchelor as Captain Skeleton, a nervous housefly
Scott Geer as Dr. Bugsy Spindlethorp, a millionaire funnel-web spider who was working for the Red Locust before his death. Geer also voices a police cop
Jeanette Grace Gonglewski as Ant Queen, Gonglewski also voices Lady Vatchu, a hybrid bug monster created by Dr. Spindlethorp
Paul Louis Miller as Mr. Gill Tea, a mantis assassin
Production
The script by Rocco Pucillo won the 2013 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award. The film is a The Thinklab Media and Gordon Box production, in association with 3Doubles Producciones, the participation of RTVE, support from ICAA, funding from ICO and Navarre's Sodena and collaboration from Epic Games. Ronny Chieng voiced Sun in the English version. Fernando Velázquez scored the film.
Release
Kapers Animation handled worldwide sales. Distributed by Tripictures, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 28 December 2022. It was released in the United States on 27 October 2023.
Reception
Juan Pando of Fotogramas rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting the character of Sun's aide.
Accolades
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See also
List of Spanish films of 2022
References
Spanish animated feature films
Spanish computer-animated films
2020s Spanish films
Spanish mystery thriller films
Spanish neo-noir films
Animated films about aviation
Films scored by Fernando Velázquez
Animated films about spiders
Films set in 1934
Animated films set in Shanghai
Fictional grasshoppers
Films set in New York City
Spanish aviation films
2022 computer-animated films
2020s mystery thriller films
Animated films about grasshoppers
Animated films set in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganna%20Pogrebna | Ganna Pogrebna (born July 4, 1980) is a British behavioral data scientist, decision theorist, educator, author, and academic writer. She currently serves as the Lead for Behavioral Data Science at the Alan Turing Institute, the Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute at Charles Sturt University, and an Honorary Professor of Behavioral Business Analytics and Data Science at the University of Sydney.
She is known for her work in combining data science methods with those from economics and psychology to model human behavior under risk and uncertainty.
Education
Pogrebna holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and has obtained her Ph.D. in economics and social sciences from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Career
Pogrebna is a researcher and academic in behavioral business analytics and data science. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute at Charles Sturt University in Australia and holds a research professorship position at the University of Sydney Business School. Additionally, she is a Lead of Behavioral Data Science at the Alan Turing Institute in London.
Pogrebna has taught and supervised students in data science, cyber security, behavioral data science, business analytics and artificial intelligence. She has also worked as a consultant for private and public sector companies in various industries. Pogrebna communicates her research through her YouTube blog "Data Driven" and "Inclusion AI. Blog", and is a regular contributor to various blogs and media outlets. She is methods editor at Leadership Quarterly and associate editor of Judgement and Decision Making.
Notable research works
In 2021, her team's box office predicting technology was discussed at the Stockholm Film Festival. In 2018, she co-developed a model predicting parental risk attitudes based on the characteristics of children, revealing gender inequalities in parenting. In 2019, she contributed to a Council of Europe study on the implications of advanced digital technologies for human rights. In 2020-2021, she researched handwashing patterns and protected vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, Pogrebna's work highlighted the threats and benefits of software products used in schools and at home.
Bibliography
Navigating New Cyber Risks: How Businesses can Plan, Build and Manage Safe Spaces in the Digital Age, co-author (2019)
Big Bad Bias Book (2021)
Awards and honors
British Academy of Management Award (2018)
Pogrebna's work in risk analytics and modeling has been recognized through the Leverhulme Research Fellowship award.
In January 2020, she was named the winner of TechWomen100, an award for leading female experts in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in the UK.
She has also been named one of the 20+ Inspiring Data Scientists by AI Time Journal.
References
Living people
1980 births
Britis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel%20Brown | Hazel Angela Brown (31 January 1942 – 22 September 2022) was a Trinbagonian women's and consumer rights activist. She was a co-founder and coordinator of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women. She was secretary general of the Commonwealth Women's Network.
Early life
Hazel Browne was born on 31 January 1942 in East Dry River, Belmont, Port of Spain, to Una Browne and Carlis Browne. She attended Gloster Lodge Moravian Primary School and received a scholarship to study at Bishop Anstey High School. She also attended St. Joseph's Convent in San Fernando.
Brown graduated from Cipriani Labour College in 1969; she was one of the first students to graduate from the school.
Career
Brown was involved with community organisation projects, research, and social development as early as 1969. She focussed on gender equality, consumers' rights, and the elimination of poverty.
Brown was a crucial figure in the development of the Housewives Association of Trinidad and Tobago (HATT), an organisation promoting consumer rights awareness which was founded in 1971. The work of HATT led to the establishment of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards in 1974. She was also a co-founder of the Telephone Users Group in 1971. Through the group, utility customers participated in hearings over utility rates that resulted in changes to the rate structures of electricity and water.
In 1976, Brown made an unsuccessful bid as an independent candidate for the Port of Spain East seat in the House of Representatives.
Brown and 13 others founded the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women in 1985, an umbrella organisation for non-governmental organisations that focus on women's issues. It was formed to present the position of women in Trinidad and Tobago at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi.
In 1987 Brown said that the outlook for women under the National Alliance for Reconstruction and then-Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson was "bleak and dangerous", stating that "there is a lot of lip service being paid to the idea of the upliftment of women in the society but that is all. Mr. Robinson is the problem because there is a gap between his stated position on issues, including women, and his actions. But the whole change process will not work unless there is proper participation by women." Along with Grace Talma, she challenged the government's Policy Statement on Women which was approved by the cabinet in 1987. In response to the policy statement, she and other women's NGOs drafted a National Paper on the Status of Women in 1990.
Brown coordinated the participation of Trinidadian and Tobagonian NGOs in United Nations conferences. She was the coordinator for the Caribbean Region Preparatory Process Project of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development conference. She was responsible for the participation of NGOs at the 1995 Beijing UN Women's Conference and was part of the negotiation sessions for the Beijing Platform for Action. She worked organis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%A9mie%20Elhadad | Noémie Elhadad is an American data scientist who is an associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. As of 2022, she serves as the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Her research considers machine learning in bioinformatics, natural language processing and medicine.
Early life and education
Elhadad studied computer software engineering at École nationale supérieure d'électronique, informatique, télécommunications, mathématique et mécanique de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB). She completed her doctoral research at Columbia University. She was based in the Department of Computer Science, where she developed patient-focused text summaries of clinical literature.
Research and career
Elhadad joined the faculty at the City College of New York. In 2007 she joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She was made Chair of the Health Analytics Center at the Columbia Data Science Institute in 2013. Her research considers how clinical data, electronic health records and patient-generated data can enhance access to information for researchers, patients and physicians. She developed an artificial intelligence tool that supported patients in the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Elhadad is interested in using data to advance women's health. She led the Citizen Endo Project that looks to comprehensively describe how patients experience endometriosis. It was built using principles of citizen science, using patient testimonials from focus groups in New York City and data aggregation. She created the app, Phendo, which asks patients about their experience of the disease. The name Phendo is a portmanteau of phenotyping endometriosis.
Elhadad was announced as Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics in December 2022.
Selected publications
Personal life
Elhadad suffers from endometriosis.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Women data scientists
Data scientists
Machine learning researchers
Natural language processing researchers
French computer scientists
21st-century French women scientists
French bioinformaticians
Women bioinformaticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinovation%20Ventures | Sinovation Ventures () is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2009. The firm focuses on investing in startups that use artificial intelligence technology. It was one of the first Chinese venture capital firms to establish a presence in the United States.
Background
Kai-Fu Lee was President of Google China from July 2005 to September 4, 2009. A few days after resigning from his post, on September 7, 2009, he announced he would be starting a $115m venture capital fund called "Innovation Works". His colleague, Hua Wang who was previously Head of Business Development in Google China joined him as a co-founder.
In 2013, a office was opened in Silicon Valley to invest in US startups.
In 2016, the firm rebranded from "Innovation Works" to "Sinovation Ventures".
In 2019, the firm closed its Silicon Valley office citing the China–United States trade war making it difficult to get into US deals.
Funds
Notable Investments
AdMob
Bitmain
Insilico Medicine
Megvii
MeituPic
Mobike
Momenta
Niu Technologies
Planetary Resources
Securly
TuSimple
VIPKID
WeRide
Wonder Workshop
Zhihu
References
External links
Chinese companies established in 2009
Financial services companies established in 2009
Investment management companies of China
Venture capital firms of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAC%20%28disambiguation%29 | SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) is a project collecting and integrating biographical and social data.
SNAC may also refer to:
Scaphoid non-union advanced collapse, a medical condition of the wrist
Somali National Academy of Culture
Single Network Access Code, the country code for the Inmarsat satellite phone network
Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning, aka SNAC Nutrition, a company
, a French lobby association of authors and composers
SNOAC, a chemical substance
snoaC, a gene
See also
Snack (disambiguation)
Snap (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Pelissero | Tom Pelissero is an American journalist who currently works as an American football reporter for NFL Network.
Career
A native of Edina, Minnesota, and a graduate of Boston College, Pelissero began his journalism career in 2003, reporting part-time on the Minnesota Vikings for local radio station KFAN. He worked there for two years before moving to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to work for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. One of his stories for the Leader-Telegram led to him joining the Green Bay Press-Gazette, where his work covering the Green Bay Packers saw him rise to the position of assistant sports editor, as well as continuing to cover the Vikings for 1500 ESPN Twin Cities.
In 2013, Pelissero began covering the NFL for USA Today, where he was part of a team that won an Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 award. At the same time, he hosted radio shows on Sirius XM NFL Radio and 1500 ESPN Twin Cities. He joined NFL Network in July 2017.
Personal life
Pelissero's wife, Sara, is a former producer for Minnesota television stadion KARE 11. They have two children.
References
Living people
American journalists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jq%20%28programming%20language%29 | jq is a very high-level lexically scoped functional programming language in which every JSON value is a constant. jq supports backtracking and managing indefinitely long streams of JSON data. It is related to the Icon and Haskell programming languages. The language supports a namespace-based module system and has some support for closures. In particular, functions and functional expressions can be used as parameters of other functions.
The original implementation of jq was in Haskell before being immediately ported to C.
History
jq was created by Stephen Dolan, and released in October 2012.
It was described as being "like sed for JSON data". Support for regular expressions was added in jq version 1.5.
A "wrapper" program for jq named yq adds support for YAML, XML and TOML. It was first released in 2017.
The Go implementation, gojq, was initially released in 2019. gojq notably extends jq to include support for YAML.
The first version of jaq to include extensive support for regular expressions was released in March 2023. This version (0.10) also includes a fast JSON parser. Support for nested functions and recursively defined functions was subsequently added, but as of June 2023, jaq still does not include a "streaming parser" for processing
very large JSON documents with minimal memory requirements.
Usage
Command-line usage
jq is typically used at the command line and can be used with other command-line utilities, such as curl. Here is an example showing how the output of a command can be piped to a jq filter to determine the category names associated with this Wikipedia page:
$ curl 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=jq_(programming_language)&format=json' | jq '.parse.categories[]."*"'
The output produced by this pipeline consists of a stream of JSON strings, the first few of which are:
"Articles_with_short_description"
"Short_description_matches_Wikidata"
"Dynamically_typed_programming_languages"
"Functional_languages"
"Programming_languages"
"Programming_languages_created_in_2012"
"Query_languages"
"2012_software"
The command above uses the MediaWiki API for this page to produce a JSON response.
The pipe allows the output of to be accessed by jq, a standard Unix shell mechanism.
The jq filter shown is an abbreviation for the jq pipeline:
.["parse"] | .["categories"] | .[] | .["*"]
This corresponds to the nested JSON structure produced by the call to . Notice that the jq pipeline is constructed in the same manner using the character as the Unix-style pipeline.
Embedded usage
Both the C and the Go implementations provide libraries so that jq functionality can be embedded in other applications and programming environments.
For example, gojq has been integrated with SQLite so that a function is available in SQL statements. This function is marked as
"deterministic" and
can therefore be used in "CREATE INDEX" commands.
Modes of operation
jq by default acts as a "stream editor" for JSON inputs, much
like th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%20dithering | Atkinson dithering is a variant of Floyd-Steinberg dithering designed by Bill Atkinson at Apple Computer, and used in the original Macintosh computer.
Implementation
The algorithm achieves dithering using error diffusion, meaning it pushes (adds) the residual quantization error of a pixel onto its neighboring pixels, to be dealt with later. It spreads the debt out according to the distribution (shown as a map of the neighboring pixels):
The pixel indicated with a star (*) indicates the pixel currently being scanned, and the blank pixels are the previously scanned pixels.
The algorithm scans the image from left to right, top to bottom, quantizing pixel values one by one. Each time the quantization error is transferred to the neighboring pixels, while not affecting the pixels that already have been quantized. Hence, if a number of pixels have been rounded downwards, it becomes more likely that the next pixel is rounded upwards, such that on average, the quantization error is reduced.
Unlike Floyd-Steinberg dithering, only 3/4 of the error is diffused outward. This leads to a more localized dither, at the cost of lower performance on near-white and near-black areas, but the increase in contrast on those areas may be regarded as more visually desirable for some purposes.
References
External links
Article on Atkinson dithering by John Earnest
Atkinson Dithering in HTML by Andrew Stephens
Image processing
Computer graphics algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2069%20%28Poland%29 | National road 69 (, abbreviated as DK69) was a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway connected Bielsko-Biała with Poland–Slovakia border in Zwardoń.
From 1986 to 2000 the route was signed as:
national road 94 from Bielsko-Biała to Żywiec
national road 944 from Żywiec via Milówka and Zwardoń to country border.
On August 4, 2016, the entire route has been decommissioned and included in the course of national road 1, therefore the number 69 has been removed from the national roads network. Before 2016, national road 1 followed what is now national road 52 via Cieszyn to the state border.
Expressway S69
From 1996-2001, it was planned to build Expressway S94 on part of the northeast bypass of Bielsko-Biała, Żywiec – Przybędza stretch and Milówka – Zwardoń stretch. In 2001, the national road network was reformed and the section was renumbered to 69 and was built as S69. This became a portion of S1 Expressway in 2016; the old route of S1 became S52.
Major cities and towns along the route
Bielsko-Biała (road 52)
Wilkowice
Łodygowice
Żywiec (road 945, road 946)
Węgierska Górka
Milówka
Laliki (road 943)
Zwardoń, border with Slovakia
See also
Expressway S1
References
69 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2068%20%28Poland%29 | National road 68 (, abbreviated as DK68) is a main road of accelerated traffic () belonging to the Polish national road network. The length of the route is , of which is maintained by General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (, abbreviated as GDDKiA). The highway connects the Kukuryki border crossing on Belarus–Poland border with national road 2 in Wólka Dobryńska. It runs entirely in Lublin Voivodeship, in Biała County (Terespol and Zalesie gminas). According to signage, national road 68 is a component of European highway E30.
From February 14, 1986 until the road network reform in 2000, the route was signed as national road 812.
In the years 2005 – 2007, the road was reconstructed, as part of which, among others, the surface was renewed and strengthened to a load of 115 kN/axle. Also a concrete parking lane was built, wide and approximately long, stretching from the intersection with national road 2 in Wólka Dobryńska to the car terminal in Koroszczyn. The stretch from Koroszczyn terminal to the border crossing is accessible only for large goods vehicles and overlaps with planned course of motorway A2.
Permissible axle load
From November 15, 2005 the entire route is accessible for vehicles with single axle load up to 11.5 tons, while previously it was up to 10 tons.
Localities along the route
Kukuryki, border with Belarus
Koroszczyn
Wólka Dobryńska (road 2)
References
68 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Gargantini | Irene Antonia Gargantini (born 1934) is an Italian-Canadian retired computer scientist and numerical analyst, known for her research on root-finding algorithms and quadtrees and octrees, and in particular for introducing the use of hash tables in place of pointer-based structures for representing quadtrees and octrees. In her retirement as a professor emerita at the University of Western Ontario, she has also become a self-published novelist under the pseudonym René Natan.
Early life and education
Gargantini was born in 1934 in Milan, the daughter of a railroad engineer. With the encouragement of her parents, she studied physics at the University of Milan, and after earning a doctorate there, she became a researcher at the university, where her work involved the calculation of electron trajectories in synchrotrons, using a computer from the Computer Research Corporation.
Career and later life
She continued her work on computer-assisted physics calculations at the European Atomic Energy Community beginning in 1958, and at IBM Research in Switzerland beginning in 1965. There, her interests began shifting to the newly established field of numerical analysis.
After seeing an announcement in the Communications of the ACM for a new computer science program at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, headed by John Hart (whose research she had used at IBM), she took a faculty position in the program, beginning in 1968. She became department chair from 1986 to 1991, becoming the first female chair of a computer science department in Canada. She retired in 2000.
Selected publications
Gargantini's research publications include:
References
External links
Réne Natan official website
1934 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian women computer scientists
Numerical analysts
University of Milan alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop%20Cube%2040%20%24hort | Snoop Cube 40 $hort is the debut studio album by American West Coast hip hop supergroup Mount Westmore. It was initially released via blockchain mid-2022 and later released on streaming services on December 9, 2022, through MNRK Music Group, and included unreleased tracks which were not featured on the original version. Production was handled by several record producers, including Rick Rock, Ant Banks, Soopafly and Droop-E. It features a guest appearance from P-Lo.
The album as supported with two singles: "Big Subwoofer", which previously appeared on 2021 compilation album Snoop Dogg Presents Algorithm, and "Too Big".
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 66, based on five reviews.
Commercial performance
The album peaked at number 188 on the US Billboard 200.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
2022 collaborative albums
E-40 albums
Ice Cube albums
Too Short albums
Snoop Dogg albums
MNRK Music Group albums
Albums produced by Rick Rock
Albums produced by JellyRoll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luv%20Is | Luv Is is a 2023 Philippine television drama romance anthology show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on January 16, 2023 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Mano Po Legacy: The Flower Sisters. The series concluded on July 28, 2023 with a total of 75 episodes. It was replaced by Dapat Alam Mo! in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Caught in His Arms
Sofia Pablo as Florencia "Florence" Dela Cruz / Celestina Almero
Allen Ansay as Nero Sebastian Ferell
Michael Sager as Sean Owen Ferell
Raheel Bhyria as Aldus Raphael Ferell
Sean Lucas as Troy Alvis Ferell
Vince Maristela as Tristan Matteo Ferell
Caitlyn Stave as Antonia Scarlett Fuentes
Cheska Fausto as Camille Cortez Villarico
Kirsten Gonzales as Linnalyn Isabelle "Lina" Hidalgo
Tanya Ramos as Aira Samson Rivera
Ariel Ureta as Don Garpido Ferell (LG - Lolo Garp)
Audie Gemora as Don Rogelio Almero
Debraliz Valasote as Serafica
Gio Alvarez as Federico Dela Cruz
Boom Labrusca as Dencio
Denise Joaquin as Lydia Dela Cruz
Rain Matienzo as Ashley Abadiano
Bobby Andrews as Lorenzo Almero
Ingrid dela Paz as Alyanna Almero
Patani Daño as Patutina
JR Reyes as Iking
James Marco as James
Leo Enerio as Baste
Maritess Joaquin as Doña Amanda
Dion Ignacio as Samuel Almero
Love at First Read
Mavy Legaspi as Kuen Lacrosse "Kudos" Pereseo
Kyline Alcantara as Angelika Bianca "AB" C. De Makapili
Jestoni Alarcon as Hector Pereseo
Maricar de Mesa as Mayumi "Yumi" Calan-De Makapili
Jackie Lou Blanco as Gertrude "Truly" Seriozo-Pereseo
Therese Malvar as Abigail "Gail" Garcia
Larkin Castor as Shield Pereseo
Bruce Roeland as Risky "Risk" Pereseo
Marco Masa as Dale C. De Makapili
Josh Ford as Razille Traijin "Train" Zapusumo
Pam Prinster as Hazel Mayumi / Abigail "Abby"
Mariel Pamintuan as Sandy Bascon
Kiel Gueco as Psalm Pereseo
Gabby Gueco as Philemon Pereseo
Episodes
<onlyinclude>
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%20Lawonn | Kai Lawonn (born 1985) is a German computer scientist. He works in the field of exploratory data analysis and visualization and has been a full professor at the University of Jena at the Institute of Computer Science since 2019.
Life
Lawonn studied Mathematics and Physics at Free University of Berlin from 2006 to 2011 and graduated with a diploma. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg from 2012 to 2014 and the Venia Legendi in Computational visualistics in 2017. From 2015 to 2019, he was an assistant professor of medical visualization at the University of Koblenz-Landau and then moved to the University of Jena as an assistant professor in 2019, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. There, he has been a professor of visualization and exploratory data analysis since 2021. His research group specializes in visualization of medical data, illustrative visualization, data analysis, visual analytics, virtual reality, human-computer interaction, etc.
Prizes and honors
2016 Eurographics PhD Award
2020 EuroVis – Young Researcher Award
2021 DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis
2021 Capital – Top 40 under 40
External links
Homepage at University of Jena
References
German computer scientists
1985 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard%20Rustin%20Center%20for%20Social%20Justice | The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is a nonprofit organization located in Princeton, New Jersey. It hosts programming and events geared towards public health, gender and sexual advocacy, and civil rights for marginalized people, particularly LGBTQIA+ youth. The center was named in honor of Bayard Rustin, a black and gay activist of the American civil rights movement.
History
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice (BRCSJ) was founded in 2018 by Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber, a former middle-school teacher who founded the first middle school gay-straight alliance in New Jersey. In 2017, he was named Social Justice Activist of the Year by the National Education Association.
From 2018-2020, the BRCSJ operated from its first headquarters on Wiggins Street in Princeton, NJ. On June 30, 2018, the BRCSJ held the second largest "Families Belong Together" rally in NJ. In collaboration with Central Jersey GLSEN, the BRCSJ held New Jersey's largest LGBTQ youth forum, with keynote speaker Gavin Grimm. The BRCSJ supported New Jersey State Legislature Bill A1335 which “would require Boards of Education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.” In 2019, the organization co-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Day events at Princeton University. Also in 2019, the BRCSJ organized Princeton’s first Pride parade as well as Princeton’s first drag show.
In 2020, the BCRSJ transitioned to a completely virtual platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They hosted a Virtual Pride event, which featured such guests as Billy Porter, Sam Sparro, and Luis and Bob from Sesame Street. They began a nightly virtual Social Justice Power Hour, with guests including Robert Jones Jr., Patton Oswalt, Valerie Jarrett, Maggie Smith, Adam Gopnik, Wayne Brady, Garry Trudeau, Raquel Willis, Gavin Grimm, Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, Ibram X. Kendi, PA Lt. Gov. and Senator-elect John Fetterman, John Doe (X), Billy Eichner, Keisha Blain, Kiese Laymon, and Susanna Hoffs. The Social Justice Power Hour ran continuously every weeknight for over 600 shows from 2020-2022 and continued in a multiplatform format. The BRCSJ collaborated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Princeton’s Racial Justice Task Force to declare racism a public health crisis. In 2020, the BRCSJ received a commendation in a Joint legislative Resolution from the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly. In 2022, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman presented the BRCSJ with a Congressional Proclamation, "recognizing and honoring Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice’s (BRCSJ) positive impact and achievements as an activist center, educational bridge and safe space for LGBTQIA youth, families and allies".
In March 2022, it re-opened physically at the organization’s second headquarters in Princeton, at 12 Stockton Street. In June 2022, the BRCSJ organi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic%20%28disambiguation%29 | An alembic is an alchemical still.
Alembic may also refer to:
Alembic (computer graphics), a computer graphics file format
Alembic (magazine), a British poetry magazine
Alembic, Michigan
Alembic Inc, an American manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps
Alembic Group, an Indian conglomerate
Alembic Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Filmfare%20OTT%20Awards | 2022 Filmfare OTT Awards, the third edition of awards were presented to honour artistic and technical excellence in original programming on over-the-top streaming media in Hindi-language. Web original shows or films released across OTT platforms between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022 were eligible for Awards. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 14 December 2022. Hosted by Gauahar Khan and Maniesh Paul, the ceremony was held on 21 December 2022 in Mumbai. Biographical television series, Rocket Boys won the best drama series award and Social comedy film, Dasvi won the best film – (Web Originals) award.
Winners and nominees
Popular awards
Critics' Choice Awards
See also
Filmfare Awards
67th Filmfare Awards
2021 Filmfare OTT Awards
References
External links
Award ceremonies in India
OTT, 2022
Filmfare OTT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebolt%20Analytics | Firebolt Analytics is a data software company, operating globally. Its main product is a cloud data warehousing platform for data engineers. Firebolt was founded and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Overview
Firebolt Analytics was founded on January 1, 2019, by Eldad Farkash, developer of databases, and Saar Bitner, marketing strategist, who worked previously together in Sisense. Firebolt has developed a cloud data warehouse for quick analyzing of high volumes of information.
On December 9, 2020, it launched its data warehousing platform after raising $37 million in a Series A round of funding.
On June 24, 2021, Firebolt Analytics the Series B round was led by Dawn Capital and K5 Global and the company received $127 million. It became a unicorn according to Forbes Israel.
According to ZDNEet Mosha Pasumansky joined the company as the CTO.
In January 2022, Firebolt became a unicorn by completing a $100 million Series C financing round at a company valuation of $1.4 billion.
References
Companies based in Tel Aviv
Companies of Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aapo%20Hyv%C3%A4rinen | Aapo Johannes Hyvärinen (born 1970 in Helsinki) is a Finnish professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki and known for his research in independent component analysis.
Education and career
Hyvärinen was born in Helsinki and studied mathematics at the University of Helsinki and received his Doctor of Technology in information science in 1997 at the Helsinki University of Technology under the supervision of Erkki Oja. His doctoral thesis is titled Independent component analysis: A neural network approach. Since then, Hyvärinen has conducted research especially in relation to the independent component analysis. In November 2007, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Helsinki. Hyvärinen has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences since 2016. From August 2016 to March 2019, he held a professorship in machine learning at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit of the University College London.
Bibliography
References
Living people
1970 births
People from Helsinki
Finnish computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
Academics of University College London
University of Helsinki alumni
Aalto University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Helsinki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20May | Travis May (born ) is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Shaper Capital, founder and former CEO of Datavant and previously co-founded and was the CEO of LiveRamp.
Early life
May grew up in Cary, North Carolina. He attended Cary Academy, graduating in 2005. While in high school, he was a member of a four-person team that won the mid-Atlantic regional and competed in the 2005 National Economics Challenge.
May attended Harvard College, graduating in 2009 with degrees in economics and mathematics, magna cum laude. During his freshman year, he co-founded the Harvard Entrepreneurial Forum. When he was a sophomore, he created the website IvyAdmits.com, which featured examples of successful college application essays from Ivy League students. Later, he co-founded the i3 The Harvard College Innovation Challenge, a student startup competition, which continues annually with support from the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard.
Career
When he was a student at Harvard in 2007, May co-founded Campus Venture Network Inc with Vivek G. Ramaswamy. May was the company's CEO. May and Ramaswamy created StudentBusinesses.com, a closed social network that paired students who had business ideas with potential investors. The website was tested at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and expanded to Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Yale University, and several hundred students in India. In 2009, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation purchased Campus Venture Network and its StudentBusinesses.com for an undisclosed amount. The platform evolved into YouNoodle and continues to be used for the i3 competition at Harvard.
After graduating, May took the position of vice president of product at Rapleaf, a small start-up company co-founded by Auren Hoffman in San Francisco. In 2011, May co-founded LiveRamp with Hoffman and was its vice president of product. LiveRamp was a Silicon Valley-based start-up company that provided data onboarding. After three years, Acxiom purchased LiveRamp for $310 million. May became acting president of Acxiom and CEO of its LiveRamp division for eight years.
Hoffman, who left LiveRamp with the buyout, noted that Acxiom trusted the team who created LiveRamp, giving May a "very long rope." Between 2015 and 2016, LiveRamp generated $90 million in revenue. By 2017, it was worth more than $1.5 billion. Its customers included Adobe, American Express, and Google. Acxiom assigned May to the new position of chief growth officer in September 2017. Although May was allowed to spend some work time on his new start-up, he resigned from Acxiom in April 2018.
In September 2017, May became the CEO of Datavant, a San Francisco-based biotech company he co-founded with his former business partner Ramaswamy. May made a “significant personal investment” in Datavant which was initially supported by Roivant Sciences, a healthcare company owned by Ramaswamy. In 2018, May helped |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20of%20solidarity | A crime of solidarity or offence of solidarity ( or ) is a concept coined in France by human rights activists in order to fight against organised illegal immigration networks as well as fight against laws that prevent refuge for refugees. The concept has become increasingly popular as a response to the refugee crisis in Europe, the crimes of solidarity are principally seen in France, Italy, Spain and Greece.
It refers to the process when people help refugees and migrants and these actions are criminalised by European courts. There are a range of laws that criminalise these actions, such as laws against facilitation of entry (smuggling) and stay, anti-terror and anti-organised crime laws, anti-protest laws, endangering maritime and airport security, driving an unsafe vessel, espionage, criminal association and membership of a criminal association or network. It affects largely civil society organisations and individuals such as refugee activists, health workers and boat captains as well as refugees trying to help other people migrating.
Origin and application
Initially these laws used to criminalise these acts were aimed at opposing traffickers, however they are now being used against activists or politicians who have a public stance in favour of refugees and asylum seekers, as well as those who protest against deportations by air and those who try to help migrants stuck at sea.
Intimidation, prosecution and convictions of activists and the general public trying to help refugees and asylum seekers has triggered a collective movement, coined "crime de solidarité" or a crime of solidarity, referring to these acts providing aide to refugees and asylum seekers.
Legislation
European Laws
These acts are often criminalised in accordance with the 2002 European Directive which prevents and punishes "the facilitation of the unauthorised entry, transit and residence" of migrants.
French Laws
A crime of solidarity has no legal existence in France, first appearing at the Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés (GISTI) in 1995.
On 6 July 2018, the Constitutional Council ruled that it was partially unconstitutional to criminalise anyone who facilitates the illegal entry or residence of a foreigner in France, referring to the "crime de solidarité" or the "délit de solidarité".
Cédric Herrou
Cédric Herrou is a French olive farmer and immigration activist, famous for his crimes of solidarity. Known internationally for helping 250 migrants cross from Italy to France, which caused his arrest. These actions were later ruled legal by the French Constitutional Council under the "principal of fraternity".
Martine Landry
Martine Landry is a 73 year old French woman who could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €30,000 for helping two 15 year old Guinean asylum seekers in France. According to Landry, while situated on the French side of the Menton-Vintimille border crossing between France and Italy, she saw two Italian police officers return |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarit%20%28name%29 | Sarit is a unisex given name. Notable people with the name include:
Female
Sarit Hadad (born 1978), Israeli musician
Sarit Kraus (born 1960), Israeli academic and computer scientist
Sarit Shenar (born 1983), Israeli football player
Male
Sarit Kumar Das, Indian academic
Sarit Thanarat (1908–1963), Thai military officer and politician
Hebrew feminine given names
Feminine given names
Thai masculine given names
Indian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Unisex given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhaber%20Okriashvili | Kakhaber "Kakha" Okriashvili (Georgian: კახაბერ ოქრიაშვილი; born on 21 March 1966) is a Georgian doctor, businessman, and politician, founder of the PSP pharmacy network and a member of Parliament since 2004.
Starting his career as a doctor in the last years of the Soviet Union, he founded PSP in 1995, a company that he led until 2003, and of which he has remained majority owner since then. In 2003, he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia as an independent candidate to represent the Dmanisi Majoritarian District. Joining the Mikheil Saakashvili-affiliated United National Movement in 2008, he would be reelected that year and again in 2012, before leaving the party weeks after its defeat to Georgian Dream (GD). Formally joining GD in 2014, he was reelected in 2016 in the Dmanisi-Tsalka Majoritarian District.
A staunch conservative, he has often voted outside of party line to oppose major bills like the 2020 labor reform, the 2017 ban on commercial advertisement in Georgian Public Broadcasting, and calling for a pension reform that would allow individuals to opt out of the mandatory retirement system. Most controversially, he was a key vote against a constitutional amendment that would have sped up Georgia's transition from a mixed electoral system to a fully proportional system from 2024 to 2020, causing the bill to fail despite GD's support and prolonging a nationwide political crisis.
In 2020, he left GD and created the Progress and Freedom party with fellow businessman Tsezar Chocheli, and merged it within the UNM-led Strength is in Unity electoral bloc, winning a seat in that year's parliamentary election after a campaign that was characterized for a high level of violent incidents. One of dozens of MPs in boycott, he agreed to rejoin the legislature in May 2021.
Early life and career
Kakhaber Okriashvili was born on 21 March 1966 in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of Soviet Georgia. He has two brothers, Vazha and Nikoloz, both of whom continue to be involved in the various companies founded by him. He graduated from the Tbilisi Medical Institute in 1989, after he which he became head doctor at the Medical Clinic of Gantiadi, a village close to Dmanisi. In 1990, he became the Chief Physician at the Dmanisi District Hospital, a post he held until joining the private sector in 1995.
Kakha Okriashvili contracted COVID-19 on 2 November 2020.
Private sector
In 1995, Kakha Okriashvili and Gocha Gogilashvili, a doctor from Dedoplistsqaro, founded the PSP pharmacy network company, of which he became director until joining the public sector in 2003. By 2012, PSP had grown to become one of the three largest domestic pharmaceutical providers on the Georgian market, competing with Aversi and GPC Pharmacy. While not holding a formal position in the company, he still owns 95% of PSP's shares, while also owning large shares in its subsidiaries, including PSP Insurance and Elektronika 94. Through his family, he controls a large part of the Georgia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy%20%28social%20network%29 | Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums. These hosts, known as "instances", communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol.
History
Lemmy software was created by the user Dessalines on GitHub in February 2019 and licensed under the Affero General Public License.
In a 2020 post, Lemmy's co-creator Dessalines wrote about the origin of the name Lemmy.
"It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from Motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that."
According to the Fediverse statistics website the-federation.info, there were less than 100 instances of Lemmy prior to June 2023, increasing to 1521 instances of Lemmy with a total of 66,000 monthly active users . The most popular instances were lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, each with 27,000 and 4,000 monthly active users respectively, .
Description
Lemmy is made up of a network of individual installations of the Lemmy software known as "instances" that can intercommunicate. This departs from the centralized, monolithic structure of other social media platforms. It has been described as a federated alternative to Reddit.
Users on individual instances submit posts with links, text, or pictures to user-created forums for discussion called "communities". Discussion is in the form of threaded comments. Posts and comments can be upvoted or downvoted.
Communities are local to each instance, however users may subscribe to communities, create posts and leave comments across instances. Moderation is conducted by the administrators of each instance and moderators of specific communities. Community names begin with c/ in the URL (e.g lemmy.ml/c/simpleliving) and are uniquely mentionable using the !community@instance format.
On each instance, a front page presents the user with popular posts from several communities. These posts can then be filtered according to origin: posts from the instance the user is on, or from all federated instances. It can also be made to only show posts from communities the user has subscribed to.
Lemmy instances are generally supported by donations.
Relations with other social networks
ActivityPub is the protocol used to allow Lemmy instances to operate as a federated social network. It allows users to interact with compatible platforms such as Kbin.
In June 2023, following the announcement of Reddit API service changes that would make the continued use of most third-party Reddit clients unfeasible, community members discussed relocating to Lemmy and other Reddit competitors. In an effort to stop the discussion of such migrations, Reddit banned a user for promoting switching to Lemmy along with theplatform migration on a user and '/r/LemmyMigration' community as a whole. Reporting on sites such as Hacker News about the bans promot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20Magnus | Play Magnus may refer to:
Play Magnus Group, a Norwegian chess company co-founded by Magnus Carlsen
Play Magnus (mobile app), a computer chess mobile app developed by Play Magnus Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama%20Shower | is a Japanese programming block on MBS. The programming block is set to run for one year and is a collaboration between MBS and Kadokawa's boys' love programming label, Tunku, to broadcast boys' love television drama series published by the latter. Drama Shower is broadcast on Fridays from 1:29 AM to 1:59 AM JST.
History
On March 4, 2022, Kadokawa Corporation announced their new boys' love drama label, Tunku. The label is produced by Kaoru Azuma, a long-time boys' love fan. As Kadokawa had previously published a variety of boys' love manga and novels, Tunku was created with the purpose of bringing live-action drama adaptations of them worldwide. The name "Tunku" was derived from the Japanese onomatopoeia of a beating heart and the label was named such to "deliver the excitement [of a beating heart] to viewers worldwide." Azuma stated that Kadokawa approved of Tunku immediately due to their familiarity with boys' love culture and they soon gained the interest and approval of MBS to broadcast their projects.
On the same day that Kadokawa announced the establishment of Tunku, MBS announced they were creating a programming block in collaboration with the label, titled Drama Shower, in which they would broadcast boys' love drama adaptations published under the Tunku label. Drama Shower would be broadcast every Friday from 1:29 AM to 1:59 AM JST for a limited run of one year. Azuma stated that despite Drama Shower running for one year, she would be interested in continuing Tunku after Drama Shower's end provided Kadokawa still has interest in the project. The first title announced for Drama Shower was Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!, which began broadcast on April 22, 2022. Despite that the series came from a publisher outside of Kadokawa, Azuma wanted the adaptation to be the first series on Drama Shower because it was seen as accessible to newcomers of the boys' love genre and because it was a romantic comedy. It was followed by Senpai, This Can't Be Love!, Takara-kun & Amagi-kun, Eternal Yesterday, and Candy Color Paradox. In addition to the shows being serialized on Drama Shower, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of all series would be uploaded onto Tunku's Niconico channel as the episodes aired.
Programming
Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! (2022)
Senpai, This Can't Be Love! (2022)
Takane-kun & Amagi-kun (2022)
Eternal Yesterday (2022)
Candy Color Paradox (2022–2023)
Jack Frost (2023)
Tokyo in April is... (2023)
My Personal Weatherman (2023)
One Room Angel (2023)
Notes
References
Television programming blocks in Asia
Yaoi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaneo%202 | The Ayaneo 2 is a handheld gaming computer developed by Ayaneo and released in December 2022. The console uses a Zen 3 processor. It can play PC games on the Windows 11 operating system. It compete against Valve's Steam Deck.
There is also an Ayaneo Geek version, which 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. It will start at $949.
References
2022 in video gaming
Computer-related introductions in 2022
Handheld gaming computers
Products introduced in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattawat%20Jirochtikul | Nattawat Jirochtikul (; born 18 October 2004), known by his nickname Fourth (), is a Thai actor under GMMTV. He began his career when he joined and won in the network's reality contest Thailand School Star 2019. In 2021, he made his acting debut as Glakao in the Thai adaptation of Boys Over Flowers, F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers. Fourth is known for his lead role as Gun in My School President (2022).
Early life and education
Nattawat was born in Bangkok, Thailand on October 18, 2004. He was nicknamed Fourth as he was born on King Rama IV's 200th birthday. He graduated from Saint Gabriel's College by taking the grade twelve equivalency test. He is currently studying Law in Chulalongkorn University.
Career
At the age of fifteen, Fourth joined GMMTV's reality contest Thailand School Star 2019. He and Earn Preeyaphat Lorsuwansiri were chosen as the winners, both signing an exclusive contract with GMMTV.
In 2021, Fourth made his television debut in the role of Glakao Jundee, the younger brother of Gorya played by Tontawan Tantivejakul in the Thai adaptation of Boys Over Flowers, F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers.
In 2021, Fourth made a cameo appearance as a high school junior in Bad Buddy (2021).
On December 2, 2022, the BL series My School President was released, where he played Gun, the love interest of Tinn, played by Gemini Norawit Titicharoenrak.
Fourth also played as Li Ming, the nephew of Uncle Jim, (Earth Pirapat) and Heart's love interest (also played by Gemini Norawit Titicharoenrak) in Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken (2023).
Fourth has his own clothing inspired entrepreneur business, Numone.
During the GMMTV 2023: Diversely Yours event, it was announced that Fourth was to appear in the anthology Our Skyy 2.
Discography
Singles
Filmography
Television series
Television show
References
External links
Fourth Nattawat on Instagram
Nattawat Jirochtikul
Nattawat Jirochtikul
Nattawat Jirochtikul
2004 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949%20in%20American%20television | This is a list of American television-related events in 1949.
Events
Television programs
Debuts
Changes of network affiliation
Ending this year
Television stations
Station launches
Network affiliation changes
Births
Deaths
References
External links
List of 1949 American television series at IMDb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never%20Mind%202022 | Never Mind 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on December 29, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Tokyo Dome City Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the nineteenth event in the Never Mind series.
Production
Background
Since 2001, DDT began producing their year-end shows under the branch of "Never Mind". The events' traditional venue was initially the Korakuen Hall, but during the years, the promotion moved the events to other arenas. These events conclude certain feuds and rivalries built during the year. Between 2017 and 2021, the "Never Mind" series were briefly replaced by the DDT Ultimate Party as the promotion's year-closing events.
Storylines
The event featured twelve professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
There were a total of three title matches during the show. In the first of them, Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada) defeated Kazuki Hirata, Toru Owashi and Naruki Doi to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Endo Suzuki and Okada received a challenge from Pheromones after the match. In the second one, Jun Akiyama successfully defended the DDT Extreme Championship against Super Sasadango Machine in a comedic match which started with both wrestlers who sat down in the middle of the ring playing with their respective toy action figures. The match got physical and solded with Akiyama's victory. The main event saw Kazusada Higuchi securing his fifth consecutive defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship over the 2022 D-Oh Grand Prix winner Yuki Ueno. Higuchi received a challenge from Yuji Hino after the match.
Results
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
DDT Never Mind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never%20Mind%202021 | Never Mind 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on December 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the eighteenth event in the Never Mind series.
Eleven matches were contested at the event, including three on the pre-show, and four of DDT's championships were on the line. The main event saw Konosuke Takeshita defeat Yuji Okabayashi to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches included Disaster Box (Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura) successfully defending the KO-D Tag Team Championship against The Bodyguard and Yuji Hino, and Daisuke Sasaki defeated Masahiro Takanashi to retain the DDT Universal Championship.
Production
Background
Since 2001, DDT began producing their year-end shows under the branch of "Never Mind". The events' traditional venue was initially the Korakuen Hall, but during the years, the promotion moved the events to other arenas. These events conclude certain feuds and rivalries built during the year. Between 2017 and 2021, the Never Mind series were briefly replaced by the DDT Ultimate Party as the promotion's year-closing events.
Storylines
The event featured eleven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The show portraited three title matches, with all of them coming off with the champions retaining their respective titles. The first one saw Damnation T.A.'s leader Daisuke Sasaki scoring the third defense of the DDT Universal Championship against Masahiro Takanashi. Next, the team of Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura securing their first defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championship against The Bodyguard and Yuji Hino. The main event portraited the confrontation between Konosuke Takeshita and Big Japan Pro Wrestling's Yuji Okabayashi which solded with the victory of The 37Kamiina's leader who scored the second defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship.
Results
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
2021 in professional wrestling
CyberAgent
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows
December 2021 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
DDT Never Mind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Durango | This is a list of radio stations in the Mexican state of Durango, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
See also
List of radio stations in Coahuila for stations on the Coahuila side of the Comarca Lagunera
Notes
References
Durango
Durango |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20data%20standards | Clinical data standards are used to store and communicate information related to healthcare so that its meaning is unambiguous. They are used in clinical practice, in activity analysis and finding, and in research and development.
There are many existing and proposed standards and many bodies working in this field.
In addition to standards specific to the clinical domain health informatics relies on other standards that are lower in the communications stack, and on many standards from metrology.
Clinical data standards and interoperability
Interoperability between disparate clinical information systems requires common data standards or mapping of every transaction.
However common data standards alone will not provide interoperability, and the other requirements are identified in "How Standards will Support Interoperability" from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and "Interoperability is more than technology: The role of culture and leadership in joined-up care" from the King's Fund
Barriers to development and use
Barriers to the widespread adoption of effective data standards include:
inconsistency in and poor understanding of the concepts and language used in clinical practice, for example compared to those in chemistry or accounting
rival systems of standards
the cost of implementation or change to better standards
avoidance of commercial competition.
Existing and proposed clinical data standards
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Omaha System
SNOMED
SNOMED CT
ASC X12 (EDI) – transaction protocols used for transmitting patient data. Popular in the United States for transmission of billing data.
CEN's TC/251 provides EHR standards in Europe including:
EN 13606, communication standards for EHR information
CONTSYS (EN 13940), supports continuity of care record standardization.
HISA (EN 12967), a services standard for inter-system communication in a clinical information environment.
Continuity of Care Record – ASTM International Continuity of Care Record standard
DICOM – an international communications protocol standard for representing and transmitting radiology (and other) image-based data, sponsored by NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association)
HL7 (HL7v2, C-CDA) – a standardized messaging and text communications protocol between hospital and physician record systems, and between practice management systems
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) – a modernized proposal from HL7 designed to provide open, granular access to medical information
ISO – ISO TC 215 provides international technical specifications for EHRs. ISO 18308 describes EHR architectures
xDT – a family of data exchange formats for medical purposes that is used in the German public health system.
openEHR: an open community developed specification for a shared health record with web-based content developed online by experts. Strong multilingual capability.
Virtual Medical Record: HL7's proposed model for interfacing with clin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanoGrama | PanoGrama is a steelpan competition for soloists, created by Nevin Roach. The program broadcasts on CBC TV8 and other networks. It premiered on April 24, 2020, during the height of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, to provide entertainment.
The program attracts a variety of participants from across the Caribbean, the United States, Canada and Europe. The performances consist of a wide variety of musical genres – reggae, soca, calypso, gospel, jazz and others. Each participant attempts to progress to the finals and win the title, by impressing a panel of judges. The current line-up consists of Liam Teague, Victor Provost, Mia Gormandy-Benjamin, Ojay Richards and Andy Chichester. The winner receives a cash prize, and since the second season, a chance to headline a show Canada.
Since May 2020 the program has run for a total of three seasons.The third season of the series premiered in May 2022 and featured five countries in the final. It has helped young pannists to take major steps in their music careers.
History
The concept of PanoGrama was devised by Tobagonian Nevin Roach, who sought to create a steelpan competition that caters to the development of youth, to help steelpannists in need, and to entertain the international steelpan community. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Roach had a lightbulb moment when he saw other creatives streaming live entertainment on social media. It made history as the first online steelpan competition. The name PanoGrama is a combination of Panorama and Instagram since the very first season was broadcast exclusively on Instagram, before the competition expanded to television. Earl Brooks Jr. won the inaugural competition.
The competition took a break in 2023 to restructure.
Format
Each year's competition begins with virtual auditions, where aspiring participants submit a performance video to be reviewed by a panel. Once the participants make it past the audition stage, they compete in the preliminary round. Qualified judges determine which participants make it to the semifinals and finals. The number of participants is cut from round to round. Participants must also participate in development workshops aimed at providing tools for a successful career.
Season synopses
Season 1 (2020)
The first season for PanoGrama was promoted and aired in April 2020. Participants were accepted on a registration basis and were allowed to compete without screening. All episodes aired live on Instagram. The first season was hosted by Nevin Roach, with the judging panel consisting of Ojay Richards, David Walcott and Kenneth Joseph. The first season was won by Earl Brooks Jr. (T&T), followed by Dejean Cain (T&T) in 2nd and Kersh Ramsey (T&T) in 3rd. Mikey Mercer, Nandi Yard, Hance John and Jadon Philip were guest performers. The winner received cash.
Season 2 (2021)
Following the success of the previous season, PanoGrama received more final injections for the project and got its first title sponsor. It was renamed th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchwork%20Heroes | Patchwork Heroes () is an action game that was released on February 18, 2010 for PlayStation Portable; it was additionally made available for PlayStation Vita via the PlayStation Network. As a PlayStation C.A.M.P! project developed by Acquire, it was published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Gameplay
Similar in genre to Taito's Qix, the goal is to cut the warship into pieces within the time limit displayed on the top part of the screen. Players can cut the warship by holding the circle button while moving. When a warship is cut from one side to the other, the smaller side of the cut falls off of it. This action is repeated until the warship becomes unable to move. (The percentage remaining is displayed in the upper left of the screen).
The timer temporarily stops according to the percentage of the warship that has been cut away. On the warship, there is a gray portion; this can only be destroyed using "mojo", which is gained by cutting off parts of the warship or by using items, to perform a mojo attack (which drains mojo), or by using a bomb in exchange for allies. Mojo attacks cause speed of movement to slow down, but once they are activated, they continue until the gauge runs out. Depending on the bomb item used, the direction of the blast changes. The R button is used to defend against enemy attacks. Sometimes allies are on the warship; touching the prison that the allies are trapped in rescues them. However, if the prison is cut away from the warship without the allies being rescued first, they cannot be saved.The game ends if allies are lost to enemy attacks, if the player is hit by the enemy when there are no allies, or when the player mistakenly enters the range of a bomb blast.
Plot
The story takes place in a world brimming with trees, where civilizations have been replaced time and time again, yet in an age where people have finally begun to live peacefully. People who dug up an ancient civilization's power plant settled near it and created a small town. At the same time, giant warships suddenly began to take movement in various places around the world. Although there is nobody on these warships, they fly as they wish, violently dropping missiles to the ground. One day, one of these warships came to a town in which people lived. Lacking strong weaponry, the townspeople got onto the warships in order to fight. And so, the fight between the town and the warship continued for an outrageously long time.
In the midst of that fight, a single child was rescued from inside of the warship. This child was given the name Titori and raised by the townspeople. The story begins as Titori becomes the leader of the group.
References
External links
アクワイア『100万トンのバラバラ』開発サイト - Official developers' site
2010 video games
PlayStation Portable games
Action games
Single-player video games
Acquire (company) games
Video games developed in Japan
PlayStation Portable-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Japan Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddu%20Majra | Dadu Majra is a village located in Fatehgarh Sahib district in Punjab, India. The village is situated 23 km away from Fatehgarh Sahib district headquarter. According to the 2011 census data of India Dadu Majra village has a total population of 1,586 peoples.
Population
References
Villages in Fatehgarh Sahib district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV%20%28Indonesia%29 | VTV, previously named sportOne is a private television network in Indonesia owned by Visi Media Asia (VIVA), a unit of Bakrie Group.
References
External links
Television networks in Indonesia
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Bakrie Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated%20local%20effects | Accumulated local effects (ALE) is a machine learning interpretability method.
Concepts
ALE uses a conditional feature distribution as an input and generates augmented data, creating more realistic data than a marginal distribution.
It ignores far out-of-distribution (outlier) values. Unlike partial dependence plots and marginal plots, ALE is not defeated in the presence of correlated predictors.
It analyzes differences in predictions instead of averaging them by calculating the average of the differences in model predictions over the augmented data, instead of the average of the predictions themselves.
Example
Given a model that predicts house prices based on its distance from city center and size of the building area, ALE compares the differences of predictions of houses of different sizes. The result separates the impact of the size from otherwise correlated features.
Limitations
Defining evaluation windows is subjective. High correlations between features can defeat the technique. ALE requires more and more uniformly distributed observations than PDP so that the conditional distribution can be reliably determined. The technique may produce inadequate results if the data is highly sparse, which is more common with high-dimensional data (curse of dimensionality).
See also
Interpretability (machine learning)
References
External links
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwattle%20Bay%20ferry%20service | The Blackwattle ferry service, officially known as F10 Blackwattle Bay, is a commuter ferry service in Sydney, New South Wales. Part of the Sydney Ferries network, it is operated by Transdev Sydney Ferries. The service shuttles between Barangaroo and Blackwattle Bay, taking 13 minutes.
The service was initially introduced in November 2019, as an on-demand service between four wharves, but was closed as a results of the COVID-19 pandemic. However it was reintroduced in November 2021 as a timetabled service while the Inner West Light Rail was closed. In December 2022, the service was made permanent.
The service is not part of the Opal network, and instead must be paid for on board using credit or debit card.
References
External links
Ferry transport in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20original%20shows%20by%20Czech%20Television | The following is a list of original programs of Czech Television network.
Series
4teens (2011)
Ach, ty vraždy! (2010–2012)
Bohéma (2017)
Božena (2021)
Boží mlýny (2011)
Bylo nás šest (1994)
Cirkus Bukowsky (2013–2014)
Clona (2014)
Cukrárna (2011)
Čapkovy kapsy (2011)
Černá sanitka (2008)
Černí baroni (2004)
České století (2013)
Četnické humoresky (1997–2007)
Četníci z Luhačovic (2017)
Čtvrtá hvězda (2014)
Dabing Street (2018)
Devadesátky (2022)
Dobrá čtvrť (2005–2008)
Dobré ráno, Brno! (Since 2023)
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky (1989–1994)
Docent (Since 2023)
Doktor Martin (2015–2018)
Ďáblova lest (2009)
Ententýky (2012)
Hlava Medúzy (2021)
Hraběnky (2007)
Inspektor Max (2018)
Inženýrská odysea (1979–2006)
Jak si nepodělat život (2019)
Já, Mattoni (2016)
Josef a Ly (2004)
Kancl (2014)
Kosmo (2016)
Kriminálka Staré Město (2010–2013)
Kukačky (Since 2021)
Lovec (TBA)
Lynč (2018)
Maharal – Tajemství talismanu (2007)
Marta a Věra (2014–2016)
Mazalové (2014–2017)
Místo zločinu České Budějovice (Since 2023)
Místo zločinu Ostrava (2020)
Místo zločinu Plzeň (2015)
Modré stíny (2016)
Most! (2019)
Na cestě (Since 2006)
Nádraží (2017)
Náměstíčko (2004)
Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech (2003–2004)
Nemocnice na kraji města – nové osudy (2008)
Neviditelní (2014)
Nevinné lži (2013–2014)
Ochránce (2021)
Oktopus (Since 2023)
Osada (Since 2021)
Pět mrtvých psů (2016)
Podezření (2022)
Poldové a nemluvně (2020)
Poste restante (2010)
Pozadí událostí (2022)
Proč bychom se netopili
První republika (2014–2018)
Případ pro exorcistu (2015)
Případy 1. oddělení (2014–2022)
Přítelkyně z domu smutku (1992)
Ranč U Zelené sedmy (1998–2005)
Rapl (2016–2019)
Reportérka (2015)
Rédl (2018)
Rudyho má každý rád (2015)
Staturnin (1994)
Spravedlnost (2017)
Stíny v mlze (Since 2022)
Stockholmský syndrom (2020)
Strážce duší (2003–2008)
Strážmistr Topinka (2019)
Svět pod hlavou (2017)
Škola Na Výsluní (2006)
Špunti na cestě (2022)
Tajemství rodu (2013–2015)
To se vysvětlí, soudruzi! (TBA)
Trapný padesátky (2017)
Trpaslík (2016–2017)
Tři králové (1998)
Ultimátum (2022)
Území bílých králů (1991)
Volha (Since 2023)
Vyprávěj (2009–2013)
Vzteklina (2018)
Zdivočelá země (1997–2012)
Zločiny Velké Prahy (2021)
Znamení koně (2011–2015)
Zrádci (2020)
Ztracená brána (2012)
Živé terče (2019)
Život a doba soudce A. K. (2014–2017)
Quiz shows
AZ-kvíz
Award shows
Český Lev
Peče celá země
Věříš si?
StarDance
News
Branky, body, vteřiny
Události
Reality shows
Holiday in the Protectorate
Hobby-related shows
Auto Moto Revue
Auto Moto Styl
Kluci v akci
Publicistic shows
13. komnata
168 hodin
Černé ovce
Experiment
Fokus Václava Moravce
Kalendárium
Reportéři ČT
Toulavá kamera
Comedial shows
3 plus 1 s Miroslavem Donutilem (2004-2010)
Česká soda (1993–1997)
Pečený sněhulák (2014)
Tak neváhej a toč! (1995–2007)
Televarieté (1971–1998)
Talk show
Banánové rybičky
Otázky V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%20Innovation%202022 | N Innovation 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on December 23, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Shinjuku Face. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the last pay-per-view promoted by Noah in 2022.
Background
Storylines
The event featured six professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event has been opened by the confrontation between one of the promotion's veteran Hi69 and rookie Shoki Kitamura which ended with the latter's victory. Next, Alejandro, Andy Wu and Ninja Mack picked up a victory over Kongo's Hajime Ohara, Shuji Kondo and Tadasuke. The third match saw Yasutaka Yano picking up a victory over Nosawa Rongai. The fourth match portraited the bout between Yoshinari Ogawa and Eita which ended in a no-contest. There have been two title fights in the main card. The first saw Yo-Hey teaming up with Dragon Gate's Kzy and defeating Stinger's sub-group tag team of Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
The main event portraited the confrontation between Dante Leon and Amakusa for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship which solded with the latter's victory and with Leon failing to score his first defense. After the match, Amakusa received a challenge from Junta Miyawaki for "The New Year 2023" on January 1.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification%20of%20the%20London%20and%20South%20Western%20Railway | The Electrification of the LSWR refers to the installation of electric traction on the London and South Western Railway surface network, and its successor the Western Section of the Southern Railway, in England. The LSWR started a programme of electrification in response to rising costs and loss of traffic to street tramways; the first installation was to Kingston, Richmond, Hounslow, Hampton Court and Shepperton, starting in 1917. The third rail DC system was used, as it was assessed to be considerably cheaper to install and maintain than the overhead systems then in use. The rolling stock was constructed by the conversion of relatively new coaches built for suburban steam-hauled operation. The LSWR generated its own electric power at a new power station near Wimbledon. A frequent regular-interval timetable was implemented and the system was a considerable success.
The Government forced the Grouping of the railways in 1923, under the Railways Act 1921 and the LSWR was part of the larger Southern Railway, together with the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR). The LBSCR had adopted an overhead contact system at 6.6kV25Hz for its suburban network. The Southern Railway considered the two systems and decided to adopt the LSWR third rail system, and in due course the LBSCR system was converted, and the third rail system was installed over a large proportion of the suburban area of the Southern Railway, as well as some main line installations. The Portsmouth Direct line was electrified in 1937.
The Southern Railway was nationalised in 1948 and further extensions of the system were installed by British Railways. An overhead contact system was adopted as standard for new routes that were not an extension of existing third rail networks. The third rail system is now (2022) operational over 14% of the total rail network in Great Britain, equating to 36% of the electrified network.
Prior systems
First installations
The first public electric railway in the world was opened in 1881 in Berlin. An electric tramway service for the use of the public began running from the Anhalt station in Berlin to the suburb of Lichterfelde Ost, as an experimental demonstration system. It ran on dedicated metre-gauge track with an overhead contact wire at 180V, over a length of . It was installed by Siemens & Halske.
In August 1883 Magnus Volk inaugurated the first of his electric railways at Brighton, using a 50VDC third rail system, and in September 1883, an electric line was brought into service in Portrush, Ireland, in connection with the Giant's Causeway. It used a third-rail contact system at 290VDC. In 1899 the contact system was altered to an overhead contact wire. Voltage drop proved to be an issue.
Overhead line systems
In 1908 the Lancaster to Morecambe and Heysham line was electrified at 6.6kV25 Hz by the Midland Railway as an experiment to demonstrate the practical use of such a system.
In 1903 the Lond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20The%20New%20Year%202023 | NOAH The New Year 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on January 1, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Nippon Budokan. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It was the first pay-per-view promoted by Noah in 2023.
This event was notable for the appearance of WWE's Shinsuke Nakamura of the SmackDown brand division who had defeated The Great Muta in his final singles match.
Background
Storylines
The event featured eleven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Preliminary matches
The show started with the confrontation between Yasutaka Yano and Taishi Ozawa which ended with the latter's victory. In the second bout, Daiki Inaba, Masa Kitamiya, and Yoshiki Inamura picked up a victory over Akitoshi Saito, Muhammad Yone, and Shuhei Taniguchi. Next, Alejandro, Dante Leon and Ninja Mack defeated Kongo (Hi69, Shuji Kondo and Tadasuke). The fourth match saw Dragon Gate's Masaaki Mochizuki, Susumu Mochizuki and Mochizuki Jr. picking up a voctory over El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and Stinger's Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka. Next, another loss of Kongo's stable was represented by Katsuhiko Nakajima, Masakatsu Funaki, Manabu Soya and Hajime Ohara in front of Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin, Nosawa Rongai and Hiroshi Hase, where Hase was revealed as the mystery partner. The sixth match saw Jack Morris defeating Timothy Thatcher. After the match concluded, Jake Lee appeared and aligned himself with Morris. Next, Amakusa secured his first defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Junta Miyawaki. Later on, Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima secured their third defense of the GHC Tag Team Championship against New Japan Pro Wrestling's Kenta and Naomichi Marufuji. In the eighth bout, Yoshinari Ogawa and Los Perros del Mal de Japón's Eita defeated Yo-Hey and Kzy to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. In the semi main event, Kaito Kiyomiya secured the third defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Kenoh.
Main event
The show's main event portraited the final Noah appearance of The Great Muta before his retirement ceremony which will occur on February 21, 2023. He faced WWE's Shinsuke Nakamura in a losing effort which concluded in little over eighteen minutes. The match ended after a "green mist" and a Kinshasa. After the match, Nakamura helped Muta up, showing a sign of respect and sportsmanship.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2023 in professional wrestling
January 2023 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20Evasive%20Adaptive%20Threat | A Highly Evasive Adaptive Threat (HEAT) is a cybersecurity attack type designed to bypass traditional network security defenses.:. HEAT attacks are designed to find ways around protections that have been in place for years. HEAT attacks are able to bypass typical cybersecurity controls like Secure Web Gateways (SWG) and anti-malware capabilities through malicious links disguised as common URLs that victims assume to be safe. HEAT attacks go beyond traditional phishing methods, which have historically been launched by way of email, by inserting themselves into links that are not flagged by anti-phishing software. Similar to most cybersecurity threats, the drivers of HEAT attacks are primarily monetary and political. HEAT attacks focus on technical limitations of commonly deployed security tools with the primary target being web browsers. Nation-states and cybercriminals typically use HEAT attacks for phishing attempts or ransomware initial access.
Highly Adaptive Evasive Threats (HEAT) require adaptive threat analysis technology to catch threats missed by other approaches.
Definition
HEAT attacks demonstrate four primary characteristics
Evades offline categorization and threat detection - HEAT attacks bypass URL filtering by using ephemeral and/or compromised malicious sites with benign categorization.
Evades malicious link analysis - HEAT attacks bypass Email Security Tools by expanding from email phishing links to other sources such as web, social media, sms, and file sharing platforms.
Evades static and dynamic content inspection - HEAT attacks bypass file based inspection by using dynamic file downloads (ie. HTML smuggling).
Evades HTTP traffic inspection - HEAT attacks bypass HTTP Content/Page Inspection by using dynamically generated and/or obfuscated content (javascript code and images).
History and Notable HEAT Attacks
Though some of the techniques used in HEAT attacks have been in the industry for several years, the increasing trends towards remote work, increasing use of SaaS and browser based applications, and ransomware attacks have accelerated adoption of HEAT techniques by attackers.
DURI - the DURI HEAT attack was discovered in 2020. Duri's payload was malware that had been previously detected. However the delivery method evolved to use a HEAT attack technique, HTML smuggling, to increase its infection rate of targeted endpoints :.
Qakbot - Qakbot is a banking trojan that has been in use since at least 2007. Qakbot is actively maintained and recent modifications include the use of HEAT attacks such as password protected zip files.
Nobelium - Nobelium malware is typically used in attacks focused on financial services and other highly targeted victims. The smuggling technique encoded a script within a web page or HTML attachment. The user's web browser decodes the script which subsequently creates the malware payload on the host computer. :.
References
Information sensitivity
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20original%20shows%20by%20Prima%20televize | The following is a list of original programs of Prima televize network.
Series
1. mise (2021–2022)
3 + 1 z Jetelína (2018)
Aféry (2011)
Agrometal''' (2023-current)
Banáni (2023-current)
Bazén (2005)
Bodyguardi (2023-current)
Cesty domů (2010–2015)
Černé vdovy (2019-current)
Dobré zprávy (2022-current)
Duch (2022-current)
Dvojka na zabití (2021)
Einstein – Případy nesnesitelného génia (2021-current)
Eliška a Damián (2023-current)
Hořký svět (2022)
Hvězdy nad hlavou (2021)
Jetelín (2016–2018)
Kapitán Exner (2017)
Krejzovi (2018–2019)
Křižovatky života (2013–2015)
Letiště (2006–2007)
Linka (2019)
Malá velká liga (2023-current)
Modrý kód (2017–2020)
Mordparta (2016–2017)
Na vlnách Jadranu (TBA)
O mé rodině a jiných mrtvolách (2011)
Obchoďák (2012)
Ohnivý kuře (2016–2018)
Ošklivka Katka (2008–2009)
Pálava (2022)
Po hlavě (2020)
Pod hladinou (2023-current)
Polda (Since 2016)
Poslední oběť (2023)
Přešlapy (2009–2010)
Přístav (2015-2017)
Půlnoční zpověď (2023)
Rodinka (2011)
Rodinná pouta (2004-2006)
Sedm schodů k moci (2023)
Sestřičky (2020–2021)
Slunečná (2020–2022)
Svatby v Benátkách (2014–2015)
Tátové na tahu (2018)
Temný kraj (2017–2019)
V.I.P. vraždy (2016–2018)
Velmi křehké vztahy (2007–2009)
Vinaři (2014–2015)
Všechny moje lásky (2015–2016)
Základka (2012)
Zákony vlka (2023-current)
Zázraky života (2010–2012)
Zoo (2022-current)
Quiz shows
Ber nebo neber MilionářAward shows
Mattoni Koktejl Festival News
Krimi zprávy Hlavní zprávy Showtime Počasí Reality shows
Ano, šéfe! (2009–2018)
Ano, šéfová! (2018)
Bar Rozpal to, šéfe! (2014–2021)
Rozpal to ve Španělsku, šéfe! (2018)
Vyvolení Zlatá maska Publicistic shows
Prima Svět (Since 1995)
Autosalon.tv (Since 2005)
Partie (Since 2005)
Cesty k úspěchu(Since 2011)
Cyklosalon.tv (Since 2021)
Fotr na tripu (Since 2021)
Případy Josefa Klímy (Since 2023)
Comedial shows
Inkognito Máme rádi Česko Nečum na mě show Můj muž to dokáže Prima Partička TelebazarTalent shows
X Factor Talk show
Show Jana Krause 7 pádů Honzy Dědka Jednou jsi dole, jednou nahoře QIOther shows
Policie v akci''
References
Prima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20original%20shows%20by%20TV%20Barrandov | The following is a list of original programs of TV Barrandov network.
Series
Bastardi
Bezdružice
Cyranův ostrov
Čechovi
Doktorka Kellerová
Noha 22
Odsouzené
Ona a On
Premiér
Profesionálové
Rodinné vztahy
Soudce Alexandr
Soudkyně Barbara
Sousedé
Stopy života
News
Krimi zprávy
Moje zprávy
Naše zprávy
VIP svět
Comedial shows
Vtip za stovku!
Talk show
Aréna Jaromíra Soukupa
Duel Jaromíra Soukupa
Hovory Kalousek Soukup
INSTINKTY Jaromíra Soukupa
Na ostří nože se Soukupem
Na rovinu se Soukupem, realita v talk show
Týden s prezidentem
Other shows
Agáta Jaromíra Soukupa
Nebezpečné vztahy
References
Barrandov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magandang%20Dilag | () is a 2023 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Herlene Budol in the title role. It premiered on June 26, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing AraBella. The series is set to conclude on November 10, 2023 with a total of 99 episodes. It will be replaced by Stolen Life in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Herlene Budol as Georgina "Gigi" De Jesus-Robles / Gretchen "Greta V." Veneracion
Supporting cast
Benjamin Alves as Ericson "Eric" Oliveros
Rob Gomez as Jared Illusorio
Maxine Medina as Blaire Escudero
Sandy Andolong as Luisa De Jesus
Chanda Romero as Sofia Veneracion vda. de Robles
Adrian Alandy as Magnus Illusorio
Bianca Manalo as Riley Tevez-Illusorio
Muriel Lomadilla as Madonna "Donna" Arevalo
Prince Clemente as Cyrus
Angela Alarcon as Allison Flores / Alfredo Flores
Jade Tecson as Jadah Flores
Guest cast
Al Tantay as Joaquin Robles
Ramjean Entera as young Georgina "Gigi" De Jesus Robles
Jhoana Marie Tan as Thelma Sanchez
Zonia Mejia as Bella Veneracion Robles
Vincent Magbanua as young Magnus Illusorio
Bryce Eusebio as young Jared Illusorio
Elle Ramirez as Lily Bunayog
Divina Valencia as Lily Bunayog's mother
Clarence Delgado as Pio Salazar's son
Ira Ruzz as Abegail "Abby" Menor
Richard Yap as Robert Jose "RJ" Tanyag
John Rex Baculfo as a fashion show performer
Faye Lorenzo as Missy Chan
Julie Lee as Noreen Costales
Patricia Tumulak as Tess
Dos Quizon as Alfredo Flores
Victor Sy as Pablo Ikaru
Episodes
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Casting
Actor Richard Yap made a cameo appearance as RJ Tanyag, a hospital physician who originated from the Philippine TV medical drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap.
Production
Principal photography commenced on November 30, 2022.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series about revenge
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma%20Y.%20Alan%C3%ADs | Alma Yolanda Alanís García (born 1980) is a Mexican electrical engineer and control theorist specializing in intelligent control, and in particular in the use of artificial neural networks for applications including the control of electric motors, robot manipulators, and unmanned aerial vehicles. She is a chair professor and researcher in the Department of Computational Sciences at the University of Guadalajara.
Education and career
Alanís was born in Durango in 1980, and earned an electrical engineering degree from the Durango Institute of Technology in 2002. She did her graduate study in electrical engineering at the Guadalajara unit of CINVESTAV, earning a master's degree in 2004 and completing her doctorate in 2007. Her dissertation, Discrete-time Neural Control: Application to Induction Motors, was jointly supervised by Edgar N. Sanchez and Alexander G. Loukianov.
She took her present position at the University of Guadalajara in 2008.
Books
Alanís is the coauthor of books including:
Discrete-Time High Order Neural Control: Trained with Kalman Filtering (with Edgar N. Sanchez and Alexander G. Loukianov, Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence 112, 2008)
Decentralized Neural Control: Application to Robotics (with Ramon García-Hernández, Michel López-Franco, Edgar N. Sanchez, and José A. Ruz-Hernández, Springer Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 96, 2017)
Discrete-Time Neural Observers: Analysis and Applications (with Edgar N. Sanchez, Academic Press, 2017)
Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering (with Nancy Arana-Daniel and Carlos López-Franco, Elsevier, 2018)
Neural Networks for Robotics: An Engineering Perspective (with Nancy Arana-Daniel and Carlos López-Franco, CRC Press, 2019)
Neural Networks Modeling and Control: Applications for Unknown Nonlinear Delayed Systems in Discrete Time (with Jorge D. Ríos, Nancy Arana-Daniel, Carlos López-Franco, Academic Press, 2020)
She is also co-editor of:
Artificial Neural Networks for Engineering Applications (with Nancy Arana-Daniel and Carlos López-Franco, Elsevier, 2019)
Recognition
Alanis is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, elected in 2017.
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
People from Durango City
Mexican engineers
Mexican women engineers
Control theorists
Academic staff of the University of Guadalajara
Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msheireb%20Tram | Msheireb Tram is a transport network in Msheireb Downtown of Doha. The Tram network is a single 2 km, closed-loop track system that includes nine stops, making it easier for visitors to access all parts of the city district. The network uses three hydrogen vehicles. The Msheireb Tram interconnects the entirety of Msheireb Downtown Doha, running along a two-kilometre closed loop track that takes roughly 18 minutes to complete. The network is served by a fleet of three hydrogen vehicles provided by TIG/m, United States. Built at the TIG/m facility in California, the cars are air-conditioned and feature light-filtering glass panels that reduce the sun's heat effect by 90 percent.
Station
Sahat Al Nakheel Station
Wadi Msheireb Station
Galleria Station
Msheireb Prayer Ground Station
Heritage Quarter Station
Al Baraha Station
Sahat Al-Masjid Station
Al Kahraba Street Station
Al Mariah Street Station
References
Doha
2019 establishments in Qatar
Rail transport in Qatar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zola%20Mashariki | Zola Mashariki (born Los Angeles, United States) is an American attorney, film producer and executive. She is the head of Audible Studios. Mashariki also served as the Head of Original Programming and Executive Vice President of BET Network. She was also the Senior Vice President of Production for Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Early life and career
Zola Mashariki Reyes was born in Los Angeles, California. Mashariki attended Dartmouth College where she studied Arts and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the institution in 1994. After attending Dartmouth College she enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1994 and obtained a Doctor of Law. She taught at the University of South California.
Mashariki started her career in 2000 when started working for Fox Searchlight Pictures as the Senior Vice President, Production. Between 2000 and 2015 some of her successful projects with Searchlight were book adaptations including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Last King of Scotland, The Secret Life of Bees, In America, Never Let Me Go and Antwone Fisher. While at Searchlight during the acquisition process she also worked on Slumdog Millionaire and 12 Years a Slave.
In 2015, she was announced as head of original programming at BET. Mashariki led the creative team and oversaw the programming for BET and Centric Networks. Mashariki also executive produced and developed The New Edition Story which gave BET its highest ratings in a decade and won two NAACP Image Awards. She has collaborated with Laurence Fishburne on Nelson Mandela's miniseries Madiba and with John Singleton on his series Rebel.
Mashariki joined Good Films, LLC as its chief content officer where she was in charge of its 2020 film Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. She is the co-founder of the African Grove Institute for the Arts.
Mashariki was named as the head of Audible Studios in April 2021.
Filmography
References
Living people
American film producers
American lawyers
21st-century American women lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon%20Safes%20Inc. | Nippon Safes Inc. is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Italian developer Dynabyte. It was released in 1992 for MS-DOS and Amiga computers. The game is the predecessor to The Big Red Adventure and features cartoonish, comics-style graphics and a unique icon-based interface. In 2021 the game was declared freeware by the original authors of the game.
Gameplay
Nippon Safes Inc. is notable for its engine, the "Parallaction" system. This system allows players to control three different heroes – Doug, a smart safe cracker; Dino, a strong but dumb boxer; and Donna, a sexy club dancer. Players can choose to play as any of these characters or all three, as each character has their own story to follow and puzzles to solve. The stories of the three characters intersect at certain points, but players can also choose to focus on just one character if they prefer. The gameplay has been compared to Lucasarts' Day of the Tentacle, which was released one year later.
Reception
Overall, Nippon Safes Inc. received positive reviews for its humorous writing, clever puzzles, and innovative use of the Parallaction system. Amiga Power compared the game to Curse of Enchantia and Monkey Island and thought the game difficulty was optimal.
References
External links
Nippon Safes Inc. at the Hall of Light
Review at Hardcore Gaming 101
1992 video games
Adventure games
Amiga games
DOS games
Freeware games
Point-and-click adventure games
ScummVM-supported games
Video games developed in Italy
Video games featuring female protagonists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguanodectes%20spilurus | Iguanodectes spilurus, the green-line lizard tetra, is a small characiform fish from the rivers of South America. It is not a well-studied species, but research is available, including data from hobbyists that keep it as an ornamental fish. It has a distinct lateral stripe of reflective-green scales, and lacks any red markings therein; red is common in congeners' lateral stripes (and is thus a differentiating feature).
For a time, researchers had uncertainties regarding the taxonomic status of I. spilurus. It was originally named as a member of sister genus Piabucus, and then was described with the name I. tenuis. However, its modern placement as a member of Iguanodectes with specific name spilurus is generally accepted by the scientific community.
Description
Iguanodectes spilurus is a small fish, reaching a maximum of 10.2 cm (4.0 in) in standard length (SL). Based on hobbyist reports, captive specimens, or specimens for sale in the trade, more often reach a maximum of roughly 5 cm (2 in). Its body is silvery in color, its fins are largely translucent, and it lacks a red lateral stripe (which is seen in multiple other members of the genus). Instead, its lateral-line scales are reflective green in color, which is the origin of one of its common names - "green-line lizard tetra". The base of its caudal fin sports a distinct black spot.
Iguanodectes is generally a complex genus in terms of morphology, both interspecies and intraspecies, and I. spilurus is an example of this. Ichthyologist Jacques Gery considered it a polymorphic species (i.e. a species that has multiple documented different appearances or forms), though acknowledged uncertainty regarding the causes and mechanisms therein. Several comparative factors can help differentiate it from similar congeners, including its number of lateral-line scales (60-64) and predorsal scales (24).
All members of Iguanodectes are narrow-bodied and shallow-chested, lacking the deep chest seen in sister genus Piabucus. The pectoral fins are also shorter in Iguanodectes.
Sexual dimorphism
The sexual dimorphism of I. spilurus is minor, but present. Males have small hooks or protrusions on the first few rays of the anal fin during mating season, which is not uncommon in the family Iguanodectidae as a whole. It is more prominent in related genus Bryconops, from the same family.
Taxonomy
Iguanodectes spilurus was originally described as Piabuca spilurus by German-British zoologist Albert Günther in 1864. American ichthyologist Edward Drinker Cope later described it as Iguanodectes tenuis in 1872, under the impression that he was studying a separate species entirely; this was possibly due to the varying coloration of I. spilurus. I. tenius and P. spilurus were synonymized by American ichthyologist James Erwin Böhlke in 1954, with input from Ethelwynn Trewavas, a fellow ichthyologist. Its generic placement within Iguanodectes, a novel genus upon nomination of I. tenuis, was deemed correct based on morph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called confabulation or delusion) is a response generated by an AI which contains false or misleading information presented as fact. For example, a hallucinating chatbot might, when asked to generate a financial report for a company, falsely state that the company's revenue was $13.6 billion (or some other number apparently "plucked from thin air").
Such phenomena are termed "hallucinations", in loose analogy with the phenomenon of hallucination in human psychology. However, one key difference is that human hallucination is usually associated with false percepts, but an AI hallucination is associated with the category of unjustified responses or beliefs. Some researchers believe the specific term "AI hallucination" unreasonably anthropomorphizes computers.
AI hallucination gained prominence around 2022 alongside the rollout of certain large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Users complained that such bots often seemed to pointlessly embed plausible-sounding random falsehoods within their generated content. By 2023, analysts considered frequent hallucination to be a major problem in LLM technology.
Analysis
Various researchers cited by Wired have classified adversarial hallucinations as a high-dimensional statistical phenomenon, or have attributed hallucinations to insufficient training data. Some researchers believe that some "incorrect" AI responses classified by humans as "hallucinations" in the case of object detection may in fact be justified by the training data, or even that an AI may be giving the "correct" answer that the human reviewers are failing to see. For example, an adversarial image that looks, to a human, like an ordinary image of a dog, may in fact be seen by the AI to contain tiny patterns that (in authentic images) would only appear when viewing a cat. The AI is detecting real-world visual patterns that humans are insensitive to. However, these findings have been challenged by other researchers. For example, it was objected that the models can be biased towards superficial statistics, leading adversarial training to not be robust in real-world scenarios.
In natural language processing
In natural language processing, a hallucination is often defined as "generated content that is nonsensical or unfaithful to the provided source content". Depending on whether the output contradicts the prompt or not they could be divided to closed-domain and open-domain respectively.
Hallucination was shown to be a statistically inevitable byproduct of any imperfect generative model that is trained to maximize training likelihood, such as GPT-3, and requires active learning (such as Reinforcement learning from human feedback) to be avoided. Errors in encoding and decoding between text and representations can cause hallucinations. AI training to produce diverse responses can also lead to hallucination. Hallucinations can also occur when the AI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202023%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
See also
2023 in music
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blokur | Blokur is a music rights and data platform based in London which provides global music reporting and licensing for digital products and services. The company is an official partner of the MLC (Mechanical Licensing Collective).
Overview
Blokur was founded in 2017 by Phil Barry, a former recording artist who was inspired to build a platform that would help address the issue of recording artists not being paid effectively. The platform uses data engineering and sub-graph matching technology to link song recordings with their underlying compositions to tackle issues with misrepresentations of song data, difficulties with reporting on music use and identifying music licensing coverage.
Blokur released a 2020 Songwriter's Review, a report which calculates the best-performing global songwriter based on their shares in the top streamed songs. Tones and I topped the chart due to being the sole writer on her hit song Dance Monkey. The second instalment of the report, the 2021 Songwriter's Review, was sponsored by The Ivor's Academy. That year, Olivia Rodrigo was announced as the top songwriter following the commercial success of her album Sour.
Company
Blokur has partnerships with audio delivery companies 7digital and Tuned Global. The company's funders include Innovate UK and Ascension. In 2022, the company began working to build the copyright hub for IMPEL (International Collective of Independent Music Publishers).
References
Music publishing
Music licensing organizations
Music databases
Music organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Global%20Honored%20Crown%202022 | NOAH Global Honored Crown 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on November 10, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Background
Storylines
The event featured six professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
The event has been opened by the confrontation between the rookie teams of Daishi Ozawa and Yasutaka Yano, and Kai Fujimura and Yoshiki Inamura, bout solded with the victory of the latter team. In the second match, Kongo (Hajime Ohara and Shuji Kondo) defeated Stinger (Atsushi Kotoge and Seiki Yoshioka) to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The next bout saw Dante Leon defeating Ninja Mack to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career. Next, Satoshi Kojima and Takashi Sugiura successfully defended the GHC Tag Team Championship for the second time in a row against Akitoshi Saito and Mohammed Yone. The semi main event saw El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. taking the GHC National Championship from Masakatsu Funaki, ending the latter's reign at 292 days which was the longest till its date.
In the main event, Timothy Thatcher clashed with Kaito Kiyomiya in a bout for the GHC Heavyweight Championship which concluded with Kiyomiya securing his second defense over the title.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili%20Bowl%20%28Cincinnati%29 | The Chili Bowl is a planned college football bowl game to be played in Cincinnati, Ohio at TQL Stadium and televised on CW Network. The college conferences that have tie-ins with the bowl are yet to be determined.
References
College football bowls
Annual sporting events in the United States
American football in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrutherstown | Carrutherstown is a village in the civil parish of Dalton, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is about east of Dumfries.
Demographics
The population data for Carrutherstown is aggregated with neighbouring Dalton and as at 2022 the local authority estimates the combined total to be 333.
References
Villages in Dumfries and Galloway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20U.S.%20Afrobeats%20Songs%20of%202022 | The Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing Afrobeats singles of the United States. Its data is assembled by the charts production manager Michael Cusson, and published on Billboard magazine. At the end of the year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Afrobeats chart based on the information. For 2022, the list was published on December 1, and calculated with data from April 2, 2022, to November 19, 2022.
Billboard named Tems the US top Afrobeats Artist of 2022, making her the first African artist to achieve this honor. Tems placed ten songs on the list, with one featured song being the highest ranked of them by Wizkid titled "Essence", placed at number one. Essence features guest vocals from Justin Bieber and Tems. The song became the first Nigerian song in history to chart on the Hot 100 chart.
Year-end list
References
2022 record charts
Year-End U.S. Afrobeats Songs of 2022
2022 in American music |
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