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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena%20Computer%20%26%20Electronic%20Systems | Athena Computer & Electronic Systems was an American computer company active from 1982 to 1987 and based in San Juan Capistrano, California. It released an early laptop, the Athena 1, in 1983. The laptop was one of the first to make use of solid-state technology as its primary storage medium.
History
David Mitchell of San Juan Capistrano, California, founded Athena Computer & Electronic Systems in June 1982. Mitchell set out the company to design a high-end portable computer "for the discriminating [user]", delivering a prototype of his computer to the press just eight months after incorporating his company, in February 1983. Named the Athena 1 (or Athena I), the laptop was one of the first to incorporate solid-state storage as its primary means of operation and data storage, with an internal RAM drive of between 128 KB and 1 MB, depending on the configuration ordered, made up of 16 KB dynamic RAM chips. The Athena 1 features dual NCS-800 microprocessors; the NCS-800 was a second-source CMOS variant of the Zilog Z80 processor manufactured by National Semiconductor designed for minimal power draw. As these chips were somewhat more expensive, Athena resorted to using RAM chips fabricated using the more power-hungry NMOS process. One of the NCS-800s handles input/output, while the other serves as the laptop's central processing unit. Besides the RAM drive, the Athena 1 also contains 512 KB of RAM, originally 64 KB. The unit contains spare room internally for expansion circuit boards that would have connected to the existing motherboard via an expansion bus socket. Mitchell had eyed a 16-bit processor upgrade as one such circuit board in the early days of the laptop's development.
Mitchell designed the Athena 1 with no internal floppy drive, as was common for portables at the time, to keep the laptop relatively lightweight at . His company offered an external 5.25-inch floppy drive as an optional peripheral. Some of the laptop's weight comes from the internal lead–acid battery, which has a maximum rated capacity of two hours. The laptop measures and sports an off-white plastic outer shell. Mitchell commissioned the Key Tronic corporation of Spokane, Washington, to design and manufacture the laptop's grey and black keyboard. He meanwhile purchased the laptop's display panels from Epson, LCDs capable of displaying 80 columns and 4 fours. Athena was beaten to market by NEC Home Electronics' NEC PC-8201 which featured an 8-line LCD panel. Mitchell expressed wanting to upgrade the Athena 1's LCD panel to that of the PC-8201 before it released to market. The Athena 1 was ultimately released with the 4-line display in 1983, although Mitchell hinted at a retrofit upgrade kit featuring a 16-line LCD for release in November 1983. This never came to pass, however, and instead Mitchell promised an upgraded version of the Athena 1 with an 16-line display, as well as the kit, for 1984.
The CP/M 2.2 operating system, a JRT Pascal interpreter, Chang Labs' Profit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiografiA.%20Lexikon%20%C3%B6sterreichischer%20Frauen | (English: biografiA: Biographical Database and Encyclopedia of Austrian Women) is a biographical dictionary of historical and contemporary notable women of Austria. The German language open-access full text is available online.
The encyclopedia, edited by Ilse Korotin and published in 2016 by Böhlau Verlag in 4,280 pages over four printed volumes, contains around 6,500 biographies from Roman times to the present day. biografiA draws on unpublished earlier work by Erika Weinzierl and Ruth Aspöck.
References
External links
FWF-E-Book Library (online reading, search and downloadable sections)
Download full-text PDF
oapen.org: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4
Austrian women
Austrian biographical dictionaries
Biographical dictionaries of women
2016 books
Open access publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Library%20Association | The Catholic Library Association is an international membership organization, providing its members professional development through educational and networking experiences, publications, scholarships, and other services. The Catholic Library Association coordinates the exchange of ideas, provides a source of inspirational support and guidance in ethical issues related to librarianship, and offers fellowship for those who seek, serve, preserve, and share the word in all its forms. The Catholic Library Association has previously hosted biannual conventions and conferences for the honoring of award recipients and presentations by speakers.
History
The Catholic Library Association began in 1921, as a section of the National Catholic Educational Association. Rev. Paul J. Foik, CSC, of University of Notre Dame, was chair. It became an independent organization in 1929. Francis E. Fitzgerald was the first president (1929-1931).
The Association celebrated its Golden anniversary at its Cincinnati conference in 1971. The Centennial was marked in 2021 with an article in Catholic Library World which highlighted milestones such as Catholic Book Week, collaborative efforts with the Catholic Research Resources Alliance, and conference speakers.
The Catholic Library Association is an affiliate of the American Library Association.
Publications
Catholic Library World
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index established in 1933. Continued after 2011 by the American Theological Library Association.
Parish Library Resource Guide: An Annotated Bibliography.
A Handbook for Church Librarians.
Developing the Library Collection: A Workbook of Policies and Resources.
Awards
Regina Medal est. 1959, recognizes one living person for "continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature without regard to the nature of the contribution." Regina Award Medalists include Anne Carroll Moore, Augusta Baker, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Tomie dePaola, Madeleine L'Engle, and Eric Carle.
St. Katharine Drexel Award est. 1966, recognizes an outstanding contribution to the growth of high school librarianship.
John Brubaker Award est. 1978, to recognize an outstanding work of literary merit, considered on the basis of its significant interest to the library profession which was published in Catholic Library World.
Zachary Lewis, Student Success Librarian at the University of Dayton, Roesch Library, was recipient of the award in 2022-2023 for his article, "Committing to the Common Good: Reframing Student Success Using Catholic Social Teaching."
Tim Senapatiratne, director of the Spencer Library at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, received the award for “What is Metaliteracy?: Using the Concepts of Metaliteracy in Theological Librarianship.”
Aggiornamento Award, est. 1980, is presented by the Parish and Community Library Services Section in recognition of an outstanding contribution made by an individual or an organization for the renewal of parish and com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20One%20Hall | Capital One Hall is a performing arts center, music hall, and corporate event facility in Tysons, Virginia. The venue offers a wide range of programming, while also serving as a corporate event center for the nearby headquarters of Capital One. It also operates as a cultural event space for the greater Northern Virginia and Washington Metropolitan Area.
Capital One Hall has two theaters: the 1,600-seat Main Theater and the 225-seat black box Vault Theater. The venue boasts a four-story Atrium, designed to fit up to 1,600 people standing or 500 people seated, and a terrace designed to fit up to 450 people standing or 180 people seated
The larger complex also includes a rooftop amphitheater called the Perch.
Capital One Hall opened to the public on October 1, 2021, with a performance featuring singer Josh Groban.
Performances
Capital One hall offers a broad range of programming, including Broadway theater productions, internationally touring musical acts, comedy, and local productions by community groups from the greater Northern Virginia area.
Capital One Hall hosts performances by D.C.-area performing arts organizations including the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic and The Washington Ballet.
The venue also offers season passes to its Broadway productions as part of its annual "Broadway in Tysons" series.
Bands such as Men at Work and Night Ranger have performed at the venue
References
External links
Concert halls in the United States
Music venues in Virginia
Performing arts centers in Virginia
Tysons, Virginia
Capital One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Bumper%20Crop%202022%20In%20Sendai | Noah Bumper Crop 2022 In Sendai was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on January 16, 2022, in Sendai, Japan, at the Sendai Sun Plaza. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.
Storylines
The event featured seven 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 started with the confrontation between Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Yo-Hey, and Aleja, Hao and Nio, solded with the victory of the preceding team. Next, Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara defeated Hayata and Yuya Susumu in tag team action. The third bout saw Daisuke Harada picking up a victory over Seiki Yoshioka in singles competition. In the fourth match, Daisuke Harada and Hao defeated Aleja and Nio after Hao turned on Kongo. Next, Sugiura-gun (Kazushi Sakuraba, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin and Takashi Sugiura) outmatched Funky Express (King Tany and Mohammed Yone), Go Shiozaki and Masakatsu Funaki in eighth-man tag team action. In the semi main event, Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji marked their second defense of the GHC Tag Team Championship against Kenoh and Manabu Soya.
In the main event, Katsuhiko Nakajima marked his fourth successful defense in a row of the GHC Heavyweight Championship against Masa Kitamiya. After the match concluded, Najakima received a challenge from Kazuyuki Fujita.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
December 2022 events in Japan
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digistain | Digistain is a Harvard backed medical technology registered and cleared with the UK’s Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency that provides oncologists with decision support data to guide therapy decisions in cancer patients cost effectively with an accelerated turnaround time of under an hour. Comparable diagnostics delay treatment decisions by several weeks and are cost prohibitive limiting their clinical value especially in the community setting due to accessibility. Initial validation of Digistain has been achieved with early stage hormone positive breast breast cancer. The technology is used widely by oncologists to support the decision to administer or not to administer chemotherapy in early stage patients.
Digistain uses mid infrared spectroscopy to detect and measure chemical moieties whose concentrations are known to correlate with tumour malignancy. By performing such measurements on tumour tissue where genomic expression has already manifested morphologically Digistain’s measurements avoid the inherent challenges that exist in genomic measurement of formalin fixed tissue samples driven by variations in tissue fixation time.
The Digistain research was funded by the National Institute of Health Research, Imperial College NHS Trust and also the Royal Society. The technology was spun out of Imperial College in 2021 as a commercial venture and received initial investment from Y Combinator and Harvard among other Silicon Valley tech investors.
History
The Digistain technology was created at the Imperial College Physics Department by Hemmel Amrania and Chris Phillips. The concept underpinning the technology was proposed by Nicholas Wright, Head of Pathology at Cancer Research UK and William Otto in order to eliminate non concordance in histological grading. Examples of histological grading inadequacies include the Nottingham Grading system for breast cancer where the non-concordance of histological grading is chiefly responsible for the overtreatment of breast cancer with cytotoxic therapy.
Amrania and Phillips devised a method to objectively assess tumour grade using spectroscopic measurements that are reagent free and simple to perform and in the case of breast tumours translated this measure into an evaluation of patient risk to deliver clinical utility and treatment decision support for oncologists.
It was later validated in over 800 patients by Ian Ellis - past president of the international society of breast pathology and joint founder of the Elston-Ellis modification of the Bloom-Richardson grading system for breast tumours. Prof Emad Rakha and Prof Andrew Green of Nottingham University Hospital also led the study.
Digistain has been trialled with leading British cancer treatment centres including Imperial College Healthcare, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Barts Cancer Institute at Queen’s Mary University London.
Awards
In 2017, President’s Award for Outstanding Research at Imperial College.
In 2018, Royal So |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mga%20Lihim%20ni%20Urduja | Urduja () is a 2023 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Jorron Lee Monroy, it stars Sanya Lopez in the title role, Kylie Padilla and Gabbi Garcia. It premiered on February 27, 2023 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Maria Clara at Ibarra. The series concluded on May 5, 2023 with a total of 48 episodes. It was replaced by Voltes V: Legacy in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sanya Lopez as Urduja
Kylie Padilla as Gemma Lynne Davino / Rose Dayanghirang Posadas
Gabbi Garcia as Crystal Dayanghirang Posadas
Supporting cast
Zoren Legaspi as Marius "Maestro" Tan / Marcel "Chairman" Batibuttan / Ibn Battuta
Jeric Gonzales as Greg Sandoval
Rochelle Pangilinan as Dayang Salaknib
Arra San Agustin as Valencia Nadales
Vin Abrenica as Onyx Dayanghirang-Salazar
Michelle Dee as Freya Dayanghirang-Salazar
Kristofer Martin as Ryker Gustillo
Pancho Magno as Kenzo Diaz
Ricardo Cepeda as Ernesto "Erning" Davino
Marina Benipayo as Juliana Davino
Gina Pareño as Merly Posadas
Sherilyn Reyes-Tan as Angkat
Jayson Gainza as Jose / Magat
Dave Bornea as Enrique Sanchez
Manolo Pedrosa as Arlo
Jay Arcilla as Garcia
Melbelline Caluag as Nanette
Thou Reyes as Steven "Arki" Padilla
Billie Hakenson as Astrid Del Valle
Via Antonio as Christine "Tin" Santiago
Mosang as Mimang
Janice Hung as Astra / Bulan
Ian Ignacio as Moxi
Luke Conde as Dallego
Michael Roy Jornales as Villaroman
JC Tan as Nova
Rolando Innocencio as Benjamin "Dok" Hipolito
Guest cast
Sunshine Dizon as Iris Dayanghirang
Rodjun Cruz as Min Feng
Faith Da Silva as Khatun Khublun
Yasser Marta as young Ibn Battuta
Tuesday Vargas as Ebony Ventura
Gee Canlas as Ivory Ventura
Lawrence dela Cruz as Archie
Angelo Teves as Bolinao
Don Rishmond Cerbito
Claire Castro as Pepper Perez
Winwyn Marquez as Dayang Iloguin
Ynez Veneracion as Ina Imperawat
Production
Urduja was first conceptualized as a graphic novel by director Jorron Lee Monroy. According to Monroy, the series used filming technologies used from the United States.
Principal photography commenced in January 2023. According to the series' virtual production director Cedric Hornedo, the usage of real-time virtual production technology was implemented for the extension of the set.
Episodes
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimworlds | Rimworlds is an open-ended, science fiction, play-by-mail (PBM) game.
History and development
Rimworlds was an open-end computer moderated, play-by-mail game with a space-based setting. Rimworlds was published by Palace Simulations Inc. Jon Ogden was the designer. A reviewer in 1985 likened it to the game Beyond the Stellar Empire, combined with Universe II/III. The game had a player limit and was "sold out" with a wait list as of April 1986. Turns were run weekly.
Gameplay
The purpose of the game was to develop a Rim Empire from a colony. Rimworld's setting, or The Rim, comprised four clusters, each with 1,560 sectors. Each of the game's six federations had a planet–a Ringworld–or a starbase. Players could create spaceships, starbases, colonies, and Starteams—or colony variants. In combat, ships had offensive tools such as phasers and single use photon torpedoes, as well as shields and other tools for defense. The publisher stated that the game was: [A] simulation of the political, economic, and tactical ramifications of six space-faring civilizations that are being invaded by a seventh while dealing with organized crime, a militant religion, and a powerful labor union.
Reception
Rimworlds won Best New PBM Game of 1984 from the Play By Mail Association. Terry Cale reviewed the game in a 1985 issue of Flagship, stating that it was "one heckuva game, a sure front-runner for best new PBM offering of 1985". Tim Sullivan reviewed the game in a 1988 issue of The D2 Report, juxtaposing a "heavy burden of complex rules" and comprehensive background with reports from some players that Rimworlds "is so realistic and satisfying, it is the only game they need to play".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billings%20Computer | Billings Computer Corporation was a publicly traded computer company and fully owned subsidiary of Billings Energy Corporation, a defunct American energy company based in Provo, Utah, that specialized in hydrogen fuel. Billings Computer was active between 1977 and 1985 and released several minicomputers and microcomputer systems.
History
Foundation (1973–1979)
Roger Billings of Provo, Utah, founded Billings Computer in early 1977, four years after incorporating parent company Billings Energy Corporation. Billings Energy was a hydrogen fuel company that served as a springboard for Roger Billings and his associates' research; in the 1960s, the former earned a scholarship to Brigham Young University after winning an international high school science fair in 1965, with his project—a conversion of his father's Ford Model A into running on hydrogen. The company's computer subsidiary grew to be larger than its energy-focused parent company and made Billings a millionaire within three years of Billings Computer's incorporation. In March 1980, Billings designed a hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered forklift for the USDOS before moving the parent company to Independence, Missouri. Billings Computer remained in Provo, where its over 150 employees worked. This was six times the amount of employees in September 1977 but down from the subsidiary's peak headcount of 250 in September 1979.
The company's first computer system, the Data-Byte System 1, was announced in September 1977. It is a minicomputer based on the company's own design and was sold with the company's own dumb terminal, the B-100. The base system was sold with the central processing unit and front panel, the terminal, dual 8-inch floppy disk drives, and a bidirectional line printer. The system came shipped with its primary operating system and Fortran IV compiler. Optional was a memory module housing up to 1 MB of RAM, 50- and 300-MB hard disk drives, acoustic couplers, higher-speed printers, plotters, and ADC/DAC modules. Billings followed up their Data-Byte with the Billings Microsystem in February 1979. The Microsystem was an all-in-one microcomputer based on a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor with 64 KB of RAM (8 KB definable as random-access or read-only), dual 5.25-inch floppy drives, and a 94-key keyboard. The Microsystem took US$1 million and four months to develop, over the final quarter of 1978. The company sold 100 units of the Microsystem into August 1979.
Growth (1979–1984)
In the beginning of 1979, Billings Computer announced their pending acquisition of the disk drive division of Calcomp (California Computer Products Inc.) for $1.8 million. Billings were joined in their acquisition of Calcomp by Xerox and Sanders Associates, the former buying the vast majority of Calcomp's solid-state memory assets and the latter buying all other assets of Calcomp outright, including the trademark. The acquisition was finalized in May 1979. While Billings initially suggested that they would move Calcomp's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle%20%28disambiguation%29 | A Poodle is a popular dog breed.
Poodle may also refer to:
Poodle (insult), an insult used in politics
POODLE, a computer security vulnerability
The Poodles, a Swedish heavy metal band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AraBella%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | AraBella is a 2023 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Adolf Alix, Jr., it stars Shayne Sava and Althea Ablan in the title role. It premiered on March 6, 2023 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Unica Hija. The series concluded on June 23, 2023 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Magandang Dilag in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Shayne Sava as Amara "Ara" A. Montecillo / Angeline Manalo
Althea Ablan as Jonalyn "Jona" A. Montecillo / fake Bella Montecillo
Supporting cast
Camille Prats as Roselle Abad-Abarro
Alfred Vargas as Ariel Abarro
Klea Pineda as Gwendolyn "Gwen" V. Abad
Wendell Ramos as Gary
Abdul Raman as Justin
Saviour Ramos as Ed
Nova Villa as Madonna
Ronnie Lazaro as Hadji
Faye Lorenzo as Charice Decera
Thia Thomalla as Asher
Madelaine Nicolas as Vina
Luis Hontiveros as Elton
Mitzi Josh as Aicelle
Guest cast
Ricardo Cepeda as Celso Abad
Antonio Aquitania as Ronald "Ronnie" Sarmiento
Brianna Advincula as young Amara "Ara" Sarmiento
Juharra Asayo as young Isabella "Bella" Abad Montecillo
Luri Vincent Nalus as Jiro
Marx Topacio as Jed
Sherilyn Reyes-Tan as Nora Velasquez
Seb Pajarillo as Jim
Karennina Haniel as Lailani "Lani" Manalo
Euleen Castro as Abba
Jorrybell Agoto as Dara
Aaron Hewson as John
Episodes
Production
Principal photography concluded in February 2023.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tochigi%20Television | , also known as GYT, is a television network headquartered in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations (JAITS). The government of Tochigi prefecture hold half stock share of GYT.
Tochigi Television is the last analog terrestrial TV station in Japan; it started broadcasting in April 1, 1999. Tochigi TV started digital terrestrial television broadcasting in December 1, 2005.
References
External links
Official website
Television stations in Japan
Independent television stations in Japan
1999 establishments in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1999 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIBERSORT | CIBERSORT, also called CIBERSORTx, is a bioinformatics tool used to deconvolute cell type proportions and gene expression profiles from bulk RNA sequencing datasets. It is among the fastest growing software tools in the life sciences.
References
Biotechnology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%27Lite | The E'Lite is a small-form-factor microcomputer based on the Zilog Z80B microprocessor released by Barrington International Corporation in 1982. It served as the market introduction of Irwin Magnetic Systems's long-awaited 510 Winchester tape drives.
Development and specifications
William M. Cassell formed Barrington International in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1980, after leaving the Candor Computer Corporation located in the same city, where he was employed as its executive vice president. The E'Lite was the product of nearly two years of development and was delivered to customers in September 1982, two months after its announcement and projected release date. Cassell designed the computer around the 8-bit Zilog Z80B microprocessor, at a time when the industry was shifting en masse to 16-bit processors for microcomputers. He explained that the immediate dearth of prepackaged 16-bit software would have hindered sales of his computer, had he designed it around a 16-bit processor. He planned on releasing such a computer in the spring of 1983, although this never came to fruition.
The E'Lite served as the market introduction of Irwin Magnetic Systems's long-anticipated 510 Winchester tape drives. Irwin was a computer storage manufacturer out of Ann Arbor founded by several former executives of Sycor Inc.; Cassell himself had worked at Sycor before his employment at Candor. The 510 Winchester drives were co-developed by Olivetti S.p.A. of Italy. The tapes for the drive can hold up to 10 MB of data, while its seek time was rated for 33 ms. Random writes reportedly took one-fifth the time to complete as compared to 5.25-inch floppy disks. The 510 Winchester fits in the E'Lite's sole 5.25 drive bay. An external 5.25-inch floppy drive, which plugs into the computer's built-in floppy controller, was also included.
The E'Lite came with 2 KB of page cache for the disk drives, while its RAM was maxed out to 64 KB. The computer came shipped with CP/M or, optionally, MP/M—single-user and multi-user operating systems respectively—although on launch the computer could not take advantage of multi-user software. In late October 1982, Barrington unveiled a daughtercard for the E'Lite housing 256 KB of RAM, a second Zilog Z80B, and four additional RS-232 serial ports. This allowed each computer to support up to five concurrent users on ASCII terminals, using these four serial ports and the stock E'Lite's one. This daughtercard came shipped with MP/M. The E'Lite additionally has one Centronics-style parallel port.
Cassell signed an agreement with his former employer Candor to ship the E'Lite with the latter's Series 20-3 database management system. The daughtercard came meanwhile shipped with MicroPro's WordStar word processor, and Comshare's Target PlannerCalc financial planning suite.
Barrington International employed 10 people in August 1983 and by that time had established an international dealer network. The company had only sold 100 units of the E'Lite by tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2021%29 | The twenty-first season of American Idol premiered on February 19, 2023, on the ABC television network. Ryan Seacrest returned as host; Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie returned as judges.
Iam Tongi won the season on May 21, 2023, while Megan Danielle was the runner-up, and Colin Stough finished in third place.
Auditions
The Idol Across America virtual auditions program returned from the previous two seasons. Remote auditions took place from August 3 to September 14, 2022, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.
The "platinum ticket" also returned from last season. During the audition round, a total of three platinum tickets were awarded, and they gave the recipients the opportunity to advance directly to the second round of Hollywood week as well as choose their partners for that week's duet challenge before the remaining contestants were paired. During the American Music Awards, three contestants advancing to Hollywood week also were given the opportunity to win a fourth platinum ticket. The platinum ticket recipients were Cam Amen, Kaylin Hedges, Elijah McCormick, and Tyson Venegas.
Hollywood week
Hollywood week was filmed December 4–7, 2022, at the Los Angeles Theatre in Los Angeles. There were some changes to the format this season. Instead of having the contestants choose a specific genre, the contestants instead had to choose one area of performance to work on: confidence, songwriting, and stage presence. Contestants were again mentored by American Idol alumni: Clay Aiken and David Archuleta (confidence), Phillip Phillips and Catie Turner (songwriting), and Justin Guarini and Jordin Sparks (stage presence). Those who impressed the judges and the producers were advanced to the next round. The contestants were paired up by the judges and performed duets. They were given twelve hours to rehearse, which included consultation with a vocal coach, a stage rehearsal, and advice from one of the judges. Judges could advance either, neither, or both of the contestants to the Showstopper round.
Showstopper round
The Showstopper round featured the top 55 contestants performing for the judges and a live audience at the Los Angeles Theatre. This round was aired on April 9 and April 10, but only 35 contestants were aired. The judges then narrowed the number of contestants down to 26. The following is a list of the contestants who reached the top 26 and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 26 (April 16 & 17)
The top 26 contestants were split into two groups of thirteen and performed one solo each at the Aulani resort in Kapolei, Hawaii. The first group aired on April 16, and the second group on April 17. Allen Stone served as a guest mentor for the first group, and Noah Cyrus for the second group. Three contestants from each group were eliminated based on the public vote, and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Offsay | Jerry Offsay is an American motion picture & television executive and executive producer. He served as President of Programming for Showtime Networks from 1994-2003.
Early life and education
Offsay grew up in Parkchester, a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. His father worked at a small display-design company, where his mother was the company bookkeeper. Offsay was the third of four children. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, and later Columbia Law School, where he earned his J.D. in 1977.
Career
After graduating from law school, Offsay began his career at the Los Angeles office of Loeb & Loeb. He worked in the firm’s entertainment law practice, finding his specialty in the financing and production of independent films. He was made partner at age 28.
Looking for a change from the law, Offsay joined RKO Pictures as President of Production. At RKO, Offsay served as executive producer on several films including Hamburger Hill and Eight Men Out, and co–produced Narrow Margin. In 1990 Offsay became Executive Vice President at ABC Productions, ABC’s newly launched programming company. During his four years at ABC, Offsay supervised the production of the ABCP's programming, including series, miniseries, and movies such as The Commish, and Dominick Dunne's An Inconvenient Woman, and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound.
In January 1994 Offsay began his new role as President of Programming at Showtime Networks. He saw an opportunity to bring theater-quality movies to premium television—just as HBO was doing, who at the time released new films monthly. Offsay embarked on a journey to put on an original movie every week. During Offsay's tenure, Showtime more than tripled its original programming, producing and/or commissioning over 300 hundred original films and 20 television series. Over 70 movies were nominated for Emmys; one was nominated for an Oscar. Notable television series Offsay put on the air include Stargate, The Outer Limits, Soul Food, Queer As Folk, The L Word, and Penn and Teller’s Bullshit!, all of which ran five seasons or longer.
In 2001 Offsay won the Governors Award from the Television Academy for Showtime's diversity programming. That year he was also honored at the ACLU's annual Bill of Rights Awards for introducing topics and issues to the mainstream through Showtime's programming. In 2002 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jewish Image Awards in Film and Television. That same year the Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up awarded the Premier Award to Offsay for Showtime's commitment to providing access to quality work that might otherwise go unseen. He was awarded the Executive of the Year Award by the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers, and Directors in 2003. During Offsay's tenure at Showtime, the network was awarded six Humanitas Prizes and four Peabody Awards and won eight Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Children's Spe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%21%201 | The Baby! 1 is a transportable microcomputer released by STM Systems Inc. of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, in late 1976. The computer was based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor and came in a small enclosure that fit inside an attaché briefcase that came shipped with the computer. Byte magazine in 1985 called it the first portable microcomputer, although it more closely resembled the home computers of the 1980s such as the Commodore 64 than early laptops like the Grid Compass.
Development and specifications
The Baby! 1 was announced in August 1976 by start-up company STM Systems Inc. of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. A single-board computer, the Baby! 1 is based on the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor and features between 2 KB to 4 KB of RAM and a machine code monitor on ROM. The computer's acrylic case houses the mainboard, keyboard, and power supply unit and measures while weighing approximately 10 pounds. Its built-in keyboard features 62 full-sized keys. The Baby! 1 came shipped in an attaché briefcase for carrying the computer. The computer's power supply feeds the Baby! 1 5 volts and up to 3 amps DC, rectified from a fully regulated 110 volt AC input. The computer was sold fully assembled, with no kit version available.
A 1200-baud cassette interface chip is included on board to allow audiocasettes to be used as data storage with the use of an external portable cassette deck, sold separately. The computer's character generator chip meanwhile is capable of displaying the uppercase and lowercase Latin alphabet, the uppercase and lowercase Greek alphabet, numbers, and various symbols. Each character is composed of a 7 by 9 pixel grid; the video chip is capable of displaying 512 total characters on screen, as 16 lines of 32 characters. While the computer was initially not sold with a monitor, a portable 9-inch black-and-white CRT television manufactured by Panasonic was later included as a top-of-the-line option.
An external 5.25-inch floppy disk drive unit for the Baby! 1 was announced at the Atlantic City Personal Computing expo of 1976 but discontinued on account of cost. It was to retail for $350, STM apparently taking a $40 loss from the average price of a 5.25-inch floppy drive, though it may have been intended to be a loss leader to encourage more sales of the Baby! 1. The Baby! 1 itself sold for $850 to $1000 in August 1976, depending on if the customer purchased the 2-KB or 4-KB variant. STM promised the same drive again in November 1976, but development was pushed all the way back to July 1977, and it was probably never released. The drive would have been a Shugart model.
Included operating systems and programs for the computer were Tiny BASIC and TECO.
Legacy
Byte magazine called the computer "an excellent teaching system for software concepts in secondary schools and colleges, and looks like an excellent system for personal use". Indeed, the computer was used in at least one elementary school. T. D. Towers, in his Interna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingeborg%20S%C3%B8lvberg | Ingeborg Sølvberg (born 1943) is a Norwegian engineer.
Career
Graduating from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1966, Sølvberg was assigned to the Computing Center at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and was responsible for the design and implementation of the library information system BIBSYS. The BIBSYS project started in February 1972, and Sølvberg was project leader from 1972 to 1986. As of 2005, 112 libraries were connected to the BIBSYS database.
From 1996, Sølvberg was appointed professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
She is married to professor emeritus at NTNU Arne Sølvberg.
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1943 births
Living people
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norwegian engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katya%20Rodr%C3%ADguez-V%C3%A1zquez | Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves genetic programming and its applications in system identification, the problem of reconstructing models of dynamical systems from measurements of their behavior. She is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas (IIMAS, the Institute of Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems).
Education and career
Rodríguez-Vázquez earned a degree in computer engineering at UNAM in 1994. After working as a researcher in the UNAM faculty of engineering from 1993 to 1995, and teaching physics and mathematics at Colegio Kansas, a Mexican high school, she went to the University of Sheffield in England for graduate study, beginning in 1995. She completed her doctorate there in 1999, with the dissertation Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms in Non-Linear System Identification.
She returned to UNAM as a researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas in 1999.
Selected publications
Recognition
Rodríguez-Vázquez is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. UNAM gave her their Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition in 2014.
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Mexican women computer scientists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuSource | CompuSource Compatible Systems Inc. was a short-lived privately held American computer company active in the 1980s and based in Minneapolis. It sold a variety of clones of the Apple II, including one portable that was also an IBM PC clone and a CP/M machine.
History
CompuSource was incorporated in December 1982 and co-founded by Joel Ronning in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The computer's first product was a clone of the Apple II, called the Orange Peel. Ronning commissioned original equipment manufacturer Orange Computers, Inc., out of Toronto to manufacture the computer. It was able to run software for the Apple II but had slightly altered capabilities; as well, it used a custom ROM that was a clean-room design of Apple's BIOS for the Apple II.
Around 95 Orange Peel units worth US$76,000 were sold between late 1982 and early 1983, before the computer was the subject of a confiscation at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in February 1983, when guards of the U.S. Customs Service seized four units from a cargo plane coming from Toronto. Executives of Apple had appealed to the Customs Service to look out for potential counterfeits of Apple's products in the years prior; almost 2,000 such counterfeits had been confiscated up to that point in total. Ronning stated that the Orange Peel did not contain any of Apple's copyrighted code nor infringed on Apple's trade dress, with an entirely different external appearance and detachable keyboard. Customs eventually cleared CompuSource of any wrongdoing in March 1984, calling the incident a mistake, but by that point Orange Computer had dissolved, and CompuSource moved on to another supplier. The company continued selling the remaining inventory of Orange Peels, at roughly $300, down from $795 in 1983 (both prices being a fraction of what Apple charged for their Apple IIs at the time).
Shortly after CompuSource lost its first appeal against Customs in August 1983, the company switched to a different supplier of hardware for their next family of clones. Called the Abacus, these computers were manufactured by General Fabrication Corporation of Forest Lake. The Abacus comprised both a standard desktop computer and a portable computer, the latter with a built-in 9-inch CRT monitor and keyboard. Both were compatible with software written for the Apple II and for CP/M; the company licensed Apple DOS 3.3 from Apple and CP/M 2.2 from Digital Research. Ronning was able to avoid charges of patent infringement by deviating from Apple's floppy controller card for the Disk II and schemes to generate artifact color on composite video signals.
Optional for both Abacus machines were a memory expansion card, a clone of the 80-Column Text Card, and an IBM PC compatibility card. The latter contained the circuitry needed to run software designed for the IBM PC running DOS, including an Intel 8088 microprocessor. IBM compatibility was somewhat constricted by the Abacus' RAM ceiling of 192 KB—all but the oldest softw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samrawit%20Fikru | Samrawit Fikru (Amharic: ሳምራዊት ፍቅሩ) is an Ethiopian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and businesswoman who is the founder and CEO of Hybrid Designs, a software development company which produces the most popular ridesharing app in the country, RIDE.
Early life and education
Fikru was born in Asella, Ethiopia. She received her diploma in software engineering from MicroLink Information Technology College in 2004. She graduated with a BSc in computer science from the HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology in 2006. Prior to coming to Addis Ababa when she was 17, she had never seen or used a computer.
Career
Fikru founded the software development company Hybrid Designs in 2014. The same year, Hybrid Designs released RIDE as an SMS-based ridesharing service. It was relaunched as a mobile app with a backing call center in July 2017. RIDE was inspired by the difficulty Fikru experienced trying to hire a taxi cab after late nights at work. She also wanted to create a service to address the safety concerns felt by herself and others in trying to find a taxi, and developed RIDE to help address these gaps.
As of 2020, the app has tens of thousands of users and has been downloaded over 50,000 times. The development staff for the app is 90% female. Fikru aims to inspire other women with her work: "Women-owned business are growing in number; now we need more young girls to access the finances to make their creative ideas happen."
In 2022, Fikru released Sewasew, a streaming platform for Ethiopian music.
Honors and awards
Fikru was recognized as one of the Rest of World's 100 Global Tech Changemakers
Fikru's success as a tech entrepreneur and her inspiration to young women were recognised by her inclusion on the BBC's 100 Women list in 2022.
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21st-century Ethiopian women
21st-century women engineers
Ethiopian chief executives
Ethiopian women in business
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Women company founders
21st-century Ethiopian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus%C5%82aw%20Jackowski | Bogusław L. Jackowski (born 13 April 1950), also known as "Jacko", is a Polish computer scientist, typographer, publisher, and amateur musician. He is best known for his work on the TeX typesetting system, the Latin Modern font family, and the TeX Gyre project.
Biography
Jackowski was born in Gdańsk, Poland in 1950. He graduated from Częstochowa's No. 4 High School (Lyceum) named in honor of Henryk Sienkiewicz in 1967 and from the Chemical Engineering Department of Gdańsk University of Technology in 1972.
He began his career as a programmer at the computer center of Gdańsk University, then became an assistant in the Mathematics Department. In the early 1980s he moved to the Institute of Water Building at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
In 1992, along with Marek Ryćko, he founded the publishing house Do, which in 1995 published the book Kabaret Starszych Panów, Tom I, containing records of the first four evenings of the cabaret. At the beginning of 1998 he resigned from the co-ownership of the publishing house and devoted himself to work in BOP , since 1993 a Gdańsk-based company providing graphic and publishing services – conducted with Piotr Pianowski. BOP, among other things, graphically prepared and printed the series of albums Był sobie Gdańsk and six issues of the quarterly magazine of the same title.
He is a founding member of the Polish TeX Users Group (GUST), and since 1995 an Honorary Member of the Association. Within the activities undertaken by GUST, he actively participates in the development of the computer typesetting of free software public domain and Polish fonts. Together with Janusz M. Nowacki he is the author of the Latin Modern family of Computer Modern-based fonts. Also with Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk he is the author of the electronic version of the Antykwa Półtawskiego font, called by some as the "Polish national font". He also runs the TeX Gyre project, which resulted in Unicode OpenType fonts and mathematical extensions for some of them.
Jackowski has authored many articles in specialist magazines and some regular columns in popular periodicals, some of which have been anthologized in the computer science collection Notes on the Balloon.
He is the holder of seven of Donald Knuth's certificates.
Bibliography
Sokołowski S., Jackowski B., Janota E., Fuglewicz P. Towards Statistically-based Semantics of Linguistic Resources. „Workshop on International Proofing Tools and Language Technologies, July 1–2, 2004, Patras, Greece”, 2004.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podkarpacka%20Kolej%20Aglomeracyjna | Podkarpacka Kolej Aglomeracyjna (Subcarpathian Agglomeration Railways) is a regional rail operator in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of Poland. The rail network was established in January 2021, and is still expanding.
The network was established so that regional centres within Subcarpathian Voivodeship can be connected to the capital Rzeszów with all-day two-way frequent services, complementing Polregio services.
Railway lines
There currently are 4 lines, all starting from Rzeszów Główny:
Rzeszów - Dębica
Rzeszów - Kolbuszowa
Rzeszów - Strzyżów nad Wisłokiem
Rzeszów - Przeworsk
Future expansion
A 5th line to Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport is planned as well. However, as there currently exists no direct rail link to the airport, construction of a rail link is required for this project. The line will branch off the existing Rzeszów - Kolbuszowa line, north of Zaczernie, and will have two new stations.
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Railway companies of Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs is an American software company developing natural-sounding speech synthesis and text-to-speech software, using artificial intelligence and deep learning.
History
ElevenLabs was co-founded in 2022 by Piotr Dabkowski, an ex-Google machine learning engineer and Mati Staniszewski, an ex-Palantir deployment strategist. Both were raised in Poland, and their inspiration for founding ElevenLabs reportedly came from watching inadequately dubbed American films.
Dabkowski and Staniszewski initially considered different funding options, including the possibility of collaborating with a startup accelerator. In January 2023 they revealed having secured a $2 million pre-seed round. The startup's specialization in AI voice intelligence, a still-emerging field in Europe, played a significant role in attracting investors. The pre-seed funding was primarily led by Credo Ventures.
In January 2023, ElevenLabs publicly released its beta platform.
In June 2023, ElevenLabs raised a $19 million Series A funding round at a valuation of about $100 million, despite the company having no office and only 15 employees. The funding round was co-led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and entrepreneur Daniel Gross. It also saw participation from prominent such as SV Angel, Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram), Brendan Iribe (co-founder of Oculus), Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of Deepmind), and Tim O'Reilly (founder of O'Reilly Media). It was also announced that Andreessen Horowitz would be joining ElevenLabs' board.
Products
ElevenLabs is primarily known for its browser-based, AI-assisted text-to-speech software, Speech Synthesis, which can produce lifelike speech by synthesizing vocal emotion and intonation. The company states its software is built to adjust the intonation and pacing of delivery based on the context of language input used. It uses advanced algorithms to analyze the contextual aspects of text, aiming to detect emotions like anger, sadness, happiness, or alarm, which enables the system to understand the user's sentiment, resulting in a achieve a more realistic and human-like inflection. The startup is in the process of patenting this technology. Through its beta site, users can submit text and generate audio files from a selection of default voices. Paying users are given the ability to upload custom voice samples to create new vocal styles using the company’s voice cloning tool.
Voice Library is the company’s feature for sharing unique voice profiles created using their Voice Design technology. These pre-designed voice profiles allow users to select a voice that best suits their needs, rather than creating one from scratch. Another tool called VoiceLab allows users to clone voices from just a few short snippets of audio and can create entirely new synthetic voices.
On 20 June 2023, ElevenLabs released an AI recognition tool called the AI Speech Classifier, which it claims is the first of its kind. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius%20Front%20%2783 | Möbius Front '83 is a computer wargame developed and published by Zachtronics. It was released in November 2020.
Gameplay
In 1983, the United States attacks an alternate dimension version of itself. Players initially control the defenders, though they can play as the aggressor once they complete the single-player campaign. In multiplayer games, another player can control the Soviet Army. It is turn-based and uses a hex grid, as in tabletop tactical wargames. Units do not have variable action points, but most units must choose between moving and attacking.
Development
The game was inspired by US military manuals. It was released November 5, 2020, and multiplayer was added in January 2021.
Reception
Tom Hatfield of PC Gamer wrote that Möbius Front '83 is accessible and makes wargames easy to understand, but it lacks exciting battles. Joe Robinson of PCGamesN wrote, "Competent and challenging but not especially deep, this Cold War tactical romp also tends to get a bit dry and repetitive at times."
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2020 video games
Windows games
MacOS games
Linux games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Indie games
Tactical wargames
Computer wargames
Zachtronics games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima%20Broadcasting | , also known as KKB, is a television network headquartered in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with ANN.
Kagoshima Broadcasting is the third commercial television station in Kagoshima prefecture. Minaminihon Broadcasting, the first commercial broadcaster in Kagoshima prefecture, is one of the main shareholders of Kagoshima Broadcasting. On December 1, 2006, KKB started digital terrestrial television broadcasting.
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External links
Official website
All-Nippon News Network
Companies based in Kagoshima Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima%20Television | , also known as KTS, is a television network headquartered in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with Fuji News Network (FNN) and Fuji Network System (FNS).
Kagoshima Television is the second commercial television station in Kagoshima prefecture, started broadcast in 1969. KTS was a triple affiliate of FNN, NNN and ANN when it begins broadcasting. On December 1, 2006, KTS started digital terrestrial television broadcasting.
References
External links
Official website
Fuji News Network
Companies based in Kagoshima Prefecture
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1968
1968 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20airplay%20number-one%20songs%20of%202014 | The official German airplay chart ranks the most frequently broadcast songs on German radio stations. In 2014, 21 different songs reached the top, based on weekly airplay data compiled by MusicTrace on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The radio stations are chosen based on the reach of each station. A specific number of evaluated stations is not given.
Chart history
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Airplay 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkle%20U | Sparkle U is a Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on October 1, 2023 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up.
The series is originally titled as Sparkle University.
Cast and characters
#Frenemies
Shayne Sava as Rebecca "Bekang" de Dios
Roxie Smith as Yazmine "Yazzi" Martinez
Abdul Raman as Drake
Zephanie as Sue
Michael Sager as Marco Ignacio
Anjay Anson as Wado
Lauren King as Yarah
Vanessa Peña as Yam
Princess Aliyah as Raeka
Matt Lozano as Basti
Liza Lorena as Aling Matilda "Tindeng" De Dios
Leandro Baldemor as Rebecco "Reb" De Dios
Sue Prado as Zarah Martinez
Geleen Eugenio as Miranda Ignacio
Marco Masa
Liana Mae
Jelai Andres as Claris Lucas
#Ghosted
Sofia Pablo
Allen Ansay
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2023 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Television shows set in the Philippines
Upcoming drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20International%20Television | , also known as NIB, is a television network headquartered in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Nagasaki International Television is the fourth commercial television broadcaster in Nagasaki, it is affiliated with NNN / NNS. NTV Holdings and Fuji Media Holdings are the main shareholders of Nagasaki International Television.
NIB founded in 1990, and started broadcasting 1991.
In 2006, NIB started digital television broadcasting. The headquarter of NIB is located in Dejima, its VOD service also named as DEJIMA ch.
References
External links
Official website
Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Nagasaki Prefecture
Television channels and stations established in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki%20Culture%20Telecasting | , also known as NCC, is a television network headquartered in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with All-Nippon News Network (ANN). TV Asahi Holdings and Asahi Shimbun are the main shareholders of NCC.
Nagasaki Culture Telecasting is the third commercial television station in Nagasaki prefecture. It was started broadcasting in 1990, and started digital terrestrial television broadcasting on December 2006. In 2020, NCC started to use its new master control room.
References
External links
Official website
All-Nippon News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Kochi | , also known as KUTV (Kochi UHF TeleVision), is a television network headquartered in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with Japan News Network (JNN). TV Kochi founded in 1969, and started broadcasting in 1970.
KUTV started digital terrestrial television broadcasting in 2006, and ended analog television broadcasting in 2011. In 2015, KUTV re-build its headquarter building.
References
External links
Official website
Japan News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1969
Companies based in Kōchi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi%20Sun%20Sun%20Broadcasting | , also known as KSS, is a television network headquartered in Kōchi City, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is affiliated with FNN and FNS. Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting is the third commercial television station in Kōchi. Former Kochi governor Daijiro Hashimoto played an important role for the establishment of Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting. It was started broadcast in 1997. In 2006, KSS started digital television broadcasting.
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website
Fuji News Network
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pino%20Caballero%20Gil | Pino Caballero Gil (born November 29, 1968) is a Spanish scientist. She is a professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of La Laguna (ULL) where she coordinates the CryptULL cryptology research group.
Biography
She received her degree in mathematics from the ULL in 1990, and her Ph.D. from the same university in 1995. She is a professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence since 2015. Her research focuses on cryptography, cryptanalysis, cryptographic protocols, wireless communications security, pseudorandom number generator, strong authentication, and secure mobile applications.
Since 1998, she coordinates the CryptULL group of research in cryptology at ULL. She has participated in 47 national and international research projects. Caballero is a founding member of the Spanish Network of Excellence on Cybersecurity Research. She is a member of the (University Institute for Regional Development) and the .
In 2019, she was an unsuccessful candidate for rector at ULL. She gave a plenary lecture during Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (RECSI) 2022 at the University of Cantabria.
Awards and honours
In 2017, she received the Award of the Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer, ULL.
In 1998, she received the Premio .
She also received the "Proyecto Empresarial" Award from the Fyde-.
References
External links
Pino Caballero Gil at TEDxLaLaguna, 20 November 2017
Pino Caballero Gil at QPH Radio, 6 January 2022
1968 births
Living people
University of La Laguna alumni
Spanish computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of La Laguna
People from Las Palmas
Artificial intelligence researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville%20road%20network | Townsville road network is a group of roads that provide access to the urban areas of Townsville in Queensland, Australia, and enable travel between the communities. Most of the roads retain their original road or street names, and are not well known by their official names.
Roads in the network
In addition to the Bruce Highway, the Flinders Highway, and the Hervey Range Developmental Road, the network consists of the following state-controlled roads:
Angus Smith Drive Connection Road
Discovery Drive Connection Road
Douglas–Garbutt Road
Garbutt–Upper Ross Road
North Townsville Road
North Ward Road
Ross River Road
Shaw Road
South Townsville Road
Townsville Connection Road
Townsville Port Road
A number of local roads that also link the localities are not included in this article.
Angus Smith Drive Connection Road
Angus Smith Drive Connection Road is a state-controlled district road (number 837). It runs from Bruce Highway exit and entry ramps in to the Douglas–Garbutt Road (University Road) on the Douglas / midpoint, a distance of .
The road starts at a roundabout intersection just south of the Bruce Highway in Douglas. It runs north and then north-east as a four-lane divided road, known locally as Angus Smith Drive. (A local road of the same name runs west from the roundabout.) The road passes a northbound entry ramp to the Bruce Highway, runs under the highway, passes a southbound exit ramp from the highway, and continues to a roundabout intersection with the Douglas–Garbutt Road (known locally as University Road), where it ends. Its only major intersection is with the Bruce Highway.
Discovery Drive Connection Road
Discovery Drive Connection Road is a state-controlled district road (number 839). It runs from Douglas–Garbutt Road (University Road) on the Douglas / Annandale midpoint to an intersection with the Townsville University Hospital entry road in Douglas, a distance of .
The road starts at a roundabout intersection with Douglas–Garbutt Road just north of the Bruce Highway in Douglas. It runs south-west and then south-east as a mostly four-lane divided road, known locally as Discovery Drive. The road runs under the Bruce Highway and continues to an intersection with the Townsville University Hospital entry road, where it ends, while Discovery Drive continues south as a local road. The road has no major intersections.
Douglas–Garbutt Road
Douglas–Garbutt Road is a state-controlled district road (number 840). It runs from the Bruce Highway on the Douglas / Annandale midpoint to the North Townsville Road (Woolcock Street) in , a distance of .
The road starts at an intersection with the Bruce Highway on the Douglas / Annandale midpoint. It runs north-west as a four-lane divided road, known locally as University Road, following the boundary between Douglas and Annandale. It passes the exits to Discovery Drive Connection Road and Angus Smith Drive Connection Road before reaching the Ross River.
On crossing the river the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Research | G-Research (legal name: Trenchant Limited) a British quantitative finance research and technology firm. The firm makes use of machine learning, big data, and other technologies to predict movements in the financial markets.
Background
In 1997, Peter de Putron formed his own hedge fund named De Putron Fund Management which had seed money from George Soros. The newsletter MARHedge reported in 1999 that the fund was managing about $100 million. The fund became a group of different companies known as De Putron Fund Management Group Limited. Although the entity known De Putron Fund Management no longer exists, the group of companies is still operational and is mainly owned by de Putron. By 2014, a former employee estimated that the amount being managed was $3 billion to $5 billion although this figure was disputed by a spokeswoman for de Putron.
One of companies in the group was founded in 2001 as Gloucester Research, which was focused on quantitative finance.
The firm has changed its name to GR Software & Research and then Trenchant. While it is legally known as Trenchant, the firm now operates under the trade name, G-Research.
G-Research employs quants that are staff who perform quantitative analysis on financial investments. In the London office, quants create algorithmic trading strategies and software. The traders who are based in the Guernsey office use the trading signals produced from these software to perform trades. The firm is known to pay very high starting salaries of almost $200,000 to new graduates who join the firm as quants.
G-Research considers its trading algorithmic codes as trade secrets and has employed very stringent security measures to ensure they cannot be copied or stolen. It has taken significant legal action against former employees that are suspected of copying or stealing its trade secrets.
The CEO of G-Research is Ben Leadsom who is husband of Andrea Leadsom, the brother-in-law of de Putron.
The fund group and G-Research itself have been labeled in the media as Hedge funds although they might be considered closer to a family offices. Former employees have stated that most of the assets being managed belong to de Putron and that capital from external investors isn't normally accepted.
Legal actions against former employees
Ke Xu lawsuit
Ke Xu was born in Hubei, China and won a scholarship to Raffles Institution in Singapore. He then attended University of Cambridge where he graduated third in his class of 250 with a degree in Mathematics. In 2008, he joined Goldman Sachs where he worked on pricing credit derivatives. in 2012, he joined G-Research as a quant. In early 2014 he received a bonus of £400,000 which he was dissatisfied with. In July, he accepted a job in Hong Kong at Cubist Systematic, a division of Point72 Asset Management. In August, he resigned from G-Research. Xu shortly after was on a flight to Hong Kong where he met his family near the China border and gave them a desktop computer and three la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Master%20in%20Cinema%20Studies | IMACS (stylized as I/MA/C/S) is a network, initiated in 2006, of European and American research universities collaborating for research, student exchanges, seminars, publications and delivering the International Master in Cinema Studies, an international graduate programme in film studies that started in 2010. Together with the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, IMACS also hosts lectures in the fields film and media studies. In 2023, IMACS consists of 17 member institutions in 10 countries.
IMACS aims to unite a series of prestigious, research intensive universities in the scope of academic film theory and history, including Birbeck, University of London, the University of Amsterdam and Université de Montréal. Scholars such as André Gaudreault, Jean-Michel Frodon, Laura Mulvey and Marco Maria Gazzano have held seminars for and contributed to the development of the IMACS network.
Description
The IMACS consortium was created by a series of academics with the aim of putting together, under a single name and programme, a series of advanced courses in the fields of film and media studies, and giving students the opportunity to study at three universities of the network, preferably each in a different country.
IMACS started as a bilingual English and French network (located in Wallonia, Quebec and France, half of the founding members use French as primary language) and was originally also titled MIECA (for Master international en études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles). With the addition of new members, the network gradually moved to the exclusive use of English as the lingua franca. In 2023, the consortium is made up of institutions based in France, Italy, Belgium, England and Scotland, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil and Canada.
The International Master in Cinema Studies degree
The IMACS program is designed as a two-year degree built around seminars that are organised in each participating institution. By completing the IMACS degree, a student will have spent at least half of his studies abroad from the main institution of registration. In Europe, IMACS is facilitated through the Erasmus+ scheme, and in most cases, students obtain grants to travel to the various countries.
The International Master in Cinema Studies is an advanced theoretical program, which aims to prepare students for academic research and doctoral studies. Member institutions are thus not allowed to include any practical classes within their IMACS curriculum. Admission to the program and to each institution is related to the student's research project and planned subject for a thesis.
The IMACS network has set up a series of sixteen modules that correspond to a minimum of subjects that have to be covered during each of the Master program's four academic semesters. This guarantees that in whichever member university a given pupil is studying, the courses' syllabi will have equally covered the minimum material per each subject. Personal resear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20centre%20industry%20in%20India | India has growing data centre industry. Data centers are used for national security, internet infrastructure, and economic output. As of 2022, India's data centre capacity is at 637 MW, which is expected to be 1318 MW by 2024. The data centre industry is valued at US$1.2 billion in 2021, a 216% growth from $385 million in 2014. The number of data centres in India is 138, as of March 2022. India ranks 13th globally in terms of highest number of data centres.
As of 2021, Indian data centers occupy over 8 million sq ft area. 60% of total data centres are in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore.
India's data centre capacity is expected to double to 1318 MW by 2024 and 183 data centres by 2025.
Industry statistics
Data centers in India are used for information technology, submarine cable connectivity economic output, personal data protection legislation and investment incentives etc. As per JLL, Indian data centre industry is expected to add more 681 MW capacity by the end of 2024 leading to a doubling of existing capacity to 1,318 MW with 7.8 million sq ft of real estate space. Mumbai is expected to account for 57 percent of the new supply followed by Chennai at 25 percent. The 5g rollout also has enhanced the need of data centre capacity since it will increase data download speeds in India 10 times. Also Over-the-top media services in India, video streaming, online gaming, augmented reality and digital commerce are major factors of the developing industry.
Major data centre hubs
Mumbai
Mumbai holds the largest data centre market with a 44% alone. The total capacity is 289 MW, with 3.6 million sq ft in its functional area. Big data centre giants like Sify, STT, CtrlS, Nxtra Data, Web Werks,
NTT etc. In 2020, REIT Equinix signed a deal to invest $161 million to feciliate a 19 MW local operations of GPX. Yotta Infrastructure, AdaniConneX venture had their major data centre projects in Mumbai.
Google has planned to set up a 8-storey 381,000 sq ft data centre in Navi Mumbai by 2025 with an investment of ₹1144 crore in first 10 years. Also Microsoft has plans to build a data centre in Mumbai. CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, which had 8 data centres (as of 2023) aims to have about 25 data centres by 2024–25 in India. It plans to expand 5 million sq ft after its existing 1.2 million sw ft, in which a 2 million sq ft hyperscale data centre is under construction in Navi Mumbai.
Mumbai has emerged as the third biggest data centre market in the Asia-Pacific region, with a total ccapacity at 2,337 MW and breaching the 2GW mark, in 2023, behind Shanghai and Tokyo.
Chennai
Chennai has a major presence of data centre since it has the market with the second-highest number of undersea cables after Mumbai. Total capacity is 57 MW with 8% market share and a total of 0.92 million sq ft. Chennai is projected to overtake other markets to the second-largest up to 2030. Sify, Yotta, CtrlS, Princeton Digital, STT, and NxtGen have more than one campuses adding to local capacity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20Drop%20II | is a 1996 puzzle video game developed and published by Data East for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. It was later ported to Neo Geo CD, Super Famicom, and Sega Saturn. It is the second entry in the Magical Drop series. In the game, the player takes control of one of several characters, battling against computer-controlled opponents before facing the villainous Empress in a final encounter. Gameplay is similar to its predecessor Magical Drop (1995) albeit with improvements; the objective is to clear the screen of constantly advancing colored 'drops' via a character placed at the bottom of the playfield, which can grab drops and make them disappear by putting them as a column of three or more drops of the same color. Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode.
Prior to Magical Drop II, Data East had previously developed a number of Neo Geo titles such as titles such as Spinmaster, Windjammers, Street Slam, and Karnov's Revenge. Iwao Horita and Naomi Susa acted as co-supervisors, with Shungo Katagiri serving as the game's sole planner, while the soundtrack was scored by Gamadelic. The game proved popular among players but both the original arcade release and console versions garnered average reception from critics, some of which reviewed it as an import title. The title has since been re-released on compilations and through download services for various consoles. It was followed by Magical Drop III (1997).
Gameplay
Like its predecessor, Magical Drop II is a puzzle game where the player takes control of one of several characters named after a tarot card, battling against computer-controlled opponents before facing the villainous Empress in a final encounter. Gameplay is similar to the first entry albeit with improvements; the objective is to clear the screen from a stack of constantly advancing colored 'drops' that descend from the top of the playfield. Drops can be picked up and dropped by the player's character, which is placed at the bottom of the screen, and they disappear when three or more of the same color are put together on a single column. Chains are formed either when a single drop caused a chain reaction or when more than one group of drops are cleared in quick succession. Forming chains cause the opponent's stack to descend faster.
One notable gameplay change is that normal drops and "special" drops can now be matched together, unlike the first game where they were considered completely separate. The single-player mode, now known as "Puzzle" mode, was also changed to add more rows to the player's playfield. New to the series are rainbow pieces, which can become special drops when they are incorporated into the playfield. The Japanese version contains a third mode named "Hirameki" that offers preset puzzles for the player to solve. The difficulty levels now correspond to a chosen character as well. Two players can also participate in a competitive versus mode (one may be a computer opponent). The game is ove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit%20Equality%20Day | Transit Equality Day is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the United States on her birthday, February 4.
Rosa Parks Day was created by a network of Unions, including the Labor Sustainability Network, in 2017. It was first celebrated federally by Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in 2021, gaining wider celebration in 2023.
Observances by states, cities and counties
Origins
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott.
In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5, Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4, but she appealed.
Rosa Parks' action gained notoriety leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was a seminal event in the civil rights movement, and was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955 – when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person – to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. The 381-day boycott almost bankrupted the bus company and effectively made segregation in buses unconstitutional and illegal.
See also
Rosa Parks Day
Claudette Colvin, who, nine months before Parks, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested
Refere |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20regalis | Procambarus regalis, sometimes called the regal burrowing crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is native to Texas and Arkansas, and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List, although it may be a synonym of Procambarus steigmani.
References
Cambaridae
Freshwater crustaceans of North America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Crustaceans described in 1988
Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20The%20New%20Year%202022 | Noah The New Year 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand Pro Wrestling Noah. It took place on January 1, 2022, 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 2022.
The event featured ten matches with four of Noah's championships on the line. The main event saw Katsuhiko Nakajima defeat Go Shiozaki to retain the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Other top matches included Kenoh successfully defending the GHC National Championship against Kaito Kiyomiya, Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji defeated M's Alliance stablemates Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka to win the GHC Tag Team Championship, and Hayata defeated Yoshinari Ogawa to retain the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship.
Background
Storylines
The event featured ten 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 event started with the confrontation between the teams of Junta Miyawaki and Kinya Okada, and Kai Fujimura and Yasutaka Yano which solded with the victory of the preceding team. In the second bout, Funky Express (Akitoshi Saito, King Tany and Mohammed Yone) defeated Kongo (Manabu Soya, Nio and Tadasuke) in six-man tag team action. Next, Kongo (Aleja and Hao) outmatched the team of Stinger (Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu). The fourth bout saw Hajime Ohara, Momo No Seishun Tag (Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada) and Último Dragón picking a victory over Los Perros del Mal de Japón (Eita, Kotaro Suzuki, Nosawa Rongai and Yo-Hey) in eight-man tag team action. Next up, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin defeated Ikuto Hidaka and Masakatsu Funaki. In the sixth match, Hayata secured the eighth consecutive defense of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship against Stinger stablemate Yoshinari Ogawa. In the seventh match, Keiji Muto and Naomichi Marufuji defended the GHC Tag Team Championship for the first time against M's Alliance stablemates Masaaki Mochizuki and Masato Tanaka. Next up, Kenta and Sugiura-gun (Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura) defeated Daiki Inaba, Masa Kitamiya and Yoshiki Inamura. In the semi main event, Kenoh secured the second consecutive defense of the GHC National Championship against Kaito Kiyomiya.
Main event
In the main event, Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated Go Shiozaki to mark his third consecutive defense of the GHC Heavyweight Championship.
Results
References
External links
Pro Wrestling Noah official website
Pro Wrestling Noah
CyberAgent
2022 in professional wrestling
January 2022 events in Japan
Professional wrestling in Tokyo
Pro Wrestling Noah shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Arenstein | Justin Arenstein is a South African journalist, co-founder, and CEO of Code for Africa; Africa's largest network of digital/data journalism labs that exists in 21 countries. Arenstein is recognized internationally as an expert in data-driven journalism and related new media technologies and a Knight fellow of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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21st-century South African businesspeople
South African journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster%20Australia | Taskmaster Australia is an Australian comedy panel game show first broadcast on Network 10 in 2023. Based on the UK series Taskmaster created by comedian Alex Horne, it sets five comedians ridiculous tasks to complete, and judged against each other by the "Taskmaster", Tom Gleeson, accompanied by his assistant, comedian Tom Cashman. The show's first season was broadcast in early 2023, and a second season was announced in mid-2023 and is set to air in 2024.
Format
Taskmaster is a comedic panel show wherein five contestants compete in the completion of tasks set by "The Taskmaster" (Tom Gleeson) and umpired by the "Taskmaster's Assistant" (Tom Cashman). The tasks can involve physical, creative and lateral thinking skills.
Following the format of the British version, in each episode contestants compete for five prizes that they have brought in, along a theme that they are ranked against for points. Three pre-recorded tasks—completed separately by each contestant (or occasionally in teams)—are shown and judged in the studio by The Taskmaster. Tasks are filmed within the Taskmaster Retreat, with the areas including The Lounge, The Kitchen, The Lab and The Caravan. A final live task takes place in the studio. As well as winners within each episode, one contestant becomes the winner of the series and takes home a trophy modelled after The Taskmaster's head.
Cast
In the studio, other than while attempting the live task, the contestants sit on a row of chairs in alphabetical order of forename from left to right.
Key
Series champion
Production
The Taskmaster franchise was conceived by Alex Horne and first televised in Britain, where Horne plays the Taskmaster's Assistant. The British version debuted in 2014. Confirmation of an Australian version was announced in October 2022, to be produced by Avalon Television (the British production company) with Kevin & Co for Network 10.
The pre-recorded tasks were filmed in the same house in New Zealand that Taskmaster New Zealand uses. It is known as "The Taskmaster Retreat" in the Australian version and "The Taskmaster Ranch" in the New Zealand version. Filming took up to ten hours per day.
Filming for the studio shows took place in December 2022 at the NEP Studios in Eveleigh, Sydney, New South Wales. Gleeson remarked of the filming, that it was the first show he had done where "right from the very first episode, all the audience seats were sold out".
Tasks for the series were written by a team, which includes Sam Smith (who also writes tasks for the New Zealand version), alongside Cashman, with development assisted by show producer Cam Bakker, and, as with all the international adaptations, sent to show creator Alex Horne for final approval. Executive producer Sarah Thornton remarked that the aim is to bring in new writers each series to "keep it fresh".
A second season has been confirmed for 2024. Filming began in July 2023. The cast was revealed on 10July 2023 as Peter Helliar, Mel Buttle, Aaron Chen, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisera | Aisera is a software company with a focus on artificial intelligence, enterprise GPT, and Generative AI solutions. The company's headquartered is in Palo Alto, California, and was founded in 2017.
Aisera provides AI Copilot solutions, utilizing AiseraGPT and Generative AI. Aisera's mission is to unleash the human potential in the enterprise by reducing operational expenses and enabling human-like experiences.
History
Aisera was co-founded in 2017 by Muddu Sudhakar and Christos Tryfonas.
It is a privately held company headquartered in the U.S., with additional offices in Greece, Canada, and India.
Recognition
Aisera is a leader in AIOps according to Forrester Wave™
Aisera is a leader in Chatbots for IT according to Forrester Wave™
Aisera ranks in Top 20 on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™
See also
IT service management
AIOps
Chatbot
References
Business software companies
Applications of artificial intelligence
American companies established in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuala%20Considine | Nuala Considine (10 October 1927 – 24 July 2018) was an Irish woman considered to be the world's most prolific crossword compiler. She produced crossword puzzles for newspapers and magazines across Europe and the United States, including The Irish Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Woman's Realm, The Washington Post and New Scientist. Her first crossword was published when she was 18, and she continued to produce them by hand until shortly before her death, aged 90. She used the noms de plume Excalibur and Alaun to create cryptic puzzles with names such as The Toughie and The Stinker.
Early life
Considine was born Aisling Fionnuala "Nuala" Máire Kiernan to Dr Thomas J Kiernan, a diplomat, and Delia Murphy, a renowned folk singer, in London on 10 October 1927. She had a brother Colm and two sisters, Blon and Orla. Her father was one of the Irish Free State’s earliest diplomats, and was first secretary at the Irish High Commission in London when she was born. He was later appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See during World War II and she went to school in Rome, becoming a fluent speaker of Italian, French and Spanish. She studied piano at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Her father later became Ireland's first ambassador to Australia, though Considine did not follow her family to Canberra.
Her first career was a stewardess with Irish airline Aer Lingus. There she met ex-RAF Battle of Britain pilot Brian Considine, from Limerick, who was working as a pilot. They married in 1948 and Considine was obliged to resign due to Irish laws which meant married women could not hold jobs in the civil service or semi-State companies. Brian Considine also resigned and the couple moved to London.
Her career as a crossword setter began when she and her husband sent in a joint puzzle to The Irish Times and it was published.
Career
In London, Considine joined the Fleet Street press agency Morley Adams (now Press Association) in 1955. She did a number of jobs, including writing horoscopes, theatre reviews, a column on how to achieve a happy marriage, and crosswords, which she devised in pencil. For seven decades, her puzzles appeared in publications across Europe and the United States, including The Telegraph, The Spectator, The Financial Times, The Washington Post and New Scientist.
She started contributing five puzzles a week to the now defunct Daily Sketch. She set five puzzles a week for a decade in The Daily Express, a Friday crossword for The Evening Standard and a giant crossword, called "The Stinker", every weekend for The Daily Mail for a quarter of a century. She also contributed to a large number of magazines, including Women's Realm, Amateur Gardening, and New Scientist. Considine was not a scientist and had to learn a range of new words and terms for the New Scientist puzzle.
Her work for the London Telegraph group began in 1986. She set more than 1,000 puzzles for The Daily Telegraph and from 1992, more than 800 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura%20Matias | Aura C. Matias (born 11 September 1960) is a Filipino industrial engineer. Her academic research concerns ergonomics and human–computer interaction; she has also applied her expertise in industrial engineering to issues in the society of the Philippines including the quality of water services, and corruption in government agencies. She is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she is the former dean of engineering and former executive director of the National Engineering Center.
Education and career
Matias was a student at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1982 and a master's degree in 1989. She went to Purdue University in the US for doctoral study in industrial engineering, completing her Ph.D. there in 1996. Her research there, conducted with Gavriel Salvendy, involved the development of a model for predicting carpal tunnel syndrome based on data collected from 100 women who used computer keyboards.
In 1998, she became one of the founders of the Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers. In 2003 she helped found the Philippine Ergonomics Society.
As a faculty member at the University of the Philippines Diliman, she chaired the department of industrial engineering and operations research from 2004 to 2010. After two terms as dean of engineering, she stepped down as dean in 2016, returning to a regular faculty position.
Recognition
Matias was an awardee of The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service for 2004. She is a member of the National Academy of Science and Technology, elected in 2011.
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1960 births
Living people
Filipino engineers
Industrial engineers
Women engineers
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Diliman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Histories | Internet Histories is an academic journal of the history of the internet. It is indexed in Scopus.
References
Computer science journals
Routledge academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20Contract%20Types%20Unified%20Standards | Algorithmic Contract Types Unified Standards, abbreviated to ACTUS, are a set of royalty-free, open standards for representing financial contracts. The standards combine (1) a concise data dictionary that defines the contractual terms present in financial contracts with (2) a simple but complete taxonomy of fundamental algorithmic contract type patterns that incorporate elements from that data dictionary that apply to a given contract type such that (3) the cash flow obligations that are established by the contract can be accurately projected, analyzed and acknowledged by all parties to the contract over the life of the contract.
Providing an open and royalty-free standard for the data elements and algorithms of financial contracts enables the consistent sharing of accurate financial data by organizations in the financial industry, whether to consolidate views of product lines within an enterprise, to manage obligations between institutions, or to facilitate the collection and consolidation of financial data by regulators. Adoption and uptake of ACTUS is viewed as a public good benefit to create a globally accepted set of definitions capable of representing the preponderance of financial contracts in the real economy. Such standards are regarded as important for transparency and efficiency in financial innovation, risk management, financial regulation, the tokenization of financial instruments, and the development of smart contracts for decentralized finance (DeFi) using blockchain.
History
The difficulty of defining and analyzing financial data were described by Willi Brammertz and his co-authors in a 2009 book, Unified Financial Analysis: The missing links of finance. The simplicity of the problem is described in an ECB paper, “Modelling metadata in central banks”. This cites the issue of how financial institutions have tried to overcome data silos by building enterprise-wide data warehouses. However, while these data warehouses physically integrate different sources of data, they do not conceptually unify them. For example, a single concept like notional value still might be captured in various ways in fields that might be labeled ‘nominal value,’ ‘current principal,’ ‘par value’ or ‘balance’. Standardization of data would improve internal bank operations, and offer the possibility of large-scale financial risk analytics by leveraging Big Data technology. Key to this is the idea of "contract types".
The concepts were expanded upon by Brammertz and Allan I. Mendelowitz in a 2018 paper in the Journal of Risk Finance. They describe the need for software that turns natural language contracts into algorithms – smart contracts – that automate financial processes. Financial contracts define exchanges of payments or cash-flows which follow certain patterns. They identify less than three dozen relevant patterns covering most existing contracts. Underlying these contracts there must be a data dictionary that standardizes contract terms. In additi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20pre-trained%20transformer | Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) are a type of large language model (LLM) and a prominent framework for generative artificial intelligence. The first GPT was introduced in 2018 by OpenAI. GPT models are artificial neural networks that are based on the transformer architecture, pre-trained on large data sets of unlabelled text, and able to generate novel human-like content. As of 2023, most LLMs have these characteristics and are sometimes referred to broadly as GPTs.
OpenAI has released very influential GPT foundation models that have been sequentially numbered, to comprise its "GPT-n" series. Each of these was significantly more capable than the previous, due to increased size (number of trainable parameters) and training. The most recent of these, GPT-4, was released in March 2023. Such models have been the basis for their more task-specific GPT systems, including models fine-tuned for instruction followingwhich in turn power the ChatGPT chatbot service.
The term "GPT" is also used in the names and descriptions of such models developed by others. For example, other GPT foundation models include a series of models created by EleutherAI, and recently seven models created by Cerebras. Also, companies in different industries have developed task-specific GPTs in their respective fields, such as Salesforce's "EinsteinGPT" (for CRM) and Bloomberg's "BloombergGPT" (for finance).
History
Initial developments
Generative pretraining (GP) was a long-established concept in machine learning applications, but the transformer architecture was not available until 2017 when it was invented by employees at Google. That development led to the emergence of large language models such as BERT in 2018 which was a pre-trained transformer (PT) but not designed to be generative (BERT was an "encoder-only" model). Also around that time, in 2018, OpenAI published its article entitled "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training," in which it introduced the first generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) system ("GPT-1").
Prior to transformer-based architectures, the best-performing neural NLP (natural language processing) models commonly employed supervised learning from large amounts of manually-labeled data. The reliance on supervised learning limited their use on datasets that were not well-annotated, and also made it prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to train extremely large language models.
The semi-supervised approach OpenAI employed to make a large-scale generative systemand was first to do with a transformer modelinvolved two stages: an unsupervised generative "pretraining" stage to set initial parameters using a language modeling objective, and a supervised discriminative "fine-tuning" stage to adapt these parameters to a target task.
Later developments
Regarding more recent GPT foundation models, OpenAI published its first versions of GPT-3 in July 2020. There were three models, with 1B, 6.7B, 175B parameters, respectiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Jane%20Perez | Gay Jane P. Perez is a Filipino physicist and environmental scientist whose research involves satellite observation of environmental conditions, and the applications of that data in agricultural planning. She is a professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and Deputy Director General of the Philippine Space Agency.
Education and career
Perez is originally from Naga, Camarines Sur, where she attended a Catholic girls' school. She studied physics at the University of the Philippines Diliman, earning a bachelor's degree in 2003, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. She went to the US in 2010–2011 for postdoctoral research at the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, working there on remote sensing.
Returning to the Philippines, she became the leader of the team that produced Diwata-1, the first microsatellite constructed in the Philippines. Her team also produced two later satellites, Maya-1 and Diwata-2, launched respectively in 2016, 2018, and 2019.
In 2022, she was elected to a four-year term as president of the Technical Commission on Education and Outreach of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the first Filipino to lead the commission.
Recognition
Perez won the 2018 ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women, becoming the first Filipino to do so. She was an awardee of The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service for 2019. The National Academy of Science and Technology named her as their 2021 NAST Outstanding Young Scientist for Physical Sciences.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Naga, Camarines Sur
Living people
Filipino physicists
Filipino agronomists
Filipino climatologists
Filipino women scientists
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Diliman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behzad%20Mohammedzadeh | Behzad Mohammedzadeh (Persian: بهزاد محمدزاده) is an Iranian hacker and cyber-fugitive.
Criminal career
In 2020, Mohammedzadeh and another hacker named Marwan Ahmed defaced multiple American government websites after the death of Qasem Soleimani, they defaced the website by putting the Iranian flag and text, "Death to America" on the website. He was indicted in Massachusetts on the charges of Conspiracy to Commit Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer and Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer.
References
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Fugitives
Iranian nationalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatune%20Network | Jeremy Andrew "Jer" Hunter (born June 16, 1995) is an American YouTuber, musician, composer and music educator who hosts the YouTube channel Skatune Network, where they post ska covers of popular songs. They have also released original music under the name JER, played trombone for ska punk band We Are the Union since 2015, and performed on albums by The Bruce Lee Band, Jeff Rosenstock, and Illuminati Hotties. Prominent on social media, Hunter has been outspoken about the history and current state of ska music, earning the fan nickname "The CEO of Ska". BrooklynVegan has written, "You can't talk about the renewed interest in ska without talking Jeremy Hunter", while music critic Anthony Fantano has described them as "a one-person ska wrecking crew".
Early life
Hunter was born on June 16, 1995 and grew up in Broward County, Florida. They discovered ska as a child via the Digimon: The Movie soundtrack, which featured ska bands Less Than Jake and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. In sixth grade, Hunter reluctantly joined the school band at the urging of their parents, where they played trumpet and trombone. They also took piano lessons and learned bass guitar because "everyone plays guitar but nobody plays bass", and by high school had taken on a wide variety of instruments.
Hunter attended West Broward High School and graduated in 2013. Hunter's love of ska was deepened by high school friends, who introduced them to the music of Asian Man Records as well as the local DIY ska and punk scenes. In between high school and college, Hunter worked at the all-ages DIY punk venue The Talent Farm in Pembroke Pines, Florida, where they became involved with the local scene, forming a band, helping book shows in the area, and beginning to write their own music. After a brief stint at Broward College, Hunter moved to Gainesville in 2015 to attend Santa Fe College, where they studied musical composition with plans of becoming a film score composer.
Career
Hunter posted a number of songs to SoundCloud between 2012 and 2016. They also fronted an emo side project, 11:59, that was sporadically active from 2014 to 2019.
We Are The Union
In 2015, Hunter joined the ska punk band We Are the Union on trombone and backing vocals, marking their return from a three-year hiatus. Hunter, a fan of the band since high school, had jokingly asked on Facebook if the band needed a trombonist, and frontwoman Reade Wolcott, who had seen a video of Hunter performing one of their songs, invited them to join. Hunter at the time had felt alienated from the ska scene due to experiences of racism, and has credited We Are the Union with reigniting their love of the genre.
Hunter wrote most of the horn lines for the band's 2018 album Self Care, and performed on that album as well as Ordinary Life (2021), released on Bad Time Records. Hunter and the band also performed at The Fest in 2015 and 2021.
Skatune Network
In December 2016, Hunter, having recently purchased recording equipment, be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECD%20Corporation | ECD Corporation was a small, privately owned American computer and electronics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and active from 1974 to 1983. During its lifespan, the company manufactured a couple pieces of electronic test equipment, the MicroMind microcomputer system, and the Smart ASCII terminal.
History
ECD was founded in late 1974 by Ronald Todd, Jerry Roberts, and Richard Eckhardt, three graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Todd was named company president. Eckhardt had taken entrepreneurial courses alongside his main studies at MIT, which he cited as helping the company get a head start in the electronics industry. All three were later joined by Edward W. Costello, who became the company's marketing manager. ECD was founded with $5,000 of capital; its first product was the C-meter, a capacitance meter with a liquid-crystal readout, released in spring 1975. The C-meter sold well and allowed the company to move onto their second project, a portable digital thermometer that ran on batteries. Called the T-meter, it was a ruggedized thermometer allowing it to withstand extreme shock in day-to-day industrial transport. The T-meter had a system of thermistor probes, each of which plugged into the base of the unit and able to accurately measure a variety of temperature ranges. The T-meter found widespread acceptance in scientific laboratories and industrial plants. In 1976, ECD earned over US$200,000 in sales and had a backlog of orders worth $1,500,000.
In late 1976, the company announced the MicroMind, a microcomputer system that sold for a little over $980 (). The MicroMind was a three-board system, including the central processor board, the display processor board, and the input/output board. The central processor board sports a MOS Technology's 6512 microprocessor that runs the computer's operating system and software; it also features 8 KB of RAM stock. The display processor board contains 2.6 KB of display memory and a RF modulator, allowing a conventional television to be used as a monitor for the computer. The input/output board meanwhile houses the MicroMind's power supply, which has power rails of +5 V and +12 V. The central processing board supports up to 16 KB of RAM; expansion cards were available allowing the computer's RAM to be upgraded in 32 KB intervals.
The MicroMind additionally came shipped with an 80-key ASCII keyboard and various software. Such software packages included a BASIC interpreter with extended functionality (called notsoBASIC), an interactive line editor, a machine code monitor, an assembler, and a cassette file browser. The computer also came packaged with two games: Conway's Game of Life and a "space war" game. Much of ECD's software was written in BASIC by Bob Frankston, a software developer who worked with ECD on a freelance basis. Frankston would later join with Dan Bricklin to found Software Arts in 1979, developers of VisiCalc. In May 1977, ECD won a $1.38 million contr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident%20Evil%3A%20Death%20Island | Resident Evil: Death Island is a 2023 Japanese adult computer-animated action biopunk horror film set in the same universe as the Resident Evil video games. It is the fifth installment and fourth film in the animated Resident Evil series, following the 2017 film Resident Evil: Vendetta and the 2021 miniseries Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness.
The film was premiered in Singapore on June 22, 2023 before its theatrical release in Japan on July 7, 2023.
Plot
In 1998, as the Raccoon City incident begins, the Umbrella Corporation hires a private military firm to help evacuate high-ranking Umbrella executives and government officials. The firm deploys Unit 6, but the majority are bitten by zombies. Surviving members JJ and Dylan Blake call headquarters to request extraction and receive medical attention, but are told to quarantine, later kill, their comrades, shocking JJ and enraging Dylan. The pair argue until the infected soldiers attack them and bite JJ. A disheartened Dylan subsequently kills him.
Seventeen years later in 2015, after the events of Resident Evil: Vendetta, in San Francisco, California, Field Operations Support (FOS) agent Ingrid Hunnigan tasks Division of Security Operations (DSO) agent Leon S. Kennedy with taking DARPA researcher and robotics engineer Doctor Antonio Taylor into custody for selling classified information to foreign powers. During the briefing, Leon learns Taylor was last seen being kidnapped by an unknown group while being hunted by a San Francisco Police Department S.W.A.T. team as the group drives by him. Leon attempts to intercept the kidnappers, but is thwarted by Maria Gomez, a criminal who survived their last encounter the year prior (as depicted in Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)). Meanwhile, Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) advisor Rebecca Chambers informs Agent Chris Redfield of twelve cases wherein people had died after being mysteriously infected by an advanced strain of the T-virus and were found with needle marks on their bodies. Chris visits his partner Jill Valentine, hoping to stop her from taking part in the operation due to her time under Albert Wesker's mind control and subsequent mental health issues (as depicted in Resident Evil 5 (2009)), but she refuses.
Chris and Jill meet with Rebecca and Chris's sister Claire Redfield to discuss their findings, during which Claire reveals she discovered an orca infected with the same T-virus strain as the victims from Chris's case swimming near the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, which had also happened recently to several missing whales. Discovering the human victims all visited Alcatraz Island before they died, Jill and the Redfields travel there posing as tourists, but get separated amidst a zombie outbreak. While exploring the sewers, Jill encounters Leon and joins him in fending off a new form of Lickers before eventually reaching the armory, where they find blueprints for mosquito-like drones used to infect people with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20Machine%20Corporation | Logical Machine Corporation (LOMAC), originally John Peers and Company, later Logical Business Machines, Inc., was a computer company active from the mid-1970s to the 1980s.
History
John Peers (born 1942) founded Logical Machine Corporation as John Peers and Company in September 1974. The company originally occupied a 4,500-square-foot office in Burlingame, California. The company was Peers' fourth; he had recently sold off Allied Business Systems of London to Trafalgar House in 1974. Peers sought to raise a manufacturing in an agricultural zone in Ukiah, California. Following a delay, caused in part by concerned residents, a 30,000-square-foot plant was raised in Burke Hill, three miles south of Ukiah.
The Ukiah plant was built to mass manufacture the company's ADAM minicomputer. The ADAM computer ran a specialized compiler for the company's natural English programming language; that is to say, the programming language attempted to closely emulate English syntax. Prototypes of the ADAM were built in May 1974, based on specifications devised in October 1973. Peers had yet to patent the technology as of June 1975. The ADAM's central processing unit was bolted onto an 7-by-6-foot L-shaped desk, on which rested its terminal. Twenty units of the ADAM were installed between April 1975 and February 1976, out of a backlog of orders for 3,500 from 500 clients, manufactured out of the company's Burlingame headquarters. It cost US$40,000. A controversial print advertisement featuring a naked woman seated at an ADAM terminal—as a pastiche of Adam and Eve—was recalled in early 1976 as a result of outcry from the National Organization for Women.
The company changed its name to Logical Machine Corporation (LOMAC) in October 1976 and moved its headquarters to a 26,000-square-foot building in Sunnyvale, California, in anticipation of a ramping up of orders for the ADAM. The company originally occupied half of the building; they later purchased the other half from the tenant in July 1977 to double its manufacturing output. For fiscal year 1977, the company earned $5 million in revenue. In December 1977, LOMAC acquired Byte, Inc.—the proprietor of The Byte Shop, the first computer retail chain—from Paul Terrell and Boyd Wilson for an unspecified amount. The Byte Shop had 65 locations in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978; it catered mainly to hobbyists with low cost microcomputer kits, in contrast to the high cost of LOMAC's ADAM. By July 1978, however, LOMAC were able to reduce the price of the ADAM down to $15,000. The company by that point had shipped their 50th ADAM and expanded to 14 countries.
Also in 1978, LOMAC acquired Mass Memory—a high-tech optical storage company based in Phoenix, Arizona, whose products had storage capacities on the order gigabytes and terabytes—and Centigram, makers of the Mike—a computer with speech recognition. Later that year, the company introduced Tina, a low-cost version of the ADAM. LOMAC suffered losses that year and appo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsegmentation%20%28network%20security%29 | Microsegmentation is a network security approach that enables security architects to construct network security zones boundaries per machine in data centers and cloud deployments in order to segregate and secure workloads independently.
It is now also used on the client network as well as the data center network.
Types of microsegmentation
There are three main types of microsegmentation:
Native OS host-based firewall segmentation employs OS firewalls to regulate network traffic between network segments. Instead of using a router or network firewalls or deploying agents, each host firewall is used to perform both auditing and enforcement, preventing attackers from moving laterally between network machines. While Native OS host-based firewalls can implement many segmentation schemes, including microsegmentation, only recent innovations in the space have made implementation and management achievable at scale.
Host-agent segmentation: This style of microsegmentation makes use of endpoint-based agents. By having a centralized manager with access to all data flows, the difficulty of detecting obscure protocols or encrypted communications is mitigated. The use of host-agent technology is commonly acknowledged as a powerful method of microsegmentation. Because infected devices act as hosts, a solid host strategy can prevent issues from manifesting in the first place. This software, however, must be installed on every host.
Hypervisor segmentation: In this implementation of microsegmentation, all traffic passes through a hypervisor. Since hypervisor-level traffic monitoring is possible, existing firewalls can be used, and rules can be migrated to new hypervisors as instances are spun up and spun down. Hypervisor segmentation typically doesn't function with cloud environments, containers, or bare metal, which is a downside.
Network segmentation: This approach builds on the current setup by using tried-and-true techniques like access-control list (ACLs) for network segmentation.
Benefits
Microsegmentation allows defenders to thwart almost any attack methods by closing off attack vectors within internal networks so that the attackers are stopped in their tracks.
Microsegmentation in internet of things (IoT) environments can help businesses gain command over the increasing volume of lateral communication taking place between devices, which is currently unmanaged by perimeter-focused security measures.
Challenges
Despite its useful features, implementing and maintaining microsegmentation can be difficult. The first deployment is always the most challenging. Some applications may not be able to support microsegmentation, and the process of implementing microsegmentation may cause other problems.
Defining policies that meet the requirements of every internal system is another potential roadblock. Internal conflicts may occur as policies and their ramifications are considered and defined, making this a difficult and time-consuming process for certain ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il-Ballut%20ta%27%20Marsaxlokk | Il-Ballut ta' Marsaxlokk is a protected area in Marsaxlokk, Malta, which forms part of the Natura 2000 network. The protected area (circa 23 ha.) features a salt marsh (circa 1ha) which is currently managed by Nature Trust Malta.
History
The salt marsh known by locals as 'Il-Kanal' or 'Ir-Riserva' was previously used a hunting ground.
In the 1980’s the area received the attention of the then Society for the Study and Conservation of Nature (SSCN) (now part of Nature Trust Malta). The site was undergoing constant and severe degradation, especially due to the dumping of rubble from the construction of the Delimara Powerstation at Ras ic-Cagħaq.
More dumping took place during 1999 when mounds of sand, soil and rubble were placed just outside the reserve in what seems to have been an attempt at beach replenishment.
Later the site was awarded environmental protection but only started to be officially managed in 2018 when Nature Trust Malta took over the management of the site through an agreement with the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA).
Ecology
The area is composed of mostly muddy substrate characterised by a few dredged shallow canals. These canals were deeper in the past but siltation of nearby illegally dumped material resulted in the loss of depth. This effect combined with the loss of a hydrological connection to il-Magħluq ta' Marsaxlokk(the port), resulted in the seasonal desiccation of the canals in the dry period (summer). Coupled with nutrient pollution, this has resulted in the loss of the Aphanius fasciatus that used to be found on site.
The area hosts communities of salt marsh vegetation in Malta such as Salicornia sp.; Juncus sp. and Arthrocnenum sp., among others.
Avi-Fauna
Such a small wetland located in very close proximity to the sea lures vagrant, rare and scarce birds . The salt-marsh serves as a refuge to a variety of resident and migratory birds, due to the shelter and food resources that may be found in the area. Flat muddy stretches are particularly suitable for waders such as the Common Sandpiper. Sedentary species take advantage of the shrubs that surround the area. It has also been established that the area is an important location for wintering birds that usually migrate to milder temperatures to avoid freezing temperatures in the north of the European continent.
Over 90 different species of birds were observed in ornithological research carried out between 2014 – 2020. The first record of a Brown Shrike in Malta was recorded in November 2017 inside the salt-marsh.
Conservation Efforts
Efforts for the conservation of the area have focused on the multiple aspects of the area. There are both large and small issues which are being addressed through the intervention and coordination of Nature Trust Malta, Environment and Resources Authority, Infrastructure Malta and the Marsaxlokk Local Council.
Cleanups are a regular part of the routine work carried out by Nature Trust Malta teams. The planting of indige |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%20Khattar | Tara Khattar (; born 1992) is a Lebanese chef, who was the first person from a Middle Eastern country to compete on Top Chef France. She also won the competition Chopped on Food Network on two occasions.
Career
Born in Lebanon, Khattar's grandmothers taught her how to cook as a child. One grandmother was from Aleppo, the other one from Achrafieh; they were both differently influenced by the cuisines of their home regions. She studied for a BA in International Management of Culinary Arts at the Institut Paul Bocuse, graduating in 2013. She subsequently worked at l’Atelier de Joël Robuchon Saint-Germain in Paris. She then moved to New York to study for an MA in Food Studies at New York University.
In 2018 she was the first person from the Middle East to participate in the television programme Top Chef France, when she joined the show. This led to her describing her style of cookery as 'progressive Lebanese'. She subsequently won the competition Chopped on Food Network twice. In 2020 her first book, Liban, was published in French and Arabic.
Books
Liban: Une histoire de cuisine familiale, d'amour et de partage (Hachette Practique 2020)
References
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Official Instagram
1993 births
Living people
Lebanese chefs
Women chefs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Microcomputer%20Systems | Northwest Microcomputer Systems, Inc. (NMS), was a short-lived, privately owned American computer company active from 1977 to the early 1980s and based out of Oregon. The company was co-founded by several computer engineers and investors, including Randy Bush.
History
Northwest Microcomputer was incorporated in December 1977 in Coos Bay, Oregon, by Randy Bush, John Burles, Michael McKeown, Jim Long, and Jay Farr. The firm was headquartered at 219 Fitzpatrick Building, on the site of the shopping mall that existed in Coos Bay at the time.
Bush was the company's principal founder; prior to founding Northwest, Bush had twelve years of experience in the computer industry as an engineer.
He was joined by McKeown, a Doctor of Science; Long, a student of Marshfield High School who was hired as a programmer; John Burles, who was named accountant; and Jay Farr. Farr's other company, True Value Hardware, was Northwest's first client.
Northwest's first product was unveiled at the second annual West Coast Computer Faire in 1978 and given the name 85/P.
In May 1978, Northwest moved out from their Coos Bay mall headquarters for a bigger facility in Eugene, Oregon. The company that year expanded nationally; the new headquarters in Eugene were selected to lessen the burden on their manufacturing operations and spanned 2,500 square foot. It also became the site of the company's research and development laboratory. In 1979 they released a series of RAM and EPROM cards for STD Bus systems—a standard of computer bus architecture developed for industrial control systems.
The company survived into at least 1981 before going defunct.
85/P
The 85/P was intended as a Pascal development machine (the P stood for Pascal), and was an all-in-one computer that ran an Intel 8085 microprocessor clocked at 3 MHz and contained 54 KB of static RAM, direct memory access ability on the bus, and two 5.25-inch floppy disk drives built by Shugart Associates.
The computer's built-in 12-inch CRT monitor could display 80 columns by 24 lines, while the built-in keyboard had 103 keys and Hall effect switches. The entire computer was built into an enclosure made from natural wood.
The 85/P came shipped with numerous software packages, including the CP/M operating system, a BASIC interpreter and a Fortran compiler for CP/M, and a standalone Pascal compiler–interpreter. The latter could parse Pascal code at up to 725 lines per minute on the computer's 8085 processor.
The computer eschewed the hobbyist market in favor of small businesses, bookkeepers, and attorneys. Its original asking price of $15,000 was described as less than half the cost of a minicomputer of its processor class. The price was later reduced to $7,495 in 1978.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dot%20%28computer%29 | The Dot was a portable computer released by Computer Devices, Inc., in April 1983.
Specifications
The Dot's primary microprocessor was an Intel 8088, although customers could have optionally purchased a Z80 expansion board that allowed it to run CP/M. It otherwise featured 32 KB of RAM stock (expandable to 704 KB); a 9-inch-wide, 5-inch-tall CRT monitor; and one 3.5-inch floppy disk drive (manufactured by Sony, inventors of that format). The computer was optioned with MS-DOS as a native operating system; a dual serial port card; a second 3.5-inch floppy drive; a thermal printer that attaches to the top of the computer; a 300/1200-baud modem; and an Intel 8087 floating-point co-processor. The video card supports rendering graphics at pixel resolutions of 640 by 200 or 1024 by 248, while the optional thermal printer can output 132-line text, for a perfect facsimile of the computer's text display mode.
Release and market failure
The Dot was announced in fall 1982 and released in April 1983, the company establishing a national dealer network the month prior to release. The Dot was intended to be the breakout microcomputer product for Computer Devices, Inc., who was previously a successful manufacturer of computer terminals based out of Burlington, Massachusetts. Despite possessing the same Intel 8088 as the IBM PC as well as being shipped with MS-DOS (functionally equivalent to IBM's PC DOS), the Dot was not fully IBM PC compatible. Demand for the Dot was low, and by December 1983 only between 2,000 and 3,000 units had been sold. Computer Devices announced two massive layoffs in the wake of the computer's failure and other complications in the company, the first in August 1983, the second in October 1983. Computer Devices filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the following month.
The Dot's failure and Computer Device's bankruptcy were highly publicized at the time, as it came amid a slew of other concurrent bankruptcy filings from other high-tech companies—not least of which was that of Osborne Computer Corporation, another portable computer manufacturer whose Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable computer ever made. Unlike Osborne, however, Computer Devices was able to survive their bankruptcy and continue into the next decade, albeit making a pivot into software development for specialized applications. The company eventually dissolved in October 1998.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Watermarks | The Book of Watermarks is a video game by developer Arc Entertainment, published in Japan in 1999 by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. Self-described as an "adult-friendly adventure", the game is an interactive adventure game with pre-rendered graphics similar to Myst, with a visual and narrative style strongly influenced by the Shakespeare play The Tempest and the 1991 film Prospero's Books. Although released to minimal fanfare, The Book of Watermarks has retrospectively been assessed by critics as a unique and experimental entry in the early catalog of PlayStation games.
Plot
Prospero (played by Jack Donner), the Duke of Milan, is deposed and exiled on a desert island. Prospero invites the player, in the role of Ferdinand, to solve a series of puzzles as they explore his estate to uncover twelve of Prospero's thirteen magical books, within which are the source of his powers. As the player collects the books around the island, Prospero opines over the knowledge within through a series of full motion video scenes, in which each are the source and sum total of human knowledge, responsible for many of the social and historical changes of the Renaissance. However, once the player obtains all the books, Prospero reveals that he seeks the books not to recover them, but to destroy them, stating that the books are "monsters spawned by limitless human desire," with the titular Book of Watermarks creating infinite and uncontainable amounts of information dangerous to humanity. Once Prospero retrieves the books, he vows to cast each of them into the sea.
Gameplay
The Book of Watermarks is played as a conventional adventure game in which the player navigates the pre-rendered scenery of two islands, Ceres and Iris Island, to collect the twelve books sought by Prospero. The game is navigated from a first-person perspective, with the player using directional controls to travel between static scenes, with animations playing between transitions. To progress, players complete a series of puzzle mechanics, including finding keys for locked doors, completing patterns or words found on clues elsewhere in the island, or navigating mazes. If the player is stuck, they are able to find and consult the titular Book of Watermarks to receive clues about where to go next, either identifying the location of the next puzzle, or providing a solution. Rarely for a Japanese release, the game's full motion video cutscenes and much of its text are mostly in English.
Development
The Book of Watermarks was developed over the course of two years by three staff members of Arc Entertainment, led by director Takashi Kobayashi. Kobayashi stated the game was developed under several influences, primarily the Shakespeare play The Tempest, of which Prospero plays a character, the Jorge Luis Borges story The Library of Babel, and the 1991 Peter Greenaway film Prospero's Books, as well as heavy use of Classical and Renaissance aesthetics and philosophy. Sony Computer Ente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munster%20Technological%20University%20ransomware%20attack | In early February 2023, Munster Technological University suffered a ransomware cyberattack which caused the cancellation of all full and part-time classes affecting the Bishopstown campus, as well as Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork School of Music and National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy.
Background
On 7 February 2023, Munster Technological University announced that it was investigating a significant breach of the information technology and telephone systems that had occurred over the weekend. Systems such as email, HR, payroll and finance were not affected. In a later announcement the same day, they said that their Cork campuses would remain closed to protect staff and student data, but that the Kerry campuses were not affected.
On 9 February the university confirmed that it was a ransomware attack. The National Cyber Security Centre confirmed that some of their staff were working onsite at the university to assist with forensic examination of systems and recovery. HEAnet were also providing advice and support.
Impact
The ransomware attack caused all of MTU's campuses in Cork to close.
On 11 February, the university told the High Court that they were being blackmailed by Blackcat, a Russian cybercrime group. The university had received a ransom note threatening to sell and or publish data if the ransom was not paid by a certain deadline. The amount was described as "significant money" but not disclosed in open court.
On 12 February, it was confirmed that data from its systems had been made available on the "dark web".
Response
The university is working with the Gardaí, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Data Protection Commissioner.
The Minister of State for Public Procurement and eGovernment – Ossian Smyth – said that the attack was similar in many ways to the 2021 cyberattack on the HSE in that it included threats to delete data and to publish data that had been copied.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Rotnitzky | Andrea Gloria Rotnitzky is an Argentine biostatistician whose research involves causal inference on the effects of medical interventions in the face of missing data. She is Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Education and career
Rotnitzky earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1982 at the University of Buenos Aires. She went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 1986 and completing her Ph.D. in 1988. Her dissertation, Analysis of Generalized Linear Models for Cluster Correlated Data, was supervised by Nicholas P. Jewell.
After postdoctoral research in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Rotnitzky continued at Harvard as an assistant professor of biostatistics from 1989 to 1995, associate professor from 1995 to 2000, and senior lecturer from 2000 to 2005. Meanwhile, she joined the department of economics at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires as an associate professor from 2000 to 2005, and as a full professor from 2005 to 2022.
In 2022 she became Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Recognition
Rotnitzky was one of the five inaugural winners of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, in 2022, given to her with James Robins, Thomas Richardson, Miguel Hernán, and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, "for their pioneering work on causal inference with applications in medicine and public health". In 2023 she was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma for her work in Mathematics in the last decade.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20European%20Cricket%20League | The 2023 European Cricket League was a T10 cricket competition organised by the European Cricket Network. It was the third edition of the European Cricket League and was once again held at the Cartama Oval in Málaga, Spain.
Background
It was announced that the tournament would be taking place between February 27 and March 24, with Finals Week starting on March 20. The 30 team format from the previous edition would remain in place, with 30 'National Champions' taking part in 6 groups across 6 weeks, with the winners of the groups joining 2022 winners Pak I Care Badalona in the Finals Week to determine the overall winner.
Participants
The following teams were invited to take part as champions of their domestic leagues, or an ECN-related 'Super Series'. The draw was made on January 13, 2023. Previous Champions Pak I Care Badalona will participate in the Finals Week only.
The finals were made up of the 6 group winners, plus ECL22 winners Pak I Care Badalona
Group stage
The Group Stage is to be played across the first 3 weeks of the tournament, with each group lasting 4 days. Each group kicked off with a single-round robin stage, before entering a knockout, with seedings based on group standings. The Super 3 stage was eliminated, with teams instead advancing into a single knockout stage following the groups
Group A
Round robin
Knockout Stage
Group B
Round robin
Knockout Stage
Group C
Round robin
Stats
Most Runs
Most Wickets
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Machines%20Elements | Crazy Machines Elements is a puzzle video game developed by Fakt Software and published by DTP Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade in 2011.
Gameplay
In Crazy Machines Elements the objective is to solve a seemingly simple problem (cook a hot dog, pop a balloon) by constructing a Heath Robinson / Rube Goldberg-esque machine. The 3D game relies heavily on in-game physics and utilises NVidia PhysX. For any given puzzle, the player is provided with a collection of items e.g. ramps, springs, steam engines, electrical devices, gears, belts, and a large selection of other mechanical devices for converting and directing raw energy into useful motion. On the completion of each puzzle, the player is rewarded with points and a gold, silver, or bronze lug nut. Not only does the created machine have to perform the assigned primary task, but might also complete one or more of the optional secondary tasks thus earning more points.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizards%20%28game%29 | Lizards (or Lizards!) is a closed-end, computer moderated, play-by-mail role-playing wargame.
History and development
Lizards was designed by Jonathan Bean, and published in Australia by Roma. It was also published by Circle in New Zealand and Madhouse in the United Kingdom, and Guerilleros Associes in France as of 1996. Flying Buffalo, Inc. published the game in the United States. This low-complexity game was closed-ended and computer moderated. The game's rulebook was high-quality with a color cover—unusual for a PBM game. It had humor woven throughout.
Gameplay
Lizards is a wargame involving fighting clans of lizards. Players led individual clans. 16 total players vied for victory on a 32×32 hex map. Besides other players, the setting contained various living and nonliving lethal threats to players, from sea monsters to volcanoes. Five types of lizards were available for players: (1) red lizards, or troops, (2) green lizards, or farmers, (3) black lizards, or spellcasters, (4) grey lizards, or builders, and (5) spies, which could be any color.
Reception
A commentator in 1996 found the game entertaining but suffered from slow clan movement rates. A reviewer in a 1996 issue of Flagship said it was "A good game", although he thought the gameplay was simple, which could appeal to some players.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharkbook | Sharkbook is a global database for identifying and tracking sharks, particularly whale sharks, using uploaded photos and videos.In addition to identifying and tracking sharks, the site allows people to "adopt a shark" and get updates on specific animals.
Creation
Sharkbook is the result of collaboration between Simon J Pierce of the Marine Megafauna Foundation and Jason Holmberg of Wild Me. The software is Open Source and is now being used by other biology projects.
Identification of individual sharks
Whale sharks have unique spot patterning on their sides, similar to a human fingerprint, which allows for individual identification. Scuba divers around the world can photograph sharks and upload their identification photographs to the Sharkbook website, supporting global research and conservation efforts. Additionally, the software automatically searches social media sites like YouTube and Instagram to look for images of whale sharks and adds them to the database.
Sharkbook software uses special pattern-matching software to identify the unique spots on each shark. This software and algorithms were originally adapted from NASA star tracking software used on the Hubble Space Telescope. This software uses a scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm, which can cope with complications presented by highly variable spot patterns and low contrast photographs.
Purpose
This citizen science tool is free to use by researchers worldwide. Sharkbook represents a global initiative to centralize shark sightings and facilitate research on these vulnerable species.
See also
Manta Matcher - For Manta Rays
Flukebook - For whales and dolphins
References
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Sharks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole%20in%20the%20Wall%20%28video%20game%29 | Hole in the Wall is a trivia party game based on the American game show that first aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in 2008–2009 before getting picked up by Cartoon Network in 2010. It was developed by Ludia and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox Live Arcade in 2011.
Reception
The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Since its release, the game sold 21,196 units worldwide by the end of 2011.
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Party video games
Video games based on game shows
Video games developed in Canada
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360-only games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Epic is a computer-moderated, fantasy play-by-mail (PBM) game.
Publication history
Epic was a computer-moderated, fantasy PBM game. Jim Landes designed the game and moderated it with his wife. Their company was Midnight Games. The game was published in 1985. Flagship editors compared the game to Quest of the Great Jewels, Tribes of Crane, and Earthwood. By 1988 the game was enjoying success in Australia, Great Britain, and the United States. By 1992 a new edition was introduced—Epic: The King's Game.
Gameplay
The Epic world comprised 22,000 provinces of varying types. Players could choose six character types: Arch-Priest, Merchant, Necromancer, Nomad, Warlord, and Wizard. Races were similar to those in Dungeons & Dragons, with additional races such as saurian, maratasen, and dak. Combat, diplomacy, and intrigue were elements of gameplay.
Reception
The editors of Flagship reviewed Epic in 1985, stating that it was "one of the year's more impressive new offerings, and worth a look if you fancy a fantasy wargame". A reviewer in a 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem gave the game a mixed review, noting its quantitative nature and detailed rulebook as a drawback for a fantasy game. John Woods reviewed Epic in a 1989 issue of The Games Machine, stating that it was "one of the best computer-moderated wargames on the market".
In 1988, the game tied for 5th place in Paper Mayhem'''s Best PBM Game of 1988, along with Crack of Doom and Quest of the Great Jewels. In 1990, the game tied for 5th place again, with Supernova II, in Paper Mayhem's Best PBM Game of 1990. Robert J. Bunker reviewed Epic: The King's Game'' in 1992, stating it was "enjoyable, well thought-out and supported by one of the most reputable companies in PBM gaming".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1985
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22H2 | 22H2 may refer to one of the following versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system:
Windows 10 22H2
Windows 11 22H2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant%20%28web%20framework%29 | Servant is a popular web framework based on the programming language Haskell, with an emphasis on data type safety. Servant provides a type-level domain-specific language (DSL) to describe World Wide Web application programming interfaces (Web APIs); various interpretations of such descriptions are possible: as a server, which dispatches requests to handlers; as documentation and schema specifications for the API; and as client libraries in various languages.
It is used in production by companies such as GitHub, NoRedInk, Klarna, Input Output Global Inc. (in the Cardano project), and Wire. It is free and open-source software released under a BSD 3-clause license.
The type-level approach pioneered by Servant allows extensibility along the dimensions of both data and behavior, and is thus a solution to the expression problem. New combinators or terms in the DSL can be modularly introduced, as can new interpretations of them, as entirely separate packages. As of 2023, well over 100 packages related to Servant have been published in the Haskell package repository.
See also
Yesod (web framework)
Snap (web framework)
References
External links
Web frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onn%20%28disambiguation%29 | Onn or ONN may refer to:
Onn, the Irish name of the seventeenth letter of the Ogham alphabet
ONN, the Ohio News Network
Onn., a consumer electronics brand
Onn Abu Bakar, a Malaysian politician
Onn Jaafar, a Malayan politician
Onn Hafiz Ghazi, a Malaysian politician
Hussein Onn, a former Malaysian Prime Minister
Melanie Onn, a British politician
Shmuel Onn, a mathematician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2096%20%28Poland%29 | National road 96 (, abbreviated as DK96) is a main road of accelerated traffic (class GP road; ), belonging to Polish national roads network, with length of and located in Toruń County (West Pomeranian Voivodeship). It connects motorway A1 (Turzno junction) with national road 15. With its length, the route is the shortest one of all national roads in Poland.
It was established by the Ordinance No. 60 of the General Director for National Roads and Motorways of December 20, 2013 that became valid on January 1st, 2014.
The signage of national road 96 is placed only at the exit of Turzno toll plaza on the junction with motorway A1 and near the roundabout with national road 15 – the route number was not placed on the signpost boards.
From 1986 to 2000 the number 96 was assigned to Bielsko-Biała – Kęty – Wadowice – Głogoczów route, which currently is signed as road 52.
Because the route is a direct link to the motorway, vehicles other than motorcars (low-speed vehicles, bicycles, mopeds, horse-drawn, etc.) cannot use it.
Permissible axle load
The entire route is designed for a single axle load of up to .
Route plan
Notes
Until the end of 2013 the shortest national road in Poland was route 85 with its length of .
In the official list of voivodeship roads the village name is erroneously stated as Brzeżno.
References
External links
96 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20symbol%20hypothesis | The mirror symbol hypothesis is a mechanistic explanation of theory of mind
proposed as a means of constructing empathetic artificial intelligence. It was first proposed by proposed by Michael Timothy Bennett and Yoshihiro Maruyama.
Description
The following summarizes the description given in "Philosophical Specification of Empathetic Ethical Artificial Intelligence", published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems in 2022 :
A mirror neuron is a neuron that discharges both in the
execution of a specific motor act (such as grasping), and in the passive observation of that act. Likewise, neurons may discharge both in the experience of an emotion, and in the observation of another experiencing that emotion. Hence this mirror action of neurons may facilitate empathy.
The mirror symbol hypothesis posits that symbols emerge (initially formalised in terms of Lawrence W. Barsalou's perceptual symbols, and later as statements in an implementable language) may function in a similar way to facilitate empathy. There exist symbols (e.g. for grasping) that apply both in the act and in the passive observation thereof. In the Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, symbols are made of three parts; a sign (for example the word "grasp"), a referent (the act or observation thereof) and the interpretent (that links the two, determining the effect upon one who perceives the symbol). The mirror symbol hypothesis holds that the same interpretant can be used in both action and passive observation and, if reward signals or qualia are functions of interpretants (being what determines the effect upon one who perceives), facilitate empathy. This requires a means of constructing other-directed intentionality (a means of telling one's intent apart from others), so that one does not confuse one's own experience with the observation of another's.
Applications
Later more formal descriptions integrated the mirror symbol hypothesis into a mathematical formalism (see ) to provide a mechanistic explanation of empathy. The requirement for other-directed intentionality is addressed via the emergence of symbols representing causal interventions (behaving as a "do" operator - see Causal model)
References
Philosophical theories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova%20II | Supernova II (or SuperNova II) is a computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) game of space conflict.
History and development
Supernova II was a play-by-mail game of space conflict designed by Peter Donnan and Russel Norris and published by Rolling Thunder Games. Flagship editor Tim Sullivan called it a "sophisticated space opera". It was released in the U.S. and UK in February and August 1989, respectively. It improved on their initial offering of Supernova. Supernova II was computer moderated, an update from Supernova's hand-moderation. By 2004, Rolling Thunder Games released Supernova III.
Gameplay
Players custom designed ships for assignment in fleets which could take offensive or defensive actions. Twelve ship types were available. These included: Colonial Transports, Destroyers, Escort Carriers, Explorers, Fast Freighters, Fleet Scouts, Frigates, Heavy Freighters, Heavy Troop Transports, Light Cruisers, Star Destroyers, and Troop Transports. Players selected a race to play as well, a consequential choice for gameplay.
According to Wayne Mohan, "SuperNova is the Commando unit, a small, elite band of your finest" which can explore or accomplish other tasks. Intrigue and diplomacy were elements of gameplay. Both combat between ships and ground combat were possible.
Gameplay in Supernova II was challenging and careful play in the first eight months was critical to success. The editors of Flagship stated that it was "one of the hardest games to play well from turn 1". Rick McFarland put its complexity just below games like Empyrean Challenge.
Reception
A reviewer in the September–October 1987 issue of Paper Mayhem highly recommended Supernova II, stating it was "an improvement over the original in almost every area". He noted that combat played a greater role and gameplay was challenging. As of November 1989, Supernova II was the highest rated game of 53 listed PBM games in Paper Mayhem. In the November–December 1989 issue of Paper Mayhem, Supernova II took 1st place in the Best PBM Game of 1989 list. The game also took 1st place in the magazine's Best PBM Game of 1989 list.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space conquest games
Space opera role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil%20Code%20%28programming%20language%29 | Pencil Code is an educational programming language and website. It allows programming using either Scratch-style block coding, or CoffeeScript. Code runs directly in the web browser and can be shared with others. The language centers on a model of a pencil programmatically drawing on a 2-dimensional screen, with the pencil cursor depicted visually as a turtle.
History
Pencil Code was created by David Bau and his son in 2013. It was inspired by Logo, the 1967 programming language for drawing on a screen using a Lisp-like programming language. Google has funded improvements to Pencil Code via Google Summer of Code projects.
References
External links
Pencil Code official website
Domain-specific programming languages
Educational programming languages
Free educational software
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-Garde%20Computing | Avant-Garde Computing, Inc., was a publicly traded American software and computer hardware company active from 1978 to 1990 and based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It was most well known for its Net/Command, Net/Adviser, Net/Alert, and Net/Guard suite of network management, monitoring, and security products. The company was acquired by Boole & Babbage in 1990 after a five-year string of losses.
Beginning
Avant-Garde Computing was founded by Timothy P. Ahlstrom and F. Morgan LaMarche and incorporated in 1978. Ahlstrom and LaMarche were previously 20 year veterans of IBM, both working in that company's marketing department. In their off-time in the early 1970s, the duo built a device that would warn computer operators when a data tape was close to the end of its reel, founding Ahlstrom LaMarche & Co. to market it. The device proliferated rapidly in the computer rooms of various companies, and the duo later sold their company and its patents to Telegentics of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, to reportedly modest profit. After several years, the duo regrouped and discussed starting another business. They decided to invite several top executives of companies who ran large mainframe computer networks to dinner at a restaurant. When Ahlstrom and LaMarche asked them what troubles they frequently encountered, network management was cited as the most challenging task. These conversations inspired the duo to raise the capital to incorporate Avant-Garde Computing in Cherry Hill; in order to secure adequate financing, the two also put second mortgages on their homes.
The company's first product, Net/Alert, was announced in October 1979. It was a hardware–software network management suite comprising a light-pen-capable, color CRT monitor, logic analyzer, and graphical software to analyze traffic on a mainframe network and display and print reports based on the collected data. Net/Alert took two years to develop and was primarily the brainchild of Ahlstrom; LaMarche meanwhile possessed the marketing prowess. In the time between the product's development and their first sale, the duo sold a 45-percent stake of Avant-Garde Computing, worth US$500,000, to Northern Telecom's United States subsidiary in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1980. Northern Telecom U.S.'s Spectron division purchased the first Net/Alert units–worth $3.6 million—in January 1981. With the help of Spectron, Avant-Garde won clients such as Citibank, Xerox, Cigna, MetLife, Chase Manhattan Bank, Shearson/American Express, and Air France within two years of Net/Alert's introduction.
Success
In June 1983, Avant-Garde went public, issuing 1.1 million shares of common stock. The proceeds from the company's initial public offering allowed the company to retire its debt and earn working capital. Soon after the IPO, Northern Telecom relinquished their 45-percent stake in Avant-Garde, pocketing $20 million in the process.
Sales and profits doubled for Avant-Garde between the last quarter of 1982 and the first quarter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Izquierda%20Diario | La Izquierda Diario is an online newspaper network that publishes news and opinion pieces. The newspaper was created by Socialist Workers' Party, a Trotskyist political party in Argentina. La Izquierda Diario has been credited for gaining a non-Trotskyite reader base among the left. By 2014 the Socialist Workers' Party declared to have an international network of Trotskyite rapporteurs in 15 countries. The network declares to publish 15 local editions written in one of seven languages; Spanish, French, English, German, Catalan, Italian and Portuguese.
References
Spanish-language websites
Argentine news websites
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Carlos-Valencia | Deborah Carlos-Valencia (born ) sometimes written as Deborah Valencia) is a Filipino social worker, feminist, founder of the Kasapi Union, and co-founder of the Melissa Network, an organization that brings together leaders of the established migrant community in Greece.
Personal life
Carlos-Valencia is a Filipino feminist and community leader who fled the Philippines to Greece during the Marco dictatorship in 1985. Her husband Joe and son followed her to Greece some years later. She was aged 70 in 2019.
Life in Philippines
A trade-unionist and a social worker, Carlos-Valencia had to flee the Philippines after she and her husband became involved in Workers' resistance against the Marcos dictatorship.
Life in Greece
After arrival in Greece, Carlos-Valencia co-founded the Melissa Network in Athens in 2014 with Nadina Christopoulo. The organization serves the needs of migrant women in Greece, especially migrant domestic workers in Athens. The organization has since grown to include women from 45 countries. The organization is a based in Victoria Square in central Athens, amidst a community where far-right anti-migrant sentiment is high. Services provided include language lessons and other life skills.
In 1986, Carlos-Valencia helped found the Kasapi Union, an organisation supporting solidarity for those affected by Filipion dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1998, she organized a worker's solidarity event at Panteion University.
She is also helped found the DIWATA – The Philippine Women’s Network in Greece microcredit cooperative and was a founding member of BABAYLAN-Philippine Women’s Network in Europe.
Six years after her arrival in Greece, in 2020, Carlos-Valencia was one of the 2.9% of Filipinos to obtain Greek citizenship.
References
External links
Melissa Network official website
Filipino feminists
Filipino emigrants to Greece
Filipino women's rights activists
Filipino women activists
Women founders
Organization founders
Filipino founders
People from Athens
Social workers
1940s births
Filipino refugees
Refugees in Greece
Greek trade unionists
Filipino trade unionists
Filipino trade union leaders
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Network | The Melissa Network of Migrant Women in Greece is a Greek not for profit organisation that supports needs of migrant women. It was founded in 2014 by Deborah Carlos-Valencia and Nadina Christopoulo.
Organization
The Melissa Network is a Greek not for profit organisation that supports needs of migrant women, especially migrants domestic workers in Athens. It was founded in 2014 by Deborah Carlos-Valencia and Nadina Christopoulo. The organization has since grown to include women from 45 countries. The organization is a based in Victoria Square in central Athens, amidst a community where far-right anti-migrant sentiment is high. Services provided include art classes, language classes and other life skills.
Melissa Network's partners include Include HER, Alpha team in Amman, Fintech Capital Network, and the Afghan Women Parliamentarians and Leaders Network.
See also
Greek Council of Refugees
Immigration to Greece
2015 European migrant crisis
References
External links
Melissa Network official website
2014 establishments in Greece
Women's rights organizations
Organizations based in Athens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumor%20Scanner%20Bangladesh | Rumor Scanner Bangladesh (Bengali: রিউমর স্ক্যানার বাংলাদেশ) is a fact checking or information verification organization of Bangladesh that was recognized by the International Fact Checking Network. It was established on March 17, 2020. Its main aim is to prevent ongoing rumors and fake news of Bangladesh and convey the correct information to the people. It publishes fact-check stories through web content as well as digital banners. Its headquarters is located in Dhaka.
History
It debuted on March 17, 2020, to address the negativity of various rumors including the Corona pandemic. Among its founders are Sumon Ahmed, Sakiuzzaman and Sayeed Joy. Within a short period of its establishment, it gained the recognition of the International Fact Checking Network।
Method
It verifies data through a total of eight processes. Namely: solicitation, active monitoring team, selection of claims for verification, research, report writing and editing, digital banner, rating and revision.
Statistics report
From January to August 2023, Rumor Scanner identified 1,082 misinformation spread on social media and local media. Rumor Scanner has found evidence of 74 false information being spread at the same time related to the National Assembly elections. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has had the highest number (43) of misinformation spread among political figures in these eight months, which is 17 percent of the total political misinformation.
It published 1,400 fact-check reports in 2022. Among them, 82 reports were published in January, 90 in February, 119 in March, 90 in April, 72 in May, 130 in June, 105 in July, 150 in August, 133 in September, 130 in October, 142 in November and 157 in December.
References
External links
Official website
Internet properties established in 2020
Fact-checking websites
Bangladeshi news websites
2020 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliw%20Channel%2023 | Aliw Channel 23 (stylized as ALIW Channel 23) is a Philippine television network owned and operated by Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of the ALC Group of Companies. The network is carried on UHF Channel 23 on digital terrestrial TV in Metro Manila. The station's broadcast facilities and studios are located at the 5th and 20th Floors, Citystate Centre, 709 Shaw Boulevard, Brgy. Oranbo, Pasig, and its transmitter is located in Nuestra Señora dela Paz Subd., Sumulong Highway, Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Antipolo (sharing facilities with sister station 97.9 Home Radio).
Background
On January 5, 2022, the National Telecommunications Commission awarded Channel 23 to Aliw Broadcasting Corporation under a provisional authority license. The channel was formerly used by Studio 23 and S+A of ABS-CBN Corporation. This marks Aliw's venture into television.
On May 6, 2022, the channel launched its test broadcast with a live video feed of DWIZ 882. On August 10, 2022, the channel started carrying the brand IZTV, with the tagline The News Company. It was officially launched on November 18.
On January 30, 2023, the channel rebranded as ALIW Channel 23, coinciding with the reformatting of Home Radio's provincial stations under the DWIZ network and the revamp of DWIZ's programming. It was officially launched on June 23, 2023 through a launch event held at The Podium in Mandaluyong, with the tagline Kumpleto Na Ang Channel Mo (Your channels are now complete) which was attended by Aliw officials, personalities and employees and distinguished personalities from politics, business, showbiz and sports.
Programs
Current
DWIZ programs
Anong Sey ni Father, Anong Sey Nina Brothers?
Arangkada Balita (2023–present)
Bagong Barangay ng Mamamayan in Action (2023–present)
Bahay Pinoy, Buhay Pinoy (2023–present)
Balitambayan (2023–present)
Balitang Paliparan
Barangay 882
Bella Filipina
Beyond Welness with Ms. P
Botika ni Tita (2023–present)
Department of Help
El Pueblo Publico
Gawin ang Tama
Isyu ng Bayan (2023–present)
IZ Balita Linggo (2023–present)
IZ Balita Sabado (2023–present)
IZ GameTime (2023–present)
Karambola (2005–present)
Laban para sa Karapatan
Love Pangga
Mag-Usap Tayo
Mr. Taxman
Musika at Balitaan
NegoShow (2023–present)
Obet P sa IZ
OPM sa DWIZ
Newscoop (2023–present)
Pangga Ruth Abao Live
Pilipinas Ngayon Na
Pinoy Gising (2023–present)
Pulis @ Ur Serbis
Ronda Pilipinas (2023–present)
Sa Kabukiran at Kabuhayan
Sapol ni Jarius Bondoc
Senior Citizen's Forum
Señor Balita (1999-present)
Serbisyong Bayan ni Tatay Rannie
Sulong na Bayan
Tandem (2023–present)
The Financial District (2022–present)
Todong Nationwide Talakayan
Up Up Pilipinas
Usapang Payaman
Usapang Senado
Usapang STL: Sa Totoo Lang
Yes Yes Yo Topacio
Sports
NBL Pilipinas
Shakey's Super League
Sinag Liga Asya
Religious
Manila Cathedral Sunday Mass
Intersitials
NBI: Naku Bawal Ito!
Kitchen Medicine
Raket
Fillenials
Mommylenials
Good Job!: DWIZ Sana All News
D.I.Y.: Do It Yourself
Let's Prove It!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Centroid%20Moment%20Tensor | The Global Centroid Moment Tensor (GCMT) is a seismological and geophysical database of locations and source parameters for globally recorded earthquakes larger than magnitude 5.0. GCMT's primary goals are determination of moment tensors for major earthquakes globally and quick dissemination of results. The GCMT database contains more than 25,000 moment tensors for major earthquakes since 1976.
GCMT is overseen by Göran Ekström and Meredith Nettles at the American Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. GCMT was initially established under Harvard University where it was called the Harvard CMT Project in 1982–2006. The GCMT database is considered a trusted source and staple for the geophysical community.
References
External links
Official website
Scientific databases
Seismology measurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOSCOPE%20Observatory | The GEOSCOPE Observatory is a global network of 35 broadband seismic stations across 18 countries that share their data with the French and international scientific community. The observatory was established in 1982, and the acquired data is managed by and is available at the French Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).
All GEOSCOPE stations transmit data in real time to the data center, and the data is also automatically transmitted to tsunami warning centers. The incoming data from the stations are technically validated by IPGP or Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST).
References
External links
Official website
Seismology measurement
Networks
1982 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware%20as%20a%20service | Ransomware as a service is a cybercrime business model where ransomware operators write software and affiliates pay to launch attacks using said software. Affiliates do not need to have technical skills of their own but rely on the technical skills of the operators.
The "Ransomware as a service" is a cybercriminal variation of the "software as a service" business model.
Revenue models
Affiliates can choose from different revenue models, including monthly subscriptions, affiliate programs, one-time license fees, and pure profit sharing. The most advanced RaaS operators provide portals that allow their subscribers to track the status of infections, payments, and encrypted files. This level of support and functionality is similar to legitimate SaaS products.
The RaaS market is highly competitive, with operators running marketing campaigns and developing websites that mimic legitimate companies. The global revenue from ransomware attacks was approximately $20 billion in 2020, highlighting the significant financial success of RaaS.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Centre (MSTIC) regards RaaS as different from previous forms of ransomware as it no longer has a tight link between tools, initial entry vector and payload choices. They regard them as having a double threat - both encrypting data and exfiltrating it and threatening to publish it.
Extortion methods
Ransomware threat actors use different techniques to extort money from victims. Some of the main methods include:
Double extortion
In a double extortion ransomware attack, the threat actors first encrypt the victim's data. They then threaten to publicly release exfiltrated data if the ransom is not paid. This puts additional pressure on the victim to pay the ransom to avoid having sensitive data leaked.
According to analysis from cybersecurity firm Zscaler, 19 ransomware families adopted double or multi-extortion approaches in 2021. By 2022, this number grew to 44 families using this technique. Groups like Babuk and SnapMC pioneered double extortion ransomware. Other actors like RansomHouse, BianLian, and Karakurt later adopted it as well.
Multiple extortion
Multiple extortion is a variant of double extortion. In addition to encrypting data and threatening to leak it, threat actors also launch DDoS attacks against the victim's website or infrastructure. This adds another element to pressure victims into paying.
Pure extortion
In a "pure extortion" or "encryption-less ransomware" attack, the threat actors exfiltrate sensitive data but do not encrypt any files. They threaten to publish the stolen data online if the ransom is not paid. This approach allows threat actors to skip the complex technical work of developing encryptors.
Groups like LAPSUS$ and Clop have used pure extortion techniques in high-profile attacks. Since victims' systems are not locked, this method tends to cause less disruption and draws less attention from authorities. However, the financial impact on targeted organi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Empire | The Next Empire (or TNE) is a closed-end, computer moderated, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) wargame.
History and development
The Next Empire, or TNE, was a closed-ended, computer-moderated, space-based play-by-mail wargame published by Cyborg Games. It was introduced at the 1988 Origins Awards. By 1998, the publisher had changed to Reality Simulations, Inc., which was using the original ruleset but planning a revision. Turn costs were relatively high at $11.75.
Gameplay
The game's purpose is to control all starbases. Each game comprised 21 players. Gameplay occurs on a 40 × 33 hex map, with each hex comprising multiple parsecs—a total of 25,080.
Beginning with a single starbase, players chose from 21 available races and created fleets of custom-made or captured ships. Games lasted about a year. Ships were customizable in size and equipped systems with sizes from 8 to 24 and 20 available lethal and non-lethal systems.
Reception
Darren Anderson reviewed the game in a 1989 issue of Paper Mayhem, praising its value for money and saying, "I highly recommend TNE for both novice and veteran garners alike". Also in 1989, Stewart Wieck reviewed The Next Empire in White Wolf. He rated the game 3 points out of 5 for Diplomacy, a 4 for Moderation and Strategy, and a 5 in Materials. Overall, he rated it 4 out of 5 points.
Stephen B. Marte reviewed the game in a 1990 issue of American Gamer. He stated that it was a "fun, quick paced, well thought out tactical simulation". The Next Empire took 2nd place in Paper Mayhem's Best PBM Game of 1990 list behind Legends in 1st place. Stacey Maust reviewed the game in 1998, rating it a 3 out of 5 for the company (RSI) and Value, a 3.5 for Politics, a 4 for Playability, a 4/5 for Frustration/Excitement, and a 5 for the Map.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Space conquest games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondee | Bondee is a virtual avatar social networking app developed by Singapore-based tech firm, Metadream. It is a platform in which users can connect and interact with others by using a personalized figure-style avatar. Launched in January 2023, the app quickly gained popularity in Asia and topped app store charts in several countries.
History and development
Metadream, an independent Singapore-based tech company, acquired the intellectual property (IP) rights for True.ly in May 2022, and planned to roll out worldwide. It was founded by investors from the United States and Australia, with research and development (R&D) and operational bases in Japan and South Korea, as well as data centers in Singapore, Japan, and the United States, to ensure product safety and meet data security requirements. The company plans to establish regional operation centers in additional countries (such as Thailand and the Philippines) to serve local users. On November 15, 2022, it was announced that information technology (IT) startup company, Metadream, would launch Bondee, a figure-style avatar messenger application. The virtual avatar application was then officially launched on January 17, 2023.
Features
Bondee is a messenger application that allows users to send and receive messages from friends and acquaintances, "[to] express their current mood, condition, situation," or alternatively, through a "figure-style" avatar, and "exhibit" it to the other person using the app. It is available on operating systems such as iOS 13.0 and above and Android 8.0 and up versions. Upon opening the app, users would be able to customize their personal "3D virtual" self from a "wide selection" of avatars, hairstyles, clothing, shoes, and accessories; then, they would be redirected to create a virtual space or home with pieces of furniture, fixtures, and fittings. Users can also participate in "virtual" activities such as camping, swinging, dancing, sailing, visiting each other's rooms with friends, and leaving notes.
Reception
Bondee topped app store charts in multiple countries and had over five million downloads on Google Play, "record-breaking" seven months faster than Instagram. Since its launch in January 2023, it has gained popularity in Asia.
The application's graphics are 3D and customizable, allowing users to exhibit and pick their choices. Its interface was also compared to Animal Crossing, Habbo Hotel, and The Sims for the game's functions. It also received mixed to positive reactions wherein the game was said to be "lacking in some features" regarding the ability to play games with friends.
References
External links
Official website
Singaporean brands
2023 establishments in Singapore
2023 software
Mobile software
Social media companies
Social networking services
Android (operating system) software
IOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Blomm%C3%A9 | Adam Blommé (born 19 April 1996) is a Swedish professional golfer. He won 2021 Swedish Golf Tour Order of Merit and joined the Challenge Tour, where he was runner-up at the 2023 Dimension Data Pro-Am.
Amateur career
Blommé won several titles on the junior circuit in Sweden. He lost a playoff to Marcus Kinhult at the 2014 Swedish Junior Strokeplay Championship, and was runner-up at the event again in 2015.
He appeared for the National Team at the European Amateur Team Championship three times, securing the bronze medal at the 2015 European Amateur Team Championship alongside Tobias Edén and Marcus Kinhult. In 2017, he won his semi-final match against Manuel Elvira of Spain, and his team finished fourth.
He was part of the Swedish team that finished 4th in the 2014 Eisenhower Trophy in Kuruizawa, Japan, where he was beaten by Kinhult as the best Swedish player, who had the 6th best individual score, five strokes from winner Jon Rahm.
Blommé played collegiate golf at Odessa College 2015–2017, where he won individually four times and secured the win for the Odessa Wranglers in the NJCAA's National Championship, and helped the team become the number one ranked in the nation. After two years he transferred to Texas Tech University, where he played with the Texas Tech Red Raiders golf team 2017–2019. He helped recruit Ludvig Åberg to Texas Tech.
Representing Sweden at the 2019 The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship alongside Vincent Norrman, Beatrice Wallin and Maja Stark, he helped secured the men's silver, only beaten by the U.S. team.
Professional career
Blommé turned professional in late 2019 and joined the Swedish Golf Tour. In 2021, he recorded nine top-10 finishes, including reaching the final of the Swedish Matchplay Championship, and topped the Order of Merit. He finished fourth in the Nordic Golf League rankings to earn promotion to the Challenge Tour.
In 2023, Blommé led the Dimension Data Pro-Am in South Africa after two rounds, and finished the tournament as runner-up, four shots behind Oliver Bekker. With the result, he rose to No 1 status on the Challenge Tour's Road to Mallorca standings. He shot a 63 to take the lead after round one in the Nelson Mandela Bay Championship the following week, before a 9 on the penultimate hole saw him crash down the results list.
Amateur wins
2009 Skandia Tour Distriktsfinal SGDF
2012 Titleist Footjoy Junior Open, Alex Norén Junior Open
2013 Vassunda Junior Open
2016 NJCAA SW Championship, NJCAA District 2 Championship, High Country Shootout
2017 NJCAA District 2 Championship
Source:
Professional wins (4)
Challenge Tour wins (1)
Challenge Tour playoff record (1–0)
Swedish Future Series wins (3)
Team appearances
Amateur
European Boys' Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2013, 2014
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Sweden): 2014
European Amateur Team Championship (representing Sweden): 2015, 2016, 2017
The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship (representing Sweden): |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Capitan%20%28supercomputer%29 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise El Capitan, is an upcoming exascale supercomputer, hosted at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, United States and projected to become operational in 2024. It is based on the Cray EX Shasta architecture. When deployed, El Capitan is projected to displace Frontier as the world's fastest supercomputer.
Design
El Capitan has been announced to use an unknown number of AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated computing units (APUs). The MI300A consists of 24 AMD Zen AMD64-based CPU cores, and CDNA 3-based GPU integrated onto a single organic package, along with 128GB of HBMe RAM.
The floor space and number of racks for El Capitan have not yet been announced.
Blades are interconnected by HPE Slingshot 64-port switch that provides 12.8 terabits/second of bandwidth. Groups of blades are linked in a dragonfly topology with at most three hops between any two nodes. Cabling is either optical or copper, customized to minimize cable length. Total cabling runs .
El Capitan uses an APU architecture where the CPU and GPU share an internal on-chip coherent interconnect.
History
El Capitan was ordered as a part of the Department of Energy's CORAL-2 initiative, intended to replace Sierra (supercomputer), an IBM/NVIDIA machine deployed in 2018. LLNL partnered with HPE Cray and AMD to build the system.
Three El Capitan prototypes – named rzVernal, Tioga, and Tenaya – themselves were powerful enough to be listed on the TOP200 supercomputer list in June, 2023. rzVernal reached 4.1 petaflops. In early July, the first components of El Capitan were installed at Lawrence Livermore, with complete installation expected by mid 2024.
References
Cray products
Exascale computers
GPGPU supercomputers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
X86 supercomputers
64-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiliz | Chiliz is a blockchain platform developed by Maltese-based sports company Mediarex. The Chiliz blockchain powers the Socios.com platform, which offers fan tokens to sports fans, enabling them to participate in polls hosted by the clubs, or receive rewards and promotions. The native token Chiliz is used to buy the fan tokens. Alexandre Dreyfus is the CEO of Chiliz and Beatrice Collet is the managing director.
History
Chiliz was launched in 2018 by Maltese-based sports company Mediarex led by CEO Alexandre Dreyfus. Members of the firm's advisory panel include Dr. Christian Mueller, InFront Sports’ vice president, strategy and business development, and Sam Li, Sina Sports’ head of strategic partnerships; with Perform Group's chief strategy officer of Perform Group, John Gleasure, also a shareholder of Mediarex. Other members of the advisory board are Fnatic's CEO Wouter Sleijffers and Team Vitality's CEO Nicolas Maurer.
In June 2018, Chiliz raised $65 million in a round led by Binance with other reputed names in the industry like OK Blockchain Capital, FBG Capital, Ceyuan Ventures, and Bancor also investing. In March 2021, the company announced it will invest $50 million in an expansion to the United States.
Fan Tokens
Fan tokens are digital coins created on the Chiliz blockchain that sports organisations provide to their fans through the app Socios.com. They allow fans to vote on a variety of minor decisions, such as new facilities, kit designs, shirt numbers of new signings, celebration songs, and more. Fan Tokens were first introduced in 2019, with football clubs Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain being the first clubs to launch their official tokens. Sports clubs including Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Inter, Arsenal, AS Roma, Galatasaray, Flamengo, Corinthians and 60 other teams have launched Fan Tokens through Socios.com.
References
External links
Official Website
Digital currencies
Blockchains
Cryptocurrency projects
Cryptocurrencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20districts%20of%20Gujarat | The population of Gujarat was 60,439,692 (31,491,260 males and 28,948,432 females) according to the 2011 census data. The population density is , lower than other Indian states. As per the census of 2011, the state has a sex ratio of 918 females for every 1000 males, one of the lowest (ranked 24) among the 29 states in India.
Demographics
List of Regional Transport Office districts in Gujarat
GJ—Gujarat
Distribution of population
The following table shows the distributions of male and female populations of Gujarat's districts, as of 2011:
By District
List of districts in Gujarat by Human Development Index
List of developmental administrative units of Gujarat
List of revenue divisions of Gujarat
List of Legislative Assembly Constituencies
Following is the list of the constituencies of the Gujarat Vidhan Sabha since the delimitation of legislative assembly constituencies in 2008. At present, 13 constituencies are reserved for candidates of the Scheduled Castes, and 27 constituencies are reserved for candidates of the Scheduled tribes.
See also
Economy of Gujarat
References
Gujarat
Economy of Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Embrace | People's Embrace () is a network of individuals supporting the defection of personnel from the Myanmar Armed Forces and Myanmar Police Force. The network was established in May 2021 by military personnel in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état to assist defectors and their families, including social services like accommodation, safe passage, and security. These services have often been coupled with financial incentives and monetary stipends to help supplant defectors' lost wages, although funding remains scarce. People's Embrace has been absorbed into the opposition National Unity Government's Ministry of Defense. Under military law, defectors who desert their posts can face the death penalty, and the families of defectors face retaliation. The network is supported by hundreds of volunteers. People's Embrace is part of a broader civil disobedience movement (CDM) among Burmese who oppose the 2021 military coup.
As of January 2023, 3,000 soldiers and 7,000 police officers have defected since the coup. The majority of defections occurred between June and December 2021. However, over the last 60 years, the Burmese military has remained largely cohesive, supported by a system of rewards and punishments and a rigorous indoctrination process.
An independent program called People's Soldiers also operates a digital outreach campaign and a network of volunteers offering safe passage, shelter and food.
See also
2021–2022 Myanmar protests
External links
References
Organisations based in Myanmar
Organizations established in 2021
21st-century social movements
Military of Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiri%20Wagstaff | Kiri Lou Wagstaff is an American computer scientist and planetary scientist whose research involves the use of machine learning in the analysis of data and autonomous control of planetary rovers and other space probes. She is a senior instructor in electrical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University.
Education and career
Wagstaff was a high school student in Moab, Utah, and attended the University of Utah with the support of a program for women in mathematics and the sciences. After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997, she went to Cornell University for graduate study in natural language processing, and became part of a team of students who participated in a NASA competition on engineering support for human exploration of Mars., She earned a master's degree in 2000 and completed her Ph.D. in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, Intelligent Clustering with Instance-Level Constraints, was supervised by Claire Cardie.
After a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, she worked for 20 years as a principal researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During this time she also returned to graduate study for a master's degree in geological sciences from the University of Southern California in 2008, advised by Frank Corsetti, and a master's degree in library and information science from San Jose State University in 2017.
She began teaching at Oregon State University in 2020.
Recognition
Wagstaff was a recipient of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Lew Allen Award in 2008, "for advancing the performance and application of machine learning methods to onboard and ground-based space science, Earth science and spacecraft engineering". She is a two-time recipient of the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal, in 2012 and 2020, and was elected as an AAAI Fellow in 2023.
References
External links
Home page
Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy Group, JPL
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Planetary scientists
University of Utah alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Southern California alumni
San Jose State University alumni
Oregon State University faculty
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will honor the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2022, until May 31, 2023, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony is scheduled to be broadcast on Fox on January 15, 2024, with the Creative Arts Emmys on January 6 and 7, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, following a delay from September 2023 due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Nominations were announced on July 12, 2023.
Nominees
Nominees for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 12, 2023, in a virtual broadcast hosted by actress Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chair Frank Scherma. Succession led all programs with 27 nominations, including 14 acting nominations to tie its own record from the previous year. It also became the first series to receive three nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The Last of Us became the first live-action video game adaptation to be nominated in major Emmy categories. In individual achievements, Paris Barclay's nomination for Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story made him the first black director to be nominated in comedy, drama, and limited series categories; Jenna Ortega became the second-youngest nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series after Patty Duke; Pedro Pascal's three nominations made him the most-nominated Latino in a year; and Keivonn Montreal Woodard became the youngest male actor and second deaf actor to be nominated. HBO and Max led all networks with 127 nominations, and the two services became the first network with four Outstanding Drama Series nominees since NBC at the 1992 ceremony. Amazon Freevee and Tubi each earned their first nominations this year for Jury Duty and The Nevers, respectively.
Nominees are listed below.
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
Writing
Governors Award
Nominations by program
For the purposes of the lists below, "major" constitutes the categories listed above (program, acting, directing, and writing), while "total" includes the categories presented at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Nominations by network
Ceremony information
In February 2023, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (also known as the Television Academy) and broadcaster Fox announced the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards would be held on September 18, with the Creative Arts ceremonies on September 9 and 10. This marked the second year in a row that the ceremony would fall on a Monday; while it was described as an "unusual" move, since only NBC typically aired the Emmys on Mondays since 2014 (due to NBC Sunday Night Football), it would prevent the broadcast from interfering with National Football League games. The ceremony will be produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, taking over for Done and Dusted and Hudlin Entertainment. Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay will serve as pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie%20Television | , also known as MTV, is a television network headquartered in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations, and the only commercial television station in Mie Prefecture. Nagoya Dome is its primary shareholder.
Mie TV was founded in 1968, and first commenced television broadcasting in December 1969. Mie TV started digital terrestrial television broadcasting in 2005. It is also possible to watch Mie TV from some parts of Aichi prefecture.
References
External links
Official website
Independent television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1968
Japanese companies established in 1968 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal%20wingman | A loyal wingman is a proposed type of unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) which incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and is capable of collaborating with the next generation of manned combat aircraft, including sixth-generation fighters and bombers such as the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. Also unlike the conventional UCAV, the loyal wingman is expected to be capable of surviving on the battlefield but to be significantly lower-cost than a manned aircraft with similar capabilities. In the US, the concept is known as the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA).
Characteristics
The loyal wingman is a military drone with an onboard AI control system and capability to carry and deliver a significant military weapons load. The AI system is envisaged as being significantly lighter and lower-cost than a human pilot with their associated life support systems, but to offer comparable capability in flying the aircraft and in mission execution.
Some concepts are based on a standardised aircraft deployed in two variants; one as a sixth-generation fighter with a human pilot and/or battle commander in the cockpit, and the other as a loyal wingman with an AI system substituted in the same location. BAE Systems envisage the Tempest to be capable of operating in either configuration.
Another concept is to develop a shorter-range, and hence smaller and cheaper, wingman to be carried by the manned parent aircraft and air-launched when needed. The drone in turn carries its own munitions. This reduces the overall cost while maintaining protection for the manned aircraft on the battlefield.
Role
The principal application is to elevate the role of human pilots to mission commanders, leaving AIs as "loyal wingmen" to operate under their tactical control as high-skill operators of relatively low-cost robotic craft.
Loyal wingmen can perform other missions as well, as "a sensor, as a shooter, as a weapons carrier, as a cost reducer".
Capabilities
A loyal wingman is expected to cost significantly less than a manned fighter, and will typically be considered vulnerable to attrition. It would have sufficient intelligence and onboard defence systems to survive on the battlefield. The United States Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has described them as remotely controlled versions of targeting pods, electronic warfare pods or weapons carriers to provide additional sensors and munitions; to balance affordability and capability,
Development history
The concept of the loyal wingman arose in the early 2000s and, since then, countries such as Australia, China, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US have been researching and developing the necessary design criteria and technologies.
Australia
Boeing Australia is leading development of the MQ-28 Ghost Bat loyal wingman for the RAAF, with BAE Systems Australia providing much of the avionics. The MQ-28 was first flown in 2021.
China
China has been studying the loyal wingman concept since at least 2019 and has shown off some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI21%20Labs | AI21 Labs is a Tel Aviv-based company specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which develops AI systems that can understand and generate natural language.
History
AI21 Labs was founded in November 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Amnon Shashua in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In January 2019, the company raised $9.5 million from investors in a seed funding round. On October 27, 2020, AI21 Labs launched its first product, Wordtune, an AI-based writing assistant that understands context and can suggest paraphrases and rewrites. Google named Wordtune one of its favorite extensions of 2021. In August 2021, the company launched AI21 Studio. In the same month, Jurassic-1, a natural language processing system, was launched with a token vocabulary over 250,000.
In November 2021, Walden Catalyst announced an investment of $20 Million in AI21 Labs. Later that month, AI21 Labs completed a $25 million series A round led by Pitango First. In July 2022, the company raised $64 million in a series B funding round led by Ahren with the participation of prof. Amnon Shashua, Walden Catalyst, Pitango, TPY Capital, and Mark Leslie.
On January 17, 2023, AI21 Labs announced the launch of Wordtune Spices, a generative AI tool that generates a range of text options that can enhance sentences.
On August 31, 2023, the company announced the closing of $155 million Series C financing round. Investors include previous participants, alongside new ones such as Google and Nvidia.
See also
ChatGPT
OpenAI
References
Companies of Israel
AI companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus%20Pad | The OnePlus Pad is an Android-based tablet computer designed, marketed, and manufactured by OnePlus. It was announced on February 7, 2023, and was released on April 28, 2023.
References
External links
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Gulden | Robert Gulden, nicknamed Bob, (March 30, 1948 – November 30, 2022, age 74) was a prominent cave surveyor and cartographer. From 1976 until his death, Gulden kept the world's best-known database of long and deep caves.
Early life
Gulden was born on March 30, 1948, in Starnberg, West Germany, to Irma and Edgar Walt Gulden. He began caving in 1964 while living in Okinawa, Japan.
Career
Gulden joined the National Speleological Society in 1971. He began keeping the database for which he was best known in 1976, while he was helping to survey the Friars Hole Cave System in West Virginia. He also helped explore and map Great Onyx Cave at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Gap Cave in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Virginia, and Siler's Cave in West Virginia.
He belonged to a caving club called the Gangsta Mappers, a group of "guerrilla cartographers who remap previously explored caves, but with more care and in greater detail", the New York Times reported in 2004.
In March 2022, Gulden was presented with the Karst Award, given annually to an outstanding member of the cave and karst field by the Karst Waters Institute.
Death
Gulden died in his sleep on November 30, 2022. Bob's wife Janice Louise preceded him in death.
Books
Caves of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, co-written with Mark J. Johnsson. Published 1984 by the West Virginia Speleological Survey.
See also
List of longest caves in the United States
External links
caverbob.com: Gulden's personal website, home to his various cave databases
References
1948 births
2022 deaths
American cavers
American cartographers
American surveyors
American topographers
People from Starnberg |
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