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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish%20Vaswani | Ashish Vaswani is a computer scientist working in deep learning, who is known for his significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). He is one of the co-authors of the seminal paper "Attention is All You Need" which introduced the Transformer model, a novel architecture that uses a self-attention mechanism and has since become foundational to many state-of-the-art models in NLP. Transformer architecture is the core of language models that power applications such as chatGPT. He was a co-founder of Adept AI Labs and a former staff research scientist at Google Brain.
Career
Vaswani completed his engineering in Computer Science from BIT Mesra in 2002. In 2004, he moved to the US to pursue higher studies at University of Southern California. He did his PhD at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a researcher at Google, where he was part of the Google Brain team. He was a co-founder of Adept AI Labs but left the company.
Notable works
Vaswani's most notable work is the paper "Attention Is All You Need", published in 2017. The paper introduced the Transformer model, which eschews the use of recurrence in sequence-to-sequence tasks and relies entirely on self-attention mechanisms. The model has been instrumental in the development of several subsequent state-of-the-art models in NLP, including BERT, GPT-2, and GPT-3.
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Living people
Computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20strip%20%28disambiguation%29 | Magnetic strip may refer to:
Magnetic stripe card
Magnetic strip in an NCR CRAM deck
Magnetic strip in an IBM 2321 Data Cell magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipti%20Srinivasan | Dipti Srinivasan is a Singaporean electrical engineer whose research involves renewable energy and smart grids. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and director of the Centre for Green Energy Management & Smart Grid at the National University of Singapore.
Education and career
Srinivasan worked for the Rajasthan State Electricity Board in Jaipur, India, from 1986 to 1989, before going to the National University of Singapore for graduate study in electrical engineering. She earned a master's degree there in 1991 and completed a Ph.D. in 1994.
After postdoctoral study at the University of California, Berkeley, she returned to the National University of Singapore as a professor in 1995.
Recognition
Srinivasan was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to neutron detection techniques and neutron transport Monte Carlo methods". She is the 2022 recipient of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award, given "for her leadership and valuable contributions to the power engineering profession, education, and excellent volunteerism".
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Singaporean engineers
Singaporean women engineers
Electrical engineering academics
Women electrical engineers
Academic staff of the National University of Singapore
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddies%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Baddies, officially titled Baddies ATL, aired on the Zeus Network from May 16, 2021, to August 22, 2021, and is filmed in Atlanta, Georgia.
The season focuses on the original Bad Girls of reality television; Seven Craft, Judi Jackson, Natalie Nunn, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks,Tanisha Thomas and Newbie Sidney Starr. Mehgan James is also featured in a recurring capacity. The season consisted of 12 episodes, including a two-part reunion special hosted by Tamar Braxton and Jason Lee.
This was the final season for Craft, Jackson, Shanks and Thomas. This was also the final season for Oliver and Starr as full-time cast members.
Production and crew
Talks for a potential reboot of the Bad Girls Club came about in early 2019 when Natalie Nunn announced that a reunion special was in the works. The reunion was initially developed for release on the platform, OnlyFans. In December 2020, six former Bad Girls Club cast members, including Nunn, Oliver and Salgado; appeared together on an episode of The Conversation to confront their issues surrounding the OnlyFans project.
After the final episode of The Conversation special aired, it was announced that the Baddies series was in production. On February 14, 2021, Zeus Network released a teaser trailer for Baddies ATL, which saw eight former Bad Girls Club cast members from various seasons reunite. The entire season was filmed in a mansion in Atlanta.
Cast
Casting
In February 2021, Zeus confirmed season 1 would premiere in May 2021 with Natalie Nunn and Tanisha Thomas leading the Baddies series alongside Seven Craft, Judi Jackson, Sarah Oliver, Christina Salgado, Janelle Shanks and Sidney Starr. It was also announced that Mehgan James would join as a supporting cast member.
Cast duration
Reunion
The final episode was followed by a two-part reunion special, hosted by Tamar Braxton and Jason Lee, which was released on August 15, 2021, and August 22, 2021. Oliver chose not to attend the taping due to ongoing conflict with her cast members, with the reunion special focusing on the audio recordings she released of Nunn on the day of filming.
Episodes
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2021 American television seasons
Bad Girls Club |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Isely | Philip Isely (October 16, 1915 – June 26, 2012) was an American peace activist and writer best known for writing numerous books and founding the Global Ratification and Elections Network (GREN) (now known as Earth Federation Movement (EFM)) and World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) along with his wife Margaret Isely, in 1955.
He was also co-founder of the health food chain Natural Grocers (formerly Vitamin Cottage store).
Early life and education
Born as Henry Philip Isely on October 16, 1915, the son of James Walter Isely and Jessie M. Owen, he grew up in Montezuma, Kansas.
In 1934–35, he attended South Oregon Jr. College in Ashland and from 1935 to 1937, he studied at Antioch College. In 1939, while pursuing his degree at Antioch College, Philip's path crossed with Margaret Ann Sheesley and they married in 1948.
Co-founder of Vitamin Cottage
After following organic diet, Philip's wife Margaret's health improved significantly, they recognized the potential health benefits of natural eating and began distributing nutrition books and taking supplement orders door-to-door, laying the foundation for their business. In 1958, they opened their first health food store in Lakewood, Colorado and in 1963, the Iselys converted a cottage-style house into their new store, inspiring the name change to "Vitamin Cottage". Now it is run by the second-generation siblings Zephyr, Kemper and Heather with more than 160 retail grocery stores in around 20 states of US.
Political career
In 1958, Philip ran as a Candidate for the U.S. Congress.
Birth of World Constitution and Parliament Association
The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) emerged from the Campaign for World Government (CWG), a movement that gained momentum in the aftermath of World War II. Recognizing the urgent need for a comprehensive constitution to safeguard the planet, Philip and Margaret Isely, prominent advocates based in Denver, Colorado, became key figures in the push for a world parliament and global law. In the mid-1950s, they joined the CWG at its Chicago offices and, in 1958 alongside individuals like Thane Read, Guy Marchand, and Marie Philips Scot, they formed the "World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention." In 1961, the committee relocated to Denver and issued a public call for the convention, garnering committed delegates from 50 nations and endorsements from several heads of state. In 1966, the organization was renamed the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), with Philip Isely serving as Secretary-General and Margaret Isely as Treasurer. Notably, their extensive correspondence with influential figures such as Dr. T. P. Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka and Dr. Reinhart Ruge of Mexico contributed to the growth and development of WCPA, eventually leading to their appointment as co-presidents. Together, they dedicated their efforts to advancing the cause of a world constitution in their respective roles for many years. After |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabeam | Exabeam is a global cybersecurity company headquartered in Foster City, California. In 2021 it joined the Snowflake Inc. data services platform and achieved unicorn status with over $2B valuation.
History
Exabeam was founded in 2013 while its software was developed by programmers from Imperva, Sumo Logic, HP ArcSight, and Splunk. On June 10, 2014, Exabeam raised $10 million. In September 2015, EXABEAM raised $25 million in a Series B venture round led by Icon Ventures. In June, the company launched Analytics for Ransomware, app designed for early detection of ransomware infections across the corporate network. In 2017, Exabeam raised $30 million, $50 million 2018, and $75 million in 2019.
In May 2019, the company partnered with Deakin University to develop a cybersecurity degree program. On July 2, Exabeam bought Israeli cloud security firm SkyFormation. In January 2021, the company joined the cybersecurity ecosystem Snowflake Inc. data services platform. Exabeam achieved $2.4 billion valuation, following its announcement of a $200 million Series F funding round in June.
In 2020, Forrester Research featured Exabeam in its Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2020 report. Former ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare became the second CEO of Exabeam on June 1, 2021, as announced by Reuters.
In October 2023, Exabeam reduced its workforce by 20%.
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List of California companies
American companies established in 2013
Deakin University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADtim%20%28Metrovalencia%29 | Marítim is a metro station of the Metrovalencia network in Valencia, Spain, and is the terminus of Lines 5, 6, 7, and 8. It was opened on April 3, 2007, as an extension of Line 5 to connect with the existing surface tram lines to the east. This occurs via an underground cross-platform transfer on one of two island platforms. The southernmost platform is not in revenue use and does not have cross-platform fare gates. The station is located in a wide median space of Carrer Jeroni de Montsoriu. At the east end of the station, the tram tracks ramp up to street level and follow Carrer de Francesc Cubells.
When the station was originally opened, it had the name "Marítim-Serrería" and served only Line 5 (metro and tram). However, when many stations across Metrovalencia were being renamed with the opening of Line 10 in 2022, the name was changed to only "Marítim".
Station Layout
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Railway stations in Spain opened in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20VG%208000 | The Philips VG-8000, released in 1983, was the first Philips MSX computer, although it was not 100% compliant with the standard (as it lacked a Centronics printer port, expansion bus, or audio out, and had a custom video out). It was released in Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Italy (as the Phonola VG-8000).
The computer had a poor chiclet type keyboard, with two cartridge ports above it. The keyboard layout was qwerty or azerty, according to the market the computer was sold. It had five double function keys (F1 to F10) on top, and four arrow keys on the right. There were three color leds: Power (red), Caps (orange) and Code (green).
There were three versions of this machine:
VG-8000/00, with qwerty keyboard and PAL composite video output;
VG-8000/19, with azerty keyboard and RGB video output;
VG-8000/20, with qwerty keyboard and PAL composite video output.
The machine was expensive and not successful.
The VG-8010, released in January 1984, was a more advanced model with 32KB of RAM, was popular in the Netherlands. It had a retail price of 2290 Fr in France, in September 1985. It was sold in Italy as the Phonola VG-8010.
There were two versions of this machine:
VG-8010/00, with qwerty keyboard and PAL composite video output;
VG-8010/19, with azerty keyboard and RGB video output.
Besides the mentioned Phonola branding, these machines were also sold under the Schneider and Radiola brands, as Schneider MC 810 and Radiola MK 180 (both with 48K RAM,with azerty keyboard and RGB video output).
The VG-8000 and VG-8010 were built in France, at Le Mans by Radiotechnique. They were replaced with the Philips VG-8020, a more advanced machine.
Specifications
Z80A processor running at 3.58 MHz
RAM: 16 KB (VG-8000), 32KB (VG-8010)
ROM: 32 KB (MSX BASIC V1.0)
Video processor: TMS9918
Sound: AY-3-8910
Ports: two cartridge slots, tape-recorder connector, RGB video output, two joystick sockets
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Philips products
Z80-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddies%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Baddies, officially titled Baddies South, aired on the Zeus Network from June 12, 2022, to October 9, 2022, and is filmed in the Southern region of the United States.
The season focuses on new faces amongst the Baddies group as they take The Dirty South by storm, featuring Natalie Nunn, Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jelaminah Lanier, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Scotlynd Ryan and Briana Walker. Sidney Starr from the previous season appears in a recurring capacity throughout the series, whilst Oliver, Salgado and Shanks appeared as guests.
The season consisted of 17 episodes, including a three-part reunion special hosted by Trina and Janeisha John. This was the final season for Griffin, Lanier, McLaurin, Moore and Walker.
Production and crew
The second season featured ten bad girls as they toured around the Southern States of the US in a "decked-out" tour bus, with cameras capturing club performances and their luxurious vacations in mansions throughout various States. The majority of the cast from the previous season was replaced due to ongoing conflicts following the Baddies ATL Reunion.
The second season saw the cast travelling through the Southern states from Atlanta to Charlotte, Nashville, New Orleans, and Houston. Amongst the luxurious homes, hottest clubs and wildest parties; the season gave an insight into Southern culture, as the women prove why they are the "baddest" girls of the South.
Cast
Zeus confirmed the second season would air in June 2022, with Natalie Nunn and Christina Salgado featured as the only returning cast members. Despite Salgado's expected return, she missed the bus without explanation during the season's first episode and was removed from the series altogether, only appearing in a green screen confessional.
Casting
The official cast was announced as Nunn alongside newcomers Elliadria "Persuasian" Griffin, Jelaminah Lanier, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Sashanna "Slim" McLaurin, Anne Moore, Scotlynd Ryan and Briana Walker. It was also announced that Sarah Oliver and Sidney Starr would appear throughout the season in recurring capacities.
Ryan was added to the cast in the fourth episode, whilst Malone was removed from the series during the twelfth episode. Due to Salgado's departure from the series and Ryan's introduction later in the season, neither are featured in the show's opening credits, however, both are still acknowledged as main cast members. Salgado was also not featured in the cast photoshoot cover for the second season.
Cast duration
Reunion
The season finale was followed by a three-part reunion special, hosted by Trina and Janeisha John, which was released from September 25, 2022, to October 9, 2022. Due to Salgado's absence from the season, she was not in attendance at the reunion. Oliver did not appeared at the reunion taping, however, Starr showed up at the reunion taping unannounced.
Episodes
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert%20Masters | Dessert Masters, also known as MasterChef: Dessert Masters, is an upcoming Australian cooking game show produced by Endemol Shine Australia and is set to premiere on 12 November 2023 on Network 10. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Australia, itself an adaptation of the British MasterChef, and sees ten professional pastry chefs competing for a $100,000 prize. MasterChef Australia judge Melissa Leong and international pastry chef Amaury Guichon feature as judges.
Dessert Masters was announced at Network 10's upfronts in October 2022. A second season has also been commissioned for 2024, with Leong and Guichon returning.
Season 1
Contestants
The full cast for the first season was announced on 4 June 2023.
Andy Bowdy
Morgan Hipworth
Jess Liemantara
Rhiann Mead
Reynold Poernomo
Anna Polyviou
Kay-Lene Tan
Kirsten Tibballs
Gareth Whitton
Adriano Zumbo
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External links
Production website
Upcoming television series
2020s Australian reality television series
2023 Australian television series debuts
MasterChef Australia
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television shows set in Melbourne
English-language television shows
Australian television spin-offs
Australian television series based on British television series
Reality television spin-offs
Network 10 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%201%25%20Club%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The 1% Club is an Australian television quiz show based on the British program of the same name. It is broadcast on the Seven Network and hosted by Jim Jefferies.
The show is styled as an IQ test and the questions are not based on general knowledge, like many shows, but of "logic and common sense". The top prize achievable is $100,000.
Gameplay
Before the show, members of the public are asked the same list of questions, including ones featured in the show. Based on the answers, it displays statistically what percentage of the Australia's population should get each question correct. In the studio, 100 contestants all face a series of questions beginning with easy ones (e.g. 90% of the country can answer) to difficult ones (e.g. what 5% of the country can answer).
At the start of the show, each contestant receives a $1,000 stake, and if they get any question incorrect, they are eliminated from the game and the $1,000 stake is transferred into the prize pot. At the 50% question, whoever is left in the game from that point on has the option to pass on one question. When passing a question, their $1,000 stake enters the prize pot and they must continue into the game. At the 30% question, anyone still in the game who has not played their pass has the option to take their $1,000 stake and leave the game, or continue on. If no-one makes it past the 5% question, the strongest player(s) still play for the prize pot.
Whoever gets furthest into the quiz (the 1% question) wins a guaranteed $10,000 unless they decide to play on to the final question, where what remains in the prize pot is played for. If there are multiple players in the final round, they play for an equal share of the prize pot. If a player has not played their pass, they win $1,000 regardless of if they answer the 1% question incorrectly. An incorrect answer to the 1% question means that the player leaves with nothing.
Transmissions
The 1% Club Australia airs at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, however it was moved to Mondays following Blow Up moved to 7flix.
Episodes
References
External links
2023 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television series by BBC Studios
2020s Australian game shows
Australian television series based on British television series
Seven Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestle%20Peter%20Pan%202023 | Wrestle Peter Pan 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It will take place on July 23, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The event aired on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. The first three matches aired for free on DDT's YouTube channnel. This was the fifteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the fifth promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name.
Twelve matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Chris Brookes defeated Yuji Hino to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, having won the 2023 King of DDT Tournament to earn the opportunity. In other prominent matches, Matt Cardona defeated Tetsuya Endo to win the DDT Universal Championship, and Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai and Hideki Okatani) defeated Harimau (Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu and Yuki Ishida) to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.
Production
Background
Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial success of the first event. This led to the event becoming DDT's premier annual event and one of the biggest event on the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Since 2019, the event was renamed "Wrestle Peter Pan".
Storylines
The event featured twelve professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
Preliminary matches
In the opening bout, Takeshi Masada picked up a victory over Kazuma Sumi, pinning him after performing the Masada Power Kobu Mukimuki.
Next, Sanshiro Takagi, Shinichiro Kawamatsu and Yuni faced Masahiro Takanashi, Toy Kojima and Rukiya in six-man tag team action. In the end, Kawamatsu hit Rukiya with the Shimatachi Rocket and pinned him for the win.
The next was a three-way six-man tag team match contested under "no touch rules", Damnation T.A (Minoru Fujita, MJ Paul and Kanon) faced Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata, and Burning (Kotaro Suzuki, Yusuke Okada and Yuya Koroku). In the end, Kanon delivered a Vietnam Driver II to Koroku for the win.
Next, Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari), accompanied by DDT general manager Hisaya Imabayashi (exceptionally joining Pheromones under the name Kachikire Hisaya) faced the team of Akito, Soma Takao and Yoshitomo Shimohigashi, accompanied by YouTube comedian Buchigire Ujihara. In the closing moments, Iino pinned Akito with the Sexy Cannon.
Next up, Chiitan☆ and Pokotan faced Andreza Giant Panda and Super Sasadango Machine in a mascot tag team match. Before the match, Sasadango presented a slide show explaining how his partner Andreza had to eat every 15 minutes in order to remain energized. Later during the match, as Andreza was having the upper hand on Chiitan☆ a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz%2082 | The Pravetz 82 , previously IMKO-2 () was the first serially manufactured personal computer in Bulgaria and first in the Pravetz series 8 range of computers. It was produced in the eponymous town of Pravetz. As the other computers in the series, it is an Apple II clone.
History
After the success of the limited series of the IMKO-1 throughout various scientific institutions in Bulgaria, it's developer Ivan Marangozov initiated development of a new model aimed for serial production.
The IMKO-2 prototype development
While IMKO-1 was based on the Apple II personal computer, the next prototype IMKO-2 was developed as a clone of Apple II Plus, although the keyboard design stayed close to the original Apple II model, rather than the Plus keyboard. At the time, clones of the Apple II series were already widespread around the world. The abbreviation IMKO stands for "Individual Micro Computer" (), as with its predecessor.
In 1982 experimental small series assembly of IMKO-2 units was organised by the Institute for technical cybernetics and robotics (ITKR) () of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in their production base in Iskar, Sofia. Initially, only about 50 units were manufactured for testing the feasibility for mass production.
Serial manufacturing in Pravetz
After feasibility of the serial production has been proven by the ITKR, the first choice of the state planners was the Silistra factory for electronic calculators ELKA - Factory for Organisational Technology (Orgtechnica). Meanwhile, the Orgtechnica's chairman Rumen Raichev was sent to prison, due to intrigues by the local party elite in Silistra, so the idea for computer assembly in Silistra did not materialise.
The next choice of the Bulgarian Ministry of Electronics proved to be successful. It was the Electronic Devices Factory () in Pravetz, where Ivan Marangozov was supported by Christo Christov, one of the engineers there, to introduce the new product in the factory. The serial manufacturing started in 1982. Soon after the new product made its premiere at the Technical Expo of the International Fair Plovdiv.
After release, the computer was shipped mainly to schools and all kinds of educational institutions. Hundreds of thousands of unites were shipped until 1986. Large quantities were exported to the other Comecon countries through the Eastern Bloc.
Later series of IMKO-2
Even after the start of serial production in the Pravetz factory, ITKR continued manufacturing limited series under the mark IMKO-2, to be sold to scientific institutes or universities.
Features
This model is an analogue of the Apple II Plus and had similar features with the notable exception of the case, the Cyrillisation of the keyboard and the upgrade to the respective keyboard circuits.
It has yellow plastic case and black keyboard with red RESET key. The later revisions used switching power supplies. ROM and schematics were not changed and were identical to those of the Apple II, while a lot of the chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malathi%20Veeraraghavan | Malathi Veeraraghavan (July 11, 1962 – May 11, 2020) was an Indian and American electrical engineer specializing in communications networks, including broadband networks, wireless ad hoc networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, and optical networking. She worked as a researcher for AT&T Bell Labs and as a professor at the University of Virginia.
Life and work
Veeraraghavan was born on July 11, 1962, and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Madras in 1984. She went to Duke University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1988. Her dissertation, Modeling and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Multiple Processor Systems, was supervised by Kishor S. Trivedi.
She became a researcher and member of the technical staff of AT&T Bell Labs, starting in 1988 in Columbus, Ohio and moving in 1992 to Holmdel, New Jersey. Her work there involved the development of distributed call processing technology for voice over IP services. She was named a distinguished member of the technical staff in 1994.
In 1999 she returned to academia as an associate professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic (now part of New York University). She moved to the University of Virginia in 2003, as the founding director of a new graduate program in computer engineering, jointly offered by the departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering. She was promoted to full professor in 2007.
She died on May 11, 2020.
Recognition
Veeraraghavan was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to control-plane architectures, signal protocols and hybrid networks".
References
External links
Home page
1962 births
2020 deaths
Indian electrical engineers
Indian women engineers
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Women electrical engineers
IIT Madras alumni
Duke University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20clicker | A wireless clicker or wireless presenter is a handset remote used to control a computer during a presentation, by emulating a "mouse click" + "some keys of a PC keyboard"; usually incorporating a laser pointer to pinpoint screen details. It is mainly used for presentations with a video projector or a big TV screen (for example a computer presentation created with PowerPoint, Impress or VCN ExecuVision), allowing the presenter to move freely in front of the audience.
PC interface
It consists of a transmitter similar to a remote control and a small receiver, usually connected to a USB port on the computer, that detects it as if it were a mouse. Control signals are transmitted by radio (for example 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth ) or in some models by infrared. Usually no additional programs are needed on the computer. Typically does not use any special communication protocol in the presentation program, but instead emulates simple keyboard inputs ( arrow keys, F5 function key, etc..) and some other type of mouse interface (buttons, scroll wheel displacement, etc..).
The range of devices operated by radio is usually specified between 10 and 15 meters, in fact if it is at the coverage limit, the orientation of the pointer and therefore of the antenna printed on the PCB may be critical. An infrared connection can only be used with a clear line of sight to the PC. The item connected to the PC is powered by the USB port and the remote control is usually powered by small batteries such as: button batteries, AA batteries or AAA batteries, although there are some rechargeable models.
Included elements
Pen-drive and timer
Among other additional elements it may include a built-in flash memory in the receiver part, so that there is no need to plug in an additional flash drive to carry the presentation files. Some models include a timer with a built-in vibration alarm, to notify the speaker when time is up
There are also clickers that completely emulate a mouse, with them you can move the mouse cursor around the screen and thus control programs (e.g. Logitech). Inversely, some wireless mice are also equipped with some specific characteristics.
Laser pointer
Apart from the elements to control the presentation, the wireless presenters often contain a laser pointer. A distinctive feature among the models offered in the market, is the color of the laser. For presentations, green is more visible than red.
Benefits
Using a wireless clicker, helps the presenter to move freely, instead of being obliged to stay next to the computer, can get closer and keep in touch with the audience, watching the presentation together with them, being able to use the built-in laser pointer, in order to emphasize specific points in the dialogue with the participants. This makes interactive learning possible and minimizes some negative characteristics of face-to-face teaching. In fact, it works especially well when the presentation slides consist only of images used to provide an e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddies%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Baddies, officially titled Baddies West, aired on the Zeus Network from January 22, 2023, to May 21, 2023, and is filmed in the Western region of the United States.
The season focuses on the personal lives and relationships of some of the "baddest" and "wildest" Baddies yet, including Natalie Nunn, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Scotlynd Ryan, Damerlin "Biggie" Baez, Stunna Girl, Lo London, Tommie Lee, Cleo "DJ Sky High Baby" Rahman, Monique "Razor" Samuels and Catya Washington. The season consisted of 19 episodes, including a three-part auditions special and a two-part reunion special hosted by Janeisha John and Stevie J.
Production and crew
The third season featured eleven bad girls as they toured around the Western States of the US in a "decked-out" tour bus, with cameras capturing club performances and their luxurious vacations in mansions throughout various States.
An official teaser for the season was dropped in December 2022, with the final super trailer being released on January 15, 2023.
The season shows the cast as they travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Phoenix, Oakland, and Portland. Whilst travelling, some friendships crumble as other relationships form, strengthen and blossom.
Cast
Auditions
Prior to the release of the show's third season, a three-part auditions special was aired from October 23, 2022, to November 6, 2022, as Natalie Nunn— along with main stage judges Tommie Lee and Sukihana, pre-screen judges Jelaminah Lanier, Gia "Rollie" Mayham, Scotlynd Ryan and Briana Walker from the show's second season, and host Janeisha John —sought out cast members for the upcoming season.
Casting
A day after the final part of the auditions special aired, the official cast was announced; featuring Nunn, Chrisean "Rock" Malone, Mayham and Ryan as the only series regulars to reprise their roles from the previous season. The rest of the cast included Damerlin “Biggie” Baez, Stunna Girl, Lee, Lo London, Cleo "DJ Sky High Baby" Rahman, Monique “Razor” Samuels and Catya Washington.
Cast duration
Reunion
The final episode was followed by a two-part reunion special, hosted by John and Stevie J, which was released from May 14, 2023 to May 21, 2023. Malone and Samuels were not present at the reunion taping, with Malone's announcement to the cast that she was expecting her first child via a pre-recorded video, and Samuels missing her flight, hence their absence from the special.
Episodes
References
External links
Bad Girls Club
2023 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoprog.com | Meteoprog.com is a weather service originally from Ukraine, since 2003.
The service uses varius weather real-time data and software tools to address weather-related challenges. The services rendered by Meteoprog enable the monitoring of weather patterns globally. Being one of the earliest weather site initiatives in Ukraine, Meteoprog offers users actual and in-depth details on weather conditions and predictions in over 150,000 towns and cities worldwide.
Meteoprog.com represents the international edition of the METEOPROG, providing weather information in over 30 world languages.
Science
The foundation for generating weather prediction data lies in the Weather Research and Forecasting (short WRF)—numerical weather forecasting algorithm, which is set up on a computing cluster. Every hour, Meteoprog servers analyze data collected from tens of thousands of weather stations globally enabling them to provide the precise weather forecast for any location in over 170 countries worldwide.
The WRF computational grid utilized by the METEOPROG project has a resolution of 27x27 km in flat regions, and 9x9 km in areas characterized by mountains or coastlines. This high level of detail allows for the generation of precise forecasts, particularly in areas where weather variations may be substantial over short distances. This is in stark contrast to global weather models that typically have a forecast grid step of 112 km.
The forecasting software utilized by METEOPROG, owned by STNL MEDIA INVEST LIMITED, was developed by project experts in partnership with the Ukrainian Center for Environmental and Water Projects (UCEWP) of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine.
Established in 1999 by the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine and staff from the Institute of Problems of Mathematical Machines and Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UCEWP serves as a scientific, engineering, and information center. Its specialty lies in creating software-based decision support systems for an array of applications, including weather forecasting, hydrological river patterns and flood predictions, coastal sea zone dynamics, environmental pollution, radiation safety, environmental and water systems management.
The center's experts actively participate in environmental mathematical modeling projects in collaboration with top scientific institutions from the EU, USA, and other countries. Such global involvement has earned UCEWP international recognition.
The primary authority at Meteoprog for numerical weather forecasting and atmospheric pollution is Dr. I.W. Kovalets, a leading researcher at the Ukrainian State University of Applied Sciences and holder of a Doctorate in Technical Sciences.
Meteoprog services
Meteoprog's weather forecast offerings include weather maps, charts, meteograms, and other items.
Meteoprog also maintains a weather archive, which encompasses historical weather data from around the globe spanning the past 75 years |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Air%20Pollution%20Monitoring%20Network | The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) is a joint project of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), based in Dübendorf, in the canton of Zurich.
Establishment of the National Monitoring Network
As part of an international collaboration of 11 countries, EMPA has been continuously measuring air pollutants since 1968, initially with four stations. From 1972 to 1977, the measurements were continued in the OECD Base Program, and the project was expanded to eight stations in 1978. The international measurements of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) were integrated following the signing of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE) Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution the following year. Within the framework of the research program "Forest Damage and Air Pollution in Switzerland" (NFP14), measurements were taken at three forest sites. The measurement network was expanded to its current level of 16 stations in 1990/91.
Activities and Monitoring Stations
NABEL monitors the current air pollutant levels and tracks the long-term development of air quality in Switzerland. The monitoring network consists of 16 stations distributed throughout Switzerland: Basel Sternwarte St. Margarethen, Bern, Beromünster (replacing the former Lägern station since summer 2016), Chaumont, Davos, Dübendorf (replaced in 2020), Härkingen, Jungfraujoch, Lausanne, Lugano, Magadino, Payerne, Rigi, Sion, Tänikon, and Zurich. These locations reflect the most common air pollution situations in Switzerland, ranging from low to high levels of pollution. Despite the relatively small number of measurement points, a detailed picture of air quality in Switzerland can be obtained.
Some of the stations are part of international measurement programs, namely the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) and the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW).
In addition to the stations that primarily cover the northeast and western parts of Switzerland, additional monitoring stations are operated by Swiss cantons and cities as part of the Cercl’Air network. Cercl’Air is an association of Swiss authorities and university representatives in the field of air quality control and non-ionizing radiation.
NABEL also serves as a platform for research projects.
Gallery
See also
Air pollution
Literature
P. Lüscher: Overall Swiss classification of the three observation areas from a soil science perspective. In: Programmleitung NFP14 (Ed.): Lufthaushalt, Luftverschmutzung und Waldschäden in der Schweiz: Ergebnisse aus dem Nationalen Forschungsprogramm 14, Band 6. Verlag der Fachvereine, Zurich 1991.
References
External links
National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) Website
Current NABEL Measurement Data
Air Quality 2019. In: Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) (Ed.): Measurement results from the National Air Pollution Mon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbak%20TV | Chumbak TV is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air youth centric entertainment channel which was owned by Shemaroo Entertainment Media Network. The channel was launched on 6 May 2023.
Current shows
Animation shows
Rahasyamay Kahaniyan
Jaadui Kahaniyan
Ansuljhi Kahaniyan
Bhagwat Katha
Vir The Robot Boy
The Jungle Book
Fred Kismatwala
Chacha Bhatija
Mighty Raju
Happy Kid
Gattu
The Psammy Show
Taarak Mehta Kka Chhota Chashmah
References
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2023
2023 establishments in Maharashtra
Hindi-language television stations
Children's television channels in India
External Links
Chumbak TV on Shemaroo Me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Softworks | Berkeley Softworks, Inc., later GeoWorks Corporation, was an American software-development company founded by American computing engineer and former Mattel employee Brian P. Dougherty in 1983. It is best known for its GEOS operating systems for GEOS for the Commodore 64, 64c, plus 4, Apple II and the c128 and PC/GEOS, also known as GeoWorks ensemble or simply GeoWorks. The company ceased operations in 2003 after it was bought by various other companies.
History
Berkeley Softworks, Inc., was founded in Berkeley, California, by Brian P. Dougherty in 1983 as The Softworks. Before starting his company, Dougherty—a graduate of UC Berkeley—had previously co-founded Imagic, a video game developer and publisher based in Los Gatos, California, in 1981. Imagic was founded by ex-employees of Mattel Electronics (of which Dougherty was one) and Atari, Inc. Founded with $2 million of venture capital, Imagic was initially successful but collapsed in the wake of the 1983 video game market crash. By comparison, Berkeley Softworks was founded with no capital beyond the $100,000 in net worth after having exited Imagic. He incorporated The Softworks two blocks away from his alma mater. In 1984, the company changed its name to Berkeley Softworks and began releasing its first products, mostly games for home computers Apple II, the Commodore 64, and the IBM Personal Computer, as well as video game consoles such as the ColecoVision and the Sega Master System. Many of the company's employees were recent students of UC Berkeley who took semesters off to earn money in between their studies. Dougherty described employee turnover rate in 1988 as low, with no offers to join the company's technical staff turned down and no employee leaving of their own volition.
In 1985, the company began development of a graphical operating system intended to extend the lifespan of the Commodore 64, which industry analysts were beginning to see as increasingly obsoleted by the IBM's line of PCs and Apple's Macintosh. This operating system project was eventually realized as GEOS, released in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. GEOS received glowing reviews at the 1986 Consumer Electronics Show and sold in great numbers. The meteoric growth of the company led to stresses on its finances and customer service department. In June 1987, the company hired Dennis Rowland, a then-recent MBA graduate from Harvard, to be Berkeley Softworks' chief operating officer.
In 1988, the company released GEOS for the Apple II, providing this microcomputer with its first graphical operating system. The company soon after released applications for GEOS for the Commodore and Apple II, including geoFile (a file manager), geoPublish (a desktop publishing suite), and geoCalc (a spreadsheet application). The success of these applications on the Apple II convinced Apple to develop a graphical office suite their own, AppleWorks GS, in the late 1980s.
Dougherty had realized the growing influence of the IBM PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang%20Xie | Jiang (Linda) Xie is a Chinese and American telecommunications engineer specializing in wireless ad hoc networks, cognitive radio networks, mobile computing, cloud computing, and edge computing.
Education and career
Xie graduated from Tsinghua University in 1997 and earned a master's degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Continuing her graduate studies in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, she earned a second master's degree in 2002 and completed her Ph.D. in 2004. Her dissertation, Mobility Management in Next-Generation All-IP-Based Wireless Systems, was supervised by Ian F. Akyildiz.
She became an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2004, and is currently a full professor there.
Recognition
Xie was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to mobility and resource management of wireless networks".
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American telecommunications engineers
American women engineers
Chinese telecommunications engineers
Chinese women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Tsinghua University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Max%20Bump | Max Bump is an annual Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. The event has been held since 2001 and aired as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe and on Fighting TV Samurai, then on AbemaTV. The event is usually held around the holidays of the Golden Week, between April and May. The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the event moved to Yokohama and was renamed Mega Max Bump.
Events
Notes
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Never%20Mind | Never Mind is an annual (save for a hiatus between 2018 and 2020) Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. The event has been held since 2000 and has been airing as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe and on Fighting TV Samurai, then on AbemaTV. The event is usually held in late December and is DDT's last large event of the year.
Events
Notes
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataware | Dataware is a 1998 role-playing game supplement published by TSR for Alternity.
Contents
Dataware is a supplement about computers, artificial intelligence, and robots.
Reviews
SF Site
Backstab #12
Casus Belli #117
References
Alternity
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Tianding | The Legend of Tianding is a side-scrolling platform beat 'em up video game developed by Creative Games & Computer Graphics (CGCG) and published by Neon Doctrine for Switch, Playstation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S; and personal computers running Windows (via Steam) and iOS. It was released initially for Switch and Steam on November 1, 2021, and ported to additional platforms approximately a year later.
Gameplay and plot
The game is based on the life of Liao Tianding, a young heroic outlaw who won fame as a Taiwanese Robin Hood for his exploits during the Japanese colonial period. In the game, which is set in the Dadaocheng district of Taipei at the start of the 20th century, Liao is equipped with a dagger and his signature red waist sash, using his martial arts skills to overcome foes. The basic attack using the dagger will reduce the enemy health bar. Players also can expend one stamina bar to use one of Liao's special martial art skills, which can be used to attack enemies and also to reach areas that are not accessible through normal moves. These skills can be linked together in combination. When the enemy health bar is reduced to half (or less), it turns yellow and Liao can then use his red sash to steal a weapon from the enemy. The stolen weapons are more powerful than the dagger, but break after a limited number of uses.
If the player collects special artifacts, these can be applied to provide a permanent boost to the character's statistics, including boosts to player stamina or the amount of money dropped by enemies. These special artifacts are hidden in the levels, and also can be provided as rewards for donating money to beggars. Liao also has a brocade amulet bag () with three slots to equip Taoist coin charms, each taking one or two slots, which also provide boosts to player statistics.
Players also can participate in a four color cards minigame, although a review of the gameplay noted it was easy to lose money. A "Boss Rush" mode was added via a free download update in 2022.
Development
The game was based on an earlier Flash game developed in the early 2000s by "Maso" Lin Bing-shu (), who built the Flash game for his master's degree in multimedia. In April 2019, PP Wang invited Lin to lead a team to build a new 2D platformer game, sharing the story of Liao Tianding worldwide. Both Wang and Lin had worked for large game companies, but resigned in favor of pursuing independent games after meeting by chance and seeing the opportunity to serve as producers for Legend of Tianding.
According to an interview with CGCG, the team were inspired by the visual style of Hong Kong comics, drawing on gameplay from titles including Shank (for combat), Guacamelee! (for player movement), Dead Cells (for selectable weapons), and Mega Man and Hollow Knight (for end-of-level boss fights). The difficulty level was rebalanced in favor of making the boss fights more challenging after early feedback on the initial version.
Release
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elive | Elive is a non-commercial Linux distribution based on Debian. It uses the Enlightenment desktop environment, offering a live DVD and a persistent USB image for 32- and 64-bit computers with Intel or AMD x86 processors.
History
Elive was established in early 2005 as a customized Knoppix Live DVD running the Enlightenment desktop. The first version to appear publicly was called Elive and referenced multiple times by DistroWatch's Ladislav Bodnar and Susan Linton. It was also distributed by UK-based LinuxFormat magazine in 2007, as well as being offered on their cover-disc.
In July 2007, Susan Linton wrote for Distrowatch, "I love Elive and version 1.0 is a wonderful first full release. Just about everything works and works well." At the time, the review was somewhat mixed, with certain criticisms pertaining to laptop usage, such as (at that time) lack of CPU throttling, or WEP when connecting to WiFi.
Controversy regarding payment model
In 2010, version 2.0 was released with improvements like upgrade mode, the "nurse" and more. Linux Magazine and Linux Journal especially touted the tight integration of the E17 window manager in their reviews. However, this version required a payment for installation to hard disk which seriously impacted the initial popularity and was subsequently changed to a voluntary donation. A March 2010 article by Koen Vervloesem of LWN.net criticized Elive 2.0 for requiring payment partway through installation to a hard drive.
Eight years after 2.0, version 3.0 was released. Elive was no longer pay-to-install, but its prolonged development cycle and certain other factors lead to mixed reviews of the project.
Releases
Three separate versions are currently available, as of 1 July 2023:
Stable (version 3.0.6), based on Debian Wheezy and E17. It has a 32-bit release only.
Beta (now at version 3.8.30), which offers a 32- and 64-bit release. It is based on Debian Bullseye and uses the E16 desktop environment.
Retrowave Stable based on 3.8.32 Beta
Related pages
List of Linux distributions
Enlightenment (window manager)
See also
Comparison of Linux distributions
References
External links
Official Website
Free software culture and documents
IA-32 Linux distributions
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
X86-64 Linux distributions
Linux distributions
Independent Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying%20Jun%20Zhang | Angela Ying Jun Zhang () is a Chinese electrical engineer specializing in wireless networks, smart grids, and edge computing. She is a professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Education and career
Zhang has a bachelor's degree from Fudan University, and a PhD from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, completed in 2004. She took her present position in Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005.
In 2018, she became founding chair of the Smart Grid Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. She was editor-in-chief of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society from 2022 to 2023.
Recognition
In 2006, Zhang won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award of the Hong Kong Institution of Science, in the Engineering Science category. Zhang was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2016, and as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless communications". She is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Fudan University alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20F.%20Neuts | Marcel Fernand Neuts (21 February 1935 – 9 March 2014) is a Belgian-American mathematician and probability theorist. He's known for contributions in algorithmic probability, stochastic processes, and queuing theory.
Education and career
Neuts was born in Ostend, Belgium and studied at the KU Leuven. He moved to the US in 1956 along with his wife Olga. He was admitted to graduate programs at Stanford University and received his MSc in 1959 and PhD at the same place in 1961, just two years after the MSc degree, under the supervision of Samuel Karlin. He held positions at Purdue University from 1962 to 1976, the University of Delaware from 1976 to 1985, and at the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona from 1985 until his retirement in 1997.
Honors and awards
Neuts received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1969. Neuts served as the chairman of the Applied Probability Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences between 1977 and 1978. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1983 to conduct research at the University of Stuttgart. He was the founding editor of the journal Stochastic Models and a contributing editor for Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability.
The journal Stochastic Models has established a prize after Neuts for best papers published in the journal.
Bibliography
References
1935 births
2014 deaths
KU Leuven alumni
Stanford University alumni
Purdue University faculty
University of Delaware faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Probability theorists
Belgian mathematicians
American mathematicians
People from Ostend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20espionage%20in%20California | Chinese espionage in California includes influence operations, political intelligence gathering, and industrial espionage. The state faces "the most mature" MSS networks of any in the United States. Activities in California may be coordinated by the Ministry of State Security (MSS) United States Bureau, which was established around 2010 to manage operations across the country. Espionage activities are especially common in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Organization
According to sinologist Alex Joske, "California was a treasured staging ground for political influence operations and economic espionage. Its extensive united front networks, clusters of advanced technology and undeniable electoral heft make it prime territory for MSS officers. Today, the state holds the honour of having an MSS unit dedicated to influence and intelligence work in it."
Activities in San Francisco
San Francisco, with its Silicon Valley, political importance in the Democratic Party, and large contingent of Chinese immigrants, is the centerpiece of operations in California for the MSS. According to US intelligence officials contacted by Politico, "if California is elevated among Chinese interests, San Francisco is like nirvana to the MSS, because of the potential to target community leaders and local politicians who may later become mayors, governors or congressmen." Several suspected MSS officers have been identified operating out of the San Francisco consulate.
Targeting of Senator Dianne Feinstein
According to four former U.S. intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer and Chinese community outreach liaison in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco field office was providing political intelligence to the MSS. The informant, who was not ultimately charged, was handled by officials working out of China's San Francisco Consulate.
2008 Olympic Torch Run through San Francisco
In the lead up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, San Francisco was the only U.S. city to host the Olympic torch relay on its way to the event in Beijing. According to three former U.S. intelligence officials contacted by Politico, during the relay, Chinese officials sought to disrupt any potential protest and maintain China's public image by sending MSS and Ministry of Public Security (MPS) officers from China to the city to join suspected MSS officers embedded in the Bay Area. The officers were spotted wearing earpieces and radios, orchestrating the movements of counterprotesters, directing large groups of Chinese students to intimidate and disrupt protesters across the parade route and along the Embarcadero. The spies reportedly filmed Tibetan Buddhist monks on a march across the Golden Gate Bridge, surveilled a pro-Tibetan independence rally which feature Desmond Tutu and Richard Gere, and recorded participants at a Falun Gong rally in Union Square, filming protestors at the torch run itself. They then reportedly bussed in an estimated 6,000–8,000 J-visa Chinese students, and threatened them |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accela | Accela is an American private government technology company. It was established in 1999 as a result of a merger with Sierra Computer Systems and Open Data Systems. Accela's platform is used by state and local government agencies in the United States and in other countries.
History
Accela was founded in 1999 as a result of a merger with Sierra Computer Systems and Open Data Systems.
Between 2014 and 2015, Accela acquired ten companies including PublicStuff, GeoTMS, IQM2, Envista, Kinsail, Government Outreach, Decade Software, Civic Insight, Springbrook Software, and SoftRight. In 2017, Accela was acquired by Berkshire Partners.
In September 2018, Accela partnered with Microsoft Azure to power its cloud-based services. On December 10, 2018, Gary Kovacs was named Chief Executive Officer of Accela.
Usage
Government agencies that use Accela's platform include those of San Joaquin County, California; Pima County, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, California; Baltimore County, Maryland; New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; the city and county of Denver, Colorado; El Paso, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Salt Lake City, Utah; Culver City, California; Cabarrus County, North Carolina; several cities and counties across Florida; and Abu Dhabi.
The Accela Civic Platform digitizes governmental processes. Accela's Civic Applications aid governments in delivering various services, such as permitting, licensing, and code enforcement. Accela also has permitting applications for solar energy and natural disasters.
References
External links
Accela
Companies based in San Ramon, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proshermacha%20cuspidata | Proshermacha cuspidata is a species of mygalomorph spider in the Anamidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1954 by Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main.
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in the Recherche Archipelago, off the south coast of Western Australia. The type locality is Termination Island.
Behaviour
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators.
References
Anamidae
Spiders of Australia
Endemic fauna of Australia
Arthropods of Western Australia
Spiders described in 1954
Taxa named by Barbara York Main |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary%20of%20a%20Teenage%20Hitchhiker | Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker is a 1979 ABC network television movie which aired on September 21, 1979.
Plot
In the fictional Southern California town of Port Kirby almost 18 year old teenage Julie Thurston joins her friends Kathy, Francine, and Dana on a hitchhiking circuit that is popular among the teen girls in the town. It’s the summer after their high school graduation and while everyone is hanging at the beach Julie is seriously wondering about her future. She wants to be a sculptor but her boyfriend Nick has other plans. Meanwhile Francine has a good head on her shoulders, going to beauty college, Dana is a wild party girl who might want to be a spy and Kathy is pregnant from her boyfriend and only her best friends know. Whether they are headed towards the beach or to school or to a job they view hitchhiking as their only way of getting around, against parental advice. Julie’s parents worry very much about their daughter particularly after there is rumors of a maniac predator in the area driving around and definitely get even more worried after Dana gets in an accident. Her younger sister Trish also worries about her. Julie secures a job at the local beach hangout, Karp’s Kave working with her other friend Roz. In order to get there she hitches with a guy whom initially seems dangerous but is just a dad who tries to scare her out of hitching. Her boyfriend Nick shows up one day and they finally break up when he decides to go out on the road. Julie in the interim meets a nice older man named Ron who encourages her sculpting. Meanwhile Kathy is planning an abortion and while headed to the dr. she hitches with a maniac who attacks and sexually assaults her causing her to miscarriage and she ends up in the hospital. Next victim is Dana who dies in the same maniac’s car after an accident. Ron has been spending a lot of time with Julie and while comforting her loss he asks her to join him in Los Angeles to look into getting into sculpting. After she returns home he calls to say he hooked her up with a possible scholarship and a great opportunity for her sculpting future. She has to get back to him with samples of her work so she hitches and this time she encounters a dangerous predator. Luckily she survives his attacks but never makes it back to L.A. While recovering at home her parents commend her for being brave and support her decision to continue her life in Los Angeles studying art and sculpting. The movie closes with the assumption that Julie will have a bright future and we see her little sister Trish attempting to hitch. The movie’s moral is basically to teach young girls to stay away from hitchhiking and to teach the consequences of riding in cars with strangers.
Cast
Charlene Tilton as Julie Thurston
Dick Van Patten as Herb Thurston
Katherine Helmond as Elaine Thurston
Katy Kurtzman as Trish Thurston
Dominique Dunne as Cathy Robinson
James Carroll as Jordan as Ron Leland
Christopher Knight as Nick
Brad David Stockton as Wayn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20Files | Tesla Files refers to
The Tesla Files - a nonfiction TV show about Nikola Tesla
Tesla Files - a data breach at Tesla, Inc. that was shared with German newspaper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming%20for%20Love | Farming for Love is a Canadian television reality show that premiered on CTV Television Network on May 28, 2023. An adaptation of the international Farmer Wants a Wife franchise, the series focuses on several Canadian farmers who are seeking to find love by meeting and getting to know a pool of potential partners before making their final choice of who they want to pursue a relationship with at the conclusion of the series.
The first season featured farmers in British Columbia, with casting opened to other parts of Canada in followup seasons. The series title was changed from the original franchise so that it would be open not only to male farmers seeking wives, but to female or gay farmers seeking husbands as well.
Casting for a second season is already underway, with at least one gay farmer involved in the process.
The series is hosted by Sabrina Jalees.
Season 1
The first season farmers were Charley, a vineyard operator in Keremeos; Ashleigh, a horse rancher and trainer from Gibsons; Dave, a livestock and grain farmer in the Comox Valley; Gurleen, a berry farmer from Abbotsford; and Doug, a dairy farmer from Chemainus.
Farmers
The five farmers searching for love were revealed on May 16, 2023.
Contestants
The 36 women and men searching for love were announced on May 16, 2023. In episode 6, all farmers were given the opportunity of either meeting a new dater, or taking one of their current daters for a date with them.
Ashleigh's Men
Charley's Women
Dave's Women
Doug's Women
Gurleen's Men
Notes
References
External links
2020s Canadian reality television series
2023 Canadian television series debuts
English-language television shows
Canadian dating and relationship reality television series
Canadian television series based on British television series
CTV Television Network original programming
Television shows set in British Columbia
Works about farmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Expander | The Micro Expander Model 1 (also known simply as the Expander and sold in Europe as the PAL) is an S-100-based microcomputer introduced by Micro-Expander, Inc., in 1981. The computer was the brainchild of Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Sol-20, the first home computer. After his primary client and marketers of the Sol-20, Processor Technology, went out of business in 1979, Felsenstein founded a new company, Micro-Expander, Inc., in 1980. He gained the capital to sell his prototype of a successor to the Sol-20 as the Micro Expander Model 1 with help from some Swedish investors, primarily Mats Ingemanson, who was hired to market the computer.
Specifications
The Micro Expander Model 1 is a microcomputer with a built-in, full-sized keyboard complete with a numpad, two programmable function keys, and four cursor keys. The Expander measures and features a form factor identical to the Sol-20, however missing the walnut side panels. The Expander is built on a single printed circuit board on which contains the microprocessor, ROM, the interrupt controller (which handles up to five simultaneous interrupt requests), the keyboard controller, an RS-232 serial I/O controller, a parallel interface controller, and circuitry to drive monochrome and color displays. The mainboard also contains a real-time clock, a polyphonic sound chip and internal beeper speaker, and a cassette interface controller compatible with that of Radio Shack's TRS-80 line of microcomputers.
The Expander runs off a Zilog Z80A microprocessor clocked at 4 MHz and features 64 KB of RAM stock, expandable to up to 512 KB. Like the Sol-20, the Expander features the once-ubiquitous S-100 bus, with four S-100 expansion slots on the back of the machine, allowing a wide range of expansion cards for various applications (such as computer graphics, secretarial work, and process control) to be installed into it. As stock, one of the four expansion cards is occupied by a 64-KB RAM card. Cards are allowed to be piggybacked onto one another owing to added internal bus structures, potentially allowing more than four expansion cards to be installed at once.
The Expander could run any standalone software, programming language interpreter, and operating system written for the Z80. CP/M and MP/M were the most common operating systems for Z80 machines at the time of its release. Micro Expander shipped the computer with a copy Microsoft's 24-KB BASIC interpreter on 5.25-inch floppy disk as well as a copy of their 10-KB cassette BASIC interpreter on microcassette. A 4-KB machine code monitor is also included on a ROM on the mainboard.
The Expander can generate video in one of four modes: monochrome text, monochrome graphics, color graphics, and color text. In monochrome text mode it can display 80 columns by 24 lines of text; its character generation chip supports both uppercase and lowercase text. In monochrome graphics mode it can display one screen of 160 by 72 pixels in either black or white. In color g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Shackil | Justin V. Shackil (born February 1987) is an American sportscaster for the YES Network and WFAN, covering the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
Early life
Shackil is from Wayne, New Jersey. He attended Wayne Valley High School, where he anchored for the school's television station. He graduated in 2005. Shackil attended Fordham University, and worked for WFUV. He graduated from Fordham in 2009.
Career
After graduating, Shackil announced in Minor League Baseball for the Gateway Grizzlies, Trenton Thunder, Tennessee Smokies, and Mobile BayBears. As a freelance broadcaster, he was a studio host for the NBA Network and anchored programs for Sirius XM, Entercom, and Westwood One.
In 2022, Shackil joined WFAN and substituted for John Sterling as the play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees when Sterling was absent. WFAN named Shackil as Sterling's permanent substitute before the 2023 season. He also became host of the WFAN post-game show. Shackil also fills in on the YES Network and co-hosts a podcast with David Cone on Jomboy Media. While filling in for Sterling on June 28, 2023, Shackil called Domingo Germán's perfect game.
References
Living people
People from Wayne, New Jersey
Fordham University alumni
New York Yankees announcers
Wayne Valley High School alumni
YES Network
1987 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee%20Card | Bee Card may refer to:
Bee Card (game cartridge), software distribution medium for MSX computers
Bee Card (payment card), electronic public transport fare payment card in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted%20virtualization%20software | AI-assisted virtualization software is a type of technology that combines the principles of virtualization with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. This fusion is designed to allow more efficient, dynamic, and intelligent management of virtual environments and resources. This novel technology has been employed in a range of industries, including cloud computing, healthcare, data centers, and network infrastructure, to optimize performance, resource allocation, and security protocols.
History
The initial concept of virtualization dates back to the 1960s, with the advent of mainframe computers. It wasn't until the early 2000s, however, when companies like VMware and Microsoft made it mainstream. The integration of AI into this established technology is a much more recent development, evolving with the rapid advancements in AI research and applications over the last decade. AI-assisted virtualization software began to gain significant attention in the early 2020s as businesses and researchers began to acknowledge the potential of AI in automating and optimizing various aspects of virtualization.
Functionality
AI-assisted virtualization software operates by leveraging AI techniques such as machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks to make more accurate predictions and decisions regarding the management of virtual environments. Key features include intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and dynamic resource allocation.
Intelligent Automation: Automating tasks such as resource provisioning and routine maintenance. The AI learns from ongoing operations and can predict and perform necessary tasks autonomously.
Predictive Analytics: Utilizing AI to analyze data patterns and trends, predicting future issues or resource requirements. It aids in proactive management and mitigation of potential problems.
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Through the analysis of real-time and historical data, the AI system dynamically assigns resources based on demand and need, optimizing overall system performance and reducing wastage.
Impact and applications
AI-assisted virtualization software has had a profound impact on various sectors. It has revolutionized cloud computing by optimizing the use of resources and significantly reducing costs. In healthcare, the technology is used to create virtual patient profiles that can be easily accessed and updated, improving diagnosis and treatment. It is also used in data centers to improve performance and energy efficiency.
Furthermore, AI-assisted virtualization has had notable contributions in the field of network function virtualization (NFV). It has enabled a more dynamic and flexible virtual network infrastructure, capable of auto-scaling based on network load, identifying potential threats, and autonomously recovering from faults.
Challenges
Despite its many advantages, AI-assisted virtualization software is not without its challenges. Implementing this type of software requires a high d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities%20information%20processor | A securities information processor (SIP) is a part of the infrastructure of public market data providers in the United States that process, consolidate, and disseminate quotes and trade data from different US securities exchanges and market centers. An important purpose of the SIPs for US securities is to publish the prevailing National Best Bid Offer (NBBO).
There are three exclusive SIPs in operation as of 2023. The UTP Plan oversees the SIP for securities listed on Nasdaq and over-the-counter securities, also called unlisted trading privileges securities. The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) Plan oversees the SIP for securities listed on all other exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, NYSE Chicago, and Cboe stock exchanges. The Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) oversees the SIP for all exchange-traded securities options in the US.
History
Securities Acts Amendments of 1975
The SIPs were introduced in 1975 through the passage of amendments to Section 11A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Subsequently, the CTA Plan and UTP Plan were established in the late 1970s, and each obtained an exclusive contract to consolidate and distribute market data for a set of securities.
Regulation NMS
The amendments of 1975 later led to the enactment of Regulation NMS in 2015, which established comprehensive requirements for collecting, consolidating, and disseminating the data by the SIPs. Among other changes, Regulation NMS introduced the definition of a National Best Bid Offer (NBBO), and the responsibility of the SIPs to disseminate the NBBO.
2020 modern market data infrastructure rules
In 2020, the SEC adopted a sweeping set of changes to its market data infrastructure rules. The new rules required the SIPs to include more detailed trading information and adopted a new model for competing consolidators that removed the exclusive purpose of the SIPs as consolidators of public market data.
The rule changes were subsequently challenged by Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, and other exchange groups in the courts before finally being upheld by the D.C. Circuit Court.
Operation
Each participant that reports trades and quotes to a SIP is called a plan participant. Current participants of the CTA Plan and UTP Plan include all U.S. securities exchanges such as Nasdaq, NYSE, NYSE Arca, MIAX Pearl, Members Exchange, and others.
Tape A, B, and C
The market data for U.S. securities is distributed on three networks: Tape A, B, and C. Trades and quotes of securities listed on Nasdaq and over-the-counter securities are distributed on Tape C, whereas trades and quotes of all other listed securities are distributed on Tape A and B.
The CTA SIP handles Tape A and B securities and provides two feeds: the Consolidated Quotation System (CQS) for quotes and, the NBBO, and the Consolidated Tape System (CTS) for trades. The UTP SIP handles Tape C securities and provides two feeds, the UQDF for quotes and the NBBO and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT%20Sweet%20Dreams%21 | Sweet Dreams! is an annual Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. The event has been held since 2011 and aired as an Internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe and on Fighting TV Samurai, then on AbemaTV. The event is usually held in late January. In 2018, the event gave way to the final of the first edition of the D-Oh Grand Prix, and in 2021, no event was held.
Events
References
External links
The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
DDT Pro-Wrestling shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Schoellig | Angela P. Schoellig is a German computer scientist whose research involves the application of machine learning to the control theory of robot motion, especially for quadcopters and other flying devices. She is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich, and an associate professor in the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS).
Education and career
After high school in Backnang, near Stuttgart, Schoellig studied engineering science and mechanics in the US at Georgia Tech, earning a master's degree there in 2007 under the supervision of Magnus Egerstedt. She returned to Germany for a second master's degree in engineering cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart, in 2008, working there with Frank Allgöwer. She completed a doctorate in 2013 at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, with Raffaello D'Andrea as her doctoral advisor.
After continued postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich, she became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 2013, was given a Canada Research Chair in 2019, and was promoted to associate professor in 2020. In 2021 she was given the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich, where she holds the Chair of Safety, Performance and Reliability for Learning Systems in the Department of Computer Engineering.
References
External links
Home page at U. Toronto
Home page at TU Munich
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Control theorists
German roboticists
Women roboticists
Georgia Tech alumni
University of Stuttgart alumni
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Canada Research Chairs
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th%20Primetime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards will honor the best in artistic and technical achievement in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2022, until May 31, 2023, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremonies are scheduled to be held on January 6 and 7, 2024, after being postponed from September 9 and 10, 2023, due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Nominations were announced on July 12, 2023.
FXX holds the U.S. rights to broadcast the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Nominees
Nominees are listed below. Sections are based upon the categories listed in the 2022–2023 Emmy rules and procedures. Area awards and juried awards are denoted next to the category names as applicable. For simplicity, producers who received nominations for program awards have been omitted.
Programs
Performing
Animation
Art Direction
Casting
Choreography
Cinematography
Commercial
Costumes
Directing
Hairstyling
Lighting Design / Lighting Direction
Main Title and Motion Design
Makeup
Music
Picture Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Special Visual Effects
Stunts
Technical Direction
Writing
Nominations by program
For the purposes of the lists below, any wins in juried categories are assumed to have a prior nomination.
Nominations by network
Ceremony information
In February 2023, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards would be held on September 9 and 10, leading into the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 18. However, the ceremonies were postponed to January 6 and 7, 2024 due to the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Nominations were announced on July 12, 2023.
Category changes
Changes for the Creative Arts categories this year included:
The categories for Single-Camera and Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series have been combined into Outstanding Picture Editing for a Comedy Series. Likewise, Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) and Multi-Camera Series have been combined into Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour). However, categories with tracks for different types of programming, such as the two new categories, can be split if there are at least 20 nominees for each track.
Line producers are now eligible for the categories of Outstanding Talk Series, Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, Outstanding Variety Special (Live) and Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded).
Two categories were created to recognize emerging media programming:
Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming, a juried award, recognizes the "producer(s), company(s), and/or individual(s) responsible for the creation of groundbreaking emerging media programming that demonstrates technical or storytelling innovation, significantly elevating the audience's viewing experience beyond traditional linear TV programming".
Outstanding Emerging Media Program recognizes the "pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Morgan%20%28journalist%29 | Emily Morgan (22 July 1977 – 26 May 2023) was a British journalist. She worked for ITV News for two decades and at her death was the network's health and science editor.
Early life and education
Born at Banbury in Oxfordshire, Emily Morgan was the second of three daughters of an agricultural consultant and grew up in the village of Little Compton. She was educated at Sibford School, studied theatre with culture and communication at Lancaster University, and earned a postgraduate degree in journalism at the University of Central Lancashire.
Career
Morgan began her career in 2001 creating and reading news bulletins at Independent Radio News. She subsequently became a producer under ITV's political editor Tom Bradby and then an on-camera news reporter, covering Wales and the West of England and then becoming a political correspondent.
As ITV News' health and science editor, Morgan led the network's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, including the first reporting from inside an acute COVID ward, at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2020, the controversy about PPE contracts, and Long Covid. Her last story was on patients paying for private health care because of long waiting lists at the NHS, and she had also recently begun reporting on climate change, for example in March 2023 on victims of the 2022 Pakistan floods still living with high water.
Personal life and death
Morgan married Rob Kinnaird in 2009; they had two daughters. She lived in Hurstpierpoint, near Brighton. She died on 26 May 2023, at the age of 45, from lung cancer; she had been diagnosed the previous month.
References
1977 births
2023 deaths
ITN newsreaders and journalists
English women journalists
British women television journalists
Deaths from lung cancer in England
People from Brighton
Alumni of the University of Central Lancashire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Bilogorskiy | Nick O. Bilogorskiy (Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Білогорський; Russian: Николай Александрович Бeлогорский; born on 27 June 1981 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian American cybersecurity expert, cofounder and co-chair of the Nova Ukraine nonprofit, and a Silicon Valley angel investor. In 2020, Bilogorskiy ranked #31 on the Forbes UA list of "40 Global Ukrainians".
Education and career
Holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. Started working on computer security at Facebook in 2010. Later cofounded Cyphort, which was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2017. In May 2019, joined Google as a director of Trust and Safety and worked at Google until 2023. He presented his work on computer security at the RSA Conference in 2018 and 2019.
Advocacy and fundraising for Ukraine
In 2014 after Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Bilogorskiy cofounded Maydan SF to organize the Ukrainian diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area and raise awareness about the situation in Ukraine. Later in 2014 he cofounded Nova Ukraine, a 501(c)(3) organization (nonprofit) that raised funds for Ukraine and ran projects there to help vulnerable populations, internally displaced people and wounded soldiers who needed treatment. Bilogorskiy and Nova Ukraine also organized cultural events for the Ukrainian community in the SF Bay Area. Since February 2022 and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bilogorskiy and Nova Ukraine organized street rallies to support Ukraine then ramped up fundraising and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
During 2022, Nova Ukraine has provided humanitarian aid worth tens millions dollars to assist people of Ukraine with food, water, medicine, and other critical supplies.
Same year, President Volodymyr Zelensky recognized Bilogorskiy's contributions as the cofounder and cochair of Nova Ukraine with the Order of Merit (Ukraine) 3rd degree.
Technology investing
Through his 408 Ventures fund, Bilogorskiy was an early investor in Uber and the first investor in People.ai where he also helped recruit software engineers.
Media coverage
Bilogorskiy provided expert opinion on computer security to national and local media in the US.
2020
Voice of America profiled Bilogorskiy in an article and a television story about Ukrainain diaspora and Nova Ukraine helping Ukraine.
Forbes UA included Bilogorskiy's biography and photograph as #31 on the list or "40 Global Ukrainians". Forbes UA also introduced Bilogorskiy in an article on leadership and the impostor syndrome and included his photograph.
2022
During Russia's invasion of Ukraine, evening news in the San Francisco Bay Area covered street rallies organized by Bilogorskiy and his participation. In 2022, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat profiled Bilogorskiy and included his photograph in an article on how Nova Ukraine used technology to scale operations.
References
Living people
1981 births
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
People assoc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEACE%20Cable | PEACE Cable, which stands for Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe, is a submarine cable project designed to facilitate data transmission between Asia, Europe, and Africa. The 21,500 km cable system is deployed along the seafloor of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The main trunk connects Singapore, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt and France but there are also branches to the Maldives, Malta, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
References
Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean
Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Infrastructure completed in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenia%20cordata | Frankenia cordata is a flowering plant in the family Frankeniaceae and grows in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a small, spreading shrub with pink flowers.
Description
Frankenia cordata is a small, thickly branched shrub high, branches smooth to covered with soft, fine hairs or short soft, weak thin hairs that are spreading to slightly curved. The leaves are yellow-green to greyish, usually heart-shaped at the base, long, dotted with small hollows, leaves variable, narrow to broadly egg-shaped, oblong or triangular, thickened in the middle at the base, flattened toward leaf margin, wide at the apex and long. The lower surface sometimes smooth with occasional to thickly covered with soft, upright, spreading to slightly curved hairs, upper surface mostly smooth with occasional soft, upright hairs. The flowers are borne at the top 1-4 nodes of higher branches mostly in dichasia formation of 2-17 flowers or singly, 5-6 pink spoon-shaped petals, long and the bracts fused at the base in whorls of 4. Flowering occurs from February to October and the fruit has 1-3 seeds.
Taxonomy and naming
Frankenia cordata was first formally described in 1918 by John McConnell Black and the description was published in Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia. The specific epithet (cordata) means "heart-shaped" referring to the leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This species is often found growing in saline soils, flood plains, clay-sand and rocky locations in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
References
cordata
Halophytes
Caryophyllales of Australia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walang%20Matigas%20na%20Pulis%20sa%20Matinik%20na%20Misis | () is a 2023 Philippine television action comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on the 1994 film of the same title. Directed by Enzo Williams and Frasco Mortiz, it stars Bong Revilla, Beauty Gonzalez and Max Collins. It premiered on June 4, 2023 on the network's Sunday Grande sa Gabi line up replacing The Clash. The series concluded on August 20, 2023 with a total of 12 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bong Revilla as Bartolome "Bart/Tolome" Reynaldo
Beauty Gonzalez as Gloria Hernando-Reynaldo
Max Collins as Elizabeth "Elize/Puso" Riego De Dios
Supporting cast
Kate Valdez as Sheena Riego De Dios
Kelvin Miranda as Gary Hernando
Raphael Landicho as Fransisco "Kiko" Reynaldo
Carmi Martin as Lucita "Lucing" Dallego
Niño Muhlach as Sylvestre "Style" Salonga
Dennis Padilla as Vincent Policarpio
Maey Bautista as Candida Magtulis
Nikki Co as Dustin Tibayan
Dennis Marasigan as Lorenzo delos Reyes
Angel Leighton as Pretty Competente
Guest cast
E. R. Ejercito as Juancho "Kamao" Dehado
Bembol Roco as Ulo
Jeric Raval as Dodong "Buto" Butak
Geneva Cruz as Iris "Virus" Dehado
Manolo Pedrosa as Nikko "Bituka" Carpio
Diego Llorico as a barangay tanod
Vince Crisostomo as Dimaano
Seb Pajarillo as Peralta
Kiel Rodriguez as Ed
Stanley Abuloc as Noel
Michael Roy Jornales as Mata
Sophia Senoron as Jessica
Bernard Palanca as "Balat" Trinidad
Jimmy Santos as Billy Boy Rosales
Ian Ignacio as JC
Thou Reyes as Chester "Mukha" Campos
Al Tantay as Marcus Galang
Michael V. as Hugo "Utak" Salazar
Ronald dela Rosa as Batome
Lani Mercado as Batome's wife
Episodes
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Production
Principal photography commenced on May 1, 2023.
References
External links
2023 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television series based on films
Philippine television sitcoms
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ended%20Hulu%20original%20programming | These original Hulu shows have either completed their runs or stopped producing episodes. A show is also assumed to have ended if there has been no confirmed news of renewal at least one year after the show's last episode was released.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Kids & family
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by Hulu in cooperation with a partner network.
Continuations
These shows have been either picked up by Hulu for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network, or were moved to Hulu from another network and premiered on the service without being marketed as Hulu Originals.
Specials
These programs are supplementary content related to original TV shows.
Notes
References
External links
Hulu
Hulu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%203300 | The Wang 3300 was an minicomputer released by Wang Laboratories in 1971.
Description
Model with machine time sharing created between Wang 4000 and Wang 2200. Wang's first computer, the Wang 3300, was an 8-bit integrated circuit general-purpose minicomputer designed to be the central processor for a multi-terminal time-sharing system. Byte-oriented, it also provided a number of double-byte operand memory commands. Core memory ranged from 4,096 to 65,536 bytes in 4,096-byte increments. Up to 16 teletype terminals could be connect to one 3300. Wang claimed at the time that it was "the most easily operated minicomputer time-sharing system available" but it has become to be seen as a "false start" since programs, stored on paper tape, took up to 40 minutes to load and it only used the physical teletype terminals instead of CRTs.
Development began after hiring Rick Bensene in June 1968. The software was developed by PHI Computer Services, which Wang had purchased in 1968, on an IBM 360/65 emulating the 3300. The product was announced in February 1969 and shipped to its first customer on March 29, 1971.
References
External links
Wang 3300 Extensive information about the Wang 3300
Wang 3300 Emulator A true emulator of the Wang 3300
Wang Laboratories: From Custom Systems to Computers
Wang 3300 on YouTube Video showing a running Wang 3300 System
Minicomputers
Personal computers
1971 introductions
Wang Laboratories
BASIC programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arang%20Rhie | Arang Rhie is a South Korean bioinformatician serving as a staff scientist in the genome informatics section at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Rhie earned a B.S. in computer science (2009) and a M.S. in bioinformatics (2011) from the Ewha Womans University. She graduated with a Ph.D. at the Seoul National University College of Medicine in 2017. She conducted postdoctoral research at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
Rhie is a staff scientist in NHGRI genome informatics section. In 2023, the Partnership for Public Service has named, Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy, and Sergey Koren, all members of the National Human Genome Research Institute-funded Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, as finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ewha Womans University alumni
Seoul National University alumni
National Institutes of Health people
South Korean women biologists
South Korean women computer scientists
Women bioinformaticians
21st-century South Korean women scientists
21st-century biologists
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century South Korean mathematicians
South Korean emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20List%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kill List is a 2011 psychological horror crime film.
Kill List may also refer to:
Disposition Matrix, a database of enemies of the United States
The Kill List, a novel by Frederick Forsyth
"Kill List" (Succession), an episode of the television series Succession |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%204000 | The Wang 4000 was an first programmable computer system from Wang Laboratories, released in 1967.
Description
However, already in the spring of 1968, An Wang, seeing that he was not able to compete with the PDP-8, focused on a new computer — model 3300. Allowed the use of peripheral devices, in particular printers.
References
External links
Wang 4000 Computer Extensive information about the Wang 4000
Wang 4000 on YouTube Discussing the Wang 4000
Minicomputers
1967 introductions
Wang Laboratories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komal%20Shah%20%28art%20collector%29 | Komal Shah is an Indian-born American art collector, philanthropist, business executive, and computer engineer. She is one of the most influential collectors in California and is known for her art collection, the Shah Garg Collection, which has a substantial number of female artist's work. Shah formerly worked at Oracle, Netscape, and Yahoo!. She lives in Atherton, California.
Early life and education
Komal Shah was born and raised in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Shah attended Gujarat University where she studied Computer Engineering (B.S. degree 1991). She came to the United States to continue her schooling in 1991. Shah has a master's degree at Stanford University, and MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Art collection
Shah is one of the most influential collectors in the state of California, and she serves on the board of trustees for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She previously served on the board of trustees for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
She is married to Gaurav Garg, a co-founder and managing partner of Silicon Valley–based Wing Venture Capital. Their art collection is made of some 300-pieces, devoted to modern and contemporary works by women artists. It has taken over a decade to assemble. Artists in the collection include Elizabeth Murray, Trude Guermonprez, Rina Banerjee, Jennifer Bartlett, Laura Owens, Carol Bove, Carrie Moyer, Phyllida Barlow, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Cecily Brown.
References
External links
Shah Garg Foundation
Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Businesspeople from Ahmedabad
People from Atherton, California
Gujarat University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Haas School of Business alumni
American art collectors
Indian emigrants to the United States
Silicon Valley people
Yahoo! people
American software engineers
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokura%20no%20Kazoku | is a simulation video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and directed, written, and designed by Kaz Ayabe. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released in Japan on the PlayStation 2 on March 24, 2005. The game follows a couple in Tokyo over the course of thirty-five in-game years as they have children and raise a family. Gameplay occurs in an open-ended environment where choices made by the player influence how the couple raises their children. Bokura no Kazoku received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed in sales.
Synopsis
In Bokura no Kazoku, the player assumes the role of a newlywed couple in their early thirties living in contemporary Koenji, a residential area in Tokyo. The game follows the couple over the course of thirty-five in-game years, from their marriage to their retirement, as they have children and raise a family.
Gameplay
Bokura no Kazoku is a simulation game where the player's actions determine how the central couple raises their children. The personality of each child is influenced by choices made by the player – such as what hobbies they pursue, the school they attend, and how time is spent together as a family – with fourteen possible personality options. The game is open-ended in its gameplay, and imposes no specific objectives or obligations of gameplay progression on the player.
In the game's first playthrough the couple has three children, though completing the game unlocks additional scenarios that allow the couple to have more children in subsequent playthroughs, to a maximum of eight.
Development
Bokura no Kazoku was developed by Millennium Kitchen and directed, written, and designed by Kaz Ayabe. The company and Ayabe had previously developed the 2000 simulation game Boku no Natsuyasumi ( 'My Summer Vacation') and its 2002 sequel Boku no Natsuyasumi 2. Ayabe stated that inspiration for Bokura no Kazoku came from the birth of his first child, which occurred shortly after development on the first Boku no Natsuyasumi concluded. He said that he did not see Bokura no Kazoku as a "big departure" from Boku no Natsuyasumi and that the two games had many similarities, with the exception of the urban setting of Bokura no Kazoku compared to the rural setting of Boku no Natsuyasumi.
The game was developed over the course of roughly three years. Ayabe and Millennium Kitchen spent two years on location scouting and interviewing subjects throughout Koenji and Tokyo, taking approximately 25,000 reference photos to create the game's environment. Many of the locations in the game, such as the flower shop, bakery, and used bookstore, are real-life locations that exist in Koenji. The sounds used in the game are similarly taken from real-life Koenji, and were recorded throughout location scouting.
The character designs in Bokura no Kazoku are created by illustrator Mineko Ueda, who also served as the character designer on Boku no Natsuyasumi. As in that game, the visual style of Bokura no Kazoku is chara |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan%20Sternson | Tristan Sternson is an Australian tech industry pioneer and the global co-lead of Singtel’s global digital, data, and cloud services consultancy NCS NEXT (formerly ARQ Group in Australia).
Background
Sternson studied at Swinburne University of Technology between 1998 and 2001, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology. During his time at university, Sternson made and sold computers and tech solutions, including a Y2K bug fix kit which he then on-sold to people during the transition to Y2K. He received the Swinburne University of Technology's Alumni Impact Award for the ‘Technology Impact Award’ category.
Career
In 2008, Sternson founded data and analytics firm InfoReady, where he was managing director for 10 years and led complex and cutting-edge information management and business intelligence projects across Asia-Pacific and Europe. The company was later acquired by ARQ (formerly Melbourne IT) for $35 million in 2016.
In 2014, Sternson was named as a Finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
His next move saw Sternson as executive director at Melbourne IT, where he remained for nearly four years, before he was appointed CEO of ARQ in December 2019. Sternson took the underperforming former ASX-listed company and led the private sale by Quadrant Growth Fund for $35 million in February 2020. Sternson's transformation of the company led to ARQ's $290 million acquisition by Singtel subsidiary NCS in April 2022. He become the global co-lead of NCS NEXT.
References
Swinburne University of Technology alumni
Australian businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hulu%20exclusive%20international%20distribution%20programming | These shows are programs that have premiered on different international networks where Hulu has exclusive distribution rights to stream them in the United States, although though Hulu lists them as Hulu Originals.
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Adult animation
Anime
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Specials
Exclusive films
Feature films
Documentaries
Upcoming exclusive international distribution programming
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
Hotstar
Disney announced that the streaming service Hotstar will no longer be available in the United States in late 2022 and will integrate into Hulu instead.
Notes
References
External links
Lists of television series by network
Lists of television series by streaming service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firezone | Firezone is a 1988 computer wargame developed by Arcadia and published by Personal Software Services (PSS) for the Amstrad CPC. It is part of PSS' Wargamers series. Ports for Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS were released later.
Gameplay
Firezone is a turn-based strategy game played on a hexagonal grid and is set in the 21st century during a war between the superpowers of the Pacific Combine and the European League. On their turn, the player can move a unit or fire at the enemy. The damage values are left to random chance. The objective of the game is to destroy all enemies on the map or force them to retreat. The game features sci-fi concepts like grav tanks and beam weapons. The disk version comes with nine scenarios, cassette version comes with three. A scenario designer is also included. A two-player multiplayer is supported. The DOS version supports CGA and EGA graphics modes.
Reception
ACE reviewed the Amstrad CPC version and said that "[w]hile the display is colourful, the screen updating is tediously slow, as the screen is re-drawn rather than scrolled." The review was concluded: "A simple wargame then that provides a nice design feature and a vicious computer opponent but not much else." Amstrad Action said the sound and graphics are simple, the play area is too small, and each scenario is over too quickly. In a review of the Amiga version, ACE noted that the "scrolling and sound effects are much better than the 8-bit versions [...]" .info said: "Wargames come and wargames go, and Firezone will be no memorable than most of the rest, but it's a pleasant enough
diversion to burn up a few afternoons." Amiga User International concluded: "The game is simple to play, but is nevertheless addictive in its qualities". The Australian Commodore and Amiga Review noted the game as very user friendly and the overall presentation as excellent. The game was said to be "[a] good introductory game for newcomers, which still provides experienced veterans with a serious challenge." didn't recommended to buy the game since there are much better strategy games on the Amiga.
References
External links
Firezone at the Hall of Light
Firezone at Atari Mania
1988 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Personal Software Services games
Science fiction video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games set in the 21st century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%202020 | This is a list of Brazilian films released in 2020.
Films
References
External links
Brazilian films of 2020 at the Internet Movie Database
2020
Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Boyce | Jill MacDonald Boyce is an American video engineer known for her work on video compression, immersive video, and the standardization of video formats. Formerly director of algorithms at Vidyo, vice president for research and innovation at Thomson Multimedia, and chief media architect and Intel Fellow at Intel, she is a co-founder and co-CEO of immersive video startup Vimmerse.
Boyce majored in electrical engineering at the University of Kansas, graduating in 1988 as the university's Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering. She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1990.
She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to video coding". In 2021 she was a recipient of the University of Kansas's Distinguished Engineering Service Award.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Women electrical engineers
University of Kansas alumni
Princeton University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20description | In computer science, a service description could be any of:
Web service specifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaTable | SeaTable is a no-code platform that allows users to develop and implement business processes themselves without programming experience. SeaTable combines the traditional capabilities of a spreadsheet such as Excel and supplements them with a wide range of functions for process automation and visualization as well as a fully comprehensive API. SeaTable is not a pure cloud solution, but can alternatively be installed on a private server and operated completely autonomously. In this way, the owner retains full control over their own data. The installation is done via Docker on a Linux server.
The cloud collaboration service SeaTable is developed by the GmbH of the same name with headquarters in Mainz and additional offices in Berlin and Beijing.
History
On July 1, 2020, SeaTable was released as a cloud offering (Software as a Service) and as downloadable software (On Premises). The initial focus is on data collection and processing capabilities. SeaTable is available in English, French, German and Chinese.
In 2021, an innovation project led by the Cyber Innovation Hub at the IT School of the German Armed Forces started to evaluate the possibilities of a large-scale deployment at the German Armed Forces. The evaluation project is currently still ongoing. SeaTable is now also available in Russian.
In 2022, SeaTable is optimizing its database backend to allow millions of records within one base in the future. The focus of development is increasingly on automation and visualization.
Security and privacy
While most no-code platforms exist only as SaaS solutions, SeaTable describes itself as a data-sparse European solution. While initially the SeaTable Cloud was hosted on Amazon AWS, the move to the German data centers of Swiss provider Exoscale then took place in May 2021. This was followed by the replacement of the Freshdesk cloud ticketing system with a self-hosted Zammad instance, and since April 2022 SeaTable has completely dispensed with all tracking cookies on its website. Most recently, the American payment service provider Chargebee was replaced by the European payment service provider Stripe in mid-2022.
References
2020 software
IOS software
Application software
Android (operating system) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement%20on%20AI%20risk%20of%20extinction | On May 30, 2023, hundreds of artificial intelligence experts and other notable figures signed the following short Statement on AI Risk:Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.At release time, the signatories included over 100 professors of AI including the two most-cited computer scientists and Turing laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, as well as the scientific and executive leaders of several major AI companies, and experts in pandemics, climate, nuclear disarmament, philosophy, social sciences, and other fields.
The statement is hosted on the website of the AI research and advocacy non-profit Center for AI Safety. It was released with an accompanying text which states that it is still difficult to speak up about extreme risks of AI and that the statement aims to overcome this obstacle. The center's CEO Dan Hendrycks stated that “systemic bias, misinformation, malicious use, cyberattacks, and weaponization” are all examples of “important and urgent risks from AI… not just the risk of extinction” and added, “[s]ocieties can manage multiple risks at once; it’s not ‘either/or’ but ‘yes/and.’”
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, retweeted the statement and wrote, "The government is looking very carefully at this." When asked about the statement, the White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, commented that AI "is one of the most powerful technologies that we see currently in our time. But in order to seize the opportunities it presents, we must first mitigate its risks."
See also
AI alignment
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
References
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goel | Goel may refer to:
People
Adarsh Kumar Goel (born 1953), Indian judge
Anita Goel, American physicist, physician, and scientist
Aseem Goel, Indian politician
Ashok Goel, professor of computer science
Atul Kumar Goel, Indian businessman
Charti Lal Goel (1927–2016), Indian politician
David Goel (born 1970), American hedge fund manager
Devendra Goel (1919–1979), Indian film director and producer
Goel Ratzon (born 1950), Israeli polygamist
Karan Goel, Indian cricket player
Lalit Goel (born 1960)
Lalit Kumar Goel (born 1960)
Swati Goel
Malaika Goel (born 1997), Indian shooter
Manish Goel, Indian film and television actor
Manju Goel (born 1945), Indian judge
Mukul Goel, Indian civil servant
Nitin Goel (born 1969), Indian cricket player
Piyush Goel (born 1967), Indian author
Prabhu Goel (born 1949), Indian-American researcher
Prem Shanker Goel, Indian space scientist
Rajat Goel (born 1993), Indian cricket player
Rajinder Goel (1942–2020), Indian cricket player
Rajiv Goel, American executive
Ram Niwas Goel, Indian politician
Ritika Goel, Canadian writer
Rohtas Goel (born 1962)
Samant Goel, Indian civil servant
Sanket Goel (born 1977)
Seema Goel, Canadian artist
Shiv Charan Goel, Indian politician
Shyam Goel, Indian script writer
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003), Indian historian, religious and political activist, writer, and publisher in the late twentieth
Surendra Prakash Goel (1946–2020), Indian politician
Suresh Goel (1943–1978)
Surily Goel, Indian fashion designer
Trilok Chandra Goel (born 1938), Indian surgeon
Veena Goel (born 1981), American writer
Vijay Goel (politician) (born 1954), Indian politician
Vijay K. Goel, American engineer
Vipul Goel (born 1972), Indian politician
Vivek Goel
Other
Goel (Judaism)
See also
Goell
Goyal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guel | Guel may refer to:
People
Michele Guel, American cybersecurity engineer
Moussa Guel (born 1999), Ivorian football player
Tchiressoua Guel (born 1975), Ivorian football player
Places
Güel, Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Whitton | Mary C. Whitton is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics and human–computer interaction, especially concerning redirected walking in virtual worlds. She is a research professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina, the co-founder of two graphics hardware companies, and the former president of ACM SIGGRAPH.
Education and career
Whitton majored in religion as an undergraduate at Duke University, graduating in 1970. She initially worked as a middle-school mathematics teacher, and earned a teaching-related master's degree from North Carolina State University in 1974. In the same year, she married computer graphics researcher Nick England, and through him became interested in computer graphics. In 1976, she began studying computer graphics at North Carolina State, eventually earning a second master's degree in 1984. Meanwhile, she and England cofounded Ikonas Graphics Systems in 1978, which made what has been described as the first general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU).
Ikonas was purchased by Adage, Inc., in 1982, and in 1986 Whitton and England cofounded another company, Trancept Systems, producing graphics hardware for Sun Microsystems computers. Trancept was in turn acquired by Sun Microsystems a year later, and Whitton became a director of marketing for Sun.
Whitton became president of ACM SIGGRAPH for the 1993–1995 term. In 1995, she took her present position as research professor at the University of North Carolina. With Fred Brooks, she founded a research center in "effective virtual environments" in approximately 1998.
Recognition
Whitton was a recipient of the 2013 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. The North Carolina State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering elected Whitton to their alumni hall of fame in 2016.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
Duke University alumni
North Carolina State University alumni
University of North Carolina faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Carloni | Luca P. Carloni is a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York.. He has been on the faculty at Columbia since 2004. He is an international expert on electronic computer-aided design.
He has made research contributions to methodologies and tools for system-on-chip platforms, heterogeneous computing, system-level design, networks-on-chip, and embedded systems.
He proposed and developed Embedded Scalable Platforms (ESP), an open-source research platform to address the complexity challenges of the design and programming of heterogeneous system-on-chip architectures.
Luca was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellow in 2008 and as an IEEE fellow in 2017. He has received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from National Science Foundation in 2006, ONR Young Investigator Award in 2010, and the IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in 2012
He published over 180 scientific papers and received the Best Paper Award at IEEE Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) in 2007, Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE) in 2012, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) in 2012, and ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) in 2020. His work on Latency-Insensitive Design has been selected in the Best of ICCAD – 20 Years of Excellence in Computer-Aided Design in 2003.
Biography
Education
Luca received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering at Università di Bologna in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkley in 2004. His dissertation on Latency-Insensitive Design was supervised by Dr. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.
Career
Luca joined the faculty of the Columbia University of the City of New York as an assistant professor in 2004. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2009 and to the rank of full professor in 2017.
He is currently the Department Chair of Computer Science at Columbia.
Luca is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, and the ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems. He has served on the technical program committee and as the chair of many conferences, including Design Automation Conference, Design, Automation & Test in Europe, NOCS, and ESWeek
Luca participates in multiple research projects including DECADE. He leads the System-Level Design Group and is a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.
Honors and Awards
Faculty Early Career Development Award from National Science Foundation (2006)
Alfred P. Sloan Research fellow (2008)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2010)
IEEE CEDA Early Career Award (2012)
DATE (Design, Automation & Test in Europe) Best Paper Award (2012)
IEEE Fellow (2017)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20N.%20Rouskas | George N. Rouskas is a computer scientist, academic, and author. He is an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Rouskas' research interests lie within the field of computer networking. Specifically, he focuses on optical networks, internet architectures and protocols, network design and optimization, performance modeling, and scheduling. He is the author of the book Internet Tiered Services, and co-editor of the books Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks and Next-Generation Internet: Architectures and Protocols. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2004 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, as well as the Optical Networking Technical Committee (OTNC) Outstanding Service Award.
Rouskas is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2010 for a year. From 2016 to 2017, he held key positions within the IEEE Communications Society, serving as the Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, the Chair of the Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), and the vice-chair of the Technical and Educational Activities Council. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Optical Switching and Networking from 2004 to 2017, and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Networking Letters from 2018 to 2021.
Education
Rouskas earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1989. He then pursued a master's degree in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he completed in 1991, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same institution in 1994.
Career
Rouskas began his academic career at North Carolina State University in 1994 as an assistant professor. In 1999, he was appointed as an Associate Professor and later promoted to Professor in 2002, a position he held until 2018. Between 2000 and 2001, he spent a sabbatical term at Vitesse Semiconductor in Morrisville, North Carolina. He has held visiting positions at several institutions as well, including King Abdulaziz University, Laboratoire d’Informatique at the University of Paris 6, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, and Laboratoire de Méthodes Informatiques at the University of Évry. Since 2018, he has been holding an appointment as the Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Since 2014, he has been serving as the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Research
Rouskas is most known for his work on designing architectures, protocols, and algorithms for internet-scale networks, utilizing interdisciplinary techniques from mathematical programming, discrete optimization, algorithmics, and queueing theory to create efficient and sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riz%20Possnett | Riz Possnett (born 2003) is a British activist. Possnett was involved with climate change demonstrations as part of the UK Student Climate Network and Extinction Rebellion since 2019. Possnett has been involved with the anti-monarchy activism group No More Royals. As of 2023, Possnett is a student at Wadham College, Oxford.
Biography
Riz Possnett was born to Liz Watts and Robert Possnett in 2003. Liz Watts is chief executive of the South Cambridgeshire District Council, and she studied at the Hockerill Anglo-European College, a boarding school in Hertfordshire. Robert Possnett has worked as a business development manager, and served in the Parachute Regiment, where he was a lance corporal. He developed an interest in environmental issues in the late 1980s, actively participating by signing petitions and writing about environmental concerns. Initially on the outskirts of the green movement, his involvement gained momentum after he discovered Extinction Rebellion and decided to join as a climate change protester.
Riz Possnett was accredited A*/A equivalent GCSE grades in 2019 as a recognition of completing secondary school qualifications at Hockerill Anglo-European College. A successful undertaking of International Baccalaureate qualifications in the politics department at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong led to the provision of necessary grades for higher education by 2021. They were later admitted to an undergraduate PPE degree at Wadham College at the University of Oxford.
Possnett is transgender.
Climate activism and social justice
In January 2019, Possnett became an organizer for UK Student Climate Network, a student-led organisation which has held climate justice demonstrations throughout the UK and is part of the international Youth Strike for Climate movement. Later that month, they attended the Women4Climate conference held by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. In March that year, Possnet said in a CNN interview that they were "expressing [their] frustration that as a teenager [they] cannot vote on climate-related issues." Before the end of that year, a documentary featuring Possnett was published by Vice News.
Whilst a member of Extinction Rebellion, on 8 April 2022, Possnett and their colleagues were involved in which they blocked London's Tower Bridge as part of a climate change protest. This lasted four hours, causing major traffic disruption on the bridge. As a consequence, Possnett and others were taken to appear in front of Westminster magistrates' court, and on 9 November, they pleaded not guilty whilst standing accused of committing wilful obstruction of a highway at the landmark in April. It was then reported that "[Riz] Possnett, of Bury St Edmunds... stood to confirm [their] name, age and address in front of a packed public gallery" and that all defendants of Extinction Rebellion were released on unconditional bail pending trial which began on 10 February 2023.
Possnett has ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitesh%20Chawla | Nitesh V. Chawla is a computer scientist and data scientist currently serving as the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. Chawla's research expertise lies in machine learning, data science, and network science. He is also the co-founder of Aunalytics, a data science software and cloud computing company. Chawla is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has received multiple awards, including the 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award in 2017 and the IBM Big Data Award in 2013. One of Chawla's most recognized publications, with a citation count of over 24,000, is the research paper titled "SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique." Chawla's research has garnered a citation count of over 56,000 and an H-index of 78.
Background
Nitesh V. Chawla completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India, in 1997. In 1999, Chawla earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida in 2002. He worked at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce as a Senior Risk Modeling Manager from 2002 - 2004. He joined the University of Notre Dame as a Research Assistant Professor in 2004. He began his tenure-track career also at Notre Dame in 2007.
Academic Career
University of Notre Dame
Chawla started as a tenure-track assistant professor in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007. He specializes in data science, network science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, holding the position of Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering since 2015. Chawla is also a concurrent professor of Information Technology Analytics and Operations in the College of Business, as well as Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Science at University of Notre Dame. He also served as the director of the Center for Network and Data Science from 2011 to 2020. He is also the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society. Additionally, he holds Fellowships in multiple institutes at Notre Dame, including the Pulte Institute for Global Development (since 2019), the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (since 2017), the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies (since 2015), the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies (since 2014), and the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values (since 2012).
Lucy Family Institute of Data & Society
Guided by Notre Dame’s Mission, the Lucy Family Institute adventurously collaborates on advancing data-driven convergence research, translational solutions, and education to ethically address social problems. The Institute is the innov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei-Yuh%20Hwang | Mei-Yuh Hwang () is a speech recognition researcher who works for Mobvoi in Redmond, Washington, and holds a position as affiliate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.
Education and career
Hwang was a student at National Taiwan University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in 1993 with Kai-Fu Lee, Raj Reddy, and Xuedong Huang as faculty mentors. Her dissertation was Subphonetic Acoustical Modeling for Speaker-Independent Continuous Speech Recognition.
In 1994 she joined Microsoft with Xuedong Huang. Her projects at Microsoft included the Whisper dictation application, the Microsoft Speech API, multi-language dictation in Office XP, Microsoft Speech Server, Bing Translator, and the Chinese version of the Cortana virtual assistant. She also worked on leave from Microsoft as a researcher at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2008, working there on a system for monitoring Mandarin and Arabic language news media and producing English-language digests of their content.
In 2016 she was hired by Mobvoi to become their vice president of engineering.
Recognition
Hwang was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to speech and language technology".
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Taiwanese computer scientists
Taiwanese women computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Speech processing researchers
National Taiwan University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//%20%28disambiguation%29 | / or "slash" is a slanting line punctuation mark.
It may also refer to:
Root directory, a computer directory
/ (Person of Interest), a TV episode
Stroke (diacritic), a diacritical mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Judges | Battle of the Judges is a 2023 Philippine television reality talent competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rico Gutierrez, it is hosted by Alden Richards. It premiered on July 15, 2023 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line-up. The show concluded on September 30, 2023 with a total of 12 episodes. It was replaced by Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko in its timeslot.
Cast
Host
Alden Richards
Judges
Annette Gozon-Valdes
Boy Abunda
Bea Alonzo
Jose Manalo
Format
This show is a spin-off of the Got Talent franchise. The format of the show is based on the French version of the show with the same name. The competition between judges begins as they mentor and prepare their squad members for the three levels of competition: Battle of the Best or the elimination round, is the thrilling encounter of 24 squad members who will fight it out in 12 Battles.
Battle to the Top is the semifinal round where the four judges will continue to guide the remaining 12 performers who will compete against each other in 6 battles in order to move forward to the final level, The Ultimate Battle, or the Championship round. Here, the remaining six performers will face each other to conquer the battle stage and be voted as the one and only ultimate champion of the competition, who will receive one million pesos.
Teams
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
Third place
4th-7th place
Eliminated in the Wildcard
Eliminated in The Battle To the Top
Eliminated in the Battle of the Best
Withdrew
Battle of the Best
In this round, 24 squad members of the four judges will fight it out in 12 battles. The winner for each battle will be based on the votes of the two non-competing judges and 100 studio audience.
Color key
Episode 1 (July 15)
Episode 2 (July 22)
Episode 3 (July 29)
Episode 4 (August 5)
Episode 5 (August 12)
Episode 6 (August 19)
Battle to the Top
In this semi-final round, 12 remaining squad members of the four judges will fight it out in 6 battles. The winner for each battle will be based on the votes of the two non-competing judges and 100 studio audience.
Color key
Episode 7 (August 26)
Joseph Erwin Valerio replaced Moses Gozun due to his competition in WCOPA 2023.
Episode 8 (September 2)
Episode 9 (September 9)
Battle to the Top Wildcard Edition
In this wildcard round, 4 previously eliminated squad members of the four judges will return to fight it out in one battle and be part of the Ultimate Battle. The winner will be based on the voting of the judges and the studio audience. In this round, five battle stars will be given: four from the judges (with the judges aren't allowed to vote on their own squad member), and one from the studio audience. In the event of a tie, the studio audience will vote again to break the tie.
Color key
Episode 10 (September 16)
Ultimate Battle
In this 2-part final round, 7 remaining squad members of the four judges will fight it out in 1 ultimate battle. The winner
will be determined by the number of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%3A2023 | SQL:2023 or ISO/IEC 9075:2023 (under the general title "Information technology – Database languages – SQL") is the ninth edition of the ISO (1987) and ANSI (1986) standard for the SQL database query language. It was formally adopted in June 2023.
New features
SQL:2023 includes new and updated features. The changes can be grouped into three main areas:
Property graph queries
The new part 16, “Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ)”, has been added to the SQL standard.
New features related to JSON
JSON data type (T801)
Enhanced JSON data type (T802)
String-based JSON (T803)
Hex integer literals in SQL/JSON path language (T840)
SQL/JSON simplified accessor (T860–T864)
SQL/JSON item methods (T865–T878)
JSON comparison (T879–T882)
Various smaller changes to the existing SQL language (all optional features):
UNIQUE null treatment (F292)
ORDER BY in grouped table (F868)
GREATEST and LEAST (T054)
String padding functions (T055)
Multi-character TRIM functions (T056)
Optional string types maximum length (T081)
Enhanced cycle mark values (T133)
ANY_VALUE (T626)
Underscores in numeric literals (T662)
Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ)
SQL/PGQ reduces the difference in functionality between relational DBMSs and native graph DBMSs. Basically, this new feature makes it easier to query data in tables as if it were in a graph database, providing a possibly more intuitive alternative to writing complex join queries.
In comparison, the emerging GQL standard for graph DBMSs will add graph updates, querying multiple graphs, and queries that return a graph result rather than a binding table.
See also
SQL/PGQ Property Graph Query
SQL:2023 reserved words
References
External links
.
Declarative programming languages
Query languages
Computer-related introductions in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise%20Industries | Bitwise Industries was an American company focused on computer programming instruction, technology sales, and real estate operations. Founded in 2013 by Irma Olguin Jr. and Jake Soberal in Fresno, the company grew to have campuses in additional cities before furloughing its workforce and terminating the co-CEOs in June 2023.
History
Fresno-based lawyer Jake Soberal worked with technology designer and instructor Irma Olguin Jr. to found Geekwise Academy in 2012, a coding boot camp organization focused on serving the underprivileged community. This boot camp grew into Bitwise Industries, officially founded in July 2013, when it purchased an building in downtown Fresno and leased out workspaces to small technology companies. The internal software development team was named Shift3 Technologies.
The company continued to grow, eventually purchasing a building, also in downtown Fresno, that had been empty for many years. The building had previously been a car dealership. Bitwise renovated the building to have three floors of office space, a coffee shop and a 160-seat theater and named it Bitwise South Stadium. The building opened in 2015.
In June 2019, Bitwise received $27 million in Series A round funding to create campuses in other cities. Oakland-based Kapor Capital provided the expansion funding. In 2022, the company announced the cities in which it sought to expand, starting with renovating the Old Central Post Office in downtown Toledo, Ohio. It also began renovations in a building at on Buffalo’s East Side and in the Sotoa Building in El Paso, Texas. After the expansion, it projected to have operations in ten cities in the US.
Cash flow problems and legal issues caused Bitwise to furlough all 900 employees on May 31, 2023. On June 2, 2023, the board of directors terminated co-CEOs Irma Olguin Jr. and Jake Soberal and installed Ollen Douglass as interim president. On June 29, Bitwise entered Chapter 7 liquidation and began winding down all assets.
Legal issues
A lawsuit, filed on May 31, 2023, alleged that Bitwise improperly sought out loans and was unauthorized in listing properties for sale. It was filed by a Texas company that financed five Bitwise real estate acquisitions. The city of Fresno alleged that Bitwise has failed to pay taxes for two years. Reports later surfaced that Soberal misrepresented a pending large investment from Goldman Sachs in exchange for hard money loans. Former employees explored a class-action lawsuit for labor law violations.
References
2013 establishments in California
2023 disestablishments in California
Companies that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2023
Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Technology companies based in California
Companies based in Fresno, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei-Ling%20Shyu | Mei-Ling Shyu is a computer scientist whose research involves deep learning for multimedia-related big data analytics. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Education and career
Shyu was an undergraduate at Feng Chia University in Taiwan, where she earned a degree in traffic and transportation engineering and management in 1986. She went to Purdue University for graduate study, completing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 1999. Along the way, she also earned three master's degrees, in computer science in 1992, in electrical engineering in 1995, and in restaurant, hotel, institutional and tourism management in 1997. Her doctoral dissertation, A probabilistic network-based mechanism for multimedia database searching and data warehousing, was supervised by Rangasami L. Kashyap.
She joined the University of Miami as an assistant professor in 2000, and was promoted to associate professor in 2005 and to full professor in 2013. She moved to the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 2022.
Recognition
In 2012, Shyu received the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society "for pioneering contributions to multimedia data mining, management and retrieval".
Shyu was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Information Reuse and Integration in 2010, "for contributions to multimedia data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, and outstanding service to SIRI". She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017, and as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to multimedia big data analytics and management". She was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021, "for outstanding contributions to the development of machine learning and computational algorithms with applications in bioengineering".
Books
Shyu is the coauthor of the books Multimedia Data Engineering Applications and Processing (IGI Global, 2013, with Shu-Ching Chen) and Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management (IGI Global, 2012, with Shu-Ching Chen).
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Taiwanese computer scientists
Taiwanese women computer scientists
Feng Chia University alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Miami faculty
University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeetCode | LeetCode is an online platform for coding interview preparation. The service provides coding and algorithmic problems intended for users to practice coding. LeetCode has gained popularity among job seekers and coding enthusiasts as a resource for technical interviews and coding competitions.
Features
LeetCode offers both free and premium access options. While free users have access to a limited number of questions, premium users gain access to additional questions previously used in interviews at large tech companies. The performance of users' solutions is evaluated based on response speed and solution efficiency, and is ranked against other submissions in the LeetCode database.
Additionally, LeetCode provides its users with mock interviews and online assessments. LeetCode hosts weekly competitions and biweekly competitions, and its users compete against each other. LeetCode hosts weekly and biweekly contests, each having 4 problems. After you participate in a contest for the first time, you get assigned a ranking, which can be found in the profile.
LeetCode supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, JavaScript, and C. The platform features forums where users can engage in discussions related to problems, the interview process, and share their interview experiences.
Types of Problems
Currently, there are eighteen different categories that a LeetCode question can be from. In no particular order, these are: Arrays, Two Pointers, Stack, Binary Search, Sliding Window, Linked List, Trees, Tries, Backtracking, Heaps/Priority Queues, Graphs, Dynamic Programming, Intervals, Greedy Algorithms, Bit Manipulation, and Math/Geometry. Each problem category contains questions at three levels of difficulty; there are 736 easy questions, 1521 medium questions, and 634 hard questions available on LeetCode.
History
LeetCode was founded in Silicon Valley in 2015.
LeetCode expanded its operations to China in 2018. In 2021, LeetCode secured its first round of funding, receiving a $10 million investment from Lightspeed China Partners.
See also
Competitive programming
References
Educational websites
American educational websites
Programming contests
Computer science competitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T94 | T94 may refer to:
, a landing craft of the Venezuelan Navy
Cray T94, a supercomputer
, a patrol vessel of the Indian Navy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Halishahar%20Ward | North Halishahar () is a No.26 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Halishahar Thana.
Size
Area of North Halishahar Ward is 5.24 km2.
Population data
As per 2011 census, the total population of North Halisahar ward is 52,999. Among them 27,741 are male and 25,258 are female. Total families are 10,376.
References
Chittagong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed%20cover%20tree | The compressed cover tree is a type of data structure in computer science that is specifically designed to facilitate the speed-up of a k-nearest neighbors algorithm in finite metric spaces. Compressed cover tree is a simplified version of explicit representation of cover tree that was motivated by past issues in proofs of time complexity results of cover tree.
The compressed cover tree was specifically designed to achieve claimed time complexities of cover tree in a mathematically rigorous way.
Problem statement
In the modern formulation, the k-nearest neighbor problem is to find all nearest neighbors in a given reference set R for all points from another given query set Q. Both sets belong to a common ambient space X with a distance metric d satisfying all metric axioms.
Definitions
Compressed cover tree
Let (R,d) be a finite metric space. A compressed cover tree has the vertex set R with a root and a level function satisfying the conditions below:
Root condition: the level of the root node r satisfies
Covering condition: For every node , we select a unique parent p and a level l(q) such that and this parent node pp has a single link to its child node q.
Separation condition: For , the cover set has
Expansion constants
In a metric space, let be the closed ball with a center p and a radius .
The notation denotes the number (if finite) of points in the closed ball.
The expansion constant is the smallest such that for any point and .
the new minimized expansion constant is a discrete analog of the doubling dimension Navigating nets , where A is a locally finite set which covers R.
Note that for any finite metric space (R,d).
Aspect ratio
For any finite set R with a metric d, the diameter is . The aspect ratio is , where is the shortest distance between points of R.
Complexity
Insert
Although cover trees provide faster searches than the naive approach, this advantage must be weighed with the additional cost of maintaining the data structure. In a naive approach adding a new point to the dataset is trivial because order does not need to be preserved, but in a compressed cover tree it can be bounded
Using expansion constant: .
Using minimized expansion constant / doubling dimension .
K-nearest neighborhood search
Let Q and R be finite subsets of a metric space (X,d). Once all points of R are inserted into a compressed cover tree
it can be used for find-queries of the query point set Q.
The following time complexities have been proven for finding the k-nearest neighbor of a query point
in the reference set R:
Using expansion constant: .
Using minimized expansion constant / doubling dimension , where is a number of points inside a closed ball around q having a radius 5 times the distance of q to its k-nearest neighbor.
Space
The compressed cover tree constructed on finite metric space R requires O(|R|) space, during the construction and during the execution of the Find algorithm.
Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalkhan%20Bazar%20Ward | Lalkhan Bazar () is the No.14 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Khulshi Thana.
Size
Area of Lalkhan Bazar Ward is 1.24 km2 (0.48 sq mi).
Population data
According to the 2011 census, the total population of Lalkhan Bazar ward is 75,335. Among them, 41,075 are male and 34,260 are female. Total families are 16,789.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Christiano%20%28researcher%29 | Paul Christiano is an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on AI alignment, which is the subfield of AI safety research that aims to steer AI systems toward human interests. He formerly led the language model alignment team at OpenAI and is now the head of the non-profit Alignment Research Center, which works on theoretical AI alignment and evaluations of machine learning models.
Education
Christiano won a silver medal in the international mathematics olympiad in 2008.
In 2012, Christiano graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in mathematics. At MIT, he researched data structures, quantum cryptography, and combinatorial optimization. He then went on to complete a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
At OpenAI, Christiano's co-authored the paper "Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences" (2017) and other works developing reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). This technique, used for training ChatGPT and similar language models, allows models to learn from subjective human preferences, rather than goal functions that may be poor proxies of human interests. Other works such as "AI safety via debate" (2018) focus on the problem of scalable oversight – supervising AIs in domains where humans would have difficulty judging output quality.
Christiano left OpenAI in 2021 to work on more conceptual and theoretical issues in AI alignment, and subsequently founded the Alignment Research Center to focus on this area. One subject of study is the problem of eliciting latent knowledge from advanced machine learning models.
Christiano is known for his views on the potential risks of advanced AI, stating in a 2023 interview that there is a "10–20% chance of AI takeover, [with] many [or] most humans dead". He also conjectured a "50/50 chance of doom shortly after you have AI systems that are human level".
References
External links
Personal website
Theoretical computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nationality missing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
OpenAI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justyna%20Zander | Justyna Zander is a Polish–German–American computer scientist and engineer who worked on autonomous vehicle technology and researched artificial intelligence and computing.
Early life and education
Zander grew up in Poland, then relocated to Germany, and finally to the United States.
Zander studied at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland, earning a B.S. in Environmental Protection and Management. Next, she finished master studies in Computer Science on University of Applied Sciences in Elblag, Poland. At Technical University Berlin, she earned a PhD in computer science and electrical engineering. She also attended Gdańsk University of Technology before becoming doing postdoctoral research at Harvard University.
She participated in a program at the Singularity University in San Francisco in 2009.
Career
Zander worked at Nvidia as Global Head of Mapping and Autonomous Driving and Senior Automotive Product Manager. Zander has published books on computational systems. Listed on Business Insider's annual list of the Most Powerful Women Engineers in 2018, she was recognized for her success in the male-dominated fields of artificial intelligence and computer engineering.
Awards
In 2009, Zander received Fraunhofer Prof.x2 Fellowship for "outstanding and experienced senior scientists".
In 2014, she was honored with the Leadership Award from the Society for Modeling & Simulation International while serving as general chair of the Summer Simulation Multi-Conference.
In 2017, she won the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Emerging Leaders Award. In 2023, she won the Global Leadership Award "for unparalleled technical expertise and leadership" and the Patent Recognition Award from the SWE.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Polish women computer scientists
Polish emigrants to the United States
American computer scientists
1980 births
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Arthur%20School | Royal Arthur School was an elementary school in the Little Burgundy neighbourhood of Montreal. It was an important centre for the Black community and provided the data for an influential study on how individual teachers matter.
History
Construction of the school was approved in 1868, and after operating temporarily in a church basement, the new building was opened by Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur on 11 February 1870. This was the first school built by the new Protestant Board of School Commissioners of Montreal, and it was filled to its capacity of 600 students within 6 months.
The building was remodelled in 1888 and then half-destroyed by fire on 18 January 1909. A new building designed by Alexander Francis Dunlop, was erected on an expanded site and opened in
September 1910. Later additions, the first in 1922, further expanded the school's capacity.
The school was in one of the poorest areas of the city and had one of the largest indigent enrolments in Canada during the Great Depression.
Its mid-twentieth century location was vividly described as
"a fortress in the streets. … freight terminals of a large railway, as well as a steel-fabrication plant, were located in its immediate neighborhood, …. Across the street from the front entrance, the buildings of a brothel, thinly disguised as residences, blocked the view of a junkyard. Crowded tenement houses were interspersed with an automobile repair shop, a dry-cleaning plant, and an armature-wiring factory."
The school closed in 1982 and was demolished the following year.
Importance to Black Community
Being a train porter was one of the best jobs available to Black men in the early half of the 20th century, so the Little Burgundy Black community grew because of its inexpensive accommodation and proximity to Bonaventure and Windsor railway stations.
Royal Arthur was the elementary school attended by most Black students and the primary source of youth in programs at the Negro Community Centre of Montreal (NCC).
In the NCC's early years, many of its activities took place at the Royal Arthur.
By 1945, 151 Black students attended Royal Arthur, at least a quarter of the student body. About half the 420 students were Black in 1970–71, but enrolment had started to drop because of urban renewal, and Black students were caught in the middle of fights over the future of English schools in Quebec.
By the time Royal Arthur closed, its enrolment was 70-80% Black, and the closure took the "heart" out of the local Black community.
The Amazing Miss A
In 1968, Professor Eigil Pedersen of McGill University started studying how IQ changed from Grades 3 to 6 for students who had attended Royal Arthur about 30 years earlier, and how this was correlated with adult status and achievement. During the time period under study, most Grade 1 students were taught by one of three teachers: "A", "B", and "C". Only 29% of former students of teachers B and C had achieved high adult status, 40% were of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meixia%20Tao | Meixia (Melissa) Tao () is a Chinese electrical engineer whose research concerns resource allocation in wireless networks, beamforming, and edge computing. She is a distinguished professor of electronic engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Education and career
Tao studied electronic engineering at Fudan University, graduating in 1999. She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
After postdoctoral research at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, and an assistant professorship from 2004 to 2007 at the National University of Singapore, she moved to her present position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Recognition
Tao was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2019 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource allocation in broadband wireless networks".
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Fudan University alumni
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Academic staff of the National University of Singapore
Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20Generations%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | The Voice Generations is a Philippine reality television show broadcast by GMA Network. The third spinoff of The Voice of the Philippines, the series premiered on August 27, 2023. The show aims to find unsigned vocal acts that comprise members of different generations. Directed by Johnny Manahan, the series is hosted by Dingdong Dantes, while Billy Crawford, Chito Miranda, Julie Anne San Jose, and Stell of SB19 serve as the coaches.
The show is the first in Asia to adapt the Generations format, after its debut in Australia in 2022.
Overview
Development
On January 7, 2023, GMA Network announced its series lineup for 2023, which included the debut a Filipino adaptation of The Voice Generations, a spin-off of the The Voice franchise that first aired in Australia a year prior. The series is the third spin-off of The Voice of the Philippines. Johnny Manahan, who directed the other versions of the series within the Philippines, returned to direct the Generations spin-off. The series is produced by ITV Studios.
On a media conference for the series, GMA Network announced that the series will premiere on August 27, 2023.
Producers' auditions
Online auditions for the series on April 20, 2023, to group acts which consist of two or more natural-born Filipinos aged seven years old and older, with at least two members that have at least a ten-year age gap from one another. It was also required that the members of the acts have an "authentic relationship" with one another. Acts with existing contracts with recording companies or talent managers were prohibited from auditioning.
Auditionees were assisted in their online audition process in dedicated booths at several Sparkle Caravan events. The auditions concluded with an in-person casting call held on June 15, 2023, at GMA Network Studios.
Coaches and host
Dingdong Dantes was announced as the series's host in a broadcast of All-Out Sundays on April 2, 2023.
The show's panel of coaches was later announced on June 9, 2023, via the network's flagship news program, 24 Oras. The coaching panel consists of Billy Crawford, an actor and recording artist; Chito Miranda, the frontman of Parokya ni Edgar, who previously served as a judge on the second season of Idol Philippines a year prior; Julie Anne San Jose, a singer-songwriter who is regarded as one of the best-selling recording artists in the Philippines; and Stell, a member of the Filipino boy band SB19.
The show also livestreams via YouTube and Facebook accounts. Crystal Paras and Timmy Albert hosted the pilot episode; Matt Lozano and Shuvee Etrata for episodes 2-5; and Betong Sumaya and Jennie Gabriel for episodes 6-10.
Selection process and format
Blind auditions
The season begins with the blind auditions, the first televised stage in the show. In the stage, the four coaches are seated in chairs that face the audience and away from the artists. The coaches judge the artists solely on their "vocal ability", and if they are interested in working w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala%20Fiber%20Optic%20Network | Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) is a public-funded initiative by the Kerala government that aims to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to the whole Indian state of Kerala. It is the project of the first Pinarayi Vijayan government and was launched in February 2021 to ensure universal Internet connectivity, addressing the issue of the digital divide, and connecting 20 lakh below-poverty-line (BPL) families in Kerala. KFON got the Internet Service Provider Licence from the Department of Telecommunications in 2022, making Kerala the first Indian state to have its own Internet service. In the first phase, K-Fon's internet service will be available in 14,000 economically backward houses and over 30,000 government institutions. The project was inaugurated on 5 June 2023 by the Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan.
Overview
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), Bharat Electronics Limited, and KSITI are the stakeholders in the K-FON project. All locations with KSEB electricity posts are intended to receive fast internet, landlines, and cable TV through the K-FON project. More than 20 lakh BPL families in the state are expected to get free internet access, according to the project.
The cable are installed through KSEB's transmission line infrastructure. This technique, to a certain extent, prevents digging the road. Through KSEB's distribution network, the government hopes to reach more than 40 lakh end consumers in their homes and workplaces. This distribution will be handled by regional organisations. With optical fibre cables running through the KSEB network, all state government offices will be switched over to the e-Government platform.
Initially, the government promised to provide free internet access to 20 lakh households in 18 months. Later, the number was revised to 14,000 households in the first phase.
According to KSEB, the total cost of the project is ₹1516.76 crore. KIIFB received a loan of 1061 crores from the central government institution.
References
Internet service providers of India
2021 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20Transformers%20episodes | The following are lists of Transformers episodes:
List of Transformers: Animated episodes
List of Transformers: Armada episodes
List of Transformers: Cybertron episodes
List of Transformers: Cyberverse episodes
List of Transformers: Energon episodes
List of Transformers: Prime episodes
List of Transformers: Rescue Bots episodes
List of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 TV series) episodes
List of The Transformers episodes
List of Beast Wars episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poast | Poast is an American social media website. It uses Soapbox, making it part of the decentralized fediverse network. Direct messages were leaked from the site in 2023.
Terms of service
Poast bans doxxing. According to Canadian Anti-Hate Network one of the administrators is Canadian.
See also
List of social networking services
Parler
Voat
References
External links
Social networking websites
Free and open-source software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan%20Freedom%20Network | The Aryan Freedom Network is an American neo-Nazi group that is based in Texas, and it has chapters in 25 U.S. states. AFN has kept itself active by holding private events, joining public demonstrations and distributing fliers. AFN is led by Tonia Sue Berry, Dalton Henry Stout and his father, George Bois Stout, an arms dealer who is based in De Kalb. According to Dallas News, AFN contributed to Texas leading in white supremacist propaganda distribution.
Ideology
According to The Forward, AFN describes itself as engaging in a "racial holy war based on the ideas of White Racial Supremacy and establishing an Aryan Homeland for our People." and "on the hunt" for communists in Texas. The group also shares videos of dozens of members engaging in armed training and shooting mannequins with stars of David painted on them. The group's members must be "100% of White European ancestry, including: Nordic, Slavic, Mediterranean, Celtic or Germanic background”.
Actions
AFN holds an annual "White Unity Conference". AFN has held multiple anti-LGBT "anti-grooming demonstrations". In 2022, AFN organized at least 12 private gatherings in multiple states, including Texas, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Idaho and Nebraska. In January 2023, AFN announced "Aryan Fest," a white supremacist music festival. In one anti-LGBT event, armed AFN members menaced Grand Prairie drag show attendants.
In 2022, AFN also organized an event in Hayden, Idaho, in the former headquarters of Aryan Nations. Both AFN and Aryan Nations also share an ideological affinity for antisemitic Christian Identity.
In 2023, AFN held an event and it also circulated fliers in Lexington, Kentucky. The flyers read: “You know who else was condemned for ‘hate speech?’ Jesus Christ".
Leadership
AFN is led by Dalton Henry Stout (also known as "Brother Henry"), Tonia Sue Berry and his father, George Bois Stout, a De Kalb-based arms dealer. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stout's family leads De Kalb's Ku Klux Klan chapter.
References
Christian Identity
Christian fundamentalism
Christianity and race
Christianity and violence
Groups claiming Israelite descent
Late modern Christian antisemitism
Neo-Nazi organizations in the United States
Politics and race
Religion and race
2018 establishments in the United States
Violence against LGBT people in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Kattali%20Ward | North Kattali () is the No.11 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Akbarshah Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
The area of North Kattali ward is 6.22 square kilometers.
Population data
According to 2011 census, North Kattali ward has a total population of 41,685. Among them 21,734 are male and 19,951 are female. Total families are 9,147.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Pahartali%20Ward | North Pahartali () is the No.9 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Akbarshah Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
The area of North Pahartali is 6.41 square kilometers.
Population data
According to 2011 census, North Pahartali ward has a total population of 78,313. Among them 40,904 are male and 37,409 are female. Total families are 17,933.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraipara%20Ward | Saraipara () is the No.12 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Pahartali Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
The area of Saraipara is 2.40 square kilometers.
Population data
According to the 2011 census, Saraipara ward has a total population of 73,636. Among them 38,257 are male and 35,361 are female. Total families are 15,787.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae%20the%20Doe | Rae the Doe is an American comic strip by Olive Brinker, a cartoonist from New Jersey with a BFA in Computer Art and Animation.
Characters
Rachael Theresa Doe aka. Rae the Doe is the strip's protagonist; a gay transgender doe who is nervous, optimistic, hopeful, and very passionate about her interests
Mimi, Rae's girlfriend. A punk skunk.
Cybil, a moth who works as a librarian.
Lottie, Cybil's girlfriend, an opossum who loves trash.
Pascal, a bat who lives with Rae.
Sawyer, a squirrel who teaches at a college.
Olive, the cartoonist.
References
American comic strips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Disney%20Junior%20%28block%29 | This is a list of television programs broadcast on the Disney Junior block on Disney Channel in the United States.
Current programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Interstitial programming
Chip 'N Dale's Nutty Tales
Disney Junior Music: Nursery Rhymes
Disney Junior Music: Ready for Preschool
Disney Tsum Tsum
Doc Toy Hospital
The Doc and Bella Are In!
Me & Mickey Meet Spidey and His Amazing Friends Mickey Mouse: Hot Diggity-Dog Tales Mickey's Mousekersize Minnie's Bow-Toons Rise Up, Sing Out Spookley Music Videos Sunny Bunnies Playdate with Winnie the PoohUpcoming programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Former programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Interstitial programming
Live-action
A Poem Is Behind the Ears (1997–2000; 2007–2009)
Breakfast with Bear (June 20, 2005 – September 15, 2006)
Circle Time (April 6, 1997 – September 29, 2002)
Curious George (April 6, 1997 – 1999)
Paddington (1997)
Will Quack Quack (April 6, 1997 – 1999)
Choo Choo Soul (May 1, 2006 – 2010s)
Dan Zanes House Party (June 5, 2006 – December 19, 2008)
Fuzzy Tales (2011 – 2010s)
Joke Time (April 6, 1997 – September 29, 2002)
Mike's Super Short Show (January 1, 2002 – 2007)
Project Playtime (2003–2007)
Quiet Is… Sharing Time (September 30, 2002 – 2005)
Special Agent Oso: Three Healthy Steps This is Daniel Cook (July 11, 2005 – January 2, 2009)
This is Emily Yeung (February 20, 2007 – January 4, 2009)
Where Is Warehouse Mouse? Who, What & Where with Bear Time (September 30, 2002 – 2004)
Wiggles Time (January 28, 2002 – 2003)
Animated
Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos (2004–2007)
BB's Music Time (September 30, 2002 – 2007)
Big Block Sing Song (2012 – 2010s)
The Bite–Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich Can You Teach My Alligator Manners? (2008 – 2010s)
Dance-a-Lot Robot (2010 – 2010s)
Feeling Good with JoJo (February 20, 2006 – 2008)
Feet Beat (1997 – October 6, 2002)
Felix and the Flying Machine (2004–2007)
Go, Baby! (January 1, 2005 – 2007)
Good Manners with Max Time (September 30, 2002 – 2007)
Handy Manny's School for Tools (2010 – 2010s)
Happy Monster Band (October 1, 2007 – 2010s)
Here Come the ABCs (January 1, 2005 – 2006)
Here Come the 123s (2007)
Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol (June 16, 2006 – 2010s)
Magic Drawings (1997 – April 15, 2001)
Mickey's Letter Time (September 30, 2002 – 2006)
Mini Movies (April 16, 2001 – September 29, 2002)
The Adventures of Spot (April 6, 1997 – September 29, 2002)
Animal Stories (1999 – September 29, 2002)
Frankenguy & The Professor (November 1997 – September 29, 2002)
Microscopic Milton (1997 – September 29, 2002)
Pablo the Little Red Fox (1999 – September 29, 2002)
Mini Show-and-Tell Time (2003–2007)
Higglytown Heroes (2003)
Johnny and the Sprites (October 9, 2005 – January 13, 2007)
Marcel's Animal Friends (2003)
Ooh, Aah & You (July 15, 2005 – 2011)
Page's Word of the Day (September 30, 2002 – 2007)
Poky and Friends (1999 – Apri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2%20Comics | Z2 Comics is an American publisher of graphic novels, comic books, and popular culture merchandise. Known for its music-related projects and partnership with musical acts, the company uses "a data-driven approach to identify acts with strong followings across all musical genres, then recruits ... comics creators to produce the works."
History
Zip Comics
The company began as Zip Comics, founded in 2010 by Josh Frankel with financing from an investor. The company's first publications were Frankel's own title, The Schizophrenic, illustrated by Toby Cypress; and Harvey Pekar's Cleveland, a nonfiction graphic novel written by Pekar and illustrated by Joseph Remnant; the book was co-published with Top Shelf Productions and released after Pekar's death.
Relaunch as Z2 Comics
The company was relaunched in 2014 as Z2 Comics, with its first two titles being graphic novel collections from alternative comics creators Dean Haspiel and Paul Pope. In the period 2015–2016, Z2 released a couple of other graphic novels and a selection of comic book limited series.
In 2015, Frankel brought filmmaker Sridhar Reddy on board and formed Modern Prometheus, a division of the publisher designed to adapt comics to film and television. Ian McGinty's Welcome to Showside was one of the first Z2 projects targeted for this treatment.
Shift to music
In 2016, Z2 Comics "began collaborating with musicians to create graphic novels centered on unique stories and exclusive music." The first two such projects, published by Z2 in 2017, were The Wonderful World of Perfecto: With Paul Oakenfold and Friends, and Murder Ballads, which was accompanied by an original soundtrack by Dan Auerbach and Robert Finley. 2018's Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal is one of the company's best-selling books.
Z2's Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album was nominated for three 2023 Eisner Awards: Best Short Story for "Silent All These Years" by David W. Mack, Best Anthology, and Best Adaptation from Another Medium.
In the fall of 2022, company founder Josh Frankel left Z2, eventually joining IDW Publishing. By this time, the company had grown from three employees to 30.
Overview
Z2 Comics specializes in authorized partnerships. Musicians with whom Z2 Comics has worked include Gorillaz, Self Defense Family, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, DJ Paul Oakenfold, Tori Amos, John Cooper of Skillet, Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides, Jimmy Eat World, Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud, and Oliver Tree.
Many Z2 Comics graphic novels (or anthologies of stories) are accompanied by an original "soundtrack" by the artist/band in question. Examples include Murder Ballads (Dan Auerbach and Robert Finley, 2017), Genesis 1 (Poppy, 2019), Chasin' the Bird: A Charlie Parker Graphic Novel (2020; the deluxe edition of which was packaged with vinyl recordings of two previously unreleased Parker tracks), This is Where We Fall (Mitski, 2021), and Superstate (Graham Coxon, 2022).
Other projects use classic reco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Nights%20With%20Abbie%20Chatfield | Hot Nights With Abbie Chatfield was an Australian night time radio show on the Hit Network, and was hosted by Abbie Chatfield.
History
In early 2022, it was revealed that television personality and podcaster Abbie Chatfield had landed her very own national radio show across the Hit Network called Hot Nights With Abbie Chatfield. The show was set to broadcast in over 50 radio stations across Australia on 17 January 2022. It was also revealed that Abbie would be joined by anchor Rohan Edwards on the show, and the executive producer would be Max Corstorphan.
The show airs at 7pm every weekinight after Hughesy, Ed & Erin, which goes from 6pm until 7pm weeknights. the show finishes at 9pm and is followed by Jimmy & Nath.
In April 2023, it was announced that the show's executive producer, Max Corstorphan would be leaving the show immediately. Just weeks after Corstorphan's departure, Abbie's radio anchor and co-host Rohan Edwards abruptly resigned from the show. Just days later, Chatfield's second radio co-host Nic Kelly suddenly left his position at the show after less than a week.
In August 2023, Chatfield resigned from the Hit Network.
References
Australian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%2011th%20National%20Memorial%20Trail | September 11th National Memorial Trail, also known as the 9/11 Trail, is a network of trails and roadways nearly long connecting the Flight 93 National Memorial, the Pentagon Memorial, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. It is tribute to those who perished in September 11, 2001 attacks and to those who responded to them.
The dedication was initiated by an act if Congress. President Joe Biden signed H.R. 2278, officially designating the trail route on October 13, 2021.
The triangular-shaped trail - to the sites of the memorials in Arlington, Virginia and New York City, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania - passes through six Mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C. At its inception it incorporated 55% off-road trails and 45% existing roadways. A 1.5 mile purpose built section was added thereafter.
Existing trails along the route
Clockwise from the Pentagon the triangular 9/11 Trail incorporates many sections of existing trais, as well as overlapping segments of the East Coast Greenway.
Pentagon Memorial (VA)
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (DC,MD)
Great Allegheny Passage (MD, PA)
September 11th National Memorial Trail (first purpose-built section - 1.5 miles)
Flight 93 National Memorial (PA)
Lehigh Gorge Trail (PA)
Sussex Branch Trail (NJ)
Paulinskill Valley Trail (NJ)
Patriots' Path (NJ)
Lenape Trail (NJ)
Essex - Hudson Greenway (NJ) (future)
Hudson River Waterfront Walkway (NJ)
Empty Sky, the official New Jersey 9/11 memorial
Hudson River Greenway (NY)
National September 11 Memorial & Museum (NY)
East Coast Greenway (NJ)
Rahway River Parkway (NJ)
Middlesex Greenway (NJ)
D&R Canal Trail (NJ)
Delaware Canal State Park Trail (PA)
Garden of Reflection, the official Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial
Delaware and Lehigh Trail (PA)
US 202 Parkway Trail (PA)
Schuylkill River Trail (PA)
Northern Delaware Greenway (DE)
Jack A. Markell Trail (DE)
Battery Park Trail (DE)
James F. Hall Trail (DE)
Torey C. Brown Rail Trail (MD)
Jones Falls Trail (MD)
9/11 Memorial of Maryland
Gwynns Falls Trail (MD)
Middle Branch Trail (MD)
BWI Trail
Overstreet Connector Trail (MD)
Baltimore and Annapolis Trail (MD)
Spa Creek Trail (MD)
Poplar Trail (MD)
South Shore Trail (MD)
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail (MD)
Anacostia Riverwalk Trail (DC)
National Mall (DC)
See also
List of long-distance trails in the United States
Memorials and services for the September 11 attacks
National Trails System
References
External links
911 Trail.org
History
Long-distance trails in the United States
Memorials for the September 11 attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal%20khan%20Ward | Jamal Khan () is the No. 21 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Kotwali Thana, Bangladesh.
Population data
According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, the ward had a population of 40,014. The average household size was 5.0. The literacy rate (age 7 and over) was 78.9%, compared to the national average of 51.8%.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholokbahar%20Ward | Sholokbahar () is the No.08 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Chawkbazar Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
Population Data
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampur%20Ward | Rampur () is the No. 25 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Halishahar Thana, Bangladesh.
Population data
According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, the ward had a population of 50,366. The average household size was 4.6. The literacy rate (age 7 and over) was 70.3%, compared to the national average of 51.8%.
References
Chittagong
Wards of Chattogram City Corporation |
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