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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Hone | Kate Samara Hone is a British psychologist and computer scientist specialising in human–computer interaction and digital user experience, particularly as applied to the performance, evaluation, and acceptance of educational technology and massive open online courses. She has also been noted for her research on gender stereotypes in preferences for computer speech synthesis. She is a professor of computer science at Brunel University London, where she heads the department of computer science.
Education and career
Hone read experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1990. She went on to graduate study at the University of Birmingham, where in 1992 she earned a master's degree in Work Design and Ergonomics, and completed a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction in 1996; her dissertation was Modelling dialogues for interactive speech systems.
She joined the University of Nottingham in 1995 as a lecturer in psychology, shifting later to computer science, and in 2000 moved to Brunel University London, where was director of the graduate school from 2009 to 2018.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
British women computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Academics of Brunel University London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20B.%20Martin%20Jr. | Robert B. Martin Jr. is an American casting director, director, producer, actor, and entrepreneur.
Early life
Martin was born in Baytown, Texas, to Robert B. Martin Sr., a computer scientist with NASA, and Agnes Martin. Robert trained astronauts for Project Mercury and the Apollo program. Martin began performing as a child in Texas. While attending Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown, he appeared in numerous stage productions. In 1987, the high school presented Voices from the High School, a series of monologues and duet scenes depicting real-life high school problems and accomplishments in situations about friendships, drugs, suicide, music, teachers, drinking, dating, and peer pressure, both at the school for the community and at the Texas State Thespian Festival in Galveston, TX. Martin starred as Chris, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, and she confronts him to find out why. He also appeared in The Bowling Alley Pickup as part of his Theater Arts class. Over the next several years, Martin appeared in numerous productions in both high school and at the Baytown Little Theater. He played the husband in Tea and Sympathy, Joe in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Ellard Sims in The Foreigner, and Randle P. McMurphy in One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Career
Acting
Before reaching 18, Martin had appeared in many commercials, including for AT&T. He appeared in national commercials, including for Jiffy Lube, Taco Bell, and ESPN2. In film, Martin played characters in an array of genres, including Laura Prepon's personal gimp in Slackers and a superhero in Mystery Men.
In 2017, Martin ran for SAG-AFTRA president in an acrimonious campaign whereby rival Esai Morales, backed by the union’s membership first faction, denounced the incumbent, Gabrielle Carteris’s defense of the current film and TV contract. Carteris ultimately won by a comfortable margin.
Casting
Martin cast films for Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, and Ron Howard. He cast Christopher Guest projects that won over 40 awards, including multiple Best of Show at Cannes Lions, The Grand Prix Clio, and D&AD. After meeting with Steve Jobs in 1997, he cast some of Apple’s global product launches. In 2018, he cast Wil Wheaton to star in Rent-A-Pal.
Directing
Martin's first directorial feature was Hip, Edgy, Sexy, Cool, co-directed with Aaron Priest, for which he also produced and starred. Based on Martin's prior experience as a casting director with Monkey Brothers Casting and Robert Martin Casting, the film follows two casting directors and their experiences with commercial testing. The film features over two hundred actors.
In 2001, Martin signed with Slo.Graffiti, a Palomar Pictures division, marking his entry into commercial directing. There, he directed a series of commercials for Maris, West & Baker. The anti-smoking campaign Partnership For A Healthy Mississippi featured three spots: Basket Toss, Car, and VJ.
Producing
In 2002, Martin launched Go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20%28cyber%20assets%29 | Trinity is a group of Ukrainian cyber activists founded in 2011. The number of members is unknown. The Trinity and FalconsFlame groups are co-founders of the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, which also includes the RUH8 hacktivist group and some members of the CyberHunta group.
Activities
In April 2016, hackers from the Trinity group hacked into the phone of a Russian serviceman and gained access to his cloud storage, which, among other data, contained images of the working terminal of the Russian station R-330Zh "Zhitel". The InformNapalm intelligence community, which was exclusively provided with the information by the hacktivists, analyzed the data and conducted further investigation. It was proved that the R-330Zh "Zhytel" was used in the battles for Debaltseve in the winter of 2015.
In May 2016, the Trinity group hacked the mail of Russian terrorist Sergei Astakhov from St. Petersburg. The terrorist's letters show how the deployment of Russian fighters to Donbas was organized. The terrorist's photo shows Russian weapons and equipment in the occupied Donbas.
The Trinity group has an official Twitter page.
Trinity Group hackers were awarded the Silver Trident for defending Ukraine in cyberspace.
References
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERT-UA | The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is a specialized structural unit of the State Center for Cyber Defense of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
History
The unit was founded in 2007. In 2009, the unit was accredited by the Forum of Information Security Incident Response Teams (FIRST). Since 2012, it has been a member of IMPACT. Since 2014, work has been underway to integrate into the HoneyNet Project.
Legal status
The activities of CERT-UA are envisaged by the Law of Ukraine "On the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection", the Law of Ukraine "On Telecommunications", the Law of Ukraine "On the Basic Principles of Cybersecurity of Ukraine" and relevant bylaws.
Known operations
In 2014, during the early presidential elections in Ukraine, CERT-UA specialists neutralized hacker attacks on the automated system "Elections".
In June 2017, the CERT-UA team, together with specialists from the Cyber Police, the Security Service of Ukraine, together with specialists from private companies and foreign partners, participated in countering and eliminating the consequences of large-scale hacker attacks against Ukraine.
In early 2023, the government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) investigated a cyberattack allegedly associated with the Sandworm group. To disable server hardware, automated user workstations and data storage systems, the attackers used legitimate software, namely the WinRAR file archiver. Having gained unauthorized access to the information and communication system of the attacked object, RoarBat, a BAT script, was used to disable PCs running the Windows operating system. The script performed a recursive search for files by a specific list of extensions for their subsequent archiving using a legitimate WinRAR program with the "-df" option. This option involves deleting the original file and then deleting the created archives. The above script was launched using a scheduled task, which, according to preliminary information, was created and centrally distributed by means of group policy (GPO).
References
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Volkamer | Andrea Volkamer (born 1982) is a German bioinformatician and professor of “Data-Driven Drug Design” at Saarland University and an associated researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). Her research focuses on data-driven drug design, with an emphasis on method development and application.
Career
Andrea Volkamer studied bioinformatics at Saarland University from 2001 to 2007 and graduated with a Master of Science. From 2007 to 2008, she was a visiting scientist at Purdue University in Indiana (USA). She then completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg at the Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH), where she was awarded the title of Dr. rer nat. in the computer science department in 2013. In 2013, Andrea Volkamer was awarded a Pro Exzellenzia PostDoc Fellowship, a program of the University of Hamburg that qualifies women for leadership positions. In the same year, she accepted a position as a postdoc at the BioMedX Institute in Heidelberg, where she stayed until 2016 and – together with Merck KGaA – worked on methods for developing selective kinase inhibitors.
This was followed by an appointment as junior professor at the Charité in Berlin, where Andrea Volkamer led a working group on structural bioinformatics and in silico toxicology from 2016 to 2022. As part of the BMBF-funded Berlin-Brandenburg Research Platform (BB3R), the working group was concerned, among other things, with the development of new computer methods for the risk assessment of chemicals to reduce the use of animal experiments in basic research. Furthermore, she is working on structure-based methods to identify new kinase inhibitors. In this context, she was also able to win professors John Chodera as an Einstein Visiting Fellow.
In 2022, Andrea Volkamer returned to Saarland University and has since held the professorship for Data-Driven Drug Design at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. She is also an associate scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS).
Andrea Volkamer supports open science and open source developments. Among other things, she is driving the development of TeachOpenCADD, an open teaching platform for computer-aided drug design (CADD), and has been involved in the free “Dr. med. AI” learning offer of AI Campus.
Academic distinctions and honorary posts
Board member, Computer in Chemistry (CIC) of the German Chemical Society (2021-2024)
Corwin Hansch Award (QSAR, Chemoinformatics and Modeling Society (QCMS)) (2022)
Journals:
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (Editorial Advisory Board)
Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science (Editorial Board)
Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences (Editorial Board)
Weblinks
Volkamer Lab
TeachOpenCADD
ORCiD
References
1982 births
German bioinformaticians
German women scientists
Academic staff of Saarland University
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermania%20%2794 | Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamer Awards was the first televised video game awards show. Created by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the two-hour show was broadcast live on TBS on November 5, 1994. Out of twelve award categories, Mortal Kombat won "Best Overall Game". Although the show was received negatively, it was seen by 1.1% of US households and the AIAS produced a less successful follow-up show in 1996. Geoff Keighley, who had been part of the production for Cybermania '94, went on to work on video game awards for other networks, eventually creating The Game Awards in 2014.
Background
Andrew Zucker, an entertainment lawyer, envisioned an awards show for video games while watching the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1991. The show briefly introduced Syd Cassyd, who had founded the administering Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1946, when televisions were scarce in American households. Zucker believed that the video game industry would experience similar growth in the future and subsequently established the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) later in 1991. The academy announced its first foray into awards ceremonies, the Ajax, in June 1993, aiming to distribute them at a self-funded event in April 1994. In March 1994, it planned to announce the nominees in thirty-four categories in May and hand out the awards at the Pantages Theatre on June 16.
In creating the awards for Cybermania '94, the group solicited nominations from 2,500 multimedia companies across the United States. Because of an application fee, only 200 competing entries were received. Some companies, such as LucasArts, decided to stay out of the event due to the unclear credibility of the AIAS. The nominations were voted on by the academy's 300-member body. A total of fifty categories were prepared, of which twelve were to be televised and the rest mentioned in a crawl. Subscribers of the Prodigy service were asked to reduce the number of nominees for "Best Overall Game" by voting on nine candidates. The AIAS pitched the idea of a televised awards show to several television networks and eventually reached an agreement with TBS. According to early reports, the show was to be titled Cybermania: The 1994 Interactive Games Awards and later Cybermania '94: The Ultimate Gamers' Event, to be broadcast from Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills.
Format
Cybermania '94 was produced by the AIAS and TBS, with Peter Hayman of ICE Integrated Communications & Entertainment as executive producer. It was staged in the Universal Amphitheatre and broadcast live on TBS on Saturday, November 5, 1994, at 5:05 p.m. PST. The show ran for two hours with the actors Leslie Nielsen and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as hosts. William Shatner narrated the nominee announcements. Awards in twelve categories were handed out by a range of lesser-known celebrities, interlaced with acts like jugglers, wrestling, and dancers performing to music by Herbie Hancock, as well as comedic clips |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%20Group%20activities%20in%20Africa | The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, a Russian paramilitary organization also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, has conducted operations in various countries in the African continent since 2017.
Sudan
In an interview with The Insider in December 2017, veteran Russian officer Igor Strelkov said that Wagner PMCs were present in South Sudan and possibly Libya. Several days before the interview was published, Strelkov stated Wagner PMCs were being prepared to be sent from Syria to Sudan or South Sudan after Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, told Russian president Putin that his country needed protection "from aggressive actions of the USA".
Two internal-conflicts have been raging in Sudan for years (in the region of Darfur and the states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile), while a civil war has been taking place in South Sudan since 2013. The head of the private Russian firm RSB-group said that he heard PMCs had already traveled to Sudan and had returned with a severe form of malaria. Several dozen PMCs from RSB-group were sent to Libya in early 2017, to an industrial facility near the city of Benghazi, in an area held by forces loyal to Field marshal Khalifa Haftar, to support demining operations. They left in February after completing their mission. The RSB-group was in Libya at the request of the Libyan Cement Company (LCC).
In mid-December 2017, a video surfaced showing Wagner PMCs training members of the Sudanese military, thus confirming Wagner's presence in Sudan and not South Sudan. The PMCs were sent to Sudan to support it militarily against South Sudan and protect gold, uranium and diamond mines, according to Sergey Sukhankin, an associate expert at the ICPS and Jamestown Foundation fellow. Sukhankin stated that the protection of the mines was the "most essential commodity" and that the PMCs were sent to "hammer out beneficial conditions for the Russian companies".
The PMCs in Sudan reportedly numbered 300 and were working under the cover of "M Invest", a company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin. "M Invest" signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry for the use of transport aircraft of the 223rd Flight Unit of the Russian Air Force and between April 2018 and February 2019, two aircraft of the 223rd made at least nine flights to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. The Wagner contractors in Sudan included former Ukrainian citizens who were recruited in Crimea, according to the SBU. In 2018, 500 PMCs were reported to have been sent to Sudan's Darfur region to train the military.
In late January 2019, after protests erupted in Sudan mid-December 2018, the British press made allegations that the PMCs were helping the Sudanese authorities crackdown on the protesters. During the first days of the protests, demonstrators and journalists reported groups of foreigners had gathered near maj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Babbage%3A%20Pioneer%20of%20the%20Computer | Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer is a biographical book about the Victorian computer pioneer Charles Babbage (1791–1871). The book was written by Anthony Hyman (1928–2011), a British historian of computing. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1982 (hardcover) and Princeton University Press in 1982 and 1985 (hardcover and paperback). The book is available online from Archive.org.
Reviews
The book has been reviewed in the following journals and magazines:
The American Mathematical Monthly
Business History
The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education
Isis
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
Library Journal
London Review of Books
Mathematical Reviews
Mathematics of Computation
Science
SIAM Review
Technology and Culture
References
1982 non-fiction books
British biographies
Oxford University Press books
Princeton University Press books
Charles Babbage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Boomerang%20%28Southeast%20Asia%29 | This is a list of television programmes formerly broadcast on Boomerang in Southeast Asia.
Programming
2 Stupid Dogs
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
ABC Monsters
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Chuck and Friends
ALF: The Animated Series
Angelo Rules
Animaniacs
Astro and the Space Mutts
Atom Ant
Atomic Betty
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
Barbie Dreamtopia
Be Cool Scooby Doo
Ben 10 (2005)
Ben 10 (2016)
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
Booba
Bunnicula
Camp Lazlo
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot
Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot
Casper and the Angels
Cattanooga Cats
Cave Kids
Challenge of the GoBots
Chloe's Closet
Chowder
Cow and Chicken
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
Dexter's Laboratory
The Doozers
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
DreamWorks Dragons
Droopy
Droopy: Master Detective
Duck Dodgers
Dumb and Dumber
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Ethelbert the Tiger
Fangface
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Max
The Flintstones
Foofur
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
The Garfield Show
The Great Grape Ape Show
Generator Rex
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Hanna-Barbera's Cartoon Corral
Heathcliff and Dingbat
Heathcliff and Marmaduke
Hokey Wolf
Hong Kong Phooey
Horrid Henry
Horseland
I Am Weasel
Inch High, Private Eye
Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget (2015)
Jabberjaw
The Jetsons
Johnny Bravo
Johnny Test
Jonny Quest
Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
Journey Of Long
The Jungle Bunch
Kingdom Force
Krypto the Superdog
Laff-A-Lympics
Lamput
Lego Friends
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har
Little Baby Bum
Little Red Tractor
Loonatics Unleashed
Looney Tunes
The Looney Tunes Show
Loopdidoo
Loopy de Loop
Madeline
The Magic School Bus
Magilla Gorilla
Maisy
Marcus Level
Masha and the Bear
Masha's Spooky Stories
Masha's Tales
The Mask: Animated Series
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
Master Raindrop
Matt's Monsters
Max & Ruby
Maya & Miguel
Mew Mew Power
MGM Cartoons
Miffy and Friends
Mighty Mike
Mr. T
Monchhichis
Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
My Knight and Me
My Little Pony: Pony Life
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
My Spy Family
New Looney Tunes
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
Oggy and the Cockroaches
Pac-Man
Paddington Bear
Pat The Dog
Paw Paws
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Pingu in the City
The Pink Panther Show
Pink Panther & Pals
Running Man (also aired on Cartoon Network)
The Pirates of Dark Water
Pixie & Dixie
Police Academy: The Animated Series
Popeye
Postman Pat
Pound Puppies
The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
Powerpuff Girls Z
Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville
Puppy''s New Adventures
Quick Draw McGraw
The Real Adventures of Jonny Qu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kashmir%20Files%3A%20Unreported | The Kashmir Files: Unreported is documentary series directed by Vivek Agnihotri, streaming on ZEE5. The series claims to investigate the history of the Kashmir conflict based on data gathered before the making of The Kashmir Files (2022).
Overview
The series was announced by Vivek Agnihotri following harsh criticism of his film The Kashmir Files (2022) by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid at the International Film Festival of India. The Kashmir Files: Unreported is aimed to shed light on the lesser-known aspects of the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir. It aims to provide an understanding of social complexities of the region, as well as examine the impact of the conflict on the lives of ordinary people living in Kashmir. The documentary series takes viewers through the troubled past of the Kashmir Valley, exploring the events that led to the dispute between India and Pakistan over the region.
Cast
Vivek Agnihotri
Pallavi Joshi
Episodes
The series is divided into seven episodes, each focusing on a specific aspect of the Kashmir conflict.
Marketing
To kickstart promotions for the series the filmmakers visited the Shankaracharya Temple in Kashmir. The trailer of the show was subsequently released on 21 July 2023, in Srinagar, Kashmir.
References
External links
The Kashmir Files: Unreported on ZEE5
Indian docudrama films
2020s documentary television series
Indian documentary television series
Films directed by Vivek Agnihotri
Kashmir conflict in films
Films about religious violence in India
Films about genocide
Films about Islamic terrorism in India
Indian television shows based on films
Television shows set in Jammu and Kashmir
Television series about Islam
Documentary films about jihadism
Documentary films about genocide
Documentary films about refugees
Documentary television series about crime
Documentary television series about historical events
Documentary films about the cinema of India
Documentary films about films
Films about Bollywood |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iribe%20Center | The Iribe Center (; officially known as the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation) is a building at the University of Maryland, College Park that is used primarily for computer science education and research. It replaced the university's previous computer science buildings, the Computer Science Instruction Building and the A. V. Williams Building.
Construction
The construction of the center was completed in 2019 after several years of construction and at a reported cost of $152 million. It was named after Brendan Iribe, who donated money to pay for part of the construction cost. He is an entrepreneur and former student at the university who had previously dropped out. Part of the center's funding also came from the state government. The opening ceremony was held on April 26, 2019, a date chosen to coincide with the university's public outreach day, although parts of the facility were accessible to students before that time. Those in attendance to the opening ceremony included the state governor, Larry Hogan, and the president of the university, Wallace Loh. Loh stated that the building represents the fusion of the "traditional academy and the technological future and economic development of the state of Maryland".
Design and usage
Designed by a team at the Omaha-based architecture firm HDR led by Brian Kowalchuk, the center consists of two general-purpose floors and several floors dedicated to computer science research, in addition to an auditorium with approximately 300 seats. The research area includes devices such as 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, and metal milling machines, many of which cannot be found anywhere else on the university's campus.
References
External links
Official website
University of Maryland, College Park facilities
2019 establishments in Maryland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto%20%28computer%20virus%29 | Esperanto (exact name Esperanto.4733) is a computer virus that appeared in 1997, named for the constructed language Esperanto. The program's name was derived from its cross-platform nature, with it being able to attack DOS, Windows, and Macintosh systems, the first platform-agnostic virus of its kind. The virus is also similar to the language in that it is activated on the 26th of July, Esperanto Day.
Esperanto is capable of attacking both .COM and .EXE files on PC, as well as most programs on Macintosh. Despite its platform neutrality, it appears as though it never spread organically across platforms due to recompile errors in the source code, and in order to cross platform barriers needed to be transferred through manual means. It ran entirely independently on each platform.
Esperanto lays unapparent when it spreads through infected files, and is activated on the 26th of July each year, on Esperanto Day, the anniversary of the symbolic founding of the language. On this day, when an infected file is launched, it will display the following bilingual text in English and Esperanto;
[Esperanto, by Mister Sandman/29A]
Never mind your culture / Ne gravas via kulturo,
Esperanto will go beyond it / Esperanto preterpasos ĝin;
never mind the differences / ne gravas la diferencoj,
Esperanto will overcome them / Esperanto superos ilin.
Never mind your processor / Ne gravas via procesoro,
Esperanto will work in it / Esperanto funkcios sub ĝi;
never mind your platform / Ne gravas via platformo,
Esperanto will infect it / Esperanto infektos ĝin.
Now not only a human language, but also a virus...
Turning impossible into possible, Esperanto.
Per the bilingualism of the messages, some have theorized that the virus programmer behind Esperanto.4733 may have been an Esperantist, and the program was made for the purpose of the promotion of Esperanto.
References
Computer viruses
Esperanto culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subareolar%20lymphatic%20plexus | Subareolar lymphatic plexus, also known as Sappey's plexus is the lympatic drainage of the areola of the breast. It is a dense network of lympatics located in the dermis. The subareolar plexus of Sappey communicated with the plexus of lymph nodes located in the deep fascia of pectoralis major muscle.
Clinical significance
Subareoloar lympatic plexus is involved in the axillary spread of breast cancer to the surrounding organs.
History
In 1874, the French anatomist Marie Philibert Constant Sappey discovered the subareoloar lympatic plexus by injecting mercury into the dermis of the breast of a cadaver. Sappey's description became the theoritical basis for subareolar injection for lympatic mapping of the breast.
References
Breast anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th%20News%20and%20Documentary%20Emmy%20Awards | The 44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), to honor the best in American news and documentary programming in 2022. The winners are set to be announced on two ceremonies held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and live-streamed at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other associated apps. The winners of the news categories are scheduled to be announced on September 27, 2023, while the ones for the documentary categories are set to be revealed on September 28, 2023.
The nominees were announced on July 27, 2023. Vice's news program VICE News Tonight led the nominations with 28 nominations followed by CBS's 60 Minutes with eleven, and National Geographic's Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller and PBS' FRONTLINE, both with nine. CNN was the most nominated network with 45 nominations. The nominees for the international categories were announced on August 15, 2023. The Gold and Silver Circle inductees were announced on August 29, 2023, dedicated t honour several professionals for their distinguished service within the television industry for 50 or 25 years respectively.
VICE News Tonight received the most awards with eight, while HBO Max's The Janes and National Geographic's Retrograde were the most awarded documentaries with three wins each. American journalist and new anchor Wolf Blitzer and American film director Barbara Kopple were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the news and documentary ceremonies, respectively.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on July 28, 2023. The winners were announced on September 27 and 28, 2023.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Wolf Blitzer (news)
Barbara Kopple (documentary)
Gold Circle Inductees
David Martin – National Security correspondent of CBS News (news)
John Quiñones – ABC News correspondent, 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, What Would You Do? host (news)
Dan Rather – anchor, journalist, founder, News and Guts (news)
Jon Alpert – documentarian, journalist, cofounder of DCTV (documentary)
Keiko Tsuno – documentarian, journalist, cofounder of DCTV (documentary)
Silver Circle Inductees
Steve Fastook – Senior Vice President of Operations, CNBC (news)
Kim Godwin – President of ABC News (news)
Rand Morrison – executive producer of CBS News Sunday Morning (news)
Steve Osunsami – Senior National correspondent of ABC News (news)
Otto Padron – President & CEO of Meruelo Media (news)
Thomas Snowden – editor of NBC News (news)
Daniel H. Birman – documentarian, Birman Productions (documentary)
Lois Vossen – executive Producer, Independent Lens (documentary)
Chris White, executive Producer, American Documentary (documentary)
News Programming
Spanish Language Programming
Documentary Programming
Craft
Regional News
International News & Current Affairs
Multiple wins
Multiple nominations
References
External links
News & Documentary Emmys website
News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Emmy Awards
New |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Appleton%20Ladies%27%20Potato%20Race | The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race is a 2023 Australian feature film based on the stage play of the same name. The film premiered in Australia on Network Ten and was released on streaming on Paramount+ Australia.
Plot
Doctor Penny Anderson moves from Sydney to her childhood home of Appleton. While visiting the hair salon of her sister Nikki, Penny sees a flyer advertising The Appleton Show and its famous potato race. She discovers the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the winning woman's prize is only $200. Penny leads a protest which causes turmoil in Appleton, particularly with Nikki, who is the current champion.
Cast
Claire van der Boom as Penny Anderson
Katie Wall as Nikki Anderson Bunyan
Genevieve Lemon as Barb Brickner
Tiriel Mora as Bob Bunyan
Robyn Nevin as Joan Bunyan
Olivia Stamboulia as Rania Hamid
Andy Ryan as Gavin Bunyan
Cece Peters as Kazzy Pearce
Rohan Nichol as Mark Bunyan
Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke as Elliot Bunyan
TJ Barrett as Ethan Bunyan
William Glinellis as Eddie Bunyan
Safia Arain as Miriam Hamid
Darren Gilshenan as Billy Pope
John Batchelor as Billy Pearce
Maggie Dence as Miss Vaughn
John Gaden as Dr Holliday
Will McNeill as Luke Pearce
Production
The film is based on a play by Melanie Tait, originally developed and performed with the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney. This was inspired by a real event in Tait's hometown of Robertson, New South Wales.
The film was shot in Sydney and the Southern Highlands with finance from Screen Australia, Screen NSW and the NSW Regional Film Fund.
Reception
Andrew Mercardo of Mediaweek called it "charming… whilst it doesn’t play like a pilot, it would make for a great ongoing series." Lenny Ann Low of The Sydney Morning Herald described the film as "sparky, funny, compassionate and honest."
References
External links
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race at IMDB
Australian comedy-drama films
Australian plays
Plays set in the 21st century
Films set in the 2020s
Films set in 2022
Films set in New South Wales
2020s English-language films
Screen Australia films
Paramount+ original films
Network 10 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20of%20the%20Ancients | Dawn of the Ancients is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame. It was published by Game Systems Inc., in August 1984 as its second offering after Earthwood. In 1988, KJC Games began offering the game in the United Kingdom.
Twelve players led major historical Mediterranean civilizations in a wargame with the purpose of achieving victory through conquest or status. Gameplay occurred on a hex map comprising the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding lands. Games lasted 18–24 months. The game received mixed reviews in various publications in the 1980s.
History and development
Dawn of the Ancients was a closed-ended, computer moderated play-by-mail game. Game Systems Inc., published it on August 1, 1984, as its second offering after the PBM game Earthwood. In 1985, the publisher updated the game, increasing the required victory points from 100 to 250 and available action points per turn from 100 to 125. These changes began with game 16. In 1988, KJC Games began offering the game in the United Kingdom.
Gameplay
Dawn of the Ancients is a historical fantasy wargame. Its setting was "the dawn of the great civilizations" and it had some similarities with the game Civilization. In the game, 12 players vied for control, each leading one of the nations as: "Egyptians, Phoenicians, Parthians, Trojans, Greeks, Macedonians, Romans, Carthaginians, Britons, Gauls, Persians, [and] Huns". This placed the greatest historic Mediterranean civilizations in opposition at game start. In addition, the computer played Atlantis. Players also chose a historic theme—Republic, Barbarian, and Empire—each with military and economic implications. Gameplay occurred on a hex map. This included the Mediterranean Sea and land areas comprising 1,380 hexes.
The game's purpose is to win by attaining the required number of victory points, or "to be the only nation
to have a home city higher than level three" at game's end. Up to three allied nations can share a win. Players move toward victory by various actions such as acquiring map hexes, increasing the strength of home cities, increasing military strength, and waging war on other players. There are sixteen possible actions. Players are allocated a set number of points per turn to conduct actions toward these ends. Each nation could have up to 15 leaders as well. Games lasted 18–24 months.
Reception
Cathy Cunning reviewed the game in a 1985 issue of Paper Mayhem. She noted some problems with the game, while stating that she would recommend it to "anyone who is looking for a simple game that still has the potential of being very interesting".
Greg Tackett and Mike Scheid reviewed the game in a 1987 issue of Flagship. They spoke positively about the publisher. Both observed various game issues with Tackett providing a generally negative review and Scheid calling it "a good introductory historical wargame" with good expansion potential.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
An edi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXN | CXN can refer to:
China Southwest Airlines, a defunct airline based in China, by ICAO code
Caribbean Exchange Network, a regional stock exchange based in the Caribbean
Candala Airport, an airstrip in Qandala, Somalia, by IATA code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupleurum%20veronense | Bupleurum veronense is a plant species of the genus Bupleurum.
External links
Flora Croatica Database
veronense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-sitter%20%28parser%20generator%29 | In computing, Tree-sitter is a parser generator and incremental parsing library.
Details
It is used to parse source code into concrete syntax trees usable in compilers, interpreters, text editors, and static analyzers. It is specialized for use in text editors, as it supports incremental parsing for updating parse trees while code is edited in real time, and provides a built-in S-expression query system for analyzing code.
Text editors which have official integrations with Tree-sitter include Atom, GNU Emacs, Neovim, Lapce, Zed, and Helix. Language bindings allow it to be used from programming languages including Go, Haskell, Java, Javascript (with Node.js and WASM), Kotlin, Lua, OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Swift. Tree-sitter parsers have been written for these languages and many others. GitHub uses Tree-sitter to support in-browser symbolic code navigation in git repositories.
Tree-sitter uses a GLR parser, a type of LR parser.
Tree-sitter was originally developed by GitHub for use in the Atom text editor, where it was first released in 2018.
See also
Comparison of parser generators
References
External links
Official website
Source code repository
Compiling tools
Parser generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Code%20of%20Indonesia | The Civil Code of Indonesia (, BW), commonly known in Indonesian as Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Perdata (, derived from Dutch), abbreviated as KUH Perdata), were laws and regulations that form the basis of civil law in Indonesia. Civil law in Indonesia originates from Napoleonic Law, and is codified through Staatsblaad number 23 of 1847.
History
According to historical records, a civil law called the Code Civil des Français was formed in 1804, in which most European referred to them as the Napoleon Code. On 24 May 1806 the Netherlands became a French client state, styled the Kingdom of Holland under Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte in which he was instructed by Napoleon to receive and enact the Napoleonic Code. On 1 January 1811, the Netherlands was annexed by the French Empire and the Napoleonic Code was adopted in unmodified form. Dutch independence was restored with the collapse of French rule in 1813 in which the Kingdom once again pursued codification. Article 100 of the 1814 Constitution refers to a codification based on Dutch law in which various proposals were made between 1816 and 1830. Finally in 1830 a new code was enacted by Parliament which is a mix of influences, mainly from French and Roman-Dutch law.
Relevance to Indonesia
Until 1918, Indonesia was then a Dutch colony with no legislature, which means all laws enacted by the Dutch Parliament was immediately, unless otherwise stated, implemented in the Dutch East Indies. Burgerlijk Wetboek was then modified by the Dutch East Indies government to apply exclusively to Europeans and Foreign Orientals, yet based on Article 2 of the transitional provisions of the 1945 Indonesian Constitution, it states that: "All State Bodies and Regulations that existed until the founding of the Republic of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 shall remain in force, as long as new ones have not been enacted according to the Constitution". This provision allows Burgerlijk Wetboek to retain as Indonesian law, as no substitute has been made. At present, Several provisions contained within the Burgerlijk Wetboek have been regulated separately by various new laws and regulations. For example, relating to land, mortgage rights, and fiduciary.
Legal Challenges
In 1962, the Supreme Court of Indonesia put forward a notion through a circular letter a quo for Burgerlijk Wetboek (BW) to not be considered as a law, but as a document that described a group of unwritten laws. Norms contained in BW are often used by judges in deciding civil disputes between indigenous Pribumi, where in principle, BW should only apply to Europeans and Foreign Orientals.
Through the 2006 Citizenship Act (c.12), racial segregation is considered invalid, where the Indonesian government only recognised two sub-grouping of people, namely Indonesian Citizens and Foreigners. These provisions often becomes a challenge as racial segregation based on Article 131 jo. 163 of the Dutch East Indies constitution (Indische Staatsregeling) is still disp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karem%20A.%20Sakallah | Karem Sakallah is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist, a professor at University of Michigan known for his work on computational logic, functional verification, SAT solvers, satisfiability modulo theories, and the Graph automorphism problem. He was elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow in 1998.
In 2009, he shared the CAV (Computer Aided Verification) award with eight other individuals "for major advances in creating high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers." In 2012, Sakallah became an ACM Fellow "for algorithms for Boolean Satisfiability that advanced the state-of-the-art of hardware verification."
In 2014, Sakallah help shape the development of the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha and supervised the growth of the Cyber Security Research Area.
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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20operation | Compound operation may refer to:
Compound operation (dies), in die manufacturing
Compound operation (computing), in computing
Compound assignment, in computing
Compound operation (engines), in engines
Compound operation (steam engines), in steam engines
Compound operation (locomotives), in locomotives
See also
Compound operator
Fused operation
Transpositional inversion
Compound (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20NetServer | NetServer was a line of x86-based server and workstation computers sold by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1993 to 2002. The line comprised a wide range of models featuring differing form factors and processor configurations. The line was Hewlett-Packard's entry in the commodity local area networking (LAN) market. The NetServer was succeeded by the ProLiant in 2002, a line of servers previously owned by Compaq, whom HP acquired in 2002.
History
Hewlett-Packard introduced the x86-based NetServer line of servers and workstations in May 1993 with the LE series and LM series. The NetServer LE low-cost option, sporting a minitower case. The cheapest model in the LE range features a 33-MHz i486SX chip, 4 MB of memory, and no built-in hard disk drives (a Fast SCSI controller card was preinstalled, however, for aftermarket hard drive installation; up to four hard drives can be installed internally, with a RAID controller optional). More higher-end models in the LE range feature i486 and DX2 processors clocked at 33 MHz and 66 MHz, respectively. The NetServer LM series, meanwhile, sported cases twice as wide (the so-called deskside form factor) in order to accommodate up to eight hard drives in a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 array. These LM-series NetServers featured either a 33-MHz i486, a 66-MHz DX2, or single or dual Pentium processors. The entire NetServer line initially competed with HP's own RISC-based 9000 line of workstations.
Later entries in the NetServer line featured single or dual Pentium II and Pentium III processors.
HP discontinued the NetServer line in 2002, succeeding it with the ProLiant, a line of servers that Compaq had introduced as a competitor to the NetServer back in 1993. HP acquired Compaq in 2002.
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NetServer
NetServer
x86-based computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20al-Qaeda | al-Qaeda has five distinct phases in its development: its beginnings in the late 1980s, a "wilderness" period in 1990–1996, its "heyday" in 1996–2001, a network period from 2001 to 2005, and a period of fragmentation from 2005 to 2009.
Jihad in Afghanistan
The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979February 1989). The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the Cold War, with Marxists on one side and the native Afghan mujahideen on the other. This view led to a CIA program called Operation Cyclone, which channeled funds through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency to the Afghan Mujahideen. The US government provided substantial financial support to the Afghan Islamic militants. Aid to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan mujahideen leader and founder of the Hezb-e Islami, amounted to more than $600million. In addition to American aid, Hekmatyar was the recipient of Saudi aid. In the early 1990s, after the US had withdrawn support, Hekmatyar "worked closely" with bin Laden.
At the same time, a growing number of Arab mujahideen joined the jihad against the Afghan Marxist regime, which was facilitated by international Muslim organizations, particularly the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), also known as the "Services Bureau". Muslim Brotherhood networks affiliated with the Egyptian Islamist Kamal al-Sananiri (d. 1981) played the major role in raising finances and Arab recruits for the Afghan Mujahidin. These networks included Mujahidin groups affiliated with Afghan commander Abd al-Rasul Sayyaf and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Palestinian Islamist scholar and major figure in the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood. Following the detention and death of Sananiri in an Egyptian security prison in 1981, Abdullah Azzam became the chief arbitrator between the Afghan Arabs and Afghan mujahideen.
As part of providing weaponry and supplies for the cause of Afghan Jihad, Usama bin Laden was sent to Pakistan as a Muslim Brotherhood representative to the Islamist organisation Jamaat-e-Islami. While in Peshawar, bin Laden met Abdullah Azzam and the two of them jointly established the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) in 1984; with objective of raising funds and recruits for Afghan Jihad across the world. MAK organized guest houses in Peshawar, near the Afghan border, and gathered supplies for the construction of paramilitary training camps to prepare foreign recruits for the Afghan war front. MAK was funded by the Saudi government as well as by individual Muslims including Saudi businessmen. Bin Laden also became a major financier of the mujahideen, spending his own money and using his connections to influence public opinion about the war. Many disgruntled members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood like Abu Mussab al-Suri also began joining these MAK networks; following the crushing of Islamic revolt in Syria in 1982.
From 1986, MAK began to set up a network of recruiting offices in the US, the hub of which was the Al Kifah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Kayak | Kayak was a line of x86-based, optionally dual-processor workstation computers released by Hewlett-Packard from 1997 to 2001. The Kayak line was aimed at the scientific computing and professional 3D graphics markets and came preinstalled with Windows NT.
History
Hewlett-Packard introduced the Kayak line in September 1997, alongside their Brio line of small office/home office desktops. Models in the Kayak line initially featured Intel's Pentium II processors; later models featured Pentium II Xeons, Pentium IIIs, Pentium III Xeons, and Pentium 4s. The Kayak line was introduced expressly to compete with Compaq, then the largest global manufacturer of personal computers, in the scientific computing and professional 3D graphics markets—particularly with Compaq's Professional Workstation line. The Kayak served as HP's introduction to the Wintel workstation market; they had previously only catered to the Unix set with their RISC-based 9000 line of performance workstations.
HP came to dominate the Wintel workstation segment with the Kayak by the turn of the millennium. However, in late 2001, they were eclipsed by Dell and their Precision workstations. In Europe, HP rebranded the Kayak as the HP Workstation with their x4000 model in 2001. By 2002, HP followed suit in the United States.
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Kayak
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Computer workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen%20Technologies | Evergreen Technologies, Inc., was a privately owned computer company active from 1989 to 2005 that manufactured a wide variety CPU upgrade chips for x86-based personal computers. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, the company enjoyed a heyday in the 1990s, becoming a market leader in the CPU upgrade segment.
History
Evergreen Technologies was founded in 1989 by Kenneth "Mike" Magee in Corvallis, Oregon. Before founding Evergreen, Magee previously worked as vice president of Software Support Services, a Corvallis-based software vendor; he had also previously founded M.S. Systems, Inc., a computer store in Corvallis. The company's first product, a CPU upgrade module that allowed motherboards with Intel 80286 processors to be upgraded to i386 processors, first shipped in May 1990. In 1992, Evergreen introduced the 486 SuperChip, a CPU upgrade module featuring Cyrix's Cx486 processor that allowed 286-class machines to achieve close to i486-level performance. Evergreen later signed a contract with IBM allowing the latter to capitalize on Evergreen's patents and circuit-board layouts for their 486 upgrade modules, in 1994.
At their heyday in the 1990s, Evergreen's largest competitors included Intel themselves, with their i486 and Pentium OverDrive chips, and Kingston Technology, with their TurboChip. Sales in Evergreen's upgrade modules grew 159-fold between 1993 and 1998; the company sold roughly 40 percent of their products to international buyers. By mid-1997, Evergreen had expanded to possess four buildings in Corvallis, a manufacturing plant in Portland, Oregon, a sales office in New York City and a regional office in Swindon, England. Between all locations, the company employed roughly 70 workers in that year.
In early 1999, the company introduced the AcceleraPCI (codenamed the EclipsePCI), an upgrade expansion card allowing motherboards with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus—with processors ranging from late-model DX4s to Pentiums to Pentium Pros—to be outfit with P6-based Celeron processors. Development of the AcceleraPCI was Evergreen's most expensive undertaking to date and was highly publicized in the tech press.
Evergreen went defunct in 2005.
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x86 microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20carotid%20venous%20plexus | The internal carotid venous plexus is a network of veins surrounding the internal carotid artery as it passes through the carotid canal. The plexus interconnects the internal jugular vein (extracranially) and cavernous sinus (intracranially).
References
Anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthwood%20%28game%29 | Earthwood is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) fantasy wargame.
History and development
Earthwood was a fantasy wargame published by Game Systems Inc. (GSI). GSI's Bill Feild and Peter Stassun introduced it as their first game when opening on April 1, 1981. The game was closed-ended and computer moderated.
By 1988, Game Systems Inc. created a new version of the game called Earthwood-Sea Kings due to the popularity of Earthwood.
Gameplay
Each game has 25 players who roleplay three types of characters: 16 kings, five warriors and four magicians. Kings rule cities populated with one of various fantasy races such as elves and dwarves. Players can encounter up to 12 types of non-player characters in the game, to fight, interact, and enlist as party members. Economics was not a significant part of the game. Diplomacy was a key part of gameplay, with reviewer DeAnn Iwan stating it involved "intense diplomacy".
The purpose of the game was to conquer all the game's cities. This could also be done with allies. Games could last 30–40 turns.
Reception
Nicky Palmer reviewed the game in a 1985 issue of Flagship. He recommended the game, highlighting its diplomatic aspects.
Stewart Wieck reviewed Sea Kings in a 1988 issue of White Wolf. He called it "a very enjoyable game", rating it a 5 of 10 points for Strategy, 7 points for Materials and Diplomacy, 8 for Moderation, and 7 points overall.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Grand strategy wargames
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Role-playing games introduced in the 1980s
Role-playing games introduced in 1981
Strategy games
Tabletop games
20th-century role-playing games
Wargames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20literature | Generative literature is poetry or fiction that is automatically generated, often using computers. It is a genre of electronic literature, and also related to generative art.
John Clark's Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843) is probably the first example of mechanised generative literature, while Christopher Strachey's love letter generator (1952) is the first digital example. With the large language models (LLMs) of the 2020s, generative literature is becoming increasingly common.
Definitions
Hannes Bajohr defines generative literature as literature involving "the automatic production of text according to predetermined parameters, usually following a combinatory, sometimes aleatory logic, and it emphasizes the production rather than the reception of the work (unlike, say, hypertext)."
In his book Electronic Literature Scott Rettberg connects generative literature to avant-garde literary movements like Dada, Surrealism, Oulipo and Fluxus. Bajohr argues that conceptual art is also an important reference.
Paradigms of generative literature
Bajohr describes two main paradigms of generative literature: the sequential paradigm, where the text generation is "executed as a sequence of rule-steps" and employs linear algorithms, and the connectionist paradigm, which is based on neural nets. The latter leads to what Bajohr calls a algorithmic empathy: "a non-anthropocentric empathy aimed not at the psychological states of the artists but at understanding the process of the work’s material production."
Poetry generation
The first examples of automated generative literature are poetry: John Clark's mechanical Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843) produced lines of hexameter verse in Latin, and Christopher Strachey's love letter generator (1952), programmed on the Manchester Mark 1 computer, generated short, satirical love letters.
Examples of generative poetry using artificial neural networks include David Jhave Johnston's ReRites.
Narrative generation
Story generators have often followed specific narratological theories of how stories are constructed. An early example is Grimes' Fairy Tales, the "first to take a grammar-based approach and the first to operationalize Propp's famous model." Mike Sharples and Rafael Peréz y Peréz's book Story Machines gives a detailed history of story generation.
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Generative artificial intelligence
Generative literature
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Area%20Transport%20Ltd | Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd (, ) is a Finnish city-owned transportation company responsible for operating the Helsinki tram network and parts of the Helsinki Metro for the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority. Its subsidiary operates the Suomenlinna ferry.
The company was founded in February 2022 to replace Helsinki City Transport in order to better support the expansion of the metro and tram networks from Helsinki into the neighbouring cities of Espoo and Vantaa.
References
Public transport operators
Transport in Helsinki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled%20Enclave%20at%20Deori | The Walled Enclave at Deori (Hindi देवरी) is an extensive network of high stone walls in a forest area immediately above the village of Deori in Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh. Set on a ridge of the Vindhya Range overlooking the Narmada basin, the Deori walls run about 4 km in length in the area next to the Mogha reservoir, with further internal walls inside the enclosure proper. The walls, where they are preserved, are made of finely cut blocks of ashlar, dry set without mortar. Associated sculptures belong to the Paramara dynasty and date largely to 11th century, the period of the temple at Udaipur, Madhya Pradesh built by king Udayaditya. The centre piece of the Deori enclave is a small river and waterfall, evidently a place of sport and recreation for the Paramara elite.
Other walls stretch in a line to the east in the direction of Gorakhpur village, 5 km distant. At Gorakhpur, there are further walls, a large tank known as Pāpītālāb and the remains of a temple of the Paramara period.
Though sometimes called the “Great Wall of India,” that accolade is usually given to the fortifications at Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan. The Deori walls, pre-dating the advent of artillery in India under the Bahmani Sultanate and Mughal rulers, seem to be part of an extensive royal enclave. The palace buildings were probably made of wood and have disappeared.
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Monuments and memorials in Madhya Pradesh
Raisen district
Palaces in India
Forts in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQC | DQC or .DQC can refer to:
Driver Qualification Card, a card issued to new drivers passing the qualification test; see Driver CPC
Data Quality Campaign, an American organization focused on data quality
.DQC, a file format for documents compressed by SQ (program)
Dynamic Quantum Clustering, a type of quantum clustering in data analysis
Ormyridae, a family of parasitic wasps
See also
DQC1, the complexity class of problems that can be solved in the One Clean Qubit model of quantum computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow%20Peripherals | Willow Peripherals, Inc., was an American computer hardware company active from 1986 to 2004 and based in New York City. The company was well known for their frame grabber and television output adapter cards for the IBM Personal Computer and adapters. Willow was based in Port Morris in the South Bronx for most of its existence.
History
Willow Peripherals was originally incorporated in Manhattan in 1984 by founders Jonathan Vail, Bill Bares, Valerie Gardner, Calvin Berger and Howard Alexander. The company's first products were generic expansion cards and peripherals for the IBM Personal Computer.
In 1986, the company moved to Port Morris in the South Bronx and began developing video-related products for the IBM PC shortly afterward. The company leased an 8,100-square-foot facility in Port Morris for a bargain $2 per square foot, a rate that barely grew in the decade that followed. The company however suffered from a lack of employees interested in working for the company, owing to the South Bronx's contemporary reputation for crime and urban decay. Between October 1992 and September 1993, the company's workforce dwindled from 25 workers to only 10. Manufacturing of Willow's products was originally done out of their Bronx headquarters, but owing to increasing restrictions on environmental safeguards in New York in the early 1990s, production was outsourced to a factory in Pennsylvania.
The company's first video-related product was the Publishers' VGA, a frame grabber expansion card, released in September 1988. The Publishers' VGA was relatively low-cost and had the advantage of being able to capture a single frame from a composite video source without the video source needing to be paused. The card tied in with Willow's Video Capture Software (VCAP), which could export the frame grab to a number of image file formats, including TIFF, PCX, and EPS.
Later in 1988, the company introduced the VGA-TV, a device which could output full VGA video over a composite signal, the first product on the market with this purpose. In 1990, the product was revised as the VGA-TV GE/O, which supported the superior S-Video signal, achieving near perfect reproduction of standard VGA pictures on certain equipped NTSC television sets, as well as genlocking, allowing multiple video sources to be overlaid through a video mixer without instability. The VGA-TV saw widespread use in many disparate areas, including in the White House, where it was used to pipe the output of PC teleprompter software for Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to read; as well as in the film industry, where it facilitated certain special effects.
Willow's website stopped updating in 2000 and went dark four years later.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20on%20ESPN | The NFL on ESPN is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) coverage on the networks of ESPN (including ESPN+ streaming service). NFL coverage first aired on the network in 1980, when ESPN broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to Sunday Night Football. In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to Sunday Night Football and began airing Monday Night Football instead.
Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue credits ESPN with raising the "profile" of the league, by turning "a potential six- or seven-hour television experience into a twelve-hour television experience," factoring in both Sunday Night Football and the network's pregame show Sunday NFL Countdown and still is to this day.
Currently, the ESPN linear network airs live coverage of Monday Night Football, the Pro Bowl games, the NFL Draft, one Wild Card round playoff game, one Divisional round playoff game, and the Super Bowl in 2027 and 2031. Current NFL on ESPN studio programming includes Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, NFL Live, NFL Primetime, NFL Matchup, Monday Blitz, and Fantasy Football Now.
The ESPN+ streaming service currently simulcast all ABC televised Monday Night Football and one exclusive international game each year since 2022.
Overview
In 1979, several months after the founding of ESPN, then ESPN President Chet Simmons asked the NFL if ESPN could air the NFL Draft. NFL commisioner Pete Rozelle, despite questions about viewership potential, granted ESPN the rights. The first draft ESPN aired was in 1980. Bob Ley hosted the initial coverage from Bristol, Connecticut. Howard Balzer, Upton Bell and Vince Papale joined Ley as studio analysts while Joe Thomas and four reporters were on site at the NFL Draft in New York City. Despite ESPN only reaching 4 million homes at the time, the NFL considered the initial NFL Draft broadcast a success and ESPN has aired the NFL Draft every year since. In 1988, the NFL moved the draft from weekdays to the weekend and ESPN's ratings of the coverage improved dramatically.
As part of its new television package in 1987, the NFL granted ESPN the rights to air a series of Sunday night games, which were to air over the second half of the regular season. The NFL thus became the last major North American professional sports league to begin airing its games on cable television. However, the games were typically simulcast on regular over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market, so that households without cable television could still see the telecasts of their local team. While ABC had been airing occasional Sunday night NFL games (usually one per season) under its Monday Night Football banner since 1978, the concept of playing a regular series of Sunday night professional football games on ESPN was originally a concept designed for the United States Football League (USFL). As part of the abortive 1986 USFL season, ESPN was to carr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20Computer | Mountain Computer, Inc. (also known as Mountain Hardware) was a privately held American computer peripheral manufacturer active as an independent company from 1977 to 1988. In its early years, the company chiefly developed products for the Apple II, including sound synthesizers, samplers, and hard disk and tape drives. Mountain also produced floppy disk duplicators for enterprise use. In the mid-1980s Mountain pivoted to focusing on products for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles. In late 1988, the company was acquired by Nakamichi.
History
Mountain Computer was founded in 1977 by a group of private investors based in Santa Cruz, California, with $5,000 in cash. James Sedin, an Olympic medalist turned businessman, was asked to manage the company as its chief executive officer; he served that role until well after Mountain's acquisition in 1988, later being named as the company's president and chairman of the board as well as CEO. Mountain Computer was originally based in the Harvey West industrial complex in Santa Cruz.
In 1980, the company introduced the Music System, an additive synthesis sound card for the Apple II that allowed users to compose music with a myriad of timbres and through multiple means, including by light pen. The Music System quickly became popular among students and professors of music departments at universities, and by 1981, it was the single most popular personal computer–based synthesizer. In 1982, the company partnered with Passport Designs to enhance the Music System with more complex composition software and a four-octave hardware keyboard.
The company introduced its first product for the IBM Personal Computer in 1982 with the Supertalker II, a sampler that allowed the IBM PC to acquire small soundbites through a microphone port on the board. The product was geared toward education—facilitating the teaching of phonics, spelling, and math, and acting as an instruction aid toward people with disabilities—and toward domestic use—as a makeshift security system and to facilitate the use of voice-controlled devices. Unlike most third-party vendors of IBM PC products, Mountain licensed IBM's patents for their ISA bus during the development of the Supertalker II. At least one IBM PC clone manufacturer resold the Supertalker II as a value-add for their systems.
Mountain began manufacturing data storage devices, such as floppy disk duplicators and hard disk and tape drives, in the early 1980s, becoming a major OEM of these products. The company's Model 3200, a 5.25-inch floppy duplicator, saw use by other large computer companies, such as Verbatim for their Data Encore division. In 1983, Mountain introduced a hard disk drive for the Apple II and Apple III that had a storage capacity of 20 MB. It was the first hard drive system cross-compatible with both families of Apple computers. Mountain sourced their hard drives from other companies, including Quantum and NEC. In August 1986, Mountain acquired Bering Industries, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarDown%20%28TSN%29 | BarDown is a subsidiary of The Sports Network (TSN) focused on pop culture and attracting a younger audience. Created in 2014, the website and YouTube content have become one of TSN's most popular segments.
History
On March 4, 2014, TSN's Dave Krikst created the BarDown brand for TSN across web and social platforms including TSN's YouTube page focused on attracting a younger audience. The intent was to merge the pop-culture style of Buzzfeed with the sports content on TSN. Krikst later described BarDown as "a place where you probably get to practise your craft.” The name BarDown was chosen for its reference to the hockey term and that the "content will come from all sports." The subsidiary originally began solely focused on hockey; they posted viral content and included branded content and advertising on their similarity named website.
Current day
The main contributors to BarDown content are TSN producers Jesse Pollock, Corwin McCallum, Sam Glisserman, Daniel Zakrzewski, and Luca Celebre. As their content developed into YouTube videos, BarDown also gained their own sponsors as a subsidiary and their videos averaged more than 620,000 views. The producers successfulness from BarDown led them to appear in more traditional TSN coverage such as pregame segments and part-time anchor roles on SportsCentre. Another member of BarDown, Julia Tocheri, advanced to host Leafs Lunch before it was cancelled in 2023. In September 2020, Bardown launched the BarDown Podcast, hosted by McCallum and Zakrzewski. In honour of their five-year anniversary on YouTube, EA Sports added a BarDown-themed jersey in their World of Chel and Hockey Ultimate Team game modes. The jersey had been previously worn by BarDown members at their beer league games prior to the COVID-19 lockdown.
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliarus%20polyphemus | Oliarus polyphemus, the Hawai'i cave planthopper, is a species of Oliarus planthopper endemic to the island of Hawai'i, where it inhabits lava tubes and crevice networks embedded in solidified lava flows.
Description
Oliarus polyphemus is completely pale and unpigmented. It has no eyes and as such is completely blind. Individuals range from 3.2-5mm in length, with females being larger than males. Adults are flightless.
Distribution and habitat
Olarius polyphemus is only found on the island of Hawai'i. It is thought to live primarily in a vast network of underground cooling cracks formed when pahoehoe lava from the island's various volcanoes solidified. This crevice habitat is thought to be the primary habitat of O. polyphemus and other Hawai'i cave endemic arthropods, but individuals often enter large lava tube caves. Due to the difficulty of surveying the primary crevice habitat, O. polyphemus is only ever encountered in these lava tubes.
This species is capable of colonizing newly formed lava tubes and crevice networks relatively quickly after they are formed by a volcanic eruption. For example, cave planthoppers have been present in Kaumana Cave (which was created by a 1888 Mauna Loa eruption) since at least 1972 and likely much longer.
Ecology
Olarius polyphemus relies on the roots of the ʻōhiʻa tree, which reach deep underground into the lava tubes and cooling cracks that the planthoppers inhabit. Nymphs feed by sucking sap from older roots, making a wax filament cocoon to protect itself while it feeds. When it is finished feeding, a nymph builds another cocoon and spend about one week transforming into an adult. Adults probably do not feed and rely on stored fat reserves for energy.
O. polyphemus is sometimes killed by an unknown parasitic fungus.
References
Insects described in 1973
Pentastirini
Cave insects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest%20of%20Insula%20II | Conquest of Insula II is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) fantasy wargame.
History and development
Conquest of Insula II was a computer moderated play-by-mail game published by Clemens & Associates Inc. It was medium complexity. It shared similarities with the PBM game Terra II including turn reports and the combat system.
Gameplay
The setting for this wargame was medieval times. In each game, ten players on an island led villages with the tile of Baron. Games occurred on separate islands, with names such as "Farraheim, Andarmark, Jiborokwi, Gizzenole, Karandala, and Raksharan". Players could conduct four actions per turn, which included activities such as "forestry, herding, mining, weapons making, armor making, siege equipment making, refining, ditch repairing, or wall repairing". Combat involved sending armies from villages and laying siege to another village or battling another army. Various tactics were available. Movement occurred on a hex map of ten miles per hex.
Victory was achieved by conquering three villages or "kill[ing] the most enemy warriors" by game's end. Games lasted 25 weeks. Winners began the next game as a Count (and played it for free). A game ending in 1985 on the island of Matafunda was the first to end before 25 weeks as a player conquered a third city.
Reception
Bob McLain, editor of Gaming Universal, stated that the game was "was tailor made for battle lovers and armchair generals".
See also
List of play-by-mail games
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
American games
American role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Cyber%20Security | The National Center for Cyber Security (NCCS) is a government-established research and development center founded by the Pakistani government in June 2018. This project is a collaborative effort between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Planning Commission.
History
The NCCS project represents a collaboration between the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Planning Commission. It involves the establishment of Research and Development (R&D) Labs in selected prestigious universities across Pakistan. The universities were chosen through a competitive process initiated by HEC in early 2018, and after careful evaluation, 11 technical proposals were shortlisted. These universities were then tasked with setting up NCCS-affiliated Labs specializing in various areas of cyber security under the center's secretariat. The Air University was granted the responsibility of serving as the NCCS Secretariat, in addition to overseeing the two affiliated labs focusing on Cyber Crime Forensics and Smart Devices and Networks Security.
References
Computer security organizations
Government agencies of Pakistan
Organizations established in 2018
Research institutes in Pakistan
Science and technology in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanBase | OceanBase (fully known as OceanBase Database) is a distributed database released in 2010. It was developed by Ant Group, with the main products including OceanBase Cloud and the eponymous database. It is a relational DBMS based on shared-nothing architecture. The database was adopted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, as well as China Construction Bank. OceanBase's products are used in the energy, government, transportation and other industries.
In October 2019, OceanBase ranked first in the TPC-C benchmark test, twice as fast as second-place Oracle. On November 11 of the same year, the database processed 61 million transactions per second. In June 2020, the platform established Beijing OceanBase Technology and started to operate independently. In July 2022, it appeared in a Forrester analysis report on translytical data platforms.
History
OceanBase was originally developed to serve Alipay transactions. In 2017, the database was commercially available. In 2019, it fully replaced the Oracle database in the Alipay system.
In March 2020, the database was formally opened to the world via AliCloud. In May 2020, its performance exceeded 700 million tpmC in the TPC-C test. In June of the same year, OceanBase began operations as an independent company.
In June 2021, it became open-source. In August 2022, version 4.0 of the database was released. In November 2022, the 4th version of OceanBase Community Edition became available.
References
External links
Database management systems
Data management
Cloud databases
Chinese brands
Alibaba Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o%20Paulo%20Metro%20E%20stock | The São Paulo Metro E stock is a class of electric multiple units built by Alstom between 1996 and 1999.
History
Project and construction
With the expansion of the metro network, emerged a necessity to expand its rolling stock. In 1991, the São Paulo Metropolitan Company published the bid n° 00800310 for the acquisition of 67 trains of 6 cars each, divided as follows:
Allotment I – 45 trains for Vila Madalena–Vila Prudente Line
Allotment II – 22 trains, with 16 to complement the Line 3 fleet and 6 for the Itaquera–Guianases expansion
The bidding was won by Mafersa, but the company never could build the trains, as it went bankrupt in mid of a severe economic crisis, potentialized by the lack of funds by the metro company to process such acquisition. However, part of the contract (Allotment II) was kept valid after a judgment held in 1992 by the State Court of Accounts of São Paulo, creating a legal controversy, being assumed by French company Alstom.
Alstom resume the construction of 11 trains of Allotment II in 1996, later delivered in September 1999. After that, the Metropolitan Company and Alstom made a cultural competition to choose a new name for the metro fleet. The name "Milênio" () was chosen, with a special logo below the train cab windshield and the winners received miniatures of the composition.
Service
Initially built to operate on Line 3-Red, the 11 trains were transferred to Line 2-Green, which did not have an own rolling stock. In 2014, this fleet was the one which had the largest number of failures of the Metro rolling stock, with lower performance than the A stock, built between 1972 and 1978. According to specialists, the E stock project has errors in motorization, suspension and ventilation.
Currently, the E stock is the only fleet which don't have an air conditioning system. Besides there are plans for the acquisition of new plans, the destination of this fleet was not confirmed.
Controversies
To expand its fleet, the Metropolitan Company used in 2007 the 1992 contract to acquire 16 more trains (a 15% additive compared to the original contract). Therefore, new Alstom trains were acquired, being named the G stock. This legal maneuver, however, was pleaded guilty by the State Court of Accounts of São Paulo in November 2017 because, according to the court, the maximum expire date of the contracts could not be over 5 years, and this bid expired in 1997.
Accidents and incidents
23 December 2006 – A bomb was detonated in one of the E stock cars between Ana Rosa and Chácara Klabin stations. No one was harmed by the attack.
See also
Line 1 (São Paulo Metro)
São Paulo Metro
References
External links
Electric multiple units
750 V DC multiple units
São Paulo Metro
Alstom locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa%20Systems | Genoa Systems Corporation, later Genoa Electronics Corporation, was an American computer multimedia peripheral vendor based in San Jose, California, and active from 1984 to 2002. The company was once a prolific and well-known manufacturer of video cards and chipsets. They also dabbled in modems, tape drives, sound cards, and other peripheral expansion cards. The company was a founding member of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and were instrumental in the development of Super VGA.
History
Genoa Systems was founded in 1984 in San Jose, California, as a subsidiary of the Ching Fong Investment Company, a Taiwanese holding company headquartered in the United States in San Francisco. Genoa Systems was one of several high-tech companies that Ching Fong had founded in the early 1980s. Genoa's principal co-founder was Taiwan-born Frank C. Lin, who previously worked for Olivetti as a senior manager. He was named Genoa's president and served that role until 1987, when he left to found Trident Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company, in Mountain View, California.
Genoa's first video-related product was the Spectrum Graphics Card in fall 1985. Released for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles, the Spectrum combined multiple graphics adapter standards that were previously spread across multiple cards—CGA, MDA, Hercules, and Plantronics. Genoa released an updated variant of the Spectrum only a few months later in late 1985, the Spectrum Plus, which integrated many of the discrete chips necessary to drive the disparate graphics modes into one VLSI chip. In early 1986, they released the Spectra EGA, which InfoWorld evaluated as the first perfect clone of IBM's original Enhanced Graphics Adapter card. In late 1986, the company released the Genoa SuperEGA board featuring their own bespoke chipset, which extended IBM's EGA standard by adding a resolution mode capable of displaying graphics at 640 by 480 pixels. It was also backwards compatible with CGA, MDA, and Hercules. The SuperEGA chipset was the first such product on the market, with Genoa beating out their competitors Chips and Technologies and Video Seven. As well as selling their own board featuring the chipset, Genoa sold the chipset to other manufacturers, in volume orders. In 1987, they extended the EGA standard further with the SuperEGA HiRes, which added a resolution mode capable of displaying 800-by-600-pixel graphics.
Genoa were also active in other areas of the PC marketplace, including internal and external modems (under the name NovaCom) and external backup tape drives (under the name Galaxy). By 1986, the company had over 1,000 dealers across the globe and posted annual sales of roughly $18 million.
After EGA was rendered obsolete by the release of IBM's Video Graphics Array (VGA) technology in 1987, Genoa pioneered a number of extensions to the VGA standard. These extensions were standardized and collectively known as Super VGA after the Video Electronics Standa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20films%20of%202023 | This is a list of films produced in Brazil in 2023:
References
External links
Brazilian films of 2023 at the Internet Movie Database
2023
Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Han%20Jiet | Lee Han Jiet (; born 15 July 1996), stage name Lucas. He is a stand-up comedian, political commentator, host and debator from Malaysian YouTube channel of BBK Network.
Background
He graduated from University of Malaya, and was from the debate team.
On 15 July 2023, his 26th birthday, he proposed to Janny. They were blessed by the Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament (MPs).
Career
Political commentary
On 30 October 2022, he was invited by Nga Kor Ming to visit and promote Ipoh through his influence as an internet celebrity.
On 5 January 2023, he accompanied Minister of Transport Anthony Loke on patrols on Kelana Jaya LRT and monorail.
He interviewed Anthony Loke on a BBK Network program together with Hoi Kah Mun. He interviewed Chow Kon Yeow under the same program.
He predicted voters to vote for the candidates of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) to stabilise the coalition government of PH and UMNO led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and through his observation on TikTok, he projected both the PH–Barisan Nasional (BN) in the federal government and the Perikatan Nasional (PN) in the federal opposition to be reelected to powers in three states the 2023 Malaysian state elections respectively that involved six states. His projection subsequently came true as PH–BN was reelected to powers in Selangor, Penang and Negeri Sembilan while PN was reelected to powers in Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah.
External links
References
1996 births
Living people
Malaysian stand-up comedians
Malaysian people of Chinese descent
Malaysian YouTubers
University of Malaya alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan%20Hameen | Hanan Hameen (born July 18, 1979) is an arts administrator, educator, and dancer from the United States. She is the founder and executive director of Artsucation Academy Network, and a co-founder of the Official Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven, the New Haven African Arts Alliance, and Premiere Dance Company at the Neighborhood Music School. She is also the artistic director of the BAM DanceAfrica Candle Bearers, founded by Chuck Davis.
She is a co-choreographer with the M'Bosse Dance Company in Kaolack, Senegal since 2020, and a cultural exchange program in Senegal.
Early life and education
Hameen was born in New York City, and grew up in an artistic household in the South Bronx. Her father is Jesse Hameen II, and her mother Iman Hameen was a school teacher, dancer and filmmaker. Hameen attended Science Skills Center High School in Brooklyn, where she was a student of Patricia Dye. While in high school Hameen performed with the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Dance Africa, which brought a dance company from Africa or the African Diaspora to Brooklyn each year to teach dance and culture.
From 2003 to 2005, Hameen attended the State University of New York Empire State College, receiving a Bachelor degree in Dance and Administration.
In 2009 to 2011, she attended Baruch College in New York City, and received a Masters of Educational Leadership.
From 2017 to 2022, Hameen attended Walden University and received a PhD in Education specialized in Educational Curriculum and Assessment. Her doctoral research focussed on culturally relevant instruction, STEAM fields education, and the motivation of gifted African-American youth.
Career
Hameen is a certified principal. She has worked with the New York Board of Education to develop a curriculum focussed on arts education for young people. She leads several dance companies that teach hip-hop, African dance, drumming, and culture in New Haven, New York, New England, and Senegal.
She founded the Artsucation Academy Network in 2012.
Hameen is a curriculum developer for the New Haven Neighborhood Music School since 2012. In 2012, she founded "Africa is Me!' a dance and drumming class at the Stetson Library in New Haven, Connecticut.
Hameen is a 2018 and 2023 Mandela Washington Reciprocal Exchange Alumni.
She is a member of the Dance Africa Elder's council, founded by Chuck Davis in 1977.
Personal life
In 2010, Hameen was diagnosed with Lupus. She wrote a book, Rebirth of a Dancer: Lupus Tried to Kill Me But Dancing Saved My Life, about her experiences with Lupus. She became a lupus support group facilitator, and works with the Lupus Foundation.
Awards
2018 - Arts Council of Greater New Haven 2018, Phenomenal Woman and Artist Commission
References
External links
Hanan Hameen - Senegal
Hanan Hameen her story
At The Moment with Hanan Hameen; an interview
Living people
African Americans in Connecticut
African-American female dancers
American female dancers
African-American choreographers
American |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasipha%20albicaudata | Pasipha albicaudata is a species of land planarian belonging to the subfamily Geoplaninae. It is found within Brazil.
Description
Pasipha albicaudata has an elongate body with parallel margins that can reach up to around 70 mm in length. The anterior tip is rounded while the posterior is pointed. The dorsum is a light brown-to-dark brown color, with a pale yellow stripe running down the middle and irregular, darker brown lateral stripes. Sometimes the median stripe is only visible on the posterior if the main dorsum is darker. The ventral side of the body is pale grey or pale yellow with dark margins. The forked and globose proximal portion of the prostatic vesicle and its lateral disposition separates it from other species of Pasipha.
Etymology
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin words albus and caudae, literally meaning "white tail". This is in reference to the pale yellow, almost whitish median stripe that is sometimes only visible at the posterior of the species' dorsum.
Distribution
P. albicaudata is known to be found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, having been found in the municipalities of Salvador do Sul and Portão.
References
Animals described in 2018
Geoplanidae
Invertebrates of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge%20Massar | Serge Alexandre Massar (born 11 February 1970) is a Belgian physicist. He studies quantum information theory, nonlinear optics, optical neural networks, and reservoir computing.
Early life and education
Serge Massar was born in Zambia in 1970. He obtained a degree in physics, then a PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He completed his post-doctoral research at Tel Aviv University from 1995 to 1997, and subsequently at Utrecht University from 1997 to 1998.
Career
In 1998, Massar returned to ULB as a Research Associate. Later, he became the Research Director in 2008.
In 2012, Massar integrated into the ULB faculty, holding the rank of "Professeur Ordinaire." His tenure as the Physics Department Director at ULB spanned 2014 to 2015.2004. Additionally, he has been at the head of the Laboratoire d’Information Quantique at ULB since 2004.
Recognition
Massar's recognition in the field includes awards such as the 2003 Alcatel-Bell Prize, the 2010 La Recherche Prize, and the best paper award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing in 2012.
He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium since 2021.
In 2023, he received the Gödel Prize for research on extension complexity.
References
Living people
1970 births
Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
Tel Aviv University alumni
Utrecht University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Wayne | Christina Wayne is an American network executive, television producer, and screenwriter. She is the managing director of MBC Studios, and has previously worked at AMC, Cineflix Studios, and Amazon Studios Throughout her career, Wayne has developed and produced various television series, including Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
Career
Wayne began her career as a working screenwriter in Hollywood. Under the mentorship of producer Robert Evans, she directed music videos and wrote the E! True Hollywood Story about actress Dominique Dunne. She also wrote and directed the 2001 film Tart for Lionsgate, set in an Upper East Side private school in Manhattan.
Wayne returned to New York City in 2005 and initially joined AMC as a consultant, later becoming an executive.
One of her early contributions at AMC was producing the miniseries Broken Trail, a western starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. The series drew 9.8 million viewers and won four Emmy awards in 2007, including Outstanding Miniseries.
At AMC, she also oversaw the development and production of various shows such as Mad Men (2007), Breaking Bad (2008), and Hell on Wheels (2011) where she worked with Endemol in the show's early developmental stages.
After her time at AMC, Wayne became the president of Cineflix Studios. One of her projects at Cineflix was Copper, a crime series set in 1860s New York.
Wayne served as the CEO of Assembly Entertainment from 2018 to 2022. She oversaw the development and production of television projects, including the pilot order from YouTube for It's a Man's World, a half-hour comedy addressing gender inequality in the gaming industry, written by Theresa Rebeck. Her other projects during this time included I'm Dying Up Here for Showtime, MDX, an international medical disaster thriller co-produced with Tony Krantz's Flame Ventures, and Mercury 13, an event series in collaboration with Jessica Chastain.
Wayne joined Amazon Studios in 2019 where she worked on LOL, a reboot of The Kids In The Hall, and Three Pines.
In 2023, Wayne was appointed managing director of MBC Studios, the production arm of the Middle East broadcaster MBC Group. She oversees productions in Saudi Arabia, including projects such as The Devil's Promise and Desert Warrior.
Credits
References
American television producers
Women television producers
Television executives
American women screenwriters
Television producers from New York City
American media executives
American women in television
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord%20%28play-by-mail%20game%29 | Warlord is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) wargame.
History and development
Warlord was a closed-ended play-by-mail (PBM) wargame of moderate complexity. It was published by KJC Games in the United Kingdom. It drew from another KJC game called Casus Belli.
Gameplay
In Warlord, 100 players competed in a post-apocalyptic setting following nuclear war and nuclear winter. Gameplay occurred on a planet called Dexet where "a few million people survived by taking refuge in huge underground bunkers". Each player leads a city on the planet's surface. Survivors populated each city, led by "power-hungry military dictators". Players were supplied at the start with a world map and a map of their starting location, 8 × 9 sectors in size. Cities were placed randomly on the game map at 6–12 sectors apart.
Players could make up to 15 orders per turn. Actions included movement and combat. Technology was basic at the outset and advances during the game. For combat, players had access to "infantry, tanks, aircraft, and ships". Nuclear weapons were possible later in gameplay. Diplomacy was part of gameplay, through an in-game messaging system or outside of the game. Players achieved victory by gaining control of 20% of cities.
Reception
The editors of GM Magazine reviewed the game in a 1990 issue, noting that it was "fast moving with plenty going on". They noted the importance of diplomacy and the simplicity of the game interface. They stated that it could be enjoyed by beginners and experienced gamers.
See also
List of play-by-mail games
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
Multiplayer games
Play-by-mail games
Science fantasy role-playing games
Science fiction games
Science fiction role-playing games
Strategy games
Tabletop games
Wargames
Wargames introduced in the 1980s
20th-century role-playing games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Weir | Emily Weir is an Australian actress best known for playing Mackenzie Booth on Seven Network's soap opera Home and Away since 2019.
Early life
Emily Weir was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland and attended Queensland University of Technology. She has one brother, Tom. She was a dancer for over 15 years and also took up piano and singing lessons, before deciding to pursue a career in acting.
Career
Weir's first acting role was in the stage production Tartuffe, playing Dorine, the maid. For this role, she went on to win both Best Emerging Artist and Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 Matilda Awards, which recognise achievement in the performing arts industry in Queensland.
In 2019, it was announced that Weir would be joining the cast of the Australian soap opera series Home and Away on the Seven Network, after landing the role of new character Mackenzie Booth. She made her debut on the show on 13 June 2019.
In May 2023, Weir was announced as a contestant for the twentieth season of Dancing with the Stars Australia. She was partnered with Lyu Masuda. On 23 July 2023, the season wrapped and Weir was announced as the runner-up, behind winner Phil Burton.
Personal life
Weir has previously spoken openly about her struggles with crippling anxiety which lead to an alcohol addiction. In 2020, she revealed that she had completely given up alcohol.
Filmography
References
External links
1990s births
Living people
Actresses from Brisbane
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian soap opera actresses
Australian television actresses
Queensland University of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMCAD | SEMCAD X Matterhorn is a computer-aided-design-based simulation platform marketed by Schmid and Partner Engineering AG in Zurich, Switzerland. SEMCAD is 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software used for numerical assessment of EM interference and compatibility (EMI/EMC), antenna design and optimization, 5G, wireless power transfer (WPT), dosimetry, optics, high-performance computing (HPC), and design of microwave and mm-wave waveguide devices. The software has also been used in research on magnetic resonance imaging safety, especially in the context of EM compatibility of implanted medical devices.
References
External links
Schmid & Partner Engineering AG website, SEMCAD X Matterhorn webpage
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H200 | H200 or H-200 may refer to:
Computing
Honeywell 200
Lenovo H200
Symphony Xplorer H200
Vans
Hyundai H200
Toyota HiAce (H200)
Toyota HiMedic (H200) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab%20method | In computer graphics, the slab method is an algorithm used to solve the ray-box intersection problem in case of an axis-aligned bounding box (AABB), i.e. to determine the intersection points between a ray and the box. Due to its efficient nature, that can allow for a branch-free implementation, it is widely used in computer graphics applications.
Algorithm
The idea behind the algorithm is to clip the ray with the planes containing the six faces of the box. Each pair of parallel planes defines a slab, and the volume contained in the box is the intersection of the three slabs. Therefore, the portion of ray within the box (if any, given that the ray effectively intersects the box) will be given by the intersection of the portions of ray within each of the three slabs.
A tridimensional AABB can be represented by two triples and denoting the low and high bounds of the box along each dimension. A point along a ray with origin and direction can be expressed in parametric form as
.
Assuming that all intersections exist, i.e. , solving for gives
and therefore the two intersections of the ray with the two planes orthogonal to the -th coordinate axis will be given by
The close and far extrema of the segment within the -th slab will be given by
and the intersection of all these segments is
Such resulting segment will be inside the box, and therefore an intersection exists, only if . The sign of determines if the intersection happens ahead or behind the origin of the ray, which might be interesting in applications such as ray casting, where only intersections in front of the camera are of interest. The two intersection points will therefore be given by
While the equations above are well defined for real-valued variables only if , i.e. if the ray is not parallel to any of the coordinate axes, the algorithm can be applied to an extended real number arithmetic (such as the one implemented by IEEE 754) to handle rays parallel to an axis, as long as the origin of the ray itself does not lie on one of the faces of the bounding box. In such arithmetic, the intersections with the planes parallel to the ray will be given by or , and the algorithm will still work as expected. If the origin lies on a face of the bounding box, then for some it will happen that , which is undefined (in IEEE 754 it is represented by NaN). However, implementations of the IEEE 754-2008 and functions will treat NaN as a missing value, and when comparing a well-defined value with a NaN they will always return the well-defined value, and they will therefore be able to handle even such corner case. An alternative approach to handle corner cases is to avoid divisions by zero altogether, which can be achieved by replacing the inverse of zero with a large arbitrary constant number.
References
Sources
External links
Computer graphics algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN8%20The%20Ocho | ESPN8 The Ocho is an annual special program block showcasing seldom-seen obscure sports that airs on the networks of ESPN Inc.
The Ocho consists of lesser-known, unconventional and humorous sports and other competitions with some athletic or physical skill component, including crossnet, quadball, trampoline dodgeball, air hockey, darts, disc golf, kabaddi, chess boxing, bed races, sport stacking, electrician games, dodge juggle, death diving, cherry pit spitting, stupid robot fighting, firefighter games, cow chip throwing, pizza dough throwing, frog jumping, cheese rolling, grocery bag competitions, extreme pogo, shuffleboard, breakdancing, roller derby, and more. It is traditionally aired in early August, the eighth month of the year. Much of the programming consists of previously recorded content and reruns previously aired on the ESPN networks, some as far back as the 1990s.
Origins
The concept of ESPN8 originated as a fictional television channel in the 2004 film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, in which it was a full-time channel showcasing obscure competitions (its name being a comic exaggeration, since at the time there were only four linear ESPN channels—ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS and ESPN Classic; the fifth, ESPNU, launched a year after the film). Its nickname "The Ocho" was a play on ESPN2's 1990s nickname "The Deuce."
Starting August 8, 2017, ESPN paid homage to its lampooned portrayal in Dodgeball by airing a day-long "ESPN8: The Ocho" marathon on its college sports channel ESPNU as a way to fill airtime on the channel during colleges' summer vacations when no sports are played. The 2017 airing was a success, prompting ESPN to repeat the block the next year, this time licensing the Dodgeball film from 20th Century Fox for inclusion in the block (ESPN's parent company would buy 20th Century Fox the next year); it made some other adjustments to the 2018 schedule, including heavier editing to shorten each sport's time slot, hoping to accommodate short attention spans.
Due to a lack of live sports programming during the COVID-19 pandemic, ESPN announced on March 22, 2020, that it would reprise the stunt earlier than scheduled on ESPN2. It did it on May 2, 2020, on ESPN, and then August 8, 2020, on ESPN2 as well as the Big Screen in Fortnite Party Royale. A collection of sports that were featured on ESPN8, as well as the ESPN8 broadcast on these said networks, were available on the ESPN app.
The program was held again on ESPN2 on August 3, 2023.
Impact
The tongue-in-cheek inclusion of such sports on ESPN's schedule has led to increased exposure opportunities for those sports, which have performed well for ESPN. ESPN added a cornhole tournament airing in July 2018 outside the block, which it noted outdrew the WNBA All-Star Game, regular season Major League Baseball games and the final stage of the Tour de France among the key demographic of men age 18 to 49. The inclusion of the Excel World Championships, an eSport that involves using spr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Digital%20Circus | The Amazing Digital Circus is an American-Australian computer-animated web series created by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions. The series premiered on the GLITCH YouTube channel on October 13, 2023. It received a positive reception, and became the most viewed video on their YouTube channel, amassing over 33 million views in two weeks.
Synopsis
After putting on a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a virtual circus world along with five other beings who were once human and becomes known as the jester Pomni. They are now subject to the whims of the circus's ringleader, Caine who is believed to be an AI, while also dealing with their own personal traumas.
Production
The Amazing Digital Circus first originated from one of three pitches presented to Glitch Productions by YouTube animator Gooseworx, who the company reached out to create a pilot. The show was funded by Screen Australia.
The show's original pitch proposed an animation style similar to computer games of the 1990s. Gooseworx has a background in 2D hand-drawn animation, and animators at Glitch Productions adapted her artwork into 3D. The general manager of Glitch Productions, Jasmine Yang, has stated there are no plans for the show to be put on streaming platforms besides YouTube. The series was inspired by I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with the aesthetic being inspired by I Spy.
Voice cast
Lizzie Freeman as Pomni, a jester and newcomer to the circus
Alex Rochon as Caine, the AI ringleader of the circus
Michael Kovach as Jax, a purple rabbit
Amanda Hufford as Ragatha, a rag doll
Marissa Lenti as Gangle, a human-like ribbon wearing a porcelain theater mask
Sean Chiplock as Kinger, a king chess piece
Ashley Nichols as Zooble, a mix-and-match toy in a vaguely humanoid form
Gooseworx as Bubble, Caine's AI assistant
Elsie Lovelock as the Gloink Queen, ruler of the pest-like Gloinks.
Episodes
Reception
The pilot for The Amazing Digital Circus became a viral video on YouTube, amassing over 33 million views in two weeks; the series hashtag on TikTok reached 925 million views in that same amount of time. The show garnered a dedicated internet fanbase due to its captivating concept and compelling narrative. The Amazing Digital Circus jokes were praised as "timed with frame-to-frame perfection", with a sense of humor that is "mature" but "not overly vulgar". The animation was also praised as "wonderful and expressive". The show has been compared to Popee the Performer for its setting and dark humor.
References
External links
Official website
2020s Australian animated television series
2023 web series debuts
American animated web series
Australian animated web series
Black comedy web series
Fiction about artificial intelligence
Fiction about virtual reality
Web series about technology
Works set in computers
Works set in circuses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veilid | Veilid is a peer-to-peer network and application framework released by the Cult of the Dead Cow on August 11, 2023, at DEF CON 31. Described by its authors as "like Tor, but for apps", it is written in Rust, and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and in-browser WASM. VeilidChat is a secure messaging application built on Veilid.
Veilid borrows from both the Tor anonymising router and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), to offer encrypted and anonymous peer-to-peer connection using a 256-bit public key as the only visible ID. Even details such as IP addresses are hidden.
References
External links
Official website
Cult of the Dead Cow
Free software programmed in Rust
Internet privacy software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transports%20en%20commun%20d%27Avignon | Orizo (formerly TCRA) is the public network transportation of Avignon (located in the south of France) and surroundings (Grand Avignon). This network is operated by the public company Tecelys.
The Orizo Network contains :
1 tramway line
2 BRT lines : Chron'hop
27 regular bus lines (9 main, 14 local and 4 intra-muros)
11 on-demand bus lines : AlloBus
32 school bus lines
A bicycle-sharing system : Vélopop'.
Tramway
The Orizo network owns one 10-stations tramway line. In the first year of his exploitation, the line transport 1.2 millions travellers.
T1 : Saint-Roch - Université des Métiers ↔ Saint-Chamand - Plaine des Sports
14 Alstom Citadis Compact trams are circulating currently on T1. They are white and contains (for each train) one of 14 local personalities. Mireille Mathieu was present to inaugurate a train bearing his name.
T2 : P+R Île Piot ↔ Saint-Lazare - Université Arendt
A second tramway line has been voted in 2018. In progress, it will contains 7 stations and a length of 3.2 km. The opening date is 2025.
BRT
The Orizo network own 2 BRT lines named « Chron'hop » with 56 stations for 25 km since 2019 :
C2 : Hôpital ↔ Buld'Air
C3 : Saint-Lazare ↔ Agroparc
C4 : Avignon Poste ↔ Agroparc (in progress)
C5 : Palais de Justice ↔ Villeneuve Cigalières (in progress)
Autobus
The Orizo network owns 72 bus lines (29 regular lines, 11 on-demand lines and 32 school lines) in the entire area of Grand Avignon.
All bus lines are in correspondence with the tramway line, 2 BRT lines "Chron'hop" and Vélopop' stations.
Bike sharing system
The Orizo network owns 29 stations and 300 bicycles for the bike-sharing system of Avignon Velopop'.
Stations are mainly located in Avignon, notably at the Agroparc Technopôle, the public hospital, in the city center and close to the tramway line.
Pricing
The Orizo network owns a unique pricing system in the entire network (excepted Velopop').
A simple ticket cost €1.40, a 24h ticket cost €3.50 (a 48h version is also available for €7) and the 10-travel ticket costs 10 €.
Correspondences are free (up to 1 hour) starting from the first validation of the ticket. The switching with other transport modes (Tram + Chron'hop + Bus) are possible.
All tickets are contactless and rechargeable, you can find tickets are automatic tickets dispenser (on the tram path and some stations in BRT paths), online (with the official site), and in some partner stores.
See also
Linked articles
Vélopop'
Grand Avignon
Avignon
External links
References
Public transport operators in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsocephaloidea | Ellipsocephaloidea is a superfamily of trilobites that lived during the Cambrian period. It was first described by Lin in 1990.
Taxonomy
According to the Fossilworks database, Ellipsocephaloidea belongs to the order Redlichiida and includes several families, such as Agraulidae, Bigotinidae, Ellipsocephalidae, Estaingiidae, Palaeolenidae, and Yunnanocephalidae, although it is now thought the superfamily is within the Ptychopariida
Agraulidae
Agraulidae is a family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are characterized by their large size and distinctive cephalic features.
Bigotinidae
Bigotinidae is another family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are known for their small size and elongated body shape.
Ellipsocephalidae
Ellipsocephalidae is a family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are characterized by their oval-shaped cephalon and distinctive thoracic segments.
Estaingiidae
Estaingiidae is a family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are known for their large size and distinctive pygidium.
Palaeolenidae
Palaeolenidae is a family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are characterized by their small size and distinctive cephalic features.
Yunnanocephalidae
Yunnanocephalidae is a family of trilobites within the superfamily Ellipsocephaloidea. Members of this family are known for their large size and distinctive thoracic segments.
Ecology
These trilobites were fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders.
References
Redlichiida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy%20Barr | Betsy Barr (born April 29, 1981) is a retired American soccer player who played for the San Jose CyberRays in the WUSA.
Soccer career
Barr attended University of Portland and played for their women's soccer team Portland Pilots,
Barr was a fifth round pick in the 2003 WUSA Draft for the San Jose CyberRays. Barr played for CyberRays for one season, after the collapse of the WUSA Barr continued her professional soccer career with the California Storm in the Women's Premier Soccer League.
Personal life
Betsy Barr is the daughter of Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Barr and her sister is Emmy Barr who also was a professional soccer player.
References
1981 births
Living people
Soccer players from Long Beach, California
American women's soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football midfielders
Portland Pilots women's soccer players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Patrick | Kimberly Erin Patrick (March 17, 1981) is an American soccer player who played for the San Jose CyberRays.
Career
While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Patrick played for the university's soccer team, during which time she won the NCAA national championships. Her success in college soccer lead her to be spotted by professional soccer teams in the Women's United Soccer Association. In 2003 Kim Patrick was signed by the San Jose CyberRays as developmental player.
Honours
NCAA national championships -1999
References
People from Walnut Creek, California
American women's soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football forwards
North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players
Tennessee Volunteers women's soccer players
1981 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Barnes | Katie Barnes (born August 29, 1980 in Mason, Ohio) is a retired American soccer player who played for the San Jose CyberRays.
Early life and education
Barnes was born in Mason, Ohio on August 29, 1980 and attended Mason High School, graduating in 1998. In 2002, Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies from West Virginia University.
Career
Athletics
While studying at West Virginia University from 1998-2001, Barnes played for the university's women's soccer team, starting in every game during her tenure.
In 2000, the team played in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament for the first time. At the end of the season, Barnes beat records for goals scored (17), assists (9), and total points (43). Her senior year, Barnes received various accolades, including being selected for the First Team All-Big East Conference, NSCAA/adidas Mid-Atlantic Region first team, and Soccer Buzz First Team Mid-Atlantic Region member. She received All-American honors from NSCAA/adidas and National Strength and Conditioning, and was also honored with the Fred Schaus Captain's Award for demonstrating her pivotal role on the team both on and off the field. Upon graduation in 2002, she held or shared 17 university records.
Barnes was also a member of the United States women's national under-21 soccer team, where she helped win three Nordic Cups.
In 2002, Barnes was selected in the second round of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) draft to play for the Carolina Courage. That year, the Courage won the 2002 WUSA Founders Cup. The following year, Barnes transferred to play for the San Jose CyberRays, and was nominated to play in the WUSA All-Star Game. WUSA folded after the 2003 season.
Barnes also played in the United Soccer League for the Cincinnati Ladyhawks.
Coaching
In 2004, Barnes joined the University of Alabama as an assistant coach, a position she held four seasons.
Law enforcement
After coaching at the University of Alabama, Barnes moved back to Mason, Ohio to begin a career in law enforcement, starting with a position as a corrections officer. As of 2012, she was a deputy sheriff with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. In 2016, she received a potentially fatal gunshot wound, though she survived the attack.
Honors
In 2012, Barnes was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame.
References
1980 births
Living people
People from Mason, Ohio
American women's soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football midfielders
West Virginia Mountaineers women's soccer players
Carolina Courage players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Bell | Christina Bell (born July 2, 1975, in Santa Rosa, California) is a retired American soccer player who played for the San Jose CyberRays.
Early life and education
Bell was born in Santa Rosa, California on July 2, 1975. She attended Montgomery High School, where she played both basketball and soccer and graduated in 1993. Following graduation, she attended Sonoma State University, then transferred to Fresno State University, graduating in 1998.
Career
Bell started her university career at Sonoma State University, where she played from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, she transferred to Fresno State University, where she played for the university's women's soccer team for two seasons. In her second year at the university, she received the Western Athletic Conference's Stan Bates Award, which is presented annually to the most outstanding scholar-athlete who excels in both athletic and academic achievements. She was named the team's Most Valuable Player for both season. The university retired her number in 2001, the university's first woman soccer player to have received the honor.
After graduating in 1998, Bell played for the Women's Dutch Premier League, the only person on the team from the United States.
In 2000, Bell made her professional debut in the Women's United Soccer Association, having been drafted in the thirteenth round to the San Jose CyberRays.
Beginning in 2003, Bell was the assistant coach at San Jose State University.
References
1975 births
Living people
American women's soccer players
California State University, Fresno alumni
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football forwards
Women's United Soccer Association players
Sonoma State University alumni
Fresno State Bulldogs women's soccer players
San Jose State Spartans athletes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Latham | Donald Latham served as the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control under President Ronald Reagan. He later became a vice-president at Computer Sciences Corporation.
References
United States Assistant Secretaries of Defense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20Greathouse | Dawn Siergiej (, born February 10, 1979, in Rochester, New York) is a retired American soccer player who played for the Washington Freedom and San Jose CyberRays.
Early life and education
Siergiej was born in Rochester, New York on February 10, 1979, but grew up in Texas. She attended Allen High School and Baylor University. In 2001, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in health fitness.
Career
Athletics
While in high school, Siergiej trained with the United States women's national under-17 soccer team.
While studying at Baylor University, Siergiej played for the university's soccer team. In 1998, the team won the school's first Big 12 Conference championship and trained with the United States women's national under-20 soccer team. During her tenure, she was named Soccer Buzz National Defensive Player of the Year, an All-American player, and held university records for "every goalkeeper statistic".
Siergiej made her professional debut in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) after being drafted in the second round to play for the Washington Freedom, where she remained for two years. In 2002, she transferred to the San Jose CyberRays. WUSA folded the following year.
While playing in the WUSA, she was also a back-up goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team.
Coaching
In 2003, began her career as an assistant soccer coach at the University of Notre Dame, where she remained in 2023. In that time, the team had participated in 16 championships, including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles in 2004 and 2010.
Honors
In 2011, Siergiej was named in the Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame.
Personal life
In May 2014, Siergiej married Nick Siergiej, Notre Dame's hockey team's coordinator of operations. As of 2021, they lived in South Bend, Indiana.
References
Living people
1979 births
Sportspeople from Rochester, New York
American women's soccer players
Women's United Soccer Association players
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football goalkeepers
Baylor Bears women's soccer players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronics%20Computers | Micronics Computers, Inc. was an American computer company active from 1986 to 1998 that manufactured complete systems, motherboards, and peripherals. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Micronics was one of the largest domestic motherboard manufacturers in the United States in the 1990s. After acquiring Orchid Technology in 1994, the company entered the market for multimedia products, such as graphics adapters and sound cards. In 1998, Micronics was acquired by Diamond Multimedia.
History
Foundation and growth (1986–1992)
Micronics Computers was founded by Frank Lin, Dean Chang, Harvey Wong, and Minsiu Huang, four Taiwan-American electronics engineers and businessmen in Mountain View, California, in November 1986. Lin and Chang were the company's principal founders, the company originally based out of Lin's home garage in San Francisco. The two set out to found Micronics as an OEM vendor of IBM PC compatible motherboards for systems integrators to buy in bulk. While devoting their free time to developing Micronics as a side venture, Lin worked at TeleVideo in San Jose, while Chang worked at Silicon Compilers, another Silicon Valley hardware company. After Lin's neighbors complained of electromagnetic interference affecting the reception of their television sets, he and Chang contacted Wong and Huang, and the four pooled together $150,000 to formally incorporate Micronics in Mountain View. The company's first headquarters were a 400-square-foot office in the city. Their first products were motherboards based on Intel's 80286 and i386 processors. Micronics' i386-based motherboard in particular was closely based on that of Compaq's Deskpro 386 system. According to PC Week, it was the least-expensive i386 motherboard on the market at the time; they rated it a good value in terms of performance and expandability.
Through their work contacts and after advertising in newspaper classifieds, Micronics was able to find customers for their motherboards, and in early 1987, the company received a $250,000 from several private investors based in the United States and Taiwan. The company sold $4 million worth of motherboards within nine months of their founding, netting $170,000 in profit. In 1989, the company released their first motherboard based on the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, which was devised by the so-called "Gang of Nine" consortium (led by Compaq) as an open-standard competitor to IBM's Micro Channel. In 1990, Micronics announced their first i486-based motherboards and received an additional $5 million in capital investments from companies in the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Micronics by early 1991 had moved to a larger office in Fremont, California, where they employed 215 people. The company projected revenues of nearly $100 million for 1991. In January 1991, the company announced their first family of X terminals at the UniForum show in Dallas, Texas. Called the 3X and 4X, Micronics' terminals respectively fea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamo | Takamo is a open-ended, computer moderated, space-based play-by-email (PBeM) game. Advent Games launched it as a play-by-mail game in 1982 with a subsequent game, Takamo II, in 1990. Takamo saw a break in play in 1996–1997, after which it restarted as a PBEM game in 1998. By 2001, Aleator Games was publishing the game for play online. The game remains available for play online for free as of .
Takamo is a game of space exploration and combat. Players choose from various character types which are further customizable by biology, feeding method, environment, and government type. Gameplay occurs in one of multiple playable galaxies which are massive in size. Players can make ten actions per turn with the option to purchase more. Play at the start focuses on "survival and expansion" with combat as a game element. The game received mixed but generally positive reviews in various gaming magazines from the 1980s to the 2010s.
History and development
Takamo is a space-based, closed-ended, science fiction play-by-email game of medium complexity. Randy Rinnour designed the game. It was initially published by Advent Games in 1982 as a play-by-mail game. According to the publisher, the name came from "TAI (Universe) and KHA'MO (ebb and flow)".
The first playtest occurred in a single sector with less than 15 players, with the second in a full universe. In 1986, there were four playable galaxies, which serviced different player turn frequency times (unlimited or one, two, or four weeks). There was a break in service in 1996–1997. In 1998, it restarted as a play by email game (PBEM). By 2001, Aleator Games was the publisher and the game was player online. In 2023, Kgruppe is the game publisher.
In 1990, Advent Games launched Takamo II, a closed-ended version of Takamo with 25 players in a smaller universe.
Gameplay
Takamo is a game of space exploration and combat. Players choose character types which included "Agricultural Corp., Cybernetic Race, Independent Civilization Builder, Mining Corp., Nomad, Pirate, Smuggler, and Trade Corp", which are further customizable by biology, feeding method, environment, and government type.
Galaxies are massive in size. Each comprises 17,576 sectors in a 3D map. Players can make ten actions per turn with the option to purchase more. Thirty actions per turn was the maximum in 1986. By 2001 this had increased to forty.
At game start, players focus on "survival and expansion". Combat is an element of gameplay with success depending primarily on the size of the force and its technology level.
As of 2023, the game is playable online through a web interface for free. Its five galaxies comprise "thousands of player-run empires per galaxy and tens of thousands of computer operated worlds".
Reception
Bob McLain reviewed the game in a 1984 issue of Gaming Universal. He recommended the game, stating that it was "a fine brew of all the best features evinced by other PBM space simulations". Mike Scheid review the game in a 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20L.%20Markov | Igor Leonidovich Markov (Ukrainian: Ігор Леонідович Марков; born in 1973 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is an American professor, computer scientist and engineer. Markov is known for mathematical and algorithmic results in quantum computation, work on limits of computation, research on algorithms for optimizing integrated circuits and on electronic design automation, as well as artificial intelligence. Additionally, Markov is a California non-profit executive responsible for aid to Ukraine worth tens of millions dollars.
Igor L. Markov has no known relation to the mathematician Andrey Markov.
Career
Markov obtained an M.A. degree in mathematics and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2001.
From the early 2000s through 2018 he was a professor at University of Michigan, where he supervised doctoral dissertations and degrees of 12 students in Electrical engineering and Computer science.
In 2013-2014 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University.
Markov worked at Google on Search and Information Retrieval,
and at Meta on Machine Learning platforms.
Markov is a member of the Board of Directors of Nova Ukraine, a California 501(c)(3) charity organization that provides humanitarian aid in Ukraine. At Nova Ukraine, Markov leads government and media relations, curated publicity efforts, established and curated large medical and evacuation projects, and contributed to fundraising.
Awards and distinctions
ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation honored Markov with an Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2004.
Markov was the 2009 recipient of IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award "for outstanding contributions to algorithms, methodologies and software for the physical design of integrated circuits."
Markov became ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011. In 2013 he was named an IEEE fellow "for contributions to optimization methods in electronic design automation".
Award-winning publications
Markov's peer-reviewed scholarly work was recognized with five best-paper awards, including four at major conferences and a journal in the field of electronic design automation, and one in theoretical computer science:
The 2003 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award, shared with Vivek Shende and John P. Hayes for work on reversible logic circuits.
The 2004 best-paper award at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference, shared with Smita Krishnaswamy, George F. Viamontes, and John P. Hayes for work on circuit reliability evaluation with probabilistic transfer matrices. Full journal version of this work was published four years later.
The 2008 best-paper award at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), shared with Stephen Plaza and Valeria Bertacco, for work on physical synthesis.
The 2010 best-paper award at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) for work on circuit placement. The full journal version of this w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC%20Berkeley%20College%20of%20Computing%2C%20Data%20Science%2C%20and%20Society | The College of Computing, Data Science, and Society is the newest of the 15 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and has three academic majors: Computer Science, Data Science, and Statistics. The college was established in 2023. The 2023–24 academic year will be the first academic year for the college.
References
Science and technology in California
University of California, Berkeley |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR/32 | The NCR/32 VLSI Processor family was a 32-bit microprocessor architecture and chipset developed by NCR Corporation in the early 1980s. Generally used in minicomputer systems, it was noteworthy for being externally microprogrammable.
History
NCR announced the release of its NCR/32 architecture, comprising an initial four-chip set, in the third quarter of 1982. The Central Processor Chip included an external microcode bus that let a designer create custom instructions for specific applications.
This feature was used to develop microcode that allowed the NCR/32 to emulate NCR's earlier mainframe computers, or an IBM System/370.
The design also enabled high-level languages, such as Prolog and polyFORTH, to be executed directly from custom instructions in the external microcontrol store.
Both the NCR/32 processor and some products that used it have been called reduced instruction set computer (RISC) systems, although the description has been debated. The NCR/32 has also been described as a bit-slice architecture.
NCR used the processor architecture in certain models of their own computer systems, communications peripherals, and at least one board-level product.
Some of the designers of the NCR/32 left NCR for a new company, Celerity Computing, which used the NCR/32 in its own minicomputer designs, running a version of the University of California at Berkeley's Unix Release 4.2.
Chipset
The chipset for the NCR/32 family includes the following devices:
NCR/32-000 Central Processor Chip (CPC)
NCR/32-010 Address Translation Chip (ATC)
NCR/32-020 Extended Arithmetic Chip (EAC)
NCR/32-500 System Interface Controller (SIC)
NCR/32-580 System Interface Transmitter (SIT)
NCR/32-590 System Interface Receiver (SIR)
Features
The NCR/32-000 CPC was the cornerstone of the architecture; all of the other devices were optional. The CPC consists of 40,000 transistors, and was originally fabricated in a 3 micron NMOS process. The device supports two levels of microcode: vertical microcode, stored in an external 128K-byte Instruction Storage Unit (ISU), and horizontal microcode, stored in an internal Read-only memory (ROM) encoding 179 operations in a set of 95-bit wide words. The CPC accesses the ISU over a 16-bit wide Instruction Storage Unit Bus (ISUBUS), feeding a 3-stage microinstruction pipeline. Internally, the CPC has a 32-bit wide Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), and 16 32-bit general purpose registers. The processor can address up to 4 GB of direct virtual memory, and 16 MB of direct real memory over a 32-bit wide Processor Memory Bus (PMBUS). The base clock frequency of the CPC is 13.3 MHz. With its two-phase, non-overlapping clock, each machine cycle takes two "ticks", yielding a cycle time of 150 nanoseconds (nS). 90% of the CPC's microinstructions complete in a single cycle.
A revised version of the CPC was released later, with device geometry reduced from 3 to 2 microns Cycle time on higher-performance NCR 10000 systems was down to 110 nS.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Maslov | Dmitri Maslov is a Canadian-American computer scientist known for his work on quantum circuit synthesis and optimization, quantum advantage, and benchmarking quantum computers. Currently, he is the Chief Software Architect at IBM Quantum. Maslov was formerly a program director for Quantum Information Science at the National Science Foundation. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2021 "for contributions to quantum circuit synthesis and optimization, and compiling for quantum computers."
Career
Maslov obtained Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from University of New Brunswick in 2003. From 2008 to 2018, he was a Program Director with the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation. In 2015-2016 he was a visiting fellow at Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science. Since 2019, he has been the Chief Software Architect at the IBM’s Quantum Computing Branch, IBM Quantum.
Technical Contributions
Quantum computing
Maslov's contributions to quantum computing include
A simple and efficient algorithm for reversible logic synthesis, known as the MMD algorithm
Depth optimal quantum circuit synthesis method for commonly used quantum logical operations
Optimal synthesis of Z-angle rotations over Clifford+T gate library
Optimization of multiple control Toffoli-gate implementation using relative-phase Toffoli gates
References
External links
Living people
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Canadian emigrants to the United States
American people of Russian descent
21st-century American scientists
American inventors
Electronic design automation people
United States National Science Foundation officials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Bradshaigh | Dorothy Bradshaigh (baptised 1705, d. 1785), British letter writer and cookery book compiler. After her marriage she lived at Haigh Hall near Wigan. Her letters and suggestions to Samuel Richardson influenced his novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
Life
Bradshaigh was baptised on 21 March 1705 at Rufford, Lancashire. She was born with the last name of Bellingham - her parents were Elizabeth, (born Spencer) and some-time lawyer William Bellingham. She and her sister Elizabeth were her father's co-heirs and they shared their childhood home with Elizabeth Hesketh who was their mother's daughter from her first marriage. Her father's family home had been Levens Hall in Westmoreland until this was sold in 1688 as a result of the over spending by her paternal uncle, Alan. Her father's finances were transformed when he married her mother.
She contacted Samuel Richardson anonymously when his novel Clarissa was part published in 1748. Her initial two letters requested a happy ending for the serialised work and Samuel replied to her by placing an advert in the Whitehall Evening Post. She used a nom de plume of Belfour as she sent him many more letters. She did not reveal that she was his correspondent until February 1750 and she met him in the following month.
She and Samuel Richardson exchanged more letters and he shared drafts of his next novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, with her. She would make comments in the margins of his drafts and he would then make amendments. Richardson wrote that his book was "owing to you … more than to any one Person besides". Richardson valued her opinions and he planned to reissue his earlier novels Pamela and Clarissa based on her comments. Dorothy and her sister identified her with the character of Charlotte in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Edward Haytley painted a portrait of her and her husband which includes Haigh Hall in the background. Richardson requested a copy of the painting for himself, in exchange for a copy of a painting of him. In Hayter's painting she holds a book and her husband has a telescope to show their interests.
Private life
She married Sir Roger Bradshaigh, Baronet and they had no children.
Death and legacy
Her husband died in 1770 and she died in 1785 at Haigh Hall. She created a cookery book which is extant.
In 1804 a "fictitous" portrait of her was engraved and published. This is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
References
External links
Bradshaigh's cookbook
1705 births
1785 deaths
People from Wigan
Reporters and correspondents
Food writers
British writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Act%2C%202023 | The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (also known as DPDP Act or DPDPA-2023) is an act of the Parliament of India to provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This is the first Act of the Parliament of India where "she/her" pronouns were used unlike the usual "he/him" pronouns.
Timeline
On 18 November 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 for public consultation.
On 5 July 2023, the cabinet has approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 which is the revised version of the bill which was put up for public consulation earlier.
On 3 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.
On 7 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was passed by Lok Sabha.
On 9 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced and passed by Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.
On 11 August 2023, the President of India has given assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 which now makes it the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Background
On August 24, 2017, the Supreme Court of India gave the Right to Privacy verdict. In the case of Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors., the Supreme court held that the Right to Privacy is a fundamental right protected under Article 21 and Part III of the Indian Constitution.
After the verdict the Government of India has set up a data protection framework which started taking steps towards the creation of the data protection legislation after the Supreme Court of India's privacy verdict.
On 22 December 2018, the constitution of committee of experts to delibrate on a data protection framework for India takes place by the chaimanship of Justice B.N. Srikrishna.
After the Government of India has constiuted an expert committee under, the committee has seeked public consulation on various white papers on data protection framework for India.
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 draft was released.
The committee of experts under chairmanship of Justice B.N. Srikrishna has released their Data Protection Committee report.
On 14 August 2018, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has seeked feedback on the Draft Personal Data Protection Bill.
On 4 December 2019, after further deliberations the Bill was approved by the cabinet ministry of India.
On 11 December 2019, the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was tabled in Lok Sabha.
On 11 December 2019, the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
On 16 December 2021, the standing committee h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5ire | 5ire is a Dubai-based Indian blockchain technology ecosystem firm, founded in 2021. The firm became India's 105th Unicorn with a valuation of $1.5 billion, In 2022.
Partnerships
In 2022, Abu Dhabi University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 5ire to collaborate on blockchain education, research, and entrepreneurship.
Goa Police collaborated with 5ire to digitize its operations and utilization of paperless document and evidence storage system, by using blockchain infrastructure. By this collaboration, Goa Police would become the first police state in India to completely abandon paper.
In 2023, NITI Aayog announced a partnership with 5ire to launch ATL Blockchain Module, a mentorship and career exploration platform. The project operates under the aegis of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), which has Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in more than 10,000 schools in India.
Awards and honors
In 2022, 5ire received the Best Tech Start-up of the Year award in the Blockchain domain, by Entrepreneur Awards. 5ire won the Best Blockchain Start-up of the Year Award at The Future Innovation Summit 2022.
References
External links
5ire
Blockchains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigo%20Sports | Tigo Sports is a Latin American pay television network operated by the telecommunications company Tigo, dedicated exclusively to sports. The brand was launched in February 2014 by Tigo Paraguay, and was later be extanded to other Latin American countries.
History
Paraguay
The channel was launched on February 1, 2014, with the broadcast of Paraguayan football, basketball and rugby matches, which were broadcast exclusively by Unicanal and by the Tigo Star Paraguay events channel.
On April 30, 2015, Tigo Sports used the black ribbon in mourning, due to the death of sports journalist Gustavo Köhn, who died at the Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil, due to colon cancer that he suffered in the last years.
In February 2016, the Tigo Sports channels began to broadcast all their programming in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
On June 6, 2018, representatives of Tigo Star Paraguay announced the launch of Tigo Sports+, a parallel backup signal for the main channel.
On February 1, 2019, it was revealed that Tigo Sports acquired the rights to the 2019 Copa Sudamericana. And on June 14, 2020, it was revealed they acquired the rights to the Spanish La Liga for the 2019/2020 season, up to 5 exclusive matches on the Tigo Sports and Tigo Sports + signal.
In mid-2022 Tigo Sports 3 was released.
The 3 channels broadcast Paraguayan football matches on Saturdays and Mondays, volleyball on Wednesdays, basketball on Thursdays, and futsal on Fridays.
Bolivia
Tigo Sports began its broadcasts in Bolivia on November 27, 2014, with the La Paz derby that was played at the Hernando Siles Stadium, between The Strongest and Bolívar, which was the event chosen for the launch of the first Bolivian channel specialized in sports. Minutes before the start of the match, company executives officially announced the beginning of the programming of Tigo Sports, a channel that broadcasts its signal through the cable operator Tigo Star, visible on channel 800 of the standard channel, 900 in HD and on 8 in satellite service.
Guatemala
In April 2017, after the closure of channel 33 of Tigo Star Guatemala, Tigo Sports began its broadcasts in that country with the purchase of the transmission rights of the Guatemalan National Football League.
In January 2020, Tigo Sports acquired the broadcast rights to Club Comunicaciones matches, however the matches continued on over-the-air television because the team belongs to the Albavisión company that broadcasts its games on over-the-air channels, turning the team into the first team to be broadcast on both over-the-air and cable television.
See also
ESPN (Latin America)
Fox Sports (Latin American)
GolTV (Latin America)
References
Sports television networks
Television stations in Costa Rica
Television stations in Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa%20Lang | Alyssa Lang is an American sports reporter and anchor. Lang is a college football sideline reporter for the SEC Network, where she has hosted the programs SEC Now and Thinking Out Loud. She has co-hosted her own program, Out of Pocket, starting in 2020, and she was joined on the program by Takeo Spikes in 2023. She previously worked for the Columbia, South Carolina radio station WLTX and later for First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida.
Career
Lang graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2015. While in university, she joined the radio station WLTX in Columbia as an intern in 2013. She also worked for SPEEDTV and GamecockCentral.com around this time. She had been working as a weekend sports anchor before she left the station in 2016 to join First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida.
After two years at First Coast News, Lang joined the SEC Network in 2018 as a studio show anchor and host, where she has hosted the SEC Network programs Thinking Out Loud and SEC Now. In 2020, she was announced to be co-hosting ESPN Radio's Primetime show on Sunday afternoons with co-host Field Yates, and she was given her own show, Out of Pocket with Alyssa Lang, on the SEC Network. The State of Columbia in 2021 called her "one of the faces of the SEC Network" and praised her for being "cognizant of the place she holds as part of ESPN's star-studded college football lineup" while "[maintaining] the realness and effervescent personality those in Columbia recall so clearly." In 2023, football analyst Takeo Spikes was announced to be joining Lang on Out of Pocket as a co-host.
Lang has also worked for WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2022, she was announced to be guest host of The Paul Finebaum Show (which would make her the first woman to guest host the show) after she hosted a radio version of the show earlier that year.
Personal life
Lang is a native of Huntersville, North Carolina. When she was young, she spent weekends in the fall traveling from her home in Charlotte to football games at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, where her parents are alumni. In high school, Lang's public speaking teacher told her parents during a parent-teacher conference that she could have success in broadcasting because of her skill in speaking in front of her classmates.
Lang's fiancé is football analyst Trevor Sikkema. After a 2022 game, Lang asked Mississippi State University coach Mike Leach for advice for her upcoming wedding, and Leach in response recommended that she take the opportunity after the football season to "elope".
References
External links
Alyssa Lang's bio at ESPN
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
University of South Carolina alumni
American sports journalists
Women sports journalists
American women television journalists
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20Zee%20Caf%C3%A9 | This a list of programmes broadcast by Zee Café in India.
Current programming
Anime
Marvel Anime Blade
Marvel Anime Iron Man
Marvel Anime Wolverine
Valkyria Chronicles
Drama
Breaking Bad
A Million Little Things
Breaking Bad
Charmed
City on a Hill
Dexter
Dynasty
Evil
Fantasy Island
FBI
The Good Fight
Grey's Anatomy
L.A.'s Finest
Magnum P.I.
McMafia
Nancy Drew
Our Girl
Riverdale
SEAL Team
Reality
American Idol
Love Island UK
MasterChef Australia
The Drew Barrymore Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
World of Dance
Science fiction
BattleBots
Star Trek: Discovery
The 100
Sitcom
Community
Our Cartoon President
The Unicorn
Sports
The Titan Games
Superheroes
Supergirl
Former programming
Comedy-Drama
A Very English Scandal
The Carrie Diaries
The Catch
Hart of Dixie
Make It or Break It
The Mind of the Married Man
The Mysteries of Laura
No Tomorrow
Pushing Daisies
Red Band Society
Togetherness
Ugly Betty
Weeds
Drama
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agent X
American Crime
Army Wives
The Arrangement
The Assets
The Astronaut Wives Club
Believe
Beyond
Body of Proof
Born to Kill
Broken
Central Park West
Cloak & Dagger
Code Black
The Collection
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
Criminal Minds: Beyond Boundaries
Doctor Foster
ER
Eye Candy
Famous in Love
The First
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
The Following
The Fosters
From Darkness
The Fugitive
Gilmore Girls
The Good Wife
Gossip Girl
Gotham
Guerrilla
Haven
Hostages
House of Cards
Huge
Inhumans
In the Dark
The Kettering Incident
Kung Fu
La Femme Nikita
Les Misérables
Lethal Weapon
Lost
The Loudest Voice
Maigret
The Mentalist
Mistresses
MotherFatherSon
Murder in the First
New Blood
The Night Manager
No Ordinary Family
The Originals
The O.C.
Oz
Paula
Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Perception
Press
Pretty Little Liars
Raising the Bar
Recovery Road
Reign
Renegade
Resurrection
Rizzoli & Isles
Rookie Blue
Runaways
Rush Hour
Scandal
Secrets and Lies
The Shannara Chronicles
She Spies
The Sinner
Six Feet Under
The Son
The Sopranos
The Split
SS-GB
Still Star-Crossed
Switched at Birth
Taboo
Terminator: TSCC
Thirteen
Time After Time
Top of the Lake
Training Day
The Twilight Zone
Twisted
Unforgotten
Valor
The Vampire Diaries
War and Peace
The West Wing
Wisdom of the Crowd
Wolf Hall
The Young Pope
Reality/other
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Got Talent (moved to Colors Infinity)
Chef Vs Fridge
Candid Camera
Celebrity Family Feud
Celebrity Name Game
The Chefs' Line
The Cut
The David Letterman Show
Drop the Mic
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Fameless
Family Food Fight
The Gong Show
Got to Dance
Just for Laughs: Gags
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Live at the Apollo
Oliver's Twist
Splatalot!
Survivor: China
Top 20 Funniest
The Toy Box
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Wheel of Fortune UK
The X Factor
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Science fiction
The 100
11.22.63
Class
Colony (shared with Star World)
Counterpart
Journeyman
The Whispers
Sitcoms
9JKL
18 to Life
Aliens in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV1%20%28Bulgaria%29 | TV1 is a Bulgarian television channel and production company headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was founded in 2008 by Rumen Kovachev, replacing his previous channel, Estate TV. Its programming features newscasts, business news, political commentary, art and culture coverage, and variety shows.
History
TV1 was founded by Rumen Kovachev in 1998 as a production company. It had the first private portable production unit in Bulgaria. Beyond producing TV1's original programming, the company has worked on television shows, sportscasts, and live events for others in Bulgaria and abroad. Some of its production work includes Bulgarian versions of various reality competition formats like Got Talent, The Voice, The Farm, and MasterChef, sportscasts of various national and international sports events, and musical concerts.
In 2005, Rumen Kovachev founded the Estate TV, a television channel focused on real estate and tourism. In 2008, Kovachev replaced Estate TV with the newly created TV1 channel, moving to producing and airing original programming focused on current affairs, political discussions, and newscasts. In 2017, the company moved to a newly constructed headquarters building, allowing for expanded production of original programming.
Following the controversial purchase of one of Bulgaria's two major private broadcast channels Nova by Georgi and Kiril Domuschiev in 2019, multiple journalists left under duress. In the months after the purchase, many of these journalists moved to TV1, creating and working on political news and commentary shows for the channel, most notably The Questions and The Alternative.
Following the death of the journalist Milen Tsvetkov in 2020, then host of The Alternative and a member of the journalistic team at The Questions, the street of the channel's headquarters was renamed after him.
The channel expanded into talk shows with the start of The Bobi Vaklinov Show in May of 2020 and On the Wall later that same year.
In 2021, TV1 entered into a strategic partnership with Bulsatcom, Bulgaria's largest satellite television operator, which included both offering the channel to the their clients as well as the rights to resell ad space.
In 2023, the channel faced financial struggles after their renewed deal with Bulsatcom significantly lowered the operator's ad purchases for reselling, leading to a pause in production of its investigative journalism program The Questions. Bulsatcom denied responsibility for the show suspending production and clarified that they had not ended their contract with TV1.
Programming
Current
The Democracy (Демокрацията)
The Day with Veselin Dremdzhiev (Денят с Веселин Дремджиев)
The Comment (Коментарът)
The Bobi Vaklinov Show (Шоуто на Боби Ваклинов)
The Brands of Bulgaria (Брандовете на България)
The Energy (Енергията)
En Face (Анфас)
The Young on TV1 (Младите по TВ1)
Gallery (Галерия)
The Path (Пътят)
Sport on TV1 (Спорт по ТВ1)
Past
The Questions (Въпросите)
On the Wall ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%20Kanda | Nikita Kanda (born 29 July 1995) is a radio presenter and broadcaster. After joining the BBC Asian Network in 2021, she became the presenter of the Asian Network Breakfast in July 2022. In 2023, she competed in the twenty-first series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Life and career
Nikita Kanda was born on 29 July 1995 in Birmingham, West Midlands. She is of Indian descent. She studied film and screen media at university, and after graduating, worked on Zee TV and presented the drivetime show on Asian Star 101.6FM. She took part in West End theatre productions including The Wiz, Bugsy Malone, Annie and Pocahontas. Kanda also appeared as one of the thirty women on the final series of the ITV dating show Take Me Out in 2019.
In March 2021, Kanda joined the BBC Asian Network, serving primarily as a regular relief presenter and hosted on Saturday afternoons. In July 2022, she began temporarily presenting the Asian Network Breakfast Show, and was subsequently appointed as the permanent host in January 2023. For her work on the station, she was nominated for Presenter of the Year at the Asian Media Awards. Kanda is also a frequent reporter on The One Show, and has fronted a range of topics including the rise of cashless businesses and government support for female sport.
In August 2023, it was announced that Kanda would be a contestant on the twenty-first series of Strictly Come Dancing. Kanda described her participation as a "dream come true" and said she was "still pinching [herself]", adding that she "[didn't] think it [would] properly sink in until [she stepped] onto the dancefloor". She was the second celebrity to be eliminated.
References
External links
Asian Network Breakfast (BBC Asian Network)
Asian Network Certified (BBC Asian Network)
1995 births
Mass media people from Birmingham, West Midlands
BBC Asian Network presenters
English radio personalities
English people of Indian descent
British women radio presenters
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach%20and%20attack%20simulation | Breach and attack simulation (BAS) refers to technologies that allow organizations to test their security defenses against simulated cyberattacks. BAS solutions provide automated assessments that help identify weaknesses or gaps in an organization's security posture.
Description
BAS tools work by executing simulated attacks against an organization's IT infrastructure and assets. These simulated attacks are designed to mimic real-world threats and techniques used by cybercriminals. The simulations test the organization's ability to detect, analyze, and respond to attacks. After running the simulations, BAS platforms generate reports that highlight areas where security controls failed to stop the simulated attacks.
Organizations use BAS to validate whether security controls are working as intended. Frequent BAS testing helps benchmark security posture over time and ensure proper incident response processes are in place.BAS testing complements other security assessments like penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. It focuses more on validating security controls versus just finding flaws. The automated nature of BAS allows wider and more regular testing than manual red team exercises. BAS is often part of a continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) program.
Features
Key features of BAS technologies include:
Automated testing: simulations can be scheduled to run repeatedly without manual oversight.
Threat modeling: simulations are designed based on real adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures.
Attack surface coverage: can test internal and external-facing assets.
Security control validation: integrates with other security tools to test efficacy.
Reporting: identifies vulnerabilities and prioritizes remediation efforts.
Use cases
Major breach attack simulation use cases include:
Validating security controls
Frequent BAS testing helps ensure security controls like firewalls and endpoint detection stay properly configured to detect real threats. Continuous changes to networks and systems can introduce misconfigurations or gaps that BAS exercises uncover. Regular simulations also improve incident response by training security personnel.
Efficiency improvements
Iterative BAS helps optimize detection and response times. It assists teams in tuning monitoring tools and refining processes. Vulnerability patching can also be better prioritized based on observed exploitability versus just CVSS severity.
Assessing resilience
BAS emulates full attack techniques to prep defenses against real threats. Mapping simulations to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK validate readiness against known adversary behavior. While not as in-depth as red teaming, BAS quickly benchmarks resilience.
References
See also
Red team
Penetration test
Security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinny%20Troia | Vincenzo Troia is an American ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher who is known for reporting and identifying The Dark Overlord (hacker group) and hacker pompompurin, who was the owner-operator of the website BreachForums and was also involved in the 2021 FBI email hacking. He is also known for disclosing the Shanghai police database leak in 2022.
Troia also serves as CEO and principal security researcher at Night Lion Security, a cyber-security firm based in the US and founded a threat intelligence firm named Shadowbyte.
In 2018, Troia found a data leak of nearly 340 million detailed records about individual people available on a publicly accessible server of Exactis.
In 2019, he found a data breach in People Data Labs where records of personal data, including email addresses, employers, locations, job titles, names, phone numbers and social media profiles of 1.2 billion people were exposed.
In 2020, Troia identified and wrote a report on an entire underground cybercrime economy built on the stealing of reselling of video game passwords. The white paper published by Troia and Night Lion Security outline the process by which hackers make money by stealing and reselling Fortnite video game skins, some making nearly a million dollars per year. After gaining access to a victim's account, most often by using common or reused passwords, the account's contents are then stolen and resold on an underground black market valued at nearly 1 billion dollars annually.
Publication
Troia is the author of the book "Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker’s Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques" (Wiley Books), which illustrates various investigative tools and techniques used to track down and investigate cybercriminals using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering tools and techniques. The book provides a detailed account of Troia's investigation into cyber criminal hacking group The Dark Overlord.
Troia's book provides evidence and analysis to support claims that the masterminds behind The Dark Overlord cybercrime group are two teenagers living in Calgary, Canada. Evidence provided in the book, as well as a subsequent report published by Troia and Night Lion Security, link the members of The Dark Overlord hacking group to other "database focused" hacking groups such as ShinyHunters and GnosticPlayers, along with people such as Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known as pompompurin, who owned BreachForums.
References
Ethical hackers
Computer security specialists
Internet activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey%20Dorn | Carey O'Brien (; born October 3, 1978 in Seoul) is a retired American soccer player who played for the San Jose CyberRays. Dorn was a 5th round pick in the 2000 WUSA Draft.
Early life and education
Dorn was born in Seoul on October 3, 1978. She attended Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, where she played for the school's soccer and tennis team, graduating in 1996. In 2000, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in sports marketing. Following graduation, she received the John McClendon Memorial and the NCAA Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarships. She immediately began her graduate program, though after being drafted by the Bay Area CyberRays, she took time off, returning to the University of Connecticut in 2003 to receive a master's master's degree in sports management.
Career
Athletic career
While attending the University of Connecticut, Dorn played for the university's team. Her senior year, she served as team captain her senior year and earned NSCAA Academic All-American honors.
Upon the creation of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) in 2000, Dorn was drafted by the Bay Area CyberRays. She became the first member of the team to score a goal. With her help, the team won the 2001 WUSA Founders Cup. In 2003, she announced her retirement as she entered graduate school.
Coaching
Between 1997 and 2000, Dorn was the assistant coach for Windsor World Class.
Beginning in 2001, she volunteered as an assistant coach for the University of Connecticut's women's soccer team. Two seasons later, she was hired into the position, which she held until 2011. During that time, the team secured seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament, notably reaching the NCAA Championship game in 2003 and the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2007; they also clinched the 2004 Big East Tournament Championship.
In 2005, Dorn worked with the developmental programs, including an under-10 developmental team and the U-13 Connecticut Olympic Development Program.
Around 2011, Dorn took a position as the head girl's soccer coach at Loomis Chaffee School. In 2013, she was named the CGSCA Private School State Coach of the Year. The following year, the NSCAA named her the Private/Parochial Connecticut State Coach of the Year.
In 2018, she returned to the University of Connecticut, where she remained in 2023.
Honors
In 2006, Dorn was inducted into the Connecticut Girl’s Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Personal life
As of 2023, O'Brien lived in West Hartford, Connecticut with her husband and three sons.
References
1978 births
Footballers from Seoul
Living people
American women's soccer players
San Jose CyberRays players
Women's association football midfielders
Women's United Soccer Association players
UConn Huskies women's soccer players
1978 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall%20%28security%20vulnerability%29 | Downfall, known as Gather Data Sampling (GDS) by Intel, is a computer security vulnerability found in 6th through 11th generations of consumer and 1st through 4th generations of Xeon Intel x86-64 microprocessors. It is a transient execution CPU vulnerability which relies on speculative execution of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instructions to reveal the content of vector registers.
Vulnerability
Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security subsystem is also affected by this bug.
The Downfall vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Daniel Moghimi, who publicly released information about the vulnerability in August 2023, after a year-long embargo period.
Intel promised microcode updates to resolve the vulnerability. The microcode patches have been shown to significantly reduce the performance of some heavily-vectorized loads.
Patches to mitigate the effects of the vulnerability have also been created as part of the forthcoming version 6.5 release of the Linux kernel. They include code to disable the AVX extensions entirely on CPUs for which microcode mitigation is not available.
Vendor responses
References
External links
Downfall Attacks Developer Page
MITRE CVE-2022-40982 page
Computer security exploits
Speculative execution security vulnerabilities
Hardware_bugs
Hacking in the 2020s
Intel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Swedish%20films%20of%20the%202020s | This is a list of films produced in Sweden and in the Swedish language in the 2020s.
Films
External links
Swedish film at the Internet Movie Database
2020s
Films
Lists of 2020s films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Electoral%20Commission%20data%20breach | The Electoral Commission of the United Kingdom suffered a data breach in 2021–2022.
Events
According to the commission, the data could have been accessed as far back as August 2021 but was not detected until October 2022. Once discovered, the attack was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office, National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency within 72 hours.
The initial vulnerability may have been a Zero-day flaw referred to as 'ProxyNotShell' (CVE-2022-41040) in their Exchange Server.
The commission said that it was not able to know for certain what data was accessed or who was responsible, but the attack showed considerable sophistication. The breach did not have any impact on the electoral process, with only copies of electoral registers visible in the breach, which had not been changed as a result of the attack. The commission assessed the breach did not pose a high risk to individuals, but did include a high volume of low-grade personal data (name, home address and for some the date reaching voting age).
It would have been possible to access records for people registered to vote in the UK between 2014 and 2022 and the Commission email system would also have been accessible by attackers. About forty million people are on the electoral register. Data that would not be available would have included those whose identity is kept anonymous for safety reasons and addresses of overseas voters.
The Electoral Commission apologised for the data breach.
References
Data breaches
Cyberattacks
2021 crimes in the United Kingdom
2022 crimes in the United Kingdom
Hacking in the 2020s
Cybercrime in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford%20Common%20water%20treatment%20works | Ashford Common water treatment works is located in Ashford Surrey and supplies potable water to west London via the local distribution network and the Thames Water ring main. The works were constructed in the 1950s, and were modernised in the 1990s to increase the output.
History
In the immediate post second world war period it was envisaged the demand for water in London would increase significantly. In 1947 the Metropolitan Water Board proposed to construct a new water treatment works between Ashford and Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, (51.41772°N 0.43802°W) The works would draw water from the adjacent Queen Mary Reservoir or from the Staines Reservoir Aqueduct. The plant and treatment processes would comprise: aeration of the feed water, fine screen filtration to remove algae, slow sand filtration, granular carbon treatment, sterilization and contact tanks. Rotating screens were identified as the most effective primary filtration for algal removal.
By 1953 the Ashford Common works were under construction. There were 23 micro-strainers and 32 slow sand filter beds each of about ¾ of an acre (3345 m2). The slow sand filters were cleaned on a 25 to 30 day cycle. This entailed skimming off the top 25 to 40 mm of sand which was cleaned and returned. The works were fully commissioned in 1958. The total treatment capacity was 108 million US gallons per day (409 Ml/d). The peak output was 480 Ml/d, higher flows up to 550 Ml/d were possible but significantly increased the frequency of filter cleaning.
Modernisation
The Ashford Common water works operated effectively for four decades. In the early 1990s the projected increase in demand for water was met by increasing the hydraulic capacity of Coppermills, Hampton and Ashford Common water treatment works.
The facilities at Ashford Common comprised:
Stored water pumps from Queen Mary and Wraysbury reservoirs, 730 Ml/d
Pre Ozonisation (5 minutes contact)
Rapid gravity primary filters, dual media, air scour and water backwash
Main Ozonisation (16 minutes contact)
Slow sand filters with granular activated carbon sandwich (300 mm lower sand, 135 mm GAC, 420 upper sand)
Low lift pumps
Hypochlorite dosing
Contact tank screens 400 μm mesh
Chlorine contact tank
Hypochlorite, Sodium bisulfite and Ammonia dosing
High lift pumps
Water distribution and supply
Subsidiary plant included Ozone generation, washwater treatment plant, and SCADA to monitor and control the flow of water.
With all these facilities operational the peak supply increased from 480 Ml/d to 690 Ml/d.
See also
London water supply infrastructure
References
London water infrastructure
Thames Water |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence%20in%20pharmacy | Artificial intelligence in pharmacy is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the discovery, development, and the treatment of patients with medications. AI in pharmacy practices has the potential to revolutionize all aspects of pharmaceutical research as well as to improve the clinical application of pharmaceuticals to prevent, treat, or cure disease. AI, a technology that enables machines to simulate human intelligence, has found applications in pharmaceutical research, drug manufacturing, and patient-centered services.
Drug discovery and development
AI algorithms analyze vast datasets with greater speed and accuracy than traditional methods. This has enabled the identification of potential drug candidates, prediction of their interactions, and optimization of formulations. AI-driven simulations and modeling assist researchers in understanding molecular interactions, thus expediting the drug development timeline.
References
Applications of artificial intelligence
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox%20Systems | Equinox Systems, Inc., was an American manufacturer of computer networking hardware and developer of networking software based in Miami, Florida, and active from 1983 to 2000. The company started out selling a well-regarded series of enterprise digital PBX systems for data transmissions in the early 1980s, before becoming a major vendor and OEM of modems, Ethernet network switches, and advanced serial communication cards in the 1990s. Equinox was eventually acquired by Avocent of Huntsville, Alabama, in 2000, who kept the company around as a subsidiary for several years.
History
Foundation (1983–1985)
Equinox Systems was founded in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in 1983 by Bill Dambrackas, Mark Cole, and Kevin Doren. Dambrackas and Cole had previously worked for Racal-Milgo, a manufacturer of modems and other telecommunications equipment that had offices in South Miami-Dade. Racal-Milgo announced their intent to move 40 miles north to Broward County in 1982, to the chagrin of Dambrackas and Cole, who did not want to relocate their families in order to keep their jobs. In early 1983, they obtained $1.1 million in financial backing from TA Associates, a Boston-based investment firm, and in March 1983, they formally incorporated Equinox Systems, named so after the March equinox ongoing at the time of the company's foundation. The company was soon joined by eight other former employees of Racal-Milgo who also wanted to avoid moving northward, and by November 1983, Equinox had ten employees on its payroll.
Equinox's first product, a data PBX, was released to market in early 1984, retailing for US$30,000. Data PBXes were a form of private branch exchange developed in the 1970s, which facilitated communications between data terminals and minicomputers and between personal computers and certain peripherals such as modems and printers. Data PBXes were once common in non-IBM shops, but they were prone to collisions and became antiquated in the early 1980s amid rapid developments in Ethernet-based local area networking. Nevertheless, some companies with wide area networks liked data PBXes due to their interoperability with older computer equipment and lower cost, compared to setting up newer cutting-edge Ethernet-based LANs. Despite the circumstances of their founding, Equinox avoided competing directly with Racal-Milgo, instead targeting the California-based Micom, who cornered 40 percent of the data PBX market.
Equinox's data PBX in proved a hot-seller, the company gaining large corporations as customers; among their clientele in 1985 Intel, Bell South, the University of Louisville, AT&T, Toys "R" Us, GTE, Chase Bank, and Sprint. Despite its popularity, the company posted losses of $432,000 and $281,000 in 1983 and 1984 respectively, this in spite of the company receiving $3 million in further financing from multiple venture capital firms, including Hambrecht & Quist, in early 1984.
Profitability and growth (1985–1992)
In 1985, the company received $2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Paul%20Morrison | J. Paul Morrison (1937-2022) was a Canadian, British-born, software architect and computer scientist. He is best known as the creator of flow-based programming and author of "Flow Based Programming: A New Approach to Application Development". In 2013, an interview, which was videotaped, between Paul and Henri Bergius, was held in Toronto.
References
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Seymour | Tom Seymour is the former CEO of PwC in Australia. He also served as PwC's Asia Pacific network and a part of the firm's Global Tax and legal leadership team.
Education
Seymour attained a Bachelor of Commerce from the Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Bond University. After he graduated, Seymour joined the office of PwC on the Gold Coast in 1994 and became the CEO in March 2020.
Seymour is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
PwC tax scandal
In January 2023, PwC faced a scandal as Australia's Tax Practitioners Board banned Peter-John Collins, PwC's former head of international tax, for sharing confidential Treasury meeting details about new laws designed to curb tax avoidances with fellow PwC employees. Earlier in May, the Senate committee revealed through emails that PwC had used the confidential information provided by Collins, who signed strict non-disclosure agreements, to advise its clients and win new business. Seymour, who was managing Collins when he ran the Australian arm of PwC's tax division, admitted that he was among the several partners who received emails regarding the financial success of the tax advice in 2015 and 2016.
The emails revealed the sharing of confidential information with colleagues in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States. It also contained praises for the "accuracy" of Collins’ advice in winning millions of dollars worth of new business in North America as well as with the other PwC offices around the world, including in the Unitec States, Netherlands and Singapore.
Seymour initially planned to retire in September but resigned three days after admitting his knowledge about the controversial strategy of the international tax advisory practice in Australia.
Following Seymour's resignation, Kristin Stubbins was appointed as the Acting CEO for PwC Australia until her resignation in October, 2023.
Award
Seymour received the Robert Stable Medal at the 2022 Bond University Alumni Awards.
References
Australian chief executives
Bond University alumni
Living people
PricewaterhouseCoopers people
Queensland University of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Edunjobi | Hassan Kehinde Daniel popularly known as Kent Edunjobi is a Nigerian songwriter and music producer.
Early life and career
Kehinde studied Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Kehinde started his music career as member of the Apex Choir of the Celestial Church of Christ where he is now the music director. He started working for Kunle Afolayan Productions in 2016 and has been composing soundtracks for the production company since.
In 2023, he came into limelight after composing the soundtrack for won Aníkúlápó. In the same year, he released Ebenezer with the Apex Choir and it had 1 million views on YouTube within its first month.
Discography
Awards
Best Soundtrack at Africa Movie Academy Awards for Citation.
Best Soundtrack at 2023 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards for Aníkúlápó.
References
Nigerian male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%21%20PARIS | Hi! PARIS is a Paris–based organization that promotes education, research and innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics. Hi! PARIS's work encompasses research in technical AI safety and AI ethics, advocacy, and support to grow the AI safety research field.
It has been created in 2020 by HEC Paris and the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. In July 2021, Inria has become a partner.
Research
The center is mainly focused on two topics : AI & Data for business and AI & Data for society. Companies such as Schneider Electric support the research activities.
Activities
On top of research activities, the center also organizes a summer school and a hackathon.
See also
AI safety
References
External links
Official website
Research institutes in France
Organizations based in Paris
Artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohere%20Technologies | Cohere Technologies is a telecoms software company based in San Jose, California that develops technology for boosting the network performance of 4G and 5G spectrum in wireless networks. Cohere holds the patents for the Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) 2D modulation technique used to improve the performance of 4G and 5G networks and is being considered as a waveform for the future 6G wireless standard.
History
Cohere Technologies was founded in 2011 by Shlomo Rakib, a serial entrepreneur, and Ronny Hadani, an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin. The pair patented the OTFS waveform in 2010.
Ray Dolan, co-founder of Flarion Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm in 2006), joined Cohere Technologies as the company's chairman and CEO in October 2018.
Cohere Technologies’ first trials of OFTS with a carrier took place at Telefónica in 2018.
In 2018, the company changed its focus to the use of Delay-Doppler-based channel detection, estimation and prediction, as well as precoding software to improve 4G and 5G wireless systems with its Universal Spectrum Multiplier software.
In 2020, Cohere Technologies won a GSMA GLOMO award for "Best Network Software Breakthrough,” and was also shortlisted for the award in 2023.
In February 2023, Cohere announced a collaboration with telecommunications company Mavenir. Cohere will assist Mavenir in its transition to open RAN technology, including OTFS.
Cohere co-announced the Multi-G O-RAN initiative in April 2023 in collaboration with Intel, Juniper Networks, Mavenir and VMware. The initiative will provide frameworks and interfaces to support the coexistence of 4G, 5G, and other waveforms in the future. Carriers supporting the initiative include Vodafone, Telstra, and Bell Canada.
Cohere currently holds more than 300 patents relating to 4G, 5G, and OTFS.
Co-founder Shlomo Rakib currently serves as Cohere's CTO.
Products
Announced in 2021, Cohere’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) software is designed to boost the performance of 4G and 5G FDD or TDD networks and can be integrated by network equipment suppliers in the radio access network (RAN) or as an xApp/RIC in the telco cloud. This technology has been tested by mobile operators such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Telstra.
Cohere also announced the Dynamic Network Alignment (DNA) tool in 2023, which is an automated MU-MIMO beamforming solution for calibrating 4G and 5G networks using existing network and spectrum assets.
References
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharwahi%2C%20Mansa | Kishangarh urf Pharwahi village is located in Mansa tehsil of Mansa district in Punjab, India.
Demographics
Table; Census 2011, Data Of Pharwahi, Mansa (Punjab)
References
Villages in Mansa district, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Pauze%C5%84skie | Lake Pauzeńskie (pol. Jezioro Pauzeńskie) or Puzy is a lake in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, on the northern outskirts of Ostróda. It is connected by a network of channels, ditches and streams with neighboring lakes – from the east with Lake Szeląg Wielki, from the south with Lake Drwęca.
The area of the lake is , its maximum length is , and its average depth is . Its altitude above sea level is . The volume of the lake is . The length of the shoreline is .
The northern part of the lake is located in the rural gmina Ostróda.
References
Lakes of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Lakes of Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Board%20of%20India | The Data Protection Board of India is an adjucating body which is being set up by the Government of India under section 18 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. It is a body that adjudicates the dispute between those whose personal data has been given to a platform and the platform which has in turn breached the obligations under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Background
The events that lead to the establishment of the Data Protection Board of India are as follows:
On 18 November 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 for public consultation.
On 5 July 2023, the cabinet has approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 which is the revised version of the bill which was put up for public consulation earlier.
On 3 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.
On 7 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was passed by Lok Sabha.
On 9 August 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced and passed by Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.
On 11 August 2023, the President of India has given assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 which now makes it the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
The Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaisnaw and MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar have informed that the Central government is currently under the process of setting up the Data Protection Board of India.
Structure
According to the section 18 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the board shall consist a Chairperson.
Powers and functions
The Data Protection Board shall exercise and perform its powers on receipt of an intimation of personal data breach under sub-section (6) of section 8, to direct any urgent remedial or mitigation measures in the event of a personal data breach, and to inquire into such personal data breach and impose penalty as provided in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
To give directions for remediating or mitigating data breaches
To inquire into data breaches and complaints and impose financial penalties
To refer complaints for Alternate Dispute Resolution and to accept Voluntary Undertakings from Data Fiduciaries
To advise the Government to block the website, app etc. of a Data Fiduciary who is found to repeatedly breach the provisions of the Bill
Adjucate in case of dispute
The Board shall determine whether there are sufficient grounds to proceed with an inquiry
Impose penalty in case of breach of provisions in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
References
Data protection authorities
Government agencies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Globo%20Rio | TV Globo Rio de Janeiro (channel 4, also known as TV Globo Rio) is a Brazilian television station located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil serving as the flagship station of the TV Globo network. Owned-and-operated by locally based Grupo Globo, the station's news facilities are located in Jardim Botânico while their other facility, shared with SporTV are located in Barra da Tijuca and their studios in Curicica are used as a hub for Estúdios Globo, the company's production banner. Their transmitters are located in the Morro do Sumaré mountains with repeater transmitters across their coverage area.
Programming
Being the flagship station of the TV Globo network, the station clears the entire network schedule. Globo Rio also produces the following local programs:
Bom Dia Rio
RJTV
Globo Comunidade
Expedição Rio
Globo Esporte RJ
Radar RJ
Technical information
Subchannels
On June 16, 2008, the station started broadcasting in HD in Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas. As of 2013, all of the network's news programs are filmed in HD.
Analog-to-digital conversion
Globo Rio discontinued its analog signal over VHF channel 4, on November 22, 2017, complying an order by ANATEL regarding the shutdown of analog television in Rio de Janeiro.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1965
Television stations in Brazil
TV Globo affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqu%C3%AD%20est%C3%A1%20la%20Chilindrina | Aquí está la Chilindrina is a Mexican television series produced by the Mexican television network Televisa in 1994 and had La Chilindrina as the main character from the series El Chavo del Ocho by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. The series is a sequel to El Chavo del Ocho, being directed and produced by Rubén Aguirre, who had previously worked with María Antonieta on the series by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. There were only 17 episodes, all recorded in 1994. Televisa channels 4, 5 and 2 rerun the program until 2002 (8 years), always guaranteeing good ratings. Four months of recording that yielded 8 years of success. The cancellation was made by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, in view of his dispute with María Antonieta for the copyright of the main character, La Chilindrina.
Synopsis
In this program, La Chilindrina is an 8-year-old orphan girl (like El Chavo), who was left in a convent by her great-grandmother, Doña Nieves, who left her there because she was no longer able to take care of her. The nuns, not knowing what to do in the face of this situation, decide to adopt the girl, who starts to live in that convent, and causes a lot of confusion there.
Cast
María Antonieta de las Nieves as La Chilindrina
Luis Bayardo as Padre Luna
Lupita Sandoval as Irmã Beba
Cecilia Romo as Irmã Gertrudis
Lili Inclán as Irmã Momicia
Gabriel Fernández as Benito
Paty Strevel
Federica Fogarty
Yolanda Mérida as Madre Superiora
Carolina Guerrero
Gabriela Name
References
External links
Mexican television series
Spanish-language television shows
Televisa original programming
Television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSNI%20data%20breaches | The Police Service of Northern Ireland suffered two data breaches in 2023.
Accidental data breach
On 8 August 2023 the PSNI announced that there had been an accidental data breach caused by data being mistakenly published online to the WhatDoTheyKnow website in response to a freedom of information request. PSNI assistant chief constable Chris Todd said that leaked data included surnames, initials, ranks or grades, locations and departments of all PSNI employees. The PSNI apologised for the breach.
Events
A document was mistakenly published online at about 14:30 on 8 August 2023. It was available for about two hours before it was taken down.
On 10 August Chief Constable Simon Byrne said that dissident republicans had claimed to have copies of the leaked information, which had been circulating on WhatsApp.
Reactions
The Police Federation for Northern Ireland called for an "urgent inquiry" into the data breach.
Ulster Unionist Party Mike Nesbitt representative on the Policing Board called for an urgent meeting of the board.
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said that the sheer scale of the breach was "profoundly concerning".
Data theft
On 9 August 2023 it was revealed that documents, a police issue laptop and radio were stolen from a private vehicle near Newtownabbey on 6 July 2023. This affected about 200 officers and staff members of PSNI.
References
Data breaches
Police Service of Northern Ireland
2023 in Northern Ireland
Crime in Northern Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandgaon%20Ward | Chandgaon () is a No.4 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Chandgaon Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
The area of Chandgaon ward is 10.70 square kilo-meters.
Population Data
According to the 2011 census, the total population of Chandgaon ward is 1,07,807. Among them 55,150 are male and 52,657 are female. Total families are 23,333.
References
Chittagong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohra%20Ward | Mohra () is a No.5 Ward of Chattogram City Corporation and a part of Chandgaon Thana, Bangladesh.
Size
The area of Mohra ward is 10.29 square kilo-meters.
Population Data
As per 2011 census the total population of Mohra ward is 86,491. Among them 44,627 are male and 41,864 are female. Total families are 17,901.
References
Chittagong |
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