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SEC Network to Feature a Record 47 Hours of Original Studio Programming for 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, Live from Nashville July 17-20

July 19, 2023 Audrey

Documentary debuts include Roy Kramer: A Vision for the SEC and Them Dawgs
SEC Nation primetime special airs Tuesday on SECN and ESPN2 with live guests
More than a dozen on-air personalities to provide commentary and perspective from Music City

SEC Network will boast 47 hours of original programming surrounding the 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions, the most in the network’s history. SEC This Morning, SEC Now and The Paul Finebaum Show will showcase complete coverage from the annual media days event, set in Nashville, Tenn., for the first time – the third city to host the event, and featuring a special edition of SEC Nation on Tuesday night.

An expansive roster of college football analysts will contribute to SEC Network’s presence in Nashville at the Grand Hyatt, including Jordan Rodgers, Greg McElroy, Roman Harper, Paul Finebaum, Takeo Spikes, Benjamin Watson, Chris Doering and more. Studio hosts for the four-day conference media day kickoff include Joe Tessitore, Dari Nowkhah, Peter Burns, Alyssa Lang, Marty Smith and Finebaum.

SEC This Morning
SEC This Morning, hosted by Burns and Doering, returns for its fifth SEC Kickoff. The duo delves into all things SEC, with all the headlines, highlights and hijinks from around the conference. The show will be simulcast on SEC Network (and Sirius XM channel 374) live from Music City, and will air at 8 a.m. ET until the start of each day’s podium action.

SEC Now
SEC Now: 2023 SEC Kickoff Presented by Regions will have full coverage from Nashville beginning Monday, July 17 at 11 a.m., with analysis and insight of the day’s proceedings. Coaches and players from all 14 SEC teams will stop by the set during their time at the media event. Tessitore, Nowkhah and Lang will rotate duties in the anchor chair, with nearly two dozen hours of SEC Now surrounding all 14 coaches’ podium trips.

The Paul Finebaum Show
The network’s coverage will also be anchored by The Paul Finebaum Show Presented by Regions each afternoon, with various coaches, players and media cycling through the SEC Network set. The show, which will have reaction to the latest news and buzz of the annual college football kickoff event, will also air on ESPN Radio.

SEC Nation
GRAMMY-nominated band Midland will headline a free concert on Tuesday, July 18. The event on Lower Broadway will activate at 6 p.m. and will be part of a special edition of SEC Nation Presented by Regions on ESPN2 and SEC Network at 7 p.m. The street concert will follow at approximately 8 p.m. Regions will host fan engagement opportunities on site throughout the evening, and SEC Network will have its own brand activation featuring a photo booth, free swag and more. Full details.

Planned in-person guests for the SEC Nation primetime show include comedian Nate Bargatze, SEC head coaches Josh Heupel (Tennessee) and Clark Lea (Vanderbilt), and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. Head coach Kirby Smart of two-time defending champion Georgia is also expected to join

Programming the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi’s LED Matrix

July 16, 2023 Audrey

As soon as I held it in my arms, I could not wait to get started out with the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi and its LED matrix! This very little board has a ton of cool features, but the constructed-in show promptly can make it additional charismatic, expressive, and “alive”. Here’s how to bring yours to life!

Online video edition – examine on for the penned instructions!

The UNO R4 WiFi merchandise page by now inbound links to a quite superior formal finding-began guidebook, but I got a bit perplexed by the different web site for the LED matrix – which talks about the UNO R4 Main and one-way links to a considerably inscrutable GitHub repo – so I’ll apparent that up initial as we acquire the first measures.

UNO R4 Core?

To be apparent: equally new UNO R4 boards run on a Renesas RA4M1 processor, which allows the CAN interface, DAC, and so forth. But inspite of what the LED matrix web site suggests, you will not want to go and down load a separate Main and put in it someway from that repo. Just search for “R4” in the Boards Supervisor to add the new board definitions in the Arduino IDE, as you usually would, and it ought to perform smoothly!

Browser compatibility: UNO R4 WiFi’s LED Matrix on the web software

I have just learned about Arduino Labs, which hosts a number of experimental tasks which include a MicroPython editor, a BLE facts dashboard, and a lovable little “Contain” robot. They also have a resource you can use to are living-edit the pixels on your LED matrix! Sad to say, the connection failed to perform for me in Firefox (on a MacBook Professional running OS X 11.7.6 with the newest Firefox update), so I switched to Chrome, and it worked like a aspiration.

…Let’s go!

Materials

For this project, you can need to have:

An UNO R4 (if possible the WiFi version)
A USB-C cable that can interface with your computer system
Optional: a piece of paper, or a little something else to diffuse the LED matrix

1. Put in the Arduino IDE and board definitions

If you don’t already have it, grab the Arduino IDE and put in it on your equipment. If you have not used the IDE in a though, it might acquire a minute to get utilised to variation 2. However, I’ve uncovered that it operates quite effortlessly.

In the new IDE, you’ll click on on the UNO-formed icon in the left sidebar to toggle the Boards Supervisor. (You can also discover the Sketchbook and Library Manager listed here, furthermore a couple of other tools. On the other hand, you can however use the menu bar for all of these capabilities, if you desire.) Enter R4 in the research box and set up the board definitions – no need to futz all-around with the “R4 Core” GitHub files.

Now, plug in your UNO and choose it from the leading dropdown in

Bootstrapped to 800,000 customers, on the web programming group JDoodle lands funding

July 3, 2023 Audrey

Started out as a facet task, JDoodle, which allows builders practice much more than 6 dozen programming languages on one web-site, hit 800,000 end users when becoming bootstrapped. Now the Australia-dependent startup has established a aim of 8 million end users within just the up coming 24 months just after finding $3.2 million AUD (about $2.2 million USD) in new funding. The round was led by Major Sequence, the venture agency started by Australia’s countrywide science agency.

JDoodle has resources aimed at software package developers of all ranges, ranging from college students to gurus. These consist of zero-established up IDEs (integrated improvement environments) for a lot more than 76 coding languages, like Java CloudIDE, that allows consumers compose and run code in their browsers devoid of possessing to established up neighborhood software or libraries.

About the earlier yr, JDoodle hit 800,000 customers, which includes 3,000 instructional establishments. JDoodle was commenced by software package developer Gokul Chandrasekaran, who put in 7 years functioning on it and reached 500,000 consumers ahead of quitting his job to concentrate on it comprehensive-time. It grew out of a aspect undertaking with one particular site and programming language that Chandrasekaran set up for $20, before paying evenings and weekends incorporating new capabilities dependent on consumer comments.

Chandrasekaran told TechCrunch that he wanted to get started JDoodle because of the inefficiencies he encountered, like expensive and challenging advancement equipment, even though doing work on his bachelors and masters degrees in laptop or computer science.

“Those resources force every single developer to waste so a lot of their time just acquiring the software package atmosphere prepared for us to do our positions. Even managing 1 line of software is a headache,” he said. “You require refined components and hours to set up a growth surroundings with libraries, compilers, editors and far more,” only to threat all the things breaking if there’s an update to their working techniques.

For academics and learners, this signifies squandering time repairing advancement environment difficulties and manually verifying programming assignments. For specialists, this suggests time expended away from essentially establishing and as a substitute employed to handle their software improvement environments. By using JDoodle, Chandrasekaran stated, they can get economical entry to programming environments and observe programming in a browser even on basic smartphones.

Main Sequence partner Mike Nicholls and JDoodle founder Gokul Chandrasekaran

Primary Sequence companion Mike Nicholls and JDoodle founder Gokul Chandrasekaran

“Software builders commit so much time setting up and managing their program enhancement environments and concentrating on modest, unimportant tasks like shifting the color of a button,” he explained. “We will need to free up developers to concentrate on the responsibilities that seriously make any difference simply because I’d say that businesses are currently losing 20% of their software package progress budget.”

JDoodle’s growth to 800,000 customers was organic and natural, and it did not expend time or dollars on internet marketing until eventually lately. “I feel the rationale we’ve amassed so a lot of customers so much is due to the fact I hear to them,” mentioned Chandrasekaran.

Disney Pixar Exec Confirms Studio “Not Making Children’s Programming”

June 26, 2023 Audrey

Credit rating: Walt Disney Pics/Pixar Animation Studios

Disney Pixar has had a difficult operate in its latest string of movies.

Pixar, which is recognized for its beloved animated movies, was at first founded in 1979 as the Graphics Team, a division of Lucasfilm. In 1986, Steve Careers, the co-founder of Apple Inc., bought the studio and renamed it Pixar. The studio’s first element-duration movie, Toy Story, was released in 1995 and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company obtained Pixar, and it became known as Disney Pixar. Less than this collaboration, Pixar ongoing to create primary and beloved animated movies, even though Disney offered distribution and advertising assistance.

Pixar Place at Disney's Hollywood Studios — Credit history: Disney

From there, Pixar continued to create alone with quite a few extra preferred movies and franchises, like the Toy Tale franchise, Discovering Nemo (2003), Obtaining Dory (2016), The Incredibles (2004), The Incredibles 2 (2018), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Monsters University (2013), Cars collection, Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), Up (2009), Within Out (2015), Coco (2017), and many other folks.

As of late, Pixar has fallen on rough periods. The studio just observed numerous big layoffs soon after the latest budgeting failures coming from The Walt Disney Business. Pixar saw a string of a few movies– Soul (2020), Luca (2021), and Turning Crimson (2022)– all introduced on the streaming system Disney+, rather than heading to theaters.

The animated studio premiered its 1st movie in theaters in around a few many years previous summer time when Lightyear premiered on June 17, 2022. The movie, which was intended to tell the tale of the “real-life” Excitement Lightyear voiced by Chris Evans instead of Tim Allen, had a huge budget and faced plenty of controversy. The outcome observed it definitely bomb, bringing in a pedestrian $226.4 million compared to a price range of above $200 million. For reference, Univeral’s Illumination Studios produced Minions: The Increase of Gru (2022) a issue of weeks later, and the motion picture skyrocketed to the best, bringing in $935 million on a budget of considerably less than $100 million. Lightyear Director Angus MacLane was permit go previously this calendar year adhering to the film’s failure.

Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) in 'Lightyear' — Credit rating: Disney/Pixar

Now, as Pixar releases its new movie Elemental, the film is projected to hit an all-time small for an opening weekend in the studio’s heritage. These new failures in animated information have propelled Disney to announce numerous sequels to proven IPs, like Pixar’s Toy Story, which will see its fifth installment.

Not too long ago, Imaginative Main Officer Pete Docter sat down for an interview with Assortment, the place he elaborated on his thoughts on the studio “not generating children’s programming.” Instead of on the lookout at it from child’s viewpoint, Docter revealed that the studio “makes stuff we want to see ourselves.”

“We’ve often looked at what we do as we’re the initial audience,” Docter explained in the interview. “We make stuff we want to see ourselves. There’s a Chuck Jones

The Pentagon needs a programming business office, but not this a person

June 23, 2023 Audrey

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the Household Armed Solutions Committee, has proposed legislation in his “chairman’s mark” that would do away with the Protection Department’s Business of Price Evaluation and Method Analysis (CAPE). Rogers is performing out of sheer irritation with an place of work that he and a number of his colleagues imagine is intentionally sluggish-rolling compliance with language in the Fiscal 12 months 2023 Defense Authorization Act that explicitly established 31 amphibious ships as a flooring below which the Navy should not go. Irrespective of the legislation, nevertheless, CAPE is finding out the amphibious ship program nevertheless once more.

CAPE and its predecessors have extensive been at odds with Navy and Marine Corps planners and programmers. The unique Business of Programming — established by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1961 and upgraded and renamed four years later on as the Workplace of Devices Analysis — angered the Navy more than a selection of issues. Most notable was McNamara’s determination to use an Air Drive style for what became the F-111 fighter while cancelling the Navy model named F-111B.

Throughout the Carter Administration, the all over again renamed Office environment of Method Evaluation & Analysis (PA&E) advocated for a serious reduction in Navy plane carriers at a time when the Navy was developing options to increase its twelve-carrier fleet. PA&E continued its opposition even as the Navy, less than Secretary John Lehman, argued for a fifteen-provider drive. It was only when President Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear at a Countrywide Safety Council meeting (at which I was current) that he far too supported the Navy approach that PA&E was compelled to relent. Not shockingly, both the civilian and military services leadership of the Department of the Navy have frequently harbored suspicions that the analysis workplace is biased from the sea services.

Rogers’ annoyance with CAPE is not the to start with case in point of congressional anger at the business and its management. It was owing to strain from Senate Appropriations Chairman John McLellan that Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was compelled to fire Leonard Sullivan, then serving as Assistant Secretary for PA&E, with whom McLellan experienced bitterly disagreed. When Caspar Weinberger grew to become Secretary of Defense, possibly in reaction to PA&E’s popularity for anti-Navy bias, he at first downgraded the place of work to a directorship so that its leader no for a longer time held a Senate-verified post. However, having formulated large regard for the professionalism of the office’s director, David Chu, Weinberger restored the posture to that of Assistant Secretary, which it stays these days.

At difficulty for Rogers and those of his like-minded colleagues is that they understand the workplace to be more an advocate for a distinct position than a supply of impartial analysis. In the previous, that notion has at minimum in some instances been accurate. Irrespective of its uneven heritage, however, CAPE does execute a precious purpose by offering the Secretary of Protection and specifically the Deputy Secretary, to

Ohio Senate’s spending plan proposal scales back community support programming

June 19, 2023 Audrey

The Ohio Senate approved a two-yr running budget Thursday, teeing up negotiations with the Home to settle differences. They’ll have a good deal to communicate about.

As the spending budget picks up amendments, legislative scientists prepare stories comparing the distinctions. The most up-to-date variation, only masking the disagreements, operates 650 webpages.

One particular location the place lawmakers will have their do the job cut out for them selves is public support funding. For the Supplemental Nourishment Guidance Application, or SNAP, and Momentary Assistance for Needy People, or TANF, Senate drafters imposed sizeable new restrictions or sharply curtailed funding.

SNAP adjustments

SNAP, the plan previously recognized as food stamps, can help very low-profits persons afford food stuff. The federal government addresses the reward funding, but states pitch in on some of the program’s administrative prices. The Senate spending plan would make many adjustments when it will come to how the application runs.

The most tangible modify would be to have to have photograph identification on SNAP benefit cards. Lisa Hamler-Fugitt who heads up the Ohio Association of Foodbanks observed estimates from earlier laws instructed the alter would price $15 million in the first 12 months of implementation. Cards would also incorporate a amount to report suspected fraud.

The Senate’s funds also prohibits condition companies from trying to find waiver for SNAP perform specifications. In modern decades, one grownups among 18 and 49 with no youngsters at house and no incapacity confronted sharp limits on food stuff assist. If they were being not doing work or in a teaching method at minimum 20 hours a week, they could only claim SNAP gains for a few months in 3 several years. But below the the latest personal debt ceiling arrangement, all those do the job demands will soon use to grown ups as aged as 54.

Greg Lawson from the conservative-leaning Buckeye Institute praised the alterations, which he argued would make recipients “more accountable and in the end far more self-ample.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — JUNE 15: Point out Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Lima, speaks for the duration of the Ohio Senate session, June 15, 2023, at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Image by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photograph only with unique tale.)

TANF policy

TANF pounds fund immediate funds guidance, but they also assistance numerous other packages. The Senate’s most noteworthy stage was limiting most of individuals appropriations to a solitary calendar year, fairly than funding program through the conclude of the 2025 fiscal year. Sen. Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls warned of an impending funding cliff, but mentioned they remaining childcare and foodbanks full.

Hamler-Fugitt was not amazed with the Senate’s changes on TANF either. She said the funds “represents a slice in funding for emergency foods plans over the following two decades, and a drastic, everlasting decrease in income to aid simple overall health and human products and services most Ohioans count on.”

The association experienced requested lawmakers for $50 million a calendar year. The Governor proposed at