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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITools%20Resourceome | iTools is a distributed infrastructure for managing, discovery, comparison and integration of computational biology resources. iTools employs Biositemap technology to retrieve and service meta-data about diverse bioinformatics data services, tools, and web-services. iTools is developed by the National Centers for Biomedical Computing as part of the NIH Road Map Initiative.
See also
Biositemaps
References
External links
Interactive iTools Server
Knowledge representation
Bioinformatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B4U | B4U may refer to:
Broadcast media
B4U (network), a Bollywood media corporation
B4U (TV channel), an Indian satellite television station
B4U Movies, a television station focusing on movies owned by B4U Networks
ATN B4U Movies, the Canadian version of the station
B4U Music, a television station focusing on music owned by B4U Networks
ATN B4U Music, the Canadian version of the station
B4U Aflam, a television station focusing on Hindi movies in Arabic owned by B4U Networks
B4U Bhojpuri, a television station focusing on Bhojpuri movies owned by B4U Networks
Music
BeForU, a J-pop group
BeForU (album), the first album by the group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20conversion | A large number of image file formats are available for storing graphical data, and, consequently, there are a number of issues associated with converting from one image format to another, most notably loss of image detail.
Software compatibility
Many image formats are native to one specific graphics application and are not offered as an export option in other software, due to proprietary considerations. An example of this is Adobe Photoshop's native PSD-format(Prevention of Significant Deterioration), which cannot be opened in less sophisticated programs for image viewing or editing, such as Microsoft Paint.
Most image editing software is capable of importing and exporting in a variety of formats though, and a number of dedicated image converters exist.
Loss due to compression
Besides uncompressed formats and lossless compression formats that can usually be interconverted without any loss of detail, there are compressed formats such as JPEG, which lose detail on nearly every compress. While a conversion from a compressed to an uncompressed format is in general without loss, this is not true the other way around. Even a compressed-uncompressed-compressed round trip without any image manipulation may incur some loss of detail.
Loss due to format change
Like any resampling operation, changing image size and bit depth are lossy in all cases of downsampling, such as 30-bit to 24-bit or 24-bit to 8-bit palette-based images. While increasing bit depth is usually lossless, increasing image size can introduce aliasing or other undesired artifacts.
RAW images
More expensive digital cameras usually offer the option to shoot in Raw image format. RAW is not a standardized format, in fact, RAW-formats even differ between camera models from the same vendor. Data in a RAW-file is structured according to the Bayer filter's pattern in cameras that use a single image sensor. Debayering, the process of obtaining bitmap data from a RAW-image is always a lossy operation. In addition, some downsampling is always performed, again reducing image information.
See also
Comparison of graphics file formats
Image organizer
Image viewer
Graphics standards
File conversion software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20on%20the%20London%20Underground | This article is primarily concerned with accidents on the London Underground network, which carries around a billion passengers a year. Statistically, there is just one fatal accident for every 300 million journeys. There are several safety warnings given to passengers, such as the traditional 'mind the gap' announcement and the regular announcements for passengers to keep behind the yellow line. Relatively few accidents are caused by overcrowding on the platforms, and staff monitor platforms and passageways at busy times preventing people entering the system if they become overcrowded.
Suicide
Most fatalities on the network are suicides. Most platforms at deep tube stations have pits beneath the track, originally constructed to aid drainage of water from the platforms, but they also help prevent death or serious injury when a passenger falls or jumps in front of a train and aid access to the casualty. These pits are officially called "anti-suicide pits", colloquially "suicide pits" or "dead man's trenches". A person jumping or falling in front of a train is sometimes referred to by staff as a "one under". London Underground has a specialist therapy unit to deal with drivers' post-traumatic stress resulting from someone jumping under their train.
Terrorism
Terrorism in the London Underground has been a major concern because the Underground's importance makes it a prime target for attacks. Many warnings and several attacks, some successful, have been made on the Underground. The earliest attack on the network was in 1885, when a bomb exploded on a Metropolitan line train at Euston Square station. The Provisional IRA and its predecessors carried out over ten separate attacks between 1939 and 1993.
By far the deadliest terrorist attack was the 7 July 2005 London bombings, in which 52 people were killed in four coordinated suicide bombings by Islamic militants. The most recent attack causing damage was the Parsons Green bombing on 15 September 2017, when a man detonated a homemade bomb on a District line train at Parsons Green station.
Tobacco and alcohol
Various regulations aim to improve safety on the Tube. Smoking was allowed in certain carriages in trains until 9 July 1984. In the middle of 1987 smoking was banned for a six-month trial period in all parts of the Underground, and the ban was made permanent after the major King's Cross fire in November 1987.
From 1 June 2008 an alcohol ban was introduced on all TfL services. This change in policy was made by Boris Johnson soon after he was elected Mayor of London in May 2008. He claimed that a public transport drinking ban would reduce crime.
Fire risk
Following the 1987 King's Cross fire as well as the permanent smoking ban on all London Underground premises, the programme of wooden escalator replacement was sped up, and stricter controls on the storage of materials were introduced.
Photography
Photography for private use is permitted in public areas of the Underground at the discretion o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Paterson | Michael Stewart Paterson, is a British computer scientist, who was the director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick until 2007, and chair of the department of computer science in 2005.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Cambridge in 1967, under the supervision of David Park. He spent three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and moved to the University of Warwick in 1971, where he remains Professor Emeritus.
Paterson is an expert on theoretical computer science with more than 100 publications, especially in the design and analysis of algorithms and computational complexity. Paterson's distinguished career was recognised with the EATCS Award in 2006, and a workshop in honour of his 66th birthday in 2008, including contributions of several Turing Award and Gödel Prize laureates. A further workshop was held in 2017 in honour of his 75th birthday, co-located with the workshop for the 10th anniversary of the DIMAP centre. For his work on distributed computing with Fischer and Lynch, he received the Dijkstra Prize in 2001, and his work with Dyer and Goldberg on counting graph homomorphisms received the best paper award at the ICALP conference in 2006. Mike Paterson received a Lester R. Ford Award in 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2001 and been president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). According to EATCS president Maurice Nivat, Paterson played a great role in the late 1960s in the recognition of computer science as a science, "and that theoretical computer science, which is very close to mathematics but distinct in its motivation and inspiration, is indeed a challenging and fruitful field of research."
Paterson is also an enthusiastic mountaineer.
Selected publications
M. Dyer, L.A. Goldberg and M. Paterson, On counting homomorphisms to directed acyclic graphs, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, Report TR05-121, Oct 2005.
L.A. Goldberg, M. Jalsenius, R. Martin and M. Paterson, Improved mixing bounds for the anti-ferromagnetic Potts Model on Z2, LMS J. Comput. Math. 9 (2006) 1–20.
L.A. Goldberg, R. Martin and M. Paterson, Strong spatial mixing for lattice graphs with fewer colours, SICOMP, 35(2) 486–517 (2005).
M. Albert and M. Paterson, Bounds for the growth rate of meander numbers, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, 2004, University of British Columbia (Vancouver B.C., Canada).
L.A. Goldberg, M. Jerrum, S. Kannan and M. Paterson, A bound on the capacity of backoff and acknowledgement-based protocols, SICOMP, 88 (2004) 313–331.
M. Adler, P. Berenbrink, T. Friedetzky, L.A. Goldberg, P. Goldberg and M. Paterson, A proportionate fair scheduling rule with good worst-case performance, Proc. of the 15th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2003), 101–108 (2003).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MWEB | Mweb is an Internet Service Provider based in South Africa since 1997.
Mweb is a division of Internet Solutions Digital (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Dimension Data, and its headquarters are located in the Mweb Building in Parow, Cape Town.
History
As one of the first Internet Service Providers in South Africa, Mweb launched dial-up internet in South Africa with the Big Black Box, in 1997, which was issued with a copy of tech expert Arthur Goldstuck's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, the bestselling tech book in South Africa at the time. In 2004 it also launched Polka, a low cost ISP. A year later, the South African division of Italian-owned ISP Tiscali was acquired by Mweb.
In 2006 its 3G mobile data offerings were launched and the company resold products from two of SA's largest mobile networks. The company was later first to launch Uncapped ADSL in South Africa, in 2010, and brought the global Fon WiFi network to South Africa in 2014.
Also in 2014, Mweb launched its first fiber-to-the-home packages. In 2015, the company was restructured to focus mainly on the residential and small business market. In addition the company sold its Mweb Business, Optinet and core network assets divisions to Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data.
In December 2016, Internet Solutions announced that it had entered an agreement with Naspers to acquire Mweb pending approval by the South African competition authorities. On 9 May 2017, it was announced that the South African competition authorities approved the proposed acquisition of Mweb with 31 May 2017 being the effective date of the sale.
In July 2017, Mweb launched a selection of LTE Advanced products in partnership with Rain, a fixed wireless broadband provider.
Company Structure
Mweb is owned by Internet Solutions Digital (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Dimension Data. The ISP operates nationally, with its headquarters in Cape Town. Mweb has 30% Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment shareholders.
Retail Stores
The company initially had five retail stores. The retail stores were closed at the end of March 2016, opting to move all of their sales online.
References
Companies based in Cape Town
Internet service providers of South Africa
Telecommunications companies established in 1997
South African brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9%20Lumi%C3%A8re | Télé Lumière is the first Christian television station in Lebanon and the Arab world and was founded in 1991. Since 2003, it also broadcasts satellite programming worldwide under the name Noursat.
History
Télé Lumière meaning the "Television of Light" was founded in 1991 by a group of committed lay people: Late Charles Helou, a former President of Lebanon, Brother Nour, Jack Kallassi, Late George Frem (ex. MP and minister), George Moawad, Rola and Sana Nassar, Dr. Antoine Saad and Christiane Debbaneh.
Télé Lumière is a non-profit organization, its mission is ecumenical, it is not associated to any political party or movement, do not broadcast any political views and do not accept or promote any commercial endorsements. As a non profit broadcasting station, it has no lucrative purposes and survives only from various donations given by its supporters and friends.
The Church cooperated with this television station since the beginning when she found it one of the best means to promote the principles of justice, love, freedom and human rights; values called for by Christianity everywhere.
Télé Lumière is supervised by the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon and directed by a committee involving religious leaders from various denominations and a group of laity eager to support this distinguished project. The relationship between the Church and Télé Lumière is organized through a "cooperation protocol".
As for the Government, it considers Télé Lumière, through the Assembly of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon, a Christian station, financially independent and having freedom of management and programming controlled only by the authority of the Church.
Noursat
In June 2003, on Pentecost, Télé Lumière celebrated its 12th anniversary as well as the launching of its satellite station Noursat covering European Union, the Southwest Asia and North Africa. Actually (2020) the station is located at the A05 transponder of Eutelsat 7West-A at 7,3°W. One year later, at September 8th, 2004, Noursat began its official broadcast in North and South America, United States, Canada and Australia (platforms Mysat, MysatGo).
Board of directors
Board of Directors
Télé Lumière/Noursat board of directors:
Archbishop Roland Abou Jaoudé (President)
Jack Kallassi (General Manager)
Brother Nour (General Supervisor)
Rola Nassar (Financial Manager)
Dr. Antoine Saad (General Secretary)
Bishop George Riachi (member)
Father Khalil Alwan (member)
Neemat Frem (member)
George Moawad (member)
Sana Nassar (member)
Raymond Nader (Noursat Executive Director)
See also
Catholic television
Catholic television channels
Catholic television networks
Television in Lebanon
External links
1991 establishments in Lebanon
Christianity in Beirut
Christian media
Television channels and stations established in 1991
Mass media in Beirut
Television networks in Lebanon
Television stations in Lebanon
Arabic-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekelec | Tekelec, Inc. was a Morrisville, North Carolina based telecommunications company. It developed hardware and software for networks that are fixed, wireless, or packet-based. It provided IP services to help mobile carriers with network signaling, policy control, and subscriber data management.
The company, founded in Calabasas, California in 1971, was acquired by Oracle in 2013, from Siris Capital Group.
Corporate history
Founding by Jean-Claude Asscher
In 1961, Jean-Claude Asscher founded Tekelec-Airtronic, SA, a French electronics company with emphasis on the aviation industry.
In 1977, Tekelec, Inc. was founded as a sales office for Tekelec-Airtronic. Tekelec was then founded in 1979 by Philip Black and Jean-Claude Asscher, half owned by Tekelec-Airtronic but still independent. It was founded as a North American company specializing in telecommunications products, such as telecommunications test and network simulation equipment. It was based in Santa Monica, California Tekelec was initially financed by proceeds earned by Jean-Claude Asscher through Tekelec-Airtronic. The Company moved to Calabasas, CA in 1984.
For many years, Jean-Claude Asscher was president, CEO, and chairman of the board of directors of both Tekelec-Airtronic and Tekelec. In recent years Jean-Claude Asscher has served as only chairman of Tekelec's board of directors while continuing to be the president of Tekelec-Airtronic's board of directors as well as its chairman.
Tekelec, Inc.’s IPO was in May 1986 on NASDAQ under the symbol TKLC. CEO Phillip Black, COO Michael Leigh, CFO Phillip Alford.
Philip Black spinoff and going public
Asscher found Philip Black, in the early 1980s, who was tasked with re-creating the U.S Tekelec company so that could successfully sell Tekelec Airtronic products in the U.S., or create their own testing products. Philip Black assembled a core crew of people, and his team created, marketed and sold the protocol simulator analyzers, named Chameleon and Chameleon II which fueled the sales of Tekelec for over 10 years. Tekelec successfully competed with two pre-existing competitors, Atlantic Research and Idacom, to become the dominant player in this specific type of test equipment. The company went public in the mid-1980s. Tekelec later transitioned to operating equipment in the form of Signalling System 7 products, under the initial lead of Peter Vicars, who followed Philip Black as CEO.
In 1985, Tekelec established a subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. In 1986 the company went public.
Peter N Vicars as CEO
Peter N Vicars joined Tekelec and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from July 1987 until January 1994. During this tenure revenues increased from $13M to $58M while maintaining six years of double digit profitability within its core business of testing solutions which represented 85% of corporate revenues. Vicars acquired and integrated a leading SS7 company (Protocol Technologies) to strengthen Tekelec's market position in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchWave | TouchWave, Inc. (now WebCom), was a privately held Palo Alto, California IP-telephony network switch provider founded in 1997. TouchWave developed a product line called WebSwitch that was designed to replace traditional private telephone exchange systems in small-to-medium-sized companies. WebSwitch was part of a phone system that incorporates communication features provided by the Internet. The rapid success of TouchWave was memorialized with awards and an acquisition by Ericsson Communications for $46M two years after TouchWave was founded. Ericsson continued the TouchWave product line under the name WebCom, but its efforts have been viewed as less than successful.
History
In 1997, TouchWave was a privately held, venture-backed startup company in Palo Alto, California, with future entrepreneur Oliver Muoto as its marketing director. Co-founded by CEO Bo Larsson, Jeff Snider, David F. Wittenkamp, and Jesper Stroe, TouchWave released its first product, WebSwitch, in 1997. WebSwitch, a Web-based phone switch, provided telephony over IP and targeted small to medium-sized businesses and branch networks of larger organizations. The WebSwitch was designed to deliver significantly lower costs for communications, ease of management and administration and offered services on a single IP-based network platform. The timing of TouchWave's late 1997 release of its phone switch product matched Level 3's development of its first softswitch, a method to connect calls from one phone line to another without a need to use traditional hardware.
TouchWave made significant business and technology advances in 1998 and quickly became a recognized contributor to the VoIP industry. In March 1998, TouchWave received the Best of Show Award at both at the Microsoft Network Telephony Forum and the Computer Telephony Expo (Los Angeles) for its WebSwitch product. In April, Communications Convergence magazine identified TouchWave's WebSwitch as "[hinting] at the future, where voice and data will live together on a single network." In July, TouchWave entered into a partnership agreement with British Telecom, the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the United Kingdom. The partnership brought TouchWave access to technical recommendations and product feedback from British Telecom to be used to develop WebSwitch. In August, Computer Telephony awarded TouchWave its Editor's Choice Award for the WebSwitch product. In September, TouchWave introduced a new version of WebSwitch. In October 1998, TouchWave entered into an agreement with Telogy Networks to include Telogy's embedded communications software in WebSwitch in order to improve the quality of its sound transmission. By the end of 1998, TouchWave had improved its product line to where it could replace traditional private telephone exchange systems in small-to-medium-sized companies throughout the world.
By early April 1999, TouchWave had upgraded their WebSwitch 1608 local area network dist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Freundlich | Jeff Freundlich is an American songwriter, producer and music industry executive. His music is heard in network, cable and syndicated TV shows, in major and independent films, and advertising campaigns.
A native of New York City, Freundlich graduated cum laude from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1998. Freundlich served as an analyst at Andersen Consulting (now called Accenture) from 1998–1999, he was a Marketing Manager for Net2Phone in Hackensack, New Jersey, from 1999–2002.
In 2002, Freundlich teamed with David Hilker and John Costello III, the owners of Phoenix, AZ recording studio, Wild Whirled Recording. The team formed Wild Whirled Music, which licenses copyrighted music content to all forms of electronic media. Wild Whirled Music represents Wild Whirled Music Catalog, Trailerville Music, Muzik Headz and independent label Fervor Records.
Freundlich serves as COO for Wild Whirled Music, Muzik Headz, and Executive Producer for Fervor Records. All companies are based in, Phoenix, AZ. Wild Whirled currently oversees the music publishing assets of the following catalogs:
Music Whirled Publishing, Inc., BMI
Mount Pilot Music Publishing, BMI
Mighty Music, BMI
Renda Music, BMI
Desert Palm, BMI
Trailerville Music, BMI
Cue Sheet Music, BMI
Earthcake Publishing, BMI
BIGBUZZ Music, BMI
Ultra Urban Music, ASCAP
Two Skullz Muzik Publishing, ASCAP
Vintage Masters Music, ASCAP
Distribution
Publishing catalogs are distributed internationally by:
Villasara Music House Italy
Sony/ATV Music Publishing France & Belgium
Musou Music Greece
Boosey & Hawkes, UK
Audio Factory, GMBH, Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Wild Whirled Music, North America
7 Out Music, North America
Select discography as writer, performer and producer
Pure House - 2 da Groove, Fervor Records (2007) - writer
Nu R&B - Various Artists, Fervor Records (2007) - writer
Fervor Divas Sing The Ballads - Various Artists, Fervor Records (2007) - writer, producer
Howell/Freundlich Overdrive - self-titled, Fervor Records (2008) - writer, producer, vocalist
Change We Can Believe In - Juice Monkey, Fervor Records (2008) - writer, producer, vocalist
Greatest Hits of the 70s - Smooth Double J, Fervor Records (2008) - writer, producer, vocalist
Christmas Fervor - Various Artists, Fervor Records (2008) - writer, producer, vocalist
1st Collection - Brill Street Collective, Fervor Records (2009) - writer, producer, vocalist, percussionist
Suicide Machine - Kaige & the Pubes, Fervor Records (2009) - writer, producer, vocalist
Notable credits
Freundlich has placed music with shows on every major USA TV network including:
A&E Network, ABC Television, ABC Family, AMC (TV network), Animal Planet, Bravo (US TV channel), CBS, CHUM Limited, Comedy Central, CTV Television Network, Discovery Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Disney, E!, Fit TV, Fox, FSN, Fuel, FX (TV network), Global Television Network, Hallmark Channel, HBO, HGTV, Lifetime Television, MTV, MTV2, N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%E2%80%93Micali%20algorithm | The Blum–Micali algorithm is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The algorithm gets its security from the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms.
Let be an odd prime, and let be a primitive root modulo . Let be a seed, and let
.
The th output of the algorithm is 1 if
.
Otherwise the output is 0. This is equivalent to using one bit of as your random number. It has been shown that bits of can be used if solving the discrete log problem is infeasible even for exponents with as few as bits.
In order for this generator to be secure, the prime number needs to be large enough so that computing discrete logarithms modulo is infeasible. To be more precise, any method that predicts the numbers generated will lead to an algorithm that solves the discrete logarithm problem for that prime.
There is a paper discussing possible examples of the quantum permanent compromise attack to the Blum–Micali construction. This attacks illustrate how a previous attack to the Blum–Micali generator can be extended to the whole Blum–Micali construction, including the Blum Blum Shub and Kaliski generators.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080216164459/http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/crypto/blummicali.xhtml
Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20data%20analysis | In applied mathematics, topological data analysis (TDA) is an approach to the analysis of datasets using techniques from topology. Extraction of information from datasets that are high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy is generally challenging. TDA provides a general framework to analyze such data in a manner that is insensitive to the particular metric chosen and provides dimensionality reduction and robustness to noise. Beyond this, it inherits functoriality, a fundamental concept of modern mathematics, from its topological nature, which allows it to adapt to new mathematical tools.
The initial motivation is to study the shape of data. TDA has combined algebraic topology and other tools from pure mathematics to allow mathematically rigorous study of "shape". The main tool is persistent homology, an adaptation of homology to point cloud data. Persistent homology has been applied to many types of data across many fields. Moreover, its mathematical foundation is also of theoretical importance. The unique features of TDA make it a promising bridge between topology and geometry.
Basic theory
Intuition
TDA is premised on the idea that the shape of data sets contains relevant information. Real high-dimensional data is typically sparse, and tends to have relevant low dimensional features. One task of TDA is to provide a precise characterization of this fact. For example, the trajectory of a simple predator-prey system governed by the Lotka–Volterra equations forms a closed circle in state space. TDA provides tools to detect and quantify such recurrent motion.
Many algorithms for data analysis, including those used in TDA, require setting various parameters. Without prior domain knowledge, the correct collection of parameters for a data set is difficult to choose. The main insight of persistent homology is to use the information obtained from all parameter values by encoding this huge amount of information into an understandable and easy-to-represent form. With TDA, there is a mathematical interpretation when the information is a homology group. In general, the assumption is that features that persist for a wide range of parameters are "true" features. Features persisting for only a narrow range of parameters are presumed to be noise, although the theoretical justification for this is unclear.
Early history
Precursors to the full concept of persistent homology appeared gradually over time. In 1990, Patrizio Frosini introduced a pseudo-distance between submanifolds, and later the size function, which on 1-dim curves is equivalent to the 0th persistent homology. Nearly a decade later, Vanessa Robins studied the images of homomorphisms induced by inclusion. Finally, shortly thereafter, Edelsbrunner et al. introduced the concept of persistent homology together with an efficient algorithm and its visualization as a persistence diagram. Carlsson et al. reformulated the initial definition and gave an equivalent visualization method called persistence b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Evangelical%20Christian%20Fellowship | The National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF) is a Christian organization in Malaysia.
History
The organization was formed in 1983. It was formed to provide a network of support for churches and individuals living with the challenges of religious laws, particularly the limiting of the number of sites for worship and the outlawing of public gatherings of five or more people. In 2023, almost 60% of churches in Malaysia are members of NECF.
Current status
It is part of the World Evangelical Alliance, the Christian Federation of Malaysia and the Evangelical Fellowship of Asia.
In 2023, the organization is led by Rev Dr Eu Hong Seng. Its current work includes working with churches in the area of Bible teaching, missions and social action.
Member churches
Assembly of God
Malaysia Baptist Convention
Christian Brethren of Malaysia
Evangelical Free Church
Full Gospel Assembly
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Hope of God Church
Independent Churches
Latter Rain Church
Salvation Army
Sidang Injil Borneo Sabah
Sidang Injil Borneo Sarawak
Sidang Injil Borneo Semenanjung
Bible Seminaries
Parachurches
Others - Individual Churches from mainstream denominations: Methodist, Presbyterian, etc.
See also
Christianity in Malaysia
Status of religious freedom in Malaysia
Methodist Church in Malaysia
Borneo Evangelical Church
Roman Catholicism in Malaysia
External links
References
Protestantism in Malaysia
Christian organizations established in 1983
National evangelical alliances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate%20Genome%20Annotation%20Project | The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (VEGA) database is a biological database dedicated to assisting researchers in locating specific areas of the genome and annotating genes or regions of vertebrate genomes. The VEGA browser is based on Ensembl web code and infrastructure and provides a public curation of known vertebrate genes for the scientific community. The VEGA website is updated frequently to maintain the most current information about vertebrate genomes and attempts to present consistently high-quality annotation of all its published vertebrate genomes or genome regions. VEGA was developed by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and is in close association with other annotation databases, such as ZFIN (The Zebrafish Information Network), the Havana Group and GenBank. Manual annotation is currently more accurate at identifying splice variants, pseudogenes, polyadenylation features, non-coding regions and complex gene arrangements than automated methods.
History
The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (VEGA) database was first made public in 2004 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. It was designed to view manual annotations of human, mouse and zebrafish genomic sequences, and it is the central cache for genome sequencing centers to deposit their annotation of human chromosomes. Manual annotation of genomic data is extremely valuable to produce an accurate reference gene set but is expensive compared with automatic methods and so has been limited to model organisms. Annotation tools that have been developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) are now being used to fill that gap, as they can be used remotely and so open up viable community annotation collaborations. The HAVANA and VEGA Projects were run by Dr. Jennifer Harrow of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. VEGA has been archived since February 2017 and the HAVANA team moved to EMBL-EBI in June 2017.
Human genome
The Vega database is the central repository for the majority of genome sequencing centers to deposit their annotation of human chromosomes. Since the original VEGA publication, the number of human gene loci annotated has more than doubled to over 49,000 (September 2012 release), over 20,000 of which are predicted to be protein coding. The Havana Group as part of the consensus-coding sequence (CCDS) collaboration and whole-genome extension of the ENCODE project have fully manually annotated the human genome—which is available for reference, comparative analysis and sequence searches on the VEGA database.
The final VEGA release was in February 2017 (release 68) and VEGA is now an archived site that will no longer be updated.
Other vertebrates
The VEGA database combines the information from individual vertebrate genome databases and brings them all together to allow easier access and comparative analysis for researchers. The human and vertebrate analysis and annotation (Havana) team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) manually annotate the human, mouse and zebrafish ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PV-Wave | PV-WAVE (Precision Visuals - Workstation Analysis and Visualization Environment) is an array oriented fourth-generation programming language used by engineers, scientists, researchers, business analysts and software developers to build and deploy visual data analysis applications. In January 2019, PV-Wave parent Rogue Wave Software was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce.
History
PV-WAVE was originally developed by a company called Precision Visuals, based in Boulder, CO. In 1992, the IMSL Numerical Libraries and Precision Visuals merged and the new company was renamed Visual Numerics.
PV-WAVE is closely related to the IDL (programming language), from whose code-base PV-WAVE originated. The shared history of PV-WAVE and IDL began in 1988, when Precision Visuals entered into an agreement with Research Systems, Incorporated (RSI, the original developer of IDL) under which Precision Visuals resold IDL under the name PV-WAVE. In September 1990, Precision Visuals exercised an option in its agreement with RSI to purchase a copy of the IDL source code. Since that time, IDL and PV-WAVE have been on separate development tracks: each product has been enhanced, supported, and maintained separately by its respective company.
In May 2009, Visual Numerics was acquired by Rogue Wave Software.
In January 2019, Rogue Wave Software was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce.
About
Due to their common history, PV-WAVE and IDL share a similar FORTRAN-like syntax, as well as many common commands, functions, and subroutines.
References
External links
PV-WAVE site
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailloux | Mailloux is a surname.
Persons
Notable people with the surname include:
Barry J. Mailloux (19??-1982), Canadian computer scientist, editor and professor
Élie Mailloux (1830–1893), Canadian politician
Élodie Mailloux (1865–1937), Canadian nun and nursing school administrator
Eugene Mailloux (1878–1929), Canadian businessman
Pierre Mailloux (1949-), Canadian psychiatrist and radio host
Raymond Mailloux (1918–1995), Canadian politician
See also
Mailloux River, a tributary of the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, in La Malbaie, Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%206010 | The Nokia 6010 is an entry-level mobile phone with a Nokia Series 40 96 × 65 color user interface.
Released in 2004, it operates on North American GSM-1900 and GSM-850 networks. GPRS is used for data transmission and mobile Internet WAP 2.0 service. Users can download Java applications, background images, and polyphonic ringtones. The phone is an update of the Nokia 3595, with a more conservative design to appeal to business users, rather than the youth-oriented design of the 3595. The 6010 also includes updated firmware, with many software bugs from the 3595 fixed. The phone supports SMS and MMS messaging and includes an IM client for AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ in the latest firmware revisions. Basic functions include a calendar, 30 entry To-do list, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a calculator, and a voice command system. The 6010 is of the DCT4 hardware generation. The faceplate can be customized with an Xpress-on changeable cover. The phone does not have a camera and is somewhat larger than other phones of the time.
Reception
Nokia 6010 is said to be a solid, reliable and durable mobile phone. As with many Nokia handsets, tests have shown that the phone is able to resist rugged use and extreme environmental conditions.
Technical Information
References
6010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo%20slideshow%20software | Photo slideshow software is computer software used to display a range of digital photos, images and video clips in a predefined order. In most cases the output file is a standard video file or an executable file which contains all the sound and images for display.
Typical features
Slideshow applications usually offer the following functions: image editing (including photo enhancement, cropping, brightness & contrast settings, photo vintage effects), special animation effects (Ken Burns Effects, rotation, 3D flips), transitions, a collection of pre-designed images (clip art), background music soundtrack, opening and closing titles, voice-over recording, text captions, etc.
Some programs have the ability to search and import images from Flickr or Google. Custom graphics can also be created in other programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator and then exported to a slideshow maker.
Software
PhotoStage
See also
Slide show
Presentation program
Non-linear editing
Comparison of image viewers
Audiovisual education
Showcase Presentations
Wireless clicker
References
Further reading
Photo software
Presentation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSport | NewSport was an American cable and satellite television network that was owned by Rainbow Programming Holdings, a joint venture between the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision, NBC and Liberty Media. Predating the launch of the originally similar ESPNews by three years, it focused on 24-hour coverage of sports news and analysis.
History
NewSport debuted on October 1, 1993, replacing SportsChannel America, a national version spun off of Rainbow's SportsChannel regional sports network group. NewSport developed a unique sports ticker, known as the "NewSport Score Box", which debuted in 1995 and provided constantly updated score information on ongoing games and schedules for upcoming sports events at the bottom right of the screen.
The network also aired original programs such as NewSport Talk (a sports discussion program), NewSport Journal, NewSport Tonite (a nightly program featuring news and analysis on the day in sports) and Scoreboard Central (which premiered on April 29, 1995, a 12-hour sports news program that aired on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time). Programming from the network was used as filler on Rainbow's regional SportsChannel networks and PRISM (a Philadelphia-area movies/sports pay service also owned by Rainbow); some over-the-air television stations, like WYLN-CD, also carried NewSport programming.
The network was slow to grow in coverage, with relatively limited carriage on cable system operators besides Cablevision, owner of SportsChannel and NewSport parent Rainbow Media. Ironically, even Cablevision did not give the network full-time coverage as it carried NewSport on the channel slots also occupied by The Weather Channel on some of their systems through a time-share arrangement. At its peak, NewSport had only about 10 million subscribers nationwide. This slow growth and lack of viewers, combined with the wide distribution and success of ESPNEWS and Rainbow reportedly losing more than $20 million operating the network, resulted in Rainbow Programming Holdings deciding to shut down NewSport on July 9, 1997.
American Sports Classics
American Sports Classics (named after then-sister network American Movie Classics) was a network that focused on sports nostalgia programming; it was originally set to launch after NewSport ceased operations on July 9, 1997, however its launch was postponed "indefinitely" for a time, after Rainbow Media transferred control of the network to Fox/Liberty Networks, a joint venture between News Corporation, Liberty Media and Cablevision created after News Corporation acquired a 40% stake in Cablevision's sports properties for $850 million in June 1997. When it launched that fall, the network featured a broad mix of biographical and magazine-style programs.
ASC's format contrasted with the similarly focused Classic Sports Network (which later became ESPN Classic), which at the time mostly showed archived sports event telecasts. The reason why the launch was postpone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cand.%20it. | Cand. it., candidatus (male) or candidata (female) informationis technologiæ is a graduate academic title, which is used in Denmark. The English equivalent title is Master of Science in Information Technology.
The title describes a candidate with a multidisciplinary approach to computer science and computer related fields, and aspects of human science, social science, natural science and economics can be found in the study programmes that award the title.
In Denmark, the title can be obtained at the IT University of Copenhagen and through It-vest (a collaboration between several Danish universities).
See also
IT University of Copenhagen
External links
http://www.itu.dk/
http://www.it-vest.dk/
Professional titles and certifications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20transport%20model | A chemical transport model (CTM) is a type of computer numerical model which typically simulates atmospheric chemistry and may give air pollution forecasting.
Chemical transport models and general circulation models
While related general circulation models (GCMs) focus on simulating overall atmospheric dynamics (e.g. fluid and heat flows), a CTM instead focuses on the stocks and flows of one or more chemical species. Similarly, a CTM must solve only the continuity equation for its species of interest, a GCM must solve all the primitive equations for the atmosphere; but a CTM will be expected to accurately represent the entire cycle for the species of interest, including fluxes (e.g. advection), chemical production/loss, and deposition. That being said, the tendency, especially as the cost of computing declines over time, is for GCMs to incorporate CTMs for species of special interest to climate dynamics, especially shorter-lived species such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds; this allows feedbacks from the CTM to the GCM's radiation calculations, and also allows the meteorological fields forcing the CTM to be updated at higher time resolution than may be practical in studies with offline CTMs.
Types of chemical transport models
CTMs may be classified according to their methodology and their species of interest, as well as more generic characteristics (e.g. dimensionality, degree of resolution).
Methodologies
Jacob (1999) classifies CTMs as Eulerian/"box" or Lagrangian/"puff" models, depending on whether the CTM in question focuses on
(Eulerian) "boxes" through which fluxes, and in which chemical production/loss and deposition occur over time
(Lagrangian) the production and motion of parcels of air ("puffs") over time
An Eulerian CTM solves its continuity equations using a global/fixed frame of reference, while a Lagrangian CTM uses a local/moving frame of reference.
See also
discussion of gridding in CLaMS
Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinates
discussion of the continuity equation in Jacob's Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry online
Examples of Eulerian CTMs
CCATT-BRAMS
WRF-Chem
CMAQ, CMAQ Website
CAMx
GEOS-Chem
LOTOS-EUROS
MATCH
MOZART: (Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers) is developed jointly by the (US) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-Met) to simulate changes in ozone concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere. MOZART was designed to simulate tropospheric chemical and transport processes, but has been extended (MOZART3) into the stratosphere and mesosphere. It can be driven by standard meteorological fields from, for example,the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), or by fields generated from general circulation models. MOZART4 improves MOZART2' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicling%20America | Chronicling America is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NDNP was founded in 2005. The Chronicling America website was publicly launched in March 2007. It is hosted by the Library of Congress. Much of the content hosted on Chronicling America is in the public domain.
The database is searchable by key terms, state, language, time period, or newspaper. The Chronicling America website contains digitized newspaper pages and information about historic newspapers to place the primary sources in context and support future research. It hosts newspapers written in a variety of languages. In selecting newspapers to digitize, the site relies on the discretion of contributing institutions.
The project describes itself as a "long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages." Local participants in the project receive two-year grants to scan approximately 100,000 newspaper pages, primarily from microfilm. For newspapers that are not digitized, the website directs users to library locations that are known to have the desired records available.
History
The first series of newspaper digitization was completed with input from universities in 2007, and included public domain entries from six states and the District of Columbia. The site was launched for public use In March 2007.
In June 2009, the site added support for Web crawlers and API. In May 2011, the site added tools to share its digitized content on social media. As of 2012, Chronicling America had over 5.2 million individual newspaper pages available for viewing and/or downloading, representing 801 titles from 32 states; though the project initially targeted newspapers from the 1900-1910 period, it had gradually expanded so that papers scanned currently span the years 1836-1922. Papers from 4 additional states (Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, and North Carolina) were then slated to be added to the collection, and grant-funded projects to scan papers from these states were then underway so that the material could be added to the site in 2013.
By 2014, the website hosted digital newspaper records from thirty-six states. By October 2015, that number had risen to thirty-eight, and it had digitized over 10 million pages. As of 2016, the database had expanded its coverage to include content ranging from 1690 to 1963. Geographically, its coverage had then expanded to 48 states and 2 United States territories. As of 2021, that expanded to support digitization of records from all U.S. states and territories. As of 2020, it had digitized 16.3 million pages.
References
External links
Chronicling America at the Library of Congress website
National Endowment for the Humanities webpage on NDNP
Library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20oil%20production | This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2022, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Compared with shorter-term data, the full-year figures are less prone to distortion from periodic maintenance shutdowns and other seasonal cycles.
The volumes in the table represent crude oil and lease condensate, the hydrocarbon liquids collected at or near the wellhead. The volumes in this table does not include biofuel, refinery gain (the increase in liquid volumes during oil refining), or liquids separated from natural gas in gas processing plants (natural gas liquids). Production data including these other liquids is usually referred to as "Total Liquids Production," "Petroleum & Other Liquids," etc.
Under this definition (crude and condensate), total world oil production in 2022 averaged 80,618,895 barrels per day. Approximately 69% came from the top ten countries, and an overlapping 38% came from the thirteen current OPEC members, in the table below. Members of OPEC+, which includes current OPEC members produce 58% of the world's petroleum.
In recent history, the top three producers have been the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Each of these countries experienced major production declines at different times in the past, but since 2014 all three have been producing near their peak rates of 9 to 11 million barrels per day. Saudi Arabia and Russia also top the list of oil exporting countries.
The United States became a net petroleum exporter in 2020, for the first time since at least 1949. U.S. crude oil exports reached a record high in the first half of 2023. U.S. oil production reached a record high in October 2023.
See also
List of countries by natural gas production
List of countries by natural gas proven reserves
List of countries by natural gas consumption
List of countries by oil consumption
List of countries by proven oil reserves
Natural gas by country
World energy supply and consumption
References
Oil production
Production
Petroleum economics
Oil production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.%20JD | Ms. JD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes women in the legal profession and provides an online forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and law students in all arenas of the legal profession. Ms. JD was created in 2006, by women law students from 12 law schools from around the United States. Ms. JD's mission is to reinforce and expand the representation of women in law school and the legal profession.
Purpose
Ms. JD disseminates information and fosters dialogue about and for women in the law. In addition, Ms. JD provides summer scholarships to law students working in government or public interest positions, sponsors writing contests that expand the dialogue about key issues affecting women lawyers, and organizes conferences and networking events for women lawyers and law students. Through its online website, Ms. JD explores the work of female attorneys, provides networking opportunities, offers critical analysis of relevant news, and discussions for women about their chosen fields of law. Ms. JD also spotlights women in the law and explores women-friendly practices across a spectrum of legal institutions.
History
Though women comprise approximately half of the student body of American law schools, they represent only 17% of partners at major law firms and less than a quarter of tenured law professors. Similarly, on the national level, we have had only one female U.S. Attorney General, three female Secretaries of State, three women Supreme Court Justices, and one acting Solicitor General. Concerned by the rates at which women opt out of the legal profession, the lack of representation of women in the highest courts and echelons of the legal community, and the role of gender in the progression of many women's legal careers, a group of female law students from UC Berkeley, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UCLA, UT Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Yale Law School came together and created Ms. JD in March 2006 at a two-day conference hosted by Stanford Law School. In 2006, Ms. JD incorporated in the state of California and received 501(c)(3) charitable status from the Internal Revenue Service. On March 31, 2007, Ms. JD publicly launched its website at a national conference co-hosted by Yale Law Women and hosted at Yale Law School. The Women's Law School Coalition (WLSC) merged with Ms. JD in 2007.
NWLSO
In April 2008, Ms. JD launched the National Women Law Students' Organization (NWLSO) in New York City with representatives from more than 70 law schools in 33 states represented. Keynote remarks were provided by Chief Judge Judith Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals; Barbara Babcock, the first female professor at Stanford Law School; and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com.
NWLSO connects women law students across the country to identify common goals and share knowledge and support with one a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20Apple%20II%20series | This timeline of Apple II Family models lists all major types of Apple II computers produced by Apple Computer in order of introduction date. The Apple I and Apple III are included, even though they are not classed as part of the Apple II series, because of their unique role in Apple's product lineup of the era.
Detailed timeline
See also
Timeline of Apple products – includes complete list of Apple II family peripherals and software sold by Apple
Timeline of Macintosh models
References
External links
Specifications, Apple Computer, Inc.
Steven Weyhrich, Apple II History, apple2history.org
Glen Sanford, Apple History, apple-history.com
Dan Knight, Computer Profiles, LowEndMac, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
Apple Product Design Timeline
3
Apple II family
Apple II family
Apple II family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Empowerment%20Network | The Community Empowerment Network (CEN) is a US-based non-profit organization that focuses information technology education in rural communities and
developing countries.
History
CEN was founded by Robert Bortner in November 2004. Between 2002 and June 2004, Robert was managing the USAID-funded Rio Tapajós (Brazil) Telecenter Installation Project, which installed solar powered community operated telecenters in the communities of Suruacá and Maguari. After completion of this project, Bob continued to work with these communities and with the community of Xixuau, located approximately 500 km north of Manaus along the Rio Jauaperi, and he mentored key activists in the communities. Encouraged by their significant progress in addressing community challenges and becoming more independent, Bob launched CEN and continued this work as the Amazon Pilot Project. In April 2008 CEN began the implementation of the Creating a Culture of Learning and Empowerment in the Amazon () Project. Angela Viehmayer, Director at Brazilian NGO ( Link Social) and serving on the CEN board, is the Field Manager for the project to add a sustained presence to the communities.
The CEN Amazon pilot project
CEN is working on a pilot project consisting of three communities in the Brazilian Amazon. In two communities located along the upper Tapajós River, it helped manage the installation of solar-powered, internet-connected telecenters, which was completed by mid-2004.
This project was selected as a finalist in the 2006 Stockholm Challenge
See also
Community empowerment network
References
External links
CEN home page
Non-profit organizations based in Seattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOZR-LP | KOZR-LP (102.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Gentry, Arkansas. The station is owned by Gentry Communications Network Inc. It airs a Christian radio format deriving a portion of its programming from Radio 74 Internationale.
The station was assigned the KOZR-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 20, 2004.
References
External links
KOZR-LP service area per the FCC database
OZR-LP
OZR-LP
Gentry, Arkansas
Radio 74 Internationale radio stations
2004 establishments in Arkansas
Radio stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qore%20%28PlayStation%20Network%29 | Qore (pronounced "core") was a monthly subscription-based interactive online magazine for the PlayStation Network and replaces the Jampack series of disks offered by PlayStation Underground. Available only in North America, the service offered high definition videos, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage pertaining to upcoming and recently released PlayStation games. It also offered exclusive access to game demos and betas. The product was available to download to the PlayStation 3 from the PlayStation Store, where users were able to choose to purchase individual episodes or an annual, 13-episode subscription. PlayStation Plus subscribers received Qore free of charge for the duration of their subscription. The magazine was presented by Veronica Belmont & Audrey Cleo and later Jesse 'Blaze' Snider & Tiffany Smith.
Qore aired its 47th and final episode on April 10, 2012.
History
On June 3, 2008, Sony announced a new service, Qore, which launched on the PlayStation Store in North America on June 6, 2008. In the press release published on the Official PlayStation Blog, Qore: Presented by the PlayStation Network was described as "a highly interactive, monthly lifestyle gaming program covering the world inside PlayStation".
Service
Game videos
Each episode included a selection of behind-the-scenes videos, previews, interviews and news related to PlayStation products. Videos were presented in 720p. Each episode contains between 25 and 30 minutes of video content, not including advertisements, the opening trailer, or introduction videos.
Download center
People who purchased a one-year subscription to Qore gained access to exclusive playable and downloadable PSone games, demos, betas, and themes. All content was to be downloaded through the PlayStation Network while signed in through Qore's Download Center.
Access
Once purchased, Qore programs became available on the PlayStation Store's Download List. If an annual subscription was purchased, episodes were automatically added to the user's Download List. Redeemable codes for Qore episodes have also been included free with each issue of the PlayStation Magazine.
Notable Content
June 2008, Episode 1 - SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Confrontation beta invitation
July 2008, Episode 2 - Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm demo early access
August 2008, Episode 3 - Resistance 2 beta invitation
September 2008, Episode 4 - MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo early access
October 2008, Episode 5 - Valkyria Chronicles demo early access
November 2008, Episode 6 - PlayStation Home closed beta invitation for annual subscribers
December 2008, Episode 7, Free episode - Flock! demo early access for annual subscribers
January 2009, Episode 8 - F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin demo early access
February 2009, Episode 9 - Syphon Filter PS1 classic voucher
March 2009, Episode 10 - High Velocity Bowling full PSN game voucher for annual subscribers
April 2009, Episode 11, Free episode - Linger in Shadows voucher and Red Faction: Gue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qore | Qore may refer to:
Qore (title), a monarch of the Kingdom of Kush
Qore (PlayStation Network), an interactive online magazine for the PlayStation Network
Qore (programming language), an embeddable multithreaded programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaCommons | MediaCommons is an in-development all-electronic scholarly publishing network in media studies, being created in partnership with the Institute for the Future of the Book and with the support of New York University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
MediaCommons established its first presence on the web in November 2006 with a now-defunct development site named "making MediaCommons," and opened its current web site in March 2007. The first project established on MediaCommons was In Media Res, an ongoing feature in which notable scholars in media studies present and comment upon brief, timely videoclips, aiming to promote dialogue between scholars and the broader public about the significance of media representations and forms.
MediaCommons claims among its goals a transformation in scholarly publishing, suggesting that the network "will not simply shift the locus of publishing from print to screen, but will actually transform what it means to 'publish,' allowing the author, the publisher, and the reader all to make the process of such discourse just as visible as its product." The network promises to speed up the processes of publishing, but also to shift the focus of scholarly publishing back to communication amongst scholars. For this reason, the editors describe MediaCommons as a "scholarly network" rather than an electronic journal or press.
MediaCommons is also an experiment in reimagining the processes of peer review in the humanities, opening up the process to public debate and discussion, and using both web-based metrics and commentary to create a process of "peer-to-peer review." The backbone of this system is a social networking system currently being built by the NYU Digital Library Technology Services.
MediaCommons has thus far published two commentable papers, one on the future of scholarly publishing, and the other on CommentPress, the WordPress theme developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book that allows for paragraph-by-paragraph commenting on lengthy documents.
The co-coordinating editors of MediaCommons are Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo, and the project draws on the support of an editorial board of scholars from across the digital humanities.
External links
MediaCommons
Institute for the Future of the Book
Article on MediaCommons on Inside Higher Education
Article on MediaCommons on Ars Technica
Article on MediaCommons on ZDNet
Article on MediaCommons on AcademicCommons
References
Academic publishing
Electronic publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic%20Network%20Architecture | The Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA) project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel autonomic networking architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomous formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. Universities and research institutes from Europe and Northern America are participating in this project.
The resulting autonomic network architecture will allow dynamic adaptation and re-organisation of the network according to the working, economical and social needs of the users. This is expected to be especially challenging in a mobile context where new resources become available dynamically, administrative domains change frequently, and the economic models may vary.
About the Project
This Integrated Project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel network architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomic formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. It will allow dynamic adaptation and re-organization of the network according to the working, economical and social needs of the users. This is expected to be especially challenging in a mobile context where new resources become available dynamically, administrative domains change frequently, and the economic models may vary.
The scientific objective of this proposal is to identify fundamental autonomic network principles. Moreover, this project will build, demonstrate, and test such an autonomic network architecture. The key attribute is that such a network scales in a functional way that is, the network can extend both horizontally (more functionality) as well as vertically (different ways of integrating abundant functionality). The challenge addressed in this project is to come up with a network architecture and to fill it with the functionality needed to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomic networking within the coming 4 years.
Facts and Figures
Period: January 1, 2006–December 31, 2009
Funding Agency: European Union (EU)
Program: Information Societies Technology—Future Emerging Technologies (IST-FET)
Coordinating Agency: ETH Zurich, Communication Systems Group
Project Objectives
The Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA) project has two complementary objectives that iteratively provide feedback to each other: a scientific objective and a technological one.
Scientific Objective
To identify fundamental autonomic networking principles that enable networks to scale not only in size but also in functionality. The main premise of our work is that a functionally scaling network is a synonym for an evolving network which includes the various self-x attributes essential to autonomic communication such as self-management, self-optimization, self-monitoring, self-repair, and self-protection. The hypothesis is that, due to these |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR%2036 | The GR 36 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Ouistreham, on the Normandy coast of the English Channel, with Bourg-Madame, on the Pyrenees border with Spain.
Along the way, the route passes through:
Ouistreham
Caen
Le Mans
Saumur
Thouars
Parthenay
Niort
Angoulême
Périgueux
Cahors
Albi
Carcassonne
Bourg-Madame
References
External links
GR36 From Ouistreham (Calvados) to Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin (Orne)
GR36 From Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin (Orne) to Mont-Saint-Jean (Sarthe)
GR36 From Mont-Saint-Jean to St Mars-d'Outille (Sarthe)
GR36 From St Mars-d'Outille (Sarthe) to Brain-sur-Allonnes (Maine-et-Loire)
GR36 From Brain-sur-Allonnes (Maine-et-Loire) to Gourge (Deux-Sevres)
GR36 From Gourge to Chize (Deux-Sevres)
GR36 From Chize (Deux-Sevres) to La Rochefoucauld (Charente)
GR36 From La Rochefoucauld (Charente) to Bourdeilles (Dordogne)
GR36 From Bourdeilles to Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Dordogne)
GR36 From Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (Dordogne) to Prayssac (Lot)
GR36 From Prayssac (Lot) to Savignac (Aveyron)
GR36 From Savignac (Aveyron) to Marsal (Tarn)
GR36 From Marsal to Cambounes (Tarn)
GR36 From Cambounes (Tarn) to Ribaute (Aude)
GR36 From Ribaute (Aude) to Sournia (Pyrenees-Orientales)
GR36 From Sournia to Bourg-Madame (Pyrenees-Orientales)
Hiking trails in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anie | Anie may refer to:
Pic d'Anie, a mountain peak in the Pyrenees of France
Anié, a town in Togo
The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGACCESS | ACM SIGACCESS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on accessible computing, an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, clinicians and rehabilitation personnel, policy makers, end users, and students to develop technologies for use by people with disabilities.
History
In 1964, the Association for Computing Machinery started a Committee on Professional Activities for the Blind, which published a newsletter for four years and organized a conference in 1969. The purpose of the committee was to promote and support blind people as capable programmers. The committee broadened its focus to include other people with disabilities and became the "Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped" (SIGCAPH) in 1971.
In 2003, the SIG was renamed to SIGACCESS.
Conferences
The ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) is the flagship annual conference. All conference contributions are peer-reviewed by an international program committee, and accepted papers, posters and demonstrations are archived in the ACM Digital Library. All authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS).
SIGACCESS also sponsors other ACM workshops and conferences on a rotating basis.
Journal
Transactions on Accessible Computing is a quarterly ACM journal that publishes refereed articles about accessible computing. The journal places emphasis on contributions with experimental results, but also accepts papers with new theoretical insights or positions.
SIGACCESS also publishes the Accessibility and Computing newsletter.
Awards
ASSETS Paper Impact Award
The ASSETS Paper Impact Award is given to authors whose papers have made a significant impact on the field. Papers must be at least ten years old to be considered.
Outstanding Contribution to Computing and Accessibility Award
The Outstanding Contribution award is given in even-numbered years and recipients give a keynote presentation at the following ASSETS conference.
Previous recipients:
2018 - Judy Brewer
2016 - Richard E. Ladner
2014 - Vicki L. Hanson
2012 - John A. Gardner
2010 - Albert M. Cook
2008 - James Thatcher
References
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
Computer accessibility
Assistive technology
Web accessibility |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Research | SAP Research is the global technology research unit of SAP SE with a network of 21 research locations worldwide. Each center is located in close proximity to an SAP development center or on a university campus. The group significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends its leading position in the market by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends and generating breakthrough technologies through applied research. In contrast to SAP's product groups and development labs that work on new functions and releases, its researchers explore opportunities that have not yet been developed into products.
The business model of SAP Research is based on co-innovation through collaborative research: in collaboration with leading universities, partners, customers, and SAP product groups, SAP Research drives the development of promising ideas and prototypes into market-ready software for maximum customer value. To that end, customers are involved early on in the research process through special Lighthouse Projects. Meanwhile, dedicated Living Labs demonstrate technological research in real-world settings, thus turning prospective SAP solutions into tangible experiences.
Among the most recent successes of SAP Research are the opening of the Future Factory in Dresden—a joint effort of SAP Research as well as industrial and academic partner organizations to foster research and development for the manufacturing industry—and its participation in the Cooperative Research Centre on Smart Services (Smart Services CRC) in Australia.
SAP Research locations
Walldorf, Germany (Headquarters)
Bangalore, India
Mumbai, India
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Brisbane, Australia
Darmstadt, Germany
Dresden, Germany
Karlsruhe, Germany
Pretoria, South Africa (closed in May 2015)
Raanana, Israel
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sophia Antipolis, France
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Zürich, Switzerland
Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Beijing, China.
References
External links
SAP
SAP Research and Innovation discussions, blogs, documents and videos on the SAP Community Network (SCN)
SAP Research Report 2009/2010
Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20cluster%20software | The following tables compare general and technical information for notable computer cluster software. This software can be grossly separated in four categories: Job scheduler, nodes management, nodes installation and integrated stack (all the above).
General information
Table explanation
Software: The name of the application that is described
Technical information
Table Explanation
Software: The name of the application that is described
SMP aware:
basic: hard split into multiple virtual host
basic+: hard split into multiple virtual host with some minimal/incomplete communication between virtual host on the same computer
dynamic: split the resource of the computer (CPU/Ram) on demand
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
List of cluster management software
Computer cluster
Grid computing
World Community Grid
Distributed computing
Distributed resource management
High-Throughput Computing
Job Processing Cycle
Batch processing
Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Cluster computing
Cluster software
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20Gordon%20%28video%20game%29 | Flash Gordon is a video game based on a comic strip character of the same name. The game was published in 1986 by Mastertronic for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and MSX personal computers.
It features three individual levels. The first is set on the jungle world of Arboria in which Flash Gordon has to traverse through the jungle like maze to escape. The second level is a beat'em up style game in which Flash fights Prince Barin. The final level is a 3D style shooter which has Flash flying a rocket cycle in pursuit of Ming the Merciless.
Reception
Zzap!64 praised the Commodore 64 version of the game. Reviewers appreciated the gameplay variety offered by the three different sections of the game, and the quality of graphics and sound. It was rated 89% overall.
References
External links
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
MSX games
Mastertronic games
Flash Gordon
Video games based on comics
Video games scored by Rob Hubbard
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set on fictional planets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1995–96 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1995 to August 1996. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1995–96 season.
This was the first season in which The WB and UPN – which both launched in mid-January of that year – offered daytime programming, composed entirely of children's programming blocks on the respective networks: The WB aired its Kids' WB block on weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings, while UPN aired the hour-long UPN Kids block on Sunday mornings.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday–Friday
Notes:
ABC, NBC and CBS offered their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling.
Loving aired its last episode on ABC on November 10, 1995; The City, a New York City-set spin-off that initially featured 12 characters that appeared on Loving at the time of the latter's cancellation, premiered in its place on November 13. Both soap operas were fed to affiliates at Noon/11:00 a.m. CT or 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. CT, depending on local scheduling preference.
Saturday
Notes:
CBS temporarily aired Garfield and Friends at 8:00a.m. ET from September 16 to October 7 alon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials%202%3A%20Second%20Edition | Trials 2: Second Edition is a racing video game developed and published by RedLynx. It is available for the Windows operating system through the developer's online store, and Valve's digital distribution system Steam. It was released on March 1, 2008 on the game's website, and May 28, 2008, on Steam. It is a remake of the 2007 game Trials 2.
Gameplay
The objective of the game is to get from the start of the level to the end through a number of obstacles as fast as possible. The player must balance and control their speed so that they don't fall. There is a clock so that the player is pressured into completing the level faster, which ensures replayability. The game also has achievements, similar to Xbox 360 achievements. The game's multiplayer features include highscores, ghost challenge (where the user plays against the ghost of any other player in the high score list) and online player profiles with team, country and player statistics. The game uses 3-D graphics, but is played on a 2-D plane, so the player can only move forwards, backwards, up or down (not left or right).
Reception
Trials 2: Second Edition was well received by critics. The game got an average score of 81% on GameRankings and 82% on Metacritic. GamingTrend gave it 85%, saying "Trials 2 is a throwback to old school gaming. It is a game that doesn't try to be too many things. It takes a single concept and executes it well." 2404.org gave it 9.1/10, simply saying "It's one of those games which hooks you immediately."
See also
Excitebike
Kikstart 2
Motocross Maniacs
Elasto Mania (and its clone Bike or Die)
Trials HD
References
External links
Official website
2008 video games
Motorcycle video games
Racing video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Finland
Windows games
Windows-only games
RedLynx games
Trials (series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20of%20the%20Forest%20%28film%29 | Spirit of the Forest, () is a 2008 Spanish computer-animated family film by Dygra Films and sequel to The Living Forest. The film was released in Spain on September 12, 2008.
Premise
Mrs. D'Abondo wants the forest of the living trees to be cut down to make way for a highway, but Furi, Cebolo, Tigre and other animals manage to defeat her to save it.
Voice cast
The voice cast of the English speaking version includes:
Sean Astin as Furi
Giovanni Ribisi as Cebolo
Ron Perlman as Oak
Anjelica Huston as Mrs. D'Abondo
Additional voices
Nevertheless, most of the voice production for this film was recorded in London at St Anne's Court, now part of Ascent Media. English voices include talented actors such as
Tom Clark-Hill as Eucalyptus, Tigre, Mr. D'Abondo and Triston
Jo Wyatt as Pearl
Eric Meyers as Rosendo and Rodemor
Laurence Bouvard as Linda and Baby
Martin T. Sherman as Hu-Hu and Piorno
Stefan Ashton Frank as Hoho, Magnate and Cuscus
Laurel Lefkow as Holm Oak and Sabela
Stéphane Cornicard as Twins
Glenn Wrage as Gordo and Pine
Recording sessions were cast and directed by Xevi Fernandez, who specialises in Spanish-English-Spanish film dubbing. The cast of actors (above) were recorded in Hollywood.
References
External links
Hollywood Reporter article
2008 films
Spanish computer-animated films
2000s Spanish-language films
2000s children's animated films
2008 computer-animated films
2000s English-language films
2000s Spanish films
Animated films set in forests
Spanish animated feature films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20network%20assurance | IT network assurance quantifies risk from an IT network perspective, based on analysis of network facts. Examples could be identifying configuration errors in network equipment, which may result in loss of connectivity between devices, degradation of performance or network outages. Relevant facts about the network that could be analyzed would include not only network configuration files, but current network state, network traffic analysis, error logs or performance data.
Network Assurance is closely related to the topic of Service assurance, which is primarily for service providers and telecommunication networks to ensure the proper level and quality of network service are delivered to customers. IT network assurance is generally for corporate networks and enterprise IT departments. Network assurance involves the engineering process of formal verification, which specifically contrasts with design testing. Verification of network design compares the policy requirements of the network with the actual implementation under all conditions, rather than testing specific test scenarios under a finite number of conditions.
A complement to IT application-level security and data-level security solutions, and a sub-set of Network management, Network assurance measures the impact of network change on security, availability, and compliance. Network assurance helps companies keep policies and defences correctly implemented during times of rapid network change. It also helps organizations prioritize remediation efforts and validate network policies and controls.
Colleges are now offering classes specifically for this Network Management sub-domain under IT Forensics. The capabilities of a network assurance solution also overlap closely with the technology category of intent-based networking, which also compares network intent and required policies with actual network designs and configurations to provide assurance of network functions.
Vendors
IP Fabric introduced a software platform in 2017 which seeks to improve the reliability and security of enterprise networks through continuous network assurance. Cisco introduced a network assurance solution in January 2018 called Network Assurance Engine. Veriflow Systems is another vendor that claims to provide network assurance capabilities in its platform through continuous network verification. All three of these systems rely on a mathematical model of the network, rather than monitoring of live network traffic, to analyze and verify behavior in comparison to network intent and desired policies.
See also
Gordon–Loeb model for cyber security investments
References
Network management
Quality assurance
Risk analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20EeeBox%20PC | Asus EeeBox PC (formerly Asus Eee Box) is a nettop computer line from ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated, and a part of the Asus Eee product family. First released on August 11, 2008, the Asus EeeBox PC series is marketed as a small, light, inexpensive and energy-efficient counterpart to the Asus Eee PC netbook / subnotebook laptop series. Its motherboard employs Splashtop technology called Express Gate by Asus.
Features
"Instant-On"
The EeeBox PC motherboard features a form of embedded Linux, referred to in the user manual as Express Gate, a result of the ASUS SplashTop software. In the EeeBox PC implementation, the user is presented with a customised Linux desktop a few seconds after powering up the EeeBox PC, with the option of launching a web browser, an online chat application, a file manager, a photo browser or a Skype application, without having to load the main operating system.
If the user does not select any of these options, the main operating system (typically Windows XP Home) loads automatically.
Low power consumption
The EeeBox PC uses an external power supply, but due to the low power requirements, this unit is physically smaller than most external computer laptop power supplies. At December 2008, the supplied UK power adapter is a small rectangular "in-line" block measuring approximately 30 mm × 35 mm wide, and around 90 mm long (not including cable stress relief grommets).
"Zero footprint" option
As of December 2008, the EeeBox PC comes with two mounting options, a desktop stand, and a monitor mounting.
The monitor mounting option consists of a heavy plate with mounting holes designed to fit to the VESA 100 or VESA 75 mount area found on the back of many flat-screen monitors. When mounted on the back of a monitor, the EeeBox PC does not require any desk space. With the addition of a compatible USB "TV tuner" dongle the EeeBox PC can be used as a digital television adapter, and add both TV reception and recording facilities to a flat computer monitor.
Robustness
The EeeBox PC hard drive has a hidden recovery partition containing an image of the factory OS installation. This allows the EeeBox PC's operating system to be reset to its initial factory state without the need for any external media or optical disc hardware (although conventional recovery discs are also included).
The permanently embedded Linux system also guarantees a working graphical user interface and a certain degree of functionality (such as web browsing) even without a separate functioning operating system; on most computer systems, the only embedded functionality in this situation would be a very limited set of menu-driven BIOS commands.
Models
See also
Asus Eee Top – a PC integrated in a touchscreen monitor
Asus Eee PC – netbooks
Acer AspireRevo
Dell Studio Hybrid
Mac Mini
MSI Wind PC
References
External links
Official product page
EeeBox PC
Nettop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical%20statistical%20laws | An empirical statistical law or (in popular terminology) a law of statistics represents a type of behaviour that has been found across a number of datasets and, indeed, across a range of types of data sets. Many of these observances have been formulated and proved as statistical or probabilistic theorems and the term "law" has been carried over to these theorems. There are other statistical and probabilistic theorems that also have "law" as a part of their names that have not obviously derived from empirical observations. However, both types of "law" may be considered instances of a scientific law in the field of statistics. What distinguishes an empirical statistical law from a formal statistical theorem is the way these patterns simply appear in natural distributions, without a prior theoretical reasoning about the data.
Examples
There are several such popular "laws of statistics".
The Pareto principle is a popular example of such a "law". It states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, and is thus also known as the 80/20 rule. In business, the 80/20 rule says that 80% of your business comes from just 20% of your customers. In software engineering, it is often said that 80% of the errors are caused by just 20% of the bugs. 20% of the world creates roughly 80% of worldwide GDP. 80% of healthcare expenses in the US are caused by 20% of the population.
Zipf's law, described as an "empirical statistical law" of linguistics, is another example. According to the "law", given some dataset of text, the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its frequency rank. In other words, the second most common word should appear about half as often as the most common word, and the fifth most common world would appear about once every five times the most common word appears. However, what sets Zipf's law as an "empirical statistical law" rather than just a theorem of linguistics is that it applies to phenomena outside of its field, too. For example, a ranked list of US metropolitan populations also follow Zipf's law, and even forgetting follows Zipf's law. This act of summarizing several natural data patterns with simple rules is a defining characteristic of these "empirical statistical laws".
Examples of empirically inspired statistical laws that have a firm theoretical basis include:
Statistical regularity
Law of large numbers
Law of truly large numbers
Central limit theorem
Regression toward the mean
Examples of "laws" with a weaker foundation include:
Safety in numbers
Benford's law
Examples of "laws" which are more general observations than having a theoretical background:
Rank–size distribution
Examples of supposed "laws" which are incorrect include:
Law of averages
See also
Laws of chance
:Category: Statistical laws
Notes
References
Kitcher, P., Salmon, W.C. (Editors) (2009) Scientific Explanation. University of Minnesota Press.
Gelbukh, A., Sidorov,G. (2008). Zipf and Heaps Laws’ Coefficients Depend on Langua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaLola%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | LaLola is a Philippine television drama fantasy comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2007 Argentine television series of the same title. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Jun Lana, it stars Rhian Ramos and JC de Vera. It premiered on October 13, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Ako si Kim Samsoon. The series concluded on February 6, 2009 with a total of 85 episodes.
Premise
Lazaro "Lalo" Lobregat is the president of Distelleria Lobregat. He is regarded as the metro's most eligible bachelor not to mention, a heartbreaker. He is a little bit insensitive about some things especially about the feelings of women. There is still a bit of conscience in him, but he is too preoccupied to notice his "inner good" because of his cool cars and hot chicks. But when his ex-fling Ada Romina killed herself because of him, everything in his perfect life will change. Sera Romina, Ada's sister is furious. All she knows is that he must pay. Unknown to Lalo, Sera and Ada are babaylans, magical beings that could conjure curses and spells with the power of the moon. With a cursed kiss from Sera, Lalo changes into a woman in a snap. Since nobody will believe his overnight sex change, except for his closet gay best friend Gary, he passes himself as Lola, Lalo's steady girlfriend, to which everyone has a hard time believing. With a new body, he finds out how hard it is to be a woman, experiencing the same chauvinism he used to inflict on women. With each passing day, every inch of Lalo starts to fade, physically and emotionally, and starts to develop real female characteristics like menstruation. As if that's not hard enough, she starts to develop feelings to Lalo's office mate and complete opposite, Facundo Diaz. He also discovers the deep dark secrets of Distelleria Lobregat and his identity, not to mention an angry babaylan magically trying to destroy her even more.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
JC de Vera as Facundo Diaz
Rhian Ramos as Lolita "Lola" P. Diaz
Supporting cast
Eddie Garcia as Aguirre Lobregat
Jackie Lou Blanco as Griselda Lobregat
Marvin Agustin as Gaston S. Lobregat
Angelika dela Cruz as Sabrina Starr
Wendell Ramos as Lazaro "Lalo" Lobregat
Marky Cielo as Billy Lobregat
Keempee de Leon as Graciano "Gary" T. Fuentebella
Eula Valdez as Susanna F. Lobregat
Lovi Poe as Julia Fuentebella
Gladys Reyes as Iris Diaz
Isabel Granada as Tala Romina
Guest cast
Iza Calzado as Sera Romina
Ian Veneracion as Emilio Lobregat
Jewel Mische as Ada Romina
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of LaLola earned a 35.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 40% rating.
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Philippine television series based on non-Philippine television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Justice%20Network | The International Justice Network (IJNetwork) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protection of human rights and the rule of law throughout the world. They provide direct legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses through a global network of legal professionals, non-governmental organizations and other human rights advocates.
IJNetwork is currently the only organization representing detainees at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility located in the U.S. Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
The IJNetwork has numerous other projects, including assisting the Namibia magistrate and tribal court systems to establish a uniform open source software database of decisions issued by those courts.
See also
International Commission of Jurists
External links
IJnetwork.org
Commondreams.org
ABCnews.go.com
USA Today: Detained journalist sues Bush administration
Human rights organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20Location%20Information%20Platform | The Shared Location Information Platform (SLIP) is an open data platform for Western Australia. The aim of SLIP is to improve access to, and use of location data across the public, private and research sectors.
SLIP is delivered on behalf of the Government of Western Australia by Landgate; and is supported through a whole-of-government collaboration called WALIS. SLIP is a key component in delivering on the Western Australian Whole-of-Government Open Data Policy (2015), which states that government agencies should make their datasets publicly available.
SLIP delivers data to users through services, including Maps such as Locate and Open Geospatial Consortium (OCG) compliant web services that can be used through Geographic information system. SLIP is now accessed through the WA Government's open data website, data.wa.gov.au (DataWA).
References
External links
Landgate Website
SLIP Portal
Government of Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger%20%28game%20show%29 | Challenger was an Australian children's game show that aired on the Nine Network in 1997 and 1998. The first host was Diarmid Heidenreich, famous for playing Dougie the pizza delivery guy in Pizza Hut commercials in the mid-1990s. After he left the show in early 1998 he was replaced by hosts Adrian DeVito and Zoe Sheridan. They filmed 265 episodes before the show was superseded by the return of Now You See It.
Format
Challenger had two teams (Alpha and Omega) with three children a side. The teams consisted of a captain and two other members.
Diarmid (1997)
In the first round the contestants each answered a question from categories chosen at random by hitting their buzzer. Each question was worth 5 points and there was an extra 20 points on offer if all three categories matched. The questions were divided into six categories, spanning a range of genres: Cosmix, Entertainment, Geography, Language, Nature and Sport. Cosmix consisted of questions from all five other categories, plus some extra questions. The first round did not have a name. After both teams had answered their questions, the winning team were allowed to decide who would undertake the physical challenges first.
In the second round the teams competed in a set of physical challenges in order to earn questions to answer. Questions would be worth points depending on the challenge, usually 10 points per answer, plus a bonus 20 points for earning and correctly answering all 6 questions available in a challenge. Each member of both teams participated in one challenge, however some challenges - such as Go Ballistic - required the other teammates to provide a supporting role in completing the challenges.
The final round was called Slime Time and found the team leaders in glass containers below a slime showerhead. One of their teammates would be blindfolded, whilst the other would have their hands tied around their back. The four teammates would them look through a blue vat of slime for a disc with a question in it. Whichever team got the disc had the choice to either answer the question themselves, or force the other team to answer the question. Should the answering team get their question right, they would get 50 points and the other team's captain would be slimed. If both teams were holding the disc simultaneously, the question wes read and anyone could buzz in to answer the question. If the answering team answered the question incorrectly, their opposing team would get 50 points and their team captain would be slimed. Occasionally, both captains were slimed. The lever to operate the slime (a mud-coloured liquid) was pulled by someone unseen. Sometimes a guest would be present in the show, such as the team's school principal or a teacher, and they would be slimed with one of the team captains.
Prizes for contestants included merchandise from the Australian Geographic retail outlets and occasionally, a Nintendo 64 gaming console.
Adrian & Zoe (1998)
The first round was called Mind Zon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-physical%20system | A cyber-physical system (CPS) or intelligent system is a computer system in which a mechanism is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms. In cyber-physical systems, physical and software components are deeply intertwined, able to operate on different spatial and temporal scales, exhibit multiple and distinct behavioral modalities, and interact with each other in ways that change with context. CPS involves transdisciplinary approaches, merging theory of cybernetics, mechatronics, design and process science. The process control is often referred to as embedded systems. In embedded systems, the emphasis tends to be more on the computational elements, and less on an intense link between the computational and physical elements. CPS is also similar to the Internet of Things (IoT), sharing the same basic architecture; nevertheless, CPS presents a higher combination and coordination between physical and computational elements.
Examples of CPS include smart grid, autonomous automobile systems, medical monitoring, industrial control systems, robotics systems, recycling and automatic pilot avionics. Precursors of cyber-physical systems can be found in areas as diverse as aerospace, automotive, chemical processes, civil infrastructure, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, entertainment, and consumer appliances.
Overview
Unlike more traditional embedded systems, a full-fledged CPS is typically designed as a network of interacting elements with physical input and output instead of as standalone devices. The notion is closely tied to concepts of robotics and sensor networks with intelligence mechanisms proper of computational intelligence leading the pathway. Ongoing advances in science and engineering improve the link between computational and physical elements by means of intelligent mechanisms, increasing the adaptability, autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability of cyber-physical systems.
This will broaden the potential of cyber-physical systems in several directions, including: intervention (e.g., collision avoidance); precision (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-level manufacturing); operation in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., search and rescue, firefighting, and deep-sea exploration); coordination (e.g., air traffic control, war fighting); efficiency (e.g., zero-net energy buildings); and augmentation of human capabilities (e.g. in healthcare monitoring and delivery).
Mobile cyber-physical systems
Mobile cyber-physical systems, in which the physical system under study has inherent mobility, are a prominent subcategory of cyber-physical systems. Examples of mobile physical systems include mobile robotics and electronics transported by humans or animals. The rise in popularity of smartphones has increased interest in the area of mobile cyber-physical systems. Smartphone platforms make ideal mobile cyber-physical systems for a number of reasons, including:
Significant computationa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction%20document | Transaction documents refers to legally relevant documents that are either printed, inserted and mailed, or electronically presented. They consist of a mixture of fixed and variable data.
These documents are usually created by organizations through their financial computing system and then delivered to other parties (such as clients) through the post office or through an electronic billing system. The printed transaction documents, once delivered to the post office, conform to the mail box rule.
Common examples of transaction documents are:
bills
bank statements (and credit card, financial services, etc.)
insurance policies
notices
other legally relevant correspondence, etc.
Xplor international is a technical association that focuses on the best practices and technologies associated with these documents.
References
Electronic documents
Contract law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific%20browser | A site-specific browser (SSB) is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (site) on a computer network such as the Internet or a private intranet. SSBs typically simplify the more complex functions of a web browser by excluding the menus, toolbars and browser GUI associated with functions that are external to the workings of a single site. These applications are typically started by a desktop icon which is usually a favicon.
Site-specific browsers are often implemented through the use of existing application frameworks such as Gecko, WebKit, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (the underlying layout engines, specifically Trident and JScript) and Opera's Presto. SSBs built upon these frameworks allow web applications and social networking tools to start with desktop icons launching in a manner similar to standard non-browser applications. Some technologies, including Adobe's AIR and JavaFX use specialized development kits that can create cross-platform SSBs. Since version 6.0, the Curl platform has offered detached applets and the EmbeddedBrowserGraphic class which can be used as an SSB on the desktop.
Applications
One early example of an SSB is MacDICT, a Mac OS 9 application that accessed various web sites to define, translate, or find synonyms for words typed into a text box. A more current example is WeatherBug Desktop, which is a standalone client accessing information also available at the weatherbug.com website but configured to display real-time weather data for a user-specified location.
The first general purpose SSB is believed to be Bubbles which launched late 2005 on the Windows platform and later coined the term "Site Specific Extensions" for SSB userscripts and introduced the SSB Javascript API.
On 2 September 2008, the Google Chrome web browser was released for Windows. Although Chrome is a full featured browser, it also contains a "Create application shortcut" menu item that adds the ability to create a stand-alone SSB window for any site. This is similar to Mozilla Prism (formerly WebRunner), now discontinued, but which is available as an add-on to the Firefox browser version 3.
Examples of applications of SSBs in various situations include:
Social networking: dedicated application to access and use sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or personal blog pages
Email: dedicated to webmail sites such as Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo! Mail
Business: customer relationship management (CRM) or ERP client for sites such as Salesforce.com, specific web/browser hybrid implementations such as Elements SBM or intranet pages from suites like those sold by Oracle or SAP
Mapping: SSB specific to maps from providers like Google Maps, Mapquest, or Yahoo! Maps
Retail: desktop portal to major retailers that are accessed frequently or consumer services such as Carfax or CNET
Mobile applications
As of 2019, Firefox and Google Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS allow the creation of site-specific browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Soccer%20USA | Street Soccer USA (SSUSA) is a non-profit organization, under the umbrella of HELP USA, that promotes the growth and development of a national network of grassroots soccer programs. As of 2010, SSUSA has 18 teams across the United States. Street Soccer USA was started as part of the Urban Ministry Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
SSUSA is the United States base partner of the Homeless World Cup and the host of the annual Street Soccer USA Cup, formerly the Homeless USA Cup, which has been held every year since the inaugural event in Charlotte in 2006.
History
Lawrence Cann, a young social entrepreneur, founded Art Works Football Club in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2004. The program grew to a 16 city league of programs across the country, and Street Soccer USA became its own 501(c)3 organization in 2010.
SSUSA is the official partner of the annual Homeless World Cup, founded by Mel Young, and is responsible for organizing the United States' participation in the cup. SSUSA has brought a team of homeless soccer players to the Homeless World Cup since 2005.
Street Soccer USA Cup
Initially known as the Homeless USA Cup, the tournament began in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2006. Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Philadelphia, and New York were the cities participating in the event. In 2007, a conference was held in Charlotte to discuss expansion of the tournament for 2008. The 2008 tournament was held in Washington, DC, from June 26-29, and included 12 cities: Anne Arbor, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Richmond, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. It has since been hosted in Times Square, New York City, San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, and the Philadelphia Art Museum steps.
The tournament is composed of homeless men and women from around the United States, with cities bringing teams of eight players to compete in the event. After the tournament, a committee selects 16 players from the tournament. Eight are chosen to represent the USA and the other eight will be alternates for the Homeless World Cup.
The cup is a four on four soccer tournament, with each team consisting of three field players and a goalkeeper. Every team must keep one player in the attacking half. Each game has two seven-minute halves, and takes place in a 52x73 ft walled in court. The walls are four feet tall and have nets that rise an additional 20 feet. The tournament has three stages, preliminary, group stage, and trophy stage.
Awards given at the cup include the MVP Award for the best all around player in the tournament, the Goalie Award for the best goalkeeper in the tournament, the Kastle Trophy for the most mixed team in the tournament (men and women), and the Spirit Award, the highest honor in the tournament, which is given to the team that embodies the best attitude on and off the field.
Leadership
National Board of directors
Tim Howard
Steve Nash
Sheila Johnson
Charlie Stillitano
Jeff Rosenthal
References
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalLink%2030%20%28BaltimoreLink%29 | LocalLink 30 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore and its suburbs. It replaced route 44 following the 2017 BaltimoreLink overhaul of the bus network. The line currently runs from Rosedale Industrial Park near Pulaski Highway just outside the Baltimore city limits on the east side of the city across the northern portion of the city to Security Square Mall, with selected peak hour trips to the Social Security Administration. Some early morning trips before 7 AM lay over at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) headquarters. The line operates mostly along Frankford Avenue, Echodale Avenue, East Belvedere Avenue, Northern Parkway, Rogers Avenue, and Gwynn Oak Avenue, serving the communities of Gardenville, Hamilton, Belvedere Park, Homeland, Roland Park, Pimlico, and Arlington, and the western suburb of Woodlawn.
History
Prior to the existence of Route 44 in the 1940s, no bus route operated fully across the same parts of the city as Route 44 does today. But parts of Route 44 are the successors to the Nos. 32 and 33 Streetcar Lines and Bus Route D, which operated before Northern Parkway was built. The no. 32 Streetcar had operated along to Liberty Heights corridor to Gwynn Oak Avenue, with branches in opposite directions along Gwynn Oak to Woodlawn and Arlington. The no. 33 streetcar had operated from Gwynn Oak to Park Heights Avenue before operating downtown. Route D had operated between Pimlico and Overlea, making use of Lake Avenue between Falls Road and Charles Street, and then Belvedere, Echodale, and Frankford to Belair Road.
Origin
Route 44 started operating in 1946. The line operated during most of its existence from the Gwynn Oak Park loop (the former terminus of the no. 33 streetcar and former location of a roller coaster park during the streetcar era) in Woodlawn to the Frankford and Cedella before being extended to the Hollander Ridge housing projects in East Baltimore. Extensions have been made to accommodate new developments in the city and suburbs, including most notably, the Social Security Administration's Woodlawn headquarters, which opened in 1960.
In 1973, a new branch was added to the line, which operated to Brighton, serving the Reisterstown Road Plaza and the Cross Country community. These trips operated on weekdays and Saturdays very minimally, usually less than once an hour.
In 2000, the Hollander Ridge terminus was relocated to Rosedale Industrial Park with the demolition of the Hollander Ridge projects.
In 2005, as part of the Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative, all Gwynn Oak trips on the line were extended to Security Square Mall, as the line absorbed Route M-6, and the frequency was improved. The midday frequency was improved, and the Brighton Branch was eliminated. Though service was not provided on the exact distinct streets served by the Brighton branch, riders were within a close walk of Route M-10 (now Route 58).
There was also consideration to reroute Route 44 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonder%20Alonso | Yonder Alonso (born April 8, 1987) is a Cuban former professional baseball first baseman and current MLB Network analyst. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies. Prior to entering the major leagues, he played college baseball at the University of Miami.
Early life
Yonder Alonso was born in Havana, Cuba on April 8, 1987, to parents Luis and Damarys. His father played and coached for Industriales of the Cuban National Series, and taught Alonso to play as well. The family defected from Cuba in 1996 and settled in Miami, where Alonso played on a Little League team funded by Jose Canseco. Alonso attended Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Florida, and was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 16th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign, choosing instead to attend college at the University of Miami.
College career
Alonso attended the University of Miami, where he played three seasons for the Hurricanes. He led the team to the College World Series as a freshman, with a team leading 69 RBIs. His sister attended the same school and was a member of the cheerleading squad.
His sophomore year he batted .376, led the Atlantic Coast Conference with 18 home runs, knocked in 74 runs, and scored 57 times. He also ranked second in the ACC with a .519 on-base percentage and .705 slugging percentage. Alonso played in the Valley Baseball League, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 2007. In 2007 and 2008, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star in 2007.
In 2008, he hit .373 with 15 home runs, 51 RBIs, and eight stolen bases.
Alonso was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame at its 50th annual induction in April 2018.
Professional career
Cincinnati Reds
In 2008, Alonso was drafted for the second time with the seventh overall pick by the Cincinnati Reds. He signed a major-league contract with the Reds worth $4.55 million through 2012.
Alonso made his Minor League debut on August 26, 2008 for the Class A Sarasota Reds against the Clearwater Threshers. He went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk. In just six games for the A-Advanced Reds that year, he went 6-for-19 with two RBIs.
After the 2008 season, he joined the Waikiki BeachBoys of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league and hit .308 with four home runs and 21 RBIs in 29 games. He had 32 hits in 104 at-bats.
Alonso entered the 2009 season ranked as the number one overall prospect in the Reds organization by Baseball America. He started the season with Sarasota, played 49 games, and hit .303 in 175 at-bats with seven home runs, 13 doubles, and 38 RBIs. After receiving a promotion to Class AA Carolina, he hit .295 in 105 at-bats, with 11 doubles, two home runs, and 14 RBIs over 29 games. He also played for the Peoria Saguaros |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spydercam | Spydercam is a cable-suspended camera system, and rigging system used in making motion pictures, television and at athletic stadiums. Using computer controlled winches to drive synthetic lines connected to a crane, truss or buildings to achieve multidimensional, repeatable movement. Spydercam is used as an alternative to other camera movement systems.
According to the maker's website, Spydercam has been used in the following films:
Maestro (2023 film)
Emancipation (2022)
Don't Look Up (2021)
The Terminal List Season 1 (2022)
Black Adam (2021)
Spirited (2022)
Just Beyond (2021)
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Black Widow (2021)
Mulan (2020)
Bird Box (2019)
The OA season 2 (2019)
Triple Frontier (2019)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Watchmen Season 1 (2019)
Lady and the Tramp (2019)
Game of Thrones Season 8 (2019)
Dumbo (2019)
Bumblebee (2018)
Aquaman (2018)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Game of Thrones Season 7 (2018)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Downsizing (2017)
Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Help (2016)
Monster Trucks (2016)
Jurassic World (2015)
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Furious Seven (2015)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Enchanted Kingdom 3D (2014)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Noah (2014)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
World War Z (2012)
John Carter (film) (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Thor (2011)
Premium Rush (2010)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Cowboys and Aliens (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
Predators (2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Fame (2009)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Angles & Demons (2009)
Hancock (2008)
Pacific War (2008)
Bedtime Stories (2008)
Gamer (2009)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Jumper (2008)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
10,000 BC (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
The Company (2007)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Ghost Rider (2007)
D-War (2007)
Apocalypto (2006)
Superman Returns (2006)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
Flicka (2006)
Stick It (2006)
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Stealth (2005)
Bewitched (2005)
Constantine (2005)
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
The Aviator (2004)
Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again (TV, 2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Terminal (2004)
The Alamo (2004)
The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004)
Stuck on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inparanoid | Inparanoid is an algorithm that finds orthologous genes and paralogous genes that arose—most likely by duplication—after some speciation event. Such protein-coding genes are called in-paralogs, as opposed to out-paralogs (which arose prior to a species split).
Inparanoid (with varying capitalization) may refer to a program that uses the INPARANOID algorithm, or to the derived database of orthologous clusters of genes.
See also
BLAST
Proteomics
References
External links
InParanoid
Speciation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCPM | PCPM may refer to:
Personal CP/M, a Digital Research operating system
Political-Military Communist Party
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Potsdam Center for Policy and Management
Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%20%282008%20TV%20series%29 | Rush is an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Mimi Butler for Endemol Australia, which was branded as the Southern Star Group during production of the series.
In late October 2011, text phrasing on the cover art of Entertainment One's DVD release of the fourth series first indicated Rush would not return for another series, meaning series four would be its last. Soon after, the production company, known at the time as the Southern Star Group confirmed with TV Tonight that a fifth series had not been commissioned. Network Ten did not issue any press releases stating the wrapping up of Rush. Executive Producer of Drama and Production at Network Ten, Rick Maier, issued a statement on the show's official Facebook page: "While we don't discount a return series, it is not on the cards at this stage – but we do intend to finish season four with a bang, literally."
Plot
Rush follows the lives of members of the prestigious Tactical Response team (TR), which is based on the real life Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team, a highly mobile unit that fills the operational gap between general duties police and the SWAT-like Special Operations Group. The team is seen responding to violent incidents such as carjackings, suicides and armed offences.
Most of the episodes involve at least one main plot, with one or two smaller subplots throughout each episode. In some cases, they will focus on one plot, while the personal lives tend to fall into the form of smaller subplots that span over a number of episodes. Usually the team is divided into two, one team per case, with the team taking the minor subplot meeting up with the major team at some stage throughout the episode. The usual six-person team is split between two vehicles known as TR01 and TR02.
In series four, the composition of the plot was revamped with only one large and extensive arc featured throughout the 13 episodes, as opposed to the story-line structure of prior series.
Production
The pilot for Rush, originally titled Rapid Response, was filmed in 2004 and based on an earlier Police Rescue script. The pilot featured several characters and cast who did not return for the series, including Matthew Le Nevez, Libby Tanner and Corinne Grant. The series was initially rejected but years later was picked up for production when the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike affected Ten's imported shows.
Sergeant Dominic "Dom" Wales, played by Josef Ber, was originally scripted to be killed in the first season, however during production Van der Boom asked to be released. Her US working visa had been approved and being a "Residency Visa", required her to move to the US. As such, the character of Grace was killed off instead. Jolene Anderson joined the cast for the second series, from 16 July 2009. The series is filmed i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIRI%20Human%20Rights%20Data%20Project | From 2004 to 2014, the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project annually rated the level of government respect for a variety of internationally recognized human rights. The final CIRI data set contains quantitative indicators of 15 human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981 to 2011. The CIRI data were used in over 170 countries by scholars, students, policymakers, and analysts representing over 400 organizations. CIRI's founders and co-directors were political scientists David Cingranelli at Binghamton University, SUNY and David L. Richards at the University of Connecticut. K. Chad Clay at the University of Georgia joined as third co-director in 2013.
Accessing the data
The CIRI data were free for not-for-profit users. Once registered, CIRI users could create customized datasets, choosing only the indicators, countries, and years they needed; or, they could download the entire data set. As of December 2007, CIRI began using its own numeric country identifier code, but continued to offer others for the purpose of data merging. The MyCIRI feature allowed users to store their datasets on the CIRI server and easily update them when the master CIRI data was updated.
Financial support
Financial support for the CIRI Data Project came from the United States' National Science Foundation; The World Bank; GTZ; Binghamton University, SUNY; the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, SUNY; The Human Rights Institute and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at The University of Connecticut.
CIRI human rights indicators
The CIRI database coded only human rights PRACTICES of governments. The human rights for which government levels of respect were annually rated by CIRI included:
Assembly & Association
Disappearance
Domestic Movement
Electoral Self-Determination (formerly Political Participation & Free and Fair Elections)
Empowerment Rights Index (An additive index summarizing government respect for electoral self-determination, domestic movement, foreign movement, religion, speech, assembly & association, and workers' rights)
Extrajudicial killing
Foreign Movement
Independence of the Judiciary
Physical Integrity Rights Index (An additive index summarizing government respect for disappearance, extrajudicial killing, political imprisonment, and torture)
Political Imprisonment
Religion
Speech
Torture
Women's Economic Rights
Women's Political Rights
Women's Social Rights
Workers' Rights
Most of the CIRI indicators were ratings (as opposed to rankings) on a scale of 0-2 for their respect of human rights, as follows:
0= Frequent violations of this right
1= Some violations of this right
2= No reported violations of this right
The CIRI database used the annual country reports from the US State Department and Amnesty International as its primary sources.
Scores after 2011
The CIRI Human Rights Data Project has not produced scores since 2011. The CIRIGHTS Data Project co-directed by David Cingranelli, Mik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gates%20Building%2C%20Cambridge | The William Gates Building, or WGB, is a square building that houses the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, on the University's West Cambridge site in JJ Thomson Avenue south of the Madingley Road in Cambridge, England. Construction on the building began in 1999 and was completed in 2001 at a cost of £20 million. Opened by Maurice Wilkes, it was named after William H. Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided 50% of the money for the building's construction.
Building features
The building has the following features:
The glass wall in the "fishbowl," a communal seating area in the building, is decorated with a paper-tape representation of the original EDSAC "Initial Orders" (boot program) written by David Wheeler and of a program written by Maurice Wilkes in 1949 to compute squares
The building's main thoroughfare, called "The Street", has tiles that match the binary, UTF-8 representation of 'Computer Laboratory — AD 2001 — ☺'
The fishbowl contains the original door to the Mathematical laboratory
Energy efficiency
The William Gates Building aims to be energy-efficient. Its energy-saving measures include:
Aggressive sleep scheduling of desktop computers.
Use of a chilled-beam convection-based cooling system, with Oventrop valves, to cool rooms in the summer, and warm the floor above in the winter.
Turning off lights in corridors, and the street, using motion sensors.
See also
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, USA
Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford, USA
References
2001 establishments in England
Buildings and structures completed in 2001
Buildings and structures of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGP | GPGP may refer to:
Great Pacific garbage patch, or Pacific Trash Vortex, a rotating ocean current containing marine litter
Generalized Partial Global Planning (computer science), see Task analysis environment modeling simulation (TAEMS)
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
GpGp (software), see Comparison of Gaussian process software
Glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase (GpgP), an enzyme
Government by the People Green Party (GPGP), former name of the Green Party of South Africa
See also
GPG (disambiguation)
PGP (disambiguation)
GP (disambiguation)
GP2 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco%20King | "Disco King" is the debut single by Australian rock group Spencer Tracy, released on Embryo Records in January 2003.
"Disco King" earned a lot of airplay for Spencer Tracy, with the Triple M network adding "Disco King" to official rotation in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, NOVA Sydney & Melbourne running the track in the high rotation Buzz bin for two consecutive weeks and NOVA 937 in Perth giving solid airplay over a six-week period. The video clip to "Disco King" also received rotation on Channel V, MTV and Rage. The song created interest in the band from Interscope Records in the US.
"Cathy Hendrix in my office listens to triple j on the net all of the time and we just loved that song "Disco King". A musician friend saw Spencer Tracy playing a show in Melbourne and sent us a copy of their CD. When we put it on we were blown away -we just couldn't turn it off for a whole week." - Mike Dixon – USA manager (Ron Sexsmith)
The song is described by reviewers as having "squelch-pop warmth and bouncy rhythms", and being "almost contemporary Britpop in feel."
"Disco King" was nominated for 'Most Popular Local Original Single or EP' at the 2003 Western Australian Music Industry Awards.
Track listing
All tracks written by Lee Jones unless otherwise noted.
"Disco King" - 4:02
"Changes" - 4:17
"Yesterday" (Chris Jones) - 4:31
Disco King video
References
2003 debut singles
Spencer Tracy (band) songs
2003 songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEORGE%20%28operating%20system%29 | GEORGE was the name given to a series of operating systems released by International Computers and Tabulators (ICT) in the 1960s, for the ICT 1900 series of computers. These included GEORGE 1, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4.
Initially the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based, ran a simple operating system known as Executive which allowed the system operator to load and run programs from a Teletype Model 33 ASR based system console.
In December 1964 ICT set up an Operating Systems Branch to develop a new operating system for the 1906/7. The branch was initially staffed with people being released by the end of work on the OMP operating system for the Ferranti Orion. The initial design of the new system, named George after George E. Felton head of the Basic Programming Division, was based on ideas from the Orion and the spooling system of the Atlas computer.
(In public it was claimed that George stood for GEneral ORGanisational Environment, but contemporary sources say that was a backronym).
In July 1965 a team from ICT was present at a seminar at NPL describing the CTSS operating system developed for MIT's Project MAC. They decided that the ICT would need to provide multi-access facilities, known to ICT as MOP, "Multiple Online Processing". In November 1965 H. P. Goodman, head of the Operating Systems Branch attended the Fall Joint Computer Conference in Las Vegas where plans for Multics were initially described. Some of the Multics features discussed influenced future development of George, notably the tree structured filestore.
Towards the end of 1965 ICT marketing requested that a simpler operating system be made available quickly, especially for the smaller members of the range. It was decided that two smaller systems, known as George 1 and George 2 be released rapidly, and the larger operating system was renamed George 3.
GEORGE 1 & 2
George 1 was a simple batch processing system, Job descriptions were read from cards or paper tape which controlled the loading and running of programs, either loaded from cards or paper tape or magnetic tape. The job control language allowed definition of the peripherals and files to be used and handling of exception conditions. The job description would be checked for errors before the job was run. George used the trusted program facilities provided by executive to run the user programs.
George 2 added the concept of off line peripheral handling (spooling). Several different modules, running in parallel, allowed overlapping of input, processing and output operations:
Jobs were read from cards or paper tape to temporary files on magnetic disk or tape by an input module.
A central module executed the user programs, taking input from the temporary input files and writing program output to temporary files.
An output module wrote the temporary output files to physical printers and punches.
A module was also available for entering jobs from remote job ent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArabic%20encoding | MacArabic encoding is an obsolete encoding for Arabic (and English) text that was used in Apple Macintosh computers to texts.
The encoding is identical to MacFarsi encoding, except the numerals.
References
See also
MacFarsi encoding
Arabic script in Unicode
Character sets
Arabic
Arabic script |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOMGL | XOMGL (eXtensible Open Municipal Geodata Language) is an XML-based open standard for the exchange of large amounts of government data between a municipal agency and regular citizens and developers creating web-based mapping applications. It is part of the OMG Standard, which seeks to promote the free flow of information between government agencies and citizens by establishing a common set of technical standards for organizing and sharing public data.
Types of data
The XOMGL format is good for organizing and distributing digitally many types of government data, including crime, building permits, restaurant health reviews, pollution sources, political contributions, property values, traffic accidents, sex offenders, and historic sites.
Fields
It has just enough required fields to allow easy updates and the plotting of data on online maps. It also has enough optional data to allow categorization, filtering, date ranges, images, external links, and latitude and longitude. It provides all of this without overwhelming the end user, providing too much irrelevant data, and displays in an easy to read and manage format.
Usage examples
A government agency would make data available on its website with either static links to files in this format, or queryable versions that allow users to filter the data by last updated date, date range, category, etc.
The XML and JSON versions can be used to automate data importing into web-based software applications, while the CSV version allows regular people to browse, filter, sort, edit, and re-purpose the information with only spreadsheet software knowledge.
Formats vs. Standards
Note there is a distinction between data standards and data formats. A data format like KML, GeoRSS, JSON, XML, CSV, and others describe how to format data to make it machine readable by specific applications. A data standard defines which fields/columns are needed to make raw data usable in these formats. Information in the XOMGL standard can be machine-output to any of the above listed data formats.
Example XOMGL format
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<dataset name=""><!-- * name:string - name of the dataset -->
<metadata><!-- * metadata about the dataset -->
<sourcename><!-- * string: name of the source of the data --></sourcename>
<sourceurl><!-- string: full path to the page that has the source data --></sourceurl>
<sourcecity><!-- string: name of the originating city --></sourcecity>
<sourcestateid><!-- int: id of the originating state --></sourcestateid>
<sourcecountryid><!-- int: id of the originating country --></sourcecountryid>
<description><!-- string: text description of source of the data --></description>
<updatefrequency><!-- string: frequency of data updates, daily, monthly, weekly, etc --></updatefrequency>
<lastupdated><!-- datetime: stamp of last update to this dataset --></lastupdated>
<startdatetime><!-- datetime: earliest date of data coverage --></startdatetime>
<enddatetim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accommodation%20index | The accommodation index is a statistic used in the neurosciences for describing spike train data. Many methods of experimental neuroscience, such as voltage clamp recordings, give their output in the form of measured voltages of individual neurons. Generally, the only important element of these voltage traces is the occurrence of spikes in the voltage, representing action potentials. It is often useful to be able to describe the data in terms of the spike timings; for instance, when optimizing a compartmental model towards observed behaviour, statistics such as this can be used to gauge error. Various statistics are used to do this, such as spike rate, average interspike interval, and the accommodation index.
It is similar to other measures of accommodation such as the local variance introduced by Shinomoto et al. in 2003. It is defined by the average of the difference in length of two consecutive interspike intervals (ISIs) normalized by the summed duration of these two ISIs. The equation for the accommodation index is
Where N is the number of APs and k determines the number of ISIs that will be disregarded in order not to take into account possible transient behavior as observed in Markram et al., 2004. A reasonable value for k is either four ISIs or one-fifth of the total number of ISIs, whichever is the smaller of the two.
References
Metrics
Neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMG%20standard | The OMG standard (Open Municipal Geodata standard) seeks to promote the free flow of information between government agencies and citizens by establishing a common set of technical standards for organizing and sharing public data.
Summary
The OMG standard specifically targets data at the city and municipal agency levels. Of interest is address-level data that is in digital format, but resides in private databases and is not accessible by citizens at a moment's notice.
Open – Freely accessible and available (as determined by the principles below)
Municipal – Of or pertaining to a town or city or its local government
Geodata – Geographical data: any data or information that has a location or address element
Standard – An approved model or methodology
Goals
Founded on the idea that public data is not truly public if it is not freely accessible, the OMG standard project has several goals:
To develop an open technical standard for the structuring and sharing of public geodata
To develop a library of case-studies, documentation and source materials supporting the benefits of making public geodata easily accessible
To help build and empower a broad community of citizens and government officials working to foster adoption of the standard by their local governments
Benefits
To governments
Reduce time, effort and resources in fulfilling public information requests
Increase data quality by providing correct data to public from the source
Reduce duplication of effort
Increase data access, availability, and speed of delivery
Improve citizen satisfaction and create good public relations with your community
To citizens
Open access to complete, formatted data rather than relying on third party interpretations or subsets
Information accessibility leads to greater government accountability
Fosters better community action on social issues, e.g. crime, pollution, permits, accidents, and education
Improves regional competitiveness by giving businesses quicker and fuller access to data
Principles of open data
In December, 2007, the Sunlight Foundation helped organize a group of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of fundamental principles for the open government data movement. The participants produced the following set of principles, which we at the OMG standard (along with many others) have adopted as a strong foundation from which to begin. (For more information, see Resource.org)
Government data shall be considered open if it is made public in a way that complies with the principles below
Complete: All public data is made available. Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations.
Primary: Data is as collected at the source, with the highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms
Timely: Data is made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data.
Accessible: Data is available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purpose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20%28genetic%20algorithms%29 | A schema (: schemata) is a template in computer science used in the field of genetic algorithms that identifies a subset of strings with similarities at certain string positions. Schemata are a special case of cylinder sets, forming a basis for a product topology on strings. In other words, schemata can be used to generate a topology on a space of strings.
Description
For example, consider binary strings of length 6. The schema 1**0*1 describes the set of all words of length 6 with 1's at the first and sixth positions and a 0 at the fourth position. The * is a wildcard symbol, which means that positions 2, 3 and 5 can have a value of either 1 or 0. The order of a schema is defined as the number of fixed positions in the template, while the defining length is the distance between the first and last specific positions. The order of 1**0*1 is 3 and its defining length is 5. The fitness of a schema is the average fitness of all strings matching the schema. The fitness of a string is a measure of the value of the encoded problem solution, as computed by a problem-specific evaluation function.
Length
The length of a schema , called , is defined as the total number of nodes in the schema. is also equal to the number of nodes in the programs matching .
Disruption
If the child of an individual that matches schema H does not itself match H, the schema is said to have been disrupted.
Propagation of schema
In evolutionary computing such as genetic algorithms and genetic programming, propagation refers to the inheritance of characteristics of one generation by the next. For example, a schema is propagated if individuals in the current generation match it and so do those in the next generation. Those in the next generation may be (but do not have to be) children of parents who matched it.
The Expansion and Compression Operators
Recently schema have been studied using order theory.
Two basic operators are defined for schema: expansion and compression. The expansion maps a schema onto a set of words which it represents, while the compression maps a set of words on to a schema.
In the following definitions denotes an alphabet, denotes all words of length over the alphabet , denotes the alphabet with the extra symbol . denotes all schema of length over the alphabet as well as the empty schema .
For any schema the following operator , called the of , which maps to a subset of words in :
Where subscript denotes the character at position in a word or schema. When then . More simply put, is the set of all words in that can be made by exchanging the symbols in with symbols from . For example, if , and then .
Conversely, for any we define , called the of , which maps on to a schema :
where is a schema of length such that the symbol at position in is determined in the following way: if for all then otherwise . If then . One can think of this operator as stacking up all the items in and if all elements in a column are eq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20Australia%20Radio | Vision Australia Radio is a network of eight radio stations in Victoria, amongst some other states in Australia. It is owned by Vision Australia. The stations broadcast a range of programs, generally consisting of readings of newspapers and magazines for people unable to read print media. All the stations are operated by a volunteer staff and a small group of employees.
The Vision Australia Radio Network is headquartered at Kooyong and is licensed as a Community (RPH) Broadcaster to the print-handicapped community. This can include people with vision impairment, a physical illness or disability which makes it difficult for them to hold a paper (such as MS, or Parkinson's), people with dyslexia or those who understand spoken but not written English.
A recent McNair Ingenuity Research study showed that Vision Australia Radio has a statewide audience of more than 250,000 every week – with the majority of listeners aged between 25 and 54. An estimated 38% of listeners are professionals or self-employed with a further 36% skilled workers.
The station originally broadcast as 3RPH in 1982 from Melbourne, however the station is now formally known as Vision Australia Radio.
Vision Australia Radio is a member of the Radio Print Handicapped Network and a BBC World Service partner station.
Melbourne station - VAR 1179AM
The chief station is:
3RPH 1179 kHz AM Melbourne
Regional stations
The other stations are affiliates and opt out of the 3RPH feed for local programmes:
2APH 101.7 MHz FM Albury-Wodonga
3BPH 88.7 MHz FM Bendigo
3GPH 99.5 MHz FM Geelong
3MPH 107.5 MHz FM Mildura
3SPH 100.1 MHz FM Shepparton
3RPH/T 93.5 MHz FM Warragul
3RPH/T 882 kHz AM Warrnambool (Previously 94.5 FM)
The Melbourne station is also heard in Australia and New Zealand on Optus Aurora satellite radio channel 12, as well as VAST satellite radio channel 632.
References
External links
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio reading services of Australia
Radio stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2APH | 2APH is a radio station based in Albury-Wodonga. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is operated by volunteers.
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in New South Wales
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio reading services of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotki | Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website and web service suite; it is one of the world's largest social networking sites. As an image hosting service, Fotki licenses photo-sharing software for global companies such as Telecom Italia, Alice.it, Sears, Mark Travel, Vegas.com, and Funjet.com, among others.
As of January 2011, Fotki claimed to have over 1 million 600 thousand registered members from 241 countries and hosted over a billion digital images. It has been ranked in the 1400s in popularity by Alexa.
Originally offering free accounts, Fotki ceased offering free accounts in 2015.
History
Founding as freeware
Fotki was founded in 1998 by Katrin Lilleoks and Dmitri Don (who became President) to store and share photos and communicate with others around the world. The name is derived from colloquial terms for photography in several Slavic languages. It was initially used heavily in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia, later becoming registered in the United States.
In 2001, the commercial version was launched. In 2003, Fotki became a registered trade mark in the United States.
In 2007, Fotki.com was recognized by CNET as one of the best Web 2.0 applications. In 2008, founder Dmitri Don described it as a photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging website. Daily figures, according to Don, included half a million unique daily visitors. The company remained based in Tallinn, Estonia, with annual turnover of over $50 billion on its licensed or hosted services. Pavel Merdin oversaw the development team. In 2008, Fotki moved its office in the United States from New York to California. Telecom Italia and Alice.it both had web portals using the Fotki photo engine.
In 2011, Fotki stated it had over a million users and a billion images, and was registered in the United States. Features also included printing services, e-commerce photo sales with Fotki taking a 15% commission, and "guestbook facilities". In 2011, a free account had 50 mb of storage, with another 10 mb added monthly.
Paid service
In June 2012 paid members with 5-year unlimited storage accounts received message that they no longer have access to the original images unless they paid extra fees. In August 2015, all free members received a message to upgrade to a paid service. Fotki stated they could no longer support free members since they were doing away with ads. On October 1, 2015 all free members accounts were deleted.
In Jun 2018, an email from fotki.com to one of the members stated "In order to keep quality of our service we remove old unused accounts. We've noticed that you didn't use your account at fotki.com for a year. That's why your account is queued to be deleted in 2 days". There is no option to reactivate account without paying for the service.
Features
Sharing
The primary purpose of the site, in 2002, was to allow and facilitate the process of sharing digital photos online. To that end, users can transfer an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20data%20analysis | Geometric data analysis comprises geometric aspects of image analysis, pattern analysis, and shape analysis, and the approach of multivariate statistics, which treat arbitrary data sets as clouds of points in a space that is n-dimensional. This includes topological data analysis, cluster analysis, inductive data analysis, correspondence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, principal components analysis and
See also
Algebraic statistics for algebraic-geometry in statistics
Combinatorial data analysis
Computational anatomy for the study of shapes and forms at the morphome scale
Structured data analysis (statistics)
References
Approximation of Geodesic Distances for Geometric Data Analysis
Differential geometry and data analysis
Differential Geometry and Statistics, M.K. Murray, J.W. Rice, Chapman and Hall/CRC,
Ridges in image and data analysis, David Eberly, Springer, 1996,
Fields of geometry
Multivariate statistics
Spatial analysis
Applied geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20data%20analysis%20%28statistics%29 | Structured data analysis is the statistical data analysis of structured data. This can arise either in the form of an a priori structure such as multiple-choice questionnaires or in situations with the need to search for structure that fits the given data, either exactly or approximately. This structure can then be used for making comparisons, predictions, manipulations etc.
Types of structured data analysis
Algebraic data analysis
Bayesian analysis
Cluster analysis
Combinatorial data analysis
Formal concept analysis
Functional data analysis
Geometric data analysis
Regression analysis
Shape analysis
Topological data analysis
Tree structured data analysis
References
Further reading
Leland Wilkinson, (1992) Tree Structured Data Analysis: AID, CHAID and CART
Statistical analysis
Structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20data%20analysis%20%28systems%20analysis%29 | Structured data analysis (SDA) is a method for analysing the flow of information within an organization using data flow diagrams. It was originally developed by IBM for systems analysis in electronic data processing, although it has now been adapted for use to describe the flow of information in any kind of project or organization, particularly in the construction industry where the nodes could be departments, contractors, customers, managers, workers etc.
See also
Information management
Data modelling
Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
Further reading
CONSTRUCTION SITE INFORMATION NEEDS
Systems analysis
Project management techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20NodeB | A Home Node B, or HNB, is the 3GPP's term for a 3G femtocell or Small Cell.
A Node B is an element of a 3G macro Radio Access Network, or RAN. A femtocell performs many of the function of a Node B, but is optimized for deployment in the indoor premises and small coverage public hotspots. The femtocell concept was originally conceived for residential environment. However, it has evolved to include other usages such as enterprise and public hotspots.
Home eNode B is an LTE counterpart of the HNB.
Architecture
Within an HNB Access Network there are three new network elements: the Home Node B (or femtocell), the Security Gateway (SeGW) and the Home Node B Gateway, or HNB-GW.
Between the HNB and the HNB-GW is a new interface known as Iu-h.
Home Node B (HNB) – Connected to an existing residential broadband service, an HNB provides 3G radio coverage for 3G handsets within a home. HNBs incorporate the capabilities of a standard Node B as well as the radio resource management functions of a standard Radio Network Controller RNC.
Security Gateway (SeGW) - Installed in an operator’s network, the Security Gateway establishes IPsec tunnels with HNBs using IKEv2 signaling for IPsec tunnel management. IPsec tunnels are responsible for delivering all voice, messaging and packet data services between HNB and the core network. The SeGW forwards traffic to HNB-GW.
HNB Gateway (HNB-GW) - Installed within an operator’s network, the HNB Gateway aggregates traffic from a large number of HNBs back into an existing core service network through the standard Iu-cs and Iu-ps interfaces.
Logical Interface
Iu-h Interface - Residing between an HNB and HNB-GW, the Iu-h interface defines the security architecture used to provide a secure, scalable communications over the Internet. The Iu-h interface also defines an efficient, reliable method for transporting Iu-based traffic as well as a new protocol (HNBAP) for enabling highly scalable ad hoc HNB deployment.
O&M Interface - Management interface between HNB and Home NodeB Management System (HMS). It uses TR-069 as the management protocol and TR-196 data model. The main purpose is for the configuration of the HNB.
Standard
The following 3GPP documents are currently available:
3GPP TR 23.830: Architecture aspects of Home NodeB and Home eNodeB
3GPP TR 25.820: 3G Home Node B (HNB) study item Technical Report - A technical report that looks at the air interface and requirements for the protocols to link the Home NodeB to the core network
3GPP TS 22.220: Service requirements for Home Node B (HNB) and Home eNode B (HeNB) - End to end architecture
3GPP TS 25.467: UTRAN architecture for 3G Home Node B (HNB); Stage 2 - UTRAN architecture for 3G Home NodeB (HNB)
3GPP TS 25.469: UTRAN Iuh interface Home Node B (HNB) Application Part (HNBAP) signalling - interface between HNB and HNB-GW
3GPP TS 32.581: Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning (OAM&P); Concepts and requirements for Type 1 interface HN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofpoint%2C%20Inc. | Proofpoint, Inc. is an American enterprise cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California that provides software as a service and products for email security, identity threat defense, data loss prevention, electronic discovery, and email archiving.
In 2021, Proofpoint was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $12.3 billion.
History
Company
The company was founded in July 2002 by Eric Hahn, formerly the CTO of Netscape Communications. It launched July 21, 2003, after raising a $7 million Series A funding round, releasing its first product, and lining up six customers as references, and was backed by venture investors Benchmark Capital and Stanford University. An additional $9 million in Series B funding led by New York-based RRE Ventures was announced in October, 2003.
Proofpoint became a publicly traded company in April 2012. At the time of its initial public offering (IPO), the company's shares traded at $13 apiece; investors purchased more than 6.3 million shares through the IPO, raising more than $80 million.
On April 26, 2021, Proofpoint announced that it had agreed to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Product history
The company's first product was the Proofpoint Protection Server (PPS) for medium and large businesses. It incorporated what was described as "MLX Technology", proprietary machine learning algorithms applied to the problem of accurately identifying spam email using 10,000 different attributes to differentiate between spam and valid email. The company joined dozens of other anti-spam software providers in a business opportunity fueled by an exponential increase in spam volume that was threatening worker productivity, making spam a top business priority. According to the 2004 National Technology Readinesed the number of spam detection attributes to more than 50,000.
In 2004, strict new HIPAA regulations governing financial disclosures and the privacy of health care data prompted Proofpoint to begin developing new products that would automatically identify and intercept outbound email containing sensitive information.
In March 2004, Proofpoint introduced its first hardware appliance, the P-Series Message Protection Appliance (later renamed Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway), using a hardened Linux kernel and Proofpoint's Protection Server 2.0 software. It was tested by Infoworld and found to stop 94% of spam.
Another product introduction in November 2004 included Protection Server 3.0, with Email Firewall and MLX-based Dynamic Reputation Analysis, and the Content Security Suite, plug-in modules designed for scanning outbound messages and their attachments to assist in compliance with data protection regulations such as Sarbanes–Oxley, HIPAA, and Gramm–Leach–Bliley. In combination, this was known as the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Appliance. It was reviewed by ChannelWeb, which observed that it used a "combination of technologies: policy-based management, a spam-filtering en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Sled | is a vehicular combat video game developed and published by Namco. It was originally released for arcades in 1993. The game's perspective is third-person by default, but can be switched to a first-person perspective. The game was nominated for Most Innovative New Technology at the 1994 AMOA Awards. It later received a sequel in 1994, Cyber Commando.
Gameplay
Cyber Sled involves maneuvering a hovercraft style tank through a futuristic arena and fighting to eliminate an opponent (either another player or the computer). Various power-ups are available throughout the game, which feature improved radar, extra missiles, and shield re-charging. There are walls and other obstacles in the arena, which can be useful for hiding as well as a hindrance, and some of which can be destroyed. Each player can choose from among eight different tanks, which vary from slow but heavily shielded, to quick but vulnerable. Player's viewpoint can be either from the cockpit, or from behind the vehicle.
Each player has two tank-style analog joysticks, each with a finger and thumb trigger. The finger trigger releases a steady stream of bullets, but if held down will overheat and stop working for a short period of time. The thumb trigger releases a limited number of missiles.
The game is rendered in 3D polygons and is viewed from a third-person perspective by default. There is a viewpoint button that allows the player to switch to an alternative first-person perspective.
Release
Arcade
The arcade game was first published by Namco in Japan on March 27, 1993 and later in North America by Namco America in October. The game was also released in Europe during 1993.
PlayStation
A console version of Cyber Sled was released for Sony's PlayStation in 1995. It was originally slated as a launch game for the PlayStation. It features more characters than the arcade version, and a choice between the original arcade graphics, or a more realistic texture mapped mode. The original arcade version was released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on May 19, 2009. The PlayStation version was released through the PlayStation Store in Japan on June 26, 2013, and in North America on January 28, 2014.
Reception
Arcade
Game Machine listed Cyber Sled as being the second most popular arcade game in Japan during October 1993. Play Meter listed it to be the twenty-second most-popular arcade game at the time in North America during December 1993.
Upon release in arcades, Rick Skews of Computer and Video Games magazine gave the arcade game a positive review in early 1994. He compared the game favorably with Atari's classic arcade first-person shooter tank game Battlezone (1980), considering Cyber Sled to be a multiplayer 3D polygon successor to Battlezone. He called Cyber Sled "an enjoyable coin-op" that is "most fun when played with a friend". He scored it 82% for graphics, 76% for sound, and 84% for gameplay, for an overall 82% score.
At the 1994 AMOA Awards, the game was nominated for Most In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship%20Earth%20%28disambiguation%29 | Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources available on Earth.
Spaceship Earth may also refer to:
Spaceship Earth (detector), a network of neutron monitors designed to measure the flux of cosmic rays arriving at Earth from different directions
Spaceship Earth (Epcot), an attraction at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA
Spaceship Earth (film), a 2020 documentary about Biosphere 2
Spaceship Earth (sculpture), at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
Spaceship Earth (Tous sur orbite !), a 52 episode documentary created during the 1990s
Spaceship Earth, a 1966 book by Barbara Ward |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PdfTeX |
The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The idea of making this extension to TeX was conceived during the early 1990s, when Jiří Zlatuška and Phil Taylor discussed some developmental ideas with Donald Knuth at Stanford University. Knuth later met Hàn Thế Thành in Brno during his visit to the Faculty of Informatics to receive an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University.
Two prominent characteristics of pdfTeX are character protrusion, which generalizes the concept of hanging punctuation, and font expansion, an implementation of Hermann Zapf's ideas for improving the grayness of a typeset page. Both extend the core paragraph breaking routine. They are discussed in Thành's PhD thesis.
pdfTeX is included in most modern distributions of LaTeX and ConTeXt (including TeX Live, MacTeX, and MiKTeX) and used as the default TeX engine. The main difference between TeX and pdfTeX is that whereas TeX outputs DVI files, pdfTeX can output PDF files directly. This allows tight integration of PDF features such as hypertext links and tables of contents, using packages such as hyperref. On the other hand, packages (such as PSTricks) which exploit the earlier conversion process of DVI-to-PostScript may fail, although replacements such as PGF/TikZ have been written. Direct embedding of PostScript graphics is no longer functional, and one has to use a program such as eps2pdf to convert EPS files to PDF, which can then be directly inserted by pdfTeX.
It is possible to obtain DVI output from pdfTeX. This DVI output should be identical to that of TeX, unless pdfTeX's extra microtypography features have been activated. Moreover, since LaTeX, ConTeXt et al. are simply macro packages for TeX, they work equally well with pdfTeX. Hence, pdflatex, for example, calls the pdfTeX program using the standard LaTeX macros to typeset LaTeX documents, whereas it is the default rendering engine for ConTeXt documents.
Features
pdfTeX has several features not available in standard TeX:
Native TrueType and Type 1 font embedding
Micro-typographic extensions such as margin kerning and font expansion
Direct access to PDF-specific features such as hyperlinks, tables of contents and document information
See also
List of TeX extensions
List of PDF software
LuaTeX
XeTeX
References
External links
pdfTeX project page
pdfTeX manual
Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system - dissertation by Hàn Thế Thành
2008 interview
Free PDF software
Free TeX software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platica | , based in Tokyo, Japan, is a talent agency whose CEO is Hiroshi Fujita (藤田博士).
This firm was spun off from the tarento and model division of its parent company Face Network Co., Ltd on 1 April 2008.
Affiliated people
Male Talents
Hiroki Hoshino (星野広樹)
Takuya Yamato (大和啄也)
Female Talents
Saori Horii
Fifi (フィフィ)
Nao Kudo (工藤菜緒)
Kanae Miyauchi (宮内加奈恵)
Natsumi Mizuno (水野夏美)
Tomoko Shimokawa (下川友子)
Rika Takeshita (竹下莉香)
Hana Tojima (戸島花)
Nonoka Yamazaki (山崎野乃華)
Fashion Models
Alina (Alina)
Chikage (千景)
Setsu Katagiri (片桐セツ)
Keito (恵都)
Kewen (Kewen)
Kiera (Kiera)
Arisa Niikura (新倉有沙)
Naomi Watanabe (渡辺奈緒美)
Atsuko Yamakawa (山川敦子)
Junior Talents
Sae Abe (阿部紗英)
Raima Hiramatsu (平松來馬)
Maria Hirooka (廣岡まりあ)
Rina Jouzaki (城崎里奈)
Mayuka Kuroda (黒田真友香)
Nanase Matsushima (松嶋七星)
Natsuki Ohta (太田菜月)
Reira Suguro (勝呂玲羅)
Yuu Yoshiki (吉識優)
Formerly Belonged
Bobby Ologun
Hidemi Hikita (疋田英美) - until March 2010
Yumi Kobayashi - until March 2010
Mao Mizoguchi - until March 2010
Miu Yamaguchi (山口美羽) - until July 2008
External links
PLATICA Inc.
Company Overview
Talent agencies based in Tokyo
Business services companies established in 2008
Japanese talent agencies
Japanese companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3BPH | 3BPH is a radio station based in Bendigo, Victoria. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers.
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in Bendigo
Radio reading services of Australia
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bendigo | Trams in Bendigo have operated since 1890. They ceased to operate as a means of public transport in 1972 but part of the main network continues to operate today as a tourist attraction. Limited trials have also been made in 2009 with operating commuter service, but with minimal usage by the public.
History
As public transport
The first trams in Bendigo were battery operated, but only lasted three months before being withdrawn due to their unreliability. A steam tram system commenced operation in 1892 operated by the Bendigo Tramways Company Limited, and lasted until 1902. Electric trams commenced in 1903 operated by the Electric Supply Company of Victoria, the network eventually covering two routes, one north-south from North Bendigo through the city centre to Golden Square, and Eaglehawk through the city centre to Quarry Hill.
The Electric Supply Company of Victoria was taken over by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) in 1934, as part of the centralisation of the supply of electricity in Victoria. The SECV was in the power generation business, and did not want to operate the loss-making provincial tramways of Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong, but was forced to by the State Government.
In 1957–58 tram passengers were paying an average fare of 3 cents while the service cost 8.75 cents to provide, and by 1961–62 the cost was 10 cents. Between 1961 and 1969 patronage fell 46 percent, but in 1968, the Legislative Council refused to give the SECV permission to abandon the service. It continued to be operated by the SECV until April 1972, when the Bendigo tramways were closed.
As a tourist tramway
In September 1972 a two-year trial of tourist tramways commenced by "The Bendigo Trust" trading as "Bendigo Tramways", and they remain in operation today. The service operates from North Bendigo though the city centre to the Central Deborah Gold Mine.
Between 1996 and 1998, a tourist restaurant and cafe trams was introduced to Bendigo, following the success of a similar model of the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant in Melbourne. The idea proved very popular and the Bendigo fleet has since increased in size.
In 2005 a proposal was put forward to the City of Greater Bendigo to extend the tourist tram route around Lake Weeroona, however the plan met staunch opposition from the community and it was ultimately rejected putting the viability of the network at risk.
In 2008, notable environmental scientist Peter Newman called for modernisation of the Bendigo tram network to operate as a form of public transport.
After calls from the community organisations and representatives, a week-long trial of commuter tram services began in December 2008, followed by a second trial between 16 March and 9 April 2009, with trams running every 20 minutes between North Bendigo, Golden Square and the CBD during the morning and afternoon peaks. Fares were set at A$2 a ride. The trials attracted good publicity and support from the Bendigo +25 Transport Action Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWBC-AM | DWBC (1422 AM) was a radio station owned by ACWS - United Broadcasting Network. The station's studio was located at FEMS Tower 1, Osmeña Highway, Manila.
References
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations established in 1972
Radio stations disestablished in 2007
Defunct radio stations in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20China%20Scholars%20Poverty%20Research%20Network | The Young China Scholars Poverty Research Network co-sponsored by the Canadian organisations the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) was created to identify and support a new generation of young researchers working on poverty and distribution issues in China.
Aim
The aim of the Network is to work with young scholars in China to explore new analytical approaches to poverty research and through this process to more fully harness and use existing poverty survey data.
History
The Network was launched in the summer of 2005 and is coordinated by Li Shi (Beijing Normal University, China) and John Whalley (University of Western Ontario and CIGI, Canada).
Mentorship
There are fifteen mentors offering advice and instruction to young scholars on their research. All Network members meet annually providing young scholars the opportunity to present their research findings; the Network also organizes a series of seminars held at the Beijing Normal University.
Projects
Currently, the network offers financial support to thirteen young Chinese researchers whose project work is guided by senior network members. All papers are cited and are free to download (through the Creative Commons license).
Each of the young scholars presents initial proposals for their research to a network meeting, and each receives comment, feedback and—subsequently—mentoring for the further development of their work. They are given opportunities to interact with established scholars of completed work at feature presentations as well as policy debriefings and research direction discussions.
The network is built around an organizing committee that involves both senior and junior participant researchers from key institutions in China and outside non Chinese researchers. The last network meeting was held in spring 2008. CIGI encourages paper submissions.
References
IDRC/CIGI Young China Scholars Poverty Research Network
External links
Network Research Projects
Official homepage
Poverty in China
Research on poverty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav%20Biryukov | Vladislav Vasilievich Biryukov (, born 15 September 1972), Russian mineralogist and journalist, editor-in-chief and an author of Computerra weekly.
Biography
1989—1994 — studied at geologic facultet of Moscow State University
since 1998 — prints in Computerra
1999—2008 — the head of news department in Computerra
since 2008 — editor-in-chief of Computerra
External links
Vladislav Biryukov's articles (in Russian)
1972 births
Living people
Russian male journalists
Russian magazine editors
Moscow State University alumni
Computerra people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20data%20analysis | Structured data analysis may refer to:
Structured data analysis (statistics) – the search for structure in a dataset
Structured data analysis (systems analysis) – a project management technique
Structured data mining – a machine learning and data analysis technique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20data%20analysis | In statistics, combinatorial data analysis (CDA) is the study of data sets where the order in which objects are arranged is important. CDA can be used either to determine how well a given combinatorial construct reflects the observed data, or to search for a suitable combinatorial construct that does fit the data.
See also
Cluster analysis
Geometric data analysis
Structured data analysis (statistics)
Seriation (statistics)
References
Combinatorics
Data analysis
Combinatorial optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Pippin | The Apple Pippin is a defunct open multimedia technology platform, designed by Apple Computer, and marketed as PiPP!N. According to Apple, Pippin was directed at the home market as "an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment."
Pippin is based on the Apple Macintosh platform, including the classic Mac OS architecture. Apple built a demonstration device based on Pippin called "Pippin Power Player," and used it to demonstrate the platform at trade shows and to the media, in order to attract potential software developers and hardware manufacturers. Apple licensed the Pippin technology to third-party companies. Bandai Company Ltd. developed the ATMARK and @WORLD models, and focused them on the gaming and entertainment business in Japan, Canada and the United States. Katz Media developed the KMP 2000, and focused it on vertical markets throughout Europe and Canada.
Naming
The Apple Pippin platform was named for the Newtown Pippin, an apple cultivar, a smaller and more tart relative of the McIntosh apple (which is the namesake of the Macintosh). According to Apple, it intended for Pippin to be more than just a platform for game consoles. "Apple believes that over time Pippin will take many forms, including home telecommunication devices and much more. Apple did not want to choose a name that would be specific for certain market space, as it will certainly appeal to many types of consumers and be shipped in a variety of forms from many manufacturers." It was initially named "Sweet Pea" during the initial planning of the console.
The word "pippin" was used by Apple prior to the Apple Pippin platform. The Apple ProFile, an external hard disk drive for the Apple III and Apple Lisa, used the code name "Pippin" during development.
History
Apple never intended to release Pippin on its own. Apple intended to make the Pippin platform an open standard by licensing the technology to third parties, much like how JVC shared the VHS format in the 1970s. Relying on third-party companies to produce Pippin systems was a way to increase Macintosh's market share – a goal identical to Apple's clone attempt in the late 1990s. It even encouraged differentiation between systems, in order to encourage competition – as long as the systems stuck to Apple's reference design to avoid fragmentation. The licensees could improve their systems by improving industrial design, integrating telephony, improving video and audio capabilities, increasing memory capacity, and more.
Bandai and Apple
In 1993, Bandai wanted to deliver a scaled-down version of the Macintosh purely for CD-ROM game-playing. Bandai President and CEO Makoto Yamashina chose the Macintosh platform over other platforms available at the time.
In early 1994, Bandai approached Apple with the gaming console idea. The original design was based on a Macintosh Classic II 16 MHz Motorola 68030 running Macintosh system software. Apple's involvement would be to define the initial logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYXK | KYXK (106.9 FM, "Arkansas Rocks FM") is a radio station licensed to serve Gurdon, Arkansas, United States. The station is owned by Arkansas Rocks Radio Stations Network. It airs a classic rock format known as Arkansas Rocks FM.
The station was assigned the KYXK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 8, 1993.
References
External links
YXK
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Clark County, Arkansas
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSG3 | MSG3 may refer to:
A variant of the Heckler & Koch G3 German battle rifle
An overflow feed of the MSG Network that existed in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20affiliate | In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network. This distinguishes such a television or radio station from an owned-and-operated station (O&O), which is owned by the parent network.
Notwithstanding this distinction, it is common in informal speech (even for networks or O&Os themselves) to refer to any station, O&O or otherwise, that carries a particular network's programming as an affiliate, or to refer to the status of carrying such programming in a given market as an "affiliation".
Overview
Stations which carry a network's programming by method of affiliation maintain a contractual agreement, which may allow the network to dictate certain requirements that a station must agree to as part of the contract (such as programming clearances, local programming quotas or reverse compensation of a share of a station's retransmission consent revenue to the network). Affiliation contracts normally last between three and five years, though contracts have run for as little as one year or as long as ten; in addition, if a company owns two or more stations affiliated with the same network, affiliation contracts may have end-of-term dates that are the same or differ among that company's affiliates, depending on when a particular station's affiliation agreement was either previously renewed or originally signed.
While many television and radio stations maintain affiliations with the same network for decades, on occasion, there are certain factors that may lead a network to move its programming to another station (such as the owner of a network purchasing a station other than that which the network is already affiliated with, the network choosing to affiliate with another local station in order to improve local viewership of its programming by aligning with a stronger station, or a dispute between a network and station owner while negotiating a contract renewal for a particular station such as those over reverse compensation shares), often at the end of one network's existing contract with a station. One of the most notable and expansive affiliation changes occurred in the United States from September 1994 to September 1996, when television stations in 30 markets changed affiliations (through both direct swaps involving the new and original affiliates, and transactions involving multiple stations) as a result of a May 1994 agreement by New World Communications to switch twelve of its stations to Fox, resulting in various other affiliation transactions including additional groupwide deals (such as those between ABC and the E. W. Scripps Company, and CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting).
Network owned-and-operated stations
In the United States, Federal Communications Commission ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Ecuador | Ecuador Time (ECT), as named by the IANA time zone database, is the time observed in mainland Ecuador since 1931. Ecuador Time is at UTC-05:00 and has no daylight saving, except for a brief period in the 1990s during the government of president Sixto Durán Ballén.
This means Ecuador without Galápagos Province, which observed Ecuador Time until 1986, when it switched to Galápagos Time (GALT), at UTC-06:00.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPH | 3GPH is a community radio station owned and operated by Vision Australia as part of the Vision Australia Radio network. The station broadcasts a radio reading service to Geelong, Victoria, with 18 hours of local programming each week.
Outside of local hours, the station is a repeater of the 3RPH service from Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio stations in Geelong
Radio reading services of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Florida%20Commuter | Air Florida Commuter was the regional feeder network for Air Florida. Air Florida Commuter was not an airline, but a system of affiliated commuter carriers that fed traffic into Air Florida's hubs. In an arrangement commonly known as code-sharing, each airline painted their aircraft in Air Florida aircraft livery and colors and their flights were listed in computer reservation systems as Air Florida flights.
History
Air Miami became the first affiliate airline in 1980, and over a dozen other small airlines eventually became part of the system, including: Marco Island Airways, Florida Airlines, Key Air, Southern International Airways, Skyway of Ocala, North American Airlines, National Commuter Airlines, Gull Air, Pompano Airways, Finair Express, Slocum Airlines, Atlantic Gulf Airlines and others. As Air Florida became financially strapped, the commuter system was dismantled in early 1984.
Fleet
The Air Florida Commuter fleet consisted of the following aircraft models and quantities:
See also
List of defunct airlines of United States
References
Defunct regional airline brands
Defunct airlines of the United States
Airlines based in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Villareal | Leo Villareal (born 1967) is an American artist. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays. He is living and working in New York City.
Early life and education
Villareal was born in 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in El Paso on both sides of the border. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in 1986. He received a BA degree in Sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Career
The decisive moment that started his career came in Nevada's Black Rock desert, during the 1997 Burning Man festival when Villareal rigged up a strobe-light array above his tent so that he could find it more easily.
On March 5, 2013, Villareal debuted his largest piece to that date, The Bay Lights," a public light installation consisting of 25,000 LEDs strung on the vertical cables of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The installation cost $8 million to install and was activated nightly through 2015. It was replaced in 2016 with a permanent version.
In July 17, 2019, the first stage of his Illuminated River project went live with lighting added to London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millennium Bridge, and Cannon Street bridges. Phase Two added Blackfriars Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, and the Golden Jubilee Bridges, and was completed in April 2021.
His piece 'Optical Machine I' was featured in The Miami Beach Edition during Art Basel Miami Beach. His piece 'Liminal Gradient for (RED)' was displayed at the (RED) auction co-founded by Bono. It was described by architect Sir David Adjaye as "an L.E.D. Rothko".
Installations
Villareal is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Renwick Gallery and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, as well as in the private collections of contemporary art collectors CJ Follini. His work has also been on display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Madison Square Park in New York City, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York, The Northpark Mall in Dallas, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Art market
Villareal has been represented by Pace Gallery since 2016.
Gallery
References
External links
Leo Villareal
MTA's Arts For Transit — Hive at Bleecker Street/Lafayette Street
Living people
1967 births
Yale University alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Artists from El Paso, Texas
American installation artists
Portsmouth Abbey School alumni
Bridge light displays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Hui%27s%20%CF%80%20algorithm | Liu Hui's algorithm was invented by Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century), a mathematician of the state of Cao Wei. Before his time, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was often taken experimentally as three in China, while Zhang Heng (78–139) rendered it as 3.1724 (from the proportion of the celestial circle to the diameter of the earth, ) or as . Liu Hui was not satisfied with this value. He commented that it was too large and overshot the mark. Another mathematician Wang Fan (219–257) provided . All these empirical values were accurate to two digits (i.e. one decimal place). Liu Hui was the first Chinese mathematician to provide a rigorous algorithm for calculation of to any accuracy. Liu Hui's own calculation with a 96-gon provided an accuracy of five digits: .
Liu Hui remarked in his commentary to The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, that the ratio of the circumference of an inscribed hexagon to the diameter of the circle was three, hence must be greater than three. He went on to provide a detailed step-by-step description of an iterative algorithm to calculate to any required accuracy based on bisecting polygons; he calculated to between 3.141024 and 3.142708 with a 96-gon; he suggested that 3.14 was a good enough approximation, and expressed as 157/50; he admitted that this number was a bit small. Later he invented a quick method to improve on it, and obtained with only a 96-gon, a level of accuracy comparable to that from a 1536-gon. His most important contribution in this area was his simple iterative algorithm.
Area of a circle
Liu Hui argued:
"Multiply one side of a hexagon by the radius (of its circumcircle), then multiply this by three, to yield the area of a dodecagon; if we cut a hexagon into a dodecagon, multiply its side by its radius, then again multiply by six, we get the area of a 24-gon; the finer we cut, the smaller the loss with respect to the area of circle, thus with further cut after cut, the area of the resulting polygon will coincide and become one with the circle; there will be no loss".
Apparently Liu Hui had already mastered the concept of the limit
Further, Liu Hui proved that the area of a circle is half of its circumference multiplied by its radius. He said:
"Between a polygon and a circle, there is excess radius. Multiply the excess radius by a side of the polygon. The resulting area exceeds the boundary of the circle".
In the diagram = excess radius. Multiplying by one side results in oblong which exceeds the boundary of the circle. If a side of the polygon is small (i.e. there is a very large number of sides), then the excess radius will be small, hence excess area will be small.
As in the diagram, when , , and .
"Multiply the side of a polygon by its radius, and the area doubles; hence multiply half the circumference by the radius to yield the area of circle".
When , half the circumference of the -gon approaches a semicircle, thus half a circumference of a circle mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3MPH | 3MPH is a radio station based in Mildura, Victoria. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers.
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio reading services of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3RPH/T | 3RPH/T is the call sign of two radio stations in Victoria, Australia, both part of the Vision Australia Radio network:
3RPH Warragul
3RPH Warrnambool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3RPH%20Warragul | 3RPH Warragul (callsign 3RPH/T) is a radio station based in Warragul, Victoria. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers.
There is another station in the network with the same 3RPH/T callsign, 3RPH Warrnambool
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio reading services of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3RPH%20Warrnambool | 3RPH Warrnambool (callsign 3RPH/T) is a radio station based in Warrnambool, Victoria. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers.
There is another station in the network with the same 3RPH/T callsign, 3RPH Warragul
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
On July 2, 2018, 3RPH swapped frequencies with 3YB to allow them to broadcast on 94.5 FM MHz. In addition, 3YB donated $25,000 to the Vision Australia Warrnambool Branch and 3RPH new 882 Frequency extended from 800 to 2,000 Watts covering the entire South West.
References
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio reading services of Australia
Warrnambool |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3SPH | 3SPH is a radio station based in Shepparton, Victoria. It is part of the Vision Australia Radio network, a reading and information service for those persons unable to read or easily access information in print. The station is run and operated by volunteers.
When not broadcasting local programs, the station is a relay of 3RPH in Melbourne.
References
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Radio reading services of Australia |
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