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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamwandu | Kamwandu is a town in the Kasai-Central province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Transport
It is served by a station on the national railway network.
See also
Railway stations in DRCongo
References
Populated places in Kasaï-Central |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIX%20Financial%20Information | SIX Financial Information, a subsidiary of SIX Group, is a multinational financial data vendor headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The company provides market data which it gathers from the world's major trading venues directly and in real-time. Its database has structured and encoded securities administration data for more than 20 million financial instruments. The firm has offices in 23 countries.
History
In 1930, Ticker AG was founded in Zurich, Switzerland by a group of Swiss banks. In 1961 it launched the first stock market television service in Switzerland, and was renamed Telekurs Financial. In 1975, Telekurs launched Investdata, the first financial information display in Switzerland.
Telekurs began to expand outside of Switzerland in 1990. In 1996, the firm was restructured into a holding company, and launched an expansion of its product range. In 2007, Telekurs acquired part of the Fininfo Group. In 2008, The Telekurs Group merged with SWX Group, SIS Swiss Financial Services Group and SEGA Intersettle to form SIX Group. Telekurs Financial was renamed to SIX Telekurs and became the Financial Information division of SIX Group.
On 23 April 2012, the "Telekurs" name was discontinued and the company is now known as SIX Financial Information.
Products and services
The SIX Financial Information products flow from the same single logical database, and are divided into the following categories:
Reference data and pricing
SIX Financial Information's main product, the Valordata Feed (VDF), is a source for reference and descriptive data plus corporate actions. Based on a unique data model, VDF holds information on approximately 20 million financial instruments, drawing on over 1500 trading venues and contributors. For calculated and evaluated prices, SIX Financial Information offers a number of specific products within this category.
Market data
SIX Financial Information's market data products are real-time or delayed. The master database allows customers to link nearly 1,500 individual data elements across millions of active financial instruments, for a clear view of investment positions. Services range from valuation pricing and real-time market data feeds to streamlined back-office products and all are used for improved straight-through processing.
Regulatory compliance
For regulatory compliance, SIX Financial Information provides information that helps analyze exposures and aggregate positions for reporting. SIX Financial Information has incorporated flags, markers and classifications into VDF that facilitate compliance with taxation regulations such as the EU savings tax, Swiss transaction taxes, IRS Section 871(m) and US IRS Withholding, plus fee calculation regulations such as the SEC rule 22c-2, pan-European rules such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation and UCITS III and IV and global economic sanctions.
Display products
The SIX Financial I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung%20Alliance%20Intercultural%20School | Bandung Alliance Intercultural School (BAIS) is in Kota Baru Parahyangan, a development on the outskirts of Bandung, Indonesia. It has been a member of the Network of International Christian Schools since 1995. Fully accredited through WASC and ACSI, BAIS is a private, non-profit school primarily serving the international community of Bandung. BAIS offers an education based on the international philosophy of education from a Christian perspective for students from pre-school through grade 12. Upon graduation from BAIS, students are prepared for entry into English-speaking universities all over the world.
History
In 1956 the Christian Missionary Alliance (CMA) started the Bandung Alliance International School (BAIS) in the Ciumblueit area of Bandung. It was designed to serve up to 80 students, grades 1–6, in a one-story classroom building. The number of students increased and the school added a second floor to the building. The extra space added room for secondary classes, which also increased space in the office building, and later on, they added a sports field.
The Network of International Christian Schools (NICS) took over management of the school in 1995 and the first graduating senior class was in 2001. To cope with increasing numbers BAIS purchased a 3.5-hectare lot in Kota Baru Parahyangan in 2007, a new development on the outskirts of Bandung.
Construction on the classroom/office building was completed in July 2008 with classes starting in August for the 2008–2009 school year. During the 2015–2016 school year, the student body was able to begin use for the full sized soccer field and swimming pool. There are plans to start the office building, auditorium, and indoor gymnasium.
It has an enrollment of 175 students preschool 3-12th grade.
External links
Bandung Alliance Intercultural School
Kota Baru Parahyangan
Network of International Christian Schools
West Bandung Regency
International schools in Indonesia
Education in West Java
Buildings and structures in West Java
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dapat%20Ka%20Bang%20Mahalin%3F | (International title: Second Chances / ) is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1984 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the thirteenth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Aljur Abrenica and Kris Bernal. It premiered on March 2, 2009 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Saan Darating ang Umaga?. The series concluded on June 19, 2009 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Kung Aagawin Mo ang Lahat sa Akin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Aljur Abrenica as Miguelito "Lito" Sanchez
Kris Bernal as Myrna Ramos-Sanchez
Supporting cast
Ara Mina as Glacilda Bautista
Paulo Avelino as Kiko Claro
Mike Tan as Bong Ramos
Juan Rodrigo as Rene Ramos
Mariz Ricketts as Linda Ramos
Lloyd Samartino as Eddie Sanchez
Maritoni Fernandez as Constance "Connie" Sanchez
Carlo Aquino as Philippe "Phil" Bautista
Maybelyn Dela Cruz as Cherry Ramos
Rhea Nakpil as Encar
Jana Roxas as Antonia Claro
Krystal Reyes as Angeli Claro
Say Alonzo as Anina
Jake Vargas as Elmer Ramos
Matutina as Sima
Dart Zia as Yanboy
Kiko Junio as Ovige
Lawrence Gutierrez as Migs
Guest cast
Pen Medina as Tata Teryo
Julio Diaz as Rafael Bautista
Ana Capri as Jessa
Boy Roque as Phil's jailmate
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 22.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 30.5% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad%20Central%20Station | Baghdad Central Station is the main train station in Baghdad. It links the rail network to the south and the north of Iraq. The station was built by the British and designed by J. M. Wilson, a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad. Construction started in 1948 and finished in 1953. The station is the biggest one in Iraq.
History
The train station was originally built by the British and it was considered as the "Jewel of Baghdad" for daily travelers. The station offered telegraph services, it had also a bank, a post office, a saloon, shopping areas and a restaurant. The station even had an office with printing presses which are still printing the train tickets.
After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, thieves snatched the station's furniture, lighting fixtures and even bathroom plumbing.
Renovations
A $5.9 million renovation began in 2004 and was completed in June 2006. The renovation included all-new power plant and air conditioning system. The electrical, water, and sewer lines were replaced. The restaurant was rehabilitated and the roof, the windows and the plaster walls were replaced. All clocks were replaced and connected to one new central system. Also, the broken mosaic floor tiles were replaced.
A new entrance was constructed. Two new seven passenger elevators, new bathrooms and a hotel with 13 rooms were added along with a new fire alarm and sprinkler system
Gallery
See also
Iraqi Republic Railways
Railway stations in Iraq
Baghdad Metro
References
External links
Ministry of Transportation - General Company for Iraqi Railways
In pictures: The crown jewel of Iraq's railway - BBC News, 28 November 2016
Transport in Baghdad
Railway stations in Iraq
Buildings and structures in Baghdad
1953 establishments in Iraq
Railway stations opened in 1953 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Maqal%20railway%20station | Al Maqal railway station is the main train station in Basrah. It links the rail network of the south to Baghdad and the north of Iraq.
See also
Iraqi Republic Railways
Railway stations in Iraq
References
Railway stations in Iraq
Buildings and structures in Basra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen%20Yunsong | Wen Yunsong, also known as Winston Wen () is a Chinese businessman and current CEO of Unihub Global Networks, a Chinese networking company. He is the son of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and thus a princeling. Mr. Wen was a principal of New Horizon Capital, a private equity fund. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
References
Living people
Wen Jiabao family
Chinese chief executives
Kellogg School of Management alumni
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20search | In computer science, fringe search is a graph search algorithm that finds the least-cost path from a given initial node to one goal node.
In essence, fringe search is a middle ground between A* and the iterative deepening A* variant (IDA*).
If g(x) is the cost of the search path from the first node to the current, and h(x) is the heuristic estimate of the cost from the current node to the goal, then , and h* is the actual path cost to the goal. Consider IDA*, which does a recursive left-to-right depth-first search from the root node, stopping the recursion once the goal has been found or the nodes have reached a maximum value ƒ. If no goal is found in the first threshold ƒ, the threshold is then increased and the algorithm searches again. I.E. It iterates on the threshold.
There are three major inefficiencies with IDA*. First, IDA* will repeat states when there are multiple (sometimes non-optimal) paths to a goal node - this is often solved by keeping a cache of visited states. IDA* thus altered is denoted as memory-enhanced IDA* (ME-IDA*), since it uses some storage. Furthermore, IDA* repeats all previous operations in a search when it iterates in a new threshold, which is necessary to operate with no storage. By storing the leaf nodes of a previous iteration and using them as the starting position of the next, IDA*'s efficiency is significantly improved (otherwise, in the last iteration it would always have to visit every node in the tree).
Fringe search implements these improvements on IDA* by making use of a data structure that is more or less two lists to iterate over the frontier or fringe of the search tree. One list now, stores the current iteration, and the other list later stores the immediate next iteration. So from the root node of the search tree, now will be the root and later will be empty. Then the algorithm takes one of two actions: If is greater than the current threshold, remove head from now and append it to the end of later; i.e. save head for the next iteration. Otherwise, if is less than or equal to the threshold, expand head and discard head, consider its children, adding them to the beginning of now. At the end of an iteration, the threshold is increased, the later list becomes the now list, and later is emptied.
An important difference here between fringe and A* is that the contents of the lists in fringe do not necessarily have to be sorted - a significant gain over A*, which requires the often expensive maintenance of order in its open list. Unlike A*, however, fringe will have to visit the same nodes repeatedly, but the cost for each such visit is constant compared to the worst-case logarithmic time of sorting the list in A*.
Pseudocode
Implementing both lists in one doubly linked list, where nodes that precede the current node are the later portion and all else are the now list. Using an array of pre-allocated nodes in the list for each node in the grid, access time to nodes in the list is reduced to a c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20mole%20shrew | The giant mole shrew (Anourosorex schmidi) is a species of red-toothed shrew native to the southeastern slopes of the Himalaya of Bhutan and India.
It was listed as "Data Deficient" in both IUCN assessments (2008 and 2016).
References
giant mole shrew
Mammals of Bhutan
Fauna of Sikkim
Fauna of Eastern Himalaya
giant mole shrew
Fauna of Assam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internap | Internap Holding LLC, formerly Internap Corporation and operating as INAP, is a company that sells data center and cloud computing services. The company is headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, United States, and has data centers located in North America, EMEA and the Asia-Pacific region. INAP sells its Performance IP, hosting, cloud, colocation and hybrid infrastructure services through Private Network Access Points (P-NAP) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Australia.
History
Founded in Seattle, Washington in 1996, the company's initial public offering (IPO) took place in 1999. In 2000, INAP's patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO) technology was added to the Smithsonian's permanent technology exhibit.
Peter Aquino was named president and CEO of INAP in September 2016. Previously, he was chairman and CEO, and later executive chairman, of Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc.
In 2011, INAP launched the world's first commercially available OpenStack Cloud Compute service. In June 2011, the INAP Santa Clara data center became the first commercial data center in the U.S. to achieve the Green Building Initiative's Green Globe certification.
Mike Ruffolo was president and CEO from May 2015 until September 2016. He was a member of the company's board of directors. Previously, he was president and CEO of Crossbeam Systems, Inc. The company named Daniel C. Stanzione, non-executive chairman of the board in June 2009; he has been a director since 2004.
On February 28, 2018, Internap acquired SingleHop for $132 million in cash.
On March 16, 2020, Internap Technology Solutions, Inc. and six affiliated companies filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company emerged from bankruptcy on May 11, 2020.
Less than a month after emerging from bankruptcy, on June 2, INAP announced that it sold its colocation business located at 1301 Fannin St, Houston TX, to Netrality.
On July 1, 2021, INAP sold Ubersmith to Lumine Group for an undisclosed amount. The following month, on August 2, Leaseweb acquired INAP's Canadian data centres, then operating under the iWeb name.
In 2022, INAP continued to sell its assets. On May 9, INAP announced that it sold the assets associated with its network business, including INAP Japan, to Unitas Global. And on September 14, it announced the sale of the majority of the assets associated with the colocation business, consisting of nine sites, to Evocative.
On September 28, 2022, INAPs product "ServerIntellect" was the target of a ransomware attack that affected their multitenant website, database, and email hosting services causing data loss for those services. As a result, INAP discontinued multitenant hosting services. To mitigate confusion and clarify that only ServerIntellect customers were affected, INAP removed the original ransomware incident report from their "Operational Transparency" page on On October 5, 2022. Techradar published an art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly%20%28TV%20series%29 | Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which first aired on the Nine Network between 13 February 2008 and 1 September 2013, before being revived on 3 April 2022. Each series is based on real-life events. There have been six full series, with season 7 being a miniseries. A 2014 series titled Fat Tony & Co is a sequel to the first series but is not branded under the Underbelly title.
Synopsis
The first series is based on the book Leadbelly: Inside Australia's Underworld, by journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule. The series also borrows the title 'Underbelly' from a previously successful series of 12 true crime compilations by the same authors. Three direct tie-in novels, based on the first three seasons, were also later published by the same authors as part of this series, and a separate 16th book (Underbelly: The Golden Casket) was published in 2010. The fourth series is based on the book Razor by crime author Larry Writer, which was subsequently republished as a tie-in. A fifth tie-in novel, by Andy Muir, was published for the final series. Despite being part of the Underbelly series, the first 12 books have never been republished with the famous Underbelly logo, and the logo was only used from books 13 to 18 (including Golden Casket and the republishing of Razor).
The fifth series, Underbelly: Badness, is based on Sydney underworld figure Anthony "Rooster" Perish, his brother Andrew and their associates. It is set between 2001–2012, and broadcast from 13 August 2012. This is the only season that did not receive a 'tie-in' novel.
A sixth series titled Underbelly: Squizzy, based on the events surrounding Joseph "Squizzy" Taylor and set between 1915 and 1927, began airing on 28 July 2013.
Three telemovies called The Underbelly Files aired in 2011. Tell Them Lucifer was Here is about the 1998 murders of Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller and the subsequent manhunt for their killers. Infiltration is about the story of Australian police detective Colin McLaren's infiltration of the Calabrian Mafia in Griffith, New South Wales which saw dozens of underworld figures imprisoned The Man Who Got Away tells the story of David McMillian, a drug smuggler and the only Western man to ever escape from Bangkok's Klong Prem Central Prison. All three aired on the Nine Network in February 2011.
In September 2011, a New Zealand version of the series premiered on TV3, titled Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud. The six-part mini-series was the first Underbelly production to be produced and financed outside of Australia. The series detailed events beginning in the late 1960s to and throughout the 1970s and told the origin of the Mr Asia drug syndicate and its original leader Marty Johnstone. The series is somewhat a prequel to the series A Tale of Two Cities. An American version has also been announced on the network channel Starz though nothing else has been confirmed.
Seasons
Underbelly (2008)
Season 1 fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Second%E2%80%93Level%20Students%27%20Union | The Irish Second–Level Students' Union (ISSU) is Ireland's national umbrella body for second-level students working through the student council network in second-level schools. ISSU represents post-primary school students nationwide.
ISSU's activities have three stated strands: it aims to provide training, guidance and advice to students and to equip them with the skills needed to become involved in the decision-making processes in their own school communities; and it aims to work with other organisations to bring the views of secondary school students to the attention of policy-makers and the media; and it aims to provide services to the membership of ISSU on the principle that control of those services lies with the membership.
ISSU was founded in August 2008, from the remains of the Union of Secondary Students (USS) which had been in existence from 2001 to 2008. It is a member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) and the National Youth Council of Ireland.
During September 2009, ISSU modified its name from the Irish Secondary Students' Union to the Irish Second–Level Students' Union to encompass all Irish post-primary schools.
Students in Northern Ireland are represented by the Secondary Students' Union of Northern Ireland (SSUNI).
References
External links
OBESSU
Student organisations in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood%20components%20analysis | Neighbourhood components analysis is a supervised learning method for classifying multivariate data into distinct classes according to a given distance metric over the data. Functionally, it serves the same purposes as the K-nearest neighbors algorithm and makes direct use of a related concept termed stochastic nearest neighbours.
Definition
Neighbourhood components analysis aims at "learning" a distance metric by finding a linear transformation of input data such that the average leave-one-out (LOO) classification performance is maximized in the transformed space. The key insight to the algorithm is that a matrix corresponding to the transformation can be found by defining a differentiable objective function for , followed by the use of an iterative solver such as conjugate gradient descent. One of the benefits of this algorithm is that the number of classes can be determined as a function of , up to a scalar constant. This use of the algorithm, therefore, addresses the issue of model selection.
Explanation
In order to define , we define an objective function describing classification accuracy in the transformed space and try to determine such that this objective function is maximized.
Leave-one-out (LOO) classification
Consider predicting the class label of a single data point by consensus of its -nearest neighbours with a given distance metric. This is known as leave-one-out classification. However, the set of nearest-neighbours can be quite different after passing all the points through a linear transformation. Specifically, the set of neighbours for a point can undergo discrete changes in response to smooth changes in the elements of , implying that any objective function based on the neighbours of a point will be piecewise-constant, and hence not differentiable.
Solution
We can resolve this difficulty by using an approach inspired by stochastic gradient descent. Rather than considering the -nearest neighbours at each transformed point in LOO-classification, we'll consider the entire transformed data set as stochastic nearest neighbours. We define these using a softmax function of the squared Euclidean distance between a given LOO-classification point and each other point in the transformed space:
The probability of correctly classifying data point is the probability of classifying the points of each of its neighbours with the same class :
where is the probability of classifying neighbour of point .
Define the objective function using LOO classification, this time using the entire data set as stochastic nearest neighbours:
Note that under stochastic nearest neighbours, the consensus class for a single point is the expected value of a point's class in the limit of an infinite number of samples drawn from the distribution over its neighbours i.e.: . Thus the predicted class is an affine combination of the classes of every other point, weighted by the softmax function for each where is now the entire transformed data se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXTE-TV | DXTE-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, airing programming from the TV5 network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent through its licensee ABC Development Corporation; TV5 also provides certain services to One Sports outlet DXCO-TV (channel 29) under an airtime lease agreement with owner Nation Broadcasting Corporation. Both stations share transmitter facilities at the SMART Compound, Macapagal Drive, Upper Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental Province (near ABS-CBN).
Expansion
TV5 Cagayan de Oro will have additional relay stations in Caraga, Lanao del Norte and Misamis Occidental, which will expand its signal reach throughout Northern Mindanao. These are Malaybalay, Bukidnon (Channel 34), Marawi (Channel 10), Oroquieta (Channel 47), Butuan (Channel 36), Iligan (Channel 32), Ozamiz (Channel 30), Surigao City (Channel 19) and Tandag (Channel 24) but they are soon to be upgraded or installed in the future. Channels 13 Butuan, 8 Tandag and 10 San Francisco, Agusan del Sur are the former TV5 affiliate stations which are owned by PEC Broadcasting Corporation, although Channel 10 San Francisco, Agusan del Sur was inactive. TV5's digital terrestrial signal in Ozamiz, Iligan, Malaybalay, Bukidnon and Butuan will be also Active soon as possible.
History
1968 - ABC Cagayan de Oro was first aired on Channel 10 (DXCC-TV), the first broadcast in the whole Northern Mindanao was launched by Associated Broadcasting Corporation President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law was forced to shut-down in 1972.
1992 - ABC Cagayan de Oro was launched with the newly established DXHB-TV Channel 8 as an affiliate of Radio Mindanao Network, which RMN's first television station went on the air in the city.
July 8, 1993 - ABC Cagayan de Oro was launched under the ownership of Associated Broadcasting Company, which reopened its TV station ABC Channel 21 Cagayan de Oro, with its studio and transmitter tower in E.V. Marcoso Bldg. in Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro. It's different callsign as DXTE-TV and switched its frequency from VHF Channel 10 to UHF Channel 8.
December 9, 1994 - ABC TV stations acquired a new franchise to operate under Republic Act 7831 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos. In the same year, the station went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a phenomenal growth, ABC Cagayan de Oro earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
1996 - ABC Cagayan de Oro switched its frequency from VHF Channel 8 to UHF Channel 21.
August 8, 2008 - The station aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of TV5.
October 2014 - TV5 Cagayan de Oro moved its studio from E.V. Marcoso Bldg. in Corrales Ave. to its current home at the SMART Compound in Macapagal Drive.
August 15, 2016 - TV5 will bring bac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTI%20%28disambiguation%29 | NTI may refer to:
People
Nti (surname)
Miscellanea
Network Telephone Interface, alternative term for the network interface device
NTi Audio, company
National Telecommuting Institute, non-profit organization dedicated to work-at-home opportunities for primarily the disabled
New Technology Institute, training venue in the Eastside of Birmingham, England
Nociceptive trigeminal inhibition tension suppression system, dental mouthguard
Northwest Territorial Imperative, North American separatist movement
Nuclear Threat Initiative, non-profit organization working to prevent catastrophic attacks and accidents with weapons of mass destruction
Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, legal representative of the Inuit of Nunavut
Vector NTI, software package
NTI, the IATA code for Steenkool Airport, Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisporella | Bisporella is a genus of fungi in the family Helotiaceae. , the nomenclatural database Index Fungorum lists 31 species in the genus.
Species
Bisporella aesculi
Bisporella allantospora
Bisporella calycellinoides
Bisporella citrina
Bisporella confluens
Bisporella discedens
Bisporella fuegiana
Bisporella fuscocincta
Bisporella hubeiensis
Bisporella hypostroma
Bisporella iodocyanescens
Bisporella macra
Bisporella magnispora
Bisporella maireana
Bisporella montana
Bisporella nannfeldtii
Bisporella oritis
Bisporella pallescens
Bisporella polygoni
Bisporella pteridicola
Bisporella resinicola
Bisporella rubescens
Bisporella schusteri
Bisporella shangrilana
Bisporella sinica
Bisporella strumosa
Bisporella subpallida
Bisporella sulfurina
Bisporella tetraspora
Bisporella triseptata
References
Helotiales genera
Helotiaceae
Taxa described in 1884
Taxa named by Pier Andrea Saccardo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYET-TV | DYET-TV (channel 21) is a television station in Metro Cebu, Philippines, serving as the Visayas flagship of the TV5 network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent; TV5 also provides certain services to One Sports outlet DYAN-TV (channel 29) under an airtime lease agreement with owner Nation Broadcasting Corporation. The station maintains master control at the TV5 Complex, Capitol Road, Camp Marina, Brgy. Kalunasan, Cebu City, while DYET-TV's analog and digital transmitters are located atop of Mount Busay, Cebu City.
History
September 11, 1963 – DYMT-TV Channel 11, the first broadcast in the whole Central Visayas was launched by Associated Broadcasting Corporation, becoming the second VHF television station established in Cebu City at the time until 1972 when President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law and it was forced to shut-down.
April 1, 1992 – the station was opened as the Associated Broadcasting Company (a month after the reopening of DWET-TV channel 5 in Metro Manila) with the callsign of the provincial station, DYET-TV as well as its frequency from VHF Channel 11 to UHF Channel 21, which becoming the first ever UHF TV station in Cebu City, Philippines and started regular commercial telecast. Its studios were at the 12th floor of the Sundowner Centrepoint Hotel along Plaridel St. cor. Osmeña Blvd. Broadcasting with a 5,000 watts power capacity, the station covers Metro Cebu, Northeastern Cebu (including Compostela), Southeastern Cebu up to Carcar, Northern & Central Bohol and part of Western Leyte. Elmer Rivera Karaan was the experienced broadcast journalist of ABC 21 Cebu during the hourly news update.
December 9, 1994 – ABC TV stations acquired a new franchise to operate on December 9, 1994, under Republic Act 7831 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos. In the same year, the station went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a surge of phenomenal growth, ABC Cebu earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
1996 – ABC Cebu transferred to their new studio and transmitter complex at Brgy. Kalunasan, Cebu City.
October 2003 – ABC was acquired by a group led by businessman Antonio "Tonyboy" O. Cojuangco Jr. former Chairman of PLDT and owner of Dream Satellite Broadcasting and Bank of Commerce, among other assets.
March 2008 – Cojuangco announced that ABC had reached a partnership with MPB Primedia, Inc., a local company backed by Media Prima Berhad in Malaysia as part of a long-time strategy to make the network more competitive. ABC signed off for the last time at around 22:00 PHT on August 8, 2008, with its late night newscast Sentro as the last program on air, and then aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of TV5. Its programming lineup aims towards "progressive Pinoys including those young at hea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTE-TV | DYTE-TV, channel 32 (analog) and channel 18 (digital), is a commercial television station owned and operated by TV5 Network Inc. Its transmitter is located at PLDT Compound, Galo St., Bacolod.
History
July 8, 1993 - Associated Broadcasting Company opened its TV station ABC Channel 32 Bacolod, with its studio and transmitter tower in H.O. Building in B.S. Aquino Drive, Bacolod.
December 9, 1994 - ABC TV stations acquired a new franchise to operate under Republic Act 7831 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos. In the same year, the station went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a phenomenal growth, ABC Bacolod earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
August 8, 2008 - The station aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of TV5.
2011 - TV5 Bacolod was relaunched with an authorized power of 30,000-watt stereo TV transmitter. The station's signals are perceivable throughout the Negros Island, and can also reach in several parts of Panay, especially Iloilo.
2014 - TV5 Bacolod moved its studio from H.O. Building in B.S. Aquino Drive to its new transmitter facilities at the PLDT Compound in Galo Street.
February 17, 2018 - as the recent changes within the network and in celebration of its 10th anniversary, TV5 Bacolod was relaunched as The 5 Network with a new logo and station ID entitled Get It on 5 whereas the TV on the northeastern quadrant of the logo has been dropped, making it more flexible for the other divisions to use it as part of their own identity.
January 13, 2019 - following AksyonTV's reformat as 5 Plus, 5 Bacolod introduced a variation of the current numerical 5 logo.
August 15, 2020 - 5 Bacolod reverted to its former name, TV5 (while retaining the variation of its current numerical logo that was introduced in January 2019), as the network announced its partnership with sister company, Cignal TV.
August 15, 2021 - TV5 Bacolod started its digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 18.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz)
Rebroadcast
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Bacolod
Negros Occidental
Secondary areas
Portion of Iloilo
See also
TV5
List of TV5 Stations
Radyo5 102.3 News FM Bacolod
Television stations in Bacolod
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20College | The Executive College () is a private higher education institution, established in 2004 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
The facilities in IE include campus' resources such as computer labs, libraries, theatres, and lecture rooms.
IE was one of the first five private educational institutions in Malaysia to achieve Full Lembaga Akreditasi Negara (now known as Malaysian Qualifications Agency) status and Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM) recognition status for its Quantity Surveying program. Its Business Administration and Civil Engineering programs are certified as Full Lembaga Akreditasi Negara (LAN) or Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) recognition status.
References
Colleges in Malaysia
Universities and colleges in Sarawak
2004 establishments in Malaysia
Educational institutions established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXER-TV | DXER-TV, channel 12 (analog) and channel 18 (digital), is a commercial television station owned and operated by TV5 Network, Inc. through its licensee ABC Development Corporation. Its analog and digital transmitter are located at PLDT Building, Beatiles St., General Santos.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz)
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
General Santos
Secondary areas
South Cotabato
Sarangani
See also
TV5
List of TV5 Stations
Radyo5 97.5 News FM General Santos
Television stations in General Santos
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1965
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZET-TV | DZET-TV, Channel 28 (analog) and Channel 51 (digital), is a commercial television station owned and operated by TV5 Network, Inc. Its studio is located at Camp 7, Monticello Road, Baguio, while its transmitter is located at Mt. Sto. Tomas, Tuba, Benguet.
History
1967 - ABC Baguio was first aired on Channel 8 (DZXX-TV), the first television station in the whole Cordillera was launched by Associated Broadcasting Corporation until President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.
July 5, 1993 - the station was opened by the Associated Broadcasting Company, along with the callsign as DZET-TV and switched its frequency from VHF Channel 8 to UHF Channel 28.
December 9, 1994 - ABC TV stations acquired a new franchise to operate under Republic Act 7831 signed by President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR). In the same year, the station went on nationwide satellite broadcasting. In a phenomenal growth, ABC Baguio earned its reputation as "The Fastest Growing Network" under new network executive Tina Monzon-Palma who served as Chief Operating Officer.
August 8, 2008 - The station aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of TV5.
2013 - TV5 Baguio was relaunched and upgraded its transmitting power to 30,480 watts (113.44 kW ERP) that covers the whole North Luzon region.
February 17, 2018 - as the recent changes within the network and in celebration of its 10th anniversary, TV5 Baguio was relaunched as The 5 Network with a new logo and station ID entitled Get it on 5, whereas the TV on the northeastern quadrant of the logo has been dropped, making it more flexible for the other divisions to use it as part of their own identity.
January 13, 2019 - 5 Baguio introduced a variation of the current numerical 5 logo, similar to the newly network, 5 Plus.
August 15, 2020 - 5 Baguio was reverted to TV5 while retaining the 2019 numerical 5 logo.
August 22, 2021 - TV5 Baguio began digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 51.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 51 (695.143 MHz)
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Baguio
Benguet
Dagupan
Pangasinan
La Union
Secondary areas
Nueva Ecija
Portion of Tarlac
Parts of Mountain Province
Parts of Nueva Ecija
Parts of Aurora
Parts of Nueva Vizcaya
Parts of Ifugao
Parts of Bataan
Southern Portion of Ilocos Sur
Portion of Bulacan
Portion of Pampanga (including San Fernando City and Angeles City)
Northern Portion of Zambales
Rebroadcast
References
See also
TV5
List of TV5 Stations
102.3 Radyo5 True FM Baguio
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in the Philippines
Television stations in Baguio
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20DiLascia | Paul DiLascia (October 9, 1959 – September 3, 2008) was an American software developer, author, web developer and programming journalist and one of the most celebrated columnists for MSDN.
He grew up in Manhattan, where he went to a special high school for smart children. After that he went to Columbia University and MIT, where he got a bachelor's degree in mathematics. After that he studied at Harvard for a year working on a PhD, also in mathematics. There he realised that where in mathematics it was quite hard to contribute something useful, this was not the case in software. At that time it was possible to contribute right away.
In the 1980s he worked for Infocom as a programmer, first on a Zork interpreter for the Commodore 64, and later on the ill-fated Cornerstone database product.
In 1992 he published his influential book, Windows++, one of the first serious attempts at encapsulating the complexity of Windows 3.X programming with C++ classes.
For 13 years he wrote the C++ Q&A column, aka "C++ At Work" for MSDN Magazine.
According to Matt Pietrek (MSDN magazine columnist):
"Paul was an amazing technical writer, and one with the gift of adding humor to what could be an otherwise dry topic. Eric Maffei once told me that without humor, MSJ would read like "Microsoft Pravda". Paul's contributions were a big part of why it wasn't."
Paul DiLascia died suddenly on the evening of September 3, 2008. He was only 49 years old at the time. Many present day C++ and MFC programmers still use his reusable modules and pieces of code containing his famous article/code comment:
"If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it".
Selected works
Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++ (Addison-Wesley, 1992)
External links
Windows++
Matt Pietrek on the death of Paul Dilascia;
Windows++: Work published on MSDN in the period 2000-2008)
Personal Website
interview with the Russian MSDN
His digital artwork
References
2008 deaths
American computer programmers
1959 births
People from Manhattan
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Place of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Mattes | Daniel Mattes (born 14 November 1972) is an Austrian internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the founder and was CEO of artificial intelligence company 42.cx and a judge and business angel on the Austrian television show '2 Minuten 2 Millionen', the Austrian version of Shark Tank, which airs on Puls4.
His 42.cx Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence focused on the commercialization of Artificial Intelligence ("AI"). The company was based in Vienna, Austria. It was incorporated in November 2015 and removed from the Austrian register of companies in 2022.
Prior to 42.cx, in 2010, he founded Jumio, an online authentication company.
Prior to Jumio, in 2005, he founded VoIP company Jajah which was acquired 2009 for $207 million by Telefónica. In 2007, he was voted 81st most important Austrian citizen by Austrian magazine "News" in the "1000 most important Austrians" list.
Professional life
In 1999, Mattes co-founded "Auftrag.at".
In 2005, Mattes co-founded Jajah.
In 2010, Mattes founded Jumio.
In 2015, Mattes founded 42.cx Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence.
Publications
2000 "Datenbanken mit Delphi" publisher: C&L-Verlag
2001 "SQL – Der Einsatz im Intra- und Extranet" publisher: C&L-Verlag
2002 "Datenbanken mit Delphi, 2. Auflage" publisher: C&L Verlag
November 2002: Federal Award of Excellence, Austria
2019 "IP Assets: An Awakening in the Market?"
References
Austrian businesspeople
Living people
1972 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20isolation | Process isolation is a set of different hardware and software technologies designed to protect each process from other processes on the operating system. It does so by preventing process A from writing to process B.
Process isolation can be implemented with virtual address space, where process A's address space is different from process B's address space – preventing A from writing onto B.
Security is easier to enforce by disallowing inter-process memory access, in contrast with less secure architectures such as DOS in which any process can write to any memory in any other process.
Limited inter-process communication
In a system with process isolation, limited (controlled) interaction between processes may still be allowed over inter-process communication (IPC) channels such as shared memory, local sockets or Internet sockets. In this scheme, all of the process' memory is isolated from other processes except where the process is allowing input from collaborating processes.
System policies may disallow IPC in some circumstances. For example, in mandatory access control systems, subjects with different sensitivity levels may not be allowed to communicate with each other. The security implications in these circumstances are broad and span applications in network key encryption systematics as well as distributed caching algorithms. Interface-defined protocols such as basic cloud access architecture and network sharing are similarly affected.
Operating systems
Notable operating systems that support process isolation:
Unix, Linux, OS X
VMS
Microsoft Windows from Windows NT 3.1
Web browsers
Internet Explorer 4 used process isolation in order to allow separate windowed instances of the browser their own processes; however, at the height of the browser wars, this was dropped in subsequent versions to compete with Netscape Navigator (which sought to concentrate upon one process for the entire Internet suite). This idea of process-per-instance would not be revisited until a decade afterwards, when tabbed browsing became more commonplace.
In Google Chrome's "Multi-Process Architecture" and Internet Explorer 8's "Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE)", tabs containing webpages are contained within their own semi-separate OS-level processes which are isolated from the core process of the browser so as to prevent the crash of one tab/page from crashing the entire browser. This method (known popularly as multiprocess or process-per-tab) is meant to both manage memory and processing by allowing offending tabs to crash separately from the browser and other tabs and manage security.
Browsers with process isolation
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer 8 and later
Safari
Mozilla Firefox (default since 57)
Maxthon
Programming languages
Erlang (programming language) is providing a similar concept in user space, by realizing strictly separated lightweight processes.
Related technologies
Virtual memory and virtual address space allows for memory space isolation.
P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVS | NVS may refer to:
Technology
Non-volatile storage (NVS) or Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a type of computer memory
NVS Telematic System Ltd is a Russian company that builds technology and equipment controlled by signals from satellite navigation systems
NVSwitch is a successor of the Nvidia DGX-1 servers and workstations
A line of business graphics cards from Nvidia, see Nvidia Quadro#For business NVS
Education
Institutionen for Neurobiologi, vardvetenskap och samhalle (NVS) (en. Dep of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society), a department of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNVs), are schools in India that are run by Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS)
New Village School (NVS), a school in Sausalito, California, USA
Other uses
NVS and NOVN, the Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis is traded as NVS and NOVN
See also
NV (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discretization%20of%20continuous%20features | In statistics and machine learning, discretization refers to the process of converting or partitioning continuous attributes, features or variables to discretized or nominal attributes/features/variables/intervals. This can be useful when creating probability mass functions – formally, in density estimation. It is a form of discretization in general and also of binning, as in making a histogram. Whenever continuous data is discretized, there is always some amount of discretization error. The goal is to reduce the amount to a level considered negligible for the modeling purposes at hand.
Typically data is discretized into partitions of K equal lengths/width (equal intervals) or K% of the total data (equal frequencies).
Mechanisms for discretizing continuous data include Fayyad & Irani's MDL method, which uses mutual information to recursively define the best bins, CAIM, CACC, Ameva, and many others
Many machine learning algorithms are known to produce better models by discretizing continuous attributes.
Software
This is a partial list of software that implement MDL algorithm.
discretize4crf tool designed to work with popular CRF implementations (C++)
mdlp in the R package discretization
Discretize in the R package RWeka
See also
Density estimation
Continuity correction
References
Estimation of densities
Statistical data coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Business%20Summit | European Business Summit (EBS) is an events and conference organiser, and the creator of one of the largest networking and debating events in Brussels – the annual European Business Summit.
Description
EBS was founded in 2000 by the FEB (Federation of Enterprises in Belgium), and later joined in support by BUSINESS EUROPE. From the beginning its purpose was to bring together policy-makers and business leaders to discuss contemporary issues affecting the future of Europe, thus helping to improve the decision-making process on the EU-level.
EBS also organises the “Back from Davos” event, whose purpose is to follow up on the conclusions and achievements of the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 2018 edition took place on January 30 in Brussels. It took a form of a conversation with Jyrki Katainen – EU Commissioner Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness and Daniela Vincenti, Editor-in-Chief at EurActiv.
Moreover, EBS supports events such as Think Digital, EU Energy Summit and the European Defence Industry Summit.
When organising its events EBS works with companies, associations, governments and regional representatives, NGOs, academia and think tanks from across multiple sectors.
Honorary board
The Honorary Board of the European Business Summit consists of a number of figures with achievements in the areas of politics and business. Members of the Board include a former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, the President of BusinessEurope Emma Marcegaglia and the CEO of the Solvay Group Jean-Pierre Clamadieu among others.
Partnerships and patronage
EBS, under the provision of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is supported by the FEB (Federation of Enterprises in Belgium) and BusinessEurope. EBS also operates under the high patronage of His Majesty the King of the Belgians.
Annual European Business Summit
The European Business Summit (EBS) is the EBS’ annual flagship event organised in Brussels. Each year the Summit attracts more than 2,000 participants and 200 high-level speakers from over 60 countries. Previous guests and speakers include heads of state and government, European ministers, EU Commissioners, high-ranking individuals, civil society, and academia. Since 2014 the Summit has been organized in the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Belgium.
EBS 2017
The 2017 edition of EBS took place on May 22–23, 2017 and welcomed a wide range of high-level speakers for key moments including Minister Wolfgang Schäuble who spoke about Europe in a new world, CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu on Sustainable Development Goals, former Prime Minister Mario Monti on the future of the European economy, MEP Guy Verhofstadt on the future of Europe, and 10 EU Commissioners speaking on creating a new narrative for Europe.
EBS 2018
The 2018 edition of the Summit took place on May 23–24 in the Egmont Palace in Brussels. The theme of this edition was “Leading in a changing world: Europe at the forefront of global economic, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20computing%202000%E2%80%932009 |
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
See also
Informational revolution
References
External links
A Brief History of Computing, by Stephen White. An excellent computer history site; the present article is a modified version of his timeline, used with permission.
2000
2000s in technology
Computing
pt:Revolução digital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20compatibility%20branch%20and%20bound | Joint compatibility branch and bound (JCBB) is an algorithm in computer vision and robotics commonly used for data association in simultaneous localization and mapping. JCBB measures the joint compatibility of a set of pairings that successfully rejects spurious matchings and is hence known to be robust in complex environments.
References
Computer vision
Robot control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Poinsettia%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who broadcast college football's Poinsettia Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
External links
Bowls: Slight Drop For Poinsettia Bowl
Poinsettia
Broadcasters
Poinsettia Bowl
Poinsettia Bowl
Poinsettia Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20Mexico%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's New Mexico Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
New Mexico
Broadcasters
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico sports-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotateRight%20Zoom | Zoom is a performance analysis tool for applications running on the Linux and macOS operating systems from RotateRight. Using statistical (event-based) profiling, this software diagnoses performance problems related to cpu- and memory-intensive program code. Unfortunately development ended on this product in 2015.
Statistical Sampling
Statistical sampling is the periodic recording of a processor's program counter or instruction pointer.
Each sample is taken (triggered) after a fixed period of time has elapsed or set number of events has occurred. In this way samples are taken in code proportionate to where more time is spent or more events occur.
Statistical sampling can be either system-wide or target a specific process. System-wide sampling captures all of the processes running on a system, and can include time spent in kernel or driver code as well. Process-targeted sampling can be used to understand time spent waiting for I/O or kernel work.
Additional information besides the program counter can be recorded at each interval. For example, other Hardware performance counters can be read or the entire function call stack can be recorded. Recording the stack is important because it allows the developer to know not only where time was spent (or events occurred), but also how that code was called.
Call Tree Visualization
Symbol information is used to map program addresses to symbol names. Breaking down a profile at symbol granularity is a useful way to understand the time spent in blocks of code. There are a variety of methods for summarizing the information in a set of samples that include backtraces of each sample's call stack:
Top-down (tree) visualization is used to find "hot" (frequently sampled) call paths, starting at the root symbol (e.g. main).
Bottom-up (leaf) visualization is used to find "hot" code, starting in the symbols where samples occurred.
Hotspot visualization is a complete list of symbols encountered in the profile that is used in conjunction with a side-by-side tree and leaf views (butterfly view). Selecting a symbol in the hotspot list shows the callers and callees of that symbol in the butterfly view.
Code visualization
Code visualization enables the developer to correlate source code to machine instructions. It also allows for each line of source or instruction to be annotated with performance data.
Debug information such as DWARF can be used to map program addresses back to source code. This is the same information used by debuggers such as gdb.
Code Analysis Engine
A code analysis engine parses source or assembly code to provide tuning advice for specific processors and architectures. Zoom's code analysis engine performs the following:
Displays basic blocks.
Detects loop boundaries.
Computes register dependencies.
Finds branch targets.
Computes stall cycles.
See also
List of performance analysis tools
External links
Official Site
Linux programming tools
Profilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Aloha%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who broadcast college football's Aloha Bowl throughout the years.
References
Aloha
Broadcasters
Aloha Bowl
Aloha Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai%20Elevated%20Expressways | Chennai Elevated Expressways is a road network development scheme of the Second Master Plan by CMDA for Chennai city, India.
Corridors
Five elevated corridors have been proposed as a medium-term scheme.
The following 12 corridors have been proposed in the long term scheme
* Revised cost during tender process.
Other corridors
Apart from the Master Plan, other corridors are being planned by the Corporation of Chennai, Chennai Port Trust and Ennore Port Trust. The following are the details of these elevated roads.
Project deadline
Ten years from the commencement of the project (January 2009). The corridors are expected to be completed by 2019–2020.
References
Expressways in Tamil Nadu
Urban transit in Chennai
Urban road transit in Chennai
Proposed roads in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding%20for%20Disaster | "Wedding for Disaster" is the fifteenth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 29, 2009. In the episode, Marge and Homer's second marriage turns out to be invalid, so they decide to get married again. Right before the remarriage, Homer goes missing, and Bart and Lisa suspect that he has been kidnapped by Sideshow Bob. The episode was written by Joel H. Cohen and directed by Chuck Sheetz. It features Kelsey Grammer in his 12th vocal appearance as Sideshow Bob.
Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics.
It was viewed by 6.58 million viewers in its original American broadcast.
The June 28, 2009 rerun of the episode featured a brief alternate opening. Following the death of Michael Jackson three days prior, on June 25, the music video for "Do the Bartman" was shown, followed by a title card stating "In Memory of Michael Jackson", showing a still of his appearance as Leon Kompowsky (the big, bald mental patient who was put in the insane asylum for believing he really was Michael Jackson) from the episode "Stark Raving Dad".
Plot
His Holiness the Parson, the head of the Presbylutheran denomination, tells Reverend Lovejoy that due to a lapsed ministerial certification, various ceremonies he performed are invalid. This affects Homer and Marge, who turn out not to be married as they previously thought. Homer vows to give Marge the perfect wedding he did not give her either of the first two times they got married. She is thrilled to be able to plan her dream wedding, but it is not long before Marge turns into a bridezilla.
She shoots down all of Homer’s ideas, makes impossible demands and mows down everyone who gets in her way. The day of the wedding finally arrives, and everything is perfect except for one small detail; Homer is missing. At first it appears that Marge has driven him away, but Bart and Lisa stumble on a clue, a keychain with the initials "S.B.", and they initially conclude that Sideshow Bob has kidnapped Homer. Meanwhile, Homer finds himself chained to a pipe in a dark room. A mysterious voice tells him that the key to unlock his chains is inside a lollipop, he frantically eats it only to discover the lollipop is made of fiery hot sauce, and ultimately, the key is made out of hot sauce as well.
Bart and Lisa confront Sideshow Bob (who had escaped from jail 14 episodes prior). However, it turns out he was innocent the whole time and had no involvement in Homer's kidnapping, thanks to an alibi from Krusty the Clown, who explained that Bob was with him the whole day the time Homer was kidnapped. After suggesting that "S.B." could be anyone, including the Sultan of Brunei and the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, Bob helps them figure out that the keychain actually belongs to their aunts, Patty and Selma ("S.B." meant Selma Bouvier). Bart and Lisa soon realize that they intentionally kid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu%20%28programming%20environment%29 | Impromptu is a Mac OS X programming environment for live coding. Impromptu is built around the Scheme language, which is a member of the Lisp family of languages. The source code of its core has been opened as the Extempore project.
Description
The environment allows to make changes to a program at runtime, so variables and functions may be redefined and the changes take effect immediately. A programmer can also create and schedule code for future execution, as well as data events such as notes and graphics objects. Once an event is scheduled, execution continues. Looping is performed by using an idiom called "temporal recursion" which works by having a function asynchronously schedule a future call to itself as its final action.
The library allows communicating with Audio Units for audio synthesis, and with graphics layers such as QuickTime, Quartz, Core Image, OpenGL for video composition. Code written in Objective-C can be called from the editor, and also Objective-C frameworks can perform calls to the Scheme interpreter.
Impromptu's Scheme interpreter was initially built from the TinyScheme 1.35 baseline, but it has been substantially modified since to better suit the live coding context. A real-time garbage collector, and Objective-C integration were added. Also, a new statically typed language called the Extempore Language has been integrated to the system. This language is syntactically Scheme-like, but semantically closer to C, and is designed for real-time sound synthesis and other computationally heavy tasks. It provides type inference and is compiled to machine language by LLVM.
Sample performance
A Study in Keith is a live coding performance in Impromptu by Andrew Sorensen. The first two minutes (1:56) are silent, while the performer writes the program that will produce the introduction of the piece. From then on, he modifies the code on the fly to evolve the composition.
Extempore
The core of Impromptu has been released as Extempore under a BSD style licence. It runs under both Linux and Mac OS X. It includes the Scheme interpreter, the Extempore Language compiler and the scheduler. The bindings to Apple libraries are absent, but the environment can interface with dynamic libraries.
See also
Csound
Comparison of audio synthesis environments
SuperCollider
Processing (programming language)
OpenFrameworks
ChucK
List of music software
Max (software)
Pure Data
References
Academic papers
Sorensen, A (2010) "A Distributed Memory For Networked Livecoding Performance" International Computer Music Conference 2010, New York
Sorensen, A & Brown, A (2008) "A Computational Model For The Generation Of Orchestral Music In The Germanic Symphonic Tradition: A progress report" paper presented to the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008, Sydney
Sorensen, A & Brown, A (2007) "aa-cell in Practice: An Approach to Musical Live Coding" paper presented to the International Computer Music Conference 2007, Copenhagen
Sorensen, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci%20cube | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Fibonacci cubes or Fibonacci networks are a family of undirected graphs with rich recursive properties derived from its origin in number theory. Mathematically they are similar to the hypercube graphs, but with a Fibonacci number of vertices. Fibonacci cubes were first explicitly defined in in the context of interconnection topologies for connecting parallel or distributed systems. They have also been applied in chemical graph theory.
The Fibonacci cube may be defined in terms of Fibonacci codes and Hamming distance, independent sets of vertices in path graphs, or via distributive lattices.
Definition
Like the hypercube graph, the vertices of the Fibonacci cube of order n may be labeled with bitstrings of length n, in such a way that two vertices are adjacent whenever their labels differ in a single bit. However, in a Fibonacci cube, the only labels that are allowed are bitstrings with no two consecutive 1 bits. If the labels of the hypercube are interpreted as binary numbers, the labels in the Fibonacci cube are a subset, the fibbinary numbers. There are Fn + 2 labels possible, where Fn denotes the nth Fibonacci number, and therefore there are Fn + 2 vertices in the Fibonacci cube of order n.
The nodes of such a network may be assigned consecutive integers from 0 to Fn + 2 − 1; the bitstrings corresponding to these numbers are given by their Zeckendorf representations.
Algebraic structure
The Fibonacci cube of order n is the simplex graph of the complement graph of an n-vertex path graph. That is, each vertex in the Fibonacci cube represents a clique in the path complement graph, or equivalently an independent set in the path itself; two Fibonacci cube vertices are adjacent if the cliques or independent sets that they represent differ by the addition or removal of a single element. Therefore, like other simplex graphs, Fibonacci cubes are median graphs and more generally partial cubes. The median of any three vertices in a Fibonacci cube may be found by computing the bitwise majority function of the three labels; if each of the three labels has no two consecutive 1 bits, the same is true of their majority.
The Fibonacci cube is also the graph of a distributive lattice that may be obtained via Birkhoff's representation theorem from a zigzag poset, a partially ordered set defined by an alternating sequence of order relations a < b > c < d > e < f > ... There is also an alternative graph-theoretic description of the same lattice: the independent sets of any bipartite graph may be given a partial order in which one independent set is less than another if they differ by removing elements from one side of the bipartition and adding elements to the other side of the bipartition; with this order, the independent sets form a distributive lattice, and applying this construction to a path graph results in the lattice associated with the Fibonacci cube.
Properties and algorithms
The Fibonacci cube of o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densify | Densify is a privately held software company based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. The company provides machine learning analytics services related to public cloud utilization and billing data to deliver the savings on corporate cloud bill.
History
Densify was co-founded by Andrew Hillier, Riyaz Somani and Jayanti Parmar in 1999. In 2005, Gerry Smith – who was previously executive vice president of IT Governance solutions at Compuware Corporation joined as the new CEO. The company was formerly known as Cirba Inc. and changed its name to Densify, in June 2017.
Technology
Delivered as a service, Densify's patented optimization engine collects and analyzes data from cloud computing services and other IT environments, which is further combined with advisory services of cloud experts who report on cost, explore usage patterns, and project future trends. Densify is compatible with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and hybrid cloud environments.
Densify has also introduced a complimentary EC2 Assessment service to help AWS users identify risk reduction & cost saving opportunities.
Recognition
In April 2017, IDC recognized Densify as an innovator in multi-cloud management. In June 2017, EMA Research selected Densify as an EMA Top 3 product stating that "Densify delivers better application performance with the highest asset utilization and lowest cloud spend without requiring any special training". In September 2017, Densify was awarded Best of VMworld 2017 Gold Award and recognized as "the most impressive find" by Justin Warren, Forbes. In January 2018, Densify was rated 9.5/10 by ZDnet.com in its recent product review. In 2018, Densify was acknowledged as a "Leader" in The Forrester Wave report on Cloud Cost Monitoring and Optimization.
References
Software companies established in 1999
Canadian companies established in 1999
Software companies of Canada
Amazon Web Services
Cloud computing providers
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud platforms
Companies based in Markham, Ontario
1999 establishments in Ontario
Privately held companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Korean%20cyber%20defamation%20law | The cyber defamation law (사이버 모욕죄) is a legislation in South Korea which refers to libel or slander that is expressed online, typically via a publicly accessible website. Cyber defamation often falls under the scope of existing libel and slander laws in most jurisdictions and is typically treated as a tort as opposed to a crime.
Overview
The cyber defamation law that the South Korean government pursues allows police to crack down on hateful comments without any reports from victims.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), South Korea's telecommunications and broadcasting regulator, has been considering revising the current Telecommunications Law and put more regulations and deeper scrutiny on major Internet portals.
Controversies
There have been talks about introducing the stricter laws in cyberspace. A famous celebrity's suicide in South Korea, triggered the controversies once again as to whether such law is necessary. The law supported by the governing Grand National Party (GNP), if implemented, will allow police to investigate the cyber defamation cases without any complaints of the victims. The opposition Democratic Party has been against the introduction of such law.
Advocate views
The current laws have failed to prevent the number of the victims from increasing at an escalating rate.
Freedom of speech comes with responsibility.
Because information and rumors can travel in a matter of seconds across the Internet, cyber-bullying and cyber defamation could take a significant toll on each victim without such strict regulations by authorities.
Opposing views
There are already ways to regulate the cyberspace with the current laws.
It is potentially possible for the law to be exploited by authorities in an attempt to crack down on people who express opposite views.
Such law might cause a harmful effect on freedom of speech.
"Defamation" is too ambiguous to be defined by a third party, other than the victims.
Survey
A Research & Research survey of 800 Korean people conducted on Jan. 14, 2009 showed that 60% supported the GNP-led bill dealing with cyber defamation, and 32.1% opposed it.
Online gaming
Vast majority of cyber defamation police reports arise from online games. League of Legends is a game which is notorious for such acts. In 2015 alone, South Korean law enforcement received and investigated over 8000 reports of cyber defamation; over half of these cases involve League of Legends where players head to police stations as a retaliation after being verbally abused by teammates or opponents.
There are even 'settlement fee hunters', where players enter games and grief with intention of being insulted by other players. In some cases, such settlement fee hunters file police reports against over 50 other individuals at once. Most of the victims of settlement fee hunters are teenagers, since many parents are willing to pay settlement fees ranging from 300 thousand to 2 million KRW (300 to 2000 USD) to avoid their children h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20security | Open security is the use of open source philosophies and methodologies to approach computer security and other information security challenges. Traditional application security is based on the premise that any application or service (whether it is malware or desirable) relies on security through obscurity.
Open source approaches have created technology such as Linux (and to some extent, the Android operating system). Additionally, open source approaches applied to documents have inspired wikis and their largest example, Wikipedia. Open security suggests that security breaches and vulnerabilities can be better prevented or ameliorated when users facing these problems collaborate using open source philosophies.
This approach requires that users be legally allowed to collaborate, so relevant software would need to be released under a license that is widely accepted to be open source; examples include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) license, the Apache 2.0 license, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and the GNU General Public License (GPL). Relevant documents would need to be under a generally accepted "open content" license; these include Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) and Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) licenses, but not Creative Commons "non-commercial" licenses or "no-derivative" licenses.
On the developer side, legitimate software and service providers can have independent verification and testing of their source code. On the information technology side, companies can aggregate common threats, patterns, and security solutions to a variety of security issues.
See also
Kerckhoffs's Principle
OASIS (organization) (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)
Open government
Homeland Open Security Technology
Open source
Open source software
Open-source hardware
References
Computer security
Free software culture and documents
Free culture movement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Caller%20ID | Network Caller ID (NCID) is an open-source client/server network Caller ID (CID) package.
NCID consists of a server called ncidd (short for NCID daemon), a universal client called ncid, and multiple client output modules and gateways. The server, ncidd, monitors either a modem, device or gateway for the CID data. The data is collected and sent, via TCP, to one or more connected clients.
Many devices, including smartphones, and services can detect caller ID information. An NCID gateway collects CID data from these other sources and passes it on to the main NCID server. From there the CID data is distributed to all connected clients, just like CID data collected from a traditional modem. One example of a non-modem device is a VoIP (Voice over IP) service that collects CID data as SIP packets. Another example is the Whozz Calling series of Ethernet Link devices that obtain CID information from multiple POTS (Plain old telephone service) lines.
NCID supports messages. Clients can send a one line message to all connected clients.
The client can also be used to push CID to other computers and devices with output modules.
Various clients are available on numerous platforms, including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows.
Protocol
The NCID protocol is simple, human-readable ASCII text consisting of field pairs—a field label and its field data—using the asterisk character as a delimiter. Transmission between the NCID server and its clients is done via TCP/IP, usually over port 3333. Additional field pairs have been added as the NCID server has been enhanced with new features and support for more devices. Here is an example of the minimum of caller ID data.
List of input sources
Hardware that can supply caller ID data to the NCID server, either by the NCID server accessing the device directly (RS232 serial port or USB) or indirectly via NCID Gateways (scripts and programs included with the NCID package).
Modems
AT-compatible modems expect Telcos to send caller ID data as either Single Data Message Format (SDMF) or Multiple Data Message Format (MDMF). The modem then decodes the data stream into human readable text, which the NCID Server then parses. If a modem supports it, the NCID Server can also decode the raw SDMF or MDMF data stream.
Note A: RING means ring only, no Caller ID, no hangup. CID means Caller ID and simple hangup. FAX and VOICE mean their respective hangup options. Unless otherwise noted, the presence of VOICE indicates the modem will use the default NumberDisconnected.rmd (raw modem file) distributed with NCID.
Note B(1): Zoom and TRIXES. Prior to NCID version 0.89, FAX hangup was not a configurable option, and two blog/forum posts (here and here) have patches to add FAX hangup. Starting with NCID version 0.89, FAX hangup is now a configurable option so the patches are no longer necessary. The NCID developers have been unable to contact the author at Murphy 101 Blog to have the blog updated.
Note B(2): Zoom 3095 USB modems ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Feltman | Samuel Feltman (May 4, 1899 – September 6, 1951) was an American computer scientist and expert in weaponry. At the time of his death, Feltman was Associate Chief of the Research and Materials Branch and Chief of the Ballistic Section of the U.S. Army Ordnance Research and Development Division.
Feltman was centrally involved in the development of the first electronic computer, ENIAC, of the hypersonic wind tunnel, and of "Atomic Annie", the first nuclear artillery shell. Feltman proposed the ballistic characteristics of such weapons as the 90mm and 120mm antiaircraft guns, the 8‑inch gun, the 240mm howitzer, and many other weapons. In 1944, he was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, the highest award given by the Army to a civilian. In honor of his service and contributions, the Picatinny Arsenal dedicated a building in his name, "The Samuel Feltman Ammunition Laboratory," Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey.
Feltman was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey, the son of Russian Jews. He joined the Army Ordnance Corps at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground in 1918, and served at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He also spent time serving as "what amounted to the permanent under-chief of the ballistics work in Washington" (D.C.). Feltman was killed at the age of 52 in an auto accident, along with his wife and father-in-law.
Development of the computer
In 1946, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert developed the first electronic computer at the University of Pennsylvania. The funding for this computer, called ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator), was provided by the Ballistics and Ordnance Division of the U.S. Army. Lieutenant Herman Goldstine was the Army Officer most directly involved in the development of ENIAC. In his memoir/history of the development of the computer, Goldstine quotes his superior officer, Colonel Paul Gillon, who attributes a crucial role for Feltman in securing the funding for the ENIAC project. Feltman also served as a liaison between the Ballistics Division and Mauchly.
M65 atomic cannon
Feltman also played an important role in the development of the M65 atomic cannon—nicknamed "Atomic Annie". Robert Schwartz began the design of a small tactical nuclear weapon at the Pentagon in 1949. Eventually, his project was transferred to the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. Schwartz finished his design, and Feltman took on the important role of selling the project to the Pentagon.
In July 1954, the Technical Division Laboratory at the Picatinny Arsenal was renamed the Samuel Feltman Laboratories.
References
1899 births
1951 deaths
United States Army civilians
People from Long Branch, New Jersey
Ballistics experts
Weapons scientists and engineers
Road incident deaths in the United States
Place of death missing
American people of Russian-Jewish descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Santelli | Rick John Santelli (born July 6, 1956) is an editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products. He is also credited as being a catalyst in the early formation of the Tea Party movement via a statement he made on February 19, 2009.
Early life and education
The grandson of four Italian immigrants, Rick John Santelli was born near Taylor Street in Chicago's old Italian neighborhood and moved with his family to Lombard, Illinois at age six.
After graduating from Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois, Santelli attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in economics in 1979.
Career
Financial
In 1979, he joined the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade as a commodity trader and order filler for Drexel Burnham Lambert; he eventually became the Vice President of Interest Rate Futures and Options.
CNBC
In the 1990s, Santelli felt that the financial industry was changing in a way "not beneficial to me and my family", and accepted a full-time job with CNBC in 1999.
"Tea Party" rant
On February 19, 2009, Santelli drew attention for his comments on the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan, which was announced the day before, on February 18. Broadcasting from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Santelli accused the government of "promoting bad behavior", and raised the possibility of a "Chicago Tea Party". He suggested that individuals who knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages and faced impending foreclosure as a consequence were "losers". The Tea Party remark was credited by some as "igniting" the Tea Party movement as a national phenomenon.
Responses
Described as "loquacious and self-aggrandizing" by media, Santelli's remarks were characterized as a rant. CNBC canceled Santelli's scheduled interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on March 4, 2009.
Santelli later clarified his comments and addressed concerns that the event was staged.
On April 20, 2009, Santelli participated as a panel member in an Economic Leadership Forum hosted by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M University.
CNN.com reported that some compared Santelli to fictional reporter Howard Beale, the protagonist of the 1976 satirical film Network. Santelli said:
Santelli's comments garnered praise from libertarians. Mark R. Crovelli wrote:
Santelli was condemned by the left; George Monbiot said, "it is the most alarming example of cheap demagoguery you are likely to have seen." Paul Krugman wrote in his column in The New York Times that:
COVID-19 virus remarks
In 2020, media reported that, after a series of stock declines driven by fears of a COVID-19 virus pandemic, Sant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibulca%20Way | Bibulca Way (in Italian:Via Bibulca) was an old road dating back to the 11th century that used to link up Modena with Lucca and it was
part of a much bigger network of roads. It starts where the Dragone River flows into the Dolo River in the La Piana locality ()
and finishes at San Pellegrino in Alpe (), a hamlet (currently a frazione of the commune of Castiglione di Garfagnana) located on the ridge that separates the Tuscan
from the Emilian Apennines. It was also called the Imperial Way due to its high toll that had to be paid in order to use it and that it could host a cart drawn by two oxen one beside the other, a luxury for the time. It has a length
of 30 kilometers, starting from a height of 360 metres and arriving at a height of
1,529 metres. Now it is used as an amateur trekking path that runs alongside the Strada provinciale 32MO road and in certain stretches shares the same route.
History
The road dates back to the early Roman times, when the ancient tribe of the Frinati, part of the
population of the Liguri, gave battle for over twenty years to the Roman Republic. When the Romans, once defeated the Frinati in 175 BC, managed to settle in the area, they built a thick system of paths and roads. In fact, the name comes from Latin Bi-, meaning "two", and bulca, meaning "oxen". According to some historians, however, the road may actually date back to the pre-Roman period.
In the Middle Ages it was called the Via Nova. At the arrival of the Lombards, the road lost most of its importance, though in the 7th century, the Pass of the Radici was opened in order to bypass the remaining Byzantine possessions. The most important era for the road began when the Abbey of Frassinoro was inaugurated by the local ruler Matilda of Tuscany: the abbey overtook by importance the Pieve of Rubbiano, the local main town of the time, that used to collect the tolls for and maintained all the local roads including the Via Bibulca.
The road was often a matter of content between the free commune of Modena and the Abbey of Frassinoro: the latter was assigned its care officially in 1164 by Frederick I because of the frequent robberies that took place in the nearby Garfagnana. Along the route were constructed 2 hospices: one over at Saint Geminiano and another one over to San Pellegrino in Alpe. In 1522 Ludovico Ariosto, while going to Garfagnana to take its government, tested the conditions of the road saying that it was an "iniquitous road".
Finally in the 18th century other trans-Apennine roads were constructed, including the Via Vandelli: this mostly shared the same old route of the Bibulca, although on the final ridge towards Saint Pilgrim in Alpe moved to another route. Towards the end of the 18th century the Via Giardini road was laid down by the House of Este Dukes, and the Via Bibulca road was abandoned.
See also
Montefiorino
References
External links
History of the road at the Province of Modena website
Medieval roads and tracks
History of tran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20M.%20Kopko | Edward M. Kopko is an American businessman, publisher and author. He is chief executive officer of Mercury Z, an innovation and network engineering company, and chief executive officer and publisher of Bold Business, a global media and technology company. He is the author of the book "Project Bold Life: The Proven Formula to Take on Challenges and Achieve Happiness and Success."
Early life, education, and family
Kopko was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He grew up in Uncasville, CT, and graduated from Montville High School (Connecticut). He resides in St. Petersburg, Florida. He holds a bachelor's of arts degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and an master's of arts degree in economics from Columbia University.
Kopko is the father of Impact NYC co-founders, Michael E. Kopko and Matthew E. Kopko.
Career
Kopko was the chairman and chief executive officer and publisher of CE Group and Chief Executive Magazine from 1993 to 2009.
Kopko was president and chief executive officer of Butler International, a worldwide provider of technical and technology services, from 1987 to March 2009.
Kopko is editor of the "Best and Worst States" web site, which provides information and facts about the best and worst aspects of individual American states.
Kopko is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education, a libertarian think-tank.
Kopko received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1999 from the National Ethnic Coalition.
Kopko received the Award of Merit for Corporate Responsibility and Volunteerism in 2001 from the Bergen Community College Foundation. Kopko served as a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led public policy organization that delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions to our nation's most critical issues. Kopko served on the Board of Governors of Ramapo College from 1998 to 2002 and was a recipient of its Distinguished Citizens Award in 1997. In September 2019 Kopko received the Impact Award for extraordinary service supporting the diversity and inclusion movement from Diversity MBA magazine. Past honorees include leaders from Walmart, Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive and Atrium Health.
From 2001 to 2005, Kopko served as president of the board of trustees for the Helen Hayes Theatre Company, a not-for profit performing arts organization, based in Nyack, NY. From 2000 to 2005 Kopko owned "Pretty Penny" an historic Hudson River home which for 63 years had been the home of Helen Hayes, the late actress and "First Lady of the American Theater." Kopko purchased the home from Rosie O'Donnell, the American comedian, actress, author and television personality.
References
American publishing chief executives
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Living people
University of Connecticut alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20GUI%20for%20R | JGR (pronounced 'Jaguar') is a universal and unified Graphical User Interface for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
JGR is a cross-platform stand-alone R terminal, and can be used as a more advanced substitute to the default Rgui (on Windows) or to a simple R session started from a terminal. It provides a friendly R-console complemented by a spreadsheet-like data editor and by a script editor featuring syntax highlighting, autocompletion and (MS Excel-style) arguments-suggestions for entered functions, and direct command transfer.
See also
R interfaces
References
External links
JGR on CRAN
Deducer
Home of JGR at GitHub
Free R (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples%E2%80%93Salerno%20high-speed%20railway | The Naples–Salerno high-speed railway line (also known in Italian as the Linea a Monte del Vesuvio, meaning the "line up Mount Vesuvius") is a link in the Italian high-speed rail network opened in June 2008. The line is one of the new high-speed lines being built to strengthen rail transport system in Italy and in particular freight and passenger transport in Campania. The line is part of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin and Palermo.
Route and features
The infrastructure of the new line was completed in April 2008 with its electrification, which operates at 3 kV DC, not the 25 kV AC used on most new high-speed railways in Italy. It became available for training in May 2008 and for public operations in the following month. The line allows the reduction of congestion of rail traffic on the Naples–Salerno coast line, as trains can travel on the new line.
The new line starts at Roma Est junction, which allows trains from the Rome–Naples high-speed line to continue south on a branch to Casoria junction where there is a link with the main rail node of Naples. The line passes the towns of Volla, Pomigliano d'Arco, Sant'Anastasia, Somma Vesuviana, Nola, Ottaviano, San Gennaro Vesuviano, Palma Campania, Poggiomarino and Striano, through a series of small cut-and-cover tunnels and elevated sections, reaching the commune of San Valentino Torio, where it is currently connects at Sarno junction to the end of the line from Sarno.
The Italian government announced in an economic statement in July 2004 that a future high-capacity line would be built from the end of the line at San Valentino Torio to Battipaglia to create a four-track line through Salerno to Battipaglia as part of a project to build a high-capacity trunk line to Reggio Calabria.
The new line has allowed high-speed trains to avoid Naples since the opening of the section from Roma Est junction to the new Napoli Afragola station in June 2017. From June 2008, most Trenitalia Eurostar Italia, Intercity and Intercity Plus trains between Naples and Salerno were routed over the new line, allowing an increase in commuter trains on the old coast line under a project to develop a Campania "regional metro".
Proposed new Vesuvio Est interchange station
The Region of Campania and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI, the owner of the rail network) have identified the site for the construction of a new passenger station called "Vesuvio Est" (Vesuvius East) in the commune of Striano, which will allow passengers to interchange with the Circumvesuviana Naples–Ottaviano–Sarno railway line. On 30 March 2007 an international competition was launched for the preliminary and final design of the station with a prize of €1,245,000. The estimated cost of the new station is €32.5 million and according to the agreement between Campania and RFI was planned to be completed in 2008 or 2009. The station will have an area of indoors and in total. Its catchment area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13N%20%28Argentina%29 | The 13N was a Cacerolazo against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that took place in Argentina on November 13, 2014. It was organized by social networks. The people in the demonstration protested against the high crime rate, the high inflation and the corruption scandals. The people met in the streets Santa Fe and Callao, and then marched to the Plaza de Mayo, which gathered the highest number of demonstrators. There was a strong security network at the Plaza de Mayo and the Congressional Plaza. The demonstration a lower number of demonstrators than previous ones such as the 8N and the 18A.
Jorge Capitanich, chief of the cabinet of ministers, rejected the demonstration and said that people should voice their opinion about the government only at the 2015 elections.
References
Protests in Argentina
Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
2014 protests
2014 in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Computational%20Sciences | The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Leadership Computing Facility that houses the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility charged with helping researchers solve challenging scientific problems of global interest with a combination of leading high-performance computing (HPC) resources and international expertise in scientific computing.
The NCCS provides resources for calculation and simulation in fields including astrophysics, materials science, and climate research to users from government, academia, and industry who have many of the largest computing problems in science.
The OLCF’s flagship supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, is supported by advanced data management and analysis tools. The center hosted the Cray XK7 Titan system, one of the most powerful scientific tools of its time, from 2012 through its retirement in August 2019. The same year, construction began for Frontier, which is slated to debut as the OLCF’s first exascale system in 2021.
History
On December 9, 1991, Congress signed the High-Performance Computing Act (HPCA) of 1991, created by Senator Al Gore. HPCA proposed a national information infrastructure to build communications networks and databases and also called for proposals to build new high-performance computing facilities to serve science.
On May 24, 1992, ORNL was awarded a high-performance computing research center called the Center for Computational Sciences, or CCS, as part of HPCA. ORNL also received a 66-processor, serial #1 Intel Paragon XP/S 5 for code development the same year. The system had a peak performance of 5 gigaflops (5 billion floating-point operations per second).
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) joined with three other national laboratories and seven universities to submit the Partnership in Computational Science (PICS) proposal to the US Department of Energy as part of the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative.
With the High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, CCS was tasked with carrying out the Leadership Computing Facility (LCF) Project at ORNL with the goal of developing and installing a petaflops-speed supercomputer by the end of 2008. The center officially changed its name from the Center for Computational Sciences to NCCS the same year.
On December 9, 2019, Georgia Tourassi–who previously served as the director of ORNL's Health Data Sciences Institute and as group leader for ORNL’s Biomedical Sciences, Engineering, and Computing Group–was appointed to director of the NCCS, succeeding James Hack.
Previous Systems
Intel Paragons
The creation of the CCS in 1992 ushered in a series of Intel Paragon computers, including:
Intel Paragon XP/S 5 (1992): The Intel Paragon XP/S 5 provided 128 GP compute nodes arranged in a 16 row by 8 column rectangular mesh consisting of one 8 by 8 group of 16MB nodes and one 8 by 8 group of 32MB nodes. Also available |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview%20%28computing%29 | Preview is a computing function to display a document, page, or film before it is produced in its final form. In the case of printed material this is known as "print preview".
Contents preview
Using Preview feature, users can preview and see the current stage of the process before producing into a final form. Preview lets users to visualize current/final product and correct possible errors easily before finalizing the product. Preview is necessary for markup language editing software like Web development applications.
Web development application like Adobe Dreamweaver and most HTML editors have 'Preview in Browser' feature. During webpage development, you must preview the page in a browser to see the definitive end result. Though browsers in general produce the same results, each browser version can display HTML pages somewhat differently. Preview in Browser shows what the codes will appear in specified Web Browser. For seeing the difference and seeing what your site visitors will see after you publish your pages, the Preview function exists.
Video editing applications also have preview feature to see the current product made during the editing process.
Apple Inc.’s video editing software, Final Cut Pro’s interface has two preview windows, 'Viewer window' and 'Canvas window'. 'Viewer window' lets users to preview clips and decide which one to use. User can also make changes to clips in this window. 'Canvas window' is a program window that shows finished program and letting user to preview the creation so far.
Many interactive websites and online forums allow users to preview their contents before submitting it. This is particularly useful on sites with complex markup (not WYSIWYG), where it serves as an opportunity to identify and correct errors and formatting problems before saving the content.
Print preview
Print Preview is a functionality that lets users see the pages that are about to print, allowing the users to see exactly how the pages will look when they are printed.
By previewing what the layout will look like when printed without actually printing, users can check and fix possible errors before they pursue on the actual printing. Most applications have a Print Preview feature and some applications, like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office, automatically open ‘Print Preview’ feature when ‘Print’ menu is selected. This feature is useful for making sure that the layout is the way user expects to be before the actual printing.
Microsoft Word’s Print Preview feature lets users to zoom in/out the document or show multiple pages in a window.
Graphic tools like Adobe Photoshop’s Print Preview lets users to position and scale the image before printing.
Web browsers also have Print Preview feature so that users can preview how the website contents will be printed out on paper:
Internet Explorer has Print Preview feature to prevent accidents like printing ten pages where it ought to print one or printing a page with a background so d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoBuddy | CryptoBuddy is a simple software application for the encryption and compression of computer files to make them safe and secure. The application uses a 64-bit block cipher algorithm for encryption and a proprietary compression algorithm. The CryptoBuddy software is also used as part of the CryptoStick encryption device from Research Triangle Software, Inc. The software was released for public use on June 12, 2002.
References
2002 software
Cryptographic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cin%C3%A9moi | Cinémoi is a television network focusing on film, fashion and international style.
History
Cinémoi was founded in 2009 by Oliver Bengough of Mint Entertainment. British broadcaster Jonathan Ross joined Cinémoi in December 2010, becoming the channel's creative director and minority shareholder.
Olly Bengough and Cinémoi formed a joint venture with Daphna Edwards Ziman and Rod Sherwood of Multi Vision Media (MVM) to launch Cinémoi in North America on September 17, 2012, broadcasting to over 20 million households, as the first network on DirecTV dedicated to film, fashion, and lifestyle. However, it was dropped by DirecTV in July 2013.
Subsequently, Cinémoi began broadcasting on Verizon/FiOS on January 27, 2014. It also is available in the United States on Frontier Communications, Sling TV, Samsung TV, Apple TV, Apple iOS, Google Play and Xfinity.
Programming
Cinémoi premium programming includes live and prerecorded content with a focus on acclaimed international film, film festivals, and fashion, covering an array of global events, including the Cannes Film Festival, Paris, New York, Milan and London fashion weeks and the exclusive broadcast of the CinéFashion Film Awards.
United States
Cinémoi North America offers daily afternoon and evening movies — ranging from CinéCouture, CinéDirectors, CinéGreen, CinéIcons and CinéStars. Some of the films that have aired on the U.S. channel are Alegria, featuring Oscar-winner Frank Langella; Contempt, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance; Dangerous Beauty with Jacqueline Bisset and Naomi Watts; Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above; Fellini: I’m A Born Liar, directed by Damian Pettigrew; Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson; Gilda and Lady from Shanghai, featuring Rita Hayworth; Redacted, directed by Brian De Palma; Roman Polanski's Repulsion starring Catherine Deneuve; and Two Lovers, with a cast headed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix.
In addition, the U.K. late night talk show, the Jonathan Ross Show, debuted on Cinémoi N. America on December 24, 2012. Guests have included David Beckham, Sandra Bullock, Eminem, Gordon Ramsay, Justin Timberlake, and Oprah Winfrey.
Also, beginning in the Fall 2015 Cinémoi began broadcasting three dramatic series: Falcon, based on the bestselling novels of crime writer Robert Wilson; Lucan, the true story of an aristocrat living a dark life beneath a polished public image; and Underbelly: Razor, set in the crime culture of Sydney, Australia during the roaring ’20s and ’30s.
Production
On July 27, 2014, Cinémoi produced its 1st International Fashion Film Awards show (IFFAs) at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Jonathan Ross and actress/singer Jordin Sparks, the ceremony honored the best fashion film shorts from around the world and the talent who created and starred in them. Joan and Melissa Rivers were among the icons recognized that year, for the way their E! show, Live From The Red Carpet, changed the way in which fashion is seen and pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Hunter | Jeremy Hunter can refer to:
Jeremy Hunter, real name of American ska musician Skatune Network
Jeremy Hunter, All My Children character
Jeremy Hunter, Shake It Up (American TV series) character
Jeremy Hunter, former bassist of All Star United
See also
Jeremy Roach (full name Jeremy Hunter Roach), American college basketball player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester%20computers | The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by a small team at the University of Manchester, under the leadership of Tom Kilburn. They included the world's first stored-program computer, the world's first transistorised computer, and what was the world's fastest computer at the time of its inauguration in 1962.
The project began with two aims: to prove the practicality of the Williams tube, an early form of computer memory based on standard cathode-ray tubes (CRTs); and to construct a machine that could be used to investigate how computers might be able to assist in the solution of mathematical problems. The first of the series, the Manchester Baby, ran its first program on 21 June 1948. As the world's first stored-program computer, the Baby, and the Manchester Mark 1 developed from it, quickly attracted the attention of the United Kingdom government, who contracted the electrical engineering firm of Ferranti to produce a commercial version. The resulting machine, the Ferranti Mark 1, was the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer.
The collaboration with Ferranti eventually led to an industrial partnership with the computer company ICL, who made use of many of the ideas developed at the university, particularly in the design of their 2900 series of computers during the 1970s.
Manchester Baby
The Manchester Baby was designed as a test-bed for the Williams tube, an early form of computer memory, rather than as a practical computer. Work on the machine began in 1947, and on 21 June 1948 the computer successfully ran its first program, consisting of 17 instructions written to find the highest proper factor of 218 (262,144) by trying every integer from 218 − 1 downwards. The program ran for 52 minutes before producing the correct answer of 131,072.
The Baby was in length, tall, and weighed almost 1 long ton. It contained 550 thermionic valves – 300 diodes and 250 pentodes – and had a power consumption of 3.5 kilowatts. Its successful operation was reported in a letter to the journal Nature published in September 1948, establishing it as the world's first stored-program computer. It quickly evolved into a more practical machine, the Manchester Mark 1.
Manchester Mark 1
Development of the Manchester Mark 1 began in August 1948, with the initial aim of providing the university with a more realistic computing facility. In October 1948 UK Government Chief Scientist Ben Lockspeiser was given a demonstration of the prototype, and was so impressed that he immediately initiated a government contract with the local firm of Ferranti to make a commercial version of the machine, the Ferranti Mark 1.
Two versions of the Manchester Mark 1 were produced, the first of which, the Intermediary Version, was operational by April 1949. The Final Specification machine, which was fully working by October 1949, contained 4,050 valves and had |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Howard%20%28writer%29 | James Howard (born 1956) (also known as Jim Howard) is an American screenwriter, poet, computer game creator, and author.
Biography
James Howard worked from 1980 to 2010 as a writer for Hallmark Cards, where he created the multi-player game You Guessed It! for the CompuServe network and the first known e-greetings of the pre-Internet era for local cable and videotex systems.
Howard's screenwriting credits include Big Bad Love (2001) and Dawn Anna (2005), both co-written with his brother, the actor/director Arliss Howard.
As Jim Howard, he has published poems in small journals such as New Letters and The Texas Observer, and in the anthologies From A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets, Voices From The Interior, and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. An excerpt from his screenplay for Big Bad Love was published as a poem in The Capitola Review. His essays and short prose pieces have been published in Paragraphs magazine and My Bug.
He is author of the Hallmark books Little Glimpses of Good (2008) and I'll Be Me and You Be You (2010) under the name Jim Howard; a book of political humor, The Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American (2011) under the pseudonym Roland Boyle; and the blogs "Spulge Nine" and "Tea Bastard."
Howard is the father of three children and is married to the writer Penny Krugman. They live in Kansas City.
References
1956 births
Living people
Writers from Sacramento, California
American bloggers
American male poets
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
American male bloggers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus%20%28software%29 | Eucalyptus is a paid and open-source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments, originally developed by the company Eucalyptus Systems. Eucalyptus is an acronym for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. Eucalyptus enables pooling compute, storage, and network resources that can be dynamically scaled up or down as application workloads change. Mårten Mickos was the CEO of Eucalyptus. In September 2014, Eucalyptus was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and then maintained by DXC Technology. After DXC stopped developing the product in late 2017, AppScale Systems forked the code and started supporting Eucalyptus customers.
History
The software development had its roots in the Virtual Grid Application Development Software project, at Rice University and other institutions from 2003 to 2008.
Rich Wolski led a group at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and became the chief technical officer at the company headquartered in Goleta, California before returning to teach at UCSB.
Eucalyptus software was included in the Ubuntu 9.04 distribution in 2009.
The company was formed in 2009 with $5.5 million in funding by Benchmark Capital to commercialize the software.
The co-founders of Eucalyptus were Rich Wolski (CTO), Dan Nurmi, Neil Soman, Dmitrii Zagorodnov, Chris Grzegorczyk, Graziano Obertelli and Woody Rollins (CEO).
Eucalyptus Systems announced a formal agreement with Amazon Web Services in March 2012.
Hewlett-Packard acquired Eucalyptus in September 2014, although by the end of 2016 its public cloud offering HPE Helion was shut down. Eucalyptus team was transferred to the HPE Enterprise Services division, which split away from HPE and merged with Computer Sciences Corporation forming DXC Technology on April 1, 2017. DXC chose to stop development and support of Eucalyptus in 2017, prompting AppScale Systems, led by members of the Eucalyptus founding team, to fork the code. AppScale Systems started commercially supporting and developing the software, which was renamed AppScale ATS, since late 2017.
Software architecture
Eucalyptus commands can manage either Amazon or Eucalyptus instances. Users can also move instances between a Eucalyptus private cloud and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to create a hybrid cloud. Hardware virtualization isolates applications from computer hardware details.
Eucalyptus uses the terminology:
Images – An image is a fixed collection of software modules, system software, application software, and configuration information that is started from a known baseline (immutable/fixed). When bundled and uploaded to the Eucalyptus cloud, this becomes a Eucalyptus machine image (EMI).
Instances – When an image is put to use, it is called an instance. The configuration is executed at runtime, and the Cloud Controller decides where the image will run, and storage and networking is attached to meet resou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Miller | Jenny Miller (born February 5, 1980) is a Filipino actress. She is known on her role as Beverly Castro in the TV remake of the 1989 film Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita that aired on GMA Network in 2008 and she is currently a freelance artist.
Career
Miller started her acting career on ABS-CBN in the Philippines. She first appeared in the show Buttercup (2003) and then got a spot in the supporting cast on the series Marina as Vyxia in 2004. Then followed her role as a Fire Fairy on the horror series Spirits (2005). Her last show on ABS-CBN was Kokey, a fantasy kids series.
Miller changed to the rival GMA Network in 2007. Her first role was on Impostora co-starring with Iza Calzado, Sunshine Dizon and Jean Garcia. She became one of the main cast of the drama Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita in the role of Beverly, which aired in 2008. In 2009 Miller guest starred on the series All About Eve.
She is an additional cast member on the series Luna Mystica as one of the villains. Presently she is also a regular cast member of the horror drama series Midnight DJ aired on TV5 in the role of Trixie, and she is in the supporting cast on the TV show All My Life on the GMA Network. In 2010, she also appears in the GMA made-for-TV movie Tinik Sa Dibdib.
Personal life
Miller has a brother, actor and Kumu livestreamer Eian Rances, who gained prominence after joining Pinoy Big Brother: Kumunity Season 10 as a celebrity housemate.
Filmography
Television
Movies
Notes
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
Filipino film actresses
Filipino television actresses
People from Lucena, Philippines
Actresses from Quezon
Star Magic
21st-century Filipino actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20lag | Display lag is a phenomenon associated with most types of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) like smartphones and computers and nearly all types of high-definition televisions (HDTVs). It refers to latency, or lag between when the signal is sent to the display and when the display starts to show that signal. This lag time has been measured as high as or the equivalent of 3-4 frames on a 60 Hz display. Display lag is not to be confused with pixel response time, which is the amount of time it takes for a pixel to change from one brightness value to another. Currently the majority of manufacturers quote the pixel response time, but neglect to report display lag.
Analog vs digital technology
For older analog cathode ray tube (CRT) technology, display lag is nearly zero, due to the nature of the technology, which does not have the ability to store image data before display. The picture signal is minimally processed internally, simply for demodulation from a radio-frequency (RF) carrier wave (for televisions), and then splitting into separate signals for the red, green, and blue electron guns, and for the timing of the vertical and horizontal sync. Image adjustments typically involve reshaping the signal waveform but without storage, so the image is written to the screen as fast as it is received, with only nanoseconds of delay for the signal to traverse the wiring inside the device from input to the screen.
For modern digital signals, significant computer processing power and memory storage is needed to prepare an input signal for display. For either over-the-air or cable TV, the same analog demodulation techniques are used, but after that, then the signal is converted to digital data, which must be decompressed using the MPEG codec, and rendered into an image bitmap stored in a frame buffer.
For progressive scan display modes, the signal processing stops here, and the frame buffer is immediately written to the display device. In its simplest form, this processing may take several microseconds to occur.
For interlaced video, additional processing is frequently applied to deinterlace the image and make it seem to be clearer or more detailed than it actually is. This is done by storing several interlaced frames and then applying algorithms to determine areas of motion and stillness, and to either merge interlaced frames for smoothing or extrapolate where pixels are in motion, the resulting calculated frame buffer is then written to the display device.
De-interlacing imposes a delay that can be no shorter than the number of frames being stored for reference, plus an additional variable period for calculating the resulting extrapolated frame buffer; delays of 16-32ms are common.
Causes of display lag
While the pixel response time of the display is usually listed in the monitor's specifications, no manufacturers advertise the display lag of their displays, likely because the trend has been to increase display lag as manufacturers find more ways to pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXVC-TV | DXVC-TV, channel 7, is a relay television station of Philippine television network People's Television Network. Its transmitter and broadcast facility are located at Muruk, Upper Pasonanca, Brgy. Pasonanca, Zamboanga City.
Currently, PTV 7 Zamboanga is back on-air on analog while online on digital TV via eMedia affiliate subchannel.
History
1961 - DXVC-TV channel 7 was an affiliate station of GMA Network, which started as the Republic Broadcasting System.
1976 - DXVC-TV channel 7 became an owned-and-operated station of the National Media Production Center as Government Television (GTV) under Lito Gorospe and later by then-Press Secretary Francisco Tatad, with GMA programming moving to Channel 3.
1980 - GTV later became Maharlika Broadcasting System (MBS).
February 24, 1986 - following the People Power Revolution on which it was taken over by pro-Corazon Aquino, MBS was renamed People's Television (PTV).
1992 - President Cory Aquino signed Republic Act 7306 turning PTV Network into a government corporation known formally as People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI).
July 16, 2001 - under the new management appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying new slogan "One People. One Nation. One Vision." for a new image in line with its new programming thrusts, they continued the new name until the Aquino administration in 2010.
October 6, 2011 - People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) became a primary brand and the branding National Broadcasting Network was retired. However, after it was lasted for forty years in Zamboanga, the station suddenly went off the air needed to upgrade its facilities.
July 20, 2019 - PTV-7 Zamboanga resumes its relay (satellite-selling) operation, with the brand new 5,000-watt transmitter and broadcast facility located on Muruk, Upper Pasonanca, Brgy. Pasonanca, Zamboanga City.
See also
People's Television Network
List of People's Television Network stations and channels
DWGT-TV - the network's flagship station in Manila.
DXMR
References
Television stations in Zamboanga City
People's Television Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXBN-TV | DXBN-TV (channel 9), was a television station of Butuan City Fil-Products and affiliate of People's Television Network. Its studio, transmitter and broadcast facility are located at Libertad, Butuan. Currently the station is inactive.
History
April 27, 1960 - DXBN-TV channel 9 was originally used by ABS-CBN, the first television station in Caraga, was launched by CBN (later merging into ABS-CBN from ABS).
1973 - During the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, and takeover of ABS-CBN by his crony, Roberto Benedicto, DXBN-TV was reopened and became part of the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation.
1986 - DXBN-TV channel 9 was launched by GMA Network as an affiliate station of the Butuan City Fil-Products.
1995 - DXBN-TV channel 9 became an affiliate station of the People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI) under Butuan City Fil-Products. The same year, GMA Butuan was also launched on Channel 7 under its affiliate, Northern Mindanao Broadcasting System (later it moved its regional station to UHF Channel 26 in 2015) and ABS-CBN Butuan started its broadcasting on Channel 11 in 1999 until it became a semi-satellite station of Channel 4 Cagayan de Oro (formerly TV-2), effective from July 2018 to August 2020.
July 16, 2001 - Under the new management appointed by the former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PTNI adopted the name National Broadcasting Network (NBN) carrying new slogan "One People. One Nation. One Vision." for a new image in line with its new programming thrusts, they continued the new name until the Aquino administration in 2010.
2011 - After it was lasted for sixteen years in Butuan, the station is currently off the air.
Television stations in Butuan
People's Television Network stations
Television channels and stations established in 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberati | Liberati is a political network founded in Sweden in July 2008. The network was formed in reaction to the controversial passing in June 2008 by the Swedish Parliament, of the so-called FRA Law, a law allowing the National Defence Radio Establishment (Sweden), the national signals intelligence agency, to tap all internet traffic passing in or out of the country, across the national borders. Liberati was initiated by Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist and uses various internet social fora to try to influence the traditional political parties, from Libertarianism at one end via pragmatic Liberalism to liberal Socialism at the other end of the spectrum.
Despite early calls for Liberati to become a political party of its own, there are currently no plans to extend the network towards the formation of a separate political party. In addition to Bard and Söderqvist, early members associated with the Liberati movement include political scientist Stig-Björn Ljunggren, author and columnist Oscar Swartz and Member of Parliament Camilla Lindberg, an outspoken opponent to the FRA law from within the Swedish Liberal Party, and a heroine of the anti-FRA law movement after Lindberg became the only representative of the ruling Swedish Center-Right coalition to vote against the FRA law in the parliamentary vote of June 2008.
On 26 September 2010 Liberati was disbanded and replaced with both a cross-party liberal network simply called Liberala Nätverket (The Liberal Network), and a new party, Liberaldemokraterna, (The Liberal Democrats).
Sources
Johan Arvidsson, Aaron Eklöf.: , Nyheter24, Published 2009-02-21 09:34
Jan Söderqvist et al. , Expressen, Published 2010-0209
Alexander Bard: Därför lägger vi ner liberati, Published 2010-09-26
External links
Official homepage, http://www.liberati.se/
Political organizations based in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather%20Linux | Feather Linux, created by Robert Sullivan, was a Knoppix-based operating system which fits in under 128 MB (while older versions were made to fit within 64 MB). It boots from either a CD or a USB flash drive, into a Fluxbox desktop environment. It has a wide range of desktop and rescue software, and can load entirely into RAM (if enough RAM is available) or be installed to a hard drive. Feather Linux contains GTK+ applications, such as AbiWord and Pidgin. Feather Linux has tried to include software that people would frequently be using on their desktop.
It is only available on the x86 architecture. It can run on a 486 or higher, and requires 16MB RAM to run on the console, and 24MB RAM to run the X server.
According to DistroWatch, Feather Linux is discontinued and its final release was on 2005-07-04. The Feather Linux home page is no longer available.
Feather Linux and Damn Small Linux share some common goals.
See also
Comparison of Linux distributions
Lightweight Linux distribution
References
External links
Former official website, now unavailable
Feather Linux archive and downloads
Knoppix
Light-weight Linux distributions
Discontinued Linux distributions
Live USB
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idogo | Idogo (also spelled Idawgo) is a town in western Nigeria fairly close to the border with Benin.
Transport
Idogo is served by a terminus of a branch on the national railway network. A nearby river (Iyewa) also provides transportation of goods to other parts of western Africa, ipaja, olokuta, odon, including Cotonou.
See also
Railway stations in Nigeria
References
Towns in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt-toothed%20giant%20hutia | The blunt-toothed giant hutia (Amblyrhiza inundata) is an extinct species of giant hutia from Anguilla and Saint Martin that is estimated to have weighed between 50 and 200 kg (110 and 440 lb). It was discovered by Edward Drinker Cope in 1868 in a sample of phosphate sediments mined in an unknown cave (possibly Cavannagh Cave) in Anguilla and sent to Philadelphia to estimate the value of the sediments. It is the sole species of the genus Amblyrhiza in the fossil family Heptaxodontidae.
Some authors have suggested that its extinction may have resulted from overhunting by pre-Columbian humans. However, it is unknown whether this species was contemporaneous with human populations. Fossil specimens discovered at the end of the 20th century on Anguilla have been dated to the last interstadial period, while very recent discoveries made on Coco Islet (Saint-Barthélemy) are dated to 400,000 - 500,000 years; no bone has been recovered yet from a pre-Columbian archaeological site. Despite being described as a "giant hutia", it has recently been recovered as a member of the Chinchilloidea.
Description
Paleontologist A. R. Biknevicius and his team have estimated body size for Amblyrhiza inundata based upon 5 femora and 9 humeri from adult Amblyrhiza remains. They concluded based upon these specimens that Amblyrhiza ranged from just under 50 kg in mass to over 200 kg in mass. These calculations were based on comparisons with extant caviomorphs of 16 different species. The blunt teeth of Amblyrhiza inundata suggest an herbivorous lifestyle, consistent with that of the other genera within Heptaxodontidae.
Taxonomy
Known colloquially as the “Blunt Toothed Hutia,” this animal's scientific name reflects a similar narrative. “Amblyrhiza” roughly translates to “blunt root,” and “inundata” has been speculated to be in reference to Cope's disbelief that such a large rodent could evolve in an isolated region such as the islands of the northern Lesser Antilles. It is now accepted that Cope thought that the animal was cosmopolitan in nature, moving freely from island to island due to the lowered sea levels of the interval, which enabled Amblyrhiza to develop such an impressive body size. Amblyrhiza is currently considered to be a close relative of Elasmodontomys obliquus, a smaller yet similar rodent found in the Quaternary deposits of Puerto Rico. Although it has yet to be decided exactly where Amblyrhiza fits in a phylogenetic context, it is thought that they belong to a paraphyletic group of giant caviomorphs known as Heptaxodontidae. More recent work finds Amblyrhiza and Elasmodontomys to be members of the Chinchilloidea, with Amblyrhiza being most closely related to Dinomys.
Discovery
Paleontology work began in the northeastern area of the Caribbean in the mid nineteenth century, when phosphate mining boomed in the region and fossils were coincidentally found in associated strata. Later, in 1868, samples of fossils and their overlying sediments were sent from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation-based%20learning | Explanation-based learning (EBL) is a form of machine learning that exploits a very strong, or even perfect, domain theory (i.e. a formal theory of an application domain akin to a domain model in ontology engineering, not to be confused with Scott's domain theory) in order to make generalizations or form concepts from training examples. It is also linked with Encoding (memory) to help with Learning.
Details
An example of EBL using a perfect domain theory is a program that learns to play chess through example. A specific chess position that contains an important feature such as "Forced loss of black queen in two moves" includes many irrelevant features, such as the specific scattering of pawns on the board. EBL can take a single training example and determine what are the relevant features in order to form a generalization.
A domain theory is perfect or complete if it contains, in principle, all information needed to decide any question about the domain. For example, the domain theory for chess is simply the rules of chess. Knowing the rules, in principle, it is possible to deduce the best move in any situation. However, actually making such a deduction is impossible in practice due to combinatoric explosion. EBL uses training examples to make searching for deductive consequences of a domain theory efficient in practice.
In essence, an EBL system works by finding a way to deduce each training example from the system's existing database of domain theory. Having a short proof of the training example extends the domain-theory database, enabling the EBL system to find and classify future examples that are similar to the training example very quickly.
The main drawback of the method—the cost of applying the learned proof macros, as these become numerous—was analyzed by Minton.
Basic formulation
EBL software takes four inputs:
a hypothesis space (the set of all possible conclusions)
a domain theory (axioms about a domain of interest)
training examples (specific facts that rule out some possible hypothesis)
operationality criteria (criteria for determining which features in the domain are efficiently recognizable, e.g. which features are directly detectable using sensors)
Application
An especially good application domain for an EBL is natural language processing (NLP). Here a rich domain theory, i.e., a natural language grammar—although neither perfect nor complete, is tuned to a particular application or particular language usage, using a treebank (training examples). Rayner pioneered this work. The first successful industrial application was to a commercial NL interface to relational databases. The method has been successfully applied to several large-scale natural language parsing systems, where the utility problem was solved by omitting the original grammar (domain theory) and using specialized LR-parsing techniques, resulting in huge speed-ups, at a cost in coverage, but with a gain in disambiguation.
EBL-like techniques have also been ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXRD | KXRD (96.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. The station is owned by John Lykins, through licensee Rox Radio Group, LLC.
Programming
KXRD broadcasts a Red Dirt country format. The station plays contemporary country with a focus on the most recent releases from Nashville.
On March 15, 2021, KCYT shifted from country to Red Dirt country, branded as "Red Dirt 96.7" under new KXRD call letters.
References
External links
KXRD official website
XRD
Country radio stations in the United States
Washington County, Arkansas
Radio stations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Arkansas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Network | The National Network (or National Truck Network) is a network of approved state highways and interstates for commercial truck drivers in the United States. The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 authorized the establishment of a national network of highways designated for use by large trucks. On these highways, Federal width and length limits apply. The National Network (NN) includes almost all of the Interstate Highway System and other, specified non-Interstate highways. The network comprises more than of highways.
Definition
§658.9 National Network Criteria
The National Network listed in the appendix to this part is available for use by commercial motor vehicles of the dimensions and configurations described in §658.13 and §658.15. For those States with detailed lists of individual routes in the appendix, the routes have been designated on the basis of their general adherence to the following criteria.
The route is a geometrically typical component of the Federal-Aid Primary System, serving to link principal cities and densely developed portions of the States.
The route is a high volume route utilized extensively by large vehicles for interstate commerce.
The route does not have any restrictions precluding use by conventional combination vehicles.
The route has adequate geometrics to support safe operations, considering sight distance, severity and length of grades, pavement width, horizontal curvature, shoulder width, bridge clearances and load limits, traffic volumes and vehicle mix, and intersection geometry.
The route consists of lanes designed to be a width of or more or is otherwise consistent with highway safety.
The route does not have any unusual characteristics causing current or anticipated safety problems.
The National Network was most recently defined by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Information on these routes are taken from §658 Appendix A. Some states such as Indiana, Arkansas, and Ohio allow truck traffic on all numbered state or U.S. highways. Other states, such as New York and California, have a specially defined set of highways which are recommended for trucks. The law allows for "reasonable access" to and from the NN for terminals, deliveries, trucks stops, repairs, and other reasons. The NN is recommended for through truck traffic (e.g. traffic that is passing through the area), and trucks are allowed to operate on truck-restricted roads if they have no other means of access to their destination.
See also
Trucking industry in the United States
Truck driver
Long combination vehicle
References
Trucking industry in the United States
Traffic law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Prosser | Patrick Prosser (born 8 September 1952) is a Computer Scientist who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Glasgow. His research has centred on constraint programming, although it has extended into the application of those techniques into other areas. For his major contributions to the theory and practice of constraint programming, Patrick was awarded the Association for Constraint Programming's Research Excellence Award on 15 September 2011: he is only the sixth recipient of this award. He gave a prerecorded acceptance speech, which is available on YouTube.
His most notable contribution is his invention of conflict-directed backjumping, an advanced technique for reducing search in constraint problems by avoiding unnecessary work on backtracking. His 1993 paper describing this has been widely cited.
Other areas of constraint programming he has researched include the identification of hard problems
and techniques for solving vehicle routing problems. His interest in applications of constraint programming has included (for example) how it can be used in computing species trees.
Amongst his recreations is kite flying as a founder of the Kite Club of Scotland. He has written about the Tetrahedral kite.
References
External links
Patrick Prosser's home page at the University of Glasgow.
Google Scholar search for Patrick Prosser's papers.
British computer scientists
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
1952 births
Living people
Scottish computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Pavilion%20tx%20series | The HP Pavilion TX Series is a series of convertible notebook computers from Hewlett Packard introduced in February 2007.
TX1000
These notebooks are designed for Windows Vista. The TX series uses the AMD Turion 64 X2 series of processors. This series has a 12.1-inch touch screen and a DVD+RW; it competed well with the top-of-the-line tablets at the time of its release. All models came with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics system, which features 128 MB of integrated graphics and an extra shared graphics memory of up to 916 MB.
This model has been superseded by the HP Touchsmart tx2 Series, and subsequently by the HP Touchsmart tm2.
Design
The series is delivered with the HP Imprint Finish. The form factor is referred to as a "convertible tablet", that is, the screen can be rotated to use the notebook as a slate with the included stylus. The current model has a glossy, black plastic casing and a perforated touchpad. The speakers are located near the hinge, on the screen; and the webcam on the top of the screen. The stereo microphones are also mounted on the screen and the tablet comes with an optional fingerprint reader. The standard 6-cell battery juts out to form a hand-grip and the DVD drive can be replaced with a plastic "weight-saver".
Specifications
Processor: AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core
Screen:12.1″ WXGA BrightView LED back-lit [semi-glossy/matte] (1280×800) with passive touchscreen (without Wacom Penabled digitizer)
Graphics:NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Webcam + Dual Mic
Fingerprint Reader (Optional)
PC-5300 RAM 1GB [base config], 2GB, 3GB, 4GB
SATA Hard Drive, 160GB [base config], 250GB, 320GB
Removable LightScribe DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer
Wireless: 802.11 a/b/g/draft n WLAN [base config]; Bluetooth 2.1 (optional)
Verizon Wireless V740 ExpressCard (requires data plan)
Battery: Lithium Ion 6 Cell [base config]/ 4 Cell/ 8 Cell
Criticism
Within a few months of release of the tx1000 series, numerous technical failures were reported on internet blogs, review sites and HP's own support websites. These included webcam, audio, speaker, BIOS, power management, overheating, booting, and wireless adapter problems. Some were addressed in a timely manner with driver updates, but other users were still forced to turn the notebook on and off repeatedly until it booted up, while others were left with a non-working "bricked" unit. HP released an updated model, the HP Pavilion tx2, which in turn was followed by the HP TouchSmart tm2. HP never issued a recall for its tx1 model.
TX2000
TX2500
References
External links
Notebook Review of the tx1000
HP TX2000 later version
HP laptops
Microsoft Tablet PC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A501 | A501 may refer to:
A501 RAM/RTC expansion, a computer peripheral
A501 road (Great Britain), a part of the Inner Ring Road, London
A501 steel
RFA Salvigil (A501), a ship |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenames%20Database%20of%20Ireland | The Placenames Database of Ireland (), also known as , is a database and archive of place names in Ireland. It was created by Fiontar, Dublin City University in collaboration with the Placenames Branch of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The website is a public resource primarily aimed at journalists and translators, students and teachers, historians and researchers in genealogy.
Placenames Commission and Placenames Branch
The Placenames Commission () was established by the Department of Finance in 1946 to advise Ordnance Survey Ireland and the government of what the Irish name of places should be.
Although both the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State and the current constitution adopted in 1937 recognised Irish as the national language, the law in regard to placenames was carried over from the 19th-century UK statutes which established the Ordnance Survey and Griffith's Valuation, under which only an English-language name had official status. Irish-language names were adopted in place of some English-language names after 1920 (e.g. King's County became Laois, and Kells, County Meath became ) and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs adopted Irish names, but these were ad-hoc and sometimes inconsistent or disputed by locals or Irish-language scholars.
The Place-Names (Irish Forms) Act 1973 codified the official assignment of Irish names alongside, rather than instead of, English names; in 1975 the first statutory instrument made this act gave official Irish names to post towns. The names chosen were on the advice of the Placenames Branch; some differed from those adopted in previous decades, in some cases causing controversy. Responsibility for place names was transferred from the Department of Finance to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands in 2000. The 1973 Act was replaced by the Official Languages Act 2003 and under its terms, the Placenames Committee continues to advise the Minister prior to the issuing of statutory instruments.
The Placenames Commission ceased on 11 October 2012 and the Placenames Committee () took its place on 19 September 2013. The Placenames Branch () is a branch of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, established by the Official Languages Act 2003, which supports the Placenames Commission/Committee in investigating the historical Irish-language names of places.
Awards
The database website, www.logainm.ie, won the European Language Label in 2010 and was category winner at the 2011 and 2016 Irish eGovernment Awards.
See also
Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba, Scottish Gaelic equivalent
References
External links
Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann, Placenames database of Ireland home page
Irish digital libraries
Irish toponymy
2008 establishments in Ireland
Geographical databases
Databases in Ireland
Multilingual websites
Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20preemption | In computer operating system design, kernel preemption is a property possessed by some kernels (the cores of operating systems), in which the CPU can be interrupted in the middle of executing kernel code and assigned other tasks (from which it later returns to finish its kernel tasks).
Details
Specifically, the scheduler is permitted to forcibly perform a context switch (on behalf of a runnable and higher-priority process) on a driver or other part of the kernel during its execution, rather than co-operatively waiting for the driver or kernel function (such as a system call) to complete its execution and return control of the processor to the scheduler when done. It is used mainly in monolithic and hybrid kernels, where all or most device drivers are run in kernel space. Linux is an example of a monolithic-kernel operating system with kernel preemption.
The main benefit of kernel preemption is that it solves two issues that would otherwise be problematic for monolithic kernels, in which the kernel consists of one large binary. Without kernel preemption, two major issues exist for monolithic and hybrid kernels:
A device driver can enter an infinite loop or other unrecoverable state, crashing the whole system.
Some drivers and system calls on monolithic kernels can be slow to execute, and cannot return control of the processor to the scheduler or other program until they complete execution.
See also
Linux kernel scheduling and preemption
References
Scheduling (computing)
Operating system kernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20qubit | In quantum computing, and more specifically in superconducting quantum computing, the phase qubit is a superconducting device based on the superconductor–insulator–superconductor (SIS) Josephson junction, designed to operate as a quantum bit, or qubit.
The phase qubit is closely related, yet distinct from, the flux qubit and the charge qubit, which are also quantum bits implemented by superconducting devices. The major distinction among the three is the ratio of Josephson energy vs charging energy (the necessary energy for one Cooper pair to charge the total capacitance in the circuit):
For phase qubit, this ratio is on the order of 106, which allows for macroscopic bias current through the junction;
For flux qubit it's on the order of 10, which allows for mesoscopic supercurrents (typically ~300 nA);
For charge qubit it's less than 1, and therefore only a few Cooper pairs can tunnel through and charge the Cooper-pair box. However, transmon can have a very low charging energy due to the huge shunt capacitance, and therefore have this ratio on the order of 10~100.
Introduction
A phase qubit is a current-biased Josephson junction, operated in the zero voltage state with a non-zero current bias.
A Josephson junction is a tunnel junction, made of two pieces of superconducting metal separated by a very thin insulating barrier, about 1 nm in thickness. The barrier is thin enough that electrons, or in the superconducting state, Cooper-paired electrons, can tunnel through the barrier at an appreciable rate. Each of the superconductors that make up the Josephson junction is described by a macroscopic wavefunction, as described by the Ginzburg–Landau theory for superconductors. The difference in the complex phases of the two superconducting wavefunctions is the most important dynamic variable for the Josephson junction, and is called the phase difference , or simply "phase".
Main equations describing the SIS junction
The Josephson equation relates the superconducting current (usually called the supercurrent) through the tunnel junction to the phase difference ,
(Josephson current-phase relationship)
Here is the critical current of the tunnel junction, determined by the area and thickness of the tunnel barrier in the junction, and by the properties of the superconductors on either side of the barrier. For a junction with identical superconductors on either side of the barrier, the critical current is related to the superconducting gap and the normal state resistance of the tunnel junction by the Ambegaokar–Baratoff formula
(Ambegaokar–Baratoff formula)
The Gor'kov phase evolution equation gives the rate of change of the phase (the "velocity" of the phase) as a linear function of the voltage as
(Gor'kov-Josephson phase evolution equation)
This equation is a generalization of the Schrödinger equation for the phase of the BCS wavefunction. The generalization was carried out by Gor'kov in 1958.
The McCumber–Stewart model
The alternati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A10%20Networks | A10 Networks is an American public company specializing in the manufacturing of application delivery controllers (software and hardware). Founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks, A10 originally serviced just the identity management market with its line of ID Series products. In early 2007, they added bandwidth management appliances (EX Series). The company had its initial public offering on March 21, 2014, raising $187.5 million.
History
In mid-2007, A10 Networks launched its AX Series of application delivery controllers/load balancing appliances.
On May 21, 2013, A10 resolved its question of responsibility for intellectual property infringement and unfair competition practices by reaching a settlement with Brocade Communications Systems. Brocade had earlier been awarded $112 million in 2012.
In May 2013, A10 launched its A10 Thunder Series platforms of hardware and software application delivery controllers (ADCs).
A10 Networks released the Harmony design of the Thunder Series ADC in 2015.
Also in 2015, A10 Networks upgraded the Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS). The update allowed 100 percent of software capabilities to be addressed by APIs, whereas the previous ACOS could only address 40 percent through APIs.
In 2016, A10 acquired the cloud-native ADC company Appcito.
In 2021, according to the companies annual report, A10 Networks closed its India and China offices and reduce its headcount.
References
External links
Technology companies based in California
Networking companies of the United States
2014 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20R%C3%A1-Tim-Bum | TV Ra-Tim-Bum is a Brazilian cable and satellite TV channel. It is run by the Padre Anchieta Foundation and most of its programming is aimed at children.
At first the channel's programming consisted entirely of Brazilian productions, though that has changed in recent years. Many shows are reruns of TV Cultura material, though it also produces and co-produces original content. The channel started operations in December 2004.
In 2007 it became available in the United States. In 2009 the station became available in Portugal.
Programs
Live-action
Current
1,2,3 agora é sua vez (1,2,3 now turn)
Baú de Histórias (Chest of Stories)
Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (Castle Rá-Tim-Bum)
Cocoricó
Como Cuidar do Seu Melhor Amigo (How to Care for Your Best Friend)
Glub-Glub
Grandes Personagens (Great Characters)
Ilha Rá-Tim-Bum (Island Rá-Tim-Bum)
Lá vem história (There is history)
Mundo da Lua (World of the Moon)
Passeio animal (Ride animal)
Qual É, Bicho? (What is, Bug?)
Rá-Tim-Bum
Teatro Rá-Tim-Bum (Theatre Rá-Tim-Bum)
Vila Sésamo (Sesame Street)
X-Tudo (X-All)
Canceled
Ursinhos Carinhosos (Care Bears)
As Meninas Superpoderosas (The Powerpuff Girls)
Álbum da Natureza (Album of Nature)
Bambalalão
Bebê + (Baby +)
Catalendas
Cambalhota (Tumbling)
Cineminha (Little Cinema)
Cine Rá-Tim-Bum
Dando Bandeira (Giving Flag)
Dango Balango
Esporte Clube Rá-Tim-Bum (Sports Club Rá-Tim-Bum)
Sua língua (Its Language)
Cartoon
Current
A Mansão Maluca do Professor Ambrósio (The Amazing Professor Ambrosius´ Mansion)
Brichos
Cantigas de Roda
Doutor Raio X (Doctor X-Ray)
Escola pra Cachorro (Doggy Day School)
Isso Disso (So That)
Juro que vi (I swear I saw)
Kiara e os Luminitos (Kiara and the Luminitos)
Nilba e os Desastronautas (Newbie and the Disasternauts)
O Papel das Histórias (The Role of Stories)
Os Caça-Livros (The Hunter-Books)
Os Ecoturistinhas (The Little Eco-Tourists)
Os Reciclados (The Recycled)
Palavras Mágicas (Magic Words)
Pequenos Cientistas (Little Scientists)
Portuguesitos Esporte Clube (Portuguesitos Sports Club)
Quarto do Jobi (Jobi's Room)
Sidney
Simão e Bartolomeu (Simão and Bartolomeu)
Som na Caixa com DJ Cão (Sound Box with DJ Dog)
Tchibum TV
Traçando Arte
T.R.EX.C.I
Canceled
Abelhinhas (Little Bees)
Brasil Futebol Clube (Brazil Soccer Club)
De Onde Vem? (Where Do You Come From?)
Escola de Princesinhas (Little Princess School)
Gelê
Mila e co. (Mila and co.)
Lanterna Mágica (Magic Lantern)
O que eu vou ser quando crescer? (What will I be when I grow up?)
Os Carrinhos (Little Cars)
Show do DJ Cão (DJ Dog Show)
Turma do Lambe-Lambe (Lambe-Lambe's Gang)
References
External links
TV Rá-Tim-Bum
Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil
Television stations in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellville%20railway%20station | Bellville mainline railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. It is the second-biggest station in the Metrorail Western Cape railway network, after the Cape Town terminus. All trains on Metrorail's Northern Line pass through Bellville, and one branch of the Central Line also terminates there. It is also a stop for Shosholoza Meyl trains that terminate in Cape Town.
Bellville Station is a major terminus for Golden Arrow buses; it also has a large minibus taxi rank. To the south of the station is Transnet Freight Rail's main marshalling yard for the Cape Town area.
The station building is on the northern side of the tracks, attached to a side platform. There are four island platforms and an island containing two bays for trains traveling to and from Cape Town. The platforms are linked by two pedestrian tunnels.
Notable places nearby
Bellville Civic Centre
Bellville Sports Ground
Northlink College Protea campus
Tygerberg Medical Campus
Services
Railway stations in Cape Town
Shosholoza Meyl stations
Metrorail Western Cape stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen%20Poovarawan | Yuen Poovarawan (, born 5 November 1950) is a Thai computer scientist. He worked at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand until his retirement, where his last positions were associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Vice President for Information Technology. Among his noted contributions are the development of natural language processing for the Thai language, and the advancement of information technology services in Thailand, particularly the implementation of networking infrastructure at Kasetsart.
Early life and education
Yuen Poovarawan was born on 5 November 1950 in Bangkok, Thailand. The third out of six children, he is the elder twin brother of Yong Poovorawan, medical professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. As a child, his family moved to Nakhon Pathom, where he attended Phrapathom Witthayalai School. He graduated Bachelor of Engineering in electrical engineering from Chulalongkorn University in 1972, and completed two engineering master's degrees, also in electrical engineering at Chulalongkorn University, and in industrial engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology, in 1974.
Work
Yuen began his career in 1973 as an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Kasetsart University, where he has since continued working. He began working on software development for microcomputers in 1978, and worked on natural language processing algorithms from 1980. He and his team demonstrated the first interactive text editor for the Thai language in 1981, and released Thai Easy Writer, the first Thai word processing application, the following year.
Yuen was among the proponents for the creation of a standard Thai language system for computers (over twenty had become available by 1984), and vice-chaired the committee for the development of the TIS 620-2529 character set and its subsequent version, TIS 620-2533.
The Microcomputer Research Laboratory, which Yuen was head of, also developed the Thai Kernel System, a hardware-independent system designed to promote system-intercompatibility for Thai-language application development, in 1990, but this failed to gain a user base as it lost ground to the expanding Microsoft Windows systems.
In his research, Yuen pioneered the utilization of dictionary databases for Thai word splitting and machine translation, created the first Thai language thesaurus and developed word and sentence reconstruction methods for use in spell checking applications, among other things. Much of his work was presented at various national and international conferences.
He also played a pivotal role in the development of Kasetsart University's computer network infrastructure, beginning in 1990 and leading to the implementation of Thailand's first fiber-optic university network, and by 2003, wireless LAN coverage throughout the university's campus, the largest such network in Southeast Asia. Kasetsart has long been an early adopter of information technology serv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny%20Teeny%20Maya%20Moe | "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe" is the sixteenth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 5, 2009. Moe falls in love with a woman named Maya, whom he met over the Internet. When Moe meets her in person, she turns out to be a little person. They remain in love, but his tactless attitude to her size eventually drives her away. Meanwhile, in an attempt to spend more time with Maggie, Homer inadvertently drops her off at a playground full of bullies.
Plot
Homer attempts to spend more time with Maggie and ends up bringing her to Moe's Tavern. Moe is cleaning up the bar for a date, and finds out he actually has a window, which was previously obscured by layers of grime. Outside the window is a playground, which Homer sees as an opportunity for watching Maggie while spending time at Moe's. Homer sends Maggie to play with the other babies outside, but they turn out to be ruthless bullies. Marge notices Maggie is uncomfortable when she returns home one day, and becomes worried that Homer is neglecting her. After watching a commercial about a surveillance camera fixed in the eye of a teddy bear, Marge purchases a spy camera which she attaches to Maggie's hair band and discovers that Maggie is bullied by a group of gangster babies. At first, Marge is surprised to see Maggie being tormented by the babies, but sees Homer, after he discovered the truth about the other babies from the playground, rush to Maggie's rescue and be beaten up by Kearney's son. Maggie jumps to Homer's rescue and Homer says that he loves both her and Marge. Moved to tears, Marge tells Homer he is a wonderful father.
Meanwhile, Moe's date, whom he met over the Internet, turns out to be a little person named Maya. Moe still loves her, but is worried about what his friends will think. Moe decides to take Maya on a double date with Marge and Homer, neither of whom seem to care that she is small. Homer, seeing Maya's intelligence and sensitivity, suggests Moe marry her. Moe proposes but cannot resist making jokes about Maya's height. Insulted, she rejects him. Crushed by grief, Moe consults the advice of Lenny and Carl, who advise him to do something risky to win Maya back. Moe decides to have surgery to become shorter, and Dr. Nick Riviera agrees to conduct the surgery. Maya stops Moe just before the surgery, as she wants someone who sees her as "beautiful" not "short", and who does not need to cut himself down to her size in order to love her. Moe, intent on having the surgery, does not listen to Maya, and she leaves him for good. Homer consoles a dejected Moe, stating that even though things did not go well with Maya, Moe actually found love with a woman who loved him back and that if he was successful once, he will be successful again. Moe brightens up and wonders how a small woman like Maya could make him feel so big.
Cultural references
The title is a parody of the children's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarawanthayo | Adarawanthayo is a 1968 black & white Sri Lankan drama film directed by Amaranath Jayathilake.
External links
Lanka Cinema Database
1968 films
1960s Sinhala-language films
Sri Lankan drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk%20roads%20in%20Ireland | Ireland has an extensive network of public roads which connect all parts of the country with each other. Roads in Ireland are currently classified as motorways, National Primary routes, National secondary routes, Regional roads and Local roads. The introduction of this classification system began in 1977.
Prior to this, the Republic of Ireland had a different road classification and numbering system. Roads fell into three categories: T (Trunk Roads), L (Link Roads) and unclassified roads. These largely correspond to modern N and R roads in Ireland
The origins of this system lie in pre-independence legislation: the preliminary section of Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 55/1926 — Road Signs and Traffic Signals Regulations, 1926 states that the Ministry of Transport Act, 1919 gave the Minister for Local Government and Public Health the power to assign a "route letter and number" to a road, while Section 6.4 of Part I of the Regulations specifies the positioning of the "route letter and the number of the road" on directional signs. The Statutory Instrument refer to the "classification of roads as a 'Trunk' or 'Link' Road".
In early 1926 the Minister made a Main Road Order which came into legal effect on 1 April 1926. The contents of this proposed order were communicated to local authorities in advance., this initial Main Road Order established the initial T Road and L Road networks in each county in 1926 and required county councils to maintain these main roads.
A reply to a question in parliament, given in 1964, described the Main Road Order process.
"Subsequently, in the period 1925-26, a further classification of roads was made pursuant to the Local Government Act, 1925, into main, county and urban roads, for the purpose of apportioning statutory responsibility for construction and maintenance, and for determining the chargeability of roads expenses for the purposes of annual estimates. The 1925 Act classification, like the 1919 Act classification, was also made after consultation with the local authorities, and the roads which were declared to be main roads were the trunk and link roads of the 1919 Act classification together with some additional roads decided upon after the consultation which I have mentioned."
Even though legal authority for the erection of directional signposts was given to local councils, the Automobile Association of Ireland began an extensive road signposting scheme in 1938 which included comprehensive signposting of routes from Belfast, Cork and Dublin.
Evidence that the Trunk Road and Link Road classification and numbering system had been well established by the 1950s is found in Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 284/1956 — Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 which contains examples of several directional signs. The first and second examples show the T8 as the route to Wexford and Rosslare. In addition, Esso road-maps of Ireland from the 1950s show the Trunk and Link road network. Despite its long-standing use, the origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20railway%20signalling | The signalling system used on the railway network in Finland comprises color-light signals and fixed signs, used together with the Automatic Train Control system ATP-VR/RHK (an EBICAB 900 system better known as JKV, ).
Main signals
The main signal can have any of the following aspects:
If a main signal doesn't protect any switches or the speed restriction on a diverging route is the same as straight route, the signal doesn't need to show the Proceed 35 aspect and therefore the yellow bottom light may be absent. The two lamp version of the old system has the lights reversed, i.e. red at the top and green at the bottom.
Distant signals
The distant signal is located at least before the main signal.
It may also be located in the same post with a main signal, below it. In this combined arrangement, whenever the main signal shows a stop aspect, the distant signal doesn't show any aspect at all.
A distant signal can have any of the following aspects:
Note: Although the green light of the old system distant signal used in Helsinki area is named Expect Proceed aspect, the next main signal may in fact be showing the Proceed 35 aspect. Therefore, the driver has to act as if the signal aspect is indeed Expect 35.
Block signals
A block signal can show any of the following three aspects:
Block signals are being replaced by combinations of main and distant signals, and no new block signals will be installed.
Dwarf signals
A dwarf signal is used for controlling shunting movements. It can have any of the following aspects:
A dwarf signal may also be placed in conjunction with a main signal. If the main signal shows any other aspect than Stop, the dwarf signal shows the Proceed with caution aspect.
Bridge signals
Bridge signals are small signals used to display the orientation of a moveable bridge. They can have any of the following aspects:
Repeaters
Repeaters are sometimes used to repeat the aspect of the main signal in the Helsinki area in places where the main signal is not clearly visible.
Helsinki Metro
The Helsinki Metro signals differ from those used by the railways.
Main signals
Some aspects may be shown using a signal with only three lights, pictured on the right.
Distant signals
References
External links
Railway signalling in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20and%20artificial%20intelligence | Artificial intelligence and music (AIM) is a common subject in the International Computer Music Conference, the Computing Society Conference and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The first International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) was held in 1974 at Michigan State University. Current research includes the application of AI in music composition, performance, theory and digital sound processing.
A key part of this field is the development of music software programs which use AI to produce music. As with applications in other fields, AI in music also simulates mental tasks. A prominent feature is the capability of an AI algorithm to learn based on past data, such as in computer accompaniment technology, wherein the AI is capable of listening to a human performer and performing accompaniment. Artificial intelligence also drives interactive composition technology, wherein a computer composes music in response to a live performance. There are other AI applications in music that cover not only music composition, production, and performance but also how music is marketed and consumed. Several music player programs have also been developed to use voice recognition and natural language processing technology for music voice control.
History
In 1960, Russian researcher Rudolf Zaripov published worldwide first paper on algorithmic music composing using the "Ural-1" computer.
In 1965, inventor Ray Kurzweil premiered a piano piece created by a computer that was capable of pattern recognition in various compositions. The computer was then able to analyze and use these patterns to create novel melodies. The computer debuted on the quiz show I've Got a Secret, and stumped the hosts until film star Henry Morgan guessed Ray's secret.
In 1997, an artificial intelligence program named Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI) appeared to outperform a human composer at the task of composing a piece of music to imitate the style of Bach.
Software applications
Interactive scores
Multimedia Scenarios in interactive scores are represented by
temporal objects,
temporal relations, and
interactive objects. Examples of temporal objects are sounds, videos and light controls.
Temporal objects can be triggered by interactive objects (usually launched by the user) and
several temporal objects can be executed simultaneously. A temporal object may contain
other temporal objects: this hierarchy allows us to control the start or end of a temporal
object by controlling the start or end of its parent. Hierarchy is ever-present in all kinds
of music: Music pieces are often hierarchized by movements, parts, motives, measures,
among other segmentations.
Computer Accompaniment (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Computer Music Project at CMU develops computer music and interactive performance technology to enhance human musical experience and creativity. This interdisciplinary effort draws on music theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetide | Firetide is an American, international provider of wireless mesh network technology. It is a division of UNICOM Global. Based in the Silicon Valley, Firetide designs and sells hardware and software for wireless technology.
Corporate history
Firetide was founded in 2001, under the name Landmark Networks, to provide hardware and software for wireless infrastructure mesh networks. In 2003 the name changed to Firetide, which would "better reflect the company's mission and culture". In 2004, the company moved from Hawaii to Los Gatos, CA.
Firetide, Inc. was acquired by UNICOM Global on May 19, 2014.
Firetide Inc. is currently headquartered in Campbell, CA, CA with a R&D office in Bangalore, India.
Hardware
HotPort 7000 Series. Indoor and outdoor wireless mesh node, equipped with dual 802.11n MIMO radios. The radios are able to operate at 2.4, 4.9 and 5.0 GHz and allows for a throughput of up to 400 Mbit/s.
FWB-200 Series. Indoor and outdoor wireless point-to-point bridges, equipped with dual 802.11n MIMO radios. The point-to-point bridges are used to connect distant, wireless networks to each other.
HotPoint 5000 Series. Indoor and outdoor wireless access points, equipped with dual 802.11n MIMO radios. The access points allow for a wireless Wi-Fi network to be connected to the mesh. Software development stopped in 2015.
HotClient 2000 Series. Indoor and outdoor wireless customer premises equipment. A product that extends the range of a Wi-Fi network.
Firetide FWC 2050 WLAN Controller. A product that can control up to 50 access points and that provides configuration of the access points through central management. It is controlled through a web-interface.
Firetide IVS 100. Integrated video solution, a combined IP-camera and mesh node.
Software
HotView Pro. Software that centrally manages the mesh nodes and the other Firetide hardware connected to the mesh network.
Firetide Mobility Controller. Software that enables Firetide's mesh to be compatible with mobile units, such as connecting to a moving subway train.
Routing protocol
Firetide use their own, proprietary AutoMesh routing protocol to control the data flow in the mesh.
Notable installations
In 2006, Firetide announced that they were going to supply their technology to Singapore's Wireless@SG project. The project's goal was to install a nationwide network to enable public Wi-Fi as well as video and voice traffic.
In 2007, Firetide installed its wireless mesh technology on the construction site of Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai) to allow communication between workers via VOIP radio, replacing walkie talkies which presented communication issues at high altitudes.
In 2009, Firetide installed a wireless mesh network in Seoul Metropolitan Subway. The request from the South Korean subway operator for live camera coverage came after a fatal arson in 2003. Firetide technology provided wireless connection to the station and the moving trains. The systems included cameras on the train sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei%20Fujiwara | is a Japanese actress, cinematographer, director and writer. Her first role was in the American film The Neptune Factor, but she is perhaps best known for starring in the Japanese cyberpunk cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. More recently she has devoted her time to writing and directing, and is known for her surreal and violent experimental films as well as her experimental theater company Organ Vital.
Biography
Fujiwara was born into a poor family in a rural part of Kumamoto in 1957, and moved to Tokyo in her early twenties to pursue a career in theater. Playwright Jūrō Kara wrote roles for her to act in his plays and eventually became her mentor. She spent years creating underground theater companies, and collaborated with Shinya Tsukamoto in the 1980s on the plays and 8 mm films he created. Becoming closely involved with Tsukamoto's underground theater troupe Kaijyu Theater, she took on the title of his "right hand" woman and played a contributing role in his films The Phantom of Regular Size (1986), The Adventure of Denchu Kozo (1987), and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989). For Tsukamoto's film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, she participated both in front of the camera as the unnamed Girlfriend character, as well as behind the camera as the prop artist and one of the cinematographers. In addition, Fujiwara's apartment was used as a primary set for the film, with even her cats appearing in certain scenes. She also engineered Tetsuo's iconic phallic drill.
After the production of Tetsuo, she returned to underground theater and working with Jūrō Kara. She also formed the Organ Vital company, which produced the play Organ and adapted the play into the film of the same name. When interviewed, Fujiwara has said that the name "Organ Vital" comes from an Antonin Artaud book "...that featured this French term. It meant the vessels of life. When translated to English, I'm told it just becomes, 'vitals of organ,' or something, but in Japanese it is called gozōroppu and to me signifies the corporal. That's the name of my theater company, and it has always been that for me. Born into this three-dimensional world with bodies, we sense and express." Fujiwara returned again as a film actress in Organ, playing the role of Yoko, the eye-patch wearing sister of organ dealer and high school biology teacher Jun.
Organ and her later 2005 film Ido never gained financial or critical success, but have become noted examples of the Japanese horror genre. She has continued producing theatre work through Organ Vital: a new "nomadic" theatre project called Ibunkitan debuted in 2019, and has been presented in shops, salons, and temples.
She lives in a remote part of the Nagano mountains and operates a cat shelter in her spare time.
Style and themes
Fujiwara's work deals with themes of morality, spirituality, fear, pain (bodily transformation and decay), and pleasure. Her films are known for their graphic depiction of gore and violence and their surreal, experimental style.
She sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Woods | Mary Woods may refer to:
Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017), English mathematician and computer scientist
Mary Tenison Woods (1893–1971), South Australian lawyer and social activist
See also
Mary Wood (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Defender%27s%20Office%20NSW | The Environmental Defender's Office (NSW) in Sydney, New South Wales, was one of nine EDO offices located across Australia, formerly known as the Australian Network of EDOs (ANEDO).
In 2019, eight EDOs agreed to merge and form a single national organisation Environmental Defender Office (EDO Ltd).
Background
The Environmental Defender's Office (NSW) was a community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law. The EDO provides legal advice and representation in public interest environmental law matters. In addition to the provision of legal services, the Office takes an active role in law reform and the formulation of policy, provides technical and scientific advice to help the community understand environmental documents and carries out community programs on environmental law.
The Environmental Defender's Office has an active international program, and contributes in a wide range of environmental advocacy activities, with particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
The Environmental Defender's Office (NSW) has identified 'priority areas' that include climate change, environmental planning and development, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, environmental justice as well as corporate social responsibility.
Key cases
The EDO has brought proceedings in a variety of cases involving disputes of public interest environmental law. The following are recent key cases EDO NSW has run:
Mackay Conservation Group v Commonwealth of Australia and Adani Mining (2016)
The EDO acted on behalf of the Mackay Conservation Group, and successfully challenged the Federal Environment Ministers approval of the Carmichael coal mine on the Great Barrier Reef. The case alleged the Australian Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, failed to take into account a number of factors, required by law, when approving the Carmichael Mine. The case was successful on the ground that the Minister failed to take into account, as required by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, his Department’s approved conservation advice for two threatened species, the Yakka Skink and the Ornamental Snake.
Humane Society International Inc (HSI) v Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd (Kyodo) (2008)
EDO acted for Humane Society International and sought a declaration that Kyodo breached the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 by whaling in the Australian Whale Sanctuary adjacent to Antarctica and an injunction to prevent the killing of whales in this area. His Honour Justice Allsop made a declaration that Kyodo was in breach of Australian law and granted HSI an injunction to restrain Kyodo from further breaches of the EPBC Act. In 2015 Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd was found guilty of wilful contempt of court and fined A$1,000,000.
Minister for Planning v Walker (2008)
Acting on behalf of Jill Walker, a local resident of Sandon Point, the EDO challenged a Part 3A development approval. This case has important implications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20tree | In computer science, a ternary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most three child nodes, usually distinguished as "left", “mid” and "right". Nodes with children are parent nodes, and child nodes may contain references to their parents. Outside the tree, there is often a reference to the "root" node (the ancestor of all nodes), if it exists. Any node in the data structure can be reached by starting at root node and repeatedly following references to either the left, mid or right child.
Ternary trees are used to implement Ternary search trees and Ternary heaps.
Definition
Directed Edge - The link from the parent to the child.
Root - The node with no parents. There is at most one root node in a rooted tree.
Leaf Node - Any node that has no children.
Parent Node - Any node connected by a directed edge to its child or children.
Child Node - Any node connected to a parent node by a directed edge.
Depth - Length of the path from the root to the node. The set of all nodes at a given depth is sometimes called a level of the tree. The root node is at depth zero.
Height - Length of the path from the root to the deepest node in the tree. A (rooted) tree with only one node (the root) has a height of zero. In the example diagram, the tree has height of 2.
Sibling - Nodes that share the same parent node.
A node p is an ancestor of a node q if it exists on the path from q to the root. The node q is then termed a descendant of p.
The size of a node is the number of descendants it has, including itself.
Properties of ternary trees
Maximum number of nodes
– Let be height of a ternary tree.
– Let be the maximum number of nodes in a ternary tree of height h
–
– Every tree of height h has at most nodes.
If a node occupies TREE , then its Left Child is stored in TREE .
Mid Child is stored in TREE .
Right Child is stored in TREE .
Common operations
Insertion
Nodes can be inserted into ternary trees in between three other nodes or added after an external node. In Ternary trees, a node that is inserted is specified as to which child it is.
External nodes
Say that the external node being added onto is node A. To add a new node after node A, A assigns the new node as one of its children and the new node assigns node A as its parent.
Internal nodes
Insertion on internal nodes is more complex than on external nodes. Say that the internal node is node A and that node B is the child of A. (If the insertion is to insert a right child, then B is the right child of A, and similarly with a left child insertion or mid child.) A assigns its child to the new node and the new node assigns its parent to A. Then the new node assigns its child to B and B assigns its parent as the new node.
Deletion
Deletion is the process whereby a node is removed from the tree. Only certain nodes in a ternary tree can be removed unambiguously.
Node with zero or one child
Say that the node to delete is node A. If a node has no children (exter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CELT | Constrained Energy Lapped Transform (CELT) is an open, royalty-free lossy audio compression format and a free software codec with especially low algorithmic delay for use in low-latency audio communication. The algorithms are openly documented and may be used free of software patent restrictions. Development of the format was maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation (as part of the Ogg codec family) and later coordinated by the Opus working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
CELT was meant to bridge the gap between Vorbis and Speex for applications where both high quality audio and low delay are desired. It is suitable for both speech and music. It borrows ideas from the CELP algorithm, but avoids some of its limitations by operating in the frequency domain exclusively.
The original stand-alone CELT has been merged into Opus.
Therefore, CELT as stand-alone format is now abandoned and obsolete. Development is going on only for its hybridised form as a layer of Opus, integrated with SILK.
This article covers the historic, stand-alone format; for the integrated form and its evolution since the integration into Opus see the article on Opus.
Properties
CELT's central feature is low algorithmic delay. It allows for latencies of typically 3 to 9 ms but is configurable to below 2 ms at the price of more bitrate to reach a similar audio quality. CELT supports mono and stereo audio and is applicable to both speech and music. It can use a sampling rate from 32 kHz to 48 kHz and above and an adaptive bitrate from 24 kbit/s to 128 kbit/s per channel and above.
There are no known intellectual property issues pertaining to the CELT algorithm, and its reference implementation is published under a permissive open-source license (the 2-clause BSD).
Like Vorbis, CELT is a fullband (entire human hearing range) general-purpose codec, i.e. not specialized for special types of audio signals and therefore different from its sibling project Speex. The format enables for transparent results at high bitrates, as well as very decent quality at lower bitrates. All in all, the compression capabilities are said to be significantly superior to those of MP3, and as another useful feature for realtime applications like telephony, CELT's audio quality at lower bitrates are even on par with HE-AACv1, thanks to the band folding. In comparative double-blind listening tests it proved to be noticeably superior to HE-AACv1 at ~64 kBit/s.
It has a comparably low computational complexity that resembles that of the low-delay variant of AAC (AAC-LD) and stays significantly below the complexity of Vorbis.
It enables for constant and variable bitrate. If the signal disappears into the noise floor in speech pauses and similar cases, the transmission can be limited to signal the output of comfort noise to the decoder. Most settings of the naturally streaming-enabled format can be changed on the fly without interrupting transmission.
The format is robust to transmission e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Moffitt | Jack Moffitt is an American computer scientist, software developer and entrepreneur, living in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Career
He is a co-author of the GNU GPL licensed streaming media server, Icecast, and works on software using XMPP, JavaScript and Erlang. His work with Erlang has made him a regular presenter at the Erlang Factory conference series.
In November 2008, Moffitt co-founded Collecta, a real-time search company which uses XMPP and includes the Strophe library, for communication between client and server. Collecta launched its public beta in June 2009. He served as CTO for Collecta until some time in late 2010 when he left the company to work on other projects. He also worked on iOS development as part of Lunchbox Labs (the company which produced the iOS word game SnackWords) according to information on his LinkedIn profile. In 2011, he was listed on the credits as one of the "Server Developers" for the iOS MMORPG ShadowCities produced by Grey Area Software.
In 2012, Moffitt joined TalkTo, an internet startup which allows users to send questions via an application or SMS and have agents at TalkTo answer their questions or conduct research for them. His role was as "Lead Architect" according to the ErlangFactory conference website for his 2012 talk there. TalkTo reportedly uses XMPP for some of its communication which may explain his involvement. On the TalkTo blog, a birthday message to Moffitt was displayed referencing him as a "team member" and included a happy birthday message which was in a XMPP code stanza. Former Chesspark and Collecta coworker, Nathan Zorn, who is also an active member of the open source community, appears in the image holding up the sign on the About page of the TalkTo website, indicating he is also a TalkTo employee, though whether he or Moffitt joined first is unknown.
In March 2013, Moffitt left TalkTo and joined Mozilla in the role of Senior Research Engineer to work on Servo. In 2015, he spoke at Linux Australia's linux.conf.au conference about the goals and challenges in the ongoing development of Servo in a talk called "Building a Parallel Browser". He later also worked as Project Manager for the Mozilla team working on the Daala video codec.
XMPP work and publications
Jack Moffitt was a member of the XMPP XSF 2005-2006 and 2008-2014 with his 2015 application pending. He has served on the board of the XMPP Standards Foundation, or XSF. He is the author of a 2009 book about how to write XMPP applications titled, "Professional XMPP with JavaScript and jQuery" ().
References
External links
Jack Moffitt Application 2012 - XMPP.org
Jack Moffitt Application 2015 - XMPP.org
"The Changelog #228: Servo and Rust with Jack Moffitt". 2016-11-18.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Facebook employees
Mozilla people
People from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inday | Inday may refer to:
Inday, a U.S. manufacturer of electronics whose owner named the company after his Filipino wife's nickname
Fasullo/Inday, a character in the GMA Network television series Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan
Inday Ba or N'Deaye Ba, (10 August 1972 – 20 April 2005), a Swedish-Senegalese film, stage, and television actress
Inday Badiday or Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal, (August 6, 1944 –September 26, 2003), a Filipino host and journalist
"Inday" Happylou Magtibay (played by Barbie Forteza), a main character in the 2018 GMA Network television series Inday Will Always Love You
Sara Duterte (born 1978), commonly known as Inday Sara, Filipino politician and 15th vice president of the Philippines
Typhoon Inday, the name of six typhoons in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean
Filipino feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20effect | The AI effect occurs when onlookers discount the behavior of an artificial intelligence program by arguing that it is not "real" intelligence.
Author Pamela McCorduck writes: "It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"
Definition
"The AI effect" is that line of thinking, the tendency to redefine AI to mean: "AI is anything that has not been done yet." This is the common public misperception, that as soon as AI successfully solves a problem, that solution method is no longer within the domain of AI. Geist credits John McCarthy giving this phenomenon its name, the "AI effect".
McCorduck calls it an "odd paradox" that "practical AI successes, computational programs that actually achieved intelligent behavior, were soon assimilated into whatever application domain they were found to be useful in, and became silent partners alongside other problem-solving approaches, which left AI researchers to deal only with the 'failures', the tough nuts that couldn't yet be cracked." It is an example of moving the goalposts.
Tesler's Theorem is:
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
Larry Tesler
Douglas Hofstadter quotes this as do many other commentators.
When problems have not yet been formalised, they can still be characterised by a model of computation that includes human computation. The computational burden of a problem is split between a computer and a human: one part is solved by computer and the other part solved by a human. This formalisation is referred to as a human-assisted Turing machine.
AI applications become mainstream
Software and algorithms developed by AI researchers are now integrated into many applications throughout the world, without really being called AI. This underappreciation is known from such diverse fields as computer chess, marketing, agricultural automation and hospitality.
Michael Swaine reports "AI advances are not trumpeted as artificial intelligence so much these days, but are often seen as advances in some other field". "AI has become more important as it has become less conspicuous", Patrick Winston says. "These days, it is hard to find a big system that does not work, in part, because of ideas developed or matured in the AI world."
According to Stottler Henke, "The great practical benefits of AI applications and even the existence of AI in many software products go largely unnoticed by many despite the already widespread use of AI techniques in software. This is the AI effect. Many marketing people don't use the term 'artificial intelligence' even when their company's products rely on some AI techniques. Why not?"
Marvin Minsky writes "This paradox resul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20RKO%20General | NHL on RKO General relates to a small, syndicated network of stations owned by RKO General which broadcast National Hockey League games.
Background
In the United States, the clinching game of the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals on the evening of Thursday, May 5 aired on RKO General's stations, such as WOR-TV in New York City and WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut. Bob Wolff, who at the time did play-by-play for New York Rangers games seen on WOR, called the game that night with Emile Francis.
Although the TV listings page of the May 5, 1966 edition of the Boston Globe indicated that RKO-owned WNAC-TV in Boston would not carry the game, the then-ABC-affiliated station did clear the broadcast at the last minute.
The following season, CBS won U.S. network television rights to weekend-afternoon regular-season games as well as weekend playoff games. Due to other programming commitments, the 1966-67 regular-season games were subleased to RKO General, which aired a series of Sunday afternoon broadcasts at 4 p.m. Eastern Time during the last eight weeks of the regular season, starting on February 12, 1967.
Some regular-season games were blacked out in the cities where they were played. For example, the March 26, 1967 game between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens in Boston was not televised on any station in the Boston area.
Schedule (1966–67 season)
Announcing crews and combinations
Jim Gordon/Lloyd Pettit
Win Elliott/Stu Nahan
Fred Cusick/Jim Gordon
Stu Nahan/Win Elliot
Fred Cusick/Win Elliot
Jim Gordon/Stu Nahan
History of NHL coverage on RKO stations
New York City: Independent station WOR-TV acquired local broadcast rights for the New York Rangers in 1965. The station, which was sold in 1987 and became WWOR-TV, lost the Rangers in 1989 when the team became cable-exclusive to the MSG Network. While WOR/WWOR broadcasts of Rangers' games were generally away games, mainly on Saturday nights, the station broadcast on November 27, 1965 the Rangers' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on a few hours' tape delay. WOR-TV claimed that this game was the first NHL contest to ever be broadcast in color. The game was also colorcast on the Blackhawks' station, WGN-TV in Chicago. From the team's founding in 1972 through 1985, the station also carried some away games of the New York Islanders.
Los Angeles: Independent KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV) was home to the Los Angeles Kings in the early 1980s and again during the mid-to-late 1990s, long after RKO divested itself of the station. The 1966-67 RKO games aired on KHJ-TV because Los Angeles had been one of six cities that were granted expansion teams that would begin play in the Fall of 1967 (although another local station, KTLA, began televising Kings' away games from Oakland during the 1967-68 season).
Hartford-New Haven, CT: From 1962 to 1969, independent WHCT (now WUVN) ran a subscription television service from 7 p.m. to midnight with scrambled first-run movies and sports events from Madison Square Garden.
Windsor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20Query%20Server | The Boeing Company's Spatial Query Server is a commercially available product which enables a Sybase database to contain spatial features.
Geometric types
Circle
Ellipse
Point - a point in 2D space. (x,y) plane.
Voxel - a point in 3D space. (x,y,z) volume.
Polygon
Polygon(n)
Polygon set
Gpolygon
Gpolygon(n)
Gpolygon_set
Line
Line(n)
Line_set
Rectangle
Rectangle_set
Llbox
Llbox_set
See also
Sybase Spatial Implementation
External links
Boeing SQS
Release Notes for Version 3.6
Product Brochure
Teradata Magazine Spatial Query Server (SQS) Article
Open Geospatial Consortium: Simple Feature Access - Part 1: Common Architecture
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersectarianism | Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing.
As an organizational type
The term, as coined by political scientist Patricia M. Thornton at the University of Oxford, describes "a unique hybrid form of politico-religious mobilization" adopted by a handful of syncretic qigong (气功) groups that emerged in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and were subjected to extreme repression following the crackdown against banned religious and spiritual organizations in 1999.
Cybersectarianism as an organizational form involves: "highly dispersed small groups of practitioners that may remain largely anonymous within the larger social context and operate in relative secrecy, while still linked remotely to a larger network of believers who share a set of practices and texts, and often a common devotion to a particular leader. Overseas supporters provide funding and support; domestic practitioners distribute tracts, participate in acts of resistance, and share information on the internal situation with outsiders. Collectively, members and practitioners of such sects construct viable virtual communities of faith, exchanging personal testimonies and engaging in collective study via email, on-line chat rooms and web-based message boards."
In China
Transnational Chinese cybersects include the group commonly known in the West as Falun Gong (法轮功), Zhong Gong (中华养生益智功), and the Taiwan-based group founded by Suma Ching Hai, commonly referred to in the PRC as Guanyin Famen (观音法门), but rendered in English by the Ching Hai World Society as Quan Yin. Some new transnational Protestant groups also subjected to persecution in the PRC, like Eastern Lightning, have likewise taken to the internet to ensure group survival, and taken on some of the characteristics of cybersects elsewhere. Like the New Cyberreligious Movements (NCRMs) described by Karaflogka, cybersect participants rely upon computer mediated communication (CMC) in their personal religious or spiritual practice, performing cyberpilgrimages, participating in cybermeditation sessions online, and/or cyberevangelism in third-party chatrooms.
Some cybersect members of groups, including Aum Shinrikyo and al Qaeda, engage in "repertoires of electronic contention," using websites and e-mail to mobilize participants for protest and contention, as well as hactivism (acts of electronic disruption) and even cyberterrorism (acts of physical harm caused by the disruption of power grids, traffic control, and other systems of resource delivery and public safety).
Among Muslims
More recently, Sunni- and Shia- affiliated hackers have attacked and counter-attacked hundreds of websites in a vast struggle over cyberspace that has been characterized as an outbreak of cybersectarianism. Alaeldin Maghaireh describes two principal types of cyber-sectarian conflict in Muslim cyberspace: " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20moths%20of%20Great%20Britain%20%28Lymantriidae%29 | The family Lymantriidae contains the "tussock moths", of which 11 have been recorded in Great Britain:
Laelia coenosa, reed tussock — extinct
Orgyia recens, scarce vapourer — east-central (Red Data Book) ‡
Orgyia antiqua, vapourer — throughout
Dicallomera fascelina, dark tussock — south, west-central & north-east (localized)
Calliteara pudibunda, pale tussock — south & central
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, brown-tail — south, south-east & east-central (localized)
Euproctis similis, yellow-tail — south, central & north
Leucoma salicis, white satin — south, east-central, west-central & north (localized)
Arctornis l-nigrum, black v moth — immigrant & transitory resident
Lymantria monacha, black arches — south & central (localized)
Lymantria dispar, spongy moth — immigrant (formerly resident)
Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) are indicated by a double-dagger symbol (‡)—species so listed for research purposes only are also indicated with an asterisk (‡*).
See also
List of moths of Great Britain (overview)
Family lists: Hepialidae, Cossidae, Zygaenidae, Limacodidae, Sesiidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Endromidae, Drepanidae, Thyatiridae, Geometridae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Thaumetopoeidae, Lymantriidae, Arctiidae, Ctenuchidae, Nolidae, Noctuidae and Micromoths
References
Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK. .
Moths
Great Britain (Lymantriidae)
Great Britain (Lymantriidae) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytech%20Group%20%28France%29 | The Polytech Group (Réseau des écoles Polytech, or Écoles polytechniques, in French) is a French network of 15 public graduate schools of engineering (Grandes Écoles) within France's leading technological universities:
15 schools + 4 partner schools
over 100 engineering majors
17,500 students
3800 graduates p.a.
1350 doctoral students
All the schools in the group offer are accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) to award the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur in various specialties. In France, engineering studies are organized according to framework of the European Higher Education Area; the French engineering degree is a master's degree obtained after validation of 300 ECTS credits.
List of schools and engineering majors
Polytech Angers
Polytech Annecy-Chambery
Polytech Clermont-Ferrand
Biology
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mathematics and Mathematical modelling
Physics
Polytech Grenoble
Computer Science, Network and Multimedia Communication
Electronics
Geotechnics and Civil Engineering
Materials Science
Risks Prevention Science
Health Technology Information
Polytech Lille
Mechanical Engineering
Software Engineering and Statistics
Geotechnics and Civil Engineering
Geomatics and Urban Engineering
Biological and Food Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Measurement Systems and Applied Business
Materials Science
Production System - Operations Engineering
Polytech Lyon
Computer Science Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Applied Mathematics and Modeling
Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Industrial systems and Robotics (Roanne)
Polytech Marseille
Polytech Montpellier
Computer Science and Management
Materials Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Water Science and Engineering
Energetic - Renewables Energies
Food Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Interaction
Energectics and Renewable Energies
Polytech Nancy
Polytech Nantes
Masters of engineering science
Electronics and digital technologies (Nantes)
Electrical engineering (Saint-Nazaire)
Civil Engineering (Saint-Nazaire)
Process and Bioprocess engineering (Saint-Nazaire)
Engineering Computer Science (Nantes)
Materials Science (Nantes)
Thermal science (Nantes)
Energy and Mechanics (Saint-Nazaire)
Information systems, networks and telecommunications (La Roche-sur-Yon)
Masters of engineering science
Computer sciences (data science, visual computing)
Automatics, electronics, electrical energy (electrical, wireless,embedded technologies)
Mechanics (thermal science, energy)
Process and bioprocess engineering ( Microalgae Bioprocess Engineering)
Polytech Nice Sophia
Electronics
Computer Science
Bioteechnology
Applied Mathematics and Mathematical modelling
Polytech Orléans
Mechanical Engineering
Electronics and Optics
Civil Engineering
Production
Building Intelligence
Polytech Paris Saclay
Electronics and Board Systems
Computer Sciences
Optronics
Materials Science
Polytech Sorbonne (formerly Polytech Pari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Store%20%28retail%29 | Microsoft Store was a chain of retail stores and is an online shopping site, owned and operated by Microsoft and dealing in computers, computer software, and consumer electronics.
The Microsoft Store offered Signature PCs and tablets like the Microsoft Surface, and offerings from third parties such as Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and VAIO without demos nor trialware (pre-installed free trials of certain third-party software that expire after a limited time). It also offered Windows (most retail versions), Microsoft Office, and Xbox One game consoles, games, and services including on-site Xbox diagnostics. The Answers Desk helped to answer questions related to Office, Windows, and other Microsoft products; the stores also offered class sessions as well as individual appointments.
The first two Microsoft Stores opened within a week of the Windows 7 launch, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mission Viejo, California. Additional stores opened in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. At the 2011 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that they intended to open 75 new stores in the next three years.
The first store outside the U.S. (and the first of eight stores in Canada) opened in Toronto on November 16, 2012, while the first store outside North America (and first store in Asia-Pacific and second flagship store) opened in Sydney, Australia, on November 12, 2015. In September 2017, the company announced a store on Regent Street in London, England.
On June 26, 2020, Microsoft announced that it would close all of its physical stores once COVID-19 pandemic restrictions are lifted, and transition to a digital-only model. Four stores in New York City, Sydney, London, and Redmond would be renovated into "experience centers".
History
Microsoft's first retail store was located in the Metreon in San Francisco. It was owned and operated by Sony Retail Entertainment and ran from 1999 to 2001.
In 2009, Microsoft built a "Retail Experience Center" in their Redmond, Washington, headquarters and announced plans to build its own retail stores. On October 22, 2009, the same day as the Windows 7 launch, Microsoft opened a retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona. A week later, another opened in Mission Viejo, California. Five additional stores were opened in 2010. A ninth store opened in Atlanta in May 2011, with two more openings planned in Houston and Los Angeles by the end of June.
The majority of Microsoft Stores were closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 26, 2020, Microsoft announced that it would permanently close all of its physical retail stores in favor of a digital marketplace. Four stores would be renovated into "experience centers": New York City, Sydney, London, and Redmond.
Shopping experience
The Microsoft Store was similar to the popular Apple Store concept, which has been largely successful.
The concept aims to give a greater level of customer satisfaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Thessaloniki | Wireless Thessaloniki is an experimental wireless community network growing in the air of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is one of the first wireless networks deployed in the city.
It was founded by Konstantinos Natsakis and Athanasios Kanaris on November, 2002. The primary goals of this project was twofold:
Development of a floppy linux distribution that would provide encryption better than WEP
Construction of low-cost antennas and routers based on old PCs, placed in water resist boxes in order to be placed on rooftops
The linux floppy distribution formed, named Paladir, was named after the palantíri in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as it provided insight to other wireless routers running Paladir.
The first wireless link, connecting two points with distance of 4.5 km, was achieved on March 1, 2003, in 11 Mbit/s.
Since then, the wthess network counts more than 20 nodes sparged on rooftops of the city. It is connected with TWMN and SWN to provide connectivity with other community networks, and it is also connected through wired network with AWMN and other
wireless communities in Greece.
See also
Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Heraklion Student Wireless Network
Patras Wireless Network
Thessaloniki Wireless Metropolitan Network
External links
Wireless Thessaloniki Network website (mostly in Greek)
Wireless community networks
Thessaloniki society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20automaton | In computer science, Constraint automata are a formalism to describe the behavior and possible data flow in coordination models. It was introduced by Arbab et al. as a variation of finite automata for model checking Reo connector circuits.
Constraint automata can be considered generalizations of probabilistic automata, in which data constraints, instead of probabilities, label state transitions and influence their firing.
See also
Model checking
Finite automata
Probabilistic automaton
Colored Petri net
References
Automata (computation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20Limit%20Technologies | Next Limit Technologies is a computer software company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1998 by engineers Victor Gonzalez and Ignacio Vargas the firm develops technologies in the field of digital simulation and visualization. In December 2016, the XFlow division was acquired by Dassault Systèmes.
Products
RealFlow — a dynamics and fluid simulator for film production. RealFlow has been used in the production of films such as: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;
Maxwell Render — a physically correct light simulator and render engine;
XFlow — an engineering software for Computational fluid dynamics;
CaronteFX — an integrated physically-based animation editor extension tool for the Unity game engine.
Research and development
Next Limit has actively participated in various research projects throughout Europe as well as Spain. It is currently the leader of the European project, SAFECITI (Safe Citizen), which aims to create a simulation system for analysts that would predict the behavior of large crowds in urban environments in moments of panic, violence, or catastrophes. The system is based on serious game technology and is designed as a training platform. Other European projects that Next Limit has actively participated in are: PRISM, Skycoat and COELUX. COELUX is responsible for the production of a window with an optics system based on nanotechnology that can reproduce natural light and the appearance of solar and sky light. This technology is implemented in closed spaces that lack an exterior facing window.
In Spain, Next Limit has participated in biotechnology research to simulate the heart as a complex fluid structural system.
Awards
This was the second Technical Merit Oscar awarded to a Spanish person. The previous Oscar awarded to a Spanish person was Juan de la Cierva y Hoces in 1969 for his creation of the optic stabilizer Dynalens, an apparatus used to eliminate camera vibrations.
See also
Computational fluid dynamics
Particle system
Computer simulation
Lattice Boltzmann methods
3D computer graphics
Ray tracing
References
External links
Official site
Computer physics engines
Virtual reality companies
Organisations based in Spain |
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