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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93viewmodel | Model–view–viewmodel (MVVM) is an architectural pattern in computer software that facilitates the separation of the development of the graphical user interface (GUI; the view)—be it via a markup language or GUI code—from the development of the business logic or back-end logic (the model) such that the view is not dependent upon any specific model platform.
The viewmodel of MVVM is a value converter, meaning it is responsible for exposing (converting) the data objects from the model in such a way they can be easily managed and presented. In this respect, the viewmodel is more model than view, and handles most (if not all) of the view's display logic. The viewmodel may implement a mediator pattern, organizing access to the back-end logic around the set of use cases supported by the view.
MVVM is a variation of Martin Fowler's Presentation Model design pattern. It was invented by Microsoft architects Ken Cooper and Ted Peters specifically to simplify event-driven programming of user interfaces. The pattern was incorporated into the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (Microsoft's .NET graphics system) and Silverlight, WPF's Internet application derivative. John Gossman, a Microsoft WPF and Silverlight architect, announced MVVM on his blog in 2005.
Model–view–viewmodel is also referred to as model–view–binder, especially in implementations not involving the .NET platform. ZK, a web application framework written in Java, and the JavaScript library KnockoutJS use model–view–binder.
Components of MVVM pattern
Model
Model refers either to a domain model, which represents real state content (an object-oriented approach), or to the data access layer, which represents content (a data-centric approach).
View
As in the model–view–controller (MVC) and model–view–presenter (MVP) patterns, the view is the structure, layout, and appearance of what a user sees on the screen. It displays a representation of the model and receives the user's interaction with the view (mouse clicks, keyboard input, screen tap gestures, etc.), and it forwards the handling of these to the view model via the data binding (properties, event callbacks, etc.) that is defined to link the view and view model.
View model
The view model is an abstraction of the view exposing public properties and commands. Instead of the controller of the MVC pattern, or the presenter of the MVP pattern, MVVM has a binder, which automates communication between the view and its bound properties in the view model. The view model has been described as a state of the data in the model.
The main difference between the view model and the Presenter in the MVP pattern is that the presenter has a reference to a view, whereas the view model does not. Instead, a view directly binds to properties on the view model to send and receive updates. To function efficiently, this requires a binding technology or generating boilerplate code to do the binding.
Binder
Declarative data and command-binding are implicit in the MV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Ruggles | Steven Ruggles (born May 8, 1955) is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. He is best known as the creator of IPUMS, the world's largest population database. IPUMS provides information about two billion people residing in 107 countries between 1703 and the present, including every respondent to the surviving U.S. censuses of 1790 to 1940. He served as founding director of the Minnesota Population Center from 2000 to 2016. He served as the 2015 President of the Population Association of America, the first historian to hold the position. He also served as
President of the Association of Population Centers (2017–2018) and President of the Social Science History Association (2018–2019). He has been active on many national advisory and study committees, including the Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee; the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee; the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for CyberInfrastructure; and the National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information.
Ruggles received a Ph.D. in historical demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has published extensively on historical demography, focusing especially on long-run changes in multi-generational families, single parenthood, divorce, and marriage, and on data and methods for population history. His study of the effects of demographic change on family structure won the William J. Goode Book Award from the American Sociological Association and the Allen Sharlen Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Ruggles's work on migration censoring in family reconstitution stimulated a debate about biases introduced by the "Ruggles Effect."
In 2003, Ruggles received the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America in recognition of lifetime contributions that blend research with the application of demographic knowledge to policy issues, and in 2009 he received the Warren E. Miller Award from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research for meritorious service to the social sciences. In 1995, Ruggles was described as the "King of Quant" by Wired Magazine, and in 2014, he was named “Wonkblog-Certified Data Wizard” by the Washington Post Wonkblog, which noted that losing to Steven Ruggles in Name That Data is kind of like losing to Adele on American Idol. In 2022 Ruggles was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant.
In 1994, Ruggles married Lisa Norling, another historian. They have two daughters.
Selected publications
Ruggles, Steven and Diana L. Magnuson. Census Technology, Politics, and Institutional Change, 1790–2020. Journal of American History vol. 107 (2020), pp. 19-51
Ruggles, Steven. Historical Census Record Linkage. Annual Review of Sociology vol. 44 (2018), pp. 19–37
Ruggles, Steven. Patriarchy, Power, and Pay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerbergbus | The Zimmerbergbus is a bus network in the Horgen District in Switzerland, operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU) and its local partner firms: AHW Busbetriebe AG in Horgen, Busbetriebe Bamert GmbH in Wollerau, Leuthold Transfer AG in Horgen, and PostAuto Schweiz AG Region Zürich. The network is named after the Zimmerberg.
Network
The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG provides within Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) a network of including 201 stops. The network connects the Zimmerberg region and parts of the Sihl Valley which includes the municipalities Adliswil, Hirzel, Horgen, Hütten, Langnau am Albis, Oberrieden, Richterswil-Samstagern, Schönenberg, Thalwil and Wädenswil. Bus connections within the municipalities Kilchberg and Rüschlikon are provided by the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ).
Fleet
As of January 2014 the fleet consisted of 40+ vehicles
Notes
External links
Zimmerbergbus
Bus companies of Switzerland
Public transport in Switzerland
Transport companies of Switzerland
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-number%20search | Proof-number search (short: PN search) is a game tree search algorithm invented by Victor Allis, with applications mostly in endgame solvers, but also for sub-goals during games.
Using a binary goal (e.g. first player wins the game), game trees of two-person perfect-information games can be mapped to an and–or tree. Maximizing nodes become OR-nodes, minimizing nodes are mapped to AND-nodes. For all nodes proof and disproof numbers are stored, and updated during the search.
To each node of the partially expanded game tree the proof number and
disproof number are associated. A proof number represents the minimum number of leaf
nodes which have to be proved in order to prove the node. Analogously, a disproof
number represents the minimum number of leaves which have to be disproved
in order to disprove the node. Because the goal of the tree is to prove a forced
win, winning nodes are regarded as proved. Therefore, they have proof number
0 and disproof number ∞. Lost or drawn nodes are regarded as
disproved. They have proof number ∞ and disproof number
0. Unknown leaf nodes have a proof and disproof number of unity.
The proof number of an internal AND node is equal to the sum of
its children's proof numbers, since to prove an AND node all the children have
to be proved. The disproof number of an AND node is equal to the minimum of
its children's disproof numbers. The disproof number of an internal OR node is
equal to the sum of its children's disproof numbers, since to disprove an OR node
all the children have to be disproved. Its proof number is equal to the minimum
of its children's proof numbers.
The procedure of selecting the most-proving node
to expand is the following. We start at the root. Then, at each OR node the child
with the lowest proof number is selected as successor, and at each AND node the
child with the lowest disproof number is selected as successor. Finally, when a
leaf node is reached, it is expanded and its children are evaluated.
The proof and disproof numbers represent lower bounds on the number of nodes to be evaluated to prove (or disprove) certain nodes. By always selecting the most proving (disproving) node to expand, an efficient search is generated.
Some variants of proof number search like dfPN, PN2, PDS-PN have been developed to address the quite big memory
requirements of the algorithm.
References
Further reading
A. Kishimoto, M.H.M. Winands, M. Müller, and J-T. Saito (2012) Game-tree search using proof numbers: The first twenty years, ICGA, 35(3):131–156, pdf
Game artificial intelligence
Graph algorithms
Search algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Van%20Vleck | Tom Van Vleck is an American computer software engineer.
Life and work
Van Vleck graduated from MIT in 1965 with a BS in Mathematics. He worked on CTSS at MIT, and co-authored its first email program with Noel Morris. In 1965, he joined Project MAC, the predecessor of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He worked on the development of Multics for more than 16 years at MIT and at Honeywell Information Systems. He has also worked at Tandem Computers, Taligent, CyberCash, Sun Microsystems, Encirq (an internet advertising company), and SPARTA (a computer security company).
He is also known as a computer security expert.
Notes
Bibliography
Operational changes for MR 4.0, T. H. Van Vleck, MULTICS OPERATING STAFF NOTE MOSN-A001, Honeywell, April 23, 1976
The Multics System Programming Process, Van Vleck, T. H. and Clingen, C. T.; Invited Paper, ICSE 1978, pp. 278–280
Getting the picture; it can be done, IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 112, May 1994
SPMA - Java Binary Enhancement Tool, DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition - Volume II, pp. 152, April 2003; (DOI)
Self-Protecting Mobile Agents Obfuscation Report, L. D'Anna, B. Matt, A. Reisse, T. Van Vleck, S. Schwab, and P. LeBlanc, Report #03-015, Network Associates Laboratories, June 2003.
Anti-Phishing: Best Practices for Institutions and Consumers; Tally, Gregg; Thomas, Roshan; Van Vleck, Tom; McAfee Research, Technical Report # 04-004
Three Questions about Each Bug You Find, Software Engineering Notes 14:5:62-63 (July 1989)
Cleaning Up the Basement in the Dark, Software Engineering Notes, (April 1992)
--, ed., with David Walden, The Compatible Time Sharing System (1961-1973) Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Overview, (also at Multicians.org) IEEE Computer Society, 2011
The IBM 7094 and CTSS
The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS
The IBM 7070
1401s I have Known
References
The Multics web site, Mirror of multicians.org
Tom Van Vleck's home page
Tom Van Vleck, "THVV Multics Bio", Multicians.org, most recent update 11/29/02
Jeffrey R. Yost, "An Interview with Thomas Van Vleck", 24 October 2012, Computer Security History Project, Charles Babbage Institute
Computer systems engineers
American software engineers
Software engineering researchers
Computer security academics
American computer programmers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Multics people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CppCMS | CppCMS is an open-source web application framework for the C++ programming language developed by Artyom Beilis. The primary goal of CppCMS is building performance-demanding web applications. It may also be used for embedded web applications for consumer devices (such as administration consoles for routers, or smart devices). The library is available under MIT license. It currently targets POSIX-compatible platforms as well as Microsoft Windows.
Despite what the name suggests, it is not a content management system.
Major features
A variety of web server APIs – FastCGI, SCGI, HTTP
Support of various concurrency models: cooperative (single thread), thread pool, prefork
Separation of content and layout with a powerful template engine
Inheritance of web templates
Cache framework with trigger-based and timeout-based invalidation
Support of Ajax and Comet programming
Form processing and validation
Session state management via different backends: encrypted cookies, files, cache, database and distributed solutions.
Internationalization and localization, including support of right-to-left languages. CppCMS contributed its localization module to the Boost project.
See also
Comparison of web frameworks
Poco
Wt
References
External links
The CppCMS Project home page (blog with updates)
Free software programmed in C++
Software using the MIT license
Web frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Barnett | Melanie Barnett-Davis is a fictional character, portrayed by actress Tia Mowry, who appears in the American sitcom The Game, which aired on the CW Television Network and BET from 2006 to 2015. Introduced in a backdoor pilot on the sitcom Girlfriends as Joan Clayton's cousin, Melanie chooses to support her boyfriend Derwin Davis' career with the San Diego Sabres, a fictional National Football League (NFL) team, rather than attend medical school at Johns Hopkins University. The series focuses primarily on Melanie and Derwin's complicated relationship, with her fears of his infidelity at the center of many of the episodes' storylines. Mowry left the series in 2012 upon learning that her role would be reduced as a result of co-star Pooch Hall's decision to reduce his role on The Game to appear in the crime drama series Ray Donovan. Both actors reprised their roles in the series finale, in which Melanie gives birth to twins.
Melanie was created by producer Mara Brock Akil. While casting the character, Brock Akil had doubts about whether Mowry would be the best choice, given her wholesome image from starring as Tia Landry on the sitcom Sister, Sister, but hired the actress based on her strong work ethic and her desire to be part of the series. Mowry considered the character to be her first adult role and felt it emphasized her individuality and maturity. She identified closely with the part, observing parallels between Melanie's relationship with Derwin and her own marriage to actor Cory Hardrict. She cited The Game as an example of women receiving more lead roles on television.
Reaction to Melanie was primarily negative; critics expressed disapproval of her decision to support her boyfriend instead of enrolling in medical school. Media commentators also panned the character's representation as a mother, such as her inability to properly care for her stepson. On the other hand, fans responded positively to Melanie and felt drawn to her relationship with Derwin. Mowry's performance received positive feedback from critics, who agreed that the role displayed her maturity as an actress. She received nominations for two NAACP Image Awards and a Teen Choice Award for the role.
Role
The Game, which aired on The CW Television Network and BET, explores the lives of a group of women romantically involved with professional football players. Introduced as the cousin of Joan Clayton in a backdoor pilot on Girlfriends, Melanie Barnett aspires to be a doctor and is admitted to the medical school at Johns Hopkins University. Against Joan's objections, Melanie decides against attending Johns Hopkins in favor of moving to San Diego to support her boyfriend Derwin Davis' career with the San Diego Sabers, a fictional National Football League (NFL) team. Melanie enrolls at a local college and becomes a close friend of Tasha Mack, a single mother and manager of quarterback Malik Wright, and Kelly Pitts, the trophy wife of the team's captain, Jason Pitts. She struggles t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping%20and%20Range%20of%20Ions%20in%20Matter | Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter (SRIM) is a group of computer programs which calculate interactions between ions and matter; the core of SRIM is a program called Transport of Ions in Matter (TRIM). SRIM is popular in the ion implantation research and technology community, and also used widely in other branches of radiation material science.
History
SRIM originated in 1980 as a DOS based program then called TRIM. The DOS version was upgraded until 1998 and is still available for download. It will run on a Unix PC having a DOS emulator. SRIM-2000 requires a computer with any Windows operating system. The program may work with Unix or Macintosh based systems through Wine.
The programs were developed by James F. Ziegler and Jochen P. Biersack around 1983 and are being continuously upgraded with the major changes occurring approximately every five years. SRIM is based on a Monte Carlo simulation method, namely the
binary collision approximation with a random selection of the impact parameter of the next colliding ion.
Operation
As the input parameters, it needs the ion type and energy (in the range 10 eV – 2 GeV) and the material of one or several target layers. As the output, it lists or plots the three-dimensional distribution of the ions in the solid and its parameters, such as penetration depth, its spread along the ion beam (called straggle) and perpendicular to it, all target atom cascades in the target are followed in detail; concentration of vacancies, sputtering rate, ionization, and phonon production in the target material; energy partitioning between the nuclear and electron losses, energy deposition rate;
The programs are made so they can be interrupted at any time, and then resumed later.
They have an easy-to-use user interface and built-in default parameters for all ions and materials.
Another part of the software allows calculating the electronic stopping power of any ion in any material (including gaseous
targets) based on an averaging parametrization of a vast range of experimental data.
Those features made SRIM immensely popular. However, it doesn't take account of the crystal structure nor dynamic composition changes in the material that severely limits its usefulness in some cases.
Other approximations of the program include binary collision (i.e. the influence of neighboring atoms is neglected); the material is fully amorphous, i.e. description of ion channeling effects is not possible, recombination of knocked off atoms (interstitials) with the vacancies, an effect known to be very important in heat spikes in metals, is neglected;
There is no description of defect clustering and irradiation-induced amorphization, even though the former occurs in most materials and the latter is very important in semiconductors.
The electronic stopping power is an averaging fit to a large number of experiments. and the interatomic potential as a universal form which is an averaging fit to quantum mechanical calculations, the target |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevos%20Ministerios%20%28Madrid%20Metro%29 | Nuevos Ministerios is a major multimodal rail station on the Madrid Metro and the Cercanías Madrid commuter rail network. It is located beneath the Nuevos Ministerios (New Ministries) government complex and the AZCA financial centre at the junction of the Paseo de la Castellana and Joaquín Costa and Raimundo Fernández Villaverde streets in Madrid, Spain. It services the districts of Tetuán, Chamberí, and Chamartín. The station serves Metro Line 6, Line 8, and Line 10, as well as Cercanías Lines C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, C-7, C-8, and C-10. It is located in Metro fare zone A and Cercanías fare zone 0.
History
The railway station currently used by Cercanías Madrid was inaugurated on 18 July 1967 as part of the original Atocha–Chamartín Rail Tunnel. The tunnel connected the long-distance rail stations of Chamartín and Atocha, and was popularly called the Túnel de la risa (Laughing Tunnel) due to its perceived similarity to an amusement park attraction.
The Metro station opened twelve years later on 10 October 1979 when the first segment of Line 6 was inaugurated, running from Cuatro Caminos to Pacífico and including a stop at Nuevos Ministerios. The Metro and Cercanías stations are connected underground with hallways.
On 10 June 1982, a second set of platforms was added to the Metro station when the first segment of the old Line 8 was inaugurated, running from Fuencarral to Nuevos Ministerios. In 1986, the old Line 8 was extended from Nuevos Ministerios to Avenida de América. However, in 1996, work began on a project to connect Line 10 and Line 8, absorbing Line 8 into Line 10, and Line 8 service between Nuevos Ministerios and Avenida de América was suspended. On 22 January 1998, the new combined Line 10 was opened, connecting the station to Fuencarral in the north and Aluche in the south.
In 2001, the Line 10 platforms were closed while Line 10 was converted from narrow-profile to wide-profile trains. Also in 2001, work began on a project to extend the current Line 8 to Nuevos Ministerios, providing more direct access from downtown Madrid to the Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, which is located on Line 8. The Line 8 platforms were inaugurated in 2002. Between 2002 and 2006, the station featured a service allowing passengers to check in for selected flights at Nuevos Ministerios and then board a train to the airport. The service was ultimately abandoned for security reasons.
On 9 July 2008, a second tunnel was added to the Atocha–Chamartín Rail Tunnel, increasing the number of Cercanías platforms to six. As of 2011, the station offers service on the Cercanías C-1 Line to Aeropuerto T4, meaning there are two direct rail services between Nuevos Ministerios and Barajas Airport. The Cercanías station currently serves Lines C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, C-7, C-8, and C-10.
The vestibule between Metro Line 8 and 10 and the Cercanías station is large enough that it is occasionally used for events and shows.
References
External links
Cercanías Madrid statio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20removal%20tool | Metadata removal tool or metadata scrubber is a type of privacy software built to protect the privacy of its users by removing potentially privacy-compromising metadata from files before they are shared with others, e.g., by sending them as e-mail attachments or by posting them on the Web.
Overview
Metadata can be found in many types of files such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, and audio files. They can include information such as details on the file authors, file creation and modification dates, geographical location, document revision history, thumbnail images, and comments. Metadata may be added to files by users, but some metadata is often automatically added to files by authoring applications or by devices used to produce the files, without user intervention.
Since metadata is sometimes not clearly visible in authoring applications (depending on the application and its settings), there is a risk that the user will be unaware of its existence or will forget about it and, if the file is shared, private or confidential information will inadvertently be exposed. The purpose of metadata removal tools is to minimize the risk of such data leakage.
The metadata removal tools that exist today can be divided into four groups:
Integral metadata removal tools, which are included in some applications, like the Document Inspector in Microsoft Office.
Batch metadata removal tools, which can process multiple files.
E-mail client add-ins, which are designed to remove metadata from e-mail attachments just before they are sent.
Server based systems, which are designed to automatically remove metadata at the network gateway.
To securely delete the metadata of a PDF file, it is important to linearize the PDF file afterwards, otherwise changes are reversible and the metadata can be recovered.
Metadata removal tools are also commonly used to reduce the overall sizes of files, particularly image files posted on the Web. For example, a small image on a website, which may contain metadata including a thumbnail image, can easily contain as much metadata as image data, thus removal of that metadata can halve the file size.
See also
Data loss prevention software
Exif
Sanitization (classified information)
References
External links
Hidden Data & Metadata Frequently Asked Questions
Metadata
Privacy software
Legal software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20Technology | Server Technology, Inc. offers power distribution products for data centers, telecommunication equipment and remote administration. The company is headquartered in Reno, Nevada with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong and India.
History
Server Technology was founded in 1984, and by 1987 had grown large enough to acquire CrossPoint Systems, a manufacturer of PC data switches. In 1990, Server Technology introduced its first power and network control products.
Server Technology currently has 170+ employees with 16 offices worldwide.
In 2017 Legrand acquired Server Technology.
Patents
Server Technology claims to have the largest patent library regarding power provision in zero-U and horizontal power distribution unit (PDU) configurations compatible with today's racks and dense computing infrastructure requirements. The company has been granted at least 48 patents and has at least 54 pending.
In June 2014, a Reno, Nevada jury awarded Server Technology, Inc. damages totaling $10,787,634 in an action for patent infringement brought against American Power Conversion Corporation (“APC”), a subsidiary of Schneider Electric SA (Euronext: SU). The Server Technology patents in suit are US Patent No. 7,043,543 (Vertical‐Mount Electrical Power Distribution Plugstrip) issued May 9, 2006, and US Patent No. 7,702,771 (Electrical Power Distribution Device Having A Current Display) issued April 20, 2010.
This finding was overturned in the US Federal Court of Appeals in September 2016.
The complaint was filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of Nevada in December 2006. In February 2007, APC was acquired by Schneider Electric SA (Euronext: SU) headquartered in Rueil‐Malmaison, France. The jury found APC's AP7900 series and AP8900 series vertical, switched Power Distribution Units infringed both of the Server Technology patents.
On September 23, 2016, The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the June 2014 Award and found that APC/Schneider Electric did not infringe upon the Server Technology patents.
References
Networking hardware companies
Electronics companies established in 1984
Electronics companies of the United States
Computer companies of the United States
Computer hardware companies
Companies based in Reno, Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transurban%20S.A. | Transurban S.A. is the local public transport company of Satu Mare, Romania. The company runs an extensive public transport network serving mainly the city but also two other communes Doba and Vetiș and the Sătmărel district. The company operates a fleet of 46 buses on 16 urban and 2 suburban lines. The bus fleet includes a number of 15 Irisbus Citelis manufactured by the French company Irisbus at its local production site located in Arad.
References
External links
Official site
Satu Mare
Transport in Satu Mare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-decision%20decoder | In information theory, a soft-decision decoder is a kind of decoding methods – a class of algorithm used to decode data that has been encoded with an error correcting code. Whereas a hard-decision decoder operates on data that take on a fixed set of possible values (typically 0 or 1 in a binary code), the inputs to a soft-decision decoder may take on a whole range of values in-between. This extra information indicates the reliability of each input data point, and is used to form better estimates of the original data. Therefore, a soft-decision decoder will typically perform better in the presence of corrupted data than its hard-decision counterpart.
Soft-decision decoders are often used in Viterbi decoders and turbo code decoders.
References
See also
Forward error correction
Soft-in soft-out decoder
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbala | Kabbala may refer to:
Kabbalah, a religious philosophical system claiming an insight into divine nature
Sefer ha-Qabbalah, a chronicle of the Jewish people by Abraham ibn Daud
Kabbala Denudata, a book from Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636–1689), a Christian Hebraist
Kabbala, Chitradurga, a village in Karnataka, India
See also
Cabala (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gates%20Computer%20Science%20Building | William Gates Computer Science Building may refer to:
William Gates Computer Science Building (Stanford)
William Gates Computer Science Building (Cambridge)
See also
William Gates Building (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisham%20Zreiq | Hisham Zreiq (, ; born 9 February 1968 in Nazareth), also spelled Zrake, is a Palestinian Christian-Israeli Independent filmmaker, poet, animator and visual artist. He began working in computer art in 1994, and in 1996 started exhibiting his work in galleries and museums.
In 2007 he filmed his first documentary, The Sons of Eilaboun, and in 2008 he created the short film Just Another Day, dealing with the life of Arabs living in western world after September 11 terror attacks. He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day, and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel. In 2018 Zreiq contributed to the book An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba by writing a chapter based on the interviews from his documentary The Sons of Eilaboun. In 2023 he started a music project called 'Goddess Asherah'
Early life
Zreiq was born and raised in Nazareth, the son of Lydia Zreiq (née Dubayah), an elementary school teacher, and Salem Zreiq, a history high school teacher; both were Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christians. He has two sisters and two brothers. Zreiq is married and has one son.
Zreiq studied computer science and mathematics, and works as a software architect. In March 2001 he moved to Germany, where he lives and works.
Film career
In 2006 Hisham Zreiq started producing/directing films starting with the documentary ‘The Sons of Eilaboun’, that won Al-Awda Award in Palestine, followed by the short fiction film ‘Just another day’ (2009), a film that deals with the Arabs in the western world after September 11 attacks. In 2010/2011 he produced the short fiction ‘Before you is the Sea’, a film about the Middle East peace process in a form of a love story between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man. In 2021 Zreiq finished a short animated film ‘Don't Cry’ that was selected for the Al Ard Film Festival the 18th-edition.
Filmography
The Sons of Eilaboun (2007, Documentary film)
Just Another Day (2008 film)
Before you is the sea (2011, Short film)
Don't Cry (Animated Short Film) (2022, Short animated film)
Awards and honors
In 2004 Hisham Zreiq was one of the winners of the award "Kunst- und Förderpreis Sparkasse Bayreuth", and his work was exhibited at Kunst & Museum Hollfeld.
After the premiere screening of his first film "The Sons of Eilaboun" in Nazareth, Hisham Zreiq was honored by Ramiz Jaraisy, the mayor of Nazareth, and by Dr. Hana Sweid, an Israeli Arab politician and member of Knesset from Eilaboun. Ramiz Jaraisy described the film as an important work which tells the Palestinian story in a contrast with the dominant Israeli version. His film won the Al-Awda award in Palestine 2008, and in April 2012 Hisham Zreiq was chosen to be the artist of the month in the magazine This Week in Palestine.
Some of Zreiq's works were featured in the book ArtWanted.com Creative Minds
His animated short film Don't Cry won over 20 awards
Awards
Kunst- und Förderpreis Sparkasse Bayreuth (2004), Hollfeld, Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Top%20Model%20%28season%2013%29 | The thirteenth cycle of America's Next Top Model premiered on September 9, 2009 and was the seventh season to be aired on The CW network. The cycle's catch phrase is "'The Lineup Is 5' 7" And Under. Not The Usual Suspects. BOOK 'EM!", and the promotional song was "Good Girls Go Bad" by Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester. The ending/elimination song, entitled "Top Model", is sung by Marvin Fequiere, husband of cycle 10 contestant Stacy-Ann Fequiere.
The prizes for this cycle are:
A modeling contract with Wilhelmina Models, replacing Elite Model Management
A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen
A 100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics
The destination for this cycle was Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, making this the first cycle to be filmed entirely in the United States.
The winner was Nicole Fox from Louisville, Colorado making her the youngest winner at the age of 18. Laura Kirkpatrick placed as the runner up.
Season summary
This cycle featured one major change to the judging panel: judge Paulina Porizkova left the show after the previous season, marking the first change to the judging panel since Cycle 10. With her departure, only three permanent judges remained, a first for the series.
This cycle also moved back to Los Angeles, after being filmed in New York City for cycle 12. The cast size was once again increased to 14 contestants. All of the contestants for this season were of height 5'7" or shorter.
Contestants
(Ages stated are at start of contest)
Episodes
Summaries
Call-out order
The contestant was eliminated
The contestant was immune from elimination
The contestant was eliminated outside of the judging panel
The contestant quit the competition
The contestant won the competition
Bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their first time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their second time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their third time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated after their fourth time in the bottom two
The contestant was eliminated in the final judging and placed as the runner-up
Photo shoot guide
Episode 1 photo shoot: Runway shots/Polaroid shots (casting)
Episode 2 photo shoot: Re-enacting baby photos
Episode 3 photo shoot: Posing topless on a horse
Episode 4 photo shoot: Elongating oneself
Episode 5 photo shoot: Beauty shots with fabric
Episode 6 photo shoot: Cirque du Soleil Mystère
Episode 7 photo shoot: Ninja warriors
Episode 8 commercial: CoverGirl exact eyelights collection
Episode 9 photo shoot: Biracial Hapas
Episode 10 photo shoot: Posing underwater
Episode 11 photo shoot: Pele, Goddess of volcanoes
Episode 12 photo shoots & Commercial: CoverGirl lashblast mascara & Seventeen Magazine cover
Makeovers
Lisa – Trimmed
Rachel – Long wavy dark brown extensions
Courtney – Cut shorter and dyed red
Lulu – Shoulder length weave with bangs
Bianca – Bleached eyebrows
Ashley – Long, straight middle-part black weave
Kara – Blonde hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20Crash | Gravity Crash is a multidirectional shooter released on the PlayStation Network. Its visual style pays homage to arcade games of the 1980s. A PlayStation Vita port was released in August 2014 under the title Gravity Crash Ultra.
Gameplay
The player chooses a planet to visit from a top-level menu, and explores that planet in a two-dimensional side view. The planetary surfaces tend to be riddled with systems of caverns: manoeuvring through them while taking gravity into account is one of the game's principal challenges. Gravity Crash was inspired by three games in particular, Gravitar, Thrust and Oids.
The player can choose one of two control modes: in the first, the player's craft can fire only in the direction it is currently facing. In the second, the direction of fire is independent of the craft's orientation, controlled by the second joystick on the controller.
As an extra the game includes a shooting mini-game titled Gold Grabber, which is similar to the arcade game Robotron: 2084.
Soundtrack
The game features music by video game musician Tim Wright, who composed a 16-track remix album and double 'A'-side single to complement the game.
Reception
Gravity Crash received mostly positive reviews. Play's reviewer stated that the only bad thing was the "insane difficulty level." Edge's reviewer also mentioned the difficulty, calling Gravity Crash "A stern, if unspectacular, challenge."
References
External links
Just Add Water website
2009 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Vita games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games scored by Tim Wright (Welsh musician)
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set on fictional planets
Just Add Water (company) games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsigo%20Systems | Xsigo Systems was an information technology and hardware company based in San Jose, California, US.
It provided data center network and I/O virtualization software and hardware to companies and enterprises.
Company History
Xsigo Systems was founded in August 2004 by three brothers: Ashok Krishnamurthi, R.K. Anand, and S.K. Vinod. and Shreyas Shah. The privately held company was based in San Jose, CA and funded by Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Greylock Partners. Ashok Krishnamurthi served as vice-chairman of the company. Krishnamurthi previously held the positions of Vice President and General Manager of the infrastructure product line at Juniper Networks, prior to Xsigo Systems. Lloyd Carney served as the chief executive officer of the company. Carney was General Manager of IBM's Netcool Division, which acquired Micromuse where Carney had been chairman and CEO. Prior to Micromuse, Carney was COO at Juniper Networks and head of three divisions at Nortel Networks, including the Core IP Division, the Wireless Internet Division and the Enterprise Data Divisions.
US Patent #7937447 Granted May 3, 2011
Xsigo Systems was purchased by Oracle Corporation. The deal was announced at the end of July, 2012 and finalized on September 12, 2012.
Several companies providers, including Microsoft and Oracle, have mentioned Xsigo Systems.
Products and services
Xsigo Systems' product, the I/O Director, is a hardware and software device that consolidates data center infrastructure and streamlines server I/O management. Using the Xsigo I/O Director, users provision I/O resources on live servers, without disrupting network and storage configurations, and without physically entering the data center. Xsigo's I/O virtualization solution replaces a server's multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces with a single high-speed Ethernet or InfiniBand link. Multiple virtual Ethernet interfaces (vNICs) and virtual Fibre Channel interfaces (vHBAs) communicate over this link. Virtual interfaces are established using Xsigo's virtualization hardware and Xsigo's host drivers. These virtual I/O resources appear to the server's applications like their traditional I/O card-based counterparts but unlike traditional I/O resources, vNICs and vHBAs can be created as needed and do not require the server to be opened or rebooted.
Xsigo awards and achievements include The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Network / Internet Technologies category, being named Storage Magazine's Product of the Year in the networking equipment category; also being identified by Byte and Switch as a Top 10 Storage Startup to Watch; also being named by Virtualization Review Magazine as Take Five: Innovative Vendor; and being identified by eWeek as a Top 10 Disruptive New Storage Technology. Xsigo Systems' VP780 I/O Director was also nominated for SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice and Awards for Best Network Virtualization.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Recovery%20Indicator | The Scottish Recovery Indicator (SRI) is a mental health service development tool.
This tool has been designed by the Scottish Recovery Network to help mental health services ensure that their activities are focused on supporting the recovery of the people who use their services. The original tool which was launched in 2007 and was later reviewed and simplified being relaunched in 2011 as SRI 2.
SRI 2 is a framework and a process. The framework consists of a set of reflective statements centred on ten recovery indicators. These recovery indicators are based on research about what works in recovery e.g. ‘service is strengths based’ and ‘goals are identified and addressed’. The service reflects on its practice by considering data from six sources.
Assessments, care plans and service information provide documentary evidence of recovery orientation from three data sources. The three other data sets are the result of reflective conversations with the people who provide the service, the people who use the service and, where possible, their carers.
The SRI 2 website and associated guidance supports the service through the preparatory and information gathering stages. Guidance on what sort of evidence to look for is also made available. Data collections sheets are printed from the SRI 2 website which also records the scores and comments that have been gathered.
The practitioners meet and discuss the scores and comments and devise an action plan. This might involve for example ‘being more explicit about strengths based practice in the assessment paperwork’. The service then implements the actions identified and records these in their SRI 2 website account. That then is one cycle of SRI 2 complete. The service can follow this up with another SRI 2 and build on the improvements.
SRI2 is no longer supported and the website has closed down.
Mental health in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.1aq | IEEE 802.1aq is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q networking standard which adds support for Shortest Path Bridging (SPB). This technology is intended to simplify the creation and configuration of Ethernet networks while enabling multipath routing.
SPB is designed to replace the older spanning tree protocols: IEEE 802.1D STP, IEEE 802.1w RSTP, and IEEE 802.1s MSTP. These block any redundant paths that can result in a switching loop, whereas SPB allows all paths to be active with multiple equal-cost paths, provides much larger topologies, supports faster convergence times, and improves the efficiency by allowing traffic to load share across all paths of a mesh network. It is designed to preserve the plug-and-play nature that established Ethernet as the de facto protocol at layer 2.
The technology provides VLANs on native Ethernet infrastructures using a link-state protocol to advertise both topology and VLAN membership. Packets are encapsulated at the edge either in MAC-in-MAC per IEEE 802.1ah or tagged per IEEE 802.1Q or IEEE 802.1ad and transported only to other members of VLAN. Unicast, multicast, and broadcast are supported and all routing is on symmetric shortest paths.
The control plane is based on the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing protocol, leveraging a small number of extensions defined in .
History
On 4 March 2006 the working group posted 802.1aq draft 0.1. In March 2012 the IEEE approved the 802.1aq standard.
In May 2013, the first public multi-vendor interoperability was demonstrated as SPB served as the backbone for Interop 2013 in Las Vegas. In 2013 and 2014 SPB was used to build the InteropNet backbone with only one-tenth the resources of prior years. During Interop 2014 SPB was used as the backbone protocol which can enable software-defined networking (SDN) functionalities.
The 2014 Winter Olympics were the first "fabric-enabled" Games using SPB "IEEE 802.1aq" technology. During the games this fabric network could handle up to 54 Tbit/s of traffic.
Associated protocols
IEEE 802.1Q-2014 - Bridges and Bridged Networks - This standard incorporates Shortest Path Bridging (IEEE 802.1aq) with the following: IEEE Std 802.1Q-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qbe-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qbc-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qbb-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qaz-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qbf-2011, IEEE Std 802.1Qbg-2012, IEEE Std 802.1Q-2011/Cor 2–2012, and IEEE Std 802.1Qbp-2014, and much functionality previously specified in 802.1D.
IEEE 802.1ag - Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
IEEE 802.1Qbp - Equal Cost Multiple Paths in Shortest Path Bridging
IEEE P802.1Qcj - Automatic Attachment to Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) services
RFC 6329 - IS-IS Extensions Supporting IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging
RFC 6329
The Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol, as defined in the IETF proposed standard , is used as the control plane for SPB. SPB requires no state machine or other substantive changes to IS-IS, and simply requires a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze%201989 | Kamikaze 1989 is a 1982 West German cyberpunk thriller film co-written and directed by Wolf Gremm, based on the 1964 novel Murder on the Thirty-First Floor by Per Wahlöö. It stars Rainer Werner Fassbinder as a detective investigating a string of bombings that lead to a corporate media conspiracy. The soundtrack was composed by Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese.
After being nominated for the grand prize at the 1983 Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival, the film earned a Critics' Award special mention at the 1984 Fantasporto festival, where it was also nominated for the International Fantasy Film prize.
Plot
Germany in 1989. The country is rich, all problems seem to have been solved, there is no pollution and there is no unemployment. Alcohol has been banned, but freedom has been eradicated. For example, home-grown vegetables are banned, there are no more suicides (only "unexpected deaths"), television ensures peace and quiet with programs such as the annual laughing competition (which is ranked alongside Einstein and Napoleon) and the always positive weather report, the police (symbol: fist with stretched thumb) with their action against "Prokos" for order. All media are in the hands of a corporation whose management belongs to one and the same family. Only in the comic series of the Blue Panther, which is a caricature of the high-handed company boss, and his opponent Krysmopompas, criticism is articulated.
When the company was threatened with a bomb explosion that did not materialize, Lieutenant Jansen was given four days by the police chief to investigate the case. Jansen, an eccentric in a leopard suit and "third degree" alcoholic, is a somewhat squeamish policeman who has solved all of his previous cases.
From the start, the case seems to be related to the mysterious 31st floor of the corporate building. The paper on which the threat was received suggests a person from the group as the perpetrator. After the company's HR manager died an “unexpected death”, the CEO's nephew was initially suspected, but Jansen can immediately rule out that he was the perpetrator (but this does not prevent him from using acoustic torture methods). Other suspects are the former company employee Zerling, who is involved in the appearance of the Blue Panther, the television presenter Barbara, also an alcoholic, and the management assistant Elena Farr.
Again and again Jansen is offered the role of crysmopompas by unknown and well-known figures, which Jansen does not really accept. When Jansen and his assistant MK1 Anton are followed by the CEO's nephew, he dies in an accident on the autobahn.
Finally, the real perpetrator, the intellectual Weiss, presents himself. He tells Jansen about the 31st floor. There, the last critically thinking publicists are silenced by working on writings whose publications are endlessly delayed. Weiss wrote another threatening letter, but again did not plant a bomb. But the group did that itself to finally s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%20%28Unix%29 | pr is a command on various operating systems that is used to paginate or columnate computer files for printing. It can also be used to compare two files side by side, as an alternative to diff.
It is a required program in a POSIX-compliant environment and has been implemented by GNU as part of the GNU Core Utilities. The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. It is also available in the OS-9 shell. The command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.
References
External links
Unix SUS2008 utilities
Plan 9 commands
IBM i Qshell commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Channel%20%28Romanian%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Channel Romania was a television channel in Romania.
The dedicated channel for Romania was launched in 2006. At the same time Discovery Networks Europe opened a local office in Bucharest. Before this, Romania had received a pan-regional feed of the Discovery Channel.
The channel adopted the new Discovery logo on July 1, 2009 along with its sister channels in Central Europe.
Deadliest Catch
Dr. G: Medical Examiner
How It's Made
Man vs. Wild
One Way Out
American Chopper
MythBusters
Discovery Networks also broadcasts to Romania the Pan-Regional channels Animal Planet, Discovery Science, Investigation Discovery and Discovery HD. It was closed in Winter 2018.
References
External links
Discovery investeste in brand si vrea mai multi bani din publicitate
Katarzyna Kieli, general manager Discovery Networks Central Europe: Piata de cablu si satelit s-a dezvoltat in ciuda crizei
Discovery Channel investeste intr-o grila localizata pentru Romania
Defunct television channels in Romania
Romania
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
2006 establishments in Romania
2018 disestablishments in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20manager | A contact manager is a software program that enables users to easily store and find contact information, such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers. They are contact-centric databases that provide a fully integrated approach to tracking all information and communication activities linked to contacts. Simple ones for personal use are included in most smartphones. The main reference standard for contact data and metadata, semantic and interchange, is the vCard.
Sophisticated contact managers provide calendar sharing features and allow colleagues to access the same database. The main reference standard is the vCalendar.
In management terminology, advanced contact managers can be called individual resource management (IRM) or contact management (CM) tools – systems for managing an individual's interactions with current and future contacts, to organize, collaborate, and synchronize health, lifestyle, and financial needs.
History
Contact lists have been available for a long time. The original contact management system (CMS) was Exsell for DOS by Excalibur Sources, released in 1984.
Benefits
A contact management system (CMS) may be chosen because it is thought to provide the following advantages:
Centralized repository of contact information
Ready-to-use database with searching
Sales tracking
Email integration
Scheduling of appointments and meetings
Document management
Notes and conversation management
Customizable fields
Import/export utility
Contact sharing
Differences from customer relationship management
Traditionally, a contact manager is usually used for instances where the sales interaction model of the organization is a one-to-many interaction model, in which a single sales representative is responsible for multiple roles within a company. Alternatively, a company with a many-to-many interaction model, in which many sales representatives are targeting a single job role, a customer relationship management (CRM) system is preferred.:.
However, most recent contact management solutions are fully adapted to many-to-many interactions models, and the difference between a CRM and a Contact Manager starts to lay more on the fact that CRMs are commonly used to automate sales and marketing processes (quotes, invoices, reminder emails, etc.) where contacts management solutions focus on a people-centric approach which goal is to centralize all contact information within an organization and have better control on who can access this data and how it is accessed.
See also
Address Book
Automated online assistant
Business intelligence
Business relationship management
Comparison of CRM systems
Consumer relationship system
Contact list
Customer experience transformation
Customer experience
Customer intelligence
Customer service – contains ISO standards
Data management
Data mining
Database marketing
E-crm
Enterprise feedback management (EFM)
Event-driven marketing (EDM)
Farley File
Help desk
Mystery shopping
Partner relationship m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20You%20Think%20You%20Can%20Dance%20%28American%20season%206%29 | So You Think You Can Dance, also known as SYTYCD, is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season six premiered on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley returning to host. Season six is the show's only season to air during the fall season, immediately following the summer airing of season five. Live shows began airing October 26 and the season finale aired on December 16. Russell Ferguson, the first krumper to make it to the Las Vegas auditions, won the title of "America's Favorite Dancer" in first place and the $250,000 prize. Also in the finale were Jakob Karr in second place, Kathryn McCormick in third place, Ellenore Scott in fourth place, Ashleigh Di Lello in fifth place and Ryan Di Lello in sixth place.
This season is also noteworthy for featuring Ariana DeBose who, despite being amongst the first contestants eliminated, would later go on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Anita in the Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story.
Auditions
Locations
Open auditions for this season somewhat overlapped season 5. These auditions for season 6 were held in the following cities after season 5's Las Vegas week, but before season 5's finals started:
Lythgoe was accepting an honorary degree from the University of Bedfordshire; therefore, two guest judges were present.
Las Vegas week
Judges: Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman, Mia Michaels, Tyce Diorio, Debbie Allen
The Las Vegas callbacks were held at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. 152 dancers were invited to participate in the callback auditions. This number was cut to 38 dancers, before the announcement of the season's top 20 contestants. Las Vegas week included the following rounds, with cuts made after each:
Top 20 Contestants
Female Contestants
Male Contestants
Dumlao replaced original Top 20 dancer Billy Bell, who had to withdraw from the competition due to illness.
Finals
Elimination chart
The elimination song for the women playing during the montage was "Never Say Never" by The Fray. The elimination song for the men playing during the montage was "Where It Ends" by 16 Frames.
The show was unable to schedule full performance and results shows for the first two weeks due to conflicts with the World Series.
These female dancers were barred from performing their routines. See below for more information.
Performance nights
Due to network conflicts with the World Series, the show was unable to schedule a separate results show for the first two weeks. As a result, no public voting was held on those occasions; after the couples' performances, the judges alone selected four dancers to perform solos, and subsequently eliminated two.
The standard format of a performance show followed by voting, with a results show the following night, resumed for the third week of comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invizimals%20%28video%20game%29 | Invizimals is a PlayStation Portable augmented reality collectible creature video game developed by Novarama, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is the first entry in the Invizimals series, and was bundled with the PSP's camera attachment at launch.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Invizimals has been compared to the Pokémon series, involving players capturing and raising different species of creatures, and allowing the player to battle with them, either against an AI or with others using the PSP's wireless abilities. Unlike Pokémon however, Invizimals requires the player to hunt and capture these creatures within the real world, using the concept of augmented reality, a camera attachment for the PlayStation Portable, and a physical "trap" square-shaped device used as a fiduciary marker. These monsters are spawned at different environments (determined by colors of surfaces and time of day), and the trap is used to capture the monsters. Once captured, players are able to raise and level their monsters, and allow them to learn different attacks that can be used in battle. Players can also use the trap to view their monsters, and take pictures of their collection.
Story
The story follows Kenichi Nakamura, a researcher at PSP R&D in Tokyo. He has made the discovery of invisible animals, which he dubs Invizimals. Invizimals are only visible using an attached PSP camera and pointing it at a device called the trap. Kenichi's life is devoted to finding Invizimals, in addition to furthering the common understanding surrounding them. Only specific people have the aura necessary to see these Invizimals, even among those with access to the same equipment, and Kenichi detects that the player is one of these select few people.
Kenichi's most trusted colleague, Professor Bob Dawson, teaches the player the basics of Invizimal combat and assists Kenichi in his research. Dawson makes the discovery that Invizimals are made of energy, specifically light, and that the light particles that emit off of them in battle - sparks, as Dawson calls them - can be used as a currency in the Invizimal world. After being taught the basics of Invizimal combat, the player hones their skills and trains their Invizimals across various Invizimal fighting clubs spotted across the world.
Kenichi's boss requests that he take a business trip to a business associate of his located in Mumbai, India, and that Kenichi takes vital research data about Invizimals with him. However, after Kenichi disembarks the plane and leaves the airport, he is kidnapped by an unknown man. Kenichi's good friend Jazmin Nayar notifies the player that she could not find Kenichi around the time he was scheduled to meet up with her. The unknown man interrogated Kenichi, as the unknown man had knowledge of Invizimals. However, Kenichi played dumb in the interrogation, and hid the crucial thumb drive with his research data on it, and was eventually let go. After this incident, Kenichi's boss reached a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S6%20%28ZVV%29 | The S6 is a regional railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's services connecting the cantons of Zürich and Aargau.
Route
The service links Baden, in the canton of Aargau to the west of Zürich, and Uetikon, on north shore of Lake Zürich to the east of Zürich. From Baden it runs via the Furttal railway and Regensdorf-Watt to Zürich Oerlikon, and then serves Zurich Hauptbahnhof and Zürich Stadelhofen before running over the Lake Zürich right-bank railway line to its terminus.
The following stations are served:
Baden
Wettingen
Würenlos
Otelfingen
Otelfingen Golfpark
Buchs-Dällikon
Regensdorf-Watt
Zürich Affoltern
Zürich Seebach
Zürich Oerlikon
Zürich Hardbrücke
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Stadelhofen
Zürich Tiefenbrunnen
Zollikon
Küsnacht Goldbach
Küsnacht ZH
Erlenbach ZH
Winkel am Zürichsee
Herrliberg-Feldmeilen
Meilen
Uetikon
Route
Rolling stock
most services are operated with RABe 514 class trains; some operate with the RABe 511 class.
Scheduling
The normal frequency over the length of the service is one train every 30 minutes. Between Zürich Oerlikon and Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, the S6 combines with the S16 to provide a frequency of one train every 15 minutes. The eastern end of the service is cut back to Tiefenbrunnen in the evening, whilst on weekdays four trains during the middle of the day start and terminate at Wettingen.
A journey over the full length of the service takes 66 or 67 minutes, depending on direction.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar%20Ali%20%28physicist%29 | Anwar Ali (born 1943, ), is a Pakistani physicist and a computer programmer, who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 2006 until 2009. His scientific career is spent at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as a computational physicist and played a key scientific role his nation's secret nuclear deterrent program.
Biography
Early life
Ali, an Indian native from Hoshiarpur, completed his undergraduate studies at the Government College University in Lahore and earned a BSc in physics. He participated in the physics master's program at Punjab University, where he earned a Master of Science (MSc) in the subject. He studied nuclear physics at the University of Birmingham, where he received his MSc.
He was pursuing a doctorate in physics at the University of Birmingham in 1972 when he learnt of India's nuclear test, known as "Smiling Buddha," which took place on May 18.1974.
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
After his graduation from Punjab University, Ali found employment with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 1967, as a scientific officer at the Atomic Energy Center in Lahore. He joined the Nuclear Engineering Division alongside Bashiruddin Mahmood, an engineer, and aided in the investigations on the uranium enrichment under Bashiruddin Mahmood in May 1974. Ali was an original member of the uranium investigation team,, that was working with Mahmood as a principal investigator, under advice from Abdul Qadeer Khan. Ali was posted back to Engineering Division of the PAEC after Abdul Qadeer Khan took over the program after moving it at the Khan Research Laboratories in Kahuta.
In 1978, Ali joined the Airport Development Works— a separate facility working on electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes. Independent from Khan Research Laboratories— functioning under its director, Dr. G.D. Alam, at the Chaklala Air Force Base and assisted Alam in designing of the centrifuge and further in computer programming to control the rotation of the centrifuge. There, Ali learned computer programming from Alam who had also taught him about the automatic controls after being posted at the Khan Research Laboratories in 1981. Eventually, Ali lost interest in nuclear physics but found himself working in computer coding and researching on the topics and applications involving the fluid dynamics in the computational physics.
In 1982, Ali was in brief conflict with Abdul Qadeer Khan when he was confided about the latter about selling the centrifuge technology to unknown Arab country, and may have been the one who alerted the Zia administration to Khan's motive. Following this incident, Ali was transferred at the Directorate of Industrial Liaison until 1985 when he was posted at the Directorate of Technical Development (DTD) where he found himself working as a computer programmer, and aided in developing computer codes for the launch sequences of the missiles. In 1993, Ali accepted the employment with the Nation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Soup | Web Soup was an American weekly infotainment series that aired on the G4 cable network. The show premiered on June 7, 2009, and was hosted by Chris Hardwick. The series focused on commenting on the latest viral videos, and had a very similar style as its sister network E!'s series The Soup.
During the first two seasons, this show was taped in front of a green screen like The Soup. In the third season, the program taped on the set usually utilized by E! News with added studio audience seating. Chris Hardwick confirmed via a comment on his website that season three was the last and the show would not continue. However, repackaged archived episodes returned to G4's schedule from December 2012 until the network's closure on December 31, 2014.
References
External links
2009 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
2000s American satirical television series
2010s American satirical television series
2000s American sketch comedy television series
2010s American sketch comedy television series
2000s American video clip television series
2010s American video clip television series
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Television shows filmed in Los Angeles
G4 (American TV network) original programming
Mass media about Internet culture
Television series about social media
Internet memes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Stored%20Ambulatory%20Record | COmputer STored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) is an electronic medical record using the MUMPS programming language. It was developed by the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1968 and 1971 for Harvard Community Health Plan by Octo Barnett and Jerome Grossman.
References
Hattwick, Michael A. W. Computer Stored Ambulatory Record Systems in Real Life Practice. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1979 October 17; 761–764.
Barnett, G. Octo. Computer-stored ambulatory record (COSTAR). 1976.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Medical Informatics for Better and Safer Health Care. Research in Action, Issue 6. June 2002
Kerlin, Barbara D (1986). Dissemination of COSTAR: Promises and Realities. Journal of Medical Systems
Clinfowiki - COmputer STored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR)
Electronic health record software
Massachusetts General Hospital |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Centres%20of%20Expertise | In response to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014), the United Nations University (UNU) called for the development of regional networks for the promotion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). These networks address local sustainable development challenges through research and capacity development. This was the birth of Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD (RCEs). RCEs are acknowledged by the UNU based on recommendations of the Ubuntu Committee of Peers for the RCEs, which consists of signatories of the Ubuntu Declaration signed in 2002.
RCEs aspire to achieve the goals of the DESD by translating its global objectives into the context of the local communities in which they operate. This is then accomplished by acting as a catalyst for institutions that promote ESD through formal, non-formal and informal education, and by providing suitable platforms to share information and experiences and to promote dialogue among regional stakeholders through partnerships for sustainable development. They also develop regional knowledge bases to support ESD and promote its goals in a resource effective manner. This can be achieved through the delivery of training programmes, by facilitating research into ESD, through public awareness raising, and by increasing the quality and access to ESD in the region.
An RCE should have four core elements:
Governance - addressing issues of RCE management and leadership
Collaboration - addressing the engagement of actors from all levels of formal, non-formal and informal education
Research and development - addressing the role of research and its inclusion in RCE activities, as well as contributing to the design of strategies for collaborative activities, including those with other RCEs
Transformative education - contributing to the transformation of the current education and training systems to satisfy ambitions of the region regarding sustainable living and livelihood.
RCEs also have four major ESD goals to be promoted in an effective way:
Re-orientating education towards SD, by covering integrating SD and ESD into the current curriculum and tailoring it to address issues and local context of the community in which they operate;
Increase access to quality education that is most needed in the regional context;
Deliver trainers’ training programmes and to develop methodologies and learning materials for them;
Lead advocacy and awareness raising efforts to raise public awareness about the importance of educators and the essential role of ESD in achieving a sustainable future. RCEs promote the long-term goals of ESD, such as environmental stewardship, social justice, and improvement of the quality of life.
RCEs are not only significant for the region itself, where they provide a unique opportunity to promote learning and development for SD, but also important at international level where they help to constitute the Global Learning Space for Sustainable Deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongkong%20Flight%20143 | Hongkong Flight 143 is a 2006 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Kitchie Benedicto, it stars Pauleen Luna, Mark Herras and James Blanco. It premiered on February 20, 2006. The series concluded on May 12, 2006 with a total of 58 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Mark Herras as Bogz
Pauleen Luna as Trina
James Blanco as Andy
Supporting cast
Jackie Lou Blanco
Rez Cortez
Robert Ortega
Danica Sotto
Lovely Rivero
Tessie Villarama
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Aviation television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in Hong Kong
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia%20Gracia | Mia Gracia is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Herman Escueta, it stars Jessica "Gracia" Cortez. It premiered on August 12, 1996. The series concluded on August 15, 1997 with a total of 263 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jessica "Gracia" Cortez as Gracia Paraiso / Mia Perdon
Supporting cast
Alvin Anson as Troy
Raffy Rodriguez as Paeng
Joanne Pascual as Joan
Mikee Villanueva as Leah
Iwi Nicolas as Mica
Brando Legaspi as Alex
Zenie Zabala
Gary Estrada
Anita Linda
Glenda Garcia
References
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1997 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Star%20Chess | Silver Star Chess is a chess video game for WiiWare. It costs 500 Nintendo Points to download.
Reception
The game has been criticized for its poor artificial intelligence and lack of online multiplayer.
References
2008 video games
Chess software
Electronic Arts games
Video games developed in Japan
WiiWare games
Wii-only games
Wii games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Agetec games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej%20Popowicz | Maciej Popowicz (born 1984) – creator of nasza-klasa.pl, the Polish version of social networking site Classmates.com and student of computer science at University of Wrocław. He became one of the youngest Polish millionaires, after he sold 20% of shares of nasza-klasa.pl (20,000,000 zlotys, about $6,300,000, €4,500,000, £3,850,000) to German venture capital fund, European Founders in 2007. In 2008 Estonian fund Forticom bought 70% of shares of nasza-klasa.pl, with estimated worth 175,000,000 zlotys (about $55,000,000, €39,000,000, £34,000,000). In 2007 he got the Człowiek Roku Polskiego Internetu (Person of the Year of Polish Internet) prize.
1984 births
Living people
Polish computer scientists
Polish businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20Aagawin%20Mo%20ang%20Lahat%20sa%20Akin | (International title: When All is Gone / ) is a 2009 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1987 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the fifteenth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Topel Lee and Rommel Gacho, it stars Maxene Magalona, Glaiza de Castro, JC Tiuseco and Patrick Garcia. It premiered on June 22, 2009 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?. The series concluded on September 25, 2009 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Tinik sa Dibdib in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Maxene Magalona as Maureen Andrada / Dahlia Del Monte
Glaiza de Castro as Gladys Andrada
Patrick Garcia as Arvin Samaniego
JC Tiuseco as Troy Samaniego
Supporting cast
Jackie Lou Blanco as Clara Andrada
Nonie Buencamino as Gilbert Andrada
Joanne Quintas as Romina Samaniego
Emilio Garcia as Victor Samaniego
Karla Estrada as Remy Del Monte / Brenda Aguirre
Jackie Rice as Mercedita Andrada
Pochollo Montes as Dean Del Monte
Rich Asuncion as Joyce Delos Santos
Aurora Sevilla as Rosita Aguirre
Christine Joy Velasco as Maverick
Guest cast
Francis Magundayao as young Arvin
Gail Lardizabal as young Gladys
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned an 18.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 23.7% rating.
Accolades
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 set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Devlin | Martin Devlin (born 1964) is a New Zealand radio and television broadcaster. In July 2012, The Radio Network announced that Devlin would take over the morning show for NZ's first private station, Radio Hauraki. Devlin later anchored a show on Newstalk ZB, until 2021.
Biography
Devlin is the nephew of New Zealand rock-and-roll star Johnny Devlin, and was educated at St. Patrick's College, Silverstream.
Devlin began his broadcasting career in radio in 1987, and is the recipient of numerous broadcasting awards, including 'sports broadcaster of the year' six times. Devlin has worked on a variety of shows: Energy FM in New Plymouth, Channel Z in Wellington, as well as networks – The Edge, Radio Sport and Radio Live. Devlin writes sport for NZ Rugby World, and does a sport talkback blog for tvnz.co.nz as well as being a regular weekly contributor for Rugby Centre on Sky TV's Rugby Channel.
Devlin anchored TVNZ's coverage of both the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2014 Fifa World Cup. In January 2011, Martin Devlin identified himself as the person involved in a minor 'disorderly behaviour' charge in December 2010.
Devlin anchored the 2011 Rugby World Cup. On the opening night of the Rugby World Cup, over one million viewers tuned in to watch Devlin interview Jonah Lomu in the minutes before the opening match that featured the All Blacks vs Tonga.
Devlin was briefly taken off air in May 2021 after allegations that he attempted to physically assault a colleague in the NZME newsroom. It was also alleged that he had sent inappropriate messages to other colleagues. Devlin apologised and said he struggled with mental health issues. In July 2021, Devlin was reinstated to his role after two complaints were found to not be substantiated. In July 2021, it was reported that Devlin had unsuccessfully attempted suicide.
In November 2021, Devlin announced that he had resigned from NZME.
By 2022, Devlin had become a host on The Platform, an internet radio station founded by former veteran broadcaster Sean Plunket.
See also
List of New Zealand television personalities
References
1964 births
Living people
New Zealand television presenters
New Zealand radio presenters
People educated at St. Patrick's College, Silverstream
Radio Sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rioux%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rioux may refer to:
Rioux, French commune in Charente-Maritime
Rioux-Martin, French commune in Charente
Christien Rioux, computer security specialist
Erin Rioux, a NYC-based musician
Geneviève Rioux (b. 1961), Canadian actress
Gerry Rioux (b. 1959), Canadian hockey player
Jean-Antoine Rioux (1925-2017), French parasitologist
Johnny Rioux (b. 1974), American musician
Laurent Rioux, Canadian NASCAR driver
Pierre Rioux (b. 1962), Canadian hockey player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20memory%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, genetic memory refers to an artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory. It can be used to predict weather patterns. Genetic memory and genetic algorithms have also gained an interest in the creation of artificial life.
References
Genetic algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Tour%20Chayes | Jennifer Tour Chayes is dean of the college of computing, data science, and society at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley, she was a technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012.
Chayes is best known for her work on phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is considered one of the world's experts in the modeling and analysis of dynamically growing graphs.
Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. She received her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton University in 1983. She is affiliate professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Washington, and was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1987 to 2001. She is an author on almost 120 scientific papers and the inventor on more than 25 patents.
Early life and education
Chayes was born in New York City and grew up in White Plains, New York, the child of Iranian immigrants. She received her B.A. in Biology and Physics from Wesleyan University in 1979 where she graduated first in her class. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics at Princeton University. She did her postdoctoral work in the Mathematics and Physics departments at Harvard and Cornell.
Career
She became a tenured mathematics professor at UCLA in 1987. While she was on sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1997, Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, a classmate of Chayes's from Princeton, asked her to start and lead the Theory Group at Microsoft Research Redmond. The Theory Group analyzes fundamental questions in theoretical computer science using techniques from statistical physics and discrete mathematics. Chayes opened Microsoft Research New England in July 2008 with Borgs. The lab is located at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center and is pursuing new, interdisciplinary areas of research that bring together core computer scientists and social scientists to understand, model, and enable future computing and online experiences. On May 3, 2012, The New York Times reported, "Microsoft is opening a research lab in New York City…" which Chayes will co-manage. The new lab also brings together computer scientists and social scientists, particularly in the areas of economics, computational and behavioral social sciences, and machine learning.
Prior to joining Berkeley, Chayes was Managing Director of both Microsoft Research New England and Microsoft Research New York City. She has contributed to the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world. She also served on the Mathematic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20FW%20series | Sony Vaio FW is a discontinued series of notebook computers which were the first laptops ever to have a 1080p 16.4" 16:9 widescreen LCD. Higher end models in the series can support an integral Blu-ray Disc reader or writer. The laptop weighed 3.1 kg. The battery lasts up to two hours. In June 2009, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 was replaced by the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 with the release of the FW 4xx series. Additionally, Sony also released a special model of this series apart from the signature series models (Model:VGN-FW590FFD). This model had a futuristic themed cover and came equipped with moderately high-end specifications for $1069.99 U.S. dollars. The VGN-FW590FFD model was also only available for purchase through Sony Style's website.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Color: Black, Chocolate Brown, Nebula, Silver
Memory: 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 GB of DDR2 SDRAM @ 800 MHz
Hard Drive: 160, 250, 320, 400, or 500 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive @ 5400 RPM, 320 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive @ 7,200 RPM, 128 GB Solid State Drive
Optical Disc Drive: CD/DVD reader/writer, Blu-ray Disc reader, or Blu-ray Disc reader/writer
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 with 256 MB of vRAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 with 512 MB of vRAM, or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 w/1 GB of vRAM
Display: 16.4" XBRITE-ECO with 1600 × 900 resolution, or 16.4" HiColor-FullHD w/1920 × 1080 resolution, or 16.4" XBRITE-FullHD w/1920 × 1080 resolution
Extras: SD and magic gate pro card reader, 3 USB 2.0 slots, i.LINK IEEE 1394 slot and a HDMI cable slot
References
External links
FW |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyWay%20Village | Connected Living is a Quincy, Massachusetts-based provider of social networking services to senior citizens. Founded in 2006 by Chris McWade and Sarah Hoit, MyWay Village uses a secure proprietary interface and one-on-one personal support to facilitate senior citizens interacting online.
Connected Living was featured in a June 3, 2009 article in the New York Times.
History
In 2006 after caring for aging relatives from a distance, the company's founders Chris McWade and Sarah Hoit realized that simplified computer technologies combined with personalized support services could significantly improve the quality of life for senior citizens—a large, growing portion of the population.
The company works with senior living communities across the country.
Products
Senior community residents can access a customized home page that allows them to choose from a variety of activities including sending and receiving electronic messages, sharing and viewing photographs, listening to audio books and music, recording their own personal memoirs, and receiving notification of events happening daily in their community.
Ambassadors
Connected Living provides on-going support to retirement communities, residents, and their families through a team of Ambassadors who provide individualized help for seniors, and who lead group activities and classes on computer use, memoir sharing, and book clubs.
Executive team
Chris McWade—Co-Founder & Chairman
Formerly founder of Team Enterprises, Inc., an integrated marketing company. He also co-founded, incubated, and sold two Web 1.0 companies: beer.com and diamond.com. He holds a BSBA from Nichols College.
Sarah Hoit—Co-Founder and CEO
Formerly founder and CEO of Explore, Inc. and Director of White House Business Planning, Deputy Director of AmeriCorps. She has also been Managing Director and Partner at Thomas Partners Investment Management and Managing Director with Sylvan Learning Systems. She has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.
Andrew Lowenstein -- CFO and President
Formerly VP of Business Development at Firefly Mobile and Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Convey Software. He has a BA from Yale University and an MA and MBA from Stanford University.
References
External links
Official website
Online companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBPX-LD | KBPX-LD (channel 46) is a low-power television station in Houston, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Word Broadcasting Network. KBPX-LD's transmitter is located atop the JPMorgan Chase Tower in downtown Houston.
History
The station began broadcasting in 1990 from One Shell Plaza on channel 33 under the call sign K33DB as a low-power translator for Conroe-licensed KTFH (channel 49, renamed KPXB-TV in 1998), in order to improve KTFH's analog coverage in Houston since its full-power analog transmitter site was located in the far northern suburbs of Houston. The transmitter was moved to the Missouri City tower farm in 1992. The call sign was changed to KBPX-LP on April 25, 2001.
The translator was shut down on June 30, 2009, two weeks after the digital transition, due to loss of access to the tower site. Ion Media applied to move KBPX-LP to channel 46, but since the full-power KPXB-TV now broadcasts from Missouri City (which was KBPX's former transmitter location), it was unclear what purpose the translator would serve. KBPX-LD resumed operations November 22, 2010, on digital channel 46, carrying The Country Network.
In late 2016, on a digital subchannel, the station launched a diginet called "The New DuMont Television Network" (or "The NuDu", for short), claiming it to be descended from the original DuMont Television Network. Upon the outlet's launch, it began carrying various programming.
On December 21, 2017, Ion agreed to donate KBPX-LD to the Word Broadcasting Network; the donation was completed on February 16, 2018.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
BPX-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1990
BPX
1990 establishments in Texas
The Country Network affiliates
NewsNet affiliates
Heartland (TV network) affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Dwork | Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist best known for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and algorithmic fairness. She is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof-of-work.
Dwork works at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Department of Statistics.
Dwork was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for fundamental contributions to distributed algorithms and the security of cryptosystems.
Early life and education
Dwork received her B.S.E. from Princeton University in 1979, graduating Cum Laude, and receiving the Charles Ira Young Award for Excellence in Independent Research.
Dwork received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1983 for research supervised by John Hopcroft.
Career and research
Dwork is known for her research placing privacy-preserving data analysis on a mathematically rigorous foundation, including the co-invention of differential privacy, a strong privacy guarantee frequently permitting highly accurate data analysis (with Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam D. Smith, 2006). The definition of differential privacy relies on the notion of indistinguishability of the outputs irrespective of whether an individual has contributed their data or not. This is typically achieved by adding small amounts of noise either to the input data or to outputs of computations performed on the data. She uses a systems-based approach to studying fairness in algorithms including those used for placing ads. Dwork has also made contributions in cryptography and distributed computing, and is a recipient of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize for her early work on the foundations of fault-tolerant systems.
Her contributions in cryptography include non-malleable cryptography with Danny Dolev and Moni Naor in 1991, the first lattice-based cryptosystem with Miklós Ajtai in 1997, which was also the first public-key cryptosystem for which breaking a random instance is as hard as solving the hardest instance of the underlying mathematical problem ("worst-case/average-case equivalence"). With Naor she also first presented the idea of, and a technique for, combating e-mail spam by requiring a proof of computational effort, also known as proof-of-work — a key technology underlying hashcash and bitcoin.
Selected works
Her publications include:
— this paper received the Dijkstra Prize in 2007.
Awards and honors
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2008, as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008, as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2015, and as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
Dwork received a number of awards for her work.
In 2007, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Shenk | David Shenk is an American writer, lecturer, and songwriter. He is author of six books, including The Genius in All of Us (2010), Data Smog (1997), The Forgetting (2001), and The Immortal Game (2006), and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, Wired, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Scholar, NPR and PBS. In mid-2009, he joined TheAtlantic.com as a correspondent. He is a 1988 graduate of Brown University.
Books
Shenk has published the following books:
Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads (1994) (Co-written with Steve Silberman)
Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997)
The End of Patience: More Notes of Caution on the Information Revolution (1999)
The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of An Epidemic (2001)
The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (2006)
The Genius In All Of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong (2010)
Films
In 2004, PBS broadcast the Emmy award-winning "The Forgetting," which was inspired by Shenk's book of the same name. The film was directed by Elizabeth Arledge. Shenk appeared in the film and served as a writer and consultant.
In 2006, "The Forgetting" was featured on-screen and read aloud in the Sarah Polley film "Away From Her." Polley said that the book was "hugely influential" to her in making the film.
In 2007, Shenk wrote, produced and directed four short films on Alzheimer's disease.
Awards and honors
1995: Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University
1997: Finalist, McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy
1998: Fellow, The Japan Society
2000: Named one of "10 Masters of the New Economy" by CIO magazine.
2001: The Forgetting awarded First Prize, British Medical Association's Popular Medical Book Awards
2001: The Forgetting picked as An Amazon Top Book of 2001
2004: Emmy Award for PBS's "The Forgetting"
2004: Shenk's original term "data smog" added to the Oxford English Dictionary
2006: The Immortal Game picked as a Globe and Mail Top Book of 2006 and Toronto Star Top 100 Book of 2006
References
External links
Shenk's homepage with links to some of this talks.
Shenk's blog at The Atlantic
A Quick Look At Alzheimer's: Four Pocket Films to Increase Understanding of a 21st Century Epidemic
PBS's "The Forgetting"
ABC News: David Shenk Answers Your Questions About Alzheimer's Disease
Commonwealth Club talk of March 18th 2010 by David Shenk on his book "The Genius in All of Us". A 40-minute talk followed by 20 minutes of questions.
American filmmakers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
American male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberLink | CyberLink Corp. () is a Taiwanese multimedia software company headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Its products include PC and mobile applications for playback of movies and media, editing of videos and photos, and disc burning and backup solutions.
The company has regional offices in the United States, Netherlands, and Japan.
History
Founded in 1996, CyberLink Corp. creates multimedia software and AI facial recognition technology. The company developed and owns over 200 patented technologies.
CyberLink's headquarters and research facilities are located in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). Regional offices cover operations in North America, Japan, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Products
Media creation
PowerDirector – Video editing software, was first released in 2001
PhotoDirector – Photo editing software
AudioDirector – Audio editing software, audio restoration and repair
ColorDirector – Color grading software
Director Suite – CyberLink first released its Director Suite of creative software in 2011. It includes PowerDirector, PhotoDirector, AudioDirector and ColorDirector in a single package.
CyberLink Media Suite – A multimedia software package including media player PowerDVD, video editing software PowerDirector, photo editing software PhotoDirector, disc burning utility Power2Go, and media conversion utility MediaEspresso
ActionDirector – Video editing software designed for quick editing of footage taken with action cameras
MakeupDirector – Digital makeup software to enhance makeup design for makeup artists, portrait photographers and beauty enthusiasts
Media entertainment
PowerDVD – A universal media player for movie discs, video files, photos and music. In 2016, PowerDVD achieved certification from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) for the playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, and became the first software player to pass the BD-ROM 4.0 PC Application Software License process.
MediaShow – Image organiser and viewer
MediaEspresso – Converts videos, photos and music to a wide range of formats for playback on popular media players and mobile devices
Web camera apps
YouCam – Webcam and camera app
PerfectCam – AR makeup app for PC webcam
Disc burning and authoring
Power2Go – Disc burning and optical disc authoring software
PowerProducer – DVD authoring software
Business communication
U Messenger – Instant Messenger
U Meeting – Video conferencing and meeting
U Webinar – Remote presentation and webinar
Facial recognition and AI
FaceMe – Facial recognition engine
Ranked one of the best in the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (VISA and WILD tests) with up to 99.7% accuracy rate.
Mobile apps
CyberLink released its first mobile app, MediaStory, in 2010. Since then, the company has introduced another 14 apps on Android, iOS and Windows mobile platforms, including PhotoDirector and PowerDirector. CyberLink spun off its beauty products to a sister company named Perfect Corp. in June 2015.
PowerDirector
PhotoDi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Democracy%20Forum | The African Democracy Forum (ADF), is a regional network launched in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2000. It comprises civil society organisations, media institutions, community based organisations, academic institutions and donor entities that work on democracy, democratic research, protection of human rights, upholding the rule of law and promoting good governance through the twin principles of transparency and accountability in the African continent. ADF also acts as a platform for mutual support and sharing of resources for over 450 organisations and individuals. The ADF is a regional network of the World Movement for Democracy, a network of organizations from around the world advocating for democracy. The ADF uses the strength and knowledge of its members to create a strong network of communication. Its members include leading human rights and democracy activists who use their experiences to teach others.
ADF Objectives
The ADF seeks to provide democrats with the opportunity to express their views, and to have a platform for mutual support and resources in an effort to consolidate democracy in Africa. The ADF works to monitor democracy on the continent, protect democrats, support the development of information technology in Africa, share advocacy skills, train members of the network, establish and maintain a dialogue with state leaders, empower individuals at the grass-roots level, and encourage civil society organizations in conflict areas to use the ADF to seek support.
ADF Activities
The ADF General Assemblies focus on bringing together ADF members to develop civil society strategies to address specific issues, such as post-conflict elections, democracy education, monitoring human rights violations, and fighting against corruption. The ADF also holds conferences and workshops concerning democracy in post-conflict situations, and women's political participation in Africa. The ADF has created training programs on “Information and Communication Technologies,” “Democratic Leadership and Conflict Resolution,” and “Non-Violent Movement.” The organization also from time-to-time issues statements regarding issues that affect democratic development in Africa.
In addition to serving as the World Movement's Africa regional network, the ADF and its member organizations are involved in the non-governmental process for the Community of Democracies, and the Human Rights Council Network, or HRCNet.
ADF History
Democrats in Africa founded the ADF in October 2000 in anticipation of the Second Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. The ADF participated in the Assembly in São Paulo, Brazil, in November 2000 where 60 participants from 25 countries in Africa participated in workshops and worked together to create strategies to further democracy in Africa. The participants in the regional workshop created an extensive list of goals and tactics to help aid democracy in Africa, and outlined some of the issues impeding its growth.
Durban, South Africa- 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID%20processing%20unit | A RAID processing unit (RPU) is an integrated circuit that performs specialized calculations in a RAID host adapter.
XOR calculations, for example, are necessary for calculating parity data, and for maintaining data integrity when writing to a disk array that uses a parity drive or data striping. An RPU may perform these calculations more efficiently than the computer's central processing unit (CPU).
References
RAID
Integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainRush | BrainRush (spelled BrainRu$h) is a live-action game show on Cartoon Network, hosted by Lamorne Morris and, to a lesser extent, Sarah Karges. It first aired on June 20, 2009, with its last episode airing on July 22, ending after one season.
Like many shows during Cartoon Network's late-2000s dalliance with live-action programming, this show is also notable for being a more modern example of lost media; five of the six episodes can be found on the internet, with only a brief clip existing for the remaining episode.
Format
Unwitting contestants are asked to answer trivia questions on roller coasters. The show takes place at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.
Round 1: Quick Quiz (Boomerang)
The host sits on the Boomerang. Anyone who sits next to the host becomes a contestant. Each contestant is asked a series of questions over the course of the ride. (As noted in episode 4, the total ride time is one minute and 45 seconds.) Each correct answer is worth $25. The 2 contestants with the most money advance to the second round.
In the event of a tie, a tiebreaker question with a numerical answer is asked (generally, the question is about the Boomerang coaster). The contestant whose guess is the closest to the correct answer without going over moves on. The eliminated contestant is paid his/her winnings immediately.
Round 2 (Silver Bullet)
Each of the remaining two players picks one of two games, hidden in two colored envelopes. The player with the least earnings from level 1 goes first. Generally, each part of the game is worth $50 and both games have the same amount of money available ($300). The money from both rounds are combined, and the person with the most money at the end of this round wins the game. The losing contestant is paid his or her winnings immediately. If there is a tie at the end of round 2, a numerical question is asked in a similar manner to round one.
Games in Round 2
Street Wise: The host tells the player five letters of the alphabet during the ride. At the end of the ride, the player must remember those five letters. Each letter correctly recalled is worth $50. In addition, regardless of the player's performance, the player is given the five correct letters, and must unscramble them into a slang word based on a clue given by the host. If the player unscrambles the word within 30 seconds, he or she wins another $50.
Regurgitator: The player is read a short story (typically an article from USA Today) as the coaster moves up the lift hill. He or she is then asked six questions about the story over the course of the ride. Each correct answer is worth $50.
Represent: During the ride, the host tells the player three random words, and there are three random pictures shown around the park. After the ride, the player can list any of the words or pictures for $50 each.
Hurling Hangman: The player looks for three letters while on the ride. At the end of the ride, they can recall the letters for $50 each. Afterward, they use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S16%20%28ZVV%29 | The S16 is a regional railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's services providing service within the canton of Zürich.
Route
The service links Zürich Flughafen to the north of Zürich, and Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, on north shore of Lake Zürich to the east of Zürich. The service runs via Zürich Oerlikon, Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Zürich Stadelhofen, and then over the Lake Zürich right-bank railway line to its terminus. At the southern end of the service, the S16 is extended to Meilen in the evenings. The following stations are served:
Zürich Flughafen
Zürich Oerlikon
Zürich Hardbrücke
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Zürich Stadelhofen
Zürich Tiefenbrunnen
Zollikon
Küsnacht Goldbach
Küsnacht ZH
Erlenbach ZH
Winkel am Zürichsee
Herrliberg-Feldmeilen
Meilen
Rolling stock
all services are operated with RABe 514 class trains.
Scheduling
The normal frequency is one train every 30 minutes. A journey between Zurich Airport and Herrliberg-Feldmeilen takes 34 minutes, with an additional 7 minutes when extended to Meilen. Between Zürich Oerlikon and Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, the S16 combines with the S6 to provide a frequency of one train every 15 minutes.
History
Prior to a change in late 2015, the S16 extended beyond Zürich Flughafen to Effretikon, with alternate trains extended to Thayngen, in the canton of Schaffhausen, running via Winterthur Hauptbahnhof and Schaffhausen. In 2015, service over this stretch of the route was transferred to the S24 service, and the S16 cut back to the airport.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV official website: Routes & zones
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Canton of Schaffhausen
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Council%20on%20Learning | The Canadian Council on Learning was a channel for lifelong learning, encouraging and supporting data-based decisions about learning during all stages of life, from early childhood through to the senior years. The organization received about 85% of its funding from the Government of Canada, which announced in January 2010, that it was not renewing its funding. The organization's website is no longer available.
History
In late 2002, the Government of Canada proposed the creation of an institution that would "work with Canadians, provinces, sector councils, labour organizations and learning institutions to create the skills and learning architecture that Canada needs," including "building our knowledge and reporting to Canadians about what is working and what is not". In November 2002, at the National Summit of Innovation in Toronto, educational leaders from across Canada identified "lifelong learning" as a priority for Canada. It was then that CCL was announced as the "Canadian Learning Institute" (then changed to "Canadian Council on Learning")—an organization with the objective of linking all facets of lifelong learning to be funded by the Government of Canada.
Functions
CCL reports frequently on the position and progress of learning in Canada. CCL provides advice on what is presently working and what areas need improvement. CCL provides evidence-informed information that allows Canadians to make knowledgeable decisions about learning of all kinds.
Reports and research material
CCL produces a wide variety of material to aid researchers and policy-makers working in the realm of Canadian education.
Composite Learning Index (CLI): An Index used to develop links between learning conditions and economic and social outcomes in Canada.
Annual Report on the State of Post-secondary Education in Canada: This annual report focuses on the state of post-secondary education (PSE) across Canada.
Annual Report on the State of Learning in Canada (SOLR): An annual report that attempts to provide Canadians with information pertaining to learning throughout various stages of life.
Redefining How Success Is Measured in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Learning: Developed in collaboration with various Aboriginal organizations, this report attempt to address the means by which Aboriginal learners are assessed.
Reading the Future: Planning to meet Canada's future literacy needs: Forecasts the state of adult literacy in Canada using a statistical tool called Projecting Adult Literacy: Measuring Movement (PALMM).
Health Literacy: In 2008, the CCL released Health Literacy: A Healthy Understanding: A report pertaining to the importance of literacy to the well-being of Canadians.
Lessons in Learning: A series of articles pertaining to lifelong learning in Canada. Since 2005 the CCL produced more than 50 articles.
References
Educational organizations based in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20E.%20Webber | Richard E. Webber is a retired United States Air Force major general. He was the first commander of the Twenty-Fourth Air Force, which is focused on cyberspace operations. The Twenty-Fourth Air Force is located in San Antonio, Texas, and stood up in place of the originally proposed larger Major Command organization, Air Force Cyber Command. Webber graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975 and has worked in the space and missile career field.
Assignments
February 1976 – October 1980, missile combat crew member, instructor missile deputy combat crew commander, instructor missile combat crew commander, wing emergency war order planner and instructor, and emergency rocket communication system emergency war order instructor, 351st Strategic Missile Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri
October 1980 – October 1981, Air Staff Training Program officer, Strategic Missile Division and Force Analysis Division, Air Force Studies and Analysis, Washington, D.C.
November 1981 – August 1984, Chief, Future Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Systems Branch, Directorate of Plans and Operations, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, Nebraska
August 1984 – June 1985, student, College of Command and Staff, Naval War College, Newport, R.I.
June 1985 – April 1989, missile operations staff officer, Strategic Offensive Force Division, Air Force Plans Directorate, Washington, D.C.
April 1989 – July 1991, Commander, 508th Strategic Missile Squadron, Whiteman AFB, Missouri
August 1991 – August 1992, student, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C.
August 1992 – July 1994, Chairman, Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency, and Chief, Systems Interoperability Branch, Headquarters North Atlantic Treaty Organization and International Military Staff, Brussels, Belgium
July 1994 – July 1995, Commander, 341st Support Group, Malmstrom AFB, Montana
July 1995 – July 1996, Commander, 341st Operations Group, Malmstrom AFB, Montana
July 1996 – October 1997, Commander, 321st Missile Group, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota
October 1997 – June 1999, Vice Commander, Aerospace Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center, Langley AFB, Virginia
June 1999 – April 2001, Commander, 50th Space Wing, Schriever AFB, Colorado
April 2001 – April 2002, Inspector General, Air Force Space Command, Peterson AFB, Colorado (October 2001 – March 2002, Assistant Combined Air Operations Center Director for Space and Information Warfare, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia)
April 2002 – August 2002, Deputy Director, Operations, Headquarters AFSPC, Peterson AFB, Colorado
August 2002 – February 2003, Director, Communications and Information Systems, and Chief Information Officer, Headquarters AFSPC, Peterson AFB, Colorado
February 2003 – March 2004, Director, Logistics and Communications, Chief Information Officer and Chief Sustainment Officer, Headquarters AFSPC, Peterson AFB, Colo. (March 2003 – May 2003, Deputy Dire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pilgrim%27s%20Progress%20%28film%29 | The Pilgrim's Progress is a 2019 American computer-animated Christian fantasy adventure film written and directed by Robert Fernandez and featuring the voices of David Thorpe, John Rhys-Davies and Kristyn Getty. It is based on John Bunyan's 1678 novel The Pilgrim's Progress.
Plot
In the realm of Apollon past the garden of four rivers and in the region of Abaddon, there stood an old city named NotCursed, where Apollyon, the master of corruption, constantly monitors his workers.
One day, an employer discovers that an employee is missing, and immediately reports it to his superior. Coming to his home, they discover drawings that are both frightening and reassuring. Christian is there among them, learns that the employee in question is called Faithful, and he leaves for the Celestial City, located beyond the borders.
That very evening, Christian is awakened by a nightmare, he looks at the book he found in Faithful's office. He is utterly amazed by this famous book, he no longer pays any attention to everything that is happening around him. Convinced of what he writes there, he warns his family to flee together from this corrupt city doomed to destruction. Not credulous, his wife laughs and dumps him that this book is just a tale.
Disappointed, because his wife refused to come with him, nevertheless he is determined to take the path that Faithful had followed. Evangelist comes to help him and encourages him to go straight ahead without turning away. On the way, Christian comes across Pliable, who agrees to follow him because he is totally obsessed with his marvelous proposals. Quickly the both men are put to the test, they fall in the swamp of Despondency, Pliable gives up. Christian escapes, saved by “You Called”. The latter informs that hardships await him.
Arrived in a forest, a man with a top hat, looking like a clown, making appear gold coins, silver, precious stones, indicates to Christian the path he has to follow ignoring the advice given by Evangelist. Christian follows his advice, he arrives in a village called Morality where the law [of Moses] reigns, he unfortunately cannot obey it for there are too many. Evangelist comes to his aid, explaining to him that the law cannot lead him to the Celestial City, nor free him. Such remarks only anger the Morality, which wants to overwhelm them both, but fail.
Christian again follows the advice of Evangelist, he continues on his way. He is attacked by bats, he is saved by the Gatekeeper. That very evening, he is led by fireflies to a house where the Interpreter resides. She explains to him that all people who wish to follow the path of light will be protected throughout their peregrination provided they persevere.
On the path of patience, Christian felt unshackled from the burdens. Heralds of the King appear to him and congratulate him that henceforth he belongs to the Celestial City, they give him a new garment. Vigilant invites him to spend a night at his house, introduces him to his four dau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Royal%20Pains%20episodes | Royal Pains is a medical comedy-drama television series that premiered on USA Network on June 4, 2009. The series stars Mark Feuerstein as a young doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for an important patient's death, moves to The Hamptons and becomes a reluctant concierge doctor to the rich and famous. A Royal Pains two-hour movie aired on Sunday, December 16, 2012. In November 2014, the network renewed the series for seasons 7 and 8, with each season consisting of eight episodes. The seventh season premiered on June 2, 2015. The eighth and final season began on May 18, 2016, and ended on July 6, 2016.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010–11)
Season 3 (2011–12)
Royal Pains was renewed for a third season of 16 to 18 episodes on September 27, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=Seidman|first=Robert|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/09/27/royal-pains-white-collar-psych-all-renewed/65428|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222173454/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/09/27/royal-pains-white-collar-psych-all-renewed/65428|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 22, 2010|title=Royal Pains,' 'White Collar,' & 'Psych''' All Renewed|work=TV by the Numbers|date=September 27, 2010|accessdate=February 23, 2011}}</ref> The season has included two guest appearances by Ed Asner, who played the Lawson brothers' grandfather, Ted Roth. The season also saw the return of Libby (Meredith Hagner) and Jack (Tom Cavanagh). Additional guest stars included Shiri Appleby, Julie Benz, Joanna Gleason, Tony Hale, Greg Jennings, David Rasche, and Molly Sims. The first half of the season, consisting of 10 episodes, concluded on August 31, 2011, while the remaining six episodes began airing on January 18, 2012.
Season 4 (2012)
The series was renewed for a sixteen-episode fourth season by USA Network on September 15, 2011. Campbell Scott and Brooke D'Orsay, who play Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz and Paige Collins, respectively, joined the main cast. Henry Winkler returned to the series as Eddie R. Lawson, Hank and Evan's father. Ben Shenkman appeared in multiple episodes as Dr. Jeremiah Sacani, Hank's replacement, and then co-doctor, at HankMed. Timothée Chalamet appeared in multiple episodes as Jill's nephew, Luke. Donal Logue appeared in two episodes as Ernie, Jill's brother. Kat Foster appeared in several episodes as Harper Cummings, a doctor Hank is set up with by one of his patients. The first episode was written by series creator Andrew Lenchewski. Alexa Vega appeared in the second episode of the season. Judy Greer appeared in one episode as Veronica Sullivan, a matchmaker who is treated by Hank.
Season 5 (2013)
Season five of Royal Pains premiered on June 12, 2013. Ben Shenkman (Dr. Jeremiah Sacani) was added as a series regular this season. Frances Conroy guests stars in a multi-episode arc as a wealthy socialite who attempts to prevent HankMed operating in her neighborhood. Laura Benanti appears in multiple epis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Elbl%C4%85g | The Elbląg tram system is the tram network in Elbląg, Poland. Operating since 1895, the system is operated by Tramwaje Elbląskie Sp. z o.o., and is integrated into the (ZKM Elbląg). The system currently has 5 lines with a total length of . Elbląg's tram network is the second oldest tram system in Poland (after Warsaw's).
Lines
1: Druska - Grunwaldzka - 1-go Maja - Pocztowa - Browarna - Obrońców Pokoju - Płk. Dąbka - Ogólna - Ogólna
2: Druska - Grunwaldzka - 1-go Maja - Pocztowa - Królewiecka - Marymoncka
3: Saperów - Bema - Grobla św. Jerzego - 1-go Maja - Pocztowa - Browarna - Obrońców Pokoju - Płk. Dąbka - Ogólna - Ogólna
4: Druska - Grunwaldzka - Grota Roweckiego - 12 Lutego - Płk. Dąbka - Ogólna - Ogólna
5: Saperów - Bema - Grobla św. Jerzego - Grota Roweckiego - 12 Lutego - Płk. Dąbka - Ogólna - Ogólna
Rolling stock
Historic trams:
Elblag
Elbląg
Metre gauge railways in Poland
Elblag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ART%20Teenz | ART Teenz (; originally ART 3 and ART Children) was one of the first children's channel in the Arab world (before Spacetoon), and part of the ART Network. The channel aimed to contribute to the upbringing of Arab children, by providing them with knowledge, experience, innovation, and awareness of what went on in the world at the time.
The channel provided a great number of Arabic cultural and educational programmes, as well as a big selection of children's television series, of both U.S. and European origins, dubbed in the Arabic language.
History
ART Teenz's provided modern religious programmes, scientific films and Arab-themed cartoons. The channel ceased operations on after it first launched.
Arab mass media
Children's television networks
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-layer%20framing | Application-layer framing or application-level framing (ALF) is a method of allowing an application to use its semantics for the design of its network protocols.
This procedure was first proposed by D. D. Clark and David L. Tennenhouse. It works as follows:
The application splits the data into useful segments.
These segments are called ADUs (application data units).
The ADUs can be processed in any order.
The lower layers keep the ADU borders.
This procedure simplifies the quality of service negotiation and provides a simpler method of error checking.
The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is an example of where the semantics of the real-time application are used to segment the data.
References
See also
Frame (networking)
Head-of-line blocking
Reliable byte stream
Telecommunications engineering
Internet architecture
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Muslim%20Schools | The Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) is a global network of Muslim faith-based educational institutes.
The Association supports and develops full-time Muslim Schools. The Association facilitates:
Educator development workshops
Inter-school events
Olympiads
Conferences
among its member schools.
AMS is a nationally recognized organization within the independent schooling structure in the countries in which it exists. The organizations also serves on the regional and national educational structures as well as a voice within the media.
AMS (South Africa)
AMS-SA was formed in March 1989, at Al Falaah College, known as Lockhat Islamia College at the time. The primary members of the association were: Habibiya Islamic College, Lockhat Islamia College, Roshnee Muslim School, As-Salaam, Lenasia Muslim School and Nur-ul-Islam School. The association was formally launched on 13 May 1989 during the first AMS conference at Lenasia Muslim School. AMS was mandated to facilitate the following:
Administrative collaboration
Educator development workshops
Evaluation/moderation of final examination papers
Inter-school sports
Subject-based workshops
A community outreach programme
AMS-SA has grown steadily over the years. The Annual General Meeting and Teachers' Conference has attracted many prominent personalities from the educational field over the years. The Association further has a Managers' Conference and a Principals' Forum that engage at a regular basis. Currently, the Association consists of 68 schools nationally. It is further recognized by and regularly engages with the national and provincial educational departments, South African Council for Teachers (SACE), Umalusi (National accreditation body for independent schools), Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA).
AMS (United Kingdom)
AMS-UK was established in 1992 to support and develop excellence in full-time Muslim schools in the UK. There are now over 130 full-time Muslim schools in the UK covering nursery, primary, secondary and further education.
Other Chapters
Association of Muslim Schools (Canada)
Association of Muslim Schools (South Africa)
References
External links
Association of Muslim Schools (South Africa)
Association of Muslim Schools (UK)
Al-Aqsa School Al-Aqsa School (South Africa)
Islamic schools
Islamic education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Emer | Joel S. Emer (born March 2, 1954) is a pioneer in computer performance analysis techniques and a microprocessor architect. He is currently a researcher at Nvidia, and a Professor of the Practice at MIT,
and was formerly an Intel Fellow. He was the 2009 recipient of the Eckert–Mauchly Award, an ACM/IEEE joint award for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture.
Emer received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Prof. Edward S. Davidson. His first job immediately after graduation was at Digital Equipment Corporation where he initially worked on VAX performance evaluation and then on Alpha performance evaluation. As a consequence of his performance evaluation work, he became a pioneer in the quantitative approach to computer architecture. In conjunction with the development and application of various performance analysis techniques, he contributed a variety of research and advanced development ideas that were incorporated into various VAX and Alpha designs.
He is well known, along with his co-author Douglas W. Clark, for a seminal paper on the quantitative analysis of processor architectures, which was published in the 11th International Symposium on Computer Architecture. That paper also contained the result that the VAX-11/780's performance was actually 0.5 MIPS instead of 1 MIPS as was previously claimed by DEC. That result helped popularize what Clark called the iron law of processor performance that related cycles per instruction (CPI), frequency and number of instructions to computer performance.
Emer has also contributed to simultaneous multithreading (SMT), memory dependence prediction via store sets, and soft error analysis, and led the development of the Asim simulator.
In 2020, Emer was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for quantitative analysis of computer architecture and its application to architectural innovation in commercial microprocessors.
References
Notes
Emer, Joel S.; Clark, Douglas W. (1984). "A characterization of processor performance in the VAX-11/780". Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. pp. 301–310.
Living people
1954 births
Purdue University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Digital Equipment Corporation people
Intel people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Computer hardware engineers
American electrical engineers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Nvidia people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri%20Urban%20Regions%20Platform%20Europe | Peri Urban Regions Platform Europe (PURPLE) is a network of European regions. It addresses the virtues and needs of the zone around the core cities of metropolitan areas. This peri-urban area is home to a large proportion of Europe's population and the location of companies from both the services and manufacturing sector, and of agriculture. PURPLE members feel that this zone is not addressed satisfactorily in European as well as national and regional plans and strategies.
See also
Peri-urbanisation
FEDENATUR - European Association of Periurban Parks
External links
http://www.purple-eu.org
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/08/261&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
https://web.archive.org/web/20110726041855/http://www.eurometrex.org/ENT1/FR/Members/member_profile.asp?Metro=Frankfurt -
http://www.crpm.org/pub/agenda/766_prsentation_heiko_kasseckert.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719150922/http://www.iro.ie/news/archives/2008/06/rural_aricultur.shtml
https://archive.today/20121218031842/https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/transparency/regrin/consultation/displaylobbyist.do?id=11397891124-13&locale=de
Euroregions
Metropolitan area networks
Metropolitan areas of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Muslim%20Schools%20%28SA%29 | The Association of Muslim Schools (SA) is a national network of Muslim Schools in South Africa.
The association consists of 68 schools nationally. AMS-SA encompasses both primary and high schools as well as independent and state-aided schools. It is active in 3 of 9 South African provinces.
History
AMS-SA was formed in March 1989 at Al Falaah College, known as Lockhat Islamia College at the time. The primary members of the association were:Habibiya Islamic College, Lockhat Islamia College, Roshnee Islamic School, As-Salaam, Lenasia Muslim School and Nur-ul-Islam School.
The association was formally launched on 13 May 1989 during the first AMS conference at Lenasia Muslim School.
AMS was mandated to facilitate the following:
Administrative collaboration
Educator development workshops
Evaluation/moderation of final examination papers
Inter-school sports
Subject-based workshops
A community outreach programme
AMS-SA has grown steadily over the years. The annual general meeting and teachers' conference has attracted many prominent personalities from the educational field over the years. The association further has a managers' conference and a principals' forum that engage at a regular basis.
Currently the association consists of 68 schools nationally. It is further recognized by and regularly engages with the national and provincial educational departments, South African Council for Teachers (SACE), Umalusi (National accreditation body for independent schools), Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA).
Chapters
AMS-SA comprises three chapters which meet annually at the National AMS AGM and Education Conference. Each chapter has the following member schools:
KwaZulu-Natal
Al Falaah College
As-Salaam Education Institute
Al-Azhar School of Durban
Anjuman School
Crescent Girls High
Hartley Road Primary
Ihsaan Boys College
Ihsaan Girl's College
Islamic College Newcastle
Islamic Education Centre
Islamia Muslim School
Juma Masjid Primary
Maritzburg Muslim School
Masakhane School
Mohammed Ebrahim Islamic School
Newcastle Islamic
Nizamia Islamic School
Orient Islamic School
Phoenix Muslim School
Pietermaritzburg Islamia
Port Shepstone Islamic School
Siratul Haq
South Coast Madressa Primary
Tongaat Islamic School
Umzinto Islamic School
Verulam Islamic School
Zakariyya Muslim School
Gauteng
Al-Nur Muslim School
Welkom Muslim School
Al- Aqsa School
Al Asr School
Al Azar School
Al Ghazali School
Azaadville Muslim School
Benoni Muslim School
Bosmont Muslim School
Central Islamic School
Eldorado Park Muslim School
Johannesburg Muslim School
Lenasia Muslim School
Markaz- Ad Dawah Al-Islamia
Nur-ul-Islam School
PMT Sunni School
Roshnee Islamic School
Sama School
Springs Muslim School
Tshwane Muslim School
Highveld Muslim School
Middleburg Muslim School
Northern Muslim School
Al-Huda Muslim School
Nurul Iman Muslim School
Western Cape
Nasruddin Islamic School
Al Azhar Primary School
Ambassador's College
Belhar Education College
Dar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshma%20Shetty | Reshma Shetty (born 2 November 1977) is a British-born American actress who is best known for her role as Divya Katdare on the USA Network TV series Royal Pains.
Early life
Shetty was born on 2 November 1977 to Hindu Indian parents in Manchester and moved to Richmond, Virginia at the age of 15. She originally studied pre-med at James Madison University, but success in vocal competitions prompted her to switch majors and graduate with a BM in opera performance. Shetty received her Master of Music in performance from the University of Kentucky before moving on to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she earned her artist diploma in opera in 2005.
Career
Shetty was cast as Priya, the female lead in the national tour of the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams in 2006. She also acted in the Off-Broadway play Rafta Rafta. She was a cast member on the American TV program Royal Pains portraying physician assistant Divya Katdare.
Shetty was also an occasional guest-panelist on the Fox News Channel satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld.
She starred as Queen Angella in the Netflix reboot She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
She is also the face of Dove moisturizer bar in India.
Personal life
Shetty currently resides in New York City, where they shot parts of Royal Pains. She is married to actor and financer Deep Katdare, who starred with her in Bombay Dreams. They married on March 19, 2011. She gave birth to their daughter Ariya Eliana on October 6, 2015.
Filmography
References
External links
Interview at WickedInfo.com
"Desis on Cable: Reshma Shetty and Danny Pudi": Interview in India Currents magazine by Ranjit Souri, November 2009
1977 births
Living people
Actresses from Kentucky
Actresses from Manchester
American actresses of Indian descent
American stage actresses
British emigrants to the United States
British stage actresses
James Madison University alumni
University of Cincinnati alumni
University of Kentucky alumni
21st-century American women
British people of Indian descent
British actresses of Asian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20F.%20Laposky | Benjamin Francis Laposky (1914 – 2000) was an American mathematician, artist and draftsman from Cherokee, Iowa. He has been credited with making the first computer graphics, utilizing an oscilloscope as the creation medium for abstract art. In 1953 he released what he called "Oscillons" (or oscillogram designs) along with a corresponding thesis entitled "Electronic Abstractions" via a gallery exhibition of fifty pictures of the same name at Sanford Museum in Cherokee. Laposky is often credited as the pioneer for electronic art, more specifically in the analog vector medium.
Early life
He was born September 30, 1914, on a farm south of Cherokee to Peter Paul and Leona Anastasia (Gabriel) Laopsky. His siblings were named George and Raymond. At age four, his family relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1931, Laposky's mother died. In 1932, Laposky graduated from St. Mary's High School and shortly thereafter, the family returned to Cherokee, where he began working as a sign painter and draftsman.
Career
Military service
Laposky joined the United States Army and was inducted into Fort Des Moines in 1942. He scored 134 in his army general classifications test, which placed him up in the upper give percent of what the army classified as "the ability to learn rapidly"; his mechanical aptitude test was 145. He was sent overseas with the 43rd Infantry division headquarters general staff section (G-3) assigned as a map draftsman (T-4).
As a technical sergeant, he was wounded in the right foot during a Japanese bombing raid at Rendona Island, Solomon Islands, (New Georgia Munda airfield campaign) in July 1943 (for which he received the Purple Heart). He spent 10 months in army hospitals in New Zealand and Alabama. He was discharged with disability in May 1944 after two years of service, returning to his home in Cherokee, Iowa.
Art
Laposky returned to his original work, but was no longer able to climb ladders as is required by a sign painter, so he focused on lettering smaller cards and draftsman and student of mathematics, providing many Magic Number Squares to the Ripley's Believe it or Not! syndicated newspaper feature. He owned a sign shop in Iowa and dabbled in art in his spare time. Envisioning "painting with light". He took extension courses in elementary drafting from the University of Chicago.
Electronic Abstractions
In 1946, Laposky began working with photographic pendulum tracings and harmonograph machine patterns.
In 1947, he read an article in Popular Science which proposed the use of television testing equipment, such as oscilloscopes, to generate simple decorative patterns, based on in formula similar to that which governs pendulum curves. This stoked his imagination and he began to investigate the proposal.
In 1950, Laposky used a cathode ray oscilloscope with sine wave generators and various other electrical and electronic circuits to create abstract art, so called by the artist, "electrical compositions". These electrical vib |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasta%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: A Place in Your Heart / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Puno Parungao, it stars Arra San Agustin in the title role. It premiered on October 7, 2019 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Dahil sa Pag-ibig. The series concluded on February 21, 2020 with a total of 100 episodes. It was replaced by Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Audrey Segundo, who almost gives up on her aspirations after getting sent back to the Philippines meets Sean Ledesma, whom will be abandoned by his wife, Katharine Viduya and their kids. Audrey will help him move on and they will eventually fall in love. Katherine will eventually return in Sean's life to get his money, which will lead to the clash between Katherine and Audrey.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Arra San Agustin as Audrey Segundo-Ledesma / Rachel Cruz
Supporting cast
Juancho Trivino as Sean Ledesma
Thea Tolentino as Katharine Viduya-Ledesma / Kara Santos / Sylvia
Gladys Reyes as Elizabeth Ledesma
Manilyn Reynes as Grace Segundo
Almira Muhlach as Shirley Viduya
Phytos Ramirez as David Generoso
Divine Aucina as Deborah "Debbie" Torres
Ahron Villena as Gian Fontanos
Isabelle de Leon as Judy Villas
Kelvin Miranda as Barry Segundo
Faye Lorenzo as Joan
Anjo Damiles as George
Guest cast
Alice Dixson as Angelina Cruz
Zachie Rivera as Lauren V. Ledesma
Jom Manzala as Timothy V. Ledesma
Herlene Budol as Sandy Escudero
Kristina Paner as Rita
Sue Prado as Beth
Kevin Sagra as Jason
Bryan Benedict as Elvis
Jeremy Sabido as Gareth
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in Television Homes, the final episode of earned a 7.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2019 Philippine television series debuts
2020 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation%20statistics | This page shows statistical data on irrigation of agricultural lands worldwide.
Irrigation is the artificial abstraction of water from a source followed by the distribution of it at scheme level aiming at application at field level to enhance crop production when rainfall is scarce.
Irrigated area
The appended table gives an overview of irrigated areas in the world in 2003
Only the countries with more than 10 million ha of irrigated land are mentioned.
(*) Including India, China and Pakistan
There are 4 countries with 5 to 10 million ha irrigated land: Iran (7.7), Mexico (6.3), Turkey (5.1), and Thailand (5.0).
The 16 countries with 2 to 5 million ha irrigated land are: Bangladesh (4.7), Indonesia (4.5), Russia (4.5), Uzbekistan (4.3), Spain (3.8), Brazil (3.5), Iraq (3.5), Egypt (3.4), Romania (3.0), Vietnam (3.0), Italy (2.8), France (2.6), Japan (2.6), Australia (2.6), Ukraine (2.3), and Kazakhstan (2.1)
See also List of countries by irrigated land area
Area per application method at field level
94% of the application methods of irrigation water at field level is of the category surface irrigation, whereby the water is spread over the field by gravity.
Of the remaining 6%, the majority is irrigated by methods requiring energy, expensive hydraulic pressure techniques and pipe systems like sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation, for the major part in the USA. The source of irrigation water in these cases often is groundwater from aquifers. However, the exploitation of aquifers can also be combined with surface irrigation at field level.
In relatively small areas one applies subirrigation whereby the water infiltrates into the soil below the soil surface from pipes or ditches. This category includes tidal irrigation used in the lower part of rivers where the tidal influence is felt by permitting the river water to enter ditches at high tide and allowing it to infiltrate from there into the soil
In relative rare cases one uses labor-intensive methods like irrigation with watering-cans and by filling dug-in porous pots (pitcher irrigation) from where the water enters the soil by capillary suction.
Surface irrigation can be divided into the following types, based on the method by which water is spread over the field after it has been admitted through the inlet:
spate irrigation (in Pakistan called Rod Koh), which may occur in hilly regions in dry zones where small rivers produce spate floods; ditches and bunds are built to guide the water to the fields to be irrigated; the number of fields irrigated at each flood event depends on the duration and intensity of the flood. The sailaba system in Balochistan is an example
flood-plain irrigation, which may occur in dry zones in larger river plains, where the river has high discharges during a short season only. Bunds are constructed to retain the river floods and the lands are being planted to crops when the floods recede (flood recession cropping). The molapos in the Okavango inland delta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFW%20Diaries | OFW Diaries is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Kara David, it premiered on March 13, 2009, replacing Emergency. The show concluded on January 14, 2011, with a total of 104 episodes. It was replaced by Tunay na Buhay in its timeslot.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the final episode of OFW Diaries scored a 2.1% rating.
References
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20MPC%20Computers%20Bowl | The 2006 MPC Computers Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game held on December 31, 2006 at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The game featured tie-ins between the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) which was represented by the Miami Hurricanes and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), represented by the Nevada Wolf Pack. The game was sponsored by the MPC Corporation which was formerly known as Micron.
Team comparison
Pre-season the ACC media favored Miami to win the conference but Miami posted a 6–6 record in the regular season. A brawl during the FIU game and the murder of defensive lineman Bryan Pata also marred the season. Miami fired head coach Larry Coker at the end of the season and named defensive coordinator Randy Shannon as his successor to take effect after the bowl game. The Hurricanes were ranked the third-best rushing defense in the nation, having allowed 792 yards on the ground. The Miami secondary, however, had proven somewhat porous by allowing 2,233 passing yards. The Hurricanes offense had struggled and quarterback Kyle Wright had thrown eight touchdowns and seven interceptions. He suffered a broken thumb and was replaced late in the season by Kirby Freeman for the last three games. Freeman threw for five touchdowns and seven interceptions. On the ground, Miami gained 2,295 rushing yards.
Nevada, led by long-time head coach Chris Ault had performed according to expectations during the season, finishing the regular season 8–4. Quarterback Jeff Rowe passed for over 2,000 yards and a completion rate of 64.7%, but had also suffered 25 sacks. The Wolf Pack recorded 2,128 rushing yards, led by Robert Hubbard and Luke Lippincott. The Nevada defense recorded 19 interceptions to tie for eighth in the nation and allowed an average of 19 points per game.
Game summary
Miami tallied first when Kirby Freeman led a 70–yard, 13–play drive capped with a one–yard quarterback keeper. With five seconds remaining in the first quarter, Nevada recorded a safety by forcing Freeman to intentionally ground the ball. In the second quarter, Jeff Rowe connected with receiver Marko Mitchell for a 27–yard touchdown, but a two-point conversion attempt failed. In the following possession, an 80–yard, four-play Miami drive culminated with a 52–yard Freeman pass to Ryan Moore. With five seconds remaining in the half, Nevada kicker Brett Jaekle made good a 33–yard field goal attempt. Miami led at halftime, 14–11.
In the third quarter, Jaekle connected on a second 31–yard field goal to equalize the score. On the first play of their next possession, Freeman completed a pass to Sam Shields for a 78–yard touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Jaekle made 44– and 40–yard field goals to close the deficit to one-point. In the final minute, defensive back Chavez Grant intercepted a pass from Jeff Rowe on the Hurricane 33–yard line to seal the victory for Miami, 21–20.
References
MPC Computers Bowl
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Miami Hurricanes football bowl games
Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20%28ZVV%29 | The S3 is a regional railway service of the Zürich S-Bahn on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), the Zürich transportation network. It is operated by Swiss Federal Railways.
Route
The core of the service links Wetzikon, in the east of the canton of Zürich, and Zürich Hardbrücke, in central Zürich. This core service runs via the Hinwil–Effretikon line, joining the Winterthur–Zürich line at Effretikon. It then runs via the Zürichberg Tunnel and stopping at Zürich Stadelhofen and Zurich Hauptbahnhof. During peak hours service continues north via the Oerlikon–Bülach railway to .
The following stations are served:
Route map
History
Up until December 2018, the S3 operated via the Zürich–Baden railway as far as Dietikon, instead of turning north to Bülach. Alternate trains continued further along the Zürich to Olten line, from Dietikon to Aarau, in the canton of Aargau. An extended replaced the S3 between Hardbrücke and Aarau.
Rolling stock
all services are operated Re 450 class locomotives pushing or pulling double-deck passenger carriages.
Scheduling
Over the core route between Wetzikon and Hardbrücke, the normal frequency is one train every 30 minutes. A limited number of trains operate to and from Bülach during peak hours. A journey over the full length of the service takes 60 minutes.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Transport in Aargau
Transport in the canton of Zürich
Wetzikon
Dietikon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Information%20Network%20Architecture | Global Information Network Architecture (GINA) is a software framework that bridges the symbolic and the connectionist representations of the world through executable conceptual models. Declarative contextual, causal, behavioral, and adaptive models for computational inferencing, analysis, and control can run and adapt based on the changing context of data-in-motion. This patented software technology enables the processing and the orchestration of context and causality for counterfactual analysis, decision support, and learning machines – addressing key roadblocks in the continued evolution of current AI, interoperability, and system-of-systems solutions.
Vector Relational Data Modeling (VRDM) is an object-based modeling language that differs significantly from traditional object-oriented software descriptions. A key goal of VRDM is to enable the definition of executable models. This means that the modeling constructs need to be capable of fully specifying the runtime structure of an application. One way VRDM achieves this is by introducing the notion of a Vector, which allows the participants in object relationships to be determined dynamically, as the model executes. This and the other core object-based constructs that make up the VRDM modeling language are combined through configuration, and not coding, to make possible software applications that are executable models and that are interpreted dynamically, just-in-time, just-in-context, and just-in-state.
The computational model underlying the GINA software was designed to facilitate a new type of Global Information Grid (GIG) for US security and defense Net-Centric Operations. In 2004, The GINA research and development team was convened under a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California and XSLENT LLC. XSLENT LLC contributed the patented executable component based modeling environment technology with NPS providing leadership and implementation sponsorship. The project was called Network Aware Business Data Management System (NABDMS). In late 2008, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) began a second phase of the project under CRADA with Big Kahuna Technologies LLC, the current IP holders for the GINA technology. The GINA environment has been implemented to become a High Level Architecture (HLA) for System Fusion Networks (SFN) as an interoperable and multi-level security ("MLS") engine. because it uses Vector Relational Data Modelling (VRDM), a configurable, component based object model (CBOM) for managing data. GINA combines development, control and application. A third phase of the technology's evolution and implementations in support of US national security is underway with a CRADA with the Joint Staff of the Department of Defense for high-priority needs related to integration, system orchestration, sensor fusion, network convergence, c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20User | Ubuntu User is a paper magazine that was launched by Linux New Media AG in May 2009.
The publication is aimed at users of the Ubuntu operating system and focuses on reviews, community news, how to articles and troubleshooting tips. It also includes a Discovery Guide aimed at beginners.
Background
Ubuntu User is published quarterly. The paper magazine is supported by a website that includes a selection of articles from the magazine available to the public as PDFs, Ubuntu news and free computer wallpaper downloads.
Issue number one consisted of 100 pages (including covers) and in its North American edition had a cover price of US$15.99 and Cdn$17.99. Each issue also includes an Ubuntu live CD in the form of a DVD that new users can use to try out Ubuntu or to install it.
Linux New Media is headquartered in Munich, Germany and has offices of its US subsidiary, Linux New Media USA, LLC, in Lawrence, Kansas. The company also publishes Linux Magazine, LinuxUser, EasyLinux in German, and Linux Community.
Reception
In announcing the launch of the magazine, the company said:
DistroWatch questioned the wisdom of launching a new paper magazine at this point in history:
See also
Full Circle Magazine
References
External links
Computer magazines published in Germany
Linux magazines
Magazines established in 2009
Magazines published in Munich
Ubuntu
2009 establishments in Germany
Quarterly magazines published in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD%20Podhigai | DD Podhigai is Doordarshan's Tamil language channel. It is broadcast both terrestrially and via satellite.
History
Doordarshan Kendra Chennai's Regional satellite Network, DD-5, was launched on 15 April 1993. This service is viewed in India and some parts of the world. DD-5 took a new identity in Tamil and was renamed DD Podhigai on 15 January 2000. Doordarshan Kendra, Chennai was inaugurated on 15 August 1975.
History of channel name
The name Podhigai was suggested by the viewers themselves. It is named after Podhigai Hills situated in Tirunelveli district. This hill range is part of Western Ghats of Southern India. This hill range is famous for its association with Sage Agastya. Legend has it that Agastya created Tamil in this hill. Thamirabarani River originates here.
Programmes
The channel offers a variety of programmes with films, infotainment programmes, news and current affairs being most prominent. Serial programming was discontinued in 2015. It is the only regional language satellite channel with terrestrial transmission. Terrestrial transmission is limited to major cities in Tamil Nadu.
See also
DD Chennai
List of programs broadcast by DD National
All India Radio
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
DD Direct Plus
List of South Asian television channels by country
Media in Chennai
References
External links
Doordarshan Official Internet site
Doordarshan news site
An article at PFC
Television stations in Chennai
Foreign television channels broadcasting in the United Kingdom
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Indian direct broadcast satellite services
Doordarshan
1993 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20%28disambiguation%29 | A reference is a relationship in which one object designates or links to another.
Reference or reference point may also refer to:
Reference (computer science)
Reference (C++)
Reference (film), a 1985 Bulgarian film
Reference, a citation, i.e., a link to a source of information
Reference, a person or employer who - either verbally or via a written letter of reference or recommendation letter - will attest to one's character or qualifications, e.g., for a board position, job, membership, residency, scholarship, school admission, etc.
Reference design, in engineering
Reference desk, in a library
Reference question, a concept in Canadian public law
Reference work, a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
Digital reference (also virtual reference)
Reference.com, an online reference source
Sense and reference (Bedeutung) or Reference, Frege's term for that which an expression designates
See also
Cross-reference
Refer (disambiguation)
Referee (disambiguation)
Referent
Reference point (disambiguation)
Self-reference
Terms of reference
For Wikipedia's reference guideline, see Wikipedia:Citing sources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MissingNo. | is a glitch and an unofficial Pokémon species found in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Due to the programming of certain in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo. via a glitch. It is one of the most famous video game glitches of all time. Encountering MissingNo. causes graphical anomalies and changes gameplay by increasing the number of items in the sixth entry of the player's inventory by 128.
This beneficial effect resulted in the glitch's coverage by strategy guides and game magazines, while game publisher Nintendo warned that encountering the glitch may corrupt players' game data. IGN noted MissingNo.'s appearance in Pokémon Red and Blue was one of the most famous video game glitches and commented on its role in increasing the series' popularity. Fans have attempted to rationalize and incorporate MissingNo. as part of the games' canon as an actual in-game character, and sociologists have studied its impact on both players and gaming culture as a whole. Additionally, references to the glitch and the circumstances around it have also appeared in other games, such as Vampire Survivors and The Binding of Issac.
History
Developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, the Pokémon series began in Japan in 1996 with the release of the Pokémon Red and Blue video games for the Game Boy. In these games, the player assumes the role of a Pokémon Trainer whose goal is to capture and train creatures called Pokémon. Players use the creatures' special abilities to combat other Pokémon, and certain abilities also grant new ways to navigate the game's world, such as instantaneous travel between two areas. The ultimate goal of the games is to complete the entries in the Pokémon index (Pokédex), a comprehensive Pokémon encyclopedia, by capturing, evolving, and trading to obtain creatures from all 151 Pokémon species.
MissingNo. is not an official Pokémon species that players are meant to encounter, but it is accessible to players in European and North American copies of the games via a glitch. Nintendo of America first documented the events that cause MissingNo. to appear in the May 1999 issue of Nintendo Power. The company warned that "any contact with it (even if you don't catch it) could easily erase your game file or disrupt your graphics". The glitch was not removed from the 2016 re-releases of Pokémon Red and Blue on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, so players can still encounter MissingNo. in these versions of the games.
Characteristics
A player can encounter a MissingNo. in Pokémon Red and Blue by following a series of steps. First, the player watches an in-game tutorial for Pokémon capture in the game's Viridian City location. Second, the player uses a Pokémon with the "Fly" move to instantly travel to the game's Cinnabar Island location. Finally, the player uses a Pokémon with the "Surf" move to travel up and down on the eastern shore of the island until a MissingNo. appears.
These events manipulate the game's random encounter sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Platform | People's Platform is an American public affairs series that aired on the CBS Television network from August 17, 1948 to August 11, 1950. Hosted by Quincy Howe, the series features debates on topical subjects.
Episodes and their status
December 16, 1949 - "What Future Course Should The Republican Party Take?"
Two episodes are known to survive at the Paley Center for Media, these date from January 24, 1949, and December 7, 1948, and are about military budget, and wage increases, respectively.
See also
1948-49 United States network television schedule
1949-50 United States network television schedule
References
External links
1948 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
CBS original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikeforce%3A%20Carano%20vs.%20Cyborg | Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg was a mixed martial arts event held by Strikeforce. It was held in San Jose, California on August 15, 2009. The event aired live on the Showtime cable network and marked the first time two women headlined a major MMA event.
Background
The main event featured Gina Carano taking on Cris Cyborg for the inaugural Strikeforce Women's Championship contested at .
Five five-minute rounds are now featured for the women's championship bout.
Joe Riggs pulled out of his bout with Nick Diaz on July 23, 2009, due to suffering an adverse reaction to a drug. Diaz was then slated to face Jay Hieron for the Welterweight Championship belt. However, Diaz missed a pre-fight drug test mandated by the California State Athletic Commission and was denied a license to compete. Diaz was replaced with former Ultimate Fighter contestant Jesse Taylor and the fight became a non-title bout.
Renato Sobral was set to face off against Gegard Mousasi at Affliction: Trilogy on August 1, 2009, but the match was scrapped following the cancellation of the event. The fight was instead moved to this event, and changed to a title fight for Strikeforce's Light-Heavyweight Championship belt, which was already held by Sobral.
Josh Thomson, who was set to unify his lightweight championship with interim champion Gilbert Melendez, was unable to do so because of an injury. Mitsuhiro Ishida replaced him and the bout was changed to an interim title bout for Melendez' belt.
A previously announced bout featuring Erin Toughill was called off. She became the reserve fighter in case either Gina or Cris were unable to fight.
The event drew an average of 576,000 viewers on Showtime.
Results
Reported payout
The following is the reported payout to the fighters as reported to the California State Athletic Commission. It does not include sponsor money or "locker room" bonuses.
Cris Cyborg ($25,000 – includes $5,000 win bonus) def. Gina Carano ($125,000)
Gegard Mousasi ($25,000 – no win bonus) def. Renato Sobral ($75,000)
Gilbert Melendez ($50,000 – no win bonus) def Mitsuhiro Ishida ($30,000)
Fabrício Werdum ($50,000 – includes $25,000 win bonus) def. Mike Kyle ($14,000)
Jay Hieron ($55,000 – includes $30,000 win bonus) def. Jesse Taylor ($12,000)
Scott Lighty ($4,000 – no win bonus) def. Mike Cook ($2,500)
Justin Wilcox ($5,000 – includes $2,500 win bonus) def. David Douglas ($5,500)
James Terry ($6,000 – includes $3,000 win bonus) def. Zak Bucia ($2,000)
Alex Trevino ($3,500 – includes $1,500 win bonus) def. Isaiah Hill ($2,000)
Ratings
The event averaged 576,000 viewers on the Showtime cable network. It peaked with 856,000 viewers for the night's main event between Carano and Justino. The Carano vs. Cyborg event set a new MMA ratings record for Showtime, eclipsing a card headlined with Kimbo Slice and Tank Abbott, which averaged 522,000 viewers. It also more than doubled Strikeforce's previous offering, Lawler vs. Shields, an event that averaged 275,000 viewers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K | Y2K may refer to:
Y2K problem, a computer issue related to the year 2000
Year 2K, the year 2000 ("Y" stands for "year", and "K" stands for "kilo-", which means "thousand")
Film and television
Y2K (1999 film), an American television film
Y2K (upcoming film), a disaster comedy film directed by Kyle Mooney
"Y2K" (Dilbert), a television episode
"Y2K" (My Name Is Earl), a television episode
"Y2K", a fictional rock band in Rugrats (2021 TV series)
Music
Y2K (record producer), American record producer
Y2K (album), by Beenie Man, 1999
Y2K: The Album or the title song, by Screwball, 2000
Y2K (EP), by Converge, 1999
Y2K HC Fest, now Fluff Fest, an annual hardcore punk festival in the Czech Republic
Other
Y2K Turbine Superbike, a turbine-powered motorcycle launched by MTT in 2000
Y2K, a Swedish designation for the DSB Class MF or IC3, a Danish-built train set
Y2K (Athoba, 'Sex Krome Aasitechhe'), a short film
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, an RPG video game by Ackk Studios
Y2K fashion, a design style, fashion style, and aesthetic that was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s
See also
Y2J (disambiguation)
Jackson Y2KV, a guitar designed by Dave Mustaine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Quick%20Search%20Box | Google Quick Search Box (GQSB) is an application launcher and desktop search tool developed by Google for Mac OS X computers. It allows users to search files, URLs, and contacts on their computer, as well as performing actions on the results.
History and status
GQSB was first released as a developer preview on January 12, 2009. It is still in beta, and a new version is released approximately monthly. The releases follow the sequence of chemical elements from the periodic table. The first public release was named Scandium and the current release is Cobalt. Like other Google products such as the Chrome browser, QSB is open-source software. However, just as with Chrome, Google distributes official builds with extra functionality. In the case of QSB, this includes plugin validation, auto-update, and Google-branded icons. Later it became a fully open source product, and just called Quick Search Box. In Mac OS X Snow Leopard, QSB has replaced Google Desktop.
Comparisons to other products
QSB is similar to another Google product, Google Desktop. However, there are several key differences between the two products:
Operating system compatibility: While Google Desktop is cross-platform, QSB is at present Mac-only software. Google currently has an app that allows users to search the web using the iPhone.
Search methodology: Google Desktop maintains its own index of files for searching. It also indexes Gmail messages. QSB uses macOS's built-in indexing technology, Spotlight. Because of this, QSB is less resource-intensive than Google Desktop. However, there are drawbacks. QSB does not support indexing of Gmail messages (because Spotlight doesn't), and some aspects do not function if Spotlight is disabled.
Search philosophy: Google Desktop offers a search-only paradigm. On the other hand, QSB allows actions to be defined, which can be applied to search result. For example, after locating a file in QSB, it is possible to select among "open," "get info," "move to trash" and other actions. In this respect, it is similar to another macOS software tool, Quicksilver. The developer of Quicksilver, Nicholas Jitkoff is employed by Google and is one of the lead developers of QSB.
Extensibility: Both QSB and Google Desktop offer plugin APIs. However, in QSB it is possible to add both search result plugins and action plugins (integrating with the actions described immediately above). Google indicates that there is more leeway to expand QSB.
Features
In addition to file search, QSB is distributed with a suite of plugins that allow additional functionality. These include:
Bookmarks from common browsers (Firefox, Camino, Safari)
Definitions from the operating system dictionary
Results of simple calculations
Integration with Google Documents and Picasa
Criticisms
Users have noted that the functionality as compared to Desktop is reduced, especially in the area of in-document text searching, Gmail message searching and web history searching.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbacterium | Microbacterium is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae. Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data.
Species
Microbacterium comprises the following species:
M. aerolatum Zlamala et al. 2002
M. agarici Young et al. 2010
M. album Yang et al. 2018
M. algeriense Lenchi et al. 2020
M. amylolyticum Anand et al. 2012
M. aoyamense Kageyama et al. 2006
M. aquimaris Kim et al. 2008
M. arabinogalactanolyticum (Yokota et al. 1993) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. arborescens (ex Frankland and Frankland 1889) Imai et al. 1985
M. arthrosphaerae Kämpfer et al. 2011
M. assamensis Kaur et al. 2011
M. atlanticum Xie et al. 2022
M. aurantiacum Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. aureliae Kaur et al. 2016
M. aurum Yokota et al. 1993
M. awajiense Kageyama et al. 2008
M. azadirachtae Madhaiyan et al. 2010
M. barkeri (Collins et al. 1983) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. binotii Clermont et al. 2009
M. bovistercoris Ling et al. 2019
M. caowuchunii Tian et al. 2021
M. chengjingii Zhou et al. 2021
M. chocolatum Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. cremeum Xie et al. 2022
M. deminutum Kageyama et al. 2006
M. deserti Yang et al. 2018
M. dextranolyticum Yokota et al. 1993
M. diaminobutyricum Fidalgo et al. 2016
M. enclense Mawlankar et al. 2015
M. endophyticum Alves et al. 2015
M. esteraromaticum (Omelianski 1923) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. excoecariae Chen et al. 2020
M. faecale Chen et al. 2016
M. fandaimingii Zhou et al. 2021
M. flavescens (Lochhead 1958) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. flavum Kageyama et al. 2008
M. fluvii Kageyama et al. 2008
M. foliorum Behrendt et al. 2001
M. gilvum Chen et al. 2016
M. ginsengisoli Park et al. 2008
M. ginsengiterrae Kim et al. 2010
M. gorillae Hadjadj et al. 2016
M. gubbeenense Brennan et al. 2001
M. halimionae Alves et al. 2015
M. halophilum Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. halophytorum Li et al. 2018
M. halotolerans Li et al. 2005
M. hatanonis Bakir et al. 2008
M. helvum Li et al. 2021
M. hibisci Yan et al. 2017
M. hominis Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. horti Akter et al. 2016
M. humi Young et al. 2010
M. hydrocarbonoxydans Schippers et al. 2005
M. hydrothermale Zhang et al. 2014
M. ihumii Yacouba et al. 2022
M. immunditiarum Krishnamurthi et al. 2012
M. imperiale (Steinhaus 1941) Collins et al. 1983
M. indicum Shivaji et al. 2007
M. insulae Yoon et al. 2009
M. invictum Vaz-Moreira et al. 2009
M. jejuense Kook et al. 2014
M. karelineae Zhu et al. 2021
M. keratanolyticum (Yokota et al. 1993) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. ketosireducens Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
M. kitamiense Matsuyama et al. 1999
M. koreense Lee et al. 2006
M. kribbense Dastager et al. 2008
M. kyungheense Kook et al. 2014
M. lacticum Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)
M. lacus Kageyama et al. 2008
M. lacusdiani Zhang et al. 2017
M. laevaniformans (ex Dias and Bhat 1962) Collins et al. 1983
M. lemovicicum Mondani et al. 2013
M. lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana%20Institute%20of%20Higher%20Studies | RANA University () is a higher education University in Afghanistan.
The University provides degrees in Information Technology (BIT), Software Engineering (BSE), Law (LLB), Political Science and Business Administration.
Classes in the business and computer departments are taught in English. Classes in other areas, such as those for the Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree and BJM (Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication), are taught in Dari.
See also
List of universities in Afghanistan
References
Universities and colleges in Kabul
Persian-language education
2009 establishments in Afghanistan
Educational institutions established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Electric | Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering internet transit, tools, and network applications, as well as data center colocation and hosting services at two locations in Fremont, California, where the company is based.
according to its own data, Hurricane Electric is the largest global IP network as measured by network adjacencies in both IPv4 and IPv6. It is also the second-largest global IPv6 network as measured by IPv6 prefixes announced, and the fifth-largest global IP network as measured by IPv4 prefixes announced, according to its own data.
IPv6
Hurricane Electric operates the largest Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) transit networks globally, as measured by the count of peering interconnections to other networks. The majority of these adjacencies are native IPv6 BGP sessions.
Hurricane Electric offers an IPv6 tunnel broker service, providing free connectivity to the IPv6 Internet via 6in4 IPv6 transition mechanisms. The company provides an online IPv6 certification program to further education and compliance in IPv6 technology. the company reports 61,367 provisioned tunnels spanning 179 countries via the IPv6 tunnel broker. 20,850 individuals in 166 countries have reached the highest level of the IPv6 certification.
Peering
Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to more than 305 major exchange points and exchanges IP traffic directly with more than 10,760 different networks. Hurricane Electric currently has 29+ Terabits per second active public peering capacity and 200+ Terabits per second active private peering capacity.
The European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) ranks Hurricane Electric first in the world for the number of connections to Internet exchange points, with presence at more than 155 of Euro-IX member IXPs.
Cogent dispute
There is a long-running dispute between the provider Cogent Communications and Hurricane Electric. Cogent has been refusing to peer settlement-free with Hurricane Electric since 2009.
References
External links
Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel broker service
Companies based in Fremont, California
Data centers
Internet service providers of the United States
Internet service providers
IPv6
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
American companies established in 1994
Technology companies established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSMP%20III | CSMP III, or Continuous System Modelling Program IlI is an early scientific computer software designed for modelling and solving differential equations numerically. This enables real-world systems to be simulated and tested with a computer.
Purpose
Since the early 1961s computer systems have been able to simulate real-world dynamic situations, such as the interaction between people in a public building such as an airport terminal. Models can be used to test the stresses imposed on an engineering structure without risk or construction cost. Modern uses include weather systems analysis and the effect on our planet Earth due to global warming. CSMP and its various versions were used extensively in the past when this software was first developed.
Structure
Like all computer programs its analytical and simulation programs are constructed from three general types of statements:
Structural statements, which define the model. They consist of FORTRAN-like programming language statements, and functional blocks of program code (procedures) designed for repeat operations that frequently occur in a model definition.
Data statements, which assign numerical values to various changing parameters, constants, and initial conditions.
Control statements, which specify options in assembly and execution of the program, and the choice of output of the results of the calculations performed.
Structural statements can make use of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation, using the same notation and syntax rules as are used in FORTRAN. If, for example, the model includes the equation
the following statement will be used to define the variables and calculus performed:
x=6.0*Y/W+(Z-2.0)**2.0
Randomisation
Random variation to values can be added to some parts of the model to simulate unpredictable behaviour patterns in dynamic wind-loaded structures, such as high-rise buildings or aircraft wing designs.
Modern variations
The earlier CSMP III text-based programming language has been superseded by variations such as APL and object oriented computer-language modelling versions of CSMP such as OOSCMP.
References
External links
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/stenstro/r/r1
Domain-specific programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2%20%28ZVV%29 | The S2 is a railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) transportation network, and is one of the network's services connecting the canton of Zürich with the cantons of Schwyz and St. Gallen.
Route
The service links Zurich Airport with Ziegelbrücke, a village and railway junction on the border between the cantons of St. Gallen and Glarus. On weekends, every other train continues to Unterterzen. From the airport, the service runs via Oerlikon and the Weinberg Tunnel to Zürich Hauptbahnhof. From Zürich Hauptbahnhof, the service uses the Lake Zürich left-bank railway line to Ziegelbrücke, stopping only at selected stations.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Route map
Rolling stock
all services are operated with RABe 514 class trains.
Scheduling
The train frequency is usually 30 minutes and the trip takes 65 minutes between Zürich Airport and Ziegelbrücke, and an additional 13 minutes from Ziegelbrücke to Unterterzen.
History
Originally, the S2 operated between Zürich airport and Ziegelbrücke. With the 15 June 2014 timetable change (opening of the Weinberg Tunnel), the route was lengthened to Unterterzen and services to stations between and Ziegelbrücke were suspended. The S27 (March shuttle), which is not part of the Zürich S-Bahn network (or the St. Gallen S-Bahn network), was introduced, replacing the S2 between Ziegelbrücke and Siebnen-Wangen (operates only during peak-hour).
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
Trams in Zürich
References
External links
ZVV
Zürich S-Bahn lines
Canton of Glarus
Canton of Schwyz
Transport in the canton of St. Gallen
Transport in the canton of Zürich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20on%20Broadway | Tonight on Broadway is a weekly television show that ran from 1948 to 1949 on the CBS Television network. It premiered locally in New York City on April 6, 1948, and became a network show on April 20, 1948.
Format
The show initially aired excerpts from Broadway shows live from the theaters in which they were playing, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes perspective via interviews with the shows' stars. When it returned in October 1949, the interviews had been eliminated, with the entire program allocated to scenes from the spotlighted Broadway production.
Schedule and hosts
Tonight on Broadway was broadcast from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays from April 6, 1948, until May 23, 1948, with Martin Gosch as the first host. John Mason Brown replaced him in that role on April 27, 1948. It returned on October 2, 1949, with Brown as host, running from 7 to 7:30 p.m. E. T. on Sundays until December 18, 1949.
Episodes and theaters
Other shows that were featured included Texas and Li'l Darlin'''. Other venues from which featured shows originated included the Mark Hellinger and Shubert theaters.
Production
Gosch was the producer, and Roland Gillette was one of the directors. Maxine Keith was the program coordinator. American Tobacco Company sponsored the first session, and Esso Standard Oil Company sponsored the 1949 version.
Critical response
Jack Gould's review in The New York Times called the network debut of Tonight on Broadway "a decided disappointment for a premiere which had been heralded as a 'milestone' in television.'" The review summed up the episode as essentially an advertising vehicle for Mr. Roberts (the featured play) and said, "certainly television merits a better fate than being used merely as an animated billboard." Gould wrote that televised scenes from the play demonstrated TV's potential to enable viewers to see live theater in their homes, and he noted the contrasts between theater and television with regard to "the absolute assurance and sense of presence" of the actors and the quality of the sets. He called some of the questions in the interview segments "silly" and suggested that Gosch should relinquish the host's role in order to concentrate more on his role as producer.
Kelly Kessler wrote in the book Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical, "Regardless of its longevity or apparent spotty quality, Tonight on Broadway brought viewers one step closer to Broadway."
A review in the New York Daily News said that the premiere episode "provided fine fodder for video fans" and commended Ben Sylvester for his work on the script. It said that the uneven nature of the production was "a minor defect, easily remedied". Overall, the review described the program as "a high-powered booster" for the theater, presenting enough of a sample of the play to make the audience want more.
John Crosby' review indicated that the show failed to achieve its goal of creating more demand for tickets to Broadway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20R.%20Meyer | Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer (born 1941) is Hitachi America Professor emeritus of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Biography
Meyer received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) faculty at MIT in 1969. Meyer became the Hitachi America Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in 1991. He retired from MIT in 2016.
Academic life
Meyer's seminal works include , which introduced the polynomial hierarchy. He has supervised numerous PhD students who are now famous computer scientists; these include Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, Jeanne Ferrante, Charles Rackoff, Larry Stockmeyer, David Harel, Joseph Halpern, and John C. Mitchell. He was the editor-in-chief of the international computer science journal Information and Computation from 1981 until 2020.
Awards
He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) since 1987, and he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2000.
Personal life
He is married to the computer scientist Irene Greif.
Publications
1991. Research Directions in Computer Science: An MIT Perspective. (Ed. with John Guttag, Ronald Rivest, and Peter Szolovits) MIT Press.
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References
External links
Meyer, Albert R. at MathSciNet
Albert Meyer papers, MC-0377. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1941 births
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Harvard University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TruTV%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | TruTV is/was a Latin American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Entertainment. The programming schedule is centred towards reality shows. It was launched on April 1, 2009 replacing Retro. It is divided in two feeds, one in Spanish language and another one in Portuguese language, for Brazil. In July 2010, an HD feed was launched.
On September 3, 2023, it was announced that TruTV would be replaced by 24/7 channel, Adult Swim on October 31.
On October 31, 2023, TruTV was replaced by the 24/7 Adult Swim Channel. There are some cable operators that haven’t yet switched to Adult Swim. The channel is in a loop from its yesterday schedule.
History
As Retro
The channel was launched as Retro in the region by "Claxson Interactive Group Latin America & Iberia" and aired classical series and movies. In 2007, it was bought, along with I.Sat and Space by Time Warner, but continued to air the same programming. On March 25, 2009, Turner Broadcasting System announced that "Retro" would be replaced by "truTV" on April 1, 2009 in order to get a new kind of audience. "truTV" is the first channel in the region to be 24-hours of investigation-based programming. All the programming from Retro was moved to Turner Classic Movies, also owned by Time Warner.
Transition to truTV
On April 1, 2009, at 8:30 am UTC Retro aired its last show, an episode of the classic animated series Robotech, called Symphony of Light. At 9:00 am UTC the channel changed to truTV. Since that date, the channel has been airing 24 hours without interruptions and in several countries of Latin America. The official website, however, was launched in June 2009, two months after the launch of the channel. truTV HD, a high-definition version of the channel was launched in July 2010.
In March 2015, the channel started broadcasting shows from the defunct Argentinian channel Infinito, after Turner decided to replace the channel with TNT Series due to low ratings.
In September 2016, the channel presents a new graphic image and a new logo.
Transition to Adult Swim
On September 3, 2023, it was announced that TruTV would be replaced by the 24/7 channel, Adult Swim on October 31.
At 12:00 a.m. in Mexico (UTC-6), at 2:30 a.m. in Chile (UTC-4), from October 31, 2023, TruTV was replaced by the 24/7 channel Adult Swim being truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... the last show broadcast in that feed, at 3:45 a.m. in Colombia (UTC-5), the last show to be broadcast, was South Beach Tow, also as 4:25 a.m. in Ecuador (UTC-5) being Hack My Life the last show broadcast in the Ecuatorian feed, and 6:09 a.m. in Argentina (UTC-3) the last show broadcast was Impractical Jokers and TruTV was replaced by the 24/7 channel Adult Swim after airing for 14 years.
Programming
The network has been adding more programming every month since its original launch.
Impractical Jokers
truTV Presents: World's Dumbest...
The Carbonaro Effect
Hack My Life
In Harm's Way
Ski Patrol
South Beach Tow
Most Shocking
Spee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Pablo%20Paz | Juan Pablo Paz (born 1959) is an Argentinian physicist that works in the field of quantum computing. A research scientist currently working at the University of Buenos Aires, he has also worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
Biography
Juan Pablo Paz was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires, where he got his Master and Ph.D. degrees and then worked as researcher, teacher, and director of the Physics department of his faculty.
He has worked as well in the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Between 1984 and 2004 he was married with Silvina Ponce Dawson (who is also a physicist) with whom he had two children.
Research
Paz has worked in the quantum theory of error correction, and has developed a number of techniques to correct errors in this kind of computers. He has also used quantum computer to simulate chaotic systems, in the context of chaos theory.
In 2002, alongside César Miguel and Marcos Saraceno, he developed a program that allows efficient spectroscopy and tomography using a quantum computer, establishing for the first time an analogy between these tasks.
Awards
Ernesto E. Galloni Award in Physics, 1994
International Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2001-2003
Guggenheim Fellow, 2004
W. Bessel Award, 2006. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Bunge & Born Foundation, 2010
TWAS Prize in Physics, 2012
Bernardo Houssay Award and Researcher of the Nation, 2014
References
External links
Un paso hacia la computación cuántica, Axxon, July 8, 2002 (spanish)
Nueva visita a las computadoras cuánticas, by Leonardo Moledo, Página 12, October 28, 2000 (spanish)
Personal website
2001 Lecture
Argentine physicists
1959 births
Living people
TWAS laureates
Santa Fe Institute people
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From | From may refer to:
From, a preposition
From (SQL), computing language keyword
From: (email message header), field showing the sender of an email
FromSoftware, a Japanese video game company
Full range of motion, the travel in a range of motion
Isak From (born 1967), Swedish politician
Martin Severin From (1825–1895), Danish chess master
Sigfred From (1925–1998), Danish chess master
From (TV series), a sci-fi-horror series that debuted on Epix in 2022 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickolas%20Davatzes | Nickolas Davatzes (March 14, 1942 – August 21, 2021) was an American television executive who was CEO Emeritus of A&E Networks. He created and developed two cable television networks: A&E and The History Channel. A&E was formed in 1983 through the merger of ABC and Hearst's ARTS Network and NBC's Entertainment Channel, creating a partnership as unlikely as it has been successful.
Career
The son of Greek immigrants, Davatzes was born and raised in New York City, and graduated from St. John's University, from which he received an honorary Ph.D. After 12 years with Xerox he was recruited to work for Gus Hauser at Warner Amex, which owned cable systems and programming services and where MTV and Nickelodeon were created. At Warner Amex Davatzes learned the basics of the cable business and helped develop some of the innovative cable systems that the company built in cities such as Dallas. He was given the experience of working with franchising, programming and building and running the interactive QUBE systems. He also touched on the activities of some of his colleagues such as Dick Aurelio and Larry Wangberg.
In 1983 he was recruited to run a merger between two failed cable networks: the Entertainment Network, owned by RCA and the Rockefeller family and the ARTS Network, owned by Hearst and ABC. Out of the wreckage of these he built the A&E Network, taking it to profitability in three years. Through the years he obtained distribution, product and establishing an identity for the new network with such hits as the Biography series, the Hornblower series, 100 Centre Street and A Nero Wolfe Mystery. In 1995 A&E launched a second network, The History Channel, which also proved to be a quick success with viewers and advertisers. Davatzes was also involved in many of the legislative battles the cable industry fought in Washington over the years.
Davatzes has been able to handle special issues attached to running a business owned by different partners for more than 17 years and has managed to keep all parties involved and satisfied. This has resulted in this team becoming the longest-running executive team in the television business. In recent years the cable company has also developed additional successful programming, including the Biography Channel, History Channel International and History Channel en Español.
To most observers, Nick appeared quiet and low-key, but he was passionate about his work and about social causes, especially education and job opportunities. He served on the board of St. John's University, whose mission is to educate the children of the poor. Forty percent of students there, he said, are from homes with an income of less than $30,000 annually. "We need more institutions like that," he believed.
The History Channel has created a resource website for history teachers.
Personal life
Davatzes grew up the son of Greek immigrants, on Eighth Avenue and 19th Street in New York's Chelsea district long before it was fashionable to liv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria%2C%20Middle-earth | In the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines and halls under the Misty Mountains, with doors on both the western and the eastern sides of the mountain range. Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings.
In much of Middle-earth's fictional history, Moria was the greatest city of the Dwarves. The city's wealth was founded on its mines, which produced mithril, a fictional metal of great beauty and strength, suitable for armour. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep for mithril, and disturbed a demon of great power: a Balrog, which destroyed their kingdom. By the end of the Third Age, Moria had long been abandoned by the Dwarves, and was a place of evil repute. It was dark, in dangerous disrepair, and in its labyrinths lurked Orcs and the Balrog.
Scholars have identified likely sources for Tolkien's Moria: he had studied a Latin inscription about a lost ring at the temple of Nodens in Gloucestershire, at a place called Dwarf's Hill full of old mine-workings. The name Moria, Tolkien wrote, echoed the name of a castle in a Norwegian folktale, while Gandalf's death and reappearance reminded critics of the resurrection and transfiguration of Jesus. The West Gate that the Watcher in the Water crashes closed behind the Fellowship recalled to commentators the Wandering Rocks of Greek mythology, and Odysseus's passage between the devouring Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis. Finally, the Fellowship's entry into the darkness via the deadly lake by the West Gate, and its exit into the light via the beautiful Mirrormere, alongside Gandalf's death and reappearance, has been compared to a baptism, a ceremony that combines a symbolic death and the gift of new life.
Moria provided dramatic scenes in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, inspired by Alan Lee's illustrations. Its multiple levels of tunnels and halls have served, too, as the basis for a variety of computer and board games.
Names
The name "Moria" means "the Black Chasm" or "the Black Pit", from Sindarin mor, "dark, black" and iâ, "void, abyss". The element mor had the sense "sinister, evil", especially by association with infamous names such as Morgoth and Mordor; indeed Moria itself had an evil reputation by the times in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set. The name Moria had (within the fiction) originally applied only to the Black Chasm itself. However, after the Dwarves were forced to abandon Khazad-dûm, its many lamps went out, and the whole subterranean complex became dark. Tolkien borrowed the name Moria itself, but not its meaning, from a book he had read.
Khazad-dûm is the name of the fabulous city-kingdom of the Dwarves, especially in a historical or nostalgic context. In the fictional history, Khazad-dûm was Moria's original |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SigmaNet | SigmaNet is the Academic Network Laboratory of the University of Latvia Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is also the Latvian NREN (National Research and Education Network), providing Internet services for the academic community in Latvia, including connectivity to the European network GÉANT, hosting, e-mail, data centre services, and grid resources.
History and re-organization
The Laboratory began operation in 1992 when it was known as LATNET. In 2006 the LATNET CERT team was established, dealing with computer security incidents mostly in the Latvian academic network.
In 2008 due to internal changes, the Latvian NREN was renamed to SigmaNet, but the CERT team was moved under the Network Solutions department (NIC) and placed in the country top level domain .lv registry. The name of the CERT team was changed to CERT NIC.LV. The constituency of the team was widened to include not only the academic network, but also other constituencies that have concluded cooperation agreement on incident response services.
Main activities
Research is one of the main SigmaNet’s activities. SigmaNet is participating actively in various European Commission, Structural funds and community funded projects. SigmaNet’s goal is to become the leading institution for implementation of research projects in the areas of computer network design and applications.
SigmaNet is also very active in various research projects (BalticGrid-II, GÉANT2, etc.) and task forces (TF-Storage, TF-CSIRT) related to network technologies and services, security, inclusiveness and other areas. It has been dealing with security related problems since 1992 when first activities in networking started.
SigmaNet is also one of the largest hosting companies in Latvia that offers e-mail services, web hosting, server collocation, Ultra DSL internet connection, virtual private server hosting, data storage and related services.
References
Communications in Latvia
Internet in Latvia
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaw%20sa%20Puso%20Ko | (International title: In My Heart / ) is a 2004 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ruel S. Bayani, it stars Nadine Samonte, Oyo Boy Sotto and James Blanco. It premiered on March 1, 2004 replacing Walang Hanggan on the network's afternoon line up. The series concluded on October 1, 2004 with a total of 153 episodes. It was replaced by Leya, ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Ilalim ng Lupa in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Nadine Samonte as Sofia
Oyo Boy Sotto as Anton
James Blanco as Alfie
Supporting cast
Charee Pineda as Mirasol
Rita Avila
Lotlot de Leon
Amy Perez
Ricardo Cepeda
Alicia Alonzo
Suzette Ranillo
Nina Medina
Gayle Valencia
John Medina
John Apacible
Ali Alejandro
Bettina Carlos
JJ Zamora
Malou Crisologo
Gay Balignasay
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walang%20Hanggan%20%282003%20TV%20series%29 | (International title: Eternity / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Valerie Concepcion and Oyo Boy Sotto. It premiered on November 10, 2003 replacing Hawak Ko ang Langit. The series concluded on February 27, 2004 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Ikaw sa Puso Ko in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Valerie Concepcion as Almira
Oyo Boy Sotto as Basti
Supporting cast
Iya Villania as Rachelle
Andrew Schimmer as Emil
Miko Sotto as Mike
Zoren Legaspi
Sharmaine Arnaiz
Perla Bautista
Mikel Campos
Marissa Sanchez
Teri Onor
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Asia%20Multimedia%20Network | All Asia Multimedia Network FZ-LLC is a foreign company in Malaysia. It is a content aggregation arm of the pan-regional pay-TV group Astro All Asia Networks plc.
External links
Astro All Asia Networks
Privately held companies of Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Switzerland%20Company | The West Switzerland Company (, OS) was a railway company in Switzerland, formed 1854 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railway in 1872. The OS built a railway network in western Switzerland and connected with France via Geneva in 1858, although Switzerland's first railway was the French Strasbourg–Basel Railway (French: Chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle), which connected Basel with Strasbourg, France in 1844.
History
In 1854, the Company of West Switzerland gained a concession from the canton of Vaud for the construction of a railway line from Lausanne to Yverdon, with a proposal to continue via Payerne and Murten to Bern. The extension of the route past Yverdon was delayed by the Oron rail dispute ()—a dispute between the canton of Fribourg and Vaud over the route of the railway between Bern and Lausanne. Fribourg sought a route that passed through the city of Fribourg rather than along a flatter and cheaper alignment further west and was able to delay the railway because the route through Payerne and Murten had to pass through the canton of Fribourg. A route through Fribourg was finally agreed in 1857.
In May 1855, it opened the line from Bussigny-près-Lausanne to Yverdon and on 1 July 1855 from Bussigny to Morges via Renens as part of the Jura foot line. On 5 May 1856, the company opened two new sections, Renens to Lausanne and the connecting curve from Morges to Bussigny. On 10 June 1857 a section from Villeneuve at the western end of Lake Geneva to Bex in the Rhone Valley opened. The link between Lausanne and Villeneuve was operated by boat until 1861. On 7 November 1859, the section from Yverdon to Vaumarcus was opened, connecting the OS was to the network of the Franco-Swiss (Franco-Suisse, FS).
In order to establish a rail connection to the French Paris–Lyon–Mediterranean Railway, the OS opened a line from Morges to Coppet on 14 April 1858 and a line from Coppet to Versoix on the following 21 April. On 25 June 1858 the OS connected with Geneva with the opening of the Versoix–Geneva route of the Geneva–Versoix Railway (Chemin de fer Genève–Versoix, GM). 6 days later in the Lausanne–Friborg–Bern Railway (LFB) was established; it completed a connection to Bern and central Switzerland on 4 September 1862.
On 1 November 1860 the line from Bex to Les Paluds near St Maurice was connected to the Ligne d'italie (LI) line from Le Bouveret to Martigny, part of its ambition to build a line to the Simplon Pass. The gap on the shores of Lake Geneva from Lausanne to Villeneuve was closed on 2 April 1861.
Western Swiss Railways
The connection from Geneva via Lausanne to Neuchâtel was owned by three competing railway companies, which were often in conflict. The Lausanne–Fribourg–Bern Railway (Chemin de fer Lausanne–Fribourg–Berne, LFB) owned the short section from Geneva to Versoix, the line from Versoix to Vaumarcus belonged to the OS and the continuation to Neuchâtel was owned by Franco-Suisse. Because of their financial difficulties, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Victim%20Identification%20System | The Unified Victim Identification System (UVIS) is an Internet-enabled database system developed for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (OCME) in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on New York City and the crash of American Airlines Flight 587. It is intended to handle critical fatality management functions made necessary by a major disaster. UVIS is a strong flexible role-based application and permissions can be controlled dynamically.
In the event of a mass casualty event, it will initially be used by New York City's 311 call center operators, the New York Police Department, and OCME to gather key information to facilitate compiling an accurate list of missing persons. UVIS will also be used by the OCME to track decedents and collect postmortem findings to facilitate the identification process after a disaster. UVIS also contains a Pandemic Flu module to prepare against such an eventuality. UVIS is a strong flexible role-based application and permissions can be controlled dynamically.
UVIS was built for the OCME by Nihilent, a consulting & solution integration company, and is a leading design thinking company, (formerly known as ICRA Sapphire).
Developed with public funds, UVIS is available to municipalities, counties, states, and other governmental agencies without charge, under license from New York City. Currently UVIS is in use at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (OCME) and the State of New Jersey (OCSME).
Ante-Mortem Section
The Ante-Mortem Section relates to activities carried out before an individual is absolutely known to be deceased. These include recording key information about the missing individual and managing interactions with the missing person's family members.
Call Center module
Mass casualty events generate numerous calls to government agencies: for example, the 2005 London subway bombing generated some 42,000 calls to the UK. Casualty Bureau call centers within the Bureau's first hour of operation. The Call Center module can handle tens of thousands of calls from individuals reporting or enquiring about missing persons, and record basic information about both the missing person and the caller.
Missing Persons module
The Missing Persons module enables NYPD Missing Persons detectives to conduct detailed interviews of family members, friends, and acquaintances of missing persons, and can store extremely detailed data ranging from clothing to physical characteristics such as eye and hair color to tattoo or scar information.
Family Assistance Center module
The UVIS Family Assistance Center module manages Family Assistance Centers (FACs), which are established to provide services to, and capture information from, the family and friends of injured, missing, or deceased disaster victims. Services generally provided at a FAC include: grief counseling; childcare; religious support; facilitation of family needs such as hotel, food, and transportation; ante-m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Conference%20on%20Citizenship | The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening civic life in America. They pursue their mission through a nationwide network of partners involved in a cutting-edge Civic Health Initiative, annual cross-sector conferences, and engagement with a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations interested in utilizing civic engagement principles and practices to enhance their work. Connecting people for the purpose of strengthening civic life is NCoC's goal. At the core of NCoC's joint efforts is the belief that every person has the ability to help his or her community and country thrive.
NCoC was chartered by Congress in 1953 to harness the patriotic energy and national civic involvement surrounding World War II. In 2009, Congress named NCoC in the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, expanding their Civic Health Initiative to become the nation's largest measure of civic engagement.
For the past 10 years NCoC, together with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and state and community level collaborative networks across the nation, has documented the state of civic life in America in city, state, and national Civic Health Index (CHI) reports. NCoC plans to establish CHI partnerships in all 50 states and the District of Columbia by 2020.
The Civic Health Initiative has been an incubator for programs such as the Civic Data Challenge and The Civic 50. The Civic Data Challenge was a national competition to turn the raw data of civic health into useful applications and visualizations. The Civic 50 is an initiative to identify the 50 most community-minded companies in the nation.
The Annual Conference on Citizenship is NCoC's signature event. Held in proximity to Citizenship Day (also known as Constitution Day) in the fall, NCoC convenes leaders in the field of civic engagement to exchange information and to discuss ways to progress their shared mission of encouraging Americans to become fully involved citizens. In addition to the Annual Conference, NCoC has partnered with institutions to host and convene programs, events, webinars, and discussions throughout the year. NCoC works with non-partisan VoteRiders to spread state-specific information on voter ID requirements.
After 2013, NCoC expanded their programs to promote national service. They took a leading role in the creation of the Service Year technology platform. They worked in partnership with the Franklin Project at the Aspen Institute. The platform is an online marketplace designed to increase service opportunities for Americans between 18–28 years old. It brings together young people seeking service positions, organizations seeking service members, and funders looking to support these efforts.
Mission statement
NCoC is a congressionally chartered organization dedicated to strengthening civic life in America. We believe every person has the power to help their community and country thrive.
History
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORTA | The Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television (, FORTA) is the association of the public broadcasting networks from 12 autonomous communities of Spain. It was created on 5 April 1989.
Members
Non-members
Extremadura's CEXMA has not joined the FORTA by self-decision. The corporations of the autonomous cities of Ceuta (RTVCE) and Melilla (TVM) are not part of the FORTA either.
Four autonomous communities (Cantabria, Castile and León, La Rioja and Navarre) lack a public broadcasting network. There are region-wide private broadcasting networks in Cantabria (PopularTV Cantabria), Castile and León (RTVCYL), La Rioja (TVR) and Navarre (NATV).
Former members
Valencia's regional broadcaster Ràdio Televisió Valenciana (RTVV) became defunct in 2013.
See also
Television in Spain
References
External links
1989 establishments in Spain
Organizations established in 1989
Television organizations
Non-profit organisations based in Spain
Television in Spain
Radio in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%20Pepe | Alessandro Pepe (born 10 January 1972) is an Italian FX Artist, currently working for Google.
Pepe was born in Rome, but moved to Genoa in his childhood years. His interest for Computer Graphics emerged early on, during his high school years, where he mastered rendering techniques on the Amiga platform.
Early career
After a few stints with local studios in Italy, Pepe eventually moved to Switzerland in 2001 and joined Amila Entertainment, where he focused on the creation of computer-generated animations for various commercials. In 2006 Pepe moved back to Genoa and started a collaboration with Art Five Animation Studio, which led to the successful development of the Ceres Beer 2006 TV spot series, which was aired on all the major Italian television networks. This experience marked the turning point of Pepe's career.
Major projects
In August 2006 Pepe moved to Australia and joined Animal Logic, as Lighting Technical Director for Warner Bros.'s animated movie Happy Feet, which later won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
From Australia, Pepe moved to London in early 2007, to join CFC Framestore, as Rigging Technical Director. In this role, Pepe's first project was New Line Cinema's movie The Golden Compass, which later won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. After The Golden Compass, he worked on The Dark Knight - which was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and eventually won two - and The Tale of Despereaux.
In the summer of 2008, Pepe joined DreamWorks Animation and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked and lived till 2018. He has worked on Shrek Forever After, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, Rise of the Guardians and Turbo thereafter.
References
External links
Official Website
DreamWorks SKG
CFC Framestore
Animal Logic
Art Five Animation Studio
Amila Entertainment
Articles
1972 births
DreamWorks Animation people
Living people
Film people from Genoa
Italian animators
Computer animation people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hoe | James Hoe is a Taiwanese-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is interested in many aspects of computer architecture and digital hardware design, including the specific areas of FPGA architecture for computing; digital signal processing hardware; and high-level hardware design and synthesis. Professor Hoe’s current research focus is on devising a new FPGA architecture for power efficient, high-performance computing. His research group is working on developing an FPGA runtime environment that incorporates partial reconfiguration, virtualization, and protection features to manage an FPGA as a dynamically sharable multitasking compute resource.
Academic biography
He received his B.S. in EECS from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and Ph.D. in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2000. Since 2000, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University. He became a full professor in 2009 and an IEEE Fellow in 2013. He was the Associate Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University from 2009 to 2014.
Resesarch
He has worked on a wide range of research projects at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently leads the Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center to investigate a new programmable hardware data-nexus lying at the heart of the server and operating over data ‘on the move’ between network, traditional compute, and storage elements. His efforts towards researching FPGA Architecture for Computing include the CoRAM FPGA computing abstraction, the Pigasus Network function acceleration, Service-Oriented Memory Architecture and Programmable and Dynamic Computing Deployment projects. Since 2003, he has been a faculty member in the SPIRAL project researching domain-specific hardware synthesis for digital signal processing. Between 2005 and 2011, his group worked on the Protoflex technology to accelerate the functional-only simulation using a multithreaded implementation of the SPARC V9 ISA in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Between 2002 and 2006, he worked on sampling-based performance simulation of computer systems (SMARTS) that uses functional-only simulation to keep caches warmed up between detailed simulation phases.
While a graduate student at MIT, he initially worked on high-performance system area network for cluster computing (StarT-Jr and Start-X). For his Ph.D. thesis, he worked on high-level synthesis from hardware descriptions based on Term Rewriting Systems (TRS). This synthesis system is the basis of the Bluespec language and compiler by Bluespec, Inc.
References
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
1970 births |
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