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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Scription%20of%20Data | Super scription of data is the 5th single of J-pop singer Eiko Shimamiya. The title track was used as the opening theme for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei, having made this Shimamiya's fifth and last tie-in with the series.
This single's catalog number is FCCM-267 and it came in a regular CD only edition.
Track listing
Super scription of data—4:35
Lyrics: Eiko Shimamiya
Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase
electric universe—5:44
Lyrics: Eiko Shimamiya
Composition/Arrangement: SORMA No.1
Super scription of data (instrumental) -- 4:35
electric universe (instrumental) -- 5:41
Charts
Total sales: 3,915
References
2009 singles
2009 songs
Eiko Shimamiya songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine%20Schmitt | Antoine Schmitt (born 1961 in Strasbourg, France) is a French contemporary artist, programming engineer and designer.
Biography
Antoine Schmitt was a self-made programmer at the age of 16.
After earning his engineer diploma from the Telecom Paris in 1984, he worked as programming engineer specialised in artificial intelligence and human-machine interactions, in Paris, especially for the company Act Informatique for five years (1985–1991), and in Silicon Valley as an R&D engineer for the NeXT company with Steve Jobs for three years (1991–1994). He has been technical assistant to the film-maker Chris Marker, and collaborated with the companies Hyptique, Incandescence, Virtools, the BBC and more recently with violet. He creates specialised software, especially Xtras (plugins) of Adobe Director, like the asFFT Xtra.
Since 1994, he has worked as a visual artist, recognised by numerous awards and exhibitions. Artist of the movement, digital artist, Schmitt develops his work around the notion of shapes "programmed to be free". His artworks, minimal, abstract and efficient, tackle contemporary or intemporal themes like the condition of being free, the systems of reality or the forces and their shape. He places programming, an artistic medium that he considers as radically new because of its active dimension, at the heart of the majority of his creations. Using techniques coming from artificial life and intelligence, influenced by philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches, Schmitt crafts objects or situations, generative or interactive physical, visual or audio systems, which question the modalities of the free human being in a complex world. Also, alone or though collaborations, Schmitt confronts his approach with more established artistic fields like dance, music, cinema, architecture or literature, and revisits their codes.
In 1995, he publishes "puppetsprite 1", first artistic CD-rom, with the visual artist Alberto Sorbelli.
In 1997, under the pseudo Georges Victor, he launches the olalaParis mailing-list of artistic events, the first, still active, mailing-list of contemporary art in France.
In 1998, he publishes with Jean-Jacques Birgé, "Machiavel", interactive behavioural CD-Rom.
In 1999, he is the author with Vincent Epplay of the "infinite CD for unlimited music", first CD-Rom of generative music.
In 2000, he founds the web portal gratin.org, Groupe de Recherche en Art et Technologies Interactives et/ou Numériques, a reference in programmed art.
In 2003, the company violet handles him the design of the behaviour of the Dal lamp. Since then, he designs the infra-verbal behaviour and the visual languages of all the objects of the violet company: the Nabaztag rabbit, the mir:ror, dal:dal, etc...
In 2004, he launches with Adrian Johnson the sonicobject label, first label of original mobile phone ringtones, gathering 16 contemporary composers and 200 ringtones downloadable under Creative Commons licence.
Selected works
1995 : puppet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%20Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the American reality television series The Next Food Network Star premiered on Sunday, June 7, 2009. Food Network executives, Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, were joined by Bobby Flay as the Selection Committee for this season, which was filmed early 2009 in New York, New York and Miami, Florida.
Contestants
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Jen Isham, 30 - Orlando, Florida; Sales Manager; (Culinary Point of View: Inexpensive, Pre-Planned Meals)
Brett August, 32 - New York, New York; Executive Sous Chef (Culinary Point of View: Italian-American Cuisine)
Eddie Gilbert, 30 - Los Angeles, California; Apprentice Chef (Culinary Point of View: Modernized Traditional Dishes)
Teddy Folkman, 33 - Alexandria, Virginia; Restaurant Owner & Executive Chef (Culinary Point of View: Gourmet Bar Food)
Katie Cavuto, 30 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Personal Chef & Nutritionist (Culinary Point of View: Healthy and Sustainable Mediterranean Cuisine)
Michael Proietti, 28 - City Island, New York; Executive Chef (Culinary Point of View: "Global A Go-Go")
Jamika Pessoa, 30 - Atlanta, Georgia; Personal Chef & Businesswoman (Culinary Point of View: Caribbean Cuisine)
Debbie Lee, 39 - West Hollywood, California; Restaurant Consultant (Culinary Point of View: "From Seoul to Soul")
Runner-Up
Jeffrey Saad, 42 - Los Angeles, California; Restaurant Owner, Chef & Food Consultant (Culinary Point of View: "Cooking without Borders")
Winner
Melissa d'Arabian, 40 - Keller, Texas; Stay-at-Home Mom (Culinary Point of View: Family Cooking)
Contestant Progress
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became "The Next Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won that episode's Main Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week, but did not win the Main Challenge.
(IN) The contestant was not one of the Selection Committee's favorites nor their least favorites. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's two least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episodes
Week 1: Press Party for Food Network's 16th Birthday
Mini Challenge: None
Main Challenge: Upon arriving in the Food Network Kitchens in New York City, the ten finalists are greeted by the Selection Committee, consisting of Food Network executives Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, as well as celebrity chef and television personality Bobby Flay. Bobby informs the finalists that they will be catering a press party to celebrate Food Network's 16th year on the air. He randomly splits them into two teams, Team Green (Brett, Jamika, Jen, Melissa and Teddy) and Team Red (Debbie, Eddie, Jeffrey, Kati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still%20Water%20%28University%20of%20Maine%29 | Still Water was a research and development laboratory at the New Media Department of the University of Maine that studied and built networks for artists, academics, and other creative professions. Still Water examined networking from technical, social, and political angles; specific areas of interest included online collaboration, indigenous sharing protocols, and limits placed on artistic remixes and filesharing by intellectual property law.
Digital tools
Still Water has released social software intended to foster collaborative creation, distribution, and preservation of common culture. ThoughtMesh and The Pool are meant to connect digital scholars and creators, and have been described as incubators for artists and students that may serve as a means of evaluating academics working in new media.
Still Water is also the current development team for the Variable Media Questionnaire, a tool that tracks strategies for preserving ephemeral artworks and has been proposed as a means of resurrecting obsolescent artistic and scientific media. Still Water also helped create the Cross-Cultural Partnership, a legal instrument meant to encourage ethical behavior across cultural divides, as when electronic musicians want to sample Native American chants or when Wabanaki elders and permaculture activists live and work together in Still Water's LongGreenHouse project.
Public events
Public events that Still Water has produced with these themes include the Code and Creativity conferences (2003–present) and Connected Knowledge conferences (2006–present). In 2004, Still Water co-organized the event Distributed Creativity with Eyebeam Atelier, which merged conversations during a six-week period from the email discussion lists Creative Commons (USA), Rhizome.org (USA), DATA (Ireland), Sarai (India), and Fibreculture (Australia).
References
External links
Still Water Web site
The Pool
ThoughtMesh
Forging the Future, home of the Variable Media Questionnaire
LongGreenHouse
University of Maine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Racing%20%28video%20game%29 | Ford Racing is a racing video game published by Empire Interactive for Windows and the PlayStation video game console. The computer version was developed by Elite Systems and released on November 2, 2000, while the PlayStation version was developed by Toolbox Design and released on January 29, 2001.
It was the first game in the Ford Racing video game series, and received mixed reviews. Ford Racing was released as a downloadable PS one Classic game on the PlayStation Store in May 2009, allowing it to be played on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.
Gameplay
The computer version of Ford Racing features 12 different Ford vehicles and 10 race tracks, while the PlayStation version has 11 vehicles and eight tracks. None of the tracks are based on real locations. The player begins the game with a Ford Ka, while other vehicles are unlocked as the player progresses through the game. Two models exist for each vehicle for the years of 1997 to 2000, for a total of eight different versions of each vehicle.
In the game's Career mode, the player must win races to receive prize money, which can then be used to upgrade vehicles. After a race, the player may choose to watch a replay, which can be viewed from different camera angles. The PlayStation version includes a multiplayer option, which is absent in the PC version.
Reception
On Metacritic, the PlayStation version has a score of 53, while the PC version has a score of 51, both indicating "mixed or average reviews". Several reviewers criticized the game's poorly conceived AI-controlled drivers for ramming the player's vehicle off the road.
David Zdyrko of IGN reviewed the PlayStation version and criticized its graphics, and standard music and sound effects, as well as the track designs. Zdyrko noted that the vehicles resembled their real-life counterparts, but that they "don't even come close" to the vehicle designs offered in the Gran Turismo series. Shahed Ahmed of GameSpot reviewed the PlayStation version and criticized its graphics as well. Ahmed also complained that only "dull and slow-moving" vehicles are available at the beginning of the game, while faster vehicles and "cool tracks" need to be unlocked. Ahmed wrote: "Despite strong control mechanics and an advanced physics engine, the game has many flaws keeping it from being a truly appealing product". However, he wrote that fans of Ford vehicles "may find some novelty value in Ford Racing at its bargain price".
Laurie Emerson of GameZone praised every aspect of the PlayStation version and wrote that the game is "a winner on all counts!" GameZone's Rita Courtney praised the PC version for its gameplay and graphics, but wrote that additional instructions would have been helpful, stating that "they are just a bit scarce for those who aren't familiar with racing games. It also takes a 3-D accelerator card, which can be a problem for a lot of folks that have older systems. Other than that though, it's a lot of good racing action". Dave Woods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-touchscreen | A dual-touchscreen is a computer or phone display setup which uses two screens, either or both of which could be touch-capable, to display both elements of the computer's graphical user interface and virtualized implementations of common input devices, including virtual keyboards. Usually, in a dual-touchscreen computer or computing device, the most persistent GUI elements and functions are displayed on one, hand-accessible touchscreen (changing with the software application in use) alongside the virtual keyboard, while the other, more optically-centric display is used for those user interface elements which are either less or never accessed by user-generated behaviors.
This approach is similar to that of the Nintendo DS handheld game console's construction, in which user-generated actions are initialized on the lower resistive touchscreen while the resulting graphical displays are executed in the upper screen. The same approach was adopted on its successor unit, the Nintendo 3DS and a similar concept was created for Nintendo's eleventh home console, the Wii U, with its controller's resistive touchscreen used in the same fashion as the lower part of the DS/3DS, and the secondary screen connected to the console.
Use in products
In 2004, Italian design firm V12 Design designed a prototype dual-touchscreen laptop known as the Canova.
In 2007, Pennsylvania-based company Estari released its 2-VU laptop, initially for the United States military before a public release.
In 2008, the OLPC XO-2 was announced to use a dual-touchscreen setup.
In May 2009, The Asus Flipbook was first demonstrated, at CeBIT as a dual-touchscreen laptop with the ability to optionally display user interface elements in both screens both horizontally and vertically; the concept design was renamed as the Asus "Eee Reader", rebranded as an e-book reader, and scheduled for launch in Q4 2009. The device was finally renamed as "Eee Book" and scheduled for a June 2010 release at Computex in Taipei.
In March 2010, the EnTourage eDGe was released, also directed more as e-reader than as computer. One of the two touchscreens is monochrome E Ink, the other is color liquid crystal display (LCD).
In January 2010, Micro-Star International (MSI) showed a prototype of a dual-touchscreen netbook at Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
In June 2010, Toshiba released the Libretto W100 dual-touchscreen notebook running Windows 7.
In January 2011, NEC announced the LT-W Cloud Communicator, a slate with dual touchscreens that unfolds like a book and runs Android 2.1.
In March 2011, Acer released the Iconia 6120 dual-screen touchbook notebook running Windows 7.
In April 2011, Kyocera International released the Kyocera Echo smartphone running Android 2.2 Froyo.
In April 2011, Sony announced the code-named S2, since renamed Sony Tablet P, running Android 3.1 Honeycomb, and scheduled for release in autumn 2011.
In April 2013, NEC released the Medias W N-05E smartphone running Android 4.1 Jell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meehania%20cordata | Meehania cordata, also known as Meehan's mint or creeping mint, is a perennial plant of the genus Meehania, within the family Lamiaceae found in moist shady banks west of Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, and North Carolina around the month of June.
Description
Meehania, which was named by Nathaniel Lord Britton for the late Thomas Meehan, Philadelphian botanist, is a dicot perennial plant with calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, 15 nerved. Corolla ample, expanded at the throat; the upper lip flattish or concave, 2-lobed, the lower 3-cleft, the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, the lower pair shorter; anther-cells parallel. Low stoloniferous herb, with a pale purplish flowers.
Meehania cordata, which is one of seven species of the genus Meehania and named by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, are low, with slender runners, hairy; leaves broadly heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral shorter than the calyx; whorls few-flowered, at the summit of short ascending stems; corolla hairy inside, 2–3.5 cm. long; stamens shorter than the upper lip. .
Distribution
It is found mostly in eastern North America. In the states of
Illinois
Kentucky
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Threatened and endangered information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state.
Pennsylvania: heart-leafed meehania: Endangered
Tennessee: heartleaf meehania: Threatened
References
Lamiaceae
Flora of the Eastern United States
Plants described in 1818 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Debugger | The Intel Debugger (IDB) was developed by Intel and provided support (at various levels depending on compiler product) for debugging programs written in C, C++, and Fortran (77, 90 and 95). It provided a choice of command-line and Java-based graphical user interface (GUI) on the Linux Eclipse platform. The Intel Debugger was a component of a number of Intel software products, such as Intel Parallel Studio and their C++ and Fortran compiler products; it supported parallel architectures including MPI, OpenMP, and Pthreads.
Support for the Intel Debugger has been deprecated — in the Intel Fortran Composer 2013 product — with the last released version being 13.0.1 (2013). For Linux and OS X, Intel supports extensions to the GNU Debugger (the GDB provided with Intel Composer XE 2013 SP1 is based on GDB 7.5). Intel maintains a fork of GDB and works on its relevant bugs to get them implemented upstream. For Windows, Intel supports extensions to the Visual Studio Debugger. The parallel debugger extension enables additional capabilities for debugging parallel programs and is available for Visual Studio (2005 and 2008).
See also
Intel Parallel Studio
Intel C++ Compiler
Intel Fortran Compiler
Intel Developer Zone (Intel DZ; support and discussion)
References
External links
Intel software network
Intel Debugger products
Debuggers
Debugger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forms%20processing | Forms processing is a process by which one can capture information entered into data fields and convert it into an electronic format. This can be done manually or automatically, but the general process is that hard copy data is filled out by humans and then "captured" from their respective fields and entered into a database or other electronic format.
Overview
In the broadest sense, forms processing systems can range from the processing of small application forms to large scale survey forms with multiple pages. There are several common issues involved in forms processing when done manually. These are a lot of tedious human efforts put in, the data keyed in by the user may result in typos, and many hours of labor result from this lengthy process. If the forms are processed using computer software driven applications these common issues can be resolved and minimized to great extent. Most methods for forms processing address the following areas.
Manual data entry
This method of data processing involves human operators keying in data found on the form. The manual process of data entry has many disadvantages in speed, accuracy and cost. Based on average professional typist speeds of 50 to 80 wpm, one could generously estimate about two hundred pages per hour for forms with fifteen one-word fields (not counting the time for reading and sorting pages). In contrast, modern commercial scanners can scan and digitize up to 200 pages per minute. The second major disadvantage to manual data entry is the likelihood of typographical errors. When factoring in the cost of labor and working space, manual data entry is a very inefficient process.
Automated forms processing
This method can automate data processing by using pre-defined templates and configurations. A template in this case, would be a map of the document, detailing where the data fields are located within the form or document. As compared to the manual data entry process, automatic form input systems are preferable, since they help reduce the problems faced during manual data processing.
Automatic form input systems use different types of recognition methods such as optical character recognition (OCR) for machine print, optical mark reading (OMR) for check/mark sense boxes, bar code recognition (BCR) for barcodes, and intelligent character recognition (ICR) for hand print.
With automated form processing system technology users are able to process documents from their scanned images into a computer readable format such as ANSI, XML, CSV, PDF or input directly into a database.
Forms Processing has developed beyond basic capture of the data. Forms processing not only encompasses a recognition process but also helps manage the complete life cycle of documents which starts from scanning of the document to the extraction of the data, and often to delivery into a back-end system. In some cases it may also include processing or generating well formatted results through calculations and analysis. An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Pipeline | Digital Pipeline is a United Kingdom registered charity founded in 2005 operating under the working title Computers 4 Africa to provide access to information and communications technology (ICT) in developing countries in Africa and other parts of the world.
The organisation facilitates the re-use of ICT equipment through partners who refurbish, redeploy and recycle IT equipment on behalf of businesses and government in the United Kingdom. These partners "work to Digital Pipeline’s Policies and Standards and ensure that legal, data protection, quality and environmental issues are addressed for donors and beneficiaries." A major partner over the years has been Microsoft
From 2005 to 2011 it sent more than 1,000 computers to its clients. The initial focus was on schools but now also includes libraries, clinics, universities and other projects.
See also
Computer technology for developing areas
References
External links
Digital Pipeline Charity website
Computers 4 Africa charity website
Information technology charities
Development charities based in the United Kingdom
Charities based in Surrey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20Thing%20I%20Ever%20Ate | The Best Thing I Ever Ate is a television series that originally aired on Food Network, debuting on June 22, 2009 (after a preview on June 20).
The program originally aired as a one-time special in late 2008. After being cancelled by The Food Network, it was brought back on the Cooking Channel in 2018. It consists of chefs picking out favorite dishes they have eaten in places throughout the United States, in specific categories.
Contributing Chefs/Hosts
Ted Allen - Food and wine connoisseur; host of Chopped
Sunny Anderson - Host of Cooking For Real; co-host of The Kitchen
Mario Batali - Former Iron Chef, Iron Chef America; chef/owner of Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca; host of Molto Mario and Ciao America; former co-host, ABC's The Chew
Valerie Bertinelli - Actress; host of Valerie's Home Cooking
John Besh - Competitor on The Next Iron Chef; chef and owner of August Restaurant (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Elena Besser - Chef/TV host; contributor to Food Network Kitchen
Richard Blais - Chef/Restaurateur; judge on many Food Network competition shows
Brian Boitano - Olympic figure skater and host of What Would Brian Boitano Make?
Stephanie Boswell - Executive Pastry Chef, Peninsula Beverly Hills; judge on Halloween Baking Championship and Halloween Wars
James Briscione - Culinary Director at Institute of Culinary Education; First ever two-time Chopped Champion
Alton Brown - Host of Good Eats, "Cutthroat Kitchen" and Iron Chef America, and author of Good Eats 2: The Middle Years
Kardea Brown - Chef and host of Delicious Miss Brown
Frank Bruni - Former restaurant critic for New York Times; author of Born Round
Justin Brunson - Chef/restaurateur; Owner at River Bear American Meats in Denver, CO
Anne Burrell - Sous chef on Iron Chef America; host of Secrets of a Restaurant Chef; co-host of Worst Cooks in America
Josh Capon - Executive chef at New York City's Lure Fishbar; guest judge on Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay
Monti Carlo - Chef instructor/recipe developer; food blogger at islandgirlcooks.com
Cody and Samantha Carroll - Louisiana Chefs; co-hosts of Food Network's Cajun Aces owners/operators of Hot Tails in New Roads, LA
Michael Chiarello - Entrepreneur/restaurateur, and host of Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello
Hannah Chloe- Host of Spoon University's SpoonProof
Scott Conant - Host of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle, and chef/owner of Scarpetta (New York/Miami/Toronto/Beverly Hills) and D.O.C.G. Enoteca (Las Vegas)
Cat Cora - Former Iron Chef, Iron Chef America
Dick Cummings - Host of Crave, senior editor of Riviera Magazine
Melissa d'Arabian - The Next Food Network Star Season 5 winner, and host of Ten Dollar Dinners
Mark Dacascos - Martial artist/actor; "The Chairman" on Iron Chef America
Paula Deen - Host of Paula's Home Cooking, Paula's Best Dishes, and Paula's Party
Giada De Laurentiis - Host of Everyday Italian and Giada at Home; TV judge/mentor on The Next Food Network Star
Rocco DiSpirito - Chef/author of Now Eat This |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20Rights%20and%20Rehabilitation%20Network | Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) is a charity organisation based in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, that works to safeguard the rights of a child.
The Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) began operation by a small group of volunteers in 2003 to shelter a few children who had been accused of possessing witchcraft power as part of a widespread witch-hunt in their IL aime les crarambarwhich left hundreds of people dead in the space of two months. Now it has over 150 in a makeshift shelter and school. The people there struggle to provide food and clothing for the children and the youngsters themselves live with the knowledge that their own parents have rejected them. The charity has few resources and struggles to survive.
The organization is run entirely by volunteers with funding from government agencies, individuals and corporate bodies. This funding is used to feed and educate more than 200 children at the CRARN Children Centre and to fight for the rights of these children.
References
Children's rights organizations
Human rights organizations based in Nigeria
Child-related organizations in Nigeria
Child welfare in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webtrekk | Webtrekk GmbH is a German company that offers marketing analytics and customer intelligence software. With Webtrekk, companies can connect, analyze and activate user and marketing data across all devices. Since 2019, Webtrekk is part of the marketing technology service provider, Mapp.
History
Webtrekk was founded in 2004 by CEO Christian Sauer and CTO Norman Wahnschaff. In 2009, Webtrekk received a €1 million venture capital investment from Corporate Finance Partners as the winners of an Awin-sponsored Publisher Initiative Contest. In 2012, Webtrekk won the Frost & Sullivan Award for "Finally Bringing the ‘Real Time’ Into Online/Digital Analytics". In 2014, Webtrekk closed its third round of financing, collecting a total of up to €25 million from DPE Deutsche Private Equity. In 2018, Webtrekk won the bronze International Stevie Award in the category "Business or Competitive Intelligence“ for its cross device tracking tool, the Cross Device Bridge. In 2019, Webtrekk was honored with the German Stevie Award in Gold for its Realtime Predictions. In 2019, Webtrekk was acquired by the marketing technology service provider Mapp.
Products and services
Webtrekk provides a variety of products to gain insights from data and trigger marketing activities. Products and services are cross-channel campaign reporting and AI-enabled marketing intelligence. The Webtrekk Customer Analytics suite includes user-centric analytics, personalized product recommendations, customer intelligence dashboards, customer journey tracking, tag integration, and web behavior re-targeting. The Webtrekk Data Streams enable raw data to be captured, processed and streamed in real time.
Since its acquisition, Webtrekk and Mapp consolidate their offerings. Webtrekk's customers also have access to Mapp's cross-channel marketing cloud.
Consulting and support are another part of Webtrekk's offering. A consulting unit works with customers on specific, large-scale projects, while a support team is available to answer questions about the functions and interface of Webtrekk products.
Access to raw, first-party data is a core component of Webtrekk's products. That data can be exported in real-time to data warehouses and BI systems or used to carry out in-depth analyses within the Customer Analytics suite. The suite's customizable dashboard engine enables customers to display, and can be connected to external data sources such as social media channels and CRM systems.
Customers
Webtrekk has more than 400 customers, including FlixBus, ING, and MyToys. Focus industries are finance, publishing and e-commerce.
Privacy Certification
The products have been privacy certified by the German TÜV association to confirm Data Privacy and Security. All of Webtrekk's data servers are located in the European Union and housed in data centres that have been certified by the International Organization for Standardization.
See also
Customer journey
References
External links
Web Analysis in Real Time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20school%20libraries%20in%20the%20United%20States | A virtual school library is a PreK-12 library that is a subunit of a virtual school—using the same telecommunications network to provide equitable access to electronic resources and communication designed to support the school's curriculum.
According to Watson and Ryan, PreK-12 virtual school enrollments in the United States were growing at a rate of 50% annually in 2007.
Additionally, Darrow cites the development of virtual spaces, which have been developed in the traditional school library across the United States, as the models for the newly developed virtual school library concept. He identifies how such existing sites as "Kathy Scrhock's Guide for educators", the Springfield Township High School Virtual Library, and the Wissahickon High School Virtual Library which have been modeled to create PreK-12 virtual school libraries such as the Florida Virtual School Virtual Library. Other similar libraries include Stephanie Bucalo's "Virtual School Library", designed to address general literacy and inquiry-based learning by highlighting books, information sources (search engines, etc.) and information/evaluation best practices and strategies and Linda Bertland's "Virtual Middle School Library", a collection of online resources, book reviews, parent/teacher resources and teacher-librarian information targeted specifically to the U.S. middle school population.
Furthermore, Darrow also cites the need to have licensed teacher-librarians involved at several levels—instruction, inquiry, and curriculum development—in order to effectively utilize the wealth of resources (and their associated processes) available to virtual education students. According to Darrow, if a virtual school library is void of such "customization and personalization" as well as other degrees of human intervention, the resources may prove to be under-utilized or not used at all.
One of the key components in the virtual school library is the development of virtual school library communication portals where students may interact with teacher-librarians and other educators—sharing student/educator-generated book reviews, student/educator-produced videos, participate in online polls, and/or attend online reference service podcasts designed to teach students how to use a particular library database or tool. Loertscher confirms Darrow's assumptions and describes a process that goes beyond merely integrating online tools on a website. He describes the idea and functionality of a "virtual school library commons" during a Second Life presentation where he created an iGoogle page and an accompanying blog to facilitate the delivery of RRS (i.e. z/OS)-based library services to students and fellow educators.
References
Online schools in the United States
Virtual learning environments
American digital libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forticom | Forticom is an IT company based in Latvia. It was the owner of online social networks One.lv (Latvian) and One.lt (Lithuanian). 100% of Forticom is owned by Forticom AS. At this moment the company sold One.lt but the second project One.lv was closed in January 2013.
One website debuted in 1999 and offered the ability send free SMS text messages to mobile phones. The service became very successful as at the time texting was expensive. Later the portal grew to include other mobile services (games, ring tones, icons, etc.). The social network grew out of experimental "friends" feature of the website. The company also developed video sharing websites Videogaga.lt and Videogaga.lv. Both projects are closed at this moment.
In 2007, Forticom bought 25% of Russian Odnoklassniki. In June 2008, the company acquired 70% interest in Polish Nasza-klasa.pl for $92 million. Both websites are designed for former classmates. All the Forticom's stocks of Nasza-klasa.pl were sold.
At this moment company is developing project called Odnoklassniki.ru.
References
Companies of Latvia
Software companies of Latvia
Latvian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20East%E2%80%93West%20Railway | The Swiss East–West Railway (German: Schweizerische Ostwestbahn, OWB) was a former Swiss rail company, which planned to build a line to compete with the network of the Swiss Central Railway (German: Schweizerische Centralbahn, SCB) in central Switzerland on which construction commenced in 1857.
Jakob Stämpfli, a federal politician, established the company to build a line between La Neuveville (on Lake Biel in western Switzerland) and Zürich via Bern, Langnau im Emmental, Luzern and Zug. It began construction without raising sufficient finance to guarantee its completion. It opened a line between Frienisberg (near Le Landeron) and Biel (now part of the Jura foot line on 3 December 1860, but then went bankrupt. The completed section from La Neuveville and Langnau line was taken over by the Canton of Berne and incorporated as the Bernese State Railway (German: Bernische Staatsbahn, BSB) in June 1861, which continued building the line to Lucerne. The concession for the section from Lucerne to Zürich via Affoltern am Albis was bought out of the bankrupt estate by the Swiss Northeast Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn) and established as a subsidiary, the Zürich–Zug–Lucerne Railway (German: Zürich–Zug–Luzern-Bahn, ZZL). Construction of the line was completed in 1864 and shortly later it was connected to SCB's Olten–Lucerne line to Lucerne station, which had opened in 1856 on the edge of the lake, across the Reuss from the centre of the town. Part of this line now forms part of the Zug–Lucerne railway.
References
Defunct railway companies of Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkyWay%40home | MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers , the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way. With SETI@home and Einstein@home, it is the third computing project of this type that has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose. Its secondary objective is to develop and optimize algorithms for volunteer computing.
Purpose and design
MilkyWay@home is a collaboration between the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's departments of Computer Science and Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy and is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. It is operated by a team that includes astrophysicist Heidi Jo Newberg and computer scientists Malik Magdon-Ismail, Bolesław Szymański and Carlos A. Varela.
By mid-2009 the project's main astrophysical interest is in the Sagittarius Stream, an immense stellar stream emanating from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy that wraps around the Milky Way. Mapping such interstellar streams and their dynamics with high accuracy may provide crucial clues for understanding the structure, formation, evolution, and gravitational potential distribution of the Milky Way and similar galaxies. It could also provide insight on the dark matter issue. As the project evolves, it might turn its attention to other star streams.
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, MilkyWay@home divides starfields into wedges of about 2.5 deg. width and applies self-optimizing probabilistic separation techniques (i.e., evolutionary algorithms) to extract the optimized tidal streams. The program then attempts to create a new, uniformly dense wedge of stars from the input wedge by removing streams of data. Each stream removed is characterized by six parameters: percent of stars in the stream; the angular position in the stripe; the three spatial components (two angles, plus the radial distance from Earth) defining the removed cylinder; and a measure of width. For each search, the server application keeps track of a population of individual stars, each of which is attached to a possible model of the Milky Way.
Project details and statistics
MilkyWay@home has been active since 2007, and optimized client applications for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems became available in 2008. Its screensaver capability is limited to a revolving display of users' BOINC statistics, with no graphical component. Instead, animations of the best computer simulations are shared through YouTube.
The work units that are sent out to clients used to require only 2–4 hours of computation on modern CPUs, however, they were scheduled for completion with a short deadline (typically, three days). By early 2010, the project r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20Network%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Magnolia Network is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel that broadcasts lifestyle programming related to home design, renovations, and food. The channel's brand and much of its foreign programming is licensed from its American namesake, Magnolia Network. The channel is a joint venture between HGTV Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment (80.24% and managing partner) and Warner Bros. Discovery (who owns the remaining 19.76%).
The channel first launched on October 19, 2009 as the localized version DIY Network, under the ownership of CW Media, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs, and Scripps Networks Interactive. Between ownership changes, the channel adopted its current name following its American counterpart in 2022.
History
Alliance Atlantis was granted approval for the channel under the name D.I.Y. Television by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000. Under the CRTC's approval, the channel was described as a "service designed for the do-it-yourselfer of all levels... entirely devoted to programs that offer Canadians an interactive television experience that provides immediate access to detailed step by step instructions, in-depth demonstrations, and tips for do-it-yourself projects." The channel, however, was never launched and its licence expired. Alliance Atlantis re-applied for the channel and was approved on October 21, 2005 with an almost identical nature of service description as the original licence granted in 2000.
On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media bought Alliance Atlantis's specialty networks, including the licence for the yet unlaunched D.I.Y. Television.
In late 2009, Canwest announced that it would launch the channel on October 19, 2009 in standard definition, as DIY Network, a Canadian version of the U.S. channel of the same name. On many television service providers, DIY Network replaced Fine Living, which ceased operations the same day. Corus Entertainment initially owned a 12% stake at the channel's launch, but then it later sold its stake to CW Media in February 2010. Programming on the channel was primarily devoted to do it yourself home improvement projects, with the majority of programming consisting of reruns from its sister network, HGTV Canada and licensed programs from the American DIY Network.
On October 27, 2010, Shaw Communications gained control of DIY Network as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media.
A high definition simulcast launched in February 2016.
The channel came under Corus Entertainment ownership on April 1, 2016, when Corus Entertainment decided to acquire all of Shaw's broadcasting assets.
On March 1, 2022, it was announced that DIY Network would relaunch as a Canadian version of Magnolia Network—the current incarnation of the channel's American counterpart, on March 28, 2022. As in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20microscopy%20visualization%20systems | This is a list of software systems that are used for visualizing microscopy data.
For each software system, the table below indicates which type of data can be displayed: EM = Electron microscopy; MG = Molecular graphics; Optical = Optical microscopy.
See also
Biological data visualization
List of molecular graphics systems
References
Electron microscopy
Microscopy
Molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevInfo | DevInfo was a database system developed under the auspices of the United Nations and endorsed by the United Nations Development Group for monitoring human development with the specific purpose of monitoring the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is a set of Human Development Indicators. DevInfo was a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners. It was distributed royalty-free to all UN member states. It was a further development of the earlier UNICEF database system ChildInfo.
The Global DevInfo Initiative, led by UNICEF on behalf of the UN system, is dedicated to furthering human development by offering information technology-based solutions aimed at addressing development-related challenges. This is achieved by integrating management information systems, geographic information systems, software training, technical support services, data dissemination solutions and technical publications. The DevInfo Initiative takes a strategic approach towards strengthening the monitoring and evaluation capacity of governments and agencies by developing innovative technological solutions to better track human development progress.
Description and history
The DevInfo Initiative supported a vision of a day when national and local governments use internationally accepted common database standards for tracking human development indicators, containing high-quality data with adequate coverage and depth to sustain good governance around the agenda of achieving development goals.
DevInfo strived to add value to national statistics systems by complementing existing databases and bridging data dissemination gaps, with the objective of more fully engaging both government and civil society in policy choices for human development that yield measurable results.
DevInfo implementation is supported by trained experts at the country, regional, and global levels, and through support services provided by the DevInfo Support Group consisting of international staff located around the world.
Since DevInfo was retired in 2015, the home page has a DevInfo Data Request Form for authorized national statistical agency administrators to request migration of active DevInfo sites.
Ownership
The UN System maintains proprietary ownership of the DevInfo software, which is managed in its behalf by UNICEF, with the support of the UNDG.
Application and use
The DevInfo software is free software that can be downloaded from the DevInfo website. The software is easily customizable, allowing DevInfo to have been adapted to over 370 customized adaptations so far.
By the end of October 2012, over 120 countries had developed national statistical data systems based on DevInfo. They include:
Benin (BenInfo, 2008)
Brazil (ODMInfo, 2010)
Cambodia (CamInfo, 2010)
Russian Federation (MCInfo, 2009)
Pacific Islands (PacificInfo, 2010)
By the end of Oct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Naggum | Erik Naggum (June 13, 1965 – June 17, 2009) was a Norwegian computer programmer recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs and Lisp. Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet discussion groups.
Naggum made significant contributions to RFC 1123, which defines and discusses the requirements for Internet host software, and RFC 2049, which defines electronic information transfer of various binary formats through e-mail.
In a 1999 newspaper article in Dagbladet, he was interviewed about his aggressive, confrontational participation in Usenet discussion groups. Erik later stated his motto to be: "Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither."
His death on June 17, 2009 (aged 44), was caused by a massive bleeding ulcer, related to ulcerative colitis, which he was diagnosed with about 15 years before his death.
Works
SGML
Naggum was Chairman of the SGML SIGhyper, the SGML special interest group on hypertext and multimedia (see HyTime). His technical commentary on ISO 8879:1986 in the archives of comp.text.sgml, in terms of both high quality and sheer mass, was especially appreciated.
Lisp
The Long, Painful History of Time, an article in which Naggum describes how the concept of universal time and time zones can be handled well in Lisp code.
Usenet
Erik contributed an enormous number of postings to Usenet. 14,300 of them are "on record", but in many cases Erik used the "X-No-Archive" header when posting, a parameter requesting services like Google Groups not to archive the message.
Activism
In 1995, Erik started a journalism watch-group project on the web, campaigning to get a journalist sacked from Aftenposten following the publication of a sensationalist story about how Internet Relay Chat channels were used to trade child pornography.
Emacs
Erik Naggum contributed to the free software project Emacs text editor for almost a decade.
Standardization work
IEEE
Working group member of the POSIX.1-2008 / IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 and The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 7.
IETF
Erik is listed as a major contributor in RFC 1123. Contributed to the requirement that Internet mail should include the four-digit representation of years, and thus avoid Y2K issues.
Controversy
Erik Naggum was highly controversial. When he was passionate about something, which he was on many subjects, he eagerly and often harshly argued for his point of view. An example of this is his rant about XML being misdesigned and, especially, misused. One such example would be the diatribe against Martin Bryan posted in 1992. Erik Naggum hated Perl with a passion, and considered Perl to be a problem, not a problem solver. He disliked C++, though not as much as he hated Perl, but he generally thought that C++ was too difficult to understand to such a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Excellence%20in%20Health%20Innovation | Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), formerly New England Healthcare Institute is a member-based, non-partisan research and policy organization.
History
NEHI was founded in 2002 as the "New England Healthcare Institute" with 21 founding members. Today it has more than 80 member companies representing the different sectors of health care. In 2002, Wendy Everett became the organization’s president and Valerie Fleishman was hired as its executive director. Currently, NEHI has published more than 20 publications regarding innovative ways to improve health care nationally. Its first report, Economic Contributions of the Health Care Industry to New England, was published in 2003. In 2004, NEHI created and published two reports on innovative technologies to treat cancer and heart failure. In 2005, NEHI established a partnership with The Boston Foundation for “The Greater Boston Health Care Economy” project. In 2008, NEHI published the first reports ever to identify areas to reduce wasteful spending and inefficiencies in health care. In January, 2011 the organization officially dropped the acronym expansion referencing a regional affiliation and opened up offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco. NEHI has since made further efforts to garner national presence with a 2014 name expansion to NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation).
Founders
NEHI is led by Chief Executive Officer Wendy Everett, ScD, and Executive Director, Valerie Fleishman. It was founded by a group of high-profile health care leaders:
Henri Termeer, then-CEO, Genzyme
Joseph B. Martin, MD, PhD, then Dean of Harvard Medical School
Sam Thier, MD, then CEO, Partners HealthCare
Fred Telling, PhD, then VP of Corporate Policy and Strategic Management, Pfizer
Charlie Baker, CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Members
NEHI’s members include:
ABIOMED, Inc.
AdvaMed
Advanced ICU Care
Alkermes, Inc.
Alkeus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
American Associate of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Cancer Society - New England
American Diabetes Association
American Osteopathic Association
Anthurium Solutions, Inc.
APCO Worldwide
Arthritis Foundation, New England Region
Association of American Medical Colleges
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
Best Doctors
Biotechnology Industry Organization
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Boston Healthcare Associates
Bristol-Myers Squibb
California Healthcare Institute
Caregiver Action Network
Center for Applied Research
COPD Foundation
CVS Caremark
DePuy Mitek, Inc.
Dovetail Health
Eliza Corporation
EMC Corporation
EMD Serono, Inc.
Endo Pharmaceuticals
Ernst & Young, LLP
Fallon Community Health Plan
Foley Hoag, LLP
GlaxoSmithKline
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
Healthcare Institute of New Jersey
Hospital Corporation of America
Health Dialog Services Corporation
Joslin Diabetes Center
Kaiser Permanente
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20Forest%20Mountain%20Bike%20Park | The Palatine Forest Mountain Bike Park () in the Palatinate Forest is a mountain bike trail network in Germany, in the centre of the biosphere reserve of the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges. The network was opened in April 2005.
Routes
The signposted, single-track routes differ in the grade of challenge:
Route 1, starting at Rodalben, 54 km, with a 9.8 km, single-track section
Route 2, starting at Waldfischbach-Burgalben, 48 km, with a 6.8 km single-track section
Route 3, starting at Schopp, 67 km, with a 9.7 km single-track section
Route 4, starting at Hochspeyer, 64 km, with a 14.3 km single-track section
Route 5, starting at Lambrecht, 74 km, with a 12.5 km single-track section
Responsibility
The Tourist Board of the Palatinate Forest region, especially the municipalities of Kaiserslautern-Süd, Lambrecht, Rodalben, Waldfischbach-Burgalben, and Hochspeyer, developed the project with the support of the regional forest commission and the University of Kaiserslautern.
The park's administrative headquarters are in the collective municipality of Kaiserslautern-Süd.
External links
Home page of the Mountain Bike Park
Mountain biking venues
Geography of Rhineland-Palatinate
Tourist attractions in Rhineland-Palatinate
Parks in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Roger%20Hindley | J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.
Education
Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn a M.Sc. in 1961.
He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.
He taught at Penn State University (1964-1966), Bristol University (1966-1968), and has been at Swansea University since 1968.
Selected publications
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References
Living people
British logicians
1939 births
British philosophers
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Highway%20System%20%28Canada%29 | The National Highway System () in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, and currently consists of of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
The Government of Canada maintains very little power or authority over the maintenance or expansion of the system beyond sharing part of the cost of economically significant projects within the network. Highways within the system are not given any special signage, except where they are part of a Trans-Canada Highway route.
History
The system was first designated in 1988 by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety, a council consisting of the federal, provincial and territorial Ministers of Transport. A total of of highway were originally designated as part of the system. Highways selected for the system were existing primary routes that supported interprovincial and international trade and travel, by connecting major population or commercial centres with each other, with major border crossings on the Canada–United States border, or with other transport hubs.
The system was further expanded in 2004, with the addition of approximately of highway that was not part of the original 1988 network. It was in this era that the current "core", "feeder" and "northern or remote" classes of route were established. Not all highways within the system are designated in their entirety, but may instead be part of the system over only part of their length; a few highways even have two or more discontinuous segments designated as part of the system. In some locations, the National Highway System may also incorporate city arterial streets to connect highway routes which are part of the system but do not directly interconnect, or to link the system to an important intermodal transport hub—such as a shipping port, a railway terminal, an airport or a ferry terminal—which is not directly on a provincial-class highway.
Routes within the system continue to be maintained, funded and signed as provincial, rather than federal, highways. However, the federal government provides some funding assistance for important maintenance and expansion projects on designated highways through cost sharing programs. For instance, several recent maintenance projects on National Highway System routes in Saskatchewan were partly funded under the federal government's Building Canada Fund–Major Infrastructure Component, while several four-laning projects in Ontario in the 2000s accessed federal funding under the Strategic Highway Infrastructure Program.
There is no single, ongoing program for federal contributions to the National Highway System; rather, these contributions have been made through a variety of separate infrastructure investment programs of defined length and scope. Recent transportatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetrievalWare | RetrievalWare is an enterprise search engine emphasizing natural language processing and semantic networks which was commercially available from 1992 to 2007 and is especially known for its use by government intelligence agencies.
History
RetrievalWare was initially created by Paul Nelson, Kenneth Clark, and Edwin Addison as part of ConQuest Software. Development began in 1989, but the software was not commercially available on a wide scale until 1992. Early funding was provided by Rome Laboratory via a Small Business Innovation Research grant.
On July 6, 1995, ConQuest Software was merged with the NASDAQ company, Excalibur Technologies and the product was rebranded as RetrievalWare. On December 21, 2000, Excalibur Technologies was combined with Intel Corporation's Interactive Media Services division to form the Convera Corporation. Finally, on April 9, 2007, the RetrievalWare software and business was purchased by Fast Search & Transfer at which point the product was officially retired. Microsoft Corporation continues to maintain the product for its existing customer base.
Annual revenues for RetrievalWare peaked in 2001 at around $40 million US dollars.
Use of natural language techniques
RetrievalWare is a relevancy ranking text search system with processing enhancements drawn from the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and semantic networks. NLP algorithms include dictionary-based stemming (also known as lemmatisation) and dictionary-based phrase identification. Semantic networks are used by RetrievalWare to expand the query words entered by the user to related terms with terms weights determined by the distance from the user's original terms. In addition to automatic expansion, a feedback-mode whereby users could choose the meaning of the word before performing the expansion was available. The first semantic networks were built using WordNet.
In addition, RetrievalWare implemented a form of n-gram search (branded as APRP - Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing), designed to search over documents with OCR errors. Query terms are divided into sets of 2-grams which are used to locate similarly matching terms from the inverted index. The resulting matches are weighted based on similarly measures and then used to search for documents.
All of these features were available no later than 1993 and ConQuest software has claimed that it was the first commercial text-search system to implement these techniques.
Other notable features
Other notable features of RetrievalWare include distributed search servers, synchronizers for indexing external content management systems and relational databases, a heterogeneous security model, document categorization, real-time document-query matching (profiling), multi-lingual searches (queries containing terms from multiple languages searching for documents containing terms from multiple languages), and cross-lingual searches (queries in one language searching for documents in a different langua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIDO%27Z | KIDOZ is a Content Discovery network designed for children. The platform is based upon a sophisticated COPPA compliant machine learning technology platform which analyses big data and knows to recommend the most relevant content for each and every kid based on their usage behaviour.
Features
KIDOZ offer several solutions:
Its stand-alone state-of-the-art Child Mode app which allows children to explore the World Wide Web and the full array of mobile and tablet devices safely. Parents may download the app for free from the Google Play Store and begin to empower their children to explore their interests independently and safely. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kidoz)
There is a password-protected Parental Control Account for parents to set account parameters. Some of the features of this account are security enhancement and content customisation tools, and the tools for the addition of new content.
KIDOZ for businesses provides kid developers and publishers an SDK/JS to integrate within their property and begin monetizing safely and easily. The kid-friendly recommendation widget creates engagement with users by offering them more FREE videos, games, and apps to discover and enjoy. Advertisers may promote their children's content on the network and get exposed to millions of targeted kids and enjoy high conversion rates and positive brand engagement.
The system is designed as a platform for user-generated content. All content is moderated and approved by a moderation team before it is allowed. The system blocks links, scripts and any other attempts that lead to sites and content that have not been approved.
The system is internally developed around what is termed a Smart Content Engine, which filters and individualizes content for users based on certain variables, such as age, gender and languages.
KIDOZ came out of its beta testing phase in May 2009 and v1.0 is available in 30 languages: English, German, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Polish.
KIDOZ is available as a free download from its maker's website. The current categories are Websites, Videos and Games for children. It has been disclosed that future Freemium versions will include additional features, and that there will be a Premium model, offering certain specialized features at a small monthly fee.
Background
The KIDOZ Kid's Web Environment Operating System is developed by KIDO'Z Ltd, an Israeli start-up based in Tel Aviv. The CEO is Gai Havkin.
Business Model
KIDOZ currently follows the Freemium model as the application is available as a free download from the website. Future versions will include additional features, such as e-mail and instant messaging in a closed network. It has been revealed that in the next few months, KIDO’Z will launch its Premium Package that will offer additional tools, services and content.
References
Proprietary ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckstrom%27s%20law | In economics, Beckstrom's law is a model or theorem formulated by Rod Beckstrom. It purports to answer "the decades-old question of 'how valuable is a network'", and states in summary that "The value of a network equals the net value added to each user’s transactions conducted through that network, summed over all users."
Law
According to its creator, this law can be used to value any network be it social networks, computer networks, support groups and even the Internet as a whole. This new model values the network by looking from the edge of the network at all of the transactions conducted and the value added to each.
It states that one way to contemplate the value the network adds to each transaction is to imagine the network being shut off and what the additional transactions costs or loss would be. It can thus be compared to the value of a pizza delivery service offered to its customers. If the pizza delivery service shut down, then the social value generated by its deliveries declines, and people will either go hungry or elsewhere. Similarly, a potluck derives its total enjoyment value from the net value produced by each participant's dish. The success of such a gathering hinges on increasing the number of independent guests and their pots, thereby maximizing the amount of "luck" any one guest would have to achieve a satisfactory meal. Assuming one pot per person, a potluck with a set maximum number of guests could produce only a relatively small amount of total potential group satisfaction.
Beckstrom's Law differs from Metcalfe's law, Reed's law and other concepts that proposed that the value of a network was based purely on the size of the network, and in Metcalfe's law, one other variable.
According to Rod Beckstrom, the most significant improvement when using Beckstrom's Law instead of Metcalfe's Law, is the applicability to current experiences on the Internet. Metcalfe's Law does not account for service degradation due to a high number of users or bad actors who steal value from the network.
As an explicit economic model
The net present value V of any network j to any individual i is equal to the sum of the net present value of the benefit of all transactions less the net present value of the costs of all transactions on the network over any given period of time t, as shown in the following equation. The value of the entire network is the summary of the value to all users, who are defined as all parties doing transactions on that network.
where:
= value of a network j to all users
Vi,j = net present value of all transactions to user i with respect to network j, over any time period
i identifies one user of the network
j identifies one network
k identifies one transaction
Bi,j,k = the benefit value of transaction k to individual i with respect to network j
Ci,j,k = the cost of transaction k to individual i with respect to network j
rk = the discount rate of interest to the time of transaction k
tk = the elapsed tim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20GT75 | The Ford GT75 is a diesel lawn tractor manufactured by Ford. a 48-inch mowing deck, and is belt-driven with six rotating blades.
External links
Ford FT 75 (TractorData.com)
GT75
Lawn and garden tractors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdevallia%20caudata | Masdevallia caudata is a species of orchid endemic to easternmost Colombia and adjacent Venezuela.
References
External links
caudata
Orchids of Colombia
Orchids of Venezuela
Endemic orchids of Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiOS1 | FiOS1 was a news-based pay television network that was carried by Verizon Fios in the New York metropolitan area. Launched on June 22, 2009 in Long Island and New Jersey and later on May 28, 2014 in the Lower Hudson Valley, FiOS1 provided hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports and also original programming. FiOS1 was only available in Northern New Jersey, Long Island, and Lower Hudson Valley.
The networks focused on content produced by RNN, which produced the network's newscasts. Sports coverage featured local high schools and colleges such as Rutgers University, Hofstra University and Princeton University.
In 2013, the segment Restaurant Hunter received a New York Emmy Award in the "Entertainment Feature/Segment".
In August 2019, it was announced that FiOS1 would shut down through a WARN Act notice after RNN and Verizon could not come to an agreement on a contract extension. It was announced in September that Altice's News 12 would be added to the FiOS lineup beginning on November 4, 2019 as part of a wider deal to add their other news channels, Cheddar and i24 News. Although FiOS1 was intended to cease operations on November 15, 2019, near its closure, RNN announced via an email to its employees that FiOS1 would close early on November 13 (with its final newscast at 11 p.m.) as many of its employees were let go from their jobs. Immediately after its newscast, the websites and social network feeds were closed. Since 2021, all of FiOS1's websites became redirects to Verizon Fios' services.
From March 26, 2020, the former FiOS1 HD channel space (channel 501) was re-used for Verizon's "Pay it Forward Live", a weekly live program featured entertainment, mainly gaming and music, to support local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. This program concluded on May 28, and the channel was eventually removed from Fios altogether later that year.
Programming
At the time of its closure, FiOS1 provided the following programs in all regions:
FIOS1 News Morning Edition
FIOS1 News Evening Edition
FIOS1 News Weekend Edition
FIOS1 News Daytime Edition
FIOS1 News Now
Push Pause
Build
Yahoo Finance Market Movers
FiOS1 provided additional local programming for its other three regions:
Long Island: High Speed Fiber-Optic Internet Services Provider | Verizon Fios:
My Long Island TV
Restaurant Hunter
Heroes on our Island
Money & Main$treet
Traffic 360
New Jersey region:
State of Affairs
This is Jersey
One on One
Life and Living
Caucus New Jersey
New Jersey Means Business
The Caucus Educational Corporation once produced New Jersey Capital Report which was aired on FiOS 1 in New Jersey and ended its run in 2017
Lower Hudson Valley region:
Newsbreakers
Giants Access Blue
FiOS1 News This Week
Restaurant Hunter
Fitness Friday
FIOS1 News, Weather & Traffic
In addition, all FiOS1 regional channels aired local high school sports events in their respective regions weeknights from 7:30 p.m to 9:30 p.m.; most of these regional newscasts and high school sports ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDP%20%C3%81frica | RDP África is a terrestrial radio station owned by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal broadcasting to Lusophone African countries with programming such as Lusophone African music, as well as Portuguese music and Brazilian music, with update reports from the Lusophone African recording world.
The station broadcasts on FM in Portugal (Lisboa 101.5 MHz, Coimbra 103.4 MHz and Faro 99.1 MHz), but also on most African Portuguese-speaking countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
RDP África was introduced to Lusophone Africa when RDP Internacional stopped its broadcast on 6 January 1998 and launched RDP África the next day. The radio station also serves the Portuguese populations of Lusophone Africa and African populations of both black, white, and mulatto blood of Portugal.
External links
RDP África Website
FM, DAB and satellite transmitting network
RDP África Live Stream on RTP Play
International broadcasters
Radio stations in Angola
Radio stations in Cape Verde
Radio stations in Guinea-Bissau
Radio stations in Mozambique
Radio stations in Portugal
Radio stations in São Tomé and Príncipe
Portuguese-language radio stations
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
1998 establishments in Portugal
Radio stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20%28radio%20network%29 | Galaxy was a radio network owned by Global Radio and broadcast across the British Isles on FM in regional areas of England and Scotland, through the digital platform with Sky and DAB and online respectively. Stations included stations: Galaxy Birmingham, Galaxy Manchester, Galaxy North East, Galaxy Scotland, Galaxy South Coast and Galaxy Yorkshire. Programming was networked throughout the stations from Leeds – excluding weekday breakfast/drivetime and weekend mornings. On Monday 28 April 2008, Galaxy was rebranded as a mainstream station by Creative Spark, with a brand new layout including a fresh logo and a completely new show schedule.
Galaxy Scotland (formerly known as XFM Scotland), launched on Saturday 7 November 2008, and Galaxy South Coast (rebranded from Power FM), launched on Saturday 22 November 2008, as the two new radio stations to join the Galaxy Network which was part of Global Radio's plans to simplify radio stations they own and expand other radio stations across the UK.
Galaxy used RCS Selector and Master Control as its music playout system. According to RAJAR figures, Galaxy was the 7th most listened to radio station in the UK.
The network was rebranded and merged with The Hit Music Network on 3 January 2011 to form The Capital FM Network, comprising nine stations in London, Scotland, South East Wales, the West & East Midlands and northern & southern England broadcasting under the Capital FM identity. Local programming on the Hit Music stations is now restricted to daily breakfast and weekday drivetime shows.
History
The first Galaxy station, Galaxy Radio was launched in 1990 in Bristol broadcasting from studios in Portland Square on the 97.2 FM frequency. The station became a key rival to the city's GWR FM station and was operated by the Chiltern Radio Group under the "Hot FM" brand. The line up at the time included Andy Gelder, Rik Scott, Keith Francis (station manager), Andy Beeley, Tristan B, Bob Prince, Tin Tin and Roni Size. It quickly became the most successful dance music station in the UK and was reaching half of all 16- to 24-year-olds in the city every week. In 1994, the station was awarded the licence to broadcast on the new Severn Estuary frequency on 101 MHz serving South Wales and the West of England areas and was rebranded as Galaxy 101. Chrysalis Radio purchased the station in 1996 and in 1997 expanded the network by buying the Faze FM operated stations which were Kiss 102 in Manchester (which became Galaxy Manchester) and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire (which became Galaxy Yorkshire) respectively. In 1998, black community station Choice FM was acquired in Birmingham and became Galaxy Birmingham. Chrysalis Radio scored another success in 1999 with the Radio Authority's award of the North East regional licence to Galaxy North East. However, Galaxy 101's success in Bristol was starting to falter, and the station was sold to the GWR Group in 2002, becoming Vibe 101 (now Kiss 101). On 7 November 2008, Xfm Scotland becam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ugly%20Duckling%20and%20Me%21 | The Ugly Duckling and Me! (Danish: Den grimme ælling og mig) is a 2006 computer-animated comedy film directed by Michael Hegner and Karsten Kiilerich with story by Hegner, Kiilerich and Mark Hodkinson. it is a modern adaptation of the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen.
The film follows a rat named Ratso who has a dream about having his own family. The life changes when an egg falls out of its nest revealing an ugly duckling with brushy wings, and he soon becomes a father. It also won an award at the China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival. The film initially premiered in Denmark on October 6, 2006.
Plot
Ratso is a success-starved rodent impresario who deals with business in the world of entertainment: his assistant a worm named Wesley, who he passes off as the "longest worm in the world" by sticking him through a straw. Ratso's dream is to take Wesley to a amusement park where, according to him, his cousin Ernie hosts the most acclaimed shows in the animal world. However, after yet another fiasco. Along the way, the two are chased by Phillis and her brothers, a family of rats from which Ratso is constantly on the run. After a short train ride, the latter falls into a bird's nest among the reeds, while Wesley ends up inside a bottle of tequila and Ratso accidentally ends up in a farm full of ducks, an egg hatches and the duckling recognizes Ratso as his parent. To escape, the latter begins to create a mound of earth from which he then launches himself to overcome the fence, which passes for a mountain with a stage for the little duckling he has adopted to perform. After being rejected by the audience, Ugly and Ratso refugees in a abandoned Volkswagen Beetle where they sleep there.
During the journey, Ugly grows into a teenager and the two are joined by a female duck named Jessie after the latter saves her from a fox. Meanwhile, Jessie understands Ratso's intentions and tries to dissuade him, pointing out that he represents her only point of reference for Ugly, but apparently the rat doesn't listen to her. Once they reach the big carousel, which turns out to be an old abandoned amusement park, Ratso meets his cousin Ernie, a tabby cat with a hand puppet. Before starting the show, the protagonist begins to doubt what he does, thinking back to what Jessie told him. However, Ugly decides to throw himself onto the stage to try to help his adoptive father after he was being booed due to his procrastination. At that point, Ugly realizes that his aim was to become famous by making himself ridiculous, and runs away sad and embittered. During the escape, the young man is captured by Phillis and her brothers, who have meanwhile taken possession of the duck farm. After doing so, she goes to Ratso, telling him to come to the farm that evening if she wanted to see her adopted son again. Ratso respects the agreement and after being locked up with Ugly, he reveals to him that he is not his real father, but he replie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISA100.11a | ISA100.11a is a wireless networking technology standard developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA). The official description is "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications".
The ISA100 committee is part of ISA and was formed in 2005 to establish standards and related information that will define procedures for implementing wireless systems in the automation and control environment with a focus on the field level. The committee is made up of over 400 automation professionals from nearly 250 companies worldwide. The committee also represents end users, wireless suppliers, system integrators, research firms, consultants, government agencies, and industry consortia. Committee members lend their expertise to the advancement of the ISA100 series of standards.
In 2009, the ISA Automation Standards Compliance Institute established the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute. The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute owns the 'ISA100 Compliant' certification scheme which provides independent testing of ISA100 based products to ensure that they conform to the ISA100 standard.
Timeline
May 2009: the ISA100 standards committee voted to approve ISA100.11a, "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications".
July 2009: Nivis announced ISA100.11a software.
September 9, 2009: ISA officially released ISA100.11a.
October 2009: Arkema in Crosby, Texas, in conjunction with the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute, conducted a multi vendor interoperability test.
Honeywell Process Solutions announced ISA100.11a compliant starter kits and complete systems.
Yokogawa announced products based on ISA100.11a standards, including wireless gateway with pressure and temperature transmitter.
2010: the ISA100 committee approved a major corrigendum to the 2009 edition of the standard reflecting comments received from organizations implementing the standard, and other commentors seeking clarification. The 2010 edition of the standard was submitted to the IEC SC65C in the form of a PAS (Publicly Available Specification) and as a New Work Item for international standardization. In this form, it has been numbered as IEC 62734.
References
External links
ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
ISA 100.11a Standard Closes in on Approval
Cambridge Whitepaper
ISA100.11a, ISA Expo 2006 SP100 Overview ppt
Standard Download
ISA100 Roadshow: Standards and Status
Wireless sensor network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20suggest%20drop-down%20list | A search suggest drop-down list is a query feature used in computing to show the searcher shortcuts, while the query is typed into a text box. Before the query is complete, a drop-down list with the suggested completions appears to provide options to select. The suggested queries then enable the searcher to complete the required search quickly. As a form of autocompletion, the suggestion list is distinct from search history in that it attempts to be predictive even when the user is searching for the first time. Data may come from popular searches, sponsors, geographic location or other sources. These lists are used by operating systems, web browsers and various websites, particularly search engines. Search suggestions are common with a 2014 survey finding that over 80% of e-commerce websites included them.
The computing science of syntax and algorithms are used to form search results from a database. Content management systems and frequent searches can assist software engineers in optimizing more refined queries with methods of parameters and subroutines. Suggestions can be results for the current query or related queries by words, time and dates, categories and tags. The suggestion list may be reordered by other options, as enumerative, hierarchical or faceted.
Although not the first deployment of search suggestions, Google Suggest is one of the most prominent. Four years before it was considered stable, the feature was developed in 2004 by Google engineer Kevin Gibbs and the name was chosen by Marissa Mayer. Google, and other large search companies, maintain a blacklist that prevents the display of queries that could be interpreted as violating their social responsibility. Despite this, the company regularly receives complaints that several popular suggestions, or suggestions whose positions have been inflated by bots, should be added to this list. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jillian York has criticized Apple's blacklist for including words that are merely provocative.
One example of a project using suggested queries to expose societal attitudes was a 2013 ad series called The Autocomplete Truth by UN Women. The campaign showed several gender stereotypes being displayed as popular searches by Google Suggest. Another was a story by Bad Astronomy that revealed a distrustful perspective on scientists in the suggestion box. Additionally, cases related to libel laws have posited that suggestions may inspire people to associate specific names with specific alleged crimes when they would not have otherwise.
Some users have criticized the fact that suggestion-enabled text boxes, unlike the web forms of static HTML, send data about each keystroke to a central server. Such data has the potential to identify specific people. This has caused at least one Mozilla Firefox developer to opine that "users mostly dislike search suggestions". Apart from the privacy debate, some users have expressed negative reception over the usefulness of search aut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Public%20Docket | The Interactive Public Docket (IPD) is an eRulemaking tool created and managed by non governmental organizations that seek to provide the public with the capability to 1) publicly post data and other materials pertaining to federal proceedings on a continuous basis, including after the close of the Administrative Procedure Act comment period and 2) post comments on already submitted materials.
The IPD was first developed by the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness and its origins have been discussed on National Public Radio.
The Obama Administration's Transparency and Open Government initiative seeks to address some of the same issues public participation goals as the IPDs.
Current IPDs include CMS Competitive Bidding and Ocean Zoning. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed its own set of Interactive Public Dockets for its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
External links
NPR Interview
Inside CMS article on the Competitive Bidding IPD
CMS Competitive Bidding IPD
NIST Forums
References
Federal government of the United States
Politics and technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronix%20corporation | Electronix Corporation distributes electronic parts and accessories for home and business use, as well as data storage devices (under the name RaidWeb) and electronic technician information services (under the name RepairWorld). In addition, Electronix operates a computer repair/IT service division under the name Electronix Computer Center. Founded in 1986, Electronix is a privately owned small business.
History
Electronix Corporation was founded in Fairborn, Ohio in 1986 as a video rental store. Soon afterward, Electronix expanded to include electronic equipment repair and a catalog-based business selling electronic repair parts to companies and individuals, both domestically and internationally. Through its websites and catalogs, Electronix Corporation stocks over 15,000 electronic components and accessories, provides technical support to electronic repair technicians across the country, and vends large-scale data storage devices to governmental, educational, and corporate clients.
Divisions
Electronix Corporation consists of five main divisions: Electronix Online, RaidWeb, RepairWorld, Electronix Computer Center, and WeCopy.
Electronix Online
Electronix Online provides electronic parts and accessories to consumers. Major lines include semiconductor, transistor, and other varieties of chips used in electronic repair. Other lines include computer parts and accessories, soldering equipment, and other consumer electronics. (Website is broken since 2019.)
RaidWeb
RaidWeb distributes data storage products, including RAID, network-attached storage, iSCSI, and more.
RepairWorld
RepairWorld is a subscription website for electronics technicians that offers databases of electronics repairs and various user forums to discuss electronic repairs.
Electronix Computer Center
The Electronix Computer Center performs computer repairs, builds, and upgrades, and provides information technology and computer networking services in the Dayton, Ohio area.
WeCopy
WeCopy offers duplication services for CD & DVD nationwide. (Website is broken since 2016.)
Operations
Electronix Corporation markets its products worldwide through catalogs, internet sites, and mailings. All sales originate from its Fairborn, Ohio location at 1 Herald Square.
References
External links
Electronix.Com (archived December 23, 2018)
RaidWeb
RepairWorld
Electronix Computer Center - Fairborn, Ohio. Service, Sales, Repairs, Networking, Internet, Website Design
WeCopy (archived November 12, 2015)
Online Electronics Store
Companies based in Dayton, Ohio
Electronics companies of the United States
Electronics companies established in 1986
1986 establishments in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20immortality | Digital immortality (or "virtual immortality") is the hypothetical concept of storing (or transferring) a person's personality in digital substrate, i.e., a computer, robot or cyberspace (mind uploading). The result might look like an avatar behaving, reacting, and thinking like a person on the basis of that person's digital archive. After the death of the individual, this avatar could remain static or continue to learn and self-improve autonomously (possibly becoming seed AI).
A considerable portion of transhumanists and singularitarians place great hope into the belief that they may eventually become immortal by creating one or many non-biological functional copies of their brains, thereby leaving their "biological shell". These copies may then "live eternally" in a version of digital "heaven" or paradise.
Realism
The National Science Foundation has awarded a half-million-dollar grant to the universities of Central Florida at Orlando and Illinois at Chicago to explore how researchers might use artificial intelligence, archiving, and computer imaging to create convincing, digital versions of real people, a possible first step toward virtual immortality.
The Digital Immortality Institute explores three factors necessary for digital immortality. First, at whatever level of implementation, avatars require guaranteed Internet accessibility. Next, avatars must be what users specify, and they must remain so. Finally, future representations must be secured before the living users are no more.
The aim of Dmitry Itskov's 2045 Initiative is to "create technologies enabling the transfer of an individual’s personality to a non-biological carrier, and extending existence, including to the point of immortality".
Method
Reaching digital immortality is a two-step process:
archiving and digitizing people,
making the avatar live
Digital immortality has been argued to go beyond technical processes of digitization of people, and encompass social aspects as well. For example, Joshua Hurtado has presented a four-step framework in which the digital immortalization of people could preserve the social bond between the living and the dead. These steps are: 1) data gathering, 2) data codification, 3) data activation, and 4) data embodiment. Each of these steps is linked to a form of preserving the social bond, either through talk, embodied emotionality (expressing emotions through one's form of embodiment) or monumentalism (creating a monument, in this case in digital form, to remember the dead).
Archiving and digitizing people
According to Gordon Bell and Jim Gray from Microsoft Research, retaining every conversation that a person has ever heard is already realistic: it needs less than a terabyte of storage (for adequate quality). The speech or text recognition technologies are one of the biggest challenges of the concept.
A second possibility would be to archive and analyze social Internet use to map the personality of people. By analyzing social Internet u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Universo is the name of a comic book character
Universo may also refer to:
Universo BRB
Universo Online
El Universo, newspaper
Universo (Axel album)
Universo (TV network), an American cable network
See also
Universo Latino
Universe (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20Simon%20Decide | Let Simon Decide was an online decision-making system based on decision science that uses complex algorithms and a personality test to help people make decisions. It emerged about the same time that Hunch.com launched and the two websites are often compared together.
Let Simon Decide was launched on February 21, 2009 and founded by former Mattel director Ricardo Solar, designers, writers, MBAs, analysts and decision making experts. The company is located in Redondo Beach, California.
Let Simon Decide became available to the public on May 2, 2009 and is for sale in 2015.
Website Features
Let Simon Decide allows users to select from a list of Simon's decisions or to create their own unique decision. Simon's decisions (separated into categories for Education, Lifestyle, Business & Work, Financial, Leisure, Purchase, Health, and Student) feature lists of factors to consider, possible alternatives, and links to resources that are related to the decision. Users can rate the outcome of their decisions and publish a summary of their decision with the community, as well as browse through the decisions of others.
Simon's Tools
Let Simon Decide currently offers three decision making tools that take between 5 and 10 minutes to use: My Scores, My Life Match, and My Points of View. My Scores is the most logical, fact-based tool, ideal for decisions where the user faces multiple appealing alternatives and factors. The user is asked to list their alternatives, list the factors that are important to their decision, rank these factors in order of importance, and score each alternative against each factor. My Life Match is the most personal tool and considers the user's goals, current situation, personality type, and activities, based on the My Life Profile the user has created. My Points of View is the fastest decision tool and prompts the user to consider his/her decision from four different perspectives.
References
External links
LetSimonDecide.com, official website
Online companies of the United States
Social information processing
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Sierra%20Leone | There are 84 kilometres of railway in Sierra Leone, all of which is private and of a narrow gauge, .
Network
Sierra Leone no longer has any common carrier railroads, as the gauge Sierra Leone Government Railway from Freetown through Bo to Kenema and Daru with a branch to Makeni closed in 1974. The country does not share rail links with adjacent countries, Guinea and Liberia.
The existing railway between the port of Pepel and the Marampa iron ore mine is being refurbished by African Minerals plc. This is a common carrier railway, but will be used predominantly for transporting iron ore. African Minerals is also constructing a new standard gauge railway from the Tonkolili iron ore mine to a new port at Tagrin Point.
See also
Railway stations in Sierra Leone
Transport in Sierra Leone
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Interactive map of Sierra Leone railway system
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Sierra Leone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSKK | KSKK (1070 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Verndale, Minnesota. The station is owned by Gabriel Media and airs Religious programming from Relevant Radio.
Programming
Between 2009 and June 2015, the station has aired a talk radio format branded as "The Talk of the Town". KVKK broadcast various syndicated talk radio programs from different sources. , it is still a talk station, airing Jim Bohannon's America in the Morning plus conservative talk shows hosted by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on August 8, 2002. The new station was assigned the KVKK call sign by the FCC on November 27, 2002.
In October 2005, permit holder D&E Communications applied to the FCC to transfer the construction permit to DJ Broadcasting Corp. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 1, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on November 4, 2005. KVKK received its license to cover from the FCC on December 5, 2005.
When first launched, KVKK broadcast a classic country music format, including syndicated programming from Dial Global.
On June 30, 2015, KVKK changed its call sign to KSKK and picked up the "Arrow" adult contemporary format from KSKK 94.7 FM Staples, MN, which moved to the Detroit Lakes area as 94.5 FM KDLB.
In 2021, the KK Radio Network announced the sale of KSKK to Gabriel Media. Gabriel owns KKJM in St. Cloud, which airs a Christian Contemporary format, and KYES in Rockville which airs Catholic/Christian programming Relevant Radio.
In September 2021, KSKK flipped from adult contemporary to Catholic/Christian programming from Relevant Radio following the sale to Gabriel Media's closure.
1070 AM was previously occupied by KMOM, an American radio station licensed to Monticello, Minnesota, USA during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Previous logo
References
External links
Radio stations in Minnesota
Radio stations established in 2005
Wadena County, Minnesota
2005 establishments in Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ces%20Quesada | Ces Quesada (; born June 13, 1958) is a Filipino actress and TV host. She is currently signed with GMA Network and ABS-CBN. Prior to acting, she taught Speech Communication and Theater Arts at the University of the Philippines.
Filmography
Television
Film
References
1958 births
Living people
Filipino film actresses
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
Filipino television actresses
Actresses from Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Bank | Bertram Bank (September 1, 1914 – June 22, 2009) was an American politician, war hero and radio pioneer who was best known as the founder of the Alabama Football Radio Network. He was also the founder of two Tuscaloosa, Alabama radio stations (WTBC and WUOA) and wrote the book, Back From the Living Dead, about his experiences as a POW and Bataan Death March survivor.
Life and career
Bank was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to Sam and Bessie Bank. He earned a law degree from the University of Alabama in 1940. After graduating, he received a commission as a second lieutenant through the University's ROTC program and was assigned to the 27th Bomb Group. Bank served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was captured in 1942 and held as a POW by Japan while serving in the Philippines, surviving the Bataan Death March in the process. During his time as POW he was held at Camp O'Donnell (Cabanatuan) before being relocated to the island of Mindanao. He was back at Cabanatuan by the time of its liberation by US Rangers near the end of the war.
After the war, Bank retired from the Air Force with the rank of Major and returned to Tuscaloosa and took over WTBC as owner and general manager. He then secured the rights to broadcast Alabama Crimson Tide football in 1953 and built a network of affiliates that became the Alabama Football Radio Network.
Bank served as producer of the network until 1985 and held the title of producer emeritus of the AFRN and its successors until his death. He was known for watching games from the broadcast booth up to the 2008 season before his death, being acknowledged by Alabama Radio play by play commentator Eli Gold every broadcast. Bank was also a pioneer in broadcasting basketball, having his station become the first in the state to broadcast a game over the air.
Bank also served as a member of both the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate. He served two terms in the State House, first being elected in 1966, and one term as a State Senator, being elected in 1974. He chose to forgo a second term in the State Senate to unsuccessfully run for Lieutenant Governor in 1978.
His most famous accomplishments while serving in the Alabama Legislature included the introduction of legislation that made it a felony to burn an American Flag or draft card, making Alabama the first state in the nation to address the issue, as well as legislation requiring the philosophy of patriotism to be taught in Alabama public schools.
Death
Bank lived in Tuscaloosa until he died on June 22, 2009, aged 94, shortly after being admitted into a local hospital. He was survived by two sons and four grandchildren.
Awards and honors
Purple Heart
Bronze Star
Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement Award
National Veterans Award
References
Tuscaloosa News
Bert Bank
Press release
Alabama Broadcasters Association
1914 births
2009 deaths
Politicians from Montgomery, Alabama
Politicians from Tuscaloos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Flint | Jill Flint is an American television and film actress, best known for her role of Jill Casey in the USA Network TV series Royal Pains, and as the popular character Lana Delaney on CBS' award-winning series The Good Wife. She also plays one of the lead characters, Dr. Jordan Alexander, in the NBC medical drama The Night Shift, and had a recurring role on Bull as Diana Lindsay.
Personal life
She was born in Cherry Valley, New York, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
Flint has appeared in several feature films including Cadillac Records with Adrien Brody, and The Women. She appeared as Bex on Gossip Girl. She was a series regular in USA Network's hit series Royal Pains. She was also seen as recurring character FBI Agent Lana Delaney on The Good Wife (CBS). She starred on The Night Shift (NBC) as Dr. Jordan Alexander from 2014 to 2017. She also appeared as the on-again, off-again romantic interest to Dr. Jason Bull on the CBS series Bull.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
USA Network Profile
Jordan Alexander in The Night Shift
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from New York (state)
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
People from Cherry Valley, New York
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20specials%20on%20Australian%20television%20in%202008 | This is a list of television specials which first aired on Australian television in 2008. The list is arranged in chronological order. Where more than one programming changed was made on the same date, those changes are listed alphabetically.
List
See also
Lists of television specials
Notes
References
2008 in Australian television
Specials
Lists of television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20SH906i | FOMA SH906i is a mobile phone developed by Sharp for NTT DoCoMo using the FOMA（HSDPA） 3G network.
Features
The SH906i is only available in the Japanese market. It is the first ClearPad enabled touchscreen mobile phone to be introduced to Japan's mobile handset market.
Similar to the SH905i, it has a screen that can flip 180 degrees to face opposite from the user. The overall look of the phone closely resembles that of a SH903i.
The screen is a 3.0" TFT LCD unit capable of representing 16.7 million colors at 854X480 resolution. It also sports a strengthened form of anti-peek technology whereby a press of a button activates patterns across the screen when viewed at an angle.
The lid can be folded down while the screen is flipped outwards, enabling the touch screen feature of this phone. The screen itself users capacitive screen, hence it is not possible to use a stylus. Users in Japan can use the phone in this mode to browse the web, watch 1SEG terrestrial TV, and control the camera.
The directional key now contains a sensor integrating Sharp's exclusive "Touch Cruiser" technology. This allows users to navigate the menus akin to using a laptop touch pad. The settings allow for multiple sensitivity options as well as an option to turn it off altogether.
The camera has been upgraded to a 5.2MP CMOS unit with AutoFocus for up to 5 faces. It features anti-shake technology, automatic white balance and a panoramic mode. However, the handset does not feature a secondary camera. For 3G calls, it is still possible to use the primary camera by swiveling the lid 180 degrees.
Bluetooth is built in, a first for FOMA Sharp handsets. However it is limited to headset pairing only.
Preinstalled i-アプリ (i-Appli)
Japanese-English translator for SH
Japanese-Chinese translator for SH
Web Dictionary
GPS
TV Remote
DCMX Mobile Wallet Service
FeliCa
Devil May Cry for SH
Google Mobile Maps
Manga/Book Reader
See also
List of Sharp mobile phones
NTT docomo - dominant carrier
References
External links
FOMA SH906i - NTTドコモ
SH906i - シャープ
ケータイ新製品SHOW CASE SH906i - ケータイWatch
Sharp Corporation mobile phones
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transport%20in%20Mauritius | The history of rail transport in Mauritius began in the 1860s. The Mauritian rail network was quickly built and it soon provided service to most of the island. It was a key factor in the social-economic development of Mauritius during its period of operation. However, due to persistent unprofitability from 1948 to 1953, it was closed in 1964. In 2019, the Metro Express light rail system opened, bringing rail passenger traffic back to Mauritius.
Beginnings
Mauritius was developing rapidly in the 1860s. To progress further, it needed to modernize its transportation system. As such, introduction of a railway network was essential for the future development of the island. With Port-Louis as hub, the railway network quickly developed and was soon covering most of the island.
The first line opened in 1864; it was named the North line. The second line, the Midlands line, started functioning in 1865. With developing urbanisation, secondary lines were gradually extended. All of these lines were .
Network
Main lines
The North line covered and started operation on 23 May 1864. It passed through the districts of Pamplemousses, Rivière du Rempart and Flacq, to end at the station of Grand River South East.
The Midlands line covered . It connected Port-Louis to Mahébourg, and opened on 22 October 1865. This line contributed to the development of urban agglomerations by passing through the secondary stations of Beau Bassin, Rose Hill, Quatre Bornes, Phoenix, Vacoas, Curepipe and Rose-Belle.
Secondary lines
As the rural areas developed, the railway network was gradually extended. There were four secondary lines:
The Moka-Flacq line, which opened on 11 December 1876. It joined the Midlands line at Rose Hill, and ran through Plaines Wilhems, Moka and Flacq to Rivière Sèche, where it formed a junction with the North line; it was long.
The Savanne branch joined the Midlands line at Rose-Belle and ran through the Savanne District to Souillac, measuring .
The Black-River line, long, ran from Port-Louis to Tamarin; it became operational on 27 August 1904.
The Long Mountain branch, which was long, opened on 21 September 1903.
Rolling stock
At its apogee, the Mauritius Government Railways had a fleet of 52 steam locomotives, including three Garratts, numbers 60 to 62, two diesel-hydraulic locomotives ("Jessop"), together with nearly 200 passenger coaches and 750 goods wagons. Mauritian rail vehicles and operating practices were predominantly British in style.
Sugar mill lines
Mauritius also once had a number of narrow gauge industrial railway lines, each connecting a sugar mill with nearby sugar cane plantations. Some of the steam locomotives used on these lines are now preserved, mostly at various sugar mills around Mauritius.
Role of railway network in development of the island
The maximum length of the Mauritian railway network was . The railways contributed, to a great extent, to the socio-economic development of the island from the late 19th c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Malawi | Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999. As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.
The rail network totalled 797 kilometres in 2001. Like most railways in Southern Africa, it is entirely to Cape gauge, i.e. 1067 mm gauge.
Maps
UN Map
Railway links with adjacent countries
Mozambique
In the city of Nkaya there is an interconnection between the Nacala railway and the Sena railway. Through the Nacala railway, it is possible to access the Port of Nacala in the east, and in the northwest of Mozambique, in the Moatize coal mines. Via the Sena railway (or Shire Highlands railway), there is a connection between the cities of Mchinji, Lilongue, Salima, Nkaya, Blantyre, Nsanje, Nhamayabué, Dondo and Port of Beira.
The Nacala railway line (Nacala Corridor line) to Mozambique via Nkaya to the port of Nacala; by the Sena railway line, from Nkaya to the Nhamayabué (Dona Ana Bridge) and Beira, has not been operational since the war in Mozambique and is in need of reconstruction.
In April 2011, the Malawi government and the Brazilian mining company Vale signed an agreement to construct a short cut railway line from coal mines in Moatize to Blantyre, where it would connect with tracks to the port of Nacala.
Tanzania and Zambia
In 2015, an extension of the Chipata line to a junction with the TAZARA line at Serenje was proposed. In 2016, the contract was awarded. There is no direct link with neighbouring Tanzania as there is a / break of gauge.
A rail link to Chipata in Zambia was completed in 1984, but a connection onward into Zambia was only opened in 2010. This line remains idle because there are few facilities at Chipata.
See also
Economy of Malawi
History of rail transport in Malawi
Transport in Malawi
References
Notes
Further reading
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Vall%C3%A9e | Robert Vallée (5 October 1922 in Poitiers, France – 1 January 2017, Paris, France) was a French cyberneticist and mathematician. He was Professor at the Paris 13 University (University of Paris-Nord) and president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC).
At the beginning of the 1950s, Vallée wrote his first publications on what he named "opérateur d'observation" (which means in English "operator of observation"). The latter, in the simplest case, allows a cybernetic system to observe the state of its environment and itself. Thereafter, on the basis of these results, a decisional operator will be able to indicate the action to be taken. The two stages of perception and decision are distinguished by "intellectual convenience", but it is interesting to gather them in a unique operator, known as "pragmatic". A decision is influenced by the observation of events, but also by past perceptions. That means that, in the observation made at a given moment, traces of past observations are also present. Eventually, these processes follow one another in a loop. Vallée defined the study of this situation with the term "epistemo-praxeology", underlining the existing link between knowledge (episteme), resulting from observation, and action (praxis). Regarding the observation problem, Vallée was also interested in information theory.
Vallée also nourished private interests in sociological problems as well as in history. The first led him to describe a cybernetic creature covering the whole surface of the globe with its communication net (1952), an idea which has also been proposed (under the name of "cybionte", 1975) by Joël de Rosnay. He also wrote articles devoted to historical aspects of cybernetics and systems, referring to René Descartes, Louis de Broglie, and Norbert Wiener.
Biography
Vallée was born on 5 October 1922, in Poitiers, (France), as the son of professors in history. In 1969 he married the editor and translator Nicole Georges-Lévy. With his wife, Robert Vallée contributed to a translation, in French, of Norbert Wiener's book, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.
Towards the end of the 1920s and during the 1930s, Vallée attended the college of Angoulême where, in 1940, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Latin-Greek, mathematics, and philosophy. Between 1944 and 1946, he was student at the École Polytechnique in Paris. During the summer of 1954, he took part in the "Foreign Students Summer Project" of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Norbert Wiener and Armand Siegel). In 1961 he became a Doctor of Science in mathematics with a thesis on an extension of the general relativity of Kaluza-Klein, under the direction of André Lichnerowicz (University of Paris).
During his career, Vallée occupied several positions. Between 1956 and 1958, he was Associate-Director of the Institute Blaise Pascal in Paris. From 1961 to 1971, he was university lecturer in mathematics at the École Poly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TDRS%20satellites | This is a list of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. TDRS spacecraft are all in geostationary orbit and are operated by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and are used for communication between NASA facilities and spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and International Space Station.
As of 1 March 2019, 12 of the TDRS satellites launched were operational, two (TDRS-3, TDRS-5) had been placed in storage, two (TDRS-1 and TDRS-4) had been retired, and one (TDRS-B) had been lost in a launch failure.
Satellites
References
TDRS
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISERD | The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is an interdisciplinary social science research centre with its administrative base at Cardiff University, Wales. Its aim is to draw together and build upon the existing expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods and methodologies.
The institute is a collaborative venture between the Universities of Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor and South Wales. Funding is jointly provided by the Welsh Assembly Government (via the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, HEFCW), and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) was established in 2008. Its current director is Professor Ian Rees Jones. The principal aims of WISERD are:
To develop the quality and quantity of social science research in Wales, particularly through externally funded research projects;
To promote collaborative research activity across the participating universities and across disciplines and sectors;
To develop the social science research infrastructure in Wales; and
To strengthen the impact of social science research on the development of policy in the public, private and third sectors through a focus on knowledge exchange and engagement.
WISERD seeks to achieve these aims through two programmes: a research programme and a research infrastructure programme.
WISERD's research programme consists of activities from basic science to applied research projects, within the following key themes: Civil Society; Education; Health, Wellbeing and Social Care; Economic and Social Inequalities; Localities; and Data and Methods.
WISERD Civil Society
WISERD Civil Society is a research centre, launched in October 2014 and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It is undertaking a five-year programme of research addressing Civil Society in Wales, the UK and internationally.
Its four research themes are:
Locality, Community and Civil Society;
Institutions and Governance;
Economic Austerity, Social Enterprise and Equality; and
Generation, Life Course and Social Participation.
References
Social science research institutes
Research institutes in Wales
Cardiff University
Think tanks based in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%20device | In computing, an input device is a piece of equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system, such as a computer or information appliance. Examples of input devices include keyboards, mouse, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones.
Input devices can be categorized based on:
modality of input (e.g., mechanical motion, audio, visual, etc.)
whether the input is discrete (e.g., pressing of key) or continuous (e.g., a mouse's position, though digitized into a discrete quantity, is fast enough to be considered continuous)
the number of degrees of freedom involved (e.g., two-dimensional traditional mice, or three-dimensional navigators designed for CAD applications)
Keyboard
A keyboard is a human interface device which is represented as a matrix of buttons. Each button, or key, can be used to either input an alphanumeric character to a computer, or to call upon a particular function of the computer. It acts as the main text entry interface for most users.
Types
Keyboards are available in many form factors, depending on the use case. Standard keyboards can be categorized by its size and number of keys, and the type of switch it employs. Other keyboards cater to specific use cases, such as a numeric keypad or a keyer.
Desktop keyboards are typically large, often have full key travel distance, and features such as multimedia keys and a numeric keypad. Keyboards on laptops and tablets typically compromise on comfort to achieve a thin figure.
There are various switch technologies used in modern keyboards, such as mechanical switches (which use springs), scissor switches (usually found on a laptop keyboard), or a membrane.
Other keyboards do not have physical keys, such as a virtual keyboard, or a projection keyboard.
Ergonomic keyboard A keyboard placing design emphasis on ergonomics and comfort.
Chorded keyboard A keyboard used by pressing several keys together.
Thumb keyboard A miniature keyboard found in PDAs and mobile phones.
Keyer A chorded keyboard without the board.
Numeric keypad While some keyboards include one (commonly found on the right side), numeric keypads can be found as independent devices.
Pointing device
A pointing device allows a user to input spatial data to a computer. It is commonly used as a simple and intuitive way to select items on a computer screen on a graphical user interface (GUI), either by moving a mouse pointer, or, in the case of a touch screen, by physically touching the item on screen. Common pointing devices include mice, touchpads, and touch screens.
Whereas mice operate by detecting their displacement on a surface, analog devices, such as 3D mice, joysticks, or pointing sticks, function by reporting their angle of deflection.
Types
Pointing devices can be classified on:
Whether the input is direct or indirect. With direct input, the input space coincides with the display space, i.e. pointing is done in the space where visual feedback or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%20Ezenwa | Chi Ezenwa is a distinguished international data specialist, author, and entrepreneur.
Personal life
Chi Ezenwa was born in San Francisco, California. Ezenwa holds degrees from Oakwood University and Loma Linda University. He is the brother of Delbert Baker, president of Oakwood University, and Paxton Baker, executive vice president of BET Digital Networks.
Career
For a decade and a half (1980–1995) Ezenwa headed the Developmental Information Libraries, a business that established national and international consultancy providing research and project management expertise for business operations, local governments, villages in Africa, and the rural United States. Coordination efforts ranged from stimulating international trade; tourism; agricultural development; alternative energy usage, wildlife conservation and fish farming.
In 1994 Ezenwa’s pioneering work World Embassy Directory was published. Ezenwa later prepared two groundbreaking volumes for the World Bank, Afghanistan Metals & Minerals Production eSheet 1959-2005 and World Gold Exports eSheet 1942-1995. Ezenwa’s research established a base for embassy and trade online databases.
From 1995-1999, Ezenwa was a researcher for the World Bank. While there he was a researcher for various World Bank publications; Global Economic Prospects (GEP); Global Development Finance (GDF); The Commodity Quarterly; South Asia’s Integration into the World Economy and The Pink Sheet. Ezenwa also revamped the World Bank database system, a unique and proficient format which is still used today.
Since 1999 Ezenwa has been the principal international consultant for eStat.info, an online company specializing in international trade data. He has developed trade databases for the entire 20th century, and numerous countries have utilized his research.
Publications
World Embassy Directory (1994)
South Asia’s Integration into the World Economy (1997)
Global Economic Prospects (2001)
Global Development Finance (2006)
References
American business writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesembrina | Mesembrina is a genus from the fly family Muscidae.
Species
These 14 valid species belong to the genus Mesembrina:
Mesembrina asternopleuris Fan, 1992 c g
Mesembrina aurocaudata Emden, 1965 c g
Mesembrina ciliimaculata Fan & Zheng, 1992 c g
Mesembrina decipiens Loew, 1873 c g b
Mesembrina intermedia (Zetterstedt, 1849) c g
Mesembrina latreillii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 i c g b
Mesembrina magnifica Aldrich, 1925 c g
Mesembrina meridiana (Linnaeus, 1758) c g
Mesembrina montana Zimin, 1951 c g
Mesembrina mystacea (Linnaeus, 1758) c g
Mesembrina nigribasis Kuchta & Savage, 2008 c g
[?] Mesembrina pallida (excluded, see taxonomy)
Mesembrina resplendens Wahlberg, 1844 c g
Mesembrina respondens Wahlberg, 1844 c g
Mesembrina tristis Aldrich, 1926 c g
Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
Taxonomy
For Mesembrina pallida (Say, 1829) c g this is treated in some schemes as Nomen dubium, therefore excluded.
For Mesembrina decipiens also see the junior synonym Hyperdermodes solitaria Knab, 1914, given in some sources as Mesembrina solitaria (Knab, 1914) i
References
Muscidae
Diptera of Europe
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Thompson | Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C programming language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go programming language.
Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed, the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. He won the Turing Award in 1983 with his long-term colleague Dennis Ritchie.
Early life and education
Thompson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. When asked how he learned to program, Thompson stated, "I was always fascinated with logic and even in grade school I'd work on arithmetic problems in binary, stuff like that. Just because I was fascinated."
Thompson received a Bachelor of Science in 1965 and a master's degree in 1966, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, from the University of California, Berkeley, where his master's thesis advisor was Elwyn Berlekamp.
Career and research
Thompson was hired by Bell Labs in 1966. In the 1960s at Bell Labs, Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked on the Multics operating system. While writing Multics, Thompson created the Bon programming language. He also created a video game called Space Travel. Later, Bell Labs withdrew from the MULTICS project. In order to go on playing the game, Thompson found an old PDP-7 machine and rewrote Space Travel on it. Eventually, the tools developed by Thompson became the Unix operating system: Working on a PDP-7, a team of Bell Labs researchers led by Thompson and Ritchie, and including Rudd Canaday, developed a hierarchical file system, the concepts of computer processes and device files, a command-line interpreter, pipes for easy inter-process communication, and some small utility programs. In 1970, Brian Kernighan suggested the name "Unix", in a pun on the name "Multics". After initial work on Unix, Thompson decided that Unix needed a system programming language and created B, a precursor to Ritchie's C.
In the 1960s, Thompson also began work on regular expressions. Thompson had developed the CTSS version of the editor QED, which included regular expressions for searching text. QED and Thompson's later editor ed (the standard text editor on Unix) contributed greatly to the eventual popularity of regular expressions, and regular expressions became pervasive in Unix text processing programs. Almost all programs that work with regular expressions today use some variant of Thompson's notation. He also invented Thompson's construction algorithm used for converting regular expressions into nondeterministic finite automata in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KENV-DT | KENV-DT (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Elko, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the TBD network. Owned by Baltimore-based Cunningham Broadcasting, it is operated under a joint sales agreement by TBD owner Sinclair Broadcast Group (effectively making KENV an owned-and-operated station). KENV's studios are located on the campus of Great Basin College on Chilton Circle in Elko, and its transmitter is located on Grindstone Mountain.
Until 2018, it served as the NBC affiliate for much of the Nevada side of the Salt Lake City market. Although considered a separate station in its own right, the outlet was actually operated as a semi-satellite of KRNV-DT (channel 4) in Reno. As such, it simulcast NBC network and syndicated programming as provided by KRNV but aired separate commercials, legal identifications, and weekday morning newscasts. Even though the station maintains its own facilities, master control and most internal operations are based at KRNV's studios on Vassar Street in Reno; KENV is operated separately from Sinclair's Salt Lake City stations, KUTV (channel 2), KMYU (channel 12), and KJZZ-TV (channel 14). As KENV-DT is a de facto Salt Lake City market station (despite its signal not reaching the Salt Lake City metropolitan area due to being located on Grindstone Mountain, three hours away), this makes it the only television station in the Salt Lake City market that is licensed to the Nevada side of the market.
History
KEKO
The first occupant of channel 10 in Elko was KEKO-TV, a satellite station of Reno CBS affiliate KTVN (channel 2). KEKO signed on April 18, 1973; it was off the air from January 24, 1974, to June 27, 1975. On December 23, 1975, owner Washoe Empire informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that KEKO's transmitter and equipment had been destroyed in a fire; on April 14, 1976, the FCC granted special temporary authority to Washoe Empire to operate a KTVN translator on channel 10 (at the time, Washoe Empire had made no decision about returning KEKO to the air). On April 8, 1977, at the station's request, the FCC canceled the KEKO license effective March 18.
NBC affiliation
The FCC granted an original construction permit on June 26, 1995, to Las Vegas-based Sunbelt Broadcasting Company to build a television station licensed in Elko. Originally, the station was approved for 0.790 kW to broadcast on VHF channel 10 with transmitter located in coordinates . In July 1996, Sunbelt (later named Intermountain West Communications Company) requested a modification to change the construction permit: moving the transmitter to Grindstone Mountain (in coordinates ) and increasing the power to 3.09 kW. It was approved on January 29, 1997.
The station signed on March 27, 1997, as KENV, a semi-satellite of KRNV. The creation of KENV extended the coverage of the NBC affiliate in Reno into Northeastern Nevada. It is the only full-powered television station in Elko.
On November 22, 2013, Sinclair Broadcast Gro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allspark | Allspark may refer to:
The Allspark, an artifact in the Transformers franchise that created the Cybertronians
Allspark (company), formerly Hasbro Studios, an American media production and distribution company named after said object
See also
"All Sparks", 2005 song by British band Editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gnosis () is the common Greek noun for knowledge.
Gnosis may also refer to:
GNOSIS, a capability-based operating system
Gnosis (artist) (), the artist's name signed upon the famous 'deer hunt mosaic'
Gnosis (chaos magic), an altered state of consciousness in chaos magic
Gnosis (Gnidrolog album), the fourth album of the British progressive rock band, Gnidrolog
Gnosis (magazine), an American magazine published from 1985 to 1999
Gnosis (Monuments album), the debut studio album by British progressive metal band Monuments
Gnosis (Russian Circles album), the eighth album by post-metal band Russian Circles
Gnosis, a 2008 science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer
Gnosis, antagonists in the role-playing video game series Xenosaga
Gnosis, an item to represent an Archon's status in the video game Genshin Impact
Unverified personal gnosis, spiritual belief not corroborated by historical texts or tradition
Gnosis (neurology) is the capacity of the brain to perceive stimuli. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20card | Parallel card could mean:
An insert card mostly identical to another card in the same trading card series
Parallel port expansion card in a computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Computer%20Vision | The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is a research conference sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) held every other year. It is considered to be one of the top conferences in computer vision, alongside CVPR and ECCV,
and it is held on years in which ECCV is not.
The conference is usually spread over four to five days. Typically, experts in the focus areas give tutorial talks on the first day, then the technical sessions (and poster sessions in parallel) follow. Recent conferences have also had an increasing number of focused workshops and a commercial exhibition.
Awards
Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award
The Azriel Rosenfeld Award, or Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizes researchers who have made significant contributions to the field of computer vision over their careers. It is named in memory of computer scientist and mathematician Azriel Rosenfeld. The following people have received this award:
Helmholtz Prize
The ICCV Helmholtz Prize, known as the Test of Time Award before 2013, is awarded every other year at the ICCV, recognizing ICCV papers from ten or more years earlier that had a significant impact on computer vision research. Winners are selected by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. The award is named after the 19th century physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, and the ICCV's award is not related to the various Helmholtz Prizes in physics, or the Hermann von Helmholtz Prize in neuroscience.
Marr Prize
The ICCV best-paper award is the Marr Prize, named after British neuroscientist David Marr.
Mark Everingham Prize
The Mark Everingham Prize is an award given yearly by the Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence of the IEEE Computer Society at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision or the European Conference on Computer Vision to commemorate the late Mark Everingham, "one of the rising stars of computer vision", and to encourage others to follow in his footsteps by acting to further progress in the computer vision community as a whole. The prize is given to a researcher, or a team of researchers, who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community. The Mark Everingham Prize for Rigorous Evaluation was an award given in 2012 at the British Machine Vision Conference.
PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award
The PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (until 2013 called Significant Researcher Award) is awarded to candidates whose research projects have significantly contributed to the progress of computer vision. Awards are made based on major research contributions, as well as the role of those contributions in influencing and inspiring other research. Candidates are nominated by the community. The following people have received this award:
Conference List
The conference is usually held in the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrata | In 2018, Tyler Technologies acquired Socrata, a business-to-government software company, that sells an "open data platform" whose goal was to help "civic developers build apps more efficiently."
History
In 2007, Socrata was established in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. The company later expanded to have offices in Washington, D.C. and London, UK.
Initially known as Blist, Socrata was introduced as an online database software service provider at the DEMO 2008 conference.
In 2009, the company rebranded as Socrata and shifted its focus towards serving the public sector.
In 2016, Socrata formed a strategic partnership with Motorola Solutions to develop and operate CrimeReports. This resulted in a modern, mobile-friendly crime mapping solution being provided to over 1,200 law enforcement agencies in the US.
In 2017, The Obama White House presented their budget using Socrata, Genius, and Github.
In 2018, Socrata was acquired by Tyler Technologies. A majority of the employees joined Tyler and the offices in Seattle and Washington D.C. remained open.
Cost
Socrata was purchased by the City of Los Angeles for $319,000 in initial fees and $287,000 in annual fees, as reported in 2015 by Governing Magazine. Governing Magazine goes on to say that an additional cost of $756,000 was invested over a three year period in reformatting data from the Department of Insurance.
Open Data Network
In July 2014, Socrata launched the Open Data Network, a machine learning-powered initiative aimed at promoting data-centered collaboration between the public and private sectors. This network provides governments with access to various types of data, including crime data, transit data, 311 service request data, and expenditure data. The San Francisco administration later incorporated the open data network into its operations.
FedRAMP
In 2017, Socrata was authorized to operate with a Moderate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) of the US Government's General Services Administration (GSA) Program Management Office.
In January 2008, Socrata received its initial series A round of venture capital funding, totaling $6.5 million, from Morgenthaler Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures. The company later received a series B funding round of $18 million from OpenView Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Frazier Technology Partners, and In-Q-Tel in June 2013. In November 2014, Socrata closed a C round of funding, worth $30 million, with Sapphire Ventures as the lead investor and participation from Morgenthaler Ventures, Frazier Technology Ventures, and OpenView Venture Partners.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
American corporate subsidiaries
American companies established in 2007
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Software companies based in Seattle
Software companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia%20Wars | Mafia Wars is a defunct freemium multiplayer social network game created by Zynga. Players assume the roles of gangsters while building their own Mafia-type organization. The players fight and "rob" other players online - completing jobs, missions, and operations to gain rewards and strength in an endless game.
Mafia Wars won the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category.
A sequel, Mafia Wars 2, was released in October 2011 and was shut down on December 30, 2012. On April 5, 2016, it was announced via Zynga's forums that Mafia Wars would close down on June 6, 2016. Players were informed of this via an in-game message. The game was taken offline shortly past midnight PDT on June 7, 2016. The game was relaunched on mobile in April 2017 for selected markets, featuring revamped mechanics. In July 2017, Zynga announced that all future work on the game was cancelled and the game was discontinued.
Gameplay
Mafia Wars is set with a choice of playing in New York City or Chicago with the option for players to travel to other locations, such as London, South Africa, and Mexico. Other locations were formerly available.
The game revolved around fighting and robbing other players, doing jobs, missions, and operations to earn cash, building parts, weapons, attack and defence fighting skills, and experience, to establish and advance one's criminal empire. Players created mafias by recruiting other players or winning or buying artificial members (Hired Guns). Other players could be added to one's mafia through Facebook.
Gameplay was limited by three measurements: Energy, used for completing jobs, as well as Stamina and Health, which were used for fighting or robbing other players. The first two meters slowly recharged over time or filled up when experience was gained from levelling up. Fighting other players sometimes resulted in the theft of cash, the "killing" of the player attacked, or random gifts of loot (weapons, building parts, or consumable job supplies). Outcomes of an attack or attempt to rob were calculated by a formula that took into account the respective player's fighting skill, the number and quality of five kinds of weapons (weapons, armoury, vehicles, animals and henchmen), and a randomizing factor. When a player won an attack, they did damage to the victim's Health and suffered a loss of Health to their character.
Platforms
Mafia Wars was released as an iOS app on April 8, 2009. Mafia Wars was available on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, and as a Google Chrome app.
On Facebook, Mafia Wars had up to 45.5 million monthly accounts created.
Mafia Wars was renamed Mafia Wars Classic in 2011.
Mafia Wars Classic was shut down in 2012.
Mafia Wars Shakedown
Mafia Wars Shakedown was launched as a stand-alone game, unconnected from the Facebook game, on November 15, 2011. This was an iOS exclusive.
Mafia Wars Shakedown was shut down on December 30, 2012, and removed from the Apple app store.
Lawsuit
The makers of a simila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULAS%20J133553.45%2B113005.2 | ULAS J133553.45+113005.2 (also called ULAS1335) is a T-type brown dwarf in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered in data from the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS). Its discovery was reported June 2008.
After identification, ULAS1335 was imaged using the UFTI camera on the UKIRT, on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to confirm its photometric properties and location. It was spectroscopically confirmed as a T9 dwarf using the Gemini North telescope, also at Mauna Kea, and was imaged using IRAC on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRAC imaging confirmed it as the reddest (in near-to-mid-infrared colors) T dwarf yet discovered, and by inference the coolest.
ULAS1334 was initially estimated to have a temperature around 550–600 K, a distance of , and a mass of 15–31 Jupiter masses. More recent spectroscopic observations, using IRS on the Spitzer Space Telescope, give an effective temperature of 500–550 K. Since these temperature estimates are based on model comparisons, they should be treated with caution until the parallax of this object has been measured.
References
Brown dwarfs
Virgo (constellation)
T-type brown dwarfs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juden%20Chan | is a Japanese manga series by Bow Ditama, which is also adapted into an anime television series of the same name that aired on the AT-X network in Japan from June 25 to September 10, 2009. It features anthropomorphized characters representing aspects of charging electrical equipment. The series contains some explicit fan service, including omorashi (panty wetting). An edited version of the series was released on Crunchyroll under the title of Charger Girl Ju-den Chan.
Plot
From a planet called "Life Core", which exists parallel to the normal human world, females known as "Jūden-chan" (charger girls) are patrolling the human world in search for individuals who feel depressed and unlucky. Their job is to charge these people up with the help of electricity in order to improve their mental states. While normally unseen by human eyes, one of these Jūden-chan, Plug Cryostat, accidentally meets a young man who is able to see her, because she was targeting his father (his sister in the anime). This series revolves around the various antics between the main characters and the quest for this Jūden-chan to improve herself.
Characters
Charger Girls (Jūden-Chans)
The Charger Girls are from a parallel world whose jobs at the Neodym company are to monitor the levels of depression in people. They are generally not seen or heard by humans, and are equipped with technology that allows them to phase through objects too. The people they monitor are ranked A through F based on their depression levels, with A being near suicidal. When a target ranked C or higher is spotted, the Jūden-chan pulls a giant plug from a nearby electrical source and charges them with positive energy.
She is a "Jūden-chan": someone from a world that's parallel to our own, capable of recharging people who are depressed or unlucky. Although, she's not very good at it, and is a bit of an airhead. Because she has the ability to use phasing, she normally can't be seen by the average human. This is done so she can do her job without causing distraction. She loves to watch a hentai series called "Miracle Witch Milly". While other Jūden-chan focus on charging people and getting paid, Plug focuses on discovering the root of their problems so that they won't become depressed again, and eventually learns to create these chances herself.
Plug's fellow Jūden-chan and rival, who, in the first 2 episodes, becomes her supervisor. She's rather serious when it comes to work, and is rather annoyed with how Plug does her job. In turn, Plug finds Arresta irritating for interfering with her work, and as a result, the two girls tend to fight a lot. She sometimes ends up crying, which Plug uses as blackmail material. Compared to Plug, Arresta is rather busty, which causes Plug to tease her.
She had feelings for Sento from the moment she saw him, but he is rather oblivious to this. Following their first meeting, Arresta seems to have garnered a fetish for being hit by a baseball bat.
The head of the organizatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-B | TDRS-B was an American communications satellite, of first generation, which was to have formed part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. It was destroyed in 1986 when the disintegrated 73 seconds after launch.
Launch
TDRS-B was launched in the payload bay of Challenger, attached to an Inertial Upper Stage (IUS). It was to have been deployed from the Shuttle in low Earth orbit. The IUS would have then performed two burns to raise the satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. On the previous TDRS launch, TDRS-1, the IUS second-stage motor malfunctioned following the first-stage burn, resulting in a loss of control, and delivery of the satellite into an incorrect orbit.
Launch failed
TDRS-B was originally scheduled for launch on STS-12 in March 1984; however, it was delayed and the flight cancelled following the IUS failure on TDRS-1. It was later re-manifested on STS-51-E; however, this too was cancelled due to concerns over the reliability of the IUS. It was eventually assigned to STS-51-L, which was also to carry the SPARTAN-Halley astronomy satellite.
STS-51-L launched with TDRS-B at 16:38:00 UTC on 28 January 1986. The Shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after launch due to an O-ring failure in one of the Solid Rocket Boosters, killing the seven astronauts aboard and destroying TDRS-B.
Aftermath
Once it reached orbit, TDRS-B was to have been given the operational designation TDRS-2. Although normal practice was to reassign operational designations in the event of launch failures, the TDRS-2 designation was not reassigned, and when TDRS-C was launched, it became TDRS-3. Debris from TDRS-B was recovered along with the wreckage of Challenger.
The TDRS-G satellite was ordered to replace TDRS-B. It was launched from in 1995, on mission STS-70. It became TDRS-7 after reaching geosynchronous orbit.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Satellite launch failures
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
Spacecraft launched in 1986
TDRS satellites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULAS%20J003402.77%E2%88%92005206.7 | ULAS J003402.77-005206.7 (also ULAS J0034-00) is a Y-type brown dwarf in the constellation of Cetus.
ULAS J0034-00 is one of the coolest brown dwarfs known. It was first identified in data from the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared
Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). Infrared spectra subsequently taken with the IRS instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope give an estimated effective temperature of between 550 and 600 K and does not emit any visible light. Its mass is estimated at between 5 and 20 Jupiter masses and its age at between 0.1 and 2.0 billion years.
References
Cetus
Y-type brown dwarfs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazys%20Varnelis%20%28historian%29 | Kazys Varnelis (born 1967) is an American historian and theorist of architecture, specialising in network culture. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC.
Family and education
Varnelis grew up in Chicago and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He is the son of artist Kazys Varnelis. He attended Simon's Rock College and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1994. He has two amazing, beautiful children.
Work
Varnelis is a historian of architecture, writing on Philip Johnson, Andrea Branzi, late modern and contemporary architecture. He has published in magazines such as Log, Volume, A+U, and Praxis. He has also written extensively on the Internet, locative media and network culture. Since 2000 has maintained a blog at his web site, varnelis.net. In addition to Columbia, he has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Limerick, Ireland. In 2004, he was appointed as senior researcher at the Annenberg Center for Communication where he worked with Mizuko Ito on "Networked Publics," a year-long research project. More recently he has been involved in research on infrastructure and urbanism, which he began as director of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
Together with Robert Sumrell, he founded AUDC as a conceptual architecture practice in 2001. They have exhibited at Andrea Zittel's High Desert Test Sites and Art Center College of Design. They have published their work in numerous magazines such as Cabinet, Perspecta, Textfield, Verb and 306090. Varnelis has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Bibliography
Edited books
The Philip Johnson Tapes: Conversation with Robert A. M. Stern
The Infrastructural City
Networked Publics
With AUDC
Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Histories
References
External links
Personal and Academic Website
Network Architecture Lab
AUDC
Interview with Kazys Varnelis
Interview with Kazys Varnelis at Archinect
Living people
Columbia University faculty
1967 births
American people of Lithuanian descent
20th-century American architects
21st-century American architects
Bard College at Simon's Rock faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20FPDP | Serial Front Panel Data Port(Serial FPDP or SFPDP) is a high speed low latency data streaming serial communication protocol. It currently supports several distinct speeds:
1.0625 Gbit/s
2.125 Gbit/s
2.5 Gbit/s
5.0 Gbit/s
6.25 Gbit/s
8.5 Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s
10.3125 Gbit/s
25.78125 Gbit/s
Serial FPDP also recommends the use of one of the following link widths:
x1
x4
x8
x12 (5 Gbit/s and up)
x24 (5 Gbit/s and up)
x48 (10 Gbit/s and up)
Serial FPDP can operate over long distances, up to , using optical fiber cables, or shorter distances over copper cables.
See also
Front Panel Data Port (aka parallel FPDP)
VXI
References
Computer buses
Serial buses
Digital electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Trains%20Melbourne | Metro Trains Melbourne, often known simply as Metro, is the operator and brand name of train services on the electrified metropolitan rail network serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest urban rail network in Australia, with 17 lines and 219 stations across of railways, and the second busiest network in Australia, with a patronage of 99.5 million as of 2021-2022.
The network is owned by Public Transport Victoria who sublet the infrastructure and rolling stock to Metro Trains Melbourne, a joint venture between Hong Kong-based MTR Corporation (60%), John Holland Group (20%) and UGL Rail (20%). The three constituent companies are also partners in the Metro Trains Sydney joint venture, which has operated the Sydney Metro network since 2019. Metro Trains Melbourne took as operator from Connex in 2009.
Metro Trains Melbourne operates a fleet of 220 six-car train sets on of track. There are sixteen regular service rail lines and one special events railway line. Metro Trains Melbourne is also responsible for 219 railway stations and employs a workforce of 3,500 rail professionals including train drivers, mechanical and electrical engineers, network operations specialists and customer service representatives.
The railway track, infrastructure and rolling stock is owned by VicTrack on behalf of the State Government, and is leased to Public Transport Victoria which then sub-leases them to Metro Trains Melbourne. The State Government now also owns the name 'Metro,' and it will likely stay even if there is a change of operators. Metro Trains has faced criticism in the past and was voted the worst rail system in Australia in 2011. However, the operation, punctuality and consistency of the network has greatly improved since 2014 with level crossing removals, target benchmarks for trains and more frequent trains.
History
Metro Trains Melbourne was selected as the new operator by the Government of Victoria through its relevant agency, the Director of Public Transport, in June 2009 and replaced the previous operator, Connex Melbourne, on 30 November 2009. It was awarded an eight-year contract with the option of being extended for a further seven years. On 2 April 2012, the newly created Public Transport Victoria took over the management of the contract from the Director of Public Transport.
In May 2012, Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union accused Metro Trains of taking shortcuts in safety procedures, including not checking on-board CCTV and intercoms, and allowing trains with cracked inner glass to take passengers. Metro Trains claim safety equipment is regularly checked during routine maintenance. It was reported in 2013 that tens of thousands of passengers were missing out on compensation when Metro failed to meet monthly performance targets, either because they were not aware of their entitlements or didn't want the hassle of going through a complicated claims system.
On 13 July 2017, Metro experienced a computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataNucleus | DataNucleus (formerly known as Java Persistent Objects JPOX) is an open source project (under the Apache 2 license) which provides software products around data management in Java. The DataNucleus project started in 2008 (the JPOX project started in 2003 and was relaunched as DataNucleus in 2008 with broader scope).
DataNucleus Access Platform is a fully compliant implementation of the Java Data Objects (JDO) 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 specifications (JSR 0012, JSR 0243) and the Java Persistence API (JPA) 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 specifications (JSR 0220, JSR 0317, JSR 0338), providing transparent persistence of Java objects. It supports persistence to the widest range of datastores of any Java persistence software, supporting all of the main object-relational mapping (ORM) patterns, allows querying using either JDOQL, JPQL or SQL, and comes with its own byte-code enhancer. It allows persistence to relational datastores (RDBMS), object-based datastores (db4o, NeoDatis ODB), document-based storage (XML, Excel, OpenDocument spreadsheets), web-based storage (JSON, Google Storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service), map-based datastores (HBase, Google's Bigtable, Apache Cassandra), graph-based datastores (Neo4j), document stores (MongoDB) as well as other types of datastores (e.g. LDAP). Its plugins are OSGi-compliant so can be used equally in an OSGi environment.
DataNucleus Access Platform is also utilised by the persistence layer behind Google App Engine for Java, and VMForce (cloud offering from Salesforce.com and VMWare).
See also
Apache Isis, Domain driven applications, quickly. Using DataNucleus JDO for persistence
Apache Hive, Data warehouse infrastructure using DataNucleus for persistence
JFire, ERP using DataNucleus for persistence
References
External links
– project page for DataNucleus
– source code repository projects for DataNucleus
Java enterprise platform
Web services
Enterprise application integration
Service-oriented (business computing)
Persistence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub%20Command | Sub Command, subtitled Akula Seawolf 688(I) is a submarine simulator computer game designed by Sonalysts Combat Simulations and published for Windows systems by Electronic Arts in 2001. The player commands one submarine: a United States Navy , a Russian Navy , or a 688(I).
Sub Command sports three training missions, 23 single missions, and one 14 mission campaign. The campaign can be played from either the Russian or American side, so in effect there are two campaigns. The single missions range from search and rescue, battle group escort, tailing enemy boomers, spy missions, and general-purpose search-and-destroy. Many missions strictly prohibit firing on the enemy as they are expected to mirror real life Cold War objectives and get in—get out without being seen. Some missions offer more than one choice of submarine - they can play the mission as the Akula, 688(I), or the Seawolf.
In multiplayer mode, this game allows up to eight players to play each other via LAN, IPX or IP connections.
External links
SubSim review of game
2001 video games
Cold War video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Naval video games
Sonalysts Combat Simulations games
Strategy First games
Submarine simulation video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programming%20changes%20on%20Australian%20television%20in%202008 | This is a list of programming changes which occurred on Australian television in 2008. The list is arranged chronological order. Where more than one programming changed was made on the same date, those changes are listed alphabetically.
Changes to network affiliation
This is a list of programs which made their premiere on an Australian television network that had previously premiered on another Australian television network. The networks involved in the switch of allegiances are predominantly both free-to-air networks or both subscription television networks. Programs that have their free-to-air/subscription television premiere, after previously premiering on the opposite platform (free-to air to subscription/subscription to free-to air) are not included. In some cases, programs may still air on the original television network. This occurs predominantly with programs shared between subscription television networks.
Domestic
International
Free-to-air premieres
This is a list of programs which made their premiere on Australian free-to-air television that had previously premiered on Australian subscription television. Programs may still air on the original subscription television network.
Domestic
International
Subscription television premieres
This is a list programs which had their premiere on Australian subscription television that had previously premiered on free-to-air television. Programs may still air on the original free-to-air network.
Domestic
International
Returning this year
Ending this year
Notes
References
2008 in Australian television
Australian television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Isbister | Katherine Isbister is a game and human computer interaction researcher and designer, currently a professor in computational media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Until June 2015, she was an associate professor at New York University, with a joint appointment in computer science and in the Game Center at the Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, she was founding research director of the Game Innovation Lab. Isbister's research and design contributions center on how to create more compelling emotional and social qualities in games and other digital experiences. She has innovated in the areas of character/avatar/agent design and in researching and evaluating the user experience. Her book, Better Game Characters by Design: A Psychological Approach, was nominated in 2006 for a Game Developer Magazine Frontline award. She is also co-editor of a book which outlines the state of the art in user research practices in studying games, titled Game Usability: Advice from the Experts for Advancing the Player Experience.
Isbister received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, with a focus on the design of interactive characters. In 1999, she was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35. In 2011, she received a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 2014 to 2015, she held a Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
References
External links
Katherine Isbister's site
NYU Game Innovation Lab
Stanford University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Living people
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellows
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20photosphere | The photosphere denotes those solar or stellar surface layers from which optical radiation escapes. These stellar outer layers can be modeled by different computer programs. Often, calculated models are used, together with other programs, to calculate synthetic spectra for stars. For example, in varying the assumed abundance of a chemical element, and comparing the synthetic spectra to observed ones, the abundance of that element in that particular star can be determined.
As computers have evolved, the complexity of the models has deepened, becoming more realistic in including more physical data and excluding more of the simplifying assumptions. This evolution of the models has also made them applicable to different kinds of stars.
Common assumptions and computational methods
Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE)
This assumption (LTE) means that within any local computational volume, the state of thermodynamical equilibrium is assumed:
The inflow of radiation is determined by a blackbody spectrum set by the local temperature only. This radiation then interacts with the matter inside the volume.
The number of atoms or molecules occupying different excited energy states is determined by the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. This distribution is determined by the atomic excitation energies, and the local temperature.
The number of atoms in different ionization states is determined by the Saha equation. This distribution is determined by the atomic ionization energy, and the local temperature.
Plane parallel and spherical atmospheres
A common simplifying assumption is that the atmosphere is plane parallel, meaning that physical variables depend on one space coordinate only: the vertical depth (i.e., one assumes that we see the stellar atmosphere "head-on", ignoring the curved portions towards the limbs). In stars where the photosphere is relatively thick compared to the stellar diameter, this is not a good approximation and an assumption of a spherical atmosphere is more appropriate.
Expanding atmospheres
Many stars lose mass in the form of a stellar wind. Especially for stars which are very hot (photospheric temperatures > 10,000 Kelvin) and very luminous, these winds can be so dense that major parts of the emergent spectrum are formed in an "expanding atmosphere", i.e. in layers that are moving outward with a high speed that can reach a few 1000 km/s.
Hydrostatic equilibrium
This means that the star is currently not undergoing any radical changes in structure involving large scale pulsations, flows or mass loss.
Mixing length and microturbulence
This assumption means that the convective motions in the atmosphere are described by the mixing-length theory, modeled as parcels of gas rising and disintegrating. To account for some of the small-scale effects in convective motions, a parameter called microturbulence is often used. The microturbulence corresponds to the motions of atoms or molecules on scales smaller than the photon mean fre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20protocol | A lightweight protocol in computer networking is a communication protocol that is characterized by a relatively small overhead (caused e.g. by bulky metadata) in transmitted on top of the functional data:
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol
Lightweight Presentation Protocol
Internet Content Adaptation Protocol
Skinny Client Control Protocol
OpenLDAP
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBCR%20%28AM%29 | WBCR (1470 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Alcoa, Tennessee, United States. The station is currently owned by Blount County Broadcasting Corp. The station programming is a mixture of religious and conservative talk and religious music.
History
The station went on the air as WEAG in 1957, in a full-service/MOR format, later changing its call sign to WMDR ("The Music Doctor") on 1984-07-16, and programming Top-40. Later, the format switched to easy listening. On 01-11-1993, the station changed its call sign to the current WBCR .
References
External links
BCR
Radio stations established in 1957
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Alcoa, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotendo | Cotendo, Inc. is a content delivery network
and an application delivery network
service provider. The company's headquarters is in Sunnyvale, California, with research and development based in Netanya, Israel. In March 2012, Akamai acquired Cotendo for over US$250 million.
Timeline
Cotendo was founded in January 2008 with funding from Sequoia Capital.
On March 10, 2009, Cotendo launched their CDN service and announced a US$7 million second round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital.
On March 6, 2012, Akamai acquired Cotendo for over US$250 million.
See also
Peer-to-peer
Content delivery network
Application delivery network
References
External links
Cotendo Home Page
Telecommunications companies established in 2008
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Online companies of the United States
2008 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20stereo%20vision | Computer stereo vision is the extraction of 3D information from digital images, such as those obtained by a CCD camera. By comparing information about a scene from two vantage points, 3D information can be extracted by examining the relative positions of objects in the two panels. This is similar to the biological process of stereopsis.
Outline
In traditional stereo vision, two cameras, displaced horizontally from one another, are used to obtain two differing views on a scene, in a manner similar to human binocular vision. By comparing these two images, the relative depth information can be obtained in the form of a disparity map, which encodes the difference in horizontal coordinates of corresponding image points. The values in this disparity map are inversely proportional to the scene depth at the corresponding pixel location.
For a human to compare the two images, they must be superimposed in a stereoscopic device, with the image from the right camera being shown to the observer's right eye and from the left one to the left eye.
In a computer vision system, several pre-processing steps are required.
The image must first be undistorted, such that barrel distortion and tangential distortion are removed. This ensures that the observed image matches the projection of an ideal pinhole camera.
The image must be projected back to a common plane to allow comparison of the image pairs, known as image rectification.
An information measure which compares the two images is minimized. This gives the best estimate of the position of features in the two images, and creates a disparity map.
Optionally, the received disparity map is projected into a 3d point cloud. By utilising the cameras' projective parameters, the point cloud can be computed such that it provides measurements at a known scale.
Active stereo vision
The active stereo vision is a form of stereo vision which actively employs a light such as a laser or a structured light to simplify the stereo matching problem. The opposed term is passive stereo vision.
Conventional structured-light vision (SLV)
The conventional structured-light vision (SLV) employs a structured light or laser, and finds projector-camera correspondences.
Conventional active stereo vision (ASV)
The conventional active stereo vision (ASV) employs a structured light or laser, however, the stereo matching is performed only for camera-camera correspondences, in the same way as the passive stereo vision.
Structured-light stereo (SLS)
There is a hybrid technique, which utilizes both camera-camera and projector-camera correspondences.
Applications
3D stereo displays find many applications in entertainment, information transfer and automated systems. Stereo vision is highly important in fields such as robotics to extract information about the relative position of 3D objects in the vicinity of autonomous systems. Other applications for robotics include object recognition, where depth information allows for the system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladinet | Gladinet, Inc. is an American corporation co-founded by Jerry Huang and Franklyn Peart in 2008 in Lake Worth, Florida. The company provides cloud computing software, including an on-premises, enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS) platform. The on-premises version of the platform is available for service providers and enterprises. There is also a team edition.
Gladinet Cloud Enterprise provides enterprise file sync and share with on-premises deployment. The orchestration layer can integrate with on-premises storage platforms like OpenStack Swift. The platform adds traditional IT security and controls to file sync and share use cases, allowing remote access to existing data from any device with existing identities. It provides software, with distributed file locking, and sync-on-demand.
History
The company was initially founded to integrate cloud services directly onto PC desktops on the Internet. The company believed that this approach was better than using a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox as a cloud client.
Gladinet implemented a ubiquitous cloud storage client that integrated cloud storage with the Windows file system. Gladinet Cloud Desktop also created file type associations between web applications and files, whether they were stored on a local disk or in the cloud. It supports services such as Google Docs and includes Amazon's Cloud Drive.
Products
CentreStack, previously Gladinet Cloud Enterprise, is a secure self-hosted file sharing platform.
Cloud Desktop is a tool that integrates cloud storage with backup and file synchronization options all from a desktop. Just like a local drive, it allows users to access online storage as a folder on a PC or computer system.
References
See also
List of online backup services
Cloud storage
2008 establishments in Florida
Technology companies of the United States
American companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt%20Television%20News%20Archive | The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, founded in August 1968, maintains a library of televised network news programs. It is a unit of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library of Vanderbilt University, a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.
Collection
The archive's collection consists of more than 40,000 hours of video content, including:
The daily news broadcasts of ABC, CBS and NBC from August 5, 1968, to the present
A daily one-hour CNN news program beginning in 1995
A daily one-hour Fox News program beginning in 2004
The weeknight broadcasts of Nightline by ABC, beginning in 1988
The networks’ televised coverage of live presidential speeches, press conferences, summit meetings, and other events
The networks’ televised coverage of live presidential election-related events, including debates, political conventions and election night coverage
Televised coverage of major news events preserved in the archive's collection includes:
The Vietnam War, 1968–1975
President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China
The Watergate hearings preceding the resignation of President Richard Nixon
The 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis
The 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan
The 1986 Iran-Contra Hearings
The 1989 San Francisco earthquake
The 1991 Persian Gulf War
The 1991 Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings
The 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
The United States' military operations in Afghanistan from 2001-2016
The 2003-2011 Iraq War
The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters of 1986 and 2003
Internet database and public access
An online version of the archive includes abstracts and catalog records for most of the programs in the collection, which can be browsed or searched by subject, date and network. Individuals may request loans of broadcasts or selected items from the archive's collection for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research. Borrowers pay fees for the items loaned to cover the costs of providing this service. The requested items are loaned as DVDs or VHS tapes, which must be returned to the archive by the end of the loan period. Due to copyright considerations, access to streaming video is available only to a limited audience, and only for certain portions of the collection (currently CNN and NBC). Only individuals associated with sponsoring colleges and universities can view streaming video content. Visitors to the archive can view all content from the archive's collection.
History
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive was founded by Paul Simpson, a Nashville businessman. The mission of the archive is to equip students and scholars with the tools necessary to both engage with and critique news coverage by making actual copies widely available. According to the official history of the archive written by Simpson, he watched a news program where Timo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Network | Generically speaking, a sports network broadcasts sporting events, sports news and other related programming
Sports Network may also refer to:
The Sports Network (TSN), the Canadian sports cable channel
All Sports Network, the former name of Sports Illustrated Television in Asia
Eleven Sports Network, the multinational group of sports television channels
In the United States:
Sports Network, the former name of the now-defunct Hughes Television Network in the United States
The Sports Network (wire service), the former American sports wire service
CBS Sports Network
Fox Sports Networks
Eleven Sports Network (United States)
See also
Sportsnet (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20techniques | Nominal techniques in computer science are a range of techniques, based on nominal sets, for handling names and binding, e.g. in abstract syntax. Research into nominal sets gave rise to nominal terms, a metalanguage for embedding object languages with name binding constructs.
See also
De Bruijn index
Higher order abstract syntax
References
Theoretical computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20activism%20during%20the%202009%20Iranian%20election%20protests | Internet activism and, specifically, social networking has been instrumental in organizing many of the 2009 Iranian election protests. Online sites have been uploading amateur pictures and video, and Twitter, Facebook, and blogs have been places for protesters to gather and exchange information. Although some scholars in the West stress that Twitter has been used to organize protests, Iranian scholars argue that Twitter was hardly used by Iranian citizens in the midst of the 2009 protests.
Use of social networking
Twitter in particular has been seen a key central gathering site during the protests.
The U.S. State Department urged the company to postpone a scheduled network upgrade that would have briefly put the service offline. Twitter delayed the network upgrade from midnight American time/morning Iran time to afternoon American time/midnight Iran time "because events in Iran were tied directly to the growing significance of Twitter as an important communication and information network", but at the same time denied that the State Department had "access to our decision making process". Social networking sites became the primary source of information, videos, and testimonials of the protests. Major news outlets, such as CNN and BBC News, gained much of their information from using and sorting through tweets by Twitter users and videos uploaded to YouTube. The use of social networking became central enough to the reports from Iran to make Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown state that the way the internet has democratised communication has forever changed the way foreign policy can be carried out and even suggest that web-based social networking could have prevented the Rwandan genocide.
Several reports disagree that the role of Twitter is central to the protests.
The Economist magazine stated that the Twitter thread IranElection was so deluged with messages of support from Americans and Britons that it "rendered the site almost useless as a source of information—something that Iran's government had tried and failed to do". The Economist asserted that the most comprehensive sources of information in English by far were created by bloggers who pulled out useful information from the mass of information, of whom it singles out Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic and Robert Mackey of the New York Times. A study by social media analytics company Sysomos shows that of 65 million population, there are only 19,235 Twitter users who disclose their location as Iran.
Internet activism and hacktivism
DDoS attacks
Mousavi's supporters, through social networking sites, exchanged scripts for launching distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against Ahmadinejad's website. British citizens were reported to support the DDoS attacks against president Ahmadinejad by providing software for launching them. Many anti-Ahmedinejad activists have attacked the websites of Ahmedinejad and the government. The impact of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20Datagram%20Sockets | Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is a high-performance, low-latency, reliable, connectionless protocol for delivering datagrams. It is developed by Oracle Corporation.
It was included in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 which was released on 9th of June, 2009. The code was contributed by the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA).
On October 19, 2010, VSR announced , a vulnerability within the Linux 2.6.30 kernel which could result in a local privilege escalation via the kernel's implementation of RDS. This was subsequently fixed in Linux 2.6.36.
On May 8, 2019, was published, regarding a race condition in the Linux RDS implementation that could lead to a use-after-free bug and possible arbitrary code execution. The bug has been fixed in Linux 5.0.8.
Header
See also
Transmission Control Protocol
Stream Control Transmission Protocol
User Datagram Protocol
UDP-Lite
References
External links
Oss.oracle.com
Oss.oracle.com
https://oss.oracle.com/projects/rds/dist/documentation/rds-3.1-spec.html
Network socket
Transport layer protocols
Internet protocols
Oracle Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protacanthamoeba | Protacanthamoeba is a genus of free-living naked amoebae of the family Acanthamoebidae described in 1981. It has been found in associations with mycobacteria in drinking water networks, along with other Acanthamoebidae genera, likely allowing the replication of both environmental and pathogenic mycobacteria.
Morphology
Members of Protacanthamoeba are characterized by having slender, flexible and sometimes furcate subpseudopodia originated from a broad, hyaline lobose pseudopodium, as well as having centrospheres in its interior, including a plaque-shaped centriole-like body. Their cysts lack preformed pores or opercula.
Taxonomy
Protacanthamoeba contains 3 species:
Protacanthamoeba bohemica
Protacanthamoeba caledonica
Protacanthamoeba invadens (previously Acanthamoeba)
References
Discosea
Amoebozoa genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Lesotho | The nation of Lesotho has a single railway station, located in the capital city Maseru. It is the terminus of the Maseru branch line, which connects to the railway network of South Africa.
Overview
The length of the line within Lesotho, from the border bridge over the Mohokare River to the station, is . It opened on 18 December 1905. The distance by rail from Maseru to the main line at Bloemfontein is .
As of 2008, there have been talks of building new railways to connect Lesotho to Durban and Port Elizabeth.
See also
History of rail transport in Lesotho
Transport in Lesotho
Rail transport in South Africa
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower%20Research%20Capital | Tower Research Capital LLC (also known as Tower or Tower Research) is a high-frequency trading, algorithmic trading, and financial services firm.
About Tower
Tower Research Capital is one of the oldest automated trading firms. It was started by Mark Gorton and Alistair Brown in February 1998.
Tower's internal trading teams are independent from one another, enjoying autonomy while accessing shared technology resources such as hardware, software, and connectivity as well as resources such as business management, legal, compliance, and risk management.
At the heart of operations is the core engineering team, which owns the architecture, implementation and optimization of the trading platform itself. This includes developing systems and tools to access market data, perform trend analysis, run trading simulations, order entry and management, real-time trade support, risk management and post-trade services.
Working together, Tower builds technology and deploys diverse automated and quantitative strategies across a broad range of asset classes in global markets around the clock.
Tower is staffed by employees proficient in diverse backgrounds such as mathematics, computer programming, physics, law, economics, engineering, finance, and more. As of 2022, Tower has over 1,000 employees in its global staff.
Albert An has served as the CEO of the firm since 2019.
Legal issues
In 2014 Tower Research's wholly-owned subsidiary Latour Trading, which sometimes accounted for 9% of U.S. stock trading, was fined a record $16 million for violating the net capital rule. Latour deliberately mis-estimated its exposure to risk and traded despite not holding enough capital.
In 2019 Tower Research was fined $67.4 million for manipulating the markets in E-mini financial futures contracts by spoofing. Tower traders placed thousands of orders for futures contracts that it never intended to execute. Three traders were criminally charged and two pled guilty in the case. Tower subsequently settled a class-action lawsuit for $15 million.
In 2021 a suit alleging spoofing by Tower Research brought by Korean investors was decided in favor of Tower when the court ruled that trading on the Korean exchange was not subject to the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act.
Locations
Tower is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Chicago, South Charleston, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Gurgaon, GIFT City, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
References
External links
Financial services companies of the United States
Financial services companies established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Powers%2C%20The%20Juggler | Adam Powers, The Juggler (also known as The Juggler) is a 1981 computer animation created by Richard Taylor and Gary Demos and released by Information International Inc. (Triple I). It was one of the earliest CGI animated anthropomorphic characters ever. The character was motion captured from Ken Rosenthal, a real juggler.
Premise
The film opens with a juggler juggling a pack of shapes (circle, square, cones, etc.) and showing the computer animation film the shapes and objects around the scene. As the version included in the DVDs and Blu-rays bonus material is taken straight from one of the company's demo reels, a Mercedes-Benz logo is seen inside the green ball, which was not in the original short film. The film ends with the juggler vanishing the scene.
References
External links
Computer animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Senegal | Senegal's rail network consists of 906 km of railway at gauge, and 36 km of gauge. The metre-gauge network is part of the Dakar–Niger Railway which crosses the border to Mali. The railway is operated by Transrail, managed by the Belgian company Vecturis.
The single standard gauge line is a commuter railway in Dakar, the Train Express Regional Dakar-AIBD, which opened in 2021.
History
Senegal was formerly part of the federation of French West Africa so the history of its railways is closely linked to that of its neighbours.
Dakar–Saint-Louis railway
This was the first railway line in French West Africa when it opened in 1885. It is now out of service, although some trains operate on parts of the line conveying phosphates and other minerals from mines in the Louga region to Dakar.
Dakar–Niger Railway
Construction work on the Dakar–Niger Railway began at the end of the 19th century. The line was completed at the beginning of the 20th century.
Petit train de banlieue
The Petit train de banlieue (PTB) was a passenger train providing regular commuter services between Dakar railway station and Thiès, via Thiaroye and Rufisque. It was inaugurated in December 1987 but was discontinued in 2016.
Train Express Regional
This line was in construction from 2016 and was officially inaugurated in 2019, although the first passenger run was not until December 2021. It links Dakar with Diamniadio, with construction ongoing to reach Blaise Diagne International Airport as of August 2023.
Developments since 2000
A gauge conversion from to was planned.
In August 2006 RITES of India was to supply five metre-gauge locomotives, with vacuum brakes converted to air brakes.
In October 2007 70 air braked coaches were ordered from Rail Coach Factory in India. A rail line was planned to Faleme River region of South East Senegal for iron ore traffic.
In 2010, the Faleme project has been delayed by disputes between the leaseholders. In the meantime, the Dakar-Port Sudan Railway project surfaced.
A goods railway was constructed from Thies to a mineral sand mine situated to the west. The track from Thies to Dakar was refurbished, and several trains a week now operate to Dakar port.
In June 2023, as part of President Macky Sall's project to rebuild Senegal's rail capacity, a test run was conducted between Thies and Diourbel, with a full opening planned for December 2023 or January 2024. This is a first step towards the eventual goal of re-establishing a rail connection between Dakar and Tambacounda.
See also
Railway stations in Senegal
Transport in Senegal
West Africa Regional Rail Integration
References
External links
Transrail s.a. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telestream%20pipeline | Pipeline from Telestream is a network video capture and playout hardware device which is used to move SDI (Serial digital interface) and tape-based video and audio in and out of file-based workflows. It is also known as an encoder and capturing system for QuickTime and Final Cut Pro.
Pipeline has been used as the main video capture device by "renowned producer and editor, Mitch Jacobson" for "two recent major live events: an Elton John concert and a Guitar Hero publicity launch for Aerosmith.
Specifications
Network-accessible SDI video capture and playout devices
Encode to multiple HD and/or SD formats in a single box
Edit or transcode media files while they are being captured
Schedule automated live ingest or log from tape
Sits on your network – so anyone can access it
Real-time, reliable hardware encoding
External links
Telestream Home
Telestream Products
References
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2020 | National Cycle Route 20 is part of the United Kingdom's National Cycle Network and follows the Wandle Trail in London.
It is the London - Brighton cycle route which starts alongside the river Thames at Wandsworth heading south along a mixture of roads and cycle paths to the southern side of the M25, here it combines with National Cycle Route 21 as far as Crawley. In July 2020, the route between Crawley and Pyecombe was removed from that national cycle network due to being of insufficient quality, as a result a small section remains in Crawley after Route 21 heads off East. The old route here still exists physically and is mostly made up of a dedicated cycle path beside the A23 dual carriageway, however parts use the B2118 and B2114 which can have fast moving traffic. At Pyecombe the official route returns using a cycle path beside the A23, once south of the A27 Brighton bypass the route mostly uses on road cycle lanes on the A23 all the way to the seafront where it meets National Cycle Route 2
Links to:
National Cycle Route 2 at Brighton, the end of the route.
National Cycle Route 4 at Wandsworth, the start of the route.
National Cycle Route 21 at Redhill and at Crawley.
National Cycle Route 22 at Banstead.
References
Transport in West Sussex
Transport in East Sussex
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanda%20Romero | Chanda Villanueva Romero (born February 26, 1954) is a Filipina actress. She is mostly seen on GMA Network.
She played supporting roles and leading roles in many films during the early and late 1970s. Her prolific work in sexy comedies and dramas caught the attention of many directors, and in the 1980s, showed her serious work as an actress in the Ishmael Bernal's Working Girls and Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?, both in 1984. She showed a different side in what may be considered as her most underrated work in Kapag Tumabang ang Asin with Daria Ramirez, and Pag-ibig na Walang Dangal with Dindo Fernando and Charo Santos.
Biography
Chanda Romero is the daughter of Enrique Romero, son of Francisco Romero Jr. and Gloria Villanueva of Negros Oriental, and Remedios Valenzuela, daughter of Ramiro Valenzuela and Josefina de la Victoria of Cebu.
Her father Enrique, also known as Bobby, was the paternal grandson of Francisco Romero Sr., mayor of Tanjay, Negros Oriental from 1909 to 1916 and later a member of the Provincial Board of Negros Oriental, and Josefa Calumpang Muñoz, daughter of Tanjay gobernadorcillo Don José Teves Muñoz and Doña Aleja Ines Calumpang, a great-granddaughter of Don Fernando Velaz de Medrano Bracamonte y Dávila (es), Marquis of Tabuérniga de Velazar (es), 15th Marquis of Cañete (GE) (es), 6th Marquis of Fuente el Sol (es), 8th Marquis of Navamorcuende (es), 15th Lord of Montalbo, and Knight of the Order of St. John. Her father was also the maternal grandson of Enrique Cayetano Teves Villanueva Sr., governor of Negros Oriental from 1916-1925 and later representative of the 2nd district of Negros Oriental from 1925 to 1931, and Francisca Gomez Baena, Negros Oriental Carnival Queen in 1909.
Other relations include her mother's sister Milagros Valenzuela-Urgello, Cebu Carnival Queen in 1937; her grandfather's brother José E. Romero, the first Philippine ambassador to the Court of St. James's and later Secretary of Education; Eddie S. Romero, National Artist for Film; Jose V. Romero Jr., former Philippine ambassador to Italy; Hector R.R. Villanueva, Press Secretary of Philippine President Fidel Ramos and later Postmaster General of the Philippines during the Arroyo administration; among others.
Career
In the 1970s and the 1980s, she had a staple of films in which she starred with award-winning actresses such as Elizabeth Oropesa, Hilda Koronel, Gloria Diaz and Daria Ramirez. As a result, she caught the attention of directors Celso Ad Castillo, Ishmael Bernal, Danny Zialcita and Lino Brocka. Her leading men include Philip Salvador, Eddie Garcia, Christopher de Leon, Dindo Fernando, Joel Torre, etc. In the 1990s, her work in television also brought her success. Shows such as Villa Quintana. She was also praised for her role in the 1997 movie Ligaya Ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin which was directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna. Romero is a freelancer but does more projects in GMA Network. She has starred in ABS-CBN projects as well like the religious-c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20urban%20areas%20in%20China | This list of the twenty largest urban areas in China by population in 2010 uses data compiled by the OECD based on its methodology to determine economically linked areas of high population density in China it calls "functional urban areas." It is an adaptation of methodology the OECD uses to determine functional urban areas in OECD member countries. Official Chinese city boundaries cover both urban and rural areas and thus do not necessarily represent the true urban population.
See also
List of capitals in China
List of cities in China
List of cities in China by population
List of villages in China
List of largest cities in the world
References
External links
National Bureau of Statistics of China
Urban agglomerations
China, urban agglomerations
China, urban agglomerations
Urban agglomerations, China
Populated places in China
Urban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDB%20%28disambiguation%29 | GDB may refer to:
GDB Human Genome Database
GNU Debugger, a free and open-source debugger developed by the GNU Project
Guide Dogs for the Blind, US
.gdb, a filename extension used by ArcGIS Geodatabase
Puerto Rico Government Development Bank
Graph database, using graph structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E24%20%28TV%20channel%29 | E24 (or commonly E24 Bollywood) is an Indian cable television and satellite network, owned by BAG Films & Media Limited. It was started in March 2008.
Programming
waz de kahan Hai
Its Controversial
Dil se Dil tak
Golden Era
U me aur TV
Bheja Fry
Bollywood Dhamaal
Bollywood Reporter
Bollywood Tambola
Bollywood 20 20
Bollywood ka super Train
Chatty with Katty
Confessions
Dance 10
E-Special
E24 Review Show
Fresh Maal
Gold Safe
Hit List
Hitz Start
Love Byte
Star Shake
E24 Cinema
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television stations in New Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue%3A%20Special%20Ops | Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government.
The series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue: Special Ops for a fourth season.
Synopsis
Rescue: Special Ops follows the work of a team of experienced paramedics involved in complex search and rescue operations.
The job brings them face to face with life and death situations every day but just like anyone else, they juggle life, love and career. Brothers Dean Gallagher and Chase Gallagher are competitive alpha males who are part of the Special Ops team.
Cast and characters
Regular cast
Libby Tanner as Michelle LeTourneau (Station Manager)
Peter Phelps as Vince Marchello (Station Coordinator)
Les Hill as Dean Gallagher (Unit Leader)
Gigi Edgley as Lara Knight (Unit Officer)
Daniel Amalm as Jordan Zwitkowski (Unit Officer)
Katherine Hicks as Heidi Wilson (Unit Officer)
Andrew Lees as Chase Gallagher (Unit Officer)
Luke McKenzie as Lachie Gallagher (Unit Officer) (Season 3)
Recurring cast
Wil Traval as Hamish McIntyre
Tim McCunn as Ian Johnson
Jessica Napier as Nicole (Season 1)
Simmone Jade Mackinnon as Fiona Charlton (Season 1)
Gary Sweet as Shane Gallagher (Season 1)
Martin Dingle-Wall as Jake Hudson (Season 1)
Luke Pegler as Bingo (Season 2)
Vanessa Gray as Renae Daltry (Season 2)
Todd Lasance as Cam (Season 3)
Reception
Series one
Series two
Series three
Note: Nightly rank for episodes 1 and 2, and 20 and 21 are combined.
Home Media
The Universal Studios DVD Releases of Rescue Special Ops are now out of print and no longer available. Via Vision Entertainment/Madman Entertainment will release "Rescue Special Ops: The Complete Collection" on 26 August 2020.
See also
List of Australian television series
Notes
References
External links
Rescue: Special Ops at the Australian Television Information Archive
Nine Network – Cast of Rescue: Special Ops
Nine Network original programming
2000s Australian drama television series
2010s Australian drama television series
2009 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Sydney
Australian medical television series
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strelitzia%20caudata | Strelitzia caudata, commonly known as the mountain strelitzia or wild banana, is a species of banana-like Strelitzia from Africa from the Chimanimani Mountains of Zimbabwe south to Mozambique, the Northern Provinces of South Africa and Eswatini (Swaziland). It was first described in 1946 by Robert Allen Dyer in Flowering Plants of Africa , Volume 25, Plate 997. The specific epithet caudata means "having a tail"; this refers to an appendage of a sepal, which occurs only in this species. It is one of three large banana-like Strelitzia species, all of which are native to southern Africa, the other two being S. alba and S. nicolai.
Description
Growing up to 8 metres tall, it has a leafless woody stem and has a fan shaped crown.The leaves are 2 by 0.6m, greyish-green in colour and are arranged in two vertical ranks. The seeds are black with a tuft of bright orange hairs.
Habitat
It usually grows in dense clumps, in areas of montane forests and is found between rocks on steep grassy slopes.
References
Flora of Mozambique
Flora of Zimbabwe
Flora of Swaziland
Flora of the Northern Provinces
Plants described in 1946
Strelitziaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Saved%20My%20Life | You Saved My Life is an Australian factual television series that screened on the Nine Network in 2009. It was hosted by 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown.
You Saved My Life follows the stories of people who have been rescued in an emergency and reunited with their rescuers. It has a similar premise to the successful Seven Network factual television series Triple Zero Heroes.
Nine Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
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