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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Ilan%20Responsa%20Project | The Bar Ilan Responsa Project (the Global Jewish Database) is a collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, sold on CD and more recently on USB flash-drive by Bar-Ilan University (in Ramat Gan, Israel).
Background
The database consists of one of the world's largest electronic collections of Jewish texts in Hebrew.
It includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature (rabbinic case-law rulings).
The database also includes the Bible and the Talmud (with commentaries); articles about Jewish law and customs; Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with main commentaries; Zohar, Midrashim, and the Talmudic Encyclopedia.
Today the Responsa Project CD-ROM contains more than 90,000 Responsa and more than 420,000 hypertext links between the databases totalling 200 million words.
The project was founded by Aviezri Fraenkel who served as its initial director (1963–1974), and subsequent director Yaacov Choueka (1975–1986), as cited by the Israel Prize committee. Currently the project is headed by Shmaryahu Hoz.
Features
The Features of Bar Ilan Responsa (Version 17 plus) include:
Search for a word phrase or expression in relevant texts, search for a wide collection of variant forms specify combined search components etc.
Using the hypertext links to locate and display related sources spanning thousands of years.
Save search results and other texts in order to view them or print them later with a word processor or use them in other searches.
Display biographies of hundreds of responsa authors and other Talmudic and post-Talmudic scholars from medieval times to the present.
Calculate the numerical value (gematria) of any expression and find biblical verses or expressions with any specified gematria.
Compare parallel Talmudic and other texts.
Look up abbreviations in an online dictionary.
Display Torah texts that are mentioned by other Talmudic texts with the click of a mouse (hypertext).
Search for vocalized text (Nikud) in Tanach.
Personal notes and links on the text.
Display texts by manually typing in the reference of the desired text.
Display text of the Torah and commentaries according to the weekly Torah portion.
Display interface in the following languages: in Hebrew (where Windows has Hebrew support), English and French. All texts are in Hebrew.
Awards
In 2007, the project was awarded the Israel Prize for Rabbinical literature.
History of the database
1992 Version 1 released.
1995 Version 4 released.
1998 Version 6 released.
2003 Version 10 released.
2004 Version 12 released.
2007 Version 14 released.
2008 Version 16 released.
2009 Version 17 released.
See also
List of Israel Prize recipients
References
External links
| (Responsa Project)
| (Judaism Shop)
1979 software
Bar-Ilan University
Full-text scholarly databases
Israel Prize in Rabbinical literature recipients
Israel Prize recipients that are organizations
Jewish texts
Religion databases
Projects established in 1963 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounder | Bounder may refer to:
Bounder (character), a dishonorable man
Bounder (video game), a 1985 computer game
The Bounder, a television show
Myasishchev M-50 (NATO reporting name "Bounder"), a Soviet Union prototype bomber aircraft
Pseudonym of Jon Bounds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deco%20%28disambiguation%29 | Deco (born 1977) is the nickname of Portuguese footballer Anderson Luís de Souza.
Deco or DECO may also refer to:
DECO Cassette System, a software loader by Data East
DECO Online, a 2005 computer game
Deco Refreshments, Inc., a restaurant chain
Deco Vs. Deco, a 2008 DVD by the Japanese rock band Maximum the Hormone
, an Italian supermarket and sponsor of the 2022 Serie B season
The Deco, a restored 1930s cinema and theatre in Northampton, England
Data East Corporation, a software company
Decompression (diving), scuba diving slang
Demos Commander, an orthodox file manager for Unix-like systems
Gustavo Deco, Argentinian and Italian neuroscientist
See also
Art Deco (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20World%27s%20Digital%20Duo | PC World's Digital Duo was a computer themed US television series that aired on PBS stations in 1999 as Digital Duo for 26 episodes and returned to broadcast as PC World's Digital Duo with an additional 26 episodes in 2005. It ran for a half-hour per episode and was produced by Incandescent Entertainment. It featured co-hosts Stephen Manes of Forbes & PC World with Angela Gunn of USAToday.com in a "Siskel & Ebert" style format in which they would rate computer and on-line products and services. Each episode would also feature a commentary segment by Walt Mossberg.
Episodes
References
External links
Official site
Digital Duo at Incandescent Entertainment
Up Front: Now on TV, PC World's Digital Duo
American non-fiction television series
PBS original programming
1990s American television series
2000s American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20butterflies%20of%20Menorca | Menorca is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain, with a population of approximately 88,000. It is located 39°47' to 40°00'N, 3°52' to 4°24'E. There is good data on the butterflies of Menorca although it is not easy to find as most field guides do not give data on the smaller Mediterranean islands. A good source in English is Butterflies of Menorca which lists 26 species and gives data on flight period and abundance.
Butterflies can be seen in all months of the year but the best months are May to September, the only butterfly not to fly in this period is the green hairstreak which usually flies from February to April, but if the season is late it can be seen into May.
Papilionidae
Swallowtails
Papilio machaon, swallowtail
Pieridae
Whites
Colias crocea, clouded yellow
Gonepteryx cleopatra, Cleopatra (common)
Gonepteryx rhamni, brimstone (rare; very few good records - Brimstones on Menorca maybe scarce migrants from the Spanish mainland but in the field it is hard to tell apart from the very common Cleopatra so it is probably under reported.)
Leptidea sinapis, wood white (uncommon woodland species)
Pieris brassicae, large white
Pieris rapae, small white
Pieris napi, green-veined white
Pontia daplidice, Bath white
Nymphalidae
Satyrinae
Browns
Coenonympha pamphilus, small heath
Maniola jurtina, meadow brown (abundant)
Pararge aegeria, speckled wood (abundant - The speckled wood found on Menorca is the aegeria sub-species which has an orange background colour.)
Lasiommata megera, wall (subspecies paramegera occurs as well as the nominate form.)
Lasiommata maera, large wall (very rare probably extinct)
Hipparchia semele, grayling (very rare probably extinct)
Hipparchia statilinus, tree grayling (very rare probably extinct)
Pyronia cecilia, southern gatekeeper (common)
Danainae
Monarchs
Danaus chrysippus, plain tiger (The plain tiger is a migrant that is sometimes seen on Menorca.)
Nymphalinae
Vanessa atalanta, red admiral
Vanessa cardui, painted lady
Charaxes jasius, two-tailed pasha (uncommon woodland species)
Lycaenidae
Blues
Polyommatus icarus, common blue (abundant, seen all over the island)
Lysandra bellargus, Adonis blue (uncommon)
Aricia cramera, southern brown argus (fairly common - May be confused with female common blue.)
Celastrina argiolus, holly blue (common)
Lampides boeticus, long-tailed blue (local)
Leptotes pirithous, Lang's short-tailed blue (local)
Lycaena phlaeas, small copper (local)
Callophrys rubi, green hairstreak (flies very early; February to April)
Cacyreus marshalli, geranium bronze (can be seen year round - The geranium bronze is not a native to Menorca. In 1990 it was introduced, accidentally, to Majorca on imported Pelargonium from South Africa. The butterflies quickly spread to Menorca and other islands as well as to southern Spain and Italy. They are often seen in gardens on geranium plants.)
See also
List of dragonflies of Menorca
References
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Studios%20Networks | Entertainment Studios Networks is a group of seven high-definition cable networks operated by Entertainment Studios Inc., a company owned by and featuring comedian Byron Allen.
The seven networks include Cars.TV, Comedy.TV, ES.TV, Justice Central, MyDestination.TV, Pets.TV and Recipe.TV. All the shows appearing on the networks are produced and distributed exclusively by Entertainment Studios, but are also distributed in traditional broadcast syndication, to some controversy by cable providers who have rejected carriage of the networks under those grounds as providing low customer value when those programs are all available on traditional television stations. In addition, Byron Allen in early 2018 acquired The Weather Channel, which remained mainly under carriage agreements under its old management, along with its own separate corporate structure, but now comes under the same carriage agreement with ESN and Allen Media, Byron Allen's broadcast stations group.
History
The networks were launched in May 2009 through a deal with Verizon FIOS and have since expanded to several other pay-TV services. The networks are also offered direct-to-consumer through a Roku/Amazon Fire TV channel known as "SmartTV.com".
On March 22, 2018, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios announced its intent to acquire The Weather Channel's television assets from an NBCUniversal/Blackstone Group partnership. The actual value is undisclosed, but was reported to be around $300 million; the channel's non-television assets, which were separately sold to IBM two years prior, were not included in the sale. Likewise, the regional sports networks Entertainment Studios is purchasing in conjunction with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Bally Sports (formerly Fox Sports Networks), will be operated in a separate venture, Diamond Sports Ventures.
Ratings
As of the end of 2017, only two of the channels in the suite, Justice Central and Comedy.TV, maintained a nightly Nielsen average enough to tabulate a rating, while the others five had such a low sample size, they unable to be rated; the two channels also are regularly among the least rated Nielsen-measured networks in the United States. ESN has since classed the other five networks together as one unit known as "ESN Lifestyle" for ratings purposes to allow Nielsen classification, though this has not been reflected on-air.
As of 2019, Comedy.TV was the lowest-rated network measured by Nielsen, with an average of 1,000 primetime viewers. Justice Central had the highest viewership among Allen networks, averaging 11,000 viewers. The remaining five channels have a combined average of 3,000 viewers.
Channels
Cars.TV - dedicated to notable cars, showcasing the collectors, designers, innovators, and ultimate car enthusiasts.
Comedy.TV - comedians performing live and taped, as well as hosted talk and variety shows; such as Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen and Comedy.tv.
ES.TV - entertainment news, variety shows, and celebrity profiles.
Justice Cen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Bazookatone | Johnny Bazookatone is a platforming video game developed by Arc Developments and published by U.S. Gold for the 3DO, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and MS-DOS computers in 1996. Some releases also came equipped with a music CD based on the game's musical score. The game follows the protagonist, Johnny Bazookatone, trapped in the year 2050 in Sin Sin Prison by El Diablo, lord of the underworld. His guitar, known as "Anita" is taken from him, and so Johnny must travel to reclaim it.
Reception
Reviewing the PlayStation version, the four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the sharply detailed graphics, the player character's complex moves, and the high level of difficulty. They summarized "If you are looking for a great side-scrolling game, Johnny B. is your man!" A brief review in GamePro said that the game's graphics and music are the strong points, while the sometimes inaccurate controls is the main weak point. Maximum panned the game, criticizing the poor sprite detection and dull level design.
Reviewing the Saturn version, Sam Hickman of Sega Saturn Magazine called Johnny Bazookatone "three hundred hours of the most boring platform action ever invented", citing blurry sprites, enemies which are persistently annoying rather than challenging, and the game's generally outdated look and feel. Scary Larry of GamePro commented on the game's irritating difficulty, particularly executing the crucial Shooting Float move, but was delighted with the rendered sprites, backgrounds, and music, and concluded, "Fans looking for a humorous cross between Earthworm Jim and Donkey Kong Country should check out Johnny." A reviewer for Next Generation opined that while the gameplay mechanics are generic, the level design is clever and the graphics are genuinely next generation. He summarized, "While it's tempting to swear-off the side-scrolling action game as a by-gone product of the 16-bit era, there's something devilishly tempting about a game that looks and plays as good as Johnny Bazookatone." Maximum regarded the Saturn version as unfavorably as the PlayStation version, lambasting it for its "hideously dated" story concept, overly small sprites, last generation graphics, lack of intelligent design to the levels or enemies, and frustrating puzzles.
Scary Larry gave the 3DO version overall approval as well. While criticizing the awkward controls and lack of gameplay innovation, he found the game's "hip and well drawn" graphics, mixture of funk and house music, and overall style were enough to recommend it.
References
External links
Johnny Bazookatone at MobyGames
1996 video games
3DO Interactive Multiplayer games
DOS games
PlayStation (console) games
Sega Saturn games
Platformers
U.S. Gold games
Video games about time travel
Video games featuring black protagonists
Video games with 2.5D graphics
Video games with pre-rendered 3D graphics
Single-player video games
Video games set in the 2050s
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Arc Developments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian%20Lim | Alexander Xian Lim (; born July 12, 1989) is a Filipino-American actor, model, singer, host, blogger, filmmaker and professional basketball player. He is currently an exclusive actor of GMA Network.
He is best known for his roles in My Binondo Girl (2011), The Reunion (2012), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (2012–13), Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo? (2013), Bride for Rent (2014), The Story of Us (2016) and Everything About Her (2016).
Lim was a contract artist of Star Magic from 2008 to 2017, until signing a contract with Viva Artists Agency in January 2018 and he officially moved to GMA Network in 2022. Since 2012, Lim has notably hosted for many major televised events, particularly Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) annually, as well as Miss Grand International in Vietnam in 2017.
Early life
Born in San Francisco, California, Lim and his family moved back to Manila, Philippines six months after his birth. Following his parents' separation, he (age 10) and his mother relocated to Daly City, California. Raised by his mother, a former model turned piano teacher, resulted in Lim learning various musical instruments including piano, trombone, saxophone and guitar. He later joined a symphonic band before graduating high school at age 18. He briefly studied psychology at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, until moving to the Philippines to attend college as a basketball varsity scholar at the University of the East in Manila.
Before attaining a degree, he became involved with modeling, and eventually, acting.
Career
Lim was cast in a few minor roles before landing a supporting role in Katorse in 2009.
In 2010, he was part of the cast in the drama Rubi as Luis Navarro. Then, he guest starred in 100 Days to Heaven as Jojo Villanueva. He was a guest judge on Showtime and had one-episode appearances for Midnight DJ, Maalaala Mo Kaya, Wansapanataym and Your Song Presents: Andi.
In 2011, after a special participation in Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin portraying the young Joaquin del Tierro, he landed his first major lead role in My Binondo Girl top-billed by Kim Chiu. The romantic-comedy television drama was a nationwide success, garnering an average household TV rating of 28.2% provided by Kantar Media/TNS.
In early 2012, Lim signed a three-picture contract with Star Cinema and appeared in the film, My Cactus Heart. In the same year, he starred in a youth-oriented movie with Enchong Dee, Enrique Gil and Kean Cipriano, entitled The Reunion. He was also back in primetime through the teleserye drama Ina, Kapatid, Anak with Kim Chiu, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. He also released his debut studio album So It's You under Star Records which reached a Gold Record status.
In 2013, his film Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? with his onscreen and offscreen partner Kim Chiu earned Php 10.5 million in the first day of film showing alone, consequentially surpassing the P100 million mark at the box office for the year 2013 in three weeks time. From the outstanding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenming%20Hu | Chenming Calvin Hu (; born 1947) is a Taiwanese-American electronic engineer who specializes in microelectronics. He is TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. In 2009, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers described him as a “microelectronics visionary … whose seminal work on metal-oxide semiconductor MOS reliability and device modeling has had enormous impact on the continued scaling of electronic devices”.
Education and career
Hu completed his bachelor's degree at the National Taiwan University in Taipei in 1968, and completed master's and doctoral degrees at the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and 1973, respectively.
Currently Professor Emeritus, he has been a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976.
He has made significant contributions in microelectronics research. He was one of the developers of the FinFET, a multi-gated MOSFET device, and was among the creators of the Berkeley Short‐Channel IGFET Model family of MOSFETs. Since the 1980s, Hu has written extensively on the reliability of the silicon oxide layer in semi-conductors.
Hu was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the modeling integration-circuit devices and to the reliability and performance of VLSI systems.
Between 2001 and 2004 Hu was the chief technology officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. He has sat on the board of several companies, including Inphi Corporation, FormFactor, MoSys and SanDisk; he was chairman of the board of Celestry Design Solutions, which he founded.
Awards and honors
1997: elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering
1997: IEEE Jack Morton Award, "for outstanding contributions to semiconductor devices and technology"
2002: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Award (for developing the first international standard transistor model BSIM)
2002: IEEE Paul Rappaport Award
2009: IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, "for technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling"
2011: Asian American Engineer of the year award,
2011: National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award,
2011: Semiconductor Industry Association Award,
2013: Phil Kaufman Award for Distinguished Contributions to EDA,
2014: National Medal of Technology and Innovation, given at the White House by Barack Obama in 2016.
2015: SEMI Award for North America, for the BSIM transistor family.
2016: Pan Wen Yuan Award, by the Industrial Technology Research Institute.
2020: IEEE Medal of Honor Award.
References
1947 births
Living people
Electrical engineering academics
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Foreign members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam%20ZZ%20episodes | Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ is a 1986 Japanese science fiction anime television series created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Sotsu Agency, and Sunrise with music production by Starchild Records. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ is the sequel to the 1986 Japanese science fiction series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Spanning 47 episodes, the series premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on March 1, 1986 and concluded on January 31, 1987.
Four pieces of theme music are used over the course of the series—two opening themes and two closing themes. For the first twenty-five episodes, the opening theme is and the closing theme is , both by Masahito Arai. For the remaining twenty-two episodes, the opening theme is "Silent Voice" and the closing theme is , both by Jun Hiroe.
Bandai said that they had no plans for an English dub and it is unlikely that there will be one in the future, due to the shutdown of Bandai Entertainment.
Episode list
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
ZZ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger%20%281973%20film%29 | Hunger/La Faim is a 1973/1974 animated short film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It was directed by Peter Foldes and is one of the first computer animation films. The story, told without words, is a morality tale about greed and gluttony in contemporary society.
The film won thirteen film awards from 1974–75, and it was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 47th Academy Awards in 1975. An additional Academy Award was granted in 1997 for technical achievement in computer animation.
National Research Council
Peter Foldes worked in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada's Division of Radio and Electrical Engineering's Data Systems Group, who decided to develop a computer animation application in 1969. NRC scientist Nestor Burtnyk had heard an animator from Disney explain the traditional animation process, where a head animator draws the key cels and assistants draw the fill in pictures. Burtnyk worked as lead animator on the NRC project, and he wrote the computer program code. The work of the artist's assistant seemed to Burtnyk to be the ideal demonstration vehicle for computer animation and within a year he and physicist Marceli Wein programmed a "key frame animation" package to create animated sequences from key frames.
The National Film Board in Montreal was contacted so that artists could experiment with computer animation. Foldes, who was living in Paris at the time, was contacted first. Foldes' first film using Burtnyk's program was a 1971 computer key frame animated short experimental film involving freehand drawings called Metadata. This was followed by Hunger, which took Foldes and his NRC partners a year and a half to make. It cost $38,893 () to create.
Critical reception
Hunger was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category for the 47th Academy Awards in 1975, becoming the world's first fully computer-generated animated movie to be nominated. It also won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize and other international film awards.
In addition to the film awards that Hunger won in 1974–75, Burtnyk and Wein later received awards and honors in 1996–98. In 1996, the Festival of Computer Animation in Toronto granted Burtnyk and Wein an award for Fathers of Computer Animation Technology in Canada. In 1997, Burtnyk and Wein earned an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in computer animation for their "pioneering work" on Hunger. The Ottawa International Animation Festival paid tribute to Burtnyk and Wein in 1998, saying that "their work led the way for a flood of technological innovations in Canada and beyond."
Soundtrack
The music for the film was composed by Pierre F. Brault.
Awards
Cannes Film Festival, Cannes: Special Jury Award - Short Films, 1974
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh: Certificate of Merit, Interfilm Jury, 1974
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Silver Hugo, 1974
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Norman McLaren Award, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBTV%20%28disambiguation%29 | WBTV is a CBS television affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina.
WBTV may also refer to:
The WB Television Network, a defunct television network in the United States
WBTV: The Warner Channel UK, an unrealised satellite channel in the United Kingdom
Warner TV, a cable and satellite channel that also goes by "WBTV"
Warner Bros. Television, a television production and distribution company
WBTV-LP, a low-power radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to serve Burlington, Vermont, United States
WBTV, an upcoming FAST service by Warner Bros. Discovery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdites | Rhabdites is an extinct genus of orthocerids, a kind of straight-shelled nautiloid cephalopod.
References
Rhabdites -Paleobio database.
Sepkoski, J.J. Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560.
Prehistoric nautiloid genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smileoceras | Smileoceras is an extinct genus of prehistoric nautiloids named by Zhurableva in 1972, included in the Discosorida.
References
External links
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database (CEPHALOPODA)
Prehistoric nautiloid genera
Discosorida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students%20for%20Liberty | Students For Liberty (SFL) is an international libertarian non-profit organization with origins in the United States. Formed in 2008, SFL grew to a network of 1,000 student organizations worldwide by 2014.
It hosts an annual international conference and various regional conferences. Wolf von Laer became the chief executive officer in 2016.
History
Origin
Students in an Institute for Humane Studies Koch Summer Fellowship met on July 24, 2007, to discuss challenges faced by classical liberal student organizations. In 2008, Alexander McCobin and Sloane Frost organized a conference for 40 students involved in libertarian student groups. The first Students For Liberty conference was held at Columbia University from February 22 to 24, 2008, with 100 student participants. Afterward they formed Students For Liberty to provide continuing support to student groups.
The group's stated mission is "to educate, develop, and empower the next generation of leaders of liberty." Le Monde and The Investigative Desk described SFL as "a key organisation in the Koch system" of groups. SFL is a partner in the Atlas Network.
In the news
Internationally, Students For Liberty has been noted by outlets such as Le Figaro, Die Welt, The Guardian, Le Soir, City A.M., 20Minutos, CNN, and Huffington Post Canada. SFL trained members of the Free Brazil Movement, which opposed then-president Dilma Rousseff. A spinoff of SFL, the Consumer Choice Center, was noted for its pro-vaping advocacy through the World Vapers' Alliance.
Programs
Conferences
SFL hosts an annual International Students For Liberty Conference (ISFLC). The inaugural ISFLC in 2008 brought 100 students from 42 schools in three countries to New York City. The second ISFLC in 2009 brought 153 students from 13 countries to George Washington University. The third ISFLC took place February 13–14, 2010 at American University in Washington, D.C., and had more than 300 students in attendance. The fourth ISFLC, covered by ReasonTV, returned to George Washington University on Friday, February 18–20, 2011, this time with 500 students participating. This international conference included a taping of Stossel, which aired March 31, in which John Stossel and Cato Institute Vice President David Boaz spoke. The 2012 ISFLC brought out 1,013 students. The following year, the conference attracted 1,406 attendees.
During the fall semester, SFL hosts regional conferences on campuses across the world. On November 18 to 20, 2011, SFL hosted the first European conference at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium with over 200 students from 25 different countries attending. In 2013–2014, SFL hosted over 30 regional conferences in North America, Brazil, the Spanish-speaking Americas, and in Africa with over 5,000 student attendees. In the fiscal year 2017 Students For Liberty reported that its conferences were in total attended by over 19,800 students.
Free books
SFL, in conjunction with the Atlas Network, publishes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muri%20railway%20station | Muri railway station is a former railway station was on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand; part of the Kapiti Line section of the suburban rail network of Wellington. The station was double tracked with side platforms on a straight section between two curves, 31.2 km from Wellington railway station, the southern terminus of the NIMT.
It was closed in 2011, but Pukerua Bay station remains open.
Services
Muri was served by Kapiti Line commuter trains operated by Tranz Metro under the Metlink brand until 2011. Trains running every 30 minutes off-peak, and more frequently during peak periods used to stop in Muri until its closure. The platform and buildings remain in their original state.
Commuter trains were operated by electric multiple units. These were originally DM/D class units, but from the 1980s EM/ET class. Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer (previously Overlander), pass through the station but did not stop even when the station was still open.
Muri and Kenepuru stations had been considered for closure by the Greater Wellington Regional Council, claiming that both had low usage and would require considerable expenditure to upgrade for the new Matangi units and for safety considerations ($600,000 estimated for Muri). Following a sub-committee meeting of the Greater Wellington Regional Council, Muri station was closed on 30 April 2011.
History
The line through Muri was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR), completed to Longburn in 1886. During the last stage of finishing the tunnels on the coastal escarpment towards Paekākāriki, the last stop coming from Wellington was called Pukerua, near where Muri Station was. There were no roads into the area yet and passengers had to leave the train, climb down to the beach and continue by rail on temporary tracks to Paekākāriki.
Material for the construction of the railway north of Muri (the North South Junction) was offloaded from ships anchored off Pukerua Bay into small boats and brought to the beach. From there, a tramway took the rails, sleepers and bricks up to the railway track at Muri.
Muri opened on 28 July 1952, 45 chains (905 m) north of Pukerua Bay, and was closer to the centre of the population of Pukerua Bay at the time.
See also
North–South Junction
References
Defunct railway stations in New Zealand
Rail transport in Wellington
Buildings and structures in Porirua
Railway stations opened in 1952
Railway stations closed in 2011
Railway stations in New Zealand opened in the 1950s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukerua%20Bay%20railway%20station | Pukerua Bay railway station is located on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington. It is double tracked, has an island platform layout, and is 30.4 km from Wellington railway station, the southern terminus of the NIMT. It is one of two railway stations in Pukerua Bay, the other one at Muri being closed.
Services
Pukerua Bay is the fourth station north of Porirua on the Kapiti Line for commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand contracted to the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Services between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
All suburban services running between Wellington and Waikanae stop at Pukerua Bay. Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, some trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua or Plimmerton and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express or non-stop between Wellington and Porirua before stopping at all stations from Porirua to Waikanae.
Travel times by train are twenty-four minutes to Waikanae, fifteen minutes to Porirua, thirty-six minutes to Wellington for trains stopping at all stations, and thirty-two minutes for express trains that do not stop between Porirua and Wellington.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
The commuter trains were formerly of the DM/D class or EM/ET class.
History
The line through Pukerua Bay was originally part of the Wellington - Manawatu Line, built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (W&MR). The W&MR was a private railway built as an alternative to the government's Wairarapa Line. The railway from Plimmerton to Pukerua Bay was constructed during 1885 under the no. 12 or "Pukerua" contract. Pukerua Bay railway station was opened on Christmas Day 1885, while the full line to Longburn was completed in November 1886.
Following the completion of the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekākāriki, the train station was called Pukerua. For a short time between 1919 and 1921, the train station was called Waimapihi, named after the Waimapihi block of land most of Pukerua Bay was situated in. In 1923, the station was renamed to Pukerua Bay to distinguish it from the South Island station Pukerau.
About 1917 a second loop and a signal box was installed (see photo).
From the 1920s onwards, Pukerua Bay station was a popular destination for weekend visitors from Wellington, with a road from the train station to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Bhagyalakshmi | J. Bhagyalakshmi is an Indian journalist, poet, and novelist.
Bhagyalakshmi studied English Literature and trained in mass communication. She also obtained diplomas in Energo-Cybernatic Strategy Advance Management, Public relations and Book publishing Under Commonwealth Programme she completed a course in Publications and Design at COI, London. She also visited Bangladesh and Japan to study Rural development under the aegis of SAARC and Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organisation.
Formerly of Indian Information Services, she held various media positions including Director (Media), (Ministry of Rural Development, and Chief Editor Yojana, (a magazine which is brought out in 13 languages). She taught at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and headed the Department of Publications. She was Editor Communicator (IIMC), and also worked for Indian and Foreign Review (Ministry of External Affairs). As Editor, Publications Division she edited a number of books on varied themes.
In the beginning of her career she worked with the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity and with Union Public Service Commission as Research Officer.
J. Bhagyalakshmi who made a mark as a bilingual writer has over 45 publications to her credit. Her work appeared in Triveni, and Vidura.
Works
Ivy Compton-Burnett and Her Art, Mittal Publications, 1986
Capital witness: selected writings of G.K. Reddy Allied, 1991,
Happiness Unbound, Konark Publ., 1999,
A Knock at the Door, Konark Publishers, 2004,
When Fortune Smiled (all collections of poems)
Kadedi Kavitakanarham: Maromajili and Maadee Swatantra Desam, Viśālāndhra Pabliṣiṅg Haus, 1987, (Telugu short stories)
Ravindra geetalu (Gitanjali & The Crescent Noon in Telugu)
Kathabharati (Hindi Short stories in Telugu)
Living with Honour (Shiv Khera's book in Telugu)
The Mind of Mahatma (Telugu)
Human Rights (Telugu)
I Will Not Let Time Sleep (N. Gopi's poems in English)
Dew Drops (Vemuri Balaram's work in English)
Abdul Kalam Kavitalu (Telugu translation of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's Poetry).
That's OK: Tammanna and Other Reveries, Alokparva Prakashan, 2007, is her collection of newspaper columns in English.
References
Indian columnists
Indian women journalists
20th-century Indian translators
English-language writers from India
Telugu writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian women columnists
Indian women translators
Telugu women writers
20th-century women writers
20th-century Indian women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImaHima | ImaHima was a mobile location-based social-networking service created in 1999 and shut down in 2006. This service was launched by the Japanese company of the same name, founded by Neeraj Jhanji. This Japanese name means "are you free now?" This company pioneered the concept of sharing current status (location, activity, mood) among friends using mobile phones. Initially ImaHima started out as an "unofficial" service but was later accepted inside the walled garden of the Japanese mobile carriers (NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Softbank). At its peak, ImaHima had over 500,000 users in Japan and was also made available in Switzerland and Australia. The service won a few awards including the coveted Prix Ars Electronica in 2001. The fundamental patents for mobile checkin, status updates and location-based advertising pioneered by ImaHima were acquired by Facebook in 2013.
See also
Microblogging
References
External links
ImaHima (Japanese)
ImaHima (English)
Defunct social networking services
Defunct microblogging services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micky%20Finn%20%28footballer%29 | Michael Gerard Finn (born 1 May 1954) is an English former professional association footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
References
Burnley player stats at the Post-War Player Database
1954 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Burnley F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. managers
English Football League players
Footballers from Liverpool
English football managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20Records%20Database | The Hospital Records Database is a database provided by the Wellcome Trust and UK National Archives which provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals. This includes the location and dates of administrative and clinical records, the existence of catalogues, and links to some online hospital catalogues. The website was proposed as a resource of the month by the Royal Society of Medicine in 2009
References
External links
Hospital Records Database
Smart Clinics
Hospitals in the United Kingdom
Databases in the United Kingdom
Medical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi%20Lu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Lu Qi (; born September 3, 1961) is a Chinese-American software executive and engineer who is the head of MiraclePlus, a startup incubator in China. Previously, Lu was the head of Y Combinator's China until it was shut down. He was formerly the chief operating officer of Baidu until he stepped down in May, 2018. He has served as the executive vice president of Microsoft, leading development of Bing, Skype, and Microsoft Office, and software engineer and manager for Yahoo!'s search technology division.
Early life
Lu was born in Shanghai, China, and was sent to live with his grandparents in a remote village in Jiangsu Province by his parents during the Cultural Revolution. Lu grew up without electricity, plumbing, and other basic amenities, eating meat only twice a year at Chinese New Year celebrations.
Education
Lu obtained undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science at Fudan University, where he joined the faculty. After attending a talk by Edmund M. Clarke, Lu was invited to apply for a PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Lu arrived in Pittsburgh in 1988, becoming the second Chinese student to be admitted to the School of Computer Science. His doctoral research focused on distributed file systems that enable multiple users to share files on a computer network. He completed his PhD in computer science in 1996.
Career
Lu worked in one of IBM's research labs on Internet-related projects from 1996 to 1998. He then joined Yahoo! as an engineer, eventually rising to executive vice president of engineering of search and advertising technology. His departure from Yahoo! in mid-2008 was long planned, and he was contemplating opportunities in venture capital and even thinking of returning to China. However, Steve Ballmer personally recruited him to join Microsoft, where Lu was instrumental in driving the launch of Bing. He later became an architect of Satya Nadella’s strategy for artificial intelligence and bots at Microsoft.
In 2010, Fast Company named Lu the tenth most creative person in business for 2010.
In January 2017, Lu joined Baidu as group president and chief operating officer in charge of products, technology, sales, marketing and operations. He stepped down on May 18, 2018. In August 2018, he joined Y Combinator as the head of research and assumed control of YC China.
In November 2019, Y Combinator decided to shut down YC China. Lu continues to fund startups under his new program, MiraclePlus. MiraclePlus operates out of its head office in Beijing, and invests checks of $300K USD for 7% into early stage startups around the world. Much like its parent Y Combinator, MiraclePlus operates two cohorts per year (one in the summer, and one in winter).
References
External links
Press release on joining Microsoft
New York Times profile
Article on initial direction at Microsoft
Qi voted number 10 in Fast Company top 100 innovators
Qi lu to exit
Living people
Microsoft employees
1961 births
Chinese emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Heat%20with%20Mark%20McEwan | The Heat with Mark McEwan is a Canadian food and catering show produced by General Purpose Pictures which airs on Food Network in Canada. It is hosted by Mark McEwan, a Celebrity chef based in Toronto. In the show, Mark heads a team of skilled chefs and caterers pulled from his restaurants 'North 44', 'Bymark' and 'ONE' as he caters various upscale Canadian events.
Show format
Mark acts as the driving narrative for each episode. Catering large-scale events with staff at varying skill levels and competency results in entertaining theatrics as Mark coaches and directs his team.
Integrated Marketing
In June 2009 Mark opened 'McEwan' a high end grocery store located at the 'Shops at Don Mills' in Toronto. Season 3 of The Heat largely tells the story of the opening of the store and the many problems that McEwan faced in its construction.
To coincide with the launch of his first grocery store Mark also launched his own branded line of cookware and utensils.
External links
Official website
Food Network Micro Site
2000s Canadian cooking television series
2010s Canadian cooking television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
Food reality television series
2010 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDB | XDB may refer to:
Software
xBase (xDB) - a family of database management systems and related programming languages
Xbase (formerly known as XDB) - a software library from the xBase family
XDB Enterprise Server - a historical product from the xBase family
Oracle XML DB - an Oracle Database feature
EMC Documentum xDB - a native XML database
Other
Gare de Lille Europe (XDB IATA code) - a railway station and an international airport in Lille, France. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair%20PC200 | The Amstrad PC20 / Sinclair PC200 was a home computer created by Amstrad in late 1988, based on the Amstrad PPC 512 hardware. The machine was available in two versions, Sinclair PC200 and Amstrad PC20. The PC200 had a black case and 'Sinclair' branding, while the PC20 was white and branded 'Amstrad'.
In addition to MS-DOS 3.3 and PPC Organiser (a memory-resident suite of utilities), the PC20/PC200 was supplied with GEM and four CGA-compatible games.
The limited MDA and CGA graphical capabilities and PC speaker sound output were greatly inferior compared to other home computers of the time. Consequently, the PC20/PC200 was not a commercial success.
Design
The PPC 512's small LCD display was replaced by an RF modulator, so that the machine could display CGA video on a domestic television, and the keyboard and system unit were combined in an integrated case, similar to the original Atari ST or Amiga 500. The PPC 512 second floppy drive bay was replaced by two ISA slots, though the design of the case was such that any cards fitted would protrude from the top of the computer.
Some PC20s omitted the RF modulator and its support circuitry.
Although the PC20/PC200 does not support standard floppy disk drives through the built-in FDD connector, it uses a compatible floppy disk controller (Zilog Z765a). Standard drives can be made to work with 720K disks after a cable modification.
References
Sinclair computers and derivatives
IBM PC compatibles
Amstrad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Robertson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Stephen Robertson is a British computer scientist. He is known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval together with Karen Spärck Jones and the Okapi BM25 weighting model.
Okapi BM25 is very successful in experimental search evaluations and found its way in many information retrieval systems and products, including open source search systems like Lucene, Lemur, Xapian, and Terrier. BM25 is used as one of the most important signals in large web search engines, certainly in Microsoft Bing, and probably in other web search engines too. BM25 is also used in various other Microsoft products such as Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server.
After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he took an MS at City University, and then worked for ASLIB. He earned his PhD at University College London in 1976 under the renowned statistician and scholar B. C. Brookes. He then returned to City University working there from 1978 until 1998 in the Department of Information Science, continuing as a part-time professor and subsequently as professor emeritus. He is also a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University. Now retired, Robertson is Professor Emeritus at City University, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL.
References
Publications
British computer scientists
Alumni of University College London
Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge
Living people
Alumni of City, University of London
Academics of City, University of London
Information retrieval researchers
1946 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20data%20structure | In computer science, a search data structure is any data structure that allows the efficient retrieval of specific items from a set of items, such as a specific record from a database.
The simplest, most general, and least efficient search structure is merely an unordered sequential list of all the items. Locating the desired item in such a list, by the linear search method, inevitably requires a number of operations proportional to the number n of items, in the worst case as well as in the average case. Useful search data structures allow faster retrieval; however, they are limited to queries of some specific kind. Moreover, since the cost of building such structures is at least proportional to n, they only pay off if several queries are to be performed on the same database (or on a database that changes little between queries).
Static search structures are designed for answering many queries on a fixed database; dynamic structures also allow insertion, deletion, or modification of items between successive queries. In the dynamic case, one must also consider the cost of fixing the search structure to account for the changes in the database.
Classification
The simplest kind of query is to locate a record that has a specific field (the key) equal to a specified value v. Other common kinds of query are "find the item with smallest (or largest) key value", "find the item with largest key value not exceeding v", "find all items with key values between specified bounds vmin and vmax".
In certain databases the key values may be points in some multi-dimensional space. For example, the key may be a geographic position (latitude and longitude) on the Earth. In that case, common kinds of queries are "find the record with a key closest to a given point v", or "find all items whose key lies at a given distance from v", or "find all items within a specified region R of the space".
A common special case of the latter are simultaneous range queries on two or more simple keys, such as "find all employee records with salary between 50,000 and 100,000 and hired between 1995 and 2007".
Single ordered keys
Array if the key values span a moderately compact interval.
Priority-sorted list; see linear search
Key-sorted array; see binary search
Self-balancing binary search tree
Hash table
Finding the smallest element
Heap
Asymptotic worst-case analysis
In this table, the asymptotic notation O(f(n)) means "not exceeding some fixed multiple of f(n) in the worst case."
Note: Insert on an unsorted array is sometimes quoted as being O(n) due to the assumption that the element to be inserted must be inserted at one particular location of the array, which would require shifting all the subsequent elements by one position. However, in a classic array, the array is used to store arbitrary unsorted elements, and hence the exact position of any given element is of no consequence, and insert is carried out by increasing the array size by 1 and storing the element at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue%20Technology%20Services | Revenue Technology Solutions began as a division Control Data Corporation. It developed a yield management system for Republic Airlines on a mainframe in 1982. Revenue Technology Services Corporation was spun off as an independent company through a purchase by YMS, Inc. in 1991.
Revenue Technology Services provides global revenue management and profit optimization software and consulting services. The verticals supported are airlines, cargo, coach, cruise/ferry lines, and railroads. Delivered products include revenue management for passenger and cargo, pricing management and business intelligence / analytics.
External links
Business intelligence companies
Control Data Corporation
Information technology consulting firms of the United States
Types of marketing
Revenue
Republic Airways
Supply chain software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority%20encoder | A priority encoder is a circuit or algorithm that compresses multiple binary inputs into a smaller number of outputs, similar to a simple encoder. The output of a priority encoder is the binary representation of the index of the most significant activated line. In contrast to the simple encoder, if two or more inputs to the priority encoder are active at the same time, the input having the highest priority will take precedence. It is an improvement on a simple encoder because it can handle all possible input combinations, but at the cost of extra logic.
Applications of priority encoders include their use in interrupt controllers (to allow some interrupt requests to have higher priority than others), decimal or binary encoding, and analog-to-digital / digital to-analog conversion.
A truth table of a single bit 4-to-2 priority encoder is shown, where the inputs are shown in decreasing order of priority left-to-right, and "x" indicates a don't care term - i.e. any input value there yields the same output since it is superseded by a higher-priority input. The (usually-included) "v" output indicates if the input is valid.
Priority encoders can be easily connected in arrays to make larger encoders, such as one 16-to-4 encoder made from six 4-to-2 priority encoders – four 4-to-2 encoders having the signal source connected to their inputs, and the two remaining encoders take the output of the first four as input.
Recursive construction of priority encoders
A priority-encoder, also called leading zero detector (LZD) or leading zero counter (LZC), receives an -bit input vector and detects the index of the first binary ‘1’ in the input vector. A valid signal indicates if any binary ‘1’ was detected in the input vector, hence the index is valid.
Priority-encoders can be efficiently constructed by recursion. The input vector is split into equal fragments with bits. A priority encoder with a narrower width of 𝑛/𝑘 is applied for each fragment. The valid bit of each of the ‘s goes to a bit to detect the first valid fragment. The location of this fragment is the higher part of the overall index, and steers the exact location within the fragment itself to produce the lower part of the overall index.
The depth of the proposed structure is , while the hardware area complexity is . If Altera's Stratix V or equivalent device is used, is recommended to achieve higher performance and area compression, since the mux can be implemented using 6-LUT, hence an entire ALM.
An open-source Verilog generator for the recursive priority-encoder is available online.
A behavioral description of priority encoder in Verilog is as follows.// behavioural description of priority enconder;
// https://github.com/AmeerAbdelhadi/Indirectly-Indexed-2D-Binary-Content-Addressable-Memory-BCAM
module pe_bhv
#( parameter OHW = 512 ) // encoder one-hot input width
( input clk , // clock for pipelined priority encoder
input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ultimate%20W%20Expert%20Challenge | 'The Ultimate W Expert Challenge is a three-part Canadian reality series produced by General Purpose Pictures that aired on W Network in Canada in summer 2009. Hosted by Karen Bertelsen, also the host of Playing House, the program took seven experts from all across Canada and made them compete in various challenges for the title of the Ultimate W Expert.
Show format
Each episode revolves around one major challenge, hosted by Karen Bertlesen. The challenges included making a presentation to a boardroom full of children, hosting a divorce party for a fake couple played by actors and speaking in front of a mall crowd. Each challenge was judged by hosts of current W Shows. The guest judges included:
Hina Khan & Dylan Marcel from Save Us from Our House
Glenn Dixon & Glenn Peloso from Take This House and Sell It
Candice Olson from Divine Design and Bruce Turner from Style by Jury
Competitors
The Experts won an online competition held by the W Network in order to be eligible to compete for the show. The first season's competitors were:
Preet Banerjee: Financial Expert
Daniela Garritano: Interior Design Expert
Dr. Cheryl Fraser: Relationship Expert
Kristine Laing - Food and Nutrition Expert
Eric Arrouze - Food Expert
Jackson West - Interior Design Expert
Mark Galati - Hair Stylist Expert
Winner
Preet Banerjee was declared the winner of the Ultimate W Expert Challenge. He writes a daily blog with tips on how to save money.
External links
Official website
W Network Micro Site Preet
Canadian reality television series
W Network original programming
2009 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel%20Quiller-Couch | Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch (17 June 1865 – November 1924) was an English editor, compiler and children's writer.
Biography
Mabel Quiller-Couch was born in Bodmin, Cornwall to physician Thomas Quiller-Couch and his wife, Mary (née Ford). She was the second child and eldest daughter of five children. Her elder brother was the critic Arthur Quiller-Couch. After a disappointment in love, she lived with her younger sister Lilian Mary, also a writer, in Hampstead. Of her 26 publications, one was jointly written and one jointly edited with her sister. Quiller-Couch was the author of a number of novels and the compiler of an anthology of writings about the University of Oxford up to 1850.
Selected works
(With Lilian Quiller-Couch) Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall. London: Chas. J. Clark, 1894 (Based on a manuscript work by Thomas Quiller-Couch; reissued: Liskeard, Cornwall: Tamara, 1994)
Kitty Trenire. London: Thomas Nelson, 1909 (Juvenile novel; Reissued: Hertford: Cityscape, 2001)
A Book of Children's Verse; arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch; illus. by M. Etheldreda Gray. London: Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1911
(Edited with Lilian Quiller-Couch) The Treasure Book of Children's Verse. New York, G. H. Doran, 1911 (there are also later reissues of both the British and American editions)
Cornwall's Wonderland. London: J. M. Dent, 1914 (Contents: How Corineus fought the chief of the giants.--The giant of St. Michael's Mount.--The legend of the Tamar, the Tavy, and the Taw.--The strange story of Cherry Honey.--The fairies on the Gump.--The fairy ointment.--The exciting adventure of John Sturtridge.--The true story of Anne and the fairies.--Barker and the Buccas.--Lutey and the mermaid.--The wicked spectre.--The story of the lovers' cove.--The silver table.--Cruel Coppinger, the Dane.--Madge Figgy, the wrecker.--How Madge Figgy got her pig.--The story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Isoult.)
References
External links
1865 births
1924 deaths
English children's writers
People from Bodmin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade%203D | Shade 3D is a 3D modeling, rendering, animation, 3D printing computer program developed by e frontier Japan and published by Mirye Software. In October 2013, Shade 3D development team formed a new company called Shade3D Co.,Ltd., and continue to develop and market the program. After terminating the sales agreement with e frontier Japan and Mirye Software by the end of December 2014, Shade3D company is now developing and marketing Shade 3D products in Japan and worldwide exclusively.
History
Shade was first published in Japan in the mid 1980s, making it one of the oldest 3D applications on macOS and Windows. E Frontier, a Japanese software company acquired Shade from its previous owner ExpressionTools in the early 2000s. E Frontier later acquired Curious Labs, the developer of Poser and marketed Shade through a subsidiary E Frontier America. E Frontier America sold its directly owned assets to Smith Micro. In 2009, Mirye Software started localization and publishing of Shade in the English language worldwide until 2014 December. After then, Shade3D Co.,Ltd is now handling both Japanese and English version development and worldwide marketing included Japan. Shade 3D has an estimated 200,000 users worldwide.
Special features
Shade 3D supports polygon modeling, however all versions of Shade support curved surface modeling based on bezier based lines - a unique modeling method similar to bezier based vector editing tools such as Adobe Illustrator and not available in some other 3D modeling applications. Shade also supports NURBS based modeling. Modeling in Shade is done with Metric or Imperial measurements selected making Shade useful for architecture.
The Professional version of Shade creates large renders. Shade 14 Pro renders up to 22528x22528. This render size is larger than the 12000x8700 IMAX digital version theoretical display size. In print, a 1200dpi A3 document(11.7x16.5in/297x420mm) is 14032x19842.
Shade 3D has specific features for 3D printing using the Shade 3D Print Assistant, a feature to interactively diagnose and fix common problems with 3d models used with 3d printers, such as working with manifold geometry.
The current Shade 14 supports a wide variety of popular formats including adobe formats (ai, psd, swf), movie formats (avi, mov, QuickTime VR panorama, QuickTime VR cubic, QuickTime VR object), 3d formats (obj, lwo, 3ds, dxf, rib), video game digital asset formats (bvh, direct x, COLLADA, collada animation, Blue Mars, Second Life), picture formats (bmp, targa, tiff, png, epix, hdr, openEXR), and format options with toon rendering on export (ai, swf) among others. This wide format support of popular application formats makes working between programs easier than usual.
Because of its history with the Poser product line, some versions of Shade also incorporate PoserFusion, a file hosting solution rather than a direct file import solution. This allows Shade to maintain Poser specific features within the Shade rendering envir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahalom%20%28protocol%29 | Yahalom is an authentication and secure key-sharing protocol designed for use on an insecure network such as the Internet. Yahalom uses a trusted arbitrator to distribute a shared key between two people. This protocol can be considered as an improved version of Wide Mouth Frog protocol (with additional protection against man-in-the-middle attack), but less secure than the Needham–Schroeder protocol.
Protocol description
If Alice (A) initiates the communication to Bob (B) with S is a server trusted by both parties, the protocol can be specified as follows using security protocol notation:
A and B are identities of Alice and Bob respectively
is a symmetric key known only to A and S
is a symmetric key known only to B and S
and are nonces generated by A and B respectively
is a symmetric, generated key, which will be the session key of the session between A and B
Alice sends a message to Bob requesting communication.
Bob sends a message to the Server encrypted under .
The Server sends to Alice a message containing the generated session key and a message to be forwarded to Bob.
Alice forwards the message to Bob and verifies has not changed. Bob will verify has not changed when he receives the message.
BAN-Yahalom
Burrows, Abadi and Needham proposed a variant of this protocol in their 1989 paper as follows:
In 1994, Paul Syverson demonstrated two attacks on this protocol.
See also
Kerberos protocol
Otway–Rees protocol
Neuman–Stubblebine protocol
References
M. Burrows, M. Abadi, R. Needham A Logic of Authentication, Research Report 39, Digital Equipment Corp. Systems Research Center, Feb. 1989
M. Burrows, M. Abadi, R. Needham A Logic of Authentication. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, v. 8, n. 1, Feb. 1990, pp. 18—36
Cryptographic protocols
Computer access control protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCHC | NCHC may refer to:
National Coalition on Health Care
National Collegiate Honors Council
National Center for High-Performance Computing
National Collegiate Hockey Conference
National Clogging and Hoedown Council |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Broggi | Alberto Broggi is General Manager at VisLab srl (spinoff of the University of Parma acquired by Silicon-Valley company Ambarella Inc. in June 2015) and a professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy.
Research in computer vision, hardware, and AV
Broggi's research activities started in 1991–1994. His group together with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, built their own hardware architecture (named PAPRICA, for PArallel PRocessor for Image Checking and Analysis, based on 256 single-bit processing elements working in SIMD fashion) and installed it on board of a mobile laboratory (Mob-Lab) to develop and test some initial concepts in the field of intelligent vehicles.
In 1996, Broggi's group worked to develop a real vehicle prototype (named ARGO, a Lancia Thema passenger car which was equipped with vision sensors, processing systems, and vehicle actuators) and developed the necessary software and hardware that made it able to drive autonomously on standard roads.
Broggi's research group (called VisLab from then on) gathered all their findings in a book, which was then also translated in Chinese.
When Broggi was with the University of Pavia, his research was extended and applied to extreme conditions (automatic driving on snow and ice): in 2001, VisLab led the research effort of providing a vehicle (RAS, Robot Antartico di Superficie) with sensing capabilities so that it was able to automatically follow the vehicle in front.
In 2010 Broggi's group embarked on driving 4 vehicles autonomously from Italy to China with no human intervention. This challenge is called VIAC, for VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge
. Soon after this, Broggi was awarded a second ERC grant (Proof of concept) to industrialize some of the results obtained and successfully tested on the VIAC vehicles.
On July 12, 2013, VisLab tested the BRAiVE vehicle in downtown Parma, negotiating two-way narrow rural roads, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, artificial bumps, pedestrian areas, and tight roundabouts. The vehicle traveled from Parma University Campus up to Piazza della Pilotta (downtown Parma): a 20 minutes run in a real environment, together with real traffic at 11am on a working day, that required absolutely no human intervention. Part of this test was driven with nobody in the driver seat, for the first time ever on public roads.
References
External links
Research papers by Alberto Broggi (Google Scholar)
Artificial intelligence researchers
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Italian roboticists
University of Parma alumni
Academic staff of the University of Parma
1966 births
20th-century Italian scientists
21st-century Italian scientists
European Research Council grantees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIPP%20Pride%20High%20School | KIPP Pride High School is a 9–12th grade open-enrollment charter school founded in rural Gaston, North Carolina in 2005. It is part of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program), a national network of charter schools.
References
Charter schools in North Carolina
Educational institutions established in 2005
Public high schools in North Carolina
Public middle schools in North Carolina
Schools in Northampton County, North Carolina
2005 establishments in North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumination%20%28company%29 | Illumination (formerly known as Illumination Entertainment) is an American computer animation studio, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007. Illumination is owned by Meledandri and the Illumination brand is co-owned by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances and distributes them. The studio is the creator of the Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, and Sing franchises, the adaptations of Dr. Seuss' books The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and adaptations of Nintendo video games, starting with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the mascots of the studio.
Illumination has produced 13 feature films, with an average gross of $711 million per film. The studio's highest-grossing films are The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.362 billion), Minions ($1.159 billion), and Despicable Me 3 ($1.034 billion). All three films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and eight of their films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films.
History
Meledandri left as President of 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios in early 2007. While at those companies he supervised or executive-produced movies including Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots, and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!. After leaving, he founded Illumination Entertainment and a deal was announced positioning Illumination Entertainment as NBC Universal's family entertainment arm, that would produce one to two films a year starting in 2010. As part of the deal, Illumination retains creative control and Universal Pictures exclusively distributes the films.
In 2011, Illumination acquired the animation department of the French animation and visual effects studio Mac Guff, which animated Despicable Me and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, and formed Illumination Mac Guff (later Illumination Studios Paris).
On August 22, 2016, NBCUniversal acquired competing studio DreamWorks Animation, which fueled speculation that Meledandri was to oversee both studios. While he had been approached by NBCUniversal to oversee both studios, he turned down the offer and later explained "I love the process of making films and working with artists. I don't think I'm particularly great at managing companies".
On September 23, 2022, Illumination announced its hiring of former Netflix head of adult animation Mike Moon as senior creative advisor, and a new label led by Moon known as Moonlight, which will aim to "produce animated films that push beyond the family genre".
Process
In a similar fashion to Sony Pictures Animation and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Illumination does not produce its films in-house where it is based in Santa Monica, but rather outsources the animation production of its films to other studios. Most of its films are animated by Illumination Studios Paris, a subsidiary formed through the purchase of Mac Guff (which animated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Xenon%20%28GR500%29 | The LG GR500 (LG Xenon) is a mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics, which features a touch screen and QWERTY keyboard on AT&T's 3G network. It was released April, 2009, compared to 2007 for the first iPhone and 2008 for the first Android phone. It offers a flash for the 2.0 mega pixel camera, GPS, multi tasking, a menu or favorite contacts, and a microSD slot for music, pictures, and video. Voice dialing and video share are among the features on this phone. Newer models of the phone also include a front-facing camera for video chat, that is incapable of recording video or pictures. The LG Xenon does not have Wi-Fi capability.
Design
The LG Xenon comes in black, blue, red, and purple. It runs on an OS similar to its predecessor the LG Vu, and has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and resistive touch screen. Its keyboard has dedicated buttons for text and email messages. When opened, the phone is viewed in a wider aspect than when closed. A lock button on the right side allows the phone to be used while it is not open. The default themes are white with blue outlining, and black with red outlining.
References
See also
List of LG mobile phones
LG Electronics
LG Shine
LG Vu
AT&T
Samsung Eternity, a competitor.
Samsung Impression, a competitor.
GR500 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averaging%20argument | In computational complexity theory and cryptography, averaging argument is a standard argument for proving theorems. It usually allows us to convert probabilistic polynomial-time algorithms into non-uniform polynomial-size circuits.
Example
Example: If every person likes at least 1/3 of the books in a library, then the library has a book, which at least 1/3 of people like.
Proof: Suppose there are people and books. Each person likes at least of the books. Let people leave a mark on the book they like. Then, there will be at least marks. The averaging argument claims that there exists a book with at least marks on it. Assume, to the contradiction, that no such book exists. Then, every book has fewer than marks. However, since there are books, the total number of marks will be fewer than , contradicting the fact that there are at least marks.
Formalized definition of averaging argument
Let X and Y be sets, let p be a predicate on X × Y and let f be a real number in the interval [0, 1]. If for each x in X and at least f |Y| of the elements y in Y satisfy p(x, y), then there exists a y in Y such that there exist at least f |X| elements x in X that satisfy p(x, y).
There is another definition, defined using the terminology of probability theory.
Let be some function. The averaging argument is the following claim: if we have a circuit such that with probability at least , where is chosen at random and is chosen independently from some distribution over (which might not even be efficiently sampleable) then there exists a single string such that .
Indeed, for every define to be then
and then this reduces to the claim that for every random variable , if then (this holds since is the weighted average of and clearly if the average of some values is at least then one of the values must be at least ).
Application
This argument has wide use in complexity theory (e.g. proving ) and cryptography (e.g. proving that indistinguishable encryption results in semantic security). A plethora of such applications can be found in Goldreich's books.
References
Computational complexity theory
Circuit complexity
Randomized algorithms
Theory of cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure%20Eight%20Inc. | Figure Eight (formerly known as Dolores Labs, CrowdFlower) was a human-in-the-loop machine learning and artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.
Figure Eight technology uses human intelligence to do simple tasks such as transcribing text or annotating images to train machine learning algorithms. Figure Eight's software automates tasks for machine learning algorithms, which can be used to improve catalog search results, approve photos or support customers and the technology can be used in the development of self-driving cars, intelligent personal assistants and other technology that uses machine learning.
The company was acquired by Appen in March 2019 for $300 million.
History
Establishment
Originally called Dolores Labs, the company was founded in 2007 by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt. They found a need for temporary workers doing simple tasks that could not be automated. After experimenting with pictures and questions related to them on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing internet marketplace, they encouraged others to participate in their experimentation through the site Facestat. They collected 20 million assessments of people's faces within three months and began to add queries for companies needing data such as event listing site Zvents and O'Reilly Media.
Dolores Labs, initially in a loft space in the Mission District briefly moved to an office on Valencia Street which it outgrew in nine months. They felt the name Dolores Labs was too research-oriented and sounded like experimentation, so the company was renamed CrowdFlower. In 2009, CrowdFlower held an official launch at the TechCrunch50 conference. A sleek logo replaced its previous mint-eating alligator. The company moved to its third office in the Mission in early 2010. The name Dolores Labs was adopted by Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures who turned the name and previous office space into a co-working and startup incubator space.
Disaster relief
In 2009, the company provided work for refugees in Kenya who completed microtasks; iPhone users donated their time by checking for accuracy through the app Give Work. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, CrowdFlower again worked with Samasource to help Haitians find work through the application GiveWork.
Funding and expansion
Founders Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt were included on Inc.'s 30 Under 30 list in 2010.
In 2011, CrowdFlower raised a Series B funding round that totaled $9.3 million and included investor Harmony Venture Partners. The company's Series C funding, which closed in September 2014, totaled $12.5 million. In 2014, CrowdFlower was named Best in Show at FinovateFall.
The company established a scientific advisory board in 2016, which made up of entrepreneur Barney Pell, founder and CEO of Kaggle Anthony Goldbloom, and staff research engineer at Google, Pete Warden. That same year, it raised a $10 million Series D funding round led by Microsoft Ventures, Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures. The fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20John%20Eye%20Hospital%20Group | The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a charitable foundation which operates an ophthalmic hospital in Jerusalem – one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network – and satellite eye care clinics and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of the Venerable Order of St John. The Hospital Group is based in Jerusalem and is the main provider of eye care in the Palestinian territories.
History
First site
The original Hospital opened by The Order of St John in 1882 on the Bethlehem Road just south of the old city of Jerusalem. Queen Victoria granted the hospital a Royal Charter. Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet was one of the key figures in the establishment of the hospital. Lechmere and his wife were among the founders of Venerable Order of St John and had travelled several times to Jerusalem where they witnessed the need of its residents for eye care.
During the First World War, the hospital was closed and its building was taken over by the Turkish Army, who used it to store ammunition. During the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917, the building was damaged. Following the establish of the British Mandate for Palestine, the architect Clifford Holliday was hired to renovate the building. Holliday also designed a new wing and the nearby St Andrew's Church, which were both opened in 1930. The new wing was situated across the street, on the opposite side of Hebron Road. In the 1960s, after the hospital moved to its current location, the Clifford Holliday wing became an arts and crafts center, henceforth known as the .
In the 1970s, the original hospital building was sold to a developer who wanted to demolish it and build a hotel in its place. Following a campaign by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, the developer was barred from demolishing the building; instead he was permitted to build an extension to it, in keeping with the original style of the building, and to renovate and preserve the original structure. The hotel was opened in the 1980s and was named the Mt. Zion Hotel.
Second site
Following the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Jordan, the valley just below the hospital building and Mount Zion, which had been on the front line at the time of the armistice, were designated as no-man's land. The hospital could not operate at this location anymore. Additionally, what had now become Jordan-ruled East Jerusalem was cut off from the building.
Between 1949 and 1960 the hospital operated from two buildings, the Watson House and the Strathearn House, owned by the Order in Muristan Street in the Old City of Jerusalem (see monument inscription in the photo).
Third site
The hospital's present building was opened in 1960 at Nashashibi Street in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.
Current Jerusalem hospital
The main Jerusalem Hospital is an ISO and Joint Commission International accredited, general eye hospital. It has a 49-bed capacity and is sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOWY%20%28FM%29 | WOWY (103.1 FM) is a classic hits radio station in State College, Pennsylvania operating with a power of 370 watts.
History
The talk programming of WRSC moved from 1390 AM to 103.1 FM on Monday, August 3, 2009, as "Newsradio 103 WRSC".
Until May 20, 2015, WRSC-FM carried many nationally syndicated shows such as, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, The Glenn Beck Program, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Michael Savage Show, The Mark Levin Show, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Clark Howard Show, and Live on Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. WRSC-FM also aired a local show, The WRSC Morning Show, starring Centre Region-area radio veteran Kevin Nelson (& Company), which was replaced with Pat Urban show. WRSC-FM aired NASCAR programming as well during the week from MRN Radio.
The news/talk format moved from WRSC-FM back to 1390 AM on May 20, 2015, as 103.1 flipped to classic hits as WAPY, "Happy 103.1".
It was announced on October 12, 2022, that Forever Media was selling 34 stations and 12 translators, including WAPY and five other sister stations, to State College-based Seven Mountains Media for $17.375 million. The deal closed on January 1, 2023.
On December 30, 2022, it was announced that the station's classic hits format would be merged with that of Seven Mountains Media's WOWY (97.1 FM) within days. On January 3, 2023, WAPY picked up the WOWY classic hits format from 97.1, which began stunting towards a new format. WAPY changed its call sign to WOWY on January 16, 2023.
References
External links
OWY (FM)
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignPlot | SignPlot is a software application for the design of UK traffic signs and their supports and foundations using the built in SignLoad software, developed and sold by Buchanan Computing. The application is unique as it does not require the use of Computer-aided design (CAD) software.
History
Initially created in the early 1980s as a university project by Simon Morgan, SignPlot 3 has undergone several updates. The program is designed to automate almost all the layout and spacing rules of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 7, and drawings issued by the Welsh Assembly Government for bilingual signing.
In 2023, graphic designer Margaret Calvert held an exhibition titled Roadworks in Margate, featuring a number of reinterpreted traffic sign designs created with the aid of SignPlot. Calvert previously worked with Simon Morgan for the Museum of Modern Art Automania exhibition in New York during 2021. They used SignPlot software to restore and recreate Calvert's original 1960s designs for the exhibition pieces.
Version 3.80 is the latest update in 2023.
See also
Road signs in the United Kingdom
Traffic sign
Highways Act 1980
Highway Code
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
References
External links
SignPlot
Signs & Markings. Part of the Highway Code website.
"War to Worboys" - CBRD article detailing the development of Road signs from the Second World War to the present day
Transport software
Windows-only proprietary software
Road transport in the United Kingdom
Welsh language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion-io | Fusion-io, Inc. was a computer hardware and software systems company (acquired by SanDisk Corporation in 2014) based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, that designed and manufactured products using flash memory technology. The Fusion was marketed for applications such as databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data. Their product was considered around 2011 to be one of the fastest storage devices on the market.
History
The company was founded in December 2005 as Canvas Technologies in Nevada. Co-founders were David Flynn and Rick White. The company was based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, near Salt Lake City.
In June 2006, the company name was changed to Fusion Multisystems, Incorporated.
A product with the brand name was demonstrated and announced in September 2007.
In March 2008, Fusion-io raised $19 million in a series A round of funding from a group of investors led by New Enterprise Associates.
David Flynn was chief technology officer, while Don Basile was chief executive officer at the time.
Michael Dell invested in Fusion-io during this round.
It was chosen as an "innovation up-and-comer" in an online Business Week poll by early 2009.
In 2009 and 2010, David Bradford, served as CEO. In February 2009, Fusion-io hired Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak as chief scientist.
It was chosen by Red Herring magazine as a "top 100" company in February 2009.
In March 2009, Fusion-io started working with HP on the IO Accelerator, a new high-performance solid-state drive.
Fusion-io announced $47.5 million in a series B round of investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in April 2009.
Hardware partner Samsung later invested in Fusion-io in October 2009.
A third round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners, with additional capital from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, provided a total of $45 million in April 2010.
It was named the second most promising information technology company by The Wall Street Journal in March 2010.
In May 2010, the Linux block-io principal developer, Jens Axboe, joined Fusion-io after leaving Oracle.
Fusion-io first filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in March 2011, with shares to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange with symbol FIO.
At the time, Facebook accounted for most of its revenues.
In June 2011, Fusion-io announced it increased the price of its IPO to put the company's total value at $1.4 billion. The company had previously priced its shares to value the company at about $1.17 billion.
The shares were offered on June 9, raising the valuation to about $2 billion.
On August 5, 2011, Fusion-io acquired IO Turbine for about $95 million. IO Turbine's main product was the hybrid array (caching to flash) software, which is virtualization-aware, particularly of VMware environments.
In January 2012, Fusion-io achieved a record breaking billion IOPS from eight servers at the DEMO Enterprise event in San Francisco.
In June 2012, the Btrfs principal developers Chris Mason joined Fusion-io |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronicta%20retardata | Acronicta retardata, the retarded dagger moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Texas, north to Manitoba.
The wingspan is 25–32 mm. Adults are on wing from April to August depending on the location. There are multiple generations per year.
The larvae feed on the leaves of red maple and sugar maple.
References
External links
Bug Guide
Acronicta
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1861 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20Literature%20Network%20Service | GreyNet International, the Grey Literature Network Service, is an independent organization founded in 1992. It is dedicated to research, publication, open access, education, and bringing public awareness to grey literature. Grey literature is often defined as "information produced and distributed on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body."
GreyNet is corporate author of the Proceedings issuing from the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, The Grey Journal, An International Journal on Grey Literature, as well as other types of publications such as reports, program books, and newsletters. GreyNet also maintains a Listserv and a presence on a number of social media including LinkedIn, Netvibes, Twitter, and Facebook.
GreyNet is a not-for-profit organization fostering the production and dissemination of scientific literature. It is also engaged in the open source movement and was invited to the 10th Libre Software Meeting 2009 in Nantes, France, with a communication on knowledge sharing in the field of grey literature.
During the 11th International Conference on Grey Literature in December 2009, GreyNet signed a Partnership Agreement with ICSTI, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information. This newly established partnership lends to GreyNet a multilateral base, elevating it from a bilateral one that it already shares with a number of ICSTI Members. GreyNet seeks to provide ICSTI with an opportunity to further broaden its information activities to the social sciences and humanities.
International Conference Series on Grey Literature (ISSN 1386-2316)
1993 GL1 Amsterdam, “GL’93, Weinberg Report 2000”
1995 GL2 Washington D.C. ”GL’95, Grey Exploitations in the 21st Century”
1997 GL3 Luxembourg, “GL’97, Perspectives on the Design and Transfer of STI”
1999 GL4 Washington D.C., “GL’99, New Frontiers in Grey Literature”
2003 GL5 Amsterdam, “Grey Matters in the World of Networked Information”
2004 GL6 New York, “Work on Grey in Progress”
2005 GL7 Nancy, France “Open Access to Grey Resources”
2006 GL8 New Orleans, “Harnessing the Power of Grey”
2007 GL9 Antwerp, “Grey Foundations in Information Landscape”
2008 GL10 Amsterdam, “Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society”
2009 GL11 Washington D.C., “The Grey Mosaic: Piecing It All Together”
2010 GL12 Prague, "Transparency in Grey Literature, Grey Tech Approaches to High Tech Issues"
2011 GL13 Washington D.C., "The Grey Circuit, From Social Networking to Wealth Creation", Library of Congress, December 5–6
2012 GL14 Rome, Italy, "Tracking Innovation through Grey Literature", National Research Council, CNR, November 29–30
2013 GL15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, "The Grey Audit, A Field Assessment in Grey Literature", December 2–3
2014 GL16 Washington D.C. “Grey Literature Lobby, Engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSIGLE | The OpenSIGLE repository provides open access to the bibliographic records of the former SIGLE database. The creation of the OpenSIGLE archive was decided by some major European STI centres, members of the former European network EAGLE for the collection and dissemination of grey literature (European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation). OpenSIGLE was developed by the French INIST-CNRS, with assistance from the German FIZ Karlsruhe and the Dutch Grey Literature Network Service (GreyNet). OpenSIGLE is hosted on an INIST-CNRS server at Nancy. Part of the open Access movement, OpenSIGLE is referenced by the international Directory of Open Access Repositories.
History of OpenSIGLE
SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe) was a unique multidisciplinary bibliographic database dedicated to grey literature. Up to 15 European partners participated in SIGLE, mostly national libraries or important research libraries. Created in 1980 and produced from 1984 onwards by EAGLE (European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation), the database was last available through STN International and on CD-ROM via Silverplatter/Ovid Technologies, until it stopped input in 2005. Together with other former EAGLE members, INIST decided to make the data publicly available on an open access platform. The OpenSIGLE website went live in December 2007.
OpenSIGLE is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, integrated in the portal of the WorldWideScience Alliance and included in the bookmarks of national libraries and research institutes.
Implementation of OpenSIGLE
OpenSIGLE was developed on a MIT DSpace platform 1.3.2. In the following the database migrated to DSpace version 1.4. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) License.
OpenSIGLE metadata
DSpace uses a qualified Dublin Core metadata set less detailed than the SIGLE metadata received from the former SIGLE operating agent DPC (FIZ Karlsruhe). The FIZ Karlsruhe XML records were written in the SIGLE format and completed by some server-related fields.
Several specific fields from the source format were merged to one field for OpenSIGLE. For example in the SIGLE record the English title could be either in the field for the original title or in the field for the English title. In the OpenSIGLE metadata, the English title appears systematically in the field labelled "Title".
Other fields were defined differently to fit with the metadata set. Some qualified fields were added to the metadata set used by DSpace without disturbing the OAI compliance: conference title, report number and availability statement.
The most significant change was a simplification in the document type information. The original SIGLE format distinguished between document type and literature indicator, but diverging conversion practices led to inconsistencies. OpenSIGLE proposes a simplified list of the principal document types.
OpenSIGLE content
DSpace allows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy%20Peak | Mercy Peak was a New Zealand television series that ran for three seasons on local network TV One, between 2001 and 2004. The series rated well in New Zealand (especially in its second series) and won multiple awards for its cast. Though an ensemble show, Mercy Peak centres on a doctor (played by Sara Wiseman) who leaves the city to work at a hospital in the small town of Bassett. She works alongside stuffy but caring doctor William Kingsley (Jeffrey Thomas from Shark in the Park). The series was produced by Auckland company South Pacific Pictures; a number of those who worked on the show would have a big hand in South Pacific Pictures hit Outrageous Fortune, including co-creator Rachel Lang, directors Mark Beesley and Simon Bennett, and producer John Laing.
Cast
Sara Wiseman as Nicky Somerville
Jeffrey Thomas as William Kingsley
Craig Parker as Alistair Kingsley
Alison Bruce as Louise Duval
Tim Balme as Ken Wilder
Tamati Te Nohotu as Cliff Tairoa
Renato Bartolomei as Kieran Masefield
Miriama Smith as Dana McNichol
Dwayne Cameron as Gus Van der Velter
Angela Vint as Helen Blakemore
Episodes
Series 1 (2001–02)
Series 2 (2002–03)
Series 3 (2003–04)
Reception
The show won three awards at the 2002 New Zealand Television Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Tim Balme), Best Supporting Actress (Alison Bruce), and Best Script. It won a further two awards at the following year's ceremony: Best Actor (Jeffrey Thomas) and Best Supporting Actress (Alison Bruce).
References
External links
on South Pacific Pictures
on NZ on Screen
2000s New Zealand television series
2001 New Zealand television series debuts
2004 New Zealand television series endings
New Zealand drama television series
Television shows funded by NZ on Air
Television shows set in New Zealand
TVNZ 1 original programming
Television series by South Pacific Pictures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Mission%20%28video%20game%29 | The Last Mission is a computer game released in 1987 by the Spanish company Opera Soft, for the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MSX. It was also ported to the IBM PC platform. It is a 2D flip-screen side-view game.
Plot
Following a robot rebellion, humans have fled the Earth for the planet Nova. They have sent the robot OR-CABE-3 back to Earth to obtain the secret defense plans of the enemy robot base. The player takes control of OR-CABE-3 as it attempts to escape the enemy base with the plans and board a spacecraft for Nova.
Gameplay
The player has the role of the robot OR-CABE-3 as it attempts to escape the enemy base and leave Earth. Starting at the deepest level of the base, where the robot has stolen the defense plans, it must evade hostile robots and travel to the surface, where an escape ship awaits.
The robot OR-CABE-3 resembles a tank with a rotating gun mounted on a caterpillar-track base. The gun section is capable of flight and may be detached from the base to kill enemies or solve problems, though it loses energy while in this state. If it runs out of energy the game ends. A life is lost if the gun section is destroyed. If the base section is destroyed it is respawned at the starting location, but no lives are lost.
Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #47
References
1987 video games
Shoot 'em ups
ZX Spectrum games
MSX games
MSX2 games
Amstrad CPC games
Amstrad PCW games
Video games developed in Spain
Action-adventure games
Video games about robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Gonzalez | Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks.
During his spree, he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained about having to count $340,000 by hand after his currency-counting machine broke. Gonzalez stayed at lavish hotels but his formal homes were modest. He, along with his team, were featured on the 5th-season episode of the CNBC series American Greed titled: "Episode 40: Hackers: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin'".
Gonzalez had three federal indictments. The first was in May 2008 in New York for the Dave & Busters case (trial schedule September 2009). The second was in May 2008 in Massachusetts for the TJ Maxx case (trial scheduled early 2010). The third was in August 2009 in New Jersey in connection with the Heartland Payment case. On March 25, 2010, Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Early life and education
Gonzalez bought his first computer when he was 12, and by the time he was 14 managed to hack into NASA. He attended South Miami High School in Miami, Florida, where he was described as the "troubled" pack leader of computer nerds. In 2000, he moved to New York City, where he lived for three months before moving to Kearny, New Jersey.
Hacking career
ShadowCrew
While in Kearny, he was accused of being the mastermind of a group of hackers called the ShadowCrew group, which trafficked in 1.5 million stolen credit and ATM card numbers. Although considered the mastermind of the scheme (operating on the site under the screen name of "CumbaJohnny"), he was not indicted. According to the indictment, there were 4,000 people who registered with the Shadowcrew.com website. Once registered, they could buy stolen account numbers or counterfeit documents at auction, or read "Tutorials and How-To's" describing the use of cryptography in magnetic strips on credit cards, debit cards and ATM cards so that the numbers could be used. Moderators of the website punished members who did not abide by the site's rules, including providing refunds to buyers if the stolen card numbers proved invalid.
In addition to the card numbers, numerous other objects of identity theft were sold at auction, including counterfeit passports, drivers' licenses, Social Security cards, credit cards, debit cards, birth certificates, college student identification cards, and health insurance cards. One member sold 18 million e-mail accounts with associated usernames, passwords, dates of birth, and other personally identifying information. Most of those |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EveryBlock | EveryBlock was a network of hyperlocal news websites that was originally founded in 2007 with a $1.1 million grant from the Knight Foundation as part of the Knight News Challenge. The founders included Adrian Holovaty, a well-known programmer.
History
The site launched in January 2008 in Chicago and was acquired by MSNBC in 2009. NBC then acquired MSNBC in 2012 and shut down EveryBlock in 2013. Comcast then relaunched EveryBlock in 2014. In 2018, EveryBlock was acquired by social networking service Nextdoor and shut down, though Nextdoor kept the trademark.
EveryBlock maps plotted a mix of commercial, government and nonprofit feeds that were geotagged by location. Users could experience a blend of Flickr photos, recent crime reports, 3-1-1 calls, permit filings, local news stories and home foreclosures that could be viewed as a map, list or RSS feed.
The site eventually grew to provide local news for 19 cities, including San Francisco, Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles.
Legacy
While EveryBlock did not last as a standalone business, it was considered influential for its impact on the open data movement in local governments, and custom maps on top of Google Maps.
As a condition of the Knight grant, the EveryBlock source code was made open-source. Holovaty has written that Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, had emailed him to say that he learned a lot about the Django web framework, also co-created by Holovaty, from reading the EveryBlock source code.
References
Hyperlocal media
American news websites
Community websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Internet properties disestablished in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XtreemFS | XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. XtreemFS' outstanding feature is full (all components) and real (all failure scenarios, including network partitions) fault tolerance, while maintaining POSIX file system semantics. Fault-tolerance is achieved by using Paxos-based lease negotiation algorithms and is used to replicate files and metadata. SSL and X.509 certificates support make XtreemFS usable over public networks.
XtreemFS has been under development since early 2007. A first public release was made in August 2008. XtreemFS 1.0 was released in August 2009. The 1.0 release includes support for read-only replication with failover, data center replica maps, parallel reads and writes, and a native Windows client. The 1.1 added automatic on-close replication and POSIX advisory locks. In mid-2011, release 1.3 added read/write replication for files. Version 1.4 underwent extensive testing and is considered production-quality. An improved Hadoop integration and support for SSDs was added in version 1.5.
XtreemFS is funded by the European Commission's IST programme.
The original XtreemFS team founded Quobyte Inc. in 2013. Quobyte offers a professional storage system as a commercial product.
Features
Secure connections to Contrail (software)
Clients for Linux, Windows and OS X
Open source (New BSD License since release 1.3)
Cross-site file replication with auto-failover
Partial replicas, objects fetched on demand
POSIX compatibility
Plugins for authentication policies, replica selection
RAID0 (striping) with parallel I/O over stripes
Read-only replication
Security (SSL, X.509 certificates)
Servers for Linux and Solaris Natively and Non-Native Windows Java & ANT based server.
experimental file system driver for Hadoop (added in version 1.2)
Use cases
as a filer replacement (home directories and group shares),
in HPC cluster,
in Hadoop clusters,
for VM block storage
cross-branch data sharing
and many more use cases, all in a single system.
See also
List of file systems, the distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system section
Grid computing
XtreemOS
BeeGFS
References
External links
XtreemFS website
XtreemFS project on GitHub.com
Distributed file systems
Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel
Network file systems
Userspace file systems
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil%20Test%20%28film%29 | Pencil Test is a 1988 short film created by Apple Inc.'s Advanced Technology Graphics Group to showcase the animation capabilities of Apple's Macintosh II computer line.
Plot
A pencil tool escapes from the Macintosh interface when no one can see it, as it wants to take a closer look at a wooden pencil on the same desk as the computer. Afterwards, it attempts to get back onto the screen but the computer has been turned off by an unseen human presence. The pencil tool finally manages to turn on the computer, but when it tries to return to the software programme, it ends up smacking onto the screen. After the credits, the sound of the screen shattering can be heard.
Production credits
The credits for the short film include Pixar directors John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, as well as Ratatouille producer Galyn Susman.
References
External links
QuickTime version at the QuickTime Zone
Pencil Test on YouTube
The Making of Pencil Test on YouTube
1988 films
1980s animated short films
Animated films without speech
1980s English-language films
American animated short films
1980s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%27s%20Laboratory%3A%20Deesaster%20Strikes%21 | Dexter's Laboratory: Deesaster Strikes! is a 2001 action-adventure video game for the Game Boy Advance based on the Cartoon Network animated series Dexter's Laboratory. It was released in North America on September 26, 2001, and in the PAL region on November 2, 2001.
Plot
Dexter's sister Dee Dee goes into Dexter's clone machine and creates dozens of copies of herself. Dexter has to catch all of the clones and fix all of the machines that they broke. While Dexter tries to catch all of the clones, he has to fight monsters and robots. There are 70 levels and 8 areas.
Reception
Clarence Worley of Game Over Online Magazine said that the game is entertaining, but that the design is plain. A GameZone review said that the game is well made and has excellent graphics.
References
External links
2001 video games
BAM! Entertainment games
Cartoon Network video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Single-player video games
Video games based on Dexter's Laboratory
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Virtucraft games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%202002 | This Is Football 2002, known as World Tour Soccer 2002 in North America, is an association football video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe and 989 Sports in North America exclusively for PlayStation 2. It is the first to be released on the PlayStation 2. The British version of the game featured the Leeds United and England national football team defender Rio Ferdinand on the cover.
Gameplay
This Is Football 2002 was licensed by FIFPro. While this meant all players in the game were licensed, the teams were not, with most of them being referred to by their hometown or other indicative names, such as Arsenal and Juventus being listed in the game as "Highbury" and "Turin" respectively. The game introduced a number of features unique to football games at the time, such as being able to make players deliberately dive (a feature described at the time as controversial). It also granted players the opportunity to deliberately foul with two-footed tackles.
Release
This Is Football 2002 was released in September 2001 to be the first football game released before Christmas prior to the release of the FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer series of games.
Reception
This Is Football 2002 received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
The BBC praised This Is Football 2002 for its unique gameplay features such as the deliberate dives but stated that the tactics and AI was poor compared to the FIFA and PES series. Wales on Sunday likewise praised the detail of players and stadiums but criticized it for being similar to previous football games. IGN gave it a 8.1/10 review praising its gameplay and graphics but criticised the sound effects of the crowd. The majority of reviews put the majority of the negatives down to the developers' inexperience of making football games compared to the longer-running rival franchises. Copa90 named it as one of their top 10 football games in history.
References
External links
2001 video games
Association football video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
This Is Football
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Team Soho games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%202003 | This Is Football 2003, known as World Tour Soccer 2003 in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe and 989 Sports in North America exclusively for PlayStation 2.
Reception
This Is Football 2003 received "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
2002 video games
Association football video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
This Is Football
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
London Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Is%20Football%202004 | This Is Football 2004, known as World Tour Soccer 2005 in North America, is a sports video game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe and 989 Sports in North America exclusively for PlayStation 2.
Reception
This is Football 2004 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
References
External links
2004 video games
Association football video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
This Is Football
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
London Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust%20514 | Dust 514 () was a free-to-play first-person shooter video game developed by CCP Shanghai and published by CCP Games and Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Dust 514 took place in New Eden and was directly connected to CCP's game Eve Online. There was direct interaction between the two; player actions in one game affected the political, economic, legal, environmental, and social status of the other. The two games were officially connected on January 10, 2013 in preparation for the open beta on January 22. The full game was released worldwide on May 14, 2013. While previews of the game were highly positive, the full game received a mixed reception upon its initial release. It received constant updates and hotfixes deployed after release. The game was shut down by CCP on May 30, 2016 due to low player counts.
Setting
Dust 514 took place in the same fictional universe as Eve Online, a science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set 21,000 years in the future. The Eve Online backstory explains that humanity, after using up the Earth's resources, began to colonize the rest of the Milky Way. The development of faster-than-light travel allowed mankind to expand at an extremely fast pace, leading to violent competition between space-faring corporations. A natural wormhole was discovered, and humanity entered through it to find an empty new galaxy which they began colonizing. However, the wormhole connecting the two galaxies collapsed, leaving the young colonies cut off from the worlds that had supplied them. Without support, many of the colonies in the new galaxy died off, and over time the few that remained lost their knowledge of both their technology and of their origins from Earth. Eventually, a new era began when civilization was rebuilt and faster-than-light travel was rediscovered. Five unique space-faring cultures emerged from the colonies to become the only interstellar powers in the new galaxy; the Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, Jove and Minmatar.
Eve Online players take the role of capsuleers, who are elite starship pilots made immortal using cloning technology and consciousness transfers. For much of Eve history, only capsuleers were immortal because the technology required to download consciousness was linked to a capsule that encloses them and leaves them in suspended animation. The capsule was designed specifically as an interface for pilots to control the ship that they were placed within. However, the discovery of a special implant made it possible to achieve a transfer of consciousness without the use of a capsule, so it became possible to make immortals that were not pilots. Dust 514 players took the role of immortal ground-based soldiers which were created by the military shortly after the implant was discovered.
Gameplay
Dust 514 was a first-person shooter with elements of massively multiplayer online games. Combat took place on the various planets found in Eve Online, each offering a substan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC1 | CC1, CC-1 or cc1 may refer to:
cc1, the first phase of the C compiler in the GNU Compiler Collection
CC-1, the hull designation for the first US battlecruiser that was finished as the Lexington-class aircraft carrier
, a Royal Canadian Navy submarine
CIÉ No. CC1, an experimental Irish steam locomotive
CC1, a data channel used in Line 21 closed captioning
Southern Railway (UK) CC1, an electric locomotive of the type later known as British Rail Class 70
CC1, a hovercraft built by Cushioncraft
Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, Singapore
See also
CCI (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Networks%20Deutschland | Discovery Networks Deutschland was a branch of Discovery Networks Europe holding responsibility for overseeing Discovery Networks brands in Germany, Austria and German-speaking parts of Switzerland.Discovery Networks Deutschland's key operations are the free-to-air DMAX, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery HD. Previously, Discovery Networks Deutschland operated Discovery Geschichte a channel based on historical events.
Like other Discovery channels in Europe. Discovery Networks Deutschland utilize existing productions from Discovery Networks Europe and Discovery Communications.
Current operations
In 2007, Discovery Networks Europe decided to localize its networks across Europe. This resulted in the establishment of Discovery Discovery Networks Deutschland, Discovery Networks Benelux, Discovery Networks Nordic, Discovery Networks UK & Ireland and Discovery Networks Italia and Discovery Networks EMEA (which served all other territories). As of 2011, operations in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, France and Flanders are operated by Discovery Networks Western Europe. All other operations in Europe are operated by Discovery Networks CEEMEA in Warsaw.
In early 2011, Discovery International restructured its operations in Europe. In February 2011, it established two key branches which resulted in the amalgamation of its localized networks in Europe.
Discovery Networks Western Europe
Discovery Networks CEEMEA
Discovery Networks Deutschland
DMAX
Discovery Channel
Animal Planet
Discovery HD
DMAX
DMAX is a men's lifestyle channel operated by Discovery Networks Deutschland free-to-air in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Though the channel is widely available throughout the rest of Europe, it is seen as the only free-to-air mainstream channel with a focus on non-fiction entertainment, unique in German media.
XXP origins
DMAX is the Discovery Communications creation from the originally German sourced and owned station XXP. Discovery purchased XXP on 1 January 2006. DMAX was launched as a free-to-air channel from 1 September, targeted towards men.
Its name was invented by Discovery Creative Director James Gilbey who asked design agencies to submit names in an innovative competition. RedBee based in London were the winning agency.
DMAX focuses on men's hobbies, and its range of programmes is aimed at men looking for more than the current offer of sports and news programmes. DMAX involves a mix of adventure and discovery, cars and technology, popular science, DIY and travel. DMAX does not include football or erotic programmes.
Patrick Hörl is Managing Director, while Katja Hofem-Best, who comes from RTL II, is CEO.
Additional DMAX channels
With the success of the German-speaking DMAX a separate channel was launched for the UK and Ireland markets on 22 November 2007.
Some programmes shown on DMAX
Was geht? Experiment am Limit (What works? Experiments at the limits) - gives s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosimulation | Biosimulation is a computer-aided mathematical simulation of biological processes and systems and thus is an integral part of systems biology. Due to the complexity of biological systems simplified models are often used, which should only be as complex as necessary.
The aim of biosimulations is model-based prediction of the behaviour and the dynamics of biological systems e.g. the response of an organ or a single cell towards a chemical. However the quality of model-based predictions strongly depends on the quality of the model, which in turn is defined by the quality of the data and the profoundness of the knowledge.
Pharmacy
Biosimulation is becoming increasingly important for drug development. Since on average only 11% of all drug candidates
are approved, it is anticipated that biosimulation may be the tool to predict whether a candidate drug will fail in the development process e.g. in clinical trials due to adverse side effects, bad pharmacokinetics or even toxicity. The early prediction if a drug will fail in animals or humans would be a key to reduce both drug development costs and the amount of required animal experiments and clinical trials. The latter is also in line with the so-called "3Rs" which refer to the principle of reduction and replacement of animal experiments as well as to the refinement of the methodology in cases where animal tests are still necessary. In a future scenario, biosimulation would change the way substances are tested, in which in vivo and in vitro tests are substituted by tests in silico.
Due to the importance of biosimulation in drug development a number of research projects exist which aim for simulating metabolism, toxicity, pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetics of a drug candidate. Some of the research projects are listed below:
BioSim project; funded by the 6th frame program of the European Union
NSR Physiome Project
Hepatosys
Moreover, a few software tools already exist, which aim for predicting the toxicity of a substance or even try to simulate the virtual patient (Entelos). A few of these software tools are listed below:
COPASI
runBiosimulations
Tellurium
Metabolism PhysioLab (Entelos)
GastroPlus and ADMEPredictor (Simulations-Plus)
Certara's Simcyp physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) platform
RHEDDOS (Rhenovia Pharma SAS)
VirtualToxLab
Derek (Lhasa Limited)
DS TOPKAT (accelrys)
ADME Workbench
Applied BioMath Assess
MATLAB SimBiology
References
Systems biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cleve | Richard Erwin Cleve is a Canadian professor of computer science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he holds the Institute for Quantum Computing Chair in quantum computing, and an associate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Education
He obtained his BMath and MMath from the University of Waterloo, and his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Charles Rackoff.
Research
He was the recipient of the 2008 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, awarded for "fundamental results in quantum information theory, including the structure of quantum algorithms and the foundations of quantum communication complexity." He has authored several highly cited papers in quantum information, and is one of the creators of the field of quantum communication complexity. He is also one of the founding managing editors of the journal Quantum Information & Computation, a founding fellow of the Quantum Information Processing program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Team Leader at QuantumWorks.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo alumni
Theoretical computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian computer scientists
Quantum information scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuman%E2%80%93Stubblebine%20protocol | The Neuman–Stubblebine protocol is a computer network authentication protocol designed for use on insecure networks (e.g., the Internet). It allows individuals communicating over such a network to prove their identity to each other. This protocol utilizes time stamps, but does not depend on synchronized clocks.
The protocol
If Alice (A) initiates the communication to Bob (B) with S is a server trusted by both parties, the protocol can be specified as follows using security protocol notation:
A and B are identities of Alice and Bob respectively
M is a session identifier
is a symmetric key known only to A and S
is a symmetric key known only to B and S
and are nonces generated by A and B respectively
and are timestamps generated by A and B respectively
is a generated symmetric key, which will be the session key of the session between A and B
Alice notified Bob of intent to initiate secure communication.
Bob generates a times stamp and a nonce, and sends this to the trusted Server.
The trusted Server generates a session key and a message for Alice to forward to Bob.
Alice forwards the message and verifies is the same that she generated earlier. Bob will verify and have not changed when he receives the message.
Subsequent communications
An advantage provided by this protocol is that Alice can utilize the trusted Server's message to initiate authentication with Bob within some predetermined time limit without utilizing the trusted Server. The protocol proceeds as follows using the same definitions as above.
Alice sends the message the trusted Server sent her previously when communication with Bob.
Bob sends Alice a new nonce and her new nonce encrypted with session key that Alice resent from previous communication.
Alice returns Bob's nonce encrypted with the session key to allow him to verify the communication is successful.
Attack
Using the theorem prover SPASS it has been shown that this protocol can be attacked. This attack and two more from are outlined in .
See also
Kerberos
Needham–Schroeder protocol
Otway–Rees protocol
Yahalom
Wide Mouth Frog protocol
References
Cryptographic protocols
Computer access control protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ory%20Okolloh | Ory Okolloh (or Ory Okolloh Mwangi) is a Kenyan activist, lawyer, and blogger. She is Director of Investments at Omidyar Network. She was formerly the Policy Manager for Africa with Google. In 2007, Okolloh co-created Ushahidi.
Early life
She earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2005.
Career
In 2006 she co-founded the parliamentary watchdog site Mzalendo (Swahili: "Patriot"). The site sought to increase government accountability by systematically recording bills, speeches, MPs, standing orders, etc.
When Kenya was engulfed in violence following a disputed presidential election in 2007, Okolloh co-created Ushahidi (Swahili: "Witness"), a website and tool that collected and recorded eyewitness reports of violence using text messages and Google Maps. The technology has since been adapted for expanded purposes (including monitoring elections and tracking pharmaceutical availability) and used in a number of other countries.
Okolloh has a personal blog, Kenyan Pundit, which was featured on Global Voices Online.
She has worked as a legal consultant for NGOs and has worked at Covington and Burling, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and the World Bank.
Okolloh was appointed on the Board of Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, the body that acts as a guardian of the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles in May 2015.
Notes
External links
Kenyan Pundit
Ushahidi
Mzalendo
Kenyan activists
Kenyan women activists
21st-century Kenyan lawyers
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Living people
Kenyan bloggers
Kenyan women bloggers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kenyan women lawyers
21st-century women lawyers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chen | Min Chen may refer to:
Min Chen (biologist), biologist at the University of Sydney
Min Chen (computer scientist) (born 1980), professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Min Chen (murderer) (born 1983), Chinese visa student convicted of second-degree murder in the case of the death of Cecilia Zhang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Chen%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Min Chen () is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His research focuses on Big data, Internet of Things, Machine to Machine Communications, Body Area Networks, Body Sensor Networks, E-healthcare, Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing, Ubiquitous Network and Services, Mobile Agent, and Multimedia Transmission over Wireless Network, etc. He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2009.
Education
Chen was 15 when he was accepted into a university, despite not taking an entrance exam. He graduated in four years and obtained a PhD at 23. Chen completed two postdoctoral appointments. Afterwards, Min studied Eastern philosophy, arts, dancing, Taekwondo, and poetry.
Academic accomplishments
He was R&D director at Confederal Network Inc. from 2008 to 2009. He was an assistant professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) from September 2009 to February 2012. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at SNU for one and half years.
He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC) for three years.
Awards
He received Best Paper Award from IEEE ICC 2012 and Best Paper Runner-up Award from QShine 2008.
Publications
He has more than 180 publications. He serves as editor or associate editor for Information Sciences, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IET Communications, IET Networks, Wiley I. J. of Security and Communication Networks, Journal of Internet Technology, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and International Journal of Sensor Networks. He is managing editor for IJAACS and IJART. He is a Guest Editor for IEEE Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and others.
He is Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2012-Communications Theory Symposium and of IEEE ICC 2013-Wireless Networks Symposium. He is General Co-Chair for the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT-2012). He is Keynote Speaker for CyberC 2012 and Mobiquitous 2012. He is a TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2014.
Some widely cited papers or books he published or co-authored include:
Big Data
Big Data: A Survey
Body Area Networks: A Survey
Dance and Taekwondo
His performance of "The Same Song" (同一首歌) was broadcast on China Central TV in Feb 18, 2007. On Mar. 8th, 2007, he showcased a dance and Taekwondo demonstration in the Asian Center at the University of British Columbia. He was interviewed by the Chinese Canadian Times where he appeared in the celebrity column in 2007.
References
External links
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~minchen/
http://mmlab.snu.ac.kr/~mchen/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706171814/http://www.cctimes.ca/portal/famous.do?type=26&lang=gb&id=23647
Chinese computer scientists
Living people
Academic staff of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Academic staff of Seoul National Universi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201941 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1941 (see 1941 in film).
1941
See also
1941 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1941 at the Internet Movie Database
1941
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201942 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1942 (see 1942 in film).
1942
See also
1942 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1942 at the Internet Movie Database
1942
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201943 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1943 (see 1943 in film).
1943
See also
1943 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1943 at the Internet Movie Database
1943
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201944 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1944 (see 1944 in film).
1944
See also
1944 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1944 at the Internet Movie Database
1944
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201945 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1945 (see 1945 in film).
1945
See also
1945 in the Soviet Union
References
External links
Soviet films of 1945 at the Internet Movie Database
1945
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201946 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1946 (see 1946 in film).
1946
See also
1946 in the Soviet Union
References
External links
Soviet films of 1946 at the Internet Movie Database
1946
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201947 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1947 (see 1947 in film).
1947
See also
1947 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1947 at the Internet Movie Database
1947
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201948 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1948 (see 1948 in film).
1948
See also
1948 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1948 at the Internet Movie Database
1948
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201949 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1949 (see 1949 in film).
1949
See also
1949 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1949 at the Internet Movie Database
1949
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBOH | For the former shortwave radio station, see Fundamental Broadcasting Network
For the former cable-only CW affiliate, see The CW Plus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20wireless%20sensor%20nodes | A sensor node, also known as a mote (chiefly in North America), is a node in a sensor network that is capable of performing some processing, gathering sensory information and communicating with other connected nodes in the network. A mote is a node but a node is not always a mote.
List of Wireless Sensor Nodes
See also
Wireless sensor network
Sensor node
Mesh networking
Sun SPOT
Embedded computer
Embedded system
Mobile ad hoc network (MANETS)
Smartdust
Sensor Web
References
Wireless sensor network
Computer networking
Embedded systems
Wireless sensor nodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yebol | Yebol was a vertical "decision" search engine that had developed a knowledge-based, semantic search platform. Based in San Jose, California, Yebol's artificial intelligence human intelligence-infused algorithms automatically cluster and categorize search results, web sites, pages and contents that it presents in a visually indexed format that is more aligned with initial human intent. Yebol used association, ranking and clustering algorithms to analyze related keywords or web pages. Yebol presented as one of its goals the creation of a unique "homepage look" for every possible search term.
Features
Yebol aimed for absolute relevance and eliminating the need for refined, secondary, or advanced search steps, as currently required by Google and Bing. Yebol sees the Future of Search as being very different than today's current Pay-Per-Click dominated structure. Its public beta version launched July 27, 2009, at which time Yebol announced that it covers in excess of 10 million search terms with its current knowledge-based search/organized results format. In fact, Yebol says its main distinction is its verticality (versus the horizontal search nature of today's major index engines). Like all engines, Yebol used "a recursive procedure in which an automatic problem solver seeks a solution by iteratively exploring sequences of possible alternatives." The website shows the domain name as having expired March 4, 2011, but as of March 17 the expiration date has been renewed to 2013.
Yebol estimated it will cover, by early Q1 2010, all existing permutable search terms in its intelligent search results format. Its strategy involves incorporating internet meme theory and Optimization (mathematics) to drive and attract new users. Yebol integrates natural language processing, metasynthetic-engineered open complex systems, and machine algorithms with human knowledge for each query to establish a web directory that actually 'learns,' using correlation, clustering and classification algorithms to automatically generate the knowledge query, which is retained and regenerated forward.
Technology
Yebol's technology format incorporated aspects of automated results generation web search engines, such as Google, with those of metasearch and other human-authored results search engines. Yebol was designed to utilize a combination of patented meta elements and search algorithms paired with human-based computation to build a Web directory for each web search query. Yebol had focused on developing a list of algorithms of association, clustering and categorization for automatically generating knowledge for question answering, latent semantic analysis web sites, web pages and users.
Yebol also integrated human labeled information into its multilayer perceptron and information retrieval algorithms. This technology allows for a multi-dimensional search results format: best-first search and higher – summary of top sites and categories for queries; wider – related search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScanIP | Synopsys Simpleware ScanIP is a 3D image processing and model generation software program developed by Synopsys Inc. to visualise, analyse, quantify, segment and export 3D image data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), microtomography and other modalities for computer-aided design (CAD), finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and 3D printing. The software is used in the life sciences, materials science, nondestructive testing, reverse engineering and petrophysics.
Segmented images can be exported in the STL file format, surface meshes and point clouds, to CAD and 3D printing or, with the FE module, exported as surface/volume meshes directly into leading computer-aided engineering (CAE) solvers. The CAD and NURBS add-on modules can be used to integrate CAD objects into image data, and to convert scan data into NURBS-based models for CAD. The SOLID, FLOW and LAPLACE add-on modules can be used to calculate effective material properties from scanned samples using homogenisation techniques. Since 2020, Simpleware software has included Simpleware AS Ortho and Simpleware AS Cardio, modules for automated segmentation of medical image data that uses artificial intelligence-based machine learning. In addition, a fully customizable module, Simpleware Custom Modeler, is available.
Application areas
Life sciences
Simpleware ScanIP generates high-quality 3D models from image data suitable for a wide range of design and simulation applications related to life sciences. Image data from sources like MRI and CT can be visualised, analysed, segmented and quantified, before being exported as CAD, CAE and 3D printing models. Different tissues, bones and other parts of the body can be identified using a wide range of segmentation and processing tools in the software. Options are also available for integrating CAD and image data, enabling medical device research to be conducted into how CAD-designed implants interact with the human body. High-quality CAE models can similarly be used in biomechanics research to simulate movement and the effect of different forces on anatomies. An example of this is the US Naval Research Laboratory/Simpleware head model, generated from high-resolution MRI scans and segmented to create data that can be easily meshed to suit specific finite element (FE) applications, such as head impact and concussion.
Applications for the software have included researching implant positioning, statistical shape analysis, and computational fluid dynamics analysis of blood flow in vascular networks. With Simpleware's scripting tools, it is possible to explore the best positioning for hip implants. 3D models can be used to analyse patellofemoral kinematics. Simpleware-generated human body models can be used to simulate the effect of electromagnetic radiation in MRI scanners. Other application areas for models created within Simpleware's software environment include simulating transcranial direct c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MassBank | MassBank may refer to:
MassBank Corp., a corporation bought by Eastern Bank, a bank in Massachusetts, United States
MassBank (database), a mass spectral database described at mass spectrometry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-pair | Single-pair may refer to:
Single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line, a data communications technology
Single-pair shortest-path problem, the problem of finding a path between two vertices such that the sum of the weights of its constituent edges is minimized |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro%20Man | Electro Man, originally distributed in Poland under the title Electro Body, is an MS-DOS platform game developed by the Polish company X LanD Computer Games. It was originally released in Poland by xLand in 1992, and later published by Epic MegaGames in the United States in 1993; apart from the changed title, the Electro Man release contains some changes, such as upgraded graphics. Though initially offered under a shareware license, the game was released as freeware by the developer on June 25, 2006, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. The player controls a cyborg named "Jacek", who must get through all the areas of a space base while destroying enemies.
Electro Body was successful in Poland. It is considered to be the first truly "professional" Polish computer game released on the PC platform and has been described as a "cult" game.
In 2014, a limited collector's edition of the game was released for its 22nd anniversary by IQ Publishing; this edition came with a soundtrack and a numbered certificate.
Gameplay
The plot of Electro Man takes place in the future. Jacek's family is killed by aliens in an attack on a human-populated space base. Eager for revenge, he returns to the conquered base as a cyborg equipped with advanced weaponry in order to reclaim the facility from the invaders.
On each of the levels, the player must find three electronic chips and use them to activate a large teleporter pad which serves as the exit. The base is full of dangers, such as security robots or automatic gun turrets. The protagonist dies instantly when shot, returning to the last touched checkpoint. There are also numerous small teleporters, which transport the protagonist between various areas in the level.
Jacek is armed with a gun which can be upgraded by collecting special batteries. A special meter on the right-hand side of the screen shows the current firepower of the gun. There is a limited number of shots of each power level available — once these run out, the firepower of the gun falls down by one level. At higher firepower levels the gun's rate of fire drops down, forcing the player to wait for the gun to cool down before firing again; the temperature of the gun is indicated by another meter on the left-hand side. Touching a checkpoint causes the gun's power level to drop down back to zero.
The original Electro Body release contains a copy protection measure, forcing the player to find the right letter in the manual in order to continue from one level to the next. This security measure was removed in the Electro Man version.
Development
According to the memories of Maciej Miąsik, the game was created on the initiative of Marek Kubowicz, the founder of xLand, who made a proposal to Miąsik and Janusz Pelc to develop the first game for his company. The development took nine months. Together, Pelc and Miąsik designed and programmed the game, and created the graphics. The protagonist was given a face-covering helmet, as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20S.%20Krishnaprasad | P. S. Krishnaprasad is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Institute for Systems Research (ISR) of the University of Maryland. A 1977 Harvard PhD, he began his professorial career at Case Western Reserve University's Systems Engineering Department before joining the University of Maryland in 1980. He has also held visiting positions at various American and European universities. P. S. Krishnaprasad has been an IEEE fellow since 1990, and was the 2007 recipient of the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize.
References
External links
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory
Control theorists
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Harvard University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer%20Island%20station | Mercer Island station is a future light rail station on the 2 Line of the Link light rail network operated by Sound Transit. It will serve the city of Mercer Island and is located in the median of Interstate 90 at the north end of the island. The station is scheduled to open in 2025 as part of the 2 Line section that crosses Lake Washington between Seattle and the Eastside.
Location
The station is located in the middle of Interstate 90 in what was formerly the freeway's express lanes. It has entrances at 77th Ave SE to the west and 80th Ave SE to the east. This location is just south of the Mercer Island Park & Ride and just north of Mercer Island's business district.
References
Future Link light rail stations
Link light rail stations in King County, Washington
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2025
Railway stations in highway medians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20intelligent%20stream%20handling | Wireless intelligent stream handling (WISH) is a type of software which prioritizes the traffic of different applications over a wireless network.
WISH makes use of three different priority classifiers which enables a user to choose what kind of traffic should be preferred.
HTTP
With this option enabled video and audio streams that use HTTP (so basically all videos played in the browser) are preferred over other kinds of traffic.
Windows Media Center
With this option enabled the access point will recognize specific video and audio streams used by Media center PC's and Windows Media Center Extenders, for instance the Xbox 360.
Automatic
Automatic mode makes the access point attempt to prioritize traffic that is recognized as a stream but not necessarily a HTTP or Windows Media Center stream. Also this de-prioritizes transfers such as file transfers. Since games and VoIP are left at normal priority so games and VoIP traffic have an advantage to.
Also, WISH allows the user to configure the system based on the following things:
For specific applications by traffic type
For specific online games by port addresses
From a specific device by IP addresses
This enables the user to set a certain computer to a lower priority. This could help if the PC is, for example, only used for downloading. Also, PCs that are used for downloading and streaming media can use this to prioritize the streaming media above downloading, therefore decreasing the time used to load the stream.
References
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20constructor | In the area of mathematical logic and computer science known as type theory, a type constructor is a feature of a typed formal language that builds new types from old ones. Basic types are considered to be built using nullary type constructors. Some type constructors take another type as an argument, e.g., the constructors for product types, function types, power types and list types. New types can be defined by recursively composing type constructors.
For example, simply typed lambda calculus can be seen as a language with a single non-basic type constructor—the function type constructor. Product types can generally be considered "built-in" in typed lambda calculi via currying.
Abstractly, a type constructor is an n-ary type operator taking as argument zero or more types, and returning another type. Making use of currying, n-ary type operators can be (re)written as a sequence of applications of unary type operators. Therefore, we can view the type operators as a simply typed lambda calculus, which has only one basic type, usually denoted , and pronounced "type", which is the type of all types in the underlying language, which are now called proper types in order to distinguish them from the types of the type operators in their own calculus, which are called kinds.
Type operators may bind type variables. For example, giving the structure of the simply-typed λ-calculus at the type level requires binding, or higher-order, type operators. These binding type operators correspond to the 2nd axis of the λ-cube, and type theories such as the simply-typed λ-calculus with type operators, λω. Combining type operators with the polymorphic λ-calculus (System F) yields System Fω.
Some functional programming languages make explicit use of type constructors. A notable example is Haskell, in which all data type declarations are considered to declare type constructors, and basic types (or nullary type constructors) are called type constants. Type constructors may also be considered as parametric polymorphic data types.
See also
Kind (type theory)
Algebraic data type
Recursive data type
References
, chapter 29, "Type Operators and Kinding"
P.T. Johnstone, Sketches of an Elephant, p. 940
Type theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liubar | Liubar or Lyubar (, , ) is an urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population:
History
According to historical and archaeological data, Liubar is the possible location of the ancient Ruthenian city of Bolokhov. In the 13th century, the Bolokhov land was devastated by the military campaigns of Daniel of Galicia as well as Mongol raids.
In the 14th century, Lithuanian prince Lubart built a fortress on the Sluch River, which was named in his honour. Since 1387, the location belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After 1569, the settlement, known in Polish as Lubartów, was divided between the Kyiv and Volhynian Voivodeship of the Crown of Poland. At the time, it was controlled by prince Constantine Ostrozky and received Magdeburg rights. Since 1623, Liubar belonged to the Polish Lubomirski family.
A Jewish community lived in Liubar for centuries. A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It was destroyed during pogroms perpetrated by the Cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.
In 1660, the Battle of Liubar took place between Polish-Tatar and Muscovite-Cossack forces. In 1792, during the Polish-Russian War, the Battle of Boruszkowce took place near the town.
In 1793 - 1917 it was a town in Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.
At the end of the 19th century, the Jewish inhabitants represent 43% of the total population. 9 synagogues, a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital and many shops are own by member of the community.
During the Ukrainian War of Independence in 1918, Liubar was occupied by the Red Army, which was later expelled by the German forces. In 1919, the town was fought over by Soviet forces and the Directory of Ukraine. In late 1919, Liubar was occupied by the Second Polish Republic.
In 1920, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army (a formation of the Red Army) perpetrated a pogrom killing about 60 people and hurting 180. After the end of the war, the town became part of Soviet Ukraine.
A local newspaper was published in Liubar since August 1931. During the Holodomor of 1932-1933, numerous people died of hunger in the region.
On July 6, 1941, Wehrmacht occupied this town. Germans sent the Jews into a ghetto. In August 1941, mass executions killed around 300 people in the nearby forest. On September, around 1 300 Jews from the city and surroundings villages are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen including Ukrainians Hilfspolizei.
In January 1989 the population was 2656 people
After Liubar became part of independent Ukraine in 1991, an art school, a stadium and a youth sports school were opened in the settlement. Starting from 1994, the district was attached to gas pipeline
In January 2013 the population was 2179 people.
In 2016, a memorial plaque to the victims of the Holocaust was installed in Liubar. During a non-invasive archaeological survey in April 2017, the exact location of the burials could not be determined. The information stele was unveiled in June 2019.
N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiators%20%28Australian%20series%201%29 | The first series of Gladiators began airing on Seven Network on 29 April 1995 following successful versions of the Gladiators format in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. The series closely resembled the UK series albeit with just four events and the Eliminator.
Fifteen episodes were filmed in a progressive competition at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre between 24 March and 2 April. Kimberley Joseph and Aaron Pedersen presented the show whilst play by play commentary was by Tony Schibeci. John Alexander acted as referee and John Forsyth as assistant referee. Cheerleaders performed in the background of the events.
Winners of the heats received a Sony music system and a selection of CD's valued to $2,000. The runners up received a set of gym apparatus. The winners of the final won a car (Hyundai Sonata).
Gladiators
Male
Condor - Alistair Gibb
Cougar - Ashley Buck
Force - John Gergelifi
Hammer - Mark McGaw
Taipan - Michael Melksham
Tower - Ron Reeve
Vulcan - John Seru
Force suffered an injury in Atlasphere in the third quarter final and had to retire from the show.
Female
Blade - Bev Carter
Cheeta - Nicky Davico
Delta - Karen Alley
Flame - Lynda Byrnes
Fury - Julie Saunders
Rebel - Barbara Kendell
Storm - Charlene Machin
Events
Atlasphere, Duel, Gauntlet, Hang Tough, Hit & Run, Powerball, Pyramid, Suspension Bridge, Tilt and Wall were played over Series 1.
The Eliminator featured as the final event in every show.
Shows
Fifteen shows along with an unaired pilot were filmed with the televised shows taking the form of a progressive competition. Each show featured four events along with the Eliminator. The winner of the Eliminator would progress to the next round.
Winning challengers are in bold.
1 The challengers in this episode were actually members of the production crew and changed throughout the episode. The names given were just for filming purposes. The headstarts given in the Eliminator were not based on points scored in the events.
2Replaced Donna after she fell on her pugil stick and injured her leg.
3This would be the last ever appearance by Force after falling over in his Atlasphere and injuring his leg.
4Replaced Gina Goode who having won her heat was unable to continue in the Quarter finals due to an ankle injury sustained in Powerball in her heat.
Episode summary
Heat 1
Original airdate: 29 April 1995
Challengers: Heather Marychurch v Gina Good, Clinton Barter v Howard Arbuthnot
Eliminator
Female: 5.5 second head start for Gina
Male: 5 second head start for Clinton
Winners: Gina Good & Howard Arbuthnot
Heat 2
Original airdate: 6 May 1995
Challengers: Bernadette Withers v Tracey Nicholson, Andrew Halliday v Adam Cooney
Eliminator
Female: 1.5 second head start for Bernadette
Male: 7 second head start for Andrew
Winners: Bernadette Withers & Andrew Halliday
Heat 3
Original airdate: 13 May 1995
Challengers: Sabrina Hooyman v Carol-Anne Horvath, David Wallis v Paul Vella
Eliminator
Female: 3 second |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20circuit%20network | A dynamic circuit network (DCN) is an advanced computer networking technology that combines traditional packet-switched communication based on the Internet Protocol, as used in the Internet, with circuit-switched technologies that are characteristic of traditional telephone network systems. This combination allows user-initiated ad hoc dedicated allocation of network bandwidth for high-demand, real-time applications and network services, delivered over an optical fiber infrastructure.
Implementation
Dynamic circuit networks were pioneered by the Internet2 advanced networking consortium. The experimental Internet2 HOPI infrastructure, decommissioned in 2007, was a forerunner to the current SONET-based Ciena Network underlying the Internet2 DCN. The Internet2 DCN began operation in late 2007 as part of the larger Internet2 network. It provides advanced networking capabilities and resources to the scientific and research communities, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project.
The Internet2 DCN is based on open-source, standards-based software, the Inter-domain Controller (IDC) protocol, developed in cooperation with ESnet and GÉANT2. The entire software set is known as the Dynamic Circuit Network Software Suite (DCN SS).
Inter-domain Controller protocol
The Inter-domain Controller protocol manages the dynamic provisioning of network resources participating in a dynamic circuit network across multiple administrative domain boundaries. It is a SOAP-based XML messaging protocol, secured by Web Services Security (v1.1) using the XML Digital Signature standard. It is transported over HTTP Secure (HTTPS) connections.
See also
Internet Protocol Suite
IPv6
Fiber-optic communication
References
External links
Internet2 Website
Dynamic Circuit Network Suite
Fiber-optic communications
Wide area networks
Computer networking
Network architecture
Routing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money%20for%20Jam%20%28TV%20series%29 | Money for Jam is an Australian lifestyle television series which airs on the Nine Network. The series premiered on 2 September 2009 at , and originally consisted of eight episodes. It featured Money magazine editor Effie Zahos and financial expert Paul Clitheroe as presenters, as well as Nine Network personalities Shelley Craft and Shane Crawford. The series' title is a reference to the colloquialism "money for jam", which is used to imply that 'money can be made easily'. Since its release, the show has not received a second season.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Nine Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial%20navigation%20system | An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references. Often the inertial sensors are supplemented by a barometric altimeter and sometimes by magnetic sensors (magnetometers) and/or speed measuring devices. INSs are used on mobile robots and on vehicles such as ships, aircraft, submarines, guided missiles, and spacecraft. Older INS systems generally used an inertial platform as their mounting point to the vehicle and the terms are sometimes considered synonymous.
Integrals in the time domain implicitly demand a stable and accurate clock for the quantification of elapsed time.
Design
Inertial navigation is a self-contained navigation technique in which measurements provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes are used to track the position and orientation of an object relative to a known starting point, orientation and velocity. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) typically contain three orthogonal rate-gyroscopes and three orthogonal accelerometers, measuring angular velocity and linear acceleration respectively. By processing signals from these devices it is possible to track the position and orientation of a device.
An inertial navigation system includes at least a computer and a platform or module containing accelerometers, gyroscopes, or other motion-sensing devices. The INS is initially provided with its position and velocity from another source (a human operator, a GPS satellite receiver, etc.) accompanied with the initial orientation and thereafter computes its own updated position and velocity by integrating information received from the motion sensors. The advantage of an INS is that it requires no external references in order to determine its position, orientation, or velocity once it has been initialized.
An INS can detect a change in its geographic position (a move east or north, for example), a change in its velocity (speed and direction of movement) and a change in its orientation (rotation about an axis). It does this by measuring the linear acceleration and angular velocity applied to the system. Since it requires no external reference (after initialization), it is immune to jamming and deception.
Gyroscopes measure the angular displacement of the sensor frame with respect to the inertial reference frame. By using the original orientation of the system in the inertial reference frame as the initial condition and integrating the angular displacement, the system's current orientation is known at all times. This can be thought of as the ability of a blindfolded passenger in a car to feel the car turn left and right or tilt up and down as the car ascends or descends hills. Based on this information alone, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiators%20%28Australian%20series%202%29 | The second series of Gladiators began airing on Seven Network on 2 September 1995.
Fifteen episodes were filmed for this series. Once again the shows were filmed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre between 5 July and 19 July.
Kimberley Joseph returned to host along with Mike Hammond, who replaced Aaron Pedersen. Play-by-play commentary was again performed by Tony Schibeci. John Alexander was unable to return due to his commitments to Wimbledon and was replaced by Mike Whitney. Once again, John Forsyth acted as assistant referee and the Kix cheerleaders returned to perform in the background of the events. In Heats 2 and 8, Forsyth was absent for unknown reasons, and was replaced by Neil Waldron for those Heats.
Winners of the heats received a Sony PlayStation and sound system with CDs. Runners-up received a titanium watch. The grand final winners won a car.
Gladiators
Male
Commando - Geoff Barker
Condor - Alistair Gibb
Cougar - Ashley Buck
Hammer - Mark McGaw
Predator - Tony Forrow
Taipan - Michael Melksham
Tower - Ron Reeve
Vulcan - John Seru
Force (John Gergelifi) retired after Series 1 due to injury. In his place were two new recruits, Commando and Predator.
Female
Blade - Bev Carter
Cheeta - Nicky Davico
Delta - Karen Alley
Flame - Lynda Byrnes
Fury - Julie Saunders
Rebel - Barbara Kendell
Storm - Charlene Machin
Events
Atlasphere, Duel, Gauntlet, Hang Tough, Hit & Run, Powerball, Pyramid, Suspension Bridge, Tilt and Wall returned from Series 1, as well as the Eliminator which featured as the final event in every show.
Three new events, Swingshot, Pursuit and Whiplash were introduced all of them having already featured in either or both of the American or British TV series.
Shows
Once again fifteen shows were filmed in a progressive competition. Each show featured four events along with the Eliminator. The winner of the Eliminator would progress to the next round.
Kimberley and Mike stood with the winners of the show as they said their goodbyes.
Winning challengers are in bold.
1Replaced Bernadine after she was injured in Powerball.
2This episode would mark Tilt's last appearance in the show.
3Mark was injured after falling from Hang Tough and withdrew from the competition before the Eliminator.
4Replaced Sandra after she was injured on Pyramid.
5This marks Rebel's last appearance as a Gladiator.
Episode summary
Heat 1
Original airdate: 2 September 1995
Challengers: Leanne Hickey v Bernadine Wilde/Jillian Ikin, Tommy Le v Rowan Cameron
Eliminator
Female: 5 second head start for Jillian
Male: 8.5 second head start for Rowan
Winners: Leanne Hickey & Tommy Le
1 Bernadine was injured following a tackle from Cheeta in Powerball, Jillian Ikin played the remainder of the games
Heat 2
Original airdate: 9 September 1995
Challengers: Kathy McMorrow v Claire Sudran, Scott Brewer v Jonathon Dunne
Eliminator
Female: 5 second head start for Kathy
Male: 1 second head start for Jonathan
Winners: Kathy McMorrow & Scott Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Asian%20Awareness%20Network | The South Asian Awareness Network, almost always referred to by its initialism SAAN and pronounced sān, is a non-profit group at the University of Michigan which holds one of the most prominent conferences on South Asian issues for undergraduate students in North America. Its mission goals include "educating participants and raising awareness about issues affecting South Asians that are often overlooked or not discussed, inspiring young South Asians to become leaders by promoting activism, encouraging unity, and maintaining a network of South Asians in across the nation."
SAAN was founded in 2001 by several University of Michigan students who felt that there was great demand on campus for a content-driven conference on issues of importance to the South Asian community in America ranging from humanitarian work in South Asia to increased political participation in the United States. From the initial conference in 2001 which was a campus-only affair, the SAAN conference has grown into a nationally renowned conference which draws over 500 participants annually from across America. Speakers from past conferences have included CNN Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi, actor and White House spokesperson Kal Penn, and Trinity College professor Vijay Prashad, comedian Hari Kondabolu, The Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj, former Michigan congressman Hansen Clarke, and former Indian Ambassador to the United States Arun Kumar Singh.
References
External links
Official Website
Sepia Mutiny Article on SAAN
Michigan Daily Article "SAAN conference promotes visibility of South Asian groups"
Non-profit organizations based in Michigan
South Asian American culture
Asian-American issues
South Asian American organizations
University of Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAAN | SAAN may refer to:
San people or Bushmen, the indigenous people of Southern Africa
SAAN (department store), a defunct chain of discount department stores in Canada
South Asian Awareness Network, a service organization in the United States
See also
Saane, a river in Switzerland
Saâne, a river in France
SAN (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiators%20%28Australian%20series%203%29 | The third series of Gladiators began airing on Seven Network on 13 April 1996.
Twenty four episodes were filmed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in December 1995, including three three-part specials.
The series was once again presented by Kimberley Joseph and Mike Hammond with Tony Schibeci as commentator, Mike Whitney as referee, John Forsyth as assistant referee and the Kix cheerleaders performed in the background of the events. Forsyth also acted as a stand-in referee in Quarter-finals 1 and 2 after Mike Whitney caught a stomach bug virus, and Forsyth's position as assistant referee was taken over by Neil Waldron because of this.
The third series suffered a slight decline in viewing figures and due to an increase in costs, production on the fourth series was halted until the revival in 2008.
Gladiators
Male
Commando - Geoff Barker
Condor - Alistair Gibb
Hammer - Mark McGaw
Predator - Tony Forrow
Taipan - Michael Melksham
Tornado - Tony Latina
Tower - Ron Reeve
Vulcan - John Seru
Predator suffered an injury in Heat 4 and was sidelined for the rest of the series.
Taipan missed a number of episodes due to a knee injury and was only able to play in non-contact games like Hang Tough, Joust and Swing Shot.
Female
Blade - Bev Carter
Cheeta - Nicky Davico
Delta - Karen Alley
Electra - Roz Forsyth
Flame - Lynda Byrnes
Fury - Julie Saunders-Melksham
Glacier - Lourene Bevaart
Storm - Charlene Machin
Blade suffered an injury on Hang Tough in heat 7 when she landed on part of the arena floor not fully covered by crash mats. Whilst the fall was televised, Blade's injury was not referred to onscreen and she was sidelined until the semi-finals.
Cheeta chose to leave the show after heat 4. Due to this, reserve Gladiator, Electra was brought in though she only appeared in six episodes and never appeared in the starting credits or any publicity material. The official Australian Gladiators magazine makes no reference to her. She is married to John Forsythe, who was assistant referee, stand in referee for quarter-finals 1 and 2, and Director of training.
Events
Atlaspheres, Duel, Gauntlet, Hang Tough, Hit & Run, Powerball, Pursuit, Pyramid, Swingshot, Suspension Bridge, Wall and Whiplash all returned. The layout of the Pursuit course was slightly changed or this series. Two new events were introduced, Skytrack and Joust, the latter of which had been recently axed in the UK series with the apparatus being shipped to Australia. Tilt which had only appeared once early on in the preceding series did not return.
Shows
A three-part individual sports athletes challenge preluded the third domestic series.
Fifteen shows were filmed in a progressive competition, followed by a further two specials at the conclusion of the domestic series.
Winning challengers are in bold.
1These were the lasts appearances by Cheeta and Predator.
2This was the first appearance of reserve Gladiator Electra.
3Catherine Arlove was injured after Hang Tough and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAfricaRail | TransAfricaRail is a proposal dated 2009 to use raw materials of African countries to build a railway network from Sudan in the east to Cameroon in the west. The line would go via landlocked and rail-less Central African Republic.
Similar projects
AfricaRail
West Africa Regional Rail Integration
East African Railway Master Plan
North-South Corridor Project
Transcontinental railroad
Djibouti-Sudan-CAR-Cameroon
The following proposal is a bit older and somewhat similar.
2006
150 km/h CONTAINER TRAINS FOR AFRICA – At the inauguration of his second term, President Ismael Omer Guelle of Djibouti appealed for a 6,000 km landbridge rail line linking his country's Gulf of Tadjourah to Cameroon on the Gulf of Guinea. Estimated to cost $US6 billion, the line would run through the Sudan and the Central Africa Republic. Neighbouring landlocked countries such as southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi would all benefit from improved facilities for import and export traffic, as well as Chad. Pointing out that the trade development, peace and economy of the African continent could be considerably enhanced, Guelle suggested that the project forms part of the investment programme proposed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the G8 meeting in Scotland.
"It will take only 48 hours to transport goods between the Red Sea and the Atlantic Ocean using a double-stack container carrying express train at an average speed of 150 km/h".
Trans Africa Rail
Sudan – Cameroon (2009)
TAZARA
A similar project is the TAZARA Railway which links Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to the railway network of Zambia. This was completed in 1975 with financing from the People's Republic of China.
Dar es Salaam – Zambia
References
External links
LongHaulRail
AfricanRail
TransAfricaRail
Rail transport in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoo | Batoo is a Korean variant of the board game Go. The name stems from a combination of the Korean words baduk (“Go”) and juntoo (“battle”). It is played entirely in cyberspace, and differs from Go in a number of ways, most noticeably in the way in which certain areas of the board are worth different point values. The other principal difference is that both players place three stones before the game begins, and may also place a special “hidden stone”, which affects the board as a regular stone but is invisible to the opponent. It was launched in November 2008; in April 2021 a new server at foh.epizy.com started to manage Batoo games.
Gameplay
Batoo is usually played on an 11x11 board, although some games may take place on boards as large as 13x13. Boards in Batoo usually have plus-point and minus-point spots. When a player plays on these spots, they will either gain or lose five points. Different "maps" will have different plus-point locations and minus-point locations. Before the game begins, both players place a "base build", consisting of three marked stones. When players are making their base-builds, they cannot see their opponent's base build. If there is any overlap, a minus-point will replace the pair of stones. Base stones are worth 5 points each, as opposed to a normal stone which is worth only 1.
The player who starts is the one who makes the highest bid of points to their opponent for the privilege. This process is also known as "turn-betting". Once the base-building and the turn-betting end, both players have 25-second intervals to make each move. For every stone on the board, a player will gain 1 point. If a player takes more than 25 seconds to make their move, they lose 2 points (unless a 'special ability' character is used) and a new 25-second interval begins. If more than 3 25-second intervals are taken by any player during the game, that player loses the game. The territory each player has at the end of the game is then added to the score.
Hidden stone
The most unusual aspect about Batoo is the Hidden Stone. Once per game, every player may play a Hidden Stone instead of a normal stone. The Hidden Stone is not revealed to the opponent until they play a move where the Hidden Stone is located or until they locate it with a scan. A player may play a "scan" for 2 points, where they click a spot on the board and discover whether or not the Hidden Stone is on it. The player may make a normal or hidden stone move following the scan.
Characters, special abilities, and customization
A player can select one of three characters that grant the player special abilities. A fourth character can be bought using the in-game currency. The players can also buy different color substitutes for black stones [dark red, dark green, dark violet, dark blue] and can also buy different-looking boards with different themes with the in-game currency.
Ranking
Player ability in Batoo is determined by "levels". Learners start at level 5, and can progress u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servicing | Servicing may refer to:
car servicing, a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time-interval or after the vehicle has travelled a certain distance
computer maintenance
loan servicing, the process by which a mortgage bank collects the timely payment of interest and principal from borrowers
mortgage servicing, company to which some borrowers pay their mortgage loan payments and which performs other services
See also
Service (disambiguation)
Serving (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JkDefrag | JkDefrag is a free open-source disk defragmenting utility computer program for Windows. It was developed by Jeroen Kessels (initials "JK", hence the name) beginning in 2004 and was released under the GNU General Public License. Since version 4 of 2008, much changed from previous versions, JkDefrag was renamed MyDefrag by its developer; earlier JkDefrag versions continued to be available. MyDefrag, which was closed source freeware, was discontinued, with the last version being v4.3.1, file date 21 May 2010; for several years the MyDefrag website has been a redirect to the still-existing JkDefrag site, but links to downloadable JKdefrag files are dead.
Operation
JkDefrag has many options. If run without options it groups files into 3 zones with the intention of optimizing speed:
Directories and system files
Regular files
Large files referred to as "space hogs" in the documentation
Files outside their zone are moved to their zone. Directories are perhaps the most accessed data on disk, so zone 1 is placed at the beginning of the drive. After the directories comes a free space area, then zone 2 with regular files, another free area, and then zone 3 with "space hogs", which are large files, archives, recycle bin contents, service pack files, and other infrequently accessed data.
JkDefrag characteristics:
Both command-line & graphical executable programs, about 500k bytes total size;
Automated operation;
A range of command line interface options, allowing for scheduled defragmentation with administrator scripts;
No need for installation; runs with default options by opening JkDefrag.exe;
Screensaver defragmentation, with the option to run another screensaver when done;
Source code (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 for 32-bit version and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 for 64-bit version) available;
A DLL library (for use in programming) licensed using the LGPL;
Support for 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista with native x64 binaries;
Documentation available on the web site.
JkDefrag runs on the Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Operating Systems, and defragments both FAT and NTFS filesystems. It uses the standard Windows defragmentation API. Because of that, it could technically even be used on operating systems up to Windows 11. However such use would be completely unsupported and might bear the risk of data loss or a corrupt OS or other severe problems. User support was provided through web-based forums.
Related software
There are several graphical user interface utilities designed to work with JkDefrag:
JKDefrag Option GUI by Emiel Wieldraaijer includes support for 26 languages, and has support for BartPE and U3 implementations. It was also nominated "Repair Tool of the Week" in TechNibble in August 2007.
JkDefragGUI by Markus Hörl is portable, includes support for 10(+30) languages, and there is a setup version.
ScanDefrag supports JkDefrag and allows it to run during Windows startup.
The only other Windows-based defrag program with a GN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20states%20and%20union%20territories%20of%20India%20by%20voters | This is a list of states and union territories of India by the number of voters polled in the fifteen Lok Sabha elections between 1951 and 2009, based on data released by the Election Commission of India. In the 2009 general election, the Indian electorate was estimated to total approximately 714 million individuals, out of whom around 415 million cast a vote.
List
See also
Elections in India
References
External links
Votes Polled – Statewise (1951-2004) via IBN Live
Voters
Lists of subdivisions of India
Election-related lists
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