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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJN | EJN may refer to:
Earth Journalism Network
Ejin Banner Taolai Airport, in Inner Mongolia, China
European Judicial Network
European Journal of Neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYE | KYE or Kye may refer to:
Kye (given name)
Kye (video game)
Kye Hill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
KYE Systems, a Taiwanese computer peripheral manufacturer
Key Monastery, Lahaul & Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh, India
Cows, in Scotland and northern England
The Korean variant of rotating savings and credit association
An initialism of Know Your Enemy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Levasseur%20%28cartographer%29 | Victor Jules Levasseur (1795–1862) was a French cartographer widely known for his distinctive decorative style. He produced numerous maps more admired for the artistic content of the scenes and data surrounding the map than for the detail of the map.
References
French cartographers
1800 births
1870 deaths
1795 births
1862 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journal%20of%20Supercomputing | The Journal of Supercomputing is an academic computer science journal concerned with theoretical and practical aspects of supercomputing. Tutorial and survey papers are also included.
Computer science journals
Supercomputing
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 1987
Triannual journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20between%20Argentine%20provinces%20and%20countries%20by%20GDP%20%28PPP%29%20per%20capita | This is a comparison between Argentine provinces and countries by gross domestic product (PPP) per capita. All data is for the year 2008.
These figures are based on the IADER list on List of Argentine provinces by GDP (nominal) per capita for Argentine provinces, and the List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita for world GDP per capita and based on International Monetary Fund data.
See also
List of Argentine provinces by GDP (nominal) per capita - GDP per capita PPP (not nominal)
List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate per capita
List of countries by future GDP per capita estimates (PPP)
List of regions by past GDP (PPP) per capita
List of countries by average wages
References
External links
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/latin-bar/77156-si-los-estados-de-las-7-mas-grandes-economias-de-latam-fueran-paises.html
Economy of Argentina-related lists
Economy of Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheels%20%28Glee%29 | "Wheels" is the ninth episode of the American television series Glee. Written by series co-creator Ryan Murphy and directed by Paris Barclay, the episode premiered on the Fox network on November 11, 2009. "Wheels" sees the glee club hold a bake sale to raise money for a handicap accessible bus, so that club member Artie (Kevin McHale) can travel with them to sectionals and Will (Matthew Morrison) challenges the students to experience life from a different point of view. Quinn (Dianna Agron) struggles with the medical expenses incurred by her pregnancy, and Puck (Mark Salling) renews his offer to support her. Sue (Jane Lynch) accepts a student with Down syndrome (Lauren Potter) onto the cheerleading squad, and Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michele) compete for a solo performance.
McHale called "Wheels" the "most serious" episode of Glee so far, while Murphy deemed it "the turning point for the show". The episode introduces two new characters, Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson and Robin Trocki as Jean Sylvester. It features covers of Nouvelle Vague's rendition of "Dancing with Myself", "Defying Gravity" from Wicked and Ike & Tina Turner's rendition of "Proud Mary". "Dancing With Myself" is McHale's first solo performance on the show. "Defying Gravity" was included as a reflection of Colfer's own high school experience, which saw his drama teacher refuse to allow him to sing the song because of his sex. "Proud Mary" is staged entirely in wheelchairs, and was described by series choreographer Zach Woodlee as the "scariest" number produced to date.
"Wheels" was watched by 7.35 million US viewers, and saw Barclay nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing of a Comedy Series. It prompted criticism from a committee of performers with disabilities, who felt that it was inappropriate to cast a non-disabled actor in a disabled role. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, with Entertainment Weekly Tim Stack and Aly Semigran of MTV both writing that it brought them to tears. Reviewers Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger and Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune both commented positively on the episode, despite formerly having given unfavorable reviews of the series as a whole. In contrast, The New York Times Mike Hale deemed the episode problematic, and Eric Goldman of IGN described it as "very afterschool special".
Plot
Glee club director Will Schuester is informed that the school budget will not cover a handicap-accessible bus to transport the glee club to sectionals, which means that Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale) will have to travel separately from the rest of the club. Will encourages the other club members to support Artie, not only by holding a bake sale to raise funds for a handicap bus, but also by spending time in wheelchairs to experience what life is like for him. Meanwhile, Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) is struggling to cover the medical expenses of her pregnancy, and threatens to break up wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoonito%20%28Central%20and%20Eastern%20European%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoonito is a European pay television channel that airs animated programming for pre-school children. It is broadcast in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, the CIS, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Balkans, the Baltics and the Caucasus. Cartoonito was previously the Central and European feed of Boomerang, until it relaunched on 18 March 2023 at 6am CET.
History
As Boomerang (2011–2023)
On June 5, 2005, Boomerang EMEA was launched on the channel feed as it expanded to Europe. In the first few years the channel was dedicated to select classic animated cartoons, but over the years more recent programming was introduced. On 1 August 2007, the channel continued to roll out across most CEE and Arabic countries by the end of 2010. On 12 October 2011, at 6:00 am (CEST), it was split into two different feeds: this feed focused on Central and Eastern Europe, while Boomerang HQ centered on the Benelux, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Middle East & Africa, and Portugal. The European feed at the time consisted of four audio tracks, which were in English, Romanian, Hungarian and Polish. On 1 August 2007, TV channel began broadcasting from the Astra 1K and Hot Bird 7A satellites in the territories of the CIS and Baltic countries. The TV channel was partially broadcast in Russian. Since 1 October 2013, the channel has been completely dubbed into Russian.
Between November 2014 and February 2015, Boomerang CEE replaced Boomerang HQ in the Netherlands and Belgium, and got a localized Dutch feed between 2 February 2015 and 2017. Since 2017 the CEE feed is available in the Netherlands and Belgium.
On 4 April 2018, Boomerang CEE switched to the 16:9 aspect ratio. On 1 October 2018, Boomerang CEE replaced Boomerang Germany and took over its channel slot. It launched a subfeed intended to air German advertisements and has no Russian rating icons being displayed in its broadcast, differing from the main feed. Sometimes they were shown anyway because of mistakes.
Since November 10, 2020, Boomerang has received a Czech license (RRTV) in order to ensure the continuation of legal broadcasting in the European Union in accordance with the EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMSD) and the law on the single market after the UK leaves the European Union. Since the Czech Republic has minimum broadcasting rules, it was chosen for licensing purposes in the EU. Broadcasting center of the TV channel is still located in London.
On Monday, 1 November 2021, Boomerang CEE launched a new Bulgarian-language audio track, as well as a Bulgarian channel sub-feed for Bulgarian television advertisement commercials, only on Bulsatcom, for now as A1 Bulgaria. On Friday, 3 December 2021, Boomerang CEE launched a new Czech-language audio track.
Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 9 March 2022, WarnerMedia closed the channel in Russian territories, along with Cartoon Network.
As Cartoonito (2023–present)
Cartoonito began as programming block in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Radio | Fox Radio may refer to:
Fox News Radio, an American radio network programmed by Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Radio, an international radio network, a service of Premiere Radio Networks
CKFX-FM, also known as 102 FM The Fox, a Canadian radio station
Fox News Talk, a satellite radio channel
A collection of radio stations owned by Craig Fox (radio host)
See also
Fox FM (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recea%2C%20Str%C4%83%C8%99eni | Recea is a village in Strășeni District, Moldova. The village has a total area of 24.89 km2, with a total perimeter of 33.37 km.
Demographic data
In 1997, the population of the Recea was estimated to 3150 inhabitants. According to the census of 2004, the population of is 2633 inhabitants, out of which 48.23% are men and 51.77% women. The ethnic structure of the population is as follows: 98.90% - Romanians, 0.27% - Ukrainians, 0.49% - Russians, 0.04% - Gagauzians, 0.11% - Bulgarians, 0.04% - Rroma, 0.15% - other ethnicities.
939 households were registered in the commune.
Notable people
Gheorghe Buruiană
References
Villages of Strășeni District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Smukler | Kenneth Smukler (born September 6, 1960) is a political operative in Pennsylvania, President of Voterlink Data Systems and a former campaign strategist for former US Representative Bob Brady.
Early life and education
Smukler graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and went on to attend Penn State Dickinson Law. In 1987, Smukler quit his legal career to become the campaign Press Secretary for Philadelphia Mayor, Wilson Goode.
Career
Smukler is best known for his work on the campaigns for Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Philadelphia City Councilman Rick Mariano.
In 2005, Smukler co-developed a reality television program called Red/Blue where contestants would compete for $1 million to found their own 527 group during the 2006 election cycle. The program was developed by Smukler and True Entertainment.
Smukler's company, Voterlink Data Systems was used to generate content for NBC during the 2004 elections. Voterlink Data Systems was used to create the national vote hotlines 1.866.MYVOTE1 and 1.866.OURVOTE. The same technology was used to support the national voter hotlines 1.866.MYVOTE1 and 1.866.OURVOTE. In 2005, he testified before the Commission on Federal Election Reform about the MYVOTE1 programs.
He was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Top Operatives." He was named to the PoliticsPA "Democratic Dream Team" of political operatives.
In 2016, he co-founded the company Votecastr, to track the 2016 Presidential Election in real-time, publishing the results of turnout tracking at Poll Locations online throughout the day.
Political Corruption and Federal Prosecution
On October 24, 2017, Smukler was indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly making illegal campaign contributions on behalf of Congressman Bob Brady.
On December 3, 2018 Smukler was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States and federal campaign finance crimes in 2 congressional campaigns
References
Living people
Pennsylvania Democrats
Pennsylvania political consultants
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Dickinson College alumni
1960 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20songs%20in%20Glee%20%28season%201%29 | Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the William McKinley High School glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. The show was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and features many cover versions of songs performed on-screen by the characters. Murphy is responsible for selecting all of the songs used, and strives to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, as he wants there to be "something for everybody in every episode". Once Murphy selects a song, rights are cleared with its publishers by music supervisor P.J. Bloom, and music producer Adam Anders rearranges it for the Glee cast. Numbers are pre-recorded by the cast, while choreographer Zach Woodlee constructs the accompanying dance moves, which are then taught to the cast and filmed. Studio recordings of tracks are then made. The process begins six to eight weeks before each episode is filmed, and can end as late as the day before filming begins.
At the beginning of the season, Murphy intended for the performances to remain reality-based, as opposed to having the characters spontaneously burst into song. As the season progressed, however, Glee began to utilize fantasy sequences, with paraplegic character Artie imagining himself dancing to "The Safety Dance", and six separate characters performing a fantasy version of "Like a Virgin". The first thirteen episodes of the season averaged five songs per episode. For the final nine episodes, the number of performances increased to eight. The list below contains all 132 musical performances of the first season, with each performance delivering an individual song or a mashup of two or more songs in a single performance.
Murphy was surprised at the ease with which use of songs was approved by the record labels approached. Recording artist Rihanna offered her single "Take a Bow" for use at a reduced licensing rate, and other artists offered use of their songs free. Madonna granted the show rights to her entire catalog, and the 2010 episode "The Power of Madonna" featured cover versions of eight of her songs. A series of Glee albums were released through Columbia Records. Accompanying the first season were the studio albums Glee: The Music, Volume 1, Glee: The Music, Volume 2 and Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers, extended plays (EP) Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals, and the compilation album Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One, featuring 100 recordings from the season. Songs featured on the show are available for digital download through the iTunes Store up to two weeks before new episodes air, and through other digital outlets and mobile carriers a week later.
Performers
The majority of songs are performed by New Directions, which is composed of Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osisioma%20Ngwa | Osisioma Ngwa is a Local Government Area of Abia state of Nigeria. Its headquarters are located in Osisioma town.
It has an area of and a population of 219,632 as per 2006 census data of Nigeria.
Origin of name
The name "Osisi" means tree, plant or wood and the name "Oma", means good, fine, beautiful in the Igbo language. Thus, Osisioma means: good tree or fine plant or beautiful wood. It is a name associated with tree and beauty which is derived from the popular ornamental flower tree called Delonix regia, a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, and subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers. In many tropical parts of the world, it is grown as an ornamental tree and in English, it is given the name royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame of the forest, or flame tree (one of several species given this name) which is typically planted to decorate courtyards in houses in Osisioma Ngwa. A greater part of Aba city is in Osisioma Ngwa stretching up to Faulks Road.
Culture
Osisioma people generally make a living as farmers, traders, artisans and craftsmen. The typical Osisioma Ngwa men in the old days usually wear what is called "ọgọdọ". Ọgọdọ is a type of white woven cloth tied around the waistline to cover nakedness and the women use the fabric as a wrapper to cover the body from chest flowing down to the knees. Contemporarily, just like most Igbo communities, men dress down in trousers and shirts with shoes, sandals or slippers to work, shop or office just like their female counterparts but the traditional male attire preferred for occasions and big celebrations in Osisioma culture consists of a special top called 'Isiagụ' and trousers of any colour usually worn with sandals or shoes and red cap to match.
Geography/Climate
Osisioma Ngwa is a flat land without hills or mountains and has a headwater located at Okpu Umuobo that runs through the thick forest cutting across into the city of Aba River waterside in Ogbor Hill. The river is a tributary of the Imo River located in the Southern part of Nigeria. Osisioma Ngwa shares boundaries with Ukwa West and Ugwunagbo in the South, Aba South Local Government Area and Aba North Local Government Area in the East, Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area in the North and Omuma Local Government Area , Rivers State in the West.
Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway cuts through Osisioma Ngwa with the Aba-Owerri Road running through it from Aba Town Hall down to Olaz Oil filling station.
It has other major routes such as the NNPC depot road which leads to Osisioma Ngwa local government headquarters as well as Osisioma Police Divisional Headquarters, High and Magistrates Court and Ekeakpara market down to Owerrinta the boundary between Abia State and Imo State.
Over the course of the year, Osisioma's average percentage of cloud-covered sky varies significantly by season.
In Osisioma, the clearer portion of the year lasts for 2.6 months, starti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20American%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers to have broadcast the American Bowl, which was a series of National Football League pre-season exhibition games that were held at sites outside the United States between 1986 and 2005. Out of the list, ESPN hosted the America Bowl the most times, with NBC coming second.
2000s
1990s
1980s
ABC Sports
CBS Sports
Fox Sports announcers
Football on NBC
ESPN announcers
Lists of National Football League announcers
Broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis%20Spectral%20Data | Alexis Spectral Data is a software developed for colour matching processes that calculates from available spectral data the colour numbers used by computers to display colours on screen. It displays the colour for each spectral reflectance curve and records the calculated trichromatic values and colour numbers along with the spectral curves. This eliminates the need to scan the samples separately with a truecolour Scanner while creating the database. The spectral data can be introduced manually as a series of reflectance values at wavelengths measured in different standard illuminants with an arbitrary but fixed increment that must be kept for each spectral curve throughout the creation of the whole database. Therefore, older UV-VIS Spectrophotometers that can't be interfaced with computers can also be used for creating the database needed for colour matching. Alexis Spectral Data determines the whiteness degree in a less time-consuming method, which permits storage and easier handling of the obtained data.
Alexis Spectral Data can export the trichromatic values, calculated from the spectral curves, to Alexis Analyser, software that handles only trichromatic data. The earliest information about the development of this software comes from a paper published by a student at the University Politehnica Bucharest in 1993.
The software runs on Windows based computers but not on other operating systems.
References
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spanish%20Broadcasting%20System%20radio%20stations | The radio stations operated by Spanish Broadcasting System and their programming formats are:
Being Sold to SBS
Houston
KROI Praise 102.1 HD2 (Black Gospel)
Current
Orlando
WPYO El Zol 95 (Spanish Tropical)
Tampa
WSUN (FM) El Zol 97 (Spanish Tropical)
Los Angeles
KLAX-FM 97.9 La Raza HD1 (Regional Mexican)/Raza Clásicos 97.9 HD2 (Regional Mexican Oldies)
KXOL-FM La Mega 96.3 HD1 (pop)/El Zol 96.3 HD2 (Spanish Tropical)
New York
WSKQ-FM La Mega 97.9 HD1 (Spanish Tropical)/One Caribbean Radio 97.9 HD2 (Caribbean music)
WPAT-FM 93.1 Amor HD1 (Spanish Tropical & Spanish Adult Contemporary)/La Nueva 93.1 HD2 (Spanish Christian music)
Puerto Rico
WMEG La Mega 106.9 (CHR – Latin/American Top 40)
WEGM La Mega 95.1 (CHR – Latin/American Top 40)
WRXD Estereotempo 96.5 (Adult contemporary)
WNVI Estereotempo 1040 (Adult contemporary) (owned by Aurio A. Matos Barreto)
WZNT Zeta 93.7 (Salsa)
WZMT Zeta 93.3 (Salsa)
WIOB Zeta 97.5 (Salsa)
WODA La Nueva 94.7 (Urban)
WNOD La Nueva 94.1 (Urban)
Chicago
WLEY-FM La Ley 107.9 (Regional Mexican)
Miami
WXDJ El Zol 106.7 (Spanish Tropical)
WCMQ-FM Zeta 92.3 (Salsa / Adult Contemporary)
WRMA Ritmo 95.7 (Cubatón)
WRAZ-FM Salsa 106.3 (Salsa) (owned by South Broadcasting System)
WMFM El Zol 107.9 (Spanish Tropical) (owned by South Broadcasting System)
San Francisco
KRZZ 93.3 La Raza (Regional Mexican)
Former
Puerto Rico
WIOA 99.9 FM (San Juan, now owned by International Broadcasting Corporation)
WIOC 105.1 FM (Ponce, now owned by International Broadcasting Corporation)
WZET 92.1 FM (Hormigueros, now owned by International Broadcasting Corporation)
Los Angeles
KZAB 93.5 FM (Now owned by Meruelo Radio Holdings)
KXMG 1540 AM (Now owned by P&Y Broadcasting Corporation)
New York
WXLX 620 AM (Now owned by Davidson Radio, Inc)
San Francisco
KBTB 92.7 FM (Now owned by Golden State Broadcasting, LLC)
Chicago
WKIE 92.7 FM (Now owned by Newsweb Corporation)
WKIF 92.7 FM (Now owned by Milner Media Partners, LLC)
WDEK 92.5 FM (Now owned by Educational Media Foundation)
Spanish Broadcasting System radio stations
Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Showtime%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | It's Showtime is a Philippine noontime variety show under ABS-CBN Entertainment that premiered on October 24, 2009. The show was originally broadcast on ABS-CBN until the network's shutdown on May 5, 2020. It currently broadcast through cable and satellite channels Kapamilya Channel and Jeepney TV, free-to-air television channels A2Z and GMA Network's GTV. It also airs internationally worldwide via TFC, online streaming on YouTube and Facebook via Showtime Online Ü, Kapamilya Online Live, and iWantTFC. Originally hosted by Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta, Teddy Corpuz, and Vice Ganda. Navarro, Curtis, Jugueta, Corpuz and Ganda currently serve as the hosts alongside Karylle, Jhong Hilario, Ryan Bang, Amy Perez, Ion Perez, Jackie Gonzaga, Kim Chiu, Ogie Alcasid, MC Muah Calaquian, Lassy Marquez and Cianne Dominguez.
It's Showtime is the second live entertainment program in the Philippines to be broadcast in high-definition behind ASAP Natin 'To. The program is currently ABS-CBN's longest-running daily noontime variety show, surpassing the original run of Magandang Tanghali Bayan (MTB) in 2016.
Overview
Showtime! and Magpasikat (2009–2012)
Showtime premiered on October 24, 2009, replacing Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba? as a talent competition program, airing right before the network's noontime shows. The original hosts include Vhong Navarro, Anne Curtis, Kim Atienza, Jugs Jugueta and Teddy Corpuz, with Vice Ganda as the resident hurado (unevictable judge). In the third season, the show added former hurados Billy Crawford and Karylle as hosts.
In the first four seasons, Showtimes original competition format was that three groups, each made up of 2 to 25 members (with no age limit) perform a single performance, either a dance and/or song number. Before the performance, one group member is given 20 seconds to make an introduction before ending with the phrase "It's Showtime!". After the group's performance, the hurados, with the help of the studio audience, rate the group from 1 to 10. The group with the highest average score from the hurados wins the competition. The daily winner perform again to compete in the weekly finals. The winning weekly finalists advance to the monthly finals. The winning monthly finalists get the chance to complete in the grand finals. In the wildcard week, selected groups from the weekly and monthly finals are invited back to compete again for a slot in the grand finals.
Aside from the talent competition, Showtime also featured mini-segments that offers cash prizes to the studio audiences.
In October 2010, the show moved to the noontime slot, serving as the lead-in program for Pilipinas Win Na Win which was pushed back to an early afternoon timeslot. On February 12, 2011, the program returned to its original timeslot to give way for the premiere of Happy Yipee Yehey!
On January 28, 2012, Showtime aired a special episode to end its two-year morning competition format with an impartial farewell. It the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20of%20experts | Product of experts (PoE) is a machine learning technique. It models a probability distribution by combining the output from several simpler distributions.
It was proposed by Geoffrey Hinton in 1999, along with an algorithm for training the parameters of such a system.
The core idea is to combine several probability distributions ("experts") by multiplying their density functions—making the PoE classification similar to an "and" operation. This allows each expert to make decisions on the basis of a few dimensions without having to cover the full dimensionality of a problem.
This is related to (but quite different from) a mixture model, where several probability distributions are combined via an "or" operation, which is a weighted sum of their density functions.
The experts may be understood as each being responsible for enforcing a constraint in a high-dimensional space. A data point is considered likely iff none of the experts say that the point violates a constraint.
To optimize it, he proposed the contrastive divergence minimization algorithm. This algorithm is most often used for learning restricted Boltzmann machines.
See also
Mixture of experts
Boltzmann machine
References
External links
Product of experts article in Scholarpedia
Geoffrey Hinton's articles on PoE
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic%20recursion | In computer science, polymorphic recursion (also referred to as Milner–Mycroft typability or the Milner–Mycroft calculus) refers to a recursive parametrically polymorphic function where the type parameter changes with each recursive invocation made, instead of staying constant. Type inference for polymorphic recursion is equivalent to semi-unification and therefore undecidable and requires the use of a semi-algorithm or programmer-supplied type annotations.
Example
Nested datatypes
Consider the following nested datatype:
data Nested a = a :<: (Nested [a]) | Epsilon
infixr 5 :<:
nested = 1 :<: [2,3,4] :<: [[5,6],[7],[8,9]] :<: Epsilon
A length function defined over this datatype will be polymorphically recursive, as the type of the argument changes from Nested a to Nested [a] in the recursive call:
length :: Nested a -> Int
length Epsilon = 0
length (_ :<: xs) = 1 + length xs
Note that Haskell normally infers the type signature for a function as simple-looking as this, but here it cannot be omitted without triggering a type error.
Higher-ranked types
Applications
Program analysis
In type-based program analysis polymorphic recursion is often essential in gaining high precision of the analysis. Notable examples of systems employing polymorphic recursion include Dussart, Henglein and Mossin's binding-time analysis and the Tofte–Talpin region-based memory management system. As these systems assume the expressions have already been typed in an underlying type system (not necessary employing polymorphic recursion), inference can be made decidable again.
Data structures, error detection, graph solutions
Functional programming data structures often use polymorphic recursion to simplify type error checks and solve problems with nasty "middle" temporary solutions that devour memory in more traditional data structures such as trees. In the two citations that follow, Okasaki (pp. 144–146) gives a CONS example in Haskell wherein the polymorphic type system automatically flags programmer errors. The recursive aspect is that the type definition assures that the outermost constructor has a single element, the second a pair, the third a pair of pairs, etc. recursively, setting an automatic error finding pattern in the data type. Roberts (p. 171) gives a related example in Java, using a Class to represent a stack frame. The example given is a solution to the Tower of Hanoi problem wherein a stack simulates polymorphic recursion with a beginning, temporary and ending nested stack substitution structure.
See also
Higher-ranked polymorphism
Notes
Further reading
Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens (1998). "Nested Datatypes".
C. Vasconcellos, L. Figueiredo, C. Camarao (2003). "Practical Type Inference for Polymorphic Recursion: an Implementation in Haskell". Journal of Universal Computer Science.
L. Figueiredo, C. Camarao. "Type Inference for Polymorphic Recursive Definitions: a Specification in Haskell".
External links
Standard ML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Pollination%20Initiative | The Canadian Pollination Initiative (NSERC-CANPOLIN) is one of nine new Strategic Networks announced in September 2009 and supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). NSERC-CANPOLIN has funding for five years to address a perceived decline in pollinators in both agricultural and natural ecosystems in Canada. At present 26 universities and a number of government agencies, NGOs, and industry groups are involved. The CANPOLIN website is currently hosted at the University of Guelph.
According to the About page:
"Over the five-year life of the Network, NSERC-CANPOLIN will make major contributions to the conservation of pollinator and plant biodiversity, improve the health of managed bees, enhance pollination by native pollinators and increase our knowledge of flower/pollinator interactions and gene flow in plants. The Network will also provide critical information on the economic aspects of pollination and future management needs based on expected changes in climate and land use. Ultimately, the information gained by the Network will provide policy makers and the wider public with the necessary tools to better protect and conserve some of Canada's most important natural resources."
References
Agriculture in Canada
Pollination management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20depth | Logical depth is a measure of complexity for individual strings devised by Charles H. Bennett based on the computational complexity of an algorithm that can recreate a given piece of information. It differs from Kolmogorov complexity in that it considers the computation time of the algorithm with nearly minimal length, rather than the length of the minimal algorithm.
Formally, in the context of some universal computer the logical depth of a string to significance level is given by the running time of the fastest program that produces and is no more than longer than the minimal program.
See also
Effective complexity
Self-dissimilarity
Forecasting complexity
Sophistication (complexity theory)
References
Information theory
Computational complexity theory
Measures of complexity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knhom%20Jea%20Neakna | Knhom Jea Neakna (English: Who Am I?) is a Cambodian television film that aired on Cambodian Television Network on April 1, 2009.
The film was directed by Parn Puong Bopha, and stars Ny Monika and Keo Sreyneang. The story depicts a foreign born female, Keo Sreyneang, attracted to a Cambodian actress, Ny Monika. The foreign traveler does everything she can to get the actress's attention while interfering the relationship of the actress and her fiancé. It has been described as first Khmer gay film.
Critical reception
With Parn Puong Bopha spending a budget of her own $20,000, the opera proved a success. Still the plot provides a more creative and idealized story promising a more diverse and unique plot-line in Khmer future films rather than the typical story of a romance between a man and a woman and his ex interfering with their relationship.
References
http://www.lovekhmer.com/khmer-series-f237/kyom-jea-neak-na-t9193.htm
2000s Cambodian television series
2009 television films
2009 films
Cambodian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goertzel | Goertzel algorithm - an algorithm used in digital signal processing
Gerald Goertzel - author of the Goertzel algorithm
Ben Goertzel - an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cyber%20Games%202009 | The 2009 World Cyber Games (also known as WCG 09 or World Cyber Games 09) took place from November 11 to November 15, 2009, in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It had over 600 participates from 70 countries taking part. The prize money is estimated at around $500,000.
Official Games
Warcraft III, StarCraft, Counter Strike, FIFA 09, Carom3D, Red Stone and TrackMania Nations Forever on PC
Guitar Hero: World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 on Xbox 360
Asphalt4 and Wise Star 2 on Mobile
Competition Draw
The Competition Draws took place on October 19, October 20 and October 21. All competition draws took place on one of these three days.
Oct. 19: Asphalt 4 > Wise Star 2 > Counter-Strike
Oct. 20: Guitar Hero > Virtua Fighter 5 > FIFA 09
Oct. 21: Carom 3D - > Trackmania Nations Forever - > StarCraft - > Warcraft III
Results
Official
Promotion
Sponsors
Samsung Electronics (Worldwide Partner)
Official theme song
The official theme song of the World Cyber Games is called "Beyond the Game" and the title is also the name of the World Cyber Games Motto.
Videos
The World Cyber Games published the different events on their YouTube account and their site.
References
External links
2009 tournament group drawings
World Cyber Games events
2009 in Chinese sport
2009 in esports
Esports in China
Esports competitions in China
Sport in Chengdu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFM | KMFM may refer to:
KMFM (radio network), a radio network in Kent, UK
KMFM (Texas), a radio station in Premont, Texas, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled%20Tales%3A%20The%20Misadventures%20of%20a%20Wizard%27s%20Apprentice | Tangled Tales: The Misadventures of a Wizard's Apprentice is a computer game developed by Origin Systems in 1989 for the Apple II, MS-DOS, and Commodore 64.
Plot
In Tangled Tales: The Misadventures of a Wizard’s Apprentice, the player is a young apprentice wizard without friends, spells, or money, about to go out and learn the wizard trade. The player is given a quest to complete in each new scenario, during the course of which solves various puzzles, adds new party members, and learns new spells. Characters, plots and tropes encountered in the game are derived from various mythological and fictional universes, such as a werewolf, a surfer, a snowman, Goldilocks (a thief), and Isaac Newton. The game consists of three separate scenarios, each must be completed before going on to the next, but the player can always go back to an old area in case something is missed.
Gameplay
The screen is divided into several areas: One displays the player's view of the world, one shows a bird's-eye view of the player's position, one contains the function icons, and one is a small text-information area. The player can select a function to move, talk, cast a spell, get or drop an item, and so on.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #166 by Patricia and Steve Sheets in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars. Compute! stated that Tangled Tales was a good introductory game for those new to adventures. Scorpia of Computer Gaming World gave the game a mixed review, saying, "it appears to be an attempt to integrate adventure game elements with role-playing elements, and this attempt is not entirely successful." The review also noted puzzles were solved primarily by having the right person in the party, "which reduces the main character to spectator at many critical points in the game."
Tangled Tales was perhaps more noted for its controversial copy protection scheme, which involved saving games to the original disk on Track 0. Reviewers complained that it would cause the heads on the Apple Disk II and Commodore 1541 to bang against the drive stop and throw them out of alignment and that it was advisable to back the original game disks as quickly as possible and avoid using them.
Reviews
The Games Machine - Dec, 1989
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Apr, 1990
References
External links
Tangled Tales: The Misadventures of a Wizard's Apprentice at MobyGames
1989 video games
Adventure games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20for%20Mayor | Dan for Mayor is a Canadian television sitcom starring Fred Ewanuick that debuted on March 1, 2010 on CTV and The Comedy Network. It premiered the same night as Hiccups, a show created by Corner Gas star Brent Butt that also features fellow Corner Gas alumna Nancy Robertson. On June 7, 2010, both Dan for Mayor and Hiccups were renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on June 5, 2011. Neither show was renewed for a third season.
Premise
The series stars Ewanuick as Dan Phillips, a slacker in his early 30s, who finds himself running for mayor of Wessex, a fictional city in Ontario, in the 2010 municipal elections, after a chance comment to his ex-girlfriend. When his opponent, incumbent mayor Bud, is hit by a bus and killed, Dan becomes the only mayoral candidate whereupon he reopens the candidacy for a fair race. In the show's second season, Dan takes office as the city's new mayor, finding himself woefully unprepared for the job.
The cast also included Mary Ashton, Paul Bates, Benjamin Ayres, Laurie Murdoch, David Ferry, Suzanne Coy, Agam Darshi, and Lara Jean Chorostecki.
The show also featured several cameo appearances by real-life mayors of Ontario cities, including Carl Zehr, Brenda Halloran, and David Miller.
Filming locations
The series' location shooting took place in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario; recognizable locations include Kitchener City Hall (as Wessex City Hall) and the Huether Hotel (as Fern's Grill, Dan's workplace).
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2011)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2011 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian workplace comedy television series
CTV Television Network original programming
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
Canadian political comedy television series
Television shows set in Ontario
Television shows filmed in Hamilton, Ontario
Television shows filmed in Kitchener, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario
2010s Canadian sitcoms
Television series by Bell Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20%26%20Politics | Power & Politics is a Canadian television news program focused on national politics, which airs live daily on CBC News Network from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time weekdays and as a syndicated podcast. The program normally originates from the CBC's Ottawa studios.
The program launched on October 26, 2009 as a replacement for the long-running CBC News: Politics, which had ended its run the preceding May with the retirement of host Don Newman. The new program was initially hosted by CBC journalist Evan Solomon. In September 2011, Rosemary Barton was added as host of the program's Friday edition after Solomon was also named host of CBC Radio One's The House. Barton also served as substitute host on other days if Solomon was unavailable, and other CBC political journalists occasionally filled in as well.
After Solomon's dismissal from the CBC on June 9, 2015, Barton served as the interim host of the show, with Terry Milewski as a back-up. On January 5, 2016, the CBC officially named Barton as the permanent host of the show. Following Barton's departure from the show in September 2017 upon being named one of the new anchors of The National, the show was hosted by various interim hosts including David Cochrane, Catherine Cullen and Terry Milewski. In March 2018, Vassy Kapelos was named the new permanent host of the show.
Kapelos left the program in November 2022 to join CTV News as host of Power Play and Question Period. After being hosted on a rotating basis by David Cochrane and Catherine Cullen, Cochrane was named as the permanent host on February 16, 2023.
See also
Political podcast
References
2009 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian television talk shows
CBC News Network original programming
Political podcasts
Television shows filmed in Ottawa
2010s Canadian television talk shows
2020s Canadian television talk shows
Canadian political television series
2000s Canadian television news shows
2010s Canadian television news shows
2020s Canadian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozinor | Mozinor is a French creator of video détournements that are shared on the Internet, as well as being regularly shown on some television programs. Using simple materials like a computer and microphone, he has created a number of well known détournements such as a parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It". His videos are widely viewed on websites such as Dailymotion and YouTube.
Biography
The pseudonym Mozinor comes from Claude Le Goas' French industrial building Montreuil-Zone Industrielle-Nord, located in Montreuil.
In May 2004, Mozinor began creating video détournements and publishing them on his personal website; originally they were simply parodies created to amuse his friends. In June 2006, the broadcasting of "Bite It" (a parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It") and "007" at the Enfants de la télé opened his work to a wider audience, and created a marketing buzz about Mozinor's creations.
On 11 April 2009, a 'best of' Mozinor's works was shown at a screening of the noted détournement La Classe américaine at the Centre Georges Pompidou, in the presence of the film's creators, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mezerette. Mozinor was invited to attend the screening, but did not do so as he wanted to retain his anonymity.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
French video artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20neural%20network | A physical neural network is a type of artificial neural network in which an electrically adjustable material is used to emulate the function of a neural synapse or a higher-order (dendritic) neuron model. "Physical" neural network is used to emphasize the reliance on physical hardware used to emulate neurons as opposed to software-based approaches. More generally the term is applicable to other artificial neural networks in which a memristor or other electrically adjustable resistance material is used to emulate a neural synapse.
Types of physical neural networks
ADALINE
In the 1960s Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff developed ADALINE (Adaptive Linear Neuron) which used electrochemical cells called memistors (memory resistors) to emulate synapses of an artificial neuron. The memistors were implemented as 3-terminal devices operating based on the reversible electroplating of copper such that the resistance between two of the terminals is controlled by the integral of the current applied via the third terminal. The ADALINE circuitry was briefly commercialized by the Memistor Corporation in the 1960s enabling some applications in pattern recognition. However, since the memistors were not fabricated using integrated circuit fabrication techniques the technology was not scalable and was eventually abandoned as solid-state electronics became mature.
Analog VLSI
In 1989 Carver Mead published his book Analog VLSI and Neural Systems, which spun off perhaps the most common variant of analog neural networks. The physical realization is implemented in analog VLSI. This is often implemented as field effect transistors in low inversion. Such devices can be modelled as translinear circuits. This is a technique described by Barrie Gilbert in several papers around mid 1970th, and in particular his Translinear Circuits from 1981. With this method circuits can be analyzed as a set of well-defined functions in steady-state, and such circuits assembled into complex networks.
Physical Neural Network
Alex Nugent describes a physical neural network as one or more nonlinear neuron-like nodes used to sum signals and nanoconnections formed from nanoparticles, nanowires, or nanotubes which determine the signal strength input to the nodes. Alignment or self-assembly of the nanoconnections is determined by the history of the applied electric field performing a function analogous to neural synapses. Numerous applications for such physical neural networks are possible. For example, a temporal summation device can be composed of one or more nanoconnections having an input and an output thereof, wherein an input signal provided to the input causes one or more of the nanoconnection to experience an increase in connection strength thereof over time. Another example of a physical neural network is taught by U.S. Patent No. 7,039,619 entitled "Utilized nanotechnology apparatus using a neural network, a solution and a connection gap," which issued to Alex Nugent by the U.S. Patent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20of%20Horus%20%28video%20game%29 | Eye of Horus is a computer game published in 1989 by Fanfare (Britannica Software) for the Amiga.
Plot
Eye of Horus is a game in which the player is Horus searching within a labyrinth for the pieces of his father Osiris, to reassemble Osiris and defeat Set. Hieroglyphs in this labyrinth come to life to attack Horus, and he can use papyrus darts to fight them, or turn into a hawk and fly over enemies. Horus can also find amulets that can either be used to enhance the powers of his weapons, or to grant him other abilities as needed.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #169 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 1 out of 5 stars.
Reviews
ST Format - Oct, 1989
Atari ST User - Sep, 1989
The One - Nov, 1989
The Games Machine - Jan, 1990
The Games Machine - Oct, 1989
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Sep, 1989
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1990
References
External links
Eye of Horus at the Amiga Hall of Light
Review in Compute!
Review in Info
1989 video games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Denton Designs games
DOS games
Logotron games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by David Whittaker
Video games scored by Fred Gray |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarStruck%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of StarStruck, aka (StarStruck V) is a Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Raymond Gutierrez, Carla Abellana and Dennis Trillo. Carla Abellana replaced Jolina Magdangal for this season, while former replaced Dingdong Dantes, as the former replaced Richard Gomez, who will run as representative of the 4th district of the Province of Leyte as host of the game show Family Feud.
Major changes happened on the show. The regular daily show became a daily update show that focused on the lives of the contestants and their activities and tests on the show. It was hosted by the show's the segment hosts are StarStruck graduates with Mark Herras, LJ Reyes, Arci Muñoz and Paulo Avelino. They serve as StarStruck Shoutout, who is tasked to join the hopefuls as they go through every phase of the competition, it premiered on November 15, 2009. The council was composed of Lolit Solis, Floy Quintos and Iza Calzado act as the members of the Sunshine Dizon was first reported to be part of the council in the place of Iza Calzado but had to turn down the offer due to health problems.
The five mentors are from Acting mentor; Gina Alajar, Dance mentor; Douglas Nierras, Singing mentor; Jai Sabas-Aracama, Grooming and Make-up mentor; Barbi Chan and Image mentor; Abbygale Arrenas de Leon. Also featured many fives: The Factor V, The V Mentors, The V Hosts together with Dingdong Dantes and Nancy Castiglione in the Final Judgment day, The Final V, and a 5 million pesos’ worth of prizes for the Ultimate Survivors. The season ended with 99 episodes on February 21, 2010, having Steven Silva and Sarah Lahbati as the Ultimate Survivors.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Overview
Auditions
In the last quarter of 2009, GMA Network announced that the distribution of the application form will be on August 30 and would be distributed nationwide through various malls. For this season, the age limit is set from 16 to 23 years old. There was a live coverage of the said event during SOP. Much of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.
The following dates and cities for the auditions were as follows:
The pilot episode was aired on November 15, 2009. The new improve edition of the popular show. The StarStruck is shown everyday having Mondays to Fridays will be tests. This season there was be a Saturday's edition is the performance night hosted by Raymond Gutierrez. The Sunday's edition is the elimination night hosted by Carla Abellana and Dennis Trillo. The show held its the Final Judgment on February 21, 2010 at the Araneta Coliseum.
Selection process
In the fifth year of the reality-talent search, Out of numerous who auditioned nationwide, only Top 100 was chosen for the first cut. From Top 100, it was trimmed down to Top 60, then from Top 60 to Top 57. These Top 57 dreamers will undergo their first acting test segment; (No Second Cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda%20Bromilow | Belinda Bromilow (born 21 May 1975) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the Nine Network series, Doctor Doctor (2016–21), and the Hulu/Disney+ series, The Great (2020–23).
Education
Bromilow studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Career
Bromilow has appeared in a number of Australian television series, including Mcleod's Daughters, Packed to the Rafters, and Rake. She played Jonquil Payne as a series regular on Spirited from 2010 to 2011. In 2016 Bromilow joined the main cast of Doctor Doctor as Betty Bell. She appeared in every episode of the series. In film, Bromilow has had roles in The Rage in Placid Lake and Not Suitable for Children.
Bromilow gained greater recognition outside of Australia through her role as Aunt Elizabeth in the Hulu/Disney+ series The Great. She unsuccessfully auditioned for a part in the 2008 Sydney Theatre Company production of the original play upon which the series is based.
Personal life
She is married to Australian director, playwright and screenwriter, Tony McNamara. They began their relationship in 2005. Together they have two children. Bromilow is a stepmother to McNamara's daughter from a previous marriage. She was diagnosed with bowel cancer ten weeks after her son was born.
In 2019, Bromilow auctioned a pair of earrings she wore to the 91st Academy Awards valued at $8,950. The earrings were designed by her friend, jewellery designer, Nicole Winkler. All proceeds from the auction were donated to the Australian organization, Mummy's Wish, helping families of women diagnosed with cancer.
Filmography
References
External links
Australian television actresses
Living people
1975 births
21st-century Australian actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Brown | Wendell Brown is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and inventor best known for his innovations in telecommunications and Internet technology, cybersecurity, and smartphone app development. Brown has founded multiple notable technology companies including Teleo, LiveOps and eVoice.
Early life and education
Brown's parents were both native West Virginians. His father, Foster Brown, was a professor of statistics and psychology from Wheeling, West Virginia while his mother, Barbara, was an elementary school teacher from Tunnelton, West Virginia. Brown has stated of his upbringing, "I'm proud of my West Virginia heritage, where my family tree has deep roots dating back to the founding of our nation, and I treasure many memories from times spent in the lush countryside of my parents' hometowns."
Much of Brown's upbringing was in the northernmost Appalachian town of Oneonta where his father worked as a professor and taught a variety of subjects at SUNY Oneonta. Brown attended Oneonta High School, during which time he began programming and selling personal computer systems, and published his first computer article in Byte (magazine). In 2013, he was honored with a permanent plaque on Oneonta High School's Wall of Distinction for his accomplishments in business and technology.
Brown graduated from Cornell University in 1983, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While at Cornell, Brown was awarded a Hughes Aircraft Bachelor of Science Undergraduate Fellowship.
Career
Brown is regarded as a pioneer of the expansion of gig work and remote work.
As co-founder and chairman of eVoice, Brown created the eVoice voicemail platform in 2000, the world's first large-scale, Internet-enabled voicemail system. He invented techniques such as voicemail-to-email, visual voicemail, and enhanced caller ID, innovations that are considered some of the earliest "apps," and which were later deployed by Google Voice and Apple. eVoice supplied voicemail solutions to AT&T, MCI, AOL, and regional phone companies. eVoice was acquired by AOL Time-Warner in 2001 and became part of the AOL voice services group.
In 2002, Brown co-founded LiveOps and began serving as its chairman and chief technology officer. LiveOps designs call center solutions and social media management for companies such as Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, and eBay. That year, he was recognized as one of the Top 100 leading computer industry executives in America by technology magazine MicroTimes.
In 2006, Brown co-founded Teleo, an early competitor of Skype, where he created VoIP applications enabling users to send and receive phone calls over the Internet. Teleo was acquired by Microsoft and became part of Microsoft's MSN group in 2006.
Brown co-founded Nularis in 2011, a developer of high-efficiency LED lighting technology that supplies global franchises including Hyatt Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.
In 2015, Brown founded the S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Australian%20Land%20Information%20System | WALIS was established by the Western Australian (WA) Government in 1981. It is responsible for coordinating the discovery of, and access to, location-based or geographic data generated by WA Government agencies. WALIS achieves this through partnerships between organisations, projects, committees and working groups; coordinated through Landgate.
History
The idea for WALIS began in the late seventies although WALIS was not established until 1981. Since that time there have been many people involved in WALIS, some restructures and many different plans and strategies.
Central to WALIS management was the Land Information System Advisory Committee, established as a forum to represent the interests of the public and private sector. The main WALIS group was the Land Information System Support Centre (LISSC), composed of technology and skilled personnel.
By 1986, the rapid growth of GIS forced a re-evaluation of the strategies of WALIS. WALIS began to emphasise the establishment of on-line access to data.
In 1987, the WALIS committee structure was rearranged to a three-tier structure. This structure comprised the WALIS Executive Policy Committee (EPC), which was retained from the inception of WALIS, WALIS Council and the WALIS Secretariat.
In October 1988, the EPC formed a WALIS Marketing Taskforce to develop a policy for the marketing of state government information. Coopers & Lybrand WD Scott (C & LWDS) were contracted to research market value of land information in WA.
In June 1990, Cabinet approved a number of recommendations including the elevation of WALIS to full program status within the Department of Land Administration (DOLA) – now known as Landgate. A second recommendation was to make the Minister for Lands the accountable minister. This is how WALIS still stands today.
In November 1994, the WALIS Advisory Committee (WAC) met for the first time. This committee was formed to provide strategic advice to the WALIS Executive Policy Committee on land information management from a community perspective. The WALIS Advisory Committee was disbanded by the Minister for Lands in 2009.
In 2011, a revised governance framework for WALIS was established, focused on implementing the Location Information Strategy for Western Australia approved by the Western Australian State Cabinet in August 2011. The Location Information Strategy in turn supports the Western Australian Whole of Government Open Data Policy, which seeks to better utilise the public sector's data assets by making them easily discoverable and accessible through the WA Open Data Service at https://data.wa.gov.au/.
In 2017, the WALIS Council remains an important forum for collaboration and information sharing between WA Government agencies on the management of location information, data and technologies.
Benefits of WALIS
In the mid-seventies, several challenges with the management of land information in Western Australia arose. The electronic capture of location-based data, particularly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katok%20Mga%20Misis | () is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Giovanni Calvo, Ali Sotto, Sanjay Acosta and Bayani Agbayani, it premiered on July 31, 1995. The show concluded on June 5, 1998.
Hosts
Ali Sotto
Bayani Agbayani
Arnell Ignacio
Sanjay Acosta
Ai-Ai delas Alas (reliever of Ali Sotto)
Jackie Lou Blanco (reliever of Ali Sotto and Arnell Ignacio)
Giovanni Calvo
References
External links
1995 Philippine television series debuts
1998 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Formal%20Techniques%20for%20Networked%20and%20Distributed%20Systems | The IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems (FORTE) is part of the federated conference event DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques) which also includes the International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS).
Until 2013, the conference was held as IFIP Joint International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems and consisted of the two conference series FMOODS and FORTE.
Scope
The joined conference FMOODS/FORTE is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools and applications of distributed systems. The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, in particular in the areas of:
component- and model-based design
object technology, modularity, software adaptation
service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud and mobile computing systems
software quality, reliability, availability and security
security, privacy and trust in distributed systems
adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization
self-healing/organizing
verification, validation, formal analysis and testing of the above
Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. This conference covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability.
Previous Conferences
Web pages
FORTE 2014
FMOODS / FORTE 2013
FMOODS / FORTE 2012 is offline
FMOODS / FORTE 2011
FMOODS / FORTE 2010 is offline
FMOODS / FORTE 2009
FMOODS 2008 / FORTE 2008 is offline
FMOODS 2007 / FORTE 2007
FMOODS 2006 / FORTE 2006
FMOODS 2005 / FORTE 2005
FORTE 2004
FMOODS 2003 is offline / FORTE 2003 is offline
FMOODS 2002 / FORTE 2002
FORTE 2001 is offline
FMOODS 2000 / FORTE 2000 is offline
FMOODS 1999 is offline / FORTE 1999
FORTE 1998
FMOODS 1997 is offline / FORTE 1997 is offline
FMOODS 1996 / FORTE 1996 is offline
Proceedings
FMOODS / FORTE 2013 (LNCS 7892)
FMOODS / FORTE 2012 (LNCS 7273)
FMOODS / FORTE 2011 (LNCS 6722)
FMOODS / FORTE 2010 (LNCS 6117)
FMOODS / FORTE 2009 (LNCS 5522)
FMOODS 2008 (LNCS 5051) / FORTE 2008 (LNCS 5048)
FMOODS 2007 (LNCS 4468) / FORTE 2007 (LNCS 4574)
FMOODS 2006 (LNCS 4037) / FORTE 2006 (LNCS 4229)
FMOODS 2005 (LNCS 3535) / FORTE 2005 (LNCS 3731)
FORTE 2004 (LNCS 3235)
FMOODS 2003 (LNCS 2884) / FORTE 2003 (LNCS 2767)
FMOODS 2002 (IFIP ACIT) / FORTE 2002 (LNCS 2529)
FMOODS 2000 (IFIP ACIT)
FMOODS 1999 (IFIP ACIT)
FORTE 1997 (IFIP AICT)
Notes
Distributed computing conferen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yota | Yota () is a Russian mobile phone brand and mobile broadband manufacturer. Yota is a trademark of Skartel LLC.
On May 9, 2012, Yota's WiMAX was replaced by its LTE network. In September 2012, 4G networks were launched in the Russian cities of Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Moscow, Sochi, Samara, Vladivostok, Ufa, Kazan and St. Petersburg.
Garsdale Services Investment Ltd. owns 100% of Yota's shares and 50% of MegaFon's shares. In turn, Garsdale is controlled by AF Telecom (82%), Telconet Capital (13.5%), and the Russian Technologies State Corporation (4.5%).
History
In 2006, the co-owner of the St. Petersburg company Korus, Denis Sverdlov and Bulgarian businessman Sergey Adonev, established the first provider of WiMAX, a new data transfer technology. In 2006, WiMAX was used in China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan and the United States. In 2008, Skartel was the first company in Russia to deploy WiMAX standard network in Moscow and St Petersburg in a range of 2.5-2.7 GHz. In 2010 Yota announced its plans to launch LTE on its network. The first test of the new standard network took place in Kazan, on 30 August 2010. The subscribers gained access to the Internet at a rate of 20-30 Mbit/s. About 150 base stations have been installed in Kazan. The investments into the LTE network deployment constituted $20 million. The fourth generation LTE network, which was tested by the Yota provider in Kazan, was switched off the next day. At that point, Yota had no interest to use a 4G standard network in a commercial or test mode.
In April 2019, Yota filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy stemmed from a lawsuit filed against the company by its contracted manufacturer, Hi-P Singapore.
Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Officially, Novosibirsk was the first Russian city where the LTE network was deployed, commercially launched on December 22, 2011. Then this new format of communications was adopted in Krasnodar (29 April 2012), Moscow (10 May 2012), and Sochi (11 May 2012). Samara was connected to LTE on 23 May 2013. And later on Ufa and Saint Petersburg have also joined this service. LTE network works within a range of 2.5-2.7 GHz, which is one of the ranges, accepted as standard by the International Telecommunication Union. In Russia these frequencies have also been selected by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation for the 4th generation networks.
LTE standard can provide the speed of up to 100 Mbit/s, however Yota provides the speed, limited to 20 Mbit/s in order to prevent the network from overloading and to provide equal LTE access to all the users.
AF-Telecom (Megafon) and Skartel (Yota) concluded the contract on joint development of networks for the fourth generation LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile communications in Russia based on a business model of the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). The key idea of the contract is that Megafon has an opportunity to give a telecommunication service of fourth-generation LTE, using Yot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Vogel%20%28computer%20designer%29 | Peter Vogel (born 30 August 1954, Sydney) is an Australian inventor and technologist known for developing the Fairlight CMI.
Career
Vogel has worked in the electronics industry since graduating from Cranbrook School, Sydney in 1972. His first major achievement was the development of the world's first commercial sound sampling electronic musical instrument, the Fairlight CMI. Along with his school friend Kim Ryrie, Vogel was co-founder of Fairlight, the company that made the CMI from 1975 to 1999. Along with Tony Furse of Creative Strategies, the two were awarded the CSIRO Medal in 1987.
In 1982, he designed a medical emergency response device called Vitalcall. As of 2014, he returned to this field as chief technology officer of Vitalcare, an Australian medical alarm service for the aged.
In 1988 Vogel started Right Hemisphere Pty Ltd. This took him from the field of sound and vision processing to the wider realm of computers and communications.
Around the time of starting Right Hemisphere, Vogel filed a number of patents for inventions in the television field, including an on-screen program guide. His inventions included a device for removing commercials from TV recordings, which decades later brought him into conflict with certain television broadcasters.
In 2003, Vogel closed down Right Hemisphere to concentrate on developing IceTV. IceTV provided Australia's first subscription-based electronic program guide for television, offering a TiVo-like service including the ability to remotely instruct digital video recorders, to record content using mobile phones and internet browsers.
In 2006 IceTV was sued by the Nine Network who alleged that IceTV's electronic program guide (EPG) breached their copyright. The financial damage caused by the lawsuit resulted in Vogel losing his job as Chief Technical Officer of IceTV. He left IceTV in October 2006, and with three other professionals with expertise in technology, media and commerce, started a new consultancy, Vogel Ross Pty Limited.
The Nine Network vs IceTV case was heard before the High Court of Australia, which in 2009 ruled in IceTV's favour. The decision was described in some legal circles as a significant landmark in Australian copyright law.
After re-establishing Fairlight Instruments in August 2009 and releasing the CMI-30A, the 30th anniversary model of the Fairlight CMI, and Fairlight iOS apps for the Apple iPhone and iPad, Vogel renamed Fairlight Instruments to Peter Vogel Instruments in July 2012. When announcing the name change, the company indicated a new range of synthesisers was being developed.
As of 2017, however, visitors to the Vogel website are greeted with an advisory that the new CMI is currently not for sale due to litigation from the former owners of the Fairlight trademark, Fairlight.au Pty Ltd. Peter Vogel Instruments had contracted Fairlight.au to develop the software for the CMI-30A and licensed the Fairlight trademark. In 2012, Fairlight.au sued Peter Vogel Ins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TvN%20%28South%20Korean%20TV%20channel%29 | TVN (stylized as tvN) is a South Korean nationwide pay television network owned by CJ E&M, entertainment division of CJ ENM. tvN programming consists of a variety of entertainment content, focused in television series and variety shows. It is available on cable, on satellite through SkyLife, and IPTV platforms in South Korea. Since 2014, the network is headed by Kang Ho-sung and Rhee Myung-han. From June 28, 2010, to April 30, 2013, tvN Go was broadcast by renting a channel from Korea DMB.
Logo
Programs
News
tvN e-News 9 (an entertainment equivalent of KBS News 9 and JTBC Newsroom)
TV series
tvN dramas are exported to various countries in Asia and the Americas. tvN's highest-rated TV series are Crash Landing On You, Reply 1988 and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. The final episode of Crash Landing On You recorded 21.683% nationwide audience share, the third highest ratings recorded by a Korean cable television drama until that point. It also became the first tvN drama to cross 20% ratings, and was critically acclaimed for its screenplay, direction and performances. Reply 1988 received both critical and audience acclaim, with its finale episode achieved an 18.8% nationwide audience share and making it the highest rated drama in Korean cable television history for the next three years. In addition, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God was also a hit and consistently topped cable television viewership ratings in its time slot. Its final episode recorded an 18.680% nationwide audience share, the second highest ratings of a Korean cable television drama at the time. It received critical acclaim and became a cultural phenomenon in South Korea.
Currently, tvN dramas hold 32 spots of the 50 on the list of highest-rated Korean dramas in cable television.
Entertainment
Sports
Alongside with sporting lineups aired on tvN, tvN SPORTS also launched as a standalone channel in 2022.
Football
AFC (2021-2024)
National teams
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (from third round)
2023 AFC Asian Cup
2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup
AFC Junior/Youth Championships
Men's/boys
AFC U-23 Championship
AFC U-19 Championship
AFC U-16 Championship
Women's/girls
AFC U-19 Women's Championship
AFC U-16 Women's Championship
AFC Futsal Championships
AFC Men's Futsal Championship
AFC U-20 Men's Futsal Championship
AFC Women's Futsal Championship
Clubs
AFC Cup
AFC Futsal Club Championship
UEFA Euro 2020
Germany: Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, DFL-Supercup (2021-2024)
Tennis
French Open (from 2021)
Australian Open (from 2022)
ATP Tour 250 (including Korea Open since 2022)
Mixed Martial Arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Aquatics sports
19th FINA World Championships
2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships
Golf
CJ Cup (PGA Tour)
Viewership ratings
The table below lists the top 20 dramas with the highest average audience share ratings (nationwide), corresponding episode with highest rating and the date.
The table below lists the top 20 dram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSIX | COSIX is a Chinese UNIX operating system developed since 1989 by China National Computer Software & Technology Service Corporation (CS&S). A jointly developed 64-bit version with Compaq was released in 1999.
An early version of the COSIX kernel was developed based on UNIX System V, and the 64-bit version was based on Tru64 UNIX. A Linux distribution named COSIX Linux was developed by CS&S and released in 1999, which had no technical relationship to COSIX.
See also
SOX Unix
References
External links
CS&S Homepage
Unix variants
Science and technology in the People's Republic of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RERO | RERO can stand for:
RERO, a library network of western Switzerland
Release early, release often, a software development philosophy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe%20Letter%20Blues | "Moe Letter Blues" is the twenty-first episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 9, 2010. In this episode, Homer, Reverend Lovejoy, and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon receive a letter from Moe stating that he will steal one of their wives. The three get together and try to remember intimate moments between Moe and their wives.
The episode was written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Matthew Nastuk and guest stars Don Pardo as himself. The main plot of the episode is a parody of A Letter to Three Wives. It is the third episode after season 19's "Mona Leaves-a" and season 20's "Four Great Women and a Manicure" to air on Mother's Day and be centered on mothers and women.
"Moe Letter Blues" received positive reviews from critics and was viewed by 5.66 million households according to the Nielsen Media Research.
Plot
Moe's Tavern is the scene of merry-making for the people of Springfield, and Moe relates how his role as bartender gives him insight into his customers' lives. He notices tension in the marriages of Homer, who argues about what to do for Mother's Day, Apu, who plays a song in the car that Manjula dislikes, and Reverend Lovejoy, who does not want to help Helen because he is playing with a train set. Mother's Day is approaching, and Marge, needing a break from motherhood, suggests that Homer take the children to Weasel Island after Krusty the Clown promotes it on his show. At first Homer is enthusiastic, but becomes concerned when Marge mentions his leaving will allow her to "take care of something." As the ferry to the island pulls away from the dock, the three men receive a letter from Moe informing them that he is running off with one of their wives.
At Weasel Island, the children spend time at a shoddy amusement park while Homer, Apu and Lovejoy agonize over their situation. At first, each insists their marriage is fine. Homer, however, remembers his mother-in-law Jacqueline Bouvier's 80th birthday, where Moe was the bartender. Homer, who was angry at Marge for only serving non-alcoholic beer, got into an argument with Patty and Selma after they started annoying him with their antics. Disgusted, Homer then drove them out, and Marge told him that he ruins every event that she plans. Apu notices cracks in his marriage, recollecting an incident where he and Manjula forgot their son Gheet at Moe's after using the bar's bathroom to change out of rain-soaked cricket whites. Manjula drove back to retrieve their son and did not return for hours. Homer mentions that he saw Manjula playing an interactive dance video game with Moe that night. Finally, Lovejoy remembers advice given to him by the Parson that he ignored his wife Helen's needs, and Apu recounts how he witnessed Moe confiding in Helen that he was in love with a married woman and that Helen put her hand on his knee.
When the ferry returns to the mainland, each man realize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20Surveil%20with%20Love | "To Surveil with Love" is the twentieth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on May 2, 2010, as the 461st episode of the whole series. In the episode, radiation seeps out of Homer's gym bag after a bomb squad blows it up and Springfield officials decide to suspend all civil liberties. Meanwhile, Lisa dyes her hair after being stereotyped for being blonde.
The episode was written by Michael Nobori and directed by Mark Kirkland and guest stars Eddie Izzard. It also featured a new sequence with Kesha's single "Tik Tok" as the theme song, replacing the whole opening sequence as part of "Fox Rocks Week" for which Fox shows were encouraged to incorporate music into programming. This is the first episode of the Simpsons, where the title "The Simpsons" is not shown. The episode was praised by critics for its storyline and satire of surveillance and conformity, while Lisa's subplot was criticized. The episode also received a 2.7/8 in the 18–49 Nielsen Rating demographic going down one-tenth from the previous episode "The Squirt and the Whale." The episode's title is a reference to the classic film To Sir, with Love (1967), starring Sidney Poitier.
Plot
When Mr. Burns is informed that the Nuclear Power Plant has run out of room to store waste plutonium, Smithers hides some of the radioactive matter in Homer's gym bag. Shortly afterwards, Homer goes to the train station and forgets the bag. The police see the bag as a threat and decide to detonate it, causing a nuclear explosion in the train station. The incident sparks fear of terrorism, and the town votes to hire British security consultant Nigel Bakerbutcher to install surveillance cameras all around Springfield. Soon the entire town is being watched, but when Chief Wiggum and the other police officers get tired of watching the surveillance screens, they recruit some of the townspeople—including Marge and Ned Flanders—to keep watch. Marge is not comfortable watching the activities of her fellow townspeople, but Ned discovers he enjoys being Springfield's "conscience" and proceeds to nag everyone through loudspeakers on the cameras, leaving the townspeople frustrated by Ned's constant nagging.
Bart discovers that the family's backyard contains a blind spot that none of the cameras can see, and he and Homer soon begin charging people to do whatever they want there. When Ned scolds Homer for allowing so many immoral activities to go on, Homer retorts that the situation is Ned's fault as he has abused his power and literally played God over the town and as a result it concentrated all the wrongdoings into a small space. Ned apologizes to the town for his interference, and he and Homer proceed to destroy all the cameras. It is then revealed that Bakerbutcher has been using the footage to put together a British reality television series called The American Oafs, which Queen Elizabeth II enjoys watchi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bob%20Next%20Door | "The Bob Next Door" is the twenty-second and penultimate episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 16, 2010. In the episode, Bart Simpson becomes convinced that their new neighbor is Sideshow Bob in disguise, but after a trip to the Springfield Penitentiary they find a distressed Bob still incarcerated. Eventually, Bart discovers that Bob has surgically swapped faces with Walt, who was his cellmate at that time, and still plans to kill him, although he is ultimately defeated.
The episode was written by John Frink and directed by Nancy Kruse. The episode guest stars Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob. The episode's plot is based on the film Face/Off.
"The Bob Next Door" received positive reviews from critics; most agreed that it was a funny return for Sideshow Bob and an improvement over "The Italian Bob" and "Funeral for a Fiend".
Plot
A financial crisis in Springfield causes the sale of many houses and release of all low-level criminals from Springfield Penitentiary, including a man named Walt Warren. Walt purchases a house next door to the Simpson family and charms the neighborhood. However, Bart is convinced that Walt is Sideshow Bob in disguise because they have the same voice. He tries several times to find proof, but fails. Marge convinces him otherwise by taking him to the penitentiary, where they see Bob locked in a padded cell, wearing a straitjacket and writing "Bart Simpson Will Die!" on the walls. A seemingly reassured Bart decides to go to a baseball game with Walt, who removes his small shoes to show long feet folded inside, revealing himself to be Sideshow Bob. Bob restrains Bart in the car and gags him with duct tape, planning to take him to Five Corners, a location where five states meet, to kill him.
Meanwhile, the real Walt Warren escapes prison while bearing Bob's hair and face and comes to the Simpsons' home. At first, everyone thinks Bob has escaped, but Walt's short feet reveal his true identity. Walt explains that he and Bob were cellmates and, prior to Walt's release, Bob drugged him and performed a transplant to switch their faces. The transplant left Walt unable to talk properly, resulting in him being detained in the padded cell. He wrote his message on the wall as a warning, but it was misinterpreted as a threat. Walt and the Simpsons go after Bob. Meanwhile, a waitress at a roadside diner becomes infatuated with Bob until she peels off Walt's face. Amidst a distraction outside the diner, Homer, Marge, and Lisa travel to Mexico in search of Bart while Walt gets away and continues to the Five Corners.
At the Five Corners, Bob intends to kill Bart in such a way that the crime takes place in all five states (Bob stands in the first, fires the gun in the second, the bullet travels through the third, hits Bart in the fourth, who falls dead in the fifth), thus making it impossible to prosecute. Bart stalls b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient%20Safety%20and%20Quality%20Improvement%20Act | The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA): , 42 U.S.C. ch. 6A subch. VII part C, established a system of patient safety organizations and a national patient safety database. To encourage reporting and broad discussion of adverse events, near misses, and dangerous conditions, it also established privilege and confidentiality protections for Patient Safety Work Product (as defined in the act). The PSQIA was introduced by Sen. Jim Jeffords [I-VT]. It passed in the Senate July 21, 2005 by unanimous consent, and passed the House of Representatives on July 27, 2005, with 428 Ayes, 3 Nays, and 2 Present/Not Voting.
Context for the passage of the Act
The Notice of proposed rulemaking for this law describes the reason Congress passed it.
Summary of the act's major sections
Definitions
Patient Safety Organization (PSO) must certify that it supports the requirements in the PSQIA and be listed on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) web site.
The definition of Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP) is quite broad. Patient safety work product includes any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or oral statements (or copies of any of this material), which are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a PSO and are reported to a PSO; or are developed by a patient safety organization for the conduct of patient safety activities; and which could result in improved patient safety, health care quality, or health care outcomes; or which identify or constitute the deliberations or analysis, or identify the fact of reporting pursuant to a patient safety evaluation system (42 USC 299b-21(7)(A)).
However, patient safety work product does not include a patient's medical record, billing and discharge information, or any other original patient or provider records; nor does it include information that is collected, maintained, or developed separately, or exists separately, from a patient safety evaluation system.
Privilege and confidentiality protections
Patient Safety Work Product must not be disclosed, except in very specific circumstances and subject to very specific restrictions.
Note: the Patient Safety Activities Exception is the most common one that providers and PSOs will be working with.
Permitted Disclosures
Patient Safety Activities — PSWP may be disclosed:
Between the Provider and the PSO — i.e.:
From the provider to the PSO, for Patient Safety Activities, and
From the PSO to the disclosing provider, for Patient Safety Activities
To a contractor of a Provider or a PSO
For contracted Patient Safety Activities
Contractor may not further disclose, except back to the contracted provider or PSO
Among affiliated providers, for Patient Safety Activities
From one PSO to another PSO or another provider, if
Direct identifiers (which are defined in the regulations) of any providers, affiliated organizations, corporate parents, subsidiaries, practice partner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel-Rothwesten%20Airfield | Kassel-Rothwesten Airfield is a former military airfield located in Rothwesten, a part of Fuldatal in Germany about north-northeast of Kassel (Hessen); approximately southwest of Berlin.
Then known as Fliegerhorst Kassel, the facility was used during World War II by the German Luftwaffe as a combat airfield. It was seized in early April 1945 by the United States Army and used as a Ninth Air Force combat airfield until the end of the war in Europe. After the war "Kassel Air Depot" was established at the airfield, before being closed in September 1946. United States Army units remained at Rothwesten Kaserne until it was closed in 1959.
In the spring of 1948, the barracks were the setting of the "Conclave of Rothwesten", in which the introduction of the Deutsche Mark was prepared.
From 1973 to 2008, the facility was used by the Bundeswehr. After the military left, the airfield and barracks were converted to civilian use, including a photovoltaic power station and a business park. In 2015, the area began to be used as a facility for housing refugees.
History
Kassel-Rothwesten was built in 1935 by the Luftwaffe. A grass runway was constructed which was 600 meters wide and 800 meters long. Later it was extended to 1000 meters. On the east side of the runway the technical buildings were set slightly into the hills. Among them was a wharf, a maintenance building and an engine testing building. Additionally there were three large hangars; later two more were added. Then there was a command post and a building for the aerial photographic service. In the middle stood the control tower.
The first buildings at the airfield were put into service on 1 May 1935. In December 1935 the first pupils arrived for the new flying school which had been established there, and by mid 1939 the Fliegerstab Rothwesten was completed and at war strength, hosting a reconnaissance group taking photographs over Poland, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
World War II use
During the war, Rothwesten was of less strategic importance. The new planes could not use it. The runway was too short, and it was not concrete. Nevertheless, parts of the maintenance crew stayed behind to serve the flying school which still had its facilities there. The most important task for the base was as a service center for night fighters. Aircraft that had to refuel during battle could land there, and minor repairs could be made. It was not a real combat airfield, and played a minor role during the war.
As a result of having been built with very deep foundations, some buildings could be equipped with basements, and some even with a sub-basement. These were used to store all kinds of things. They were not used as bomb shelters, for the walls were not thick enough. However, there was a "Bierkeller," a canteen for officers from the base, with murals on the walls. It remained in use at the base, which became a Bundeswehr barracks, until the site was closed down in 2007. Behind the Bierkeller was an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGSM%20Network | SGSM Network, formerly known as The South Grand Senior Ministry, began in 2001 in partnership with some local South Saint Louis, Missouri Catholic parishes along the South Grand Avenue Corridor in St. Louis. SGSM started as a collaboration of only 2 churches, St. Stephen Protomarter and St. Cecilia, both located at the southernmost part of Grand Avenue. Though this organization started small, with church support and volunteers, the ministry was created to provide assistance and care to senior citizens throughout the Greater Saint Louis area.
To reflect this expansion, South Grand Senior Ministry became SGSM Network in 2008, and the organization has expanded throughout the St. Louis Metro area to include Grand Center, Northeast County Deanery, South County, South Grand, and the Lindenwood area (now independent). These different areas are referred to as clusters. The Network is meant to help organize religious communities and parishes of many different faiths to build active and solid partnerships with congregation members, area businesses, and neighbors so they can together provide volunteer opportunities and direct services that help to improve the quality of life for senior citizens.
There are five major components of the work the SGSM Network does throughout the metropolitan area. These include, Health, Transportation, Socialization, Case Management and minor home repair. The SGSM Network also sends out a bi-monthly newsletter to seniors members of all participating parishes and religious communities giving information to seniors about issues affecting them as well as promoting activities and seminars in their communities.
South Grand Cluster
The South Grand Cluster is a strictly Catholic cluster, and currently includes the parishes of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Cecilia, Saint Stephen Protomartyr, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Margaret of Scotland, and St. Pius V.
South County Cluster
The South County Cluster is a strictly Catholic cluster, and currently includes the parishes of St. Matthias the Apostle, St. Bernadette, St. Andrew, and St. Mark.
Grand Center Cluster
The Grand Center Cluster is an ecumenical group of churches and includes the faith communities St. Francis Xavier Catholic Parish, also known as College Church at St. Louis University. Christ in the City Lutheran Church, and Third Baptist Church.
Northeast County Deanery Cluster
The Northeast Deanery is the largest cluster affiliated with the SGSM Network, is entirely Catholic. This cluster includes the parishes of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Holy Name of Jesus, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sacred Heart, Saint Angela Merici, Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Ferdinand, Saint Martin de Porres, Saint Norbert, Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, and Saint Sabina.
The Lindenwood Area Cluster
The Lindenwood Area Cluster was at one point a member of the SGSM Network, but is now a self-sustaining senior organization. This cluster includes to this day, Epiphany Catholi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad%20%28Glee%29 | "Ballad" is the tenth episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 18, 2009, and was written and directed by series creator Brad Falchuk. "Ballad" sees the glee club split into pairs to sing ballads to one another. Rachel (Lea Michele) is paired with club director Will (Matthew Morrison) and develops a crush on him. Quinn's (Dianna Agron) parents learn that Quinn is pregnant, and she moves in with Finn (Cory Monteith) and his mother when her own parents evict her. Gregg Henry and Charlotte Ross guest-star as Quinn's parents Russell and Judy Fabray, and Sarah Drew appears as Suzy Pepper, a student with a former crush on Will. Romy Rosemont returns as Finn's mother, Carole Hudson.
The episode features covers of seven songs, including a mash-up of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police and "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap. Studio recordings of all songs performed in the episode were released as singles, available for digital download. "Ballad" was watched by 7.29 million US viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Elizabeth Holmes of The Wall Street Journal and Liz Pardue of Zap2it were disappointed that Jane Lynch did not appear as Sue Sylvester, though Mike Hale of The New York Times did not miss her presence. Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle deemed "Ballad" one of the best episodes of Glee to date. Dan Snierson of Entertainment Weekly did not enjoy it as much as the preceding episode "Wheels" but reviewed the episode positively overall, while Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune deemed it "deliriously, deliciously bad".
"Ballad" was the episode submission of Dianna Agron for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but her nomination failed to make the final cut.
Plot
Glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) has the club split up into pairs to sing ballads to one another. As Matt Rutherford (Dijon Talton) is absent, Will is forced to take his place and sing with Rachel (Lea Michele), who develops a crush on him. Will is dismayed, remembering Suzy Pepper (Sarah Drew), the last student who had such strong feelings for him. When her feelings were not reciprocated, she was so distraught she ate an extremely hot pepper from Sinaloa, was hospitalized, and had to have an esophagus transplant. Rachel visits Will's apartment, where his wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) puts her to work cooking and cleaning. After an encounter with Suzy Pepper, during which Suzy explains that the two of them are similar and that chasing after Will won't repair Rachel's self-esteem, Rachel realizes her feelings for Will reflect her concerns about her own self-worth and apologizes for her behavior. Afterward, Will assures her that she will find the man of her dreams who loves her for who she is.
Finn is paired with Kurt (Chris Colfer), who advises him to sing his ballad to his unborn daughter. When Finn's mother Carole (Romy Rosemont) finds him si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHN | UHN or Uhn can refer to:
University Health Network, a public research and teaching hospital network in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Uhn, the symbol for the chemical element Unhexnilium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorobenzene%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on Chlorobenzene.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source and follow its directions. An external MSDS is available here.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Vapor pressure of liquid
Viscosity of liquid
Thermal Conductivity of liquid
Spectral data
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect%20with%20Mark%20Kelley | Connect with Mark Kelley was a Canadian news talk show, which aired from 2009 to 2012 on CBC News Network. Hosted by Mark Kelley, the show originally aired lived from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. eastern time on weeknights, and then was shortened to an 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. air time, after the creation of The Lang and O'Leary Exchange. The show's team also included Reshmi Nair, Jennifer Hollett and Nick Purdon.
Several months before the first airing, Mark Kelley pitched to his executives the concept of a "highly interactive nightly news show" which would use new media technologies. The show debuted on October 26, 2009.
The show ended on June 22, 2012 due to budget cuts resulting from the 2012 Canadian federal budget. Kelley went on to join the CBC's weekly newsmagazine series The Fifth Estate.
References
CBC News Network original programming
2009 Canadian television series debuts
2012 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian television talk shows
2000s Canadian television talk shows
2000s Canadian television news shows
2010s Canadian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20federal%20subjects%20of%20Russia%20by%20Human%20Development%20Index | This is a list of Russian federal subjects by Human Development Index as of 2019 (2021 data - Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation).
Federal districts
This is a list of Russian federal districts by Human Development Index as of 2021.
See also
List of countries by Human Development Index
References
Russia, HDI
Human Development Index
HDI
Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talenthouse | Talenthouse was a social network site owned by Talenthouse AG, a public company based in Switzerland that also owns other services including EyeEm, Ello, Jovoto, Zoopa, and Creative Commission.
History
Talenthouse was co-founded in 2009 by Co-CEOs Amos Pizzey and Roman Scharf. The Talenthouse headquarters were originally located in Los Angeles, California, USA with offices in New York City and London.
In December 2019, Talenthouse was merged along with Ello and Zooppa into a new company named TLNT Holdings.
On 25 May 2021, investment company New Value AG acquired TLNT Holdings, Talenthouse, EyeEm, and Jovoto.
On 24 November 2021, New Value AG changed its name to Talenthouse AG
In March 2022, Talenthouse AG listed shares on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
Funding
As of May 2012, Talenthouse had received $15.1 million of funding to date with a recently closed $4.2 million Series B round. Investors include Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Reliance Entertainment, 3TS Cisco Growth Fund, Brett Ratner, Jean Pigozzi and Estée Lauder chairman William P. Lauder.
On May 20, 2014, the company announced securing a $10 Million Series C Funding round with investors Dave Stewart and Gerard Butler
In March 2019, Animoca invested US$2 million for 448,413 shares of preferred stock in Talenthouse.
Acquisitions
In 2018, Talenthouse acquired the social network Ello for an undisclosed amount.
In June 2021, Talenthouse acquired EyeEm for close to $40 million.
In April 2022, it was announced Talenthouse had acquired the London-headquartered creative hiring platform, Creative Commission.
Recognition
In May 2012, Talenthouse was named a Winner of the Red Herring Top 100 Award.
Controversy
In February 2023, many creatives who had worked for Talenthouse came forward to reveal that they had not been paid for the work they had done. Roman Scharf, the co-founder of Talenthouse and chairman of the board, said: "We are extremely sorry for this unacceptable delay in payments and any inconvenience and upset it has caused. We take this matter extremely seriously and are working on a long-term robust solution that will benefit all Talenthouse creatives. This solution is well advanced and we plan to announce it soon." Whilst some clients have since paid artists directly, as of February 2023 the issue is believed to be ongoing with numerous artists working for other clients still owed money.
As of July 2023 Talenthouse is going through financial restructuring and seeking outside investors. Currently the Talenthouse website is unavailable and other sites hosted and maintained by Talenthouse like Ello.co are also unreachable. No comments have been made by Talenthouse on the status or the future of the company, its websites or the content people had stored on their platforms.
References
Companies based in Los Angeles
Internet properties established in 2009
American social networking websites
Blog software
Android (operating system) software
Blog hosting services
Privately h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino%20regulations%20under%20the%20Bank%20Secrecy%20Act | Casinos in the United States which generate more than $1,000,000 in annual gaming revenues are required to report certain currency transactions to assist the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in uncovering money laundering activities and other financial crimes (including terrorist financing).
Although Title 31, also known as the Bank Secrecy Act, was originally focused on financial institutions, criminal use of banking services located within casinos created a need for additional regulations that were specific to casinos. Because large sums of currency are transacted through slot machines, gaming tables, automatic change machines, retail operations and the cage (banks), and with high frequency, the regulations were targeted at transactions in excess of $10,000. Casino regulation has been a topic of debate, prompting the United States Senate to have a hearing before the United States Congress in which Title 31 topics were discussed through testimony by industry experts such as Grant Eve, CPA and partner at Joseph Eve, Certified Public Accountants and Ernest Stevens Jr., Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association.
Transaction reporting
Currency transactions that occur within a single Gaming Day (the normal 24-hour period that any casino uses for accounting and business reporting), whether the currency is paid into the casino, paid out, or exchanged (in the case of foreign currency exchanges), in excess of $10,000 requires the completion of a Currency Transaction Report (CTR, FinCEN Form 112) and must contain enough information to accurately identify the individual(s) transacting the currency.
For example, if a man walks into a casino and stops at the blackjack tables and buys into the game for $12,000 (using cash), a CTR must be completed by the casino and filed with the IRS. In this example, currency is paid into the casino in the form of cash and happened within the unique 24-hour Gaming Day of the casino.
Here is an example of a cash out transaction: the established Gaming Day of a certain casino begins at 1:00am and ends at 12:59am. At 6:30am, a woman takes $6,400 in slot machine tickets to the main cage of the casino and requests payment in all $20 bills. Later that day, at around 7:10pm, the same woman approaches another cash cage on the opposite side of the casino and exchanges $4,000 in blackjack chips for cash. Because $10,400 was paid out in cash to a single individual in a single Gaming Day, a CTR must be filed by the casino to report the Cash Out transaction, because it is above the $10,000 threshold.
Because multiple transactions are aggregated for the purpose of Title 31 reporting, casinos create tracking programs to identify large transactions and automatically aggregate them in real time to ensure that they are compliant with the regulations.
Suspicious activity
Many criminals, such as those interested in tax evasion and money laundering, have researched the Title |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Live%20Devices | Windows Live Devices was an online device management service as part of Windows Live which will allow users to centrally access and manage the synchronization of files stored on their computers, mobile devices, as well as other peripherals such as digital photo frames. Windows Live Devices also allows users to remotely access their computers from the internet using a web browser.
This service integrates tightly with Windows Live Mesh to allow files and folders between two or more computers be in sync with each other, as well as to be in sync with files and folders stored on the cloud with SkyDrive. (Now OneDrive) The combination of the three services: Windows Live Devices, Windows Live Mesh, and SkyDrive are very similar to the previous Live Mesh technology preview platform offering from Microsoft, and are based on the same underlying technology.
Windows Live Devices was released on June 24, 2010, as part of Windows Live Wave 4 suite of services.
History
Microsoft released their Live Mesh software as a service platform on April 23, 2008 that enabled PCs and other devices to connect with each other through the internet using FeedSync technologies. Live Mesh allows applications, files and folders to be synchronized across multiple devices. Live Mesh was initially released as a technology preview, however, it was shortly updated to Beta on October 30, 2008 and at the same time incorporated as part of the Azure Services Platform - a "cloud" platform hosted at Microsoft data centers. Live Mesh consisted of the following four elements:
Mesh Operating Environment - the software component of Live Mesh that manages the synchronization relationships between devices and data
Live Desktop - the online cloud storage service that allows synchronized folders to be accessible via a website
Live Mesh Remote Desktop - a software that allow users to remotely access, connect and manage to any of the devices in a synchronization relationship
Live Framework - a REST-based application programming interface for accessing the Live Mesh services over HTTP
In January 2009, the Live Mesh team was merged into the unified Windows Live team at Microsoft such that its incubation technologies will be integrated into Windows Live services. As a result, Live Framework, the developer framework for Live Mesh, was discontinued on September 8, 2009 and was incorporated into Live Services - the developer resources central for all Windows Live services. As part of the merge, the Mesh Operating Environment, or simply the Live Mesh software, is replaced by Windows Live Mesh to support PC-to-PC as well as PC-to-cloud file synchronisation, and the online cloud storage service for Live Mesh - Live Desktop - is replaced by SkyDrive synchronised storage. Windows Live Devices will serve the purposes of managing and providing access to all devices in the synchronization relationship, as well as replacing the Live Mesh Remote Desktop to provide remote access functions to any devices i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Health | Daisy Health (formerly Network Europe Group and Surgery Line) is a telecommunications company founded in 1992. It was acquired by Daisy Group in December 2010 for £23.5 million.
It supplies bespoke telephony solutions for GP’s and Dental Surgeries as well as corporate and government bodies. In 2007 it processed over 60 million telephone calls and supplies hardware and inbound telephone lines for approx 1500 UK surgeries.
History
NEG was founded in 1992. The company started in a small converted broom cupboard in Brooks Mews, Mayfair, London supplying simple telephony solutions to small companies in London. The business grew organically and through the acquisition of Ension Technologies in 1999 (a Technology and Engineering focused business in Basildon) moved the headquarters from London to Essex. In 2000 the company become a Public Limited Company and changed its name to Network Europe Group plc.
In 2002 Network Europe sold its Least Cost Routing division Cable Telecom Europe Ltd to Cable Telecom (GB) Ltd prior to its purchase by Telstra Europe (European arm of the Australian government-owned Telco). In 2004 the founders Scott Russell and Nigel Butcher sold the business to the current managers through an MBO. It was the new management team that grew the business exponentially creating several new products and services including Surgery Line, a menu based telephony solution that addresses the problem of patient access. In 2009 it merged three core divisions, NEG Telecom Ltd, NEG Engineering and Network Europe Ltd into one company creating a £20 million per annum group.
Market position
At the last count, NEG serves over 3000 business customers 1500 of which are GP and Dental Surgeries which account for approx 12 million patients using its services, apart from BT this makes NEG the largest supplier of patient access telephony in the UK.
Controversy
The NEG Surgery Line service is based on "revenue share" 084 telephone number. This means a small percentage of the revenue created in delivering the call is taken from the incumbent provider and passed to the owner of the number. NEG has a contract in place that stipulates that all monies must be used to improve patient access by providing better telephony service. Public opinion of these numbers is mixed, as the perception of the service is that it cost more to call these numbers. In response to the outcome of a public consultation on the use of revenue share numbers in the NHS Health Secretary Mike O'Brien issued a statement on 14 September 2009 stating it is not the intention of the government to prohibit 'revenue sharing' as part of its proposals – the important thing is to ensure that patients are not being made to pay more than the equivalent cost of calling an 01 or 02 number. NEG has always maintained that their 084 Surgery Line numbers have never cost more to call than BT's standard local rate. It also proved that customers spend less time on the phone because of increased functionality cou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Sommer | René Sommer (1951 – 5 October 2009) was a Swiss inventor and computer programmer, credited as a co-inventor of the computer mouse.
Along with Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and André Guignard, Sommer helped invent the computer mouse at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Sommer was credited for making the mouse "more intelligent" by adding a micro-processor to the mouse's design in 1985.
Sommer died on 5 October 2009 in Saint-Légier, Vaud, Switzerland, at the age of 58.
Logitech, which manufactured the original mouse, called Sommer a ‘brilliant and impassioned engineer’ in reaction to his death.
References
1951 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Swiss inventors
Swiss computer programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Arabidopsis%20Information%20Resource | The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a community resource and online model organism database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly known as mouse-ear cress.
TAIR integrates information about the Arabidopsis genome, genes, gene products, natural variants, mutant alleles and plant phenotypes and research literature. Data in TAIR can be retrieved using simple and advanced searches, bulk query and download tools, and in collections of prepared text files. The Arabidopsis genome and annotations can be visualized using the interactive SeqViewer and GBrowse tools. TAIR’s biocurators are responsible for acquiring and integrating data from the research literature (functional annotation) as well as for assisting the community in using Arabidopsis data and tools. TAIR collaborates with the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Consortium (ABRC) to allow researchers to search, browse and order seed and DNA stocks. The ABRC's mission is to acquire, preserve and distribute seed and DNA resources that are useful to the Arabidopsis research community. TAIR’s community includes over 28,000 registered users and the website draws about 60,000 unique visitors per month.
TAIR is located at Phoenix Bioinformatics, and funded by subscriptions.
TAIR funding history
From its inception in 1999 to 2013, TAIR was primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. DBI-0850219). In response to the end of NSF funding, a core group of TAIR staff founded the non-profit organization, Phoenix Bioinformatics, with the aim of finding creative solutions to database sustainability. In September 2013, with the support of Phoenix, TAIR transitioned to subscription revenues. Subscription fees are used to fund continuous data curation and improvements to TAIR’s database and tools. TAIR offers a variety of subscription options to access the full, up-to-date resource.
To ensure the greatest community access to data, and promote data reuse, subscriber-only data in TAIR is made available to the public one year after its initial release on the TAIR site.
References
External links
The Arabidopsis Information Resource
Model organism databases
Arabidopsis thaliana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Steel%3A%20Forces%20of%20Nature | Max Steel: Forces of Nature is a 2005 computer-animated science fiction action film based on the TV series and action figure line of the same name. It is the sequel to Max Steel: Endangered Species (2004).
A sequel, titled Max Steel: Countdown, was released in 2006.
Plot
In this movie, Jefferson Smith gets to Bio-Con's base. There he finds several Bio-Con's creations in stasis, most of them failed experiments, with an exception: one of them, codenamed Elementor, wakes up and looks for five different Elementium Isotopes stored in different locations. Each isotope grants hims the power to control and mimic one specific element: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire (Bio-Con used half of these to mutate his clone with). Once in possession of these 4 ones, the power to control Metal and Ice is granted as an extra bonus. One by one, Elementor absorbs the Isotopes and gains new powers. Then Jefferson puts Max under arrest, but Max is able to break free, while Elementor attacks N-Tek saying he wants Steel or he will destroy the base. Max and Jeff find a way to escape but before they succeed, Jefferson reveals to Max that years ago after he was transformed into Max Steel in order to save his life the 5th Elementium Isotope was placed inside Max's body (when he was given transfasic energy ), and that is why he put him under house arrest since no one knows what will happen if the last Isotope is removed or extracted from his body. Max Steel fights Elementor who uses his new abilities to his advantage. After a brief confrontation with Elementor, Berto and Kat discovers that the fifth isotope makes the others go haywire, so Max decides to confront Elementor instead of running away. At the final battle, Max releases all of the power of the 5th Isotope until its overcharge destroys Elementor.
Cast
Christian Campbell as Max Steel
Scott McNeil as Elementor, Jefferson Smith and a male tour guide
Alessandro Juliani as 'Berto
Meghan Black as Kat
Kathleen Barr as a female tourist and a radio anchorwoman
Michael Donovan as various agents and scientists
Continuity change
Is this film, the continuity is altered, as well as the movies. In the TV series, Josh was outside N-Tek when he noticed someone sneaking around, he followed him. Later, Josh is captured and handcuffed by N-Tek agents. The suspect escapes, and Josh does too.
Josh follows the man and sees him standing in front of a glass container, full of green goo. Josh sees the thief is stealing some of the substance. After the intruder sees Josh, they fight. Eventually, Josh kicks the man's face, it is revealed to be a metal face (the man is Psycho). Psycho kicks Josh back, then fires his laser at Josh. The blast misses Josh, but hits the container, shattering the glass and the green liquid spills all over Josh. Psycho leaves, thinking Josh will die. The green blobs is actually nanomachines, known to the company as "Nano-Probes". Later, 'Berto tells Josh's father that the probes are dying, and need trasphasic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Steel%3A%20Dark%20Rival | Max Steel: Dark Rival is a 2007 computer-animated science fiction action film based on the TV series and action figure line of the same name. It is the sequel to Max Steel: Countdown (2006) and the fourth film overall in the Max Steel direct-to-video film series.
A sequel, titled Max Steel: Bio Crisis, was released in October 2008.
Plot
Strange thefts of N-Tek property have Max Steel on the tail of a new super agent, Troy Winter, who claims to be superior to Max in every sense. The chase is on when Team Steel realize Troy's goal is to obtain a piece of a comet named Morphosos using the stolen N-Tek technology and deliver it into enemy hands. During a battle with Max, Troy falls into a volcano with a piece of the comet. The chemical reaction between the extreme heat and the comet's components transforms Troy into a sharped dark mineral crystal like creature, with the power of "extrude" other living being's life force and abilities. Troy then adopts the name of Extroyer and attacks N-Tek headquarters. In the middle of confusion, Elementor is once again released. Extremely weak, Elementor chases Extroyer seeking the comet fragments as a new source of power, but he is "extruded" and defeated. Troy takes 'Berto, Kat and Jefferson as hostages and forces Max to obey him. Extroyer uses N-Tek's stolen magnets powered by Max to redirect the comet Morphosos near earth, so he can take as much crystal fragments as he wants, but too late he realizes it is all a setup, and he's sent into deep space instead, stuck in the comet's surface.
Cast
Christian Campbell as Max Steel
Scott McNeil as Elementor, Jefferson Smith and a male tour guide
Alessandro Juliani as 'Berto
Lisa Ann Beley as Kat and the N-Tek computer voice
Brian Drummond as Troy Winter/Extroyer and the nuclear plant computer voice
David Kaye as Warren Hunter
External links
Official site
2007 direct-to-video films
2007 animated films
Canadian direct-to-video films
American direct-to-video films
American animated science fiction films
Direct-to-video animated films
Films based on television series
Max Steel
Mainframe Studios films
Films based on Mattel toys
2000s American animated films
2007 films
Films directed by William Lau
2000s Canadian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE-Gx | TILE-Gx was a VLIW ISA multicore processor family designed by Tilera. It consisted of a mesh network that was expected to scale up to 100 cores, but only 72-core variants actually shipped.
After a few acquisitions, Tilera's designs ended up in the hands of Nvidia, which ended production of TILE-Gx processors in 2022. In June 2018, the Linux kernel dropped support for this architecture. Tile-Gx processors were used in MikroTik's CCR1000 series routers, and MikroTik continues to support this architecture out-of-tree in its RouterOS Linux distribution.
Product lineup
Common features of TILE-Gx processors:
64-bit VLIW RISC core (3-issue)
4 MAC/cycle with SIMD extensions
L1 cache: 64 KB (32 KB data + 32 KB instruction) per core.
L2 cache: 256 KB per core.
L3 cache: Other core's L2 cache connected via mesh network.
1, 2, or 4 ECC 72-bit DDR3 controllers.
Up to 24 PCIe 2.0 lanes.
Optional built-in crypto accelerator with 40 Gbit/s encryption (small packet) and 20 Gbit/s full-duplex compression, true random number generator, RSA accelerator.
Fabrication process: TSMC 40nm.
See also
TILE64
TILEPro64
References
Manycore processors
Very long instruction word computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20network | A global network is any communication network which spans the entire Earth. The term, as used in this article refers in a more restricted way to bidirectional communication networks, and to technology-based networks. Early networks such as international mail and unidirectional communication networks, such as radio and television, are described elsewhere.
The first global network was established using electrical telegraphy and global span was achieved in 1899. The telephony network was the second to achieve global status, in the 1950s. More recently, interconnected IP networks (principally the Internet, with estimated 2.5 billion users worldwide in 2014 ), and the GSM mobile communication network (with over 6 billion worldwide users in 2014) form the largest global networks of all.
Setting up global networks requires immensely costly and lengthy efforts lasting for decades. Elaborate interconnections, switching and routing devices, laying out physical carriers of information, such as land and submarine cables and earth stations must be set in operation. In addition, international communication protocols, legislation and agreements are involved.
Global networks might also refer to networks of individuals (such as scientists), communities (such as cities) and organizations (such as civil organizations) worldwide which, for instance, might have formed for the management, mitigation and resolval of global issues.
Satellite global networks
Communication satellites are an important part of global networks. However, there are specific low Earth orbit (LEO) global satellite constellations, such as Iridium, Globalstar and Orbcomm, which are comprised by dozens of similar satellites which are put in orbit at regularly spaced positions and form a mesh network, sometimes sending and receiving information directly among themselves. Using VSAT technology, satellite internet access has become possible.
Mobile wireless networks
It is estimated that 80% of the global mobile market uses the GSM standard, present in more than 212 countries and territories. Its ubiquity makes international roaming very common between mobile phone operators, enabling subscribers to use their phones in many parts of the world. In order to achieve this, these networks must be interconnected by way of peering arrangements, and therefore the GSM network is a truly global one.
Network interconnection
The telegraph and telex communication networks have been phased out, so interconnection among existing global networks arise at several points, such as between the voice telephony and digital data networks, and between these and satellite networks. Many applications run now on several networks, such as VoIP (voice over IP). Mobile communication (voice and data) networks are also intimately intertwined, because the majority of 21st century cell phones have both voice and data (internet navigation and emailing) capabilities.
Digital global networks require huge carrying capacity in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climat | Climat, CLIMAT or climat may refer to:
CLIMAT, a code for reporting climatological data
Lieu-dit, a French wine term
climat, the French word for climate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorkNC | WorkNC is a Computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software developed by Sescoi for multi-axis machining.
History
The first version of WorkNC CAM software was released by Sescoi, in 1988. The driving forces behind the product were Bruno Marko, president of Sescoi, and Gerard Billard, R&D Innovation Manager.
Salomon Group was the first customer to use WorkNC in 1988 in order to manufacture ski boots and other sports equipment.
In 2002 the company released WorkNC-CAD, followed by WorkNC 5-axis in 2003 and WorkNC G3 in 2007.
In 2008 Sescoi launched WorkXPlore 3D, a collaborative viewer for 3D CAD files that didn't require the original CAD application.
In 2009 the company launched WorkNC Dental, a CAD/CAM software for machining of prosthetic appliances, implants or dental structures, as well as WorkNC Wire EDM, a software for Wire EDM.
In 2010 Sescoi launched WorkNC-CAD Hybrid Modeling, a 3D CAD software for 3D model design, reparation, machining preparation, and surface design capabilities.
In 2010 Sescoi introduced WorkNC Version 21, a 64-bit version with multi-threading.
Functionality
WorkNC CAM main functions include:
Automatic geometry and machining zone detection and management
Toolpaths designed for High Speed Machining
User stock definition (block, CAD, STL)
Dynamic 3 and 3+2 stock Management
Collision detection with automatic stock update
Machining simulation
Tool and tool holder library
HTML workshop documentation.
Estimated machining times can be exported to WorkPLAN
Predefined machining sequences for automatic machining
Machining STL files and point clouds
Batch mode calculations
Postprocessor generator
Roughing toolpaths
Trochoidal high speed machining
Collision detection and automatic stock updates
Rest Machining based on dynamic stock
Finishing toolpaths
Z Level, planar, flat surface, contour, and edge finishing
Rest-material finishing
Automatic 5 Axis conversion
2 and 2.5 Axis toolpaths
Pocketing, contouring, curve machining, engraving, rib machining, facing, drilling, tapping
Automatic Drilling Module and pre-defined drilling sequence selection
Automatic feature detection and recognition
5 Axis toolpaths
Automatic 3 to 5-axis conversion with WorkNC Auto 5
Simultaneous 4 and 5 Axis toolpaths
5 Axis Rolling, Planar finishing, Spiral Blade, Impeller, Tube, Laser
Collisions detection and machine limits management
Supported CAD formats
WorkNC can read the following CAD file formats:
DXF
STEP
IGES
CATIA V4 & V5
Unigraphics
SolidWorks
SolidEdge
Pro/E
Parasolid
STL
Products
WorkNC Dental
Automatic machining of prosthetic appliances, implants, crowns, bridge implants and dental structures.
Intelligence within the system considers the limitations of the machine tool to automatically produce collision free toolpaths.
WorkNC MPM (Multi-Part Machining)
A CAD/CAM module that allows multiple parts to be simultaneously machined on the same machine.
WorkNC LMP (Layer Milling Process)
WorkNC LMP is a CAD/CAM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj%20Jain | Raj Jain (born 17 August 1951) is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Education
Dr. Jain obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978, an M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in 1974, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Awdhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.
Affiliations
Until 2005 he was the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Nayna Networks, Inc. – a next generation telecommunications systems company in San Jose, CA. Prior to that he was a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was also a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1987. He has been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri since 2005.
Research contributions
Dr. Jain is the co-inventor of the DECbit scheme for congestion avoidance in computer networks which has been adapted for implementation in Frame Relay networks as forward explicit congestion notification (FECN), ATM Networks as Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (EFCI), and TCP/IP networks as Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN).
He is also the co-inventor of the Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) principle used for traffic management in computer networks and Jain's fairness index.
His work on timeout based congestion control influenced the design of the slow start algorithm in TCP/IP networks.
Publications
He is author of four books. His second book The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis published by Wiley Interscience won the 1991 Best Advanced How-to Book, Systems award from Computer Press Association.
References
American computer scientists
American technology writers
Researchers in distributed computing
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Harvard University alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
People from Madhya Pradesh
Indian emigrants to the United States
People from Satna
Technology evangelists
21st-century American engineers
1951 births
Living people
Writers from St. Louis
Businesspeople from St. Louis
American Jains
American inventors
American academics of Indian descent
Washington University in St. Louis mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywarn%20Europe | Skywarn Europe is a network of volunteer storm spotters throughout Europe based on the U.S. Skywarn program (a similar program, Canwarn operates in Canada).
Its members attend severe weather training courses and deliver real-time observations of current weather conditions that may be used to warn the public. Its postings may afterwards be entered into databases to evaluate meteorologists' forecasts.
The organization has autonomous branches in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Slovenia, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
See also
European Severe Storms Laboratory
TORRO
References
External links
Skywarn Europe
European Storm Forecast Experiment
TorDACH
Emergency communication
Meteorological data and networks
Emergency management in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Assembly | Digital Assembly LLC is a privately owned software company based in the downtown area of New York City, United States. It develops data recovery and computer forensics software for Microsoft Windows, which currently include Adroit Photo Recovery, and Adroit Photo Forensics. More products are expected to be released in the future. Digital Assembly was featured in a NY Times article that covered its unique recovery technology.
In the United Kingdom, Digital Assembly Ltd is a web application development company that specialises in Java technologies and Oracle databases.
Digital Assembly Ltd develops scalable dynamic websites, e-commerce systems, bespoke Web Content Management Systems, mobile applications, Cloud applications, are specialists in SCORM and develop corporate Learning Management Systems for e-learning. Digital Assembly Ltd in the United Kingdom is not associated with Digital Assembly LLC in the United States.
History
Digital Assembly LLC was established on 3 May 2006 at Brooklyn, New York City, United States and ceased operations on 10 February 2015.
References
External links
Digital Assembly (United Kingdom) Homepage
Digital Assembly (United States) Homepage
Adroit Photo Recovery page
Adroit Photo Forensics page
Software companies based in New York City
Privately held companies based in New York City
Software companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in New York City
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA%20keyboard | The CSA keyboard, or CAN/CSA Z243.200-92, is the official keyboard layout of Canada. Often referred to as ACNOR, it is best known for its use in the Canadian computer industry for the French ACNOR keyboard layout, published as CAN/CSA Z243.200-92.
History
ACNOR is an acronym of the former French name () of the CSA Group, a standards organization headquartered in Canada. The initialism CSA (from the former English name Canadian Standards Association) is now used in both official languages.
See also
Keyboard layout
QWERTY
References
External links
Telecommunications in Canada
Computer standards
Latin-script keyboard layouts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railinc%20Corporation | Railinc Corporation (pronounced "rail-link") provides rail data and messaging services to the North American freight railway industry. Railinc is a for-profit subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads.
Corporate structure
Railinc was established as an information technology department within the Association of American Railroads (AAR), and later spun off as a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the AAR in 1998. The nine-member corporate board of directors consists entirely of members of the railroad industry, including all of the Class I railroads in North America and the AAR.
Railinc headquarters is located in Cary, North Carolina. Railinc's headquarters was relocated from joint operations in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., in 1999. Locations also considered were Denver, Colorado, Tampa, Florida, and Austin, Texas.
Railinc employs nearly 300 full-time and contractor employees, approximately ten percent of whom are certified project managers.
Products and services
Railinc processes and delivers rail data as a service (DaaS) and provides software as a service (SaaS) to the freight rail industry. Because many of the company's IT systems are required by formal railroad operating rules, the company’s applications and services can be found embedded in critical operations and financial systems throughout the industry.
Key Railinc services include:
Umler - The Umler system is the rail industry's official source for rail equipment information, including freight cars of all varieties, locomotives and end of train devices. This system replaced the legacy U.M.L.E.R. database, an acronym for Universal Machine Language Equipment Register. The name was changed in 2009 with the launch of the new Umler system in favor of the lower case spelling and trademarked name.
RailSight - Railsight provides tracking and tracing data, known as car location messages (CLMs). The messages provide car locations to rail equipment owners, shippers, and third-party logistics providers. The data is used for fleet management and to track and trace the movement of freight and freight cars throughout North America to ensure goods are delivered on-time or to track the progress of their movement. The RailSight engine delivers more than 7.5 million rail events each day from more than 530 Class I, Class II and Class III railroads and shops across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Damaged and Defective Car Tracking - The Damaged and Defective Car Tracking (DDCT) system is used to identify and track damaged and defective rail cars to ensure their proper handling on the railways. This system, launched in 2011, replaced paper defect cards. Paper defect cards were used to aid in maintaining a record of the identified defects on each car, where the defects originated, and to determine the responsibility for each defect.
Equipment Health Management System - The Equipment Health Management System (EHMS) monitors equipment to identify possible mechanical pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradata | The paradata of a data set or survey are data about the process by which the data were collected. Paradata of a survey are usually "administrative data about the survey."
Example paradata topics about a survey include the times of day interviews were conducted, how long the interviews took, how many times there were contacts with each interviewee or attempts to contact the interviewee, the reluctance of the interviewee, and the mode of communication (such as phone, Web, email, or in person). Thus there are paradata about each observation in the survey. These attributes affect the costs and management of a survey, the findings of a survey, evaluations of interviewers, and inferences one might make about non-respondents.
Paradata information can be used to help achieve the goals of a survey. For example, early responses may be mainly from one type of respondent, and the collectors knowing this can focus on reaching the other types so the survey has good coverage of the intended population. Thus survey efforts can be dynamically responsive to the paradata.
In principle a survey's metadata includes its paradata.
The term is attributed to Couper (1998).
References
Survey methodology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Adams%20%28educational%20writer%29 | John Adams (1750? – 1814) was a Scottish compiler of books for young readers.
Biography
Adams was born in Aberdeen about 1750. Having graduated from the university there, he obtained a preaching license, and coming to London was appointed minister of the Scotch church in Hatton Garden. Subsequently he opened a school or academy at Putney, which proved very successful; the botanists Allan Cunningham and his brother Richard were pupils. He died at Putney in 1814.
Most of his numerous works passed through many editions, and were largely used in schools. Among them may be mentioned:
The Flowers of Ancient History, 1788
Elegant Anecdotes and Bon Mots,’ 1790
A View of Universal History (3 vols.), 1795, which includes a brief account of almost every country in the world down to the date of publication.
The Flowers of Modern History, 1796.
The Flowers of Modern Travels, 1797.
Curious Thoughts on the History of Man, 1799.
Adams also published by subscription a volume of sermons dedicated to Lord Grantham in 1805, and he was the author of a very popular Latin schoolbook, entitled Lectiones Selectæ, which reached an eleventh edition in 1823.
References
External links
Books by John Adams from the Internet Archive:
The Flowers of Modern History
The Flowers of Modern Travels volume I
The Flowers of Modern Travels volume II
A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time
Anecdotes, Bons-mots, and Characteristic Traits of the Greatest Princes, Politicians, etc
A New History of Great Britain from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time
1750s births
1814 deaths
British education writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Adams%20%28poet%29 | Richard Adams (1619–1661) was an English lawyer remembered as the compiler of an early collection of verse.
Biography
Richard Adams, the second son of Sir Thomas Adams, alderman of London, was born on 6 January 1619; admitted fellow-commoner of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, 28 April 1635; died 13 June 1661.
Among the Harleian Collection is a thin quarto (No. 3889) lettered on the outside ‘R. Adams. Poems.’ One or two short pieces of inferior merit are signed ‘R. Adams,’ or ‘R. A.,’ but most of the poems in the collection are accessible in print. Like so many of the manuscript collections of the seventeenth century, Harl. MS. 3889 is no doubt a medley of verses by various hands. Adams certainly cannot be the author of the delightful song, ‘Pan, leave piping, the gods have done feasting’ (sometimes called ‘The Green Gown,’ or ‘The Fetching Home of the May’), for the words of that song were composed, according to the best authority, not later than 1635. The capital verses on ‘Oliver Routing the Rump, 1653,’ beginning ‘Will you heare a strange thing never heard of before?’ were first printed in the Merry Drollery, 1661, p. 53; they reappeared in Wit and Drollery, 1661, p. 260; and in Merry Drollery Compleat, 1670, and again in Loyal Songs, 1731; oddly enough, they are not in the Rump Collection. This song is unsigned in Adams's commonplace book; and, according to A. H. Bullen in the Dictionary of National Biography, "judging from the signed verses it is far better than anything he could have written".
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References
1619 births
1661 deaths
17th-century English poets
17th-century English male writers
17th-century English writers
17th-century English lawyers
English lawyers
Younger sons of baronets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergenic%20Ranger%3A%20Secret%20of%20the%20Seventh%20Planet | Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet is a computer game developed by Symtus in 1990 for MS-DOS.
Plot
Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet is a game in which the player character is saved by his parents from certain death by renegade robots, and survived because someone gave him cybergenic enhancements. The character thus becomes the Cybergenic Ranger, to defeat the robots that killed his parents. The player starts off with no weaponry on his ship, requiring the player to search planets for anything that will enhance the power of the ship.
Reception
Computer Gaming World called Cybergenic Ranger "an IBM game in Sega clothing", inspired by Altered Beast and many other science-fiction stories and arcade games. Although stating that "compared to a good Sega game" it "sometimes has a second-rate feel", the magazine recommended Cybergenic Ranger to "the dedicated MS-DOS gamer who wants a solid action fix". In 1991, Dragon gave the game 1 out of 5 stars. COMPUTE! praised the graphics, calling them "lovingly detailed" with a "true arcade 3-D effect."
References
External links
Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet at MobyGames
1990 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Run and gun games
Side-scrolling video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Eng%20Holdings | Kim Eng Holdings Limited is a securities and investment broker in Asia. It was incorporated in 1972 to provide stockbroking services in Singapore. The group's network coverage spans 10 countries; servicing institutional, corporate, high-net-worth and retail investors. Kim Eng Holdings is a full-fledged member of stock exchanges in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and India.
In January 2011, it was announced that Maybank has acquired Kim Eng for a sum of S$1.8 billion. Under the deal, Maybank is acquiring a 44.6 percent stake in Kim Eng Holdings at S$3.10 a share. This also translates to 15.44 percent from the CEO Mr Ronald Ooi and 29.19 percent stake from Yuanta Securities Asia Financial Services.
Business activities
Through its various subsidiaries, Kim Eng offers financial services such as:
Securities Trading
Research
Online Trading
Share Financing
Corporate Finance
Custodian & Nominee Services
Equity Derivatives & Structured Products
Mutual Funds
Hedge Funds
Trust & Fiduciary Services
References
External links
Top Thai broker Kim Eng Q2 net profit up 35 pct – Reuters
S'pore's Kim Eng, Mitsubishi UFJ to form fund JV – Reuters India
Mitsubishi UFJ to Raise Stake in Singapore's Kim Eng – Bloomberg
Kim Eng Says Higher Thai Share Trading to Lift Profit – Bloomberg
MUFJ unit takes big Kim Eng stake – Japan Times
Kim Eng Securities' Hiang Hong Seah – Forbes
Financial services companies of Singapore
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Singaporean companies established in 1972 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.%20D%21 | Ms. D! is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Dina Bonnevie, it premiered on November 11, 1996. The show concluded on February 26, 1999. It was replaced by D! Day in its timeslot.
References
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows
Television series by Viva Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Pictures%20Networks | Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited, doing business as Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN or SPNI), is an Indian media conglomerate owned by Sony Pictures.
Culver Max Entertainment manages and operates 26 television channels, the streaming media platform SonyLIV, as well as the television studio Studio NEXT and film studio Sony Pictures International Productions.
History
It was founded on September 18, 1995 (not 1957) as Sony Entertainment Television India Private Limited (SET India Pvt Ltd.). The first channel from the company was Sony Entertainment Television.
In 1999, SET India Pvt Ltd., launched its second channel Sony Max which broadcast Hindi movies and sports events along with Sony Entertainment Television. In 2005, SET India Network bought SAB TV from Sri Adhikari Brothers and rebranded as Sony SAB. In 2006 SET India launched the English movie channel Sony Pix.
In December 2007, SET India Private Limited was renamed as Multi Screen Media Private Limited.
In December 2015, the company was renamed as Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN).
In April 2022, SPN changed its corporate name to Culver Max Entertainment (taking its name and logo from a vanity production company used for the Sony/Marvel animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man); the name is used exclusively by the holding company, with Sony Pictures Networks continuing to be used as the consumer-facing brand.
On 24 October 2022, nearly all of Sony's networks underwent a rebranding coinciding with Diwali, replacing the cropped "S" logo used by SET since its launch with the S-curve logo template used by Sony's television networks worldwide since 2019, and first used locally by SonyLIV.
Merger with ZEE Entertainment Enterprises
On 22 September 2021, Zee Entertainment Enterprises announced that it had reached an agreement in principle to merge its television networks, production operations, digital assets, and program libraries with SPN; the combined company would be majority-owned by Sony, and led by Zee CEO Punit Goenka. On 21 December 2021, the two companies reached a definitive agreement to merge; it was stated that the combined company "should be well-positioned to meet the growing consumer demand for premium content across entertainment touchpoints and platform[s]." Under the agreement, Sony will hold a 51% stake in the combined company, and inherit Zee's public listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
On 4 October 2022, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) conditionally approved the proposed merger of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEE) and Sony Group Corporation (SGC) in India (the proposed transaction).
On 10 August 2023, the National Company Law Tribunal approved the proposed Sony/Zee merger.
Sports
The network forayed into the Indian sports TV market in 2002 after acquiring the licence rights for International Cricket Council (ICC) matches from 2002 to 2007, which were broadcast on SET and Sony MAX. In 2008, along with Singapore-based World Sport Gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC%20PDF%20Converter | CC PDF Converter was a free and open-source program that allowed users to convert documents into PDF files on Microsoft Windows operating systems, while embedding a Creative Commons license.
The application leveraged RedMon and Ghostscript and was licensed under the GNU GPL.
A 2013 review in PC World gave the software 4 out of 5 stars.
CC PDF Converter included Razoss Bar (RazossInstaller_cogniview.exe), a closed source toolbar that is installed by default (tested version 0.9.0.0).
CC PDF Converter is no longer available from the original developer (Cogniview).
In 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs designated the software as divest. the VA designation has been unapproved.
See also
RedMon
Ghostscript
List of PDF software
List of virtual printer software
Notes
References
Free PDF software
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICDT | ICDT may refer to:
International Centre for Democratic Transition, a non-profit organization about democratic transition
International Conference on Database Theory, an annual research conference on database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti%20Sirius | Ferranti's Sirius was a small computer released in 1961 (operating in 1959 on a time rental basis). Designed to be used in smaller offices without a dedicated programming staff, the Sirius used decimal arithmetic instead of binary, supported Autocode to ease programming, was designed to fit behind a standard office desk, and ran on UK standard mains electricity (then 240 V) with no need for cooling. It was also fairly slow, with instruction speeds around 4,000 operations per second, and had limited main memory based on delay lines, but as Ferranti pointed out, its price/performance ratio was difficult to beat.
History
Magnetic amplifiers
During the 1950s there was widespread interest in the use of magnetic amplifiers as a solid state switching device. The amplifiers used the saturation points and hysteresis curves of a magnetic core to sum a number of inputs and settle to a single output state. The various logical functions were achieved by linearly adding the input signals on control lines and generating an output signal if the sum exceeded a fixed threshold, defined by the saturation property of the magnetic core. This process came to be known as "Ballot Box Logic" due to the way the inputs created a majority-rule on the output. One difference between magnetic logic and conventional tube or transistor systems is that it is the current that defines the logic levels, not voltage.
Since the magnetic cores were open in the middle, any number of control lines could be threaded through them. This was particularly useful when implementing a best two-out-of-three, a common logic circuit used in binary adders. Another possibility is to use the same core as the switching element in several different portions of the machines logic. For instance, a single core could be used as part of the system that reads instructions from memory, and then again as part of the ALU, as long as both functions don't operate at the same time (as they would in an instruction pipeline).
Interest in magnetic amplifiers lasted only a short time through the 1950s. When they were first being studied, transistors were expensive and unreliable devices, but the introduction of new manufacturing techniques in the late 1950s started to address both of these problems. In spite of their other advantages, magnetic amplifiers quickly disappeared as transistor based logic became increasingly common, and only a few computers based on these systems were produced.
Neuron
One group working on the magnetic amplifier design was Gordon Scarrott's team at Ferranti R&D labs in West Gorton, Manchester. This team had a longstanding partnership with Manchester University, after commercializing the Manchester Mark 1 and several follow-on designs.
As the prices of transistors dropped, Ken Johnson, an engineer at the lab, proposed a new type of transistor-based logic that followed the same conventions as the magnetic amplifiers, namely that binary logic was based on well known currents instead of vol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saridoscelis | Saridoscelis is a genus of moths of the family Yponomeutidae.
Species
Saridoscelis issikii - Moriuti, 1961
Saridoscelis kodamai - Moriuti, 1961
Saridoscelis nudata - Meyrick, 1913
Saridoscelis sphenias - Meyrick, 1894
Saridoscelis synodias - Meyrick, 1932
Yponomeutidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Syme | Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language, described by a reporter as being regarded as "the most original new face in computer languages since Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in the early 1980s."
Earlier, Syme created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. Kennedy, Syme and Dachuan Yu also formalized this widely used system.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and is a member of the IFIP working group on functional programming. He is a co-author of the book Expert F# 3.0.
In the past he also worked on formal specification, interactive proof, automated verification and proof description languages.
In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
See also
F Sharp Software Foundation
References
External links
Don's Weblog on F#
InfoQ Interview with Don Syme, 27 March 2009
F# at Microsoft Research
Programming language researchers
Programming language designers
Australian computer scientists
Living people
Microsoft Research people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir%20Shavit | Nir Shavit () is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, is a winner of the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science for his work on applying tools from algebraic topology to model shared memory computability, and a winner of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize for the introduction and first implementation of software transactional memory. He is a past program chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).
His research covers techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and in particular the design of concurrent data structures for multi-core machines.
Recognition
2004 Gödel prize
2012 Dijkstra Prize
2013 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Currently he has co-founded a company named Neural Magic along with Alexzander Mateev. The company claims to use highly sparse neural networks to make deep learning computationally so efficient that GPUs won't be needed. For certain use cases they claim a speed up of 175x.
References
External links
cs.tau.ac.il
csail.mit.edu
Living people
Dijkstra Prize laureates
Electrical engineering academics
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Gödel Prize laureates
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli Jews
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Researchers in distributed computing
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayons%20to%20Computers | Crayons to Computers (C2C) is a non-profit free school supply store for teachers who work at schools in the 15-county area of greater Cincinnati. Founded in 1997, C2C operates a retail store and warehouse where teachers can obtain stationery, educational tools and incentive items at no charge. The 501 (c)(3) supports teachers from over 400 schools in the Cincinnati area.
C2C has several programs which generate products for teachers and needy students.
Crafts with Conviction is a collaboration with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Volunteer inmates at 21 prisons in Ohio manufacture educational tools out of raw materials. Crafts with Conviction produces 25% of the products at C2C, including flash cards, maps, tote bags, pocketed chair covers, and writing journals, among others. Many of the items are made from donated resources.
Push for Pencils is C2C's annual back-to-school supply drive to generate support from the community so that children in the Cincinnati region can return to school with adequate supplies. Participants collect new school supplies, such as crayons, glue, paper and notebooks, and donate them in collection bins at their companies or community organizations. Kroger, Staples and CVS stores also participate in the collection.
Keep Our Kids Warm collects and provides handmade hats, scarves and mittens donated by knitters and crocheters for teachers to distribute to students who need them in the winter. Non-crafters may assist by donating money to purchase yarn.
Crayons to Computers is a member of the Kids In Need Foundation’s national network of free stores. During the 2008/2009 school year, C2C distributed more than $11 million worth of items to teachers. The non-profit accepts donations of new and used items, such as binders, children's books, and craft supplies.
External links
Official website
Education in Cincinnati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairography | "Hairography" is the eleventh episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 25, 2009. It was written by series creator Ian Brennan and directed by Bill D'Elia. The episode introduces New Directions' rival glee clubs, the Jane Addams Girls Choir for girls recently released from juvenile detention, and the Haverbrook Deaf Choir. Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) sabotages New Directions by giving their set-list for sectionals to the competing clubs. Quinn (Dianna Agron) reconsiders having her baby adopted, but ultimately recommits to the idea, and Rachel (Lea Michele) tries unsuccessfully to attract Finn (Cory Monteith).
Rapper Eve guest-stars as Grace Hitchens, director of the Jane Addams Girls Choir, and So You Think You Can Dance contestants Katee Shean, Kherington Payne and Comfort Fedoke appear as members of her group. The episode features covers of eight songs, including a mash-up of "Hair" from the musical Hair and "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z. Studio recordings of all but one of the songs performed in the episode were released as singles, available for digital download.
"Hairography" was watched by 6.1 million US viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal deemed the mash-up performance one of the worst of the season, with Zap2it's Liz Pardue agreeing that it was "hideous". Flandez, Pardue and Mike Hale of The New York Times all felt that it was inappropriate for New Directions to interrupt the deaf choir's performance of "Imagine", however Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle opined that reviewers needed to "realize that this show takes its jabs at everyone, but it always has a wink and a hug and lots and lots of love behind it".
Plot
New Directions' director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) suspects that cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) has been colluding with rival glee clubs, and visits the Jane Addams Academy for girls recently released from juvenile detention. When their club director Grace Hitchens (Eve) reveals the extent of the school's under-funding, Will invites her club to perform in the McKinley High auditorium. Will is intimidated by their opposition, but Rachel (Lea Michele) assures him that the girls are using the power of "hairography"—frequent, dramatic hair-tossing—to distract from the fact their singing and dancing ability is limited. Will purchases wigs for New Directions and has them utilize hairography themselves, performing a mash-up of "Hair" and "Crazy in Love". Dalton Rumba (Michael Hitchcock), glee club director at Haverbrook School for the Deaf, feels slighted by the invitation Will extended to the Jane Addams Academy, and arranges for his own club to also perform at McKinley High. His club duets with New Directions on John Lennon's "Imagine", and Will realizes that the new mash-up and hairography routine is not working. He removes it from the club's set-list, repl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20Abstracts | Genetics Abstracts is a database produced by CSA Illumina. It includes abstracts from articles from 954 peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field of genetics published since 1982. The database is updated monthly, with approximately 1600 new records added. As of October 2009, it contains over 535,623 records.
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arora%20%28web%20browser%29 | Arora is a discontinued free and open-source web browser developed by Benjamin C. Meyer. It was available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, OS/2, Haiku, Genode, and any other operating system supported by the Qt toolkit. The browser's features included tabbed browsing, bookmarks, browsing history, smart location bar, OpenSearch, session management, privacy mode, a download manager, WebInspector, and AdBlock.
Meyer discontinued development of Arora due to strictures of non-compete clauses by his employer. Another software developer, Bastien Pederencino, forked Arora's source code, and published a variant called zBrowser renamed Zeromus Browser in February 2013. Later in 2013, Pederencino published another variant called BlueLightCat. In 2014, some new patches were released on Arora's project page on GitHub, with some Linux distributions incorporating the changes in their individual versions of Arora packages in their repositories.
In 2020, Arora was forked again by another developer, Aaron Dewes, and a variant named "Endorphin Browser" was published, with the goal of modernizing Arora and adding new features.
See also
Comparison of lightweight web browsers
Comparison of web browsers
List of web browsers
List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems
Qt (framework)
References
External links
BlueLightCat website
Endorphin Browser Website
MacOS web browsers
Discontinued web browsers
Free web browsers
Software based on WebKit
Web browsers that use Qt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2066 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 66 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Kingston upon Hull to Manchester via Beverley, York and Leeds.
Between Pocklington and York it forms part of the Way of the Roses challenge route. In 1998 the section of route 66 between Hull and York was branded The White Rose cycle route. This branding is no longer in use.
Route
Hull to York
The route leaves Hull via its Northern suburbs. Between Cottingham and passing Beverley Minster, it coincides with National Cycle Route 1, via the A164 and A1035 roads to the villages of Cherry Burton and Etton. Beyond Etton Route 1 departs to the north, and Route 66 runs along minor roads parallel to the Hudson Way, a rail trail along the former York to Beverley Line. The route heads generally westwards, passing south of Goodmanham (where it is crossed by the Yorkshire Wolds Way) and then through the centre of Market Weighton. The Hull to Market Wieghton section is long.
From Market Weighton, Route 66 takes a more northerly turn and follows minor roads to Pocklington via Londesborough and Burnby. Beyond Pocklington it heads northwest to Stamford Bridge, where it crosses the River Derwent (and the Minster Way, which also connects Beverley and York) via the disused railway viaduct. It then heads southwest along an off-road route to Dunnington and thence to Murton, home of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming on the outskirts of York. At Osbaldwick the route briefly follows the line of the former Derwent Valley Light Railway towards the city centre. At a junction with Route 658 the route heads through the southern suburbs of the city, passing through the campus of York University to cross the River Ouse via the Millennium Bridge. The section between Market Weighton and York is long.
The section of Route 66 between Pocklington and York is part of the Way of the Roses challenge ride.
York to Leeds
Route 66 between York and Leeds is still under development. From York's Millennium Bridge it follows the off-road York-Selby cycle path, which is part of Route 65. It separates from Route 65 at Bishopthorpe and takes country lanes for to Tadcaster. As of Summer 2017 this section was unsigned.
The route between Tadcaster and Bramham has yet to be determined.
Running south from Bramham parallel to the A1(M) to Aberford, the route then takes an off-road track, through the Parlington estate to Garforth and hence on and off-road sections through Temple Newsam and into Leeds via the River Aire towpath. Bramham to Leeds is long.
Leeds to Manchester
From Leeds, the route follows the Leeds-Liverpool canal out of West Leeds and up to Shipley. At Shipley, the canal continues as National Cycle Route 696. The route goes south from Shipley towards Bradford city centre on a mainly off-road route. Major improvements to this section of the route were constructed in 2018. From Bradford City Park, the route goes towards Bowling Park via the Big Red Bridge and up to Bierley and passes bene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Hollenbach | Shawn Hollenbach (born March 6, 1981 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, writer and actor, based in New York City. He worked at Comedy Central in the programming department. As a comic and actor he has performed around the country and throughout New York. He is an energetic and upbeat performer and self-deprecating humorist focusing on LGBT subjects and a "style that capitalizes on the myriad incidents and accidents that befall us all in the midst of our human existence". He currently works at Logo, Viacom's channel that appeals to the LGBT community and their allies as the social media manager for the channel and its most popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race.
Personal life
He has a twin brother, Eric and a sister, Kristen. He studied Musical Theater at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. He is gay and his act often incorporates comedy about LGBT subjects. He lives in Washington Heights. His mother died in 2004.
Career
One of his first performances was when he was eighteen, "I told a Pantene [a glamour hair product] joke to a bunch of Amish folks at a picnic. That's when I first learned, "Know Your Audience."" He had been doing improv comedy for several years and stand-up seemed the next progression. 2003 saw his first stand-up performance at "Comedy Social" at the Sin Sin club, "I fell in love with the show and they asked us to perform stand up. It was a very warm room and the perfect first time." He has appeared on two episodes of here! TV's Hot Gay Comics as a featured comedian and here! TV's celebrity news webshow Busted as the host.
On December 1, 2007 he appeared at "Saturday Night Underground" a talk/variety evening for World AIDS Day with Michael Arden and Todd Buonopane at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. In March 2008 he was a featured comic at Bill Augustin's "Big Gay Variety Show", a benefit for the N.Y. Civil Liberties Union.
In 2008 he performed nearly every night and was co-producing five shows including "The Back Room", a gay-themed comedy show at Ochi's Lounge in Comix, "The Kevin Murphy Show", a "Straight Bostonian/Japanese/Gay variety show" and "Meat and Potatoes", a show where folks who grew up poor share their experiences with Carolyn Castiglia.
In June 2009 he was a co-host on Logo (TV channel) NewNowNext.com's Gayest Week Ever. He did an episode of here! TV's Hot Gay Comics. He has also appeared on The Frank DeCaro Show and Derek and Romaine on Sirius/XM OutQ Radio, The Joey Reynold's Show and Daniel Nardicio's DList Radio. He regularly performs at other New York venues including Comix comedy club, The People's Improv Theater, Therapy, Stonewall Inn, New York Comedy Club, and Stand-Up NY. He also travels in the Under the Gaydar Comedy Tour with Jackie Monahan, Claudia Cogan and Dave Rubin.
Hollenbach has created and co-produced the first annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant on May 17, 2009 featuring Caroline Rhea, Michael Musto, Hedda Lettuce, Shayna Steele and Frank DeCaro as a benefit for the Hetrick-Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-B | OCR-B is a monospace font developed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices, originally for financial and bank-oriented uses. It was accepted as the world standard in 1973. It follows the ISO 1073-2:1976 (E) standard, refined in 1979 ("letterpress" design, size I). It includes all ASCII symbols, and other symbols needed in the bank environment. It is widely used for the human readable digits in UPC/EAN barcodes. It is also used for machine-readable passports. It shares that purpose with OCR-A, but it is easier for the human eye and brain to read and it has a less technical look than OCR-A.
History
In June 1961, the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) started standardization activities related to Optical Character Recognition (OCR). After evaluating existing OCR designs, it was decided to develop two new fonts: A stylized design with just digits, called “Class A”; and a more conventional type design with broader character coverage, called “Class B”. In February 1965, ECMA proposed a design for the “Class B” font to ISO, who adopted it as international standard ISO 1073-2 in October 1965. The first revision contained three font sizes: I, II and III. The specification included a Letterpress design, intended for high-quality printing equipment; and a rounded-edge Constant Strokewidth design for impact printers with reduced typographic quality.
In September 1969, ECMA started work to revise its published standard. To make OCR-B more widely accepted, the shapes of some characters were slightly modified. The new revision removed font size II, which had been rarely used in practice; it deleted five character shapes; and it added a new font size IV. ECMA published the second edition of OCR-B in October 1971.
In March 1976, ECMA published a third revision of its ECMA-11 specification. It added the symbols § and ¥ to OCR-B; two types of erasure marks (█) for blackening out mis-printed characters were added; and the length of the Vertical bar was changed to match ISO 1073-2.
In 1993, Turkey proposed extending ISO 1073-2 to include the Turkish letters Ğğ, İı, and Şş. The request was generalized to extend OCR-B with a number of Latin and Greek letters used in European languages. A revision of the ISO 1073-2:1976 standard was therefore
started, producing three successive draft documents. The final draft would have extended OCR-B with 40 Latin and 10 Greek letters; for six Latin letters, the draft gave new alternate shapes. A request to extend OCR-B with Vietnamese accents was rejected. Other than previous versions of the standard, which specified glyph shapes via reference drawings, the new revision would have included the shapes in machine-readable form. However,
industry support for testing the new font could not be secured at the time,
so the revision effort wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20segregation%20principle | In the field of software engineering, the interface segregation principle (ISP) states that no code should be forced to depend on methods it does not use. ISP splits interfaces that are very large into smaller and more specific ones so that clients will only have to know about the methods that are of interest to them. Such shrunken interfaces are also called role interfaces. ISP is intended to keep a system decoupled and thus easier to refactor, change, and redeploy. ISP is one of the five SOLID principles of object-oriented design, similar to the High Cohesion Principle of GRASP. Beyond object-oriented design, ISP is also a key principle in the design of distributed systems in general and microservices in particular. ISP is one of the six IDEALS principles for microservice design.
Importance in object-oriented design
Within object-oriented design, interfaces provide layers of abstraction that simplify code and create a barrier preventing coupling to dependencies. A system may become so coupled at multiple levels that it is no longer possible to make a change in one place without necessitating many additional changes. Using an interface or an abstract class can prevent this side effect.
Origin
The ISP was first used and formulated by Robert C. Martin while consulting for Xerox. Xerox had created a new printer system that could perform a variety of tasks such as stapling and faxing. The software for this system was created from the ground up. As the software grew, making modifications became more and more difficult so that even the smallest change would take a redeployment cycle of an hour, which made development nearly impossible.
The design problem was that a single Job class was used by almost all of the tasks. Whenever a print job or a stapling job needed to be performed, a call was made to the Job class. This resulted in a 'fat' class with multitudes of methods specific to a variety of different clients. Because of this design, a staple job would know about all the methods of the print job, even though there was no use for them.
The solution suggested by Martin utilized what is today called the Interface Segregation Principle. Applied to the Xerox software, an interface layer between the Job class and its clients was added using the Dependency Inversion Principle. Instead of having one large Job class, a Staple Job interface or a Print Job interface was created that would be used by the Staple or Print classes, respectively, calling methods of the Job class. Therefore, one interface was created for each job type, which was all implemented by the Job class.
Typical violation
A typical violation of the Interface Segregation Principle is given in Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices in 'ATM Transaction example' and in an article also written by Robert C. Martin specifically about the ISP. This example discusses the User Interface for an ATM, which handles all requests such as a deposit request, or a withdrawal r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20%28software%29 | Brian is an open source Python package for developing simulations of networks of spiking neurons.
Details
Brian is aimed at researchers developing models based on networks of spiking neurons. The general design is aimed at maximising flexibility, simplicity and users' development time. Users specify neuron models by giving their differential equations in standard mathematical form as strings, create groups of neurons and connect them via synapses. This is in contrast to the approach taken by many neural simulators in which users select from a predefined set of neuron models.
Brian is written in Python. Computationally, it is based around the concept of code generation: users specify the model in Python but behind the scenes Brian generates, compiles and runs code in one of several languages (including Python, Cython and C++). In addition there is a "standalone" mode in which Brian generates an entire C++ source code tree with no dependency on Brian, allowing models to be run on platforms where Python is not available.
Example
The following code defines, runs and plots a randomly connected network of leaky integrate and fire neurons with exponential inhibitory and excitatory currents.
from brian2 import *
eqs = """
dv/dt = (ge+gi-(v+49*mV))/(20*ms) : volt
dge/dt = -ge/(5*ms) : volt
dgi/dt = -gi/(10*ms) : volt
"""
P = NeuronGroup(4000, eqs, threshold="v>-50*mV", reset="v=-60*mV")
P.v = -60 * mV
Pe = P[:3200]
Pi = P[3200:]
Ce = Synapses(Pe, P, on_pre="ge+=1.62*mV")
Ce.connect(p=0.02)
Ci = Synapses(Pi, P, on_pre="gi-=9*mV")
Ci.connect(p=0.02)
M = SpikeMonitor(P)
run(1 * second)
plot(M.t / ms, M.i, ".")
show()
Comparison to other simulators
Brian is primarily, although not solely, aimed at single compartment neuron models. Simulators focused on multi-compartmental models include Neuron, GENESIS, and its derivatives.
The focus of Brian is on flexibility and ease of use, and only supports simulations running on a single machine. The NEST simulator includes facilities for distributing simulations across a cluster.
Footnotes
References
Goodman, D. and Brette, R. (2008). "Brian: a simulator for spiking neural networks in Python", Front. Neuroinform. 2:5.
Goodman, D.F.M. and Brette, R. (2009). "The Brian simulator", Front. Neurosci.
External links
Brian homepage
Computational neuroscience
Scientific simulation software
Free science software
Neuroscience software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20restoration%20by%20artificial%20intelligence | Image restoration is the operation of taking a corrupt/noisy image and estimating the clean, original image. Corruption may come in many forms such as motion blur, noise and camera mis-focus. Image restoration is performed by reversing the process that blurred the image and such is performed by imaging a point source and use the point source image, which is called the Point Spread Function (PSF) to restore the image information lost to the blurring process.
Image restoration is different from image enhancement in that the latter is designed to emphasize features of the image that make the image more pleasing to the observer, but not necessarily to produce realistic data from a scientific point of view. Image enhancement techniques (like contrast stretching or de-blurring by a nearest neighbor procedure) provided by imaging packages use no a priori model of the process that created the image.
With image enhancement noise can effectively be removed by sacrificing some resolution, but this is not acceptable in many applications. In a fluorescence microscope, resolution in the z-direction is bad as it is. More advanced image processing techniques must be applied to recover the object.
Main use cases
The objective of image restoration techniques is to reduce noise and recover resolution loss. Image processing techniques are performed either in the image domain or the frequency domain. The most straightforward and a conventional technique for image restoration is deconvolution, which is performed in the frequency domain and after computing the Fourier transform of both the image and the PSF and undo the resolution loss caused by the blurring factors. Nowadays, photo restoration is done using digital tools and software to fix any type of damage images may have and improve the general quality and definition of the details.
Types of AI corrections
1. Geometric correction
2. Radiometric correction
3. Denoising
Image restoration techniques aim to reverse the effects of degradation and restore the image as closely as possible to its original or desired state. The process involves analysing the image and applying algorithms and filters to remove or reduce the degradations. The ultimate goal is to enhance the visual quality, improve the interpretability, and extract relevant information from the image.
Image restoration can be broadly categorized into two main types: spatial domain and frequency domain methods. Spatial domain techniques operate directly on the image pixels, while frequency domain methods transform the image into the frequency domain using techniques such as the Fourier transform, where restoration operations are performed. Both approaches have their advantages and are suitable for different types of image degradation.
Techniques and algorithms
Spatial domain methods
Spatial domain techniques primarily operate on the pixel values of an image. Some common methods in this domain include:
Median filtering
This technique replaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20Attribute%20Modulation%20Protocol | Security Attribute Modulation Protocol (SAMP) is a protocol used to encode role-based and user-based access control attributes for transmission over a network, typically embedded in a TCP/IP or UDP/IP packet, with an application layer payload trailing afterwards.
Sun Microsystems makes a brief mention of SAMP in their Trusted Solaris 8 administration manuals. In the case of Trusted Solaris 8, the Trusted Network Daemon parses SAMP headers and manages system security in conjunction with other security provisions on the system.
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20310 | IBM ThinkPad 310 was a notebook computer series introduced in 1997 by the IBM corporation into the market as part of their ThinkPad laptop series. It was succeeded by the ThinkPad 380 series.
Features
All models shipped with Windows 95 OSR2 but were capable of running up to Windows XP, if they have a sufficient RAM upgrade, as well as several Linux variations. They could also run older operating systems such as Windows 3.1.
All models featured a Socket 7 Intel Pentium I or MMX processor running at 133 to 166 MHz, a CT-65550 video chip with 1 MB of video memory, and a Yamaha YMF715 audio controller. The standard memory size was 16 MB, with up to 32 MB max if upgraded.
The ThinkPad models ending with a D included a CD-ROM drive, the rest included a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive. Ones that had a CD-ROM drive had a proprietary external floppy disk drive port on the back.
Models
IBM ThinkPad 310 — The base model released only in Europe, it featured an Intel Pentium I running at 133 MHz, 16 MB of soldered EDO RAM, standard 1.08 GB hard drive, and a non-removable 1.44MB floppy disk drive. It also had an 11.3" 800x600 DSTN display with the additional option of an 11.3" 800x600 TFT display. Other features included: NiHM battery, Trackpoint, (2) Type II CardBus slots or (1) type III.
IBM ThinkPad 310D — Released alongside the 310 but available worldwide, it had essentially the same specifications as the base 310 model, with the only difference of a CD-ROM drive over the 1.44 floppy disk drive. It also only had an 11.3" 800x600 DSTN display over the base 310's additional TFT display option.
IBM ThinkPad 310E — Made available late 1997, the E had a few new features. It featured an Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor, 16 MB of soldered EDO RAM, 1.6 or 2.1 GB hard drive size options, and a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive. It came with a larger 12.1" 800x600 DSTN display with the additional option of an 11.3" 800x600 TFT display. It also came with a NiHM battery which could last up to 2.8 hours on one charge. Other features included: Trackpoint, (2) Type II CardBus slots or (1) type III.
IBM ThinkPad 310ED — The last model in the series also available late 1997, it was basically the same as the 310E, with the only difference of a CD-ROM drive and only offering a 12.1" 800x600 DSTN display option. The 310ED introduced the additional option to come standard with 32 MB of ram.
Comparison
References
External links
Thinkwiki.de - 310
Thinkwiki.org - 310
ThinkPad 310
310 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-fault | The term double-fault can be an adjective referring to:
double fault (computing), a fault that occurs during processing of another
double fault (tennis), two consecutive faults during service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus%20%282000%20film%29 | Octopus is a 2000 American made-for-television horror film produced by Nu Image that premiered on the USA Network on October 11, 2000. The film stars Jay Harrington, David Beecroft and Ricco Ross.
Plot
In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine delivers barrels of nuclear material to Cuba, and has to outrun an American submarine. When the Executive officer suggests that the submarine should slow down and identify itself, the captain shoots him. The submarine is hit by torpedoes and damaged, drowning the crew and releasing radioactive material into its nearby waters. It causes an octopus to grow into a monstrous size, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba's coasts.
In the year 2000, in Sofia, Bulgaria, two CIA officials, Roy Turner and Henry Campbell, discuss about files, before they go out for a walk. Meanwhile, someone disguised as an old woman gives a bag to an official's daughter, but the bomb inside the bag detonates, killing everyone inside the American embassy and injuring many people nearby. The two officials pursue the old woman, but the old woman's henchmen crash a car at Henry, injuring and killing him. Afterwards, Roy pursues the old woman and captures her, and she is revealed to be the leader of a terrorist group.
The terrorist is captured and taken into a submarine, but his henchmen hijack the vehicle and threaten the crew to release him. However, the submarine is attacked by the giant octopus from before.
Cast
Production
Octopus was in development as early as 1999.
Director John Eyers was approached by David Varod, Danny Lerner and Boaz Davidson of Nu Image with a treatment for the film, followed by a screenplay being developed "pretty quickly" according to Eyers.
"My directional background has been in doing quite a bit of sci-fi, so it wasn't that much of a stretch." The film was shot in Bulgaria with a 36 day shooting time and a $5 million budget.
The octopus in the film was created through a combination of CGI, miniatures and animatronics. One of the tentacles has a 30-foot section of animatronic arm while the CGI sequences were done with a greenscreen in Bulgaria.
Release
The film was shown on television on the USA Network on October 11, 2000.
The film was released on DVD and VHS on November, 2000. By July 2000, Nu Image had already been planning for Octopus 2 which would bring the monster to New York City.
Reception
From contemporary reviews, Jerry Bokamper of the Dallas Morning News declared the film a "concomitant mess, an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink disaster.", suggesting that "If you want a sea monster movie that really sits up and barks, go back to the classics, such as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.
An anonymous reviewer from The Advocate-Messenger gave the film one star, stating it was a "cheesy monster flick" with "mediocre special effects, banal dialog and the predictable story line add up to a crash bore"
See also
List of killer octopus films
References
Sources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSS%20Data%20Systems | LSS Data Systems (LSS) is a medical software and service company based in Minnesota, United States. The company developed products for physicians and was founded in 1982. LSS partnered with Medical Information Technology (MEDITECH) in 1982. Together, they developed physician practice management and ambulatory electronic health record software. In 2000 and 2001, MEDITECH invested in LSS and eventually acquired complete ownership of the company in February 2011. After the acquisition, LSS became a wholly-owned subsidiary of MEDITECH, a Massachusetts-based company. The company later announced the completion of the merger on January 1, 2014.
History
"Lake Superior Software" was founded in 1982 in Duluth, Minnesota by Ken Carlson and Stephanie Petersen to develop and support physician billing and practice management software. The company developed a national clientele, opened an office just outside Minneapolis in the mid-1980s, and changed its name to "LSS Data Systems." Beginning in 1990, the company’s physician practice management system was redeveloped and re-written utilizing the MEDITECH developed programming language MAGIC.
LSS began development of a client/server system in 1996. LSS released patient clinical record software Electronic Ambulatory Record (EAR) in 2000. Application suite Medical and Practice Management (MPM) was jointly developed by LSS and MEDITECH and released in 2002. The MPM suite consists of LSS's physician billing and practice management application (PBR) and Electronic Ambulatory Record (EAR), the suite meshes together applications jointly developed with MEDITECH, including scheduling, order management, scanning and a web-based patient portal.
Joanne Wood was appointed as president and COO of LSS Data Systems in February 2011 during the company's acquisition. She was also VP of client services at MEDITECH, at that time.
Products and services
LSS developed electronic medical software for physician practices associated with or located in communities with hospitals using MEDITECH health care information systems.
Several LSS products have been certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).
2008 Certification [additionally certified for Child Health] pending completion of advanced ePrescribing requirements: Medical and Practice Management Suite, Client Server Version 5.6
2007 Certification: http://www.cchit.org/products/2007/ambulatory/661 Medical and Practice Management Suite, Client Server Version 5.56]
2007 Certification: Medical and Practice Management Suite, Client Server Version 5.55
2007 Certification: Medical and Practice Management Suite, Client Server Version 5.54
2006 Certification: Medical and Practice Management Suite, MAGIC Version 5.6
LSS since certified products to be compliant with the Stage 1 Meaningful Use Standards identified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology with Drummond Group Inc. (see certified product info below). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Quest | is a Japanese boys love manga written and illustrated by Lily Hoshino. It was released in English by Yen Press in October 2008.
Reception
Anime News Network said that Love Quest is a "serious stinker", but Mania Entertainment found it "surprisingly entertaining", regarding Hoshino's art as redeeming the story. Deb Aoki for About.com felt that Hoshino's sense of humour was the saving grace of Love Quest, and described it as "disposable BL fun". PopCultureShock describes the story as being quite good for a oneshot, and roughly equivalent to a romance novel.
References
External links
2006 manga
Houbunsha manga
Manga anthologies
Yen Press titles
Yaoi anime and manga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%20Gordon | Jes Gordon (born November 7, 1969) is an American event producer and designer, author, and star of Rocco's Dinner Party on Bravo (US TV network). She is the former host of Fine Living Network's "The Perfect Party", and the resident Event Planning expert on Style Network and MyStyle.com. She is the CEO and Creative Director for her design firm jesGordon/properFUN, and the author of Party Like a Rock Star: A Celebrity Planner's Tips and Tricks for Throwing an Unforgettable Bash.
Biography
Jes Gordon was born on November 7, 1969 in Poughkeepsie, New York. At the age of 13, Gordon got an after school job as a florist's assistant. She's also worked as a set designer for films such as Interview with the Vampire and Dead Man Walking, before becoming Design Director at New York's Tavern on the Green. Her work there led to private commissions, and at the age of 20, she left to start her own firm.
Based in New York, jesGORDON/properFUN consists of two divisions: Event Management and Design.
In Summer 2009, Gordon designed the centerpieces seen on NBC's "TODAY Throws a Wedding," and appeared on E! News and Brides (magazine)'s twelve-part series, "Countdown to the Altar" as the expert wedding planner helping a real couple on a real budget through 12 weeks of wedding preparations.
Awards
Gordon and her team were named as one of BiZBash’s 10 Event Designers to Watch in 2005. Other awards include a 2006 BizBash EventStyle Award and most recently, two 2009 Big Apple Awards, presented by the International Special Events Society.
The International Special Events NY Metro inducted Gordon into the Hall of Legends.
Appearances
The Perfect Party - Fine Living Network
Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?
Style Network - My Style
E! News - "Countdown to the Altar"
The Knot LIVE!
Rocco's Dinner Party
References
External links
Official Website
Video on Demand: The Perfect Party "The Singles Party"
1969 births
Living people
American women writers
Writers from Poughkeepsie, New York
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Factor%20%28Norwegian%20TV%20series%29 | X Factor is a Norwegian television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is broadcast on Friday evenings on the TV 2 Network in Norway.
Judges' categories and their contestants
In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table shows, for each season, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live shows.
Key:
– Winning judge/category. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.
Season 1 (2009)
The first season of the show was aired from September through to December 2009. The contestants were divided into three categories. Groups were mentored by Mira Craig, Over 25s by Jan Fredrik Karlsen and the 16-24s by Peter Peters.
Contestants
The top 12 acts were confirmed as follows:
Key:
– Winner
– Runner-up
– Third Place
Results summary
Colour key:
Live show details
Week 1 (9 October 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Peters: Reaching Horizons
Craig: Lise Mæland
Karlsen: Reaching Horizons
Week 2 (16 October 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Karlsen: Gabrielle Leithaug
Peters: Stine Terese Tinker Julseth
Craig: Stine Terese Tinker Julseth
Week 3 (23 October 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Karlsen: No Name - No Fame
Peters: No Name - No Fame
Craig: No Name - No Fame
Week 4 (30 October 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Karlsen: Lise Mæland
Craig: Rikke Lie
Peters: Rikke Lie
Week 5 (6 November 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Karlsen: The Johnsen Sisters
Peters: The Johnsen Sisters
Craig: The Johnsen Sisters
Week 6 (13 November 2009)
Judges' votes to eliminate
Karlsen: Gabrielle Leithaug
Peters: Mari Lorentzen
Craig: Gabrielle Leithaug
Week 7 (20 November 2009)
Theme: Songs from films
Judges' votes to eliminate
Peters: Shackles
Craig: Pernille Svensen Øiestad
Karlsen: Pernille Svensen Øiestad
Season 2 (2010)
The second and final season of the show was aired from September to December 2010. Auditions were held in Tromsø (28–29 April 2010), Trondheim (7–9 May), Bergen (26–28 May), Kristiansand (5–6 June) and Oslo (17–20 June 2010).
Replacing Charlotte Thorstvedt as new program presenters were Ravi and Guri Solberg after Thorstvedt received much criticism for her efforts in the first season. The judges were Elisabeth Andreassen, Klaus Sonstad, Jan Fredrik Karlsen and Marion Ravn.
The format had changed with 4 categories instead of three (with Under 25s now divided between Boys Under 25 and Girls Under 25). Each category had three finalists instead of the earlier four.
24 reached judges houses. Andreassen was helped by Alexander Rybak, Sonstad by Mariann Thomassen, Karlsen by Chand Torsvik and Ravn by Sveinung Sundli. Singer Benn was a guest judge.
The 12 eliminated acts were:
Boys: Adrian Jørgensen, Bjørn Henrik Brandtenborg, Jonas Nybakk Benyoub
Girls: Ingrid Galadriel Aune Brosveet, Ingrid Haukland, Madeleine Christensen
Over 25s: M |
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