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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Macky | John Macky (died 1726) was a Scottish spy and travel writer. Between 1688 and 1710 he ran a successful intelligence gathering network across the English Channel, principally concerned with Jacobite and French threats to England. He was also the author of several publications which reflected his travel, political outlook and access to leading figures of the period.
Biography
Nothing is known of Macky's parentage or early life. Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Macky was sent to France by the English government to provide information about Jacobite activity. He successfully infiltrated the Jacobite court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1692, he was the first person to inform the authorities of the exiled James II's intended invasion of England after the former king had fled to France from England. In October 1693 he was made inspector of the coast from Harwich to Dover, tasked with intercepting hostile communications and intelligence. With the re-establishment of postal services to France following the Peace of Ryswick, on 1 January 1698 Macky was placed in charge of the packet boats and royal express service from Dover to Calais, Ostend, and Nieuwpoort.
In 1696 he discovered information related to the 1696 Jacobite assassination plot and after its disclosure he published an attack on James II's exiled court in A View of the Court of St Germains from the Year 1690 to 1695. In England, he became familiar with the leading figures at the courts of William III and Queen Anne. His access was such that he was able to make an extensive list of many courtiers' characteristics, family connections, treatment by the monarch and personal foibles.
In August 1702, the General Post Office terminated the cross-channel postal service with the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession and Macky was awarded a pension at half pay. Shortly afterwards he went to look after an estate on Zakynthos which had been bequeathed in part to him by his deceased wife. On the way he unsuccessfully sought an audience with Sophia of Hanover. He appears to have returned to England before the end of 1705.
Following the Battle of Ramillies in 1706, Macky was given direction of the packet boats to Ostend by the Earl of Godolphin. Aligned with the politics of the Whig faction, in 1708 he came into the pay of Robert Walpole. He speedily re-established an espionage network for surveillance of Jacobites and French naval and privateering activity at Dunkirk. Macky's network of spies was crucial to the discovery in February and March 1708 of the Jacobite plans to invade Scotland and that year he also discovered the preparations for an armament at Dunkirk. The loss of his Post Office contract in 1713 exposed Macky's extensive indebtedness, and he fled in that year to Flanders to escape his creditors. Appeals by him to enter the service of Robert Harley went unheeded.
He subsequently came under the suspicion of the authorities owing to his large debts and close con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo | Lingo, a contraction of language, often refers to jargon, but in a less formal or technical sense.
Lingo may also refer to:
Technology
Lingo (programming language), one of several unrelated programming languages
Lingo (VoIP Service operator), a VoIP service provided by Primus Telecommunications Inc
Trade name of the Linn Sondek LP12 turntable's power supply
LINGO (mathematical modeling language), designed for formulating and solving optimization problems
People
Lingo (surname), a Scottish surname, including people with the name
Places
Lingo, Missouri, a community in Macon County
Lingo, New Mexico, a populated place in Roosevelt County
Lingo Creek, Delaware
Lingo House, an estate house near Carnbee, Fife, Scotland
Television game shows
Lingo (American game show), an American television game show with multiple international adaptations that debuted in 1987
Lingo (British game show), a short-lived UK game show produced from 1987 to 1988 and later revived in 2021
Lingo (Canadian game show), a Canadian game show that aired on Radio-Canada in Quebec from 1998 to 2001
Lingo (Dutch game show), Dutch television game show based on the North American format of the same name
Other uses
Lingo (album), by Gang Gajang
Lingo, the title character of The Lingo Show, a kids' TV show
Lingo, regional variant of Lingam, the phallic representation of the Hindu god Shiva
See also
Lingoes (program), multilingual translation software program
Lingvo, the Esperanto word for language
Linguo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea%20Segura | Beatriz "Bea" Segura Folch (born 22 March 1975) is a Spanish actress.
Filmography
References
External links
Bea Segura at the Internet Movie Database
1975 births
Film actresses from Catalonia
People from Catalonia
Television actresses from Catalonia
Living people
Actresses from Barcelona
Spanish actresses
Spanish film actresses
Spanish television actresses
20th-century Spanish actresses
21st-century Spanish actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20%28programming%20language%29 | Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. It is often referred to as Golang because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its proper name is Go.
There are two major implementations:
Google's self-hosting "gc" compiler toolchain, targeting multiple operating systems and WebAssembly.
gofrontend, a frontend to other compilers, with the libgo library. With GCC the combination is gccgo; with LLVM the combination is gollvm.
A third-party source-to-source compiler, GopherJS, compiles Go to JavaScript for front-end web development.
History
Go was designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multicore, networked machines and large codebases. The designers wanted to address criticism of other languages in use at Google, but keep their useful characteristics:
Static typing and run-time efficiency (like C)
Readability and usability (like Python)
High-performance networking and multiprocessing
Its designers were primarily motivated by their shared dislike of C++.
Go was publicly announced in November 2009, and version 1.0 was released in March 2012. Go is widely used in production at Google and in many other organizations and open-source projects.
Branding and styling
The Gopher mascot was introduced in 2009 for the open source launch of the language. The design, by Renée French, borrowed from a c. 2000 WFMU promotion.
In November 2016, the Go and Go Mono fonts were released by type designers Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes specifically for use by the Go project. Go is a humanist sans-serif resembling Lucida Grande, and Go Mono is monospaced. Both fonts adhere to the WGL4 character set and were designed to be legible with a large x-height and distinct letterforms. Both Go and Go Mono adhere to the DIN 1450 standard by having a slashed zero, lowercase l with a tail, and an uppercase I with serifs.
In April 2018, the original logo was replaced with a stylized GO slanting right with trailing streamlines. (The Gopher mascot remained the same.)
Generics
The lack of support for generic programming in initial versions of Go drew considerable criticism. The designers expressed an openness to generic programming and noted that built-in functions were in fact type-generic, but are treated as special cases; Pike called this a weakness that might be changed at some point. The Google team built at least one compiler for an experimental Go dialect with generics, but did not release it.
In August 2018, the Go principal contributors published draft designs for generic programming and error handling and asked users to submit feedback. However, the error handling proposal was eventually abandoned.
In June 2020, a new draft design document was published that would add the necessary syntax to Go for declarin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing%20Christmas | Stealing Christmas is an American made for television comedy-drama film directed by Gregg Champion and starring Tony Danza, Lea Thompson and Angela Goethals. It premiered on USA Network in 2003. It was later broadcast in the 25 Days of Christmas programming block on ABC Family (now Freeform) and in 2020 it was part of Freeform's Kickoff to Christmas.
Plot
A burglar (Tony Danza) plans a bank heist in a small town on Christmas Eve, but experiences a change of heart after he takes a job playing Santa Claus.
Cast
Tony Danza as Jack Clayton
Lea Thompson as Sarah Gibson
Angela Goethals as Noelle Gibson
Betty White as Emily Sutton
David Parker as Harry Zordich
Malcolm Stewart as Doug Jennings
Alf Humphreys as Tim Hogan (as Alfred E. Humphreys)
Gwynyth Walsh as Jo
Damon Gregory as Store Guard
Dean Redman as Store Guard
Brad Sihvon as Store Guard
Terry Howson as Store Guard
Beverly Elliott as Woman Outside Store
Michael Scholar Jr. as Bus Ticket Seller
Richard Hendery as Bus Driver
Ryan Steele as Teenager on Bus
Alvin Sanders as Cook
Ryan Hirakida as Pudgy Kid
Isabelle Deluce as Girl #1
Owen Seidel as Crying Kid
Lisa Bunting as School Teacher
Effi Markovitch as Gary Tannenbaum
Spancer Achtymichuk as Andrew
Alexis Llewellyn as Girl #2
Cameron Cowles as Kid
Avery Marte as Kid
Michaela Slinger as Kid
Avery Tiplady as Kid
Kayden Porbeni as Kid
Zachary Bergman as Kid
Julia Tortolano as Kid
Nico McEown as Kid
Don Mackay as Bank Manager
Howard Storey as Bank Guard
Colin Cunningham as Mall Security Guard
Terry O'Sullivan as Bank Teller
Cameron Park as Policeman
Perry Finnbogason as Little Boy with Glasses
Jodie Graham as Boy's Father
French Tickner as Minister
John Carroll as Judge
D. Harlan Cutshall as Prison Guard
Rob Morton as Prison Guard
See also
List of American films of 2003
List of Christmas films
Santa Claus in film
References
External links
2003 television films
2003 films
2003 crime drama films
American crime drama films
American Christmas drama films
USA Network original films
Christmas television films
2000s Christmas drama films
Films directed by Gregg Champion
2000s American films
2000s English-language films
English-language Christmas drama films
English-language crime drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Rogow | Jackson Rogow (born October 5, 1991) is an American actor. He is best known for starring in the Cartoon Network live action series Dude, What Would Happen?
Career
Rogow was on Dude, What Would Happen on Cartoon Network until it was cancelled in 2011. Rogow was also on the Lego Top Secret Project after The Yoda Chronicles on Cartoon Network.
Personal life
Rogow resides in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
References
External links
Living people
1991 births
People from Kissimmee, Florida
People from Bel Air, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts alumni
American male television actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrthoCAD%20Network%20Research%20Cell | OrthoCAD Network Research Cell is a federally funded research and development facility in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India. The Laboratory's primary function is the design and development of reconstruction systems for orthopaedic and other applications, the current focus is on mega-implants for limb-saving surgery, mainly for children affected by bone cancer. The Cell later led to the establishment of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (incubation) Centre (BETiC).
Mission
The mission of the OrthoCAD group is to develop indigenous research and development capabilities on medical implants, surgical instruments (Armamentarium), testing protocol, and surgery planning and navigation system. This is expected to respond to the growing medical needs of Indian patients, to provide affordable and available devices, and to train graduates as well as research scientists in the area of Biomedical engineering and manufacturing.
Research partners
The OrthoCAD Network Research Cell was established in January 2007 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay. It is supported by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, New Delhi. In 2017, a follow-on funding was released by the Office to NFTDC for pilot production and human clinical trials.
The R&D team comprises mechanical engineers, orthopaedic surgeons and materials scientists from
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (Prof. Bhallamudi Ravi)
Non Ferrous Technology Development Centre, Hyderabad (Dr. K. Balasubramanian)
Tata Memorial Hospital and P.D. Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai (Dr. Manish Agarwal)
Facilities
The Centers at IIT Bombay and NFTDC together have appropriate equipment and instrumentation, including computing facilities.
Rapid prototyping system for feasibility studies
Knee simulator and testing machine for loosening and fatigue studies
Computerized Universal Testing Machine for static testing of implants
Stereo optical microscope for analyzing wear and fracture of implants
Photoelasticity test setup for FEM (virtual testing of implants) validation
Analytical balance (implant wear particle study)
Surgery navigation system for linking with a 3D planning software
Medical modelling system for CT to 3D model conversion and surgery planning
Haptic system for mock surgery
High-end computing facilities for CAD and FEM analysis
Precision CNC manufacturing
Collaboration
The OrthoCAD group is collaborating with other similar groups in India and abroad in specific area of mutual interest.
References
IIT Bombay
Research institutes in Mumbai
Medical research institutes in India
Research institutes established in 2007
2007 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao%20ExDOS | Tao ExDOS is an emulator software application designed to allow users of old MS-DOS applications to run these applications on new operating systems such as Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Terminal Server.
Features
Tao ExDOS enables users of DOS applications to work with these applications on new operating systems. Using the built-in Virtual 8086 mode of the x86 CPU, Tao ExDOS enables DOS and 16-bit Windows applications (that run under DOS) to run effectively in 32-bit Windows desktop environments, including Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP/2000 and Windows Terminal Server 2003/2008. Support for 64-bit systems is available on Windows 7 via the Virtual XP Mode, which can be downloaded for free from Microsoft for Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise versions.
Additional modules allow the DOS users to print to printers connected to USB ports, network printers, fax printers, PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML and image files.
See also
DOSBox
References
External links
Tao Software Development Company website
Tao ExDOS product page
PC Magazine Encyclopedia article
Tao ExDOS on CNET Download.com
Tao ExDOS on Tucows Downloads
Emulation software
DOS emulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%21%20%28programming%20language%29 | Go! is an agent-based programming language in the tradition of logic-based programming languages like Prolog. It was introduced in a 2003 paper by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark.
Design
The authors of Go! describe it as "a multi-paradigm programming language that is oriented to the needs of programming secure, production quality and agent-based applications. It is multi-threaded, strongly typed and higher order (in the functional programming sense). It has relation, function and action procedure definitions. Threads execute action procedures, calling functions and querying relations as needed. Threads in different agents communicate and coordinate using asynchronous messages. Threads within the same agent can also use shared dynamic relations acting as Linda-style tuple stores."
The authors also propose that the language is suitable for representing ontologies due to its integration of logic, functional and imperative styles of programming.
Example
The following example illustrates the "ontology-oriented" type and declarations style of Go!:
Sex ::= male | female.
person <~ {dayOfBirth:[] => day.
age:[] => integer.
sex:[] => Sex.
name:[] => string.
home:[] => string.
lives:[string]{}}.
person:[string, day, Sex, string] $= person.
person(Nm, Born, Sx, Hm)..{
dayOfBirth() => Born.
age() => yearsBetween(now(), Born).
sex() => Sx.
name() => Nm.
home() => Hm.
lives(Pl) :- Pl = home().
yearsBetween:[integer, day] => integer.
yearsBetween(...) => ..
}.
newPerson:[string, day, Sex, string] => person.
newPerson(Nm, Born, Sx, Hm) => $person(Nm, Born, Sx, Hm).
The ::= rule defines a new algebraic data type, a data type with only data constructors.
The <~ rule defines an interface type - it indicates what properties are characteristic of a person and also gives type constraints on these properties. It documents that age is a functional property with an integer value, that lives is a unary relation over strings, and that dayOfBirth is a functional property with a value that is an object of type day.
The $= type rule indicates that there is also a theory label, with the functor person, for a theory that defines the characteristic properties of the person type - implements the person interface - in terms of four given parameters of types string, day , Sex, and string.
Conflict with Google
In November 2009, Google released a similarly named Go programming language (with no exclamation point). McCabe asked Google to change the name of their language as he was concerned they were "steam-rolling over us". The issue received attention among technology news websites, with some of them characterizing Go! as "obscure". The issue thread opened on the subject was closed by a Google developer on 12 October 2010 with the custom status "Unfortunate" and with the following comment: "there are many computing products and services named Go. In the 11 months s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-bearer%20network | A multi-bearer network (MBN) is a network having the capability to carry a data packet via one of several alternative bearers. To be more precise, the term multi-bearer network should be interpreted as meaning 'multi-bearer-type network', or in other words, a network arrangement which provides multiple different bearer types for data packet delivery.
Background of multi-bearer network
An example of a suitable MBN is a concept known as Multimedia Environment for Mobiles (MEMO). Additionally, the MBN supports mobility of a subscriber terminal. An example of terminal mobility is IP mobility, which is the topic of standard by the IETF.
The problem underlying the invention is how to select the optimal bearer for each data packet in varying situations in a multi-bearer network. Data packets have different quality-of-service requirements. Situations may vary because the subscriber moves or the network load changes.
Brief summary of multi-bearer network
From the patent
Multi bearer network usage by companies
CyberVision
Huawei
PyCom
References
Mobility Support
Method for sending a data packet to a mobile node from a correspondent node via a multi-bearer network
Mobile Broadband Consumption and Multi-bearer Network Strategies
External links
Packet routing in a multi-bearer-type network
Telecommunications infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Cartoon%20DataBase | The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts.
The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated features on creator Dave Koch's local computer. In response to increasing interest in the material, the database went online in 1998 as a searchable resource dedicated to compiling information about cartoons, including production details such as voice actors, producers, and directors, as well as plot summaries and user reviews of cartoons. In 2003, BCDB became a 501(c) non-profit corporation. On June 24, 2009, it was announced by creator Dave Koch on his BCDB forums that the site had 100,000 titles.
Due to system issues that have been unable to be resolved, all cartoon information on the site is non-existent after 2019. Users are no longer able to contribute to the site due to the issue. Since the creator is no longer active and the moderators are not in charge of this site, the error still persists as of 2022.
Features
One feature of the BCDB is its "Top Rated" page which provides a listing of the top 25 animated films as voted by the registered users of the website. Ratings are shown based on top score as well as the cartoons that receive the highest number of votes. Users are given the option of rating a movie from "1" (lowest) to "10" (highest). To safeguard against attempts to skew the data, the DataBase employs data filters and a vote quota in an attempt to give an accurate Bayesian estimate. The BCDB also has a lowest-20 rated cartoons feature which, based on the same data, shows the least liked cartoons in the database.
BCDB also includes a linked, online forum, where users express their opinions about cartoons, and/or ask questions about them. The forum is available to all registered users, and is actively moderated by a team of moderators and administrators.
Other features include news items related to the animation industry and the recently added image gallery, which allows users to see images of various cartoon characters taken from popular films.
Recognition
In 2002, The San Diego Union-Tribune listed BCDB as a "top site" and wrote "with more than 42,000 cartoons, 2,000 series[,] and 1,300 cartoon reviews, this may be one of the Internet's largest searchable databases of cartoons". In 2005, Apple Hot News wrote "The Big Cartoon Database is the place to find in depth information about any cartoon ever made". In 2006, it was reported by the Reference and User Services Association, in their Eighth Annual List of Best Free Reference Web Sites, that "The Big Cartoon Database is the definitive Web compendium for anyone interested in the history of animation."
The BCDB has been used as a reference by such news sources as Hartford Courant, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Oakland Tribune, Beacon News, USA Today, and the Animation World Network, among others. Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages rates t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocurri%C3%B3%20As%C3%AD | Ocurrió así (Spanish: It Happened Like So) is Spanish-language network Telemundo's first original investigative news magazine that launched on October 8, 1990 to April 26, 2002. The show was originally hosted by Enrique Gratas from 1990 until he left the network in 1999. Pedro Sevcec, a previous reporter for the show, returned as temporary host that year. The show later re-launched in 2000 with Ana Patricia Candiani hosting. Candela Ferro joined the program in 2001, and both remained until its renaming in 2002 as Al Rojo Vivo.
Broadcast history
Ocurrió Así premiered on October 8, 1990 with Enrique Gratas as host, airing in the 5:00 p.m. timeslot. It became an instant hit, winning six Emmy Awards, and becoming the leading program for the network. Ratings, however, gradually started to slip due in part to facing competition from rival network Univision's Primer Impacto in the same timeslot. Gratas left the show in 1999, and Pedro Sevcec took over as host for the remainder of the year. When Sevcec got promoted to main anchor of Noticiero Telemundo in January 2000, Ana Patricia Candiani became the new host of Ocurrió Así, with Candela Ferro joining as co-host in 2001. These changes did not improve the show's ratings, and Ocurrió Así went off the air in 2002. The program was replaced by Al Rojo Vivo, hosted by former Primer Impacto anchor Maria Celeste Arraras.
Incidents
One of the more infamous moments in Ocurrió así was the 1993 murder of Maritza Martin, occurred on January 18, which was caught on camera. Originally, the segment was to be an interview in a graveyard where Emilio Núñez was visiting his deceased daughter. He blamed her suicide on Martin following an intense dispute on Thanksgiving of 1992. Upon facing Maritza, Núñez headed back to his car, and suddenly reappeared to fire 12 shots that killed Martin. The murder would later be used in the 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine.
References
External links
Telemundo original programming
1990 American television series debuts
2002 American television series endings
1990s American television series
2000s American television series
Spanish-language television programming in the United States
Noticias Telemundo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger%20service%20system | A Passenger Service System or PSS is a network of software applications that help airlines manage all the passenger-related operations from ticketing to boarding. The PSS usually comprises an airline reservations system, an airline inventory system and a departure control system (DCS).
Modules
Generally the PSS is made up of modules that are used to manage different parts of the airline’s business.
Airline Reservations system
The airline reservations system is the system that allows an airline to sell their inventory (seats). It contains information on schedules and fares and contains a database of reservations (or passenger name records) and of tickets issued (if applicable).
Airline Inventory System
The airline inventory system may or may not be integrated with the reservation system. The system contains all the airline’s flights and the available seats. The main function of the inventory system is to define how many seats are available on a particular flight by opening or closing an individual booking class in accordance with rules defined by the airline.
Departure Control System
The departure control system (DCS) is the system used by airlines and airports to check-in a passenger. The DCS is connected to the reservation system enabling it to check who has a valid reservation on a flight. The DCS is used to enter information required by customs or border security agencies and to issue the boarding document. In addition the DCS may also be used to dispatch cargo and to optimize aircraft weight and balance.
References
Civil aviation
Travel technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological%20%26%20Geoastrophysical%20Abstracts | Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts is a scholarly bibliographic database that covers meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences.
Production and Access
The database is produced by the American Meteorological Society, and is published by DIALOG and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Coverage
The database has over 508,379 records as of November 2009, and covers literature published 1974–present. Every month approximately 850 new records are added. In a 2002 analysis of the database, it was revealed that MGA indexed 72 unique titles, eight of which were peer reviewed.
References
Atmospheric sciences journals
Bibliographic databases and indexes
American Meteorological Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenkvista%20runestone | The Stenkvista runestone, designated as runic inscription Sö 111 in the Rundata catalog, is a memorial runestone located near the church at Stenkvista, which is two kilometers east of Skogstorp, Södermanland County, Sweden, which was formerly part of the historic Södermanland, and which features a depiction of Thor's hammer, Mjöllnir. This runestone is one of several runestones in Scandinavia that has a dedication to Thor. While the tradition of carving inscriptions into boulders began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, most runestones in Scandinavia date from the late Viking Age.
Description
The Stenkvista runestone, which currently lies in a churchyard, is made of granite and is 2.2 meters in height. It is classified as being in runestone style Fp. This is the classification for inscriptions where the runic text is characterized by runic bands that end with serpent or animal heads depicted as seen from above. The runemaster who carved this runestone placed a dot between the words in the runic text, arranged the design so that the runes þiuþmunt for the man's name Þjóðmundr and faþur * sin for the words fôður sinn ("their father") are located below the Thor's hammer. Thor's hammer was used on several memorial runestones in Sweden and Denmark, perhaps as a parallel to or a pagan reaction to the use of the cross by Christians. Other surviving runestones or inscriptions depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Vg 113 in Lärkegapet, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 26 in Laeborg, DR 48 in Hanning, DR 120 in Spentrup, and DR 331 in Gårdstånga.
The runic text indicates that the stone is a memorial raised by three sons to their father Þjóðmundr. Two Norse pagan gods appear as theophoric name elements in two of the personal names listed in the inscription. The name Freygeirr translates as "Freyr's Spear" and Þorgautr as "Thor-Goth."
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
* helki * auk * fraykaiʀ * auk * þorkautr * raistu * merki * siʀun * at * þiuþmunt faþur * sin
Transcription into Old Norse
Helgi ok Freygeirr ok Þorgautr reistu merki sírún/sírýn at Þjóðmund, fôður sinn.
Translation in English
Helgi and Freygeirr and Þorgautr raised the rune-decorated landmark in memory of Þjóðmundr, their father.
References
Runestones in Södermanland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco%20Venezolano%20de%20Cr%C3%A9dito | Venezolano de Crédito (Venezuelan of Credit, in English) (BVC: BVE) is a Venezuelan bank based in Caracas, Venezuela. Founded in 1925, it is the oldest private bank. Currently, the Bank has a network of 71 branches, 55 of which are conventional, 12 are located within the premises of the most important corporations in Venezuela, and 12 are located in commercial sites, taking advantage of public traffic. The Bank also operates a branch in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, established in 1998.
History
It was founded on 4 June 1925 by Henrique Pérez Dupuy. At the moment Caracas had a population of 186,000 and credit was a total innovation. BVC was authorized to issue its own money.
During its first fifty years of institutional life, Venezolano de Crédito expanded its credit activities to every area of the economy associated with development and growth. The Bank fully financed the first expansion of Caracas in the area of San Agustin, and later promoted the urban development of the eastern part of the city.
The Bank provided the financing required by coffee-growing and livestock; contributed to the creation of an official agency centralizing foreign exchange; and, in general, supported every activity associated with the growth of the country in areas such as telecommunications, electricity, exports, housing, infrastructure, urban development, civil aviation; turning into a positive factor in practically every one of the most important areas of the Venezuelan economy.
In the sixties, the bank had established a total of five branches, in addition to the main headquarters in Caracas. This completely changed during the seventies, a period that marked the expansion of the Bank throughout the country and its modernization. Many branches were opened in cities that were undergoing fast growth such as Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay, and Barquisimeto, while in the area of technology an online system was installed for paying checks in any branch. During this period the Bank emphasized its support of the oil sector, creating a specialized unit for serving its corporate clients.
In the early nineties, the Bank became the leader in services specializing in the stock market, such as managing shareholder registries and acting as custodian bank for important domestic and foreign ADR and ADS issuing programs. Expansion continued in 1998 with the opening of the first international branch in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies.
During the last decade, the Bank has oriented its strategy to developing and promoting digital services supported by the highest technology: office banking for business operations (Venecredit Office Banking); Internet Banking for individuals (Venezolano Online); as well as advance mobile banking services. The Bank has defined the use of technology and innovation as keys to making its products and services available to its clients anytime, anywhere.
References
External links
Companies listed on the Caracas Stock Exchang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog | Moog may refer to:
Electronics and computing
Moog synthesizer, a synthesizer invented by Robert Moog
Moog Music, a synthesizer manufacturer founded by Robert Moog
Moog (code), astronomical software
Moog Inc., a control-system maker
People
Moog (surname)
Robert Moog, synthesizer designer
Blair Joscelyne (alias Moog), composer and filmmaker
Andy Moog, ice hockey goaltender
Albums
The Happy Moog, a 1969 album by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer.
Music to Moog By, a 1969 album by Gershon Kingsley.
The Moog Strikes Bach, a 1969 album by Hans Wurman.
Moog Indigo, a 1970 album by Jean-Jacques Perrey.
Moog Sensations, a 1971 album by Jean-Jacques Perrey.
Moog Expressions, a 1972 album by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Pat Prilly.
First Moog Quartet, a 1972 album by Kingsley's homonymous group
Moog Mig Mag Moog, a 1974 album by Jean-Jacques Perrey.
The Moog Cookbook, a 1996 album of The Moog Cookbook.
Songs
Moog City, a song of C418.
Other
Moog (film), a 2004 biographical film about Robert Moog
Moog Center for Deaf Education
The Moog, a dog-like character in the British children's TV cartoon Willo the Wisp
The Moog, a Hungarian band
Moog parts, a brand of mid–high end auto parts owned by Federal-Mogul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20to%20rank | Learning to rank or machine-learned ranking (MLR) is the application of machine learning, typically supervised, semi-supervised or reinforcement learning, in the construction of ranking models for information retrieval systems. Training data consists of lists of items with some partial order specified between items in each list. This order is typically induced by giving a numerical or ordinal score or a binary judgment (e.g. "relevant" or "not relevant") for each item. The goal of constructing the ranking model is to rank new, unseen lists in a similar way to rankings in the training data.
Applications
In information retrieval
Ranking is a central part of many information retrieval problems, such as document retrieval, collaborative filtering, sentiment analysis, and online advertising.
A possible architecture of a machine-learned search engine is shown in the accompanying figure.
Training data consists of queries and documents matching them together with the relevance degree of each match. It may be prepared manually by human assessors (or raters, as Google calls them), who check results for some queries and determine relevance of each result. It is not feasible to check the relevance of all documents, and so typically a technique called pooling is used — only the top few documents, retrieved by some existing ranking models are checked. This technique may introduce selection bias. Alternatively, training data may be derived automatically by analyzing clickthrough logs (i.e. search results which got clicks from users), query chains, or such search engines' features as Google's (since-replaced) SearchWiki. Clickthrough logs can be biased by the tendency of users to click on the top search results on the assumption that they are already well-ranked.
Training data is used by a learning algorithm to produce a ranking model which computes the relevance of documents for actual queries.
Typically, users expect a search query to complete in a short time (such as a few hundred milliseconds for web search), which makes it impossible to evaluate a complex ranking model on each document in the corpus, and so a two-phase scheme is used. First, a small number of potentially relevant documents are identified using simpler retrieval models which permit fast query evaluation, such as the vector space model, boolean model, weighted AND, or BM25. This phase is called top- document retrieval and many heuristics were proposed in the literature to accelerate it, such as using a document's static quality score and tiered indexes. In the second phase, a more accurate but computationally expensive machine-learned model is used to re-rank these documents.
In other areas
Learning to rank algorithms have been applied in areas other than information retrieval:
In machine translation for ranking a set of hypothesized translations;
In computational biology for ranking candidate 3-D structures in protein structure prediction problems.
In recommender systems for ide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsqueak | Newsqueak is a concurrent programming language for writing application software with interactive graphical user interfaces.
Newsqueak's syntax and semantics are influenced by the C language, but its approach to concurrency was inspired by C. A. R. Hoare's communicating sequential processes (CSP). However, in Newsqueak, channels are first-class objects, with dynamic process creation and dynamic channel creation.
Newsqueak was developed from an earlier, smaller, language, called Squeak (not to be confused with the Smalltalk implementation Squeak). It was developed by Luca Cardelli and Rob Pike at Bell Labs in the first half of the 1980s as a language for implementing graphical user interfaces. Both languages were presented as "a language for communicating with mice": their main aim was to model the concurrent nature of programs interacting with multiple input devices, viz., keyboards and mice.
Newsqueak is an interpreted language. The name of the interpreter is squint. The UNIX port of squint is available under a FOSS license.
The ideas present in Newsqueak were further developed in the programming languages Alef, Limbo, and Go.
See also
Inferno (operating system)
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
References
External links
Bell Labs and CSP Threads
Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Concurrency/message passing Newsqueak
C programming language family
Concurrent programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous%20traffic | In computer networking, promiscuous traffic, or cross-talking, describes situations where a receiver configured to receive a particular data stream receives that data stream and others. Promiscuous traffic should not be confused with the promiscuous mode, which is a network card configuration.
In particular, in multicast socket networking, an example of promiscuous traffic is when a socket configured to listen on a specific multicast address group A with a specific port P, noted A:P, receives traffic from A:P but also from another multicast source. For instance, a socket is configured to receive traffic from the multicast group address 234.234.7.70, port 36000 (noted 234.234.7.70:36000), but receives traffic from both 234.234.7.70:36000 and 234.234.7.71:36000.
This type of promiscuous traffic, due to a lack of address filtering, has been a recurring issue with certain Unix and Linux kernels, but has never been reported on Microsoft Windows operating systems post Windows XP.
Another form of promiscuous traffic occurs when two different applications happen to listen on the same group address. As the former type of promiscuous traffic (lack of address filtering) can be considered a bug at the operating system level, the latter reflects global configuration issues.
References
External links
Tool to detect promiscuous traffic with the JBoss product
Cross talking between clusters with same multicast ports but different multicast addresses
multicast: same port, different IP address? this thread relates of a practical case where a developer wants to use several addresses with a same port.
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectionals%20%28Glee%29 | "Sectionals" is the thirteenth episode of the American television series Glee. It premiered on the Fox network on December 9, 2009. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Brad Falchuk, and serves as the mid-season finale for the show's first season. "Sectionals" sees the glee club win the sectionals round of competition, advancing on to regionals. Glee club member Finn (Cory Monteith) discovers he is not the father of his girlfriend Quinn's (Dianna Agron) baby. Football coach Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher) plans his wedding with Emma (Jayma Mays) on the same day as the sectionals competition. Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) is unable to take the students to sectionals and Emma offers to take them. The episode sees the return of Eve and Michael Hitchcock as rival glee club directors Grace Hitchens and Dalton Rumba.
The episode features covers of six songs, studio recordings of four of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and are also included on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 2. "Sectionals" was watched by 8.127 million U.S. viewers, and received mostly positive reviews from critics. The episode's musical performances attracted praise, as did the development of Will and Emma's relationship, though Dan Snierson of Entertainment Weekly suggested it may have been preferable to leave their romance unresolved. James Poniewozik of Time felt that by concluding the pregnancy storyline in "Sectionals", Glee was able to "clear the decks for a second half of the season as the confident show it now is".
Plot
As a result of a technicality in the show choir competition rules, glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) is not allowed to accompany New Directions to sectionals. Guidance counsellor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) postpones her own wedding by a few hours so that she can take the club in his place, although her fiancé, football coach Ken Tanaka (Patrick Gallagher), feels she is choosing Will over him.
Most of the glee club has learned that Puck (Mark Salling), not Finn (Cory Monteith), is the father of Quinn's baby, and begin to mistrust Quinn. They hide this fact from Rachel (Lea Michele), believing that she will tell Finn. Emma takes over as faculty advisor of the club as they start working on their set list for sectionals. With two group songs selected, Rachel says that she'll sing the solo ballad. Mercedes (Amber Riley) jealously objects to this, and much to Rachel almost feeling dismayed, she agrees to give it to Mercedes. Mercedes sings "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" to wild applause. Rachel agrees that Mercedes deserves to sing the solo and the two hug. Meanwhile, Rachel has deduced that Puck impregnated Quinn and tells Finn, who then beats up Puck and confronts Quinn, who tearfully admits the truth. Angered by their betrayal, Finn quits the club on the eve of sectionals, and has to be replaced by school reporter Jacob Ben Israel (Josh Sussman), who is only going to stalk Rachel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%20of%20India%20by%20Urdu%20speakers | As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in India were 62,772,631. According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindostani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.
Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply attached through its medieval history of Muslim sultanates and empires and the Indian states and union territories of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.
Regional distribution
Following is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Urdu census data with estimated 2001 speakers.
For census data of 1991:GOI census 1991: DISTRIBUTION OF 10,000 PERSONS BY LANGUAGE - INDIA, STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES - 1991
Speaker strength
Following is speaker's strength data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:
Ranking
Following is ranking data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:
"**" Census was not conducted in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir
See also
States of India by urban population
States of India by size of economy
Muslims of Uttar Pradesh
References
External links
http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/data_files/india/Final_PPT_2011_chapter5.pdf
GOI census 2001: Population by religious communities
Urdu speakers
Urdu language
Countries and territories where Urdu is an official language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishVille | FishVille is a defunct real-time aquarium simulation game developed by Zynga, it was available as an application on the social-networking website Facebook. The game allowed members of Facebook to manage virtual aquariums by rearing fish. As of October 2011, FishVille had 1.6 million monthly active users. The game was discontinued on December 5, 2012.
Gameplay
When users begin the game, they can start by choosing a background and gravel for their aquariums. The users start with four fish already present in their tank. A tutorial then commences which takes the user through some of the basic functions of the game which include adding fish to the aquarium, feeding and selling fish. Upon selling fish, the user earns "sand coins" and experience points (XP). The player also earns XP and coins for completing certain tasks and helping in neighbor missions. At certain XP benchmarks, the player's level rises. As the player obtains more items and progresses through levels, fish, decorations, environments, creatures and plants become available to them via the "store" where items can be purchased using either sand coins or "sand dollars". Sand dollars are earned by leveling up, completing offers or microtransactions.
Fish
Fish rearing is the main activity in FishVille. Players can buy fish from the store using sand dollars or sand coins. Fish can also be added into the aquarium by receiving gifts sent by neighbors and Facebook friends. Fish require to be fed as they age. Each fish has three stages of growth – Baby, Junior and Adult. Once the fish become junior or adult fish they can be sold for coins and XP. The XP and coins earned by selling the fish depends on the type of fish. If the fish are not fed, they become sick and then eventually die.
Players can purchase up to eight additional tanks if their tanks run out of space. Recently, Zynga launched a new feature in FishVille called "Arena Tanks". In an Arena tank a user can place fish which are classified as arena or super arena. These fish can then be trained using "super foods" which help improve certain traits of the fish which include IQ, Strength, Agility and Health. The fish then can "combat" with other arena fish which helps the player gain XP, coins and other rewards.
Decorations and other items
In addition to fish, players can also place decorations, plants and creatures to deck out their tanks. These additional items can be purchased from the store with the in-game currency or can be acquired through the game's gifting mechanism. The FishVille store has a vast array of decorations and creatures which get unlocked and are available for purchase as the user levels up in the game.
The store also allows the user to change the environment (wallpaper) and gravel of the tank.
The FishVille store is constantly updated with new items and content. Items are also added for seasons and for special themes. Special themes when added, provide players with the opportunity to decorate the tank with items rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoLisp | PicoLisp is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. It runs on operating systems including Linux and others that are Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) compliant. Its most prominent features are simplicity and minimalism. It is built on one internal data type: a cell. On the language level, a programmer can use three different data types (numbers, symbols, and lists) being represented by cells and differentiated by bits at the end of the cell. It is free and open-source software released under an MIT License (X11).
Features
Functions can accept arbitrary types and numbers of arguments. Macros are needed only in rare cases and are implemented using the quote function. PicoLisp does not include Lisp's lambda function. This is because the quote function is changed to return all its arguments unevaluated, not only the car of the first.
A special feature is the intrinsic create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) functioning. Persistent symbols are first-class citizens (objects), they are loaded from database files automatically when accessed, and written back when modified. Applications are written using a class hierarchy of entities and relations.
Other features include: Prolog engine, database engine and database queries, distributed databases, inlining of C language functions and native C function calls, child process management, interprocess communication, browser graphical user interface (GUI), and internationalization and localization.
History
In the 1980s, PicoLisp began development on the Macintosh, and was used in commercial application development since then. The design of PicoLisp is most similar to the first version of MacLisp, Interlisp and mainly Portable Standard Lisp. It was ported to DOS and SCO Unix. Since 1993, it was used mainly on Linux. In the mid-1990s, database functions were added.
The first versions were written in a mix of C and assembly language. In 1999, a first rewrite from scratch was done, fully in C. In 2002, that version was released under a GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). In 2010, it changed to an MIT/X11 license.
In 2009, the 64-bit version was released, another rewrite, this time written in generic assembly, which in turn is implemented in PicoLisp. This version adds support for coroutines.
In December 2010, a Java version named Ersatz PicoLisp was released.
In September 2014, Burger announced the PilMCU project on the PicoLisp development listserv, an effort with George Orais to implement PicoLisp in hardware directly.
In July 2015, Burger announced PilOS - The PicoLisp Operating System, a minimal prototype based on the modification of PilMCU targeting embedded applications. It runs on standard x86-64 PC hardware, directly off the BIOS and includes all the features of 64-bit PicoLisp (minus native function calls, due to the fact there is no other native environment such as the C standard library); in principle, it works as its own operating system.
In the summer of 2016, d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Security%20Council%20of%20India | Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a premier industry body on data protection in India, setup by NASSCOM®, committed to making cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices, standards and initiatives in cyber security and privacy. DSCI brings together national governments, their agencies, industry sectors including IT-BPM, BFSI, Telecom, industry associations, data protection authorities and think tanks for public advocacy, thought leadership, capacity building and outreach initiatives.
DSCI engages with governments, regulators, industry associations and think tanks on policy matters. To strengthen thought leadership in cyber security and privacy, DSCI develops best practices and frameworks, publishes studies, surveys and papers. It builds capacity in security, privacy and cyber forensics through training and certification program for professionals and law enforcement agencies and engages stakeholders through various outreach initiatives including events, awards, chapters, consultations and membership programs. DSCI also endeavors to increase India’s share in the global security product and services market through global trade development initiatives. These aim to strengthen the security and privacy culture in the India.
Certifications
Frameworks
External links
Computer security organizations
Non-profit organisations based in India
Privacy organizations
Internet governance organizations
Cyber Security in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritas | Meritas may mean
Meritas (cloth), a brand of oilcloth and other specialist cloths
Meritas (education), a former network of primary schools
Meritas (law), an American network of business law practices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter%20based%20genetic%20algorithm | The promoter based genetic algorithm (PBGA) is a genetic algorithm for neuroevolution developed by F. Bellas and R.J. Duro in the Integrated Group for Engineering Research (GII) at the University of Coruña, in Spain. It evolves variable size feedforward artificial neural networks (ANN) that are encoded into sequences of genes for constructing a basic ANN unit. Each of these blocks is preceded by a gene promoter acting as an on/off switch that determines if that particular unit will be expressed or not.
PBGA basics
The basic unit in the PBGA is a neuron with all of its inbound connections as represented in the following figure:
The genotype of a basic unit is a set of real valued weights followed by the parameters of the neuron and proceeded by an integer valued field that determines the promoter gene value and, consequently, the expression of the unit. By concatenating units of this type we can construct the whole network.
With this encoding it is imposed that the information that is not expressed is still carried by the genotype in evolution but it is shielded from direct selective pressure, maintaining this way the diversity in the population, which has been a design premise for this algorithm. Therefore, a clear difference is established between the search space and the solution space, permitting information learned and encoded into the genotypic representation to be preserved by disabling promoter genes.
Results
The PBGA was originally presented within the field of autonomous robotics, in particular in the real time learning of environment models of the robot.
It has been used inside the Multilevel Darwinist Brain (MDB) cognitive mechanism developed in the GII for real robots on-line learning. In another paper it is shown how the application of the PBGA together with an external memory that stores the successful obtained world models, is an optimal strategy for adaptation in dynamic environments.
Recently, the PBGA has provided results that outperform other neuroevolutionary algorithms in non-stationary problems, where the fitness function varies in time.
References
External links
Grupo Integrado de Ingeniería
Francisco Bellas’ website
Richard J. Duro’s website
Artificial neural networks
Evolutionary algorithms
Evolutionary computation
Genetic algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalka%20Supercomputing%20facility | The Amalka Supercomputing facility is the largest of the three Czech parallel supercomputers. It is used by Department of Space Physics,
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
The primary task is computation and visualisation in the area of space research for the European Space Agency or NASA, such as a preparation of Demeter (satellite) launch.
Amalka Supercomputing facility is credited with computing the first kinetic magnetic field model of Mercury in the MESSENGER project. It also helped to understand the results from the Cluster II mission.
At present, the facility is supporting the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) project. The results will be useful in planning for creating permanent human bases on Moon that will be protected from solar wind.
The current version runs Linux slackware and delivers 6.38 TFlops. Expansion and optimization of the infrastructure is being implemented by Sprinx Systems.
References
External links
I am Amálka, the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic (Czech)
Supercomputers
Science and technology in the Czech Republic
Information technology in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20and%20Multicast%20Service | Broadcast and Multicast Service (BCMCS) is an interface for providing broadcast and multicast services in 3GPP2 CDMA2000 mobile networks. BCMCS can be used to transfer light video and audio clips or other data to a large group of mobile subscribers in an efficient manner. To do so, BCMCS is a so-called point-to-multipoint service. This means that multiple users receive the same information using the same radio resources.
Usage of BCMCS
BCMCS can be used for two different kind of services. Broadcast services in which all users within the broadcasting area can receive the same information and a multicast services in which only users that have subscribed to the service can receive the information
Although BCMCS can be used for mobile TV, it has some limitations in the capacity that can be used for this kind of services within the network.
Enhanced Broadcast and Multicast Services
EBCMCS is an enhanced version of BCMCS. EBCMCS uses a new radio interface based on OFDM to combat problems with echoes (multipath) in the transmission.
See also
Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), a point-to-multipoint service defined for 3GPP systems
References
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External links
Broadcasting
Telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrima | Ebrima is an OpenType font designed to support African writing systems. It was created by Microsoft and is part of the Windows 7 operating system. It supports advanced OpenType features such as combining diacritics positioning. Its Latin alphabet is based on the Segoe font.
Writing systems
Adlam script ()
Greek script (partial) for the International Phonetic Alphabet
Latin script with extensions for the African reference alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet
N'Ko script ()
Osmanya script ()
Tifinagh ()
Vai script ()
See also
Ebrima Font Family (2012). Microsoft Typography
Unicode typefaces
Windows 7 typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albula%20railway%20line | The Albula railway line (; ; ) is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the so-called core network of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It links Thusis on the Hinterrhein at and Filisur at with the spa resort of St. Moritz in Engadine at .
Construction of the Albula line was begun in September 1898, the opening took place on 1 July 1903, and the extension to St. Moritz commenced operations on 10 July 1904. With its 55 bridges and 39 tunnels, the line is one of the most spectacular narrow gauge railways in the world.
On 7 July 2008, the Albula line and the Bernina railway line, which also forms part of the RhB, were jointly recorded in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, under the name Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes.
The best known trains operating on the Albula line are the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express.
History
Up until 1890, the south east of Switzerland was extremely poorly served by railways. Alpine transit traffic was drawn to the Gotthard Railway, so that the construction of transcontinental railways in Graubünden appeared not to be economically viable. Only the success of the Landquart-Davos-Bahn (LD) led to a turning point. In 1895, the LD changed its name to Rhaetian Railway (RhB). Two years later, the people of Graubünden decided, in a referendum, that the RhB would come under state ownership. These two changes created suitable conditions for a rapid construction of further RhB lines, which were intended to open up large parts of the Canton.
In 1890, the Davos hotelier proposed the construction of a rail link from Chur via Davos, and through a tunnel under the Scaletta Pass, to St Moritz, and then onwards via the Maloja Pass, to Chiavenna in Italy. Holsboer later had to abandon this planned Scalettabahn, in favour of a route through what was to become the Albula Tunnel. In 1895, the Zurich railway pioneer Adolf Guyer-Zeller presented the idea of an Engadine-Orient-Railway, which would have connected Chur, via Thusis and Engadine, and over the Fuorn Pass, with the Vinschgau and Trieste. Zeller planned this proposed route as a standard gauge line. It would have passed under the Albula Alps through a 12 km long tunnel from the mouth of the Val Tisch to the Inn Valley below Bever. As the Ofenbergbahn, the Engadine-Orient-Railway would also have cut a connection through to the Val Müstair. It was only on 30 June 1898 that the Federal Assembly in Bern finally decided on the construction of the Albula railway line. The Federal Assembly thereby also decided against another standard gauge transit railway, and a similarly contemplated railway over the Julier Pass.
In 1896, there were only 20 km of standard gauge railway line in Graubünden - and 90 km of narrow gauge railways. (Incidentally, the length of the standard gauge line has remained unchanged to this day, apart from the construction of a new industrial spur line from Chur to Domat / Ems.) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Majestic%20Theater%20of%20the%20Air | The Majestic Theater of the Air, also known as The Majestic Hour, is an American musical radio program that aired on the CBS radio network between 1928 and 1932 on Sunday evenings. The series was produced and emcee'd by Wendell Hall and sponsored by Chicago's Grigsby-Grunow Company, manufacturers of Majestic Radios. It began on the CBS network in October, 1928, with a coast-to-coast hookup of 29 stations.
Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, and Harriet Lee
When Grigsby-Grunow expanded their broadcast to reach the full CBS network on January 6, 1929, the stars of the program were Eddie Cantor and Ruth Etting. In April, 1929, singer Harriet Lee was introduced by Hall on the show as the "Chicago Nightingale", becoming a hit on the CBS network.
Songwriter showcase
In an August 1929 program, Hall presented the songwriters J. Fred Coots and Benny Davis singing some of their past and present song hits. The tenor Redferne Hollinshead contributed five selections with an additional two songs by Edna Sedley.
Orchestra music was by Arnold Johnson and His Majestic Orchestra.
The series later moved to NBC.
References
American music radio programs
1920s American radio programs
1930s American radio programs
CBS Radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20Investigation%20Australia | Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on pay TV Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series was also rebroadcast on the free to air Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The original host of the series was Steve Liebmann and is currently on Channel 7 with host Matt Doran.
Production
The series was produced by Graham McNeice who resides in Moore Park, New South Wales and is director of Shadow Productions. In a 2008 interview, McNeice said the impetus for the series was to provide an element of local content to a channel (Foxtel) that is dominated by American and European crime stories. Foxtel announced that the series would be "rested" for 2010, however, it never returned.
The series included interviews from victims, families, investigators, lawyers, and journalists. The crimes were further reviewed using original media and police audio and video footage alongside re-enactments and interviews shot in the same locations where the crimes took place.
Episodes
Series 1
No More Grannies – The Granny Killer
Kid for Ransom/Tears for Daniel
Death in a Heartbeat/The Body in the Bag
Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders
Contract to Kill/The Mornington Monster
The Moorhouse Horrors/The Call Girl Killing
The Killer Punch/The Will of Death
The Anita Cobby Murder
Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels
The Kimberley Killer
The Wanda Beach Murders/The Beaumont Children Mystery
The Greenough Family Massacre
The Disappearance of Donald Mackay
The Body in the Sports Bag
The Assassination of John Newman
The Butchered Boys
Series 2
The Killing Fields of Truro
No Mercy: The Killing of Virginia Morse
The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke
Headless Body: The Kim Barry Murder
The Gonzales Family Murders
Thrill Kill: The Janine Balding Murder
Hunt for a Killer: The Claremont Murders
The Devil Inside – John Ernest Cribb
The Predator: Leonard John Fraser
Evil Heart: The Murder of Donna Wheeler/The Disappearance of Trudie Adams
Series 3
The Girls Who Knew Too Much (Juanita Nielsen and Sallie-Anne Huckstepp)
Bloodsport – The Bondi Gay Murders
A Killer Amongst Us – The Norfolk Island Murder
Night of Terror: The Bega Schoolgirls
Murder of Innocence – Sian Kingi
Date with a Serial Killer: Rodney Cameron
Cop Killer – The Winchester Assassination
Michael Kanaan: Shoot to Kill
Buried Alive: Luckman and Reid
Mystery of the Homestead Murders
Series 4
Cangai siege
Kerry Whelan – Wife for ransom
Body in the suitcase – Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce
Catching A Killer - The Claremont Murders.
Almost a perfect murder – Bill & Pamela Weightman
Murder & Mayhem – George Brown and Fine Cotton
On Borrowed Time – The Michael McGurk Assassination
Hero To Hitman – Lindsey Rose
Reception
The show was generally well received. Michelle Nagy in her Editorial Review of the program writes:”Crime Investigation Australia presents an impressive package, using re-en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhori%20Kule | Dhori Kule (born February 17, 1957) was Rector of the University of Tirana, Albania. He is member of the board at the Balkan Universities Network.
He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tirana.
Biography
Dhori Kule received his diploma in economics from the University of Tirana in 1981. Afterwards he started his career as teacher at Kuçova and Berat and as dozent at the Tirana University.
Dhori Kule attended international studies in Italy (1992), Poland (1993), United States (1994), England (1995), Greece (1996) and Germany (2000-2002).
In 1997 Dhori Kule took up the post as Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the Tirana University until 2007 and again from 2016 and onward. In 2008 he was appointed as the Rector of the Tirana University until 2016. He authored and co-authored numerous scientific textbooks in economics and expert papers in the areas of economics in the transition period of Albania.
References
Albanian educators
1957 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Tirana
University of Tirana alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dease | Conly John Paget Dease (26 May 1906 – 1 February 1979) was a prominent Australian radio presenter and quiz show host at 2GB, Sydney, and through it, the Macquarie Radio Network from 1935 until at least 1969.
He was born in Bhamo, Upper Burma, son of a lieutenant in the 91st Punjabi Regiment. He completed his schooling after the family's return to Somerset. Rather than follow his father into the army, he migrated in 1923 to South Australia as one of the Barwell Boys. He was first indentured as a farm labourer to E. H. Mattner of Clare, South Australia but failed to impress however, and likewise failed in a 1925 apprenticeship to printer Hunter Brothers of Leabrook. In 1928 he began teaching at Scotch College, Adelaide followed by a stint at Tudor House, Moss Vale, New South Wales then from 1930 to 1933 at Scots College, Sydney.
He was meanwhile building his stage skills with Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre, featuring in productions such as Musical Chairs and Ship of Heaven until 1933, when he started working professionally for J. C. Williamson's in musical comedies.
Radio career
In 1935 he signed up as an announcer with radio 2GB, headquarters of the Macquarie Radio Network, eventually becoming its chief announcer. He has been named as one of the 'Five D's of Australian Radio' with Jack Davey, Bob Dyer, Terry Dear and Harry Dearth. His longest-running program was World Famous Tenors. Other programs include Nature Speaks (sponsored by Edward Hallstrom) 1947 to 1954. As a volunteer he recorded approximately two hundred Talking Books for the Blind.
The Quiz Kids
In 1942 he began the program for which he is now best remembered, The Quiz Kids. Modelled on a US program of the same name (one of whose panel members was the young James D. Watson), its format involved a panel of five Sydney schoolboys and girls aged 11 to 15, who were challenged by questions sent in by listeners from all around Australia. The listener was rewarded with cash and sponsors' products in the event of no 'Quiz Kid' supplying a satisfactory answer. A separate panel in Melbourne was used for six weeks each year. Dease played the avuncular quizmaster. In all publicity photographs and public appearances he wore an academic gown and mortarboard, as were the panel members, many of whom, such as NSW premier Neville Wran, senior academics John Lambert, Jack Goldring and James Seymour Hagan, were to achieve eminence as adults. Barry Jones, who later went on to become a Labor politician, was a member of the Melbourne panel in 1947 and 1948. Others included Sue Pearson (mother of Christopher Pearson), David Low, Nola Manning, Michael Connors, Leon Smith, Yvonne Cossart, Milton Osborne, Alana Conlan, Tom Kalmar, Annette Cumine. The first team in 1942 consisted of James Hagan, Bernard Lake, Alan Mitchell, Audrey Baker and Dorothy Revie. The program was broadcast on 2GB Sunday 7:30pm; Tuesday 8pm from 1943; Sunday 7:30pm from 1959 and was terminated on 14 October 1962. Sponsors were Col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Open%20Cultural%20Heritage | SOCH (Swedish Open Cultural Heritage) is a web service used for searching and retrieving data from museum an historical environment sectors in Sweden.
SOCH aggregates metadata from different central, regional and local databases in order to facilitate applications to search and present cultural heritage data via an open API. The aim is to facilitate application developers to build applications that exploit SOCH.
In March 2013 some +10 different applications has been built using SOCH API. One of the first applications built on SOCH was a mobile phone application displaying ancient monuments on a map layer. A number of museums are also building applications on SOCH in order to make more than their own stuff available online. In 2012 commercial applications started to appear using SOCH data.
The SOCH is operated and developed at the Swedish National Heritage Board (SNHB). SNHB has used SOCH API for applications: http://www.kringla.nu and http://www.platsr.se.
External links
SOCH Description
Swedish National Heritage Board
Cultural heritage of Sweden
Databases in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soch%20%28disambiguation%29 | Soch is a 2002 Hindi-language film.
Soch may also refer to:
Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH), a web service used to search and fetch data from any organization that holds information or pictures related to the Swedish cultural heritage
Soch Kraal (1782–1854), Kashmiri poet
Soch, a song by Indian singer Hardy Sandhu
See also
Szűcs, a Hungarian name (including a list of persons with the name) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentai%20Studios | Sentai Studios is an American postproduction studio of Sentai Filmworks located in Houston, Texas owned by AMC Networks. It was founded as Industrial Smoke & Mirrors, the in-house studio of ADV Films. It was renamed ADV Studios in 2005 when it merged with ADV's secondary studio, the Austin-based Monster Island; and then in 2006, when ADV began offering its services to other companies, the studio was also called Amusement Park Media before it was sold off by A.D. Vision in 2008. It was then renamed Seraphim Digital and was renamed to its current name in 2014.
The studio is best known for producing English-language dubs of Japanese anime series and live-action Japanese films released by ADV, Sentai, Switchblade Pictures, and Maiden Japan. Other notable clients include Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Microsoft, PBS, and Toei Animation.
Production list
Anime
TV and OVA anime
009-1 (ADV Films)
After the Rain (Sentai Filmworks)
Air (ADV Films)
Akame ga Kill! (Sentai Filmworks)
AKB0048 (Sentai Filmworks)
Akiba Maid War (Sentai Filmworks)
Amagi Brilliant Park (Sentai Filmworks)
Amnesia (Sentai Filmworks)
Angel Beats! (Sentai Filmworks/Aniplex of America)
Another (Sentai Filmworks)
Assassins Pride (Sentai Filmworks)
Babylon (Sentai Filmworks)
Ballad of a Shinigami (Maiden Japan)
Battle Girls: Time Paradox (Sentai Filmworks)
Blade of the Immortal (Sentai Filmworks)
Blade of the Phantom Master (ADV Films)
Beyond the Boundary (Sentai Filmworks)
Blue Drop (Sentai Filmworks)
Bodacious Space Pirates (Sentai Filmworks)
Broken Blade (Sentai Filmworks)
Btooom! (Sentai Filmworks)
Call of the Night (Sentai Filmworks)
Campione! (Sentai Filmworks)
Canaan (Sentai Filmworks)
Chidori RSC (Sentai Filmworks)
Chivalry of a Failed Knight (Sentai Filmworks)
Clannad (Sentai Filmworks)
Clannad After Story (Sentai Filmworks)
Coicent (Sentai Filmworks)
Demon King Daimao (Sentai Filmworks)
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (ADV Films)
Diabolik Lovers (Sentai Filmworks)
Dream Eater Merry (Sentai Filmworks)
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Sentai Filmworks)
Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two. (Sentai Filmworks)
Elfen Lied (OVA: Sentai Filmworks)
Five Numbers! (Sentai Filmworks)
Farming Life in Another World (Sentai Filmworks)
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (Sentai Filmworks/Crunchyroll)
From the New World (Sentai Filmworks)
Galactic Armored Fleet Majestic Prince (Sentai Filmworks)
Gatchaman (Sentai Filmworks)
Gate (Sentai Filmworks)
Ghost Hound (Sentai Filmworks)
Girls und Panzer (Sentai Filmworks)
Golgo 13 (Sentai Filmworks)
Guin Saga (Sentai Filmworks)
Haikyu!! (Sentai Filmworks)
Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (Sentai Filmworks)
Hakuōki (Sentai Filmworks)
Heaven's Memo Pad (Sentai Filmworks)
Highschool of the Dead (Sentai Filmworks)
Himouto! Umaru-chan (Sentai Filmworks)
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (Sentai Filmworks)
I'm Quitting Heroing (Sentai Filmworks)
ICE (Sentai Filmworks)
Infinite Stratos (Sentai Filmworks)
Innocent Venu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20Python%20Programming | Core Python Programming is a textbook on the Python programming language, written by Wesley J. Chun. The first edition of the book was released on December 14, 2000. The second edition was released several years later on September 18, 2006. Core Python Programming is mainly targeted at higher education students and IT professionals.
With each printing, the book is updated and errors are corrected. The official site has updates and errata for those with the older printings as well as changes since the last printing. As of February 2011, this edition was in its fifth printing.
The book has been translated into French, Chinese (simplified) and Hindi.
Content
Core Python Programming is divided into two parts with a total of 23 chapters, as well as an index.
Part I
The first part of Core Python Programming, Core Python, deals with the basic aspects of the Python programming language. Chapters One and Two, named What is Python? and Getting Started respectively, give instructions on how to install and configure Python, as well as detailing the basic operators and simple statements. Part One continues to cover Sequences (Lists, Strings and Tuples), Built-in Functions and creating functions, Loops (for-loop, while loop and if-statement being the most common); Modules, a full explanation on what Object Oriented Programming is; and syntax.
Part II
Part Two, Advanced Topics, contains information about the more complex aspects of Python, such as GUI programming. Other topics covered include regular expressions, network programming, multithreaded programming, web programming and database programming.
References
External links
Pearson Education
Core Python Programming Official Site
Computer programming books
2000 non-fiction books
Python (programming language)
Prentice Hall books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nos%C3%A9%E2%80%93Hoover%20thermostat | The Nosé–Hoover thermostat is a deterministic algorithm for constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations.
It was originally developed by Nosé and was improved further by Hoover. Although the heat bath of Nosé–Hoover thermostat consists of only one imaginary particle, simulation systems achieve realistic constant-temperature condition (canonical ensemble). Therefore, the Nosé–Hoover thermostat has been commonly used as one of the most accurate and efficient methods for constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations.
Introduction
In classical molecular dynamics, simulations are done in the microcanonical ensemble; a number of particles, volume, and energy have a constant value. In experiments, however, the temperature is generally controlled instead of the energy.
The ensemble of this experimental condition is called a canonical ensemble.
Importantly, the canonical ensemble is different from microcanonical ensemble from the viewpoint of statistical mechanics. Several methods have been introduced to keep the temperature constant while using the microcanonical ensemble. Popular techniques to control temperature include velocity rescaling, the Andersen thermostat, the Nosé–Hoover thermostat, Nosé–Hoover chains, the Berendsen thermostat and Langevin dynamics.
The central idea is to simulate in such a way that we obtain a canonical ensemble, where we fix the particle number , the volume and the temperature . This means that these three quantities are fixed and do not fluctuate. The temperature of the system is connected to the average kinetic energy via the equation:
Although the temperature and the average kinetic energy are fixed, the instantaneous kinetic energy fluctuates (and with it the velocities of the particles).
The Nosé–Hoover thermostat
In the approach of Nosé, a Hamiltonian with an extra degree of freedom for heat bath, s, is introduced;
where g is the number of independent momentum degrees of freedom of the system, R and P represent all coordinates and and Q is an imaginary mass which should be chosen carefully along with systems. The coordinates R, P and t in this Hamiltonian are virtual. They are related to the real coordinates as follows:
,
where the coordinates with an accent are the real coordinates. The ensemble average of the above Hamiltonian at is equal to the canonical ensemble average.
Hoover (1985) used the phase-space continuity equation, a generalized Liouville equation, to establish what is now known as the Nosé–Hoover thermostat. This approach does not require the scaling of the time (or, in effect, of the momentum) by s. The Nosé–Hoover algorithm is nonergodic for a single harmonic oscillator. In simple terms, it means that the algorithm fails to generate a canonical distribution for a single harmonic oscillator. This feature of the Nosé–Hoover algorithm has prompted the development of newer thermostatting algorithms—the kinetic moments method that controls the first two moments of the kinetic ene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBS%20Television%20%28Japan%29 | JORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as , is the Kantō region flagship station of the Japan News Network. It is owned-and-operated by , a subsidiary of TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the ''five private broadcasters based in Tokyo''.
TBS produced the Takeshi's Castle game show, which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally. The channel was also home to Ultraman and the Ultra Series franchise from 1966 – itself a spinoff to Ultra Q, co-produced and broadcast in the same year – and its spinoffs, most if not all made by Tsuburaya Productions for the network; in the 2010s, Ultra Series moved to TV Tokyo. Since the 1990s it is home to Sasuke (Ninja Warrior), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan, by itself a spinoff to the legendary TBS game show Kinniku Banzuke that lasted for 7 seasons.
On May 24, 2017, TBS and five other major media firms (TV Tokyo, Nikkei, Inc., WOWOW, Dentsu and Hakuhodo DY Media Partners) officially announced that they would jointly establish a new company in July to offer paid online video services called Paravi. TBS Holdings would become the largest shareholder of the new company, Premium Platform Japan, with a 31.5% stake. An official from TBS Holdings, named Yasuhiro Takatsuna, became the new company's president.
Overview
Its predecessor, "Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd.", was established in 1951 as a general broadcaster. After that, on April 1, 1955 , it opened as the second privately broadcast TV station in Japan after Nippon Television , and at the same time became the only TV and radio station in Tokyo (spun off in 2001). At that time, Radio Tokyo succeeded in incorporating many local stations into JNN by promoting the elimination of the newspaper influence in forming the news network (JNN), establishing a powerful reporting system.
On the other hand, the current “TBS Television Co., Ltd.” was originally established as “TBS Entertainment Co., Ltd.”, a production production company that produced entertainment programs for Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation (the trade name of Radio Tokyo Co., Ltd. at the time) . Because the license was owned by the parent company Tokyo Broadcasting, it was not a member of the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Federation (Commercial Broadcasters Federation).
On April 1 of the same year, Tokyo Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (the trade name was changed to "Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Co., Ltd." on the same day) was split, and the television broadcasting business, including the succession of the television broadcasting license, and the operation of various facilities such as Akasaka Sacas and Akasaka BLITZ. Inherited cultural projects such as events and inherited the abbreviation of "TBS". It changed from production production to a general broadcaster (currently a private terrestrial core broadcaster) and joined the Commercial Broadcasters Association. In addition, TBS Radio was entrusted with the maintenance and management of the company's transmitting station (Toda City, Saitama P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Shmoys | David Bernard Shmoys (born 1959) is a Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. His major focus has been in the design and analysis of algorithms for discrete optimization problems.
In particular, his work has highlighted the role of linear programming in the design of approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems. He is known for his pioneering research on providing first constant factor performance guarantee for several scheduling and clustering problems including the k-center and k-median problems and the generalized assignment problem. Polynomial-time approximation schemes that he developed for scheduling problems have found applications in many subsequent works. His current research includes stochastic optimization for data-driven models in a broad cross-section of areas, including COVID epidemiological modeling, congressional districting, transportation, and IoT network design. Shmoys is married to Éva Tardos, who is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Key contributions
Two of his key contributions are
Constant factor approximation algorithm for the Generalized Assignment Problem and Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling.
Constant factor approximation algorithm for k-Medians and Facility location problem.
These contributions are described briefly below:
Generalized Assignment Problem & Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling
The paper is a joint work by David Shmoys and Eva Tardos.
The generalized assignment problem can be viewed as the following problem of scheduling unrelated parallel machine with costs.
Each of independent jobs (denoted ) have to be processed by exactly one of unrelated parallel machines (denoted ). Unrelated implies same job might take different amount of processing time on different machines. Job takes time units when processed by machine and incurs a cost . Given and , we wish to decide if there exists a schedule with total cost at most such that for each machine its load, the total processing time required for the jobs assigned to it is at most . By scaling the processing times, we can assume, without loss of generality, that the machine load bounds satisfy . ``In other words, generalized assignment problem is to find a schedule of minimum cost subject to the constraint that the makespan, that the maximum machine load is at most ".
The work of Shmoys with Lenstra and Tardos cited here
gives a 2 approximation algorithm for the unit cost case. The algorithm is based on a clever design of linear program using parametric pruning and then rounding an extreme point solution of the linear program deterministically. Algorithm for the
generalized assignment problem is based on a similar LP through parametric pruning and then using a new rounding technique on a carefully designed bipartite graph. W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenor%20India | Telenor (India) Communications Private Limited, formerly known as Uninor, was an Indian mobile network operator. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor Group. In February 2017, Telenor Group announced merging the India business with Bharti Airtel in a no-cash deal with liability of Airtel to take over the outstanding spectrum payments of Rs 1,650 crore post necessary regulatory approvals.
, it had 36.15 million subscribers. On 14 May 2018, DoT gave the final approval required for merging of Telenor India with Bharti Airtel.
History
Foundation and growth
The company Unitech Wireless Limited, a subsidiary of Unitech Group, was incorporated in 2008. The same year, the company was awarded wireless services licences for all 22 telecom circles. Subsequently, Unitech Group and Telenor Group agreed to enter a joint venture where Telenor would inject fresh equity investments of 61.35 billion into Unitech Wireless to take a majority stake in the company. This was operating capital invested directly in Unitech Wireless by Telenor Group. Telenor Group conducted these investments in four tranches, subsequent to approvals from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) and the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) took 67.25% ownership of Unitech Wireless. In September 2007, Unitech Wireless announced its brand name as Uninor.
Uninor launched in eight telecom circles on 3 December 2007, after completing one of the world's largest GSM Greenfield launches which was also one of the fastest telecom roll-outs ever in India. According to Uninor, the brand was built around an ambition to serve the young, aspiring India. Six months later, 5 additional circles were launched including metropolitan areas like Mumbai and Kolkata.
Uninor facilitated rapid scaling of the company through a lean operation model, where a large share of the network infrastructure is outsourced to business partners. Uninor's modern equipment enabled it to introduce targeted offerings and serve a large audience with limited spectrum. Uninor introduced dynamic pricing, a concept that gives consumers discounts that are based on current network traffic at an individual site and change with location and time. Over the summer of 2010, the company further simplified its strategy with a focus on three core areas – excellence in mass market distribution, basic services and cost efficient operations. Changes were also made to the product mix and marketing– making them simpler, more direct and clearly positioning Uninor as an affordable mass market service.
Uninor grew from 0 to 45.6 million customers (as of Q2 2012) within less than two years, and emerged as the most successful of the new entrants that obtained licenses in 2006. The company had more than double the subscribers of all of the other entrants combined.
License cancellations
On 2 February 2012, the Supreme Court of India cancelled 122 licenses of 22 mobile operators, includin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Vaccination-risks%20Network | The Australian Vaccination-risks Network Inc., formerly known as the Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network (AVsN), and before that known as the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), is an Australian anti-vaccination pressure group registered in New South Wales. As Australia's most controversial anti-vaccination organisation, it has lobbied against a variety of vaccination-related programs, downplayed the danger of childhood diseases such as measles and pertussis, championed the cause of alleged vaccination victims, and promoted the use of ineffective alternatives such as homeopathy.
The vast majority of doctors agree that opposition to vaccination is a fringe medical science viewpoint. The group has been described by the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) as a provider of “misleading, inaccurate, and deceptive” vaccination information, and has been heavily criticised by doctors and other experts on immunisation. The group has been called the "stronghold of the anti-vaccination movement" in Australia and is subject to widespread criticism from medical professionals, scientists and other proponents of vaccination. It has also been criticised for harassing the parents of a victim of vaccine-preventable disease, and for promoting the false idea that shaken baby syndrome is actually vaccine injury.
On 14 October 2010, the organisation's right to raise funds was stripped from it by the New South Wales Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing, stating that its appeals had "not been conducted in good faith for charitable purposes". In December 2012, the New South Wales Office of Fair Trading issued an order for the group to change its name within two months or be de-registered. The department described the group's name as being "misleading and a detriment to the community". The group changed its name in February 2014. In July 2018 the group changed its name to Australian Vaccination-risks Network Inc. citing that many in their group "did not feel comfortable with having the word 'skeptics' in" their name as the reason for the change. The group decided that the word "skeptic" too closely aligned them with Scientific Skepticism organisations such as the Australian Skeptics.
Organisation
The Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network was formed in 1994 as the Vaccination Awareness Network by Meryl Dorey, a medically unqualified American who moved to Australia with her Australian husband, saying she got involved after her eldest son was allegedly adversely affected by DPT and MMR vaccines administered when he was a child.
The group applied for tax-deductible charity status through the Australian Taxation Office and finally obtained it in 2002; it lost that status in 2007 by allowing it to lapse, and obtained it again in 2009. In 2010 the group's tax-exempt status was revoked by the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing after an audit of the organisation finding that AVN fundraising appeals had not been conducted in good faith for charita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett%20acceptance%20ratio | The Bennett acceptance ratio method (BAR) is an algorithm for estimating the difference in free energy between two systems (usually the systems will be simulated on the computer).
It was suggested by Charles H. Bennett in 1976.
Preliminaries
Take a system in a certain super (i.e. Gibbs) state. By performing a Metropolis Monte Carlo walk it is possible to sample the landscape of states that the system moves between, using the equation
where ΔU = U(Statey) − U(Statex) is the difference in potential energy, β = 1/kT (T is the temperature in kelvins, while k is the Boltzmann constant), and is the Metropolis function.
The resulting states are then sampled according to the Boltzmann distribution of the super state at temperature T.
Alternatively, if the system is dynamically simulated in the canonical ensemble (also called the NVT ensemble), the resulting states along the simulated trajectory are likewise distributed.
Averaging along the trajectory (in either formulation) is denoted by angle brackets
.
Suppose that two super states of interest, A and B, are given. We assume that they have a common configuration space, i.e., they share all of their micro states, but the energies associated to these (and hence the probabilities) differ because of a change in some parameter (such as the strength of a certain interaction).
The basic question to be addressed is, then, how can the Helmholtz free energy change (ΔF = FB − FA) on moving between the two super states be calculated from sampling in both ensembles? The kinetic energy part in the free energy is equal between states so can be ignored. Also the Gibbs free energy corresponds to the NpT ensemble.
The general case
Bennett shows that for every function f satisfying the condition (which is essentially the detailed balance condition), and for every energy offset C, one has the exact relationship
where UA and UB are the potential energies of the same configurations, calculated using potential function A (when the system is in superstate A) and potential function B (when the system is in the superstate B) respectively.
The basic case
Substituting for f the Metropolis function defined above (which satisfies the detailed balance condition), and setting C to zero, gives
The advantage of this formulation (apart from its simplicity) is that it can be computed without performing two simulations, one in each specific ensemble. Indeed, it is possible to define an extra kind of "potential switching" Metropolis trial move (taken every fixed number of steps), such that the single sampling from the "mixed" ensemble suffices for the computation.
The most efficient case
Bennett explores which specific expression for ΔF is the most efficient, in the sense of yielding the smallest standard error for a given simulation time. He shows that the optimal choice is to take
, which is essentially the Fermi–Dirac distribution (satisfying indeed the detailed balance condition).
. This value, of course, is not k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPC%20Michigan | TPC Michigan is a private golf club located in Dearborn, Michigan and owned by ClubCorp.
The Jack Nicklaus designed championship golf course is a member of the Tournament Players Club network, which is operated by the PGA Tour. In 2007, the facility was sold to the Heritage Golf Group, but retained its TPC branding under a licensing agreement. In April 2014, TPC Michigan was sold to ClubCorp.
Between 1991 and 2006 TPC Michigan hosted the Ford Senior Players Championship, a Champions Tour event and one of senior men's golf's major championships.
References
External links
Official site
Dearborn, Michigan
Golf clubs and courses in Michigan
Sports venues in Wayne County, Michigan
Sports venues completed in 1990
1990 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyplace%20Control | Anyplace Control is a Windows-based remote PC control product for remote access and control of remote PC located either in local network or in the Internet. It displays the remote computer's desktop on the screen of local PC, and allows control of that computer using the local mouse and keyboard.
The software has a file transfer feature to send files between computers. Remote users create an Access Password, username and password to access the target PC. The program must be installed at both computers, with client part of the software at the local PC.
Features
Remote PC control.
File transfer between remote computers.
Turn on, turn off or reboot the remote PC.
Disabling of remote mouse, keyboard, monitor.
Connection through routers, firewalls and dynamic IP addresses
Display of a remote computer's desktop in a real-time mode on local screen.
Security
Secure authentication and traffic encryption
All transferred data is encrypted with the RC4 algorithm with 128 bit random key for encryption.
Double password protection
For connection to the remote computer via Internet the knowledge of at least two passwords is required: Account Password and remote PC Access Password.
No open ports in the Firewall
No need to open additional ports in the firewall when connecting using Account Connection service.
Licensing
The product is shareware available for private and corporate usage. Licenses are provided on a per Host or Admin module basis.
References
External links
Anyplace Control Official Website
TSPlus - Remote Access Software
Remote desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwesi%20Boakye | Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye ( ; born April 6, 1999) is an American male actor. He is best known for voicing Darwin, Gumball's best friend and adoptive brother, and Gossamer on the Cartoon Network animated shows The Amazing World of Gumball and The Looney Tunes Show, respectively. He also played Manny in the 2009 Tyler Perry film I Can Do Bad All By Myself, and voiced The Passenger in Bravest Warriors.
He is the youngest of three brothers who are also actors; Kwame Boateng, and Kofi Siriboe. Boakye's family is originally from Ghana.
Filmography
Film and television
References
External links
Kwesi Boakye at Blackcelebkids.com
Kwesi Boakye Official Myspace
1999 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American singers
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American people of Ghanaian descent
Male actors from Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFH%20Network | DFH Network is a pay platform that broadcasts Turkish television channels in Turkey. It was launched by Alinur Velidedeoğlu and Hakan Çizem. DFH Network carries 12 TV and 2 Radio stations, and has approximately 50,000 viewers. DFH Network uses Galaxy 19, 97° W satellite to broadcast to customers.
Broadcasts
Satellite Channels
DFH 1 (Broadcasts ATV Avrupa for 24h)
DFH 2 (Broadcasts Show Türk for 24h)
DFH 3 (Broadcasts Euro D for 24h)
DFH 4 (Broadcasts Fox TV for 24h)
DFH 5 (Broadcasts TV8 for 24h)
DFH Spor TRT Spor
Other Channels
TRT Türk
TRT 1
Habertürk TV
Create and Craft
Dream Türk
France 24
CBC Canada
Al Jazeera
CNN Türk
Viewing Packages
DFH Basic (DFH1 + DFH2 + DFH3 + DFH4 + DFH5 + DFH6 + DFH7)
DFH Premium (DFH Basic + DFH Sports)
External links
DFH Network
DFH Network Subscription Page
Cable television in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20Pinkie | Pixel Pinkie is an Australian children's animated television series produced and created by Blue Rocket Productions in association with the Nine Network and principally funded by The Film Finance Corporation Australia. It aired from 29 August 2009 to 15 September 2012. The show was critically panned.
Plot
Pixel Pinkie is about two girls, Nina and Anni. During the first episode, Nina moves in to a new town where she meets Anni and gets a mobile cellphone with a digital genie named Pixel Pinkie in it which can make her wishes come true, but they both have to keep it a secret. Each episode sees Nina wishing for something from Pixel Pinkie, and when they offend her when her wish goes wrong, both Nina and Anni have to solve their problem alone.
Cast
Jane Binning - Pixel Pinkie
Anica Boulanger-Mashberg - Anni
Magdalena Grubski - Nina
Jemma Gates - Suzi
Sara Cooper - Max
Nick Storr / Jamie Croft - Coolest Luke
Production
There have been two series developed with 52 twelve-minute episodes. In Australia the twelve-minute episodes are joined to make 12 twenty-six-minute episodes in each series. The first series was developed in 2007 and first aired in 2009.
Episodes
Series 1
Series 2
References
External links
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Australian children's animated television series
Australian children's animated comedy television series
Australian children's animated fantasy television series
Australian flash animated television series
English-language television shows
Nine Network original programming
Animated television series about children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Thread%20Execution | Parallel Thread Execution (PTX or NVPTX) is a low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture used in Nvidia's CUDA programming environment. The NVCC compiler translates code written in CUDA, a C++-like language, into PTX instructions (an assembly language represented as ASCII text), and the graphics driver contains a compiler which translates the PTX instructions into the executable binary code which can be run on the processing cores of Nvidia GPUs. The GNU Compiler Collection also has basic ability for PTX generation in the context of OpenMP offloading. Inline PTX assembly can be used in CUDA.
Registers
PTX uses an arbitrarily large register set; the output from the compiler is almost pure single-assignment form, with consecutive lines generally referring to consecutive registers. Programs start with declarations of the form
.reg .u32 %r<335>; // declare 335 registers %r0, %r1, ..., %r334 of type unsigned 32-bit integer
It is a three-argument assembly language, and almost all instructions explicitly list the data type (in terms of sign and width) on which they operate. Register names are preceded with a % character and constants are literal, e.g.:
shr.u64 %rd14, %rd12, 32; // shift right an unsigned 64-bit integer from %rd12 by 32 positions, result in %rd14
cvt.u64.u32 %rd142, %r112; // convert an unsigned 32-bit integer to 64-bit
There are predicate registers, but compiled code in shader model 1.0 uses these only in conjunction with branch commands; the conditional branch is
@%p14 bra $label; // branch to $label
The setp.cc.type instruction sets a predicate register to the result of comparing two registers of appropriate type, there is also a set instruction, where set.le.u32.u64 %r101, %rd12, %rd28 sets the 32-bit register %r101 to 0xffffffff if the 64-bit register %rd12 is less than or equal to the 64-bit register %rd28. Otherwise %r101 is set to 0x00000000.
There are a few predefined identifiers that denote pseudoregisters. Among others, %tid, %ntid, %ctaid, and %nctaid contain, respectively, thread indices, block dimensions, block indices, and grid dimensions.
State spaces
Load (ld) and store (st) commands refer to one of several distinct state spaces (memory banks), e.g. ld.param.
There are eight state spaces:
.reg registers
.sreg special, read-only, platform-specific registers
.const shared, read-only memory
.global global memory, shared by all threads
.local local memory, private to each thread
.param parameters passed to the kernel
.shared memory shared between threads in a block
.tex global texture memory (deprecated)
Shared memory is declared in the PTX file via lines at the start of the form:
.shared .align 8 .b8 pbatch_cache[15744]; // define 15,744 bytes, aligned to an 8-byte boundary
Writing kernels in PTX requires explicitly registering PTX modules via the CUDA Driver API, typically more cumbersome than using the CUDA Runtime API and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Youm | Al Youm is a three-hour prime time news magazine that airs 'commercial free' five days a week on the Alhurra network, a United States-based public Arabic-language satellite TV channel.
Information
The show Airs simultaneously from 5 sets in 3 Continents. It is generated live each day from Dubai, Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and Virginia. According to the March issue of 'Emirates Business 24-7', recent surveys of the Middle East done by companies like ACNielsen place Alhurra's viewership at 26-million adults a week. Its format has been described as 'a really big show', 'unusual', the first of its kind to air in the Middle East, According to Broadcasting Board of Governors Joaquin Blaya and executive producer Fran Mires. The show is hosted by Egyptian TV Presenter, Bassel Sabri.
References
News magazines published in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FM%20broadcast%20translators%20used%20as%20primary%20stations | A broadcast translator is a low-powered (maximum of 250 watts) FM radio station that retransmits the programming of a parent station that operates on a different frequency. Translators are not allowed to originate programming, and were originally designed to extend the coverage area of a primary analog FM station. In some cases a single station has multiple translators covering various geographical areas. Call signs for translators start with a "K" in the western United States, and a "W" in the east, followed by the three-digit FM channel number assigned to its operating frequency, and closing with two sequentially assigned letters.
The original rules established for translator stations by the Federal Communications Commission have been expanded to allow AM stations to operate FM translators, most commonly to expand nighttime service for stations with very low nighttime powers or which are limited to only broadcasting during daylight hours. The development of HD Radio digital sub-channels for FM stations led to a second expanded use for translators. Due to a lack of commercial receivers capable of receiving HD transmissions, a translator is now permitted to retransmit the programming of an FM station's secondary ("HD2") or tertiary ("HD3") signals. And unlike the original FM translators, an HD-relaying translator normally provides coverage for the same area as the HD transmission, and it is common for both the originating HD transmitter and its translator to be located on the same transmitting tower.
Because of the lack of HD receivers, few listeners listen to the nominally "primary" HD transmission, with the large majority of the audience actually listening via the translator's signal. This is the list of FM broadcast translators used as primary stations in the U.S. in this manner, where the programming emphasizes the translator's signal, and makes little mention of the "parent" HD signal.
References
FM broadcast translators used as primary stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melway%20Perth | Melway Perth was a street directory for the city of Perth, Western Australia. It was published by Ausway, using indexing and mapping data from Landgate. It competed with the UBD and Gregory's Perth street directories.
History
Perth's first street directory, "Road Maps with Index" was published in 1944 by the then Department of Lands and Surveys. In 1968, the directory underwent a format change and was rebranded as the "Metropolitan Street Directory". The directory was then renamed "StreetSmart" in 1990. In 1996, the street directory became the first in Western Australia to be digitally produced. In 2009 the directory was acquired by Ausway Publishing Pty Ltd and published as "Melway Greater Perth" from the 2010 edition.
Maps
The Melway Greater Perth included a variety of different maps. In addition to coverage of the Perth metropolitan area, the Melway Perth included the following maps:
Arterial roads
Perth approaches
Enlargements of Perth, Fremantle and Mandurah CBDs
Rottnest Island, with enlargements of major settlement areas
Enlargements of various universities and hospitals
Perth Zoo
Perth railway station
Perth bicycle network
Public transport
Airport maps for Perth and Jandakot airports
Maps of Albany, Bunbury/Australind, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie–Boulder
References
Perth, Western Australia
Street directories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Cramp%20Twins%20episodes | This is an episodes' list of The Cramp Twins, a Cartoon Network European original animated series created by Brian Wood. The series aired on Cartoon Network Europe in European countries and on CBBC in the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2004 and on Cartoon Network in the United States from June 14, 2004 to 2005.
Episodes
Season 1 (2001)
Season 2
References
External links
Lists of British animated television series episodes
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20O%27Hara | The United States of America v. Jerome O'Hara and George Perez (S.D.N.Y., No. 09-mag-2484) is a federal court case for the ongoing trial of Jerome O'Hara and George Perez, two computer programmers who previously worked for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) until the arrest of the company's chairman, Bernard Madoff, on December 11, 2008.
The order to issue arrest warrants for O'Hara and Perez was signed on November 12, 2009 by federal magistrate judge Debra C. Freeman. The next morning, FBI agents arrested O'Hara at his home in Malverne, New York and Perez at his home in East Brunswick, New Jersey, and charged them each with conspiracy to falsify books and records, falsifying books and records of a broker–dealer, and falsifying books and records of an investment advisor (IA). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also served them with civil charges.
At their bail hearing, federal prosecutor Preet Bharara said: "The computer codes and random algorithms they allegedly designed served to deceive investors and regulators and concealed Madoff's crimes." The attorney for O'Hara, Gordon Mehler, said "We intend to enter a plea of not guilty", and the attorney for Perez, Larry Krantz, declined to comment. Federal magistrate judge Ronald L. Ellis set the bail at $1 million with travel restrictions.
Background
O'Hara and Perez began working for BLMIS in 1990 and 1991, respectively.
Prosecutors claim that in April 2006, the two men tried to delete 218 computer programs from an IBM server known internally as "House 17". According to the SEC, the programs, among other things, outputted volumes of fake trade blotters, stock records, Depository Trust Corporation (DTC) reports and other phantom books and records to substantiate nonexistent trading. The filenames containing the programs were often prefixed with "SPCL", which stood for "special".
The FBI and SEC said that later in August or September 2006, O'Hara and Perez withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars from their personal BLMIS accounts before informing Madoff that they no longer wished to lie for him.
The Ponzi scheme
According to the FBI, from at least as early as the 1980s through to December 11, 2008, Madoff, Frank DiPascali, and others perpetrated a scheme to defraud clients of the BLMIS IA corporation by accepting billions of dollars of clients' funds under false pretenses, promising to invest the funds for the clients. Instead, they failed to invest the funds and created and distributed false documents that purported to show that the funds had been invested, when they hadn't. Allegedly, they also lied to the SEC and an accounting firm to cover up the fraudulent scheme.
Madoff solicited, and caused others to solicit, prospective clients to open accounts with BLMIS by, among other things, promising to invest funds in common stock, options, and other securities in a way that would achieve high rates of return with little risk. They managed to establish thousands of ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic%20element%20%28electrical%20networks%29 | In electrical networks, a parasitic element is a circuit element (resistance, inductance or capacitance) that is possessed by an electrical component but which it is not desirable for it to have for its intended purpose. For instance, a resistor is designed to possess resistance, but will also possess unwanted parasitic capacitance.
Parasitic elements are unavoidable. All conductors possess resistance and inductance and the principles of duality ensure that where there is inductance, there will also be capacitance. Component designers will strive to minimise parasitic elements but are unable to eliminate them. Discrete components will often have some parasitic values detailed on their datasheets to aid circuit designers in compensating for unwanted effects.
The most commonly seen manifestations of parasitic elements in components are in the parasitic inductance and resistance of the component leads and the parasitic capacitance of the component packaging. For wound components such as inductors and transformers, there is additionally the important effect of parasitic capacitance that exists between the individual turns of the windings. This winding parasitic capacitance will cause the inductor to act as a resonant circuit at some frequency, known as the self-resonant frequency, at which point (and all frequencies above) the component is useless as an inductor.
Parasitic elements are often modelled as lumped components in equivalent circuits, but this is not always adequate. For instance, the inter-winding capacitance mentioned above is really a distributed element along the whole length of the winding and not a capacitor in one particular place. Designers sometimes take advantage of parasitic effects to achieve a desired function in a component, see for instance helical resonator or analog delay line.
Nonlinear parasitic elements can also arise. The term is commonly used to describe parasitic structures formed on an integrated circuit whereby an unwanted semiconductor device is formed from p-n junctions which belong to two or more intended devices or functions. The parasitic effects in the dielectric of capacitors and parasitic magnetic effects in inductors also include non-linear effects that vary with frequency or voltage and cannot be adequately modelled by linear lumped or distributed components.
References
John L. Semmlow, Circuits, signals, and systems for bioengineers, pp. 134–135, Academic Press, 2005 .
Steven H. Voldman, ESD: Failure Mechanisms and Models, pp. 13–14, John Wiley and Sons, 2009 .
Electronic design
Distributed element circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeBIT | CeBIT was the largest and most internationally representative computer expo. The trade fair was held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. In its day, it was considered a barometer of current trends and a measure of the state of the art in information technology. It was organized by Deutsche Messe AG.
With an exhibition area of roughly and a peak attendance of 850,000 visitors during the dot-com boom, it was larger both in area and attendance than its Asian counterpart COMPUTEX and its no-longer held American equivalent COMDEX. CeBIT is a German language acronym for Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation, which translates as "Center for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication".
The final CeBIT took place from 11 to 15 June 2018.
History
CeBIT was traditionally the computing part of the Hanover Fair, a big industry trade show held every year. It was established in 1970, with the opening of the Hanover fairground's new Hall 1, then the largest exhibition hall in the world. However, in the 1980s the information technology and telecommunications part was straining the resources of the trade fair so much that it was given a separate trade show starting in 1986, which was held four weeks earlier than the main Hanover Fair.
The number of visitors for the new exhibition increased to 830,000 in 2001, but by 2007 the CeBIT expo attendance had shrunk to around 200,000, then attendance rebounded to 334,000 by 2010. The 2008 expo was marred by police raids of 51 exhibitors for patent infringement. In 2009, the U.S. state of California became official Partner State of Germany's IT and telecommunications industry association, BITKOM, and of CeBIT 2009. focusing on environmentally-friendly technologies.
From 2007 till 2013, the fair acted as the World Championship (Grand Final) of Intel Extreme Masters. The championship was reallocated to Katowice, Poland in 2014.
On 28 November 2018, Deutsche Messe AG announced that due to declining visitor and exhibitioner attendance, CeBIT would be canceled for the foreseeable
future. This makes CeBIT 2018 the final event.
Other CeBIT-branded shows
As CeBIT continued to grow quickly and was becoming too big on its own, it was decided to concentrate on the professional market, while the home and entertainment market was given a separate show, CeBIT Home, during summer, planned to be biennial. However, after being held twice (in 1996 and 1998), the 2000 CeBIT Home (had originally been scheduled to be held in Leipzig due to the Expo 2000 being held in Hanover) was cancelled and the project was abandoned.
Since 1999 the CeBIT sponsor Deutsche Messe AG ("German Trade Show, Inc.") has organized trade shows outside of Germany bearing the CeBIT name:
Internet +, powered by CeBIT (formerly CeBIT Asia), in Shanghai, China
CeBIT Australia, in Sydney
CeBIT Eurasia Bilişim, in Istanbul, Turkey
CeBIT America/USA in New Yo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPC%20Prestancia | TPC Prestancia is a private golf club located in Sarasota, Florida located in the Palmer Ranch community.
The club is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour, and features two golf courses over 565 acres. Created by the PGA TOUR in 1985, The Stadium Course was designed by Ron Garl in consultation with Mike Souchak, and the Players Course, designed by Robert Von Hagge in consultation with Bruce Devlin . In 2007, the facility was sold to the Heritage Golf Group, but retained its TPC branding under a licensing agreement.
TPC Prestancia hosted the Chrysler Cup from 1987 to 1994, and the American Express Invitational from 1996 to 2000, both tournaments on the Senior PGA Tour.
References
External links
Official site
Golf clubs and courses in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20Golfer | Polar Golfer is a Windows based video game released by WildTangent in 2004. The game is played on an 18-hole virtual golf course, with various characters. It is sometimes bundled with Dell computers, along with other software.
References
WildTangent games
Golf video games
2004 video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWNLive%20Mercury%20Rising | Mercury Rising is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event currently produced by the World Wrestling Network (WWN) under the name WWNLive Supershow: Mercury Rising. The event takes place during WrestleMania weekend, at a venue in the same metropolitan area the WrestleMania is held, and features talent from WWN's affiliate promotions, including EVOLVE, Full Impact Pro and SHINE.
From 2010 to 2014, Mercury Rising events were promoted by WWN affiliate Dragon Gate USA. In December 2014, WWN confirmed they were putting the Dragon Gate USA brand on an indefinite hiatus.
DGUSA Mercury Rising
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
WWNLive Mercury Rising
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
References
External links
WWNLive.com
DGUSA.tv
Dragon Gate USA shows
Professional wrestling shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20image | A USB image — is bootable image of Operating system (OS) or other software where the boot loader is located on a USB flash drive, or another USB device (with memory storage) instead of conventional CD or DVD discs. The operating system loads from the USB device either to load it much like a Live CD that runs OS or any other software from the storage or installs OS itself. USB image runs off of the USB device the whole time. A USB image is easier to carry, can be stored more safely than a conventional CD or DVD. Drawbacks are that some older devices may not support USB booting and that the USB storage devices lifespan might be shortened.
Ubuntu has included a utility for installing an operating system image file to a USB flash drive since version 9.10. Windows support also has added a step by step on how to set up a USB device as a bootable drive.
Software
Both graphical applications and command line utilities are available for authoring bootable operating system images. dd is a utility commonly found in Unix operating systems that allow creation of bootable images.
Benefits and limitations
Benefits
In contrast to live CDs, a USB image is easier to transport and to store (e.g. a pocket, attached to a key chain, carried in a bag, locked away in a safe), instead of a CD, which can be damaged and corrupted easier, and also harder
Also after OS installation, the USB can be removed after installation, and the operating system will run without the USB stick inserted into the computer, allowing installation on multiple OS devices with a single USB (This is known for Win 8.1 and newer Microsoft Win versions, since they fully support the USB image installation)
The absence of moving parts in USB flash devices allows true random access avoiding the rotational latency and seek time, meaning small programs will start faster from a USB flash drive than from a local hard disk or live CD. However, as USB devices typically achieve lower data transfer rates than internal hard drives, booting from older computers that lack USB 2.0 or newer can be very slow.
Limitations
Some older systems have limited support for USB, since their BIOSes were not designed with such purpose at the time. Other devices may not be booted from USB, if in BIOS it is set to 'Legacy mode'Legacy mode.
Due to the additional write cycles that occur on a full installation, the life span of the used USB may be shortened. To mitigate this, a USB hard drive can be used, as they give better performance than the USB stick, regardless of the connector.
See also
UEFI
ImageUSB (Per Partition or mounted Drive)
Live USB
References
Booting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20Universal | Studio Universal is a specialty television channel focused on films. It is owned by Universal Networks International. Programming is based on films (mainly from Universal Studios) and related programs with interviews, insights, short films and frequent themed nights or seasons on which are shown films centred on one genre, director or actor. The Studio Universal brand was chosen as a core channel of Universal Networks International. The channel was launched on February 1, 2010 in Latin America replacing Hallmark Channel.
History
The channel was originally launched in Italy in 1998 on satellite television platform Stream TV and continued on SKY Italia from July 31, 2003 to June 1, 2008. A carriage dispute led the channel to be replaced by MGM Channel. The Studio Universal channel resumed on May 8, 2009, on Premium Gallery, part of pay-television platform Mediaset Premium.
It was announced in November, 2008 by Steve Patscheck, director of "Universal Networks Latin America", that the channel would be launched in Latin America on February 1, 2010 replacing The Hallmark Channel in the region. Studio Universal launched in September 30, 2011 in South Africa and sub-saharan Africa.
Studio Universal was discontinued in Italy on 31 December 2018.
In 2023, Studio Universal made its first launch in Southeast Asia thru TAP DMV's over-the-top streaming service BlastTV in the Philippines.
See also
Studio Universal (Latin America)
References
External links
Official Italian website
Official Latin America website
Official South Africa website
Universal Networks International
Movie channels
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Italian-language television stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Yakubovich | Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich (October 21, 1926 in Novosibirsk – August 17, 2012 in the Gdov region) was a notable Russian control theorist and head of the Department of Theoretical Cybernetics at Saint Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad University).
In 1996 he received the IEEE Control Systems Award for his contributions to control theory, including the Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma.
References
External links
Personal web page (English)
Personal web page (Russian)
On-line CV (includes photo)
S. Abramovich, N. Kuznetsov, G. Leonov, V. A. Yakubovich — mathematician, “father of the field”, and herald of intellectual democracy in science and society, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 48(11), 2015, 1–3 (video)
Vladimir A. Yakubovich, Automation and Remote Control, 2006, Vol. 67, No. 10, pp. 1530–1546.
Control theorists
Soviet mathematicians
Moscow State University alumni
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1926 births
2012 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle%20Friendly%20Awards | The New Zealand Cycle Friendly Awards were devised by the Cycling Advocates' Network (CAN) in 2003. The purpose of the awards is to acknowledge and celebrate some of the most notable achievements in the country that are helping to promote cycling and to create a cycle-friendly environment. Since 2016, the awards have been jointly organised with the New Zealand Transport Agency and rebranded as the 'Bike to the Future Awards'.
History and description
CAN announced on 7 August 2003 that the awards had been created. The first awards ceremony was held on 10 October 2003 and the awards have since been awarded approximately annually.
There are several categories (four initially, since extended to five), and in each category there are up to five finalists. Those finalists are announced some time prior to the awards ceremony, enabling representatives to attend the awards function. In each category, one of the finalists is announced the winner during an awards ceremony. The awards function is typically combined with the biennial NZ Cycling Conference, or with the annual get together of CAN in the intervening years.
Finalists receive a certificate. Winners receive a certificate and a trophy; originally a bicycle bell mounted on a plinth.
In 2012, the opportunity has been taken to combine the awards with the "Golden Foot" Awards presented by walking advocates Living Streets Aotearoa. In addition a new joint award for all Walking and Cycling finalists was introduced. These initiatives were repeated in 2014, but the Golden Foot Awards have been subsequently awarded at a separate ceremony.
In 2016, the New Zealand Transport Agency took on organisation of the awards, with CAN still involved, and rebranded them as the 'Bike to the Future Awards'. A new trophy design, incorporating a stylised bicycle, was created for the winners.
A panel of judges uses criteria to individually assess the nominations. The judges work independent from one another, so can't influence each other, and don't know how the others are scoring. Combining the judges' scores by the awards coordinator determines the winner. The following criteria are used:
Coverage – the number of people potentially affected
Success to date – of initiatives / person in encouraging cycling
Potential – applicability to other locations / organisations / commitment by person
Innovation – relative uniqueness & innovation of initiative / person's action in New Zealand
Award categories
Best cycle facility project
This category is for the transport infrastructure project year that has had the most significant impact on promoting cycling and a cycle-friendly environment in the past year. Examples could include new cycle ways, cycle parking facilities, or general roading projects that assist and encourage cycling. Nominations are typically received for projects undertaken by local or central government agencies.
Best cycling promotion
This category is for the education or encouragement project that has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Zeitung | Computer Zeitung was the first German computer magazine, founded in 1970, and launched at the first CeBIT computer expo. It was published weekly on Mondays, in the Berliner newspaper format.
The publisher was the Konradin Verlag, with Rainer Huttenloher as the editor-in-chief since 2002.
History
Since October 2009, the homepage of the Computerzeitung is not longer active and redirected to the German magazine Bild der Wissenschaft.
Since December 2010 a new Computerzeitung is available in Switzerland. The monthly magazine is available for free, with about 200,000 units per month.
References
External links
(redirected to the German magazine "Bild der Wissenschaft")
Computer Zeitung, at Konradin Verlag
Computer Zeitung, Leser-Analyse Computerpresse 2008
ComputerZeitung Switzerland, Home of the Swiss Computerzeitung
1970 establishments in Germany
2009 disestablishments in Germany
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in Germany
Computer magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
Magazines established in 1970
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Weekly magazines published in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CPU%20power%20dissipation%20figures | This is a list of CPU power dissipation figures of various consumer central processing units (CPUs).
Early CPUs
Note that these figures include power dissipation due to energy lost by the computer's power supply and some minor peripherals. However, since the CPU component of these early computers easily accounted for most of the computer's power dissipation, they are mentioned here:
ENIAC, 150 kW average
EDVAC, 50 kW average
ORDVAC, 35 kW average
UNIVAC I, 124.5 kW average
Metrovick 950, 150 W (0.15 kW) average
Microprocessors
If not stated otherwise, the watts dissipated refers to the peak-value thermal design power for a whole processor family. Since thermal design power relates to the potential maximum thermally significant power used by the most energy using member of a processor family, it is not useful for comparing processors within a particular family. It is also not useful for comparison of the energy efficiency of individual processors in different families, because it relates to the family, not the individual CPU. Thermal design power is defined differently by different manufacturers, so it is not comparable between manufacturers.
Different architectures vary in how many operations they perform per clock cycle, so MHz/W values are not useful for comparing processors using different internal structure (see Megahertz myth). Since TDP is defined for families, not individual processors, MHz/TDP W are not useful for comparing processors using the same internal structure.
For measures of energy efficiency in computing, see Performance per watt.
IBM/Motorola/Freescale processors
PowerPC
Marvell XScale
Marvell acquired an ARM license in 2003, and bought Intel's XScale line in 2006.
80321 600 MHz, 0.5 watt
PXA250
PXA255
PXA270
PXA300, PXA310, PXA320
Intel processors
Desktop processors
Pentium
Pentium MMX
Pentium II
Pentium III
Launched in 1999, the Pentium III became Intel's first processor to break the 1 GHz clock speed barrier. By 2000, the Pentium III was replaced by the Pentium 4, which performed even worse in certain applications. Although, in 2001, Intel had resurrected the Pentium III by introducing the Tualatin core. The Tualatin-based Pentium III had well outperformed the Willamette-based Pentium 4 in a variety of applications. However, it appeared that Intel wanted to market the Pentium 4 as their main processor and tried to "kill" the Pentium III by reducing the L2 cache (in the non-S variants) to 256 KB from 512 KB in the Katmai and Coppermine cores and by making the Tualatin-based Pentium IIIs incompatible with older socket 370 motherboards. The Pentium III-S have 512 KB L2 cache and have dual-processor support.
Pentium 4
Released on November 20, 2000, the Pentium 4 was based on an all new microarchitecture codenamed NetBurst. Pentium 4 processors achieved their high clock speeds by using an extremely long instruction pipeline (20 stages in the Willamette, Northwood and Gallatin cores and 31 stages i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albula%20Tunnel | The Albula Tunnel is the centrepiece of the Albula Railway, which forms part of the Rhaetian Railway network, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. With its maximum elevation of above sea level, it is amongst the highest tunnels in the Alps, and has a mountain overlay of up to . The tunnel has a length of . It opened for traffic in 1903.
The northern portal of the tunnel is at Preda, in Bergün, and the southern portal at Spinas, in the Bever valley. At a total length of , the tunnel connects the Albula Valley with the Engadin Valley, and, in so doing, passes under the watershed between the Rhine and the Danube a few kilometres west of the Albula Pass. The tunnel serves both passenger and freight traffic. The Glacier Express passes through it daily. During the winter season, car transporter trains operating between Thusis and Samedan also used the tunnel until 2011.
Due to the threat of rockfalls and general deterioration over time, it was planned for the original tunnel to have been renovated during the 2020s. But in 2010, the Rhaetian Railway announced that it had identified the construction of a second tunnel alongside the first as its preferred option, with one of several reasons being a relatively minor difference in cost. Costed at around CHF 244 million, construction commenced during 2014. In comparison to the original Albula Tunnel, the new bore is considerably larger due to newer operational and safety standards. The second tunnel is set to be opened to traffic in 2024, with completion of the project including refurbishment of the original tunnel by 2025. Once completed, around 15,000 trains are predicted to use the tunnel each year; it has been built to allow for a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
History
Construction
The Albula Tunnel is a major feature of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), an extensive metre-gauge network in the southeast of Switzerland that was launched during 1889. The railway's management had placed a significant emphasis on the line being attractive to the growing tourism market, thus the line traverses the northern valleys in a deliberately spectacular manner. The highest point of the line, being roughly 1,800 metres above sea level, is where the Albula tunnel was constructed.
The construction effort was impacted by multiple unusual problems. The cold, , water outflows transformed the already fractured rock into a pulpy mass, regularly clogging up the shell of the northern tunnel lead (or adit). At the same time, a strong water source above the northern tunnel portal dried up. The water streaming in at had to be painstakingly diverted with pipelines. As a result, construction virtually came to a standstill: in the ten weeks from May 1900, only of tunnel were driven. These difficulties could not be overcome by the head construction contractor Ronchi & Carlotti, which entered into bankruptcy.
From 1 April 1901, the Rhaetian Railway took the construction work into its own hands. With the use of a bonus system, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mareco%20Broadcasting%20Network | Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc. is a radio network in the Philippines. Mareco stands for Mabuhay Records Corporation as its parent company also owns Villar Records and Mabuhay Records. Its headquarters is located at #6 Tirad Pass Street, Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City. It also provides management and marketing consultancy for radio companies in the country.
History
Manuel P. Villar Sr., owner of Mareco Broadcasting Network, Inc., was also the executive of radio network's mother company, Mabuhay Records Corporation (Mareco, Inc.), and Filipinas Record Corp. Mareco owned one of the leading local record labels which, by late 1960s, were among those dominating almost all foreign labels that owned almost the entire market.
The Villar clan, which pioneered the country's recording business in 1950 through Mareco, opened two AM radio stations: DZBM 740 in 1963, and DZLM 1430. The group acquired an FM radio station in 1971. Upon the declaration of nationwide martial law in 1972, a decree was issued ordering a broadcast company to operate an AM and an FM station in each area. As a result, DZBM was kept, while DZLM was transferred to FM, later called DWLM 105.1. The family eventually focused on broadcast operations when they stopped recording business in the late 1970s.
These radio stations mostly played foreign records yet a local recording once daily, all requested by the listeners in early years. DZBM had the magazine-type format until the management later adopted the one with different announcing style, the first AM station to reformat into such; thus becoming the top-rated pop station for at least five to six years. Among those DJs at that time were the late Angelo Castro and Howard Medina, now with DZBB-AM. Villar Records, then country's leading biggest record company and the licensee of foreign labels including RCA, Columbia and Motown, once promoted its star balladeer to play alongside foreign pop stars on that station. DZBM's frequency was moved to 774 kHz by 1978.
In early 1990s, DWBM-FM and DWOO-AM (successors of DWLM-FM and DZBM-AM, respectively), along with Citylite 88.3 Metro Manila and its partner, DYBW-FM 89.1 Cebu City, became CNN radio affiliates, relaying international news reported by the outlet.
In May 1993, MBNI, owned by Palma and Villar group of companies at that time, relaunched DWOO-AM as news radio station.
In 1994, Luis Villar sold the shares to his children; the FM station went to his son, Louie, who introduced Crossover stations since then. The Villars later explained that the name describes its format: a combination of jazz, Latin, R&B and pop music. Four additional stations were later established nationwide.
On the other hand, the AM station, as DWAT, went to the Palmas and later brought by businessman Lucio Tan, while its franchise was still being held by the MBNI. The transfer to the latter was the subject of a dispute when the Villar family filed a court case against Tan, which caused the delay of station's schedu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian%20Workers%27%20Solidarity%20Network | Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network () often abbreviated as IWSN, is an international network of Iranian trade union and workers' right activists. Established in 2001, it currently has chapters in 13 countries around the world.
See also
Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company
Mansour Osanlou
References
Resources
About Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network, IWSN website
External links
IWSN English website
IWSN Farsi website
Trade unions in Iran
Trade unions established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Books%20%26%20Information%20Services | Columbia Books & Information Services (CBIS) is an American company that serves as a publisher of reference works, online databases, and mailing lists. It was founded in 1974 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland. CBIS provides users with compliance resources and training, print directories, online databases, and customized data delivery.
History
In September 2009, CBIS acquired Association TRENDS, the resource for senior association and non-profit organization executives, formerly owned by Martineau Corporation. On August 30, 2013, CBIS acquired Thompson Information Services from Thompson Media Group, LLC.
Print Directories
Print directories published by CBIS include the Washington Representatives Directory, which is a print directory of government relations professionals, lobbying firms, and organizations with a lobbying presence in the Washington, D.C., area. The website Lobbyists.info is an online version with searchable databases of Washington Representatives.
CBIS also published National Trade and Professional Associations, a print directory of associations and executives,
and the National Directory of Corporate Public Affairs, a print directory of key public affairs executives in America's largest companies. It includes details of nearly 2,600 corporations that employ a federal lobbyist. Other details include: number of employees, Standard Industrial Classification and North American Industry Classification System codes, ticker symbols and names and contact information of key executives.
The Original US Congress Handbook, which profiles all members of the United States Congress with biographical data, contact information for members including address, phone, fax, committee assignments and staff members, is another publication of CBIS.
In 2015, Columbia Books & Information Services began publishing The Almanac of American Politics, a reference work that provides a detailed look at the politics of the United States through encyclopedic biographical histories with statistic and data compilations.
Online Databases
As the world has become increasingly digital, CBIS likewise took its traditional print directories online with a series of subscription databases.
AssociationExecs.com is contains detailed profiles of trade and professional associations and their staff, featuring over 20,000 association profiles and over 180,000 staff executives.
Lobbyists.info, re-branded under Washington Representatives in 2019, contains profiles and data related to the government relations industry, including full lobbying disclosure details since 2010 and profiles for over 70,000 client and firms, and 40,000 government relations professionals.
TheGrantscape.com, powered by Thompson Grants, is a comprehensive database of federal, state, local, and private grant opportunities for the grant-seeking community. Grantscape features over 7,000 active grant opportunities, reflecting over $25 million in funding.
Training & Events
CBIS hosts many live and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Goldscheider | Alexander Goldscheider (born June 22, 1950) is a Czech-born British composer, music producer, writer and computer specialist.
Life and career
He read music at Charles University in Prague, and received a PhD for his analysis of the music of The Beatles in 1975. Initially a music writer, critic, and radio/club DJ (1968–73), he moved into songwriting and music production, becoming a staff producer at Supraphon (1976–79), where he produced a number of pop, rock, and jazz LPs of Czech singers and bands. He pioneered the use of synthesizers in Czechoslovakia and his music was released by Panton Records and Supraphon, used on TV and in films.
He moved to London in 1981, recorded two solo albums (Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 1 & 2), and in 1983 worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop producing his own music for radio, TV, and films. Goldscheider then co-founded a music and computer company Romantic Robot, which initially designed and sold hardware (Multiprint, Videoface, Multifaces 1, 2, 3, 128 and ST) and published software (Music Typewriter, Trans-Express, Genie, Wriggler) for Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Atari ST computers.
Romantic Robot became a recording label in 1991, when Goldscheider produced and released a 2-CD set of music written and performed in a Czech concentration camp –Terezín: The Music 1941-44. The set included children's opera Brundibár by Hans Krása, which has since been staged, recorded, and filmed all over the world. In addition to producing another CD (An American in Prague – Aaron Copland conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), Goldscheider has since concentrated on writing, performing, and producing his own compositions, recording classical singers, large choruses, and the Romantic Robot Orchestra on CDs such as Stabat Mater and The Song of Songs, with occasional detours into web design. In June 2018, British record company Little Beat Different released his eponymous vinyl LP Alexander Goldscheider. The first part of his memoirs Intended Coincidences was published in Prague in July 2020.
Alexander Goldscheider's grandson Ben Goldscheider is also a musician. He won the Brass Category Final of the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition, playing the French horn.
Discography and Books
Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 1
Themes for a One-Man-Band Vol. 2
Undercurrents
Terezín: The Music 1941–44 (produced)
An American in Prague (produced)
Stabat Mater
The Song of Songs
Alexander Goldscheider
Intended Coincidences
Notes
References
External links
Romantic Robot
Last.fm
MusicBrainz
Discogs
1950 births
Living people
Czech composers
Czech male composers
Czech expatriates in the United Kingdom
Musicians from Prague
Writers from Prague
Czech male writers
Czech exiles
Czech Jews
Czech people of Russian-Jewish descent
Charles University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20National%20Railway%20%28Austria%29 | The Imperial and Royal Eastern National Railway (, ÖStB) was a national railway company in the Austrian Empire. It was founded in 1850 for the purpose of developing the railway network in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria. The company relied on the base of the Kraków–Upper Silesia Railway (; ), opened in 1847.
History
On 1 March 1844 the Senate of the Free City of Kraków received the commission for the building of a railway line to Myslowitz (present-day Mysłowice), a border town in Prussian controlled Upper Silesia. The line with a length of was inaugurated on 13 October 1847; the continuation by the Upper Silesian Railway to Breslau (Wrocław) opened five days later. In Szczakowa, the line adjoined the border with Russian controlled Congress Poland and the Warsaw–Vienna railway line at Granica station (present-day Sosnowiec Maczki). From 1848 the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway line to Vienna could be reached via Oderberg (Bohumín) in Austrian Silesia. By 1849 the company owned and operated eight Borsig steam locomotives.
On 30 May 1850 the Kraków-Upper Silesia Railway was purchased by the Austrian state; responsibility for operating the link was transferred per 1 January 1852. Another branch-off from Trzebinia via Auschwitz (Oświęcim) to Dzieditz (Dziedzice) was inaugurated on 1 March 1856, providing a direct link to the Northern Railway on Austrian territory.
In 1858 the company was again resolved, and its network was divided among companies in private property. All its lines west of Kraków were left to the Northern Railway, while all its lines east of the city were left to the newly established Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis (Galizische Carl Ludwig-Bahn, CLB).
Railway lines
Kraków – Szczakowa – Mysłowice (taken over from the Kraków–Upper Silesian Railway)
Trzebinia – Oświęcim, opened on 1 March 1856
Kraków – Bieżanów – Podłęże – Dębica, opened on 20 February 1856
Bieżanów – Wieliczka, opened on 26 January 1857
Dębica – Rzeszów, completed on 15 November 1858 by the CLB
Railway lines in Austria
Railway lines in Poland
Eastern National |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werkenntwen | (), often abbreviated in German as wkw, was a German social networking site. TechCrunch once compared it to Myspace. According to Alexa Internet in July 2011, werkenntwen's traffic was ranked 959 worldwide and was one of the most successful websites in Germany. The site allowed users to write blogs, chat with friends, and write in their guestbook.
History
The site was started in 2006 by Fabian Jager and Patrick Ohler, two students at the University of Koblenz and Landau. It initially only meant for their personal use until the number of users in Germany grew, reaching 50,000 six months after it started, and one million by December 2007.
The site was awarded an OnlineStar in 2008 in the "social communities" category. In 2008, RTL interactive bought 49% of the company and bought the remainder in placing it among the ten most popular websites in German.
By October 2012, the number of unique visitors fell to 23 million. New functions and a new design were launched in October 2013 in an attempt increase the number of users.
Closure
The number of users continued to dropped to 13 million four months after the redesign and relaunch. In March 2014, RTL Interactive put the site up for sale. Like other social networks, WKW was unable to survive competition from Facebook. Having failed to find a buyer, RTL Interactive closed the site on 2 June 2014.
Users
Werkenntwen did target a specific group, but was open to anyone over 14 years of age. Company statistics from 2011 reported 9.4 million registered users, of which 41.7% were male and 58.3% female, with 36.7% of all users over 40 years of age.
Features
Users were able to connect with everybody they knew (colleagues, friends, neighbors, classmates etc.). They could also create profiles with photos, listing their interests, see their contacts on a map, search for people, post status updates, write blogs or in guestbooks, maintain calendars and photo albums and play games.
It was also possible to chat to other users. A mobile version of the website and an iPhone and Android app were also available.
References
External links
Defunct social networking services
German social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20dreads | Synthetic dreads, also called dread extensions, dread falls, and cyberlocks, are interlocked coils of synthetic hair, mostly kanekalon, that give the look and feel of natural dreadlocks without the commitment or maintenance. They are mainly worn as a fashion statement for the subculture of cybergoth.
Mixed with both influences from America and the United Kingdom's versions of techno and other electronic music, cybergoths tend to dress in bright colors, neon lights, lots of plastic, loud, or costume jewelry known as "kandi" and one of the most essential items is fake hair. Synthetic dreads or falls are most commonly seen in the cybergoth and cyberpunk fashion and are easily accessorized with LED threads of light, yarn, wool, tubed crin (more commonly known as cyberlocks), beads and more.
Construction
Synthetic dreads are typically made by braiding or wrapping synthetic hair around a core material, such as yarn or wire, to create a cylindrical shape resembling natural dreadlocks. They come in various styles, lengths, and colors, allowing individuals to experiment with different looks, from vibrant and multicolored to natural and understated.
Types of synthetic dreads
Dread extensions
Dread extensions can be braided, sewn, or wrapped into natural hair. With proper maintenance extensions can last up to four months, sometimes longer depending on how fast the hair grows and creates looseness at the scalp. Dread extensions come in single and double ended. Single ended means the synthetic hair is created with the loop on the top so that natural hair can slide through and then be braided or wrapped onto the dread, then tied off with a rubber band or thread.
Double ended is twice the length of a single and folded in half to create the look of "two dreads in one." Only one half of the dread is braided or wrapped into the hair while the other half hangs loose, giving a more realistic appearance because there is no braid at the top on half of the set.
Dread falls
Dread falls are single ended dreads looped onto a piece of lace or elastic. Falls are attached by pony tail or pigtail and range from short to long, and they are easily customizable. They are worn and removed with no damage or strain on natural hair.
Many other materials can be used in either dreads or extensions such as tubed crin (cyberlocks), beads, yarn, fiber optic string lights, flat plastic in neon colors, etc. Some sets can be made entirely from wool.
Wool dreads give a similar look to real dreads and are very soft. Wool can range in many colors that cannot be recreated in synthetic hair, and therefore they give a certain appeal to cybergoths who tend to coordinate with a variety of colors.
Dread styles
There are many different styles of dreads. Solid coloured dreads are made from a single coloured fibre. Candycane Dreads are made using two or more colours twisted together to give a candycane effect. Blended dreads are made from a blend of different colours to create a more su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20on%20SportsChannel%20America | NASCAR on SportsChannel America relates to NASCAR's Busch Grand National (now the Xfinity Series) races broadcast on the now defunct SportsChannel America television network. SportsChannel America's coverage began in 1990. For instance, SportsChannel America broadcast the Roses Stores 200 and the Chevy Dealers of New England 250.
Commentators
Rick Benjamin – Benjamin used the pseudonym Ron Williams, because his family unapproved of him revealing his real name.
Ron Bouchard
Mike Hogewood
Glenn Jarrett
Mike Joy
Ralph Sheheen
Bob Varsha
See also
Xfinity Series#United States
References
External links
Google Search - Timeline
SportsChannel
1990 American television series debuts
NASCAR Xfinity Series
SportsChannel America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim%20Resort%20Transportation | Anaheim Resort Transportation (ART), established in 1998 as the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) and formerly known as Anaheim Resort Transit, is a mass transportation provider in the Anaheim Resort area and its environs in Orange County, California, United States. ART uses a fleet of vehicles, including tourist trolleys, to provide access to hotels, malls, and tourist-related enterprises, which are the main destinations connected by the system. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
In 2005, Citizens Against Government Waste criticized an earmark for ART from the United States Congress as wasteful spending.
In 2010, Disney contracted with ART to run shuttles from a Disney-owned parking lot and all stations to the Disneyland Resort.
Governance
ART is owned by the Anaheim Transportation Network, a quasi-government agency organized as a nonprofit corporation. Its board of directors is made up of representatives from hotels, local government, tourist attractions, and other businesses in the Anaheim Resort and Platinum Triangle. Diana Kotler is the executive director of the organization.
Routes
As of 2023, ART operates 11 fixed route lines.
ART also operates On-Demand services with stops in Buena Park, Orange, and Anaheim.
Fleet and facilities
ATN awarded a contract to BYD for 40 K series battery-electric buses in May 2019. Buses to be delivered include 30-foot (K7M), 40-foot (K9M), and articulated 60-foot (K11M) models.
Active Fleet
ATN supports operations, maintenance, and administration at the Base Facility, 1354 South Anaheim Blvd. There is an adjacent Parking Facility to support overflow bus parking at 1280 South Anaheim Blvd. 10 revenue vehicles can be parked at the Base Facility, which includes 3 maintenance bays and 2 lifts. The Parking Facility can accommodate 80 revenue vehicles.
See also
Orange County Transportation Authority
Disney Transport, the official transport for Walt Disney World
References
External links
Bus transportation in California
Transportation in Anaheim, California
Public transportation in Orange County, California
Disneyland Resort |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj%20Music%20Karnataka | Raj Music Kannada is a 24-hour music channel presented by Chennai-based Raj Television Network in Karnataka. This is the third Music channel for Karnataka. The channel went on air on 6 March 2009. Raj TV has tied up with MQ Networks Pvt. Ltd., a professionally managed multi media company for exclusively handling the Raj Music Karnataka operations in Karnataka. The channel became inactive and dull after a few months. However the channel was re-launched by the network on 14 February 2011. The channel was renamed as Raj Music Karnataka from Raj Musix Kannada along with the change in logo.
See also
List of Kannada-language television channels
Television in India
Media in Karnataka
Media of India
References
External links
Music television channels
Kannada-language television channels
Music organisations based in India
Television stations in Bangalore
2009 establishments in Karnataka
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Music television channels in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch%20hashing | Hopscotch hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table using open addressing. It is also well suited for implementing a concurrent hash table. Hopscotch hashing was introduced by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit and Moran Tzafrir in 2008. The name is derived from the sequence of hops that characterize the table's insertion algorithm.
The algorithm uses a single array of n buckets. For each bucket, its neighborhood is a small collection of H consecutive buckets (i.e. ones with indices close to the original hashed bucket). The desired property of the neighborhood is that the cost of finding an item in the buckets of the neighborhood is close to the cost of finding it in the bucket itself (for example, by having buckets in the neighborhood fall within the same cache line). The size of the neighborhood must be sufficient to accommodate a logarithmic number of items in the worst case (i.e. it must accommodate log(n) items), but only a constant number on average. If some bucket's neighborhood is filled, the table is resized.
In hopscotch hashing, as in cuckoo hashing, and unlike in linear probing, a given item will always be inserted-into and found-in the neighborhood of its hashed bucket. In other words, it will always be found either in its original hashed array entry, or in one of the next H−1 neighboring entries. H could, for example, be 32, a common machine word size. The neighborhood is thus a "virtual" bucket that has fixed size and overlaps with the following H−1 buckets. To speed the search, each bucket (array entry) includes a "hop-information" word, an H-bit bitmap that indicates which of the next H−1 entries contain items that hashed to the current entry's virtual bucket. In this way, an item can be found quickly by looking at the word to see which entries belong to the bucket, and then scanning through the constant number of entries (most modern processors support special bit manipulation operations that make the lookup in the "hop-information" bitmap very fast).
Here is how to add item x which was hashed to bucket i:
If the hop-information word for bucket i shows there are already H items in this bucket, the table is full; expand the hash table and try again.
Starting at entry i, use a linear probe to find an empty entry at index j. (If no empty slot exists, the table is full.)
While (j−i) mod n ≥ H, move the empty slot toward i as follows:
Search the H−1 slots preceding j for an item y whose hash value k is within H−1 of j, i.e. (j−k) mod n < H. (This can be done using the hop-information words.)
If no such item y exists within the range, the table is full.
Move y to j, creating a new empty slot closer to i.
Set j to the empty slot vacated by y and repeat.
Store x in slot j and return.
The idea is that hopscotch hashing "moves the empty slot towards the desired bucket". This distinguishes it from linear probing which leaves the empty slot where it was found, po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryolymnia%20viridata | Bryolymnia viridata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Leon F. Harvey in 1876. It is found in the US in western California from Sonoma County north of San Francisco southward to San Diego County.
The wingspan is about 27 mm. Adults have been collected from late May to mid-October.
External links
Hadeninae
Moths described in 1876 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Williams%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ross Williams may refer to:
Ross Williams (born 1962), Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur
Ross Williams, character in Experiment Alcatraz
Ross Williams (actor) in Gross Misconduct (film)
Ross Williams, founder of Global Personals
See also
Roger Ross Williams, American director, producer and writer
Tiffany Ross-Williams, American hurdler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backfitting%20algorithm | In statistics, the backfitting algorithm is a simple iterative procedure used to fit a generalized additive model. It was introduced in 1985 by Leo Breiman and Jerome Friedman along with generalized additive models. In most cases, the backfitting algorithm is equivalent to the Gauss–Seidel method, an algorithm used for solving a certain linear system of equations.
Algorithm
Additive models are a class of non-parametric regression models of the form:
where each is a variable in our -dimensional predictor , and is our outcome variable. represents our inherent error, which is assumed to have mean zero. The represent unspecified smooth functions of a single . Given the flexibility in the , we typically do not have a unique solution: is left unidentifiable as one can add any constants to any of the and subtract this value from . It is common to rectify this by constraining
for all
leaving
necessarily.
The backfitting algorithm is then:
Initialize ,
Do until converge:
For each predictor j:
(a) (backfitting step)
(b) (mean centering of estimated function)
where is our smoothing operator. This is typically chosen to be a cubic spline smoother but can be any other appropriate fitting operation, such as:
local polynomial regression
kernel smoothing methods
more complex operators, such as surface smoothers for second and higher-order interactions
In theory, step (b) in the algorithm is not needed as the function estimates are constrained to sum to zero. However, due to numerical issues this might become a problem in practice.
Motivation
If we consider the problem of minimizing the expected squared error:
There exists a unique solution by the theory of projections given by:
for i = 1, 2, ..., p.
This gives the matrix interpretation:
where . In this context we can imagine a smoother matrix, , which approximates our and gives an estimate, , of
or in abbreviated form
An exact solution of this is infeasible to calculate for large np, so the iterative technique of backfitting is used. We take initial guesses and update each in turn to be the smoothed fit for the residuals of all the others:
Looking at the abbreviated form it is easy to see the backfitting algorithm as equivalent to the Gauss–Seidel method for linear smoothing operators S.
Explicit derivation for two dimensions
Following, we can formulate the backfitting algorithm explicitly for the two dimensional case. We have:
If we denote as the estimate of in the ith updating step, the backfitting steps are
By induction we get
and
If we set then we get
Where we have solved for by directly plugging out from .
We have convergence if . In this case, letting :
We can check this is a solution to the problem, i.e. that and converge to and correspondingly, by plugging these expressions into the original equations.
Issues
The choice of when to stop the algorithm is arbitra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS%20Media | STS Media may refer to:
STS (TV channel), a Russian TV network
CTC Media, a Russian independent broadcasting company
STS Media, Inc., a Los Angeles-based company headed by Stephen Stokols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSPlug | The RSPlug Trojan horse, a form of DNSChanger, is malware targeting the Mac OS X operating system. The first incarnation of the trojan, OSX.RSPlug.A, was discovered on October 30, 2007 by Mac security researchers at Intego.
Variants
Several variants of the RSPlug trojan were found primarily on pornographic sites disguised as video codecs, and some variants were spotted on sites offering game downloads. When OSX.RSPlug.A was installed, the system's DNS settings were changed to redirect web browsing to phishing web sites, or to web pages displaying ads for other pornographic web sites.
There is also a version of the OSX.RSPlug Trojan which targets the Windows platform, and it was this version that led a technical manager at F-Secure to suggest that the group behind the DNS-changing Mac Trojan is the same group behind the Zlob trojan. However, Intego noted that those behind the RSPlug Trojan horse stopped their activities before those controlling Windows malware, and that it is likely that these were not the same people.
Isolation
As part of Operation Ghost Click, in November 2009 the FBI brought down "a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry." The FBI estimated that more than four million computers in over 100 countries were infected by DNSChanger. One variant of DNSChanger was the RSPlug Trojan horse, which spawned a number of other variants and infected many Macs.
See also
Mac Defender
Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger
References
Trojan horses
MacOS malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle%20Jim%27s%20Question%20Bee | Uncle Jim's Question Bee was a radio quiz program, hosted by Jim McWilliams, which began on the Blue Network in 1936 and continued until 1941.
After the success of Professor Quiz, radio's first quiz show which began four months earlier, Uncle Jim's Question Bee was broadcasting's second quiz program. The questions came from listeners. Three men and three women were chosen from the audience by the show's publicist, Adele Wesley, to become the contestants competing for the $25 prize money.
Schedule
Sponsored by George Washington Coffee, the half-hour program premiered September 26, 1936, and ran until December 16, 1939, airing on Saturday evenings at 7:30pm. George Washington Coffee also sponsored Professor Quiz. The following year it was sponsored by Lever Brothers (Spry), as it moved to Tuesdays (and later Wednesdays at 8pm) on CBS, where it was heard from June 18 to October 2, 1940, as a summer replacement show for Big Town. It returned to the Blue Network for a run from October 8, 1940, to July 8, 1941, still sponsored by Lever Brothers but hosted by Bill Slater.
Television
A special telecast of the show was shown on the formal commercial television debut of NBC (WNBT in NY). This one-time event was seen July 1, 1941, preceding Truth or Consequences that evening as first commercial TV game show telecast.
Products
The program generated tie-in merchandising, including Uncle Jim's Question Bee Game, which was given to both contestants and those who sent in questions. Listeners could also purchase a Q&A book, Uncle Jim's Question Bee Quiz Book. Jim McWilliams was seen on the front cover.
References
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
American radio game shows
1930s American game shows
1940s American game shows
NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieng%20van%20Tran | Sieng Van Tran (born 30 April 1975) is a British entrepreneur and prominent refugee who came to the UK in 1981. He studied artificial intelligence at Middlesex University and founded the eLearning company , the first profitable UK internet learning company in 1999. delivered over 500 online courses from Harvard, McGraw-Hill and the BBC for Business. It used artificial intelligence software from Autonomy to tailor help to user queries. It was initially backed by Alan Watkins, former MD of Cisco.
Identified by the UNHCR, Sieng van Tran is on a list of famous refugees and took part in a 50th anniversary video campaign alongside other prominent refugees such as Madeleine Albright. The video lip sync to "Respect" by Aretha Franklin also featured human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum.
In 2007 he sold AuctionAssist an eCommerce facilitator to AIM-listed company ArgetnVive Plc for £2.6 Million.
On 27 March 2008, Sieng filed for a patent on a new method for eCommerce with the United States Patent Office.
Sieng also founded the Egg Accelerator in Vietnam which was initially started to help people from his hometown, a fishing village, to develop technical skills and work in technology. In 2014, Egg Accelerator was invited to join the Hanwha Dreamplus Alliance, a US$100 billion Korean conglomerate.
In 2018 Sieng was appointed as President of the Dragonchain Academy, a foundation project designed to develop Blockchain competency.
References
1975 births
Living people
British businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20mark | Index mark has multiple meanings.
In computing, an index mark or index track is a physical impression made on a hard disk drive. Its purpose is to indicate the starting point for each track on the hard disk drive. Usually, an index mark takes the form of a hole, gap, or magnetic strip. It also allows a hard disk drive head to quickly move to various spots on the drive.
In electronics components, an index mark is a reference symbol printed on or molded into the casing of a device or circuit board, to indicate the location of "Pin 1". This allows the correct orientation of the component in a larger circuit assembly, so that the electrical leads can be correctly connected.
Another kind of index mark is a component of the registration system for road vehicles in the United Kingdom. It consists of a two-letter combination allocated to a local vehicle licensing office. Certain letters are associated with particular parts of the British Isles. Marks that include I or Z are issued either in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, those that include S in Scotland, and others in England and Wales, though some combinations have not been authorised for use. As an example the combinations AF, CV, GL, and RL were allocated to the Truro licensing office.
References
Computer storage devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Computational%20Infrastructure | The National Computational Infrastructure (also known as NCI or NCI Australia) is a high-performance computing and data services facility, located at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The NCI is supported by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), with operational funding provided through a formal collaboration incorporating CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Australian National University, Geoscience Australia, the Australian Research Council, and a number of research intensive universities and medical research institutes.
Access to computational resources is provided to funding partners as well as researchers awarded grants under the National Computing Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS).
The current director is Sean Smith.
Notable staff
Lindsay Botten – former director
Chris Pigram – former CEO of Geoscience Australia and acting director after the retirement of Lindsay Botten.
Sean Smith – current director
Facility
The NCI building is located on the ANU campus in Canberra and uses hot aisle containment and free cooling to cool their computers.
Computer systems
As of June 2020, NCI operates two main high-performance computing installations, including:
Gadi, meaning 'to search for' in the local Ngunnawal language. a 9.26 PetaFLOP high-performance distributed memory cluster consisting of:
145,152 cores (Intel Xeon Scalable 'Cascade Lake' processors) across 3024 nodes
160 nodes containing four Nvidia V100 GPUs
567 Terabytes of main memory
20 Petabytes of fast storage
47 Petabytes of storage for large data files
50 Petabytes of tape storage for archival
HDR Mellanox Infiniband in Dragonfly+ topology (up to 200Gbit/s transfer)
Tenjin, a 67 TeraFLOP bespoke high-performance partner cloud, consisting of:
1600 Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge cores
25 Terabytes main memory
160 Terabytes State Disk
Data services and storage
NCI operates the fastest filesystems in the Southern Hemisphere. 20 Petabytes of storage is available for fast I/O, 47 Petabytes is available for large data and research files, and 50 Petabytes is available on tape for archival.
Datasets
NCI hosts multiple data sets that can be used on their computation systems including:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive (ATSIDA) which provides Australian Indigenous research data
Australian Astronomy Optical Data Repository (ODR) including:
Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) current and selected historical datasets
Southern Sky Survey, using the ANU's robotic SkyMapper telescope at Mount Stromlo Observatory
Australian National Geophysical Collection (300TB in 2015) including:
Airborne geophysics data
Gravity data set
Seismic survey
High resolution 'raw' Indian Ocean sea floor data generated as part of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Research
Research conducted or under way includes:
Southern Sky Survey, using the ANU's robotic SkyMapper telesco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBN | HBN may refer to:
HBN Law, a law firm in Curaçao
Healthy Building Network, an American green building non-profit
Heiban language, spoken in Sudan
Hexagonal boron nitride
Hollingbourne railway station, in England
Jacob Hübner (1761–1826), German entomologist
Haemoglobin N (HbN), a globin protein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CDMA2000%20networks | A list of CDMA2000 networks worldwide.
Active networks
Defunct networks
See also
List of mobile network operators
CDMA frequency bands
List of 5G NR networks
List of LTE networks
List of UMTS networks
References
Code division multiple access
Lists by country
Telecommunications lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Republic | Royal Republic is a Swedish rock band from Malmö. The band is currently signed to Universal Music and managed by Odyssey Music Network.
History
2007–2012: Foundation and We Are the Royal
Royal Republic was founded in 2007. Their first album, We Are the Royal, was recorded under the supervision of Swedish producer Anders Hallbäck in Malmö. The album was mixed at ToyTown Studios and completed with the help of Stefan Glaumann. On 6 August 2009, the record was released in Sweden and received wide acclaim from critics, fans and radio stations.
All three singles reached number 1 on Bandit Rock's Most-Wanted-List. Three of the album's songs, Full Steam Spacemachine, I Must Be Out of My Mind, and 21st Century Gentleman, were featured on the soundtrack of F1 2011. Tommy-Gun also reached first place on the MTV Rocks charts. Royal Republic gained success in Germany through a collective tour with the Donots.
2012–2014: Save the Nation
On 24 August 2012 the band released their second album titled Save the Nation. It was recorded by Michael Ilbert at Hansa Studio 1 and Hansa Mix Room. Tom Coyne mastered the record at Sterling Sound in New York City.
Save the Nation was widely critically acclaimed and resulted in a better chart position than its predecessor We are the Royal.
The release of the album was followed by concerts in Australia, Great Britain, Germany, France and the Benelux countries. Through the support of bands like Social Distortion, The Subways, Die Toten Hosen and blink-182 the band earned major recognition.
In addition, Royal Republic played in 2013 at the tradition-rich German festivals Rock am Ring and Rock im Park.
2014–2016: Royal Republic and The Nosebreakers
In 2014 Royal Republic turned towards acoustic music. On 28 March the Swedes released Royal Republic and the Nosebreakers, on which songs from the previous albums We Are the Royal and Save the Nation were re-interpreted in an acoustic and country-like way. For the realization of the project, Adam Grahn, Hannes Irengard, Jonas Almén and Per Andreasson were assisted by studio musicians Daniel Olsson, Anders Svensson and Oskar Appelqvist. The latter even joined the band on the same tour.
All songs except This Means War were recorded at the Sunnana Studio by Markus Nilsson. They were largely mixed by Michael Illbert, who already mixed the previous record, at the Hansa Mix Room. This time the mastering was carried out at Chartmakers by Svante Forsbäck.
The accompanying tour for this acoustic album consisted of ten dates, which led the band to Germany, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, and Sweden.
2016: Weekend Man
On 26 February 2016 Royal Republic released their fourth album, Weekend Man. Christian Neander and Michael Tibes were brought in as producers for this project. The latter was also responsible for the recordings that took place at Fuzzfactory in Berlin. Like their predecessors, Weekend Man was mixed by Michael Illbert at the Hansa Mix Room, and mast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsNet%20Rocky%20Mountain | SportsNet Rocky Mountain was an American regional sports network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its sports unit as part of the AT&T SportsNet brand of networks. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the network broadcast regional coverage of sports events throughout the Rocky Mountain region, mainly focusing on professional sports teams based in the Denver metropolitan area, Utah and Nevada.
SportsNet Rocky Mountain was available on cable providers throughout Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Central & Eastern Idaho, northern New Mexico, western Kansas, western Nebraska, western South Dakota, parts of California, including all of San Bernardino County and Mohave County, Arizona; it was also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
The network ceased operations on October 21, 2023.
History
SportsNet Rocky Mountain was originally launched on November 15, 1988, as the Prime Sports Network, a joint venture between Bill Daniels, United Cable (controlled by TCI), and Home Sports Entertainment. The first live event ever shown on the network was a Denver Nuggets – Los Angeles Lakers NBA game. The network was originally broadcast from 5 p.m. to midnight weekdays and 11 a.m. to midnight on weekends. Additional programming included the Denver Zephyrs (minor-league baseball), college games from the Big Eight, the Western Athletic and the Missouri Valley conferences, and University of Denver hockey. Additionally, there was coverage of skiing, hunting, fishing, rodeo, boxing, tennis, and golf.
The network was one of the original members of the Prime Sports Network, a group of regional sports networks formed in 1989 as a partnership between Bill Daniels and TCI. It was officially renamed Prime Sports Network- Rocky Mountain to avoid confusion with the group which now had the same name. However, it still was often referred to on-air as "Prime Sport Network" or simply "PSN". In spring 1995, the network was renamed Prime Sports Rocky Mountain as part of a larger rebranding of Prime's RSNs.
In October 1995, News Corporation, which formed a sports division for the Fox network two years earlier after it obtained the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference and sought to create a group of regional sports networks, acquired a 50% interest in the Prime Network from TCI parent Liberty Media. Later that year on November 1, News Corporation and Liberty Media relaunched the Prime Network affiliates as part of the new Fox Sports Net group, with the Denver-based network officially rebranding as Fox Sports Rocky Mountain. The channel was rebranded as Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner; subsequently in 2004, the channel shortened its name to FSN Rocky Mountain, through the networks' de-emphasis of the "Fox Sports Net" brand.
On December 22, 2006, News Corporation sold its interest in FSN Rocky Mountain and sister networks FSN Utah, FSN North |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20binary%20patterns | Local binary patterns (LBP) is a type of visual descriptor used for classification in computer vision. LBP is the particular case of the Texture Spectrum model proposed in 1990. LBP was first described in 1994. It has since been found to be a powerful feature for texture classification; it has further been determined that when LBP is combined with the Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptor, it improves the detection performance considerably on some datasets. A comparison of several improvements of the original LBP in the field of background subtraction was made in 2015 by Silva et al. A full survey of the different versions of LBP can be found in Bouwmans et al.
Concept
The LBP feature vector, in its simplest form, is created in the following manner:
Divide the examined window into cells (e.g. 16x16 pixels for each cell).
For each pixel in a cell, compare the pixel to each of its 8 neighbors (on its left-top, left-middle, left-bottom, right-top, etc.). Follow the pixels along a circle, i.e. clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Where the center pixel's value is greater than the neighbor's value, write "0". Otherwise, write "1". This gives an 8-digit binary number (which is usually converted to decimal for convenience).
Compute the histogram, over the cell, of the frequency of each "number" occurring (i.e., each combination of which pixels are smaller and which are greater than the center). This histogram can be seen as a 256-dimensional feature vector.
Optionally normalize the histogram.
Concatenate (normalized) histograms of all cells. This gives a feature vector for the entire window.
The feature vector can now be processed using the Support vector machine, extreme learning machines, or some other machine learning algorithm to classify images. Such classifiers can be used for face recognition or texture analysis.
A useful extension to the original operator is the so-called uniform pattern, which can be used to reduce the length of the feature vector and implement a simple rotation invariant descriptor. This idea is motivated by the fact that some binary patterns occur more commonly in texture images than others. A local binary pattern is called uniform if the binary pattern contains at most two 0-1 or 1-0 transitions. For example, 00010000 (2 transitions) is a uniform pattern, but 01010100 (6 transitions) is not. In the computation of the LBP histogram, the histogram has a separate bin for every uniform pattern, and all non-uniform patterns are assigned to a single bin. Using uniform patterns, the length of the feature vector for a single cell reduces from 256 to 59. The 58 uniform binary patterns correspond to the integers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 32, 48, 56, 60, 62, 63, 64, 96, 112, 120, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 143, 159, 191, 192, 193, 195, 199, 207, 223, 224, 225, 227, 231, 239, 240, 241, 243, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254 and 255.
Extensions
Over-Complete Local Binary Patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%20Ngayong%20Pasko | (International title: A Christmas Hope / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mike Tuviera, it stars Susan Roces. It premiered on December 7, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on January 8, 2010 with a total of 25 episodes. It was replaced by The Last Prince in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Susan Roces as Remedios Dionisio
Supporting cast
Christopher de Leon as Gordon Dionisio
Gina Alajar as Felicidad "Fely" Dionisio
TJ Trinidad as Stephen Dionisio
Dante Rivero as Pablo Dionisio
Eddie Gutierrez as Ernesto Dionisio
Ces Quesada as Narcisa
JC de Vera as Rigo Dionisio
Maxene Magalona as Irene Dionisio
JC Tiuseco as Bernie
Ynna Asistio as Happy
Jacob Rica as Jopet Dionisio
Francine Prieto as Aisha Dionisio
Guest cast
Carmina Villaroel as young Remedios
Zoren Legaspi as young Ernesto
Jomari Yllana as young Pablo
Renz Valerio as young Gordon
Sandy Talag as young Fely
Dion Ignacio as Julius
Pen Medina as a priest
John Arcilla as King
Ian Veneracion as Emmanuel
Arnell Ignacio as Wanda
Biboy Ramirez as Dannyboy
Janine Desiderio as Divine
Geoff Taylor as teen Jopet
Frencheska Farr as Elivra
Yassi Pressman as Valeria
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 22.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 25.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Christmas television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOGT | KOGT (1600 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a full service country music format. It was licensed to Orange, Texas, United States, and was last owned by G-Cap Communications.
KOGT's programming included country western music, sports, local news and weather, and was known for having live announcers; the station was not automated.
History
KOGT signed on January 16, 1948, under the ownership of the Sabine Area Broadcasting Corporation. The station began its country music format in 1966, though, during the early 1970s, it programmed rock at night.
Sabine Area Broadcasting sold KOGT to the owners of KVUE in Austin, which included Allan Shivers, for $488,000 in 1976, a transaction approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the following year; all but Shivers also owned KNET in Palestine. This group sold KOGT to Klement Broadcasting for $900,000 in 1982; the new owner, Richard Klement, was a real estate investor in Gainesville, Texas, and owner of that city's KGAF AM-FM.
Klement sold KOGT to G-Cap Communications, controlled by Gary P. Stelly, for $250,000 in 1992. Stelly had previously worked at KOGT in college. On December 28, 2021, Stelly announced that KOGT would shut down on December 31, in part due to a "changing media"; the announcement did not disclose if the station's license would be sold or surrendered to the FCC. The final song was How Do I Live by Trisha Yearwood.
The license was surrendered to the FCC on February 16, 2023, and cancelled the same day.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KOGT (covering 1946-1980)
Official website
Defunct radio stations in the United States
OGT
Radio stations established in 1948
Radio stations disestablished in 2023
1948 establishments in Texas
2023 disestablishments in Texas
OGT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Freitag | Amanda Freitag (born May 11, 1972) is an American celebrity chef and cookbook author. She is known for her frequent appearances on Food Network television programs and her work as a judge on television cooking competitions. She is based in New York City.
Early life and education
Freitag was raised in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. She attended Cedar Grove High School, then known as Memorial High School, where her home economics teacher, Joan Levine, suggested that Freitag might be interested in attending the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Freitag attended CIA at the Hyde Park location, graduating in 1989.
Restaurant career
Following graduation in 1989, Freitag took a position at Vong New York working under chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In 1994, she left Vong to cook at Verbena, under chef Diane Forley. Freitag has stated that her time at Verbena was meaningful and she built important relationships, and where she first learned to focus on using local, organic ingredients. After Verbena, Freitag traveled to France and Italy, working for a short while at L'Arpège restaurant under chef Alain Passard in 1999.
In 2003, Freitag and restaurateur Godfrey Polistina opened the Upper West Side restaurant Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria. Freitag was chef de cuisine at Cesca, before moving to an executive chef position at The Harrison. On September 3, 2010, The New York Times reported that Freitag would be leaving the Harrison, and the restaurant's owner, Jimmy Bradley, will return as chef.
From January 2014 until July 2015, Freitag took over as executive chef of the Empire Diner in Manhattan, New York.
In September 2020, Freitag and Kevin Lillis’ Hospitality Alliance opened the bistro Rise & Thyme in Dallas, Texas.
Restaurants
Current
Rise & Thyme, Dallas (2020–present)
Former
Television appearances
Since 2009, Freitag is a frequent judge on the culinary reality game show Chopped.
In 2009, She battled Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America in “Battle: King Crab” (season 7, episode 10), with judges Keyshawn Johnson, Maggie Rodriguez, and Domenica Catelli. She narrowly lost, with a score of 49 against Flay's 50 points. The judging was evenly matched, with the exception of Freitag having earned one point fewer in the "taste" category.
Freitag competed in The Next Iron Chef Season 2, finishing in fourth place. Freitag stated she would continue as a judge on Chopped for the 2010 season and she returned for the season four episode "Against the Tide".
On the April 15, 2012 episode of Iron Chef America, Freitag appeared alongside Chopped Grand Champion Madison Cowan in "Battle: Kale", acting as Cowan's sous chef. She appeared as a contestant on season five of The Next Iron Chef. She lost to Alexandra Guarnaschelli in the finale on December 23.
On May 22, 2015, she and Ty Pennington began hosting the new Food Network series American Diner Revival, on which they make over diners' menus and interiors.
Publications
References
External links
1972 births
Cul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranav%20Mistry | Pranav Mistry (Hindi: प्रणव मिस्त्री; born 14 May 1981) is a computer scientist and inventor. He is the former President and CEO of STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs). He is currently the founder and CEO of TWO, an Artificial Reality startup. He is best known for his work on SixthSense, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Project Beyond.
Career
Pranav started his career as an intern in Microsoft. Following that, he has reportedly worked for Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO and JST.
After dropping out from the PhD program of MIT, he served as the Vice President of Samsung Electronics, followed by the Global Vice President and Corporate SVP. In 2019, he was made the President and CEO of STAR Labs. While at Samsung, he was involved in the R&D and launch of Sixthsense, Galaxy Watch, Gear 360, Bixby AR and Project NEON.
In July 2021, he left Samsung to find a new Artificial Reality startup, TWO.
Innovations
Mistry is best known for his work on SixthSense. Some of his other works include Mouseless, an invisible computer mouse; Sparsh, a novel way to copy-paste data between digital devices; Quickies, intelligent sticky notes; Blinkbot, a blink controlled robot. He has also contributed in the development of Samsung's NEON.
Recognition
Pranav's research on SixthSense earned him the 2009 Invention Award. He was also named on MIT's Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators in the world. In 2010, He was named on Creativity Magazine's Creativity 50. Chris Anderson has referred Mistry as "one of the best inventors in the world". Mistry has also been listed in "15 Asian Scientists to Watch", by Asian Scientist Magazine. He has also received recognition from GQ India, listing him as one of the most powerful digital Indians, and India Today, listing him as one of the "37 Indians of Tomorrow".
He was honoured as Young Global Leader 2013, by WEF.
Awards and achievements
Young Global Leader 2013 Award, World Economic Forum
50 Most Creative People of the Year 2010, CREATIVITY 50
TR35 2009 award, Technology Review
Invention of the Year 2009 award, Popular Science
Nominee for Forbes India's Person of the Year 2009
Personal life
Mistry was born in Palanpur in Gujarat state of India. He married Farrah Chen.
References
External links
Pranav Mistry's personal homepage
Pranav Mistry at MIT
Think Tank Team homepage
Human–computer interaction researchers
Indian computer scientists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
IIT Bombay alumni
1981 births
Living people
Augmented reality
MIT Media Lab people
Gujarati people
People from Banaskantha district
Gesture recognition
Nirma University alumni
Samsung people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel-Man | VOXEL-MAN is the name of a set of a computer programs for creation and visualization of three-dimensional digital models of the human body derived from cross-sectional images of computer tomography, magnetic resonance tomography or photography (e. g. the Visible Human Project). It was developed at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Applications include diagnostic imaging, digital anatomical atlases and surgery simulators. The 3D interactive atlases of anatomy and radiology for brain/skull (published 1998) and inner organs (published 2000) are available for free download. The name Voxel-Man is derived from the term voxel, the elementary cuboid component of a digital representation of a three-dimensional object ( a "three dimensional pixel"). Occasionally the name Voxel-Man is also used as a general term for a digital representation of the human body.
References
External links
VOXEL-MAN Interactive 3D-Atlases of Anatomy and Radiology (free download)
VOXEL-MAN Surgery Simulators and Virtual Body Models
Historic Video 1986-1991
VOXEL-MAN - The Virtual Patient-Achievements of the VOXEL-MAN-Project
Medical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon%20Films | Icon Films is a British independent television production company that produces factual programmes for broadcast by networks both in the UK and US. The company was founded in 1990 by Harry Marshall and Laura Marshall, and is based in Bristol.
Current and past productions
Awards
Icon Films won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series.
References
External links
Icon Films website
Television production companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20New%20York%20Library%20Network | The Northern New York Library Network is one of New York’s nine Reference and Research Resources Councils. These organizations are chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and charged with facilitating cooperative library services and improving reference and research resources for the people of New York.
The Northern New York Library Network's service area consists of seven counties: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Lewis, Oswego, and Jefferson. Network services include a shared regional catalog, statewide online historical newspapers, and regional historical documents and images online. The regional online historical newspaper website and the regional historical documents and images website have been expanded to include all of New York State in cooperation with the other Reference and Research Resources Councils.
The network also provides a robust continuing education program, with classes in applied technology, library management, and best library practices. The current continuing education calendar may be found at https://nnyln.org/explore-events/ Education events are provided through distance learning technology as well as traditional classroom settings.
Other services provided to member libraries by the Network include:
Medical Information Program – a service where doctors, nurses, and other health care providers in small, regional facilities receive professional medical library services from a nearby hospital library.
Resource Sharing Program: The Network provides Due North, a simple interlibrary loan web-based interlibrary loan system which federates holdings from all members and allows libraries to make and manage requests among all types of Northern New York libraries, whether academic, public, prison, or other type.
The Network provides support for borrowing beyond the region through Worldshare ILL, and provides support for the ground delivery of research materials.
The Network also provides fiscal support to for regional access research data bases, including WorldCat, regional newspapers, Wilson Omnifile (EBSCO), and The Watertown Daily Times.
The Network is governed by a locally elected Board of Trustees, and functions under New York State law and New York State Education Department regulations. The Network's Plan of Service provides a detailed overview of products and services available to member libraries. The Network's web site at https://nnyln.org provides detail on all these programs.
Published reference source:
New York State Department of Education
References
Organizations based in New York (state) |
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