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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Birmingham | The city of Birmingham, England is home to an evolving media industry, including news and magazine publishers, radio and television networks, film production and specialist educational media training. The city's first newspaper was published in 1732.
Publishing
History
The first known Birmingham newspaper was the Birmingham Journal, which was published by Thomas Warren from 1732 and whose early contributors included Samuel Johnson. The most notable of the town's early newspapers however was Aris's Birmingham Gazette, which was founded in 1741 and continued publishing until 1956.
Contemporary
Birmingham has two main local newspapers—the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail—as well as the Sunday Mercury, all owned by Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror).
In 2018, the Birmingham Mail rebranded their online digital operations as BirminghamLive.
Reach plc additionally own What's On Magazine Group, running since 1986 and currently producing six monthly regional entertainment titles, including What's On Birmingham and LGBT+ publication Midlands Zone.
Reach plc is contracted to publish Forward (formerly Birmingham Voice), the Birmingham City Council's free newspaper distributed to homes, community centres and public buildings. Reach plc previously published the now defunct Birmingham News, a weekly freesheet distributed to homes in the suburbs.
Birmingham has three mainstream digital-only news publishers; I Am Birmingham established in 2009, Birmingham Updates established in 2011, and BirminghamWorld established in 2021. I Am Birmingham is run as a non-profit news publication by independent professional journalists. Birmingham Updates is run as a commercial business enterprise by Updates Media. BirminghamWorld is run as one of many national titles by National World.
Several hyperlocal newspapers serve Birmingham, including the Birmingham Advertiser and the Sutton Coldfield Observer, which serves Sutton Coldfield and parts of Erdington. Independent news publisher Erdington Local additionally serves the Erdington area in both print and online format.
Birmingham is the hub for various national ethnic media, including The Phoenix Newspaper, The Sikh Times, Desi Xpress, and The Asian Today.
National entertainment news publisher Ikonz is based in Birmingham, one of few outside London.
Birmingham culture and lifestyle publications include music magazine Bearded, Fused Magazine, Birmingham Living, Style Birmingham, SixtyNine Degrees, and Dluxe magazine.
Radio
Local radio stations include BBC WM, BBC Asian Network, Free Radio Birmingham and Greatest Hits West Midlands, 102.2 Capital FM Birmingham, Heart West Midlands, Absolute Radio, and Smooth Radio. The city has a community radio scene, with stations including BRMB, New Style Radio, Switch Radio, Scratch Radio, Raaj FM, and Unity FM. With the rise of internet stations, Birmingham now also has independent radio stations like Brum Radio, serving local, independent and alternative music and arts whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20TV%20Sri%20Lanka | Prime TV was a television channel which broadcasts in Sri Lanka. The channel is operated by the Independent Television Network Limited, which is a state governed television and radio broadcaster in Sri Lanka. The channel broadcast content in the English language.
The frequencies were taken over by the Carlton Sports Network on March 7, 2011. Its programming, including its news operation (Prime News), moved to Vasantham TV.
See also
List of television networks in Sri Lanka
Media in Sri Lanka
Independent Television Network Limited
References
Television stations in Sri Lanka
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Companies of Sri Lanka
Defunct television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDRA | LDRA (previously known by the expanded form of Liverpool Data Research Associates) is a provider of software analysis, and test and requirements traceability tools for the Public and Private sectors, and is a pioneer in static and dynamic software analysis.
History
Liverpool Data Research Associates was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.
In January 2015, the company was legally renamed as LDRA Limited.
Products
LDRA Testbed is a proprietary software analysis tool providing static code analysis, and also provides code coverage analysis, code, quality, and design reviews. It is a commercial implementation of the software test-bed created by Hennell as part of his university research. It was the first commercial product to include support for the Linear Code Sequence and Jump software analysis method, which resulted from the same research. It is used primarily where software is required to be reliable, rugged, and as error free as possible, such as in safety critical aerospace electronics (or Avionics). It has also been used in the detection and removal of security vulnerabilities. LDRA Testbed is a part of a tool suite from LDRA, including:
TBrun — an automated unit testing tool
TBmanager — a requirements traceability tool
TBevolve — supports software baseline management
TBsafe — supports certification objectives: DO-178C, Def Stan 00-55, IEC 61508
TBpublish — for publishing HTML indexes
TBaudit — for Microsoft Word reports
LDRAcover — coverage tool
LDRArules — standards compliance
TBmisra — LDRArules add-on to apply MISRA C:2012 and other related or similar safety and security rulesets<
Tool Qualification Support Packages — for safety- and security-critical workflows, e.g., DO-178C
Services
In March 2012, LDRA announced a fully compliant FAA/EASA certification solution to provide support and guide certification applicants through a wide range of standards including:
DO-178C(B), DO-278A, DO-254
IEC 62304
ISO 26262
EN 50128
IEC 60880
In September 2012, the United States arm of LDRA joined The Open Group's Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium as a Verification Authority.
Industry Standards
LDRA is a contributor to several industry standards, including DO-178C, MISRA C and MISRA C++. Additionally, LDRA is an Industry Partner for the CERT C Secure Coding Standard produced by the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.
In February 2018, LDRA announced the hiring of Andrew Banks to boost their Standards activities. Banks is the Chairman of both the MISRA C Working Group and of the BSI Software Testing Working Group, and a contributor to a number of national and international standards in the Software Engineering and Functional Safety domains, notably ISO 26262.
References
Privately held |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orolia | Orolia, formerly Spectracom, is a global manufacturer of precision time and frequency instruments and network-centric equipment used in a wide range of industries.
Spectracom was founded in Rochester, New York USA in 1972. Its first product was a WWVB Receiver-Comparator, an instrument used to calibrate oscillators with traceability to national standards. Other early products included WWVB frequency and time standards which offered atomic clock accuracy at a fraction of the cost. This led to widespread use of these products in vital communications networks such as two-way police radio simulcast systems and master clocks for accurate time stamping of data and events within emergency call centers such as 9-1-1 public safety answering points. When GPS signals became publicly available in the 1990s, Spectracom offered its time and frequency products with embedded GPS receivers. These products are known by the registered trademarks Ageless and NetClock, the second being a popular brand of network time servers and master clocks.
In 2005, Spectracom acquired the KSI line of bus-level timing products. These plug-in computer or instrument chassis cards provide precise timing within dedicated applications using GPS or IRIG timecode.
In 2007, Spectracom was acquired by the Orolia Group and today operates as part of its Timing, Test & Measurement group. The Spectracom brand has been applied to other Orolia acquisitions: Temex Sync, France (2007), Rapco Electronics, UK (2008), and Pendulum Instruments, Sweden (2009). Facilities in all these locations continue to operate as units of the global Spectracom brand and cross-sell each other’s products and capabilities into their local and global markets.
WWVB changes affect early products
In 2012, the NIST made changes to the WWVB broadcast signal, which was used for synchronization within, among others, early Spectracom devices. While the signal changes were compatible with more recent equipment using those broadcasts, Spectracom has provided a list of older equipment, unsupported since 2005, which will no longer function properly as a result of the WWVB change:
References
External links
company web site at www.spectracomcorp.com
Company information includes $3M contract with US Air Force in January 2011.
Instrument-making corporations
Timekeeping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne%20and%20Wear%20Metrocar | The Tyne and Wear Metrocars are a fleet of light rail vehicles manufactured by Metro-Cammell for the Tyne and Wear Metro in North East England between 1978 and 1981. For operation on Network Rail controlled tracks between Pelaw Junction and Sunderland, they are designated on TOPS as the Class 599. Most were refurbished between 2010 and 2015 by Wabtec Rail at Doncaster Works and are scheduled to be replaced by Class 555 rolling stock from 2024.
Design
The design of the Metrocars was partly derived from that of the German Stadtbahnwagen B. However, they were built by Metro-Cammell in Birmingham, and were not fitted with the lights and indicators that would have allowed them to run on streets.
Each Metrocar consists of two semi-permanently connected coaches mounted on three bogies, with the middle bogie being a Jacobs Bogie. The outermost bogies are powered and the centre Jacobs Bogie, located in the articulated section between both halves is unpowered. The trains make use of rheostatic braking between , with air-operated disc brakes for use during the final stages of deceleration below . All bogies are also equipped with a pair of emergency magnetic track brakes, which can be used to bring a train to a complete stand in as little as from the maximum service speed of . Metrocars have three acceleration steps, and four braking steps, and an additional emergency brake step which drops the emergency magnetic track brakes.
Many features of the Metrocar are operated by compressed air which is stored in a reservoir under the driving cab at the front of the train. Features operated by air include: air-operated disk brakes, horn, windscreen wipers and passenger doors, as well as being used to raise the pantograph. As the section between Pelaw and Sunderland on which they operate is part of the Network Rail system, the units were allocated TOPS class 599 in January 2002.
Prototypes and test track
Prior to opening, two prototypes, 4001 and 4002, underwent several years of testing from June 1975 on a test track in Backworth. The track was built on the route of an old mineral wagonway formerly part of the North Tyneside Steam Railway. It had a two-lane car shed and a mock station platform, along with a short tunnel section which consisted of concrete tunnel segments laid at ground level; the tunnel was later demolished to allow testing of prototype cars for the Hong Kong MTR, also built by Metro-Cammell, these cars having a very large profile. The test track was closed in 1980, and it is now home to the Stephenson Railway Museum.
The prototype cars are very similar to the production fleet, with the exception of having Kiekert passenger doors, which were refitted to match the specification of the production fleet before entering passenger service. The prototype cars were also fitted with two different types of block coupling equipment (one at each end), allowing the two designs to be thoroughly tested. The prototypes featured small cabs and central end do |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Radio%20Sri%20Lanka | Prime Radio is an FM radio station which broadcasts in Sri Lanka. The radio station is operated by Independent Television Network Limited, a state governed television and radio broadcaster in Sri Lanka.
This radio network is a relaunch of the Radio One radio station of Sri Lanka, previously owned by Singer (Sri Lanka) and Peoples Media Networks. The station primarily broadcasts content in the English language. It commenced transmission on 12 November 2009.
Shows
The radio station's programming is primarily music of various genres, with shows including Monique, Afternoon Treat and Chat with Monique, Classic Delights, Drive Thru, Mid Day Connections, Prime Breakfast, Prime Morning Music, Prime Night Music, Sunday Requests, Sunday Wakeup, That's Jazz, The Country Crowd, and The Night Cap.
Frequency and coverage
The Prime Radio terrestrial coverage is limited to a few major cities in Sri Lanka at present. The station broadcasts on 104.5 FM in Colombo, 99.0 in Galle and 95.5 in Kandy and is also streamed on the station's website.
See also
List of radio networks in Sri Lanka
Media in Sri Lanka
Independent Television Network Limited
References
Independent Television Network
English-language radio stations in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop%20on%20Logic%2C%20Language%2C%20Information%20and%20Computation | WoLLIC, the Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation is an academic conference in the field of pure and applied logic and theoretical computer science. WoLLIC has been organised annually since 1994, typically in June or July; the conference is scientifically sponsored by the Association for Logic, Language and Information, the Association for Symbolic Logic, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the European Association for Computer Science Logic.
Ranking
According to Computer Science Conference Ranking 2010, the conference is ranked "C" among over 1900 international conferences across the world. It is also ranked "C" on The CORE Conference Ranking Exercise - CORE Portal (2023). It is currently ranked with 7 Bars (Last 5 years), Field-Rating 1, Algorithms & Theory, at Microsoft MSAR field ratings (2014). On Google Scholar, the conference gets a score of 11 as its h5-index, and a score of 15 as its h5-median.
History
1994: Recife, Brazil
1995: Recife, Brazil
1996: Salvador, Brazil
1997: Fortaleza, Brazil
1998: São Paulo, Brazil
1999: Itatiaia, Brazil
2000: Natal, Brazil
2001: Brasilia, Brazil
2002: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003: Ouro Preto, Brazil
2004: Fontainebleau, France
2005: Florianópolis, Brazil
2006: Stanford, United States
2007: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2009: Tokyo, Japan
2010: Brasilia, Brazil
2011: Philadelphia, United States
2012: Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013: Darmstadt, Germany
2014: Valparaiso, Chile
2015: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
2016: Puebla, Mexico
2017: London, United Kingdom
2018: Bogotá, Colombia
2019: Utrecht, The Netherlands
2020: Lima, Peru (cancelled)
2021: Online
2022: Iași, România
2023: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Future Venues
The meetings alternate between Latin America and US/Europe/Asia. The following locations are planned for future meetings:
2024: Bern, Switzerland
Proceedings
Logic, Language, Information, and Computation - 29th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2023, Helle Hvid Hansen, Andre Scedrov, Ruy de Queiroz (eds.), Halifax, NS, Canada, July 11–14, 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (Print) (Online), Volume 13923/2023, , , October 2023.
Logic, Language, Information and Computation - 28th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2022, Agata Ciabattoni, Elaine Pimentel & Ruy de Queiroz (eds.), Iaşi, Romania, September 20–23, 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (Print) (Online), Volume 13468/2022, , .
Logic, Language, Information and Computation - 27th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2021, Alexandra Silva, Renata Wassermann & Ruy de Queiroz (eds.), Virtual Event, October 5–8, 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (Print) (Online), Volume 13038/2021, , .
Logic, Language, Information and Computation - 26th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2019, Rosalie Iemhoff, Michael Moortgat & Ruy de Queiroz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Fureur%20%28Canadian%20game%20show%29 | La Fureur is a French-language Canadian game show that was broadcast live on the Radio-Canada television network from 1998 to 2007. It was based on the game show of the same name that was televised in France. As with the original version, the program featured two gender-segregated teams of celebrities answering questions and completing stunts pertaining to music. In addition, each episode had a special musical guest from the Québécois or international music scene, such as Annie Brocoli, Nana Mouskouri, Celine Dion and Ricky Martin, among others. All songs on the program were accompanied by karaoke-style on-screen lyrics, enabling viewers to sing along at home.
In addition, the show was simulcast on stations of the Énergie, RockDétente or Rythme FM radio networks (depending on season), as well as on local stations where these networks are not available.
The final broadcast of the original run of La Fureur was on December 31, 2007. A one-time special was presented on January 8, 2019 for the 20th anniversary of La Fureur, hosted by Véronique Cloutier. Its tremendous success led to another special a year later on January 4, 2020.
Overview
The program was initially hosted by Véronique Cloutier and produced in Montreal at Studio 42 of Maison Radio-Canada by her father, Guy Cloutier.
At its height in popularity, La Fureur became one of the highest rated programs in Quebec with more than 1,200,000 viewers each week.
In addition to its weekly telecasts, La Fureur occasionally aired special episodes, such as Halloween, Christmas and New Year's Eve shows, and out-of-studio telecasts from Jarry Park and Bell Centre in Montreal, Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, and Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. On November 18, 2000, Véronique Cloutier hosted a pre-recorded special episode from the set of the French version in Paris, playing by that version's rules.
In April 2003, Véronique Cloutier left the show to concentrate on her new talk show for Radio-Canada, Véro; her final show on April 27, 2003 was telecast live from the Bell Centre and featured Ricky Martin as special guest. She was replaced by Sébastien Benoit as host, beginning with the 2003–2004 season. Both Cloutier and Benoit co-hosted its 250th show, on January 27, 2007.
Broadcast
La Fureur was originally broadcast Thursday nights on Radio-Canada at 8 PM local time (9 PM AT), later moving to Friday nights. On September 18, 2004 the show moved to Saturday nights at 6:30PM local (7:30PM AT), a move made possible after the cancellation of La Soirée du hockey (which generally began at 7PM ET). All episodes were telecast live from Ontario eastward; telecasts from Manitoba westward were electronically delayed for their time zones.
References
External links
La Fureur Canada (Radio-Canada)
1990s Canadian music television series
2000s Canadian music television series
1998 Canadian television series debuts
2007 Canadian television series endings
1990s Canadian game shows
2000s Canadian game shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%20Portal%20Refinement | The Minkowski Portal Refinement collision detection algorithm is a technique for determining whether two convex shapes overlap.
The algorithm was created by Gary Snethen in 2006 and was first published in Game Programming Gems 7. The algorithm was used in Tomb Raider: Underworld and other games created by Crystal Dynamics and its sister studios within Eidos Interactive.
MPR, like its cousin GJK, relies on shapes that are defined using support mappings. This allows the algorithm to support a limitless variety of shapes that are problematic for other algorithms. Support mappings require only a single mathematical function to represent a point, line segment, disc, cylinder, cone, ellipsoid, football, bullet, frustum or most any other common convex shape. Once a set of basic primitives have been created, they can easily be combined with one another using operations such as sweep, shrink-wrap and affine transformation.
Unlike GJK, MPR does not provide the shortest distance between separated shapes. However, according to its author, MPR is simpler, more numerically robust and handles translational sweeping with very little modification. This makes it well-suited for games and other real-time applications.
External links
Snethen, Gary (2008) "Complex Collision Made Simple", Game Programming Gems 7, 165–178
Snethen, Gary (2008) "XenoCollide Homepage"
Open source implementation: libccd
Geometric algorithms
Convex geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa%E2%80%93Pisa%20railway | The Genoa–Pisa railway is one of the trunk lines of the Italian railway network. It runs along the Ligurian coast from Genoa to Pisa through the Riviera di Levante and the Versilia. It passes through the cities of Massa, Carrara and La Spezia. South of Pisa the Pisa–Rome line continues along the Tyrrhenian coast to Rome. The line is double track and is fully electrified at 3,000 V DC. Passenger traffic is managed by Trenitalia.
History
The line was created by the connection of two separate projects. The first, between Pisa and Massa, was an extension of the existing line from Pisa; the second was what was called the Ligurian railway.
Tuscan railway
On 15 April 1861, the Livornese Railway Company (Italian: Società delle Ferrovie Livornesi) opened the first 19 kilometre section between Pisa Porta Nuova station (now called Pisa San Rossore) and Viareggio (later called Viareggio Scalo). In the following December this was followed by a connection in the south with Pisa Centrale station and in the north a ten kilometre section from Viareggio to Pietrasanta. In 1862 two further sections were opened: on 1 February 3.5 kilometres between Pietrasanta and Seravezza and on 1 November seven kilometres between Seravezza and Massa.
In 1865, the Livornese Railway Company was absorbed by other companies and the Florence–Pistoia–Pisa and the Pisa–Massa–La Spezia lines were transferred to the Società per le Strade Ferrate Romane (Roman Railways). In 1869 the Roman Railways transferred them to the Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia (Upper Italian Railways).
Ligurian railway
The project for a Ligurian railway that would connect Ventimiglia with Massa (thus connecting the existing railways of central Italy) was agreed by a royal decree on 27 October 1860 but its realisation, because of the rugged Ligurian coast, proved the most difficult and costly project of the period. This line was built initially by the state railway of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont), but the line was assigned to the Upper Italian Railways on its establishment in 1865.
The first section of the project, 17 kilometre between Massa and Sarzana was opened on 15 May 1863 and was followed by the more difficult Sarzana–Vezzano Ligure–La Spezia section on 4 August 1864. On 23 November 1868, the first part of the northern end of the line was opened as the 36 kilometre section between Genova Brignole and Chiavari. This was followed by the extension to Sestri Levante on 25 April 1870.
On 25 July 1872 with the opening of the connecting tunnel between Genova Brignole and Genova Piazza Principe, the section of line to Sestri Levante was no longer isolated and was connected over the Apennines but especially to the line to Ventimiglia, which had been completed on 25 January 1872.
Sestri Levante–La Spezia
This was the most difficult section of the entire project. The railway had to run for long distances next to the sea and follow the twists of the coast to minimise the number and leng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Excelsior | Rede Excelsior was a Brazilian television network founded by Mário Wallace Simonsen on July 9, 1960, in São Paulo, São Paulo. Its last broadcast happened on September 30, 1970, when the Brazilian military dictatorship put an abrupt end to it.
History
In 1959, the Victor Costa Organization, owner of TV Paulista, channel 5 of São Paulo (later acquired by Rede Globo), was awarded by the federal government with a second television channel in the city, channel 9. Possession of more than one TV channel by a single group was not prohibited by the broadcasting laws of that time.
The Victor Costa Organization already owned the Radio Excelsior (currently the CBN station) and therefore, it was determined that the name of the future TV station would be Excelsior. "Excelso" is Portuguese for sublime. However, even before the launch of the channel, it was bought by a group of businessmen led by the Simonsen family, owner of over 40 companies, the most famous of them being Panair do Brasil, then the country's largest airline company. The group featured entrepreneurs like José Luis Moura, a coffee exporter from Santos, Congressman Ortiz Monteiro, founder of TV Paulista, and John Scantimburgo, owner of the newspaper Correio Paulistano.
TV Excelsior was acquired for ₢$80 million, a sum extremely high for the time. In addition to the station's license, the purchase also included some equipments, among them cameras, a tower and a transmitter. The transmission system was installed at the corner of Consolação street with Avenida Paulista, the studios were set on Avenida Adolfo Pinheiro, and the station's commercial and administrative center in downtown.
With the 1964 political-military movement, the broadcaster began to have problems with censorship. Programs such as those by Moacir Franco, Derci Gonçalves and Costinha were highly targeted, the texts of the soap operas were constantly censored and some had to be transferred after 10 pm. As a form of denunciation, the excerpts cut from the programs were not reissued, in their place animated figures appeared with their mouths and ears covered and the caption “censored”.
Excelsior TV remained with good ratings and, in 1965, the program Moacir Franco show reached a rate of 77% of the audience in the city of São Paulo and 97% in the city of Santos. On the other hand, that was a year of serious problems for the other companies in the Simonsen group. This process ended with the kidnapping of the group's assets, including Rede Excelsior, which at the time was composed of broadcasters in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte. The group negotiated the debt in court and the broadcaster returned to the air.
Soon afterwards, Excelsior TV officials tried to create a foundation to buy the station and took the proposal to the then President of the Republic, Humberto Castelo Branco, who did not accept it, claiming that such a procedure was not permitted by law. So, Carlos Lacerda tried to stay with the Rio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanus | Nanus may refer to:
Nanus (beetle), a genus of true weevils
Susan Nanus, the scriptwriter for the 1998 A Will of their Own romantic drama TV mini-series aired on the NBC network
Fort Nanus in Goa, India
one of the main hybrid groups of the ornamental flower Gladiolus
See also
nana (disambiguation), the feminine form of the word
Nanu (disambiguation)
Nanum (disambiguation), the neuter form of the word |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Women%27s%20Leadership%20School | The Young Women's Leadership School (TYWLS) are public secondary schools for grades 6–12 that are operated by Student Leadership Network. TYWLS provide a single-gender educational choice for students who are often the first in their families to attend college.
Two of the five schools in the Student Leadership Network (formerly Young Women's Leadership Network)
Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem
The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens, Queens, New York City
Affiliate schools of the Young Women's Leadership Network:
Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, Austin, Texas
Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, Maryland
Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School, Dallas, Texas
Young Women's College Preparatory Academy, Houston, Texas
Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Young Women's Leadership School at Rhodes High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Young Woman's Leadership Academy, Midland, TX
Other schools
Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy, Atlanta, Georgia
See also
Young Women's Leadership Academy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano%20Levialdi%20Ghiron | Stefano (or Esteban) Levialdi Ghiron (1936–2015) was an Italian computer scientist who was a full professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. His research areas included visual programming languages, image processing, pattern recognition, and human-computer interaction.
Stefano Levialdi graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires in 1959. He lectured in Electronics at the University of Genova and was a researcher of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) for 13 years, working on parallel image processing. In 1981 he became full professor at the University of Bari, and moved to the Sapienza University of Rome in 1983. He was founder and co-Editor, together with Shi-Kuo Chang, of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.
References
2015 deaths
1936 births
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
National Research Council (Italy) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%20and%20Recreation%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network starting September 17, 2009, and ended on May 20, 2010. The season was produced by Deedle-Dee Productions and Universal Media Studios, and series co-creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur served as executive producers. Like the first season, it focuses on Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her staff on the parks and recreation department of the fictional Indiana town of Pawnee. The episodes were approximately 22 minutes long each, all of which aired at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays. The season stars Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Paul Schneider, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, and Chris Pratt.
All of the members of the original principal cast were retained and Chris Pratt, who made guest appearances throughout the previous season, joined the permanent cast in the second season. It also featured guest appearances by Louis C.K., Megan Mullally, Fred Armisen, Will Arnett, Justin Theroux and John Larroquette. The writing staff made changes based on feedback from the first season and attempted to be more topical, with episodes touching on such topics as same-sex marriage, the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, and the sex scandal of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.
Although the first season received generally mixed reviews, the second season was highly praised, with some reviewers declaring it one of the best comedies of the television season. Nevertheless, Parks and Recreation continued to struggle in the Nielsen ratings and averaged about 4.68 million household viewers per week, lower than Thursday night NBC shows Community, 30 Rock, and The Office. Amy Poehler was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and both the series and actor Nick Offerman received nominations from the Television Critics Association Awards.
Cast
Main
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, the deputy director of the Pawnee parks department, who has not let politics dampen her sense of optimism; her ultimate goal is to become President of the United States. She has a strong love for her home town of Pawnee, and desires to use her position to improve it. Leslie's sense of confidence grows over the course of the season, leading her to get over her crush on Mark and begin to pursue romantic relationships.
Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins, a nurse and Leslie's best friend. She and Leslie continue to work to get the pit next to Ann's house filled in and transformed into a park. Ann develops a romantic interest in city planner Mark, and they enter into a relationship.
Paul Schneider as Mark Brendanawicz, a city planner with the Pawnee municipal government. He has long been disillusioned with government after being unable to achieve his career ambitions. After developing a romantic interest in Ann, Mark abandons his promiscuous lifestyle and enters into a relationship with her.
Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Leslie's self-absorbed and unde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%20Todd | Clark Todd (10 October 1944 – 5 September 1983) was the London bureau chief for the CTV Television Network. He was wounded in fighting in the Aley Mountains while covering the civil war in Lebanon in 1983 with a television crew. The crew found shelter for him in the village of Kfar Matta and went for help, but he died from his wounds before they were able to return. Todd, a graduate of University of New Brunswick, covered events in Biafra, Poland, Belfast and many other conflict areas, while also winning international recognition in much broader areas of journalism. He received the Amos Tuck Award for Best Economic Reporting (1978), on the topic of the Fall of the Dollar; the Overseas Press Club of America Award for Best Documentary (1977), on Eurocommunism; the Bagriel Award (1979), for a report on The Pope in Poland; the Peabody Award (1979); and posthumously, the Michener Award to an individual whose efforts exemplify the best in public service journalism (1983).
Personal life
Todd was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and raised by his mother in difficult circumstances, but graduated from the University of New Brunswick. His broadcasting career included CKGM in Montreal and CJON in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 1972, he married a British woman, Anne Carmichael (his second wife), and they settled in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Prior to his CTV attachment, he worked mostly as a freelance journalist based in London.
References
External links
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/13/world/canadian-journalist-is-killed-in-lebanon.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-the-survivor-who-didnt-more-and-more-journalists-are-being-murdered-and-theyre-not-all-raw-recruits-says-robert-fisk-1501802.html
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/topics/2479-14315/
http://www.michenerawards.ca/english/deaconremarks1983.htm
1944 births
1983 deaths
University of New Brunswick alumni
War correspondents of the Nigerian Civil War
Journalists from New Brunswick
Journalists killed while covering military conflicts
Murdered Canadian journalists
People of the Lebanese Civil War
People from Saint John, New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Deaner | Chris Deaner is an American drummer, film maker and computer programmer. He is best known as the drummer for Plus/Minus from 2001 onwards, as a founding member of Loudest Boom Bah Yea, and as the drummer for Kelly Clarkson from 2007 to 2008. He has directed a majority of videos for Plus/Minus and won the Best Video award at the 7th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival for his direction of the band's Steal the Blueprints clip.
Deaner worked as a lead programmer on the multiplayer online game Code of Everand.
He is notable as an endorser of Ludwig Drums, Vic Firth and Istanbul Cymbals.
References
American drummers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORBexpress | OIS ORBexpress is a commercial, object request broker (ORB) product from Objective Interface Systems for the Ada, C++, C#, and Java programming languages.
ORBexpress features tools for developing and debugging distributed, real-time applications.
1998 software
Object request broker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20architecture | In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the description may include the instruction set architecture design, microarchitecture design, logic design, and implementation.
History
The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine. While building the computer Z1 in 1936, Konrad Zuse described in two patent applications for his future projects that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data, i.e., the stored-program concept. Two other early and important examples are:
John von Neumann's 1945 paper, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, which described an organization of logical elements; and
Alan Turing's more detailed Proposed Electronic Calculator for the Automatic Computing Engine, also 1945 and which cited John von Neumann's paper.
The term "architecture" in computer literature can be traced to the work of Lyle R. Johnson and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., members of the Machine Organization department in IBM's main research center in 1959. Johnson had the opportunity to write a proprietary research communication about the Stretch, an IBM-developed supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory (at the time known as Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory). To describe the level of detail for discussing the luxuriously embellished computer, he noted that his description of formats, instruction types, hardware parameters, and speed enhancements were at the level of "system architecture", a term that seemed more useful than "machine organization".
Subsequently, Brooks, a Stretch designer, opened Chapter 2 of a book called Planning a Computer System: Project Stretch by stating, "Computer architecture, like other architecture, is the art of determining the needs of the user of a structure and then designing to meet those needs as effectively as possible within economic and technological constraints."
Brooks went on to help develop the IBM System/360 (now called the IBM zSeries) line of computers, in which "architecture" became a noun defining "what the user needs to know". Later, computer users came to use the term in many less explicit ways.
The earliest computer architectures were designed on paper and then directly built into the final hardware form.
Later, computer architecture prototypes were physically built in the form of a transistor–transistor logic (TTL) computer—such as the prototypes of the 6800 and the PA-RISC—tested, and tweaked, before committing to the final hardware form.
As of the 1990s, new computer architectures are typically "built", tested, and tweaked—inside some other computer architecture in a computer architecture simulator; or inside a FPGA as a soft microprocessor; or both—before committing to the final har |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20truncation | In databases and computer networking data truncation occurs when data or a data stream (such as a file) is stored in a location too short to hold its entire length. Data truncation may occur automatically, such as when a long string is written to a smaller buffer, or deliberately, when only a portion of the data is wanted.
Depending on what type of data validation a program or operating system has, the data may be truncated silently (i.e., without informing the user), or the user may be given an error message.
For example, sometimes instead of rounding off a numerical value obtained from a calculation, some of the digits might just be removed i.e. truncated
References
See also
Fixed-point arithmetic -> Precision loss and overflow
Data loss
Data quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moutohora%20Branch | The Moutohora Branch was a branch line railway that formed part of New Zealand's national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The branch ran for 78 km approximately North-West from Gisborne into the rugged and steep Raukumara Range to the terminus at Moutohora. Construction started in 1900, and the line was opened to Moutohora on 26 November 1917.
Built to the New Zealand standard gauge the line was originally intended to become part of a railway to Auckland via Rotorua, and later as part of an East Coast Main Trunk Railway running from Gisborne to Pokeno by way of Ōpōtiki, Taneatua, Tauranga, and Paeroa. This comprehensive scheme never came to pass, and the branch line it subsequently became was closed in March 1959.
The branch had four names during its lifetime. Initially, it was authorised as a Gisborne to Rotorua line and labelled as such in the Public Works Statement until 1910. From then, while isolated from the rest of the NZR system, it was known as the Gisborne section (later the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line) of the NZR. Once Gisborne was linked to the rest of the NZR network in 1942 the line became the Motohora Branch, to be renamed the Moutohora Branch on 16 November 1950, when the New Zealand Geographic Board decided on this spelling for the line's terminal locality.
Construction
The first report on proposals to link Gisborne and the rest of Poverty Bay to the outside world by rail was made in 1886, but nothing eventuated at that time. In April 1897 the East Coast Railway League was established to press for the development of rail connections, and in 1899 the Government announced that Gisborne was to be connected to Auckland by a line of rail. Work on the line started in early 1900. On 14 January the then Minister for Railways, the Joseph Ward, turned the first sod. The first of the line ran across coastal plains with few obstacles, and the line was opened to Kaitaratahi on 10 November 1902. A Gisborne-Rotorua line from Makaraka to Mōtū of about was authorised by the Railways Authorisation Act, 1904. An eventual connection to the Rotorua Branch disappeared after a 1911 survey to connect the "Gisborne Section" with the East Coast Main Trunk.
Once past this point the line required large river bridging works, four tunnels, heavy earthworks and the construction of two large viaducts 18 and 30 meters high; in 1910 Massey Bros (Auckland engineers from 1901 to 1913) won a £3,002 contract for steel girders for the Gisborne-Rotorua Railway on the Otoko to Rakauroa section. Much of the line was built on steep grades of up to 1 in 30, and many tight curves were required. Despite all earthworks being carried out by pick and shovel, and although hindered at times by floods, washouts and landslips and (in the later stages) a wartime shortage of materials, progress continued at a slow but steady pace, and the line was opened to Moutohora at 78.5 km by 26 November 1917.
Once at Moutohora, even though over the mai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A9-automaton | In automata theory, a branch of theoretical computer science, an ω-automaton (or stream automaton) is a variation of finite automata that runs on infinite, rather than finite, strings as input. Since ω-automata do not stop, they have a variety of acceptance conditions rather than simply a set of accepting states.
ω-automata are useful for specifying behavior of systems that are not expected to terminate, such as hardware, operating systems and control systems. For such systems, one may want to specify a property such as "for every request, an acknowledge eventually follows", or its negation "there is a request that is not followed by an acknowledge". The former is a property of infinite words: one cannot say of a finite sequence that it satisfies this property.
Classes of ω-automata include the Büchi automata, Rabin automata, Streett automata, parity automata and Muller automata, each deterministic or non-deterministic. These classes of ω-automata differ only in terms of acceptance condition. They all recognize precisely the regular ω-languages except for the deterministic Büchi automata, which is strictly weaker than all the others. Although all these types of automata recognize the same set of ω-languages, they nonetheless differ in succinctness of representation for a given ω-language.
Deterministic ω-automata
Formally, a deterministic ω-automaton is a tuple A = (Q,Σ,δ,Q0,Acc) that consists of the following components:
Q is a finite set. The elements of Q are called the states of A.
Σ is a finite set called the alphabet of A.
δ: Q × Σ → Q is a function, called the transition function of A.
Q0 is an element of Q, called the initial state.
Acc is the acceptance condition, formally a subset of Qω.
An input for A is an infinite string over the alphabet Σ, i.e. it is an infinite sequence α = (a1,a2,a3,...).
The run of A on such an input is an infinite sequence ρ = (r0,r1,r2,...) of states, defined as follows:
r0 = q0.
r1 = δ(r0,a1).
r2 = δ(r1,a2).
...
that is, for every i: ri = δ(ri-1,ai).
The main purpose of an ω-automaton is to define a subset of the set of all inputs: The set of accepted inputs. Whereas in the case of an ordinary finite automaton every run ends with a state rn and the input is accepted if and only if rn is an accepting state, the definition of the set of accepted inputs is more complicated for ω-automata. Here we must look at the entire run ρ. The input is accepted if the corresponding run is in Acc. The set of accepted input ω-words is called the recognized ω-language by the automaton, which is denoted as L(A).
The definition of Acc as a subset of Qω is purely formal and not suitable for practice because normally such sets are infinite. The difference between various types of ω-automata (Büchi, Rabin etc.) consists in how they encode certain subsets Acc of Qω as finite sets, and therefore in which such subsets they can encode.
Nondeterministic ω-automata
Formally, a nondeterministic ω-automaton is a tuple A = ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER%20%28computer%20program%29 | Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Recorder (SUPER) is a closed-source front end for open-source software video players and encoders provided by the FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, musepack, Monkey's Audio, True Audio, WavPack, libavcodec, and the Theora/Vorbis RealProducer plugIn projects. It was first released in 2005. SUPER provides a graphical user interface to these back-end programs, which use a command-line interface.
Features
SUPER can manipulate and produce many multimedia file formats supported by its back-end programs.
As of 2016, SUPER has a built-in enhanced 3D Video Converter & Recorder engine.
The proposed 3D variations are 3D Anaglyph, Polarized or Shutter side-by-side.
v2017.Build.71+3D+Recorder (April 7, 2017) offers the following encoding modes:
Normal 2D
2D >> 3D
3D >> 2D
3D >> 3D
Back-end program features supported by SUPER include saving various streaming protocols (mms, rtsp, and http), conversion of Flash Video to other formats, and user-controlled conversion of video between different container formats. Users can choose between various lossless direct audio/video transfers between container formats or lossy video/audio encoding, with encoding possessing the added ability to change video and audio specifications such as bitrate, frame rate, audio channels, resolution, sampling rate, and aspect ratio.
SUPER is also able to utilize its back-end's built-in media players, allowing playback of supported video and audio formats.
Input file format support
File formats supported by SUPER as input source file for playing and transcoding include:
Video
3GP
ASF
AVI
DAT
Microsoft Digital Video Recording (DVR-MS)
FLIC animation (FLI and FLC)
GXF General Exchange Format
Flash Video (FLV)
MPEG (both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2)
Matroska (MKV)
MPEG-4 Part 14 container (MP4)
MPEG transport stream (TS and M2T and TRP)
OGM Theora/Vorbis
Old PlayStation (STR)
QuickTime movie (MOV and QT)
RealVideo (RM and RMVB)
Shockwave Flash (SWF)
TiVo (TMF and TY and TY+)
VivoActive (VIV)
DVD video files (VOB)
WebM
WTV
Windows Media Video (WMV)
Audio
aac
AC3
ALAC
AMR
FLAC
MP2
MP3
M4A
Monkey's Audio Lossless (APE)
Musepack audio SV7 & SV8(MPC)
Ogg Vorbis
RealAudio (RA)
True Audio Lossless (TTA)
SMAF cell phone audio (MMF)
WMA
WavPack Audio Lossless (WV)
WAV
Other
Avisynth scripts (AVS)
Animated GIF images
System requirements
Operating System: Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11.
Administrator privileges (if installed on Administrative account then subsequently converted to a Limited account during the same session, the program will work on the limited)
Processor: Minimum 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor or equivalent.
512MB of RAM with 176MB available.
20GB of free space on the Hard disk where the OS is installed
1024 × 768 video resolution or larger
32,000-color video or more
IE 7 or later
Internet connection
SUPER is capable of working on machines with lesser capabilities; th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-8 | The FM-8 (Fujitsu Micro 8) is a personal computer developed and manufactured by Fujitsu in May 1981. It was Fujitsu's second microcomputer released to the public after the LKIT-8 kit computer, and the first in the "FM" series. The FM-8 was an early adopter of bubble memory technology. The FM-8 would later be replaced by two new models in November 1982 – the FM-11, aimed at businesses and the FM-7 aimed at the mass market.
Emulator
The computer is emulated by MESS.
References
6809-based home computers
Computer-related introductions in 1981
home video game consoles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Richards | Martin Richards may refer to:
Martin Richards (computer scientist) (born 1940), British computer scientist
Martin Richards (police officer) (born 1959), British chief constable
Martin Richards (producer) (1932–2012), American film producer
Martin Richards (psychologist) (born 1940), British psychologist
See also
Martin Richard (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertargeting | Hypertargeting refers to the ability to deliver advertising content to specific interest-based segments in a network. MySpace coined the term in November 2007 with the launch of their SelfServe advertising solution (later called myAds), described on their site as "enabling online marketers to tap into self-expressed user information to target campaigns like never before."
Hypertargeting is also the ability on social network sites to target ads based on very specific criteria. This is an important step towards precision performance marketing.
The first MySpace HyperTarget release offered advertisers the ability to direct their ads to 10 categories self-identified by users in their profiles, including music, sports, and movies. In July 2007 the targeting options expanded to 100 subcategories. Rather than simply targeting movie lovers, for example, advertisers could send ads based on the preferred genres like horror, romance, or comedy. By January 2010, MySpace HyperTarget involved 5 algorithms across 1,000 segments.
According to an article by Harry Gold in online publisher ClickZ, the general field of hypertageting draws information from 3 sources:
Registration — basic data gathered when users register for site access (e.g. age, sex, location);
Profile — detailed content completed by active users (e.g. favorite movies, activities, brands);
Behavioral history — data gathered from online activities like sites visited, purchases made, groups joined, etc.
Facebook, a popular social network, offers an ad targeting service through their Social Ads platform. Ads can be hypertargeted to users based on keywords from their profiles, pages they're fans of, events they responded to, or applications used. Some of these examples involve the use of behavioral targeting.
By 2009, hypertargeting became an accepted industry term. In 2010, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, dedicated three sessions to the topic:
Advertising Analytics and Social Media, Search, Video Search and HyperTargeting
Hypertargeting: Ad Networks, Ad Serving and Ad Targeting
HyperTargeting and HyperSelecting: Advertising, Search, Content and Aggregation
Notes and references
Online advertising |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Colloquium%20on%20Computational%20Complexity | The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC) is an electronic archive of research papers in computational complexity theory, a branch of computer science.
The intention of the ECCC is to provide a fast publication service intermediate in its level of peer review between preprint servers such as authors' web sites or arXiv (which release papers with little or no delay and filtering) and journals (which subject papers to a heavy editing process but, in computer science, may take months or years to publish a paper). Papers submitted to ECCC are screened by a board of experts, who review the submissions to ensure that they are on-topic, novel, interesting, and written according to the standards of the field. Any panelist may accept or reject any of the submissions; if no decision is made within two months, the submission is automatically rejected.
In order to ensure the long-term stability of the archive, its contents are backed up by electronic media that are sent to multiple libraries and to the ECCC board members and by printouts that are stored in multiple locations.
Works in the ECCC remain the copyright of the authors, who may request their removal at any time.
The ECCC was founded in 1994 at the University of Trier in Trier, Germany. In 2004 its founding editor Christoph Meinel moved to the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam and moved some of the ECCC offices with him to Potsdam. In January 2017 the ECCC moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science.
After the first ten years of the project, it had accepted more than 900 papers, and had nearly 500 registered users.
References
External links
Computational complexity theory
Eprint archives
Open-access archives
German digital libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngatapa%20Branch | The Ngatapa Branch was a secondary branch line railway long that for a short time formed part of the national rail network in Poverty Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. The Ngatapa branch diverged from the Moutohora branch line about from Gisborne and ran a further across the coastal flat to a terminus at Ngatapa. It was sometimes referred to as the Ngapata branch.
Built to the New Zealand standard gauge the branch was originally authorized as part of the proposed inland route for the Wairoa to Gisborne section of the Palmerston North – Gisborne Line. However, in 1924, an engineer's report recommended that the then-new isolated section between Wairoa and Waikokopu in Hawke's Bay be incorporated as the southernmost portion of a new coastal route from Wairoa to Gisborne. The Public Works Department (PWD) accordingly stopped work on the inland Ngatapa route, which was officially opened as a branch line on 15 December 1924, and began work on the coastal route. The Ngatapa branch became a dead end, and it was closed on 1 April 1931.
Construction
Construction started in 1911. The first sod was turned by the Governor, Lord Islington, on Saturday 10 February 1912, just north of King's Road, where the branch was intended to join the line towards Rotorua. In July 1912 it was decided that the junction should instead be near Mākaraka. There was much criticism of slow progress; the 1912 Reform government cut spending on many branches and were slow to mechanise work. In 1914 there were also complaints that a change from cooperative contracts to contracts with small contractors wasn't working. Due to the slips the route near Ngātapa was changed and contracts postponed. The Minister of Public Works, William Fraser, said £45,000 was budgeted for the line in 1914-15 and £45,968 had been spent. The rails reached Ngātapa on 7 July 1914. The only substantial structure was the bridge over the Waipaoa River. It had 3 spans of and 2 of . A temporary bridge was built over the river in 1913, but swept away in 1914. The line was completed to Ngatapa by December 1915, although it was not formally handed over to the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) until 15 December 1924. In 1915 earthworks and a short tunnel were being built in the 3 miles beyond Ngātapa. Between 1918 and 1920, work started at Wairoa on the section to Frasertown, which was to have been linked through to Ngatapa, and on the Waikura section beyond Ngatapa, but all work was stopped in 1920 after the Waikura section was found to be unstable.
Construction of the line presented few problems as far as Ngatapa. The course of the line beyond this point was a different matter and would have required heavy earthworks and extensive tunnelling the longest being about . The Gisborne-Wairoa distance as built was . In 1929 the route via Ngātapa had been surveyed as and the coastal route via Waikokopu as . The surveyed Ngātapa line would have been - Gisborne-Mākaraka , -Ngātapa , -Wharekōpae , -Waikur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202010%20%28Australia%29 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in Australia are ranked in the ARIA Albums Chart, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The data are compiled from a sample that is based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. There was a total of 21 number-one albums in 2010.
Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream, Eminem's Recovery and Pink's Greatest Hits... So Far!!! were the longest-running number-one albums of the year, with each album scoring six consecutive weeks at the top.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2010 in music
List of number-one singles in Australia in 2010
References
2010
Australia Albums
2010 in Australian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202010%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2010, 17 singles claimed the top spot. Nine acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Owl City, Iyaz, Jason Derulo, Train, Kevin Rudolf, will.i.am, Taio Cruz, Bruno Mars and Eve. Five collaborations topped the chart. Rihanna earned three number-one singles during the year for "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)" and "Love the Way You Lie". Mars earned two number-one singles for "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade".
Usher's "OMG" and Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" were the longest-running number-one singles of 2010, having each topped the ARIA Singles Chart for six consecutive weeks. Owl City's "Fireflies" topped the chart for five consecutive weeks, while Train's "Hey, Soul Sister", Katy Perry's "California Gurls", Cruz's "Dynamite", and Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)" each spent four weeks at the number-one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2010 in music
List of number-one albums of 2010 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2010 in Australia
List of top 10 singles in 2010 (Australia)
References
Number-one singles
Australia Singles
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Jia%20%28Taoist%29 | Wang Jia (; died 390 CE), courtesy name Zinian (子年), was a Chinese Taoist hermit and scholar.
He is known as the compiler of 拾遺記 (Shi Yi Ji), whose title has been variously translated as Record of Heretofore Lost Works, Researches into Lost Records,
Record of Gleanings,
or Forgotten Tales.
This work is based on "apocryphal" versions of early (legendary) Chinese history, which must have been produced during the Eastern Han Dynasty. For example, his version of the story of Yu the Great has a yellow dragon and a black turtle helping Yu to create the geographical features of China, and to name them - details not found in Shan Hai Jing
Notes
References
Jin dynasty (266–420) historians
Jin dynasty (266–420) Taoists
4th-century Chinese historians
390 deaths
Historians from Gansu
Year of birth unknown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacFamilyTree | MacFamilyTree is a commercial genealogy program for macOS which allows users to build family trees and document genealogical research by adding data about family members including pictures, documents, and sound clips. It provides integration with iCloud to synchronize data across multiple devices and features the ability to generate and publish HTML web pages from saved family trees.
MacFamilyTree creates data visualizations including a classic descendant chart, timelines, and a virtual globe indicating locations of key events in the lives of subjects. Reports can be generated for individual entries or entire families.
MobileFamilyTree is a mobile application available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users with near-identical features, optionally allowing users to synchronize with MacFamilyTree using iCloud integration.
While internally it uses the Core Data API to store and modify information, it imports and exports GEDCOM files for compatibility with other genealogical tools.
See also
Comparison of genealogy software
References
MacFamilyTree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%20Hufsky | Florian Hufsky (November 13, 1986 – December 16, 2009) was an Austrian new media artist, Computer Hacker, political activist, founder and former board member of the Pirate Party of Austria. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, but committed suicide before he could finish his studies.
Hufsky was a founding member of both the Viennese branch of Graffiti Research Lab and soup.io. He also created the Super Mario derivate Super Mario War, was a member of the programming and design group "72dpiarmy" and of Vienna's hackerspace Metalab. In cooperation with Michael Zeltner he enhanced the open source laser graffiti software of the Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) in New York, and participated at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz as well as at the 2007 DigiTaika in Helsinki.
Hufsky organized the first international conference of the pirate parties, together with Jürgen 'Juxi' Leitner and support from Andreas Leo Findeisen and Johannes Grenzfurthner.
At the PPI general assembly 2011 Rickard Falkvinge honoured Hufsky's involvement in helping to start the international movement by dedicating his closing keynote to him.
References
External links
Pirate Party of Austria politicians
Austrian activists
New media artists
Video game designers
People from Villach
Suicides in Austria
1986 births
2009 suicides
2009 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Oneya | Dominic Obukadata Oneya (26 May 1948 – 4 August 2021) was Administrator of Kano State, Nigeria from August 1996 to August 1998 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha, then Administrator of Benue State from August 1998 to May 1999 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, handing over power to the elected executive governor George Akume on 29 May 1999.
Later, he became Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association.
Birth and education
Dominic Obukadata Oneya was born 26 May 1948 in Apapa, Local Government Area, Lagos State.
His family is Urhobo.
His origins are in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State.
He attended the Baptist Academy, Yaba, Lagos (1962–1967), then enlisted in the Nigerian Defence Academy in May 1969, earning a commission in the
Infantry Corps in September 1971. Oneya attended the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) (1977–1980), earning B.Sc. degree in physical education. He attended the Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna (1983–1984) and the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1987–1988).
Military career
Command positions during his military career include
Adjutant of 31 Infantry Battalion (1971–1972),
Instructor at 4 Division Training School (1972–1973) and
Instructor at Nigerian Army Military Training College, Jaji (1975–1977).
As a Staff Officer from 1977 he served at Army Headquarters Lagos and in operations with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1980–1981).
He was Commandant of the Nigerian Army Physical Training School, Zaria (1985–1987),
Directing Staff, Command and Staff College, Jaji (1987–1989) and
Directing Staff, Ghana Armed Forces College Teshe, Ghana (1989–1991).
He was appointed Commander, 82 Motorized Infantry Brigade, Kano (1993–1995),
Commander, 16 Battalion, Nigerian ECOMOG Contingent in Liberia and then
Director of administration, Training and Doctrine Command (1995-July 1996).
On 22 August 1996, General Sani Abacha appointed him Administrator of Kano State, Nigeria. In August 1998, he traded places with Aminu Isa Kontagora to become Administrator of Benue State during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, handing over to the elected executive governor George Akume on 29 May 1999.
Akume had served as Permanent Secretary for Brigadier General Dominic Oneya.
While governor of Benue State he initiated a project to build a major fertilizer plant, with the government paying about N70 million for preliminary work. However, there were delays and setbacks, and the project was only completed in February 2007.
Later career
On 17 January 2000, Oneya was appointed Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association.
In February 2002, talking of a decision to replace Amodu Shaibu by Festus Onigbinde as manager, he said Nigeria should have gained more than a bronze medal at the African Nations Cup, given the wealth of talent among Nigerian footballers. He was lookin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golfing%20Greats%3A%20In%20Their%20Own%20Words | Golfing Greats: In Their Own Words is a 26-part golf interview series on The Golf Channel in Malaysia and Singapore, produced by the Malaysian network Astro.
Presented by Jason Dasey who also conducts the interviews, the series features a different golfer each episode who talks about his or her career in a 30-minute program, usually shot somewhere in Asia. As well as discussing their career highlights, the players pinpoint their biggest influences and some of the incidents away from the fairways that shaped their approach to life. The series airs on The Golf Channel and in high definition on Astro SuperSport HD 2 (Channel 833).
Players
Greg Norman - Interviewed in July 2009, aired in November 2009.
Mark O'Meara - Interviewed in November 2009, aired in January 2010.
Rory McIlroy - Interviewed in November 2009, aired in February 2010.
Nick Faldo - Interviewed in March 2010, aired in June 2010
Darren Clarke - Interviewed in March 2010, aired in July 2010
Martin Kaymer - Interviewed in April 2011, aired in September 2011
Louis Oosthuizen - Interviewed in April 2011, aired in September 2011
Vijay Singh - Interviewed in October 2011, aired in December 2011
Jeev Milkha Singh - Interviewed in November 2011, aired in January 2012
Pádraig Harrington - Interviewed in November 2011, aired in January 2012
Colin Montgomerie - Interviewed in November 2011, aired in January 2012
Ian Poulter - Interviewed in November 2011, aired in January 2012
José María Olazábal - Interviewed in November 2011, aired in January 2012
Jason Dufner - Interviewed in October 2012, aired in December 2012
Trevor Immelman - Interviewed in October 2012, to aired in December 2012
Michael Campbell - Interviewed in November 2012, aired in December 2012
Thomas Bjørn - Interviewed in November 2012, aired in December 2012
Sergio García - Interviewed in December 2012, aired in January 2013
Ernie Els - Interviewed in December 2012, aired in January 2013
Charl Schwartzel - Interviewed in March 2013, aired in May 2013
Bubba Watson - Interviewed in October 2013, aired in December 2013
Keegan Bradley - Interviewed in October 2013, aired in December 2013
Edoardo Molinari - Interviewed in December 2013, aired in December 2013
Graeme McDowell - Interviewed in March 2014, aired in June 2014
Thongchai Jaidee - Interviewed in March 2014, aired in June 2014
Lee Westwood - Interviewed in April 2014, aired in June 2014
Trivia
The program featuring Greg Norman was filmed at Mission Hills Golf Club in China during a July 2009 visit with his former wife Chris Evert. A lengthy joint interview with Norman and Evert had to be deleted from the final version when the two announced their separation and subsequent divorce in December 2009.
Mission Hills Golf Club was also the venue for the special with Rory McIlroy and featured an interview with 2010 U.S. Open Golf Champion, Graeme McDowell who partnered McIlroy for the Ireland team in the 2009 World Cup (men's golf), finishing runners-up.
Rory McIlroy, Darre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SANRAL | The South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd or SANRAL is a South African parastatal responsible for the management, maintenance and development of South Africa's proclaimed National Road network which includes many (but not all) National ("N") and some Provincial and Regional ("R") route segments.
History
SANRAL was created by The South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, 1998 as a corporatized successor to the South African Roads Board, which was part of the Department of Transport. It was registered as a public limited company on 19 May 1998.
In 2011, SANRAL became the target of popular resentment as tolling was about to commence on many of SANRAL's freeways in Gauteng, in order to finance their soon to be completed expansions, as part of the first phase of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project. The GFIP was instituted to deal with the severe traffic congestion in Gauteng's freeways .
Governance
SANRAL's only shareholder is the state, represented by the Minister of Transport. The agency is governed by an eight-member Board of Directors. Five voting membersthe chairperson and four othersare appointed by the Minister of Transport for a term of three years. Two government officials are non-voting members, one from the Department of Transport and nominated by the Minister of Transport, and the other from the National Treasury and nominated by the Minister of Finance. The chief executive officer, who is appointed by the Minister of Transport on the recommendation of the Board, is ex officio a non-voting member of the Board.
Operations
SANRAL had 178 employees. They are divided between the head office and four regional offices: Northern Region (Gauteng, North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga); Western Region (Western Cape and Northern Cape); Eastern Region (Free State and KwaZulu-Natal); and Southern Region (Eastern Cape). In 2009 the agency managed a total of 16,170 kilometres of roads, and by 2014, more than 22,000 kilometers.
SANRAL's operations are divided into two broad categories, namely toll roads, which are self-funding, and non-toll roads, which are funded by transfers from the Department of Transport. In 2014 toll roads constituted 14% (c. 3,000 km) of its responsibilities, and non-toll roads 86% (c. 19,000 km).
Some toll roads are concessions, privately funded and managed with supervision from SANRAL; these include the Platinum Highway (N1/N4), the Maputo Corridor (N4) and the N3 Toll Concession. Other toll roads are owned and operated directly by SANRAL; these include the Huguenot Tunnel, the Tsitsikamma Toll Road, the N2 tolls on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, and the N1 tolls in the Free State and Limpopo. It also owns and operates toll roads which are not National Routes (but are Provincial Routes), with an example being the Brandford Toll Plaza on the R30 section of the R30/R730/R34 ZR Mahabane Highway north of Bloemfontein.
Contributions to Palaeontology and modern science
In the mid-1980s, a road by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunjonquest | Dunjonquest is a series of single-player, single-character fantasy computer role-playing games by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx). Temple of Apshai was the most successful and most widely ported game in the series. The games relied on strategy and pen & paper RPG style rules and statistics.
There were two basic types of Dunjonquest games:
Temple of Apshai, Hellfire Warrior and related expansions for both are of the larger type, and contain four dungeons each with detailed room descriptions and no time limit. These games contain an "Innkeeper" program, where the player character is created and equipment can be sold and bought. Character statistics can also be put in manually, and floppy disk versions allow to save the character between sessions. The dungeons are reset upon each visit.
Datestones of Ryn, Morloc's Tower and Sorcerer of Siva are confined to a single, smaller dungeon, and the player has to achieve a goal within a time limit. They have no room descriptions and no Innkeeper program, and the player character is predefined. Due to their size, these games were sold at half the price of the larger titles. Datestones of Ryn and Morloc's Tower were marketed under the MicroQuest label, which was dropped for the larger Sorcerer of Siva.
The Dunjonquest games were ported across a wide variety of late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s home computers.
Common elements
Gameplay and controls
All Dunjonquest titles were advertised as "real time" RPGs, but actually use a hybrid between a real time and turn-based system. Monsters move and take turns on their own periodic timetable, whose pace can be chosen from three options at the start of the game. Even if the player remains idle, the monsters keep advancing and attacking.
The player character is controlled with the use of keystrokes. Walking is possible in speeds from 1-9, but faster walking speeds cause more fatigue. If the "fatigue" value sinks below 0, the character cannot move anymore and has to rest, even in combat. Most actions decrease the character's stamina, but some can replenish it gradually.
Room descriptions
Dunjonquest introduced the concept of having room descriptions presented as detailed text printed in the game's manuals, similar to role-playing solitaire adventures. Each room in Temple of Apshai has a room number attached to it, displayed in the UI. By checking the corresponding room number listed in the "Chambers of the Dunjon" section in the manual, the player can get detailed descriptions of the atmosphere and objects in the rooms, like dust on the floor, particular smells in the air or peculiarities of the architecture. The descriptions warrant guesses at traps, treasures, hidden passages and lurking enemies within the room. The printed room descriptions were used as a means of overcoming the limitations of the simple black-on-white graphics and limited memory for displaying text on screen. They also serve as an early form of copyright protection. Only the large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendriya%20Vidyalaya%20Adoor | Kendriya Vidyalaya, Adoor is a CBSE Higher Secondary School located in Adoor in the Indian state of Kerala. It operates I to XII grade with Science, Commerce and Computer Science streams in +2 level. The main objective of Kendriya Vidyalaya is to cater to the educational needs of the children of transferable Central Government employees including Defence and Para-Military personnel by providing a common syllabus and system of education. The institution is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
The school enrolls some one thousand five hundred students with about 56 staff.
The results in Class X and XII board examinations have been consistently good.
Nine staff housing units are available. Nine additional classrooms and a second computer lab were added.
Governance
The school is run by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under the Department of Education, Ministry of HRD, of Government of India.
History
This school was established in 1993 by the central government. The school office opened on 9 August with 1 Principal,1 Teacher,1 L D C and 1 GroupD. Classes started on 17 September. The campus included 3 acres of land along with old buildings used as temporary measure to house the School. Staff strength grew to 12 including office staff. The first class graduated in 1999.
Construction of the school building started in 1998 and the building opened in March 2001.
The Vidyalaya started +2 Stream in Science in 2002. The School was upgraded to Senior Secondary in 2002 and the first XII students passed out in 2004.
Due to heavy demand for admission, a shift system was introduced in 2004. Classes up to XII in Science stream in Shift I and up to XII Commerce in Shift II. The Second Division for classes 2,3,4,5 was sanctioned in 2006. A Science stream was started in Shift II in 2007-08. In 2009 Sanction for one more division classes 1-4 was obtained and admissions made.
The principal of KV Adoor is MR.N Rakesh
Languages
Hindi is taught from class I onwards.
Sanskrit is taught as a compulsory subject from classes VI to VIII and as an optional subject till class XII.
Notable alumni
Joseph Samuel took 2nd in the CBSE exam.
See also
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya Alumni
Adoor
CBSE
References
External links
Kendriya Vidyalaya Adoor
Schools in Pathanamthitta district
Educational institutions established in 1993
1993 establishments in Kerala
Kendriya Vidyalayas in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20the%20Spy%3A%20Blog%20Wars | Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars is a 2010 television film starring Jennifer Stone that premiered on March 19, 2010, on Movie Central and The Movie Network in Canada, and on March 26, 2010, on Disney Channel in the United States. It is an adaptation of the book Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh, the second after the 1996 Harriet the Spy film that starred Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet. The film was produced by 9 Story Entertainment. Vanessa Morgan, who starred as Marion in the movie, went on to star in My Babysitter's a Vampire and its subsequent television series, which also aired on Disney Channel.
The film centers on Harriet M. Welsch (Jennifer Stone), an 11-year-old in the book, changed to a teenager for the film. Jennifer Stone told Popstar magazine, "We're basing it off the charm of the first book. They aged Harriet up to 16, and it still deals with mean girls, except it matures that a little. It's a bit more of mean girls having to do with gossip and heartthrobs and all that. The first book was written in the 60's so we're trying to bring it up to 2010. We're putting our own spin on it."
It is the first Disney Channel film since 1997 that was not promoted as a "Disney Channel Original Movie" and the first released through 9 Story Entertainment. It was co-produced in association with Disney Channel and Canadian pay TV channels Movie Central and The Movie Network. However, according to the Disney Channel website, the film is listed as a Disney Channel Original Movie.
Plot
Young spy Harriet M. Welsch (Jennifer Stone) crosses paths with popular student Marion Hawthorne (Vanessa Morgan), as the two girls compete to become the official blogger of their high school class. After Marion has started blogging, Harriet lags behind because she reports what she finds interesting. Unfortunately for Harriet, her classmates do not share her views and state that her blog is boring. Harriet's nanny, Golly, suggests that she write something is of interest to both Harriet and her classmates.
Harriet sets her sights on a big pop star, Skander Hill (Wesley Morgan), who is in town starring in a movie, Spy Teen 2: The Sequel, that her father, Roger Welsch (Doug Murray), is producing. However, Violetta Welsch (Shauna MacDonald) claims that Harriet has a crush on Skander. Despite her disdain for the star of the film, Harriet starts blogging about Skander Hill. First, she goes to stalk him by doing a father/daughter visit, but Skander has an outburst and Harriet is forced off of the set.
When Harriet goes to the hotel where Skander is staying, she finds him arguing with other producers of the movie. When he switches shirts, Harriet notices a birth-mark on him and takes a picture, also stealing a water bottle. It only makes the other students love him more. Marion and her friends invite Harriet over and watch "Spy Teen". She lies and runs downstairs to talk to Skander. However, it is Sport pretending to be Skander. The posse gets excited, but Marion's still suspici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano%20plot%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, a volcano plot is a type of scatter-plot that is used to quickly identify changes in large data sets composed of replicate data. It plots significance versus fold-change on the y and x axes, respectively. These plots are increasingly common in omic experiments such as genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics where one often has a list of many thousands of replicate data points between two conditions and one wishes to quickly identify the most meaningful changes. A volcano plot combines a measure of statistical significance from a statistical test (e.g., a p value from an ANOVA model) with the magnitude of the change, enabling quick visual identification of those data-points (genes, etc.) that display large magnitude changes that are also statistically significant.
A volcano plot is constructed by plotting the negative logarithm of the p value on the y axis (usually base 10). This results in data points with low p values (highly significant) appearing toward the top of the plot. The x axis is the logarithm of the fold change between the two conditions. The logarithm of the fold change is used so that changes in both directions appear equidistant from the center. Plotting points in this way results in two regions of interest in the plot: those points that are found toward the top of the plot that are far to either the left- or right-hand sides. These represent values that display large magnitude fold changes (hence being left or right of center) as well as high statistical significance (hence being toward the top).
Additional information can be added by coloring the points according to a third dimension of data (such as signal intensity), but this is not uniformly employed. Volcano plots are also used to graphically display a significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) gene selection criterion, an example of regularization.
The concept of volcano plot can be generalized to other applications, where the x axis is related to a measure of
the strength of a statistical signal, and y axis is related to a measure of the statistical significance of the signal.
For example, in a genetic association case-control study, such as Genome-wide association study,
a point in a volcano plot represents a single-nucleotide polymorphism.
Its x value can be the logarithm of the odds ratio and its y value can be -log10 of the p value from a Chi-square test
or a Chi-square test statistic.
Volcano plots show a characteristic upwards two arm shape because the x axis, i.e. the underlying log2-fold changes, are generally normal distribution whereas the y axis, the log10-p values, tend toward greater significance for fold-changes that deviate more strongly from zero.
The density of the normal distribution takes the form
.
So the
of that is
and the negative
is
which is a parabola whose arms reach upwards
on the left and right sides.
The upper bound of the data is one parabola
and the lower bound is another parabola.
References
External links
NCI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Webber%20%28General%20Hospital%29 | Heather Webber is a fictional character and currently the main antagonist from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The character was first introduced in the summer of 1976. Though played by several actresses, soap veteran Robin Mattson, who stepped into the role in 1980, is most known for her portrayal of Heather until 2016. In October 2022, Alley Mills assumed the role until February 2023.
Mattson received three Soapy Awards as Best Villainess for the role and a nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1983.
Casting
Georganne LaPiere originated the role of Heather Grant on July 29, 1976. In August 1977, it was reported that after a year with the series, instead of renewing her initial 48-week contract, LaPiere vacated the role of Heather to try to become a movie star like her half-sister Cher. She was quickly replaced by Mary O'Brien in September 1977. O'Brien vacated the role in July 1979 when Heather overdosed on LSD. O'Brien was offered the chance to reprise the role in 1980 but refused. On October 1, 1980, Robin Mattson, known for her role as Hope Bauer on Guiding Light joined the cast as Heather Webber. Mattson departed from the series indefinitely on September 13, 1983. Mattson reprised the role for a brief six-month stint which started on June 25, 2004, and concluded on December 3, 2004. In February 2012, it was announced Mattson would again reprise the role, and made her onscreen return on April 2, 2012. After some speculation Mattson might be done with the show, she was again seen on-screen in September 2012, making sporadic returns as Heather's various storyline arcs dictated over the next year and a half. In October 2014, Mattson reprised her role as Heather again, airing into early 2015. In 2016, Mattson reprised her role as Heather on May 11, 2016, July 1, 2016, July 25, 2016, August 26 to 29, 2016, September 27, 2016, October 18, 2016 and on December 21, 2016.
In October 2022, Soap Opera Digest broke the news that Alley Mills, recognized for her role on The Bold and The Beautiful as Pamela Douglas, had joined the cast of General Hospital in a mysterious role. Mills appeared on October 28 as Heather Webber. Mattson disclosed she was unable to reprise the role due to medical reasons. On February 27, 2023, she exited the role. On April 27 of the same year, Mills announced her return to the role.
Storylines
1976–1983
The 19-year-old Heather Grant is first introduced in the summer of 1976. Local nurse, Diana Taylor hires Heather as the nanny of her young daughter, Martha. Desperately wanting the job, Heather gives Diana a forged letter of recommendation. She soon sets her sights on Dr. Monica Webber's husband, Dr. Jeff Webber. After Jeff and Monica have a fight, Heather comforts him and they have sex. When Jeff suddenly disappears, Heather learns she is pregnant. After Jeff attempts suicide, he is shocked to learn Heather is pregnant. Heather fakes a suicide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliana%20and%20Bill | Giuliana and Bill is an American reality television series that premiered on the Style Network on August 5, 2009. It features E! News host and Fashion Police host, Giuliana Rancic and her husband Bill Rancic, an American entrepreneur who won the first season of The Apprentice. The couple, who first met when Giuliana was interviewing Bill for E! News, were married on September 1, 2007. Giuliana and Bill moved to E!, from the now defunct Style Network, on October 15, 2013.
The response from E! to a question about the show's future as of late 2014 was, "The show is not on our current schedule."
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2010)
Season 4 (2011)
Season 5 (2012)
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2014)
Ratings
The third season of Giuliana & Bill was rated .53, marking the season's highest rated rating for this series. It was also most watched with 357,000 total viewers. The season finale on December 20, 2010 tallied the series best rating of a .87 for women between the ages 18–49 and over 600,000 total viewers. The fourth season of Giuliana and Bill attained its most watched season yet with +23% viewers and +11% in women between the ages 18–49 over its previous season. The fifth-season premiere was the most-watched of the series with 528,000 viewers—with 283,000 among women ages 18–49 and 155,000 among those ages 18–34. The season six premiere acquired 600,000 total viewers, which is plus 13% versus last season's premiere. The episode that aired on August 27, 2013, squired 632,000 total viewers, which is +5% over the season's record breaking premiere. Additionally, this marked the Style Network's most-watched telecast to date for 2013.
References
External links
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2009 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
2014 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20performance%20by%20orders%20of%20magnitude | This list compares various amounts of computing power in instructions per second organized by order of magnitude in FLOPS.
Scientific E notation index: 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | >24
Deciscale computing (10−1)
5×10−1: Computing power of the average human mental calculation for multiplication using pen and paper
Scale computing (100)
1 OP/S: Power of an average human performing calculations using pen and paper
1 OP/S: Computing power of Zuse Z1
5 OP/S: World record for addition set
Decascale computing (101)
5×101: Upper end of serialized human perception computation (light bulbs do not flicker to the human observer)
Hectoscale computing (102)
2.2×102: Upper end of serialized human throughput. This is roughly expressed by the lower limit of accurate event placement on small scales of time (The swing of a conductor's arm, the reaction time to lights on a drag strip, etc.)
2×102: IBM 602 1946 computer.
Kiloscale computing (103)
92×103: Intel 4004 First commercially available full function CPU on a chip, released in 1971
500×103 Colossus computer vacuum tube supercomputer 1943
Megascale computing (106)
1×106: Computing power of the Motorola 68000 commercial computer introduced in 1979. This is also the minimum computing power of a Type 0 Kardashev civilization.
1.2×106: IBM 7030 "Stretch" transistorized supercomputer 1961
Gigascale computing (109)
1×109: ILLIAC IV 1972 supercomputer does first computational fluid dynamics problems
1.354×109: Intel Pentium III commercial computing 1999
147.6×109: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition commercial computing 2010
Terascale computing (1012)
1.34×1012: Intel ASCI Red 1997 Supercomputer
1.344×1012 GeForce GTX 480 in 2010 from Nvidia at its peak performance
4.64×1012: Radeon HD 5970 in 2009 from AMD (under ATI branding) at its peak performance
5.152×1012: S2050/S2070 1U GPU Computing System from Nvidia
11.3×1012 :GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in 2017
13.7×1012: Radeon RX Vega 64 in 2017
15.0×1012: Nvidia Titan V in 2017
80×1012: IBM Watson
170×1012: Nvidia DGX-1 The initial Pascal based DGX-1 delivered 170 teraflops of half precision processing.
478.2×1012 IBM BlueGene/L 2007 Supercomputer
960×1012 Nvidia DGX-1 The Volta-based upgrade increased calculation power of Nvidia DGX-1 to 960 teraflops.
Petascale computing (1015)
1.026×1015: IBM Roadrunner 2009 Supercomputer
1.32×1015: Nvidia GeForce 4000 Series RTX4090 Consumer graphics card, achieves 1.32 petaflops in AI applications, October 2022
2×1015: Nvidia DGX-2 a 2 Petaflop Machine Learning system (the newer DGX A100 has 5 Petaflop performance)
10×1015: Minimum computing power of a Type I Kardashev civilization
11.5×1015: Google TPU pod containing 64 second-generation TPUs, May 2017
17.17×1015: IBM Sequoia's LINPACK performance, June 2013
20×1015: Roughly the hardware-equivalent of the human brain according to Ray Kurzweil. Published in his 1999 book: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Hu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddock%20Corporation | Haddock Corporation is an American consumer electronics and information technology consulting business based in Wichita, Kansas, which operated four Haddock Computer Center retail locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa. Founded as a software company, Haddock has been an Apple-authorized dealer and computer repair shop since 1984, the year the Macintosh computer was released. Company founder and CEO Richard Haddock served on Apple's reseller advisory board for over ten years. He is a member and one of the founders of the Apple Specialist Marketing Corporation.
History
Richard Haddock founded the Haddock Corporation in 1977 as a way to establish the first of his Haddock Computer Center stores in Wichita, Kansas, the same year. A computer programmer by trade, Haddock was also active in software development. In 1978, he developed the application "Petroleum Accountant" for the Wichita oil company Parrish Corporation. The software operated on the IBM 5110, IBM 5120, and IBM System/23 Datamaster, and was widely distributed.
In 1979, Haddock's store began the stocking Apple II, establishing a long-lived relationship with Apple Computer that lasted until Haddock's Computer Center operations went defunct. In January 1984, Apple reached out to Haddock to convince him to sell the new Macintosh computer on its release. While the store had sold IBM PC compatibles occasionally in the years following, Haddock's stock of Apple products represented the bulk of their profit and earned the store a local reputation. In 1987, a second Haddock Computer Center location opened up in Salina, Kansas.
During Gil Amelio's tenure as Apple CEO, Haddock and other retailers worked with Apple's Paddy Wong and Loretta Flores to develop the Apple Specialist program intended to strengthen Apple's retail channel.
At its peak in 2005, Haddock had three Computer Center locations across three states: Wichita, Kansas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Des Moines, Iowa. The company's Oklahoma City store was opened up at the behest of Apple in 2002; in 2004, it generated US$1 million in sales. A Des Moines, Iowa, location followed in 2005. However, within the next three years a second independent Apple Specialist retailer opened up in Oklahoma City, and in 2005, Apple themselves raised an Apple Store there. Faced with too much competition, leading to a steep drop in projected sales for 2006 of just $250,000, Haddock was forced to shutter the Oklahoma location in May 2006.
After his stepson David Pearson died of glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive cancer of the brain, at the age of 16, Haddock consolidated his Computer Center and LivingSound businesses into the parent Haddock Corporation and closed all locations. In his son's wake, he formed the Dragon Master Foundation, a nonprofit organization for the development of specific genome databases for cancer researchers.
See also
ComputerWare, a defunct retailer in the San Francisco Bay Area that sold Macintosh computers and peripherals e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Keeper%20%282004%20film%29 | The Keeper is a 2004 thriller starring Dennis Hopper and Asia Argento. The film was produced by Peace Arch films for Showtime Network and was released in the UK theaters in 2004 and on DVD in the United States on March 28, 2006.
Plot
Deep within the soundproofed confines of his secluded country home, an upstanding police officer harbors a dark secret in director Paul Lynch's tense tale of unjust imprisonment and unhinged madness. On the surface, Lieutenant Krebs is a respected law enforcement officer with close ties to his community. A glance into Krebs' crippled psyche, however, reveals another, much more malevolent persona. Drifting exotic dancer named Gina has been brutally attacked in a near-fatal assault. Offered a ride to the local bus station by the outwardly amiable Lieutenant Krebs after issuing a statement to the local police force, Gina awakens to discover that she is being held captive in an escape-proof basement jail cell with all the discomforts of the county detention center. In the days and weeks that follow, world weary dancer Gina will be forced to wage mental warfare against her increasingly unstable captor if she ever hopes to escape the oppressive lockdown of his basement dungeon and live to tell the tale.
Cast
Dennis Hopper as Lieutenant Krebs
Asia Argento as Gina
Helen Shaver as Ruthie
Lochlyn Munro as Sgt. Burns
Charles Frederick as Joe Cody (Man in Black)
Alex Zahara as Derick
External links
References
2004 films
2004 thriller films
2000s English-language films
Films about kidnapping
Films directed by Paul Lynch
American thriller films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coders%20at%20Work | Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming () is a 2009 book by Peter Seibel comprising interviews with 15 highly accomplished programmers. The primary topics in these interviews include how the interviewees learned programming, how they debug code, their favorite languages and tools, their opinions on literate programming, proofs, code reading and so on.
Interviewees
Jamie Zawinski
Brad Fitzpatrick
For studying Perl he recommends Higher-Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus.
Douglas Crockford
Brendan Eich
Joshua Bloch
Joe Armstrong
Simon Peyton Jones
Mentions David Turner's paper on S-K combinators (cf. SKI combinator calculus). The S-K combinators are a way of translating and then executing the lambda calculus. Turner showed in his paper how to translate lambda calculus into the three combinators S, K and I which are all just closed lambda terms and I = SKK. So in effect you take a lambda term and compile to just Ss and Ks.
Recalls his first instance of learning functional programming when taking a course by Arthur Norman who showed how to build doubly linked lists without any side effects at all.
Mentions the paper "Can Programming be Liberated from the von Neumann Style" by John Backus.
Wants John Hughes to write a paper for the Journal of Functional Programming on why static typing is bad. Hughes has written a popular paper titled "Why Functional Programming Matters".
Mentions a data structure called "zipper" that is a very useful functional data structure. Peyton Jones also mentions the 4-5 line program that Hughes wrote to calculate an arbitrary number of digits of e lazily.
Mentions that the sequential implementation of a double-ended queue is a first year undergraduate programming problem. For a concurrent implementation with a lock per node, it's a research paper problem. With transactional memory, it's an undergraduate problem again.
Favorite books/authors: Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley, a chapter titled "Writing Programs for 'The Book'" by Brian Hayes from the book Beautiful Code where he explores the problem of determining which side of the line a given point is, Art of Computer Programming by Don Knuth, Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki exploring how to build data structures like queues and heaps without side effects and reasonable complexity bounds, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman, Compiling with Continuations by Andrew Appel, A Discipline of Programming by Dijkstra, Per Brinch Hansen's book about writing concurrent operating systems.
Peyton Jones mentions Fred Brook's paper that he reread and liked "The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith".
Peter Norvig
In 1972/73 when Norvig was still in high school, he found the Knuth algorithm for shuffling cards.
The first interesting program that Norvig wrote was Game of Life.
Wrote an essay called "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years".
On practical applications of academic concepts, he mentions that part of the pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect%20weaver | An aspect weaver is a metaprogramming utility for aspect-oriented languages designed to take instructions specified by aspects (isolated representations of significant concepts in a program) and generate the final implementation code. The weaver integrates aspects into the locations specified by the software as a pre-compilation step. By merging aspects and classes (representations of the structure of entities in the program), the weaver generates a woven class.
Aspect weavers take instructions known as advice specified through the use of pointcuts and join points, special segments of code that indicate what methods should be handled by aspect code. The implementation of the aspect then specifies whether the related code should be added before, after, or throughout the related methods. By doing this, aspect weavers improve modularity, keeping code in one place that would otherwise have been interspersed throughout various, unrelated classes.
Motivation
Many programming languages are already widely accepted and understood. However, the desire to create radically different programming languages to support the aspect-oriented programming paradigm is not significant due to business-related concerns; there are risks associated with adopting new technologies. Use of an entirely new language relies on a business's ability to acquire new developers. Additionally, the existing code base of a business would need to be discarded. Finally, a business would need to acquire a new toolchain (suite of tools) for development, which is often both an expense in both money and time. Primary concerns about roadmaps for the adoption of new technologies tend to be the need to train new developers and adapt existing processes to the new technology.
To address these business concerns, an aspect weaver enables the use of widely adopted languages like Java with aspect-oriented programming through minor adaptations such as AspectJ which work with existing tools. Instead of developing an entirely new language, the aspect weaver interprets the extensions defined by AspectJ and builds "woven" Java code which can then be used by any existing Java compiler. This ensures that any existing object oriented code will still be valid aspect-oriented code and that development will feel like a natural extension of the object-oriented language. The AspectC++ programming language extends C++ through the use of an aspect weaver, offering the additional efficiency over AspectJ that is necessary for embedded systems while still retaining the benefits of aspect-oriented programming.
Implementation
Aspect weavers operate by taking instructions specified by aspects, known as advice, and distributing it throughout the various classes in the program automatically. The result of the weaving process is a set of classes with the same names as the original classes but with additional code injected into the classes' functions automatically. The advice specifies the exact location and functionality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Uno%20de%20Bolivia | Red UNO de Bolivia (occasionally also called simply UNO) is a national Bolivian television network. It started operations in April 1984. Its most notable programming is Notivision (news) and "El Mañanero (morning magazine)". It also maintains affiliation deals with three channels in Potosí, Sucre and Tarija.
History
Cruzeña de Television and Teleandina
Cruceña de Televisión (Channel 13) was launched on the air on April 1, 1984, owned by Ivo Kuljis.
In the city of La Paz it began to broadcast on July 1, 1985, under the name of Teleandina through channel 11 (VHF), with broadcasts from Monday to Friday at 6:00 p.m. and on weekends at 5:00 pm. Back then, filmmaker Hugo Roncal was the channel's general manager. In 1987 the transmitting antenna is changed and Teveandina expands its broadcast schedules starting at 11:00 a.m. from Monday to Friday and at 6:00 a.m. on Sundays. Teleandina's studio was located in the center of the city and they moved to Miraflores first and to Sopocachi at the end of the 1980s, thus broadcasting regularly since November 24, 1988.
Teleandina's first programs were Virgul, an animated cartoon; the America's Top 10; Julio Sabala specials and Italian Football on Sunday mornings.
Formation of Red Uno de Bolivia (1991)
In 1991, it entered a stage of definitive consolidation. His relationship with associated production companies allowed him to produce national programs.
Likewise, Teleandina broadcast on channels 11 from Oruro, 13 from Santa Cruz, 6 and later signal 9 from Cochabamba (channel 2 CCA Corazón de América is an independent channel that broadcast some programs), 11 from La Paz and had repeater stations. throughout the country.
In November 1994, a new stage of technological growth begins with a new transmission equipment adapted to work at an altitude of 4000 msnm and with a power of 5 kW.
Work was done on the ideal conditioning for the operation of this new equipment, which consisted of new irradiation antennas, a new tower and adequate electrical installations.
The work carried out made it possible to improve the quality of the signal, thus perfecting the sharpness of the image; and a greater reach allowing a wide national coverage.
In 2012, Uno inaugurated new studios located in Santa Cruz and the modernization of its equipment to be able to broadcast and record in HD. However, it was not until 2018 when the channel began broadcasting on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in high definition.
Red Uno begins to have a crisis in 2015 and caused by a labor award, in August 2020, the ordinary justice freezes the accounts of Red Uno (valued at a value of more than Bs 2,000,000); the channel suffers several layoffs and the crisis of its programming. The problem is (even today) that there is sufficient evidence of labor abuse that still happens in that company. This fact was covered up by the previous government and only the Ordinary Justice of Santa Cruz has responded by freezing accounts.
Studios
Red Uno has i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Similarity%20of%20Network%20Data%20Analysis | In computer networks, self-similarity is a feature of network data transfer dynamics. When modeling network data dynamics the traditional time series models, such as an autoregressive moving average model are not appropriate. This is because these models only provide a finite number of parameters in the model and thus interaction in a finite time window, but the network data usually have a long-range dependent temporal structure. A self-similar process is one way of modeling network data dynamics with such a long range correlation. This article defines and describes network data transfer dynamics in the context of a self-similar process. Properties of the process are shown and methods are given for graphing and estimating parameters modeling the self-similarity of network data.
Definition
Suppose be a weakly stationary (2nd-order stationary) process
with mean , variance , and autocorrelation function .
Assume that the autocorrelation function has the form
as , where
and is a slowly varying function at infinity, that is for all .
For example, and are slowly varying functions.
Let ,
where , denote an aggregated point series over non-overlapping blocks of size , for each is a positive integer.
Exactly self-similar process
is called an exactly self-similar process if there exists a self-similar parameter such that has the same distribution as . An example of exactly self-similar process with is Fractional Gaussian Noise (FGN) with .
Definition:Fractional Gaussian Noise (FGN)
is called the Fractional Gaussian Noise, where is a Fractional Brownian motion.
exactly second order self-similar process
is called an exactly second order self-similar process if there exists a self-similar parameter such that has the same variance and autocorrelation as .
asymptotic second order self-similar process
is called an asymptotic second order self-similar process with self-similar parameter if as ,
Some relative situations of Self-Similar Processes
Long-Range-Dependence(LRD)
Suppose be a weakly stationary (2nd-order stationary) process with mean and variance . The Autocorrelation Function (ACF) of lag is given by
Definition:
A weakly stationary process is said to be "Long-Range-Dependence" if
A process which satisfies as is said to have long-range dependence. The spectral density function of long-range dependence follows a power law near the origin. Equivalently to , has long-range dependence if the spectral density function of autocorrelation function, , has the form of as where , is slowly varying at 0.
also see
Slowly decaying variances
When an autocorrelation function of a self-similar process satisfies as , that means it also satisfies as , where is a finite positive constant independent of m, and 0<β<1.
Estimating the self-similarity parameter "H"
R/S analysis
Assume that the underlying process is Fractional Gaussian Noise. Consider the series , and let .
The sample variance of is
Definition:R/S s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk%20%28community%29 | Skunk was a Swedish social networking community website founded in 1998. It was one of the pioneers in the field, and the largest community website in Sweden in 2000, mostly popular with teenagers. It was subsequently overtaken by competitors such as Lunarstorm and Playahead. Skunk became part of Spray Network.
In June 2010 Spray Network announced that they had decided to shut down the site and it closed on 30 June 2010.
References
Swedish social networking websites
Internet properties established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202010 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2010, there were 17 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Killing in the Name" by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, which topped the chart during the final week of 2009 and remained at number one for the first two weeks of 2010. The final number-one of the year was "Ace of Spades" by Motörhead.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2010 was "Closer to the Edge" by Thirty Seconds to Mars, which spent eight consecutive weeks at number one between 17 July and 4 September. "Make Me Wanna Die" by The Pretty Reckless spent seven consecutive weeks at number one prior to this, while Paramore's "The Only Exception" was number one for six straight weeks earlier in the year. "Where We Belong" by Lostprophets was number one for five consecutive weeks, while Muse spent five weeks at number one with two songs – "Resistance" for three weeks and "Feeling Good" for two. "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" by My Chemical Romance spent four weeks atop the chart, while singles by Goo Goo Dolls, Muse, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park each spent three weeks at number one.
Chart history
See also
2010 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2010
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2010 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-aware%20services | Context-aware services is a computing technology which incorporates information about the current location of a mobile user to provide more relevant services to the user. An example of a context-aware service could be a real-time traffic update or even a live video feed of a planned route for a motor vehicle user. Context can refer to real-world characteristics, such as temperature, time or location. This information can be updated by the user (manually) or from communication with other devices and applications or sensors on the mobile device.
References
Mobile technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20at%20Nite%20international%20versions | Despite the success of Nick at Nite in the United States, most international versions of Nickelodeon do not carry their own Nick at Nite programming block, as those local versions of Nickelodeon outside of the United States either carry children's programming 24 hours a day or run a non-Nick at Nite program block during the nighttime hours. While Nick at Nite's U.S. flagship primarily focuses on reruns of discontinued primetime network sitcoms, some of these international versions have aired reruns of discontinued Nickelodeon series.
As of 2023, Australia is the only country outside the United States to have a Nick at Nite block, and Deutschland has the NickNight block instead.
Latin America
Nick at Nite launched on February 13, 2006 in Latin America and Brazil. Until 2012, the network had aired shows such as ALF, Mork & Mindy, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Happy Days, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Growing Pains, The Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, Get Smart and Perfect Strangers, which have been broadcast on other Latin American broadcast and cable channels. Although the Latin American Nickelodeon was launched in the mid-1990s, it had never carried the Nick at Nite block before; as of April 2010 the Latin American version had since shifted away from classic and defunct Nickelodeon series, between animated series and live-action comedies such as Zoey 101, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, True Jackson, VP, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life and Rocket Power. The block was abruptly ended on January 1, 2015 after almost 9 years.
Australia and New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, Nick at Nite aired from October 23, 1995 until July/August 2000. It shared the same channel as Nickelodeon broadcasting from 8pm until 6am on weeknights and 10pm until 6am on weekends. Shows included Get Smart, Sanford and Son, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Fugitive, Bonanza, The Prisoner, The Saint, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Flying Nun, Gilligan's Island, Mister Ed, and The Bob Newhart Show.
On 22 June 2023, it was announced that 10 Shake would rebrand as Nickelodeon on August 1. With this relaunch, a Nick at Nite block was announced, marking it the first time in 23 years since the block's removal from the Australian feed.
Europe
UK and Ireland
Nick at Nite’s UK and Ireland feed was one of the planned, and advertised, stations as part of Sky's new Multichannels package, but it never launched. However, it was announced in June 2016 that a UK version of Nick at Nite would finally launch on Nickelodeon UK on June 27, 2016, running from 7pm to midnight/12am.
Shows that were put in this slot include iCarly, Victorious, Sam & Cat and Drake & Josh. In 2019, the Nick at Nite branding was wiped off, so the night-time programming on the channel once again runs under the main Nickelodeon branding.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland
In Germany, Nick nach A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20ECG%20interpretation | Automated ECG interpretation is the use of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition software and knowledge bases to carry out automatically the interpretation, test reporting, and computer-aided diagnosis of electrocardiogram tracings obtained usually from a patient.
History
The first automated ECG programs were developed in the 1970s, when digital ECG machines became possible by third-generation digital signal processing boards. Commercial models, such as those developed by Hewlett-Packard, incorporated these programs into clinically used devices.
During the 1980s and 1990s, extensive research was carried out by companies and by university labs in order to improve the accuracy rate, which was not very high in the first models. For this purpose, several signal databases with normal and abnormal ECGs were built by institutions such as MIT and used to test the algorithms and their accuracy.
Phases
A digital representation of each recorded ECG channel is obtained, by means of an analog-to-digital converter and a special data acquisition software or a digital signal processing (DSP) chip.
The resulting digital signal is processed by a series of specialized algorithms, which start by conditioning it, e.g., removal of noise, baselevel variation, etc.
Feature extraction: mathematical analysis is now performed on the clean signal of all channels, to identify and measure a number of features which are important for interpretation and diagnosis, this will constitute the input to AI-based programs, such as the peak amplitude, area under the curve, displacement in relation to baseline, etc., of the P, Q, R, S and T waves, the time delay between these peaks and valleys, heart rate frequency (instantaneous and average), and many others. Some sort of secondary processing such as Fourier analysis and wavelet analysis may also be performed in order to provide input to pattern recognition-based programs.
Logical processing and pattern recognition, using rule-based expert systems, probabilistic Bayesian analysis or fuzzy logics algorithms, cluster analysis, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and others techniques are used to derive conclusions, interpretation and diagnosis.
A reporting program is activated and produces a proper display of original and calculated data, as well as the results of automated interpretation.
In some applications, such as automatic defibrillators, an action of some sort may be triggered by results of the analysis, such as the occurrence of an atrial fibrillation or a cardiac arrest, the sounding of alarms in a medical monitor in intensive-care unit applications, and so on.
Applications
The manufacturing industries of ECG machines is now entirely digital, and many models incorporate embedded software for analysis and interpretation of ECG recordings with 3 or more leads. Consumer products, such as home ECG recorders for simple, 1-channel heart arrhythmia detection, also use basic ECG analysis, essentially to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO%20CANDO | Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing (NEO CANDO) is an online database built and managed by the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, under the direction of Co-director Claudia Coulton at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences in Cleveland, Ohio. The database was started in 1988 as CANDO and now houses data for a 17-county region centering on the Greater Cleveland, and the Cuyahoga County area in Northeast Ohio. This data is varied in its completeness for geographies, but contains crime data for the City of Cleveland, food stamp and TANF usage counts, social indicators, economic indicators, and a restricted-use section for properties in the foreclosure, sheriff's sale and Real Estate Owned (REO) process. These data are used by neighborhood associations, Non-profit organizations, governmental agencies such as the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, and Community Development Corporations such as Slavic Village Development, to plan activities, or to improve neighborhoods, or to propose social programing, and to combat the advance of urban decay accelerated by the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis.
Its use to combat the negative effects of the foreclosure crisis, has been noted and supported as a national model at conferences, such as the national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference and in several reports, such as Forefront, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and REO & Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization which is a joint publication of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland and the Board of Governors.
The Center is a member of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP), a nationwide partnership of 34 similar organizations, an initiative of the Urban Institute. The mission of the partnership is to democratize social, economic, and other indicator data down to the neighborhoods level for use by local governments and other agencies operating locally.
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development (CUPCD) is based in a university context as part of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. The Mandel School strongly emphasizes direct work with local citywide and community institutions to address the opportunities and problems of poor neighborhoods. The CUPCD mission is "to create, communicate, and apply knowledge of value to a broad range of audiences and constituents concerned with the ultimate goal of reducing urban poverty and its consequences. . . . The Center serves as a pathway between the university, and the community, linking social science to social change."
CUPCD Director Claudia Coulton began assembling neighborhood-level data soon after the Center was founded. In 1990, the Center issued a full report on trends in Cleveland's neighborhoods over the preceding two decades-a report used as the primary basis for the formation of the [ Arthur Naparstek | Cleveland Foundatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Womersley | John Ronald Womersley (20 June 1907 – 7 March 1958) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics. Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow.
Biography
Early life and education
Womersley was born on 20 June 1907 in Morley, near Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was the only child of George William and Ruth Womersely; his father managed a grocery store in Morley. He was educated at Morley Grammar School from 1917 to 1925. In 1925 he was awarded an Open Scholarship to the University of Cambridge and the Royal Scholarship in Physics at Imperial College of Science and Technology, but he chose to read mathematics at Imperial College. His courses included Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Hydrodynamics and the Kinetic Theory of Gases. He was awarded a BSc degree with first-class honours in mathematics in 1929 and became an associate of the Royal College of Science. He remained at Imperial College for another two years and was awarded the Diploma of Imperial College (D.I.C.) in 1930.
Work
In 1930 Womersely left Imperial College to take up a position as a junior research officer at the Shirley Institute (British Cotton Industry Research Institute), Manchester. There he applied mathematical techniques to problems in textile manufacture, including research on cotton spinning, drafting fibrous materials, and, through L. H. C. Tippett, the use of mathematical statistics in industrial production and quality control. While at the Shirley Institute he also met Leslie Comrie and became interested in computational techniques. As a result, he spent a month at HM Nautical Almanac Office, London learning Comrie's numerical approaches. In 1936 he collaborated with Douglas Hartree who had built a Differential Analyser at the University of Manchester; together they devised a much cited method for the numerical integration of partial differential equations. In 1937, with war looming, he joined the armaments research department at Woolwich as a scientific officer, and worked on using statistical techniques applied to ballistics and ammunition proofing. In 1942, after the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed assistant director of scientific research at the Ministry of Supply and asked to set up and head the Advisory Service on Statistical Methods (later known as SR17). This organization was responsible for advice and research into ammunition supply, engineering factories and the investigations of a range of Government Inspectorates. It was particularly important in ensuring quality control and promoting sample inspection methods to British industry during wartime. In 1944 he joined the British Association mathematical tables committee and in the same year he was appointed as the first superintendent of the Mathematics Division of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arco%20Birthday%20Party | Arco Birthday Party (aka Arco Birthday Hour and Birthday Party) is an NBC Red Network series heard in 1930–31. It was sponsored by Arco Publishing.
The format honored the birthdays of past writers and composers. For instance, the program of Thursday, November 13, 1930, offered a tribute to the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who was born November 13, 1850.
That same evening the musical offerings included a male quartet harmonizing on "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" and tenor Harold Hansen singing "Roses of Picardy". The orchestra performed the "Polovetzian Dance No.1" from Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor. Borodin was born November 12, 1833.
The show's host was Charles K. Field.
References
1930s American radio programs
American music radio programs
NBC radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orectolobus%20reticulatus | Orectolobus reticulatus, the network wobbegong, is a recently described species of carpet shark found in relatively shallow waters off Kimberley and Darwin in north-western Australia. With a known maximum length of only , it may be the smallest species of wobbegong. Until its description in 2008, it had been confused with the northern wobbegong. The network wobbegong has a short snout, broad head, elongated body, and two dorsal fins, with the first being slightly larger than the second. Its body is grayish brown with darker brown markings and a pale yellow underbelly. The network wobbegong lives in shallow waters along reefy bottoms.
The reproductive strategies of this species are not known, but other Orectolobus species are oviparous and have slow reproductive cycles. Its dentition indicates that the diet of the network wobbegong consists predominantly of small fishes, as well as some cephalopods and crustaceans, such as lobsters and crabs.
Anatomy and morphology
Orectolobus reticulatus is a member of the small subgroup of wobbegongs, otherwise known as carpet sharks. Their bold markings, symmetrical patterns, and flattened appearance resemble a carpet, hence the name. Orectolobus reticulatus has simple dermal lobes that line its upper lip and act as camouflage for prey. The lobes are weed-like whiskers surrounding the jaw and act as sensory barbs. Their dermal lobes are mostly grey, and their ventral lobes appear slightly paler. The patterned dark spots that cover their body, in addition to the pale yellow saddles and fine reticulations, aid in camouflage against predators and prey. The sides of the head of the Orectolobus reticulatus have fine white spots and dark reticulates. The back of the head has dark, brownish black spots that are slightly smaller than their eyes. The rest of their body has four distinct dark markings that run along the tops of their back. The differences in morphology between Orectolobus reticulatus and other similar species can be noted in their size. Orectolobus reticulatus have smaller dorsal fins, a shorter head, and longer snout vent length compared to other wobbegong sharks. The largest Orectolobus reticulatus measured was a female at 523 mm total length.
Distribution and habitat
The network wobbegong is endemic to the coast of Northwestern Australia. Specimens have been collected from Louis Island, Long Reef, and Darwin Harbour. Network wobbegongs live in very shallow water along the continental shelf, not exceeding depths of 20 m. Based on areas where the specimens were caught for study, it is suspected that network wobbegongs live in caves and ledges on rocky or coral reefs. These habitats are also known to be occupied by Orectolobus wardi, a closely related species.
Behavior
Wobbegong shark species are nocturnal and hunt at night. They have a slower metabolism compared to other sharks. The diet of the wobbegong shark primarily consists of small bony fish, but they have also been known to consume cephalo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Pattern%20Recognition%20and%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence was founded in 1987 and is published by World Scientific. The journal covers developments in artificial intelligence, and its sub-field, pattern recognition. This includes articles on image and language processing, robotics and neural networks.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
SciSearch
ISI Alerting Services
CompuMath Citation Index
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
Inspec
io-port.net
Compendex
Computer Abstracts
Academic journals established in 1987
Computer science journals
World Scientific academic journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Software%20Engineering%20and%20Knowledge%20Engineering | The International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering was founded in 1991 and is published by World Scientific, covering areas relating to software engineering and knowledge engineering and the connections between the two disciplines. Topics covered include object-oriented systems, rapid prototyping, logic programming, and software and knowledge-ware maintenance.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
SciSearch
ISI Alerting Services
CompuMath Citation Index
Inspec
io-port.net
Compendex
Computer Abstracts
Academic journals established in 1991
Computer science journals
World Scientific academic journals
English-language journals
Software engineering publications
Knowledge engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Tools | The International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools was founded in 1992 and is published by World Scientific. It covers research on artificial intelligence (AI) tools or tools that use AI, including architectures, languages and algorithms. Topics include AI in Bioinformatics, Cognitive Informatics, Knowledge-Based/Expert Systems and Object-Oriented Programming for AI.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Inspec
Science Citation Index Expanded
ISI Alerting Services
CompuMath Citation Index
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing, and Technology
References
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1992
World Scientific academic journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Circuits%2C%20Systems%2C%20and%20Computers | The Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers was founded in 1991 and is published eight times annually by World Scientific. It covers a wide range of topics regarding circuits, systems and computers, from basic mathematics to engineering and design.
The editor-in-chief of the journal is Professor Wai-Kai Chen and the five regional editors include Piero Malcovati from the University of Pavia, Emre Salman from Stony Brook University, Masazaku Sengoku from Niigata University, Zoran Stamenkovic from IHP GmbH, and Tongquan Wei from East China Normal University.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
SciSearch
Scopus
ISI Alerting Services
Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
Mathematical Reviews
Inspec
io-port.net
Compendex
Computer Abstracts
References
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1991
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
Computer science journals
World Scientific academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian | Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. Symbian OS is a descendant of Psion's EPOC, and was released exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia. It was also prevalent in Japan by brands including Fujitsu, Sharp and Mitsubishi. As a pioneer that established the smartphone industry, it was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010, at a time when smartphones were in limited use, when it was overtaken by iOS and Android. It was notably less popular in North America.
The Symbian OS platform is formed of two components: one being the microkernel-based operating system with its associated libraries, and the other being the user interface (as middleware), which provides the graphical shell atop the OS. The most prominent user interface was the S60 (formerly Series 60) platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia Symbian devices. UIQ was a competing user interface mostly used by Motorola and Sony Ericsson that focused on pen-based devices, rather than a traditional keyboard interface from S60. Another interface was the MOAP(S) platform from carrier NTT DoCoMo in the Japanese market. Applications of these different interfaces were not compatible with each other, despite each being built atop Symbian OS. Nokia became the largest shareholder of Symbian Ltd. in 2004 and purchased the entire company in 2008. The non-profit Symbian Foundation was then created to make a royalty-free successor to Symbian OS. Seeking to unify the platform, S60 became the Foundation's favoured interface and UIQ stopped development. The touchscreen-focused Symbian^1 (or S60 5th Edition) was created as a result in 2009. Symbian^2 (based on MOAP) was used by NTT DoCoMo, one of the members of the Foundation, for the Japanese market. Symbian^3 was released in 2010 as the successor to S60 5th Edition, by which time it became fully free software. The transition from a proprietary operating system to a free software project is believed to be one of the largest in history. Symbian^3 received the Anna and Belle updates in 2011.
The Symbian Foundation disintegrated in late 2010 and Nokia took back control of the OS development. In February 2011, Nokia, by then the only remaining company still supporting Symbian outside Japan, announced that it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform, while Symbian would be gradually wound down. Two months later, Nokia moved the OS to proprietary licensing, only collaborating with the Japanese OEMs and later outsourced Symbian development to Accenture. Although support was promised until 2016, including two major planned updates, by 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20Authority%20Description%20Schema | Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) is an XML schema developed by the United States Library of Congress' Network Development and Standards Office that provides an authority element set to complement the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).
History
April 2004: Preliminary version for review
December 2004: Draft for review
April 2005: Version 1.0 published
June 2011: Version 2.0 published
September 2016: Version 2.1 published
What MADS Is
MADS does authority control. It is a schema to define people, organizations, and geographical locations which can be involved in creating or publishing a creative work, publication, or artifact. Descriptive schemas for creative works and publications can reference MADS, with the underlying descriptive schema describing the item and referencing a MADS record which describes a creator or location. Authority control allows precise work with issues such as distinguishing multiple authors who share a name, sorting a list of books based on where each was published, and identifying all publications by scholars who are members of a specific organization or graduates of a specific college.
MADS is a schema for carrying authority control information and for describing authorities. It is not a controlled vocabulary nor a registry. It can reference controlled vocabularies or registries, such as Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), or the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN).
MADS/RDF
MADS was originally formulated as an XML schema, but it also has an expression in Resource Description Framework (RDF), called MADS/RDF. MADS/RDF expresses and makes statements about Authorities and their Variants, which are controlled records, and distinguishes these from the real-world objects (RWOs) they describe.
The Library of Congress had been representing bibliographic authority data in Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) since 2009. However, they found that they couldn’t present the full structure of authorities such as the LC Subject Headings (LCSH) in a general-purpose form such as SKOS. MADS/RDF is intended to complement SKOS: its classes and properties are subclasses of appropriate SKOS items. For example, madsrdf:Authority is a sub-class of skos:Concept, and madsrdf:authoritativeLabel is a sub-property of skos:prefLabel.
MADS/RDF authority items use both authoritativeLabels, which are structured strings like "United States--New Jersey--Essex--Montclair", and collections of typed nodes such as {Country, State, County, City}.
Further reading
References
External links
Bibliography file formats
Library cataloging and classification
Metadata standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20from%20the%202010s%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | This is the Recorded Music NZ list of number-one singles in New Zealand during the 2010s decade, starting from Monday 4 January 2010. From 7 November 2014, the chart also included data from audio on demand streaming services.
Chart
Key
– Number-one single of the year
– Song of New Zealand origin
– Number-one single of the year, of New Zealand origin
By artist
Key
– Song of New Zealand origin
By song
Key
– Song of New Zealand origin
Notes
References
Number-one singles
New Zealand Singles
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX%20Life | FX Life (formerly known as Fox Life) is a Greek pay-television channel owned by the Fox Networks Group, which launched on 1 December 2008. The network also broadcasts to Cyprus, doing so since 15 October 2012.
The program includes foreign series such as Grey's Anatomy, This Is Us, and How to Get Away with Murder, with new episodes for the first time in Greece and some reality shows such as MasterChef and Project Runway.
On 15 March 2023, The Walt Disney Company had dropped the word Fox from the name of the channel and due to this, both Fox and Fox Life became FX and FX Life respectively in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation and to avoid having the Star trademark in Greece as another unaffiliated channel, Star Channel has owned the trademark.
Programmes
Current
Alaska Daily
Big Sky
Blue Bloods
Castle
Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Donal's Super Food In Minutes
Good Trouble
Grey's Anatomy
Masterchef
Modern Family
Nigella's Cook, Eat, Repeat Christmas Special
Station 19
The King of Queens
Former
Body of Proof
Brothers & Sisters
Cougar Town
Criminal Minds
Day Break
Desperate Housewives
Dirt
Dirty Sexy Money
Eli Stone
Ellen
Friends with Benefits
Ghost Whisperer
Glee
Happy Endings
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Jamie's 30-Minute Meals
Kevin Hill
Last Man Standing
Made in Hollywood
Make It or Break It
Melissa & Joey
Mental
My Generation
New Girl
Off The Map
Once Upon a Time
Pepper Dennis
Private Practice
Raising Hope
Raising The Bar
Revenge
Samantha Who?
Scoundrels
Scrubs
Tabatha's Salon Takeover
The Delicious Miss Dahl
The Ex List
The Gates
The Rachel Zoe Project
Tough Love
Ugly Betty
What About Brian
Who Do You Think You Are?
Will & Grace
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
See also
Fox Greece
FX Greece
National Geographic Greece
Fox Life
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Greek-language television stations
Television channels in Greece
Fox Life
FX Networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Disney%20TV%20programming%20blocks | Disney stand alone programming TV blocks are block of Disney shows on non-Disney channels or TV stations around the world. Disney puts together stand alone TV block to reach those audiences that do not have access to cable or satellite.
By the end of March 2000, Disney was in 35 countries in three regions, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (13 countries) with 82 blocks with more than 9,000 hours total per year. The block were under various names: Disney Club, Disney’s FilmParade, Disneytime, Disney!, DisneyKid, Club Disney, Saturday Disney, Disney Adventures, Disney Animation Hour, Disney Fun Time, Good Morning Disney, Disney Hour, Disney Sandhya, Disney Toontown, Sunday Club Disney, I Love Disney, Disney Animation Time, Dragon Club (China).
Disney also had a series of channels and blocks called Jetix, originally called Fox Kids, acquired in the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide, now ABC Family Worldwide.
List of blocks
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| Argentina
| Playhouse Disney
| an Artear channel
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| 2007
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|| Total Girl || 7Two
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|rowspan=2| 2.5
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| K-Zone
| 7mate
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| Saturday Disney
| Seven Network/7flix
| Saturday
| 3
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| Playhouse Disney
| Seven Network
| weekly
| .5
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|rowspan=4| Brazil
| Disney on TV (Disney en TV)
| TV Globo
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| Disney World (Mundo Disney)
|rowspan=3| SBT
|daily
|2
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| Disney Movies (Cine Disney)
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| 1980s
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| Success Screen (Tela de Sucessos)
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| 1997
| 2004
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| Canada
| The Disney Afternoon (DA)
| CITV-DT
| weekday
| 2/day
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|Czech Republic
| Disney Club
|TV Nova
| weekly
| 2
|2006
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China
| Disney Adventures
| provincial broadcasters, free-to-air and cable
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|Disney Club
| 12 stations (8/1997)
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| 1995
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| Dragon Club ‡
| 80% of cable providers
| daily
| 2/day
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| Panda Club ‡
| four of China's five regional broadcasters
| 3 blocks
| 2/block
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|Denmark
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|DR 1
|weekly on Fridays
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Germany
| unnamed (or unrevealed name)
| Kirch Media's ProSieben
| Sunday afternoon movie
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| 2002
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|rowspan=2 | Disney Club
| RTL
| Saturday and Sunday
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| 2002
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| ProSieben
| Saturday
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| 2002
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|rowspan=2 | Disney Filmparade
| RTL
|rowspan=2 | movie
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| 2000
| 2005
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| ProSiebenSat.1 Group channel
| 2005
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|rowspan=3| Disney Time
| RTL
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| ProSieben
|rowspan=2| Sunday
| 2
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|late December 2004
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| Kabel 1
| 3
| late December 2004
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|Hungary
| Disney Klub
| RTL Klub
| Saturday morning
| 1
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India
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India
| Disney Time
| Star Plus
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| 1
|colspan=2| -2005-
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| unnamed or unmentioned
| DD Natio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Bird | Susan Willett Bird is the founder and CEO of Wf360. She is also an attorney, author, and specialist in executive level marketing and business networks. Wf360 using its trademarked process Brandversation, was launched in 1999 and works with major corporations to sustain relationships with senior decision makers and customers.
Bird received her law degree from Stanford Law School, where she was member of Stanford Law Review.
Bird is a Founding Member and former Chair of the Committee of 200; a member of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School; a member of the International Women's Forum and a member of the International Council for the Kilby International Awards.
Recognized as a global expert in the strategic use of conversation, Ms. Bird is the author of Smart Talk: the ABC's of Authentic Conversation and a co-author of The Age of Conversation. She shares her views on conversation in both the business world and elsewhere in her blog entitled Bird’s Eye View.
References
Living people
Stanford Law School alumni
Marquette University alumni
Harvard Kennedy School people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women in business
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne%20X1000 | AmigaOne X1000 is a PowerPC-based personal computer intended as a high-end platform for AmigaOS 4. It was announced by A-Eon Technology CVBA in partnership with Hyperion Entertainment and released in 2011. Its name pays homage to the Amiga 1000 released by Commodore in 1985. It is, however, not hardware-compatible with the original Commodore Amiga system.
History
A-Eon Technology is a privately funded company co-founded by Trevor Dickinson. The focus of A-Eon was on the high-end and a partnership with Hyperion Entertainment was formed to allow discussion with key AmigaOS 4 developers about what such a next generation AmigaOS 4 computer would need. With the end of the AmigaONE line from Eyetech and lack of success porting the OS to third party machines, A-Eon decided to continue the AmigaONE line themselves with more up-to-date technology. One important decision made during this early phase was that the AmigaOne X1000 should be a complete system built around a bespoke motherboard with a customised case and peripherals. This contrasts with the adapted reference design strategy used by Eyetech for the original AmigaOne series.
Even before the 'wish list' was completed, hardware design company Varisys had been chosen as a partner based on their track record both with the PowerPC architecture and with parallel computing. The decision to form a partnership with Varisys had the consequence of bringing XMOS chips to the AmigaOne X1000, as it is the connection between XMOS and the Varisys team, dating back to earlier work on the Inmos Transputer, that led to the suggestion of including an XMOS XCore chip on the X1000 motherboard. This XCore chip is referred to by A-Eon as the 'Xena' Coprocessor.
The first prototype machines were manufactured during mid 2009 and Hyperion Entertainment began the process of porting the AmigaOS to the X1000 in late 2009. By mid-June 2010, the X1000 was booting AmigaOS from hard disk and the machine made its debut at the Vintage Computer festival at Bletchley Park on the weekend on the 19 and 20 June 2010.
Release
The original intention was that the machine would be available before Summer 2010, but A-Eon Technology announced at the Vintage Computer festival that the release had been delayed.
By August 2011, hardware designer and manufacturer Varisys had begun the first production run of revision 2.1 boards destined for the AmigaOne X1000 beta test team. In January 2012, A-Eon announced that Amiga Kit would start shipping the AmigaOne X1000 to customers with AmigaOS4.1 Update 5. It would also be supplied with a license for AmigaOS4.2 which could be downloaded when it is released by Hyperion Entertainment some years after it was announced.
Specifications
The specifications from A-EON Technology's website:
Black Pearl PC case, white case also available
ATX form factor
Dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M 1.8 GHz PowerISA v2.04+ CPU
Co-processor: "Xena" 500 MHz XCore XS1-L2 124 SDS
ATI Radeon R700 or AMD Radeon HD 6000 Seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20Railway | The Gulf Railway, also known as the GCC Railway, is a proposed railway system to connect all six Gulf Cooperation Council member states in Eastern Arabia. The rail network will have a total length of 2,177 km. The project is estimated to cost US$250 billion. It was scheduled to be completed by 2025, although as of 2023, construction work has yet to start.
Each of the six GCC member states is responsible for implementing the portion of the project that lies within its territory, and will construct its own railway lines and branches, stations and freight terminals. The cost will be shared by the six countries in proportion to the length of the rail network in each country. As a result, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia will spend the most on the project, followed by Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. The Saudi Railway Company will develop the network in Saudi Arabia, Etihad Rail in the UAE, Oman Rail in Oman, and Qatar Rail in Qatar.
The project has met hurdles on account of challenges with the financing of the project exacerbated by volatile oil prices, and lack of alignment of the interests of the six states involved. The expected date of completion of the project is uncertain, given the lack of clarity on the exact scale and operating model of the venture.
History
The Gulf Railway project was approved by GCC member states at the 30th GCC summit in Kuwait City in December 2009. Saudi Arabia was the only GCC country to have any railway infrastructure at the time the project was proposed. The original deadline to complete the project was 2018. This was postponed to 2021 at a meeting of GCC transport ministers in Riyadh in April 2016.
In November 2015, Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) President Mohamed Al Suwaiket stated that implementation of the GCC Railway had begun in Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and would begin in Saudi Arabia within 2 months. Qatar floated tenders for its portion of the Gulf Railway project in the summer of 2015, but later put the project on hold. In March 2016, Abdulla Al Subaie, managing director of Qatar Rail, stated that Qatar was ready to start work on the project but was waiting for other GCC countries to begin construction. In January 2016, Etihad Rail suspended the tendering process for Phase 2 of the UAE's railway project, which includes the UAE's portion of the Gulf Railway. UAE Minister for Infrastructure Development Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi stated that the decision "was logical because you simply cannot build your part and wait for others to start".
In May 2016, Oman announced that it was putting the project on hold. Omani Minister of Transport Ahmed al-Futaisi said, "There was a challenge among countries in the pace at which the project was being implemented. Some countries started, but some others did not follow the design. So this was a challenge for Oman. Even if Oman finishes its part, it cannot connect because other countries have not started their work." He clarified that Oman "has not ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20HealthWorks | U.S. HealthWorks, Inc. was an American healthcare provider network with headquarters in Valencia, California. It offered:
Occupational health care, including preventive care.
Pre-employment and post-offer exams and screening return-to-work rehabilitative care.
Urgent care clinics.
The firm was a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of Dignity Health. In February 2018, it combined with Concentra in a transaction between Dignity Health and Select Medical.
History
The firm was started in 1995. In 2001, it purchased the occupational medicine division of HealthSouth for a reported $30 million. By adding 99 centers and more than doubling U.S. HealthWorks operations, it became one of the largest provider networks in the United States, along with Concentra.
The firm moved its headquarters from Alpharetta, Georgia, to Valencia, California, in November 2007.
In February 2011, it acquired two medical centers in south Florida. In July 2011, it acquired three NorthWorks Occupational Health Centers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. In October 2011, it acquired four Nashville-based medical centers and seven worksite locations operated by Tennessee Urgent Care Associates. In January 2013, it acquired three Advanced Occupational Medicine Specialists (AOMS) healthcare centers in the Chicago region.
Dignity Health acquired U.S. HealthWorks in 2012, the financial terms were not disclosed. Since its acquisition by Dignity Health, the firm has acquired dozens of occupational health and urgent care centers across the U.S.
In June 2013, it began a partnership with Indiana University Health for collaboration in providing occupational health services, giving it the assets of eight free-standing IU Health clinics in the Indianapolis area. Also in June 2013, it acquired the assets of seven OHS-Compcare clinics and two worksites in the Kansas City area. In June 2014, it acquired the California Occupational Clinic in Los Angeles. In June 2014, it acquired five Atlanta-area centers from Choice Care Occupational Medicine and Orthopedics.
Regulatory action
In 2003, U.S. HealthWorks agreed to pay $900,000 to the California Department of Insurance following a three-year investigation of 25 facilities in California. It was alleged that the firm did not always file a "Doctor's First Report of Injury" as required by California law, which would distort the risk experience used by insurance underwriters to calculate premiums. In the agreement, the firm did not admit liability.
References
External links
1995 establishments in California
Health care companies based in California
Hospital networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20curve%20only%20hash | The elliptic curve only hash (ECOH) algorithm was submitted as a candidate for SHA-3 in the NIST hash function competition. However, it was rejected in the beginning of the competition since a second pre-image attack was found.
The ECOH is based on the MuHASH hash algorithm, that has not yet been successfully attacked. However, MuHASH is too inefficient for practical use and changes had to be made. The main difference is that where MuHASH applies a random oracle , ECOH applies a padding function. Assuming random oracles, finding a collision in MuHASH implies solving the discrete logarithm problem. MuHASH is thus a provably secure hash, i.e. we know that finding a collision is at least as hard as some hard known mathematical problem.
ECOH does not use random oracles and its security is not strictly directly related to the discrete logarithm problem, yet it is still based on mathematical functions. ECOH is related to the Semaev's problem of finding low degree solutions to the summation polynomial equations over binary field, called the Summation Polynomial Problem. An efficient algorithm to solve this problem has not been given so far. Although the problem was not proven to be NP-hard, it is assumed that such an algorithm does not exist. Under certain assumptions, finding a collision in ECOH may be also viewed as an instance of the subset sum problem. Besides solving the Summation Polynomial Problem, there exists another way how to find second pre-images and thus collisions, Wagner's generalized birthday attack.
ECOH is a good example of hash function that is based on mathematical functions (with the provable security approach) rather than on classical ad hoc mixing of bits to obtain the hash.
The algorithm
Given , ECOH divides the message into blocks . If the last block is incomplete, it is padded with single 1 and then appropriate number of 0. Let furthermore be a function that maps a message block and an integer to an elliptic curve point. Then using the mapping , each block is transformed to an elliptic curve point , and these points are added together with two more points. One additional point contains the padding and depends only on the message length. The second additional point depends on the message length and the XOR of all message blocks. The result is truncated to get the hash .
The two extra points are computed by and . adds all the elliptic curve points and the two extra points together. Finally, the result is passed through an output transformation function f to get the hash result . To read more about this algorithm, see "ECOH: the Elliptic Curve Only Hash".
Examples
Four ECOH algorithms were proposed, ECOH-224, ECOH-256, ECOH-384 and ECOH-512. The number represents the size of the message digest. They differ in the length of parameters, block size and in the used elliptic curve. The first two uses the elliptic curve B-283: , with parameters (128, 64, 64). ECOH-384 uses the curve B-409: , with parameters (192, 64, 64 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%203D | ESPN 3D was an American digital cable and satellite television channel that was owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operated the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and the Hearst Corporation (which holds the remaining 20% interest). The channel featured 3D telecasts of sports events that ESPN held broadcast rights, and simulcasted live games from other ESPN networks on a semi-regular basis.
History
ESPN 3D launched on June 11, 2010 with a 3D broadcast of the opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup between South Africa and Mexico. Other programs broadcast on the channel in its first year included the 2011 BCS National Championship Game and various college football and basketball games. Early programming included 25 matches from the 2010 World Cup and the Summer X Games. Up to 85 live events were shown on the network in 2010. ESPN 3D produced 14 games from the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2010-11 season, including seven playoff games. The first NBA game broadcast on ESPN 3D was a December 17, 2010 match between the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks. On June 30, 2011, ESPN announced that ESPN 3D would air the first men's semi-finals match of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships live, to be followed by a tape delayed broadcast of the second men's semi-finals. On July 4, 2011, it would also air a recorded broadcast of the ladies' and men's finals. ESPN 3D also broadcast all of the games of the 2011 Little League World Series.
Originally operating as a part-time service, ESPN 3D began broadcasting 24 hours a day on February 14, 2011. ESPN 3D was shut down on September 30, 2013, citing "limited viewer adoption of 3D services".
Carriage
DirecTV, Comcast and AT&T U-verse carried ESPN 3D at its launch. Time Warner Cable reached an agreement to carry the channel a few months later and Verizon FiOS began carrying it in April 2011.
On August 1, 2011, during that year's X Games, AT&T U-verse abruptly stopped carrying ESPN 3D to its customers, citing high cost and low demand.
References
3d
Television channels and stations established in 2010
English-language television stations in the United States
3D television channels
Defunct television networks in the United States
2010 establishments in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffy%27s%20Saga | Puffy's Saga is a maze video game released in 1989.
References
External links
Puffy's Saga at Atari Mania
Puffy's Saga at Gamebase 64
Puffy's Saga at Spectrum Computing
1989 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games developed in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroFUN | The Microlensing Follow-Up Network (μFUN, pronounced "micro-fun") is an informal group of observers who monitor high magnification gravitational microlensing events in the Milky Way's Galactic Bulge. Its goal is to detect extrasolar planets via microlensing of the parent star by the planet. μFUN is a follow-up network - they monitor microlensing events identified by survey groups such as OGLE and Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA).
In January 2009, μFUN merged with the Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork (PLANET).
Organizations like μFUN provide a forum and a listserv for instant notification to amateur and professional astronomers all over the globe, so that microlensing events can be mined for all the information that can be gathered. Thus, amateur astronomers have a useful role in significant discoveries, as well as a clear and democratic path to authorship on any peer-reviewed scientific publications that result.
Microlensing
Gravitational lensing is an effect of Albert Einstein's general relativity, which says that all matter bends light that passes by it. Strong gravitational lensing drastically alters the shape of an object on the sky; weak gravitational lensing slightly alters the shape of the object; and gravitational microlensing alters only the brightness of the object, instead of its shape. Gravitational lensing in general, and especially microlensing, has had a vast impact on astronomy, specifically in the search for extrasolar planets.
If a planet orbiting a star passes within our line of sight to that star, it very slightly changes the brightness of the star. These changes can last a few hours or a few days. Astronomers can estimate the ratio of the planet's mass to the star's mass, as well as the radius of the planet's orbit around the star, by comparing actual brightness measurements to theoretical models.
Expensive equipment is required to detect a microlensing event, but because of the magnification, less sophisticated telescopic equipment can monitor the magnified area for changes in brightness caused by planets. Equipment that is now available has become more efficient at detecting microlensing events, but this equipment is in high demand for all sorts of astronomical observations and cannot be dedicated to monitoring these events for disruptions caused by planets.
Amateur astronomers have no access restriction to their equipment and can "follow up" on microlensing events that have been detected, therefore contributing to the discovery of several extrasolar planets. The short duration and unpredictable nature of disruptions during microlensing events require this kind of coverage, making amateur efforts very important to searching for extrasolar planets using microlensing. μFUN facilitates the collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers that is necessary for the continued discovery of extrasolar planets.
Planets discovered
μFUN played an important role in discovery and analysis of the fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Interconnection%20Networks | The Journal of Interconnection Networks was established in 2000 and is published by World Scientific. It covers the field of interconnection networks from theory and analysis to design and implementation, as well as corresponding issues of communication, computing and function. This includes topics structures and functions in biological systems and neural networks.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Inspec, DBLP Bibliography Server, and io-port.net.
References
External links
English-language journals
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 2000
World Scientific academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCARI | OCARI (Open Communication protocol for Ad hoc Reliable industrial Instrumentation) is a low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPAN) communication protocol that derives from the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. It was developed by the following consortium during the OCARI project that is funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR):
Électricité de France, project leader
DCNS
One-RF Technologies, Telit RF
Laboratoire toulousain de technologie et d'ingénierie des systèmes (LATTIS)
Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes (LIMOS)
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA)
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
Since the end of the Agency project, EDF and INRIA continued to work together with BeamLogic to industrialize OCARI.
Design requirements
OCARI was designed to satisfy the following technical requirements:
Running on standard IEEE 802.15.4 platforms that use Cortex M3 MCU and Atmel AT86RF233/231 transceiver.
Providing mesh networking with self-configuring and the power saving capability for operation on battery.
Ability to support a large number of instrumentations (sensors and actuators) per application with the same hardware platform so that interchangeability is possible.
Features
OCARI distinguishes from protocols such as Zigbee, WirelessHART and Isa100.11a by the following characteristics:
Energy-efficient proactive and adaptive routing (the path to reach the sink has a minimum energy cost, and new links are automatically created when the existing ones are broken, and only symmetric links are retained) and load balancing of router nodes (node that has the highest residual energy is dynamically selected among one-hop neighbors).
Distributed synchronization of the operating cycle based on multi-hop deterministic synchronization of nodes using cascaded beacons. It allows to determine the sleeping period of all network nodes for energy saving.
An activity scheduling mechanism based on a distributed three-hops coloring algorithm that minimizes the number of colors (pre-reserved slots). Thanks to this mechanism, extra energy saving can be obtained because of no collision and a node wakes up in its slot if it has data to transmit and in the slots of its 1-hop neighbors if it has data to receive, and sleeps the rest of the time
Spatial reuse of the time slots (the 4-hops neighbor can reuse the same color therefore transmitting at the same time). This facilitates the scalability of network per application.
Support of mobile network node: the mobile node does not have color, it send its data to the nearest (in RSSI) colored device.
The operating cycle of OCARI is divided into five periods:
[T0-T1]: Multi-hop deterministic synchronization of nodes using cascaded beacons.
[T1-T2]: Transmission of messages and signaling data by competition (CSMA/CA).
[T2-T3]: Transmission of data messages without collision (collection) in colored slots (optimized TDMA).
[T3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20contracta | Datana contracta, the contracted datana, is a species of moth in the family Notodontidae. It is found from Maine to Florida and west to Arkansas and Wisconsin.
The wingspan is 35–50 mm.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on the foliage of blueberries, hickories, oaks, sycamore, and witch-hazel. In Alabama, it has been found on water, laurel and sawtooth oaks.
External links
Bug Guide
Images
Species info
Notodontidae
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1855 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20integerrima | Datana integerrima, the walnut caterpillar moth, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in eastern North America, from Ontario, through most of the Eastern States west to Minnesota and south to northern Mexico.
The wingspan is 35–50 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August.
The larvae feed on hickory, pecan, Carya and Juglans species.
External links
Bug Guide
Images
Species info
Notodontidae
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1866 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Madison | Ashley Madison, or The Ashley Madison Agency, is a Canadian online dating service and social networking service. It was launched in 2002 and marketed to people who are married (or people in relationships) who are looking for affairs. The website's slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair."
The website has been widely condemned for being a "business built on the back of broken hearts", and is also believed to lie about the size of its userbase by "creating fake accounts, or not stopping others from creating fake accounts".
Ashley Madison gained notoriety in 2015 when it was hacked and the personal information of millions of users was released to the public.
History
Ashley Madison was founded in 2002 by Darren J. Morgenstern. The name comes from two popular female names in North America, "Ashley" and "Madison".
On July 15, 2015, hackers stole all of its customer data—including emails, names, home addresses, sexual fantasies, and credit card information—and threatened to post the data online if Ashley Madison and fellow Avid Life Media site Established Men were not permanently closed. By July 22, the first set of customer names was released by hackers, with all of the user data released on August 18, 2015. More data (including some of the CEO's emails) was released on August 20, 2015. The release included data from customers who had previously paid a $19 fee to Ashley Madison to supposedly have their data deleted. The fee was also applied to people who had accounts set up against their will, as a workplace prank, or because of a mistyped email address.
On August 28, 2015, Noel Biderman agreed to step down as chief executive officer of Avid Life Media Inc. A statement released by the firm said his departure was "in the best interest of the company".
In July 2016, parent company Avid Life Media re-branded itself to Ruby Corp. and appointed Rob Segal as its new CEO. In the same month, the company changed its signature tagline from "Life is Short. Have an Affair." to "Find your moment", and updated its brand imagery to replace the image of a woman wearing a wedding ring with a red gem-shaped symbol as its logo.
By 2017, CEO Rob Segal and President James Millership had resigned from their respective roles.
In May 2017, Ashley Madison unretired the tagline "Life is short. Have an affair", and the image of the married woman, symbolic of the company's returned focus on married dating. In February 2019, the company announced it had reached the 60-million-member mark. In a 2019 interview, Ashley Madison's Chief Strategy Officer Paul Keable stated that the service helps create up to one million affairs every month.
Membership
Ashley Madison is a membership website and service based in Canada; its membership includes more than 60 million people in 53 countries.
The company announced plans to launch in Singapore in 2014. However, Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it would not allow Ashley Madison to operate in Singapore as " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair%20Ferguson%20Ritchie | Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (1890–1954) was a crossword compiler, under the pseudonym Afrit. The son of a post office clerk, he was born in 1890 and brought up in King’s Lynn. He was head boy at King Edward VII Grammar School there and graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1911.
He trained for Holy Orders at Bishop’s Hostel, Liverpool and was ordained deacon in 1912, and priest in 1913 . From 1912 to 1918 he was curate at St Paul’s church, Southport and from 1918 to 1924 he was St Mary’s church, Waterloo and also an assistant master at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. From there he went to Wells as Head of the Cathedral School and also as a priest vicar at the cathedral. He resigned as Priest Vicar in 1935 as the growing school needed his full attention.
In 1946 he was made a prebendary (honorary canon) of Wells Cathedral in recognition of his service to Wells and the diocese. In 1920 he married, Violet Minett who also taught at Merchant Taylor’s, Crosby, and they had four children. He died in harness on 8 April 1954, aged 63, prompting a letter to The Times.
He was an excellent sportsman in his youth and besides crosswords, his interests included book-binding and bee-keeping. He was a demon at croquet and the Wells Cathedral School still maintains his croquet lawn. At the school he kept bees in what had been the ‘laundry garden’. When the bees took the garden over he persuaded gangs of volunteers to help take care of them. It seemed to the pupils that the volunteers emerged unscathed, whereas the headmaster, despite cloaking himself in hats and veils, always managed to get stung.
Recalling the headmaster’s crossword expertise, one student related the headmaster saying to him, “Congratulations, you won the Observer crossword prize last week. Would you be good enough to let me have it some time?” Ritchie, who could no longer enter under his own name, had exhausted all the names of the members of staff and was now using those of members of the sixth form.
The puzzles of Afrit (his pen name, a powerful demon of Arabian mythology, which happened to be hidden in his initials and surname) first appeared in The Sketch and The Listener. For the Listener he compiled 127 crosswords from 1932 to 1948. These were usually impossibly difficult, often securing no correct entries. At The Listener he created several enduring formats of variety puzzle, including the popular Playfair and Printer's Devilry types. Later he composed easier puzzles for the Sphere and a collection of his Armchair Crosswords was published in 1949, considered a classic in the crossword world.
Afrit's book Armchair Crosswords was republished in 2009 by Rendezvous Press.
References
1890 births
1954 deaths
Crossword creators
People from King's Lynn
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
20th-century English Anglican priests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20lidar%20availability | Maryland is among the states in the US that is acquiring lidar data, complementing the National Lidar Dataset effort to acquire high resolution elevation data across the nation. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources coordinates with most counties in the state regarding acquisition specifications, post-processing quality control, and in some cases, distribution. However, in general each county initiates the lidar acquisition.
In the Spring of 2014, the Maryland Department of Information Technology announced the addition of several new LiDAR features to MD iMap, Maryland’s Mapping & GIS Data Portal. The Maryland Topography Server and Topography Viewer, hosted by the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative at Salisbury University have been created to provide open access to statewide elevation information for use in a variety of studies and applications. The Maryland Topography Server maintains the best available elevation data and provides image services in both county and statewide extents. The Maryland Topography Viewer is a web application that allows users to view and interact with the elevation services hosted on the Topography Server. Users can view, query and more on desktop and mobile devices. MD iMap provides access to the Topography Server and Viewer as well as status maps, FAQs, metadata, and more.
Maryland county lidar sources include:
References
External links
Maryland lidar data from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Geographic data and information in the United States
Lidar
Lidar
Lidar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia%20rotundata | Tillandsia rotundata is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to Guatemala, Honduras and southeastern Mexico (Chiapas). It was first described by Lyman Bradford Smith in 1945 as the variety rotundata of Tillandsia fasciculata and raised to a full species by Cecelia Sue Gardner in 1984.
References
rotundata
Flora of Chiapas
Flora of Guatemala
Flora of Honduras
Epiphytes
Plants described in 1945 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20Center | Privacy Center is a form of scareware that hijacks Microsoft Windows operating systems. It masquerades as a spyware remover, performs fake system scans to report (fake) infections and persuades the user to purchase the "full version" of Privacy Center to remove the reported infections and to protect the PC from future infections. It appears as a green system tray icon that often takes over the screen and blocks the desktop, including the start icon. Unlike other rogue anti-viruses, Privacy Center has the capability of running in safe mode. Attempts to close the system tray are futile. Also, the system will often not acknowledge the insertion of a USB flash drive.
Method of Infection
The virus is installed when users click on a fake video codec that is "required" to play an online "movie". Once a user clicks on the codec, Privacy Center will be installed as opposed to the video playing. It may also get installed when users click on some scripts in rogue security software sites. In August 2009, it was reported that Privacy Center can embed itself in another rogue anti-virus called PC AntiSpyware 2010.
References
Rogue software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Government%20Locator%20Service | The AGLS Metadata Standard, originally known as the Australian Government Locator Service, was created by the National Archives of Australia as a standard to describe government resources. It was published for a general audience by Standards Australia as AS 5044:2002, and reissued as AS 5044-2010 on 30 June 2010. AGLS is used by some government agencies in Australia to describe online resources and services.
AGLS is an application profile of the Dublin Core metadata standard.
In December 2022, The National Archives of Australia announced its intention to decommission the AGLS website by the end of 2023 and rescind the mandate for its use by Australian Government agencies. The AGLS Metadata Standard website has been archived by the National Library of Australia and remains available on Trove.
See also
References
External links
Standards of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20video | Aerial video is an emerging form of data acquisition for scene understanding and object tracking. The video is captured by low flying aerial platforms that integrate Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and automated image processing to improve the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of data collection and reduction. Recorders can incorporate in-flight voice records from the cockpit intercom system. The addition of audio narration is an extremely valuable tool for documentation and communication. GPS data is incorporated with a text-captioning device on each video frame. Helicopter platforms enable "low and slow" flights, acquiring a continuous visual record without motion blur.
Innovations in remote sensing cameras have allowed the identification of objects that could not have been previously identified. Pipeline and power corridors and their infrastructure can be documented with digital media recording. Video Mapping System is an example of how this technology is used today.
Since the 1980s, aerial videography has seen increased use in applications where its advantages over traditional photography (lower cost and immediate availability of data) outweigh its disadvantages (poorer spatial resolution and difficulty of analysis due to lack of stereo imaging) (Mausel et al. 1992; Meisner 1986). King (1995) provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of video sensors and their applications, many of which focused on:
The measurement of transient phenomena such as wildlife populations (Sidle and Ziewits 1990; Strong and Cowardin 1995) and pest infestations (Everitt et al. 1994);
Mapping of dynamic land features such as wetland plant communities (Jennings et al. 1992) and coastal land forms (Eleveld et al. 2000);
Land cover mapping in remote areas with limited existing aerial photography and poor infrastructure (Marshet al. 1994; Slaymaker and Hannah 1997).
See also
SkySat, satellite video
References
Mirchandani, Pitu, Mark Hickman, and Alejandro Angel. APPLICATION OF AERIAL VIDEO FOR TRAFFIC FLOW MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT. Tucson, AZ
"The rise of aerial video mapping and spatial multimedia". The Australian Pipeliner January 2008.
"Specializing in Multimedia Asset and Risk Mapping". Red Hen Systems. 12/01/2008 <http://www.redhensystems.com/>.
"Review of Aerial Video Survey Technique". British Columbia Resources Inventory Committee. 12/01/2008 < https://web.archive.org/web/20110706170404/http://www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/risc/pubs/coastal/aerial/aerial-03.htm#3>.
Aerial photography
Geographic data and information
Remote sensing
Video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2P%20Universal%20Computing%20Consortium | P2P Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) is promoting research and development of an open P2P/Overlay network service platform that connects multi-types of devices users use, and conducts the standardization efforts. PUCC is a cross-industry consortium for open P2P/Overlay network standards. PUCC operations are supported by a combination of membership dues and public grants.
Objectives
Realize a seamless peer-to-peer communication platform that enables the creations of high level ubiquitous service between multi type networks and devices
Create neutral protocols through cross-industry cooperation by sharing comm-interoperable on goals and visions
Conduct research and development to create compelling technologies that support our everyday lives.
Working Groups
Architecture & Protocols (ap-wg)
Printing (prt-wg)
Streaming (st-wg)
Security (sec-wg)
Home Appliance Control (ha-wg)
Sensor Device Control WG (sdc-wg)
Healthcare Device WG (hc-wg) To be appeared soon
Device IOP Task Force (dev-tf)
History
In 2004, PUCC (P2P Universal Computing Consortium) was founded in Tokyo . The founding members were NTT DoCoMO, Ericsson, Kyoto University, and Keio University.
April 2005: The Working Groups were started. started standardization work on an open overlay network in the area of several applications, as well as core communication protocols and metadata.
July 2006: First government supported R&D was started. R&D work on harmonization of mobile network, home network, imaging devices was conducted using government funds.
March 2007: First PUCC specifications were published.
June 2007: PUCC joined the Healthy Living project, as a part of the Information Grand Voyage Project, supported by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
November 2008: PUCC continuously supports the Information Grad Voyage Project. PUCC open overlay network is used as a platform to gather information and NON-IP networks and devices such as sensor networks, USB, Bluetooth.
PUCC chairs
Nobuo Saito (2004)
References
External links
The official PUCC site
Computer network organizations
Standards organizations in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogniview | Cogniview is an international computer software company, focusing mainly on data conversion applications for the PC.
The company has released several free open source software products related to PDF, data conversion, and content licensing.
Cogniview's flagship product is PDF2XL, an application for converting tabular data from PDF files into Excel.
Cogniview sells its products through distributors and online worldwide, in more than 70 countries.
Company history
Cogniview was created as a start-up company in 2002 and focused on converting Mainframe reports to Excel and Databases with its Enterprise Reports Gateway (ERG) product line.
In December 2005, Cogniview released PDF2XL, an application to convert PDF data to Excel, which quickly became the focus of its business.
Zimbabwe Conspiracy Theory
In late March 2008, the opposition in Zimbabwe accused Cogniview of helping the government in rigging the parliamentary and presidential elections.
The accusations were later refuted by Cogniview's CEO Yoav Ezer in his blog, after online and offline newspapers caught on the story and started to investigate.
Free Open Source software
Cogniview Labs have released the following software as free and open source software. All are licensed under GPL:
CC Info – A plugin for Adobe Acrobat that allows integrating Creative-commons license information into created PDF files.
CC PDF Converter – A virtual printer that creates PDF files from any Windows application (that supports printing), optionally embedding a Creative Commons license in it.
Excel to PDF Converter – A virtual printer that has the same basic functionality as CC PDF Converterand integrates directly with Microsoft Excel to allow creating PDF files from Excel while keeping the web hyperlinks and internal links.
PostWisdom for Firefox – A Firefox plugin for bloggers containing tips and information
Commercial Products
PDF2XL – A program for conversion of tabular data from PDF files to Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and OpenOffice Spreadsheet. The program has several editions:
PDF2XL – Allows converting from regular PDF files.
PDF2XL OCR – Includes an OCR component to allow converting from scanned PDF files in addition to the regular PDF files.
PDF2XL Enterprise – Includes a virtual printer to allow converting from any Windows application that allows printing to Excel, in addition to multiple types of PDF files.
PDF2XL CLI – Allows automation of PDF to Excel conversion via command line scripts.
EUDI (Discontinued) – A product for converting tabular data from any Windows printing application into Excel.
ERG Products (Discontinued) – A client/server solution for conversion of mainframe reports to Excel, Database, or XML.
See also
Portable Document Format
Microsoft Excel
References
Software companies of Israel
Business software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notascea | Notascea is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae. It consists of the following species:
Notascea brevispinula Miller, 2008
Notascea nudata (Hering, 1925)
Notascea obliquaria (Warren, 1906)
Notascea straba Miller, 2008
References
Notodontidae of South America
Notodontidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%20code%20optimizer | An object code optimizer, sometimes also known as a post pass optimizer or, for small sections of code, peephole optimizer, forms part of a software compiler. It takes the output from the source language compile step - the object code or binary file - and tries to replace identifiable sections of the code with replacement code that is more algorithmically efficient (usually improved speed).
Examples
The earliest "COBOL Optimizer" was developed by Capex Corporation in the mid 1970s for COBOL. This type of optimizer depended, in this case, upon knowledge of 'weaknesses' in the standard IBM COBOL compiler, and actually replaced (or patched) sections of the object code with more efficient code. The replacement code might replace a linear table lookup with a binary search for example or sometimes simply replace a relatively slow instruction with a known faster one that was otherwise functionally equivalent within its context. This technique is now known as strength reduction. For example, on the IBM/360 hardware the CLI instruction was, depending on the particular model, between twice and 5 times as fast as a CLC instruction for single byte comparisons.
Advantages
The main advantage of re-optimizing existing programs was that the stock of already compiled customer programs (object code) could be improved almost instantly with minimal effort, reducing CPU resources at a fixed cost (the price of the proprietary software). A disadvantage was that new releases of COBOL, for example, would require (charged) maintenance to the optimizer to cater for possibly changed internal COBOL algorithms. However, since new releases of COBOL compilers frequently coincided with hardware upgrades, the faster hardware would usually more than compensate for the application programs reverting to their pre-optimized versions (until a supporting optimizer was released).
Other optimizers
Some binary optimizers do executable compression, which reduces the size of binary files using generic data compression techniques, reducing storage requirements and transfer and loading times, but not improving run-time performance. Actual consolidation of duplicate library modules would also reduce memory requirements.
Some binary optimizers utilize run-time metrics (profiling) to introspectively improve performance using techniques similar to JIT compilers.
Recent developments
More recently developed 'binary optimizers' for various platforms, some claiming novelty but, nevertheless, essentially using the same (or similar) techniques described above, include:
IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) (2015)
IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) Trial Cloud Service (2020)
The Sun Studio Binary Code Optimizer — which requires a profile phase beforehand
Design and Engineering of a Dynamic Binary Optimizer — from IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center (February 2005)
QuaC: Binary Optimization for Fast Runtime Code Generation in C — (which appears to include some elements of JI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 12 to October 18, 2002, which consisted of 13 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford were introduced as portraying the main characters. Tony Shalhoub portrayed Adrian Monk, the title character, an OCD homicide detective from San Francisco, who was removed from the force after the murder of his wife. A DVD of the season was released on June 15, 2003.
Crew
David Hoberman was the first to sign on to the ABC project, pitching a show about a "cop with obsessive-compulsive disorder." He then invited Andy Breckman to become the show's creator; Breckman accepted the offer, and would ultimately serve as the showrunner of Monk throughout its entire eight-season run. Breckman wrote a script for the pilot episode, which he called "Mr. Monk and the Candidate". It was originally to be an hour-long pilot, but due to lead actor Tony Shalhoub's prior contract limitations, it was forced to become a feature-length made-for-TV movie (Shalhoub's prior contract was subsequently cancelled, which gave him the freedom to join Monk). Dean Parisot was selected to direct the pilot episode. He would not return to the series until the final season, for "Mr. Monk and the Badge". Various other directors were hired for the subsequent episodes, including Randall Zisk and Adam Arkin. Writers for the season included Tom Scharpling, David Breckman, and Hy Conrad, among others. Conrad was nominated for an Edgar Award for his work on "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation". Jeff Beal was hired to write the theme song, for which he won an Emmy.
Cast
Casting for the show began as early as 1998, when Monk was being developed for ABC. By the time Tony Shalhoub was finally chosen for the role of Adrian Monk, USA Network had taken over the project, and several prominent actors had been considered for the part. Such actors included Dave Foley, John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, and, most seriously, Michael Richards. Tucci and Molina would later go on to guest star in the series in "Mr. Monk and the Actor" and "Mr. Monk and the Naked Man", respectively. David Hoberman, executive producer of the show, stated, "I can't express how depressing those casting sessions were." He went on to say that "we had people coming in doing tics and Tourette's syndrome." Eventually, however, Shalhoub was given the part of the obsessive-compulsive detective.
The role of Sharona Fleming was also difficult to cast. In the story notes, her character was described as "Sassy. Outspoken. No BS." Queen Latifah was one of the many actresses considered before Bitty Schram was given the part. Stottlemeyer (originally named Chief Rockwell) was much easier to cast, with Ted Levine being one of the earliest choices for the sometimes-annoyed but generally forgiving captain of the SFPD. Jason Gray-Stanford was cast in the pilot as Randy Deacon, a minor role. However, after p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from June 20, 2003, to March 5, 2004. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on October 11, 2004.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman and David Hoberman. Universal Network Television was the primary production company backing the show. The instrumental theme (written by Jeff Beal) was replaced by "It's a Jungle Out There" by Randy Newman. The song received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music, making Monk the first show to win the award twice. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, Jerry Levine, and Michael Zinberg. Writers for the season included David Breckman, Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, Hy Conrad, Daniel Dratch, Michael Angeli, Tom Scharpling, Joe Toplyn, and Andy Breckman.
Cast
All of the main cast from the first season returned: Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, the "defective detective"; Bitty Schram as Sharona Fleming, Monk's forceful nurse and assistant; Ted Levine as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer of the SFPD; and Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Randy Disher. The role of Benjy Fleming (Sharona's son) returned to the original actor, Kane Ritchotte, and Stanley Kamel returned as Monk's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger.
Guest stars for the season included Glenne Headly in two episodes as Karen Stottlemeyer, Leland's wife, and Jarrad Paul as Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman. John Turturro guest starred as Monk's agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, a role that would later win him an Emmy. Tim Curry took over the role of Dale the Whale, originally handled by Adam Arkin in "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale". The part of Trudy Monk, Monk's deceased wife, was played again by Stellina Rusich, but after a recast Melora Hardin replaced her for the role. Amy Sedaris reprised her role as Gail Fleming, and Sarah Silverman made her debut as Monk's biggest fan, Marci Maven.
Episodes
A (HH) listed next to a viewership number indicates the number of household viewers. These are only used if total viewership numbers were unavailable for that particular episode.
Awards and nominations
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
Outstanding Casting – Comedy Series (nominated)
Outstanding Guest Actor – Comedy Series (John Turturro for playing "Ambrose Monk" in "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", won)
Outstanding Main Title Theme Music (Randy Newman for "It's a Jungle Out There", won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Series (Bitty Schram for playing "Sharona Fleming", nominated)
Best Series – Musical or Comedy (nominated)
Screen Actors Guild
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub for playing "Adrian Monk", won)
Refe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from June 18, 2004, to March 4, 2005. It consists of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprise their roles as the main characters, and Traylor Howard joins the cast. Bitty Schram left the show due to a contract dispute during the Winter hiatus. A DVD of the season was released on July 5, 2005.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season include Breckman and David Hoberman. NBC Universal Television Studio was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme can be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season include Randall Zisk, Jerry Levine, Michael Zinberg, and Andrei Belgrader. Zisk received an Emmy award-nomination for his work on "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine." Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, Joe Toplyn, Daniel Dratch, Hy Conrad, and Tom Scharpling.
Cast
Tony Shalhoub returned as the titular character and OCD detective, Adrian Monk. Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Randy Disher, respectively. Bitty Schram portrayed Monk's nurse, Sharona Fleming, for the first half of the season, but left due to a contract dispute. Traylor Howard was then cast as Natalie Teeger in a main role as Monk's new assistant. Andy Breckman, the show's creator, stated, "I will always be grateful to Traylor because she came in when the show was in crisis and saved our baby [....] We had to make a hurried replacement, and not every show survives that. I was scared to death."
Guest stars for season three are in even more abundance than the previous two. Stanley Kamel reprised his role as Monk's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger, in nine episodes, while Kane Ritchotte continued to play Benjy Fleming, Sharona's son. Emmy Clarke entered the series as Julie Teeger (Natalie's daughter), and Melora Hardin returned as Monk's beloved deceased wife, Trudy Monk. Tim Bagley made his first two appearances as Harold Krenshaw, Monk's main rival. Jarrad Paul portrays Kevin Dorfman, Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, while Glenne Headly continues to portray Karen Stottlemeyer, the captain's wife.
Episodes
Unfilmed episodes
An episode called "Mr. Monk Is at Sea" was written but never filmed for the first half of season 3. The premise was that Monk and Sharona investigate a murder committed on a cruise ship. It was never filmed because no cruise line was willing to loan a ship to the production crew to use for shooting, out of sensitivity to the idea of murders being committed on-board or people falling overboard. This script became considered the series' "white whale" or 126th episode. It only came to light in early 2014, when it was rewritten and published by Hy Conrad as Mr. Monk Get |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 8, 2005, to March 17, 2006. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on June 27, 2006.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman, David Hoberman, and series star Tony Shalhoub. NBC Universal Television Studio was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, Jerry Levine, and Andrei Belgrader. Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Hy Conrad, Daniel Dratch, Joe Toplyn, and Tom Scharpling.
During the airing of this season, writer Lee Goldberg published his first Monk mystery novel, Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse.
Cast
All four primary cast members from the end of the season three returned. This included Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, the OCD "defective detective," Traylor Howard as Natalie Teeger, his assistant, Ted Levine as Captain Leland Stottlemeyer of the SFPD Robbery and Homicide Division, and Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Randy Disher. The character of Dr. Charles Kroger, Monk's ever-needed psychiatrist, was reprised by Stanley Kamel in five episodes, a number surpassed only by Emmy Clarke as Julie Teeger, Natalie's daughter, who appeared in seven. Melora Hardin continued to play Trudy Monk, Monk's deceased wife, and John Turturro returned as Ambrose Monk, Monk's agoraphobic brother, after a one-season absence. Jarrad Paul portrayed Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman. Michael Cavanaugh and Holland Taylor made their first appearance as Bob and Peggy Davenport (Natalie's ultra-rich parents), and Glenne Headly (Karen Stottlemeyer) made her exit from the series, after her character divorced the captain.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub for "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head", won)
Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series (Laurie Metcalf for playing "Cora" in "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head", nominated)
References
Monk (TV series)
2005 American television seasons
2006 American television seasons
Monk (TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 7, 2006, to March 2, 2007. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on June 26, 2007.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman, David Hoberman, series star Tony Shalhoub, and writer Tom Scharpling. NBC Universal Television Studio was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, Jerry Levine, Peter Weller, and Andrei Belgrader. Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Jonathan Collier, Hy Conrad, Daniel Dratch, Lee Goldberg, Dylan Morgan, William Rabkin, Josh Siegal, Joe Toplyn, and Tom Scharpling.
Cast
All four main characters returned for the fifth season. Tony Shalhoub returned as former homicide detective Adrian Monk, with Traylor Howard returning as Monk's faithful assistant, Natalie Teeger. Ted Levine returned as the SFPD captain, Leland Stottlemeyer, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised his role as the lovable but oblivious Lieutenant Randy Disher.
The astronomical number of guest stars grew even higher for the fifth season. Stanley Kamel returned as Monk's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger. Emmy Clarke portrayed Julie Teeger, Natalie's daughter, in a third season. Melora Hardin continued to portray Trudy Monk, Monk's deceased wife (whose murder is the series' main story arc), while Lindy Newton played a younger version of the character. Tim Bagley returned to play Harold Krenshaw, Monk's main rival, after a one-season absence. The character of Monk's annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman, was brought back, portrayed by Jarrad Paul. Cody McMains starred, for the first time, as Dr. Kroger's son, Troy Kroger. Michael Cavanaugh and Holland Taylor returned for the final time as Natalie's ultra-rich parents, Bob and Peggy Davenport, and Sharon Lawrence made her debut on the series as Stottlemeyer's girlfriend, Linda Fusco. Additionally, several non-recurring guest stars made appearances, including Brooke Adams (Shalhoub's wife, playing her third different character), Joshua Alba, Sean Astin, Catherine Bach, Graham Beckel, Paul Blackthorne, Stephen Bogardus, Ivar Brogger, Sarah Brown, Dan Butler, Ricardo Chavira, Gordon Clapp, Alex Cohen, Alice Cooper, David DeLuise, Charles Durning, Art Evans, Tom Everett, Kevin Farley, Tamara Feldman, John Furey, Deborah Geffner, Greg Grunberg, Dan Hedaya, Brad Hunt, Jamie Kaler, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lawrence, James Logan, Chi McBride, Brian McNamara, Jacob Miller, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sandra Nelson, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jim Piddock, Andy Richter, Bryce Robinson, Kiernan Shipka, Peter Jame |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 13, 2007, to February 22, 2008. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on July 8, 2008.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman, David Hoberman, series star Tony Shalhoub, writer Tom Scharpling, and Rob Thompson. NBC Universal Television Studio was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") was continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, Michael W. Watkins, David Breckman, and Andrei Belgrader. Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Jonathan Collier, Hy Conrad, Daniel Dratch, Tom Gammill, Dylan Morgan, Max Pross, Salvatore Savo, Josh Siegal, Joe Toplyn, Tom Scharpling, and Peter Wolk.
Cast
All four main characters returned for the sixth season: Tony Shalhoub as former homicide detective Adrian Monk, Traylor Howard as Monk's faithful assistant Natalie Teeger, Ted Levine as SFPD captain Leland Stottlemeyer, and Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Randy Disher.
Stanley Kamel returned for his final season as Monk's psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Kroger. After Kamel's death during the hiatus following the sixth season, writers for the seventh season chose to have the character also die of a heart attack. Emmy Clarke continued to portray Natalie's daughter, Julie Teeger, and Sharon Lawrence completed her run as Stottlemeyer's girlfriend, Linda Fusco. Melora Hardin portrayed Trudy Monk, Monk's deceased wife. Ray Porter took over the role of Dale the Whale, a part formerly held by Adam Arkin and Tim Curry. Sarah Silverman returned as Monk's number-one fan and founder of the Monk-o-Philes, Marci Maven, after a three season hiatus. Silverman earned an Emmy nomination for this role. Tim Bagley reprised his role as Harold Krenshaw, Monk's number-one rival. Cody McMains also returned for a second appearance as Troy Kroger, Dr. Kroger's teenage son. Larry Miller made a second appearance as Garrett Price, Monk's lawyer, since his first appearance in season 3. Gail O'Grady appeared a second time since the pilot episode, "Mr. Monk and the Candidate", but as a different character, Lovely Rita.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series (Sarah Silverman for playing "Marci Maven" in "Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan", nominated)
Screen Actors Guild
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
References
Monk (TV series)
2007 American television seasons
2008 American television seasons
Monk (TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of Monk was originally broadcast in the United States on USA Network from July 18, 2008, to February 20, 2009. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on July 21, 2009.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman, David Hoberman, series star Tony Shalhoub, writer Tom Scharpling and Rob Thompson. Universal Media Studios was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, David Hoberman, Michael W. Watkins, David Breckman and Andrei Belgrader. Writers for the season included Andy Breckman, Hy Conrad, Daniel Dratch, Tom Gammill, Dylan Morgan, Max Pross, Salvatore Savo, Josh Siegal, Joe Toplyn, Tom Scharpling and Peter Wolk.
Cast
All four main characters returned for the seventh season: Tony Shalhoub as former homicide detective Adrian Monk, Traylor Howard as Monk's faithful assistant Natalie Teeger, Ted Levine as SFPD captain Leland Stottlemeyer, and Jason Gray-Stanford as Lieutenant Randy Disher.
Héctor Elizondo joined the show as Dr. Neven Bell, Monk's new psychiatrist. Elizondo was cast after the death of the actor Stanley Kamel. Emmy Clarke returned as Julie Teeger, Natalie's daughter, and Tim Bagley reprised his role as Harold Krenshaw, Monk's number-one rival. Melora Hardin continued to portray Trudy Monk, Monk's deceased wife. Casper Van Dien made his first appearance as Lt. Steven Albright, a new love interest for Natalie who was a comrade of Natalie's late husband, Mitch, in the Navy. Jarrad Paul made his final appearance as Monk's upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman. The season saw the return of various villains and acquaintances from the past in the 100th episode.
Episodes
Awards and nominations
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series (Gena Rowlands for playing "Marge Johnson" in "Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door", nominated)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
Screen Actors Guild
Outstanding Actor – Comedy Series (Tony Shalhoub, nominated)
References
Monk (TV series)
2008 American television seasons
2009 American television seasons
Monk (TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth and final season of Monk originally aired in the United States on USA Network from August 7 to December 4, 2009. It consisted of 16 episodes. Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised their roles as the main characters. A DVD of the season was released on March 16, 2010.
Crew
Andy Breckman continued his tenure as show runner. Executive producers for the season included Breckman, David Hoberman, series star Tony Shalhoub, writer Tom Scharpling, and Rob Thompson. Universal Media Studios was the primary production company backing the show. Randy Newman's theme ("It's a Jungle Out There") was continued to be used, while Jeff Beal's original instrumental theme could be heard in some episodes. Newman also wrote a song for the final episode entitled When I'm Gone. The song was accompanied by a montage of past and present characters from the show, leading the series into the final end credits. Directors for the season included Randall Zisk, Michael Zinberg, David Breckman, and Andrei Belgrader. Dean Parisot returned to direct "Mr. Monk and the Badge". It was his only credit in the series, apart from the pilot episode. Writers for the season included Michael Angeli, Andy Breckman, David Breckman, Hy Conrad, Tom Gammill, Dylan Morgan, Max Pross, Salvatore Savo, Josh Siegal, Joe Toplyn, Tom Scharpling, and Peter Wolk.
Cast
All four main characters returned for the final season. Tony Shalhoub returned as former homicide detective Adrian Monk, with Traylor Howard returning as Monk's faithful assistant, Natalie Teeger. Ted Levine returned as the SFPD captain, Leland Stottlemeyer, and Jason Gray-Stanford reprised his role as the lovable but oblivious Lieutenant Randy Disher.
Hector Elizondo returned as Monk's new psychiatrist, Dr. Neven Bell. Emmy Clarke continued to portray Julie Teeger. Virginia Madsen entered the series as Stottlemeyer's new girlfriend (and later wife), Trudy K. Jensen. Melora Hardin reprised her role as Trudy Monk (Monk's deceased wife), and Casper Van Dien returned as Lt. Steven Albright, Natalie's new love interest. Tim Bagley returned to resolve Harold Krenshaw's (Monk's number-one rival) plotline. Craig T. Nelson entered as Judge Ethan Rickover in the penultimate episode. D. B. Woodside entered in the same episode as Monk's physician, Dr. Matthew Shuler. Alona Tal made an appearance in the final episode as Trudy's daughter, Molly Evans. Bitty Schram made a special appearance as Sharona Fleming, Monk's former nurse (Schram was a former cast member, who left during the third season). Other guest stars for the eighth season included Brooke Adams, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Sarah Aldrich, Dylan Baker, Eric Balfour, Ed Begley, Jr., Jack Betts, Kelly Carlson, Ian Paul Cassidy, Shelly Cole, Vince Curatola, Reed Diamond, Mary Beth Evans, Michael Fairman, Mark Harelik, Jesse Heiman, Carol Kane, Bernie Kopell, Wallace Langham, Meat Loaf, Louis Lombardi, John Carroll Lynch, Jay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping%20Markov%20chain | In probability theory, a telescoping Markov chain (TMC) is a vector-valued stochastic process that satisfies a Markov property and admits a hierarchical format through a network of transition matrices with cascading dependence.
For any consider the set of spaces . The hierarchical process defined in the product-space
is said to be a TMC if there is a set of transition probability kernels such that
is a Markov chain with transition probability matrix
there is a cascading dependence in every level of the hierarchy,
for all
satisfies a Markov property with a transition kernel that can be written in terms of the 's,
where and
Markov processes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Showtime%20original%20programming | Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network. Showtime's programming primarily includes theatrically released motion pictures and original television series, along with boxing and mixed martial arts matches, occasional stand-up comedy specials and made-for-TV movies.
Current programming
Drama
Comedy
Miniseries
Unscripted
Docuseries
Variety
Sports
Showtime Championship Boxing (1986)
ShoBox: The New Generation (2001)
Bellator MMA (2021)
Adult
AVN Awards (2009)
Upcoming programming
Drama
Co-productions
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by Showtime for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
SkyShowtime regional original programming
These shows are originals because Showtime commissioned or acquired them and will have their premiere on the SkyShowtime service, but they will not be available worldwide.
Pilots
Drama
The Book of Jose
Coercion
Comedy
Mason
In development
All Her Little Secrets
Billions: London
Billions: Miami
Blocks
The Education of Matt Barnes
Jonah Kills
Jumpmen
The L Word: New York
Love Canal
Millions
New Money
Panda
Rivkah
Scarface and the Untouchable
Truly Like Lightning
Trillions
Untitled Biggie Smalls murder mystery comedy
Untitled football drama
Untitled Lewaa Nasserdeen project
Untitled Nurse Jackie sequel series
Untitled Trinity Killer series
Untitled Weeds sequel series
The Whites
Former programming
The following is a list of Showtime original programs that have appeared on the channel in the past.
Drama
Comedy
Miniseries
Animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Sports
Stand-up comedy
Co-productions
Adult
Original films
Showtime has produced original films under two titles: "Showtime Original Pictures" and "Showtime Original Pictures for All Ages" (originally "Showtime Original Pictures for Kids"), the latter of which are made-for-cable films targeted at families:
1980s
Cheaters (September 27, 1980)
A Case of Libel (1983)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (August 19, 1984)
The Ratings Game (December 15, 1984)
Elayne Boosler: Party of One (1985)
Slow Burn (June 29, 1986)
J. Edgar Hoover (January 11, 1987)
Broadway Baby (1987)
Gotham (August 21, 1988)
Richard Jeni: The Boy from New York City (1989)
1990–1994
Deceptions (June 10, 1990)
Rainbow Drive (September 8, 1990)
Psycho IV: The Beginning (November 10, 1990)
Fourth Story (January 19, 1991)
Flight of Black Angel (February 23, 1991)
Paris Trout (April 20, 1991)
Payoff (June 22, 1991)
Deadly Surveillance (September 6, 1991)
Intimate Stranger (November 15, 1991)
Richard Jeni: Crazy from the Heat (1991)
Public Enemy #2 (1991)
Keeper of the City (January 25, 1992)
Black Magic (March 21, 1992)
Boris and Natasha: The Movie (April 17, 1992)
Sketch Artist (June 27, 1992)
Nails (July 25, 1992)
The Fear Inside (August 9, 1992)
Devlin (September 12, 1992)
Freddy Speaks (September 19, 1992)
Mastergate (November 1, 1992)
Double Jeopardy (November 21, 1992)
When a Stranger Calls Back (Apr |
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