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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2010%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 10: The Show is a baseball simulation video game created by Sony Computer Entertainment's San Diego division. The MLB: The Show series of video games is the longest officially licensed baseball simulation game on the PlayStation. The game is made for Sony's own PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable. It is the direct successor to MLB 09: The Show, and was released on March 2, 2010. The game presents a number of new features, including catcher mode, and Home Run Derby.
Cover athlete
Joe Mauer, the catcher for the Minnesota Twins, appears on the cover of MLB 10: The Show. Mauer was also the 2009 American League MVP.
Reception
The PlayStation 3 version received "universal acclaim", while the PSP version received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
The PlayStation 2 version of the game sold almost 200,000 copies.
Soundtrack
See also
Major League Baseball 2K10
References
External links
2010 video games
Major League Baseball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Sports video games set in the United States
Sports video games with career mode
10
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Maryland
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open-source%20hardware%20projects | This is a list of open-source hardware projects, including computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines and tools, robotics, renewable energy, home automation, medical and biotech, automotive, prototyping, test equipment, and musical instruments.
Communications
Amateur radio
Homebrew D-STAR Radio
HackRF_One
Audio electronics
Monome 40h – reconfigurable grid of 64 backlit buttons, used via USB; a limited batch of 500 was produced; all design process, specifications, firmware, and PCB schematics are available online
Neuros Digital Audio Computer – portable digital audio player
Arduinome
MIDIbox – modular DIY hardware–software platform for MIDI devices including controllers, synthesizers, sequencers
Telephony
Openmoko – phone framework (first use case: First International Computer (FIC) Neo FreeRunner, released as of mid-2008
OpenBTS and OsmoBTS – software-based GSM base stations
Project Ara – modular design, hot swapping pluggable mobile phone; due to enter trial production in 2015, but was suspended in 2016
PiPhone and ZeroPhone
Telecom Infra Project – collaborative Open Compute Project focusing on optical broadband networks and open cellular networks to create global access
PinePhone – developed by computer manufacturer Pine64, intended for allowing the user to have full hardware and software control over the device, released as of end-2019
Video electronics
Milkymist One – video synthesizer for interactive and dance-directed VJing
Neuros OSD – digital video recorder
Networking
NetFPGA – hardware platform, software, community, and education material to enable research and education effort in a line-rate network environment
Wireless networking
OpenPicus – platform for smart sensors and Internet of things
Sun SPOT – hardware–software platform for sensor networks and battery powered, wireless, embedded development
USRP – universal software radio peripheral is a mainboard with snap in modules providing software defined radio at different frequencies, has USB 2.0 link to a host computer
PowWow Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes – hardware–software platform for wireless sensor networks
Twibright RONJA – free-space optic system, DIY in a garage and maker culture, 10 Mbit/s full duplex/1.4 km
SatNOGS – software-hardware project of a global low Earth orbit satellite ground station, including for data and Internet
Electronics
Cameras
AXIOM – digital cinema camera built by apertus° community
Elphel, Inc. – cameras based on free hardware–software designs
Computer systems
Arduino – open-source microcontroller board
Chumby – information ambient device
CUBIT – multitouch surface-interaction system
Libre Computer Project – open-source, open-hardware single-board_computers
Netduino – microcontroller board, .NET Micro Framework based
NodeMCU – Wi-Fi microcontroller board
Novena – an ARM based computer built by Andrew Huang and associates
OpenPOWER – |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Songs%20of%202010 | The Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language singles in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Top Latin Songs Chart
United States Latin Songs
2010
2010 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/255n | 255N is a US Army Military Occupational Specialty code for a Network Management Technician - a Warrant Officer Military Occupational Specialty in the Signal Corps. It was previously known as 250N.
Network Management Technicians transport the voice, video and data networks establishing and maintaining the transport layer environment of Army's portion of the Cyberspace domain through network management/enterprise systems management (NM/ESM) functions to include fault management, configuration management, auditing and accountability measures, maintaining performance standards, and implementing security measures at all levels in support of combat information superiority and command and control. They supervise and manage the operation and internetworking of telecommunications networks, network systems equipment, network nodal transmission and transport systems, network management system platforms, networked information systems and associated personnel at both the local area and wide area network level. They plan, install, administer, manage, maintain, integrate, operate, service, secure, optimize and troubleshoot communications networks and networked-systems connectivity and capacity in order to transmit information as an element of combat power. They supervise and oversee network security planning and the implementation and use of electronic keys and frequency management to support communications networks and networked-systems. They manage the training of personnel on the planning, installation, administration, management, maintenance, integration, operation, servicing, securing, optimization and troubleshooting of communications networks and networked-systems. They develop policy recommendations and provide technical guidance and advice to commanders and staffs on the management and operation of Army, joint, intergovernmental, interagency and multinational communications networks and networked-systems.
References
Military specialisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym%20%28disambiguation%29 | A synonym is a word with an identical or very similar meaning to another word.
Synonym may also refer to:
Synonym (taxonomy), a different scientific name used for a single taxon
Synonym (database), an alias or alternate name for a table, view, sequence, or other schema objects in a database
Synonyms (film), a 2019 film
Synonymous may refer to:
Synonymous substitution, an evolutionary substitution in a DNA sequence coding for a protein, such that the coded amino acid remains unmodified. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maingear | Maingear (stylized as MAINGEAR) is an American privately held computer manufacturer headquartered in Warren, New Jersey. The company builds, designs, and supports custom desktops, gaming computers, customizable laptops, and workstations in the United States.
History
Maingear is a PC system builder that offers custom desktops, custom-built laptops, workstations, small form factor PCs, and media.
The company was founded in 2002 by Wallace Santos, founder and CEO. Santos began building computers with a focus on customer service and luxury quality. In November 2022, a professional gamer known as Shroud announced on Twitter that he became the co-owner of Maingear.
Partnerships
In 2016, Razer Inc. collaborated with Maingear to release the R1 Razer Edition. Coca-Cola have also partnered with Maingear for custom products.
In 2017, the company partnered with HP Inc. to release a custom-tuned version of their Omen X
In 2018, the E-Sports betting platform, Unikrn, announced it will be working with Maingear to produce a UKG CryptoMining PC.
Along with his November 2022 co-ownership announcement, Shroud also announced that he partnered with Maingear and released his own custom build.
References
Companies based in Union County, New Jersey
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-captioning | e-Captioning is a workflow for adding closed captioning data to video tapes and files. This process uses software to encode the closed captioning data into a video, instead of the dedicated closed caption hardware encoders that were previously required. Originally, e-Captioning could be done only for web based new media formats such as Windows Media, Real Video, QuickTime, and Flash. However, e-Captioning is now available to TV Broadcast facilities for tapeless workflows.
Prior to the advent of e-Captioning, closed captioning was added to a video using a linear deck-to-deck process, which required the use of a physical master video tape, two tape decks (play and record), and a hardware closed captioning encoder. Since this equipment is very expensive, it was not practical for most video production facilities to own it on site. Instead, video editors had to first output a video to tape, then mail the tape to a special closed captioning facility. In the process, a second video tape with closed captions would be created, incurring generation loss. Finally, the tape would need to be mailed to its final destination. If the video later required edits or changes, then the producer would have to ship another master tape to the closed captioning facility, repeating the process and possibly incurring additional fees.
e-Captioning replaces the hardware encoding step with a non-linear file based workflow. Since it can be accomplished via e-mail, FTP, or other file transfer methods, there are no costs for physically shipping a video tape, and less impact on the environment. This also means that e-Captioning can be performed faster, and the resulting video can be of higher quality due to the lack of generation loss. Finally, e-Captioning opens up new options for delivering captioned video with tapeless video workflows, further editing of the video in a non-linear editing system, or converting videos from one format to another (for example, from tape to web video) while preserving the closed captions.
References
Transcription (linguistics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certify%20Data%20Systems | Certify Data Systems, Inc. founded in 2004, was a healthcare information technology (IT) company located in Campbell, California, that developed an interoperability platform to enable health information exchange (HIE) between healthcare entities, such as integrated health organizations, hospitals, multi-specialty centers, clinics, laboratories and physicians. The company was acquired by Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) in 2012. In March 2015, Certify Data Systems integrated with Anvita Health and enliven systems to form Transcend Insights, a population health management (PHM) technology company.
History
In November 2012, Humana announced its acquisition of Certify Data Systems.
In March 2015, Humana announced the formation of Transcend Insights, a convergence of its three California-based subsidiaries: Certify Data Systems, Anvita Health and nliven systems. The merge brought together more than 30 years of collective experience in the healthcare IT space.
Awards and Accolades
In August 2009, Certify Data Systems was selected as a semifinalist for the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization's Innovative Approach to the Delivery of Healthcare award.
In December 2009, Cerner Corporation signed an agreement with Certify Data Systems to resell Certify Data Systems' HealthDock appliance to supplement its Cerner Hub connectivity services.
In May 2012, Chilmark Research ranked Certify Data Systems as a "tier one enterprise HIE vendor" in the "2012 HIE Market Report: Analysis & Trends of the Health Information Exchange Market." A representative of Chilmark Research stated, "It is hard to find fault with this company. Certify Data Systems has a clear product vision for a novel, innovative HIE product portfolio and [their] HIE solution suite is elegant in its simplicity and ability to bring up an HIE quickly with deep integration to a wide range of ambulatory EHR solutions in the market."
In June 2012, Certify Data Systems ranked among top three private HIE Vendors In Black Book Market Research 2012 User Survey, recognized as one of the top three private HIE vendors according to the Black Book Healthcare Information 2012 Rankings. Certify was ranked third out of 20 top private Core HIE Systems vendors. In addition, the company ranked within the top 10 percent in a high majority of criteria used to judge vendors in this survey.
References
External links
nliven systems LinkedIn Company Page
Electronic health record software companies
Companies based in San Jose, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invocation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Invocation is a form of supplication or prayer.
Invocation or Invoking may also refer to:
Computing
Invocation, a method of starting a subroutine
Implicit invocation, a style of software architecture in which a system is structured around event handling, using a form of callback
Film and television
"Invocation" (The X-Files), a 2000 episode of the television series The X-Files
The Invoking, a 2013 American psychological thriller film
Music
Invocation, a British early music group led by Timothy Roberts
"Invocation", a song by The Carpenters from their 1969 debut album Ticket to Ride
Albums
Invocation (William Lloyd Webber album), 1998
Invocation (Sympathy album), 2002
Invocation (Dew-Scented album), 2010
Invocations/The Moth and the Flame (Keith Jarrett album), 1980
See also
Invoke (disambiguation)
Evocation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment%20Online | Environment Online (ENO) is a global school network and web community for sustainable development, established 2000 in Finland
Environmental themes are studied throughout the school year, with campaigns arranged simultaneously around the world. Over 10,000 schools from 150 countries have taken part since the network began. The ENO program is coordinated and maintained by the ENO Programme Association, based in the city of Joensuu. Schools have made concrete pledges for helping the environment, such as having planted five million trees to date. ENO has won several international citations and prizes.
References
Educational organisations based in Finland
Environmental education
Non-profit organisations based in Finland
Environmental organizations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Steinberg | David A. Steinberg (born 1970) is the founder and chief executive officer of Zeta Global, one of multiple successful companies that he has founded. Zeta Global is a big-data and artificial intelligence driven marketing company that integrates data, technology, and marketing technology, aiming to help brands acquire, grow and retain customers.
Steinberg is a serial entrepreneur, one of few who have built multiple companies that are worth $1 Billion dollars, and do more than $100 Million in annual sales. His net worth has been estimated at $900 Million Dollars.
Steinberg also serves as chairman and co-founder of On Demand Pharma and Caivis Investment corporation.
Early life
Career
In 1993, David Steinberg founded Sterling Cellular, Inc. in the basement of his house in Bethesda, Maryland with the use of credit cards and a parental loan. Sterling Cellular grossed $1.3 million in sales in its first year in business. It was a business that sold cellular phones. Sterling offered free, timed delivery and a warranty/repair program and a free loaner phone program from its third month. By 1997 Sterling Cellular grew to 12 retail locations and $22 million in sales.
In 1999, Steinberg broke up Sterling Cellular by selling off the retail chain and telemarketing operations of Sterling Cellular and founding Inphonic. Over a seven-year period, Inphonic grew into the largest seller of new cell phones on the internet with over $300 million in revenue. As the public face for Inphonic, he was praised for creating and growing the online business that dominates online sales for cell phones.
When the financial crisis of 2007–2010 began in 2007 with the credit squeeze on all companies, Inphonic suffered. In November 2007, after Steinberg resigned as CEO and chairman of the board, InPhonic filed a Chapter 11 petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. In December, InPhonic was acquired by Versa Capital Management and relaunched as Simplexity.
After Inphonic, Steinberg secured support to start a new corporation, CAIVIS Acquisition Corp. According to their website, CAIVIS Acquisition Corp is an investment firm that invests in start up technology and marketing companies and helps them to maximize their growth using Caivis's capital and experience.[12] The goal is to invest in small companies that typically command a price–earnings ratio (PE) of 5 while selling to larger companies that command a PE of 10.[13]
In 2011, Steinberg started XL Marketing Corp with John Sculley, the company is [10] today known as Zeta Global. On January 30, 2014, Steinberg moderated a marketing panel hosted by Zeta on the changes in advertising and marketing over the years,[14] using Apple's 1984 commercial as a benchmark.[15] John Sculley was a panelist with advertising executive David Sable, Global CEO of Young & Rubicam; Jessica Gelman, Vice President of Customer Marketing & Strategy; The Kraft Group—the owners of the New England Patriots; and Hooman Rad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aratidecthes | Aratidecthes is an extinct genus of crustaceans.
References
External links
Aratidecthes at the Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric Malacostraca
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Fossil taxa described in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StartOS | StartOS (formerly Ylmf OS) is a discontinued Chinese Linux distribution.
StartOS is an operating system that is free and open-source software. In the beginning it was based on Ubuntu, but starting from version 4.0 it adopted custom package management (called YPK) and system installer, though the underlying live medium is still built using Ubuntu's Casper tool.
Its user interface closely resembles that of Microsoft Windows XP. The distribution was originally not available in the English language, though shortly after the initial release in late 2009 an English-language version of Ylmf OS was released.
Despite the very similar likeness to Windows XP's Luna theme—the default theme for Windows XP—Microsoft does not appear to be planning to take any sort of action against the operating system or its developers.
Ylmf OS 4.0 looks similar to Windows Vista, but also has a Mac OS X cursor scheme.
Versions
1.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.04)
1.15 (based on Ubuntu 9.04)
1.5 (based on Ubuntu 9.10)
2.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.10)
3.0 (based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)
4.0 (based on Xiange Linux, not available on the English Web site, but can be installed in English)
5.0 (beta, now called "StartOS")
5.1 (2013, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ?)
6.0 (2013, beta)
Gallery
See also
Linux Deepin
Zorin OS
References
External links
Official Web site (in Chinese)
(Ylmf OS 5.0 beta release code-named Braveheart)
Ubuntu derivatives
Chinese-language Linux distributions
Chinese brands
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28Russian%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Channel () was a Russian free-to-air television channel which was launched on August 10, 2010 on pay television, replacing kids channel Jetix, and was later launched as a free-to-air network, replacing Seven TV on December 31, 2011. The network was one of the few Disney Channel variations which renders the word 'Channel' in a native language (in Cyrillic) within its logo and vocally (in Russian).
According to MediaScope, the coverage of Disney Channel was 49.6 million viewers, with the average of 2.9 million people watching the channel on a daily basis.
History
Original launch
While Disney previously planned to launch Disney Channel Russia as an over-the-air service in 2009, their deal with a Russian media company was rejected by Russian authorities. A registration request was filed in 2010 with the Russian media authority Roscomnadzor.
On March 9, 2010, the Russian TV authority granted Walt Disney Company CIS a cable television broadcasting license (#15922). Later it was announced that the change would happen on August 10, 2010.
On August 10, at 06:00 PM (MSK), Disney Channel Russia replaced Jetix Russia, making it the last Jetix-branded channel in the world to close. The last Jetix program was an episode of Kid vs. Kat while the first program on Disney Channel was the premiere of the movie Finding Nemo, following a -minute introduction package.
Unlike many other Disney Channels in Europe, which broadcast a single video feed with several language tracks, this version was custom-made for Russia. Almost every title and logo on the channel was translated and adapted as well.
Free-to-air launch
On October 27, 2011, following a meeting between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (now the President of Russia) and the management of The Walt Disney Company and the UTH media group, Disney bought 49% of the shares of the Seven TV Channel.
On December 31, 2011 at 12:00 AM (MSK), Disney Channel Russia turned into a free-to-air television network by replacing terrestrial channel Seven TV at noon. Right after the Free-to-air launch, the word “Channel” in the Mickey Mouse ears logo has been replaced with a Russian word “Канал” (Kanal). The first program was Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.
Initially, Disney Channel Russia used to have an outdated "Ribbon" channel branding, that disappeared from other countries before the year 2010. In a slightly refreshed form, that branding remained in active use until August 2014. Disney Channel Russia never switched to the newer boxed logo, as it was meant to represent the mobile app, which was never available for the country.
On Friday, August 1, 2014, Disney Channel Russia, along with other Disney Channels Worldwide, rebranded with the new logo and identity, during its worldwide rebranding campaign.
Post-launch
Since January 2016, after the amendments to the media law entered into force, according to which the participation of foreign capital in the domestic media is limited to 20%, UTH Holding became the o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transener | Transener (BCBA: TRAN) is the leading Argentine company in the transmission of extra high voltage electric power.
The company owns the national extra high voltage transmission network, comprising almost 8,800 kilometers (5,500 mi) of transmission lines. Another 5,500 miles of lines belong to the distribution network and subsidiary, Power Distribution Transport Company of the Province of Buenos Aires S.A. (Transba S.A.).
Purchasing the power transmission network from a State enterprise, Compañia de Tranporte de Energía en Alta Tensión, upon its 1993 privatization, Transener operates 95% of the high voltage lines in Argentina, and is a subsidiary of Pampa Energía, the largest private electricity producer in the country. Controlled by local conglomerate Pérez Companc until 2003, Pampa Enegía gained control of the company in 2004, when it bought a controlling stake from Brazilian energy giant Petrobras.
References
External links
Electric power companies of Argentina
Companies based in Buenos Aires
Companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Argentina
Companies listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed%20loading | Seed loading is a technology used primarily in remote data backup solutions. It prevents large amounts of backup data being sent over the Internet. Instead, the backup is performed locally on a storage medium (e.g. an external hard disk) which is then shipped to the external storage location, where it is stored in the appropriate account. This method saves the user much time and bandwidth.
In general, this method of external backup is highly effective when the backup solution supports incremental or differential backups. The first backup is then performed using seed load technology; afterwards only new and changed data has to be backed up over the Internet.
References
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bird | Build-A-Bird (1986 or earlier) was educational software for the Unisys ICON II public school computer. It may have appeared on the ICON I or Unisys ICON III.
Overview
Build-A-Bird was designed and developed by Ergonomics Lab, University of Toronto. Gameplay revolved around creating a bird by choosing from a selection of different body parts such as stork-like legs, short legs adapted to alighting on various natural surfaces, or predatory talons. Beak type and wing type were also among the changeable body part selections in Build-A-Bird. Upon selecting your preferred, various body part types the game would provide one or several real life birds that fit your selections. What happened next in the game involved educational material about your bird's range and habitat. The visual representations of the birds, their body parts and the bird habitats were in colour and vivid for the time but lacked animation.
References
Software for children
Educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine%20shiner | The carmine shiner (Notropis percobromus) is a freshwater fish species. In Manitoba, it was once known as the rosyface shiner (Notropis rubellus). Based mostly on zoogeographic data, it is currently classified as a distinct species within the rosyface shiner species complex. The carmine shiner is a member of the Minnow family, Cyprinidae. It has the following characteristics and distinguishing features:
A slender, elongate minnow, typically 55 to 60 mm in length (Whitemouth River)
Snout length is equal to the eye diameter
Adults are olive green dorsally, silvery on the sides and silvery white on the belly
Black pigment outlines the scale pockets dorsally; the opercula and cheeks may be pinkish
Breeding males develop fine, sandpaper-like nuptial tubercles on the head, pectoral fins and some predorsal scales. They also turn pinkish violet around the head with a reddish tinge at the base of the dorsal fin. Breeding females are usually lighter in colour
Seldom survives capture or handling and scales are easily dislodged
Distribution
Eastern North America, in the United States it is found throughout the eastern part of the country from North and South Dakota in the west as far south as Arkansas. In Canada, this species has been found only in the Winnipeg River system, including the Whitemouth watershed. It may occur upstream to Lake of the Woods, Ontario. The Manitoba populations are at the northwestern limit of the distribution, separated from the continuous range of the species by 450 km.
Habitat and life history
Carmine shiners typically summer at midwater depths of clear, fast flowing streams and small rivers over clean gravel or rubble substrates. They often school in riffles and pools near the confluence with larger streams and rivers. Habitat use during other seasons and by young-of-the-year has not been studied in Manitoba, nor has spawning. However, a ripe and running female was taken in the Pinawa Channel in 19.3 °C water. Southern populations typically spawn in riffles in May/June at temperatures of 20° to 28.9 °C. Adhesive eggs are deposited into depressions in gravel, often in the nests of other minnow species. Eggs hatch within 60 hours at 21 °C and newly hatched larvae work their way vertically into the gravel. These fish are mature at one year and live about three years. Individuals likely move into deeper water to winter.
A Species At Risk
This species has been identified as Threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). It is listed under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and was afforded protection under the SARA as of June 2004. Additional protection is afforded through the federal Fisheries Act. Under the SARA, a recovery strategy must be developed for this species.
Diet
This fish eats primarily aquatic insects, some terrestrial insects, fish eggs, algae and diatoms. Prey are located by sight.
Threats
This species may be threatened by activities that alter turbidity, fl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata | Microdata can mean:
Microdata (statistics), a statistical term for individual response data in surveys and censuses
Microdata (HTML), a specification for semantic markup in HTML
Microdata Corporation, a California-based computer company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spafax | Spafax is an international travel media network which provides content technology and media assets at scale for airlines, along with licensing rights to movies, TV, audio and video games for use in airline in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems.
Spafax was founded in London in 1985 and is now part of WPP Group PLC, in the Specialist Communications & PR division.
History
Spafax started as Bath Spa Factors in Bath, England in the 1930s as a garage servicing Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars. From there, they evolved into a parts distributor with a European network. In order to communicate with the sales force, Bath Spa Factors decided to take advantage of Betamax to create films with local talents, from there a film division was born. Spafax Television was one of the earliest customized programme producers that built up a blue chip client base that included the likes of Reuters and Marconi. And then, Duncan Hilleary, one of Spafax's earliest contributors, arrived on the scene in 1986 and pitched a plan for an airline network.
He and filmmaker Jeremy Hunter partnered with the newly named Spafax Airline Network resulted in a contract to produce advertising and video productions for British Airways. The video production, a monthly magazine-style program called The World Traveler Show featuring different locations around the world, led to contracts with different airlines, including Singapore and Northwest.
In 1993, Hilleary pioneered the outsourcing of in-flight entertainment to British Airways (BA) with a dedicated team located in a BA office in Buckingham Palace Road and re-launched BA's IFE with a new programming strategy, a new graphic identity and media brand. This new approach was also one of the first to offer tangible benefits to the airline in the form of substantial savings against the BA (IFE) budget. From 1995 to 2004, Spafax has expanded to Canada, Asia, South America, and the United Arab Emirates. Spafax now has 8 offices worldwide from London to Dubai.
Operations
Spafax office locations:
London
Montreal
Toronto
Santiago
Orange County
Los Angeles (The Hub)
Dubai
Singapore
Hong Kong
Beijing
Frankfurt
New York City
Madrid
Services
Publishing
Part of Spafax's services include publishing with a specialization in custom publishing.
Entertainment
Spafax's main clients are airlines, which started the company. They offer custom in-flight entertainment and branding services to their clients; from publishing to in-flight entertainment media.
Media sales
Advertising and media sales is part of Spafax's services. This aspect of their service is created to sell advertising.
Other services
In lieu of current trends and digital development, customized digital branding is a part of the services offered by Spafax division, Spafax Studio.
References
Marketing companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1985
Marketing companies established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata%20%28HTML%29 | Microdata is a WHATWG HTML specification used to nest metadata within existing content on web pages. Search engines, web crawlers, and browsers can extract and process Microdata from a web page and use it to provide a richer browsing experience for users. Search engines benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data because it allows them to understand the information on web pages and provide more relevant results to users. Microdata uses a supporting vocabulary to describe an item and name-value pairs to assign values to its properties. Microdata is an attempt to provide a simpler way of annotating HTML elements with machine-readable tags than the similar approaches of using RDFa and microformats.
In 2013, because the W3C HTML Working Group failed to find someone to serve as an editor for the Microdata HTML specification, its development was terminated with a 'Note'. However, since that time, two new editors were selected, and five newer versions of the working draft have been published, the most recent being Working Draft 26 April 2018.
Vocabularies
Microdata vocabularies do not provide the semantics, or meaning of an Item. Web developers can design a custom vocabulary or use vocabularies available on the web. A collection of commonly used markup vocabularies are provided by Schema.org schemas which include: Person, "Place", Event, Organization, Product, Review, Review-aggregate, Breadcrumb, Offer, Offer-aggregate. The website schema.org was established by search engine operators like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Yandex, which use microdata markup to improve search results.
For some purposes, an ad-hoc vocabulary is adequate. For others, a vocabulary will need to be designed. Where possible, authors are encouraged to re-use existing vocabularies, as this makes content re-use easier.
Localization
In some cases, search engines covering specific regions may provide locally-specific extensions of microdata. For example, Yandex, a major search engine in Russia, supports microformats such as hCard (company contact information), hRecipe (food recipe), hReview (market reviews) and hProduct (product data) and provides its own format for definition of the terms and encyclopedic articles. This extension was made in order to solve transliteration problems between the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. After the implementation of additional parameters from Schema's vocabulary, indexation of information in Russian-language web-pages became more successful.
Global attributes
itemscope – Creates the Item and indicates that descendants of this element contain information about it.
itemtype – A valid URL of a vocabulary that describes the item and its properties context.
itemid – Indicates a unique identifier of the item.
itemprop – Indicates that its containing tag holds the value of the specified item property. The property's name and value context are described by the item's vocabulary. Properties values usually consist of string values |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Van%20Flandern | Brian Van Flandern (born May 5, 1968) is an American mixologist, spirits historian, and award-winning cocktail book author. He has been called "America's Top Mixologist" by Food Network. His book, Vintage Cocktails, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards|Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Cocktail book in the World 2009.
Van Flandern has cocktails served in over forty countries throughout the world and he has created original recipes and cocktail programs for famed chefs: Michel Richard, Thomas Keller, Geoffrey Zakarian and others.
History
Van Flandern was raised in Washington, D.C. but moved to New York in 1990 to pursue an acting career at the National Shakespeare Conservatory. He bartended as a side job where he worked at such restaurants as Esca and Ilo until given the opportunity to open chef Thomas Keller's restaurant, Per Se.
Bibliography
See also
List of bartenders
References
External links
Van Flandren's MyMixologist website
American bartenders
Living people
1968 births
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Writers from New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20System%20Grid | The Earth System Grid (ESG) is a data distribution portal whose development is funded mainly by the United States Department of Energy. It is the portal through which the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is distributing data for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and the 2014 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
References
External links
Earth System Grid portal
American environmental websites
Science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAFOR | The Common Metadata for Climate Modelling Digital Repositories, or METAFOR project, is creating a Common Information Model (CIM) for climate data and the models that produce it.
The CIM aims to describe climate data and the models that produce it in a standard way, and to address the fragmentation and gaps in availability of metadata (data describing data) as well as duplication of information collection and problems of identifying, accessing or using climate data that are currently found in existing repositories. A further aim of the METAFOR project is to ensure the wide adoption of the CIM.
METAFOR is optimizing the way climate data infrastructures are used to store knowledge, thereby adding value to primary research data and information, and providing an essential asset for the numerous stakeholders actively engaged in climate change issues (policy, research, impacts, mitigation, private sector).
METAFOR has created tools for practical use of the CIM, e.g., the CMIP5 questionnaire for input and creation of CIM documents. External groups, e.g., the Earth Systems Grid, are also writing tools for CIM content.
METAFOR and the CMIP5 metadata questionnaire
METAFOR was tasked by the World Climate Research Programme to produce the metadata for the 5th Coupled model intercomparison project, an international experiment involving multiple general circulation models that will serve as a basis for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
The CMIP5 questionnaire is an ambitious metadata collection tool and will help scientists to provide the most comprehensive metadata of any climate model inter-comparison project. It aims to collect enough detail to allow users to easily:
browse the archive & find desired datasets
easily differentiate between the “genealogy” (related models & experiments) of datasets
The questionnaire also allows users to enter descriptions of components which are not already specified by the questionnaire controlled vocabulary. It produces XML output complies with the Metafor Common Information Model (CIM), allowing tools and services developed using the CIM to be applied to the questionnaire outputs.
References
External links
CMIP5 questionnaire page
Metafor: Managing Metadata For Climate Models, Zero-In Third Issue eMagazine
Formal announcement of the CMIP5 questionnaire release
Earth System Grid portal
Earth sciences software infrastructure organizations
Earth sciences metadata conventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planocrania | Planocrania is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodyliforms from what is now China. Two species are currently known to belong to the genus.
History
The type species, Planocrania datangensis, was named in 1976 from material found from Nanxiong in Guangdong Province, China, and the new genus Planocrania was placed in a newly erected family Planocraniidae. A second species, Planocrania hengdongensis, is known from Hengdong County in Hunan Province and was described in 1984.
Planocrania was subsequently included in the family Pristichampsidae along with the genus Pristichampsus. Both genera were previously assigned to the subfamily Pristichampsinae within the family Crocodylidae before they were placed in their own family, the Pristichampsidae.
However, in a 2013 phylogenetic analysis, the two Asian species of Planocrania were found to be most closely related to the North American and European Boverisuchus, and the family Planocraniidae was reinstated to contain these genera and replace Pristichampsidae.
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic analyses based purely on morphological data have generally placed planocraniids in a basal position within the crocodilian crown group. Some of these analyses have found that planocraniids lie just outside Brevirostres, a group that includes alligators, caimans, and crocodiles but not gharials. However, molecular studies using DNA sequencing have found the group Brevirostres to be invalid upon finding that crocodiles and gavialids are more closely related than alligators.
A 2018 tip dating study by Lee & Yates using both molecular, morphological and stratigraphic data instead recovered the planocraniids outside crown group Crocodylia. Below is a cladogram from that study:
In 2021, Rio & Mannion conducted a new phylogenetic study using a heavily modified morphological data set, and also noted the lack of consensus and difficulty in placing Planocraniidae. In their study, they recovered Planocraniidae within Crocodylia, as the sister group to Longirostres, as shown in the cladogram below:
References
Neosuchians
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Paleocene crocodylomorphs
Paleocene reptiles of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 1976 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Circle%20%28TV%20program%29 | The Circle is an Australian morning talk show that aired on Network Ten from 9 February 2010 to 3 August 2012. The show was presented by Gorgi Coghlan, Yumi Stynes, Chrissie Swan and Denise Drysdale and aired in a daytime slot on Network Ten.
Ten cancelled the program on 30 July 2012, with the last episode on 3 August 2012.
Presenters
Colin Lane replaced Coghlan in early 2011 while she was on maternity leave. In August and September 2011, Swan took maternity leave, with various guest hosts (including Lane) taking her role during that time.
History
The show was announced on 16 January 2010 as a replacement for the network's previous morning show, 9am with David and Kim and debuted 9 February 2010. Denise Drysdale and Chrissie Swan were part of the original hosting team. After two years with the program they resigned at the end of 2011 season with Drysdale spending more time with family following the birth of her grandson and Swan announced her decision to move to the Australian Radio Network to join Mix 101.1. Swan and Drysdale returned for the show's 500th episode in 2012 to reminisce. They also appeared in the show's final episode.
The Circle originally followed Ten Morning News (which aired from 9:00 am to 10:00 am on weekdays) and occupied the 10:00 am to 12:00 pm slot. The first guest on the show was singer and Australian Idol first season winner Guy Sebastian.
On 29 April 2011, a primetime edition of the program was broadcast as part of Ten's coverage of the Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
In 2012, The Circle aired in the 9:00 am to 11:30 am slot.
Ten cancelled the series due to financial costs. The final episode was broadcast 3 August 2012. From 6 August 2012, Ten's weekday lineup began from 8:30 am with The Talk, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider under the title Mornings on Ten.
Segments
The Circle included a mix of lifestyle, cooking and interview segments along with advertorials. It was taped in front of a live studio audience in Melbourne. The advertorials were for products from home-shopping companies such as Danoz Direct and Global Shop Direct.
Book Club: Cheryl Akle
Celebrity and Hollywood Entertainment News: Richard Clune
Gardening: Melissa King
Cooking: Various chefs
Movie reviews: Marc Fennell
Roving reporters: Sean Lynch and Aleisha McCormack
Sport: Lehmo
Fashion: Emily Power
Steal Her Style: Kate Hopkins
Style Doctor: Anthea O'Connor
Music: James Young
Ten News updates with Ron Wilson (Mon & Tue) and Natarsha Belling (Wed-Fri)
Internet news: Andrew McClelland's 'World Wide Wonderful'
Hollywood reporter: Katherine Tulich
LA Correspondent: Louise Pennell
The Circle: Summertime
During the summer non-ratings period from December to January, a pre-recorded highlights show featuring notable segments from the preceding year was broadcast. Advertorials were still shown.
Controversies
Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith controversy
Stynes caused controversy on The Circle on 28 February 2012 by co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Cohen%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Danny Cohen (December 9, 1937 – August 12, 2019) was an Israeli American computer scientist specializing in computer networking. He was involved in the ARPAnet project and helped develop various fundamental applications for the Internet. He was one of the key figures behind the separation of TCP and IP (early versions of TCP did not have a separate IP layer); this allowed the later creation of UDP.
Cohen is probably now best known for his 1980 paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" which adopted the terminology of endianness for computing (a term borrowed from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels). Cohen served on the computer science faculty at several universities and worked in the private industry.
Biography
Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1963. He was a graduate student in the math department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1965 to 1967.
In 1967, Cohen developed the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general purpose computer and the first real-time radar simulator. Cohen's flight simulation work led to the development of the Cohen-Sutherland computer graphics line clipping algorithms, created with Ivan Sutherland at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 as a student of Sutherland. His thesis was titled: "Incremental Methods for Computer Graphics".
After serving on the computer science faculty at Harvard through 1973, and at California Institute of Technology in 1976, Cohen joined the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California to work on a packet-voice project designed to allow interactive, real-time speech over the ARPANet (and the Internet during its early development). The Network Voice Protocol project was a forerunner of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). In 1981, he adapted the visual simulator to run over the ARPANet which was an early application of packet switching networks to real-time applications. He started the MOSIS project in 1980.
In 1993, he worked on Distributed Interactive Simulation through several projects funded by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). He prototyped a local area network technology called ATOMIC, which was the forerunner of Myrinet. In 1994, Cohen co-founded Myricom (with Chuck Seitz, and others) which commercialized Myrinet. Cohen also started the FastXchange project for electronic commerce and a digital library.
Cohen served on several panels and boards for the US DoD, National Institutes of Health, and United States National Research Council, including 5 years on the USAF Scientific Advisory Board. He served as both a factual and expert witness in patent infringement legal cases about VoIP. Cohen was a commercial pilot with SEL/MEL/SES and Instrument ratings.
In 1993 Cohen received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the United States Air Force. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2006) and an IEEE Fellow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumapang%20Ka%20sa%20Lusak%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Secret Affairs / ) is a 2010 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1990 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the nineteenth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Dennis Trillo and Jennylyn Mercado. It premiered on February 8, 2010 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Kaya Kong Abutin ang Langit. The series concluded on June 18, 2010 with a total of 92 episodes. It was replaced by Trudis Liit in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Levi
Jennylyn Mercado as Rachel Mantaring
Supporting cast
Al Tantay as Edmundo Guatlo
Sandy Andolong as Rowena Tuazon-Guatlo
Glydel Mercado as Anita Ramiro
Julio Diaz as Mateo Mantaring
Lotlot De Leon as Linda Mantaring
Ronnie Lazaro as Falcon
Rocco Nacino as RJ Guatlo
Ryza Cenon as Apple Madrigal
Martin Escudero as Jonathan Guatlo
Prince Stefan as Dodo Gaspar III
Vaness del Moral as Gina Mantaring
Shawn Rodriguez as Boni
Luz Valdez as Isang
Michael Sandico as Ricardo Guatlo
Jolly Molly as Andrea
Jamilla Obispo as Joana
Patricia Ismael as Beauty
Guest cast
Myra Ocampo as Clarissa
Enzo Pineda as Elmer
Sarah Lahbati as Mika
Gail Lardizabal as a mayor
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 17.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 5.6% rating in Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%27s%20Verein | Raphael's Verein was the name of a secret Catholic network that operated during the Second World War and sought to rescue Jews and others who were in danger of being interned in concentration camps. It was allegedly created on behalf of Pope Pius XII.
References
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Cinemagic | Disney Cinemagic was a European television brand that consisted of a group of television channels owned by Walt Disney Company Limited (UK) plus two programming blocks by Disney Channels Worldwide. It used to be broadcast on most countries in Western Europe; currently, formerly-branded Disney Cinemagic channels in France (Disney Cinema) and the United Kingdom and Ireland (Sky Movies Disney) are run by third parties which primarily airs films by the Walt Disney Studios.
History
Disney Cinemagic was launched in the UK and Ireland on 16 March 2006 on BSkyB's premium package. On 4 September 2007, the France market version of Disney Cinemagic was launched.
In November 2008 at 8:30pm, Disney Cinemagic HD debuted in France, broadcasting on CANALSAT from 6am to 1am daily, making Disney Cinemagic the first children and family HDTV channel in a French market. In December 2008, Disney Cinemagic HD was launched in the UK with programming in high definition with initial availability through Sky+ HD with a Sky Movies subscription.
In October 2008, Disney Cinemagic Portugal was launched and in January 2009, it launched Disney Cinemagic HD being the first children's channel in Portugal to have an HD feed, with SIC K being the second.
In November 2012, Disney Cinemagic Portugal was replaced by Disney Junior, while its HD feed was rebranded as Disney Movies on Demand.
On 28 March 2013, Disney Cinemagic was replaced in the UK with Sky Movies Disney, as part of a deal between BSkyB and Disney which allowed Sky to stream Disney movies on Sky's video on demand services and the last program on Disney Cinemagic UK was an episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. In a similar move in Australia, Foxtel has launched Foxtel Movies Disney in April 2014, along with Disney XD.
Disney Cinemagic in Spain closed in January 2015. Disney Cinemagic in France was replaced by Disney Cinema in . Sky rebranded its Sky Movies channels to Sky Cinema, including Sky Movies Disney, in July 2016. On 31 December 2020, Sky Cinema Disney closed.
Duplicating Sky Movies Disney arrangement in the UK, Movistar+ launched Movistar Disney in December 2017. The channel shutdown, films moved to Disney+.
Disney Cinemagic along with all other international Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD were transferred from Disney–ABC Television Group, half of Disney Media Networks segment, to Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International segment on 14 March 2018.
The last program on Disney Cinemagic Germany was Zenon: Z3 on 30 September 2019, which finished at 11:53 pm. The final Disney Cinemagic, the Germany version, was replaced with Sky Cinema Special on 30 September 2019, thus bringing an end to Disney Cinemagic after 13 years, 6 months, and 2 weeks. The first movie on Sky Cinema Special in Germany was The Greatest Showman at 12am on 1 October 2019.
Versions
Other channels
See also
Foxtel Movies
Sky Cinema
OSN Movies
References
External links
cinemagic.disney.de
Sky Cinema Disney, UK channel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Tonight%20Show%20conflict | The 2010 Tonight Show conflict was a media and public relations conflict involving the American television network NBC and two of its late-night talk show hosts, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, over the timeslot and hosting duties of long-running franchise The Tonight Show.
Leno, the host of The Tonight Show since 1992, and O'Brien, host of Late Night since 1993, were strong ratings leaders for NBC for much of the decade. In 2001, when O'Brien's contract neared its end and he was courted by other networks, NBC agreed to extend his contract and eventually make him the fifth host of The Tonight Show. The network neglected to tell Leno about this arrangement until 2004, when they informed him that O'Brien would take over as host in five years. When that time arrived, in 2009, NBC tried to keep both of its late-night stars by offering Leno a nightly primetime show before the local news and O'Brien's Tonight Show.
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and The Jay Leno Show did not immediately receive strong ratings, and NBC affiliates complained of declining viewership. NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, alongside NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin and executive Rick Ludwin, created a remedy: return Leno to his 11:35 pm ET start time and bump O'Brien a half-hour later, to 12:05 am ET. O'Brien and his staff were disappointed and furious; when it became clear O'Brien would not agree to the proposed changes, the situation grew heated. Though not a breach of either host's contract, the change resulted in a public outcry and public demonstrations largely in support of O'Brien.
O'Brien's public statement that he would not participate in the "destruction" of The Tonight Show led to negotiations with NBC for a settlement. O'Brien and his staff received (equivalent to about $ million in ) to walk away from the network, with his final Tonight Show airing January 22, 2010; Leno was reinstated as host that March, while after a contractual seven-month ban against appearing on television, O'Brien moved to TBS to host Conan. Leno returned to hosting The Tonight Show from 2010 until his retirement in 2014. The controversy surrounding the scheduling move and the reinstatement of Leno was described by media outlets as "embarrassing" and a "public relations disaster" for NBC.
Background
On May 25, 1991, Johnny Carson, host of NBC's The Tonight Show for nearly thirty years, announced his retirement and retired from the program a year later. NBC signed Jay Leno, Carson's "exclusive guest host", to become the program's fourth host upon Carson's exit. Carson clearly held the view that the position should be given to David Letterman, host of his own program, Late Night, which had directly followed Carson's Tonight Show for ten years. NBC tried to appease both stars, but Letterman left the network in a very public conflict that resulted in the creation of his own competing show on CBS, which began in 1993, Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman's show regularly won in the Nielsen rating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.%20africana | O. africana may refer to:
Ochrolechia africana, a plant species in the genus Ochrolechia found in Australia
Olea africana, a synonym for Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, a plant species
See also
Africana (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion%20game | Congestion games (CG) are a class of games in game theory. They represent situations which commonly occur in roads, communication networks, oligopoly markets and natural habitats. There is a set of resources (e.g. roads or communication links); there are several players who need resources (e.g. drivers or network users); each player chooses a subset of these resources (e.g. a path in the network); the delay in each resource is determined by the number of players choosing a subset that contains this resource. The cost of each player is the sum of delays among all resources he chooses. Naturally, each player wants to minimize his own delay; however, each player's choices impose a negative externality on the other players, which may lead to inefficient outcomes.
The research of congestion games was initiated by the American economist Robert W. Rosenthal in 1973. He proved that every congestion game has a Nash equilibrium in pure strategies (aka pure Nash equilibrium, PNE). During the proof, he in fact proved that every congestion game is an exact potential game. Later, Monderer and Shapley proved a converse result: any game with an exact potential function is equivalent to some congestion game. Later research focused on questions such as:
Does the existence of equilibrium, as well as the existence of a potential function, extend to more general models of congestion games?
What is the quantitative inefficiency of congesion games?
What is the computational complexity of finding an equilibrium?
Example
Consider a traffic net where two players originate at point and need to get to point . Suppose that node is connected to node via two paths: -- and --, where is a little closer than (i.e. is more likely to be chosen by each player), as in the picture at the right.
The roads from both connection points to get easily congested, meaning the more players pass through a point, the greater the delay of each player becomes, so having both players go through the same connection point causes extra delay. Formally, the delay in each of and when players go there is .
Good outcome in this game will be for the two players to "coordinate" and pass through different connection points. Can such outcome be achieved?
The following matrix expresses the costs of the players in terms of delays depending on their choices:
The pure Nash equilibria in this game are (OAT,OBT) and (OBT,OAT): any unilateral change by one of the players increases the cost of this player (note that the values in the table are costs, so players prefer them to be smaller). In this example, the Nash equilibrium is efficient - the players choose different lanes and the sum of costs is minimal.
In contrast, suppose the delay in each of and when players go there is . Then the cost matrix is:
Now, the only pure Nash equilibrium is (OAT,OAT): any player switching to OBT increases his cost from 2.6 to 2.8. An equilibrium still exists, but it is not effiicent: the sum of costs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination%20detection%20program | The Recombination detection program (RDP) is a computer program used to analyse nucleotide sequence data and identify evidence of genetic recombination. Besides applying a large number of different recombination detection methods it also implements various phylogenetic tree construction methods and recombination hotspot tests. The latest version is RDP4.
See also
Computational phylogenetics
References
External links
Program home page
Virus Evolution paper
Molecular biology
Science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkin | Witkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrew Witkin (1952–2010), American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics
Beatrice Witkin (1916-1990), American composer and pianist
Bernard E. Witkin (1904–1995), founder of the California law treatise Witkin's
Brian Witkin, founder and former president of Pacific Records
Christian Witkin (born 1966), New York-based fashion and portrait photographer
Evelyn M. Witkin (1921–2023), American geneticist whose research has been widely influential in DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair
Herman Witkin (1916–1979), American psychologist who specialized in the spheres of cognitive psychology and learning psychology
Isaac Witkin (1936–2006), internationally renowned modern sculptor, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa
Jerome Witkin (born 1939), American figurative artist whose paintings often deal with political and cultural themes
Joel-Peter Witkin (born 1939), American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Morton Witkin (1895–1973), American lawyer and politician
Slavic-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Asian%20countries%20by%20GDP | This is an alphabetically sorted list of Asian countries, with their factual and estimated gross domestic product data by the International Monetary Fund.
List
GDP nominal
GDP nominal per capita
GDP PPP
References
GDP
Asia
GDP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel%20FX%20Animation | Reel FX Animation (Reel FX), formerly known as Reel FX Creative Studios, is an American computer animation studio with studios in Dallas, Texas, Hollywood, California, and Montreal, Quebec.
The studio primarily produces animated features, short films, and television series. Among them is the studio's first original animated feature film, Free Birds, released in 2013. A year later, The Book of Life was released. The film received several nominations, including Best Animated Feature Nominations from the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, Producers Guild Awards and Annie Awards. In 2020, Reel FX Animation teamed up with Warner Animation Group on Scoob!. In addition, the studio released Rumble, a co-production with Paramount Animation and Back to the Outback with Netflix Animation, both in 2021. Most recently, Reel FX teamed up again with Netflix Animation to create The Monkey King in 2023.
The studio’s upcoming slate of films includes The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants with Paramount Animation and a film titled Diya with Good Karma Productions.
History
Reel FX Animation was founded in 1993 as Reel Magic in Fort Worth, Texas. The studio was the sixth to purchase an Autodesk Flame system. In 1995, the company moved to Dallas and changed its name to Reel FX Creative Studios. Reel FX purchased West End Post, and in 1999, moved to the White Swan building in the West End. In 2005, the studio moved their headquarters east a couple of miles to Deep Ellum. The company opened a second location in Pasadena, California, and in 2008 merged with VFX-studio Radium and opened a studio in Santa Monica.
In 2017, Reel FX opened its first studio outside the United States in Montreal Canada. The studio would eventually add artists in Toronto and Vancouver as well.
Films and releases
In 1999, the studio produced its first short film, The Man In The Moon. Based on William Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood and co-directed by Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. The short film became the first Reel FX Original (now called Inventions), and in 2007, was optioned to Dreamworks Animation where it ultimately became Rise of the Guardians, directed by Peter Ramsey. In October 2012, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Reel FX's connection to the 2012 feature film.
In December 2010, Reel FX produced an untitled 3D film with producer Andrew Adamson and Cirque du Soleil. In January 2012, Paramount Pictures announced that it had acquired worldwide rights to the film, now titled Worlds Away directed by Adamson and executive-produced by James Cameron.
First called Turkeys, and opened in 2013 under Free Birds, the film was directed by Jimmy Hayward and starred Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, and Amy Poehler. Its release landed Reel FX’s CEO Steve O’Brien the front page of D CEO Magazine in their May-June edition of that year.
Following the release of The Book of Life, Reel FX assisted on Rock Dog (Summit Entertainment, Huayi Brothers) and UglyDolls (STX Entertainment) while develop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neuroscience%20databases | A number of online neuroscience databases are available which provide information regarding gene expression, neurons, macroscopic brain structure, and neurological or psychiatric disorders. Some databases contain descriptive and numerical data, some to brain function, others offer access to 'raw' imaging data, such as postmortem brain sections or 3D MRI and fMRI images. Some focus on the human brain, others on non-human.
As the number of databases that seek to disseminate information about the structure, development and function of the brain has grown, so has the need to collate these resources themselves. As a result, there now exist databases of neuroscience databases, some of which reach over 3000 entries.
Neuroscience databases
Databases of neuroscience databases
Neuroscience article aggregators
Neuroscience feed at RightRelevance.
See also
Neuroinformatics
Budapest Reference Connectome
References
neuroscience databases
neuroscience databases
neuroscience databases
neuroscience databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poup%C3%A9egirl | , was a Japanese avatar and fashion community where users upload photos of their clothes and earn website currency to dress up their avatars. Created by CyberAgent, Poupéegirl was first launched on February 28, 2007, and relocated to Ameba in 2009. Poupéegirl ended updates for the website on August 31, 2013, before finally closing on March 31, 2015.
During the years when Poupéegirl was active, the website had over 560,000 users in 2009. In addition to their website services, they released a line of licensed video games for the Nintendo DS, all published by Alvion, as well as a Facebook game.
History
On February 28, 2007, the website was launched and was initially managed by CyberAgent. However, on March 3, 2008, Poupéegirl Inc. was officially established and extended services to mobile phones. In 2009, the website moved to Ameba.
Poupéegirl briefly launched a Facebook application titled "Poupée Boutique" on July 21, 2010, which was then closed on November 18, 2010, due to administrative reasons.
On July 5, 2013, Poupéegirl announced that the website will terminate some of its gameplay features starting on August 31, 2013. This included closing registration to new users, putting an end to releases on new items, and shutting down the pay-to-play jewels and friend invitation systems. On February 27, 2015, Poupéegirl announced that they would officially be closing the website on March 31, 2015.
Gameplay
The currency of the game was "ribbons", which could be earned by completing various tasks, including posting fashion items, logging in, dressing up avatars, and commenting on other users' photos. Those ribbons could be used to buy clothing for avatars. Users could also randomly obtain shells to exchange for dress-up items.
In 2009, the website implemented a new currency, "jewels", a pay-to-play system where some users were able to access clothing items for their avatar that non-paying users could not. Jewel clothing items could be purchased exclusively with jewels during events or by bidding competitively for them at the Jewel Auction.
Closet
Users could post photos of actual clothing and accessories which other users of the website could view and comment on as well as create their own virtual closet. Fashion items could be categorized according to brand name (listed under the brand name in the Fashion Dictionary) and type. Every item had a yellow "Suteki" (or "Cute") button. If a user got many suteki rankings or comments, he or she were eligible to win ribbons.
Avatar
Each user had a customizable avatar, which they could dress up with clothing and accessories. The avatar, designed by Maminoir, was detailed to make it appeal to female users. Dressing up daily led to earning more ribbons, with each daily dress-up recorded in a calendar on the user's profile. During events, the background of the avatar would change from a normal room. Occasionally, the website had a contest with a selected theme for the best dressed avatar, which led to a ribbon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%3A%20Just%20Desserts | Top Chef: Just Desserts is an American reality competition show, spun off from Top Chef. It premiered on the cable television network Bravo on September 15, 2010. Top Chef: Just Desserts features pastry chefs competing in a series of culinary challenges, focusing on pastries and desserts. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Top Chef and Project Runway, and distributed by Bravo and Tiger Aspect USA. It is hosted by Gail Simmons, with head judge Johnny Iuzzini, head pastry chef at Jean-Georges. Other judges include Hubert Keller, owner of restaurant Fleur de Lys and a Top Chef Masters finalist, and Dannielle Kyrillos, "an entertaining expert and editor-at-large of DailyCandy".
Format
In every episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts, there are two challenges: a Quickfire Challenge and an Elimination Challenge. The Quickfire Challenge is a short challenge that tests each contestant's fundamental skills. The Elimination Challenge is usually more difficult and tests the chefs' creativity and adaptability in using specific ingredients or fulfilling a certain client's needs.
Seasons
Season 1
This was the first season of the spin-off show for Top Chef. The series premiered on September 15 and concluded on November 17, 2010. The winner of season one was Yigit Pura.
Season 2
A second season was announced on February 3, 2011. The show premiered on August 24, 2011. The second season had 10 episodes and the finale aired on October 26, 2011. Chris Hanmer was declared the winner.
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Just Desserts
English-language television shows
Reality television spin-offs
Television series by Magical Elves
Television series by Universal Television
American television spin-offs
Cooking competitions in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke%20Zero%20Facial%20Profiler | Facial Profiler was a free Facebook app created to promote Coca-Cola Zero by the advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The app used face recognition technology to search a database of voluntarily participating Facebook users to match people based on appearance. The software's algorithm analyzed face attributes like skin color, face structure and angles of the face. Once matched, users could contact their look-alike via their Facebook profile.
Coke Zero claimed the inspiration for Facial Profiler came from the drink itself. The tagline for the project was: "If Coke Zero has Coke's taste, is it possible someone out there has your face?"
Building the face database
Facial Profiler's initial phase, launched in September 2009, involved the creation of a "face database". Faces were gathered from photos that users personally uploaded and tagged to Facebook, stored photos uploaded from user hard drives and webcam photos taken via the app itself. Once the database gathered a statistically significant number of faces from both genders, various age groups and multiple ethnicities – the matching process began on December 3, 2009. Reportedly, more than 288,000 people installed the application by December 2009.
Matches and voting
When a match was generated, a corresponding percentage of accuracy was assigned to the match. As more users submitted photos, the match accuracy was to increase. Users could vote on the accuracy of their match and other matches.
Privacy concerns
The app adhered to Facebook privacy policies. It only searched photos of those who have voluntarily opted into the app. It removed user photos from their database if the user uninstalled the app.
See also
References
Meta Platforms applications
Promotional campaigns by Coca-Cola
Computer-related introductions in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%20%28networking%29 | Dante is the product name for a combination of software, hardware, and network protocols that delivers uncompressed, multi-channel, low-latency digital audio over a standard Ethernet network using Layer 3 IP packets. Developed in 2006 by the Sydney-based Audinate, Dante builds on previous audio over Ethernet and audio over IP technologies.
Like most other audio over Ethernet technologies, Dante is primarily for professional, commercial applications. Most often, it is used in applications where a large number of audio channels must be transmitted over relatively long distances or to multiple locations.
Digital audio provides several advantages over traditional analog audio distribution. Audio transmitted over analog cables can be adversely affected by signal degradation due to electromagnetic interference, high-frequency attenuation, and voltage drop over long cable runs. Thanks to digital multiplexing, the cabling requirements for digital audio distribution are almost always reduced when compared to analog audio. Dante also provides specific advantages over first-generation audio over Ethernet technologies, such as CobraNet and EtherSound. Technological advancements include native gigabit support, higher channel count, lower latency, and automatic configuration.
History
After Motorola closed an Australian research facility in 2003, current Audinate CEO Aidan Williams brought a team of researchers to the National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA) research centre in Sydney, Australia. There, with the help of government funding, the team spent three years developing the foundations of Dante. In 2006, Williams founded Audinate and began the process of bringing Dante to the market.
Audinate received funding from NICTA until negotiations concluded in 2006, at which point Audinate became NICTA's first successful spin-out company. Since 2006, Audinate has also secured two rounds of A$4 million investments led by venture capital firms Starfish Ventures and Innovation Capital. In 2009, Audinate established an office in Portland, Oregon and also has offices in Cambridge (UK) and Hong Kong.
Audinate has licensed 350 companies, which have produced over 3000 products that incorporate Dante technology.
Platforms
Audinate offers Dante technology on a number of hardware and software platforms.
Virtual soundcard – software interface for PC and Mac
Brooklyn II – medium channel count module, Gigabit Ethernet
Ultimo – low channel count microcontroller, Fast Ethernet
Dante HC – high channel count FPGA, Gigabit Ethernet
Broadway – low channel count FPGA, Gigabit Ethernet
Dante Domain Manager – network management platform
Third-party software and hardware companies that sell Dante solutions must license it from Audinate.
Notes
References
External links
Digital audio
Audio network protocols
Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Horizon%20League%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2010 Horizon League men's basketball tournament was played Tuesday, March 2 through Tuesday, March 9. The Horizon League Network broadcast the opening rounds, which were played at the home courts of the higher seeds. The Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Championship games were broadcast by ESPNU and ESPN/ESPN360.com respectively, and took place at the arena of the #1 overall seed, Butler University. The winner received an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA tournament.
Seeds
All Horizon League schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2009–10 Horizon League Conference season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 2 teams, Butler and , received a bye to the Semifinals.
Schedule
Bracket
First round games at campus sites of lower-numbered seeds
Second round, semifinals, and championship were hosted by the #1 Overall Seed, Butler.
All times ET.
Honors
Matt Howard of Butler was named the tournament MVP.
Horizon League All-Tournament Team
References
Tournament
Horizon League men's basketball tournament
Horizon
Horizon League men's basketball tournament
Horizon League men's basketball tournament
College basketball tournaments in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20Wong%20%28Hong%20Kong%20businessman%29 | Ricky Wong Wai-kay (; born 13 December 1961 in Hong Kong) is a telecom and media entrepreneur in Hong Kong. He is the chairman and founder of Hong Kong Television Network, and the founder of Hong Kong Broadband Network. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees, United College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
As an entrepreneur in the telecommunications and technology industries, Wong set up City Telecom (H.K.) Limited (CTI) in 1992, providing alternative international direct dialing (IDD) services at affordable tariffs which broke the predominant market monopoly. In 1999, he established Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, building a territory-wide fibre network to provide super high speed broadband, telephone and IP-TV services, and led the company to become the second largest IP provider in Hong Kong. In 2010, Wong was voted the 60th most powerful person in Global Telecoms Business by the Global Telecom Business Magazine.
In 2009, Wong's CTI applied for a domestic free television program service licence and in 2012, he disposed all telecom businesses to focus on the development of his television and multimedia businesses, eventually renaming CTI to Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV). However, HKTV's application was subsequently rejected in October 2013, prompting Wong to lead HKTV towards the mobile TV and internet shopping industries.
A former member of the Liberal Party in the 1990s, Wong surrendered his Canadian citizenship and contested the 2016 legislative election in the Hong Kong Island constituency, with the objective to oust Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, but failed to win a seat.
Education
Wong holds a bachelor degree in electronics engineering and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Career
Early years
Ricky's entrepreneurship started as early as 17, when he claimed to have started the first private tutoring school for students in Hong Kong, and earned HK$40,000 (US$5128 in the 60s). Also reported in many other interviews by local press through the years, was that Ricky Wong had the business idea of bringing in non-taxed engineering textbooks from Taiwan when he was 21, at his 3rd year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which earned him a good fortune and helped fellow undergraduates, at a time when textbooks are rare and expensive locally.
IDD
Ricky Wong was instrumental to the introduction of callback IDD service to Hong Kong. In the early 90s, IDD was a luxurious service in Hong Kong, costing HK$12 (USD1.5) per minute and was monopolised by Hong Kong Telecom. At the time Ricky Wong migrated to Canada, where the Canadian Government liberalised the telecom market using callback, Ricky Wong and his cousin then wrote to the Hong Kong Government about it, and with the government's confirmation, the cousins brought callback to Hong Kong.
With this new competition, IDD price started to drop over 50%. In March 1998, after lengthy negotiation with the government, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Aurora | Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks conducted by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with ties to the People's Liberation Army. First publicly disclosed by Google on January 12, 2010, in a blog post, the attacks began in mid-2009 and continued through December 2009.
The attack was aimed at dozens of other organizations, of which Adobe Systems, Akamai Technologies, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace have publicly confirmed that they were targeted. According to media reports, Yahoo, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley, and Dow Chemical were also among the targets.
As a result of the attack, Google stated in its blog that it plans to operate a completely uncensored version of its search engine in China "within the law, if at all," and acknowledged that if this is not possible, it may leave China and close its Chinese offices. Official Chinese sources claimed this was part of a strategy developed by the U.S. government.
The attack was named "Operation Aurora" by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at cybersecurity company McAfee. Research by McAfee Labs discovered that "Aurora" was part of the file path on the attacker's machine that was included in two of the malware binaries McAfee said were associated with the attack. "We believe the name was the internal name the attacker(s) gave to this operation," McAfee Chief Technology Officer George Kurtz said in a blog post.
According to McAfee, the primary goal of the attack was to gain access to and potentially modify source code repositories at these high-tech, security, and defense contractor companies. "[The SCMs] were wide open," says Alperovitch. "No one ever thought about securing them, yet these were the crown jewels of most of these companies in many ways—much more valuable than any financial or personally identifiable data that they may have and spend so much time and effort protecting."
History
On January 12, 2010, Google revealed on its blog that it had been the victim of a cyber attack. The company said the attack occurred in mid-December and originated from China. Google stated that over 20 other companies had been attacked; other sources have since cited that more than 34 organizations were targeted. As a result of the attack, Google said it was reviewing its business in China. On the same day, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a brief statement condemning the attacks and requesting a response from China.
On January 13, 2010, the news agency All Headline News reported that the United States Congress plans to investigate Google's allegations that the Chinese government used the company's service to spy on human rights activists.
In Beijing, visitors left flowers outside of Google's office. However, these were later removed, with a Chinese security guard stating that this was an "illegal flower tribute". The Chinese government has yet to issue a formal response, although an anonymous of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20World%20War%20II%20battles%20involving%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of all battles involving the United States during World War II.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Name!!data-sort-type="date"|Start Date!!data-sort-type="date"|End!!Location!!Campaign!! U.S. Casualties!!Result!!Opposing Force
!Notes
|-
|Battle of the Atlantic
|September 13, 1941
|May 8, 1945
|Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Irish Sea, Labrador Sea, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Outer Banks, Arctic Ocean
|
|Around 18,000 sailors and merchant seamen killed
|Allied victory
|Germany, Japan (Possibly), Currently unknown
|
Longest military campaign of World War II
U.S. involvement began before the formal U.S. declaration of war on Germany
Attempted blockade of the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union through attacks on merchant shipping and Allied naval ships bringing supplies and military reinforcement from North America
Allied victory achieved through implementation of convoy system
Eventually resulted in Allied naval superiority over German surface raiders and U-boats.
|-
|Operation Torch
|November 8, 1942
|November 10, 1942
|Morocco and Algeria
|North African Campaign
|1,200(479 killed, 720 wounded)
|Allied victory
|Vichy France
Germany
Italy
|
first involvement of American forces in Mediterranean and Middle East theatre
first major American airborne assault
resulted in Free French control of French West Africa and Anglo-American occupation of western French North Africa
lead to full German occupation of Vichy France
|-
|Battle of the Kasserine Pass
|February 19, 1943
|February 25, 1943
|Kasserine Pass, Tunisia
|Tunisia Campaign
|6,500(1,000+ killed); or, 9,195(2,572 killed, 56 wounded and 10 captured or missing)
|Axis victory
|Germany and Italy
|
resulted in major reorganization of the U.S. Army
resulted in delay of planned amphibious invasion of France
|-
|Battle of El Guettar
|March 23, 1943
|April 7, 1943
|El Guettar, Tunisia
|Tunisia Campaign
|~5,000
|Indecisive
|Germany and Italy
|
|-
|Battle of Gela
|July 10, 1943
|July 12, 1943
|Gela, Sicily
|Italian Campaign
|2,300, 1 destroyer sunk
|Allied victory
|Germany and Italy
|
first battle of Allied invasion of Sicily
resulted in increased prioritization of naval artillery support
|-
|Battle of Salerno
|September 9, 1943
|September 16, 1943
|Salerno, Italy
|Italian Campaign
|4,870
|Allied victory
|Germany and Italy
|
first battle of the Allied invasion of mainland Italy
|-
|Battle of Monte Cassino
|January 17, 1944
|May 18, 1944
|Monte Cassino, Italy
|Italian Campaign
|100,000+ (Total allied casualties)
|Allied victory
|Germany
|
resulted in controversial bombing of Monte Cassino Abbey
resulted in defeat of the Senger Line
|-
|Battle of Anzio
|January 22, 1944
|June 5, 1944
|Anzio and Nettuno, Italy
|Italian Campaign
|23,173(5,538 killed, 15,558 wounded and 2,947 captured or missing)
|Allied victory
|Germany
|
resulted in heavy fighting
allowed the German Tenth Army to withdraw to the Gothic Line
|-
|Battle of Normandy
|June 6, 1944
|July 24, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Tianjin | Tianjin, a major port and industrial center in China. Tianjin once had a standard steel-wheeled tramway network. But the original tram service was completely stopped in 1973. In 2006, tram service returned to Tianjin in the form of the TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram.
History
Tianjin was the first city to have its own citywide tram system (operated by Municipal Corporation) in China. It was the second electric tramway of Mainland China, third if the at the time British colonized Hong Kong was counted and is one of the oldest tram networks in Asia. It was built by Belgian interests during the foreign concession period in 1901, and recognized by the Chinese authorities in 1904. Electric trams were put in place on 16 February 1906. The first line was long and single track and was double tracked in 1907. A second line opened in 1908. Routes were gradually added, reaching five lines by 1918 and peaking in 1946 with eight lines.
Buses were introduced by the municipality in 1932. But from the mid-1950s, traffic congestion on the tram network grew rapidly with the increasing number of private cars. From 1964 to 1973, Tianjin gradually demolished all its tram lines.
Timeline
1906 - Electric tram started running from 16 January.
1933 - Tram service expanded to 14.4 km.
1972 - The last tram ran.
2006 - Tram returned as modern rubber tired system in TEDA area of Tianjin.
Tram routes
Beside electric trams, a horse tramway was also constructed, which connected the city with a large arsenal to the east.
Fleet
When first tram opened, all stocks were open type. There were only minimal roof, mostly top opened. Around 1930, newer stocks arrived. Windows added, and a more closed trailer was introduced especially in the peak hours.
See also
TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram - The first rubber tired tram in Asia
Zhangjiang Tram, rubber tired tram of Shanghai (similar to Tianjin's current system)
Tianjin Metro
Dalian tram
Hong Kong tram
References
Tianjin
Transport in Tianjin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20W.%20Barron | David William Barron FBCS (9 January 1935 – 2 January 2012) was a British academic in Physics and Computer Science who was described in the Times Higher Education magazine as one of the "founding fathers" of computer science.
Family
He married his wife, Valerie. They had two children: Nik and Jacky.
Work
Radio wave propagation
Barron's work with Henry Rishbeth on radio wave propagation was pioneering in furthering the understanding of how radio waves were reflected at the ionospheric boundary.
Computer science
Barron began his academic career in Cambridge University where he took a PhD in the Cavendish Laboratory. His research involved very early work in computer applications and he was a user of the original EDSAC computer, the world's first stored-program electronic computer to go into general service.
After his PhD he joined the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory and contributed to the development of the EDSAC 2 computer. In the early 1960s, he was leader of software development in the Titan project, a joint effort with Ferranti Ltd to develop a reduced version of the Atlas computer. In this role he led the Cambridge efforts to develop the Titan Supervisor (a multi-programming operating system) and CPL (Combined Programming Language). The Titan Supervisor led in due course to the Cambridge Multiple-Access System which provided a pioneering time-sharing service to a large user community in Cambridge and was also later employed in the Cambridge-based Computer Aided Design Centre. The CPL project broke new ground in language design and application generality, and the resulting defining paper was written by the original development team. CPL was notable for leading to BCPL and hence B and then C programming language.
Barron left Cambridge in 1967 to take up a chair of computer science at the University of Southampton where he remained until his retirement in 2000. As a computer scientist, he contributed to many fields as computer science developed into a discipline of its own. At Southampton he continued his almost unique abilities in writing and lecturing. In 2009, on the 60th anniversary of the completion of the Cambridge EDSAC computer, he delivered a seminal lecture on what was involved in programming this pioneering machine in the 1950s.
He was one of the founding editors of Software: Practice and Experience, and served as the editor from 1971 for over 30 years.
Barron is the author of many texts that explained the emerging subject to generations of students and researchers.
With others he published, in 1967, the manual for Titan Autocode programming.
In subsequent years Barron wrote texts on
Recursive Programming (1968), Assemblers and Loaders (1969), Operating Systems (1971 and 1984), Programming Languages (1977), Pascal Implementation (1981), Advanced Programming (1984), Text Processing and Typesetting (1987) and
Scripting Languages (2000).
On his personal web page Barron modestly described himself as "old-fashioned scholar, relic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201940s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1940s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201950s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1950s
Finland
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201960s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1960s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201970s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1970s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201980s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1980s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%201990s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Finnish film at the Internet Movie Database
1990s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Finnish%20films%20of%20the%202000s | A list of films produced in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Category:Finnish films
External links
Abrar Prince at the Internet Movie Database
Finnish Film Internet Movie Databasessa
2000s
Films
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberware%20%28company%29 | Cyberware Inc. was a company that produced high-performance color 3D scanners. Cyberware was owned and managed by the Addleman family with headquarters in Monterey, California; it has scanning centers located in United States, UK, Europe, Australia and Asia.
3D Color Scanners
A 3D scanner is a device that analyzes a real-world object to collect data on its shape and appearance.
Head & Face
Model PS
Model PX
Whole Body
Model WB2
Model WB4
Model WBX
Custom
Model BK (Below the Knee)
Model LSS (Large Statue Scanner)
Model M15 (Desktop 3D Scanner)
Model S (Shop)
Model SG (Spherical Gantry)
Model 3030 (Scanhead)
Model 7G (Ear Impression)
Selected films
Cyberware won the Academy award for Best Visual Effects in the Hollywood movie The Abyss.
1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and the Enterprise crew)
1989: The Abyss (Pseudopod)
1990: RoboCop 2 (computerized talking face)
1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dan Stanton)
1991: The Doors (film) (Val Kilmer)
1992: Batman Returns (Michael Keaton)
1993: Jurassic Park (film) (dinosaur models)
1994: The Mask (film) (dog model)
1996: Dragonheart (winged dragon model)
Selected video games
2004: Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jean Reno)
2008: Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! (Takaya Kuroda, Shota Matsuda, Susumu Terajima, Masaya Kato, Takashi Tsukamoto, Aya Hisakawa and other main characters)
2009: Yakuza 3 (Satoshi Tokushike, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Nakamura Shidō II, Tetsuya Watari, Shigeru Izumiya, George Takahashi and other main characters)
2010: Yakuza 4 (Kōichi Yamadera, Hiroki Narimiya, Rikiya Koyama, Majyu Ozawa, Kenta Kiritani and other main characters)
References
External links
Companies based in Monterey County, California
Film and video technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberware%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyberware is neuroprosthetics.
Cyberware may also refer to:
Cyberware (company), a Californian company producing high-end 3D scanners
Cyberware Productions, Finnish record company, distributing Neuroactive (among others)
See also
Cyberwar (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-automated%20design | Design Automation usually refers to electronic design automation, or Design Automation which is a Product Configurator. Extending Computer-Aided Design (CAD), automated design and Computer-Automated Design (CAutoD) are more concerned with a broader range of applications, such as automotive engineering, civil engineering, composite material design, control engineering, dynamic system identification and optimization, financial systems, industrial equipment, mechatronic systems, steel construction, structural optimisation, and the invention of novel systems.
The concept of CAutoD perhaps first appeared in 1963, in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, where a computer program was written.
to search for logic circuits having certain constraints on hardware design
to evaluate these logics in terms of their discriminating ability over samples of the character set they are expected to recognize.
More recently, traditional CAD simulation is seen to be transformed to CAutoD by biologically-inspired machine learning, including heuristic search techniques such as evolutionary computation, and swarm intelligence algorithms.
Guiding designs by performance improvements
To meet the ever-growing demand of quality and competitiveness, iterative physical prototyping is now often replaced by 'digital prototyping' of a 'good design', which aims to meet multiple objectives such as maximised output, energy efficiency, highest speed and cost-effectiveness. The design problem concerns both finding the best design within a known range (i.e., through 'learning' or 'optimisation') and finding a new and better design beyond the existing ones (i.e., through creation and invention). This is equivalent to a search problem in an almost certainly, multidimensional (multivariate), multi-modal space with a single (or weighted) objective or multiple objectives.
Normalized objective function: cost vs. fitness
Using single-objective CAutoD as an example, if the objective function, either as a cost function , or inversely, as a fitness function , where
,
is differentiable under practical constraints in the multidimensional space, the design problem may be solved analytically. Finding the parameter sets that result in a zero first-order derivative and that satisfy the second-order derivative conditions would reveal all local optima. Then comparing the values of the performance index of all the local optima, together with those of all boundary parameter sets, would lead to the global optimum, whose corresponding 'parameter' set will thus represent the best design. However, in practice, the optimization usually involves multiple objectives and the matters involving derivatives are a lot more complex.
Dealing with practical objectives
In practice, the objective value may be noisy or even non-numerical, and hence its gradient information may be unreliable or unavailable. This is particularly true when the problem is multi-objective. At present, many designs and refineme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20Cruz | Lucas Cruz Senra (born 26 December 1974 in Barcelona) is a Spanish computer engineer, mostly known as a rally racing co-driver and experienced navigator.
Career
He started to race on 1994, when he race on the Catalonia Rally Championship. On 2001, he achieved his first victory in the Spanish Championship, together with the driver Txus Jaio on board a Ford Focus WRC, as part of the Carlos Sainz Junior Team.
After a few years racing on tarmac and gravel categories, he started to compete on off-road races with the driver José Luis Monterde, finishing the 2001 Dakar Rally as the first classified rookies and amateurs, driving a Nissan Patrol GR.
He tackled 2006 Dakar Rally as a truck co-driver for the Volkswagen Motorsport team, partnering with driver Josep Pujol.
On 2007 he signed for Mitsubishi, where he stayed for two years, along with Nani Roma as new teammate. They attended to 2007 and 2009 Dakar Rally, achieving 10th place as the best result on final classification. They also finished 2nd on Rally Transibérico and Baja Spain competitions on 2007, and 2nd again on the 2008 Baja Spain.
In May 2009, Cruz returned to Volkswagen team, this time to share the cockpit with former World Champion Carlos Sainz. The pairing achieved their first successes after winning the Rally dos Sertões and the Silk Way Rally. The team formed by Sainz-Cruz completed their most important achievement after winning the 2010 Dakar Rally, ahead of another two Volkswagen cars, driven by Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mark Miller, respectively.
Cruz has gone onto win the 2018 Dakar Rally and 2020 Dakar Rally alongside Carlos Sainz, driving for Peugeot and Mini respectively.
Dakar Rally results
Notes
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Dakar Rally drivers
Catalan rally drivers
Off-road racing drivers
Dakar Rally co-drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powertel%20%28United%20States%29 | Powertel Inc. was a mobile network operator headquartered in West Point, Georgia, United States that provided analog cellular and digital PCS mobile communications services in the Southeastern United States. Powertel traces its roots to the May 1989 incorporation in Georgia of Interstate Cellular, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC Holding Company, Inc. Interstate Cellular was formed to acquire cellular telephone licenses and construct and operate cellular telephone systems.
History
InterCel, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in April 1991 and became the owner of the assets of both Interstate Cellular, Inc. and WHI Partnership. In October 1991, InterCel, Inc. became a publicly traded company, offering stock on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ICEL.
InterCel acquired Unicell, a provider of cellular communications service in Maine, in January 1993. The combined company had 20,000 subscribers in a market area that covers a population of 780,000 people.
In February 1994, InterCel and other investors formed Powertel PCS Partners L.P. to develop, construct and operate a GSM mobile cellular network that would provide services in nine Southeastern states. In March 1995, Powertel PCS Partners submitted winning bids for wireless spectrum covering parts of nine Southeastern states. InterCel acquired all outstanding interests in Powertel PCS Partners, making Powertel PCS a wholly owned subsidiary, and Powertel began to build a digital GSM network to operate on the recently acquired spectrum.
In December 1996, InterCel agreed to sell Unicel to Rural Cellular Corporation.
In June 1997, InterCel, Inc. changed its name to Powertel, Inc. and changed its NASDAQ stock ticker symbol to PTEL.
On May 3, 1999, InterCel sold its analog cellular operations to Public Service Cellular, Inc. for US$89 million.
Powertel, Inc. was acquired by Deutsche Telekom AG on May 31, 2001, and was made a subsidiary of VoiceStream Wireless, Inc., which was acquired by Deutsche Telekom on the same day.
References
Deutsche Telekom
Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States
Defunct mobile phone companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in Georgia (U.S. state)
Telecommunications companies established in 1989
American companies established in 1989
Telecommunications companies disestablished in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20linear%20programming | In mathematical optimization, the fundamental theorem of linear programming states, in a weak formulation, that the maxima and minima of a linear function over a convex polygonal region occur at the region's corners. Further, if an extreme value occurs at two corners, then it must also occur everywhere on the line segment between them.
Statement
Consider the optimization problem
Where . If is a bounded polyhedron (and thus a polytope) and is an optimal solution to the problem, then is either an extreme point (vertex) of , or lies on a face of optimal solutions.
Proof
Suppose, for the sake of contradiction, that . Then there exists some such that the ball of radius centered at is contained in , that is . Therefore,
and
Hence is not an optimal solution, a contradiction. Therefore, must live on the boundary of . If is not a vertex itself, it must be the convex combination of vertices of , say . Then with and . Observe that
Alan o Conner wrote this theorem
Since is an optimal solution, all terms in the sum are nonnegative. Since the sum is equal to zero, we must have that each individual term is equal to zero. Hence, for each , so every is also optimal, and therefore all points on the face whose vertices are , are optimal solutions.
References
http://www.linearprogramming.info/fundamental-theorem-of-linear-programming-and-its-properties/
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheFundamentalTheoremOfLinearProgramming/
Linear programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20films%20of%202010 | A list of films produced in Argentina in 2010:
See also
2010 in Argentina
External links
Argentine films of 2010 at the Internet Movie Database
Films
Argentina
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20of%20information%20in%20Canada | Freedom of information in Canada describes the capacity for the Canadian Government to provide timely and accurate access to internal data concerning government services.
Each province and territory in Canada has its own access to freedom of information legislation.
History
By 1982, twelve countries, including France, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the U.S. (1966), had enacted modern ATI legislation. Canada's Access to Information Act came into force in 1983, under the Pierre Trudeau government.
In 1987, the Solicitor General tabled a unanimous report to Parliament, Open and Shut: Enhancing the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy which contained over 100 recommendations for amending the ATI and privacy acts.
In 1998, the government would append a clause to the Access Act, making it a federal offence to destroy, falsify, or conceal public documents. However, the standards for document production and retention in Canada are still considered insufficient by many scholars.
In August 2000, the Ministry of Justice and the president of the Treasury Board launched a task force to review the Access Act. The committee's report, delivered in June 2002, found "a crisis in information management" within government.
Université de Moncton professor Donald Savoie’s 2003 book, Breaking the Bargain, argues that in Canada there is a reluctance to put anything in writing, including e-mail, that might find its way into public discourse.
In the fall of 2003, John Bryden, attempted to initiate a comprehensive overhaul of the Act through a private members bill, Bill C-462, which died on the Order Paper with the dissolution of the 37th Parliament in May 2004. A similar bill was introduced by NDP MP Pat Martin on 7 October 2004 as Bill C-201.
In April 2005, the Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduced a discussion paper entitled A Comprehensive Framework for Access to Information Reform.
On April 1, 2008, the Stephen Harper government shut down CAIRS, the access to information database. He justified this decision by saying that CAIRS was "deemed expensive, [and] deemed to slow down the access to information."
In response, Leader of the Opposition Stéphane Dion described Harper's government as "the most secretive government in the history of our country."
In September 2008, a 393-page report sponsored by several Canadian newspaper groups, compared Canada's Access to Information Act to the FOI laws of the provinces and of 68 other nations titled: Fallen Behind: Canada's Access to Information Act in the World Context.
In 2009, The Walrus (magazine) published a detailed history of FOI in Canada.
Federal
In Canada, the Access to Information Act allows citizens to demand records from federal bodies. The act came into force in 1983, under the Pierre Trudeau government, permitting Canadians to retrieve information from government files, establishing what information could be accessed, mandating timelines for response. Any exceptions to that right |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increment%20and%20decrement%20operators | Increment and decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one.
They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like languages feature two versions (pre- and post-) of each operator with slightly different semantics.
In languages syntactically derived from B (including C and its various derivatives), the increment operator is written as ++ and the decrement operator is written as --. Several other languages use inc(x) and dec(x) functions.
The increment operator increases, and the decrement operator decreases, the value of its operand by 1. The operand must have an arithmetic or pointer data type, and must refer to a modifiable data object. Pointers values are increased (or decreased) by an amount that makes them point to the next (or previous) element adjacent in memory.
In languages that support both versions of the operators:
The pre-increment and pre-decrement operators increment (or decrement) their operand by 1, and the value of the expression is the resulting incremented (or decremented) value.
The post-increment and post-decrement operators increase (or decrease) the value of their operand by 1, but the value of the expression is the operand's value prior to the increment (or decrement) operation.
In languages where increment/decrement is not an expression (e.g., Go), only one version is needed (in the case of Go, post operators only).
Since the increment/decrement operator modifies its operand, use of such an operand more than once within the same expression can produce undefined results. For example, in expressions such as x - ++x, it is not clear in what sequence the subtraction and increment operations should be performed. Such expressions generally invoke undefined behavior, and should be avoided.
In languages with typed pointers like C,
the increment operator steps the pointer to the next item of that type -- increasing the value of the pointer by the size of that type.
When a pointer (of the right type) points to any item in an array, incrementing (or decrementing) makes the pointer point to the "next" (or "previous") item of that array.
Thus, incrementing a pointer to an integer makes it point to the next integer (typically increasing the pointer value by 4);
incrementing a pointer to a structure of size 106 bytes makes it point to the next structure by increasing the pointer value by 106.
Examples
The following C code fragment illustrates the difference between the pre and post increment and decrement operators:
int x;
int y;
// Increment operators
// Pre-increment: x is incremented by 1, then y is assigned the value of x
x = 1;
y = ++x; // x is now 2, y is also 2
// Post-increment: y is assigned the value of x, then x is incremented by 1
x = 1;
y = x++; // y is 1, x is now 2
// Decrement operators
// Pre-decrement: x is decremented by 1, then y is assigned the value of x
x = 1;
y = --x; // x is now 0, y is also 0
// Post-decrement: y is assigned |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20Bay%20Line | The Bell Bay Line is a freight rail corridor connecting the port of Bell Bay to the main rail network of Tasmania. The Railway Line was built in 1973 to connect the Longreach sawmill to the rail network, and was extended to Bell Bay in 1974.
Traffic on the line was initially limited to woodchip logs to Longreach, with the occasional train to George Town and Bell Bay. By the 1990s, log traffic to Longreach by rail was decreasing, and container traffic to the port of Bell Bay was increasing. Today the only traffic on the line is containers to and from Bell Bay. At present, the railway line is included in the Federal Government's AusLink initiative
See also
Rail transport in Tasmania
References
Railway lines in Tasmania
Railway lines opened in 1973
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Australia
1973 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20open-source%20programming%20language%20licensing | This is a comparison of open-source programming language licensing and related legal issues, covering all language implementations. Open-source programming languages are those that are released under open-source licenses.
Lists of programming languages
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal%20signal%20correction | Orthogonal Signal Correction (OSC) is a spectral preprocessing technique that removes variation from a data matrix X that is orthogonal to the response matrix Y. OSC was introduced by researchers at the University of Umea in 1998 and has since found applications in domains including metabolomics.
References
Signal processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20ABe%204/4%20I | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I}}
The Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I is a class of metre gauge railcars of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class is so named because it was the first class of railcars of the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification type ABe 4/4 to be acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. According to that classification system, ABe 4/4 denotes an electric railcar with first and second class compartments and a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.
Created between 1946 and 1953 by the rebuilding of existing railcars originally built between 1908 and 1911, they carry the traffic numbers 30–38, and operate on the 1,000 V DC powered Bernina Railway. Since 1988–1990, when the ABe 4/4 III class railcars were placed into service, the ABe 4/4 I class has been much less frequently used on passenger trains. However, the ABe 4/4 Is are still indispensable in summer, although that is about to change, following the imminent deployment of the ABe 8/12 Allegra class railcars.
As at December 2009, six members of the ABe 4/4 I class were still in service in working order:
two Nostalgie-Triebwagen ("Heritage Railcars") in yellow livery,
three as departmental service vehicles,
one stands in reserve, or is used in shunting service or departmental service.
The original Bernina Railway (BB) railcars
The Bernina Railway (BB), which opened in 1908, originally procured a total of 17 electric railcars in two series from the manufacturers Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) und Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Alioth. All of these railcars were later rebuilt as Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 I class railcars.
The long BCe 4/4 class railcars of the first Bernina Railway series (traffic numbers 1 to 14) offered 12 seats in first class, and 31 in second class. In the long second Bernina Railway series railcars (traffic numbers 21 to 23), seven of the second class seats were omitted in favour of a luggage compartment, and that series was therefore given the class designation BCFe 4/4. (The names of the two series were reduced to writing as BCe4 and BCFe4, respectively.)
The same electrical equipment was used for all of these railcars; it was rated as developing at . In comparison with the then preferred green and grey liveries for railway vehicles, the two railcar series clearly stood out, with their yellow livery, black and red shadow lettering and numbering, and striking red route signs. In 1921, railcar no 13 was renumbered as no 15, because some superstitious passengers had been avoiding travelling in it.
Rebuilding by the Rhaetian Railway
The Rhaetian Railway's takeover of the BB in 1943 included the acquisition of the BB's ageing railcars. With their service history of only up to 35 years, those railcars had not yet reached the end of their working lives, but their performance left much to be desired.
However, the railcars were not the only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20ABe%204/16 | The Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/16 is a class of metre gauge four-car electric multiple unit trains of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class is so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to this system, ABe 4/16 denotes an electric railcar train with first and second class compartments, and a total of 16 axles, four of which are drive axles.
The ABe 4/16 trains for the Rhaetian Railway were scheduled to be delivered from late 2010. Entry into service was somewhat later. It was intended that the trains would be used mainly on commuter trains on the railway's core network, which is electrified at 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC.
Each train is almost 75 metres long and is equipped with comfortable air-conditioned compartments for 24 first class and 156 second class passengers. One of the end cars of each train has four powered axles; the twelve axles under the other three cars are unpowered.
External links
Official Rhaetian Railway website
Manufacturer's site Website of the manufacturer of the ABe 4/16
Datasheet Comprehensive datasheet of the manufacturer (in German)
Stadler Rail multiple units
Multiple units of Switzerland
Rhaetian Railway multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SprutCAM | SprutCAM is a high-level Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software that provides off-line features for programming of various CNC machines used for cutting, wire electrical discharge (EDM), 2, 3, and multi axial (CNC Swiss-Type Lathe) machining.
The program was developed by SprutCAM Tech Ltd based in Limassol, Cyprus.
SprutCAM only supports Microsoft Windows 10/11 version.
History
SPRUT Technology was founded in 1997 by Alexander Kharadziev, who recruited a team of engineers to build a company for developing CAx software. And released its own product, SprutCAM, in 1997. The company was relocated in 2021. The headquarters is now located in Limassol, Cyprus.
Version history
Past Versions
SprutCAM (1997)
SprutCAM 2 (2000)
SprutCAM 3 (August 4, 2003)
SprutCAM 4 (May 6, 2005)
SprutCAM 2007 (August 11, 2007)
SprutCAM 7 (November 18, 2009)
SprutCAM 8 (June 6, 2012)
SprutCAM 9 (January 1, 2014)
SprutCAM 10 (January 1, 2016)
SprutCAM 11 (March 20, 2017)
SprutCAM 11.5 (January 1, 2018)
SprutCAM 12 (January 26, 2019)
SprutCAM 14 (April 30, 2020)
SprutCAM 15 (May, 2021)
SprutCAM X 16 (May, 2022)
Current Version:
SprutCAM X 17 (September, 2023)
System requirements
The system requirements for SprutCAM:
Computer aided design products
SolidWorks
T-FLEX
IRONCAD
AutoCAD
Inventor
SolidEdge
Alibre Design
Cobalt
PowerShape
Rhinoceros 3D
SpaceClaim
NX
SprutCAM works with associative CAD geometry and toolpaths; this allows modified geometry or machining parameters to quickly obtain updated toolpaths.
File format
SprutCAM opens/saves following file formats:
SprutCAM Files (*.stc, *.stcx)
Operation/Parameters Files (*.sto)
IGES: *.igs, *.iges
STL: *.stl
PostScript: *.ps, *.eps
DXF: *.dxf
Rhinoceros: *3dm
Sprut Models: *.sgm
Parasolid: *.x_t, *.x_b
STEP: *.stp, *.step
Sprut geometry format: *.sgf
SOLIDWORKS: *.sldprt, *.sldasm
SolidEdge: *.par, *.psm, *.pwd, *.asm
PLY: *.ply
AMF: *.amf
Toolpath: *.xml, *.txt
Template: *.html
Postprocessors: *.sppx, *.spp, *.ppp, *.inp
Export/Convert following Formats via CAD Plugin as Background Process to IGES an Import:
Rhinoceros: *.3dm
Cobalt: *.co
PowerShape: *.fic, *.model, *.psmodel, *.dgk, *.pfm, *.x_b, *.xmt_bin, *.x_t, *.xmt_txt, *.stp, *.step, *.prt, *.par, *.sldprt, *.vda
Autodesk: *.iam, *.idw, *.ipt, *.ipn, *.ide, *.prt, *.asm, *.sat, *.ste, *.step, *.dwg, *.dxf, *.iges, *.igs
Rhinoceros: *.3dm, *.rws, *.3ds, *.stp, *.step, *.raw, *.wrl, *.vrml, *.ai, *.eps, *.lwo, *.spl, *.vda, *.dwg, *.dxf, *.dgn, *.sldprt, *.sldasm
SolidEdge: *.asm, *.dft, *.par, *.psm, *.mds, *.pwd, *.dgn, *.dxf, *.dwg, *.prt, *.sat, *.stp, *.step, *.x_b, *.xmt_bin, *.x_t, *.xmt_txt
SOLIDWORKS: *.sldasm, *.asm, *.sldprt, *.prt, *.slddrw, *.drw, *.x_b, *.xmt_bin, *.x_t, *.xmt_txt, *.stp, *.step
T-FLEX: *.grb
See also
CAx
CAM
CNC
Machining
Off-line robot programming
References
External links
Official SprutCAM Website
Official SprutCAM Robot Website
Computer-aided manufacturing softw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science%20in%20sport | Computer science in sport is an interdisciplinary discipline that has its goal in combining the theoretical as well as practical aspects and methods of the areas of informatics and sport science. The main emphasis of the interdisciplinarity is placed on the application and use of computer-based but also mathematical techniques in sport science, aiming in this way at the support and advancement of theory and practice in sports. The reason why computer science has become an important partner for sport science is mainly connected with "the fact that the use of data and media, the design of models, the analysis of systems etc. increasingly requires the support of suitable tools and concepts which are developed and available in computer science".
Historical background
Going back in history, computers in sports were used for the first time in the 1960s, when the main purpose was to accumulate sports information. Databases were created and expanded in order to launch documentation and dissemination of publications like articles or books that contain any kind of knowledge related to sports science. Until the mid-1970s also the first organization in this area called IASI (International Association for Sports Information) was formally established. Congresses and meetings were organized more often with the aim of standardization and rationalization of sports documentation. Since at that time this area was obviously less computer-oriented, specialists talk about sports information rather than sports informatics when mentioning the beginning of this field of science.
Based on the progress of computer science and the invention of more powerful computer hardware in the 1970s, also the real history of computer science in sport began. This was as well the first time when this term was officially used and the initiation of a very important evolution in sports science.
In the early stages of this area statistics on biomechanical data, like different kinds of forces or rates, played a major role. Scientists started to analyze sports games by collecting and looking at such values and features in order to interpret them. Later on, with the continuous improvement of computer hardware - in particular microprocessor speed – many new scientific and computing paradigms were introduced, which were also integrated in computer science in sport. Specific examples are modeling as well as simulation, but also pattern recognition, and design.
As another result of this development, the term 'computer science in sport' has been added in the encyclopedia of sports science in 2004.
Areas of research
The importance and strong influence of computer science as an interdisciplinary partner for sport and sport science is mainly proven by the research activities in computer science in sport. The following IT concepts are thereby of particular interest:
Data acquisition and data processing
Databases and expert systems
Modelling (mathematical, IT based, biomechanical, physiologica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb%20Commuter%20Rail | Zagreb Commuter Rail is the suburban/commuter railway network that provides mass-transit service in the city of Zagreb, Croatia and its suburbs. This suburban rail system, introduced in 1992 on the route Savski Marof - Zagreb Main Station - Dugo Selo, is operated by Croatian Railways (, HŽ) and mainly covers the eastern and western parts of Zagreb, using the M102 corridor between Dugo Selo and Zagreb Main Station and M101 corridor between Zagreb Main Station and Savski Marof.
In 2010 the route was extended by 3 more stations, Sutla, Laduč and Harmica, using the corridor L102 between Savski Marof and Harmica.
Since the system started operating, the lines have been serviced by HŽ series 6111 EMU's built by Ganz. In 2011, a prototype of a new series of EMU trains for suburban traffic of the City of Zagreb was handed over to the Croatian Railways for use by the KONČAR Group (series 6112-1 and 6 112–2; suburban version). Between 2015 and 2023, an additional 27 sets of the 6 112 series were delivered, which gradually replaced all 6 111 sets on Zagreb suburban lines.
References
Transport in Zagreb
Rail infrastructure in Croatia
Regional rail |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacelia%20inundata | Phacelia inundata is a species of phacelia known by the common names playa yellow phacelia and playa phacelia. It is native to the Modoc Plateau and surrounding areas in Oregon, western Nevada, and northeastern California, where it grows in the alkaline soils of playas and dry lakebeds.
Description
It is an annual herb spreading along the ground or growing erect to a maximum height near 40 centimeters. It is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The small leaves are oval or oblong and lobed or divided into segments. The inflorescence is a curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers each no more than half a centimeter long. Unlike many phacelias which have blooms in shades of purple and blue, this species has bright yellow flowers.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Photo gallery
inundata
Flora of California
Flora of Nevada
Flora of Oregon
Flora of the Great Basin
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Endemic flora of the United States
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Klaus is both a German given name and a surname.
Klaus may also refer to:
Klaus, Vorarlberg, a town in Austria
Klaus Advanced Computing Building, at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Klaus (storm), a 2009 European cyclone
Hurricane Klaus, used in 1984 and 1990 to name two category 1 hurricanes, retired after 1990 season and replaced with Kyle
Klaus (comics), a 2015 comic book mini-series
Klaus (film), a 2019 animated Christmas film
Klaus, a prayer house in Hasidic Judaism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Touch%20%28radio%20network%29 | The Touch is a 24-hour music format produced by Westwood One. It draws an adult audience between the ages of 25 and 49 with an Urban Adult Contemporary format since its inception by Satellite Music Network in 1972.
In January 2010, Citadel Broadcasting rebranded this network as MyFavStation, but a month later, it was reverted to its original legacy branding. That same month, veteran R&B radio announcer, Ron "The Nighttime Dog" Chavis, was brought in to host the seven night per week evening slot vacated by R&B crooner Brian McKnight.
Affiliates (partial list)
Albany, Georgia - WQVE
Atlantic City, New Jersey - WTTH
Demopolis, Alabama - WZNJ & WXAL
Gulf Breeze, Florida - WRNE
Holton, Michigan - WVIB
Kalamazoo, Michigan - WTOU
Liberty, Mississippi - WAZA
Vicksburg, Mississippi - KSBU
Selma, Alabama - WJAM
Friars Point, Mississippi - WNEV
Marianna, Arkansas - KAKJ
West Helena, Arkansas - KCLT
Former affiliates
Grand Rapids, Michigan - WJNZ
Natchez, Mississippi - KZKR
Portage, Michigan - WTOU
San Antonio, Texas - KSJL-AM-FM (early 1990s)
Steubenville, Ohio - WIXZ
St. Petersburg, Florida - WRBQ-AM (1992-1999)
Toledo, Ohio - WIMX
Wilmington, North Carolina - WJSI
Bronxville, New York - WNBM
American radio networks
Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Westwood One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jono%20and%20Dano | The Jono & Dano Show was a radio and later television show hosted by Jonathan Coleman (Jono) and Ian Rogerson (Dano).
Original radio programming
The original Jono & Dano show was broadcast on Triple J as a Saturday night show, before moving to Sunday afternoons and eventually the weekday breakfast shift. They then moved to commercial radio and presented the breakfast show at 2SM before hosting a night-time show on Sydney’s Triple M in 1984.
Television programming
Jono & Dano then left radio to concentrate on television with a late night show on the Seven Network, followed by morning music show Saturday Morning Live before splitting up, with Jono moving to London to continue in radio and television, and Dano returning to Triple J.
Recent events
In 2008, after almost 20 years apart, Jono & Dano returned to air Monday to Friday nationally around Australia on 101.7 WSFM (Sydney), Gold 104.3 (Melbourne), 4KQ (Brisbane) and 96fm (Perth), as well as many regional stations across Australia.
References
External links
Official website
Australian music radio programs
1980s Australian radio programs
1990s Australian radio programs
2000s Australian radio programs
2010s Australian radio programs
Triple J announcers
Triple M presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20%28language%29 | You might be looking for:
Pure (programming language)
Language purism
Adamic language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20MPC%20Computers%20Bowl | The 2004 MPC Computers Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Fresno State Bulldogs and the Virginia Cavaliers on December 27, 2004, at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. Fresno State won the game 37–34 in overtime on a 25-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Paul Pinegar to Stephen Spach.
Virginia had a complicated route to the MPC Computers bowl. Strong hopes based on a 5–0 start and a #6 ranking were dashed by a 36–3 blowout loss to Florida State and a third-place finish in the ACC. The Champs Sports Bowl typically took the fourth-place bowl eligible ACC team, but Virginia declined the bid as the game (played on December 21) would have conflicted with final exams. For a time the Independence Bowl was a possibility, as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) failed to produce enough bowl-eligible teams, but this was contingent on the MPC Computers Bowl getting a Big East school—either Boston College, Connecticut or Syracuse—to replace an ACC team. The MPC Computers bowl normally had the sixth choice of ACC teams, which would have been Georgia Tech or Clemson. Clemson declined all bowl invitations after a season-ending brawl, while Georgia Tech took Virginia's place at the Champs Sports Bowl. The Big East declined to send a team to the MPC Computers Bowl, so on December 1 Virginia accepted the bid.
Fresno State accepted a bid on December 1 as well, after finishing third in the Western Athletic Conference. It was Fresno State's six straight bowl game and its first one outside of California since the 1999 Las Vegas Bowl. Virginia and Fresno State had never played each other before.
References
MPC Computers Bowl
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Fresno State Bulldogs football bowl games
Virginia Cavaliers football bowl games
2004 in sports in Idaho
December 2004 sports events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20pose%20estimation | 3D pose estimation is a process of predicting the transformation of an object from a user-defined reference pose, given an image or a 3D scan. It arises in computer vision or robotics where the pose or transformation of an object can be used for alignment of a computer-aided design models, identification, grasping, or manipulation of the object.
The image data from which the pose of an object is determined can be either a single image, a stereo image pair, or an image sequence where, typically, the camera is moving with a known velocity. The objects which are considered can be rather general, including a living being or body parts, e.g., a head or hands. The methods which are used for determining the pose of an object, however, are usually specific for a class of objects and cannot generally be expected to work well for other types of objects.
From an uncalibrated 2D camera
It is possible to estimate the 3D rotation and translation of a 3D object from a single 2D photo, if an approximate 3D model of the object is known and the corresponding points in the 2D image are known. A common technique for solving this has recently been "POSIT", where the 3D pose is estimated directly from the 3D model points and the 2D image points, and corrects the errors iteratively until a good estimate is found from a single image. Most implementations of POSIT only work on non-coplanar points (in other words, it won't work with flat objects or planes).
Another approach is to register a 3D CAD model over the photograph of a known object by optimizing a suitable distance measure with respect to the pose parameters.
The distance measure is computed between the object in the photograph and the 3D CAD model projection at a given pose.
Perspective projection or orthogonal projection is possible depending on the pose representation used.
This approach is appropriate for applications where a 3D CAD model of a known object (or object category) is available.
From a calibrated 2D camera
Given a 2D image of an object, and the camera that is calibrated with respect to a world coordinate system, it is also possible to find the pose which gives the 3D object in its object coordinate system. This works as follows.
Extracting 3D from 2D
Starting with a 2D image, image points are extracted which correspond to corners in an image. The projection rays from the image points are reconstructed from the 2D points so that the 3D points, which must be incident with the reconstructed rays, can be determined.
Pseudocode
The algorithm for determining pose estimation is based on the iterative closest point algorithm. The main idea is to determine the correspondences between 2D image features and points on the 3D model curve.
(a) Reconstruct projection rays from the image points
(b) Estimate the nearest point of each projection ray to a point on the 3D contour
(c) Estimate the pose of the contour with the use of this correspondence set
(d) goto (b)
The above algorithm does not a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneesh%20Agrawala | Maneesh Agrawala (born 1972) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He returned to Stanford in 2015 as the director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, after nearly a decade on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Life and work
Maneesh Agrawala was born to computer-science professor Ashok Agrawala from the University of Maryland. He attended the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, where he was part of a team (including Howard Gobioff) that won a supercomputer in the 1988 SuperQuest competition. He was a finalist in the 1990 Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
He received a B.S. in mathematics in 1994 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2002, both from Stanford University. While attending Stanford, he worked as a software consultant at Vicinity Corporation and in the rendering software group at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a film credit for Pixar's A Bug's Life. After graduating, Agrawala worked at Microsoft Research for three years, before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Agrawala's work focuses on the design of visual interfaces that help a user process digital information, often using cognitive design concepts. For instance, LineDrive, a program developed by Agrawala, creates route maps that resemble hand-drawn maps, adapting cognitive and map-making techniques to help a computer user process information on a route. This work was the focus of his 2002 Ph.D. dissertation, "Visualizing Route Maps". He has also adapted cognitive science into visual interfaces for complex 3D models. Agrawala has also developed a system that creates step-by-step assembly instructions for complex machines, using the idea of exploded views to help the user understand the spatial relationships between elements. His user-centric approach is viewed as having broad applicability in the fields of computer graphics and user interfaces.
Agrawala is the recipient of multiple awards, including an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2006, a Sloan Fellowship and NSF CAREER Award in 2007, a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2008, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009. He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to visual communication through computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and information visualization".
References
External links
1972 births
Living people
Computer vision researchers
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
MacArthur Fellows
Sloan Research Fellows
Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Network%20Administration%20Protocol | Home Network Administration Protocol (HNAP) is a proprietary network protocol invented by Pure Networks, Inc. and acquired by Cisco Systems which allows identification, configuration, and management of network devices. HNAP is based on SOAP.
Starting in January 2010, vulnerabilities were discovered in multiple D-Link network devices where HNAP authentication could be bypassed.
2014 HNAP is used by "The Moon" worm which infects Linksys routers.
References
External links
HNAP Homepage (abandoned April 7, 2011)
SANS: More on HNAP - What is it, How to Use it, How to Find it
Cisco protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20camp | A crisis camp is a BarCamp gathering of IT professionals, software developers, and computer programmers to aid in the relief efforts of a major crisis such as those caused by earthquakes, floods, or hurricanes. Projects that crisis camps often work on include setting up social networks for people to locate missing friends and relatives, creating maps of affected areas, and creating inventories of needed items such as food and clothing.
Previous efforts of crisis camps reveal common themes such as the use of mobility, the use of the Internet as a common coordination platform, the requirement of volunteers, and the need for alternative community communication access areas. This initiative is reported to have a unique format that features free or nominal attendance fees as well as agenda that are created in real time by the participants. This format has also been referred to as "unconference", which reject one-size-fits-all presentations in favor of innovative gathering with no predetermined speaker or sessions as activities are led by participants themselves. The emergence of EdCamp, which is a user-generated gathering for educators has been modeled after BarCamp.
Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, many crisis camps were set up around the world, often under the name "Crisis Camp Haiti", to help with the relief effort.
Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Crisis Commons volunteer community was mobilized and part of the effort is being coordinated by Japanese students at U.S. universities.
The first Crisis camp was held in Washington, DC on June 12–14, 2009.
References
External links
CrisisCommons.org
Technology in society
Natural disasters
Emergency organizations
Unconferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnanilus%20paludosus | Yunnanilus paludosus is a species of stone loach endemic to China. This species is endemic to the endorheic drainage system which feeds the Datangzi Marsh in Luoping County, Yunnan, The specific name paludosus means "marshy", referring to the habitat of the type locality, Datangzi Marsh.
References
P
Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxa named by Chu Xin-Luo
Fish described in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerge%20Remonde | Glicerio "Cerge" Mamites Remonde (December 21, 1958 – January 19, 2010) was a Filipino journalist, politician and former chairman of Radio Philippines Network, one of the largest media networks in the Philippines.
Early life
Cerge was born Glecerio Mamites Remonde (later legally changing his name to Cerge) on December 21, 1958, to Teofilo A. Remonde and Florentina S. Mamites in barangay Lamacan, Argao, Cebu. Some people have said that Cerge was an illegitimate child, however, the truth is, it was his father, Teofilo, who was an illegitimate child. Teofilo Remonde, a bus driver, was the son of Flaviana Remonde. He married Florentina Mamites, daughter of Roman Mamites and Marta Sanchez, on June 25, 1958. Cerge was their one and only child, born six months after their marriage. Teofilo, however, died when Cerge was not yet one year old. After Cerge's father died, his mother remarried to Andres Alburo and from that marriage he had eight siblings: Asterio, Virgilio, Andres Jr., Antonieta, Hemres, Serina, Vicente and Sincero.
Educational life
He was a graduate of the University of the Visayas where he also became professor of political science. He later served as chair of the Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines for six consecutive terms, the only chair to have ever done so.
Career
One of Remonde’s early jobs in media included being a stringer at the Philippine News Agency (PNA). He was an anchor for DYLA Interaction, a primetime news and commentary program. He eventually became National Chairman of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), and was the first KBP chair to be elected to a 6th term. In 2001, Remonde became press undersecretary in charge of broadcast and the executive director of the Radio Television Malacañang Presidential Broadcast Staff. He also became the president of IBC Channel 13 and of RPN Channel 9. He became Secretary of the Government Mass Media Group (GMMG) in 2004. In September 8, 2006, he was appointed as the lead convenor of the National Anti-Poverty Commission while still serving as Secretary of the GMMG. Later, he became Director-General of the Presidential Management Staff, and finally, on February 1, 2009, he was appointed as Press Secretary, a position he held until his death.
Professional affiliations
Remonde was senior adviser to the GRP-NDF Peace Panel. He was also chairman of several organizations: The Advertising Board of the Philippines, the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, and the Appeals Board of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). He was also a commissioner of the Communications Committee for UNESCO.
Personal life
He was married to Danish national, Marit Stinus, he had no children.
Death
On January 19, 2010, Remonde was found slumped at his residence in Makati and was rushed to Makati Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:51 a.m. It was determined that his death was due to cardiac arrest secondary to myocardial infarction. His remains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Magnetospheric%20Study | The International Magnetospheric Study (IMS) was proposed in 1970 as a concerted effort to acquire coordinated ground-based, balloon, rocket, and satellite data needed to improve our understanding of the behavior of earth's plasma environment.
Projects done as a contribution to International Magnetospheric Study:
Prognoz 6
Scandinavian Magnetometer array
References
Atmospheric sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergold | Supergold (Europe) was an oldies radio sustaining service originally operated by the Telstar Satellite Music Network (TSMN) and later by Chiltern Radio Network in the United Kingdom. Originally devised by entrepreneur and DJ Graham Kentsley, it was one of Europe's first satellite delivered radio stations, receiving a Satellite Television Technology International (STTI) award for satellite communication innovation.
History
The Supergold oldies radio format was originally a creation of Mike Harvey the US Disk Jockey in the mid 80's. Mike could to be heard on weekday mornings on WEBG-FM 100.3 and on Saturday nights coast to coast in the US as the host of "SuperGold". In 2017 Harvey still has two syndicated programs broadcast in the US.The nightly Mike Harvey Show and SuperGold Weekend.
The format was acquired from Transtar Radio by the "Satellite Music Network" of Dallas, Texas USA - Supergold became one of SMN's many radio formats.
In 1987 Graham Kentsley a young entertainment music and media entrepreneur and satellite communication expert from St Albans UK. Decided that with the launch of several new European satellites there was now a need for a Pan European satellite sustaining radio service and set about with his brother Steven Kentsley in launching the Telstar Satellite Music Network (a division of Kentsley's own Telstar Satellite TV company). Kentsley being a music and radio enthusiast had previously installed the first Satellite TV/Radio system in any licensed premises (The Adelaide Wine House in St Albans UK). In 1987 Kentsley visited the studios of the Satellite Music Network in Dallas, Texas and reached an agreement with Satellite Music Network to take the "Supergold" format to Europe on a trial basis.
Supergold was launched in the UK in November 1988 from the EAP studios in Frinton Essex UK and broadcast on the Intelsat Satellite 27.5 (on a mono audio subcarrier) initially heard between the hours of 11pm and 6am UK time (a high quality ISDN line took the signal from Frinton in Essex to the British Telecom Docklands uplink facility via the British Telecom Tower in central London).
"Supergold" was put off the air for a whole night on one occasion when a cow chewed the ISDN line somewhere outside Clacton in Rural Essex UK.
TSMN offered the remaining daytime broadcast time for Satellite audio distribution (commercials and news distribution) and a private radio user group (shop chains) a European first. TSMN was planning a second radio format "Country" Gold - This was also a European first. On the first night on air, Supergold was opened by CEO Graham Kentsley, followed by the first show presented by Tony Gillham the programme director. (Gillham later went on to work for Chiltern Radio, who later acquired the European Supergold format.) Telstar by the Tornados was the stations signature tune (played at the top of every hour during the station optout). Supergold used an innovative sub-audio tone switching system to allow local station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20Me%20%28Al%20Green%20album%29 | Call Me is the sixth album by soul singer Al Green. It is widely regarded as Green's masterpiece, and has been called one of the best soul albums ever made. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named it the 70th greatest album in any genre. Call Me was a Top 10 Billboard Pop Album, and the third #1 Soul Album.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 289 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 290 in a 2012 revised list. Praised for his emotive singing style, Green here incorporates country influences, covering both Willie Nelson and Hank Williams. This album contained three top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "You Ought to Be with Me," "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" and "Call Me (Come Back Home)."
Track listing
Personnel
Al Green – vocals, producer
Willie Mitchell – producer, engineer
Charles Chalmers – background vocals, horn arrangements
Margaret Goldfarb – assistant producer
Howard Grimes – drums
Jack Hale, Sr. – trombone
Charles Hodges – Hammond organ, piano
Leroy Hodges – bass
Mabon "Teenie" Hodges – guitar
Wayne Jackson – trumpet
Kathy Kinslow – assistant producer
Charles Levan – assistant producer
Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
The Memphis Strings – strings
James Mitchell – baritone saxophone, horn arrangements
Bud O'Shea – executive producer
Eli Okun – executive producer
Cheryl Pawelski – assistant producer
Donna Rhodes – background vocals
Sandra Rhodes – background vocals
Archie Turner – piano
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Robert Gordon – liner notes
Jim Cummins - photography
Chart positions
Billboard Music Charts (North America) – album
1973 Pop Albums No. 10
1973 Black Albums No. 1
Billboard (North America) – singles
1972 "You Ought To Be With Me" Pop Singles No. 3
1972 "You Ought To Be With Me" Black Singles No. 1
1973 "Call Me (Come Back Home)" Pop Singles No. 10
1973 "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" Pop Singles No. 10
1973 "Call Me (Come Back Home)" Black Singles No. 2
1973 "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" Black Singles No. 2
Later samples
"Here I Am (Come And Take Me)"
"Slang Editorial" by Cappadonna from the album The Pillage
"You Ought To Be With Me"
"260" by Ghostface Killah from the album Ironman
See also
List of number-one R&B albums of 1973 (U.S.)
References
1973 albums
Al Green albums
Albums produced by Willie Mitchell (musician)
Hi Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20Me | Call Me may refer to:
Language
The name in the Unicode database for the gesture emoji 🤙
Films
Call Me (film), a 1988 erotic thriller
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, a 2004 TV movie about "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss
Music
Albums
Call Me (Al Green album), and the title song, "Call Me (Come Back Home)" (see below)
Call Me (Sylvester album)
Call Me (EP), by Diamond Head, and the title song
Songs
"Call Me" (Andrea True Connection song), 1976
"Call Me" (Anna Vissi song), 2004
"Call Me" (Aretha Franklin song), 1970; notably covered by Diana Ross (1971) and by Phil Perry (1991)
"Call Me" (Blondie song), theme from the film American Gigolo, 1980
"Call Me" (Deee-Lite song), 1994
"Call Me" (Deejay Jay feat. Pandora song), 2008
"Call Me" (Feminnem song), the Bosnian and Herzegovinian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
"Call Me" (Go West song), 1985
"Call Me" (Jamelia song), 2000
"Call Me" (Le Click song), 1997
"Call Me" (Nav and Metro Boomin song), 2017
"Call Me" (Petula Clark song), 1965; notably covered by Chris Montez (1965)
"Call Me" (Shinedown song), 2008
"Call Me" (Skyy song), 1981
"Call Me" (Spagna song), 1986
"Call Me" (Too Short and Lil' Kim song), 1997
"Call Me" (Tweet song), 2002
"Call Me (Come Back Home)", by Al Green, 1973
"Call Me", by Bonnie Tyler from Angel Heart
"Call Me", by Carly Pearce from Carly Pearce
"Call Me", by Dennis DeYoung from Back to the World
"Call Me", by Golden Earring from Winter-Harvest
"Call Me", by Imelda May from Life Love Flesh Blood
"Call Me", by Kimbra from Vows
"Call Me", by the Louvin Brothers from Encore
"Call Me", by Marcos Hernandez
"Call Me", by Neiked
"Call Me", by Queen + Paul Rodgers from The Cosmos Rocks
"Call Me", by Ringo Starr from Goodnight Vienna
"Call Me", by Sarah Klang, 2019
"Call Me", by St. Paul and The Broken Bones
"Call Me", by Taegoon from 1st Mini Album
"Call Me", by Throwing Muses from Throwing Muses
"Call Me", by Tricky from Juxtapose
"Call Me", by UFO from You Are Here
"Call Me", by Way Out West from Intensify
"Call Me", by Yeat from 2 Alive
"Call Me (She Said)", by Joell Ortiz from Free Agent
See also
Call on Me (disambiguation)
"Call Me Maybe", by Carly Rae Jepsen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Pizzo | Rick Pizzo, a native of Staten Island, NY is an American sports broadcaster who currently works for the Big Ten Network. Pizzo received his bachelor's degree from Hamilton College, and a masters from Syracuse University. Pizzo is one of the original Big Ten Network hosts, alongside Dave Revsine and Mike Hall.A former collegiate hockey player and golfer at Hamilton, Pizzo is BTN's main hockey and golf host.
Previous experience
WBTW
From 1998 to 2001, Pizzo worked as a sports anchor/reporter for WBTW, Myrtle Beach, SC.
WFMY
From 2001 to 2007, Pizzo worked as a sports reporter, anchor/reporter for WFMY, Greensboro, North Carolina. While in Greensboro, he was named an Associated Press Award-winning sports reporter/anchor and taught sports broadcasting classes at Elon (NC) University.
References
American sports journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20weighted%20majority%20algorithm | The randomized weighted majority algorithm is an algorithm in machine learning theory.
It improves the mistake bound of the weighted majority algorithm.
Example
Imagine that every morning before the stock market opens,
we get a prediction from each of our "experts" about whether the stock market will go up or down.
Our goal is to somehow combine this set of predictions into a single prediction that we then use to make a buy or sell decision for the day.
The RWMA gives us a way to do this combination such that our prediction record will be
nearly as good as that of the single best expert in hindsight.
Motivation
In machine learning, the weighted majority algorithm (WMA) is a meta-learning algorithm which "predicts from expert advice".
It is not a randomized algorithm:
initialize all experts to weight 1.
for each round:
poll all the experts and predict based on a weighted majority vote of their predictions.
cut in half the weights of all experts that make a mistake.
Suppose there are experts and the best expert makes mistakes.
The weighted majority algorithm (WMA) makes at most mistakes,
which is not a very good bound.
We can do better by introducing randomization.
Randomized weighted majority algorithm (RWMA)
The nonrandomized weighted majority algorithm (WMA) only guarantees an upper bound of
,
which is problematic for highly error-prone experts (e.g. the best expert still makes a mistake 20% of the time.)
Suppose we do rounds using experts.
If the best expert makes mistakes,
we can only guarantee an upper bound of
on our number of mistakes.
As this is a known limitation of WMA, attempts to improve this shortcoming have been explored in order to improve the dependence on .
Instead of predicting based on majority vote, the weights are used as probabilities:
hence the name randomized weighted majority.
If is the weight of expert ,
let .
We will follow expert with probability .
The goal is to bound the worst-case expected number of mistakes,
assuming that the adversary (the world) has to select one of the answers
as correct before we make our coin toss.
Why is this better in the worst case?
Idea: the worst case for the deterministic algorithm (weighted majority algorithm)
was when the weights split 50/50.
But, now it is not so bad since we also have a 50/50 chance of getting it right.
Also, to trade-off between dependence on and ,
we will generalize to multiply by ,
instead of necessarily by .
Analysis
At the -th round, define to be the fraction of weight on the wrong answers. so, is the probability we make a mistake on the -th round. Let denote the total number of mistakes we made so far. Furthermore, we define , using the fact that expectation is additive. On the -th round, becomes .
Reason: on fraction, we are multiplying by .
So,
Let's say that is the number of mistakes of the best expert so far. We can use the inequality . Now we solve. First, take the natural log of both sides. We get:
, Simplify: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20and%20Data%20Relationship%20Format | The Sample and Data Relationship Format (SDRF) is part of the MAGE-TAB standard for communicating the results
of microarray investigations, including all information required for MIAME compliance.
An SDRF file is a tab-delimited file describing the relationships between samples, arrays, data, and other objects used or produced in a microarray investigation.
For simple experimental designs, constructing the SDRF file is straightforward, and even complex loop designs can be expressed in this format.
References
External links
MAGE-TAB — FGED (formerly MGED) Society
Sample and Data Relationship Format — U. S. National Cancer Institute's wiki
Minimum Information Standards
Microarrays |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSPTALK | TSP TALK is an online web communications website and forum established for federal employees and military personnel. It was originally created in 2004 by former federal employee and computer specialist Tom Crowley.
Though the board includes topics on various areas, the principal topic of the board is discussion surrounding investment strategies of various Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) retirement funds, specifically oriented toward individuals who preferred to change strategies depending on overall market conditions. The purpose was to help educate shareholders about investment planning and self-help.
Some investment styles and subjects were highlighted in fedsmith.com, another publication aimed at federal employees. The article comments included references to several competing websites, of which TSP TALK was the most often cited by readers. TSP TALK was identified in a trade publication for federal executives in November 2006 as one of several sites providing collaboration and discussions relating to federal employee investments. At the time, federal employees shared discussions of investment strategies, allocation theories, and held competitions on a member invented tracking listing showing daily returns. TSPTALK.COM first appeared in major government employee press article in a November 2006 article published in GOVEXEC.COM. Several other federal employee newspaper and publication articles followed.
Controversy and regulation
Shortly after the 2006 article highlighted the activities of participants, the number of participants grew, and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), the TSP's oversight agency, began efforts to terminate the activities of the members. People were learning different investment styles and strategies, and shifting from a "buy and hold" mentality, to one of several different philosophies. These included swing trades, where a person would move part or all of their funds into a sector fund, and/or single-fund investing, where members invested solely in one fund for short periods of time, before reverting to the safety of the "G" fund, or government treasury funds. Web tracking showed an average of roughly 9 thousand unique visitors a day.
TSP TALK members became known as TSP TALKERS, and posted a wide range of information, including investment chart theory, reading charts, detecting trading signals, and occasionally political commentary.
The website became controversial in mid-2007 and early 2008, when the FRTIB (Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board) cited frequent reallocation of savings by members of the group, and issued a ban on trades of more than two moves per month. The stated intention was to reduce costs for the funds. The board proposed new regulations to counter employees controlling their own investment funds. The changes were published as a notice of federal rule making published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2008, and were proposed to be effective March 31, 2008. TSP TALK memb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS%202000 | MS 2000 or variation, may refer to:
Korg MS2000, music synthesizer
General Motors MS2000, an automotive platform, variant of the GM W platform
MOSAID MS2000, a computer memory tester
See also
Microsoft Windows Me (Millennium Edition), aka MS 2000; an operating system
Microsoft Windows 2000, aka MS 2000; an operating system
Microsoft Office 2000, aka MS 2000; an office productivity software package
MS2 (disambiguation)
MS20 (disambiguation)
MS-200 (disambiguation)
2000 (disambiguation)
MS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20persistent%20threat | An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a stealthy threat actor, typically a state or state-sponsored group, which gains unauthorized access to a computer network and remains undetected for an extended period. In recent times, the term may also refer to non-state-sponsored groups conducting large-scale targeted intrusions for specific goals.
Such threat actors' motivations are typically political or economic. Every major business sector has recorded instances of cyberattacks by advanced actors with specific goals, whether to steal, spy, or disrupt. These targeted sectors include government, defense, financial services, legal services, industrial, telecoms, consumer goods and many more. Some groups utilize traditional espionage vectors, including social engineering, human intelligence and infiltration to gain access to a physical location to enable network attacks. The purpose of these attacks is to install custom malware (malicious software).
APT attacks on mobile devices has also become a legitimate concern, since attackers are able to penetrate into cloud and mobile infrastructure to eavesdrop, steal, and temper data.
The median "dwell-time", the time an APT attack goes undetected, differs widely between regions. FireEye reported the mean dwell-time for 2018 in the Americas as 71 days, EMEA as 177 days, and APAC as 204 days. Such a long dwell-time allows attackers a significant amount of time to go through the attack cycle, propagate, and achieve their objective.
Definition
Definitions of precisely what an APT is can vary, but can be summarized by their named requirements below:
Advanced – Operators behind the threat have a full spectrum of intelligence-gathering techniques at their disposal. These may include commercial and open source computer intrusion technologies and techniques, but may also extend to include the intelligence apparatus of a state. While individual components of the attack may not be considered particularly "advanced" (e.g. malware components generated from commonly available do-it-yourself malware construction kits, or the use of easily procured exploit materials), their operators can typically access and develop more advanced tools as required. They often combine multiple targeting methods, tools, and techniques in order to reach and compromise their target and maintain access to it. Operators may also demonstrate a deliberate focus on operational security that differentiates them from "less advanced" threats.
Persistent – Operators have specific objectives, rather than opportunistically seeking information for financial or other gain. This distinction implies that the attackers are guided by external entities. The targeting is conducted through continuous monitoring and interaction in order to achieve the defined objectives. It does not mean a barrage of constant attacks and malware updates. In fact, a "low-and-slow" approach is usually more successful. If the operator loses access to their target they usually will r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallidecthes | Kallidecthes is an extinct genus of crustaceans.
References
External links
Kallidecthes at the Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric Malacostraca
Carboniferous crustaceans
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Fossil taxa described in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20Foothold | Byzantine Foothold is the unclassified code name related to a United States Department of Defense effort within the larger Cyber Initiative framework, specifically aimed at curbing and preventing foreign intrusions into the computer networks of US federal agencies. It has been said that this threat is related to ongoing efforts by Chinese hackers of the Peoples Liberation Army, but no public documentation is available which would prove that was the case.
The twenty largest American military-industrial contractors have also been invited to participate in the program, after a highly potent hacker attack was detected at the Booz Allen Hamilton Corporation.
Although the US Government sees this as the largest cyber espionage effort against them, no arrests have been made and no specific cyber intruder has been identified. No public information is available as to the state of any on-going investigation related to this intrusion.
See also
Moonlight Maze
Titan Rain
Stakkato
Stuxnet
References
Non-combat military operations involving the United States
Computer network security
United States Cyber Command |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20number%20ones%20of%201994%20and%201995 | In October 1994, Billboard magazine established Latin Pop Airplay, a chart that ranks the top-performing songs played on Latin pop radio stations in the United States based on weekly airplay data compiled by Nielsen's Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). It is a subchart of Hot Latin Songs, which lists the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country. According to Billboard, "Latin pop" refers to pop music sung in Spanish. Five songs topped the chart in 1994 while 16 tracks did the same in 1995. Until November 5, 1994, BDS ran tests charts which only listed the number one song of the week on Billboards electronic database.
The first song to reach number one on the Latin Pop Airplay chart was "Mañana" by Cristian Castro, which was composed and originally performed by Juan Gabriel. Castro was also the artist with the most number-one songs in 1995 with "Con Tu Amor", "Azul Gris", and "Vuélveme a Querer". The latter song held this position for the longest with 14 weeks. Luis Miguel had two number-one songs on the chart in 1994 with "El Día Que Me Quieras" and "La Media Vuelta", the second of which was the final chart-topper of the year and the first at the start of 1995. He achieved his third number one track in 1995 with "Todo y Nada". The three songs were recorded for the album Segundo Romance (1994), in which Luis Miguel covers ballads from Latin America. Ednita Nazario became the first female artist to have a chart-topper with "Quiero Que Me Hagas el Amor" and achieved her second number one song a year later with "Gata Sin Luna".
Former Timbiriche band member, Claudio Bermúdez (credited for this release simply as Claudio), released his debut album Como Aire Fresco in 1994 which was promoted by its lead single "Ven Junto a Mi". "Ven Junto a Mi" spent seven consecutive weeks on top of the chart in 1995. Despite this level of chart success, the song remains Bermúdez's only number one recording. Selena's "I Could Fall in Love" posthumously became the first English-language song to song to peak at number one on the survey and remains her only number-one song on this chart. Similarly, Lucero and Julio Iglesias obtained their first and only chart-toppers in 1995. Laura Pausini was the only female act to have more than one chart-topper in 1995 with the Spanish-language versions of "Strani amori" ("Amores Extraños") and "Gente". Although it spent only a single week at number one in 1995, "Ese Hombre" by Myriam Hernández was named as the best-performing Latin pop song of the year. The final number one of 1995 was "Más Allá" by Gloria Estefan.
Chart history
Footnotes
See also
1994 in Latin music
1995 in Latin music
References
United States Latin Pop Airplay
United States Latin Pop Airplay
1994 and 1995
1994 in Latin music
1995 in Latin music
1994 in American music
1995 in American music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Soccer | Star Soccer was a weekly football highlights programme in the United Kingdom, which ran on Associated Television (ATV) from 1965 until 1983 when it was replaced by a networked The Big Match and spin-off The Big Match Live.
History
The programme's early years were from London but from August 1968 the show centred on Midlands teams. This coincided with the re-jigging of the ITV network. ATV was now a Midlands only broadcaster. The programme was hosted initially by Billy Wright and then Gary Newbon, occasionally joined by a guest in the studio. The main commentator was Hugh Johns, ITV's man at the microphone for the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final. Other commentators included Peter Lorenzo, Nick Owen and Peter Brackley.
Format
The programme's format was typical of the time, extended highlights of a London (1965–68) based match and a Midlands based match (from August 1968) was the main attraction and then shorter highlights of two other games from around the country, covered by other ITV regions. Where possible this would be a game involving a Midlands team as the visiting team. The programme was broadcast during a "glory" period for Midlands-based teams: Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa all won league championships during the show's run, the latter two adding European Cups as well. Wolves also had a successful spell, bagged a brace of League Cups and competed in Europe; Stoke City also won this competition in 1972. An entertaining West Bromwich Albion side broke new boundaries by including three black players, Coventry City gained a reputation as durable First Division battlers, and a young Trevor Francis dazzled all before him for Birmingham City before moving to Forest in the English game's first million-pound transfer.
All this was captured by the ATV cameras, but it wasn't just about the top division. Shrewsbury Town's promoted side were featured in Division 2 specials, and on FA Cup weekends many lower league sides were featured. ATV's links with ITC Entertainment enabled fans in the US and Canada to watch the best of Midlands football, with top Star Soccer matches repackaged and syndicated, as All-Star Soccer, to television stations across the Atlantic. By 1983 the appetite for live football was growing and the FA allowed games to be shown in a deal with the BBC and ITV. Match of the Day Live and The Big Match Live would become the banners for TV football for the rest of the decade. Both networks continued to show highlights, however, they were invariably shunted to late night slots at a weekend.
References
External links
Sports Streams Online
English football on television
Sports television in the United Kingdom
Football mass media in the United Kingdom
1960s British sports television series
1970s British sports television series
1980s British sports television series
1965 British television series debuts
1983 British television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide%20and%20narrow%20data | Wide and narrow (sometimes un-stacked and stacked, or wide and tall) are terms used to describe two different presentations for tabular data.
Wide
Wide, or unstacked data is presented with each different data variable in a separate column.
Narrow
Narrow, stacked, or long data is presented with one column containing all the values and another column listing the context of the value
This is often easier to implement; addition of a new field does not require any changes to the structure of the table, however it can be harder for people to understand.
Implementations
Many statistical and data processing systems have functions to convert between these two presentations, for instance the R programming language has several packages such as the tidyr package. The pandas package in Python implements this operation as "melt" function which converts a wide table to a narrow one. The process of converting a narrow table to wide table is generally referred to as "pivoting" in the context of data transformations. The "pandas" python package provides a "pivot" method which provides for a narrow to wide transformation.
See also
Abstract data type
Pivot table
Table (information)
Information graphics
Row (database)
Table (database)
Table (HTML)
References
External links
https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/articles/pivot.html
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reshape
Statistical data types
Descriptive statistics
Data modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Ge%202/2 | The Rhaetian Railway Ge 2/2 is a class of small metre gauge 1 kV DC electric locomotives operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class is so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, Ge 2/2 denotes a narrow gauge electric adhesion locomotive with a total of two axles, both of which are drive axles. There are only two locomotives in the class, and they are numbered 161 and 162.
Both direct current locomotives were procured by the Berninabahn (BB) in 1911 for piloting duties. The then still brown liveried machines were given the numbers Ge 2/2 61 and 62, and were equipped with Lyra pantographs. After the Rhaetian Railway takeover of the BB, they were given the new numbers they still bear. Today, they work mainly as shunting locomotives in Poschiavo.
On the Appenzeller Bahnen (AB), there is another locomotive, Te 49, that is of similar appearance, and dates from 1912. Between 1955 and 1975, it operated as Ge 2/2 49.
Further reading
Patrick Belloncle, Gian Brünger, Rolf Grossenbacher, Christian Müller: Das große Buch der Rhätischen Bahn 1889-2001.
Wolfgang Finke, Hans Schweers: Die Fahrzeuge der Rhätischen Bahn 1889-1998. Band 3: Triebfahrzeuge, Verlag Schweers+Wall Aachen, heute Köln,
Claude Jeanmaire: Die elektrischen und Dieseltriebfahrzeuge Schweizerischer Eisenbahn - Die Gleichstromlinen der Rhätischen Bahn. Verlag Eisenbahn,
Bo locomotives
Electric locomotives of Switzerland
Rhaetian Railway locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1911
Metre gauge electric locomotives
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